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Eleven lucky pups got to ride the bus to a new life with our rescue partners in the northeast in September. Canine Caravan Rescue saves dogs from kill shelters in Georgia and then provides all needed vet care and transport to our partners where many times adopters are already waiting to take these former abandoned and abused pups home. If you like what we do, please consider a donation to help us continue our lifesaving mission for dogs in need in Georgia shelters. Click on the photo of Cannoli below to see all the dogs that took a ride on the bus this month!


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Home Latest News/What's New Lehman Trikes to Leave Spearfish, South Dakota
Lehman Trikes to Leave Spearfish, South Dakota
Rider Magazine Staff
Lehman Monarch II Honda Gold Wing GL1800 Trike (photo by Jerry Smith)
According to an article published on March 23, 2015, on the Rapid City Journal's website, Lehman Trikes will soon move out of its facility in Spearfish, South Dakota.
Lehman Trikes has been manufacturing trike conversions for Honda, Harley-Davidsons and other motorcycle brands since 1993, and it has been based in Spearfish since 2008. Following the death of company founder John K. Lehman in January 2012, the company briefly ceased operations. Champion Investments Inc., owner of Champion Trikes, bought Lehman Trikes in June 2012 and resumed operations soon thereafter, still under the Lehman name.
According to the article, Craig L. Arrojo, CEO of Champion Investments Inc. and Champion Trikes, said that costs and logistics related to expansion into Asian markets prompted the decision to move. Lehman Trikes will be relocated to the Champion Trikes facility in Garden Grove, California.
Rider Magazine Staff - January 18, 2021

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Black Belt and Certified Instructor Bob Reid has been teaching traditional Taekwon Do since 1991.
Emphasis is on the practical application of Self- Defense, combined with Courtesy, Integrity, Perservance, Self Control, Modesty and Indomitable Spirit.
Physical Conditioning, Developing awareness and focus, as well as discipline are a major part of the curriculum.
Children's classes begin at 6 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays and it is desired that students arrive ten minutes early. The class is approximately one hour and 10 minutes. The second class for teen's and adults (or students that Mr. Reid deems ready) begins approximately 7:15 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays and ends approximately 8:20 p.m.
Uniforms can be purchased for $25 (but are not required), with uniform payments to "Bob Reid". As students achieve levels of training, they may test for upper belt levels.
Questions or additional information can be directed to Mr.Reid at 928.667.3295.
Mish Mash Studio's phone is 928.669.8319.
Registration and Insurance is $25 per student and is due in August, January and May. All insurance checks written to "Mish Mash" and may be given to Mr. Reid. Credit cards are accepted at Gingerbread House for Insurance payment. If your child is insured, bring a copy of proof and talk to Mr. Reid.
Email questions to Bunihop@npgcable.com Attn: Bob Reid.


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Startups That Service On-demand Drivers, Not the Passengers
|In business
|By Todd Stone
When most people think about on-demand driving services like Uber, Lyft and Via, they usually think about the comfort and convenience of the rider, not the driver. But now with roughly one million Americans working either as part-time or full-time on-demand drivers, there's a new market to cater to: on-demand drivers.
While on-demand driving has been a welcomed new source of income, the riding experience for drivers has left much to be desired, which has created opportunity for entrepreneurs. Below are some startups that earn money from on-demand drivers by trying to make their jobs easier and more lucrative.
Mystro
The Mystro app helps on-demand drivers earn more money and improves safety conditions for drivers by freeing their hands from using multiple apps and devices at the same time. Mystro founder, Herb Coakley, knows firsthand the challenges of on-demand drivers because he is an Uber and Lyft driver. (Even as the company's CEO, he still drives a few hours a week). After on-demand driving for two years in Los Angeles, Coakley, who is also an ex-physicist and filmmaker, began thinking of ways to improve his own experience as a driver.
His top two frustrations were not being able to accept the most lucrative rides and the safety hazard created by constantly having to open and close the Uber and Lyft apps while driving. (According to CNN Tech, many drivers log into separate phones to increase their chances of receiving ride requests. And when drivers accept a ride from one app, they must then turn off the other app to avoid new requests from popping up.) This can translate to a lot of fumbling between devices and distraction from driving.
After a miracle encounter driving a Google employee and investor who loved Coakley's idea so much he invested $100,000 to develop it, Mystro now has 10,000 users. The company was also part of this summer's Y Combinator graduating class. So what does the Mystro app do? It solves both of Coakley's primary challenges:
According to the company, it increases what drivers' earn by 30%. How is that? By creating a pretty sophisticated app that seamlessly switches between the Uber and Lyft platforms and accepts only the best paying rides. For instance, Mystro can filter out less lucrative UberPOOL requests, rides that are more than 5 minutes away and ride requests from passengers with low ratings.
Since Mystro accesses both platforms at once and accepts optimal rides automatically, what results is a distraction-free experience where drivers can keeps their eyes on the road and their hands on the wheel.
The Mystro app was free until earlier this summer when Coakley began charging drivers $11.95 monthly or $99.95 for the year, which includes expedited tech support. A free version of the app remains, which gives drivers access to Mystro for 10 trips each week. So far, the Mystro app only works on Android devices.
SherpaShare
This service consolidates the earnings of on-demand drivers, who often drive for more than one employer. It also analyzes an individual's earning data and tracks tax deductible expenses, like fuel, car washes and mobile phone bills. And a robust company blog informs drivers about everything from local traffic tips to Uber's latest valuation and why it's relevant for them.
Compass App
By using historical and real time data, SherpaShare's Compass App directs drivers to optimal pickup areas after dropping off a passenger.
Tip Pass
Helps Uber drivers accept tips without cash or the need for passengers to enter in credit card information.
SherpaShare has a free trial period, but charges a membership fee for continued service.
Vugo
"Earn Additional Revenue from Each Ride," reads the homepage of Vugo, a Minneapolis-based company that's trying to get ads in front of passengers. In exchange for paid membership, Vugo provides drivers with a tablet used for tipping drivers that also displays targeted ads. Drivers get a percentage of the ad revenue.
Any service that helps people make money is bound to do well. As the number of on-demand drivers continues to grow, it's likely that we'll see other companies servicing this market.


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A: There's no way anyone could tell you what's causing this w/o any source code to look at. You might want to pre-transpile your code with babel, which could provide more meaningful error messages. See https://medium.com/@thorstensuckow/sencha-ext-js-beyond-es5-a0382916b7a6

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Kozjak Začretski je naselje u Republici Hrvatskoj, u sastavu Općine Sveti Križ Začretje, Krapinsko-zagorska županija.

Stanovništvo

Prema popisu stanovništva iz 2001. godine, naselje je imalo 250 stanovnika te 63 obiteljskih kućanstava.

Izvori

Naselja u Krapinsko-zagorskoj županiji

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145-я улица:
  — главная улица на территории квартала Гарлем на Манхэттене, Нью-Йорк.
 «145-я улица» — станция Нью-Йоркского метрополитена, расположенная на линиях Восьмой авеню, Ай-эн-ди, и Конкорс, Ай-эн-ди.
 «145-я улица» — станция Нью-Йоркского метрополитена, расположенная на линии Бродвея и Седьмой авеню, Ай-ар-ти.
 «145-я улица» — станция Нью-Йоркского метрополитена, расположенная на линии Ленокс-авеню, Ай-ар-ти.


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Lost in Space: Orphaned planet may help explain planet formation
By Robert Myles Nov 14, 2012 in Science
Using the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, astronomers have discovered an orphaned planet meandering through space without a parent star or solar system.
Free floating planets are not a new discovery. Scientists have known of their existence since the 1990s but what makes the new find so exciting is the relative proximity of the floating planet to Earth and the absence of any bright star close to it. This has allowed scientists to examine its atmosphere in great detail says the European Southern Observatory in a newly published report.
Up till now, it has been difficult to determine whether an 'orphan' planet was actually a brown dwarf star. A brown dwarf is a type of 'failed' star whose mass is insufficient to trigger the fusion reactions that cause stars to shine. More recent studies have pointed to there being huge numbers of these floating planets in our Milky Way galaxy, possibly as many as twice the number of main sequence stars.
The newly discovered object, designated CFBDSIR2149, appears to be part of a nearby stream of newly formed stars called the AB Doradus Moving Group. It was first detected by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, after which astronomers used the powerful ESO Very Large Telescope to examine it more closely.
The AB Doradus Moving Group is the closest such stream of stars to our Solar System. It has the characteristic of being a group of stars, thought to have been formed at the same time, drifting through space together. If it is confirmed that CFBDSIR2149 is part of the same moving group then it becomes possible to deduce a lot more about it such as its temperature, mass and atmospheric composition. Should CFBDSIR2149 be confirmed as associated with the AB Doradus Moving Group this would indicate the mass of the planet to be approximately 4 to 7 times the mass of Jupiter, with an effective temperature of approximately 430 degrees Celsius. The planet's age would be the same as the moving group itself, between 50 and 120 million years.
CFBDSIR2149 is the first planet sized candidate astronomers have so far found likely to be part of a moving group and this is why the discovery is generating such interest.
Astronomers believe free-floating objects like CFBDSIR2149 form either as normal planets ejected from their original solar systems or as solitary objects in space. Says Philippe Delorme of the French Institut de planétologie et d'astrophysique de Grenoble (Grenoble Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics), lead author of the new study, "Looking for planets around their stars is akin to studying a firefly sitting one centimetre away from a distant, powerful car headlight. This nearby free-floating object offered the opportunity to study the firefly in detail without the dazzling lights of the car messing everything up. These objects are important, as they can either help us understand more about how planets may be ejected from planetary systems, or how very light objects can arise from the star formation process. If this little object is a planet that has been ejected from its native system, it conjures up the striking image of orphaned worlds, drifting in the emptiness of space."
According to the European Southern Observatory, if it transpires that CFBDSIR2149 is not associated with the AB Doradus Moving Group it becomes more difficult to be certain of its nature and properties. It is possible it could be characterised as a small brown dwarf. Either way, its existence poses important questions about how planets and stars come to be formed and behave.
"Further work should confirm CFBDSIR2149 as a free-floating planet," concludes Philippe Delorme. "This object could be used as a benchmark for understanding the physics of any similar exoplanets that are discovered by future special high-contrast imaging systems."
Further information can be found in the ESO research paper enititled "CFBDSIR2149-0403: a 4-7 Jupiter-mass free-floating planet in the young moving group AB Doradus?" published today.
More about Solar system, Star formation, origin of stars, Astronomy, Astrophysics
Solar system Star formation origin of stars Astronomy Astrophysics planetology brown dwarfs CFBDSIR2149 orphan planet AB Doradus Moving Gr... Exoplanets New planets


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namespace DI\Bridge\Silex\Test;

use DI\Bridge\Silex\Test\Fixture\Controller;
use DI\ContainerBuilder;
use Silex\Provider\ServiceControllerServiceProvider;
use Silex\Provider\SwiftmailerServiceProvider;
use Silex\Provider\TwigServiceProvider;
use Silex\Provider\UrlGeneratorServiceProvider;
use Swift_Events_SimpleEventDispatcher;
use Swift_Mailer;
use Swift_Transport_NullTransport;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Symfony\Component\Routing\Generator\UrlGenerator;

class ProvidersTest extends BaseTestCase
{
    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function test_twig()
    {
        $builder = new ContainerBuilder;
        $builder->addDefinitions([
            // Create an alias so that we can inject with the type-hint
            'Twig_Environment' => \DI\get('twig'),
        ]);
        $app = $this->createApplication($builder);

        $app->register(new TwigServiceProvider(), [
            'twig.path' => __DIR__ . '/Fixture/views',
        ]);

        $app->get('/', function (\Twig_Environment $twig) {
            return $twig->render('foo.twig');
        });

        $response = $app->handle(Request::create('/'));
        $this->assertEquals('Hello', $response->getContent());
    }

    /**
     * @see https://github.com/PHP-DI/Silex-Bridge/issues/3
     * @test
     */
    public function test_url_generator()
    {
        $builder = new ContainerBuilder;
        $builder->addDefinitions([
            // Create an alias so that we can inject with the type-hint
            'Symfony\Component\Routing\Generator\UrlGenerator' => \DI\get('url_generator'),
        ]);
        $app = $this->createApplication($builder);

        $app->register(new UrlGeneratorServiceProvider());

        $app->get('/', function (UrlGenerator $urlGenerator) {
            return $urlGenerator->generate('home');
        })->bind('home');

        $response = $app->handle(Request::create('/'));
        $this->assertEquals('/', $response->getContent());
    }

    /**
     * @see https://github.com/PHP-DI/Silex-Bridge/issues/3
     * @test
     */
    public function test_mailer()
    {
        $builder = new ContainerBuilder;
        $builder->addDefinitions([
            // Create an alias so that we can inject with the type-hint
            'Swift_Mailer' => \DI\get('mailer'),
        ]);
        $app = $this->createApplication($builder);

        $app->register(new SwiftmailerServiceProvider, [
            'swiftmailer.transport' => new Swift_Transport_NullTransport(
                new Swift_Events_SimpleEventDispatcher
            ),
        ]);

        $app->get('/', function (Swift_Mailer $mailer) {
            $message = \Swift_Message::newInstance();
            $mailer->send($message);
            return 'OK';
        });

        $response = $app->handle(Request::create('/'));
        $this->assertEquals('OK', $response->getContent());
    }

    /**
     * @see https://github.com/PHP-DI/Silex-Bridge/issues/7
     * @test
     */
    public function test_service_controller_service_provider()
    {
        $app = $this->createApplication();

        $app->register(new ServiceControllerServiceProvider, [
            'service.controller' => new Controller,
        ]);

        $app->get('/{name}', 'service.controller:hello');

        $response = $app->handle(Request::create('/john'));
        $this->assertEquals('Hello john', $response->getContent());
    }
}

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I hadn't been to Catterick Bridge racecourse for about 25 years. My previous experiences weren't particularly positive.
"….Catterick was worse. The track was surrounded by towering piles of unwanted spoil from the adjacent quarries carved disrespectfully out of prime Yorkshire moorland. An ugly, crusty and polluted lake covered much of the inside of the track which served to encourage the feeling of dereliction. It was a hole of a course with no facilities to speak of. I stumbled across a gem of a book called 'Cope's Racegoers Encyclopaedia 1962'. Leafing through its mottled pages I discovered that 'in January 1961 Catterick Bridge opened a £30,000 new stand which provides facilities previously undreamed off at this small Yorkshire course'. That must have been the twisted pile of rusty iron and crumbling grey brick that I could see across the track. The intervening 27 years had not been kind.
We used to populate a brick outhouse construction in the silver ring where we partook of fizzy keg bitter, traditional for the time (long before widgets had been thought of) from a dirty pump dispensing beer and Legionnaires Disease in equal measure. The only food to be had was a hot dog/burger van outside the bogs. I had had enough of burgers one desperate Friday afternoon so I asked the bored 'sales assistant' for a cheese sandwich as advertised. The guy took one of his burger buns, slapped in a sliver of plastic unmelted dairylea and charged me £1.50 of my hard-granted wedge! I was appalled.
Despite my grumpy response, it was clear that the track had come to be held in fair regard by local trainers at least, and evidently by yards further afield as well. The time had arrived for a grudging repeat visit.
We picked the track's first jumps meeting of the season and I steeled myself for Class 6 three-runner novice chases viewed from broken plastic chairs.
3rd December dawned crisply clear and frosty. I was at King's Cross by the time weak daylight hit the northbound rails and at that point I did have a quick shufty at the Racing Post site to confirm that the cold night hadn't jeopardised the fixture.
The RP also showed me that the races were pretty healthy fields of between 9 and 16 (apart form a 7 runner novice event) across a mixed card of hurdles, chases, bumpers and handicaps. Not much wrong with that. And I also spied that Nicky Henderson had sent up an expeditionary force of three novices to wick away some modest Yorkshire prize money.
Having blatantly set myself up for the inevitable climb down, I'm secretly delighted to report that first impressions of the track were considerably more favourable than on my last visit. I blame the sunshine. It flooded the venue with spirited rays and threw the surrounding northern fells into glorious sharp relief. The old grandstands may not have had any structural investment for many a long year, but at least they had had a lick of paint which gleamed and reflected back the light for all it was worth. The bright weather had bestowed a cheery disposition on the ticketing manager too. She supplied my outstanding-value punters package from her snug office with a smile and fine welcome: 22 quid for a grandstand ticket, the dish of the day in the café, a pint, a Tote bet and a racecard. Dad and Bruv eyed my stash enviously.
Inside, the stands had been dragged into the 21st century. Comfy chairs, bench seats and carpets replaced formica tables and broken bucket seats. The beer was a passable pint of Tetley's and the dish of the day was chilli and rice. I was happy. Until I saw the pies. We had noticed people obviously queuing by the bar, but not buying anything. Then surly Sandra (she needed to get out into the sunshine) brought in a tray piled high with crusty fare. "Pies are here now!" she announced and began fulfilling the orders of those in the well-behaved procession. We all looked longingly at the firm, round meat and potato, beef and onion and chicken offerings. Though perhaps less longingly at the puce-coloured accompaniment of indeterminate state somewhere between mushy peas and East End liquor, ladled on top of the pies. The green gunge didn't particularly appeal but I really wish I'd saved my token for one of those fine looking pies. On visual evidence I'd say better than Twickenham last week, but not quite as good as Neil Young in the Summer.
We all had winners. Sue Smith, whose horses "always improve for a fence" according to Bruv had a good day with her novice chasers. I was on the right side of Oorayvic in the 2nd race. She also had Grate Fella later who won powerfully at a staggering 10-1. The market was made by Henderson's Cocktails At Dawn, who went off odds-on, fell and then ran through the running rail after the line. He bucked and kicked a bit but seemed fine when the stable staff collared him. Hendo's other two runners were also well backed but neither made the frame.
Dad and Bruv both struck in the lucky last: After Tonight looked good in the bumper. We all took away this improver from the mercurial David O'Meara as one to watch. But probably only around the northern circuit.
None of us were as fortunate as a Scottish guy sat next to us in the bar though. Cooking Fat, a flashy chestnut, won the juvenile novice hurdle in much better style than his odds of 66-1 suggested. Medicine Hat, at the same price, followed him home. This bloke had contrived to combine them in a minimum stakes exacta, paying out at 701-1. He was more shocked than jubilant. The good ladies in the Tote booth had to fleece all the other Tote windows at the track, empty the manager's safe and rummage around the stashes in their knickers to settle his bet.
I reflected on a top day as I stood on the southbound platform back at Northallerton, watching the sun dissolve out of an orange sky above the goods line. Catterick has come far. My opinion of this well-appointed, comfortable track with entertaining, competitive racing had risen immeasurably, as it was always destined to do. The over-riding feeling was of a friendly, informal venue. Emblematic was David O'Meara, welcoming back horse and rider into the winners enclosure and yet having time to acknowledge the genuine greetings and well-wishes from departing racegoers.
And as I climbed aboard the Euston express, I recognised the sentiments, if not the reality, of a crusty farmer sat on the terracing of that 1961 grandstand, belly hanging over his worn cords like Kilnsey Crag. He could have been there since its construction. He said to an accomplice, "Well, I've never left Yorkshire meself. Not in all maa born days. Never seen t'need to, to be honest with 'e".
Three days later I was at the other end of the scale for the boys' annual Sandown Tingle Creek trip. The fixture was blessed with the same winter sunshine as Catterick, but otherwise the venues inhabit different universes. This fixture is a perennial seasonal highlight, even if it was lacking in the depth of quality seen in previous years. I'm not sure what my crusty farmer would have made of the hen parties, mulled wine and lairiness, but thank heaven there is room for both worlds in the fixture list.


I used Hometown Greetings Thinlits dies to create this card attaching them over a sponged circle. A sun was added along with some smoke from the chimneys. A portion of one of the sentiments from the Hometown Greetings stamp set was added in Pumpkin Pie ink to finish the card off.
Hey, Jacqueline! So glad you joined us! Your card is wonderful. I like the scene - so sweet! Thanks for playing along with us at CC&S!
Beautiful CAS design! The simple scene is just perfect. Thanks for joining us for this week's Color Throwdown!
I really like your unique take on our sketch! It's good to see you joining us at CC&S. :) Hope you're feeling much better by now!
So cool! I love your CAS design! I'm so glad you joined us at the Color Throwdown this week!


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Tag: Kak
Listen to the Colour of Your Dreams: Part Six
The United States of America, 1968. Back, left–right: Joseph Byrd, Dorothy Moskowitz, Gordon Marron; front, left–right: Ed Bogas, Craig Woodson, Rand Forbes.
Concluding the psychedelic mega-mix based on Jon Savage's list of "100 mind-expanding masterpieces" (see this post). The last of the six mixes is the third visit to the USA, and features songs from the years 1968 to 1969 arranged in chronological order. As before, the selections from the Savage 100 are in bold, and I've added notes about my additions or amendments.
The most notable deviation from Savage's list in this final collection is the substitution of Lothar and the Hand People for two other groups combining psychedelic music with electronic sounds, Fifty Foot Hose and The United States Of America. Lothar and the Hand People were so named because of their use of theremins; they're often described as electronic pioneers but I've never liked their music very much or thought it was as inventive as people claim. Fifty Foot Hose and The United States Of America are better on all levels, the self-titled USA album is a masterpiece that proved an inspiration for Portishead (listen to Half Day Closing) and Broadcast.
Savage ended his UK list with Can't Find My Way Home, a song that captured the come-down feeling after the psych fireworks were over. The US list lacked an equivalent resolution, hence the choice of Wooden Ships; where Blind Faith's lament is a personal one, Jefferson Airplane offer something more global, a pessimistic vision of the future that you can tie to all the other crashing dreams of 1969. It's also a great song, and a fitting way to bring everything to a close.
US Psychedelia, Part Three by Feuilleton on Mixcloud
Radio news — Grateful Dead drug bust
The Grateful Dead — That's It For The Other One
Nazz — Open My Eyes (The first single by a band with Todd Rundgren on guitar, and another song from the original Nuggets collection.)
Iron Butterfly — In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Fifty Foot Hose — If Not This Time (One of several songs whose unusual chord progressions—some of them inspired by Schoenberg—set them apart from their contemporaries.)
Steppenwolf — Magic Carpet Ride
The Steve Miller Band — Song For Our Ancestors
The United States Of America — The Garden Of Earthly Delights (A paean to poisonous love with a title borrowed from Bosch.)
Tommy James And The Shondells — Crimson And Clover
White Lightning — William
Spirit — Dream Within A Dream
Skip Spence — War In Peace
The Youngbloods — Darkness, Darkness
Kak — Electric Sailor
Kaleidoscope (US) — Lie To Me (A last nod to the psychedelic sound from an album very aptly entitled Incredible!)
The Grateful Dead — Mountains Of The Moon
Jimi Hendrix — The Star Spangled Banner
Jefferson Airplane — Wooden Ships
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Listen to the Colour of Your Dreams: Part Five
• Listen to the Colour of Your Dreams: Part Four
• Listen to the Colour of Your Dreams: Part Three
• Listen to the Colour of Your Dreams: Part Two
• Listen to the Colour of Your Dreams: Part One
• What Is A Happening?
• My White Bicycle
• Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
• Tomorrow Never Knows
• The Dukes declare it's 25 O'Clock!
• A splendid time is guaranteed for all
Author JohnPosted on February 9, 2015 February 9, 2015 Categories {music}, {psychedelia}Tags Blind Faith, Broadcast (group), Fifty Foot Hose, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Jon Savage, Kak, Kaleidoscope (US), Lothar and the Hand People, Nazz, Portishead, Skip Spence, Spirit (group), Steppenwolf (group), The Grateful Dead, The Steve Miller Band, The United States of America (group), The Youngbloods, Tommy James And The Shondells, White Lightning3 Comments on Listen to the Colour of Your Dreams: Part Six


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Supplemental: From the Trans-Pacific Partnership to the role of race at UT!
Also, Bessie Jones meets Hobart Smith: Given the way our up-country journalism works, does anyone ever understand any policy issue?
For example, could you explain the issues involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership in any way at all? There have been very few attempts to explain what that whole thing's about—or to explain why Obama is siding with the congressional GOP more than with his own party.
Over the weekend, we took the obvious step. We reviewed what Krugman has said about the TPP in his columns and on his blog.
Some day soon, we'll show you what Krugman has said. (We were a bit surprised.) In the meantime, let's admit it. None of us understands the TPP, and no one is making the slightest attempt to explain the relevant issues.
Second issue: Obamacare.
We don't intend what follows as a criticism of President Obama. But we're often struck by the way the liberal world seems to have settled regarding this general topic.
We're so old that we can remember when President >Clinton tried to create a national health care program or something of that sort. No one ever understood that program either, but it seems to us that the original goal was something like "universal coverage."
Twenty-two years later, the Supreme Court saved Obamacare's bacon last week. That said, we still aren't hugely close to universal coverage; we still spend two to three times as much on health care, per person, as other developed nations spend; and we watched Ezekiel Emanuel on C-Span last weekend telling a caller why the deductibles in Obamacare are so darn high.
Is it just our imagination? Or, judged on a global basis, is this a comically awful program, even after all these years?
(Some day soon, we'll show you the Q-and-A with Emanuel.)
Third issue: affirmative action procedures at the University of Texas.
In this morning's New York Times, Adam Liptak reports on the Supreme Court's decision to review UT's affirmative action admissions program again.
Liptak's front-page report struck us as perhaps a bit propagandistic, and perhaps a bit poorly explained to boot. After reading it, we don't even feel clear about which part of UT's admission procedure will be under review.
In this passage, Liptak describes the current admission procedure, which has two basic parts:
LIPTAK (6/30/15): Most applicants from Texas are admitted under a part of the program that guarantees admission to top students in every high school in the state. (This is often called the Top 10 program, though the percentage cutoff can vary by year.)
The Top 10 program has produced significant racial and ethnic diversity. In 2011, for instance, 26 percent of freshmen who enrolled under the program were Hispanic, and 6 percent were black. Texas is about 38 percent Hispanic and 12 percent black.
The remaining Texas students and those from elsewhere are considered under standards that take account of academic achievement and other factors, including race and ethnicity. Many colleges and universities base all of their admissions decisions on such "holistic" grounds.
Later, Liptak describes the Top 10 program as "race-neutral," implying that it won't be under review. Here's the problem:
If we understand the matter correctly, the Top 10 program was adopted in part to produce racial diversity. Among various theoretical downsides, it can have bad consequences for ambitious black kids and for diversity in Texas high schools. (In theory, it could give black kids a reason to stay in all-black high schools instead of transferring to more challenging magnet schools, where they might not end up in the top ten percent.)
We didn't think that Liptak's report was especially clear. For that reason, we had the analysts file "UT admission procedures" in the drawer with TPP and O-care.
Our national discourse is a daily ridiculous mess. This fact, though, may be hard to discern, given the platforms from which our journalists and our professors perform.
Those high platforms may convey the sense that the moral and political intelligence resides in Gotham and DC, not in the Carolina low country, where people talk love and forgiveness and may even lapse into Gullah.
Do yourselves a favor! Imagine the possibility that those families in Charleston may know more about various things than their condescending city-dwelling cousins, who pushed back against them last week.
Why not take a trip on that old gospel ship! For more on the so-called "Lowcountry clap," you can examine a book from the Duke Books Scholarly Collection, Talking to the Dead: Religion, Music, and Lived Memory among Gullah/Geechee Women.
The low-country clap is explicitly mentioned. Readers, we're just saying!
Ranging a bit further afield, our personal preference, even in music, is for so-called black and so-called white together. For that reason, we offer this link, in which the Georgia Sea Island Singers engage with Hobart Smith.
Our up-country ways may not be all that. Except when we're doing the telling!
Posted by bob somerby on Tuesday, June 30, 2015
This has to be one of the worst bloggers online.
This has to be one of the worst commenters online.
Pee-Wee June 30, 2015 at 7:21 PM
I agree. The things that are said online on this blog are beyond the pale and worst.
The posts and what is said are what the howlers are. Not the other ones he talks about.
AC/MA July 1, 2015 at 12:08 PM
Anon 7:07, here I am stuck reading this blog, which is one of the worst on-line. What blogs do you recommend?
If you really want to know why TPP is a bad idea, go to Beat the Press and avoid this yahoo.
CMike June 30, 2015 at 9:16 PM
Really, an insult is all you have to add to this discussion- and you thought you'd take the time to hurl it?
Krugman said [LINK]::
[QUOTE] Dean Baker takes me to task over the Trans Pacific trade deal, arguing that it's not really about trade — that the important (and harmful) stuff involves regulation and intellectual property rights.
I'm sympathetic to this argument; this was true, for example, of DR-CAFTA, the free trade agreement with Central America, which ended up being largely about pharma patents. Is TPP equally bad? I'll do some homework and get back to you. [END QUOTE]
Dean Baker had said [LINK]:
[QUOTE] I've got to take some issue with my friend Paul Krugman over his blog post pronouncing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) no big deal. As a trade question he is undoubtedly right. The countries in the pact are ones with whom the United States already has extensive trade ties and generally low barriers. Eliminating or reducing the remaining barriers cannot possibly have much impact on the U.S. economy.
However it is a misunderstanding to see the TPP as being about trade. This is a deal that focuses on changes in regulatory structures to lock in pro-corporate rules. Using a "trade" agreement provides a mechanism to lock in rules that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to get through the normal political process.
To take a couple of examples, our drug patent policy (that's patent protection, as in protectionism) is a seething cesspool of corruption. It increases the amount that we pay for drugs by an order of magnitude and leads to endless tales of corruption. Economic theory predicts that when you raise the price of a product 1000 percent or more above the free market price you will get all forms of illegal and unethical activity from companies pursuing patent rents.
Anyhow, the U.S. and European drug companies face a serious threat in the developing world. If these countries don't enforce patents in the same way as we do, then the drugs that sell for hundreds or thousands of dollars per prescription in the U.S. may sell for $5 or $10 per prescription in the developing world.... [END QUOTE]
Krugman now says [LINK]:
[QUOTE] The fact is that at this point trade is fairly free, and estimates of the cost of protectionism from standard models are quite small. Trade restrictions just aren't a major drag on the world economy these days, so the gains from [any further] liberalization must be small....
Leaked documents suggest that the US is trying to get radically enhanced protection for patents and copyrights; this is largely about Hollywood and pharma rather than conventional exporters. What do we think about that?...
Well, we should never forget that in a direct sense, protecting intellectual property means creating a monopoly – letting the holders of a patent or copyright charge a price for something (the use of knowledge) that has a zero social marginal cost. In that direct sense this introduces a distortion that makes the world a bit poorer....
You might try to argue that there is a US interest in enhancing IP protection even if it's not good for the world, because in many cases it's US corporations with the property rights. But are they really US firms in any meaningful sense? If pharma gets to charge more for drugs in developing countries, do the benefits flow back to US workers? Probably not so much.... [END QUOTE]
Michael from Baltimore June 30, 2015 at 8:30 PM
this may help with UT: http://www.propublica.org/article/a-colorblind-constitution-what-abigail-fishers-affirmative-action-case-is-r
It is a good discussion of the case Michael for those who want more information than the New York Times article provides.
The New York Times article, however, is quite clear, and the lack of clarity and propaganda are primarily from the blogger.
For example, the blogger writes:
"Later, Liptak describes the Top 10 program as "race-neutral," implying that it won't be under review."
Liptak implied nothing. He said this:
"The question in the Texas case was whether the flagship state university was entitled to supplement its race-neutral Top 10 program with a race-conscious holistic one."
He stated clearly the only aspect of the admissions program under review by the court is the holistic supplemental program.
He did not "describe" the Top 10% program as race neutral he stated it as fact, because it is. It is a state law. High school class ranking is the only criteria used for admission.
The propaganda comes from Somerby when he offers his "theory" of the harm to black students the Top 10% law could do in attracting them to high school diversity programs such as "magnet schools." Magnet schools were themselves "theoretical" constructs to attract whites to diversify otherwise minority high schools in place of forced busing. Magnet schools in practice often create two segregated programs with little interaction between white students and minority students on a single campus.
The humor of Somerby's misguided theorizing can be found in recalling his long series sugesting segregated schools such as D'Leisha Dents in Tuscaloosa were not that bad due to segregated housing programs and the lack of white students.
Heck, liberals were silly to worry that these schools didn't have advanced classes because the kids couldn't pass them. Now he worries the smart black kids in such Texas schools will stay there and miss out on transfers to magnet schools so they can get into a four year college.
David Neuschulz June 30, 2015 at 8:41 PM
Bernie Sanders addresses this quite directly. He is still pushing for universal coverage and a right to care.
I would imagine HRC, one of the original architects of universal care, still favors it too. She did in 2008.
Real simple then, HRC could state she is unequivocally in favor of Medicare for All. Or the cultists can just assume in her heart there are all sorts of wonderful things she wants to do but, given the givens, she can't advocate for them in this lifetime because she has more important things to do like get herself elected, then re-elected, and then do further good by maintaining her viability as an elderly serious person.
So far, she is the only candidate who actually tried to implement single layer. I don't think she's the one who has to prove her sincerity.
CMike July 1, 2015 at 12:07 AM
...she is the only candidate who actually tried to implement single [payer]...
I'm not sure what you mean by that. First Lady Clinton's plan was layered, that's for sure, but multi-layered [LINK]:
[QUOTE] Elements of Reform
Clinton's plan, the Health Security Act, called for universal coverage, employer and individual mandates, competition between private insurers, and was to be regulated by government to keep costs down. Under managed competition private insurers and providers would compete for the business of groups of businesses and individuals in what were called "health-purchasing alliances". Every American would have a "health security card".
Congressional Environment
Congressional leaders waited as the Health Care Task Force, chaired by First Lady Hillary Clinton and managed by presidential aide Ira Magaziner, processed the input from 34 closed working groups comprised of over 600 experts, aides, and officials. Not until after the budget was passed were copies of the complex plan shared and presented by the president before a joint session of Congress in September 1993.
While the Democrats held the majority in both houses, they were divided on some issues, including how to achieve health reform. They sponsored other NHI bills, including a single-payer bill backed by labor and various consumer and advocacy groups (Rep. McDermott and Sen. Wellstone) and a managed competition plan without universal coverage and price controls (Rep. Cooper)—both of which splintered the support of Democratic lawmakers, interest groups and the general public. [END QUOTE]
David in Cal July 1, 2015 at 12:33 AM
We now know that, despite the President's promises, ObamaCare didn't allow us all to keep our insurance or to keep our doctor, didn't cut costs, and didn't provide universal coverage. However, another problem is that the coverage is does provide may not be adequate.
My niece needs ObamaCare to cover her for Multiple Sclerosis. There is a very, very expensive medicine she takes which retards progression of this diseases. This medicine is not covered by ObamaCare.
CMike July 1, 2015 at 1:41 AM
Of course before ObamaCare people with Multiple Sclerosis selected from a myriad of reasonably priced private medical insurance plans which paid for the cost of any medication, no matter the price, and without the premiums ever rising from one year to the next faster than inflation. That's the way you remember it was back when Glorious Leader W was president, right David?
The indisputable fact is that people with serious preexisting medical conditions who need to rely on the private insurance market are spectacularly better off with ObamaCare than they were before it was mandated. They are the big, big winners from ObamaCare. (And, obviously, if your uncle is Dave in Cal, who, to hear him tell it, is getting more than he knows what to do with it in Social Security money, and you have Multiple Sclerosis you are certainly enrolled in the most suitable Platinum Plan every year. If that ain't cuttin' it, anything short of a Powerball win wasn't ever going to help you.)
AC/MA July 1, 2015 at 1:23 PM
D in C. I assume you knw that Obamacare derives from a Heritage Foundation plan. What's your or the GOP's plan for an alternative to Obamacare? How do you explain why in most other advanced countries, everyone is covered (even for nursing homes if I'm not mistaken); per capita health care expenditures are 50% or less than in the US; and the average life expectancy is greater than the US? I agree - Obamacare is deficient. What is needed is something like universal medicare. It almost sounds like you would agree...
cicero's blowup doll July 1, 2015 at 4:36 PM
Keep in mind that Reichwing morons like David in Cal believe the America's problems began in January 2009, that contrary to actual facts and statistics, healthcare in America was the best in the world before the implementation of the ACA, and that his miserable tribe had nothing to do with ACA's creation. Finally, if you keep track of this "thoughtful, sincere, and polite" scumbag's alleged family tree, the Duggars seem like a spinster couple.
What a consummate creep!
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Why the long face? Horsing around with History
The Romantic vision of cavalry during the Great War: 'Cavalry and Tanks at Arras, 1918' by Lieutenant Alfred Bastien
I'm not sure if this constitutes a recommendation or a warning, but last night Channel 4 showed a new World War I documentary entitled, 'War Horse: The Real Story'. This program is now available for viewers to watch again online, on 4 On Demand. If you are interested in a documentary that promises to tell the "extraordinary, moving story" of the horses used in the Great War, "beginning with the mass call-up of horses from every farm and country estate in the land", I suggest you take a look.
I caught a large chunk of the show last night. It does contain some interesting background information about the cavalry and the perils faced by these men and their horses, and some of the footage shown is certainly illustrative of the horrors of the war– a shot of the Hawthorn ridge mine exploding, for example. As far as it goes, there's some interesting and useful information here to give literature students a sense of historical context.
But… but. It's difficult to watch a documentary like this and not feel a sense of horror at the prospect of all the low-grade, uninspired documentaries about the Great War that will swamp our television screens over the next six years, as we mark the centenary of the war. The narration of the show, when not downright offensive, caught exactly the wrong tone in speaking about the war.
Offensive? Try this on for size, when talking about Passchendaele, one of the bloodiest of all the late battles of the war (please read with a softly mournful tone, as if telling a four year old that their pet guinea pig had just died): at Passchendaele, "the horses suffered equally alongside the men". Really. Really?
This was a statement of such cosmic ignorance and such utter lack of empathy with the subject in hand that I had to switch the television off immediately: I find this beats having to install a swearbox in the living room. So I don't know how the show ends. Sorry about that.
AS students who are reading the Jon Stallworthy anthology, however, will recognise from Herbert Asquith's 'The Volunteer' the show's nostalgic longing for a more honourable age of knights and chargers. Just as the general staff longed for a war of movement, this show longed for the First World War to be a completely different war to the one that was actually fought: one of heroes on horses making the decisive intervention. The program repeatedly showed romantic reconstructions of cavalry silhouetted against the setting sun: "horsemen, charging under phantom skies", indeed.
Of course, the First World War wasn't like that. The First World War was the end of the cavalry in modern warfare, for obvious reasons: a horse can't be armoured against enfilading machine gun fire, and works, at best, at roughly one horse power. Horses were, on the other hand, essential for transport and, at the end of the war, meat for starving peasants.
The argument that the documentary makes, that "the finest hour of the cavalry came in spring 1918 when – led by the warhorse Warrior – they checked the German advance before going on to help win the war" is, frankly, idiotic. On the contrary, the cavalry was an outmoded institution that no-one in the conservative British Army really knew what to do with, at least on the Western Front. The years of static slaughter during which, at each big push, hundreds or thousands of horse riders would hang about behind the lines waiting for signs of breakthrough, stands as an everlasting testament to the mental inflexibility of the general staff.
Similarly, our current fascination with the War Horse seems to be, in part, an attempt to substitute a romantic symbol for ugly reality. We better get used to this desperate revisionism in the years ahead.
Author G. M. GriffithsPosted on March 5, 2012 March 6, 2012 Categories Discussion, Historical Context, History, Military Strategy, Reviews, Television and RadioTags Cavalry, Channel 4, Documentary, Herbert Asquith, Television, The Volunteer, War Horse, War Horse: The Real Story5 Comments on Why the long face? Horsing around with History
The Game of War
Long ago, when the mighty Brontosaurus still roamed the earth, I went to an infants school in a small satellite town in south west London. There, at lunchtimes, we used to play a game of war. This thrilling game began with two kids linking arms and skipping through the playground, chanting, 'Who wants a game of war? War! Who wants a game of war? War! Who wants a game'- and so on, and so on. Kids would link arms with a boy (more rarely a girl) on either end, until finally a long, tenticular line waved its way across the playground. And that was it. Nobody actually ever played war. The tenticular arm would swing around until everyone got bored and went off to play football. We weren't a very bellicose bunch, to be honest. So much for the imaginations of children.
Why am I mentioning this? Well, a better planned Game of War is in the news this week. It's not the same game, of course. This war game dates back to 1890, when British school playgrounds really were school playgrounds, and a game of war probably meant boys setting up a maxim gun near the girl's toilets.
'The Game of War' was a military strategy game, based on an original German model known as 'Kriegspiel'. It was invented as a form of training for late Victorian army officers, and a version of it from around 1890 was on sale at Bonhams Auction House on Monday. As you can see, it's quite a box, containing incredibly detailed maps and slate playing pieces for either army– and costing between £1500 and £2000 it's a touch more expensive than a box of Monopoly. Using it, British officers perfected their military strategems and tactics in advance of war.
The Game of War, c. 1890
Or so they thought. In the event of war, the game was rather less useful than intended. As is well known, the First World War– on the Western Front, at least– was for the greatest part of four years a long seige of trenches, utilising machine gun emplacements, gas attacks, tanks and massive artillery shelling on a scale never before seen. The much-expected "war of movement"– that is, the rapid offensive or defensive movement across territory by cavalry or infantry, as at the Battle of Gheluvelt— was only seen at the very beginning and end of war. The Game of War only had six machine gun units for its entire gameplay. The officers who played the game were preparing for a war that would never take place.
At the end of the ninteenth century, military planners were looking backwards. They saw the comprehensive Prussian victory against France in 1870, where German troops finally occupied Paris, and imagined that the future promised the same. This retrospective attitude to war is reflected in some of the poetry at the beginning of the First World War: 'The Volunteer' by Herbert Asquith, for example, imagines a City clerk fantasizing about the picture book victories of Roman legionaries and medieval knights. Bored, he daydreams:
Thinking that so his days would drift away
With no lance broken in life's tournament:
Yet ever 'twixt the books and his bright eyes
The gleaming eagles of the legions came,
And horsemen, charging under phantom skies,
Went thundering past beneath the oriflamme.
Asquith's clerk, of course, decides to volunteer and is killed– lying "content", as the poet proclaims, "with that last high hour, in which he lived and died". Asquith wants the lesson to be that no matter how contemptible your job– and there is a patronising stink to his picture of the suburban commuter class– you too can live the glittering dream of knightly chivalry and imperial conquest. The remarkable complacency of the kind of culture that produced Herbert Asquith– and it's too, too relaxed attitude to death– finds a mirror in the strategic unreadiness of the armies of the First World War. It is unfair to use 20/20 hindsight to criticise those who could not see what the future was to bring, but it is hard not to judge harshly the backwards-looking, even nostalgic perspective of certain members of the officer class before the First World War.
Was anyone looking ahead, anticipating the dread forms that modern technological warfare would bring? Well, in literature, certainly. Way back in 1879 Jules Verne wrote a today neglected (because pretty dire) novel called The Begum's Fortune in which the inhabitants of a German city, Stahlstadt, build a new weapon to fire at a Utopian French City, Frankville. It is a form of artillery shell containing carbon dioxide that, when fired in a spread, will suffocate and freeze all beneath the barrage. Verne had been paying attention to the successful use of German artillery during the Franco-Prussian war; but his anticipation of the use of gas in the Great War was cannily accurate.
The second writer to grasp the shape of things to come was Verne's contemporary and close competitor for the title, 'Father of Science Fiction': H.G. Wells. Wells, in a visionary 1903 short story called The Land Ironclads, imagined an armoured vehicle that would later come to be called the tank. His great imaginative leap was to wonder if heavily plated battleships ('Ironclads') could be imagined fighting, somehow, on land: only the battle of Cambrai in 1917 would bring his fantasy into reality.
HG Wells playing 'Little Wars'.
And it is Wells, with his playful and aggressive imagination, that brings us back to the Game of War. For it was Wells who was the first man to bring the world of Kriegspiel into the living room, with his 1913 game book, 'Little Wars'. Wells famously loved games– visits to his house in Sandgate inevitably meant playing them, whether the visitors were adults or children. There's a line to be drawn from Kriegspiel to the Game of War to 'Little Wars', all the way to today's computer games, like 'Call of Duty'. War games are some of the oldest games there are: and I suppose, on some deep level, there might be something frightening about having them in our living rooms. Yet war games are about playing imaginatively with the highest stakes possible, but without the terrible consequences that actual war brings. It is The Game of War as an officer training tool, however, that shows the tricky middle ground between imaginative play and war: where a lack of imagination has profound consequences in not little, but Great Wars.
Author G. M. GriffithsPosted on December 18, 2010 January 13, 2017 Categories Battles, Games, History, Military StrategyTags H.G. Wells, Herbert Asquith, Jules Verne, Little Wars, Military strategy, Science Fiction, The Begum's Fortune, The Game of War, The Land Ironclads, The Volunteer, War Games1 Comment on The Game of War
The Volunteer – Herbert Asquith
Here lies a clerk who half his life had spent
Toiling at ledgers in a city grey,
With no lance broken in life's tournament
Yet ever 'twixt the books and his bright eyes
And now those waiting dreams are satisfied
From twilight to the halls of dawn he went;
His lance is broken; but he lies content
With that high hour, in which he lived and died.
And falling thus, he wants no recompense,
Who found his battle in the last resort
Nor needs he any hearse to bear him hence,
Who goes to join the men of Agincourt.
This poem tells the story of an office worker who has died in battle on the front. Once he was a frustrated clerk living a boring life, living out his heroic fantasies through books. Dying for his country he finds true satisfaction, having lived out his heroic dreams. Asquith wrote this poem in 1912 when working as a lawyer in the City [many thanks to the excellent blog Great War Fiction for correcting my own previous error and therefore an erroneous reading].
STRUCTURE: Written in a rather rigid iambic pentameter— obviously attempting a high-flown, elevated style— this is comprised of two octet stanzas of the same rhyme scheme, ABBACDCD.
'The Volunteer': this poem praises the noble death of a volunteer who chose to go and fight for Britain.
Herbert Asquith: Herbert Asquith was the son of the liberal British Prime Minister of the same name who led Britain from 1910-16.
"Here lies a clerk": the poem begins in the style of an epitaph for a clerk, or office worker.
"toiling at ledgers in a city grey": the office worker's life is boring and undemanding: as grey as the city.
"…no lance broken in life's tournament…": a picturesque metaphor for seeing action in war: medieval tournaments saw knights riding and fighting against one another for the approval of the king. A lance broken would mean defeat for the knight. The metaphor reflects the kind of romantic literature that the clerk obviously reads for amusement; the adventures of the Knights of the Round Table, and so on.
"ever 'twixt the books… The gleaming eagles of the legions came ": the clerk's imagination goes wild while reading the boring ledger books. Images of marching Roman legions distract him and so come 'twixt, or between the ledgers and his "bright eyes".
"horsemen… went thundering past beneath the oriflamme": the Oriflamme was the red battle standard (flag) of the French King's army. This is another reference to the Romantic medieval fantasies of the clerk.
"And now those waiting dreams are satisfied…": the second stanza is concerned with the fulfillment of the clerk's heroic fantasies on the field of battle.
"twilight to the gleaming halls of dawn": the half-lit spaces of the office are compared with the "gleaming halls" of the afterlife. The imagery of light and luxury expresses the contrast.
"His lance is broken: but he lies content…": The imagery here is of a knight defeated in a tournament. A lance was a long, large spear that the knight would bear as he rode on his horse. The broken lance means defeat in the tournament (in a curiously phallic image): by this euphemistic metaphor, the clerk has died in battle, but is happy ("content").
"Falling thus he wants no recompense": dying in this pleasing way, he needs no other compensation for losing his life.
"Nor need he any hearse…Who goes to join the men of Agincourt": No hearse (funeral car) is needed because the clerk lives on in name and glory. He is elevated to a place among the greatest historical heroes that have died in France for England: the men of Henry V, who though outnumbered defeated the French army on French soil at the Battle of Agincourt.
[ANTHOLOGY NOTE: The naive style of this poem means that it can be usefully compared with the work of Pope. This poem can also be compared with the attitudes expressed in Kipling's epitaph, 'Ex-Clerk' (p.214). As a mixture of patriotism, some little social snobbery and old-fashioned Romantic fantasy, it is a fascinating snapshot of the attitudes of some prior to the beginning of the war. The poem also references the great patriotic work of Shakespeare, Henry V: which retells the story of the victories of Henry V in France, which includes the Battle of Agincourt.]
Author G. M. GriffithsPosted on November 8, 2010 January 23, 2012 Categories Beginning of the First World War, Patriotism, Reactions to the Outbreak of WarTags Analysis, Herbert Asquith, Notes, Poetry, The Volunteer12 Comments on The Volunteer – Herbert Asquith
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"Sometimes friendship can't be explained." Film Mode Entertainment has debuted the first official trailer for a fun sci-fi indie comedy titled Mail Order Monster, which is the feature debut of producer-filmmaker Paulina Lagudi. The film is about a precocious young girl named Sam who is being bullied at school, and on top of that, her single father has just found a new girlfriend. To cope with her situation, she orders a a robot monster through the mail that promises to solve her problems. Hilarity ensues, and everyone learns some good lessons. Madison Horcher stars as Sam, and the cast includes Charisma Carpenter, Josh Hopkins, Emma Rayne Lyle, and Bill Billions. This looks like an amusing, good-for-all-ages fun time, and the robot monster looks so funky and goofy I can't help but smile whenever I see it. Check it out below.
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Growing up isn't easy for Sam (Madison Horcher). She's bullied at school and has trouble fitting in. She endures these struggles through her relationship with her dad, and her love of comics. Making matters worse, she's also getting a new stepmom! Desperate, Sam orders a robot monster through the mail that promises to solve her problems. But this friendly "Mail Order Monster" is more than she ever could have imagined. Mail Order Monster is directed by American producer-filmmaker Paulina Lagudi, making her feature directorial debut after a few short films previously. The screenplay is written by Paulina Lagudi and Marc Prey. For more details, visit the film's official website. Film Mode Entertainment will release Lagudi's Mail Order Monster film direct-to-VOD starting on November 6th this fall. Anyone interested in the film?


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Jacksonville State rolls past Eastern Illinois
Photo: Jacksonville State quarterback Zerrick Cooper (6) hands off to Tramel Terry during the Gamecocks' 49-22 victory over Eastern Illinois last Saturday (Oct. 13) in Jacksonville. (Mike Goodson)
By Mike Goodson/Sports Correspondent
The Jacksonville State Express continued to pick up speed last Saturday (Oct. 13), as the No. 7 Gamecocks rolled on towards the FCS playoffs with a 490-22 victory over Ohio Valley Conference rival Eastern Illinois Burgess-Snow Field.
Senior receiver Josh Pearson continued to re-write the JSU record book with three touchdown receptions. Pearson became the first Jacksonville State player since Josh Barge in 2015 to snag three touchdowns in a game. Pearson also tied Barge atop the single-season touchdown receptions list with his 11th of 2018. He has five regular-season games remaining to eclipse the record.
JSU (5-1, 4-0 OVC) swapped scoring drives with the Panthers for the first 30 minutes, but the Gamecocks scored touchdowns while holding EIU to three field goals as JSU led 21-9 at the half.
"We got off to a fast start and then it felt like we relaxed," said JSU head coach John Grass. "We didn't play as well after we got up 14-0. We kicked it into gear in the third and fourth quarters. We knew they were going to throw it every snap and they did (61 times). As the game went on, I think our depth took over. We played a lot of folks."
The Gamecocks' first two possessions resulted in touchdowns, and neither drive took more than two minutes. Eastern Illinois' best weapon in the first half was kicker Nick Bruno, who made field goals of 27, 40 and 36 yards to keep his team within striking distance.
The second half was practically all JSU, as the Gamecocks built a 35-9 lead by the end of three quarters. The Panthers scored a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns but the Gamecocks were too much for the visitors down the stretch.
The Gamecocks' 36th consecutive OVC victory moved them within three wins of tying the mark of 39 conference wins in a row by Duquesne in the MAAC from 1999-2006. Jacksonville State current mark is the longest current active streak in NCAA Division I.
Alexander Hollins had one touchdown against JSU's top-ranked defense but was held to 57 yards below his season average of 138.3 per game.
EIU (1-6, 1-3) recorded 365 yards from scrimmage yards but with just 15 on the ground on 19 attempts. It was the second straight week the JSU defense limited an opponent to less than one yard per carry. The JSU offense, meanwhile, now has scored at least 48 points in all its conference wins. The Gamecocks piled up 579 yards against the Panthers.
Grass was pleased with the standout play of Pearson.
"It's good to have a guy like that. He is a success story. He has paid his dues, and it is good to see him playing well. Josh is an amazing athlete who can stretch the field. He can go up and get the ball. It was good timing for us, and I think our other receivers are playing a lot better, as well. That whole unit is so much better, probably the best we have been in a long time."
The Gamecocks play three of their next four league games on the road, beginning with a trip to Cape Girardeau, Mo., to take on Southeast Missouri State (4-2, 2-1). JSU's next game at Burgess-Snow Field will be Nov. 3 against UT-Martin.


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New program offers a leg up for veterans (Editorial)
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The Chapel Hill Herald
...No doubt, administrators from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had all of this in mind, and more, when developing a new program that appears to offer great potential in many ways. The University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the state's largest insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, announced last week the creation of a two-year master's degree program that is geared toward medical sergeants in the military. The degree will prepare the sergeants to be physician assistants.
UNC Partners With Blue Cross, Special Forces To Help Military Medics
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UNC's School of Medicine is teaming up with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina to create a program that will help military medics continue to work in the healthcare field after they return from the army. Jaycee Burns Center Medical Director and UNC professor of surgery Dr. Bruce Cairns says the program is specifically geared toward medics who want to become physician assistants.
Gift to troops: Dust-free sinuses
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Late last summer, UNC Hospitals ear, nose and throat nurse Katie Sams was talking by phone to her husband, Alex, a U.S. Army reservist serving at Camp Leatherneck in southern Afghanistan, and noticed that he had nasal congestion. "He said they'd had a lot of sandstorms, and he was having trouble breathing because so much had gotten into his nose and sinuses," she said. The next day, she emailed Dr. Brent Senior, an ENT surgeon she works with, asking whether he thought the sales rep for the sinus rinse kits they used at the hospital might have a few extras they could send to the soldiers in Alex's unit.
Cohen to give address
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Myron Cohen, a physician and researcher who has spent the last three decades studying the transmission and prevention of HIV/AIDS, will speak at UNC Chapel Hill's winter commencement ceremony, continuing a tradition of members of the faculty delivering the December address. Chancellor Holden Thorp will preside at the ceremony for students who graduated in August as well as those graduating Sunday.
Study: Life Expectancy, Disability Up
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..."Those three big, big diseases are not just going to go away," said Mike Cohen, who heads global health research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was not involved in the studies. He says the report notes declines in HIV/AIDS deaths since 2006. Tuberculosis deaths are down nearly 20 percent as well. But the research highlights a major transition taking place worldwide, Cohen says.
UNC Health Care beginning to fulfill $40M Wake pledge
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The Triangle Business Journal
With its application to add 16 inpatient psychiatric beds at WakeBrook Center in Raleigh, UNC Health Care has taken a step toward fulfilling its promise to invest $40 million in providing mental health services in Wake County. ...UNC Health Care plans an additional investment of around $10 million for new outpatient services in that area, says Dr. Jack Naftel, vice chairman of the UNC School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry. That's in addition to the promised $30 million for new hospital services.
Painted cows being rounded up for auction
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Since August, about 80 fiberglass cows -- made up in paint, mosaics and other media -- have brightened the landscape of Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh. This weekend, the cows in the North Carolina CowParade will be taken off display and moved to Golden Belt in preparation to be auctioned to benefit N.C. Children's Hospital.
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Affidavit: Florida caretaker grabbed disabled man's throat, hit him in face; arrested on abuse charge
Florida caretaker accused of abusing disabled man
A Florida woman who worked with individuals with developmental disabilities is facing an abuse charge after she allegedly grabbed a patient's throat, shoved him, and hit him in the face multiple times – which was caught on surveillance video, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
PALM COAST, Fla. - A Florida woman who worked with individuals with developmental disabilities is facing an abuse charge after she allegedly grabbed a patient's throat, shoved him, and hit him in the face multiple times – which was caught on surveillance video, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
Chelsey Renee Payne, 30, of San Mateo, Florida, was arrested on Dec. 2, 2022, and booked into jail on a felony charge of abuse of a disabled adult, FCSO said in a news release. She has since been released from jail after posting bond, FCSO said.
According to FCSO, the incident happened on Nov. 21, 2022, at the Palm Coast Community Center in Palm Coast. At the time, Payne was employed by East Coast Habilitation Options, a group home agency. She was reportedly terminated over the alleged incident, according to the arrest affidavit.
Caretaker accused of attacking vulnerable patient
A woman who worked with individuals with developmental disabilities is facing charges after she was caught on surveillance video reportedly hitting a disabled person left in her care, according to deputies.
According to the affidavit, a woman who worked at the facility noticed that another employee – unknown at the time, but later identified as Payne – appeared to need help with a patient, and asked her if she needed help. Payne reportedly said no, but pointed to the playground when asked if she there was another staff member who could help her.
A short video released by FCSO appears to show a snippet of the alleged incident. Deputies said in the affidavit that Payne appeared "irritated" in the video, and that she was attempting to get the patient's attention, as he was drinking from a water fountain.
In the video, according to the affidavit, Payne attempts to grab the man's arm, but he pushes it away. She then grabs him by the throat. The man, again, pushes her arm away, the affidavit states. In the seconds that follow, Payne is accused of grabbing the man's throat again, and of hitting him in the face with an open hand.
(Photo via Flagler County Jail)
It's not clear what happened prior to the surveillance video that was released.
FCSO said it was able to identify Payne used "advanced technology" and the assistance of its Real Time Crime Center. She was booked into the Putnam County jail, and transferred to the Flagler County Jail, where she was released on a $7,500 bond.
"This supposed 'caretaker' clearly did not show any care or compassion while she was abusing a disabled person," Sheriff Rick Staly said in a statement. "We send our deepest sympathies to the victim and their family. I commend our Major Case detectives for quickly solving this case with initially very little information to go on."
The extent of the man's injuries was also not immediately known.


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Reliance Power Q3FY16 net profit rises 38% to Rs 352 crore
Reliance Power reported a net profit of Rs 352 crore in the third quarter of 2015-16, up 38% year-on-year, driven by higher generation.Rachita Prasad | ET Bureau | Updated: January 23, 2016, 09:45 IST
MUMBAI | Jan 19: Reliance Power reported a net profit of Rs 352 crore in the third quarter of 2015-16, up 38% year-on-year, driven by higher generation.
The company total income increased to Rs 2,666 crore in the December quarter, up 46% on year.
The company's Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project in Madhya Pradesh generated 8,158 million units operating at plant load factor of 93.3%.
The Rosa Power Plant in Uttar Pradesh generated 1,342 million units operating at an availability of 93%. Its Butibori Power Plant in Maharashtra, generated 1,022 million units, at 99.5% availability.
Reliance Power has operational capacity of 5,945 megawatts.
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Life of a Soldier, designed by social studies teacher Katie, challenges students to understand the personal stories of those who fought in World War I.
Formerly focused solely on World War II, the updated site now includes World War I activities. Teachers developed the activities following their participation in a professional development program to research a fallen servicemen and women. Trips have been to Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific. Each teacher's activity features a number of sources including videos, interactive sites, books, and historic photographs.
One of the new features on the site are "Teacher Voice" pieces for some activities. These provide a teacher's impressions on their experience with teaching the activity in their classroom and includes suggestions for adapting the activity according to time restraints or specific classroom needs. Activities offer different levels of challenge, adaptations, and methods for extension. There is also a a backpack feature that allows the user to bookmark items.
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On paper, the 11th Congressional district—the GOP's sole beachhead in otherwise blue New York City—looks ripe for the flipping. Despite its reputation as a Republican stronghold, Democrats actually enjoy a five-to-three enrollment advantage among active voters. Roughly a third of residents are union members, far ahead of city, state and national averages. President Barack Obama bested Mitt Romney there in 2012 by more than four percentage points. In 2014, Gov. Andrew Cuomo outperformed Republican challenger Rob Astorino inside its boundaries with close to 60 percent of the vote. And incumbent Congressman Daniel Donovan has sat for less than a year, and posted solid but unspectacular fundraising totals in the most recent filing period.
But when Mr. Donovan fought for the turf against Democratic Councilman Vincent Gentile in a special election last May, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the House Majority PAC—which share a mission of of turning red districts blue—refused to get involved. Part of that decision might have been the $3.6 million the two entities had dumped just six months prior into a failed effort to elect another Democratic councilman from Brooklyn, Domenic Recchia, to the seat.
Mr. Recchia challenged two-term Republican Congressman Michael Grimm, who was under a 20-count federal indictment for tax fraud. Mr. Grimm had virtually no national support from his party, and Democrats outspent him and his few remaining allies better than two-to-one. Mr. Recchia lost by 12 points. Mr. Grimm went on to plead guilty to a single charge of tax evasion and step down from his seat, and is currently serving time in federal prison.
Two years prior, when Mr. Obama carried the area, Democratic challenger Mark Murphy scraped within six points of Mr. Grimm, who was then already under investigation. Mr. Murphy was the son of former Congressman John Murphy, a Democrat who represented a differently drawn version of the district for two decades prior to his indictment for taking bribes from FBI agents disguised as Arab sheiks in the 1980 Abscam scandal. When he ran in 2012, the younger Mr. Murphy had never held elected office, and had recently moved into his father's basement after pursuing an unsuccessful acting career in Hollywood.
The Gentile, Recchia and Murphy defeats, and Mr. Donovan's all-but-assured 2016 victory, are part of a pattern: a pattern of ill-suited candidates, an idiosyncratic district and an incompetent national Democratic electoral apparatus that has failed to understand either.
A number of the seat's features don't appear on paper. Perhaps the most significant of them is the Narrows, the tidal strait dividing the heart of the district, Staten Island, from the fragments of Brooklyn grafted onto it. Countless family ties and the country's longest suspension bridge straddle the entryway to New York harbor, but political allegiances don't. Numerous Brooklyn Democrats, from Leo Zeferetti to Sal Albanese to Frank Barbaro to Steve Harrison to Mr. Recchia and Mr. Gentile, have aspired to the House seat. None have won.
"What we've learned is that a Brooklyn candidate is at a tremendous disadvantage," Mr. Yedin said.
Mr. Yedin worked as district director and campaign manager for Michael McMahon, the last Democrat to win the seat, whom Mr. Grimm unseated in 2010 after just one term in Washington. More recently, he helped Mr. McMahon handily dispatch Republican Joan Illuzzi to fill the Staten Island district attorney's seat that Mr. Donovan left empty last year.
In fact, Staten Island has no problem electing Democrats on the local level, as State Senator Diane Savino and Assemblymen Michael Cusick and Matt Titone could attest. But none chose to compete for the congressional seat either this year or last.
A Democratic insider told the Observer much of the borough's donor base was "burnt" from the Recchia-Grimm battle in 2014, and from Mr. McMahon's subsequent successful push to capture the D.A.'s office. Moreover, state legislators come up for re-election in even-numbered years, and New York law forbids candidates from running for two different offices on one ballot. This means Ms. Savino, Mr. Cusick and Mr. Titone would have to forfeit their present positions to embark on an uncertain campaign for the House—and each arguably exercises more influence in Albany now than they would in Washington as a freshman member of the Democratic minority in Congress.
Then there is another of the district's unquantifiable qualities: Staten Island's ingrained feeling of aggrievement, which grows out of its situation as an isolated suburban enclave tethered to America's largest metropolis, and out of the traumatic memory of the Fresh Kills landfill, where the city dumped other boroughs' trash for half a century. Related to that sentiment is the conservative inclination of the district's voters, which includes a large number of police officers.
The district is one of the last preserves of true Reagan Democrats: voters who picked their party affiliation in the 60s and 70s, who liked Bill Clinton but cast their ballots for Rudolph Giuliani in the 90s. The Democratic state legislators are popular and moderate enough to win re-election with little or no Republican resistance. But when Mr. Grimm challenged Mr. McMahon in 2010, he tied the president around the Democrat's neck. Two years later, he depicted Mr. Recchia as a pawn of Mayor Bill de Blasio.
"The election of Bill de Blasio and a far left agenda has made voters want a more moderate voice in Congress," said Jessica Proud, a GOP consultant who worked on Mr. Donovan's 2015 campaign.
Several sources told the Observer local politicos had misgivings about Mr. Recchia, whose house sat just a matter of blocks into the district and who had represented only a few slivers of it in the Council. Finding himself term-limited, the politician had publicly flirted with running for Brooklyn borough president and city comptroller before deciding he wanted to go to Congress. But the Democrat was a millionaire attorney with strong ties to Brooklyn real estate developers, and the DCCC embraced him instantly.
"They just care about how much money you can raise. They're not looking for viability. They're looking for candidates who can raise money. It's the first thing they ask you," a Democratic insider griped.
The national Democratic machine quickly deployed numerous consultants, operatives, pollsters and ad experts—many of them with minimal knowledge or understanding of the district or its people—to handle Mr. Recchia's campaign.
"Whenever you went into that office, they just looked at you like you were garbage," a Staten Island Democrat recalled.
The DCCC's emphasis on fundraising seemed to ultimately hurt the candidate, who did relatively little in the way of public appearances or outreach. Or, apparently, research on key local and national issues.
This culminated in Mr. Recchia's embarrassing, blundering response when asked about his stance on the Trans Pacific Partnership, which he seemed unable to describe beyond its initials—despite having just held an event about the massive trade pact with labor leaders. His humiliation went national when Jon Stewart dedicated a segment to the gaffe on the Daily Show. The lumbering Democrat seemed similarly ill-prepared to handle the agile Mr. Grimm in their debates.
The time Mr. Recchia invested in reaching out to contributors paid off in one way: he raked in $2.3 million for his bid. But, like the funds the DCCC and House Majority PAC pumped into the race, his campaign converted the cash into TV spots slamming the incumbent over his indictment.
The DCCC did not respond to requests for comment.
The unassuming Mr. Donovan did catch the public eye for a brief moment in 2014: when a grand jury he impaneled as Staten Island district attorney declined to indict the Caucasian cop who killed Eric Garner, a black man. But the controversy has receded from the memory of many in the 73 percent white district, or, frankly, was never a concern to begin with.
This year, the local party nominated as its candidate Richard Reichard, a retired civil servant and former president of the Staten Island Democratic Association club. A small, polite man with a mustache and slight stammer, Mr. Reichard speaks knowledgeably and passionately about key liberal policy concerns like campaign finance reform and global warming.
The Reichard campaign said it had had "conversations" with the DCCC. But New York's 11th was noticeably absent from the organization's list of targeted districts this election cycle.
Democrats the Observer spoke to described Mr. Reichard as "likeable" and "brilliant," but gave him small odds of defeating Mr. Donovan, even in a presidential election year.
"Barring something unforeseen, a scandal or something crazy, obviously, I think Donovan will win by 15 points," Mr. Yedin said. Several other sources, apparently without coordination, gave the same estimate.
Mr. Donovan, for his part, assured the Observer in an interview that he was not taking his re-election for granted.