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module Rack
  module OAuth2
    module Server
      module Abstract
        class Request < Rack::Request
          include AttrRequired, AttrOptional
          attr_required :client_id
          attr_optional :scope

          def initialize(env)
            super
            @client_id ||= params['client_id']
            @scope = Array(params['scope'].to_s.split(' '))
          end

          def attr_missing!
            if params['client_id'].present? && @client_id != params['client_id']
              invalid_request! 'Multiple client credentials are provided.'
            end
            super
          rescue AttrRequired::AttrMissing => e
            invalid_request! e.message, state: @state, redirect_uri: @redirect_uri
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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Tonight, President Obama will speak to a joint session of Congress in a pseudo-State of the Union address. He will describe his legislative priorities for the year – in terms of health care, the environment, and potentially transportation issues.
The Overhead Wire suggests that the President's proposed Livable Community initiative might provide increasing funds for streetcars and other forms of transit, but we haven't heard much about that program so far. With the economy continuing its downward spiral, it seems likely that this won't be high on the priority list and probably won't be mentioned in the speech to Congress.
There have been a number of reports, however, that suggest that Mr. Obama will be working for the inclusion of at least $1 billion more for high-speed rail in the 2010 budget, and considering that this is on top of the $8 billion already included in the stimulus, the President might see fit to at least mention the issue tonight. We'll see.
No matter what, though, on Thursday, Mr. Obama will unveil his proposed FY 2010 budget. No details on transportation issues have leaked yet, but we should expect to see more details on funding for Amtrak, high-speed rail, and transit.


"Oddball comedian, actor, painter and sculptor, bricolage inventor of robots and automata, post-hippy shaman, errant guru to travelling bands of new age travellers, and who knows what else," is how the Guardian critic Adrian Searle once described Bruce Lacey, who came to prominence in the late 1950s.
His family told the Guardian that Lacey – a performance artist well before such a concept existed – had died on Thursday, aged 88.
He once said he was pleased when the term "performance art" was coined because "it finally explained what I'd been doing all my life".
His family said: "Most artists tend to stick to one discipline but Bruce Lacey always was prepared to try new things, to push ideas, materials and boundaries. As he would put it, he would metamorphosise through his work and often, in this respect, he was ahead of his time.
Born in 1927 to a house painter father and a milliner mother, he grew up in Lewisham, south-east London, and began drawing and painting in his late teens while recovering from tuberculosis.
After graduating from the Royal College of Art in the early 1950s, he designed robotic props for the post-Goon Show TV careers of Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers and often appeared with them on stage.
Lacey collaborated on Richard Lester's The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film with Sellers and Milligan in 1959, which led to his most famous big-screen role as George Harrison's gardener in the Lester-directed Beatles movie Help! in 1965.
Three years earlier a young Ken Russell had made a 16-minute film about the artist for the BBC, called The Preservation Man.
In 2012, to coincide with a exhibition titled the Bruce Lacey Experience at the Camden Arts Centre, the artist Jeremy Deller and film-maker Nick Abrahams made a documentary that aimed to capture the spirit of an artist some described as "visionary".
What became of Hockney and Blake's 60s contemporaries?
As well as having a one-man show, Lacey appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s with a musical comedy group called the Alberts, where he was billed as "Professor" Bruce Lacey.
One of his creations included an early automaton named Rosa Bosom, which Lacey took with him when he moved to Wymondham in rural Norfolk in the late 1960s, with his wife and collaborator Jill Bruce. He lived in a farmhouse that was filled with stuffed dummies and robots, including Rosa Bosom.
An overview of The Bruce Lacey Experience made for the Guardian by Jeremy Deller.
His robots also appear on the Fairport Convention song Mr Lacey, written about the artist, which is on the group's album What We Did On Our Holidays.
David Alan Mellor, a professor of history of art at the University of Sussex, played a significant part in highlighting Lacey's contribution to post-war British art. Starting in 1992, Mellor encouraged him to refurbish the 1960s "kinetic sculptures" he still owned and later, through Lacey's archive, to establish a more comprehensive chronological framework as well as locating privately owned sculptures and paintings.


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Is the Smart RG SR505N the suggested modem to get for FTTN 50?
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Don't get cold feet! Our team has the air conditioning installation solution for your household. We have the flexibility to work on any Air Conditioning model in California. By instructing our specialists on all models and brands of Air Conditioning in Bell Gardens, we're absolutely sure that we can retain your domicile more comfortable year round. Want a rate on your Air Conditioning repair, Air Conditioning installation or Air Conditioning service in Bell Gardens? Just contact us now or let us know using one of our accessible easy contact forms! Modern Trane heating and air conditioning appliances are highly functional and complicated technological master pieces. The majority take them for granted given that they seem to do an elementary function of either warming or cooling your household or workspace. Even so, these devices can and do fail. Installation from a certified Trane expert in Bell Gardens California will likely decrease outages, and could keep your equipment working along perfectly.
You might want to skip an annual service or test for your Trane unit because of the cost. Then again, a straightforward installation costs less than changing a whole unit. Read on to see top reasons why simple maintenance for your HVAC equipment is necessary.
Heating and Ventilation appliances are absolutely harmless when run properly. Still, all failures may be potentially lethal. Models which burn oil based fuels such as gas can generate CO gas which could result in death. A yearly a Trane Installation expert in Bell Gardens California keep your equipment running effectively and keep you and your family safe. Our Certified HVAC technicians will assess the health of your machine and make recommendations to ensure that your family remains safe. Our technical engineers in Bell Gardens California will also be able to mount safety carbon monoxide sensors if applicable. These small security alarms are typically quiet, but will immediately warn you of gas accumulation in your home.
Actually, we have plenty of professionals and an abundance of agency vans across the nation. Which is a big deal for you the customer. It means that you have our Trane professionals is just a telephone call away, whether you're in need of a furnace serviced in the midst of a freezing cold night in winter or an AIR CONDITIONING replacing before summer season starts. This basically makes us Air Conditioning Installation experts in Bell Gardens California for Trane units.
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Customer request: to verify status and capability of its potential supplier – a manufacturer of complex equipment, assist in negotiations, inspect quality of the equipment, and supervise that agreed terms of delivery are kept. Result: purchase risks were managed and high quality equipment at the agreed price was delivered on time. Duration: 4 months. Actions: ongoing communication with customer and manufacturer, visits to the manufacturer, quality inspection.
Customer request: to participate in Furniture Manufacturing and Supply trade show in China in order to obtain contacts of manufacturers of furniture the customer is interested in (dining-room, bedroom, child room) and do initial screening of producers. Result: contact list of 60 furniture manufacturers including descriptions of their capacities and reports of initial talks held. Duration: 1 week. Actions: preparation for the trade show, trip, 3-day work at the fair, initial screening and assessment.
Customer request: to find manufacturers of high-quality auto parts at attractive prices in China, which could become reliable partners not posing risks related to quality or honouring of commitments. Result: the customer has 10 different reliable auto parts suppliers, the partnership with which has been continuing for more than 4 years. Duration: 0.5-1.5 month to find and check each supplier. Actions: drawing up a list of potential suppliers, preliminary check-up of each supplier, selection of the best ones, visits to companies, and sending sample products to the customer.
Customer request: to find a reliable producer capable of making a large quantity (60 containers) of granite pavement bricks as well as control the production process and product quality. Result: a reliable producer that supplied required quality products on time has been found. Duration: 3 weeks for producer search, 6 months for manufacturing and delivery. Actions: search for the largest and most reliable producers, personal visits to the companies, negotiating, verification of certificates, and ongoing supervision of production process and product quality.
Customer request: to find some reliable suppliers of fabrics. Result: two suppliers meeting the customer's requirements for quality, delivery terms, and price range were found. Duration: 1.5 month for supplier search, 6 months for supplier selection (sampling, testing). Actions: selection of potential suppliers, preliminary check-up, personal visits, inspection of production process and final product quality, continuous assistance in negotiations between the customer and potential suppliers.
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Springtime is generally when people make the biggest decisions about decorating their homes. The winter blues have passed, the clocks have changed and the evening sun shines in through the windows later into each passing evening. As plans are being made for family to come and stay during summer at some point, be it for the Olympics, Euros 2016 or simply for the kid's holidays to throw another shrimp on the barbie, now is the time to transform your home by either wallpapering, putting up shelving or stripping back carpets and painting floorboards long since forgotten about.
This is where the dilemma starts though; what to tackle first? The walls? The bedroom furniture? The living room settee? The kitchen units? Let's not even look at the garden yet!
The walls are quick wins. Striped wallpaper goes up and the room is transformed with an optical illusion that will get friends clicking 'like' with an assortment of emoticons. Suddenly a dull hallway now looks like an entrance to a secret room in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory.
But everyone knows how to do this and it's 2016, the year to REALLY change a room – 6 fresh ideas to reinvent your home, from the floorboards up. Which room to start with? Just roll a dice.
Forget Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and think about Zen and the Art of Emotional Maintenance. Unclutter the room from colour and the bombast of contrasting shades by stripping away everything to the purest basecoat – white. Create a haven of bliss with white painted floorboards.
Heavy duty homes would be best getting a shoe rack for the front and back door entrances and making a sign saying "Socks, Slippers and Bare Feet Only Zone – Shoes Will Be Prosecuted".
To create a rustic look, why not sand down any smooth or varnished areas before painting the floorboards to bring out the grit grain of the wood with a gentle whitewash application.
Throw down a very humble rug and a small chalk white decorated table to house magazines and remote controls, then get out the old radio from the attic and tune in to relaxation.
Archimedes had his "Eureka!" moment when stepping into the bathtub, as legend has it, so why not create a bathroom that can generate inspiration from both yourself, and your guests.
Black and white décor is timeless and instantly classic, perfect for the bathroom, where all furnishings are available with those basic colour options. From the basic black toilet seat, to monochrome style bathroom tiling, and the bleached glow of porcelain to the smooth as silk, matt black framed mirror above the sink.
Bathroom design ideas are ten-a-penny and rather than creating a sea-shanty vibe with shell ornaments, driftwood chic and added sand to bath-bubbles, play a check-mate move to style and go minimalistic.
Bathroom accessories to seal the deal could be a towel rail with newspapers draped over them, displaying the crossword section, or a chessboard beside the toilet to challenge your partner/housemate to a unique game of chess.
Don't forget there's a difference between the need for anti-condensation and damp-proofing decorating products, so it is important to research products that protect the floor with a reliable waterproof topcoat and seal the walls with damp-proof paint. It is one thing to look the part, but it's another to have it sustainable, and nobody wants dark wall-creeping mould to pay a visit this year.
This is where one can get selfish and create an environment solely for themselves and their nearest and dearest – the bedroom, where dreams are made and energy revitalised.
Remember that rustic look which Instagram filters throw across a room setting? Why not try to recreate it and use the #NoFilter tag? This means out with gloss and in with chalks and pastel colours. Out with bold and angled artwork and in with stream of consciousness shapes. Out with digital neon glows and in with cracks in the curtains casting an alarm clock hand, ticking its way slowly up the bedspread each morning.
Modern bedroom ideas utilising technology can be so draining on one's psyche, so it's essential this room goes back to basics. It's time to answer that question of how to restore floorboards and strip back the old carpet, indented with furniture move scars, and sand, sand, sand. No varnish. No paint. Just nature under your feet when you step out of bed onto bare wooden floorboards.
Sand down furnishings and create a lived in and distressed feel to the textures around you. Add pastel paint to drawers, including pale blues to keep the room light and airy. Rewire lamps with white cables so that they appear more camouflaged. Downscale the room to its bare necessities and create more room for less distraction.
Buy a cheap and battered wooden step ladder to prop against the wall. Pick up some vintage style glass bottles for the bedside table. Even a big reel of twine and some antique scissors to have the room feeling lived in and slightly out of time.
The kitchen can quickly become a bombast of crass colours, as every supermarket and market stall stock brash utensils for tasks often unknown to even Jamie Oliver. The problem with so many utensils, miss-matched crockery and assorted cutlery is that a kitchen can quickly become style-less and too 'busy'.
Check listings for the next local car-boot sale and clear out those cupboards and shelving units and from the ground-up, restock the kitchen with elegance and cleanliness.
Nothing beats the smell of baking bread, or a Sunday roast. But unlike microwave meals, the things that taste the best often need the most preparation and baking or cooking time. Therefore, the kitchen can be a place where a lot of time is spent, so why not make it a space where you'd want to spend a lot of time?
Cool black floor tiles, gleaming and easy to sweep or wash are ideal, as they throw focus to everything else in the room, be it wooden, white or textured cupboards, fridges decorated with magnets and family photos, or bespoke under-unit lighting. If there's a radiator in the room, don't forget to refresh its sheen with a new coat of paint to reflect the cleanliness of the floor and wiped down surfaces.
The flooring should be mirrored where possible, so maybe get a black microwave, kettle and toaster set, or a black drainer for the draining board. Lastly, get a chalkboard for notes, memos and cute messages for the family.
Remember, the key to a good kitchen is that everything blends together, calculated and measured for visitors' eyes. Keep the room stylised, sharp and cutting with the bare minimum of bold statement colours and draw the eye to one feature, where all parties migrate to stand beside, sip on a hot brew and gossip.
The selling point of any house is often the dining room. It is a communal space where all rooms get tied together to. If your guests don't ask to be excused from the dining table to check out the rest of the house's décor, based on this room alone, then something is wrong.
Sand down and varnish those floorboards. Bring out the vintage feel to the room. Create an achingly beautiful space where light reflects off every surface, faces smile in portrait photos on the wall and steam rises from freshly plated up food.
Prop an acoustic guitar up in one corner, always leave a deck of cards and a couple of board games on a 'too hand' shelf and gloss those skirting boards and doorframes a brilliant white.
Litter book shelves with holiday titles, anthologies and biographies, as this is the room for conversation. This is the room where time flies and stands still for different coats of happiness.
The most overlooked room in a house is often the entrance hallway, where a regular battering of shoes, bags, dropped keys, umbrellas and homework soon can turn the floor into a tired old sight. No longer is it welcoming when returning home after a busy day, nor encouraging you to come home when you leave for work in the morning. Gone are the days when this was the room that started 'home, sweet home'.
It's time to call the decorating paramedics to the poor floor and bring it back to life with a tough and resilient varnish coating. Add some glamour back with a shine, as the light from the door's glass panels cascade across it. Put up some coat and key racks. Add a matt to wipe feet on and a shoe rack. Keep the floor clutter free, like a red carpet to an event – your home.
Welcome home, this and every time. Enjoy your stay.


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Étude d'Honoré de Balzac (1891-1892)
Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917) Étude d'Honoré de Balzac (Study of Honoré de Balzac) 1891–1892 Bronze, 52.7 x 39.4 x 32.4 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland In 1891 Rodin was commissioned to create a monument honoring the celebrated French writer Honoré de…
The Lady of Shalott (c.1886-1905)
Hunt, William Holman (1827-1910) The Lady of Shalott c.1886–1905 Oil on canvas, 188.3 x 146.4 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford "Do not forsake your duties" is the overall message Hunt wanted to convey in his painting. The Lady, heroine of a Tennyson…
The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon (1881-1898)
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon 1881–1898 Oil on canvas, 279.4 × 650.2 cm Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce According to Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" (1470), King Arthur suffered a fatal wound in a…
Rue des Fossés, Moret-sur-Loing (1892)
Sisley, Alfred (1839-1899) Rue des Fossés, Moret-sur-Loing 1892 Oil on canvas, 38.5 x 46.9 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff See also: • Moret-sur-Loing (France)
Ève exotique (1890-1894)
Gauguin, Paul (1848-1903) Ève exotique (Exotic Eve) c.1890–1894 Watercolor on paper, 42.8 x 25.1 cm Pola Museum of Art, Hakone
Cathédrale de Rouen, soleil couchant (1892-1894)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Cathédrale de Rouen, soleil couchant (Rouen Cathedral, setting sun; symphony in grey and black) 1892–1894 Oil on canvas, 100 x 65 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Working from the window of a milliner's shop overlooking its facade, Monet…
Nature morte à la cruche (c.1892-1893)
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Nature morte à la cruche (Still Life with Water Jug) c.1892–1893 Oil on canvas, 71 × 90 cm Tate Britain, London
Vase (c.1890-1900)
De Morgan, William (1839-1917) Vase c.1890–1900 Earthenware with lustre decoration, 23.3 × 15.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Two Girls with Oleander (c.1890-1892)
Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Two Girls with Oleander c.1890–1892 Oil on canvas, 54.9 x 128.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Comparison (1892)
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Comparison 1892 Oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati

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With the personalisation app we built for Vaseline, it can be whoever's you want!
Following the success of the personalisation app we built for Marmite, Vaseline asked us to build one for them. So if you want to put your name, your mum's name, or even your dog's name on one of their iconic tins head to https://personalised-tin.vaseline.co.uk.
You'll find the app housed with Vaseline's main website, but with a unique URL to aid it's promotion and SEO ranking. More importantly, the personalisation and purchase process is so simple you'll want to kiss us.


Rau câu is Vietnamese jello made with agar agar, which is a seaweed by-product, similar to gelatin (except it's vegetal). Several months ago, family friends came for dinner and brought delicious rau câu made with nước dừa ("coconut juice" in Vietnamese). We usually serve the more traditional Vietnamese dessert made with sweetened condensed milk and flavor it with layers of chocolate, mocha, pandan and sometimes durian, but I really like the flavor of this variation. I was also pleasantly surprised at how easy this version was to make. All you need is a few cans of coconut juice with pulp and agar agar. How simple is that?
The coconut jello has another great advantage. It has the same texture as pana cotta, so you can serve it to children without being scared of any spilling or any accidents on your floor. I've adopted this cube version whenever I make it for kids. You can use the same recipe using your children's favorite drinks. It's mess-free and melts in your mouth. They'll love it!
Agar agar panna cotta is my way of making a light dessert suitable for a strict vegetarian diet. Agar agar powder is a good gelatin substitute for vegetarians. It's derived from seaweed and is cooked the same way you would gelatin. It's widely used in Asia, especially for making rau câu (Vietnamese jello cake).
This time around I decided to flavor the panna cotta with cherries. I incorporated fresh fruit, cherry extract and a little red food coloring to make the dessert more appealing. We have some very pretty verrines which I used as the molds. It's a tasty summer dessert with definite visual appeal!
When I think of Asian sweets, the flavor that comes to mind after mango, litchi and durian is matcha green tea. I love pairing matcha with black sesame; I think the flavors go perfectly together.
Lulu and the girls made a beautiful rau câu birthday cake for my birthday several weeks ago, based on a recipe I posted. Rau câu means agar agar in Vietnamese.
I made a matcha agar agar jello cake paired with black sesame sauce and garnished it with fresh diced mangoes for color. The dessert tastes like a sweeten matcha green tea with a soft jelly texture.


The Robson Ranch Arizona Ladies Social Club's luncheon guest speaker in April was Robson Ranch of Arizona's Lois Moncel, Director of Fitness and Wellness.
Lois started her position as Director of Fitness and Wellness for Robson Ranch in 2017. After giving us a little personal history, she talked to attendees about the importance of fitness. She asked if we were on the ground, could we get up and go? She demonstrated strengthening that can be done by standing halfway up from a chair and holding our position, and then going a little further down, holding our position before sitting down.
Upper-body strength can be gained by lifting something up high, such as in a closet or cupboard. Another balance technique is holding a foot off the ground with your eyes closed. Lois also showed us leg exercises—for example, bending one knee then closing your eyes. Another exercise was moving your foot heel to toe. Lois also had one of the attendees do fast running side to side as another exercise. If you cannot do an exercise, Lois can help you by giving options.
As for exercises that can be done at home, Lois also shared a 30-day challenge which involved home exercises. If this is something of interest, she has the exercises available in her office or can send them via email.
If one has balance problems, Lois suggested checking with a doctor, as vertigo can affect balance. A suggestion she offered was possibly taking Vitamin D: for women up to 70 years old one might take 600 mg; for 70 years and up, 800 mg or even 1,000 mg would be beneficial.
In May, she explained that she planned to change up exercises with a yoga fit program, water walking and balance, and light ban or weight exercises. Some of the fun things being added for summer are water volleyball, ping pong, badminton and horseshoes. The horseshoes and water volleyball will be outside activities but the rest will be indoors. Lois said there would be no advanced signup for these activities; all you have to do is come and join in.
If you are unsure whether you would enjoy an exercise class, Lois said that if you wish to try a class for free, just let her know ahead of time.
Kay McMurray thanked Lois Moncel for all this great information and the handout she gave interested attendees.
The Robson Ranch Arizona Ladies Social Club will be taking a summer break and will be resuming their meetings in September. Hope to see you at our luncheon in September.


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Hi, my name is Florian, I am 19 years old. I like a lot of TMNT, i watched when i was young so i am a bit nostalgic. In France, the coverage of the serie is not very good, so i searched the episodes and i find them here. I am not bilingual but i tryh to understand in VO version. Nice to meet you!
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Graston Technique is a form of instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization that enables therapists to detect scar tissue and restrictions that may be causing the patient pain or limiting their function. The technique uses specially designed stainless steel instruments, along with appropriate therapeutic exercises to effectively treat soft tissue injuries or chronic inflammation.
If you are interested in seeing if Graston Therapy can help you, please feel free to contact any of our clinics.


The Montgomery County Planning Department is partnering with the office of County Councilmember Hans Reimer, and the Silver Spring Urban District to host three design workshops focused on placemaking strategies for Downtown Silver Spring.
Review the Silver Spring Placemaking briefing (pdf, 4MB) to the Planning Board (1/15/15).
Check out the video recapping the three Silver Spring Placemaking workshops produced and edited by Barbara Grunbaum and Mike Springirth of County Cable Montgomery (CCM).
October 29, 5-7 p.m. at Denizens Brewing Co.
The first workshop, held on October 15 from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Silver Spring Civic Building (1 Veterans Pl, Silver Spring, MD) explored the creation of civic space in the vicinity of the Transit Center. The session examined enhancements such as temporary short-term green space and bike facilities improving pedestrian experiences from the Transit Center to Downtown Silver Spring via Wayne Avenue.
The second workshop, October 29, 5-7 p.m. at Denizens Brewing Co. (1115 East-West Hwy., Silver Spring, MD), focused on the community character of the Ripley District and the pedestrian experiences in the area to heighten community identity within the district. Creating a civic green space within the area was also considered.
The third workshop, November 5, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., (location to be announced), examined the areas immediately surrounding the proposed Purple Line station in Downtown Silver Spring. These areas are slated for high density development. Participants explored design options for the redevelopment of the Metro Plaza site (located on the northeast corner of East-West Highway and Colesville Road), a prominent gateway to Downtown Silver Spring from the District of Columbia. So that redevelopment can proceed in a manner best suited to this location, the workshop addressed transit support structures and streetscape enhancements aimed at improving pedestrian connectivity.
New: Review the Placemaking Inspirational Images presentation produced by the Montgomery Planning Department.


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The Battle of Saint-Mihiel was a major World War I battle fought from 12–15 September 1918, involving the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) and 110,000 French troops under the command of General John J. Pershing of the United States against German positions. The U.S. Army Air Service played a significant role in this action.

This battle marked the first use of the terms "D-Day" and "H-Hour" by the Americans.

The attack at the Saint-Mihiel salient was part of a plan by Pershing in which he hoped that the Americans would break through the German lines and capture the fortified city of Metz. It was the first large offensive launched mainly by the United States Army in World War I, and the attack caught the Germans in the process of retreating. This meant that their artillery was out of place and the American attack, coming up against disorganized German forces, proved more successful than expected. The Saint-Mihiel attack established the stature of the U.S. Army in the eyes of the French and British forces, and again demonstrated the critical role of artillery during World War I and the difficulty of supplying such massive armies while they were on the move. The U.S. attack faltered as artillery and food supplies were left behind on the muddy roads. The attack on Metz was not realized, as the Supreme Allied Commander Ferdinand Foch ordered the American troops to march towards Sedan and Mézières, which would lead to the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Background: The Saint-Mihiel salient
Saint-Mihiel is a town in the Meuse department in northeastern France. After the end of the 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War, the town was no longer considered important strategically, and France did not develop military installations. This changed early in World War I, when the town was inside the battlefront.

In 1914, the German command wished to take the Verdun fortifications, which formed a strong point in the French lines. A first attempt, at Bois-le-Pretre (Priesterwald in German), failed, despite violent fighting. During two more attempts (Battle of Flirey), German troops took Saint-Mihiel and Fort du Camp-des-Romains, but they were ultimately stopped at Fort de Troyon to the south of Verdun.

During the course of the war, the front did not change much in this area. Saint-Mihiel formed a salient inside the French lines, blocking communications between Nancy and Verdun. The area near St. Mihiel suffered much fighting:
 The Crête des Éparges (Les Éparges crest): February–April 1915.
 At the Bois d'Ailly (Ailly Wood) and the Tranchée de la Soif (Trench of Thirst): isolated behind German lines, Commander d'André's men fought three days without food or water before surrendering in May 1915.
 At Bois Brûlé (The Burned Forest), the French suffered many casualties when German conquered a redoubt in December 1914. It was here that the sub-officer Jacques Péricard pronounced the famous words: "Debout les morts!" (Dead men, arise!) on 8 April 1915.
 The forêt d'Apremont (Apremont forest), the Tête à vache (Cow's head) trenches, Calonne trenches...
In spite of French attacks, the German forces were able to retain this strategic location until the last months of the war.

Prelude

General John Pershing thought that a successful Allied attack in the region of St. Mihiel, Metz, and Verdun would have a significant effect on the German Army. General Pershing was also aware that the area's terrain setting first dictated that the restricted rail and road communications into Verdun (restrictions that had been imposed by the German attack during the Battle of Flirey) be cleared, and that a continuation of the attack to capture the Germany railroad center at Metz would be devastating to the Germans. For this, he placed his confidence in a young First Infantry Division Major, George Marshall, to move troops and supplies effectively throughout the battle. After these goals were accomplished, the Americans could launch offensives into Germany proper. The American First Army had been activated in August and taken over the sector of the Allied line. Pershing had to persuade Marshal Foch (the supreme Allied military commander) to permit an American attack on the salient.

Weather reports
The weather corps of Corps I Operation Order stated: "Visibility: Heavy driving wind and rain during parts of day and night. Roads: Very muddy." This would pose a challenge to the Americans when the order to advance was given. In some parts of the road, the men were almost knee-deep in mud and water. After five days of rain, the ground was nearly impassable to both the American tanks and infantry. Many of the tanks were wrecked by water leaking into their engines, while others got stuck in mud flows. Some of the infantrymen developed early stages of trench foot, even before the trenches were dug.

German defensive positions

Prior to the American operation, the Germans installed many in-depth series of trenches, wire obstacles, and machine-gun nests. The battlefields' terrain included the nearby premises of three villages: Vigneulles, Thiaucourt, and Hannonville-sous-les-Cotes. Their capture would accelerate the envelopment of the German divisions near St. Mihiel. The American forces planned to breach the trenches and then advance along the enemy's logistical road network.

The Germans knew many details about the Allied offensive campaign coming against them. One Swiss newspaper had published the date, time, and duration of the preparatory barrage. However, the German Army stationed in the area of St. Mihiel lacked sufficient manpower, firepower and effective leadership to launch a counter-attack of its own against the Allies. With Allied offensives to the north, the Germans decided to pull out of the St. Mihiel Salient and consolidate their forces near the Hindenburg Line. The order to evacuate the area was given on 8 September. The Allied forces discovered the information on a written order to Army Group Gallwitz.

Allied tank support
Although the AEF was new to the French theater of war, it trained hard for nearly a year in preparation for fighting against the German armies. In June 1917 Pershing ordered the creation of a tank force to support the AEF's infantry. As a result, by September 1918, Lieutenant Colonel George S. Patton Jr. had finished training two tank battalions – 144 French-built Renault FT light tanks organized as the 344th and 345th Battalions of the United States Tank Corps – at Langres, France for an upcoming offensive at the St. Mihiel salient. "Due to the serious resistance of the enemy, especially along the eastern edge of the FORET d'ARGONNE and in the vicinity of CHEPPY and VARENNES, and due also the lack of support of the Infantry, all the Tanks had contrary to plan entered the action before evening of the first day. The 344th Battalion left the positions of departure and advanced ahead of the Infantry at H-hour (5:30 a.m.) On the morning of the 26th, Colonel G. S. Patton, Jr., commanding the Brigade of Tanks, was wounded while getting Tanks forward and rallying disorganized Infantrymen to attack enemy resistance. Major Sereno E. Brett, commanding the 344th Battalion, was then placed in command of the Brigade." Patton was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his "extraordinary heroism" that day.
In addition to the 144 AEF tanks, the attack was joined by 275 French tanks (216 FTs and 59 Schneider CA1 and Saint-Chamond tanks) of the French 1st Assault Artillery Brigade; a total of 419 tanks.

Allied air support
Chief of the United States Army Air Service Mason Patrick oversaw the organization of 28 air squadrons for the battle, with the French, British, and Italians contributing additional units to bring the total force numbers to 701 pursuit planes, 366 observation planes, 323 day bombers, and 91 night bombers. The 1,481 total aircraft made it the largest air operation of the war.
The French Army engaged the newly created Division Aérienne (Air Division), under command of General Duval, with a strength of 717 planes (24 fight squadron / 432 SPAD VII, 15 Close Air Support squadron / 225 BREGUET XIV, 4 reconnaissance squadron / 60 CAUDRON R XI). Five French fighter groups and 3 US Army fighter / bomber groups were also engaged.

Battle

The Saint-Mihiel offensive began on 12 September with a threefold assault on the salient. The main attack was made against the south face by two American corps. On the right was the I Corps (from right to left the 82nd, 90th, 5th, and 2nd Divisions in line with the 78th in reserve) covering a front from Pont-à-Mousson on the Moselle west toward Limey; on the left, the IV Corps (from right to left the 89th, 42d, and 1st Divisions in line with the 3rd in reserve) extending along a front from Limey west toward Marvoisin. A secondary thrust was carried out against the west face along the heights of the Meuse, from Mouilly north to Haudimont, by the V Corps (from right to left the 26th Division, the French 15th Colonial Division, and the 8th Brigade, 4th Division in line with the rest of the 4th in reserve). A holding attack against the apex, to keep the enemy in the salient, was made by the French II Colonial Corps (from right to left the French 39th Colonial Division, the French 26th Division, and the French 2nd Cavalry Division in line). In First Army reserve were the American 35th, 80th, and 91st Divisions.

The American V Corps location was at the northwestern vertices, the II French Colonial Corps at the southern apex, and the American IV and I Corps at the southeastern vertices of the salient. Furthermore, General Pershing's intent was obvious; to envelop the salient by using the main enveloping thrusts of the attack against the weak vertices. The remaining forces would then advance on a broad front toward Metz. This pincer action, by the IV and V Corps, was to drive the attack into the salient and to link the friendly forces at the French village of Vigneulles, while the II French Colonial Corps kept the remaining Germans tied down. The French II Colonial Corps were successful in the attack on the apex and entered Saint-Mihiel on 15 September 1918, taking 4000 prisoners. They then pushed into the plain of Woëvre up to Haumont-Woël-Doncourt.

The Allies mobilized 1,481 aircraft to provide air superiority and close air support over the front. About 40% were American-flown in American units, the remainder were British, French, and Italian. Nine bomber squadrons of the British RAF, although provided for the battle, were not under Pershing's operational control.

Defending the salient was German "Army Detachment C", consisting of eight divisions and a brigade in the line and about two divisions in reserve. Now desperately short of manpower, they had begun a step-by-step withdrawal from the salient only the day before the offensive began.

Pershing's plan had tanks supporting the advancing infantry, with two tank companies interspersed into a depth of at least three lines, and a third tank company in reserve. The result of the detailed planning was an almost unopposed assault into the salient. The American I Corps reached its first day's objective before noon, and the second day's objective by late afternoon of the second. The attack went so well on 12 September that Pershing ordered a speedup in the offensive. By the morning of 13 September, the 1st Division, advancing from the east, joined up with the 26th Division, moving in from the west, and before evening all objectives in the salient had been captured. At this point, Pershing halted further advances so that American units could be withdrawn for the coming Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Order of Battle, First Army, 12 September 1918
Section source: OAFH
First United States Army – Gen. John J Pershing
 I Corps: Maj Gen Hunter Liggett
 Headquarters Observation Group
 2nd Balloon Company
 5th Balloon Company
 82nd Division – Maj Gen William P. Burnham
 50th Aero Squadron (split duty)
 42nd Balloon Company (split duty)
 90th Division – Maj Gen Henry Tureman Allen
 50th Aero Squadron (split duty)
 42nd Balloon Company (split duty)
 5th Division – Maj Gen John E. McMahon
 12th Aero Squadron
 1st Balloon Company
 2nd Division – Maj Gen John A. Lejeune
 1st Aero Squadron
 1st Balloon Company
 78th Division (Corps Reserve) – Maj Gen James H McRae
 IV Corps – Maj Gen Joseph T. Dickman
 Headquarters Observation Group
 69th Balloon Company
 89th Division – Maj Gen William M. Wright
 135th Aero Squadron
 43rd Balloon Company
 42nd Division – Maj Gen Charles T. Menoher
 90th Aero Squadron
 3rd Balloon Company
 1st Division – Maj Gen Charles Pelot Summerall
 8th Aero Squadron
 9th Balloon Company
 3rd Division (Corps Reserve) – Maj Gen Beaumont B. Buck
 V Corps – Maj Gen George H. Cameron
 Headquarters Observation Group
 99th Aero Squadron
 7th Balloon Company
 26th Division – Maj Gen Clarence Ransom Edwards
 88th Aero Squadron
 104th Aero Squadron
 6th Balloon Company
 15th Colonial Division (French)
 8th Balloon Company
 4th Division – Maj Gen John L. Hines
 8th Brigade
 4th Field Artillery Brigade
 remainder of Division in reserve
 12th Balloon Company
 US Army Reserve
 35th Division – Maj Gen Peter E. Traub
 80th Division – Maj Gen Adelbert Cronkhite
 91st Division – Maj Gen William H. Johnston
2d Pursuit Group under First U.S. Army command
13th Aero Squadron

Order of Battle, French Army, 12 September 1918
 (2e CAC) - Gen Ernest Joseph Blondlat
2e division de cavalerie à pied (2e DCP) - Gen Hennocque
26e division d'infanterie - Gen de Belenet
39e division d'infanterie - Gen Pougin
 Division Aérienne (France) – Gen Duval
 1st Air Brigade
 2nd Air Brigade

Aftermath
One reason for the American forces' success at St. Mihiel was General Pershing's thoroughly detailed operations order. Pershing's operation included detailed plans for penetrating the Germans' trenches, using a combined arms approach to warfare. Another reason was the audacity of the small unit commanders on the battlefield. Unlike other officers who commanded their soldiers from the rear, Colonel George S. Patton and Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur and their subordinates would lead their men from the front lines. They believed that a commander's personal control of the situation would help ease the chaos of the battlefield.

American Captain Harry Truman, who commanded Battery D of the 129th Field Artillery Regiment during the battle, later became President of the United States.

See also
 St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial

References

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Further reading

External links

 Map of the St. Mihiel Offensive.
 Today in History: Saint-Mihiel Offensive

1918 in France
Battles of the Western Front (World War I)
Battles of World War I involving the United States
Battles of World War I involving Germany
Battles of World War I involving France
Conflicts in 1918
September 1918 events
United States Marine Corps in World War I

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War by other means: US/EU sanctions aimed at crippling Syria
By Jean Shaoul
This past week has seen massive queues in Syria's capital Damascus outside petrol (gas) stations.
The fuel shortage has become far worse than during the war—bringing commercial life almost to a standstill. With domestic oil production down as a result of war damage and disruption to only 24,000 barrels per day (BPD), far less than the 136,000 bpd it needs, the government has rationed petrol. Private cars are allowed 20 litres every five days and taxis 20 litres every 48 hours. Before the war, Syria enjoyed relative energy autonomy.
This follows the ending of a credit line and oil supplies from Iran in October and US sanctions against Iran and Syria that have intensified since US President Donald Trump's declared "the final defeat" of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Damascus sought to replace Iranian supplies via private sector importers, but this met with little success as ships have been prevented from reaching Syria after entering regional waters. In November, the US Treasury issued a warning, threatening anyone involved in shipping petroleum to the Syrian government with sanctions.
The aim is to cut off the Syrian government and its supporters from the global financial and trade systems. The Pentagon has also made it clear that despite Trump's plan to withdraw US troops from Syria, the illegal US military presence in Syria will continue indefinitely with a "residual force."
The US wants to preclude any reunification and reconstruction of the war-ravaged country, by carving out its own sphere of influence in Syria's northeast. This would seize control over the country's main oil and gas-producing region, using Syria as a base for preparing a wider and bloodier war against Iran, while encouraging Israel to play a major role in military operations against Syria.
Washington is seeking to create the conditions for a rebellion against the Assad regime, as in Iran and Venezuela, by crashing its economy and exacerbating the country's social and economic crisis and thereby impose a pro-US regime in Damascus.
The Assad government is compelled to manoeuvre between the threats from an increasingly rapacious US imperialism, the demands of its backers in Moscow and Tehran, and the mounting anger of an impoverished working class against the war profiteers, traffickers and regime insiders benefiting from what little "reconstruction" is taking place.
Washington's eight-year-long proxy war against Syria—along with its more than four years of intense aerial bombing—has devastated the country, causing immense human suffering.
Nearly half a million people have died. There are 3 million people living with permanent disabilities. Around 11 million people, nearly half the population, have fled their homes. Some 5.6 million are living in neighbouring countries, including 3.6 million living in Turkey, while there are 6.2 million internally displaced, creating the world's largest refugee crisis since World War II.
The war, involving hundreds of militias fighting the Syrian regime and each other, has laid waste to industrial cities and infrastructure. Water, sanitation and electrical systems barely function in the former rebel-held areas. Schools and hospitals have been flattened. Some 2 million children are not in school.
US bombing has reduced cities and towns such as Raqqa to rubble, while in rural areas irrigation channels no longer function and grain silos have been destroyed, leading to a 40 percent reduction in food production, particularly wheat.
More than 80 percent of Syrians are living in extreme poverty, on less than $1.90 per day, in what was a middle-income country. According to a World Bank survey, 56 percent of the country's businesses have either closed or relocated outside the country since 2009, while unemployment rose from less than 10 percent in 2010 to over 50 percent in 2015. It estimates that the cumulative loss in GDP between 2011 and 2016 was $226 billion, around four times Syria's 2010 GDP. A third of those losses were in the oil and gas sector.
Soaring inflation, a depreciating currency that has plummeted from a pre-war exchange rate of 50 Syrian pounds to 550 pounds to the dollar, stagnant wages and plummeting purchasing power means that even the basics are unaffordable. The ever-deepening poverty is causing endless privation, compounded by frequent and lengthy water and electricity shutoffs and fuel shortages.
Many are dependent on remittances from Syrians abroad, estimated by the World Bank to be about $1.62 billion in 2016, higher than the total from salaries and wages, as well as unofficial transfers through unlicensed offices, individuals and traffickers.
The wealthy are insulated from all of this, with cafes and restaurants in the upscale neighbourhoods busy, in stark contrast to the long queues to buy subsidised bread and replace empty gas canisters for cooking.
The hardships of the war have been compounded by the sanctions imposed since 2011 by the United States, the European Union (EU) and the UN on imports such as some fuels, as well as Syrian individuals accused of financially supporting the regime. Last January, after Trump said he was bringing US troops in Syria "back home," the EU issued sanctions against a further 11 businessmen and five associated companies, while the US Congress passed legislation, the Orwellian "Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act," broadening existing sanctions to include non-US citizens who deal with the Assad regime, so-called secondary sanctions.
While Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates appear to be considering giving some financial support to Damascus to counter long-term Iranian hegemony in Syria, these sanctions could hit anyone—including Gulf-based companies involved in Syria's reconstruction, variously estimated at between $250 billion (about four times Syria's pre-war GDP) and $400 billion.
The banks block transfers from Syria, making it impossible to source European parts without using prohibitively expensive informal financial networks.
While Russia and Iran's military support was a crucial factor in the Assad regime's survival, they do not have the resources to make a major contribution to Syria's reconstruction. Iran is in the grips of economic crisis, due to US sanctions, and is suffering from unprecedented floods, especially in its oil-producing region.
Syria has indicated both countries will have "first priority" in the allotment of any reconstruction funds that it receives, particularly in the energy and construction sectors. In January 2018, Damascus gave Moscow exclusive rights to extract oil and gas from areas under Assad's direct control, and later "the restoration of oil fields and the development of new deposits." Moscow also won a 50-year deal to run Syria's phosphate industry.
The US and major European powers have refused any significant aid while Assad remains in power, in a bid to force his main international and domestic supporters to withdraw their backing.
Last March, international donors at an EU-hosted conference in Brussels pledged almost $7 billion, including $397 million from the US, for civilians affected by the conflict—far less than the EU said was needed. Last year, only 65 percent of the $3.4 billion required for the inside-Syria plan last year was received, while its regional refugee and resilience plan costing $5.6 billion was only 62 percent funded.
The focus was not on reconstruction, but on measures to encourage refugees to return home amid reports that the Syrian government's treatment of returning refugees includes killings, disappearances, intimidation and sometimes compulsory military service. New legislation makes it difficult for returnees to prove ownership of the homes they fled. The EU fears an influx of refugees to Europe unless aid for both Syria and the countries hosting the refugees is forthcoming.
The US drive to crash Syria's economy is bound up with its campaign to reimpose neo-colonial bondage over the entire region and to continue the series of ruinous wars Washington has sparked in the Middle East since 1991 in a bid to exercise unfettered dominance of the world's most important oil and gas-exporting region.
Washington escalates Mideast war threat with strikes on Iraq, Syria
New WikiLeaks documents expose doctoring of chemical weapons report to justify 2018 US attack on Syria
Trump issues hypocritical threat over Syrian offensive
New WikiLeaks documents expose phony claims of 2018 Syria chemical weapons attack
Berlin conference prepares military occupation of Libya
Washington continues war buildup against Iran
US official delivers Trump's threatening message to Sri Lankan president
Canada's media and political establishment endorse illegal assassination of Iranian General Suleimani
Trump exploits Iran war crisis to incite violence against political opponents


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Home » Short Films
I have been making short films since I was a teenager, and together with Anthony Sutcliffe (who directs them), work under the banner of Sketchlight Films. Below are a selection of shorts that were all edited by me, and on most of them I also helped out with filming and / or writing. Please click on the images to watch the films.
Serial Cheat
She returns home to a shocking revelation…
A Police officer has to deliver some devastating news. Starring Welsh Bafta winning actress Eiry Thomas.
A young woman, captured on CCTV on a night out, describes her readiness for whatever fate has in store. It was placed in the Best Film category at the prestigious Academy-Award qualifying Foyle film Festival.
Liz, a lonely housewife, shares her feelings for her little girl. Winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the 2013 One Shot Movie Competition.
The Anniversary
On the anniversary of a tragic event, a young woman recounts her final hours with her lost love. The Anniversary won the Welsh Dragon Award at The Newport International Film Festival.
Zen Magnets promo
Viral Web Commercial made for Zen Magnets.
An athlete sets himself the ultimate challenge. Fake Web Commercial made for Nike.
A master scientist has finally finished his greatest achievement. And now, history beckons. It was shortlisted for the Virgin Media Shorts prize.
The Razorhead
A strange man decides his only way to salvation is to be found through a rather brutal haircut. It went on to be selected for screenings at 13 festivals all around the world and won two awards.
The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part" – Paul Hirsch.
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WAZA Statement on Recent Thomas Cook Decision
WAZA statement regarding Thomas Cook's decision to ban trips to Loro Parque and SeaWorld
The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) believes the Thomas Cook travel agency failed to consider the significant global conservation impact of SeaWorld and Loro Parque, as well as their continued dedication to high levels of welfare for animals in their care, when it announced this week that it would no longer include the marine parks in its travel packages.
Thomas Cook officials said in a statement that the company will no longer include institutions that keep orcas in captivity in their tours.
SeaWorld, based in the United States, has rescued over 31,000 animals in the past five decades through its SeaWorld Cares programme, including pilot whales, dolphins and manatees, among others. The SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund has also provided more than $14 million to animal and habitat conservation projects around the world.
Spain-based Loro Parque, meanwhile, recently launched a €2 million, four-year programme in collaboration with the government of the Canary Islands to study the effects of climate change in the sea, focusing on species such as algae, angel sharks and sea turtles. Loro Parque has also contributed more than $19 million to over 150 conservation projects globally, and research programs at Loro Parque have contributed to the development of prototype bioacoustics and automatic detection of orca vocalizations devices in aid of open sea killer whale protection.
"Thomas Cook focused on orcas but overlooked the ongoing efforts to protect marine species around the world," said WAZA Chief Executive Officer Doug Cress. "Those programmes that rescue pilot whales or save sea turtles are funded by tourist revenue. Thomas Cook sold its clients only a fraction of the true story, and could undermine essential conservation work as a result."
Both SeaWorld and Loro Parque are members of WAZA as well as members of national associations, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA), respectively. Both parks have passed strict welfare audits by Global Spirit Animals in Tourism Limited and have obtained 100% of the minimum standards required by the Association of British Travel Agents' (ABTA) Global Welfare Guidance for Animals in Tourism policy.
Loro Parque will also host the 77th WAZA Annual Conference in 2022.
WAZA has committed its members to promoting high levels of animal welfare and issues such as marine litter, sustainable development and the elimination of single-use plastic, and SeaWorld and Loro Parque will remain pivotal players in all those efforts.
"The education programmes at SeaWorld and Loro Parque, and the potential to change behaviour on key issues that instil compassion for animals and protect the oceans, reefs and sea life are what make them such unique institutions," Cress said. "WAZA urges Thomas Cook to re-consider this decision and let their consumers take part in this effort to protect our natural heritage. It's not too late."


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Track and Field: Pequot Lakes runner claims national title
The Pequot Lakes High School track star shaved nearly a second off her state title time in the 800-meter race
Pequot Lakes' Calia Chaney finished first in the 800-meter race at the Nike Outdoor National meet Sunday, June 19, 2022, in Eugene, Oregon.
EUGENE, Oregon – A state title wasn't enough for Calia Chaney.
Roughly a week after claiming the State Class 2A title in the 800-meter race, the Pequot Lakes runner competed at the Nike Outdoor Nationals at the University of Oregon on Sunday, June 19, where she again finished first in the 800, this time with a time of 2:12.67.
Track and Field: Pequot Lakes sophomore claims state 800m title
Calia Chaney also takes third in the 1600-meter race
Her time was nearly a second better than the race that won her a state title Saturday, June 11.
"It's definitely a cool thing," Chaney said. "It was very exciting, and I definitely felt (that excitement) after the race, talking to my mom, and it was fun seeing my family after coming home. It's a very good feeling."
Pequot Lakes' Calia Chaney smiles after winning the 800-meter race at the Nike Outdoor National meet Sunday, June 19, 2022, in Eugene, Oregon.
To qualify for the event, athletes had to finish in a certain time at some point in their high school season. Chaney met the requirement early this spring.
The soon-to-be junior has been running competitively since her sixth-grade year – both in track and cross-country – and enjoys the sense of accomplishment one feels from the activity.
Calia Chaney's name appears as the winner of the 800-meter race Sunday, June 19, 2022, at the Nike Outdoor Nationals at the University of Oregon.
"I would say it's the competition and the feeling that you get when you're done running, even if it's just practice or a race," she said. "You feel accomplished when you're done.
"You don't have to have a certain skill to be able to do it, either. Anyone can be a runner, and anyone can train super hard and push their bodies so hard to where they can win … Anyone can do that, which I think is super cool," Chaney said.
Calia Chaney, Pequot Lakes, races June 19, 2022, in Eugene, Oregon.
Chaney also competed in the 1600-meter race at the event, finishing 27th overall with a time of 5:04.18.
Despite just winning a race on Minnesota's highest level, Chaney said the competition at this national event was "definitely" a step up.
"I was just running with the pack of girls for a while," she said. "When I finished, and had all that adrenaline, I was like, "Oh my gosh, I just won that, and I'm at nationals.' … I definitely felt like (the competition) pushed me as we were going into the race, just knowing they were all super good. They were good at the state level too, but even more at nationals."
Calia Chaney, Pequot Lakes, won the 800-meter race Sunday, June 19, 2022, at the Nike Outdoor Nationals at the University of Oregon.
With her sophomore track season now officially over, Chaney is taking a two-week break before beginning to train for the fall cross-country season.
"Over the summer, I am just going to run a lot of miles and get a lot of base mileage in, and once the cross-country season actually gets started, I'll get more into speed workouts," she said.
Dan Determan, sports writer/staff writer, may be reached at 218-855-5879 or dan.determan@pineandlakes.com . Follow him on Facebook and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/@PEJ_Dan .
Related Topics: PEQUOT LAKES TRACK AND FIELDPEQUOT LAKESPEQUOT LAKES HIGH SCHOOLNEW YEAR REVIEW


Taking place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin "Technosphere, Now" was the inaugural event of a four-year research project into global technology and its identity. Our writer visited the one-day conference, thought about Berghain and water on Mars, and was left with some answers and a lot of questions.
Last weekend, dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz hypothetically transformed Tate Modern into Musée de la danse. Our editor-at-large was harbouring some reservations about this new democratic participatory art, but found it surprisingly moving.
During the summer months Timo Feldhaus visited major art events in Cologne, Vienna and Basel, as well as Berghain in Berlin. Everywhere he found the same things: a need for immediate bodily experience and intensity; viewers looking to art for kicks; exhibitions that made no effort at subtlety but sought to hit everyone openly in the gut; and a refashioned performance art, adapted to suit our daily compulsion to perform.


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Allan Lamb, The Man, The ODI Pace That England, Finally, Prisoner > Cricket News, cricinfo, mobilecric, cricbuzz, livescore and more
Cricket news - Allan Lamb, the man who set the ODI pace that England have finally caught on to
"I always looked at playing positively, maybe at times that was my downfall."
"Why England have become so good is because they've taken the "F" word away from their players." Before you get any ideas, the f-word Allan Lamb refers to here is "failure". Though he compares the present culture around England's one-day cricket to what persisted during his era without a slightest tinge of envy, you feel there deserves to be some. For, Lamb got ODI cricket before anyone else did in England. If anything, he was so far ahead of English cricket when it came to the 50-over format, and that it's taken English cricket nearly two decades after Lamb hung up his boots to catch up with him and the rest of the world.
"Maybe I played a bit too positively than some others," he says before bursting out laughing and then adding, "I always looked at playing positively, maybe at times that was my downfall. We always played back then never knowing that you would be picked for the next game. We always felt like we weren't entitled to be picked every day."
And when Lamb says he believed the best way to get out of any situation was to attack, you better believe him. That summed up his batting style. Long before strike-rates came into vogue in ODI cricket, and despite the dominance of the West Indians, it was Lamb who was setting the pace in the limited-overs format. While all four of his centuries were scored at strike-rates in the high 90s - except the 108 he scored off 106 balls against the Kiwis at the MCG in early 1983 - only four out of the 30 times he went past 50 did the right-hander score at a rate less than 70 per 100 balls. Around 70 per cent of his 50-plus scores came at just under a run a ball, this, at a time when batting in one-day cricket, especially around England, was still centred on survival and a cynical resistance to change.
According to Lamb, who averaged 39.31 in 122 ODIs, the reason England have finally, after so long, adopted the much-needed aggressive brand of cricket is due to the "confidence of someone coming to you and saying, 'don't worry, you're playing in every game even if you get out playing a shot'.
"That's why they play like they have a licence to kill. It's about that confidence of knowing they don't have to worry if they get out. If they do, they know they have someone saying, 'we know what you're trying to do, but carry on playing that way'. So those players playing now just go and play their shots. I haven't seen an attacking batting line-up like this in a long time," he says.
"In our time, the captain had no say. It was only the selectors. If I as captain asked someone to go play his natural game, and he got out, I would have been in trouble."
We meet Lamb in his plush office on a busy intersection of one of the narrow main roads in Northampton. The 64-year-old is hobbling around with only one shoe on. A red bandage covers a few toes on his left foot and he insists on them not being long-term scars of his multiple encounters with Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram, and that they've been stubbed against a door.
The main office room carries various memorabilia and posters of the South African-born Northamptonshire legend and his cricket career, while a smaller room with a long cushioned sofa acts as the conference room, and has done so since 1998.
Apart from providing corporate hospitality at various cricketing venues around the country, including during the World Cup, Lamb Associates also organize global tours to major sporting events, including cricket, rugby and golf. And Lamb himself accompanies the touring parties on occasions, like he did to India in late 2016 for two Tests.
Back when he was touring the world as an England cricketer, as it turns out, it wasn't only with bat in hand that he used to have a craving for adventure. It wasn't always fishing in Australia or shooting partridges in Pakistan.
He recalls the time a few of his teammates went shopping for carpets while in Peshawar during the 1987 World Cup, and ended up unintentionally crossing the border into Afghanistan.
"We should have never gone. One of the guys there who looked a bit like Omar Sharif with a bushy moustache said he had a brother who would help us get carpets, so we all went across the border. It was only afterwards we found out that everyone there was on bicycles with guns there."
On another occasion during the 1990-91 tour of Australia, Lamb took Robin Smith and a teammate for fishing to the Rottnest Island near Perth and had to take an interesting detour through a field to make sure he didn't miss a team meeting.
"We had gone out on a boat and we were late and I was vice-captain. The only way out because of the traffic was I had to cut across this big field in Perth and I drove straight across. If we did that now, we would be locked up. We made it just in time for the meeting. It was before the Test match was going to start. We would practice in the morning before a Test and set off in the afternoon."
Lamb's pathway to international cricket had itself come about courtesy a detour after he had to leave his home in Johannesburg owing to South Africa's apartheid-driven sporting ban. As a teenager, he'd played for Western Province but could move his base owing to his parents having been born in England. Despite making an immediate impact for Northamptonshire upon moving here in 1978, it took Lamb four years to qualify for selection to the England squad. And he flashes a polite smile when you relate his scenario to that of the Barbados-born Jofra Archer's promotion to the national ranks in recent times.
"They were pushing the boat and changing regulations quickly. Listen it doesn't bother me. I was just lucky enough that my parents were born here and because of the apartheid system I couldn't play there. Some years ago they didn't think Jofra Archer was strong enough to be a quick bowler, but looks like he's quite rapid now," he says.
Lamb, however, is concerned about the South African team, which has now lost three matches on the trot in the World Cup, and the impact of the political nature of the selection that's affecting their cricket.
"What troubles me is when I see you can't get to play for the country of your birth despite being eligible to do so. If South Africa was playing international cricket I wouldn't have come to England. Tony Greig was the first to come in my era, but the reason he came was he wasn't good enough to get into that South African side. That's how good SA was. South Africa is such a poor side now. They have 5-6 players playing county cricket now that they could have done with."
Lamb also reminisces about how well he got to know many of the greats during his era through playing with and against them in county cricket, right till his final season for Northamptonshire in 1995, when he took a young legspinner with a fledgling reputation from India under his wings. Anil Kumble would go on to finish as one of Test cricket's highest wicket-takers. But back in 1995, he was still a bespectacled enigma who ended up taking 105 wickets in that season, a feat that no bowler from the county has since replicated.
"I went to Azhar and Sunil and said I need a good spinner, and they said what about Kumble. I said but he doesn't turn it. They said that's why you have to take him. They said everyone will play for the spin with the ball that goes straight. They said make sure you have a good short-leg and a silly point. When he first came here, it was freezing cold. He played in a Sunday League game and he disappeared for 50 or 60 runs. The chairman of the club was fuming and said have we made the right decision. The next game we played in Kent, and I went to Marks n Spencers and bought one of those winter warmers that you wear like pyjamas, and I said you put this on and keep it, and keep bowling. He was brilliant," says Lamb while gushing about having met his former teammate in London on the opening day of the World Cup.
Winning the Ashes at home in 1985 and then in Australia over the summer of 1986-87 stand out as the pinnacle of Lamb's cricketing achievements. Not surprisingly for someone who somehow held his own against the might of the West Indian pace battery, scoring 6 Test centuries against them, he also rates the one Test win over them in Jamaica as a much-treasured feat. In addition to his impressive ODI numbers, there's also the famous last-over win, where he smashed 18 off Bruce Reid's bowling. "I hadn't played well at all throughout the innings. I hadn't hit a boundary. So I walked up to (Phillip) DeFreitas and said, give me your bat, my bat's no good. But it was the exact same bat, a Slazenger bat, and as we realized there was nothing wrong with it."
But ask him about which World Cup final hurts more, and he says, "they all do" while shaking his head.
"We lost to India in 1983, when we were cruising when Gatt (Mike Gatting) bloody played one around the corner and there was a suicidal run-out. And then 1987, Gatt played that reverse sweep and we were sort of winning that." The 1992 final at the MCG will always be remembered for Akram's consecutive deliveries from around the wicket that knocked out Lamb and Chris Lewis. But he recalls how that defeat hurt the most as his dismissal came at a time England were just getting on top of things as he forged a stand with Neil Fairbrother.
"He came around the wicket and it was a fairly good delivery, good enough for me anyway. I'd faced him a ton of times before. It just sort of came in a little bit and then straightened out. It was a pity. We had played really good cricket throughout and then we were just getting back on top of them. That was quite tough but you can't bring the past back."
In the here and now though, Lamb feels England's new-found sense of freedom and the "licence to kill" provided to their batsmen makes this their "best chance to win", and perhaps a chance for him to experience that glory vicariously through them.


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Hosting a brunch at home? Of course, the food is v.important, but these days, the booze is a pretty big deal, too. Bloody Marys can be hit or miss with guests, and shots are a straight up no-no, so whip up a mimosa instead.
1. Grab a Champagne flute and fill two thirds of the way with orange juice.
2. Top up the remainder of the glass with champers.
3. Mix in a teaspoon of orange liqueur and cheers to a great Saturday!
Obviously, your impeccable hosting skills and organisation mean that your will brunch go down in the history books, so get your nails photo-ready for the social media close-ups.
1. Apply a base coat, followed by a coat of Seven Dials.
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The lure of ancient history
Published: 16 Jun 2017 10:58
Rise in island visitor numbers.
Six sites on Orkney recorded an eight per cent rise in visitors in the last year according to new figures from Historic Environment Scotland.
In total, more than 41,500 people visited Historic Environment Scotland's staffed sites on the islands between April and June 2017, an increase from the same period last year.
The Iron Age Broch of Gurness proved most popular with more than 4,000 admissions representing a 36 per cent jump in visits to the site.
Maeshowe, a Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage site attracted 7,597 visitors, a rise of 14 per cent on the previous year.
In Kirkwall to attend the St Magnus Festival, International Development and Europe Minister Alasdair Allan said:
"Orkney's historic environment acts as a magnet for tourists drawn to its world class attractions.
"2017 celebrates the richness of Scotland's intriguing history, impressive cultural heritage and fascinating archaeology. Orkney boasts all of this and so much more.
"We want to support businesses involved in the Scottish tourism industry to make the most of the opportunities they create ensuring they are sustainable and make a positive impact on the environment, society and economy."
Find out more about the Heart of Neolithic Orkney: https://www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support/listing-scheduling-and-designations/world-heritage-sites/heart-of-neolithic-orkney/


Cedar Rapids has baseball, football, hockey and more to keep you entertained throughout every sport season.
Cedar Rapids is a sports loving town. With minor league baseball, soccer, hockey, arena football teams and even a women's roller derby team, sports are always in season in Cedar Rapids.
They aren't joking when they say there's a "party at the park." Not only do the Cedar Rapids Kernels play games all summer long, but there's also plenty to keep the family entertained, from face painting and slushies, to fireworks shows after Saturday night games and a chance to run the bases on Sundays. Plus, there's a couple of old army tanks parked out in front of the Veteran's Memorial Stadium that your kids are sure to want to climb on.
More cowbell! If your family likes to get loud, then head to a Cedar Rapids RoughRiders game at the Cedar Rapids ice arena, affectionately referred to as "the Stable."
Or, if you really want to get close to the action, pick up tickets to see the Cedar Rapids River Kings play football at the U.S. Cellular Center. The games are fast-paced and sometimes up-close-and-personal if you grab seats in the lower level. Sit in the kick zone so the kids can try to catch footballs after field goal attempts.
If you feel like getting in on a different kind of sporting action, check out the Cedar Rapids Rollergirls for action-packed bouts of hard-hitting derby. It's a fast-paced game with a team full of tough ladies that aren't afraid of a bruise or two (or ten).
Other options include sand volleyball leagues, curling, ice skating, and bowling, even cricket in Seminole Valley Park on summer weekends.


Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects 1-2% of the population and can affect quality of life. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a method of treatment that has been shown to be effective in some individuals, but not all. Currently, there is no method to predict who will benefit from CBT. Recently, functional MRI of individuals at rest has emerged as a promising tool for predicting treatment outcomes. This week in PNAS, Reggente and colleagues test whether resting brain activity patterns can predict treatment response.
Adults with a diagnosis of OCD underwent resting state functional MRI scans before and after 4 weeks of daily CBT. They analyzed the resting state fMRI scans using a multivariate approach and machine learning to detect whether patterns of resting state activity before treatment could predict individual OCD symptom severity scores after treatment. Resting brain activity was extracted from 196 brain regions and patterns of activity in all regions were correlated with one another. Multivariate analyses have the ability to capture multiple patterns of brain activity, and may be better than univariate approaches for predicting individualized responses to treatment. OCD symptom severity was also assessed before and after the 4 weeks of treatment.
OCD symptom severity scores improved after treatment in almost all participants. The authors found that pre-treatment resting state patterns in two brain networks -the default mode network and the visual network - strongly predicted individual variability in OCD symptom severity score. The default mode network (active while an individual is at rest) accounted for 67% of the variation in post-treatment symptom severity scores, while the visual network accounted for 51%. The activity in these networks better predicted post-treatment severity scores than the severity of OCD before treatment.
Knowing who will respond to treatment is important as CBT is time consuming and expensive. This is the first study to report resting state network patterns as a reliable predictor of individual response to CBT treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder. Individual resting state patterns could reflect the plasticity or adaptability of brain networks to treatment. This study brings us one step closer to using individualized treatment plans for complex disorders.
N. Reggente et al., Multivariate resting-state functional connectivity predicts response to cognitive behavioral therapy in obsessive–compulsive disorder. PNAS. (2018). Access the original scientific publication here.


Do asymmetries matter for European monetary policy?
In this paper we analyze the impact of economic and institutional (ECB decision rules) asymmetries on the effectiveness of monetary policy in Euroland. We consider a model where asymmetric shocks and divergent propagation of shocks in output and inflation are potential causes of tensions within the ECB concerning the conduct of common monetary (interest rate) policy. Welfare implications of the alternative decision procedures are discussed.


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Reports: Parent barricades self, teacher in California classroom
Updated: 7:43 PM EDT Oct 31, 2017
Authorities say a parent has barricaded himself in a Southern California elementary school classroom with at least one other person.Riverside police Officer Ryan Railsback tells KCAL-TV that the incident at Castle View Elementary School was reported shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday.Police say it's unclear whether the other person in the room is a teacher or staff member.Railsback says it's not known if the parent has a weapon. Hostage negotiators and the police department's SWAT team are at the scene, he says.The Riverside Unified School District said the campus was under lockdown due to a "disturbance inside of a classroom.""So far he has not been willing to come out," Railsback says about the man.All students have been safely evacuated, according to the school district.The Associated Press and CNN contributed.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. —
Authorities say a parent has barricaded himself in a Southern California elementary school classroom with at least one other person.
Riverside police Officer Ryan Railsback tells KCAL-TV that the incident at Castle View Elementary School was reported shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday.
Police say it's unclear whether the other person in the room is a teacher or staff member.
Railsback says it's not known if the parent has a weapon. Hostage negotiators and the police department's SWAT team are at the scene, he says.
The Riverside Unified School District said the campus was under lockdown due to a "disturbance inside of a classroom."
"So far he has not been willing to come out," Railsback says about the man.
All students have been safely evacuated, according to the school district.
The Associated Press and CNN contributed.