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Albert L. Jordan
Albert L. Jordan's Profile
Bert Jordan has been a lawyer in Birmingham and Alabama for over 40 years. He is listed as counsel in over 125 reported decisions of the state and federal courts over Alabama.
His work ranges from private business personnel disputes and election campaign finance to real estate and environmental litigation. He has been attorney for each of the last three governors of Alabama, while they were in office. The work also includes service as counsel to the Finance Director and the Comptroller of Alabama in litigation over State policies barring government payroll deductions for political activity. He has litigated over the land transactions supplying incentives to auto maker Hyundai in connection with its decision to locate its first North American assembly plant in Montgomery. He has successfully represented members of the Alabama Educational Television Commission in a dispute over the State Open Meetings Act filed by the Commission's former executive director.
In September 2017, Bert became general counsel to the Kay Ivey for Governor campaign, and, when she won the election in 2018, also served as general counsel to the Ivey Inaugural Committee. From early 2015 to December 2017, he was the State Legal Counsel to the Alabama Republican Executive Committee. He is a contributing editor for the Alabama Election Handbook, 2017-18 (18th ed.), published by the Alabama Law Institute. From 2006 to 2010, he taught constitutional law as an adjunct professor at Birmingham School of Law.
Bert is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, all Alabama federal district courts, and all Alabama state courts. From 2002 to 2006, he served on the Alabama Supreme Court's Standing Committee on Rules of Conduct and Canons of Judicial Ethics. He is a member of the Alabama State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Birmingham Bar Association, and the Federalist Society.
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA, J.D., 1980
Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI, B.A., History, summa cum laude, 1977
Bar Addmissions
U.S. Supreme Court, 1989
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama
Albert L. Jordan's Affiliations and Civic Involvement
Alabama State Bar
Birmingham Bar Association
Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy
Alabama Special Deputy Attorney General, 2005 to 2017, 2019 to present
All Saints Episcopal Church, Member, 1984 to present
All Saints Episcopal Church, Vestry, 2009 to 2012 and 1987 to 1990
Birmingham School of Law, Adjunct Professor, 2006 to 2010
Handong International Law School, Adjunct Professor, Summer 2010
Alabama Supreme Court, Member of the Standing Committee on Rules of Conduct and Canons of Judicial Ethics, 2002-2006
Hillsdale College Parents Association, Executive Board Member, 2003-2005
Community Kitchens, Board Member, 2008 to 2011
Alabama Republican Party, State Legal Counsel, 2015 to 2017
Jefferson County, Alabama Republican Party, Chairman, 1995-1999
Contributing Editor, Alabama Election Handbook (18th ed.) 2017-18
Jefferson County, Alabama Republican Party, Member, 1984 to 1999, 2013 to present
Birmingham Irish Cultural Society, 2006 to present
Albert L. Jordan's Articles And additional Info
Recent Cases of Note
WM Mobile Bay Environmental Center, Inc. v. City of Mobile Solid Waste Authority, 972 F. 3d 1240 (11th Cir. 2020) – state law dispute over exemption from execution of judgment against property "belonging to" municipality, questions certified.
Ex parte Carter, 275 So. 3d 115 (Ala. 2018) – obtained mandamus relief against trial proceedings which challenged award by State Finance Director of software contract without competitive bid
United States v. Aossey, 854 F. 3d 453 (8th Cir. 2017) – disputing trial court jurisdiction over criminal charges in light of limitations in the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and reservation of powers to Secretary of Agriculture
Breland v. City of Fairhope, 229 So.3d 1078 (Ala. 2016) – reversed trial court dismissal on statute of limitations grounds of developer challenge to municipal land disturbance ordinance.
Gaddy v. S.E. Property Holdings, 218 So.3d 315 (Ala. 2016) – defending action to collect debt on failed real estate venture, and effect of bankruptcies by some guarantors on power to issue execution against non-bankrupt guarantors
Drake v. Alabama Republican Party, 209 So.3d 1118 (Ala. Civ. App. 2016) – upholding discretion of political party to refuse refund of primary fee to candidate denied ballot access due to challenge to qualifications
In re Hubbard, 803 F.3d 1298 (11th Cir. 2015) – obtained mandamus against federal trial court in civil case ordering discovery from Governor in challenge to statute limiting dues checkoff for public employees political organizations
Moultrie v. Wall, 172 So.3d 1106 (Ala. 2015) – limited liability company owning car dealership in dispute over capital call and termination of ownership interest without convening a member meeting
White v. John, 164 So.3d 1106 (Ala. 2014) – reversing trial court injunction against State Comptroller employee due check off guidelines issued without notice under State Administrative Procedures Act (and against their authorizing statute), where check off was barred by statute
In re Alabama Educational Television Commission, 144 So.3d 265 (Ala. 2013) – successful defense of public TV board against former executive director's charge that civil penalties were owed for alleged violation of Open Meetings Act

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Which WW2 belligerents provided military brothels?
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During the 1930-40s - World War 2 - were children taught English in Nazi Germany?
Aside from the Jews, did Hitler have a final solution plan for other ethnicities/races in the Third Reich?


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Cesc Fabregas' drop in form since Christmas in every key area!
After leaving Barcelona for Chelsea in a £27 million deal last summer, Cesc Fàbregas hit the ground running on his return to the Premier League with 6 assists in his first four games. The 27-year-old was quickly labelled as the creative force that the West London club had previously been missing.
However, the Spaniard's form has appeared to have dipped recently with his assists drying up completely, his fifteenth and last coming away to Swansea on 17th January. At that stage his closest rival in Europe was ex-Chelsea player Kevin De Bruyne who at the time had 10 assists but has since made a further 5 more to now match Fàbregas on 15.
Opta-powered European fantasy football game Oulala took a thorough look at Fàbregas' stats both before Christmas and after to see if it is just his assists that has suffered, the results were conclusive.
With the midfielder having made 16 league appearances before Christmas and 8 appearances after, the data was analysed via a per minute basis.
Fàbregas has only scored 2 goals this season, both coming early on, however the 27-year-old has failed to find the net in his last 8 games. It took the Spaniard 118 minutes to provide each of his 13 assists in his first 16 games, however since then it has taken him almost double that for his last 3 assists (227 minutes).
The midfielder appears to have been slightly less involved in games of late with 98 touches per 90 minutes to 104 touches previously. He is also making fewer passes at a rate of 79 per 90 minutes to 87 before. His pass completion rate has also dropped from 87% to 84%. Fàbregas has made fewer key passes recently with one every 43 minutes to every 26 minutes before.
Even his success with crosses has suffered, dropping from a rate of 24% to 17%, which is of concern due to the fact that he takes the majority of corners at Chelsea.
There is no denying that Fàbregas is still a top player but his sudden drop in form in all of the key areas will have no doubt caught manager Jose Mourinho's attention. Can the Spaniard bounce back to the player his was before Christmas in Chelsea's hunt for their first Premier League title in five years?
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Amidst a society immersed in a myriad of suffering, what can Buddhism do to confront the suffering of individuals? To answer this question, the International Buddhist Exchange Center at Kodosan hosted a special seminar on December 17 with American Zen teacher and medical anthropologist Roshi Joan Halifax on the theme "Understanding the Interconnectedness of Personal and Social Suffering through Engaged Buddhism". The event was co-sponsored by the Sophia University Grief Care Institute with cooperative endorsement by the Tohoku University Department of Practical Religious Studies and the Rinbutsuken Institute for Engaged Buddhism—thus bringing together the three major professional, psycho-spiritual care training centers in Japan. 45 participants attended from a variety of related backgrounds ranging from those providing spiritual care for the suicidal, terminally ill, and their families to Buddhists involved in disaster relief to those involved in medical welfare and finally leaders in related research fields. With Roshi Halifax and Kodosan President Shojun Okano leading the discussions, participants offered viewpoints on the issues and problems of supporting those in society who are suffering.
In recent years, a variety of initiatives by both Japanese Buddhist individuals and groups to take on serious social problems such as poverty, isolation, and suicide have emerged. In 2011, especially, a number of acclaimed activities which transcended sectarian and religious divisions were initiated to support victims of the eastern Japan triple disaster. These activities led to the establishment of new programs to train "Buddhist chaplains" (rinsho-bukkyo-shi) and "religious chaplains" (rinsho-shukyo-shi) to care for the psycho-spiritual well-being of people in disaster areas, medical facilities, welfare facilities, and other public institutions.


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Presque Isle Community Library
The Presque Isle Community Library is connected to the Presque Isle Town Hall and Community Center. Its history starts with Irma Stein, a library science graduate from Janesville, WI., who took residence in Presque Isle with her husband, Cecil. She opened our first library in the office of the old school, and stocked the office with donated books. The library eventually moved into a school room after the school closed down, where Irma continued to volunteer her time for 25 years receiving a pittance for a budget. Pam Eschenbauch started volunteering at the library starting in 1979, as the Story Time Lady. In 1987 Irma had to retire to a senior facility, and lost her eyesight. Pam took correspondence courses, and became the new Librarian/Director in 1988. Library usage grew and the amount of books increased, and when the new Community Center was built in 1994, it included space for the library. Growth has since continued at a tremendous pace, and a new building was completed in 2007. The space has more than doubled, and a basement is under the new area where yoga classes, travelogues, meetings and more are hosted.
M & W: 9am-6pm
TU, TH, SAT: 9am-12pm
F: 9-3
WiFi 24/7
When the library is closed, WiFi can be accessed from the front of building.
Visit Library Website
North Lakeland PreK-8 School
North Lakeland School (NLS) was established in 1970 as a consolidation of several smaller community schools. Nestled deep in a beautiful woodland setting, surrounded by numerous lakes and streams, NLS has a special charm. The five townships (Boulder Junction, part of Land O'Lakes, Manitowish Waters, Presque Isle, and Winchester) served comprise the largest geographic elementary school district in the State of Wisconsin. The 4K through 8th grade school is known for excellent academic programs, low ratio of students to staff, unique outdoor education programs, and innovative use of class configuration and technology. The school prides itself in the quality of care given to each student and upholds a tradition of creating competent and responsible citizens who will become tomorrow's leaders.
The school boasts its own school forest with nature trail, nine-hole disc golf course, and groomed cross-country ski trails. There is a football field, soccer fields, four tennis courts, an outdoor track, and an outdoor ice rink. Pickelball players utilize the outdoor tennis courts and the school's gymnasium (during the winter months). An ice rink is home to the North Lakeland Bucks hockey team (operated by North Lakeland Ice, Inc.). A fitness center is open to the community for complimentary use.
NLS Fitness Center Hours
Monday: 6-7:30am and 4-5:30pm
Tuesday/Thursday: 4-5:30pm
Wednesday/Friday: 6-7:30am
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Lakeland Union High School
Home of the T-Birds. Approximately 700 students from Vilas and Oneida Counties join together from four different junior highs. The Lakeland Union High School District is dedicated to creating a safe, stimulating environment where all students may acquire the knowledge, skills and ability to pursue academic, vocational and personal excellence! LUHS offers a broad spectrum of courses for our students, including Honors and Advanced Placement (AP) courses for academically advanced students. Additionally, specialized extracurricular courses are offered for students excelling in art, music, business, technology, languages and family and consumer education. LUHS works directly with local post secondary institutions to offer college credits to junior and senior students.
LUHS Fitness Center Hours
Monday-Friday 6:15-7:30am AND Mondays 6:00-7:00pm


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# Properties and Events

## RadImageButton Common Features (properties)

| Property | Description |
| ------ | ------ |
| **AutoPostBack** |Gets or sets a bool value indicating whether the control will automatically post the page back to the server.|
| **CausesValidation** |Gets or sets a bool value indicating whether validation is performed when the RadImageButton is clicked.|
| **PostbackUrl** |Gets or sets the URL of the page to post to from the current page, when the RadImageButton is clicked.|
| **Text** |Gets or sets the text displayed in the RadImageButton control.|
| **ValidationGroup** |Gets or sets the group of controls for which the RadImageButton control causes validation when it posts back to the server.|
| **CommandName** |Gets or sets the command name associated with the RadImageButton control that is passed to the *Command* event.|
| **CommandArgument** |Gets or sets an optional parameter passed to the *Command* event along with the associated CommandName.|
| **HoveredCssClass** |Gets or sets the CSS class when the mouse pointer is hovered over the RadImageButton control.|
| **PressedCssClass** |Gets or sets the CSS class when the RadImageButton control is pressed.|
| **OnClientLoad** |Sets a name of a JavaScript function that will be called when the RadImageButton is loaded on the page.|
| **OnClientClicking** |Sets a name of a JavaScript function that will be called when the RadImageButton is clicked. The event is cancelable.|
| **OnClientClicked** |Sets a name of a JavaScript function that will be called when the RadImageButton is clicked, after the OnClientClicking event.|
| **OnClientMouseOver** |Sets a name of a JavaScript function that will be called when the mouse pointer hovers over the RadImageButton.|
| **OnClientMouseOut** |Sets a name of a JavaScript function that will be called when the mouse pointer leaves the RadImageButton.|
| **UseSubmitBehavior** |Gets or sets a bool value indicating whether the RadImageButton control uses the client browser's submit mechanism or the ASP.NET postback mechanism.|
| **SingleClick** |Gets or sets a bool value indicating whether the **SingleClick** functionality is enabled or disabled.|
| **SingleClickText** |Gets or sets the text that is shown when single-click is being processed.|

## Image Specific Features (properties)

| Property | Description |
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| **Url** |Specifies the path to the image.|
| **DisabledImageUrl** |Specifies the path to the image when the button is disabled.|
| **HoveredImageUrl** |Specifies the path to the image when the mouse is over the button.|
| **PressedImageUrl** |Specifies the path to the image of a pressed button.|
| **Sizing** |Specifies the way the image is sized in the button. Available values are: **Original** and **Stretch**.|

## Server-side Events

| Property | Description |
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| **OnClick** |Raised when the RadImageButton is clicked. (AutoPostBack=true)|
| **OnCommand** |Raised when the RadImageButton has Command specified.|


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JAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC.
This is the time of the year that is probably the most critical, the most intensive and the most stressful for our bonsai. This month's panel discussion "Waking Up Trees", led by members of our Board, will endeavor to give some hints, guidelines, procedures, pitfalls, and general advice and answers to make this transition from dormancy to resumption of active growth of our bonsai. This is an open discussion and participation by all is encouraged.
February's meeting also will feature our second raffle for a free, full registration to April's 2019 MABS Spring Festival.
We're looking for a great turnout, lots of discussion and questions - hope to see you there!
Remember to bring any tree that you want to discuss prior to the start of the meeting. Advice on styling, care, horticultural problems, pot selection, etc. can be obtained from other members before the start of the program.
December's Holiday Social and Raffle generated a very good turnout. The tables were loaded with tasty goodies shared by all. Raffle gifts were provided by Bob Mahler and his Kifu Bonsai studio and ranged from a "zonk" to some really nice items. Thanks goes to Bob for providing such nice gifts, and also wrapping them. Our MABS raffle, as usual, was a highly sought item, and Brian Keegan was the lucky searcher to find it. (February's meeting will also feature a second MABS raffle).
The 2019 Philadelphia Flower Show, "Flower Power" will be held from March 2nd to the 10th. PBS will again be displaying bonsai, and providing information to show attendees.
Exhibit trees are needed!! You can contact our Flower Show Chair, Bob Mahler - bonsaipro@gmail.com or 215-432-4982, for more information about exhibiting. Please consider exhibiting.
Our contact side of the exhibit - the demo table will again be part of our display. Members can work on a tree or just meet and greet show attendees. A signup sheet will be available.
Linda Brant will be glad to sign you up for one or more exhibit sitting spots. Free admission to the Flower Show will be provided to sitters (in fact, sitters on the first morning shift can get into the Flower Show ahead of the general public). Contact Linda - lbrant@comcast.net or 610-416-3216 - or sign up at this meeting.
I'm currently prepping for the 2019 Philadelphia Flower Show. The deadline has passed, so if you have anything you would like to submit please email me ASAP. My email address is Bob@KifuBonsai.com. This month's meeting will focus on board members trees for discussion. Stay Warm!
Dates for the MABS Spring Festival are April 12-14, 2019 at the Holiday Inn in Harrisburg/Hershey/Grantville PA, just a short drive for most PBS members.
This month's feature focuses on Marc Noelanders, from Belgium.
From an early age Marc Noelanders was competing internationally in karate. These competitions brought him to Japan, where he was introduced to bonsai. His sensei encouraged supplementing his karate studies with bonsai and his passion began. He studied with Masters such as Masahiko Kimura, Saburo Kato, and John Naka. He started the Noelanders trophy in 2000 which is celebrating its 20th show and has grown to become the largest show in Europe. Marc runs ten schools in Europe, the UK, the USA, India and Israel. Marc is currently the president of the European Bonsai Association and travels regularly all over the world to teach, and demonstrate bonsai.
Registrants have a choice of optional workshops on Friday utilizing some very desirable material. Lecture demonstrations run from Friday evening through Sunday morning. All Demonstration trees will be raffled.
A great bonsai exhibit is one of the weekend attractions with trees from each of the member clubs. We sincerely hope that PBS will be well represented as in past years.
A wide variety of bonsai vendors will have lots of great material both bonsai and prebonsai, tools, pots, etc. for shoppers.
Silent auctions will run all day Saturday, with a spirited live auction following Saturday evening's banquet. Sandwiched between Saturday's demonstrations and the banquet are the very popular exhibit critiques, which generally sell out very quickly.
Registration forms have been sent out - if you didn't receive one, you can download it from the MABS site. Online registration is also available on the site -www.midatlanticbonsai.org.
Room rates are discounted for registrants, so be sure to mentions MABS when making your hotel reservations. Be sure to make your reservation as early as possible, as previous MABS Festivals have been solidly booked well in advance.
The National Arboretum and the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum are, as of this writing in late January, closed due to the government shutdown. Both will reopen when the shutdown ends. Be assured that curators and volunteers are seeing to watering and care during the shutdown.
On a brighter note, NBF has completely revised its website, www.bonsai-nbf.org. Photos of many of the bonsai in the three collections (Japanese, Chinese, and North American) can be viewed on the site. Descriptions and histories of the trees are also viewable.
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From Blue Route (I-476)-Take exit for Germantown Pike West (Exit 20). Continue on Germantown Pike west for approximately one (1) mile, through six (6) traffic lights. At the seventh light ti right onto Jolly Road. The Community Center is on the right at 2910 Jolly Road.
From Route 202-Follow Route 202 to Germantown Pike. Travel EAST on Germantown Pike, through five (5) traffic lights. At the next traffic light, approximately half a mile, turn left on Jolly Road.
Our spring season opens with a special guest artist, Marc Noelanders, from Belgium. Marc was a featured artist at the MidAtlantic Spring Festival.
Marc's demo material will be raffled at the end of the meeting.
No double tickets this month.
This year's PBS Exhibit at the Philadelphia Flower Show was , as usual, beautifully done and very well received by the Public. Thanks to all the people who made this a success - the exhibitors, the setup/teardown crews, the exhibit sitters, Joanne Dhody, who hadled all the signage, and especially our Flower Show Chairman Bob Mahler. Excellent!!
Our sitter numbers declined slightly this year, due to illnesses and such. Here is a list of the great people who gave up their time to be there for PBS at the Exhibit.
Linda Clark Jeff & April Clarke Mike Colibraro Jesse Cook Jr.
Linda and I would like to give special shout-out to those who did multiple sitting and covered for us and others due to illnesses.
This month's feature focuses on Jennifer Price.
It is no surprise that movement is one of the key elements when styling a tree to Jennifer; as a retired professional ballerina, she is an expert in movement. Jennifer began her journey in bonsai as many of us did, with a small tree from a local garden center. She became involved with the Prairie State Bonsai Society (Chicago) and quickly her hobby blossomed into a passion. For the last several years she has been apprentice to Walter Pall, and has traveled to Germany to assist him on his personal collection. Jennifer has taught workshops and traveled across the world to give demonstrations representing the United States. Jennifer is one of the rising stars in bonsai.
. Online registration is available on the site -www.midatlanticbonsai.org.
Room rates are discounted for registrants, so be sure to mentions MABS when making your hotel reservations. Be sure to make your reservation as early as possible, as previous MABS Festivals have been solidly booked well in advance. See you at MABS!
As we move into our Spring programs, PBS is undergoing some changes. David Spirt, our treasurer for many, many years, has retired from that position, and Jim Troyer has stepped up to take his place. David has done an outstanding job of keeping our finances from going astray, and not words can express our gratitude and good wishes going forward.
Our mailing address for PBS will be changing as well, so watch for a notice of that change.
Another change coming will be a much needed refreshing of the PBS web site, which has been handle by me since 1997. Jim Troyer will be handling the web site as well, and again, watch for an announcement of that change. The URL will remain the same - PAbonsai.org.
One thing that is lacking in the current site is up-to-date quality photos of our trees. Jim would very much like to begin collecting your bonsai photos for display on the site, No name will be attached to the photos, only tree information. Photos should be of higher resolution. iPhone photos are good to go. Jim's email is jim.troyer[at]icloud.com. Once the site is up, Jim will be able to give more photo suggestions and guidelines. As they say, "stay tuned"!


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Last week, after suffering an IED attack in Syria on Thursday, one more member of the US special operations community, Army Master Sgt. Jonathan Dunbar, lost his life — creating another Gold Star family.
Sgt. Matt Tonroe, a member of the UK armed forces, was also killed: another reminder of the price coalition partners have paid in the fight against ISIS.
This grim milestone came even as questions grow more urgent about America's future presence in Syria — what it will look like and how long it might endure. US policymakers are walking a diplomatic high wire between committing to staying in Syria and infuriating NATO ally Turkey, or pulling out of Syria and emboldening Iran and, to a lesser extent, Russia.
On my last trip to northern Syria a few weeks ago, I met parents working hard to rebuild their lives and their families: veterans of the ISIS fight, focused on bringing stability and decent governance to the region.
I met with US forces who said they trusted their partners on the ground, saw them as a bulwark against both rising Iranian influence and the return of ISIS, and wanted to continue standing behind their partner force.
And I visited cemeteries whose rows of headstones serve as a testament to just how many Syrian lives the ISIS fight claimed.
The stakes are real. As is the need to tackle the pressing policy questions head on.
1) The end of the fight against ISIS, which many thought arrived with Raqqa's liberation late last year.
3) The loss of American life as policymakers decide the shape of America's future footprint in Syria.
Taken together, these three issues point to a critical moment, in which long-festering policy questions that have been years in the making have created a pivotal turning point for the US in Syria.
Meanwhile, US service members — in particular from the special operations community — continue to deploy for what is now an even more challenging mission: continuing the ISIS fight while attention dwindles, Turkey threatens to invade Manbij — where US forces remain present for now — and where the future is decidedly unclear.
America must engage with its wars and weigh in on the policy choices up ahead. And an informed conversation has to be had about the benefits of remaining in or departing entirely from Syria.
Throughout the post-9/11 wars it has proven easier for capable US forces to win the fight on the battlefield, but far harder to cement peace and stability afterward. The question now is will Syria be different, and will critical choices be made now that make it so?
The end of the ISIS fight unfroze a battlefield in which the common enemy had previously kept other tensions largely at bay.
The US and Russia enjoyed frequent use of the deconfliction line to communicate with each other and keep their forces from directly engaging one another.
The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad also stayed mostly out of America's way. And the US's NATO ally Turkey — while deeply unhappy with the US decision to back northern Syrian Kurds as the most effective fighting force against ISIS — largely kept their unhappiness on mute while the ISIS battle raged.
Today things are different, as Turkey threatens to invade Manbij, a town where US special operations forces patrol regularly.
The US is working to come to a deal with Turkey that allays its concerns, while enabling the US to remain in northern Syrian alongside their Syrian Kurdish and Arab battle partners. But no one is certain that such a deal will be reached. How these questions get decided will shape the future of America's role in the country.
The comments from Trump that the US will withdraw "very soon" added even more uncertainty to the shape of America's presence. And it made US allies — the Syrian Kurds, who America still wants to lead the fight against ISIS — even more concerned that the US was going to abandon them.
But these remarks are the latest reminder that nothing is set, nor certain, when it comes to the US presence in Syria — even as US policymakers in the State Department and in the military work to navigate and plan for that future.
Finally, and most pressingly, is the issue of American loss of life. In 2016, for the first time, more members of US special operations forces were killed in action than conventional forces. This despite the fact that special operations forces account for less than 5% of the entire US military.
This underlines the fact that the special operations community — while a small slice of the military — has born an outsized share of the fight and its losses of late in the post-9/11 wars.
In the past, special operations forces were used to supplement conventional forces. And now they have become the light footprint, limited visibility go-to choice for policymakers.
For now, the Syria mission continues to be largely a special operations operation. The loss of Master Sgt. Jonathan Dunbar reminds us of this.
This nation has asked a great deal of its service members in these post-9/11 wars. They deserve a nation and a policymaking apparatus that is engaged with what it is asking of them — and the partner force they recruit — and that offers clarity on what comes next.


The buildings feel like they are from a different era so there is definitely a tourist town kind of feel to it. But Kinosaki is also a working town, as well, where locals go about their daily business like shopping for groceries. It's pretty cool how both tourists and locals co-exist and navigate through the same streets together. We walked up and down the main road which was divided by the Otani River, making occasional pit stops to take a foot bath, grab a coffee and donuts in a modern cafe, and even cook some soft boiled eggs in the hot spring waters.
Near where we cooked our eggs was an old temple where the statues are "dressed up" in winter attire to keep them warm. A nice intersection of reverence and whimsy.
Breakfast was served in a dining hall for both of our days at the Nishimuraya Hotel Shogetsutei. There was a ton of variety in what was available and it was all quite good. I loved all the small bites you could choose from including Tajima beef croquettes, fresh okra, oden, and perfectly cooked onsen tamago.
The hotel itself is beautiful and grand. It's like something I would imagine from the 50's or 60's. Very mid-century modern which still holds up today. The highlight is an expansive window wall that overlooks a picturesque garden.
Of course this place is known for their hot spring baths. In addition to their large public baths (separated for men and women, with an inside and outside area for each), they have private spas which you can book for an additional fee. We were lucky and reserved while they had a special deal which gave us one free session in one of their private spas. We opted for the Gingetsu (Japanese Style) which had a rock sauna room. There was even a lounge area where we could just chill after getting out of the bath with a free bottle of bubbly. An amazing onsen experience!
We finally made it to Kinosaki and checked into our hotel, Nishimuraya Hotel Shogetsutei. It's a larger place than our previous onsen experience at Arashiyama Benkei but were still able to get a very nice tatami mat room with a garden view.
Service was outstanding including a welcome snack with tea and a refreshing vinegar juice. Snacks included rice crackers, red bean cookie, a wafer with light cream inside, and a preserved plum candy.
For dinner that night, we were treated to a full kaiseki meal in our room. They even had a special children's kaiseki meal which included sashimi, tempura, Matsuba crab, Tajima beef, and a box of fresh made onigiri. They even had two desserts for her. I would have been perfectly happy with that line up!
The adult menu was much more extensive and left us completely stuffed. We had two separate menus to accommodate my very inconvenient crustacean allergy. While my wife had a good helping of crab, I was treated to extra dishes centered around Tajima beef. I even had my own teppanyaki plate for one of my courses! I hope tomorrow's dinner will be as varied - stay tuned!
After just a night in Tokyo (we'll be back later), we are headed up to Kinosaki Onsen Town for the next couple of days. It's a pretty long train ride (almost 5 hours with transfers) so getting ekiben was required. Ekibenya Matsuri in Tokyo Station is a crazy place that has a huge selection. We always try to get something different each time, including ones with collectible containers for my daughter.
I opted for the unagi bento which was quite good (though would have been even better served hot). My wife is a huge squid fan and these stuffed squids (ikameshi) are a regional speciality of Hokkaido. Riding the Shinkansen just wouldn't be the same without ekiben!
After an 11+ hour flight and a 1+ hour train ride from Narita, we were exhausted when we got to our hotel in Roppongi. We didn't want to think too much about what to eat so headed to nearby Ippudo Roppongi for a quick bowl of ramen before crashing. Our first bowl of ramen in Japan nearly three years ago was at Ippudo Ginza. Since then, Ippudo has setup shop in Berkeley and San Francisco so we are well acquainted with what they have to offer.
I will say that there is a vast difference in the quality of Ippudo here versus the US. One major point is that the shops in Berkeley and San Francisco no longer offer soft boiled eggs (only hard boiled eggs or poached eggs). When I asked one of the waitresses in San Francisco, she told me it was due to the amount of time it took to get perfectly peeled soft boiled eggs for every bowl. Doesn't seem to be an issue for the shops in Japan! The other thing I noticed is that it's less expensive for a bowl of ramen in Japan versus the US. I got the Akamaru Special meal set which came with a good helping of gyozas for 1,500 Yen (about $13.50 USD). In the US, the Akamaru Special by itself is about $19 USD!
Delicious ramen with zero problems and for an affordable price. A great start to our trip.
We're off again to Japan for President's Week. Snagged a great deal on ANA leaving from Los Angeles and was eager to see how the flight would compare to our JAL flight last year. Both offer great service but I'll give the slight nod to ANA because of the better quality food. We had a great miso grilled mackerel to go along with perfectly cooked rice. Noodles in dashi broth was also a nice touch and quite tasty. More to come once we land!
]]> Tuyen Vo tag:www.tuyennhatvo.com,2013:Post/1298777 2018-07-01T16:17:37Z 2019-01-24T00:29:42Z Hola from Barcelona!
We're heading to Nara Park today and stopped at Komeda's Coffee for breakfast. Another favorite of ours for the egg salad sandwich. Have not been able to find an egg salad sandwich in the US that is as fluffy and delicate. Plus the fresh baked bread is outstanding. Perfectly toasted!
We are big fans of izakaya style restaurants and luckily got a great recommendation. Kurakura is a favorite of locals in downtown Kyoto. We came just as they opened and was able to get a table. Good thing because minutes later the place was packed with office workers coming in for happy hour. They had an extensive sake selection and our waitress was very helpful in choosing two different ones for us.
Next up, some grilled items. Two types of peppers (hot and mild), squid legs, and sweet onions. Each came with their own sauce and were delicious.
We then ordered some steamed enoki mushrooms cooked in butter with an egg inside. Simple and amazing. We followed that with yakitori, fresh tofu, chicken wings, anago wrapped in yuba, and chicken gizzards/kidneys. All perfectly cooked and just the right portion size as to not fill you up.
We ended the meal with omakase sashimi and yaki onigiri with fish roe on the inside. The quality of the sashimi was superb. Probably the same quality as most of the high end sushi restaurants in the Bay Area but in a neighborhood joint.
My daughter loves watching Miyazaki movies and there's a dish in one of her movies that she absolutely loves. It's fried aji but unfortunately aji wasn't available. We showed our waitress the image below and she was able to have the chef whip up an alternative - fried kisu. It was also amazing - two filets and the center bone portion fried up to perfection! The mayo that came with it was a great pairing.
Can't say enough about this place. The vibe is so authentic, the staff are so friendly and helpful (spoke great English!), and of course the food and drink are off the charts. This is now on the permanent list of places to hit when we're back in Kyoto.


The study hypothesis was that pre-slaughter handling is not conducted in such a way that pigs can be considered humanely slaughtered, nor is it conducive to promoting those properties of fresh meat that could enhance pork quality. The 1st phase of the investigation was aimed at confirming the present compliance level within the prescribed norms. To this end the importance of stunning induction requirements for effective electrical stunning, the welfare implications relating to the pre-slaughter handling of pigs and the stunning and sticking techniques were investigated. Pre-slaughter welfare of the pigs at the abattoir was found to be influenced at the outset by the origin and type of pig slaughtered, the daily throughput range of pigs and the type of abattoir involved. A disappointing pre-arrival aspect was that deficiencies in road motor vehicles were observed while off-loading pigs. Through poor design or lack of maintenance, another factor that hampered free movement of pigs was the off-loading facilities. The nature of animal behaviour in the pens, in the passages and when going into the stunning area was directly related to the pig handling efficiency and to the nature and extent of design and maintenance problems with equipment. None of the abattoirs had a well designed in-feed to a well planned stunning area/facility, and a very high level of pig pre-slaughter stress prevailed. The optimum position of the electrodes is virtually impossible to attain under practical conditions and the practice of repeat application of electrical stunning is common. Of the total sample size (n = 1175), 34 % were difficult to shackle, 90 % of these being from the abattoirs tending to slaughter more routinely a wide range of different sized pigs. In this survey 149 pigs (13 %) required more than a single sticking attempt to bleed out properly, considerably higher than in other published reports.
Keywords: compliance level, Highveld region (South Africa), pig electrical stunning, structured questionnaire survey, welfare aspects.
The Meat Safety Act (Act No. 40 of 2000, Government Gazette Notice 1106, Republic of South Africa) stipulates as an essential national standard that an animal presented for slaughter at an abattoir must be handled humanely during loading, transportation, off-loading, housing, immobilising and killing as prescribed in accordance with the requirements of the Animals Protection Act 1962 (Act No. 71 of 1962)10. The Red Meat Regulations under the Meat Safety Act stipulate inter alia that for stunning an electrical stunning apparatus must be provided and that the operational parameters for stunning must be displayed on the stunning apparatus or in the stunning area. An electrical stunning apparatus must be in a good state of repair and used in accordance with approved methods. The terminals must be applied to the head in such a manner that the current passes through the brain. Meters must be provided to monitor the voltage, amperage and time used during stunning to assure that the manufacturers recommendations are adhered to11. In the United Kingdom legislation requires the production of immediate insensibility, implying that a stun can be applied only once9,17 and many countries require pigs to be rendered unconscious and insensible to pain prior to bleed out to be considered humanely slaughtered6.
Electrical stunning induces unconsciousness by generating an epileptiform seizure, characterised by 2 distinct phases, a tonic phase and a clonic phase, rendering the animal insensible to pain. This seizure is dependent upon the amount of current passing through the brain and possibly the area of the brain through which current flows6,8. Electrical stunning reduces inhibitory influences of the brain on the spinal cord and can lead to kicking during the clonic phase, resulting in pigs being more difficult to shackle and stick effectively and impairing worker safety6.
The impedance of a live pig's head is predominantly a function of the stunning voltage and decreases non-linearly with increasing voltage. Tissue reactance was not found to be a contributing factor, but the application of high stun voltage was found to cause a breakdown in the tissue impedance between the electrodes, which continued to decrease with stun duration17. Minimum current levels required for effective electrical stunning of pigs are higher than those obtainable with low voltage systems5,7. Better tong placement will result in reduced contact impedance and improves the performance of the stunning system13. Modern hand-held tong design for high voltage systems led to the development of dry electrodes with sharp, teeth-like contacts that in most circumstances penetrate the skin. Electrical current will flow between the electrodes dependant upon a number of compounding factors, which change the values of the impedance pathways taken by the current field and affect both current amplitude and the 3-dimensional spread of the current field. The frequency and waveform of the stunning current will directly affect impedance13.
Several methods have been described to apply the electrodes used with an electrical stunning apparatus, including headonly, head-to-back and head-to-brisket application of electrodes6. The use of tong-type electrodes for effective headonly electrical stunning of pigs requires good tong positions that span the brain, namely between the eye and ear on each side of the head, below the ear on each side of the head, or diagonal application between the top and bottom of the head6,13. Poor tong placement could result in poor electrical contact, electrodes that do not span the brain, an inadequate stun and hence poor animal welfare at stunning when used at 150 to 250 V2,13. The minimum European Community requirement for electrical stunning of pigs is a current of 1.25-1.3 Amps maintained for at least 3 seconds and the voltage applied to achieve this current must be at least 240 V7. A maximum stunning to exsanguination interval of 15 seconds was considered sufficient to ensure that pigs of 60-80 kg do not regain consciousness following the stun5.
The head-to-back or head-to-brisket stunning method was also considered the most humane as it induces cardiac fibrillation resulting in immediate cardiac arrest18. Pigs generally exhibit less kicking18, improving worker safety and allowing carcasses to be more easily handled compared with pigs stunned using head-only tongs. Cardiac fibrillation also eliminates the risk of pigs regaining consciousness prior to exsanguination that can occur due to variation in stun to stick intervals when head only tongs are used. Headto-back stunning of pigs may result in broken vertebrae if the voltage applied is too high6.
Variations in current levels due to different tong applications have previously been shown not to affect intensity of convulsions2. Although there is no clear explanation for the individual differences in the intensity of convulsions, different waveforms and frequencies can modify the characteristics of post-stun convulsions and affect quality4. A solution, from a welfare standpoint, would be to reconsider head-to-back stunning (cardiac arrest) which prevents carcass convulsions. However, occurrence of vertebral fractures, a common practical problem with manual application of this method, needs to be eliminated18. Some modern but expensive automatic stunning systems that use appropriate waveforms and frequencies to 1st induce a stun followed by cardiac arrest already provide welfare and quality assurance. Another important factor to bear in mind is that the insensibility provided by head-only electrical stunning is reversible, unless the heart is stopped by cardiac fibrillation, and recovery could take place before exsanguination is complete.
No published data could be found in South Africa proving that the pre-slaughter handling of pigs is humane and that it is conducive to enhancing pork quality. The primary objective of this research was to foster a better understanding of the importance of the welfare implications relating to the pre-slaughter handling of pigs, stunning induction requirements for effective electrical stunning, and the stunning and sticking techniques.
Experimental design required a visit to 6 pig abattoirs, once in summer and once in winter during normal slaughter operations to analyse predetermined aspects relating to the pre-slaughter handling of the pigs through consultation with the management and by personal observation, measurement and data capture on identified operating procedures. Observations were made over the course of 1 slaughter day for each visit and involved 100 pigs per abattoir visited. The understanding of the purpose of the research, the content of the questionnaire and the practicality of the data capture envisaged was confirmed by a pilot study.
A structured questionnaire interview was conducted with the processing management of each abattoir to obtain basic information about the abattoir, average throughput details, breed/s slaughtered, maximum, minimum and modal dressed mass and modal classification details. Lairage care aspects were also investigated, including lairage design, pen sizes and cooling systems, management of lots on arrival, the method of identification of individual pigs, the means of herding pigs and staff training programmes. The handling of the pigs was also related to meat quality factors with information gleaned on the resting period: direct slaughter of pigs (30 minutes in pens) or resting periods up to 2-3 hours and the stress factors immediately before slaughter.
Technical information was obtained on the electrical stunning apparatus and the standard operating procedure (SOP) prescribed for the stunning of pigs at the plant. In this regard discussion centred on the stunning area (pen, crate, restrainer or crowding pen), the type of stunner (tongs, V-apparatus or automatic) and electrode factors (design, condition and maintenance). In respect of current South African legislation, it was ascertained whether or not the operational parameters for stunning were displayed on the stunning apparatus or in the stunning area and whether the electrical stunning apparatus was maintained in a good state of repair and was used in accordance with approved methods and the manufacturer's recommendations. In addition, it was ascertained whether the terminals are applied to the head of the animal in such a manner that the current passes through the brain, and whether meters are provided to monitor the voltage, amperage and time used during stunning.
This was followed by personal observation of predetermined criteria relating to the pre-slaughter welfare of the pigs and during which interview data were confirmed. Pre-arrival aspects recorded were the distance travelled and the type and condition of the transport vehicle. As an additional lairage care aspect, environmental conditions were recorded on the date of each visit including the time of day, climatic conditions and the temperature of the lairage. The layout of the pens and the races and passage design were described. Staff handling efficiency was assessed as good, trained and sympathetic, ignorant (not knowing what to do), inexperienced (knowing what to do but not knowing how to do it), incompetent (inability to do it) or inconsiderate (not caring). The method of herding pigs (use of prodders, bag whips, noise levels, hand herding and boards) was assessed and recorded. The behaviour was scored according to a 4-point scale when the pigs were moved from the lairage to the stunning pen, and ranged from very quiet, no resistance and moving freely to refusing to move and very excited. Fighting was interpreted as pigs attacking each other for longer than 10 seconds.
In respect of stunning induction requirements, the method and site of application of the electrodes were recorded as head only between the eyes, head only poll/neck, head-to-back or head-tobrisket, or any observed combination. Details of current amperage range, duration of application in seconds and voltage applied were recorded as well as the slaughter throughput rate per hour. The site and ease of shackling the pig was observed and assessed on the scale no delay (immediate and easy), minimal delay, some delay and physical control required (pinning down with a foot), difficult with considerable delay or an excessive delay (almost impossible).
The physical responses and reflex behaviour of each pig at the time of sticking (convulsions normal or excessive) and the ease and adequacy of each sticking operation was examined, assessed and recorded under 5 categories. These were optimal (no contractions or only tonic), incidental contractions (tonic followed by slight clonic contractions), tonic and severe clonic contractions and delayed operation, adversely affected by severe convulsions/contractions (kicking) or a totally unmanageable sticking operation.
The effectiveness of sticking based on the experience and care of the operative in charge of the slaughter procedure was assessed as successful 1st attempt at sticking - pig lying or pig hanging, subsequent attempts required for a rapid and profuse loss of blood or pigs showing signs of recovery (return of rhythmic breathing). The time in seconds between stunning and bleeding was recorded as was the duration of the bleed out time and the stick wound was assessed as small, medium or large.
• Two were multi-species abattoirs with a daily throughput range for pigs of 350-850 (averaging 600).
• Two were large specialist pig abattoirs with a daily throughput range of 620-1200 (averaging 900).
• Two were smaller specialist pig abattoirs with a daily throughput range of 300-450 (averaging 375).
• All slaughtered a mixture of breeds, but with the large specialist pig abattoirs tending to slaughter a more uniformly sized pig dressing out as bacon pigs (mass 75-90 kg) or large porkers - mainly Topigs and PIC genetics.
• The multi-species service abattoirs and the smallest specialist pig abattoir tended to slaughter more routinely a full spectrum of sizes from both intensively and extensively raised pigs. The dressed mass ranged therefore from 10 kg (seasonal, suckling pigs) to sow culls at 200+ kg to boars (maximum dressed mass recorded 347 kg).
• Classification of mainly P and O, with P up to 90 % was reported from specialist pig abattoirs but an example range of P: 45 %, O: 35 %, R: 15 % and C: 5 % and lower, was not uncommon from service abattoirs. The carcase classification is based on warm dressed carcase back fat thickness and lean meat percentage (LMP) using either the manual intrascope or the computerised Hennesy probe reading. PORCUS is the acronym used by the local pork industry with a P classification based on a LMP above 70 %. This drops in 2 percentage point steps through the letters O, R, C, U to S at a LMP reading below 62 %.
• Of the vehicles used, 50 % were singlebed vehicles, including 4 1-ton utility vehicles ('bakkies'), 41 % double-deck side off-loaders and 9 % were tractor-drawn single-bed rear off-loading trailers.
• No shade cloths were used in 59 % of the vehicles and 50 % of the 14 trailers.
• Floor cleats, grids or mats were not used in 55 % of the vehicles.
• Problems were encountered in 75 % of double-deck side off-loaders - mainly from the lower deck and 20 % of singlebed side off-loaders.
• A low single level concrete ramp, poorly placed for larger side off-loader vehicles and trailers to dock correctly and unable to adjust to multiple-deck vehicle heights.
• A limited turning circle to allow vehicles and trailers to dock correctly.
• Ramps, fixed or adjustable, too steep and slippery, even when fitted with grids.
• Through poor design or lack of maintenance, other factors that hamper free movement of pigs, for example, slippery floor surfaces, sharp corners and open-sided landing areas or ramps.
Weather conditions recorded were variable with winter temperatures ranging from 8 ºC to 18 ºC and summer more consistently from 24 ºC to 26 ºC, but the environmental temperature of the lairages was lower than that of the prevailing ambient temperature. Lairage capacity was generally based on a pen size using a sliding scale formula with 18 m2 holding up to 25 bacon pigs, 36 porkers and 12 sausage pigs.
In 4 of the 6 abattoirs visited identification of pigs was by means of slap tattoo on arrival and records kept of subsequent pen allocation. In the other 2 cases involving service abattoirs, pigs were individually and lot number tagged and records kept. Vehicle lots were accommodated according to vehicle loads without lot mixing. In all the abattoirs the herding of pigs was achieved using bag whips, making a noise or by hand herding - coins or stones in a plastic bottle made an excellent rattle.
Staff handling efficiency was measured against the published category criteria described above. The nature of animal behaviour in the pens, in the passages and when going into the stunning area was directly related to the pig handling efficiency and to the nature and extent of design and maintenance problems with equipment. The policy adopted for a stand-over time prior to slaughter for the pigs in the lairages was very similar in 4 of the abattoirs visited, namely, slaughter on day of arrival after a 1 hour resting period for every 1 hour of travel to the abattoir, with up to 100 pigs held over for slaughter the next day. The other abattoirs adopted a more flexible policy ranging from slaughter on arrival to a stand-over as long as 48 hours in the lairage. In the main, however, pigs were rested for 1-2 hours prior to slaughter.
In all but 1 of the abattoirs the stunner was a hand-held V design with an activating button and smooth electrodes ±100 mm on each side attached to the control box and the unit was custom designed and supplied by 1 company. One abattoir had an automatic hydraulically operated and computerised copper fibre mace electrode catching pigs on each side on the lateral aspect of head. No abattoir had operational parameters for stunning displayed on the stunning apparatus or in the stunning area.
The terminals (electrodes) were mainly applied in the region of head only behind the ears with a tendency to below the ears from in front - good tong positions spanning the brain below the ear on each side of the head. The stun duration varied according to size and ranged between 2 and 15 seconds. Insensibility ranged from optimal to a majority of typical tonic/ clonic contractions.
For the current details of stunning induction the researchers were informed that the amperage ranged from 0.5 to 1.6 except for the high voltage automated stunner at 500 V, where 15 amps were generated for a very short time. The low voltage used in the other abattoirs ranged from 90 to 230 V. Physical responses post-stunning were tonic/clonic contractions of varying severity (Table 3).
The most poorly performed, variable and disappointing function was the shackling of pigs, mainly in the 2 service abattoirs. The sticking operation and bleed out was, however, well done in all but 1 of the abattoirs, with a strong tendency towards making a medium-sized stick wound. The time from stunning to bleed out was mainly within 10-12 seconds and the duration of the bleed, although variable, was seldom less than 6 minutes, but frequently much longer due to line stoppages.
Pork meat quality can be defined as a combination of different properties of fresh meat. These properties concern both consumer acceptance and technological aspects such as colour, water holding capacity and texture, with pH immediately post mortem being an important factor. The handling of the animals at the abattoir and the resting period (welfare aspects) are suggested to play an important role15,16.
Pre-slaughter welfare of the pigs at the abattoir was found to be influenced at the outset by the origin and type of pig slaughtered, the daily throughput range of pigs and the type of abattoir involved. All abattoirs slaughtered a mixture of breeds, but the large specialist pig abattoirs tended to slaughter larger, more uniformly sized pigs, which were generally easier to handle. The multi-species service abattoirs and the smaller specialist pig abattoirs tended to slaughter more routinely a full spectrum of sizes from both intensively and extensively raised pigs and in the main more difficult to handle.
A disappointing pre-arrival aspect was the deficiencies in road motor vehicles observed whilst off-loading pigs. No shade cloths were used in 59 % of the vehicles and 50 % of the 14 trailers, and floor cleats, grids or mats were not used in 55 % of the vehicles. Problems were encountered in 75 % of double-deck side offloaders, mainly from the lower deck, and 20 % of single-bed, side off-loaders. These included poor docking, loading and offloading delays (pig factors and vehicle factors), heat and handling stress factors, with fighting, reluctance to move and high vocalisation. Through poor design or lack of maintenance, another factor that hampered free movement of pigs was the off-loading facilities. Many were unable to adjust to multiple-deck vehicles, were too steep and slippery with or without grids, and had sharp corners and open sided landing areas or ramps.
Lairage care aspects must include the management of weather conditions and it was pleasing in summer that the environmental temperature of the lairages was lower than that of the prevailing ambient temperature. This was achieved by lairage design and the use of micro-misting sprayer systems, but without maintenance these created a wet environment and wasted water.
One service abattoir and a large speciesspecific abattoir had rectangular pens and passages with an open rail design leading to solid wall races just before the stunning area. In the former, pens were inconsistently sized and designed to fill all the available space with little thought given to lairage flow patterns for filling and emptying pens. In the latter, lairage design was carefully planned with pens of ±18 m2 holding up to 25 bacon pigs. In all the other abattoirs lairages were rectangular box shaped solid walled pens and solid walled passages with blind right-angled turns.
Pens were frequently overcrowded and pigs of different sizes were not separated. At 1 abattoir, for example, 70 adult culls (sausage pigs) were spread amongst the other pigs from 8 different suppliers in the lairage, and all had been standing for 2 days in the lairage due to machine down time at stunning. Herding of pigs was achieved using bag whips, making a noise with a rattle or by hand herding. Prodders were, however, noted at strategic points where animal management was difficult. That lairages are not high on the management supervision agenda in most abattoirs is supported by the following observations during 1 of the abattoir visits.
• Five dead pigs were found scattered over the lairages - no attempt was made to remove them.
• One dead pig was found lying on the rubble outside the passage to the pens from off-loading and 1 downer pig was lying in that passage.
• Lairage floors and drainage were very poor.
In 3 of the specialised pig abattoirs staff handling efficiency was good, the personnel were trained and sympathetic and training was on-going and monitored. In 1 service abattoir, efficiency was also generally good, but due to design problems with the in-feed to the restraining conveyer, frustration and a tendency not to know how to do it crept in and handling deteriorated. In the other service abattoir, design problems coupled with the variety in type and size of pig slaughtered caused staff to struggle with pre-slaughter handling, and they were clearly untrained, unmonitored, inexperienced, incompetent and inconsiderate. The staff handling inefficiency in the slaughter of adult culls was a disgrace, albeit in the main due to totally inadequate pre-slaughter handling and stunning facilities.
The nature of animal behaviour in the pens, in the passages and into the stunning area was directly related to the pig handling efficiency and to the nature and extent of design and maintenance problems with equipment. Where these were faulty, pigs fought, were unwilling to move and had to be forced, with high vocalisation. Pigs were very quiet in the pens in specialised pig abattoirs, offering no resistance and moving freely. However, aroused alarm behaviour was a tendency displayed where the pens were of the open rail design and ina2m long, too narrow, final in-feed to stunning at 1 abattoir. This was in sharp contrast to the ease of movement achieved at the same abattoir using solid walled passages leading into a ½ crowding pen (turn wheel type) prior to the final in-feed.
Direct slaughter of pigs (30 min in pens) generally produces fewer carcasses of normal quality (higher incidence of PSE status) than resting periods of up to 2-3 h (lower plasma cortisol levels), irrespective of whether mixed with unfamiliar animals12. A longer resting period before slaughter was found to induce a slightly higher ultimate pH, accompanied by a somewhat darker colour (24 hours post mortem)15.
The policy adopted for a stand over time prior to slaughter for the pigs in the lairages in this project has been outlined under results. In 2 species-specific abattoirs the majority were held overnight and any required for slaughter on day of arrival were rested for 2 to 3 hours. If required, pigs were slaughtered directly on arrival with a resting period of 30 minutes or less. This policy was ignored and no consideration was given to exacerbating circumstances (stressors) as identified during visits, for example, hot ambient temperatures (no shade cloths), delays in loading, unsuitable vehicles (high-sided steel grain carrier), breakdowns and delays en route and difficulties in off-loading. No ante mortem inspection was observed, nor was a specific emergency slaughter area or procedure seen during abattoir visits.
In this survey of commercial practice in the Highveld Region of South Africa not one of the 6 abattoirs visited had a welldesigned in-feed to a well planned stunning area/facility and a very high level of pig pre-slaughter stress was witnessed in all instances. Stress immediately prior to slaughter affects meat quality much more than stress experienced earlier on and most meat quality parameters were affected significantly by the day of slaughter15. A study demonstrated that plasma lactate concentrations increased with greater ante mortem stress, which progressively elevated pHu in the muscles and tended to reduce eating quality16.
Four of the abattoirs surveyed had a restrainer conveyer and 2 fixed size rectangular pens in which stunning took place. In-feed from the lairage passage through a guillotine gate into the latter presented few difficulties, but pig management for stunning at a relatively fixed point was difficult, particularly as the number of pigs decreased and pig preslaughter stress increased as they were chased around the pen. It is essential that the person stunning the pigs controls the movement of the restrainer conveyer. This enables the synchronisation of pigs arriving at the point of stunning to be coordinated with the sticking and shackling functions, and importantly, with the movement of the bleeding line. Stoppages of the line occur for a number of reasons, often merely an unavailability of bleeding chains at sticking, and failure to synchronise has serious welfare implications. The most serious of these are failure to stick and shackle, with pigs falling into the bleeding trough and left there to recover, multiple attempts at stunning pigs outside the conveyer, multiple attempts at sticking an unmanageable pig lying on the roller bed and eventually re-stunning of pigs that had recovered. Welfare implications also arise from problems associated with the disappointing design of the facilities leading up to and into the restrainer conveyer, often linked with space constraints. Disregard for basic design factors frequently impeded the free movement of the pigs and increased staff frustration, physical manhandling and pre-slaughter stress. This was mainly due to too wide/narrow a passage, with too sharp an angle up to the restrainer and too steep with an uncovered floor gap before the restrainer. The researchers are of the opinion that many of the problems associated with the stunning of pigs could be addressed by providing adequate space for this important function and the appropriate use of crowding pens to reduce floor area, thus enhancing and improving pig handling management.
No abattoir had operational parameters for stunning displayed on the stunning apparatus or in the stunning area, thus contravening the Red Meat Regulations under the Meat Safety Act (Act 40 of 2000).
The condition of the hand held V design stunners was fair to good and in all but 1 abattoir the electrodes were not cleaned while in use. The stunners were purportedly low maintenance and checked/ cleaned weekly, with 1 abattoir reporting daily maintenance. The potential problems with existing systems are that the profile of the pig head precludes the application of existing electrodes in the correct position; the small area of contact enhances carbon build-up, which increases electrical impedance and the electrodes are easily tarnished with few cleaning tools provided 13. One abattoir had a V electrode as back up whilst the others claimed to have at least 1 pair of scissor tongs. In 1 instance, however, the unit controlling the current to the tongs was faulty and without a backup facility the pigs were inadequately stunned for the entire day, during which 100 % missed shock (motor paralysis only) was recorded. One abattoir had an automatic hydraulically operated and computerised copper fiber mace electrode catching pigs on each side on the lateral aspect of head. This high voltage unit (500 V) was checked every day and serviced weekly and the company had scissor tongs as back up. On the 2nd visit, however, a hydraulic leak resulted in an erratic stun pattern with as high as 14 % missed shock. Although delivering a near perfect stun in between, coupled with a 12 % missed shock during the 1st visit, the fact remains that stunning requires constant hands-on supervision/management. This was sadly lacking in all the abattoirs visited.
For the current details of stunning induction the researchers were informed that the amperage ranged from 0.5 to 1.6 other than for the high voltage automated stunner at 500 V, where 15 amps were generated for a very short time. The low voltage used in the other abattoirs ranged from 90 to 230 V. A survey of commercial practice in the United Kingdom showed that many pigs failed to receive enough current and were therefore ineffectively stunned3,17. For pigs the current is either a minimum of 0.41 amps if the electrodes are placed in the optimal position8 or 1.3 amps if placed in the least optimal position7,17. The minimum EC requirement is a current of 1.25-1.3 amps maintained for at least 3 seconds at a high voltage of at least 240 V.
The terminal (electrode) placement was mainly good, spanning the brain below the ear on each side of the head and stun duration varied according to size, ranging between 2 and 15 seconds. The optimum position of the electrodes is virtually impossible to attain under practical conditions8 and in the routine stunning of pigs the practice of repeat application of electrical stunning is common9.In support of this statement, repeat stunning was recorded in all 6 of the abattoirs visited (9 % of the total sample size n = 1175). Repeat stunning can produce successive epileptic activity and therefore an effective stun, with a significantly shorter duration of tonic and clonic phase activity. However, reflexes returned more quickly following repeat application as the tonic and clonic muscle cramps were impaired and the practice must be discouraged. Animals subjected to 2 stuns have been starved of their aerobic energy supply and may be less able to sustain physical activity than animals subjected to a single stun9. High frequency stunning produced epilepsy and unconsciousness and appeared therefore to be acceptable from an animal welfare standpoint.
The average stunning to sticking interval was shorter with high frequency stunning compared with 50 Hz stunning4. It has been shown that if the stunning-tosticking interval is longer than 15 s, the chances of recovery are increased5. Poorly performed, variable and disappointing shackling of pigs, mainly in the 2 service abattoirs, contributed to unnecessary delays between stunning and sticking. On analysis of the total sample size over 2 visits per abattoir (n = 1175) it transpires that 66 % were easy to shackle with a minimum of delay, but that 34 % were difficult to shackle, 90 % of these being from the abattoirs tending to slaughter more routinely a wide range of different sized pigs. Of these, 34 % required physical control (usually a foot placed firmly on the abdomen) and 6 % were impossible to handle and contributed mainly to the small percentage that fell into and recovered in the bleeding troughs.
In this survey 149 pigs or 13 % required more than a single sticking attempt to bleed out properly, considerably higher than published reports, although carcass convulsions were regarded as being excessive in only 4 % of cases. An abattoir survey of pig stunning and slaughter found variations in the methods and effectiveness of sticking, with 2.3 % of pigs requiring a second attempt to bleed out properly1. This was attributed to the intensity of convulsions on sticking and the experience and care of the operative in charge of the slaughter procedure. The results of this study indicate that following head-only electrical stunning, a relatively long sticking wound by a thoracic cut should result in humane slaughter and provide better welfare in slaughter pigs, but would result in carcass contamination by microorganisms present in the scalding water and pose a threat to public health1. In the present survey 67 % of the pigs were stuck to bleed through a medium to large sticking wound by a thoracic cut.
In conclusion, how then were the research questions addressed? It is essentially the poor pre-slaughter handling facilities rather than the stunning apparatus design that increased pre-slaughter handling stress, potentially affecting the magnitude of the current flow, thus impeding the performance of the stunning system13. Both were major contributory factors in the absence of pre-slaughter handling management, and lack of supervision over the good state of repair of the electrical stunning apparatus and allied facilities (hoists). The frequent failure in some abattoirs to use the stunning apparatus in accordance with approved methods shows a misunderstanding of the stunning induction requirements and the importance of achieving a good stun11. Where abattoirs slaughtered a more uniform-sized pig the frequency of stunning producing epilepsy and unconsciousness and the time interval before and the technique of the sticking method tended to be more acceptable from an animal welfare standpoint4. This was not true where the abattoir tended to slaughter more routinely a full spectrum of sizes from both intensively and extensively raised pigs. It would appear that high voltage electrical stunning with a short stunning time and a minimal lapse of time between stunning and sticking, does offer the best prospects in relation to pork quality14.


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Bayou La Batre's Avery Bates Talks Fall Food
Bayou La Batre, Alabama – For generations, the seafood industry in and around Bayou La Batre has pleased both paychecks and palates.
"We've always said a man starves to death in the bayou only if he doesn't have a cast net," said Avery Bates, vice president for the Organized Seafood Association of Alabama.
Bates, a fifth-generation oysterman, can talk for hours about how anything related to his city or his coast. That's understandable if you have his breadth of experience with the waters of the Gulf.
"From generation to generation, our family has just depended on the bounty of the sea," he said. "It's a wonderful thing to be born in the areas that you have a little of both: You can have a little country and a little water bounty. Just think if my grandfather and them had not moved here from Yorkshire, England, many generations ago, I might be eating mutton now."
When fall rolls around, oyster stuffing is a special recipe that rises to the top of many people's minds. But there's another that Bates is especially fond of: chicken and oyster gumbo.
Chicken and oyster gumbo is a mainstay for him and many others. And just as recipes have their own seasoning, there's often a dash of jokes to go along with it. A while back, Bates said an old-timer tried to tell him how to make it, explaining how important it was to use a little black hen.
"I looked at him and said, 'Black hen? I know what you're doing–You're twisting my leg,'" Bates said. "It doesn't make a difference what color the chicken is!"
A recent trending fish has been smoked mullet, Bates said. There are a number of woods to smoke a fish. But according to Bates' grandfather, all you have to do is use any wood with a nut: hickory, pecan, or Bates' favorite, Miracle Bush.
As the diversity of the population has shifted along the Gulf Coast, so has the creativity of the recipes. Now that there is an influential number of Asians in Bayou La Batre's fishing community, Bates says a number of Vietnamese recipes have grown more popular.
"Some of these shrimp egg rolls are out of this world," he said.
The same is true of residents of northern states coming down to escape the cold. Bates said he didn't know if "snowbirds" would like fish stew, but after trying it, they asked for more.
As for the trendy Turducken – a Cajun dish with a deboned turkey stuffed with a chicken stuffed with a duck – Bates says it was "alright." However, he prefers the more traditional route.
"We're surprised with some of the things people have come up with over the years."
To find Gulf seafood recipes from our community for your holiday table, visit our recipe section and learn how to make your own Herbed Gulf Oyster Stuffing.


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President Buhari Salutes Predecessor Goodluck Jonathan On 64th Birthday Anniversary
...Says Jonathan has continued to expand the boundaries of leadership.
in Politics, Top Stories
By John Ikani
President Muhammadu Buhari has on behalf of the Government and Nigerians, felicitated with former President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, on his 64th birthday anniversary.
In a statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina on Tuesday in Abuja, Buhari congratulated Jonathan for serving the country, and working for the peace and advancement of democracy on the African continent.
He stressed that the former President's profile should remind those in position and all aspiring leaders that serving the country and humanity requires sacrifice, and ultimately placing the interest of others above personal gains.
"The President affirms that Dr. Jonathan continues to expand the boundaries of leadership, teaching many in the country the power of focus, consistency and diligence, having served as Deputy Governor, Governor, Vice President, President, African Union Envoy and now, Chairman of the International Summit Council for Peace Africa (ISCP-Africa)," the statement reads.
ISCP-Africa is an association of incumbent and former heads of state and their deputies, established in 2019 by the Universal Peace Federation, an organization in general consultative status with the United Nations (UN).
He prayed that as Jonathan turns 64, that the Almighty God will continue to sustain them in good health and all round wellbeing.
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World Diabetes Day: World Bank Urges Nigerian Govt To Implement Tax Law On Sugary Drinks
eNaira May Reduce Deposits In Commercial Banks, IMF Warns Nigeria's Central Bank
eNaira May Reduce Deposits In Commercial Banks, IMF Warns Nigeria's Central Bank


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Personal Support Worker eXPRS Training Videos | Self-Determination Resources, Inc.
DHS has released several training videos for Personal Support Workers (PSWs) to YouTube, regarding the upcoming change to the new eXPRS data & billing system.
UPDATE (1-21-15): It seems there were some reported issues with the audio quality of the training videos, so DHS took them down in order to fix the audio. We'll update the links & videos once they're working again. Apologies for any inconvenience.
UPDATE (1-23-15): DHS believes they have corrected the audio issues with the video(s) and have reposted them. The links and embedded videos in this post have been updated. Thank you for your patience!
The Orientation & Demonstration/Training videos on using eXPRS for PSW & IC-PSW providers are now available on YouTube for viewing.
Part 2 is a demonstration of how to submit billing data in eXPRS for PSW/IC-PSW providers.
While certain service categories rendered by Agencies have been billed & paid through the eXPRS system since September 2014, SDRI will probably not be making the full switch to paying for all services via the new system until approximately April 2015.
These videos can also be viewed from SDRI's Facebook Page (be sure to 'Like' our Page and make sure that 'Following' is checked, in order to receive Facebook updates from SDRI).
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Saturday Takeaways: What Alabama's Iron Bowl scare means for Georgia and an SEC title slugfest
By The Athletic College Football Staff Nov 28, 2021 82
Three takeaways and much more from a Rivalry Week slate that delivered in every way. If you spent the last full Saturday of the 2021 college football season hopping from The Game to the Iron Bowl to Bedlam as a neutral observer, you were rewarded with 12 uninterrupted hours of high drama.
The blueprint for beating Bama?
Outside of a few defensive line stunts, Auburn defensive coordinator Derek Mason didn't have a complex gameplan to slow down Alabama's offense, which entered the weekend ranked seventh nationally in offensive yards per play.
"We didn't expect it to be that heavy of a man game. They tried to take the run away," Alabama quarterback Bryce Young said. "It took us a little bit to adjust."
That's a concerning sign for Alabama, which escaped Auburn with a 24-22 comeback win that needed four overtime periods to be settled, and a welcome one for Georgia, which is licking its chops to finally exorcise its Alabama demons in Atlanta next Saturday with the SEC title at stake.
Auburn most often pressured Young with five or six rushers. Texas A&M, the lone team to beat Alabama this year, did it with four or five on plenty of occasions. Georgia? It might be able to do it with three. And Auburn did more than try to take away Alabama's run game. It succeeded in doing so.
"Couldn't run the ball very well. Couldn't block 'em up front. Getting beat in pass protection," Alabama coach Nick Saban said.
And when Alabama needed a yard to extend a drive late in the fourth quarter, it couldn't get it.


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A Murder Most Foley (Pleasance Theatre, London)
Creative mayhem takes over the StageSpace at the Pleasance with a soundly satisfying and light-hearted murder mystery that will definitely resonate with amateur sleuths.
A Murder Most Foley presents a quality whodunit that in itself would stand up to investigation – but throws in the extra dimension of increasingly nonsensical sound effects performed live by a ridiculously impressive and hard-working cast of five.
Its high standard raises it above the level of festival fringe material, with pleasingly frenzied performances and a very worthwhile script. It is silly enough to be wildly entertaining and ingenious enough to exercise the little grey cells of any wanting to play armchair detective.
The Pleasance has recently seen Elliot Liburd's acting talent in the commendable tragicomedy Bismillah!: here he skilfully directs his own writing debut, a work of imagination, humour and creativity.
The plot has the whiff of a John Buchan thriller, sending its less than competent Private Detective hero Dick Reference (and yes, it IS funny every time it's mentioned!) to a remote Scottish island to solve the murder of the laird of a manor only to find a group of suspects who very quickly become victims themselves.
As the story dashes along with a host of memorable characters played by the small cast (terrible twins, an unhinged sea captain who bursts into song, a bluff colonel, a femme fatale, a shady butler and an outrageous lady of the house to name but a few) the performers also turn to a foley table to provide an extraordinary range of sound effects, from tossed pancakes to squashed heads. Coconuts providing the clip clop of hooves, footsteps, and popping balloons for gunshots are among the more basic sounds on offer.
The frenetic pace intensifies as Detective Dick and his able assistant draw closer to solving the crimes, with the tireless team of five playing instruments as well as providing effects for trains, swordfights, windy weather, car crashes, and a leather armchair.
It all works so well because it is clearly born out of the writer's love of the genre, and an unashamed fondness for silliness, which the cast turn into something infectious. It never pretends to be a staged radio play (such as the trio of Agatha Christie works presented on tour occasionally as Murder on Air) but makes the most of the audience seeing the sound effects created.
A wider stage would allow the foley desk to be seen and the efforts of the artists more easily appreciated, as some gems are lost behind the action, yet an intimate venue is important to allow the fullest of audience engagement, so there's no simple solution.
The strong cast (who must surely collapse in a pool of perspiration after the bows) consists of Isambard Rawbone as the best Dick around, Fiona Carson, Holly Cuffley, Dominic Blight and Tamara Tooher, who all earn five stars in each of their performing skills – musical accompaniment, foley, and acting such a colourful miscellany of characters.
A venture by Fools Rush In (a company set up by Elliott Liburd and Tamara Tooher to produce funny, entertaining theatre, which they most assuredly do here) in association with Fourth Monkey Theatre Company, this is a joy from start to finish and promises much for the future.
On the strength of this offering alone, the company could easily grow to rival the theatrical finesse of The Play That Goes Wrong gang. It is no mystery at all why this assured little production has scored such success in a short run and audiences will have certainly left wanting more.


1. What are the steps involved in Harford County's Development Process?
2. What is a Community Input Meeting?
The purpose of the community input meeting is for the developer to provide information to the community regarding the proposed development and to allow citizens to ask questions and make comments and suggestions. At the meeting, the developer shall present draft plans for the site layout.
3. What is the Development Advisory Committee DAC?
4. What is a Site Plan Application Waiver?
A waiver from DAC may be granted for minor changes or additions to nonresidential uses. An application form must be completed and two copies of a site plan submitted with the proposal. Final approval will then be made with the building permit application. The application form can be filled in and printed from this site or you can obtain a copy in the Planning and Zoning Office.
5. What is the process to create buildable lots?
6. How many lots can be created from a parcel located in the Agricultural district and what size lot is required?
Development in the agricultural district is based on the size of parcels as they existed on February 8, 1977. A minimum size parcel which may be divided is 11 acres. The density factor is 1 lot for each 10 acres. If you have more than 11 acres and less than 30, you may divide a parcel into 2 lots.
Lots existing in the Agricultural District which were created prior to February 8, 1977 may be as small as 1/2 acre. Any undeveloped parcel legally created prior to February 8, 1977 which can meet required standards for well and septic are recognized as buildable lots.
8. What is the Natural Resource District and how will it affect my property?
These are environmentally sensitive areas which contain valuable wildlife and plant habitat and also help to protect the water quality of local streams and ultimately, the Chesapeake Bay. The Natural Resource District (NRD) includes non-tidal wetlands and the associated 75 foot buffer and slopes in excess of 25% for an area exceeding 40,000 square feet as well as streams. The NRD area is delineated on all record plats approved by the County. The Zoning Ordinance (Section 267-41 on page 179) does not allow this area to be disturbed. This means that construction, grading, clearing and filling activities or intensive cultivation of the area for landscaping or garden use is not permitted. No sheds, garages, patios, decks, gazebos or swimming pools will be allowed within any area designated as a NRD. Over the long term, these activities may damage the non-tidal wetlands. However, necessary utilities of water and sewer lines or roads may be permitted.
Subject to the requirements of your Homeowners' Association covenants, fencing is the only structure which will be permitted within this area. You may also mow existing grass areas and perform normal yard maintenance. The planting of additional native trees, shrubs and plant materials is also permitted and encouraged, but it is recommended that the use of fertilizers and pesticides be limited due to the environmental sensitivity of these areas.


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Q: How to connect Datagrip with AWS Athena using an assumed role? I am able to make Athena queries through the AWS CLI. This requires me to assume a role first (I use awsume). The role requires MFA.
Now I want to configure Datagrip for this as well. However there are two options for authenticating:

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*User/pass - I can put in my AWS key ID and secret, but I think it would fail without the MFA token as well (there is no field for it in Datagrip 2021.1).

*AWS profile - I figured out what to put into "Profile" - it's the source_profile in my role's profile in my ~/.aws/config. However, I can't figure out what to put under User.

If I put in:

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*The name of the role's profile

*The name of the role

*The ARN of the role

*My AWS username
They all fail with the error:

The specified database user/password combination is rejected: [HY000][100071] [Simba]AthenaJDBC An error has been thrown from the AWS Athena client. User: arn:aws:iam::[NUMBER]:user/[MYUSERNAME] is not authorized to perform: athena:ListDataCatalogs [Execution ID not available]
com.simba.athena.amazonaws.services.athena.model.AmazonAthenaException: User: arn:aws:iam::[NUMBER]:user/[MYUSERNAME] is not authorized to perform: athena:ListDataCatalogs (Service: AmazonAthena; Status Code: 400; Error Code: AccessDeniedException; Request ID: [UUID]; Proxy: null

I get this same error, with my username, even if I put in the role as a User in the Datagrip dialog box.

A: I ended up solving this by using a named profile in credentials.
awsume has an option to write the credentials to the file: awsume -o default role-profile-name will write them as [default] in ~/.aws/credentials.
Then in Datagrip, I configured the connection to use default as the profile. The username is apparently not used and can be anything (at least in my case).
For details, see https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/athena-iam-jdbc-driver/

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