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British couple killed in Australia chopper crash were visiting relatives they had not seen for years
The British newlyweds killed in a plane crash between two helicopters in Australia had arrived in the country days before the tragedy to visit relatives they had not seen for years due to the Covid pandemic, their heartbroken family revealed today.
Ron and Diane Hughes, aged 65 and 57, were two of the four victims who died on Monday when the two helicopters collided in front of hundreds of horrified tourists on Main Beach on Australia's Gold Coast.
Mr and Mrs Hughes, who married in August and have been described by their family as a "fun-loving couple who had a zest for life", arrived in Australia last week to visit Mr Hughes, Jane Manns, and their grandchildren.
In an emotional tribute, his family said the 'generous and loyal' couple were 'loved and adored by all they knew', adding that they were still 'struggling to come to terms with their loss'.
Ron and Diane Hughes, aged 65 and 57 (pictured together on their wedding day), were two of four victims who died when helicopters crashed in front of hundreds of horrified tourists on Main Beach on Australia's Gold Coast on Monday.
Two crashed helicopters sit on the sand at a collision scene near Seaworld, on the Gold Coast, Australia on Monday.
Authorities said the fatal crash near Sea World occurred less than 20 seconds after a helicopter took off from a sandbar and collided with another aircraft landing at the same time.
Mr and Mrs Hughes, from Neston, Cheshire, died along with British pilot Ash Jenkinson, 40, and Sydney's mother, Vanessa Tadros, 36. Tadros's ten-year-old son was taken out from the rubble and is in critical condition at the hospital.
Two other people on board, Winnie De Silva, 33, and Leon, 9, were also hospitalized. Of the six occupants of the other helicopter, flown by Michael James, five suffered minor injuries while one escaped the scene unharmed.
"We are deeply saddened and still in shock by the events that unfolded on Monday," the family of Mr and Mrs Hughes told the Liverpool Echo in a statement.
'Ron and Diane arrived last week, visiting our family on the Gold Coast after being separated by Covid for the past few years.
"They were the most generous, loyal and fun-loving couple who had a zest for life and were loved and adored by everyone they met.
"Tragedies like this happen to 'other people,' and we are all struggling to come to terms with our loss.
"They leave a huge void in our family and will be survived by fathers, brothers, sons, daughters and their cheeky grandchildren."
The family thanked lifeguards, emergency services and Sea World staff for their efforts to save the couple.
The family thanked lifeguards, emergency services and Sea World staff for their efforts to save the couple. Pictured: Emergency personnel move a body from the scene of a helicopter collision near Seaworld on the Gold Coast on Monday.
How the tragedy unfolded in just 20 seconds
They also said their thoughts were with all those affected and that they were praying for the recovery of the survivors still in the hospital.
"Finally, the outpouring of love from our friends, family and the Gold Coast community has touched us all and will never be forgotten," they added.
After the incident, Diane's brother Dave Boyce wrote on Facebook: "For those who don't know, my sister and her husband were involved in the helicopter crash on the Gold Coast yesterday.
'We would also like to thank you all for the love and support we have received. We are truly honored at this heartbreaking time."
The fatal crash occurred just 20 seconds after the lower plane took off and the two Eurocopter EC130s collided about 250 feet above the ground.
Mr and Mrs Hughes, from Neston, Cheshire, were killed along with British pilot Ash Jenkinson, 40, (pictured) and Sydney's mother, Vanessa Tadros, 36.
Vanessa Tadros (left) died instantly in the helicopter crash, but her son Nicholas (right) survived and is in hospital in critical condition.
As the first helicopter gained altitude, it crashed into the second aircraft, which appeared to be descending.
The flailing rotors of the first helicopter shattered the cabin of the second, shattering its glass cockpit just inches from the pilot and passengers inside.
Witnesses said they saw a terrifying cloud of broken glass and debris explode as the two planes collided in midair.
The devastating force of the collision tore off the lower helicopter's rotor unit and gearbox, immediately causing it to plummet hopelessly out of control.
It turned upside down and plummeted to the ground, striking a sandbar, killing the pilot, Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, and Mrs. Tadros on impact.
Meanwhile, James managed to land his plane upright on a sandbar between Sea World and the Gold Coast's popular Broadwater beach. It meant that five of the six occupants of his helicopter were slightly injured while one escaped unharmed.
Winne and Leon de Silva (pictured) were rushed to hospital with serious injuries. Both have stabilized since then.
The Sea World pilot has been hailed a "hero" for saving the lives of his five passengers – couples Riaan and Elmarie Steenberg, and Marle and Edward Swart – and a tourist from Western Australia.
The forensic accident unit is investigating the incident with the help of the Australian Transport Safety Office.
A spokesman for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: "We are supporting the family of two British nationals who died in Australia and are in contact with local authorities."
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his thoughts were with those affected by the incident.
"Australia is shocked by the news of the horrific and tragic helicopter incident on the Gold Coast today," he said in a tweet.
"My thoughts are with all those affected, including first responders, and my deepest condolences go out to those who are grieving."
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk tweeted that it was an "unthinkable tragedy".
She said: "My deepest condolences go out to each of the families and everyone affected by this terrible accident."
SEA WORLD HELICOPTERS' 40 YEARS OF 'IMPECCABLE SAFETY'
Sea World Helicopters is an independent offshoot of the theme park near the Gold Coast's world famous Surfers Paradise, and has operated for over 40 years.
In November 2019, Australia's largest privately owned multi-million dollar helicopter terminal opened overlooking Broadwater.
It boasted of its 'impeccable' safety record which he attributed to its 'experienced pilots and meticulous maintenance regimen'.
Before Covid hit the tourism industry, the terminal was flying up to 600 passengers a day, offering five-minute scenic flights or 30-minute trips to inland waterfalls and coastal beaches.
In the wake of the pandemic, the firm diversified with trips to local wineries
Chief pilot Ash Jenkinson, 40, who died in the tragedy, said the flights offered tourists a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
'Flying day trips to various wineries, who doesn't want to do that?' he told her in 2021.
'The Gold Coast is so well known for its golden sands and beach lifestyle that you forget that just a five minute flight inland you have all these beautiful inland rainforests and huge waterfalls to fly over.
"It's something our guests will remember for a lifetime and one of my favorite places in Australia."
He added: 'If you haven't seen the Costa Dorada from the air, you're missing out.
"The simple flight up and down the coast, over tall buildings and over the sea, is something you can't capture from the ground."
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Brennan Interviewed for Eight Hours by Durham: Not a Target Per Brennan Spox
By Kristinn Taylor
Former Obama director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan was interviewed for eight hours Friday by U.S. Attorney John Durham at CIA headquarters, according to a statement by Brennan's spokesman Nick Shapiro. Shapiro says Brennan was told he is not a subject or target of Durham's probe into abuses by the federal government in the Russia collusion hoax investigation of the Trump campaign and President Trump.
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Shapiro posted the statement to Twitter:
https://twitter.com/nick_shapiro/status/1296977643296915456
Earlier today Brennan was interviewed by US Attorney John Durham on issues related to Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Brennan was informed by Mr. Durham that he is not a subject or a target of a criminal investigation and that he is only a witness to events that are under review. The interview was conducted at CIA headquarters and lasted eight hours.
Brennan welcomed the opportunity to answer Mr. Durham's questions related to a wide range of intelligence-related activities undertaken by CIA before the November 2016 presidential election as well as the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) published in early Jan 2017.
Brennan provided details on the efforts made by the Intelligence Community to understand and disrupt the actions taken by Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Brennan expressed appreciation for the professional manner in which Mr. Durham and his team conducted the interview.
Brennan questioned why the analytic tradecraft and the findings of the ICA are being scrutinized by the Department of Justice, especially since they have been validated by the Mueller Report as well as the bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Review.
Brennan also told Durham that the repeated efforts of Donald Trump & William Barr to politicize Mr. Durham's work have been appalling & have tarnished the independence & integrity of the Department of Justice, making it difficult for DoJ professionals to carry out their job.
It is Brennan's fervent hope that the results of the Durham review will be apolitical and not influenced by personal or partisan agendas.
A slightly edited version of the statement was sent to reporters:
Just in: John Brennan's spokesman says Brennan was interviewed earlier today by John Durham, who told Brennan "that he is not a subject or a target of a criminal investigation and that he is only a witness to events that are under review." Full statement: pic.twitter.com/tgYXpvdkIN
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) August 22, 2020
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The Hazards of Eating Bats
Article • Written by Bryan Lowder • Non-Fiction • January 2006
Printed from https://www.damninteresting.com/the-hazards-of-eating-bats/
Bats, along with spiders and snakes, are one of the most frequently feared animals. Ask any bat lover, and they will tell you that these creatures are harmless and unfairly maligned. Sure they carry rabies, but so do many other animals, including "man's best friend" the dog. People's phobias, they maintain, comes from the medieval association of bats with the Devil, or from fear of the dark, or vampire legends, or some such thing. Bats are cute and good for the ecosystem. Leave them alone and they'll leave you alone.
That last sentence may be true, but apparently some bats aren't harmless. Certain bats are now suspected of causing some of the world's most feared diseases. And all the trouble started because some people, rather than leave them alone, eat them.
Australian researchers Lin-Fa Wang and Hugh Field have found that horseshoe bats are the likely natural reservoir of the deadly SARS virus that struck southern China in 2002, killing over 700 people and sickening thousands. Originally, a SARS-like virus was found in an animal called the palm civet (a cousin to the "source" of Luak Coffee). When this turned out to be a red herring, Wang and Field placed their bets on bats. Sure enough, SARS-like viruses and antibodies against them showed up in a whole lotta bats, and the finding has been repeated by others around the world.
The duo had good reasons to suspect our flying friends. Bats had already been found to harbor the nasty Hendra and Neepa viruses. And bats have so many disease-harboring and -spreading talents that researcher Kathryn Holmes calls them "magnificent vectors". They're more closely related to humans than you might think (some classify them as primates). They are relatively long lived, a potentially stable home. They huddle together during the day, sneezing and coughing on each other and spreading viruses around, even to other bat species. Then at night, they spread out for miles, potentially spreading disease far and wide. Some even think they can carry diseases without getting very sick themselves. Yikes.
How is it that humans managed to get these diseases? It looks like the sale of bats for food is to blame for bringing folks and flying furballs together. Most Westerners cringe at the thought of eating the critters, but they are prized as food in other parts of the world. The outbreak of SARS is likely due to humans mingling with bats in the crowded markets of southern China.
Now the poor creatures are suspected of spreading the hideous Marburg and Ebola viruses. Could it get any worse? Yes. The eating of giant fruit bats or "flying foxes" on the island of Guam is now blamed for causing one of the most baffling and disturbing epidemics ever— a sudden appearance of a Parkinson's disease-like syndrome in the 1970's.
The Chamorro people of Guam loved the taste of flying foxes. An American military presence in Guam suddenly made guns more available, and therefore made the delicious giant fruit bats more available too. After downing a flying fox, an aboriginal resident of Guam would drop the whole thing unskinned into a pot of boiling milk. In an hour or so, soup was on. But every scrumptious spoonful was causing cumulative poisoning.
Primitive, fern-like trees called cycads grow on Guam and neighboring islands. These plants produce brightly-colored fruits that often contain neurotoxins. The native peoples ate the seeds, but were wise to the danger, and they therefore washed the seeds thoroughly.
The bats, however, were not so discriminating. They ate the fruits with relish, accumulating toxins in their flesh. And then the Guamians ate them. After downing enough bats, these people started showing tragic symptoms of a new disease christened ALS-PDC. The syndrome was a ghastly amalgam of Alzheimer's-like dementia, ALS-like slow paralysis, and Parkinson's-like shaking. Eventually the disease became the leading cause of death among the adult Chamorro people.
Then just as suddenly, new cases of the disease stopped happening. Turns out that the native bats had been hunted to near-extinction, and different species were being imported from Samoa and other places where no cycads grew. The origin of the disease wasn't worked out until years later, so it remained a deep mystery for decades. The answer was over their heads the whole time— they merely needed to look up to that leathery flapping sound.
After all of this, bats need a friend. But don't give them a hug. And don't eat them.
Science news article (requires subscription) Guam and ALS-PDC
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Writing: Bryan Lowder
Bryan Lowder is a bioengineer living with his family in Utah. He enjoys imagining that he has hobbies such as microcontroller programming, writing, mushroom culturing, and holography.
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Damn! And I was going to try to market Bat Sorbet in Japan this year.
Josh Harding
This past summer, I had bats living in the attic above my bedroom. They would scamper out at night and fly around in circles, feasting on the plethra of mosquitos infesting my yard. It was a truly sad day when they flew away and I sealed their entry point so they could never return.
I forgot to mention that however many bugs they ate, I never tried to eat one. It ranks up there with licking frogs.
Stitzel Jim
From what I understand, Australian aborigines are one human population the consumes bats on a regular basis. Now, I don't have a problem with bats at all, but I've never really had much of a desire to eat them — not enough meat. ;-)
I'm one of the bat lovers mentioned at the beginning of the article. I personally think bats are terrific. I'm just saddened that they are disease-ridden and that new international laws prevent me from buying my own flying fox.
Josh Harding said: "I forgot to mention that however many bugs they ate, I never tried to eat one. It ranks up there with licking frogs."
Never tried to eat a bat, or never tried to eat a bug?
Eat a bat and you may just turn out like Ossie Osbourne.
I'm a bat fancier as well but not in the culinary fashion. Although not disease riddled like the bat or flying fox, the tarantula spider is also a delicacy when boiled and I would not eat one of those.
Secret Ninja
Ozzy is a pretty successful guy, and I would be thoroughly pleased to be half as rich as him.
thatsmyname
what an amazing find!
-L.
Log on next week! Same Bat Time! Same Bat Channel! ::::Doing Bat Dance::::
Eric Leeson
I am one of those people who are willing to eat just about anything: insects, monkey brains (given the chance), deer testicles. However, I cringe at the thought of eating bats; They are simply too disease-ridden.
In 1995, Richard Preston speculated in his book "The Hot Zone" that the breeding ground for the ebola virus was probably in bat droppings found in their caves.
Ebola is some scary, scary stuff.
Perhaps the ancient cultures had good reason for demonizing bats.
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what did the ebola virus do? Dont we get shots for it?
>.> damn bats.
I love bats!! I didn't know they carried al these diseases though!
Yeah like smelling moth balls…..
Bryan Lowder said: "I'm one of the bat lovers mentioned at the beginning of the article. I personally think bats are terrific. I'm just saddened that they are disease-ridden and that new international laws prevent me from buying my own flying fox.
it's hard to do with out pulling their little legs or wings off. Hahaha. My bad. ;)
Cathryn
Posted 31 December 2006 at 11:28 am
you've convinced me, i wont eat bugs anymore.
MeasureMan said: "Eat a bat and you may just turn out like Ossie Osbourne."
More like take enough drugs and you'll end up biting the heads off of pigeons and bats like Ozzy Osbourne. I still love ya though Ozzy.
From what I remember seeing on TV, the first time Ozzy bit the head off something he was at a press conference, and very much out of it from one drug or another. He was sitting down and a pigeon landed on his lap, he just picked it up and bit it's head off. I seem to remember him saying something like: "It seemed like a good idea at the time." Now I'm not sure if thats true, but it is a pretty good reason not to take drugs.
When I research it quickly, I get a slightly different story. Studio executives invited Ozzy to thier office to make peace (because he and the studio were having a dissagreement). Instead of presenting a "white dove of peace", he bit the head off the bird infront of them. The studio executives were outraged, but Ozzy tried to calm them down by letting them know: "The bird was already dead."
I know he claims that he though the bat was a rubber toy when he bit it's head off after a fan threw it onstage. Apparently he had to get a bunch of rabbies shots after that. Oh look at that! I may have accidentally gotten back on topic.
I'm curious to know who counts bats as primates. Still, those are some pretty horrible diseases.
lizdini
Alchemist said: "I'm curious to know who counts bats as primates. Still, those are some pretty horrible diseases."
Yeah, I've never heard such a thing, either
Being a native Chamorro, I find it interesting to link the fruit bat to the disease known as ALS-PDC. I need to point out, however, that the majority of people struck with ALS-PDC lived in the southern end of the island, while the population of bats, and the majority of bat eating people lived in the northern end. I don't think any reason has ever been given to explain this.
SGTverlon
Stitzel Jim said: "From what I understand, Australian aborigines are one human population the consumes bats on a regular basis. Now, I don't have a problem with bats at all, but I've never really had much of a desire to eat them — not enough meat. ;-)"
I ate one the other night and have had the worst shakes of my life worse than getting off drugs or ptsd from running over stupid terrorist kids with rpgs but have noticed excepianal straigth and cant sleep "dont do it " im at day three now and have yet to controlle the shakes even with ungoddly amounts of anticonvolstion meds i should have ODed already but whatever they got in them could have some benifets because im not dead and did 3 more push ups each set and ran my 2 miles 17 seconds faster than my average for the last 7 years ill keep an update but i must say also i havnt eaten store bought meat in a month
I ate one the other night and have had the worst shakes of my life worse than getting off drugs or ptsd from running over stupid terrorist kids…
Damnit, what did I tell you? Don't eat bats! That's a direct command found in the article. Obey!
The penalty you will pay for such a rash act are grave, and the solemn responsibilities you have taken upon yourself are permanent and unavoidable. Welcome to Hell, you poor bastard.
I just hope that the camaraderie you feel with your counterparts and the changes you make in the world will provide you with satisfaction to counterbalance the Atlas weight on your shoulders.
As for the primate/bat connection, it applies specifically to flying foxes. Here's at least one person who is convinced:
http://batcon.org/index.php/media-and-info/bats-archives.html?task=viewArticle&magArticleID=259
The bats that used to live on Guam have been extinct since about 1969 thanks to the United States. As a citizen I am ashamed at just how many animals we as a country have caused to go extinct because we are too focused on money than actual survival.
Think before you make decisions that can cause more issues. They now ship in other bat species that are endangered and have also been linked to causing at least five other bat species to go extinct because of the restaurants.
Hessam
Holy moly ,I did try it 2times in Palau island,to be honest to u I did like it and it was so delicious meat that I ever had.
Posted 17 September 2017 at 07:53 pm
fruit bats were all over guam in the 70s natives would catch and eat them all the time,and the bastards were huge
THE CHINESE DIDN'T LISTEN
DO NOT EAT BATS
SHIT HAPPENS XIAO MI! SHIT FUCKING HAPPENS
Yousef Al-Hadhrami
Posted 02 April 2020 at 12:39 pm
SARS, CoVid-19
coronavrius in general
Suckiteasy91342
here we go again with this bat eating shit.
Corona time!
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5. Drużynowe Mistrzostwa Europy w Lekkoatletyce – zawody lekkoatletyczne, które odbyły się w czterech europejskich miastach 21 i 22 czerwca 2014 roku. Reprezentacje rywalizowały w superlidze, I lidze, II lidze oraz III lidze. Gospodarzem superligi drużynowych mistrzostw Europy był Brunszwik, zawody I ligi odbywały się w Tallinnie, II ligi w Rydze, a III ligi w Tbilisi.

Superliga
Kandydatami do organizacji zawodów superligi były Brunszwik oraz Ostrawa. 5 listopada 2012 w Bukareszcie Rada European Athletics powierzyła organizację imprezy niemieckiemu Brunszwikowi.

Uczestnicy
W zawodach superligi startowało 12 najsilniejszych lekkoatletycznych reprezentacji z Europy w tym trzy – Czechy, Szwecja i Holandia – które awansowały w 2012 roku z I ligi drużynowych mistrzostw Europy.

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Drużyny z trzech ostatnich miejsc w sezonie 2015 wystąpią w rywalizacji I ligi.

Rekordy
Podczas zawodów ustanowiono 1 krajowy rekord w kategorii seniorów:

I liga
Zawody I ligi odbyły się w Tallinnie, który został wyznaczony organizatorem zawodów w listopadzie 2013 roku.

Uczestnicy
W zawodach I ligi startowało 12 zespołów w tym trzy – Białoruś, Grecja i Norwegia – które spadły w 2013 roku z superligi drużynowych mistrzostw Europy oraz dwa – Słowenia i Litwa – które awansowały z II ligi drużynowych mistrzostw Europy.

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Rekordy
Podczas zawodów ustanowiono 3 krajowe rekordy w kategorii seniorów:

II liga
Zawody I ligi odbywają się w Rydze, który został wyznaczony organizatorem zawodów w listopadzie 2013 roku

Uczestnicy
W zawodach II ligi wzięło udział 8 zespołów w tym dwa – Bułgaria i Szwajcaria – które spadły w 2013 roku z I ligi drużynowych mistrzostw Europy oraz dwa – Słowacja i Łotwa – które awansowały z III ligi drużynowych mistrzostw Europy.

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Podczas zawodów ustanowiono 2 krajowe rekordy w kategorii seniorów:

III liga
Zawody III ligi rozegrano na Stadionie Borisa Paiczadze w Tbilisi.

Uczestnicy
W zawodach najniższej, III ligi, startowało 15 zespołów w tym drużyna małych krajów Europy oraz dwa zespoły – Cypr i Izrael – które spadły w 2013 roku z II ligi drużynowych mistrzostw Europy.

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Lakers shock Warriors for biggest regular season upset in NBA history
By Des Bieler
March 6, 2016 at 6:47 p.m. EST
Steph Curry had a day to forget. (AP Photo/Kelvin Kuo)
No one really expected the Golden State Warriors to win all of the rest of their regular season games. But, by the same token, no one thought the Los Angeles Lakers would be the team to deal Steph Curry and Co. their next loss.
Yet that's exactly what happened Sunday in front of a joyous crowd at Staples Center, as the Lakers, now 13-51, shocked the Warriors, now 55-6, with a 112-95 win. A team with a winning percentage as poor as that of the Lakers had never before defeated a team with winning percentage as high as that of Golden State, making the result arguably the greatest regular season upset in NBA history.
Lakers blow out the Warriors. Statistically, the biggest upset in NBA regular season history. pic.twitter.com/A4KyquBsVl
— SportsBlogNewYork (@SportBlogNYC) March 6, 2016
The biggest factor was Golden State's touch from three-point range absolutely vanishing. The Warriors hit just 4 of 30 shots from outside the arc, with Steph Curry, so uncannily consistent from deep all season, was 1 for 10 on those shots and 6 for 20 overall.
Perhaps Curry was simply due for a clunker. Not only did he enter the game ranked third in the league in three-point percentage (.465), he had hit an incredible 15 of 30 shots from 30-plus feet. To put that in perspective, all other NBA players had combined to go 76 for 776, or 9.8 percent, from that far away.
In three previous meetings against the Lakers this season, the Warriors built up such comfortable leads that the all-star trio of Curry, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson played a combined three minutes in the fourth quarters of those contests. Golden State won those games by a combined 73 points, and with Los Angeles coming into Sunday's game on a 1-10 skid, there was little reason to think anything different would happen.
However, while the Warriors were struggling on offense, seven Lakers scored in double digits, led by Jordan Clarkson (25 points) and D'Angelo Russell (21). Kobe Bryant, entering the final stretch of his decorated NBA career, contributed 21 points of 4 of 14 shooting, while Julius Randle had a double-double (12 points, 14 rebounds). Marcelo Huertas came off the bench and led Los Angeles with nine assists.
Even the Warriors can have a #struggleface from time to time pic.twitter.com/gmXDGQXlBZ
— Robert Littal BSO (@BSO) March 6, 2016
The Warriors are still one game ahead of the pace set by the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls, who set the NBA standard by finishing the regular season with a 72-10 record. In addition, Golden State can break the record it shares with those Bulls of 44 straight home wins by winning its next game against the Orlando Magic on Monday in Oakland.
61st game of season
1995-96 Bulls entered 54-6, lost at Knicks by 32
2015-16 Warriors entered 55-5, lost at Lakers by 17
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) March 6, 2016
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Architects Aedas celebrates a landmark year
IT'S a landmark year for a long-standing company in Huddersfield.
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Aedas Building Consultancy celebrates 25 years
The anniversaries are coming thick and fast for architects Aedas, which started out as Abbey Hanson Rowe 175 years ago in the town and has now been ranked top in its sector.
Aedas, which has its Huddersfield offices at NU House, High Street, has been placed first by Building Design magazine in its World Architecture Annual Service of Top Global Practices in 2012.
Closer to home, three of its directors are celebrating personal milestones with the company.
Malcolm Ellis, managing director of Aedas Architects, has notched up 40 years with the company he joined in July, 1972 while Robert Grayson, managing director of Aedas Building Consultancy, has 30 years with the company, which he joined in September, 1982. Alan Hunt, director of Building Consultancy is marking 20 years' service after joining in July, 1992.
This year also marks the 10th anniversary of the firm's rebrand to Aedas from Abbey Hanson Rowe while the building consultancy is celebrating 25 years. The division was formed as Abbey Hanson Rowe (Building Surveying) Ltd in August 1987.
Today it is part of the Aedas group's international practice, which works in 20 countries and has 32 global offices – 10 of them in the UK and including Huddersfield, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool.
The building consultancy's head office is still in Huddersfield, where it has been involved in a number of repair and refurbishment projects, including alterations to the foyer and ancillary rooms at Huddersfield railway station, refurbishment of Regent's House – the former Examiner building on Queen Street South – for Huddersfield University and work on Huddersfield Town Hall.
Mr Grayson said: "Building consultancy doesn't relate to high-end design, but caters for existing building stock. It is a very busy and important part of what we do.
"That is an important market for us because there are many more existing buildings than new ones. It is particularly important at a time of recession when people are looking to refurbish what they have."
The division employs 76 staff and operates across the country – with projects under way in locations as far afield as Plymouth and Aberdeen. Recent contracts included work on Slough railway station – one of the "gateways" to the London Olympics.
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And its design talents have taken it across the globe – to countries including Australia, Italy, Syria and Bahrain.
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If Apple's patent filing with the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) is anything to go by, future iOS devices could appeal further to iPhoneography fans by allowing them to take very detailed snaps using a fancily named 'super-resolution' imaging.
According to the filing, this could be achieved by using optical image stabilization – a feature that must be implemented in the camera hardware itself – to capture multiple images in a burst, each at a slightly offset angle.
The USPTO patent filing 20140125825, entitled 'Super-resolution based on optical image stabilization', outlines a system for creating very detailed images using an image capturing device such as the iPhone.
Optical image stabilization works by moving the camera sensor as the final element in the optical path, using precision crafted actuators. This permits the camera hardware to stabilize the image projected on the sensor before the sensor itself converts light into image data.
In one embodiment, an electronic image sensor captures a reference optical sample through an optical path. Thereafter, an optical image stabilization (OIS) processor to adjusts the optical path to the electronic image sensor by a known amount.
A second optical sample is then captured along the adjusted optical path, such that the second optical sample is offset from the first optical sample by no more than a sub-pixel offset.
Unlike optical image stabilization which must be implemented in the lens, iOS devices currently use software-based image stabilization. Also known as Electronic Image Stabilization, this takes a few (four) photos in a rapid succession and then combines them to reduce blurring and other artifacts appearing when the device shakes during capture.
Physical modes of stabilization usually produce higher quality images compared to software-based solutions. Whereas digital stabilization techniques compensate for shake by pulling from pixels outside of an image's border or running a photo through complex matching algorithms, OIS physically moves camera components.
While taking the successive image samples, a highly precise actuator tilts the camera module in sub-pixel shifts along the optical path — across the horizon plane or picture plane.
In some embodiments, multiple actuators can be dedicated to shift both pitch and yaw simultaneously. Alternatively, the OIS systems can translate lens elements above the imaging module.
It's worth pointing out that capturing multiple photos in a burst and combining them into a super-resolution photo requires a lot of horse power. Therefore, Apple has clearly envisioned this feature with its in-house designed 64-bit A7 processor in mind.
The A7 has a much improved on-board image processor, a feature originally introduced in the A5 chip. Its power clearly shows when taking ten full-resolution images per second in the burst mode on the iPhone 5s.
As the iPhone 5/5c lacks hardware-accelerated burst mode, the handset can take just a few images per second, at best.
Since the iPhone 4s, Apple has largely ignored the megapixel race. Having instead opted to advance iPhone imaging by improving upon the existing eight-megapixel sensor, Apple added camera features such as a wider aperture, an enhanced lens subsystem, more sophisticated CMOS sensor, bigger camera pixels, advanced software-based post processing and what not.
The vast majority of rumors seem to point to the next iPhone retaining the eight-megapixel sensor. Should the rumors pan out, the iPhone 6's camera will have a wider f/1.8 aperture and use software-based image stabilization to enhance your snaps.
According to ESM China analyst Sun Chang Xu, the handset will have larger CMOS pixels measuring 1.75 micrometers each to capture more light, just like on the four-year-old iPhone 4.
By comparison, the iPhone 5s's camera has a pixel size of 1.5 micrometers.


In a recent social media post, Sharon Eubank, first counselor in the General Relief Society Presidency, discussed her visit to Iraq to discuss religious intolerance. She noted the shock of the audience at seeing a female religious leader and asked followers to share thoughts on ending persecution and violence everywhere.
"Recently I traveled to Baghdad, Iraq, to meet with religious leaders and politicians to find practical actions to end religious persecution. When it came time for my panel, I was announced as 'Father Eubank.' I walked up to the dais along with my co-panelists from a variety of faiths and there was an audible gasp from the audience, who were not expecting a female leader. After the surprise receded, this panel spoke movingly about why freedom of religion and conscience is perhaps the great relevant issue of the 21st century. So much modern conflict and displacement is being driven by religious persecution. We were gathered that day in Baghdad in defense of the Yezidi religious minority who continues to suffer as 3,300 of their women and children are still held in captivity.
How would you answer Sister Eubank's questions?
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For all the blame, credit raters still count on big banks for support
by Sameea Kamal June 17, 2011 April 2, 2019
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Credit rating agencies took a reputational hit after the financial crisis for giving good grades to garbage financial products — bad advice that many investors complain lost them billions of dollars. But the agencies still have a powerful ally in Washington: big banks, important clients with whom they have long had a symbiotic relationship.
Now, big banks are pushing back on financial reform meant to protect investors by ending the government-backed system that enshrines the symbiotic relationship into law, letters obtained by iWatch News show. Banks would have to evaluate the risks of financial products themselves — a responsibility that would prevent them from shifting blame for giving poor financial advice to someone else.
Specifically, the banks are lobbying the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to minimize a rule change required under the Dodd-Frank regulation law that would scrub federal statutes of any reference to credit rating agencies, eliminating a requirement that banks hire them, according to letters commenting on the proposed change. The letters were obtained in response to a public records request under the Freedom of Information Act.
The government currently requires banks to pay rating agencies to grade their offerings, information on which investors base decisions whether to buy. The rule change being contemplated by the Comptroller of the Currency would free banks from having to hire a government-sanctioned credit rating agency like Moody's Corp. or Standard & Poor's Financial Services to rate every new security that goes out of a bank's door.
That's a freedom that the banks don't want. In letters to the OCC, the banks offer a bevy of warnings about the consequences to investors and to the U.S. economy. They say that no longer requiring the agencies to rate each security threatens to destabilize the securities markets, will deprive investors of a set of common metrics used to assess a security's risk, and will cost the banks a lot of money.
But those aren't the banks' only fears. When the government requires banks to use ratings agencies, it helps "insulate" financial institutions issuing or buying securities from lawsuits, noted Gary Witt, a former Moody's managing director who now teaches statistics at Temple University.
Thus a bank sued overthe failure of a top-rated security can blame the government-ordered credit rating agency. "The more regulatory privilege that a rating has the better the defense against litigation it is," said Brooklyn Law School professor David Reiss.
And if banks are insulated from lawsuits over securities that go bad, there really isn't anyone else to sue. Credit rating agencies have long argued — successfully, so far — that they don't bear any legal liability for their ratings. They say that their ratings are opinions, and thus protected as free speech under the First Amendment.
Under Dodd-Frank, that protected status isn't expected to change. To win a lawsuit, investors must prove that an agency was "grossly negligent" in crafting a rating in order to win a lawsuit.
Bank of America warns of 'unintended consequences'
As often happens, Congress wasn't explicit in what it expected regulators to do. The Dodd-Frank law, often touted as financial reform, calls on theOCC to substitute the credit rating requirement with "such standard of credit-worthiness as appropriate."
That would seem to leave broad discretion to regulators, and with the door ajar, lobbyists are trying to widen it. In the letters to the OCC, most banks suggest delaying the new rule, or doing away with it all together. If that doesn't happen, they ask that banks be allowed to continue to use credit ratings as part of a broader risk-evaluation strategy when rating new securities.
In one comment letter, Bank of America lawyer Phillip Wertz cautions that the rule change poses "potential challenges and unintended consequences."
The Clearing House Association, which processes some types of payments for major banks, wrote that implementation "will disrupt the ability of banks to maintain their investment-securities portfolios, with unintended consequences to investing banks, the issuers of securities purchased for those portfolios and the credit markets more generally."
FTN Financial Capital Markets wrote to say that there is no good alternative to credit rating agencies in assessing the risk of municipal bonds.
At least one bank is not towing the party line — and in its letter to regulators sounds more like a critic of the credit ratings agencies than a bank executive unwilling to part mandated ways with them.
"Over-reliance on ratings to provide useful information about credit-worthiness contributed to the recent financial crisis," wrote David Hemingway, an executive vice president at Zions Bank in Salt Lake City. "Not only did banks invest in securities that had more risk than implied by their credit ratings, the ratings did not provide a timely warning when the credit quality of the securities began to decline.
The letter continues: "In addition, credit ratings are dramatically inconsistent across ratings agencies. For example, Zions currently holds an investment security that is rated AAA by Fitch and BB+ by Standard & Poors … Banks should do the same credit analysis and grade securities using the same scale and systems as they currently do for loans."
Credit raters threaten to step beyond oversight
Scott McCleskey, a former head of compliance at Moody's, said that banks' fears about taking on more responsibility are not unfounded. Conducting due diligence on securities takes specialized knowledge, even for the most straightforward bond. Whether banks assume such responsibilities internally or contract with a third party, he said, it will prove more costly than relying on the judgments of a credit rater.
McCleskey also noted a possible unintended consequence of the OCC's action. If credit rating agencies no longer get any benefit from being on the government approved list — officially, they are designated as Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations — they might choose to "de-list" altogether.
This would mean that they could operate without oversight by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates the ratings agencies.
Under Dodd-Frank, the OCC is required to delete all rating agency references from federal rules. In July, the agency is to deliver a report to Congress on what it proposes to replace the rating agency evaluation requirement.
What might the agency suggest? The OCC, which is charged under Dodd-Frank with writing or co-writing 46 rules and studies, has made little public comment about the status of those rulemakings.
Nor has the Federal Reserve, which also solicited comment. Unlike the OCC, the Fed has posted the comments it has received on its web site.
An OCC spokesman said that the agency does not comment on ongoing rulemakings. He said that comment letters are available, just not through the agency's public-facing web site.
It is also unclear how effective the banks' letter-writing campaign might be. The OCC spokesman said that the agency does not meet with outside groups on rulemaking, nor does it solicit input from outside groups.
Banks, though, are lobbying Congress to amend Dodd-Frank to keep credit rating agencies involved in their official assessment of security offering risk. In this, they seem to have an ally in Comptroller of the Currency John Walsh.
Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee in December, Walsh said the ban on using ratings in assessments "goes further than is reasonably necessary," he said.
Whatever the outcome, the rule change doesn't mean that credit rating agencies will lose much business, McCleskey said.
"Banks were going to rating agencies long before the government embedded the ratings in the law," he said. "For that reason, I think you can expect banks to continue to use ratings — even if they must also do additional due diligence."
Reform reading: Is Obama too eager to collect Wall St. campaign dollars?
Standard and Poor's enforcement falls short
Senior Treasury Dept. official is latest financial regulator to resign
by Sameea Kamal, Center for Public Integrity

For all the blame, credit raters still count on big banks for support

by Sameea Kamal, Center for Public Integrity
June 17, 2011

Credit rating agencies took a reputational hit after the financial crisis for giving good grades to garbage financial products — bad advice that many investors complain lost them billions of dollars. But the agencies still have a powerful ally in Washington: big banks, important clients with whom they have long had a symbiotic relationship.

Now, big banks are pushing back on financial reform meant to protect investors by ending the government-backed system that enshrines the symbiotic relationship into law, letters obtained by iWatch News show. Banks would have to evaluate the risks of financial products themselves — a responsibility that would prevent them from shifting blame for giving poor financial advice to someone else.

Specifically, the banks are lobbying the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to minimize a rule change required under the Dodd-Frank regulation law that would scrub federal statutes of any reference to credit rating agencies, eliminating a requirement that banks hire them, according to letters commenting on the proposed change. The letters were obtained in response to a public records request under the Freedom of Information Act.

The government currently requires banks to pay rating agencies to grade their offerings, information on which investors base decisions whether to buy. The rule change being contemplated by the Comptroller of the Currency would free banks from having to hire a government-sanctioned credit rating agency like Moody's Corp. or Standard & Poor's Financial Services to rate every new security that goes out of a bank's door.

That's a freedom that the banks don't want. In letters to the OCC, the banks offer a bevy of warnings about the consequences to investors and to the U.S. economy. They say that no longer requiring the agencies to rate each security threatens to destabilize the securities markets, will deprive investors of a set of common metrics used to assess a security's risk, and will cost the banks a lot of money.

But those aren't the banks' only fears. When the government requires banks to use ratings agencies, it helps "insulate" financial institutions issuing or buying securities from lawsuits, noted Gary Witt, a former Moody's managing director who now teaches statistics at Temple University.

Thus a bank sued overthe failure of a top-rated security can blame the government-ordered credit rating agency. "The more regulatory privilege that a rating has the better the defense against litigation it is," said Brooklyn Law School professor David Reiss.

And if banks are insulated from lawsuits over securities that go bad, there really isn't anyone else to sue. Credit rating agencies have long argued — successfully, so far — that they don't bear any legal liability for their ratings. They say that their ratings are opinions, and thus protected as free speech under the First Amendment.

Under Dodd-Frank, that protected status isn't expected to change. To win a lawsuit, investors must prove that an agency was "grossly negligent" in crafting a rating in order to win a lawsuit.

Bank of America warns of 'unintended consequences'

As often happens, Congress wasn't explicit in what it expected regulators to do. The Dodd-Frank law, often touted as financial reform, calls on theOCC to substitute the credit rating requirement with "such standard of credit-worthiness as appropriate."

That would seem to leave broad discretion to regulators, and with the door ajar, lobbyists are trying to widen it. In the letters to the OCC, most banks suggest delaying the new rule, or doing away with it all together. If that doesn't happen, they ask that banks be allowed to continue to use credit ratings as part of a broader risk-evaluation strategy when rating new securities.

In one comment letter, Bank of America lawyer Phillip Wertz cautions that the rule change poses "potential challenges and unintended consequences."

The Clearing House Association, which processes some types of payments for major banks, wrote that implementation "will disrupt the ability of banks to maintain their investment-securities portfolios, with unintended consequences to investing banks, the issuers of securities purchased for those portfolios and the credit markets more generally."

FTN Financial Capital Markets wrote to say that there is no good alternative to credit rating agencies in assessing the risk of municipal bonds.

At least one bank is not towing the party line — and in its letter to regulators sounds more like a critic of the credit ratings agencies than a bank executive unwilling to part mandated ways with them.

"Over-reliance on ratings to provide useful information about credit-worthiness contributed to the recent financial crisis," wrote David Hemingway, an executive vice president at Zions Bank in Salt Lake City. "Not only did banks invest in securities that had more risk than implied by their credit ratings, the ratings did not provide a timely warning when the credit quality of the securities began to decline.

The letter continues: "In addition, credit ratings are dramatically inconsistent across ratings agencies. For example, Zions currently holds an investment security that is rated AAA by Fitch and BB+ by Standard & Poors ... Banks should do the same credit analysis and grade securities using the same scale and systems as they currently do for loans."

Credit raters threaten to step beyond oversight

Scott McCleskey, a former head of compliance at Moody's, said that banks' fears about taking on more responsibility are not unfounded. Conducting due diligence on securities takes specialized knowledge, even for the most straightforward bond. Whether banks assume such responsibilities internally or contract with a third party, he said, it will prove more costly than relying on the judgments of a credit rater.

McCleskey also noted a possible unintended consequence of the OCC's action. If credit rating agencies no longer get any benefit from being on the government approved list — officially, they are designated as Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations — they might choose to "de-list" altogether.

This would mean that they could operate without oversight by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates the ratings agencies.

Under Dodd-Frank, the OCC is required to delete all rating agency references from federal rules. In July, the agency is to deliver a report to Congress on what it proposes to replace the rating agency evaluation requirement.

What might the agency suggest? The OCC, which is charged under Dodd-Frank with writing or co-writing 46 rules and studies, has made little public comment about the status of those rulemakings.

Nor has the Federal Reserve, which also solicited comment. Unlike the OCC, the Fed has posted the comments it has received on its web site.

An OCC spokesman said that the agency does not comment on ongoing rulemakings. He said that comment letters are available, just not through the agency's public-facing web site.

It is also unclear how effective the banks' letter-writing campaign might be. The OCC spokesman said that the agency does not meet with outside groups on rulemaking, nor does it solicit input from outside groups.

Banks, though, are lobbying Congress to amend Dodd-Frank to keep credit rating agencies involved in their official assessment of security offering risk. In this, they seem to have an ally in Comptroller of the Currency John Walsh.

Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee in December, Walsh said the ban on using ratings in assessments "goes further than is reasonably necessary," he said.

Whatever the outcome, the rule change doesn't mean that credit rating agencies will lose much business, McCleskey said.

"Banks were going to rating agencies long before the government embedded the ratings in the law," he said. "For that reason, I think you can expect banks to continue to use ratings — even if they must also do additional due diligence."

This article first appeared on Center for Public Integrity and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


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Q: The electronic band structure is dependent on the static electric bias voltage, which determines the electron and hole current densities? I am currently studying the textbook Physics of Photonic Devices, second edition by Shun Lien Chuang. Chapter 1.4 Overview of the Book says the following:

In the presence of injection of electrons and holes using a current bias or an optical source, the semiconductor materials may change from being absorptive to gain media due to population inversion effect. This implies that the optical dielectric function is also changed. This change can be modeled with the knowledge of the electronic band structures, which require the solutions of the Schrödinger equation or the so-called effective-mass equation for the given bulk or quantum-well semiconductors. By solving Maxwell's equations, we obtain the optical field from the dielectric function of the semiconductors. The electronic band structure is also dependent on the static electric bias voltage, which determines the electron and hole current densities.

I didn't understand this part:

The electronic band structure is also dependent on the static electric bias voltage, which determines the electron and hole current densities.

What is meant by this? What is the "static electric bias voltage", and how does it determine the electron and hole current densities?

A: It's means that the accumulation of charge, either via injection or optical generation causes the semiconductor bands to bend.
You will be familiar with band bending in PN junction due to distribution of charges.
Well the same happens if the charges are present for other reasons. Main difference is the charges are mobile when injected.
See this paper https://engineering.purdue.edu/~ee606/downloads/T3.PDF
The equation that you will solve to figure this out is called Poisson-Boltzmann.

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Jahangirpuri residents from G and H blocks were out on the streets protesting against rampant power cuts and exorbitant water bills on Tuesday.
Residents alleged that despite sufficient electricity supply, North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL), a joint venture between Tata Power Company and the state government, is initiating power cuts for no reason in the area.
"There used to be no electricity for almost six hours a day. So, we wrote a letter to the chief minister's office on Friday last informing her about the issue of unnecessary power cuts, especifically in these two blocks of Jahangirpuri. Since then the cuts have reduced but we are not sure if the situation will remain the same. We are protesting against the company's malpractices," said Mohan Arya, resident of Jahangirpuri and a civil rights activist.
At least 100 people walked towards NDPL's office shouting slogans and burnt an effigy outside NDPL's office in Jahangirpuri, Block A.
"The government is playing with people's sentiments. The government holds 49 per cent stake in the company but does nothing for the citizens. We are paying higher electricity bills compared to south and north Delhi and face maximum power cuts. It seems as if the two entities are working together to exploit the common man," said Apoorv Misra, member of United Residents Joint Action, Delhi.
Jahangirpuri residents are paying Rs 3.5 per unit for 200 units, Rs 4 per unit for consumption of above 200 units and Rs 6 per unit for utilisation of over 400 units.
Widow Chanchal Rani has two sons, one of whom is deaf and dumb. She lives in a two-storey house and pays an electricity bill of Rs 4,000 to Rs 5,000 and water bill of around Rs 1,500 per month. "We are living on my husband's pension. The bill is more than the pension amount. It has become difficult for us to survive," she said.
Zahir, an local activist said the water and electricity bills vary and increase every month.


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Man Against Crime
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A tough private detective named Mike Barnett was the 'man against crime' on this detective/drama series set in New York City that was very popular with American viewers in the late 1940s to mid-1950s.
Barnett (played by film actor Ralph Bellamy from 1949 to 1954 and then by Frank Lovejoy in a revived version of the show in 1956) fought crime with his brain and not his brawn.
When Ralph Bellamy went on vacation in 1951, Robert Preston appeared as Mike Barnett's brother, Pat Barnett.
From 1949 until 1952 the series was telecast live on CBS from the Thomas A. Edison Studios in the Bronx, New York. The show was broadcast in some markets as Follow That Man.
As a live show, it always had the problem of not quite fitting into its allotted time. This problem was solved by requiring the show's writers to include a "search scene" near the end of each episode.
The hero-investigator would search a room for a special clue. A signal would tell Ralph Bellamy how long to search. If time was short, he could go straight to the desk where the clue was hidden; if there was a need to stall, he could first tour the room, look under sofa cushions, even take time to rip them open.
In 1952 the series began to be recorded on film and was one of the first TV series' to use various locations in and around New York City as backdrops.
When CBS dropped the show in 1953 it was picked up by the DuMont and NBC networks and for a short time, it was seen on both networks. After a two-year hiatus, Man Against Crime was revived on NBC – with a new leading man – but only aired as a summer replacement and then disappeared.
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From those society would deem of little value has come great value. Station 17 is just one of countless times that society, the world, has been wrong about people. Who would have thought that someone deaf and blind from birth could earn a college degree and write 12 books? But that is what Helen Keller did. How could anyone with muscular dystrophy contribute to society? But that is what Ralph Braun did. In 1966, Ralph created the first wheelchair accessible vehicle with hand controls. Through continued innovation, he has brought mobility to millions of people. Although Abraham Lincoln suffered from bouts with severe depression and grew up in the backwoods of Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois, he was still able to become one of the greatest presidents of the United States. The list of people with disabilities in one form or another that have lived successful lives is endless.
Weakness in the hands of God, can be an overcoming power. God said to the apostle Paul, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Paul had a thorn in the flesh that he pleaded with God on three separate occasions to remove. Those prayers were not answered in the way that Paul thought that he wanted. However, Paul discovered a great secret. What was that secret? Here is how Paul described it, "when I am weak, then I am strong." Many believe that his thorn in the flesh was a problem with his eyesight. Possibly a disease he contracted on his first mission trip. But that did not stop Paul from writing. He just spoke the words and another recorded them for us to read.


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Politics & Government Elections
Why do morons think their vote counts during a presidential election?
The electoral college fails us all the time.
Update: I am so disgusted with politics I never want to vote.
Best Answer: They prefer the LIES of the antiquated Georgian system which ensures that power remain in the hands of the wealthy.
Cousin · 3 months ago
The "morons" may not understand how their vote counts, but it counts. Every state in the country uses the popular vote to choose electors -- most on a winner-take-all basis and two on a winner-take-most basis. The impact of the electoral college is to waste a significant number of votes in states in which one party dominates -- in recent years, California for the Democrats and Texas for the Republicans (which were the exact opposite 50-60 years ago) and give the power to decide the winner to the voters in a handful of large states (Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina). But the popular vote in those states did decide who won the last five Presidential election.
Tmess2 · 3 months ago
Translation: You lost, and now you want to take your ball and go home.
Jeff D · 3 months ago
what can you expect...........we have a president who reads a report that says this does NOT exonerate you.........and he goes around saying he's exonerated.
We're living in bizarro world where truth is not truth, and what we see and hear is NOT what is happening.
Weasel McWeasel · 3 months ago
Not so. It's good.
The Taxpayer · 3 months ago
45 presidents. Only 4 or 5 (depending how you look at it) became presidents even though it lost the popular vote. John Quincy Adams became president because the House of Representatives chose him because none of the 4 candidates had the majority of the electoral votes. So it works about 90% of the time.
Donnie Porko · 3 months ago
Unfortunately that's the mentality that won Trump the election. Democrats badly outnumber Republicans but consistently have terrible voter turnout. That's why you see Dems toying with the idea of mandatory voting and Republicans freaking out about it.
It's a mathematical fact that the Electoral College arbitrarily skews the national vote, but it shouldn't matter when it's every shrinking demographic vs every growing demographic and we have a 7 million person lead as of 2018.
Magnum Cum Loude · 3 months ago
I really think a big part of the overall Republican strategy is to get a lot of people so disgusted with politics that they don't want to dirty their hands with it. The fewer people who vote, the better the Republicans do! When I hear "Why bother voting? Your vote doesn't count!" I think it comes from the same place as "Well, you know, we're not a democracy. We're a republic!"
Mr. Smartypants · 3 months ago
no , it was just this one time , and you have to add that trump cheated .
John · 3 months ago
Who do you think will be the next democrat to drop out and when?
Maxime Bernier or Andrew Scheer?
If the Democratic party shifts to the way left and takes on more of a socialist attitude will that ruin the party?
Why don't more young Americans vote? Don't they care how govt policies affect them? Why are young people so apathetic?
The unemployment rate is below 4 percent. Are liberals going to have to create a crisis to defeat Trump?
How would you react if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were elected president in 2024?
Will Trump poop on liberals again in 2020?
Trumpsters: If Trump didn't run for a second term, who would you vote for instead?
What is the probability that both Democratic Primary debate lineups randomly had equal numbers of female candidates on each night?


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