We're excited to share that Kartemquin Films is partnering with Freep Film Festival, held April 10-14 in Detroit, to host a conversation on filmmaker sustainability and a special rough cut lab. Both events bring to Detroit for the first time initiatives and expertise Kartemquin has pioneered as part of its acclaimed filmmaker development programs and advocacy on behalf of the documentary field.
The Sustainability Conversation builds on the "Heartlandia" filmmaker sustainability convening held at the 2018 True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, and is part of a multi-year commitment from Kartemquin to engage Midwest documentary makers, media arts organizations, funding and distribution partners in dialogue and solutions-oriented planning around sustainability challenges facing the field. Detroit-based organizations that will be participating in the conversation include Wayne State University, Reel Clever Films, Final Girls and Michigan Film and Digital Media Office. The International Documentary Association (IDA) will also be represented.
Quinn and Helfand will attend the festival along with several Kartemquin staff in support of these screenings and events, plus special free education-focused presentations of 2019 Best Documentary Oscar nominee Minding the Gap, directed by Bing Liu, and two episodes of America to Me, a 10-part series examining racial equity inside a high school that was the best-reviewed TV series of 2018 when it debuted on Starz.
Peabody Award winning filmmaker Judith Helfand takes audiences from the deadly 1995 Chicago heat disaster deep into one of our nation's biggest growth industries – Disaster Preparedness. Along the way she forges inextricable links between extreme weather, extreme disparity and the politics of "disaster"; daring to ask: What if a zip code was just a routing number, and not a life-or-death sentence? Inspired by Eric Klinenberg's ground-breaking book HEAT WAVE: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Life Itself) examines racial, economic and class issues in contemporary American education in the ten-part unscripted documentary series America to Me. Poignant and funny, epic and intimate, America to Me spends an academic year at Chicagoland's elite Oak Park and River Forest High School (OPRF), allowing its students, families, faculty and administration to tell stories of the pressures and challenges teens face today in their own words.
A feature documentary about gay rights warrior Jeffrey Montgomery, and the ongoing struggle for equality in the midwest. The film is directed and edited by Daniel Land and produced by John Montgomery.
Kartemquin's KTQ Labs program brings filmmakers together to offer free critique of works-in-progress. Filmmaker badge holders and invitees only.
Members of the Michigan documentary community are invited to join the national conversation on building a more sustainable ecosystem for professionals in the documentary industry. Attendees will identify tangible strategies to strengthen existing infrastructure in our state and in the region, building from the model and toolkit established at the 2018 Heartlandia Convening. Through panel discussions and small group dialogue, the summit will focus on strategies that are regionally-focused and driven by collaborative efforts between media makers, arts service organizations, funders and distribution partners.
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2019 Academy Award nominee. Compiling over 12 years of footage shot in his hometown of Rockford, IL, in Minding the Gap, Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern-day masculinity. Liu weaves a story of generational forgiveness while exploring the precarious gap between childhood and adulthood. The film is produced by Liu and Diane Quon, and edited by Liu and Joshua Altman.
Newly restored 16mm print (courtesy of the National Film Preservation Fund). In the politically fraught climate of Chicago in 1968, two young nuns crisscross the city in order to ask strangers the question, "Are you happy?" A beloved by rarely seen gem of pure cinema verite, Inquiring Nuns is the second-ever film by Kartemquin Films, the legendary Chicago production collective begun in 1966. The films is a distinctly American response to the pioneering French documentary Chronicle of a Summer (1960), and co-directed by Kartemquin founders Gordon Quinn and Jerry Temaner.
Read more about the events in the Detroit Free Press.


Last week I shared with you some helpful helpers; those who can assist, do odd jobs and help you shine on line. Today we are going to look at a couple more people who can help you make your event a super success!
The Visual Aide(s): Yes, you could make your own videos, take your own pictures, or get someone on the staff to do it. There is nothing wrong with this approach, but for a few dollars you could have someone dedicated to the task and make your life a whole lot easier. Professional photographers can run about $100/hour, their fee usually includes the processing time as well. There is an additional cost for the photos themselves. Make sure you can purchase digital versions as well. You will be able to use the photos throughout the year on your social media, as well as for future marketing materials; you will use them again and again.
The same can be said for video. Plus, what a great tool! Have the videographer take testimonials from event attendees; use them throughout the year to market the next event. Work with the videographer to come up with questions to help with your efforts. Ask attendees what they gained from the event, the best session they attended and why, how they feel the event has brought their career, knowledge, and skills up a notch. Upload the (edited!) videos to a YouTube channel (see online marketer above) and you will also get some nice SEO play out of it!
The Site Selection Partner: Oh hey, that's me! Okay, what can I do for you? I will put together an RFP and send it directly to my contacts (who I have worked with for years!). I will find the best location to fit your needs. Once I gather this info I will send it to you in an easy to read headache-free spreadsheet. I will negotiate on your behalf and, since I represent HelmsBriscoe, who buys more hotel room nights than any other organization out there, my negotiating power is quite impressive. I will make sure that you are protected and work out contract points that do not make sense, then add in addendums that do. I will be one quick call (636-797-3405) or email away, just in the case you need me to step in at anytime. If, for whatever reason, the property fails you in any way during your event, I will help to make sure some refunds come your way or negotiate future terms for future meetings. I am a value add (that means I only add to, I do not subtract from your bottom line). As well, I am very, dedicatedly, super passionate about doing the best for you!
There is a lot of support out there for you meeting planner. I know that much of the time it feels as if you are going it alone, but truly there is no reason to feel that way. What you do brings such value; of course people want to help you!
Please share with me your successes (or failures) with utilizing assistants and other types of task helpers!
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#12, use the Facebook pixel. There's a lot that you can do with the Facebook pixel. The Facebook pixel, if you're not familiar with it, is just a small snippet of code that you put on your website that's invisible to the user, but it tracks who's coming to your website.
So then if you want to run some ads to those people or not run ads to them, you can use that information as an audience in your Facebook Ads Manager. Facebook Ads are probably one of the best options that church has ever had for marketing, and I'm not sure how long it's going to last but it's so amazing because you have so much control over who you're advertising to.
There's so much data on Facebook users that you have a lot of ways that you can kind of set your audiences and your parameters to really narrow down and reach the people that you want to reach and then you can set it up so that you're only paying for the clicks and there are churches having great success with Facebook ads, without spending a lot of money.
My friend Chris Abbott, who helps churches with Facebook ads, helped a small church in Tulsa, Oklahoma of 120 people and they were having this special Sunday a few weeks before Christmas and so he ran some Facebook ads for them and he was able to get 47 new visitors to this Church of 120 by only spending $78.58.
That's basically a visitor for every $1.60 spent and I think most of us would make that trade all day. I have a podcast episode where I interviewed him a while back. Go check that out. There's so much opportunity with Facebook ads right now that you don't want to miss this.
So all you need to do is go to your Facebook account. Go to your Ad Manager, find the Facebook Pixel Code, put that on your website, and then when you start running Facebook ads, you can choose to target those same people because it's a lot easier to advertise to warm traffic than cold traffic.
There's a lot of people that have come to your website that have not been at your church. In fact, most of the people coming to your church website are probably not regular people at your church because if someone's going to church every week, they pretty much know what's going on. They don't need go to the church website a lot.
I don't go to my church website very often unless I'm trying to sign up for something or attend some event that don't have the information for already and so chances are a lot of the people hitting your church website are brand new and have never been to your church. And so by using the Facebook pixel, you'll be able to re-advertise to them on Facebook and it will be a lower cost per click and it will allow you to advertise to warm traffic and get more people to your church.
In the next video, I'm going to show you how to develop your unique value proposition so that people will understand how you're different than everyone else. Until then, amp it up.


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Scores of bodies found floating in Ganges river
The bodies of at least 70 people have washed up on the banks of the Ganges river in northern India.
Images on social media of the bodies floating in the river prompted outrage and speculation that they died from COVID-19.
The discovery, near the border between the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, has prompted outrage amid speculation that the victims died from COVID-19.
Authorities performed autopsies on Tuesday but said they could not confirm the cause of death due to the decomposition of the bodies.
More corpses were found floating in the river on Tuesday, washing up in Ghazipur district in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh state.
Uttar Pradesh is India's most populous state.
Some reports say as many as 100 bodies have been found, and that their condition suggests they may have been in the river for several days.
Police and villagers were at the site, about 50 kilometres from Monday's incident.
Surinder, a resident of Ghazipur who uses one name, said villagers did not have enough wood to cremate their dead on land.
Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are experiencing rising COVID-19 cases as infections in India grow faster than anywhere else in the world.
India has had the second-highest number of confirmed cases after the US, with nearly 23 million and more than 240,000 deaths.
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'Oh s***': Minnesota native Jimmy Chin reacts to winning an Oscar
He won the Best Documentary Oscar alongside his wife.
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A Mankato native who found fame as a climber can now add "Oscar winner" to his glittering resume.
Jimmy Chin walked away from Sunday night's Academy Awards with the Oscar for "Best Documentary" along with his wife and co-director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi.
They won for "Free Solo," a National Geographic documentary about the attempt by rock climber Alex Honnold to free climb El Capitan's 900-meter vertical rock face at Yosemite National Park.
Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi were presented with their Oscar by Helen Mirren and Jason Momoa, with Chin unable to contain his shock as he said "Oh s---" as he arrived on the dais to give their speech (which you can see at 0:43 in this video).
Born and raised in Mankato, attending Shattuck-St. Mary's in Faribault and later Carleton College, the Star Tribune notes, Chin struck out on a career that combined climbing and photography.
This in turn led to filmmaking, with Chin and Vasarhelyi previously teaming up for the acclaimed 2015 movie "Meru," in which Chin and two other expert climbers embarked on the treacherous climb of Meru Peak in the Indian Himalayas.
For "Free Solo," the National Geographic explains that Chin was among the climbers/cinematographers who filmed his friend Honnold complete the historic achievement of becoming the first person to ever free climb El Capitan.
The harrowing filming process Chin and others had to carry out is described below:
No one is allowed to whisper, sneeze, drop a lens cap, dislodge a pebble—any of which might create the distraction that sends him hurtling to his death. Most important, no one is allowed to talk to Honnold about the epic climb, at least not directly. This is to avoid putting any pressure on him but also to keep from upsetting his precisely calibrated mind-set, a mixture of acute concentration, bulletproof confidence, and deep Zen calm. Instead of using the term 'free soloing,' which means climbing without ropes or safety gear, you use his preferred euphemism—'scrambling.'
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Despite deaths, dozens of violations and revoked licenses, Richmond assisted-living facility remains open
Katie O'Connor
Jones & Jones at 7804 and 7806 Forest Hill Ave. in Richmond is largely shielded from view by a line of tall trees.
It's been more than 20 years since Michel Burke-Barnes and Margaret Burke last saw their brother. But in that time, they thought and prayed about him a lot. They wondered: Was he okay? Was somebody taking care of him?
They knew he was living at Jones & Jones Assisted Living in Richmond, but little else. They never knew why he left San Antonio so long ago. They never understood why he never wanted to come home.
And when he died at the age of 51 on the morning of July 2 at Jones & Jones, reportedly by his own hand, his death became yet another unanswered question.
But for the Virginia Department of Social Services, Kevin Hammock's death, along with that of another resident in May, became two of the many reasons for why it decided to revoke Jones & Jones' license on Sept. 12.
The lengthy list of violations at Jones & Jones reflects not just a facility where residents sometimes die in preventable ways, according to the state.
It is also a window into a system that is meant to act as a safety net for vulnerable people with complicated medical and mental needs, who cannot afford to find a home anywhere else but who too often don't get the care they need.
And it exposes the limits of state oversight, since nearly 100 people still live at Jones & Jones' facilities, despite the fact that both the properties and the owner and administrator have had licenses revoked.
WHERE DO THEY GO?
While assisted living facilities are commonly home to elderly residents, many of those who live at Jones & Jones, and the hundreds of similar facilities across the state, are physically disabled, have serious mental illness, or both. They're often in their 40s or 50s.
This is the second time that Jones & Jones has had a license revoked. The facility has two buildings at 7806 and 7804 Forest Hill Ave., and a separate license for each building. A renewal of a license for the first, where residents complained about filthy conditions, was denied in March, but the facility hasn't yet closed because the decision was appealed.
The state upheld its decision to deny the first license during an informal conference in April, but it was appealed again.
The same months-long appeal battle seems likely for this second license revocation, as Mable Jones, the facility's owner and former administrator, appealed the decision Tuesday. She said in a brief interview last week that all the claims DSS sets forth in the hefty, 44-page statement of allegations are unfounded and have not been proven.
Jones lost her license in April, after the Board of Long-Term Care Administrators found she had used residents' Social Security money to gamble at casinos and go on vacations. Since then, the facility has been operating without an administrator, a violation of Virginia law.
DSS ordered Jones & Jones to "cease operation" because "dangerous conditions and practices exist at the facility such that further delay in closing the facility poses an imminent and substantial threat to the health, safety and welfare of the residents."
But the notice also outlines the appeal process, which can take months.
State inspections paint a picture of a facility where residents often go without their medication, must share a common supply of clothes, are not given their appropriate monthly allowances designated by the state and sometimes go years without mental health treatment.
It alleges that Jones & Jones failed to comply with numerous laws and regulations and that "this lack of compliance may have resulted in the death of a resident and has adversely impacted the health, safety and welfare" of others.
But many of the claims the state lays before the facility aren't new. Over at least the past four years, Jones & Jones has racked up several hundred violations from DSS. Those public inspection reports describe a living environment rife with blood-stained linens, soiled sheets, unlabeled medication bottles and bedbugs that skitter across the walls.
And DSS isn't the only one looking into Jones & Jones. Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney Michael Herring is also investigating Jones and the facility, along with the Richmond Police Department. A lawyer in Herring's office would not comment on the investigation.
The long-running violations at Jones & Jones raise a slew of questions about the safety net for Virginia's most vulnerable residents and the level of oversight over their caretakers.
Why was Jones & Jones permitted to stay open for five months without an administrator, a span of time in which two residents died in preventable circumstances, as the state alleges? Why, after years of repeat violations, has it taken so long for the state to step in and take action against the facility?
Tara Ragland, adult licensing program director with DSS, turned down an interview request for this story.
And perhaps the most pressing question of all: If the state upholds its decision to revoke the facility's licenses, where will the residents go?
Jones has said in past interviews that 95 percent of the residents at Jones & Jones have a mental illness. Too often in Virginia and other states, people with serious mental illness find themselves cycling between the hospital, the criminal justice system and jail.
Many of the residents at Jones & Jones, where 98 people currently live, have said that it was the only place that would take them. They have stories of hopping around from facility to facility, sometimes violating the rules, possibly due in part to their mental illness.
"Absolutely, we don't want people living in places like Jones & Jones," said Anna Mendez, executive director of Partners for Mental Health, a Charlottesville nonprofit. "But at the end of the day, when the Jones & Joneses of the day close, where do they go? And my concern is that they end up on the street, because you only end up at a Jones & Jones because there's nowhere else for you to go."
PREVENTABLE DEATHS?
Before Hammock died in July, another resident died on May 7. According to the statement of allegations that DSS sent Jones & Jones in mid-September, the resident's day program caseworker had called the Jones & Jones staff to tell them the unidentified man needed immediate medical care.
But the staff did not call emergency services and that afternoon the resident collapsed and died.
"A reasonable person, much less trained staff, would have judged the caseworker's observations, particularly of Resident 1's breathing, to be indicative of a serious illness or medical condition that required immediate medical attention," the statement of allegations reads.
In Hammock's case, the problems that the state outlines aren't about his immediate medical care before he died. DSS claims that, during the seven years he lived there, he had 46 psychiatric hospitalizations for paranoid schizophrenia. In many of those cases, he requested to go to the hospital himself.
According to the statement of allegations, "he complained of hearing voices telling him to hurt himself and/or others, thoughts of suicide and thoughts of hurting people before they hurt him."
DSS says Hammock's record did not include adequate plans for follow-up care by a qualified mental health professional. A note in his record from March 2017 said he hadn't had a regular appointment with a psychiatrist since February 2015.
The facility "failed to demonstrate an understanding of its responsibility for ensuring consistent and collective delivery of services for residents who do not possess the ability to reason logically, make appropriate decisions or engage in purposeful behavior," according to DSS.
He was moved from the 7804 Forest Hill Ave. location to the adjacent one at 7806 Forest Hill Ave. in April. Just moving him there was a violation, DSS said, because the facility accepted him even though it could not provide adequate care due to his known history of "suicidal ideation," or suicidal thoughts.
Kevin Hammock, in his grandmother's home in San Antonio, Texas, about 25 years ago. (Photo courtesy Michel Burke-Barnes)
Burke-Barnes and Burke, Hammock's sisters, still live in Texas, where the siblings had grown up. Though they called Hammock on the phone and sometimes sent him money, they said he didn't give them a sense that he was not being treated well or that he wanted to come home.
Usually, they said, he would keep their conversations brief.
But still, they worried. And now they say Jones & Jones should have done more to provide care for him.
"I believe they contributed to his death," Burke-Barnes said.
Jones points to the fact that Hammock did not complain to staff often and that he would usually go to the hospital on his own without their knowing.
"Well, how can you stop somebody from taking their own life?" Jones said.
DSS does regular visits to assisted living facilities, usually once a year when the facility is requesting a new license, but in cases like Jones & Jones — where there have been 18 complaints against the facility in the past four years, the vast majority of them resulting in violations — inspectors visit much more often, usually every few months.
Recently, they've been showing up multiple times a month.
In all that time, they evidently didn't recognize that Hammock was not getting the consistent mental health care he required.
"The inspection process requires a sampling of records," a DSS spokeswoman said in response to a question on why inspectors never realized Hammock wasn't getting the necessary care. "Because it is a random sample, licensing staff are not always able to inspect all the records that are on site."
REGULATORY HURDLES
The regulations that govern DSS do not necessarily make it easy to step in on cases like Jones & Jones.
The state's inspection rules are set up so that, when considering a facility's license, inspectors can only look at that license year. It cannot consider previous years, even if the place has been operating for 20 years or more.
That might be a good practice for assisted-living facilities that improve in response to violations, so inspectors can't use the past against them. But for those like Jones & Jones, where, year after year, repeat violations surface, it limits the state's ability to consider the bigger picture.
Even if DSS steps in and revokes a license, there are other, massive hurdles that make closing a place down anything but simple. There are a lot of moving parts for the primary agencies, DSS and the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, explained Joani Latimer, the state's long-term care ombudsman.
She said DSS has been working to monitor Jones & Jones and make sure the residents have their up-to-date assessments, "so that when there's word of which way this is going, they'll be ready to move forward."
The assisted living facility has the primary responsibility of creating a plan of discharge and safe relocation for the residents, she said, "but you can't always count on that happening."
Closures only happen a few times a year, she estimated. They can occur either because the facility has had its license revoked or because it is voluntarily closing.
And they're especially difficult for facilities like Jones & Jones, because there are fewer beds available.
Jones & Jones relies on state funds, known as the Auxiliary Grant program, to pay for its residents. The program gives people who already receive Supplemental Security Income from the federal government additional funds to cover their assisted living stays, though it only provides about $1,200 per month, per resident.
Fewer than 300 of the 580 licensed assisted living facilities across the state accept residents with Auxiliary Grant funding, according to the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services, which administers the program.
And of those facilities, some only accept a handful of such residents, relying mostly on private pay. Not all have operations like Jones & Jones, where on average 80 percent of its residents rely on the Auxiliary Grant program, according to DARS.
So there are fewer places to send residents, Latimer said, and sometimes they have to be moved across the state.
'SOMETHING CHANGED'
When Hammock was growing up, he and his sister, Burke, were close. They'd play in their grandmother's backyard, going down to a little creek and catching crawfish.
"But something changed as we got older," she said.
His sisters were never entirely sure if he really did have schizophrenia, but their grandmother was, they said. She told them that some family members had similar diagnoses. She always worried about Hammock, according to Burke and Burke-Barnes.
And when she died around 2010, they asked Hammock if he wanted to come home. But he didn't.
Staff called Burke-Barnes and told her that he went to a psychiatric hospital only once during his stay at Jones & Jones, so she thought it happened just that one time, definitely not 46 times.
When he died, Hammock's remains were mailed back to San Antonio. Burke took them to the cemetery where his grandmother was buried, and poured the ashes over her grave.
"I felt better about that," she said. "About doing it that way."
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What if Obama quit?
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 10:20 am on August 21, 2011
I'm not talking about resignation, or just refusing to offer any proposals until after the next election. What if Obama simply decided not to run for a second term as President?
The thought occurred to me after reading Peggy Noonan's piece this week for the Wall Street Journal, which argues that Obama has already quit in a practical sense:
The phrase of the day is "new lows." It blares from every screen. The number of Americans satisfied with the ways things are going hits new lows—11%. President Obama's popularity: new lows. The Dow Jones Industrial Average this year: new lows. Maybe it will enter ordinary language. "Charlie, it's been ages. How are you, how's Betty?" "I'm experiencing some volatility, but she's inching toward new lows."
The market is dispirited. I'm wondering if the president is, too, and if that won't carry implications for the 2012 race. You can imagine him having lunch with political advisers, hearing some unwanted advice—"Don't go to Martha's Vineyard!"—putting his napkin by his plate, pushing back from the table, rising, and saying in a clipped, well-modulated voice: "I'm tired. I'm going. If they want this job so much let them have it." …
The president shows all the signs of becoming a man who, around the time he unveils his new jobs proposal in September, is going to start musing in interviews about whether anyone can be a successful president now, what with the complexity of the problems and the forces immediately arrayed, in a politically polarized age, against any specific action. That was probably his inner rationale for not coming up with a specific debt-ceiling plan: Why give the inevitable forces a target? But his refusal to produce a plan became itself the target. Reverse Midas.
Under these circumstances he could not possibly be enjoying his job. On the stump this week in the Midwest, he should have been on fire with the joy of combat, he should have had them whooping and hollering with fresh material and funny lines. But even at his feistiest, he was wilted. Distracted. Sometimes he seems to be observing himself and his interactions as opposed to being himself and having interactions. His audiences wanted to show support, it was clear, that's why they came. But there was something tentative in their response, as if they wanted to come through for the applause line but couldn't figure out exactly where the applause line was. The president was dropping his g's, always a terrible sign, a kind of bowing that assumes he speaks from a great height. He also started saying "folks" again. That too is a tell. It's the word politicians who think they're better and brighter than normal people use when they're trying to make normal people think they're normal.
Nothing says that Obama has to run for a second term in office. We have had Presidents walk away from opportunities to run for re-election. Prior to FDR, that would include every President who didn't run for a third term, of course, but there are examples in the post-22nd Amendment era, too. Harry Truman was specifically exempted from the term limits imposed by the constitutional amendment but chose not to run for a second full term in 1952. Lyndon Johnson also chose not to run for his second full term in 1968. Both men made those choices at least in large part because they had become so unpopular that they clearly couldn't win, especially LBJ. Another parallel to LBJ is the effect of having an unpopular war tied around a president's neck.
Some will scoff at the notion that Obama and his large ego would walk away from the office, but LBJ was also rumored to think pretty highly of himself. It's a low-probability outcome, but it isn't a zero probability outcome. Obama's ratings have tanked this year along with the economy, and he hasn't come up with an original thought on economic policy since Porkulus. The leaks of his rumored plan sound a lot like Porkulus II, a sequel to a flop. This gives the impression that Obama has run out of ideas, and as Noonan argues in her piece, his attacks on Republicans for their supposed refusal to pass a plan he has yet to even submit to them sounds like a man who realizes that he's out of ideas, too.
But the decision may end up being out of his hands if the political environment doesn't improve. Obama's numbers are plummeting in places Democrats can hardly afford to lose. In Pennsylvania, where Obama will top a ticket that also includes Bob Casey's bid for a second Senate term, he's either at 43% approval (Quinnipiac) or at 35% (Muhlenberg). Wisconsin turned Republican last year and a series of elections this year confirmed it, and Herb Kohl's seat in the Senate is up for grabs. Obama can be expected to drag down the ticket in Virginia (James Webb's seat is open), Florida (Bill Nelson), Ohio (Sherrod Brown), Maryland (Ben Cardin), and Michigan (Debbie Stabenow). Obama is underwater in New York and New Jersey already, two normally staunch Democratic states, both with Senate races on the line as well. If Obama runs at the top of those tickets, he might eke out victories in the two states, but his presence on the ticket will depress Democratic turnout and might endanger Kirsten Gillibrand and Robert Menendez; Democrats would almost certainly have to spend a ton of money to bolster them that they'd normally spend elsewhere.
Democrats will be looking at a massacre in the Senate, and that's not even including already-endangered seats in Nebraska, Missouri, Montana, and New Mexico, which just elected its first Republican woman governor last year. Democrats could wind up losing enough seats to give Republicans a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate if Obama chases away the white working-class vote that he's been alienating for the past two years on ObamaCare and now his disastrous economic performance. If unemployment starts rising and growth remains low in the next few months, Democrats may insist on Obama finding a graceful exit before the primaries.
And guess who that leaves with an open path to the Democratic nomination? Hillary Clinton. She can step into the void with promises to return America to the economic policies of her husband. The Left may not have much love for Hillary any longer, but she was winning the very working-class Democrats in the 2008 primaries that Obama is losing to the Republicans now. States like Pennsylvania and Michigan would snap back into place for Democrats, and perhaps Wisconsin as well. Having Obama off the top of the ticket would take some of the downward pressure off of some other Senate races, and Hillary would likely be a plus in most.
If Hillary took Obama's place in 2012, Republicans would face a much tougher electoral map. They would still have the advantage of running against Obama's record, but the GOP may not capture that disaffected Democratic working-class vote if Hillary also ran against Obamanomics and promised a return to Clintonian prosperity. The eventual Republican nominee would have at least a tougher task in winning those votes and the White House. And even if Hillary lost in a general election — Democrats lost the White House in 1952 and 1968, coincidentally both times with Richard Nixon on the Republican tickets — the Democrats might save a few Senate seats with an improved turnout in key states.
All of this is entirely speculative, of course, but it's not impossible, either. Democrats might be loathe to push the nation's first African-American President into an early retirement, but they may eventually balk at committing political suicide if Obama's numbers and the economy keep going south in the next few months. Under those conditions, even Obama might be ready to walk away without much pushing.
Update (8/22): Be sure to read some of the thoughtful commentary at the Trackback links, but I'll especially direct you to my friend Joe Gandelman, who has a personal reminiscence about LBJ's withdrawal that's worth reading.
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Winning still top priority for Mink
by Warren Kosel || AHL On The Beat Archive
Football legend Vince Lombardi once said: "Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all-the-time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
In the realm of professional sports, and in this case, hockey, the success of a team is not measured through ticket sales and revenue generation. Success, by many, is purely perceived by how talented the on-ice product is and ultimately how many victories comprise the win column at the end of the season. Some critics and sports enthusiasts claim that's a common misapprehension in terms of determining the overall success of a team, but for new Amerks forward Graham Mink, it's the only way.
"It's why we play the game," said Mink, who last season helped the Hershey Bears clinch their record-setting 10th Calder Cup, more than any other franchise in American Hockey League history.
"I am a very competitive person and winning is everything to me. I have been lucky enough to be on two teams that have had a lot of success and it was a lot of fun. It definitely gives you a lot more energy and makes the game more fun when you win."
Of course he is referring to the two seasons spent in "Chocolatetown," the home of the oldest and most distinguished team in minor professional hockey. Last season alone, before capturing its second Calder Cup within the last four years, Hershey went on to claim the Eastern Division, the Eastern Conference regular-season and the Eastern Conference playoff championships.
Additionally, the Bears produced the top two scorers in the league in Alexandre Giroux and Keith Aucoin. Both were named to the AHL First All-Star team, and Giroux was last season's scoring champion and proclaimed league MVP. Not to mention Hershey was backstopped by playoff MVP goaltender Michal Neuvirth.
So where does Mink fit into all Hershey's success last season?
The answer: right up there with everyone else.
Mink, in his second stint with the Bears, completed the 2008-09 regular season scoring a career-high 32 goals along with 59 points in 68 games to finish second and fourth on the team, respectively. He also ranked second with a plus/minus rating of plus-26.
He continued his offensive output during the playoffs doing more of the same as he did in the regular season, finishing the postseason second on the team with seven goals and fourth with 15 points while skating in all 22 games.
On top of that, Mink saw action in two contests with the Washington Capitals, Hershey's National Hockey League affiliate.
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Mink made his presence felt four years ago when he first came on the scene with Hershey. Since then, his style of play has not changed. In his first season with the Bears in 2005-06, the 30-year-old Vermont native registered 40 points (21+19) in 43 games and went on to finish tied for fourth in goals. He also recorded 11 power-play goals, third-best on the team. During the playoffs, he averaged a point-per-game, collecting 21 points (8+13) in 21 games to finish third on the team and 10th in the league to help guide the Bears to the Calder Cup championship. He even made his NHL debut that season with Washington, seeing time in three games.
So what's next for Mink you ask?
"Plain and simple, I want to win another championship," said the 6-foot-3, 220-pound Mink, who played three seasons of college hockey at the University of Vermont. "I am going to do everything I can to bring another championship here to Rochester."
"Team-wise, I think anything less than a championship will be disappointing, added Mink. "I'm excited reading the headlines and seeing all the players that Florida (Panthers)/Rochester has signed for this season. I think we'll be a very competitive team and a very fun team to watch."
In 2009-10, Mink will join a group of offseason signees the Amerks and Florida Panthers have brought in primarily to bolster Rochester's lineup and reinvigorate an offense that was, for the last few seasons, far inferior to its opposition. He, along with veteran forwards Chris Taylor, Mike York, Jamie Johnson and Jeff Taffe and defenseman Clay Wilson, will have the responsibility of restoring the pride and tradition in Rochester and once again make the Amerks a winning team.
A daunting task to most, but Mink is ready for the challenge and is not phased with the transition to a new organization, especially to one similar to Hershey.
"I'm going to play the same way I've always played and that's by going into the front of the net and playing hard in the corners. I like when things get a little physical and hopefully I can build on the success that I had last season and win another championship."
Coming from Hershey, a team also known for its storied past comparable to that of Rochester, Mink had the opportunity and the honor to play for the cornerstone franchise in the 74-year history of the AHL. And now with his arrival to upstate western New York, the historical significance of the team may be different, but the honor will always remain the same – something Mink truly values.
"I love playing for teams that have a sense of tradition and pride," said Mink. "We had that in Hershey and I'm sure it's going to be the same way in Rochester. When you play for a team that has been around for a long time, there is a strong emotional connection with the fan base and I like that. They (the fans) are hard on you when you don't have success, but when you do, it's a great feeling for everyone.
"I think this coming season is going to be the polar opposite of the last two years in Rochester, so I have no worries or concerns," said Mink, referring to Rochester's last-place finish in 2007-08 and just a step up in 2008-09. "I feel all the pieces are in place to make a serious run at the title."
The fans of Rochester certainly got to be happy that winning is still the top priority.
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Q: Entity Framework Error on creation I get the following error:
"ERROR: Unable to update Web.Config because of the following exception: 'The value contains embedded nulls (\u0000).
Parameter name: provider connection string'."
All I'm doing is adding a new model to my ASP.Net MVC app.....
Just to be clear, this is when the wizard creates the model from the DB...

A: Well, judging by your error message, the value of your connection string is invalid.
Have a read here. If reading that doesn't help, please consider editing the question with the connection string - ensuring that no identifiable information is there.

A: It's actually a bug in the wizard, when it happens you have to go in and modify the web.config by hand...

A: I suspect you used a text editor which used an encoding scheme the provider doesn't like. Try re-editing it in VS and see if that fixes it.

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Aside from being located right off of 680 (one of the worst highways to drive on - both in terms of traffic and road conditions) Oakland International Airport provides an easy access experience for Bay Area traveler with high speed and fewer waits. The first time I came here, I actually thought I was in the wrong place, because there was NO ONE at the kiosks and the only wait I had through security was my own fault for not taking my shoes off faster. Once inside, it was a bit more crowded, but I made it curbside to my gate in nine minutes - possibly a new record for any airport (excluding Norman Y Mineta San Jose Airport, which is practically inhuman in its efficiency).
Efficiency is stellar overall, with a reasonable amount of flights going out each day. The food choices are average, but this is not a one-room hangar, either. The parking prices are astoundingly cheap, and the surrounding area of gas stations, rental car companies, hotels and cheap eateries make this a very well-laid-out airport overall.
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2018 Catholic Charities Appeal Enters Final Weeks
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FALL RIVER — The Fall River Diocese 2018 Catholic Charities Appeal is entering its final weeks, and Appeal officials encourage those who have not yet made their donation to do so before its June 27th conclusion.
As on Monday, June 11, the Appeal had raised slightly over three million dollars.
Anyone can track the progress of the 2018 Appeal by visiting its website at www.frdioc-catholiccharities.org and checking the status bar, which is updated daily. Running totals for individual parishes in the diocese are provided under the Appeal Highlights menu tab.
Funds collected through the Catholic Charities Appeal fund the charitable programs, agencies and ministries sponsored by the Fall River Diocese to respond to those in need of spiritual and material assistance. This assistance is given without regard to race, creed, nationality, gender, or economic status.
Last year, 94 cents of every dollar contributed to the Catholic Charities Appeal was directed to the services and programs it supports.
"Being able to assure people that 94 cents of every dollar they donate will go directly to assist people in need is a distinct plus for us here in the Catholic Charities Appeal office," said Appeal Director Michael Donly. "It has helped us establish a very positive relationship with the thousands of donors from the 82 parishes across the diocese. They know we are doing all we can to be good stewards of their generosity, and that we take pride in our efforts to do just that."
Contributions to the 2018 Catholic Charities Appeal can be made online at www.frdioc-catholiccharities.org; dropped off at any parish in the diocese; or mailed to the Catholic Charities Office, P.O. Box 1470, Fall River, Mass. 02722. Please contact that office at 508-675-1311 with any questions.
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Q: How to add a header to an existing csv file? I know this is a very basic question.
I have a CSV file, which contains data already. This file is generated automatically not using opening with Dictreader or open object.
Goal

*

*I want to open an existing file

*Append the Header in the first row (Shift the first row data)

*Save the file

*Return the file

Any clues?
cursor.execute(sql, params + (csv_path,))

This command generates file, without header.
Code
  sql, params = queryset.query.sql_with_params()
    sql += ''' INTO OUTFILE %s
           FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
           OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
           LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' '''
    csv_path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT + '\\tmp', csv_filename)
cursor = connection.cursor()

cursor.execute(sql, params + (csv_path,))
columns = [column[0] for column in cursor.description] #error

Tried
SELECT `website` UNION SELECT `request_system_potentialcustomers`.`website` FROM `request_system_potentialcustomers` ORDER BY `request_system_potentialcustomers`.`revenue` DESC
INTO OUTFILE "D:\\out.csv"
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n';

A: Wait a minute. If you have not yet called
cursor.execute(sql, params + (csv_path,))

then you have the opportunity to write the CSV file correctly from the get-go. You should not need to write a new file with the header line, then copy all that CSV into the new file and so forth. That is slow and inefficient -- and your only choice -- if you really have to prepend a line to an existing file.
If instead you have not yet written the CSV file, and if you know the header, then you can add it to the SQL using SELECT ... UNION ... SELECT:
header = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz', ]
query = ['SELECT {} UNION'.format(','.join([repr(h) for h in header]))]
sql, params = queryset.query.sql_with_params()
query.append(sql)
sql = '''INTO OUTFILE %s
         FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
         OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
         LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' '''
query.append(sql)
sql = ' '.join(query)
csv_path = os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT + '\\tmp', csv_filename)

cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.execute(sql, params + (csv_path,))

Demo:
mysql> SELECT "foo", "bar" UNION SELECT "baz", "quux" INTO OUTFILE "/tmp/out";

Produces the file /tmp/out containing
foo bar
baz quux

A: Cursor.description attribute give you information about the result column.
cursor.execute(sql, params + (csv_path,))
columns = [column[0] for column in cursor.description]

*

*Write above information to the new file.

*Append old csv contents to the new file.

*Rename the new file with the old file name.

A: Not quite clear if you are trying to read an existing csv file or not, but to read a csv off disk without column names:
Use dictreader/dictwriter and specify the column names in your file
Python 3:
import csv
ordered_filenames = ['animal','height','weight']

with open('stuff.csv') as csvfile, open("result.csv","w",newline='') as result:
    rdr = csv.DictReader(csvfile, fieldnames=ordered_filenames)
    wtr = csv.DictWriter(result, ordered_filenames)
    wtr.writeheader()
    for line in rdr:
        wtr.writerow(line)

With stuff.csv in the same directory:
elephant,1,200
cat,0.1,1
dog,0.2,2

and the output result file:
animal,height,weight
elephant,1,200
cat,0.1,1
dog,0.2,2


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Comprehensive analysis of common and rare mitochondrial DNA variants in elite Japanese athletes: a case–control study
The purpose of the present study was to identify mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) polymorphisms and rare variants that associate with elite Japanese athletic status. Subjects comprised 185 elite Japanese athletes who had represented Japan at international competitions (that is, 100 endurance/middle-power athletes: EMA; 85 sprint/power athletes: SPA) and 672 Japanese controls (CON). The entire mtDNA sequences (16 569 bp) were analyzed by direct sequencing. Nucleotide variants were detected at 1488 sites in the 857 entire mtDNA sequences. A total of 311 variants were polymorphisms (minor allele frequency 1% in CON), and the frequencies of these polymorphisms were compared among the three groups. The EMA displayed excess of seven polymorphisms, including subhaplogroup D4e2- and D4g-specific polymorphisms, compared with CON (P<0.05), whereas SPA displayed excess of three polymorphisms and dearth of nine polymorphisms, including haplogroup G- and subhaplogroup G2a-specific polymorphisms, compared with CON (P<0.05). The frequencies of 10 polymorphisms, including haplogroup G- and subhaplogroup G2a-specific polymorphisms, were different between EMA and SPA (P<0.05): although none of these polymorphisms differed significantly between groups after correcting for multiple comparison (false discovery rate q-value 0.05). The number of rare variants in the 12S ribosomal RNA and NADH dehydrogenase subunit I genes were also higher in SPA than in CON (P<0.05). Analysis of the entire mtDNA of elite Japanese athletes revealed several haplogroup- and subhaplogroup-specific polymorphisms to be potentially associated with elite Japanese athletic status.
Mikami, E., Fuku, N., Kong, Q.P., Takahashi, H., Ohiwa, N., Murakami, H., Miyachi, M., Higuchi, M., Tanaka, M., Pitsiladis, Y.P. and Kawahara, T. (2013). Comprehensive analysis of common and rare mitochondrial DNA variants in elite Japanese athletes: a case–control study. Journal of human genetics, 58(12), 780-787.
http://www.nature.com/jhg/journal/v58/n12/full/jhg2013102a.html
Peoples: | Places: Japan | Topics: Elite athletes | DNA Type: mtDNA


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Michael Cohen... sleazebag or patriot?
by Queequeg 61 Replies latest social current
Cohen is a lovely man. He is honest, caring and thoughtful. He loves this country like a true patriot. He is an outstanding citizen and totally uncompromisingly loyal to Truth.
sir82
Citing the criminality of Trump's associates is the best way to prove Trump's innocence?
truth_b_known
Michael Cohen was convicted of Perjury in Congressional Testimony.
Here our some things you should know about how Federal criminal cases are carried out.
1) The United States Attorney's Office meets may meet with a Defendant represented by legal counsel in what is called a "Proffer Meeting." This is where a deal is set out that, in exchange for evidence that would assist the government in prosecuting another person, the Defendant receives leniency at sentencing. Michael Cohen was sentenced to 36 months in the US Bureau of Prisons. That means he Cohen had nothing of value to offer at his Proffer Meeting.
2) Prior to sentencing a Defendant in a Federal criminal case is interviewed by a member of the U.S. Probation Department. This is to complete a pre-sentence report. This report is given to the District Judge to assist in the sentencing of a Defendant. In Cohen's pre-sentence report it states that Cohen told the Probation Officer he wanted a high ranking position withing the Trump administration. Cohen stated to the Probation Officer that he resented the fact that Trump offered him no position at all in the adminstration.
3) During yesterday's hearing Cohen was asked, under oath, if he was supposed to get appointed to a position in Trump's administration. Cohen answered "No" and went on to say that he never asked or wanted a position. Cohen stated he wanted to be independent and continue his work as a "fixer."
Michael Cohen is a convicted felon. That alone impeaches any testimony he offers. Michael Cohen was convicted of a crime of moral turpitude. That also impeaches any testimony he offers. Michael Cohen was convicted for committing perjury before a congressional hearing. At yesterday's hearing Michael Cohen, under oath, lied when asked if he wanted to received a position in the Trump administration.
Yesterday's hearing was nothing more than grand theater of at a Shakespearean order. It was a tax payer funded TV ad for the political elite class for the purpose to undermine the legitimacy of the Trump presidency.
DesirousOfChange
"I lied, but I'm not a liar." ~ Michael Cohen
'bout sums it up IMO.
Wasanelder Once
Where is the indignation towards Donald Trump for banging a porn star while his wife is home with his newborn son? Once a liar always a liar? How noble.
Apparently candidate Trump surrounded himself with criminals and liars yet we're supposed to believe that he and his campaign did nothing illegal.
Sir82, Well, when you put it like that ... !
ShirleyW
Queequeg - So, what do you think? FWIW, I say sleazebag..
Truth hurts Queeg ??
RubaDub
I would call Michael Cohen a sleazebag, big time.
He got good training from his mentor Donald Trump.
But when both are floating in the toilet, Trump would be the larger piece.
I sprayed deodorizer on my TV after watching parts of Cohen's testimony.
Rub a Dub
redvip2000
Well he is obviously a scumbag, or has been most of his career. Only a scumbag lawyer who has very little ethical standards, would agree to be Trump's fixer, responsible for handling all of Trumps indiscretions and illegalities.
Perhaps the fact that he is going to prison has made him open his eyes, and realize the mistake of being associated with the orange conman, but nevertheless, it does not negate his past actions.
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HomeEntertainmentBeing a single father is not tough: Ricky Martin
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Arguments Against Locating Sodom at Tall el-Hammam
Todd Bolen responds to "Where is Sodom"
Todd Bolen	February 27, 2013 20 Comments 1763 views Share
This piece was originally published by professor Todd Bolen on the BiblePlaces blog. Bolen comments on Steven Collins's BAR article suggesting that Biblical authors located Sodom at the site of Tall el-Hammam. We invite our readers to continue the discussion in our comments section below.
All material republished with the permission of Todd Bolen.
The proposal that Sodom has been found on the northeastern side of the Dead Sea has been around for a decade or so, but with the publication of an article by Steven Collins this month it will receive the widest hearing to date. I thought it might be helpful for readers of Biblical Archaeology Review to know where to go for another perspective.
The proposal that Tall el-Hammam is Sodom fails on at least two counts, and these are helpfully summarized by two experts in their respective subjects.
Geography Fail: Bill Schlegel, professor in Israel for 25 years and author of the Satellite Bible Atlas, explains why the biblical text does not fit the geography of Tall el-Hammam.
Chronology Fail: Eugene Merrill, Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary and author of Kingdom of Priests: A History of Old Testament Israel, shows in a recent Artifax article that for Tall el-Hammam to be Sodom one must deny all of the biblical dates before the time of the judges.
I've written about the issue several times as well:
Excavator Finds Evidence of Destruction at "Sodom" (Dec 2011)
Video: Search for Sodom and Gomorrah (Aug 2009)
Tall el-Hammam: Sodom, Abel Shittim, Abila, or Livias? (Jan 2009)
Sodom Identified? (May 2006)
One final point: the excavator of Tall el-Hammam insists that by identifying the site as Sodom he is supporting the historicity of the Bible. In fact, if his theory is true, we cannot trust the Bible for accurate details about times and places. Tall el-Hammam is certainly a significant site, but Sodom is surely to be found elsewhere.
Northern end of the Dead Sea. Photo from Pictorial Library of Bible Lands, volume 4.
Other than Israel, no country has as many Biblical sites and associations as Jordan: Mount Nebo, from where Moses gazed at the Promised Land; Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John baptized Jesus; Lot's Cave, where Lot and his daughters sought refuge after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; and many more. Travel with us on our journey into the past in our free eBook Exploring Jordan.
Related reading in Bible History Daily:
Where Is Sodom?
Locating Zoar
Steven Collins responds to a letter by Bill Schlegel
Lot's Cave Museum at Ancient Zoar (Zoora)
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Clark Hay says:
Lots of reasons to be skeptical about the Northern theory. But check out my Southern theory (see my comment above yours).
The epicenter of the ACTUAL blast that destroyed Sodom is found at the SOUTHERN end of the Dead Sea at Gawr al-Mazraah. It fits EVERY criterion. You can ALSO see the circular blast pattern in the geology there using Google Earth or Google Maps by going to Sodom Blast Site
It is a distinct circular depression 8 miles wide.
M. PYKA says:
One would think that, OBVIOUSLY, various forms of spectroscopic and chemical analysis would be appropriate to employ here; therefore, if not, WHY not? Hmmm.
The problem I see with the above article is that they assume that the Dead Sea was formed when God destroyed Sodom. However, this does not have to be. If the Dead Sea is a result of the Flood, then the reason to build a city in the area south of the Dead Sea not very worth while.
How do you deal with the lines of evidence stated here: http://geekychristian.com/evidence-sodom-is-tall-el-hammam/
Patricia Watkins says:
I am fascinated with this site of Tel El Hammam for a different reason. I believe this region of the plain to be the burial ground of Gog from Ezekiel 39:11. "Gog" is equated with the nation of Israel in Numbers 24:5-9 in the LXX. Josephus details a major battle in AD 68 when thousands of fleeing Israelites were trapped against the Jordan and slaughtered by Placidus and his Roman troops. Many of their dead bodies were carried downstream into the Dead Sea (Wars 4.7.4-6). Presumably these thousands of Israelites were later buried there in the plain where all of the bodies and the bones of Israelite dead from the Jewish / Roman war were taken for burial in order to "cleanse the land" of Israel (Ezekiel 39:11 &16). It would be interesting if signs of a mass burial ground were to be found in this same area, dating from that AD 70 era. It would be indeed ironic if the site of the original Sodom's destruction was also the cemetery for Jerusalem's dead of AD 70 to be interred – the city that was "spiritually called SODOM and Egypt" in Rev. 11:8.
Mark Metternich says:
What makes me excited about the prospect of Tel El Hammam possibly being the authentic site is the weakness of the arguments against the site. With some of the other various biblical sites I have followed over the years, arguments against the sites have been substantial. Here and elsewhere, for Tel El Hammam, the arguments I have read have seemed rather weak.
Hilkiah says:
It is possible that it may have occured there too. The actual sites of Sodom and Gommorah were revealed to Ron Wyatt, and amateur archeaologist over 25 years ago, In searching the Bible for clues to their locations, Ron and his wife Mary Nell found scripture references that mention four of the cities as forming part of the boundaries of the Canaanites:
"And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha." ……Genesis 10:19
It would be strange for Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim to each be listed as boundary markers if they were all in the same general location, at the south end of the Dead Sea. It is logical that the cities would be located at some distance from each other in order for it to be necessary to include each of them as boundary markers.
Ron's location of the sites he had found were, indeed, scattered over a distance of over fifty or more miles. One of them was located North of Jericho which was in perfect accord with scripture which indicates that Zeboim would be located North of the Dead Sea.
"And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash. And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual: And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboin toward the wilderness."
Later in 1989, Ron and Mary Nell Wyatt visited the site just below Masada and took samples of the whitish material which broke right off in their hands and disintegrated into particles the consistency of talcum powder. At that time, Mary Nell actually found one of the brimstone capsules imbedded in a piece of compacted ash, however, no conclusion was drawn, at that time, as to what it was.
In October of 1990, Ron Wyatt and Richard Rives returned to area. As they examined the area below Masada they discovered that it had just rained. As they wandered through the area, Richard saw what looked like an open room or cave at some distance and as they approached the vicinity of the cave they came upon a very large chunk of ash that had just recently fallen from a high section – probably because of the recent rain. As Ron stopped to view this he saw numerous yellowish balls inside this broken ash, all surrounded by a reddish-black, crusty ring. Prying one out, he recognized it as sulfur. On closer examination, now knowing what to look for, it was found that all through the ashen remains were round balls of encapsulated sulfur (brimstone).
After the discovery of the brimstone. Wyatt Archaeological Research began a study to see if brimstone was found in this form anywhere else. Ron and Mary Nell Wyatt along with Richard Rives went to the Smithsonian Institute, in Washington D.C. and examined their display of sulfur in its various forms, none being rounded balls of powdered sulfur. In addition, none of them were encapsulated. A request was granted by the Smithsonian that specimens other than those on display be examined. This collection of sulfur from around the world, consisted of over fifty specimens. None of them displayed the characteristics of the brimstone sulfur found in the vicinity of the "cities of the plain."
Ron Wyatt was not the first person to discover brimstone near the Dead Sea. When William Albright and Melvin Kyle set out to find the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in 1924, they, too, found these pieces of brimstone at Southern end of the Dead Sea.
"…a region on which brimstone was rained will show brimstone. Well, it does; we picked up pure sulfur, in pieces as big as the end of my thumb. It is mixed with the marl of the mountains on the west side of the sea, and now is to be found scattered along the shore of the sea even on the east side, some four or five miles distant from the ledge that contains the stratum. It has somehow scattered far and wide over this plain." "Explorations at Sodom" by Dr. Melvin Kyle, 1928, pp. 52-53.
Neither was Marvin Kyle the first to observe the ashen remains. The other record of these cities comes from Josephus in his "Wars of the Jews", Book IV, Chapter VIII:
"Now this country is then so sadly burnt up, that nobody cares to come at it;… It was of old a most happy land, both for the fruits it bore and the riches of its cities, although it be now all burnt up. It is related how for the impiety of its inhabitants, it was burnt by lightning; in consequence of which there are still the remainders of that divine fire; and the traces (or shadows) of the five cities are still to be seen,…"
Josephus' description perfectly describes what can be seen at these ashen sites: "…It be now all burnt up."
The account of destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah and "all the plain" was not a fairy tale. It was an historical event that occurred exactly as the Biblical account presented it. Not only that, but the evidence remains, as Peter wrote, as an "ensample [a visual example] unto those that after should live ungodly". They provide the entire world with the evidence of, as Jude wrote, "the vengeance of eternal fire."
Bearing this in mind let us consider the writings of Malachi who wrote of the final reward of the wicked:
" …behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch."
" But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts." Malachi 4:1-3
The Bible gives a date for the exodus …
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord. 1st Kings 6:1 (KJV)
The conventional dates for this is around 970 bc … Thiele 1983, p. 78. This gives us a date of 1450 bc for the exodus. At the time of Thutmose 3rd. Those dates can be argued by a few years.
How long were Isreal in Egypt?
The answer is given by Henry Ainsworth, a British theologian from the early 1600s:
"Ver. 13. Knowing Know,] That is, know assuredly: see Gen. ii. 17. Not Theirs,] Meaning Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Canaan itself; wherein they were but strangers, Gen. xvii. 8. Psal. cv. 11, 12. and therein afflicted. Gen. xxi. 9. xxvi. 7, 14, 15, &c. but chiefly in Egypt. Four Hundred Years,] Which began when Ishmael, son of Hagar the Egyptian, mocked and persecuted Isaac, Gen. xxi. 9. Gal. iv. 29. which fell out thirty years after the promise, Gen. xii. 3. which promise was four hundred and thirty years before the law, Gal. iii. 17. and four hundred and thirty years after that promise, came Israel out of bondage, Exod. xii. 41. 2 (emphasis added)" (Henry Ainsworth)
That means that when Lot and Abraham split up, it was already within the 430 year period of 'Isreal in Egypt' … this is AFTER 1880bc …(give or take a few years). (1450bc plus 430 = 1880bc).
I think that agrees with the dates that Dr Steven Collins gives for the patriarchs of between 1900 to 1550 bc ..
"As K.A. Kitchen has clearly demonstrated (On the Reliability of the Old Testament), the patriarchs belong between 1900 and 1540 BC based on historical synchronisms and elements of cultural specificity."
I think that Dr. Steven Collins has been vindicated, by all of the evidence to date.
The bible and trowl go well; hand in hand.
I believe you are thinking of Lot's wife being a pillar of salt. The Bible, when speaking of Sodom, says Abraham could see thick smoke, and that the cities were overthrew (burned). It also says the land was nothing more than brimstone, salt, and burning (Deut) so that nothing could grow at that time. But that does not mean there would be no evidences of the ruined burnt out cities (set as an example to those coming after Sodom of what happens under such circumstances). Josephus wrote that the burnt destruction of those cities could be seen in his time (1st century).
If something has been 'destroyed' why are any parts of a city being found. According to the Bible, the only thing that was left was pillars of salt. Finding ruins of Sodom would defy what the Bible says unless there was clear signs that these ruins had been previously destroyed, which would surely exist and be a good thing to look for.
Mike, it is not only trinitite, it is all of the overwhelming evidences thus far discovered. Reading the biblical text (as I have many times myself) no one could ever place these cities at the southern end of the Dead Sea. This is like the traditional placement of Mt Sinai. Anyone who has seen/visited this place knows it is not the correct location (it doesn't fit any of the scripture). If you are not following the Biblical text in looking for Biblical places, you are traversing unknown lands without a map, compass, or even the sun to guide you. In other words, you are flying blind.
mike mathis says:
The trinitite glass found at Tel Hammam convinces me!
Watyam Izmi says:
I am a UK citizen . I am the unpublished author of "Turtle island Is Atlantis (The Untold Story)" . It is a presentation dealing with the known facts surrounding the existence of the legendary "Atlantis" . The facts I present are the only known facts . They are extremely few and far between . As the genuine readership of Atlantis will appreciate , a recent publication of a work claiming to have found Atlantis was a publicity stunt . Nothing more !
Now then , to Sodom and Gomorrah ; The original Old Testament ; the work particularly surrounding the Biblical Flood Version is a doctored version . It is as it always was , flawed , unsafe , unsound and far , far from the truth and facts as can ever be . However , whilst academics , scholars and so-called "Professional" historians are forever laying claims , let me put a spanner in the works . Since the latter half-quarter of the 19th century not one of the published authors writing on the subject of "Ancient mysteries" , inclusive of the Biblical Flood ( Also thought to be the scientific Meltdown which science dated to 11000 BC , and which , as I have indicated in my unpublished work "The Flood Dichotomy" , may well have been what I have referred to as "Sitchin's Flood Catastrophe" ) have ever placed their revelations/discoveries/findings/opinions in the context of the Biblical Flood Version – or any other of the flood dates which have been published . I have not the time to check my books here , but surely , it was sometime in the 1990s that it was declared that Sodom and Gomorrah were discovered beneath the " Dead Sea" ? Of course , there will never ever be the proof , the truth will not be known nor acknowledged if ever the truth and the facts were known ! There are two megalithic structures beneath the dead Sea . If it were ever shown that they represent Sodom and Gomorrah…then Dr Collins would have to rethink . So , too , all others in his capacity . The "Christian" God did not send angels to speak with Lot . Modern science suggests one of two scenarios ; nuked cities or cities literally obliterated from the face of Earth by at least one asteroid . The date ? Dating systems are but guidelines . The date is unknown . Angels ? If you ignore asteroid impact-s entirely , then you have to decide on Gods and angels = Aliens and they set about destroying the world or WE , our very own ancestors rose to or even beyond a nuclear age into a space age . WE unleashed a nuclear and chemical war upon ourselves . Which version ?
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Everyone has an opinion, and only one of your opinions can be correct. What Collins has found is something that was destroyed by intense heat, something the ancient world could not have produced. I am no scientist, but I doubt a volcano could have caused the destruction Collins has found at Tall El-Hammam. Too sudden, almost instant death. How does the Pompeii destruction compare? Lots of ash, but bodies well preserved. In any case, for me, it does not matter whether Sodom is found or not. There is copious evidence for the historicity of the rest of the Biblical account, and no archeological find has ever contradicted the Bible. Therefore, I think it best to ponder the meaning of Genesis 13 for today.
Ulrich Lingner says:
Comment to Dr. Collins…
I've found nothing about the ash layer at Tall el-Hammam (chemical composition). Since the time of destruction you dated around 1650 BCE (in the book), it is close to the Thera eruption, dated scientifically at 1628 BCE. Moreover, the ash of the Thera event is found only eastwards of Santorini Isle. The Thera eruption is thought was about 5 times that of Krakatoa and an instantaneous explosion. It's possible that a great incandescent volcanic mass was ejected obliquely into the stratosphere and landed in the east Jordan kikkar. I cannot imagine that a meteorite impact would leave such an amount of ash.
Is an ash analysis of Tall el-Hammam and its comparison with Thera ash under way?
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