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'It's just all-consuming': Chilliwack woman who tried to save someone's life undergoes partial amputation
Maria Weisgarber Multi-skilled Journalist, CTV News Vancouver
@ctv_mariaw Contact
Published Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:39PM PDT
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - Julie Callaghan of Chilliwack is now recovering following partial amputation surgery to one of her hands last week.
"It's definitely been a challenging 17 months," Callaghan told CTV News Vancouver.
That's how long it's been since she suffered a debilitating injury while she and another woman tried to rescue a man whose wheelchair was stuck on train tracks. They were not able to save 40-year-old Matthew Jarvis, and Callaghan's hand was hit by the train in the process. She said the injury also triggered complex regional pain syndrome, which causes strange sensations, pain and sensitivity.
On Oct. 21, Callaghan had some of her fingers and part of her hand removed. She said while she is experiencing what's known as phantom pain, or the feeling that her missing fingers are still there, she's also noticed some improvement.
"I was able to unlock my deck door. I've never done that. I usually do it with my left hand. So today, just seeing that I was able to do one small thing that I haven't done for over a year with those fingers out of the way was huge for me," Callaghan said.
She said she has weeks of healing ahead of her before she can start taking steps towards getting a partial hand prosthetic. The kind she's hoping for is known as a myoelectric device, which is controlled using electrodes and muscle signals.
"Opening doors properly, picking up bags, carrying things – just open up the world that I've kind of lost," Callaghan said.
Prosthetist Jesse Spellen with the Barber Prosthetics Clinic in Vancouver said myoelectric devices offer "a little bit more free range of motion". He said they can cost anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000 or more, and they can't yet determine the exact cost Callaghan could be facing.
"We have yet to see Julie since the amputation so we would really have to focus on what her hand looks like and what function she still has left," Spellen said.
Callaghan said her insurance does not cover this kind of injury. Previously, the health minister said the province would look into her case. A claim for the prosthetic has not been submitted yet, as Callaghan still has to heal. She has been collecting donations online, but remains unsure how she'll be able to pay for everything.
"There'll be updates in technology, there'll be lost fingers, there'll be battery packs that need, you know, replacing," she said.
"As my surgeon put it, this is going to be a lifetime project for me."
Callaghan said she is headed back into physiotherapy for her hand, and remains hopeful.
"It's just all consuming. And it hasn't stopped. But it is what it is."
Callaghan was awarded the Carnegie Medal for her heroic actions, and has also been recognized by the RCMP for bravery.
The online fundraiser to cover the cost of Callaghan's prosthetic can be found here.
Julie Callaghan of Chilliwack is now recovering following partial amputation surgery to one of her hands last week. (CTV)
B.C. reaching out to injured woman who tried to save man from train
Hero award recipient facing amputation overwhelmed by public support
Chilliwack hero has fingers amputated after trying to save man from train

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Deletes a list
## Syntax
```powershell
Remove-PnPList -Identity <ListPipeBind>
               [-Recycle [<SwitchParameter>]]
               [-Force [<SwitchParameter>]]
               [-Web <WebPipeBind>]
```

## Parameters
Parameter|Type|Required|Description
---------|----|--------|-----------
|Identity|ListPipeBind|True|The ID or Title of the list.|
|Force|SwitchParameter|False|Specifying the Force parameter will skip the confirmation question.|
|Recycle|SwitchParameter|False||
|Web|WebPipeBind|False|The web to apply the command to. Omit this parameter to use the current web.|
## Examples

### Example 1
```powershell
PS:> Remove-PnPList -Identity Announcements
```
Removes the list named 'Announcements'. Asks for confirmation.

### Example 2
```powershell
PS:> Remove-PnPList -Identity Announcements -Force
```
Removes the list named 'Announcements' without asking for confirmation.

### Example 3
```powershell
PS:> Remove-PnPList -Title Announcements -Recycle
```
Removes the list named 'Announcements' and saves to the Recycle Bin


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States running out of vaccine, cancel first doses for thousands. Find out the latest pandemic news.
Get a rundown on the vaccine: How soon, how effective, and who gets it first
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Pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Moderna have started delivering COVID-19 vaccines to cities around the globe.
Learn who's mostly likely at the front of the line for vaccination, how effective the vaccines are supposed to be, their side effects, and more. Plus: A guide to how vaccines get made and distributed.
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How vaccines get made and approved in the US
After going through authoritative health information sources, Stacker identified some key terms to help readers better understand the types of vaccines and how they work, and then listed the many steps involved in the creation, approval, and distribution of new vaccines in the U.S. We then created a list of 30 key terms and steps, showing how intensive and precise the vaccine creation and approval process is, and ultimately that vaccines are safe and effective tools for fighting disease.
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U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) protects public health by ensuring the efficacy and safety of biological products, including food and drugs such as vaccines. This means that for any vaccine to be approved for distribution to the American public, it must first be approved by the FDA.
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Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
The specific area of the FDA that deals with vaccines is the Center for Biologics Evaluation Research (CBER). This center regulates biological products using an array of regulatory measures, such as the Public Health Service Act and the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act.
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Identifying an antigen
The process to create a vaccine is historically a long one. It begins with scientists and researchers identifying the antigen, which is the part of a germ that the immune system can recognize and attack to prevent the targeted disease.
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Stimulating the immune system
Vaccines work by stimulating a reaction from the immune system. They do this by essentially tricking the body into thinking there's an infection. While the body may occasionally experience minor symptoms of infection after getting a vaccine, the kind of pseudo-infection introduced by the vaccine almost never causes illness.
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Whole-pathogen vaccines
Whole-pathogen vaccines are the traditional type of vaccine. These vaccines contain entire pathogens that have either been killed or weakened enough that they cannot cause disease. Because they have whole pathogens, they elicit strong immune responses. However, not every disease can be targeted with this type of vaccine.
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Subunit vaccines
Unlike a whole pathogen vaccine, a subunit vaccine uses just the antigens to best stimulate the immune system. This vaccine design is safer and easier to produce, but it often requires the addition of adjuvants, components that elicit a stronger immune response, because the antigens are not sufficient on their own for long-term immunity.
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Nucleic acid vaccines
Nucleic acid vaccines use genetic material to encode the antigen or antigens needed to produce an immune response from the body. This allows the body's own cells to produce the antigen(s) using the genetic material. The advantages to this type of vaccine are long-term immune responses, scalability, and vaccine stability. Some of these vaccines are based on mRNA (messenger DNA). Both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines use mRNA.
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Multiple-dose vaccines
Some vaccines require more than one dose. There are a few reasons for this. Some vaccines do not provide much immunity in the first dose, and therefore need more. In others, immunity wears off after time, and "booster" doses are needed. In some live vaccines, multiple doses make it more effective. And in the case of the flu vaccine, a new dose is needed every year because the flu virus that causes the disease varies year to year.
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Screening for potential danger to animals
Before beginning an Investigational New Drug (IND) application, a vaccine must be screened for potential danger to animals. These take place through animal pharmacology and toxicology studies, taking preclinical data to allow an assessment as to whether the product is safe enough to begin testing in humans.
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Investigational New Drug application
Once the screening for potential danger to animals is completed satisfactorily, the vaccine goes through the IND. The IND allows the vaccine sponsor to obtain permission from the FDA to distribute the vaccine across state lines to clinical investigators. At this point, the molecule being used in pharmacological activity changes legally into a new drug.
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Recruiting clinical trial participants
19 trials having difficulty recruiting
Black trial participants
. This is perhaps unsurprising, as Black communities have experienced medical misconduct in the past, such as the
Tuskegee experiments. Cryptographer // Shutterstock
Control vs. experimental groups
When enough human participants are found, the new potential vaccine is put through a randomized clinical trial, where people in the group are assigned to either a control or experimental group. The experimental group gets the vaccine, while the control group gets a placebo. Neither the people themselves nor the researchers know which group the participants are in. This does away with bias, and it is only at the end of the study that the researchers and participants find out who was in which group.
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Phase 1 clinical trial
During phase 1 of the clinical trial, the first participants receive the vaccine being tested. The objectives of this phase are to evaluate the vaccine's safety and its ability to produce the desired immune responses. It is often during this phase that the mode of giving the vaccine and the immunization schedule (how often to give the vaccine) are also assessed.
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Peer review of trial results
Once a trial has results, these results must be peer reviewed. This means that expert scientists go over the data to make sure it is correct and reproducible. There have already been multiple COVID-19 vaccine candidates where phase 1 and 2 trials stood up to peer review.
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per financial investment and therefore stricter stop-and-go policies are observed by the drug developers.
After the drug performs successfully in phase 2, it moves into the pivotal phase 3 trials, which are essential for the registration and market approval of a vaccine. These are designed to evaluate efficacy and safety. These large-scale clinical trials enroll thousands of subjects and are conducted in conditions that will be similar to the future routine use of the vaccine.
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Clinical trial pause
While a lot of attention has been given to pauses in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials, these pauses are in fact signs that the system is working and science is progressing as it should, not that vaccines are dangerous. Because vaccines are given to otherwise completely healthy people, there is a high bar for trials testing vaccines to make sure they are completely safe. Therefore, if a test participant becomes ill for any reason during a trial, the trial is paused to examine the cause of the illness.
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Interim analysis
An interim analysis is done as the trial progresses in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the vaccine. In order to do an interim analysis, there need to have been enough cases of the illness among the participants to analyze the percentage that took place in the control groups as compared with the vaccinated group. The most recent COVID-19 vaccine candidate from Moderna showed a 94% success rate in its interim analysis, with only five of 95 cases of COVID-19 occurring in the vaccinated group.
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Clinical trial stop
articles/PMC5024796/">Bioethics in Practice: Considerations for Stopping a Clinical Trial Early, "The early-stopping rule has the potential to minimize harm and to maximize benefit for the patients enrolled in a randomized trial."
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Biologics License Application
A Biologics License Application (BLA) is required to gain permission to enter a biologic product into interstate commerce. This application requires information from the applicant, who can be any legal person or entity engaged in manufacturing, along with information about the product, preclinical study information, and labeling.
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Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee
The FDA's Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) sets the regulatory pathway to permit wide-scale use of a vaccine and can slow down the process when it feels necessary. At the end of October, the VRBPAC held a nine-hour virtual meeting to discuss the regulatory pathway, at the end of which it told the FDA to slow down the process of trying to get a COVID-19 vaccine out so rapidly.
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Manufacturing investigation
Before a vaccine can be used in the United States, the FDA must conduct a manufacturing investigation, where scientists and medical professionals investigate how the vaccine is manufactured in order to make sure it can be made consistently in a safe, pure, and potent manner. This includes inspecting manufacturing sites to ensure that they comply with regulations.
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cially destructive diseases, such as COVID-19, some may feel that it does not move quickly enough. In that case, there is the possibility to make a vaccine available more quickly, through
FDA Emergency Use Authorization. Panchenko Vladimir // Shutterstock
FDA Emergency Use Authorization
Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) allows the FDA to make unapproved products, such as drug treatments or vaccines, available for use during public health emergencies. However, an EUA has never been used to administer a vaccine to civilians. This is because while drug treatments are generally given to people who are already ill, vaccines are given to people who are still healthy, so the bar for using them is much higher. In the case of COVID-19, the FDA has been considering criteria for deploying a vaccine initially under the EUA.
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Vaccine supply chain
While the vaccines themselves are vital, they are only useful when they can get to the people who need them. That is where the vaccine supply chain comes in. Getting vaccines to millions of people requires effective vaccine handling, storage, and stock management, as well as rigorous temperature control and well-kept information systems.
In the case of COVID-19, the severity of the virus makes it especially important to get the vaccine out to as many people as quickly as possible. In the United States, states are already developing vaccine distribution plans, which deal with questions of vaccine storage, data tracking, and looking at who will pay for the vaccine to be deployed and how to make sure it is done in an equitable way.
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Vaccine marketing
nbcnews.com/think/opinion/getting-covid-19-vaccine-market-will-be-hard-getting-americans-ncna1237753">science skepticism and misinformation are causing people to be wary of forthcoming COVID-19 vaccines.
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Post-marketing surveillance
Also known as a phase 4 trial, post-marketing surveillance is done once the drug is already marketed and available to the general public. This phase checks the vaccine's performance in real life scenarios, studies the long-term risks and benefits, and potentially uncovers rare side effects.
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In the event of an adverse reaction to a vaccine, the CDC and FDA co-manage the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). This national early warning system accepts and analyzes reports of possible negative side effects after a person has received a vaccine. Anyone can report to VAERS.
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Herd immunity happens when a virus stops spreading because it continuously encounters people who are protected against infection. This is the ultimate aim of wide-scale vaccination programs. In this case, the vaccine protects those who are vaccinated, and herd immunity protects those who are unable to be vaccinated, for example those with compromised immune systems. The unvaccinated people become less vulnerable, because the odds that they will come into contact with an infected person decrease dramatically.
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The unofficial guide to official Washington.
DEMS PLAN PIVOT TO JOBS: Transportation, infrastructure, tax breaks on fall agenda – New Michael Meehan firm – NYT creates Political Desk - Alison Starling, NBC's Peter Alexander engaged
By MIKE ALLEN
VIDEO of Rep. Gabby Giffords getting a standing ovation as she returns to the House floor – waving, smiling and standing tall – to vote "yes" on the debt deal. http://bit.ly/qkYZkk
--Arizona Republic A1, "Giffords stuns D.C., casts vote," by Dan Nowicki: "Giffords' decision to come back to vote on the contentious issue stayed secret in Washington … until just moments before her arrival. It was the first time Giffords, D-Ariz., had made such a public appearance since she was shot." http://bit.ly/nKVf1a
--C-SPAN screen shot of the final House tally, 269-161. http://politi.co/o14zaC
--STAT DU JOUR: 59 GOP frosh voted yes, 28 voted no. More than half of the House "Tea Party Caucus" voted "aye."
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--ABC News is still offering affiliates a full-screen, 24-hour "COUNTDOWN TO CRISIS" clock graphic (now at 0 DAYS, 18 HRS, 5 MINS, 38 SEC.)
--Drudge uses Monopoly money to illustrate his banner, "NO DEFAULT NOW."
GOP MINDMELD: "Eight days ago, the President addressed to the nation and said, 'The only reason this balanced approach isn't on its way to becoming law right now is because a significant number of Republicans in Congress are insisting on a different approach -- a cuts-only approach ….That's not right. It's not fair.' Tonight, the President will sign into law legislation that does exactly that. It includes no tax hikes; just spending cuts – and spending cuts that exceed the debt limit increase. ... No one is celebrating, not at 9+ percent unemployment. But this agreement ends this crisis and takes a strong first step forward in cutting government spending."
OMB DIRECTOR JACK LEW email, with a "Transitions" subject line: "Xav Briggs will be leaving [Friday] as Associate Director for General Government Programs and return to his post as a tenured member of the faculty at MIT. … Replacing Xav is Dana Hyde, who has been Senior Policy Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Budget, advising both me and Tom Nides. … Dana was General Counsel for the Office of Presidential Personnel and on the Obama-Biden Transition … She served on the staff of the 9/11 Commission [and] worked in the Clinton White House, as Special Assistant to the President for Cabinet Affairs."
TICK-TOCK -- "Biden, McConnell and the making of a deal," by Glenn Thrush, Carrie Budoff Brown, Manu Raju and John Bresnahan: "With the talks going nowhere Saturday morning, the White House made 'our last play,' according to a senior administration official, calling on Biden's long-time connection to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. 'We had tried everything — Boehner talking to Obama, small groups, large groups — and everything fell apart' … The president called Boehner [Sunday] at 8:15 p.m. to see if that was enough to win over House Republicans. 'Do we have a deal?' he asked. Boehner interrupted him, and Obama went silent. For a few seconds, the aides assembled around the president waited … Then the president spoke up. 'Congratulations to you, too, John.' … [I]t was Biden's close working relationship with McConnell that broke the months-long logjam. … Shortly after lunch on Saturday, McConnell picked up the phone and called Biden to announce he was ready to deal. … McConnell wanted to negotiate primarily with Biden, concerned that other Democrats, especially Obama, would prove to be less trustworthy bargaining partners. …
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"McConnell … was … intent on protecting Boehner, who has been weakened by tea party revolts within in his own ranks — and sought to minimize any daylight between more moderate GOP senators and firebrand House conservatives. Throughout the day Saturday, the GOP's odd couple — the fastidious and tight-lipped minority leader and the gregarious, chain-smoking Boehner — held a negotiation-within-a-negotiation as Biden pressed for concessions. Biden would make a proposal, and McConnell would pad the narrow, red-carpeted hallway behind the rotunda that links his office to Boehner's, staffers said. The speaker made the return trip several times himself, standing in shirtsleeves and puffing smoke as McConnell, a non-smoker, listened intently in [his] impeccable suit." http://bit.ly/qr6aeX
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THE BIG PICTURE – L.A. Times A1, "News Analysis: For all the drama, little got done: Each party got what it wanted most, but the compromise only delays tougher financial decisions," by David Lauter: "The bulk of the projected $2.1 trillion or more of cuts does not start kicking in until after the next election when a future Congress and president could choose to rewrite the plan — a point that many conservatives have worried about. … The bill almost certainly defers until after next year's election the central choice most budget experts say the country eventually must make: higher taxes or deep cuts in Medicare …
"A bipartisan congressional committee set up by the compromise bill is supposed to grapple with the long-term choices over the next four months. White House officials insist they see that panel as a serious opportunity to try again for a major deficit reduction deal. … But many in Congress, whose leaders will appoint the panel's 12 members, believe the panel more likely will deadlock. 'I think it's very possible, maybe even probable, that with a committee you're going to have a 6-6 vote,' said Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) … The George W. Bush-era tax cuts will expire barely two months after the [2012] election, virtually guaranteeing a new debate over taxes. And whoever takes the oath of office in January 2013 will inherit a debt still rising and another debt ceiling vote just a few months away." http://lat.ms/p7SLOH
EXCLUSIVE -- OBAMA AND SENATE DEMS PLAN PIVOT TO JOBS: Senate Democrats hope they now have "checked the box" on debt reduction and can move to an agenda focused on job creation and economic growth, through a combination of spending and tax cuts.
Dems want to change the subject fast, and polls show the need to talk more about jobs. Party officials say jobs will be their key message in August, followed by Hill action after Labor Day. Many Democrats fear the budget fights of this year have distracted from the issue that will be central to voters in the fall of 2012 – and officials want to get Paul Krugman off their backs.
POTUS has closed meeting with AFL-CIO Executive Committee in East Room at 9:15 a.m.
Vice President Biden told reporters yesterday at the Capitol, where he was giving pep talks to the Democratic caucuses: "If we had our way, and there was a different circumstance in the Congress, we would be talking – and should be talking – right now about job creation initiatives. We should be talking about infrastructure. We should be talking about investment in education. We should be talking … about investing in innovation. The president made clear in his State of the Union message. But the truth of the matter is, there was a sort of sword of Damocles … [suspends a pen in the air] the debt limit. …
"[T]his bargain … has one overwhelming redeeming feature: It says that this debt limit issue cannot come up again until 2013. Now, the reason for that has nothing to do with elections. … Now, from the moment this passes, … WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT NOTHING … BUT ABOUT JOBS. But if I had stood before all of you two weeks ago and I said, 'I have a job plan,' … none of you [would have written about it]. You would have said … legitimately, 'What about the debt ceiling?' So we have to get this out of the way to get to the issue of growing the economy."
A Senate Democratic official tells Playbook: "There is nothing stimulative or jobs-based in this final deal that got struck. That's unfortunate, but it also gives us an opening in September that we can say, 'We've met you halfway and passed a huge, historic debt-reduction measure. Now it's time to do something for jobs. The administration has been saying for weeks, 'Once we get off this debt-ceiling thing, we'll be able to get back to jobs.' In the last 24 to 48 hours, one of their selling points of this deal has been that it resolves this thing so we can get back to jobs.
"If we can get the debate back on jobs and growth, that's FRIENDLIER TERRAIN for Democrats than deficit reduction, and it's also better for the economy. We're going to tell a story through the month of August that while Washington was consumed with the shutdown showdown and the debt-ceiling drama, the jobless situation in the country go way out of hand. We need to return to that issue, and figure out ways to improve that situation. We'll hope that the administration helps us in advancing a narrative that we have now paid attention to long-term debt reduction. But in the short term, we need to do something on jobs."
--After a disastrous June unemployment report (9.2%), the July report is out this Friday.
--Dems, hoping to actually pass something, plan to emphasize tax cuts, and spending measures that have been embraced by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, giving them cross-party appeal.
--Sen. Charles Schumer, the Senate Dems' #3, previewed the agenda in an address to the Economic Policy Institute on June 30. Speech text http://www.epi.org/pages/7254
AMONG THE MEASURES BEING CONSIDERED:
--The federal highway program lapses on Sept. 30, and Senate Dems say a multi-year reauthorization would create more jobs than a shorter extension.
--Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has been reaching out to Republicans to get support for an infrastructure bank (combining federal and private funds for marquee projects), which is supported by Obama, labor and the Chamber.
--Extend 2% payroll tax break, which now expires at the end of 2011. Currently covers worker side; Larry Summers and other economists are arguing that it should also go to the employer.
--Other tax breaks, such as making R&D tax credit permanent and renewing clean-energy manufacturing tax credit (Section 48C), which expired at the end of 2010. The aide: "In this political environment, tax credits are going to be the most hospitable options. In the days ahead, we'll say that the unfinished business of Congress includes these tax breaks that have lapsed."
--Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has a veterans' hiring bill, aimed at providing job training for veterans who return from Iraq and Afghanistan.
--Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) have a bill to promote plug-in electric vehicles.
--Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is pushing clean-energy incentives.
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BIRTHDAYS: Frank Mermoud (hat tip: Tammy) … Fox Business' Rich Edson is 3-0 … former Treasury Secretary John Snow is 72 (h/t Patrick Gavin) … former Sen. Paul Laxalt is 89 … Ann Kelly … David Hunter … Vicki Seyfert … Brendan O'Sullivan (h/t Teresa Vilmain).
ENGAGED:
--ABC 7's Alison Starling and NBC News' Peter Alexander, Saturday night in Paris. But first, Peter had to get the ring past TSA, and protect it during a week of London-based NBC assignments. (hat tip: Rebecca Cooper)
--Ami Copeland, partner at New Partners Consulting, and Stevi Steines, a clerk at the Federal Court of Claims, this weekend, in Jamaica. The Iowa natives are planning a wedding in 2012. (h/t Ryan Rudominer)
FIRST LOOK 1 – "Two Top Washington Strategic Consulting Firms Come Together To Launch Venn2 Communications": "Michael Meehan, president of Blue Line Strategic Communications and Stephanie Silverman, CEO of Venn Strategies, announce the launch of Venn2 Communications, LLC., a full service communications and public relations company. … 'Venn² Communications was created because Stephanie and I share a vision for exponential business growth for our clients and our companies,' said Michael Meehan, co-founder and CEO of Venn2 Communications. … Venn² Communications has offices in Washington, DC and Redwood City, California. The firm's growing Silicon Valley practice is focused on the technology sector, particularly on biotech and clean-tech startup and pre-IPO clients. Joining Meehan and Silverman at Venn² Communications are Blue Line veterans Kerry Symonds, Erin Grandstaff, Kati Rutherford, Chloe Etsekson and Charlie Patterson. Venn Strategies' President Penny Lee will also serve as President at Venn² Communications."
FIRST LOOK 2 – "Global Communications Leader Porter Novelli Welcomes Former Homeland Security Communications Chief Sean Smith … as a senior vice president on the agency's global crisis communications team. Smith joins the agency from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where he recently served as assistant secretary for public affairs. … Last year [Porter Novelli] established Real-time Reputation, a new specialty created to help clients manage crises and competitive threats in the era of social media. … Smith will report to Kiki McLean, the agency's global head of public affairs, and will divide his time between Porter Novelli's Washington, D.C. and New York offices, providing service to Porter Novelli's global network. … Prior to joining DHS, Smith served as a spokesman for the Barack Obama presidential campaign and spent the general election as the communications director for the campaign's efforts in Pennsylvania. … Smith earned his M.A. in public administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and his B.S. in political science from the University of Oregon. He … currently teaches at Yale University."
LOBBYING EXPLOSION: Congressional officials say the structure of the deal invites a fall lobbying explosion by defense contractors and health insurers, as they push the special committee to act and avoid draconian automatic cuts. A senior Democratic aide: "You're going to have all the hospitals and all of the insurance companies that would be hit by the Medicare cuts on the [non-defense] side of the 50-50 [automatic cuts if the committee deadlocks, or Congress does not act on its recommendations].
"The language specifies that benefits can't be cut. So it's going to be insurance plans that are going to be affected through Medicare Advantage, and providers – hospitals and doctors. I don't think that either the tax-reform people or the defense people are going to be lobbying more intensely – it'll be all of the above. All the people hurt by the automatic cuts are going to be raining down on the committee, lobbying in favor of some kind of deal being struck so that these cuts to their affected industries won't be triggered."
--HUFF bannered "BARBARIANS AT THE GATE: Debt Ceiling Deal Paves Way For Potentially Historic Lobbying Campaign," by Sam Stein: The "triggers won't be immediate. They will only come into place beginning in 2013, giving lawmakers and lobbyists a full year to try and push the committee's package -- or some alternative -- into law." http://huff.to/nPexOi
THE PRESIDENT'S DAY: At 9:15 a.m., "the President will meet with the AFL-CIO Executive Committee in the East Room to discuss issues important to working families, including how to continue growing our economy and putting Americans back to work. This meeting is closed press. Later in the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing and then meet with senior advisors in the Oval Office. … In the afternoon, the President will meet with the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and the U.S. Commander of the ISS Expedition 26 in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. Later in the afternoon, the President will meet with Secretary of Defense Panetta in the Oval Office."
-- THE V.P.'s DAY: "The Vice President will meet with senior advisors at the White House."
GOP 2012, from Kevin Robillard (@PoliticoKevin):
ROMNEY: "Mittness protection program," by Ben Smith: "Romney was hit repeatedly by his opponents and the Democrats for refusing to offer an opinion on the debt deal until twelve hours after Congressional leaders accepted it – but that's just been the most obvious example of a campaign that's keeping the candidate far from the front lines and the headlines. Romney has been missing from the fields of Iowa, swamps of South Carolina, beaches of Florida, and even the mountains near his summer home in New Hampshire – everywhere you'd expect a presidential candidate to go.
"Since his June 2 campaign launch, he's done only about 24 public or semi-public events – an average of slightly more than one event every three days, or well below half the rate of Republicans Tim Pawlenty and Jon Huntsman. That includes just one last week. He has none scheduled for this week. … he's a Republican frontrunner of unprecedented weakness, and one whom the American people barely know. And while his advisers describe the decision as a strategic choice to pick only the big fights, it has obvious negative consequences: Romney's identity remains hazy, voters remain unmet, and his rare appearances raise the stakes for gaffe free – or at least vaguely normal – performances." http://bit.ly/nhcHbq
BACHMANN -- Maggie Haberman: "Ben scoops that Michele Bachmann, whose TV time so far has been restricted to cable and tiny buys around the Sunday talk shows, is placing her first broadcast time buy in the lead-up to the Ames Straw Poll. An Iowa buyer familiar with the flight says it will start Wednesday and run through the day of the straw poll. … The buy is roughly $40,000, sources said, a modest but not saturation-level amount." http://bit.ly/pRkqEu
HUNTSMAN -- Salt Lake Tribune, "Huntsman hires Utahn as national finance chairman," by Thomas Burr: "Jeff Wright, a Republican who sought the 2nd Congressional District in 2000 and most recently served as a commissioner of Utah's Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, will serve as Huntsman's national finance chairman, a key spot for a White House bid that will need tens of millions of dollars. Wright is managing partner and founder of Salt Lake City-based Actium Partners LLC, a private investment firm." http://bit.ly/oJoZcS
MEDIAWATCH – N.Y. Times newsroom announcement: "As the Presidential and Congressional campaigns move into high gear, so, too, is our political operation. Dick Stevenson has agreed to be Political Editor and is the perfect person to lead our political desk across all platforms. Dick will have a broad mission of directing coverage of the 2012 Presidential and Congressional elections, building on the digital innovations and newsroom integration that he helped pioneer in 2008 and have made our political operation so superlative. As head of a newly formed Political Desk, Dick will be focused entirely on our campaign coverage.
"He will have two deputies, Gerry Mullany and Paul Volpe. In addition to overseeing the full-time political reporters and editors, Dick will be something of a collaborator-in-chief, closely coordinating with the Washington Bureau and other desks involved in political coverage. He will divide his time between Washington and New York. This role is Dick's strike zone because of his great wisdom about policy and politics, his collaborative spirit, tirelessness, and ability to lift every story he touches."
--Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy gives Keach Hagey the backstory on the Political Desk: "This role of political editor has changed at The New York Times and that is largely due to the multi-platform nature of our continuing and planned political coverage. The new role that Dick is assuming is a significant expansion on the previous role of the political editor. As head of the political desk, Dick will report in to Jill Abramson, Dean Baquet and John Geddes and he and his desk will continue to work closely with the Washington bureau, but also with the various desks and platforms in the newsroom. We plan more expansive and ambitious coverage of the upcoming political season, particularly on the web and other digital platforms."
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Reef Check has won the global Katerva Award for Ecosystem Conservation for our innovative citizen scientist reef monitoring and conservation work. Winners were announced on January 30, 2013. Through our Tropical and California reef programs, Reef Check has grown into the largest global reef monitoring organization, an accomplishment that is now being recognized by the Katerva Awards.
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Three months after John Kerry prevented the United States' conflict with Syria from ending in an air strike (perhaps accidentally), the secretary of State announced Wednesday that a deal has been reached on a security pact with Afghanistan, and said this week's talks with Iran are "the best chance we've had in a decade" to curb its nuclear program. When Kerry took office, reports mainly focused on the fact that he wasn't Obama's first pick and wasn't Hillary Clinton, but now that he's poised to deliver some of the few bits of positive news during what may prove to be the most difficult time in Obama's presidency, he's getting some media attention of his own.
Kerry has made no secret of his intention to be an activist secretary of State, unlike Clinton. According to a profile by David Rohde in The Atlantic, Kerry is relishing the fact that he can indulge his love of foreign policy. Plus, he gets to ignore those voters who view his fluency in foreign languages as borderline traitorous.
There's also a key difference between Kerry and Clinton that may help explain what one former State Department employee describes as his "high-risk, high-reward" style. While Clinton was (presumably) preparing for her political future, for Kerry this is the last act in a distinguished political career that includes seeing his presidential hopes dashed. "I don't care at all," Kerry told Rohde when asked about his critics. "I could care less about it. You know, David, I ran for president, so I'm not scared of failure." Or, as he put it another interview with Rohde, "After you lose the presidency, you don't have much else to lose."
On the other hand, many in Washington dismiss Kerry's ambitious agenda (not least of which is achieving peace in the Middle East) as the product of grandiosity, and are unimpressed by the Biden-esque flair he's brought to the job. Several sources (anonymous, of course) describe him as a "gasbag" and a "pompous blowhard." The New York Times puts it more delicately: "Even now, his long-winded explanations — a legacy of his 28 years in the Senate — sometimes test Mr. Obama's patience." Aides claim he's "learned to speak the president's language" over time.
Whatever Kerry's faults might be, he's undoubtedly relentless in pursing his diplomatic goals. As Rohde writes, "The amount of time he's spent negotiating with Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai and Russia's Sergey Lavrov alone should qualify him for some kind of diplomatic medal of honor." And even if he and the president aren't particularly close, the administration was quick to come to his defense when asked about his gaffes. "Look, he's out there a ton, he's out there more than anyone else," said Ben Rhodes, the deputy national-security adviser, "Nobody would challenge the notion that he's been very much a team player and willing to take on really hard assignments from the president and go to the toughest places."
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namespace paddle {
namespace operators {

using Tensor = phi::DenseTensor;
using DDim = framework::DDim;

inline std::string GetValueName(framework::proto::VarType::Type data_type) {
  std::string value_name;
  switch (data_type) {
    case framework::proto::VarType::INT32:
      value_name = "int32_values";
      break;
    case framework::proto::VarType::INT64:
      value_name = "int64_values";
      break;
    case framework::proto::VarType::FP32:
      value_name = "fp32_values";
      break;
    case framework::proto::VarType::FP64:
      value_name = "fp64_values";
      break;
    case framework::proto::VarType::BOOL:
      value_name = "bool_values";
      break;

    default:
      PADDLE_THROW(platform::errors::Unimplemented(
          "Unsupported data type(code %d) for SetValue operator, only "
          "supports bool, int32, float32 and int64.",
          data_type));
  }
  return value_name;
}

// check whether the tensor with dimension of second can assign to the
// tensor with dimension of first
inline void CheckIsDimsMatch(const framework::DDim first,
                             const framework::DDim second) {
  int ignore_axis1 = 0, ignore_axis2 = 0;
  for (; ignore_axis1 < first.size(); ++ignore_axis1) {
    if (first[ignore_axis1] != 1) {
      break;
    }
  }
  for (; ignore_axis2 < second.size(); ++ignore_axis2) {
    if (second[ignore_axis2] != 1) {
      break;
    }
  }

  if (second.size() == ignore_axis2) {
    // second tensor has only one value
    return;
  }

  if (first.size() - ignore_axis1 >= second.size() - ignore_axis2) {
    auto idx1 = first.size() - 1;
    auto idx2 = second.size() - 1;
    bool is_match = true;
    for (; idx2 >= ignore_axis2; idx2--) {
      if (first[idx1--] != second[idx2] && second[idx2] != 1) {
        is_match = false;
        break;
      }
    }
    if (is_match) {
      return;
    }
  }
  PADDLE_THROW(platform::errors::InvalidArgument(
      "The shape of tensor assigned value must match the shape "
      "of target shape: %d, but now shape is %d.",
      second.to_str(),
      first.to_str()));
}

}  // namespace operators
}  // namespace paddle


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Lambton is divided into three distinct pockets. The oldest part of Lambton is centred around Old Dundas Street and is still referred to by its historic name - Lambton Mills. The area north of Dundas Street is known as Lambton Park, while the Lambton community south of Dundas Street in the valley is known as Warren Park, or simply "the Valley".
Ed. Note: Historically the Lambton Mills community extended over to the west bank of the Humber River in the Government Road area. However this residential pocket is now generally considered to be part of the larger Kingsway neighbourhood.
Lambton is named after the Lambton Mill built in 1845 on the east bank of the Humber River. At its peak the Lambton Mill produced 150 barrels of flour a day. This profitable mill was owned by William Pearce Howland - a father of Confederation. Howland named his mill after John J. Lambton, who visited this area when he was then Governor General of Canada. Ed Note: The high-rise apartment building located at 4075 Old Dundas Street is situated on the former site of the Lambton Mill.
Across the road from the Lambton Mill on Old Dundas Street stood the Howland general store and post office, and next to that was The Lambton Mills Hotel. The mill, the general store and the post office were destroyed by fire in 1915, however the Lambton Hotel survived. This historic building, located at 4066 Old Dundas Street has recently been restored and now serves as a community and heritage centre.
While many of Lambton's first residents were employed at the Lambton Mill, many other residents found employment at the Canadian Pacific Railway yards north of Dundas Street. Lambton was also known for its market gardens which were situated on the fertile plain of the Humber River Valley. These market gardens were still operating up until the 1950's when the Warren Park area was subdivided for residential development.
Lambton contains some charming workmans cottages near Dundas Street that date back to the mid to late 1800's. These tiny houses were built for the mill workers and their families. The apartment building at 4075 Old Dundas Street was built on the footplate of the old Lambton Grist Mill.
The "Valley" in the Warren Park school area still contains a small number of workmans cottages and a few of the old market gardener homesteads. However the bulk of the housing stock in "the Valley" consists of semi-detached brick houses built in the 1950's and 1960's. Many of these homes back onto parkland and command excellent vistas of the Humber River.
The Lambton Park houses north of Dundas Street and south of Foxwell Avenue were built largely in the early 1900's by employees of the railroad. The houses in the Foxwell Avenue area east of the Lambton Golf and Country Club, were built after World War II and feature some of the prettier brick and stone Tudor bungalows in the city.
The shopping in this neighbourhood is spread out along Dundas Street, Scarlett Road and Jane Street. There is a small shopping plaza named Coopers Mills located at 4020 Dundas Street. The Coopers Mills name is historic in that it makes reference to William Cooper the first settler and mill owner in the Lambton community. (Cooper sold his Lambton holdings to the aforementioned William Howland.) Jane Park Plaza at Black Creek Drive is the largest shopping plaza in the neighbourhood. It features a large grocer, a pharmacy, a video store, a beer store, a bank, a post office and a medical clinic.
Lambton Park is located off Howland Avenue north of Dundas Street. This picturesque park features a large stand of Black Oak trees and is situated on a high topographical plain overlooking the Humber River Valley. In the middle of Lambton Park is the Lambton Arena which is the home of the Warren Park Hockey Association and the York Figure Skating Club.
Lambton Park is part of a network of city parks that follow a ten kilometre trail along the Humber River. This paved trail passes through James Gardens - an English garden that features spring fed ponds, rustic bridges and colourful floral displays. This trail links cyclists to the Martin Goodman Trail on the Toronto Waterfront.
Smythe Park located off Scarlett Road is designated as a wildlife protection area. The Black Creek winds its way through the centre of this park whose many marshes and ponds are frequented by mallard ducks and Canadian geese. Smythe Park also has plenty of recreation with two outdoor swimming pools, two tennis courts, two baseball diamonds and a modern children's playground.
The Lambton Golf and Country Club off Scarlett Road has been a neighbourhood landmark since it first opened in 1902. This scenic golf course is traversed by both the Black Creek and the Humber River making it one of the prettier golf courses in Toronto. An executive-length course Scarlett Woods Golf Course is a popular choice with both novice and expert golfers. Scarlett Woods is located at Eglinton Avenue West and Jane Street. For more information or to book a tee time, call 416-392-2484.
Lambton residents are well served by public transit. Regular bus service on Jane and Dundas Streets connect passengers to stations on the Bloor-Danforth subway line. The Dundas Street West bus also provides a connecting route to the Kipling subway and Go Train stations. There is also rush hour bus service from Warren Park in the valley to the Jane subway station. Scarlett Road has limited bus service to the Jane subway station.
Lambton is conveniently situated for those commuting by car. Bloor Street will take motorists downtown in about twenty minutes and the Lester B. Pearson International Airport is approximately a fifteen minute drive from Lampton.


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15.1. The Underclass
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There is still another adjustment to be made to the calculation of average wage increases. Up to this point we have not been able to construct the picture of "cotton mills, children badly treated, and very low wages", since this does not fit with the fact of the general increase in wages. Following we will comment the picture of "Dickens'", which also does not fit with the figures.
We have here people who do not earn wages, cannot find a job, do not have a home, and do not eat normal quantities of food. A certain percentage are criminals or prostitutes. They do not exist arithmetically, because they do not have normal lives, and are not known to the authorities (except possibly the police). These men, women and children in London are the counterparts of "Les Misérables" in France.
The important point arithmetically about these people for our argumentation (although the moral side cannot be forgotten), is that if their proportion of the population increased from 1800 to 1840 or to 1860, then the idea of general improvement is not necessarily valid. We were perhaps supposing that 100 % of the population (heads of families) had incomes, and the average of these incomes increased from 25 Pounds to 30 Pounds annually. But if these "Misérables" were 10 % and changed to 20 %, and their income was close to zero, then the average of incomes in the country moved from 22.5 pounds to only 24 Pounds.
We do not know if the percentage of these people increased, but it is certainly probable. There are no official information or comments by visitors about this matter from 1800 to 1840, although obviously there were poor people in London during this period. Reports by professional people who wanted to make changes started about 1840. At the same time the "Novels about the Condition of England" began to appear. These novels by Charles Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell, and Benjamin Disraeli had as their background the horrible working and living in the industrial towns and in London. To be more exact, the novels about the industrial towns in the North started about 1830, and those about the underworld in London about 1840.
What we should now do is: a) try to quantify the change in percentage of the poor from 1800 to 1860, b) try to find an economic/social reasoning, why the general improvement in this period was accompanied by a probable increase in very poor people, and c) what happened person-by-person, that is, how a poor person in 1800 had a grandson in 1860 who was very poor.
There are no contemporary (or present!) estimations of the percentage of very poor in Charles Dickens' time, but we can decide on a probable maximum, using three unofficial surveys of homes from the end of the nineteenth century. One was organised by Seebohm Rowntree in York in 1899, visiting all those people who did not themselves have domestic servants. It gave a figure of 27 %of the total population of York, who either had incomes insufficient to cover their minimum necessities of food, rent, and clothing, or had incomes slightly above this "poverty line". A survey of large parts of London was carried out by Charles Booth in 1886-1891, which showed that 30 %of the inhabitants of London, and 35 %of the East End, were "poor" or "very poor". He presented a street map, with colours reporting the income/social level; the first two stages were "Lowest class; vicious, semi-criminal" and "Very poor, casual; chronic want". The third investigation was carried out by Fred Scott in the poorest parts of Manchester, i.e. Ancoats and Salford, in 1899, and reported to the Manchester Statistical Society. He found that 21 % (Ancoats) and 40 % (Salford) did not have regular work.
It may however be the case that the percentage of the very poor in England (and especially in London) increased from 1850 to 1900.
Chapter 15. The Poor
15.2. «Dickens' London»


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Welcome to the Evergreen Historic District. The wide, tree-lined streets, the gathering of an eclectic variety of home styles, and the quaint, tight knit community of neighbors complete the feel of times passed while incorporating the convenience and amenities that a modern family requires. This 1950 Ranch style home, built by Lester Kuck, is not a common style for this area. J.G. and Doria Allen, a co-owner of Styles and Allen Contractors, were the first owners of this wood board and batten siding mixed with painted concrete masonry units.
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This little piece of historic paradise sits on an oversized lot with access to city irrigation. The options are endless from large family gatherings to baseball games with the kids on a lot of this size. Enjoy the coming and going of the seasons under the canopy of majestic, mature citrus trees. There is even a pomegranate tree! The vibrant green grass is the perfect back drop to the rose bushes that have been there for decades. This tight knit community feel lends itself beautifully to holiday celebrations such as Halloween and the Christmas season. More than 600 children visit Evergreen during Halloween and the streets are lined with lights and decorations immediately following Thanksgiving to welcome the coming Christmas season. Welcome home!
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548th CSSB welcomes new commander
By Brandon CoxJune 12, 2021
Lt. Col. Gregory L. Darden, the newest commander for the 548th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion salutes Maj. Kimberly Ordonez, the 548th CSSB Executive Officer to conclude the change of command ceremony held June 10, 2021, on Fort Drum, NY. (Photo Credit: Sgt. Brandon Cox) VIEW ORIGINAL
FORT DRUM, NY -- Lt. Col. Gregory L. Darden assumed command of the 548th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 10th Mountain Division (LI) Sustainment Brigade, from the unit's outgoing commander, Lt. Col. Jason W. Schultz, during a change of command ceremony June 10, 2021, at Division Hill here.
Maj. Gen. Brian J. Mennes, the commander for the 10th Mountain Division (LI), served as the reviewing officer for the ceremony.
"I am so thrilled to be here today to celebrate this change of command," said Mennes. "Lt. Col. Darden is now one of us; he is a 10th "Mountain Tough" Soldier. He is an awesome logistician and a great leader. Welcome to the team."
For Darden, a recent Inspection Division Chief for the U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM), this will be his first assignment to the North Country, and he expressed his excitement for this new position.
"The Soldiers and leaders of the battalion look great," said Darden. "I'm honored to be selected as your commander, and I can't wait to work with all of you."
Maj. Gen. Brian J. Mennes, the commander of the 10th Mountain Division (LI) passes the 548th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion colors to Lt. Col. Gregory L. Darden during a change of command ceremony held June 10, 2021, on Fort Drum, NY. (Photo Credit: Sgt. Brandon Cox) VIEW ORIGINAL
Schultz expressed his sincere gratitude for his Soldiers and their perseverance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"To the "Sword Battalion," you've done the tough jobs to include virtually every Mountain Peak through JRTC (Joint Readiness Training Center) providing COVID support to the entire Division," said Schultz. "I've been absolutely amazed at what you've been able to accomplish. It has been my pleasure to be your commander, and I loved every minute of it.
"When COVID hit, the virus protocols put up a lot of obstacles, and what's amazing is that you always found a way to win, and I'm very proud of each and every one of you," added Schultz.
Mennes had a message for the outgoing commander.
"Lt. Col. Schultz is one of the best officers I know, period. He has created readiness from this team that is off the charts. I couldn't be happier to have this opportunity with you, and I appreciate your service," said Mennes.
Darden expressed his vision for the future of the battalion.
Lt. Col. Gregory L. Darden addresses the audience for the first time as the newest commander of the 548th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 10th Mountain Division (LI) Sustainment Brigade at a change of command ceremony held at Division Hill June 10, 2021, on Fort Drum, NY. (Photo Credit: Sgt. Brandon Cox) VIEW ORIGINAL
"Together, we will train lethal and responsive teams that are grounded in an environment of trust that celebrates our diversity."
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