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Measuring Residential Displacement in Portland
by Colin Kent-Dagget, Irvington Neighborhood
Gentrification became a crucial lens through which I viewed Portland after studying the history of Albina during high school. It became increasingly apparent after I left for college, as I see brand new buildings, boutiques, and bicycles every time I drove along Williams, Alberta, or Killingsworth. When my professor assigned an open-ended final project in my Geographic Information Systems class this fall, I decided to undertake a quantitative study of residential displacement in Portland to see if data would validate my perception of Portland's dramatic changes.
I borrowed categories and methods from Berkeley and UCLA's Urban Displacement project to measure residential displacement in two categories: gentrification and exclusion. Gentrification occurs when a working-class or vacant area is turned into a middle-class or commercial area, while exclusion occurs when upper-class neighborhoods become increasingly homogeneous—both racially and economically.
"exclusion occurs when upper-class neighborhoods become increasingly homogenous."
I used census data to measure changes in median income, home value, rent, total population, racial distribution, educational attainment, and the number of renters from 2000 to 2014. These various factors were weighed and combined to produce a map showing the distribution and severity of gentrification and exclusion across Portland's census block groups.
The clear patterns in the final map exceeded my expectations. In North and Northeast Portland, Alameda and Irvington are high-income and incredibly homogenous, a pattern that has spread to Alberta and even further North. St. Johns is also growing increasingly exclusive. The area that is gentrifying most intensely in N/NE—roughly between MLK and I-5—almost perfectly matches historically redlined districts.
Nearly all exclusion, whether in NE or SE, ends exactly at East 82nd. Unfortunately, much of the inner city, and in particular N/NE Portland, is already undergoing measurable or advanced residential displacement, emphasizing the need for policies that keep people in their homes. This project quantitatively validated my concerns about gentrification and exclusion in Portland and highlighted the decades-long legacy of racist housing practices and redlining.
Colin Kent-Dagget is an Urban Studies undergrad at Brown University, who grew up and, when home from school, still lives in the Irvington Neighborhood. For the full map (including more images and further analysis) can be found at https://imgur.com/a/Rr2xQ
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Elsie Iletta Mc Laughlin blessed him in the course of their 56-year marriage with 5 children.
Tami Sue was the first born, then followed Kerry Thomas, Mitchell Allen, Christina Mar Ann, and Amanda Amber.
Noel Martin Capdeville Noel "Spud" Martin Capdeville,78, was born March 19th, 1940 to Martin and Anna Marie (Carlson) Capdeville at the hospital in Opheim, MT.
He had a pair of heavy, horse-hair boxing gloves that are still a thrilling memento to the family.
As a summertime job, he went south to combine with custom cutter, Art Lawrence, in places such as Texas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska.
She worked in Sewing Room in Crosby, Continental Can Company in Chicago, Illinois and then was a hired girl for Henry and Glenda Gardner in Richland, where she met and fell in love with Frank Lasar. Agnes was a member of the Ladies Temperance Society, Nazarene Church, and then Seventh Day Adventist Church. She taught lots of children about the Lord, both at home and at church.
She married Frank on November 11, 1944 at Plentywood, Montana and the couple made their home in Richland, Montana (five miles south of Richland), in a two-room house. When it came to entertaining children she was amazing perhaps because she was a child at heart. She enjoyed cross-word puzzles and other types of word games.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Carl and Laura; her husband Frank Lasar; son Danny; half-brother Ken Monson; half-sister, Ella Holte, Verna Welsch and Aileen Reckner; brother Clair Monson; and sisters, Irene Armitage, Eleanor Globis, Marie Warwas and Lenora Pettit.
Agnes is survived by her daughters Lenora Kelly of Glasgow, Montana and Diane Mc Govern of Davenport, Washington; son Ken Lasar of Glasgow, Montana; brother Lloyd Monson of Citrus Heights, California; sister Stella (Vern) Challes of St.
Several years later, Spud went to work for Gordon Carlson as a self-taught carpenter.
During that time, he helped remodel and build new houses in Hinsdale, along with the log cabin and pole barn at the Heart Ranch.
Cloud, Minnesota; thirteen grandchildren; thirty great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.


Still from Big Hero 6. Photo Credit: Disney.
Disney gave fans a few years of uninterrupted Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, but that wasn't going to last forever. With a $4 billion cookie jar stuffed to the brim, with enticing plotlines and characters, sitting on the top shelf of their offices, how could they resist from creating more? Now with Big Hero 6, it's time to see what Marvel story-inspired films looks like outside the PG-13 world of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Based on the Marvel comic of the same name, Big Hero 6 focuses on Hiro Hamada, a 14-year-old orphan living with his big brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney) and his Aunt Cass (Maya Rudolph). Hiro, a technological genius, is introduced spending his time betting on and fighting in underground "Bot Battles." These opening scenes show the audience his teenage snark and skill with robotics. In addition, it also allows Tadashi to come in as a similarly skilled guardian and inspiration for the entire plot of the movie.
As much as Hiro acts the part of the main character, his big brother acts as the means to introduce the crime-fighting cast to each other, the villain, and motive for the plot to transition into an action-packed second and third act. He even creates Baymax, the inflatable robot Hiro adapts into a pseudo-Iron Man partner.
The relationship between Baymax and Hiro makes up the core of this movie. Created as a medical caregiver, Baymax's code guiding its decisions gives it the technical capacity to function much like Jarvis from the Iron Man series, dispensing moral advice at an increasingly frequent basis as the film progresses. His robotic lack of emotion plays very well with the emotionally chaotic Hiro as he becomes more dependent on Baymax's support and teamwork. The blueprint WALL-E laid out for how to create charming and relatable robots is in full effect, giving the supporting cast ample reason to care for Hiro's robot.
The supporting cast serves its purpose as the crime-fighting backup, equipped with suits that 'weaponize' their scientific skills. Tadashi first introduces Hiro to the team working in the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology lab, the school Tadashi hopes his little brother will join him at. Go Go Tomago (Jamie Chung), Wasabi (Damon Wayans Jr.), and Honey Lemon (Genesis Rodriguez) all possess considerable knowledge of each of their scientific fields that translate well into super suits. The final member, Fred (T.J. Miller), acts more like a mascot for the team, though he does have a suit of his own. His obsession with comics has him spouting theories about the bad guy, motives, and tropes found in most comic book stories. His knowledge and constant talk of comics, and tendency to comment on what the next plot point for the team can be, can get a little annoying at times. However, comedian Miller's voice acting manages to keep him endearing and worth keeping around.
Big Hero 6 follows Disney's pattern very closely, starting with the introduction of a happy youth, leading into loss that sends the main character into a depression. When something from his happier past shows up to kick him into gear, he then assembles his team to tackle the sinister enemy that needs to be stopped. However, discovering who his foe is throws a new problem that the supporting cast needs to help the hero overcome before facing off with the villain one final time. Even the hero and sidekick pairing draws inspiration from past Disney movies, including Frozen and Wreck-It Ralph, two movies developed by the same team behind Big Hero 6.
Despite the familiarity of the plotlines in Big Hero 6, the writers do a good job hitting the plot points so the movie never loses its charm and excitement. The diverse supporting cast avoids making jokes at the expense of their gender or background, something Hollywood needs more of, all while showing entertaining personalities and powers worthy of a Marvel title. Especially with the current cinematic proliferation of PG-13 superhero movies, it's good to see that Disney can still create a youth-focused offering. It's a fantastic movie that earns both the Marvel and Disney headings; though don't expect any jaw-dropping twists.
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Supreme Court Bingo, 2021 Edition
One of the little joys of June, for Supreme Court watchers at least, is a game I call "Supreme Court Bingo." Through it, we can get an idea of who is writing key opinions at the end of the court term and get a glimpse into the future of American law.
To understand how this works, one must understand the rhythms of the esteemed body. The superior court hears a set number of cases each month; After oral argumentation, the magistrates meet in their conference room, alone, to discuss and debate the cases. They vote, and then the superior judge in the majority assigns an author to the case. The Chief Justice is treated as the highest-ranking judge, thus John Roberts surpasses Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer even though they were appointed to the court before him.
This can have consequences. If you can find out who is writing an opinion, you know that the lawyer is in the majority. So if Sonia Sotomayor is in the majority, you can be pretty sure that opinion will not be very conservative. Similarly, an opinion of Thomas is unlikely to be far to the left. Also, you can tell us something about the tone and reasoning of the review. Thomas is not known for writing a narrow opinion; on a narrow result, you are more likely to agree than the lead author.
How do we find out the authorship in advance? The judges also do their best to keep the number of opinions uniform each month and during the period. As the term progresses and judges announce their opinions, the list of potential authors is narrowed for each remaining opinion.
The game is usually more fun than it will be in the current period, because the court usually dictates your most important decisions at the end. In this term, there is only one potential blockbuster left and one less important case that nonetheless has potentially important ramifications. However, it is still a worthy endeavor.
Five opinions remain to be issued. It turns out that if you assign one opinion to each of Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Barrett, one to Roberts, and two to Samuel Alito, you will end up with a result where Thomas has written seven opinions, Barrett has written five (she was not yet. ). on the court for the October arguments), and everyone else has written six. Also, you can do this by keeping roughly the same number of cases assigned each month.
The easiest case to solve is also the most significant: Brnovich vs. the Democratic National Committee. Because it is so important, we will come back to it later to discuss it in more detail. The only judges who have not written a February case are Thomas, Breyer, Alito and Brett Kavanaugh. Thomas has already presented seven cases in this term, so he is clearly not the author. Breyer and Kavanaugh have produced six. It is possible that one of them is writing Brnovich, if Alito lost his majority because someone changed his vote (either in this case or in some other case). But that's not the most likely outcome; Alito is almost certainly writing Brnovich. Again, more on this later.
Three opinions from April are still pending. Two of them involve patent law and an energy statute (called "FERC") and are of little consequence. The third, Americans for Prosperity Against Bonta, implies the constitutionality of donor disclosure requirements and could have far-reaching consequences for campaign finance law in the future. Neither Barrett nor Roberts have written a decision this month, which includes 13 total rulings; they almost certainly have two of these opinions, and Alito or Kagan have one.
Obviously, liberals would prefer Kagan to write the AFP decision. However, if one were to gamble, the smart money would probably be for her to write the patent law decision, if only because she has carved a niche on the court in that area. Regardless, whoever it is from Alito or Kagan who isn't writing a review in April is probably writing. Johnson vs. Guzmán Chávez, the only case left from january. This case involves the process to remove people from the US illegally and is relatively limited in scope.
Let's now go back to Brnovich, which is a potentially explosive opinion that requires a backstory to explain. There are two main aspects of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: Section 2 and Section 5. We can divide the laws revised under this statute into two general aspects: cases of vote dilution, which generally arise from redistricting, and cases of suppression of votes, arising from changes in voter laws (for example, Liberals present cases of photo identification laws as suppression of votes cases).
Section 5 requires certain states with a history of discrimination to seek federal permission before they can change laws or regulations related to elections. Partly because of this, the body of law surrounding vote suppression cases is not particularly well developed; the most far-reaching laws were stifled in the cradle (because each state must redistribute, we still have a good number of dilution cases).
When the Supreme Court struck down the formula for deciding which states would be covered by Section 5, states were given greater freedom to change their electoral laws. We've seen a proliferation of vote suppression claims in the last decade, with little guidance from the Supreme Court on what the appropriate standard would be.
Brnovich, which involves a couple of statutory provisions that prohibit the collection of ballots and require officials to reject ballots for state offices issued in the wrong precinct, gives the Supreme Court an opportunity to provide such clarification. Because there are relatively few precedents in this field, you also have a wide margin in the type of opinion that would be written.
Last week there were three potential authors for the opinion: Breyer, Kavanaugh and Alito. Had Breyer been the author, he probably would have written a very narrow and fact-specific opinion, perhaps reversing the Ninth Circuit (which repealed the Arizona statute in question) on procedural grounds, such as standing. But then he issued the opinion in Mahanoy Area School District v. BL, a case of the First Amendment, probably finishing its writing during the period.
All eyes were on Brett Kavanaugh then. Because you are a fairly minor judge, you will only be assigned the opinion. The speculation was that the Chief Justice might have assigned him an opinion that would be centralized, but perhaps fact-specific or limited in scope. But then Kavanaugh wrote his sixth opinion in TransUnion vs. Ramírez, probably finishing his writing during the period.
That left Sam Alito as the obvious potential perpetrator. Alito is one of the more conservative judges in a court with six center-right judges, and he has expressed frustration with Roberts's penchant for narrow decisions. Whatever you are writing about, it is unlikely to be limited.
The question, then, is simply as broad will be your opinion. There are a number of standards the court could announce for these claims, and Alito would not necessarily have to endorse the broader one. The boss may well have assigned you an opinion that supports a standard that is not acceptable to liberals, but does not give conservatives everything they want.
However, another possibility looms. Roberts might not be in the majority; Instead, we could see a 5-4 split, as we saw in some of the COVID-related religious freedom cases, where Justices Thomas, Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett form a majority, leaving the presiding judge to disagree. or write a narrower concurring opinion, perhaps united by the liberal bloc.
If the Chief Justice disagrees, Thomas would be the assigning judge, and he would probably be content to yield this opinion to Alito, who is probably the judge closest, ideologically speaking, to himself. In this sense, since the boss gets the first "dibs" in opinions, Roberts usually makes the most interesting cases for himself, especially when successful decisions about race are being broadcast. It seems unlikely that you will miss this case, although anything is possible.
Of course, there are other possibilities; Ultimately this is just informed speculation. Alito may have lost his majority, or he may be drafting an opinion for a highly divided tribunal of which he is the "author" in name only.
In general, we could make some reverse probabilities as follows: A 5% probability that Alito is not the author; a 20% probability that there is a very fractured opinion, of which Alito is the technical author; a 25% chance that Alito will write a 6-3 conservative opinion; and a 40% chance that you are writing a 5-4 "Katie-bar-the-door" decision.
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Executive Expertise: Strategic Positioning
Université de l'Illinois à Urbana-Champaign
Cours 1 de 7 dans Leadership et management stratégiques Spécialisation
In this course you will learn how organizations create, capture, and maintain value, and how it is fundamental for sustainable competitive advantage. You will be able to better understand value creation and capture, and learn the tools to analyze both competition and cooperation from a variety of perspectives, including the industry level (e.g., five forces analysis), and the firm level (e.g., business models and strategic positioning). •	Understand how managers coordinate different functional areas, resources, and systems inside a company and align them with the external environment to enhance overall performance •	Knowledge of strategic management tools and frameworks, and apply them to real business contexts Process diverse business and industry information to diagnose strategic issues, evaluate strategic alternatives, and formulate a coherent and actionable strategic plan •	How to think like a CEO, entrepreneur, or general manager. This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.
Strategic Management, Business Model, Strategic Thinking, Business Strategy
Excellent class! Highly recommended to anyone who wants to learn the basics of business strategy. Professor Somay is a subject matter expert and his lectures are wonderful. Many thanks!
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Module 4: Strategic Positioning and Strategic Renewal
The Strategic Positioning and Strategic Renewal module brings together the internal and external aspects of strategic analysis to formulate an overall strategy for the firm. You will learn about the two main "generic strategies" that businesses can pursue, which can be complemented by broad or narrow scope to yield four key types of strategic positioning. You will also learn about "dual" strategies and why and how a firm's strategy must be adapted to strategically renew its positioning.
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FieldGlass never positioned on a low price basis.
We were probably never the lowest price provider.
We were probably always in the top half,
maybe sometimes even one of the more premium priced offering.
But again, that's where we didn't want to get caught up in a feature war.
We would want to sell on the basis of the overall company,
including the platform and the people and the community that you're buying into.
So really important of the FieldGlass value proposition over time became when
you become a fields ask customer, you're not just getting a VMS, you're
joining this ecosystem of all these other FieldGlass customers which are your peers,
they're your peers in the world.
You're joining a group of other Global 2000 companies and
you're going to learn much more from them, and you're going to learn a lot from
us as we kind of create these community vehicles to bring everyone together.
There were always a few situations where we got into a feature type of war.
But I think the nature of what we did, and
the nature of our platforms, the comprehensiveness of it,
the duration of the sale, the stickiness of our platform once it was implemented,
we generally avoided trying to get into feature wars.
So we would try not to sell specific features or
sell against someone else's lack of a feature.
We would really try to position ourselves on kind of an overall offering and
say that, overall, even if we're lacking in a specific feature,
overall, our functionality is going to be superior and, over time,
our commitment to getting there is going to serve you as the customer.
So, it was important but we try not to make it the primary part of our sale.
We try not to do just a product sale.
We try to make sure that product was very much a part of it.
Ultimately they were buying a product, but at the end of the day,
if we compete on features, it would've just been much, much more.
Because someone is always going to have some better feature and some bell or
whistle than us and we're always going to have a bunch of better bells and
whistles than someone else.
So that kind of war,
that kind of sale process is just like it's almost a flip of the coin.
It just depends on what our product happens to be and
what happens to be important to people.
So, I think for us being able to sell on an overall commitment and say that,
look, you're really buying into FieldGlass as a company with a platform,
with a ecosystem that we bring to the table, our knowledge.
That's really what you're buying and
our commitment to continue evolving this product.
>> You certainly don't want to be in the undifferentiated middle.
And so we've taken the view, in terms of competitive advantage,
that, yeah, we want to be efficient, but we'll never be more efficient than Geico.
We'll never be more efficient than Geico.
Their cost structure is something to be in awe of.
And in terms of product innovation,
we'll probably not be as innovative in product as some
of the newer companies that are coming online inside this space.
So we're in the service space, and we're also in the value add space.
So really, when it comes down to it,
Country has at its disposal about every product that a client will need for
financial security, all the way from taking care of their home and
auto, taking care of their life needs in terms of any life events,
all the way to helping them plan and execute a retirement.
And so when we come to insurance, it's a price play now, and Geico,
Progressive, State Farm, they've all done a great job of making it a price play.
We can save you 15% in 15 minutes.
We can save you more in a shorter period of time.
Really kind of a race to the bottom.
And so what we try to do is,
is ensure that we hit our target market with the value that they need.
And so our target market quite simply is our households that have incomes-
that are middle income households, that have assets to protect but
also have income that they need to secure for the future.
So in all that, our value add is advice.
>> We're definitely focused on more differentiation
across different dimensions.
One is across transparency and
clarity of product, one is across ease of use, real time in nature.
One is across service and customer orientation.
One's across regulatory environment and scheme.
So we're never going to be the cheapest alternative that someone can find, but
we're going to provide great value and we're going to be super transparent.
So if somebody's never not happy with our service,
they can go and find that other service.
But we're going to try to provide so much value to the relationship and build so
much brand value with the customer, and hopefully that's our differentiation.
I think the challenge on the cost side always has to do with the fact that
not being a bank.
Banks just have a substantial cost advantage
due to the fact that their cost of capital is virtually zero in today's environment.
And so, if banks really wanted to play, they could probably win,
just on a pure cost perspective at least for some subset of customers.
>> We've probably been guilty of trying to be many things.
We're in commercial, we're in agricultural insurance, we do all kinds of products and
we've come to the conclusion that some things we shouldn't do for ourselves, so.
So some things we actually broker.
We sell products,
our financial representatives sell products we don't manufacture,
but how do you keep from weaving around because there is a call for price, right?
We're in a price-driven society for maybe entry into some products,
and there's a call out there.
Can we be efficient enough to be competitive?
But we never say we'll be the lowest cost.
We'll be close.
We expect our financial representatives and
their advice to be able to take us the rest of the way.
There's a challenge though of trying to be low cost, innovative and
have great service.
And to me, you'll end up in the undifferentiated middle.
If people can't say why they choose you, then they won't know why they're staying.
So, we go all the way to, can we have the highest levels of satisfaction?
And we do.
In terms of claims like JD Powers.
We're always up there in the very top with JD Powers,
on claims, auto, home, etc., we're always up there very high,
because of the fact is personalized service and a commitment.
But there is a tendency to want to wander away from that,
and to try do do more than that.
And I think you can do one thing world class, we try to do two things,
to do all three together you probably have to be Apple to do all three.
>> So overall value proposition of FieldGlass broke
down into very specific pockets of compliance,
quality, cost savings, and cycle time.
And so, different industries responded to different aspects of that messaging
depending on, really, what was most important to them.
So if you looked at before 2008, if you looked at the financial services firms,
and they were making huge margins, they didn't really care about cost savings.
They cared mostly about cycle time because for them being first to market or
being able to get something done faster was the most important thing to them.
So, they didn't care about savings.
>> And they were willing to pay a premium for that?
>> Absolutely.
They were willing to pay a premium both in the resources and
also the platform that could best, in their mind, deliver the resources.
If you looked at, let's say, natural gas, or
if you looked at gas, oil and gas industry or if you looked at the mining industry,
they cared entirely about safety and compliance.
So again, they were not really rate sensitive, and
they weren't really even cycle time sensitive.
They just wanted to make sure that compliance
was done because safety was the most important thing to them because lives were
at risk if things weren't done correctly.
And so every industry kind of had its own nuance.


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About Us – "Shoulder To Shoulder"
Our club was incorporated in 1963 and on March 14, 1986 we obtained our "Final Seal", which is effectuated by the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada, Dominion Command. That "Final Seal" document is framed and hanging on the wall in our Club Room. It was retyped below for ease of reading.
We, the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada, under and by virtue of the powers conferred upon us by Act of Incorporation being Chapter 70 of 78 George V. of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada by Amended Statutes authorizing us to establish Branches of this Association at any place in the Dominion of Canada,
REPOSING GREAT CONFIDENCE in the loyalty, integrity, prudence and good citizenship of the hereinafter described Veterans duly qualified to become Active Members of our Association, who have by their petition, supported by the Declaration of intention to become members of twenty five other qualified Veterans as required by the Constitution, asked that a Branch of the Association be established in their midst.
HAVE BY RESOLUTION of our Governing Executive passed the First day of June 1937.
CONSTITUTED AND BY THESE PRESENTS DO CONSTITUTE, William Bayliss, L.H. McCabe, F. Gardner, F. James, J.A. Milton, A. Medinsky, W. Russel, W. Cawley, H.C. Page, C. Coyne, E. Johnston, J. Keys, E. Campbell, R. Nicolson, A. Coxen, R. Smith, R. Lawson, J.R. Porteous
Petitioners in that behalf and such other persons as shall become members thereof a Branch of the Association to be known as
— A Unit of the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada —
under the Name, Number and with the Powers and Jurisdiction within the purview of the said Act of Incorporation as amended hereinafter set forth.
THE NAME OF THE SAID UNIT SHALL BE Lakeview Unit and its number shall be 262. The Territorial Jurisdiction of the said Unit shall be (subject to expiation at any time) as follows:
Toronto Township in the County of Peel, Ontario
THE POWERS CONFERRED ON SAID UNIT shall be and include all such Powers and Authorities as by the Constitution of the said Association is conferred upon Units and shall with these presents in accordance with any provisions of the Constitution in that behalf in force, be subject to such amendments, variations, qualifications, restrictions and revocations at any time or from time to time as shall be considered by the Association or its Governing Executive in the interests of the Association necessary or advisable.
THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE SAID UNIT shall be situated at Lakeview in the Province of Ontario and shall not be removed therefrom without the consent of the Governing Executive of the Association.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF We, The Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada, have this Fourteenth day of March 1986 caused these presents to be sealed with the Great Seal of our Association witnessed by hands of our proper Officers on that behalf.
Dominion Seal Affixed: signed by: Dominion President & Dominion Secretary (March 14, 1986)
Welcome to Army Navy Air Force Veterans In Canada (ANAF), a not-for-profit organization. Our Unit #262 is located at 765 Third St. (Cawthra and Lakeshore area) in Mississauga, Ontario.
The ANAF objectives are to provide assistance and support to veterans and their families, to members of the Canadian Armed Forces, and to our community. We also visit hospitals, financially support local and national charities, youth programs and community services and activities.
You do not have to be former military to join our club, although in the past our membership has been comprised of veterans of past and present wars, Regular and Reserve Forces, Military Cadets, and the Police. We also have veterans from the Allied Nations Forces and members of our community who actively show their interest and support our objectives. Please visit our Memberships page for details and application forms for joining out unit.
Sports are an important function of our club. We have two 8ft Brunswick pool tables, and 16 dart boards. We have two winter dart leagues and one summer league. Spares are always welcomed. We offer Cribbage in the winter and Horseshoes in the summer months. New players always welcome. Snooker and other pool games are favourites of the unit and a game can be had pretty much any time. There is a snooker league on Saturday Afternoons in the winter. You do not have to be a member to play in most leagues.
We offer live entertainment most Friday nights and often host a LIVE Music Jam which features various accomplished musicians and unexpected musicians from the audience will often join in.
Do you have a band? Interested in booking with us? Contact the Entertainment Chair.
Upstairs Hall rental with optional catering is available for your private or public functions. Please visit our Hall Rentals page for more details.
The Club Room (Downstairs) is open to non-members daily except for when we hold our monthly meetings. Feel free to drop in, enjoy a cold drink and experience our wonderful club.
Enjoy some of your favourite sporting events on our 106 inch HD Big Screen Projection TV! There are two regular TV's in our Club Room as well.
Our Licensed Patio will accommodate 45 so come visit and enjoy the sunny days outside!


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Operation Linebacker II war ein strategisches Bombardement, das die Seventh Air Force und die Task Force 77 der US Navy in der Endphase des Vietnamkrieges gegen Ziele in Nordvietnam ausführten. Die Kampfhandlungen dauerten vom 18. bis zum 29. Dezember 1972, weshalb sie auch December Raids und Christmas Bombings genannt werden. Anders als die Abriegelungen Operation Rolling Thunder und Operation Linebacker war Linebacker II ein Bombardement mit dem Ziel der Zerstörung wichtiger Einrichtungen in den Gegenden von Hanoi und Haiphong, wie sie nur durch B-52-Bomber möglich war. Es waren die schwersten Bombenangriffe der US Air Force seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs.

Insgesamt 741 B-52-Einsätze wurden befohlen, 729 davon wurden ausgeführt; 15.237 Tonnen Bomben auf 18 industrielle und 14 militärische Ziele, darunter acht Luftabwehrstellungen, abgeworfen, dazu weitere 5.000 Tonnen Bomben von Jagdbombern. 212 zusätzliche B-52-Einsätze wurden im gleichen Zeitraum zur Unterstützung von Bodenoperationen geflogen.

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Joan Baez erlebte das Christmas Bombing im Dezember 1972 vor Ort in Hanoi. Sie besuchte Nordvietnam mit einer US-Delegation der Friedensbewegung. Das 1973 erschienene Album Where Are You Now, My Son? gibt im gleichnamigen vertonten Gedicht, das mit live Tonbandaufzeichnungen des Geschehens untermalt ist, ihre Eindrücke der Bombardements in Hanoi wieder.

Literatur

Weblinks
 Bibliography: Operations Linebacker and Linebacker II
 Smithsonian Air and Space article on Operation Linebacker II

Einzelnachweise

Luftkrieg (Vietnamkrieg)
Linebacker II
Kriegsverbrechen im Vietnamkrieg
Konflikt 1972
Linebacker II

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For so many it takes on a certain ominous sense, whether you served 4 or 20 years and to whatever degree of accomplishment. It's presented as this prodigious challenge; an incredible obstacle - "A Man Test". One that you must overcome in order to reintegrate into a different, almost abstract, community to reach "normalcy". Even during the deliberate preparation of a service member before they enter 'The Transition' it receives a certain attention and energy that makes the task daunting. Then, when you find yourself in it, there is an unintentional unspoken pressure to get through it; quickly.
What if it was painted less an obstacle or task and more a process. What if we stopped focusing on how to lesson differences and bridge a divide to instead orient on the shared in common and mutual alignments between civilians returning from service and our established civilian community.
There's an obligation on both sides to stop thinking and treating the other as special and to stop personally thinking there is a requirement to be over thankful on one end and that the other should expect some sort of special appreciation/treatment.
This all of course gets mired when combined with the effects of combat related stress and injury; which are also very similar to traumatic experiences and injury across the walk of life.


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I've played and completed the first outlast game so far, it was amazing! Now I'm on to whistleblower and after that I'll be playing outlast 2! Can't wait! Great games. The price is also fantastic for what you get with it.
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These two caves feature a lot of impressive stalactites and stalagmites. Tham Lot Nua is larger and has longer meandering passages, which are navigable only during low tide. The caves can be reached by boat from Bo Tho pier in 20 minutes.
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Thirsty Thursday: What do ya do with a drunken sailor?
Once upon a time, in a world free of diapers, sippy-cups & Dora, I boarded a plane from Tucson bound for Pittsburgh (with a stop in Chicago). The hubs & I had decided that after nearly 3 years in Tucson, we wanted to move closer to our family Michigan before having children. He had a job offer in Pittsburgh, and I was flying out to meet him after his day-long interview to check out the town to see if it was a good fit for us.
The hubs had left about 24 hours before me, so I was flying alone. Although my father had his pilot's license before his driver's license, I wasn't a fan of flying. When I flew as a kid, I always got sick. Now that I'm older, and have seen some awful crash scenes in the movies and shows like LOST, I don't get as sick as I once did, but I do have a lot of anxiety on planes for other reasons.
As I boarded the plane early that Friday morning, I walked the long, claustrophobic aisle all the way to the 4th to last row. I got situated in my seat, pulled out Elle Magazine with Madonna on the cover; hoping the power of Madonna would help me through takeoff. While getting comfy, I noticed I was on a very loud & rowdy plane. As I eavesdropped on the conversations near me, I quickly learned that not only were these back rows full of men, but they were on leave from the Navy. Sailors! On a long weekend break.
The last 8 rows of the plane were sailors… and me. The flight attendant took our drink orders almost immediately after takeoff, starting with me. I really didn't know what I was thirsty for, remember, it was about 8:15am . So, I decided to be a true joiner and said "I'll have whatever the boys are having." And the guy sitting next to me, who acted like the leader of the group smiled and said "Jack & cokes for everyone!" And the plane erupted with cheers. I felt like I was in a movie!
As soon as the seatbelt light went off, the sailors surrounding my row turned to chat with us… no need to move, the party came to ME. The boys shared some crazy Navy stories, and many more off-duty tales, we even discussed the power of Madonna (seriously!) and about an hour & ½ into the flight, I was buzzing, ok, pretty much drunk. The boys kept my drink full without question, but they really did treat me as one of the crew… even if there was some mild flirting, they totally respected me and never tried to get me alone in the bathroom for example. They also respected the flight attendant who was basically a bartender… she also joined in the fun and did a shot with us before we landed in Chicago.
During my 30-min layover in Chicago, I scarfed down a big cheeseburger, and attempted to sober up before getting on my next plane, but let's face it, any anxiety I had was GONE… so instead of passing out (probably for the day) I had one more drink on the quick trip to Pittsburgh and when I got off the plane and met the hubs, he hugged & kissed me then looked me in the eye with a shocking "Are you drunk?! It's 4p! 1p our time!" Then I sang "What do ya do with a drunken sailor, earl-eye in the mornin'" and said "Me, I drink with a drunken sailor…" and continued to tell him the story I just told you. I'm sure some husbands would've flipped out hearing this, but we have always been very open & honest with each other. And, I believe the hubs got past his jealousy (not of the guys, but of me being drunk without him!) and moved onto being proud of me for getting past my anxiety and simply enjoying the moment.
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What a fun trip… and a great story! The Burgh is a pretty great place to live, sorry you're not here with us!
Thanks, guys! Carla, we did like Pittsburgh, but when the hubs got a job offer in Grand Rapids, MI around the same time as the Pittsburgh job; we couldn't pass up moving back to MI.


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Sales Job Starts on Health Care
Democrats Tout Reform Law
By Emily Pierce
Posted March 26, 2010 at 5:40pm
Democrats may want to pivot from their bruising, yet ultimately victorious, health care debate to the economy and jobs, but they also are faced with the arduous task of making sure their constituents understand exactly what it is they already did.
"I think it's critical we do two things," Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said last week. "One is beginning the hard work of planning for successful implementation, but simultaneously talk how this is going to benefit millions of Americans, every American really. And that has to begin now and that has to be thorough, and the president's already started it, so that's good."
Indeed, President Barack Obama has begun what White House officials have said is a barnstorming effort to sell the merits of the new law, but House and Senate Democrats will be making their own efforts to sell the health care overhaul to hometown crowds over the recess.
"This recess is about bringing the message home," one Senate Democratic leadership aide said.
Congressional leaders have told Members to highlight provisions that take effect this year, such as tax credits for small businesses that offer health insurance, prohibitions on denying coverage to children with pre-existing conditions and the start of the effort to close the Medicare prescription drug "doughnut hole," among other things.
"Talking about provisions that don't kick in until 2014 does not help us in 2010," the leadership aide said. More controversial parts of the law, such as an individual mandate for insurance coverage and the creation of health insurance exchanges, do not take effect for several years.
"We're advising them to lean into the vote," said Doug Thornell, a spokesman for Assistant to the Speaker Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.). "Public opinion is turning on the overall bill, and the immediate benefits have always been popular. It's important they identify those benefits to their constituents and put a human face on it."
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is planning on holding a major event in Columbus on Thursday, his office said. Brown plans to invite his Ohio House colleagues who supported the bill to the rally-style event, as well as more than 140 constituents whose health care stories Brown shared on the Senate floor over the past year.
However, Democrats have already been warned by Capitol Police that they should be more vigilant over the recess given the threats of death and violence from conservative tea party protesters and their supporters.
So while Members will not necessarily be hiding out or avoiding all public events, many may try to keep a relatively low profile.
"Things got a little ugly, and I think people are not looking to be so high profile that it makes someone who's not stable come out of the woodwork," another Senate Democratic aide said. And a senior House aide said Democrats in the lower chamber will be looking to engage people "in more controlled environments" — like meeting with specific groups of health care providers or conducting tele-townhalls, which helped lawmakers impose some order back in August after the raucous sessions that opened the month.
Plus, the Senate Democratic leadership aide said Democrats have been in touch with progressive interest groups "to make sure our Members have the support they need." That could include hosting rallies or simply showing up to public events to make sure Democrats are not overrun by tea party protesters.
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Of course, the ability of the party to "change the narrative" on health care was one of the primary arguments that Democratic leaders in both chambers used to persuade Members to take the final leap in passing health care reform in an increasingly hostile political environment.
Democrats have blamed the low approval numbers for their health care effort on the success of GOP attacks and what Democrats say is misinformation about the new law. Part of the reason that Democrats say they lost the public relations battle is because of the divide between their own liberals and centrists over how to craft the legislation and the months that it took in 2009 and the beginning of 2010 to finally produce a cohesive package.
"We lost the contest of branding because we didn't have a product to brand early on and others took advantage of their moment outside of Washington to successfully label something other than it was," said Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who led the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee consideration of the bill last summer in the absence of then-Chairman Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.).
Reed agreed, saying, "There's more specifics now. It's not two competing versions. It's not, you know, things that are fanciful. It's the law and we have to talk about it."
After a year of showing little progress in combating GOP attacks, it appears that the time is ripe for Democrats to at least try to salvage their sagging political fortunes in advance of November's midterm election.
On Friday, Google spokesman Galen Panger said a study of the search engine's traffic shows that searches on the health care bill since its final passage last week are 10 times higher than at any time in the yearlong debate.
"If there is a lesson here, it is that this is the key moment to frame the bill because people are paying attention," said Panger, who added that liberal and conservative advocacy groups have responded with "messages ranging from 'Thank You Congress' to 'Fire Nancy Pelosi.' And Obama is asking voters to 'Co-Sign Historic Reform.'"
Tory Newmyer contributed to this report.


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"What Will the People Say?" American Sentinel 13, 47, pp. 742-744.
THE remaining portion of that remarkable letter of the Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Daily American—October 15, 1898, is as follows:—
"The administration fully realizes the objections that will arise in this country, from certain sources, against even a temporary sustenance of the Catholic Church in Cuba. But it has been given ample assurance by the Catholic authorities that the church shall be placed on a self-supporting basis as soon as it is possible to establish the new order that has been brought about by the Spanish evacuation.
"Archbishop Chappelle will be entrusted with liberal powers to institute such of the reforms as demand immediate introduction. It is likely that the responsibility of supporting the church in Cuba will eventually be assumed by the Catholics in this country.
"In determining to support the Catholic priests in Cuba until their church can take care of them, President [743] McKinley has acted wisely from other points of view than mere humanity. The Cuban priests, as in all countries whose population is densely ignorant, exercise complete control over their parishioners. Apart from the cruelty of withdrawing all aid from these priests, it is easy to believe that the new American government in Cuba would have at its very inception built up a dangerous set of enemies if the priesthood of Cuba were given reason to regret the present of the American flag on the island. The Spanish government at Madrid could easily give the American government some dearly-bought information as to the malign influence that is in the power of a hostile clergy to exercise. Ever since the first Carlist uprising in 1833, every movement directed against the government of Spain has found its principal support in the clergy of Spain, who almost to a man are Carlists."
Is it true that objection will arise only "from certain sources" against governmental "sustenance of the Catholic Church" and "the vast number of priests and high church dignitaries" in Cuba? Is it true that the whole people of the United States have so far forgotten the fundamental principles of the nation, or else have so far fallen under the influence of the Catholic Church, that against the Government undertaking "the entire responsibility" for the support of the Catholic Church in Cuba, objection will arise only "from certain sources"? Why will not objection arise from the whole people everywhere?
All money given by the United States Government for keeping open the Catholic churches, and providing for public worship in those churches in Cuba; all money paid by the United States Government to "the vast number of Catholic priests and high church dignitaries" in Cuba; must be obtained by taxation, must be raised in revenue, laid upon all the people. Of the money now being paid by all the people for revenue—stamps on drafts, deeds, mortgages, and what not, a portion must go to the "support of the Catholic Church," and "the vast number of priests and high church dignitaries" in Cuba. For is it not published by this Washington correspondent that "it is the determination of President McKinley," coached by Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland, that "sufficient money shall be advanced by this Government to support the Catholic Church" in Cuba? Will all the people of the United States allow this thing to be carried on at their expense without protest? Our fathers who made this nation, said that "to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical." They therefore abolished the practice and repudiated the principle. Will the people now sanction the revival of the practice and the reëstablishment of the principle?
The second time in this letter we are told that assurance is given "by the Catholic authorities that the church shall be placed on a self-supporting basis as soon as it is possible to establish the new order." And again we inquire, What confidence can be placed in any such assurance in presence of the fact that this governmental support is of the same identical priests and high church dignitaries, and the same identical system, that, though having had "complete control over their parishioners" for four hundred years, yet, have never taught them to support their church and clergy, but have kept them "densely ignorant" as this correspondent declares them to be to-day? When this is the record for four hundred years of governmental support, what is the value of "ample assurance by the Catholic authorities that the church shall be placed on a self-supporting basis" while governmental support is continued? In view of such a record, no assurance, by the Catholic authorities nor by anybody else, can be ample, that the church shall be placed on a self-supporting basis, while governmental support is continued.
Another, and the final consideration, which shows that no such thing as the self-support of the Catholic Church in Cuba can ever be expected, is, that while it is promised by the Catholic authorities that "when law and order are fully re-established on the distracted island the Catholic Church will be expected to support itself," yet, at the same time, there is presented the abominable fact, which amounts in effect to a threat, that "the Cuban priests exercise complete control over their parishioners," who are "densely ignorant," and would prove "a dangerous set of enemies if the priesthood of Cuba were given reason to regret the presence of the American flag on the island"!!
That is to say: The government of Spain has always supported the Catholic clergy and the Catholic churches in Cuba. And now, the United States having supplanted the government of Spain in Cuba, if this Government does not "Undertake the entire responsibility for their support" "the priesthood of Cuba" will be "given reason to regret the presence of the American flag on the island." Then, having such "reason to regret the presence of the American flag on the island;" and having "complete control" of their "densely ignorant" parishioners, "the new American Government in Cuba would have at its very inception built up a dangerous set of enemies." Therefore, to placate this "dangerous set of enemies" the Government of the United States must "undertake the entire responsibility for their support." And accordingly "President McKinley has acted wisely" in determining that "sufficient money" shall "be advanced by this Government to support the Catholic Church!" And if anybody does not believe that it is wise thus to placate these "dangerous enemies" then "the Spanish government at Madrid could easily give" him pointers in "some dearly-bought information as the malign influence that is in the power of a hostile clergy to exercise"!!!
Then with "the vast number of priests and high church dignitaries" composing a clergy of such a "dangerous" and "malign" disposition as that, having "complete control" of their "densely ignorant" parishioners, and, upon such considerations as this, demanding [744] governmental support until "law and order are fully re-established," what prospect can there be that governmental support would ever cease? because what prospect can there be that law and order would ever be fully re-established while the cessation of the governmental support of such a priesthood must be the sure consequence of the full re-establishment of law and order, and the prevention of the full re-establishment of law and order rests completely with the "dangerous" and "malign" priesthood who receive the governmental support which is to continue only until law and order are fully re-established?
Again we must remark that this argument in behalf of governmental support of the Catholic priesthood of Cuba, based upon the "dangerous" and "malign" disposition of that same priesthood, is, for cool and essential iniquity, surely entitled to the palm.
But are the people of the United States ready for all this? Will they all bear it all without protest?


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I will be having a FREE Open House day on Saturday 10th April to celebrate the release of the Mini. You can pick up your FREE copy from me on the day and also see and have a play with all the fantastic new products that will be available. Anyone placing an order with me during my Open House Day will receive FREE postage & packing. There will also be a free raffle for anyone coming too!
Teri what a gorgeous gift set!!! LOVE your box and the matching card...Beautiful project!
best of luck to you with your open house. And I agree Vintage vogue is a fantastic set of stamps.
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beautiful work as always Teri!
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It's Bill Clinton's birthday. Does he look older than me, or younger? Answers please.
CertainlyNOT better! Maybe a day or so older.
Certainly doesn't look BETTER but a couple o days younger!
Is that at all tactful??
When I was at Preston Lodge Senior Secondary it was dinned into me that to compare vulgar fractions you had to reduce trhem to their lowest common denominator. Leaving aside whether Clinton was ever a vulgar fraction (quiet please!) I very much doubt he's a Jambo (his loss!) or an admirer of Alex Salmond. His name is not among those supporting Scottish Review. I am obviously not at liberty to ask QJ the Lewinski question. While not having a lowest common denominator is almost certainly a winning factor in Clinton and the women, it doesn't make QJ any more popular to those of the Easter Road persuasion. The question is therefore unanswerable.
I resisted the strong temptation to trash this, in the hope that someone might tell me WTF Donald is talking about.


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Telzey Amberdon is a fictional character in a series of science fiction short stories and two short novels by American writer James H. Schmitz, taking place in his "Federation of the Hub" fictional universe, presumably in the mid-4th millennium. She is introduced as a fifteen-year-old genius, a first-year law student, living on the human-settled planet Orado (whose name comes from Eldorado by a pun). Through interaction with alien psychic animals on a resort planet, she discovers that she has psychic powers. Upon her return to her home planet, her abilities are recognized by a mechanism at the spaceport reentry gate and she is effectively made an agent of the Psychology Service.
A major pattern in the stories is the development of her powers. Eventually she teams up with the redheaded secret agent Trigger Argee. The series ends inconclusively; in the last story, a villain makes a duplicate of her, who gains a separate identity and name.

The series features one of the few imaginings (the "ComWeb") of the internet before its existence—although the system takes a half-hour to download a document of modest length.

The Telzey stories were originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact between 1962 and 1972. The series was quite popular, often getting the cover illustration. Most of it was assembled in three books: The Universe Against Her (short story collection, Ace Books 1964), The Lion Game (short novel) and The Telzey Toy (short story collection) (both DAW Books 1973).

In 2000 all of the Telzey and Trigger stories were republished by Baen Books, "edited and compiled" by Eric Flint into three collections with some connecting material by Flint: Telzey Amberdon, T'nT: Telzey & Trigger (where both heroes feature) and Trigger & Friends (dated January 2001, for Trigger only). The books remained in print as of June 2007. They were made available for download at Baen Free Library in 2005, but are no longer downloadable in 2016.

Stories

T'nT: Telzey & Trigger includes as Prologue to "Compulsion" the Trigger-only story "The Pork Chop Tree", originally published in February 1965 Analog.

Books
 James H. Schmitz: The Universe Against Her. Ace Books (Berkley Publishing Group) 1964.  (1984 reissue).
 The Lion Game. DAW Books 1973.
 The Telzey Toy. DAW 1973.
 James H. Schmitz, edited and compiled by Eric Flint: Telzey Amberdon. Baen Books, New York April 2000. . Partial text in Baen Free Library.
 James H. Schmitz, edited by first Eric Flint: T'n'T: Telzey & Trigger. Baen Books, July 2000.

References

External links
 Review of Telzey Amberdon at SF Site
"Telzey Amberdon, age 15, is a genius, a law student, and a psi supergirl who can save the Federation in a fortnight, and still make it home in time for her sixteenth birthday party."
 Telzey Amberdon on Schmitz fan website; includes her picture by Frank Kelly Freas and scans of covers and illustrations of individual stories on subpages
 Original Edition of edited Schmitz Stories in Baen Free Library (not free as of 2016) – contains "Undercurrents", "Poltergeist", "The Star Hyacinths" and Trigger-only novel Legacy

 Telzey Amberdon series in William G. Contento's Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
 Telzey Amberdon series in Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2000 and in the 1984–98 volume

Amberdon, Telzey
Science fiction short story collections
2000 short story collections
Fictional telepaths


It was a casual Friday at the hospital, and Mr. Rounder wore his white doctor's smock with the collar open.
On his way into Room 3001, Mr. Rounder bounced off the door frame but recovered in time to greet the patient, Bruce Davidson, and his wife, Marsha.
The RP-6 robot, called Mr. Rounder by co-workers, looks like a portable television set mounted atop an industrial floor buffer. The smiling face on its 15-inch TV screen on this day was that of Davidson's physician, Dr. Garth H. Ballantyne, chief of minimally invasive surgery at the hospital.
Ballantyne was in his office on another floor in another building of the hospital monitoring the Davidsons through a tiny camera on Mr. Rounder's "head"; images were transmitted back to Ballantyne's laptop.
He commanded the robot from a laptop computer on his desk, over the Internet and the hospital's wireless system. The battery-powered device rolls along on three billiard-size polyurethane balls and digitally "walks and talks" in real time.
The Davidsons and their robo-doc conferred in the room like it was any post-operative examination. Mr. Rounder's bedside manner is personal and professional, if you don't mind having a consult with the Mars rover.


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If yes, you have come to the right place. Best time to visit Jaisalmer is from October till March.
Jaisalmer is a town located in the State of Rajasthan and is also called the golden city; famous for its forts and palaces. This town situated in the heart of Rajasthan and is dotted with many Jain temples which are famous for their exquisite carvings. Even though Jaisalmer is sparsely populated, the town is thronged by tourists due to its history and austere desert surroundings. The city is dominated by the Jaisalmer fort that is a living fort which has shops, hotels and houses inside it.
One of the most famous attraction of Jaisalmer is the Sonar Quila (a part of the Jaisalmer fort) or the golden fort. It is admired by people for its fine carvings in a yellow stone; thus the name Golden Fort or Sonar Quila. The town provides a good opportunity for exploring and enjoying the sights of the desert and camel safari. You can book safari from Bikaner or locally from Jaisalmer.
The weather is generally hot and dry during summers i.e. from April to June. July, August and September are the monsoon months and there may be a time when there is no rain for several days. The temperature rarely falls below 30 degree during monsoon. The best time to visit Jaisalmer is during winter i.e. from October until March. The nights can be extremely cold during winters as the temperature may fall below 5 degree Celsius.
Jaisalmer has a typical desert like climate i.e. hot during days and cold at night. So pack accordingly.
Carry suncreen lotions to avoid sun burn.
Desert Safari must top your list of things to do in Jaisalmer.


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Surface Laptop Go 2 – "Hands on" Review
Last year, I reviewed the Microsoft Surface Laptop Go. Now, after a couple of weeks of use as my "temporary" daily machines, this is my review of the updated, 2022, Microsoft Surface Laptop Go 2 which starts from just £600 in the UK (about $US 700).
You can also check out my video review here:
So – in short, the 2022 edition of the Surface Laptop Go 2 is a fantastic device for anyone in an admin role, those who travels a lot, work in education, front-line, sales etc., that needs a "good" overall performer (for email, web, office apps, bit of Netflix or Paramount+, etc.) but isn't a "power user". Laptop Go 2 is sleek, fast, affordable, portable, and easily powerful enough for most productivity tasks at home or work.
INTRODUCING "LAPTOP GO 2"
Version 2 of the Surface Laptop Go 2 – is every bit similar in shape, size, look at feel than the original but improves on it in several ways (under the hood). Inside, we now get an 11th Generation Intel Core processor alongside Intel Iris Xe graphics [last year's model had the 10th Gen processors and Intel UHD graphics).
Microsoft say that the battery life in this model has also been slightly increased, partly owing to new Operating System Efficiencies in Windows 11 along with the lower power consuming 11th Gen chipsets.
Laptop Go 2 weighs in at just 1.13kg and measures just 278.2mm x 206.2mm x 15.7mm – making it beautifully compact and lightweight and ideal for both students or anyone who travels or commutes a lot who are looking for something small, light but functional to take back and forth on the daily commute.
As you come to expect with a Surface Device, Laptop Go 2 is sleek and stylish. It comes in four colours including the standard Platinum, Ice Blue, Sage, and Sandstone. The model I tested was the Platinum model which is made of lightweight aluminium and has the familiar mirrored Microsoft logo on the lid.
When you open the clam-shell lid, you are presented with a full-size rubberised plastic keyboard, which Microsoft claims "provides 30% more key travel than the MacBook Air and a large trackpad. Being a more "budget friendly" device, there is no backlighting on the keyboard and the trackpad doesn't have haptic feedback like the new Surface Laptop Studio debuted.
The power button (which does light up), also serves as a fingerprint sensor which you can use with Windows Hello to unlock the laptop.
Connectivity-wise, you get the same ports as on the Surface Laptop and last year's Laptop Go 1 – a Single USB-C port (which supports 4K video), Single USB-A port, 3.5 mm headphone jack and the Surface Connect port which it uses for charging. You also get Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1.
Note: the USB-C port doesn't support charging like many new laptops, so you'll need to keep using the Surface Connect Port charger which comes in the box.
The screen on the Surface Laptop Go 2 has a 12.4-inch PixelSense touchscreen display with a resolution of 1536 x 1024p and a 3:2 aspect ratio like that found on most of the newer Surface family. The display is bright, clear, and sharp with great colours and black blacks – event in direct sunlight. Don't get me wrong, Surface Laptop Go 2 is not intended for professional-level graphics or artwork, but it is more than good for viewing documents, web pages or watching videos. It also doesn't support use of the Surface Pen, which is of course another cost saving thing.
The Webcam – is tiny and located between two small spatial microphones on the top edge of the screen. Unlike the "bigger" versions of Surface, this does not support Windows Hello and is only a 720p. This is the one area I wish Microsoft hadn't "saved money" on as webcam quality is important in the new world of hybrid and remote work. I'm also so used to the Windows Hello Camera and personally prefer it over the fingerprint reader. Microsoft say that the camera on the Laptop Go 2 is an upgrade on last year's model and features a "new camera module providing improved brightness, contrast and colour balance".
Image taken from Teams on Surface Laptop Go 2
Low light and bright backlight quality was handled well, but the image did feel a little grainy at full screen – I think I'd still prefer at 1080p webcam though – feels like a compromise we don't need.
SPECS, PEFORMANCE & BATTERY
The device I've had on loan, is powered by a Quadcore, 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 processor, the Intel Iris Xe graphics chipset and 16GB RAM along with a 256GB SSD.
Like all Surface's Laptop Go 2 is available in both consumer and business editions. The business version ships with Windows 11 Professional and providing enhanced secure features including Secured-Core security features, which includes a dedicated physical TPM 2.0 chip (rather than virtual TPM in firmware which the consumer model has).
Choices are otherwise limited in these more budget friendly devices, and Microsoft simply give you options over how much RAM and SSD storage you need.
The entry level unit has 128GB SSD, but only 4GB RAM and no fingerprint reader.
Spoiler – Laptop Go 2 is not designed to compete with the bigger members of the Surace family like the Surface Laptop, Surface Pro or Studio when it comes to raw power, and graphics performance, but it did do a decent job of everything I threw at it. Throughout my week of testing, I had multiple apps open, including Teams, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook and used it a few evenings for watching a few films and even tried out Clipchamp to edit one of my son's YouTube "clips" he'd made all without feeling like I was using an under-powered device. I even managed a bit of Minecraft on the device as well as playing TrainSimWorld 2 and Forza Horizon using Xbox Streaming – more on that later!!
Microsoft states that Laptop Go 2 provides up to 13.5 hours of 'typical device usage', but my loan device lasted about 25% less than that – 9hrs 16mins in fact of constant use in my usual home working test scenario:
Connected via Wi-Fi.
Screen Brightness set to auto.
Bluetooth connected headset, keyboard, and mouse.
Mix of normal daily use – no special tests – 8-10 Teams Video Calls (camera on), Core Office desktop apps and some social media apps and web browsing.
Connected to 4K Ultrawide screen via Surface Dock v1.
This is, I would say the main area of disappointment compared to the advertised specs – as I think you'd still want to take a power adapter out with you – "just in case".
9 hrs isn't awful but it's nowhere near the "up to 13.5hrs".
One day Microsoft will get this bit right and maybe when (if) they shift to ARM based chipsets for Laptop Go and Surface Go we will see battery life closer to what Apple manage to squeeze out their "M" chip-based devices. performance out of the battery.
XBOX GAME STREAMING
So – this was never going to be the best experience, but while on holiday on the Isle of Wight (if you haven't been – you should go by the way), I wanted to test Xbox remote play on our Xbox One X (I know I know, where's the Series-X!). My first test was done running on NowTV broadband (70Mbps or so).
On returning home yesterday, I then recreated the scenario from my desk, streaming from the same Xbox (which is in the same house). The experience was pretty much the same.
In summary, for fast framerate games like this, I'd say "it works pretty well". Game play was surprisingly good. It did struggle with the odd refresh glitch and jittery in places on high frame-rate games (I was testing it with Forza Horizon 4) but overall and given the spec of the Surface Laptop Go 2, was more impressed than I thought I'd be. The video below show's how this played out.
Xbox Cloud Streaming – Forza Horizon 4
ROUNDING IT ALL UP
Battery life aside – Microsoft's Surface Laptop Go 2 is a great all-rounder device for students, consumers or business users that are on more of a budget or than need something new and modern, gorgeous, and premium in feel that is both ultra-portable, and good enough for everything a "typical user" needs.
If you are big into gaming, (see above) big graphics/design and art, or you are a number crunching, coding, power-user then, you'll want to look at the high-end devices like the Surface Laptop Studio or Surface Book 3 – though you can "get buy" when travelling if you need a game-fix and want to play remote or cloud play with the Xbox App.
Check on the hands-on video review here:
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Microsoft Defender "top of the class" for ransomware detection and blocking.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has just received top marks for the latest Advanced Threat Protection Test carried out by AV-Test in Feb 2022.
The report (which tested many of the top products including Microsoft Defender in both the home and commercial space) found that it was best-in-class in terms of its ransomware detection and blocking.
The Advanced Threat Protection tests provide vendors and users with substantial findings as to how securely a product can protect against ransomware in real-life scenarios.
… All the products have to successfully defend against ransomware in 10 real-life scenarios under Windows. The test involves threats such as files containing hidden malware in archives, PowerPoint files with scripts or HTML files with malicious content.
AV-TEST
The tests were carried out amongst 14 of the top anti virus and endpoint protection products in the consumer and commercial space including:
McAfee (Trellix)
Whilst Microsoft came out joint top for all the tests in the corporate space, the lowest of the scores were McAfee / Trellix who AV-TEST claim were unable to fully block ransomware attacks in multiple different attack scenarios:
Microsoft Defender AV-TEST ransomware tests 02-22
McAfee AV-TEST ransomware tests 02-22
You can access the full reports from AV-TEST here.
Good news for consumers and corporate
In short this should be good news for corporate customers that use Microsoft Defender (which is built into Windows 10 and Windows 11) as well as consumers.
Consumers in particular are often sold additional third party antivirus and anti ransomware products when they buy a new computer, buy software or through advertising and whilst there may be good reasons to buy additional products, these results should demonstrate just how good Microsoft are at protecting consumers and corporate clients who use their products.
Defender is part of a much bigger family
In the corporate space at least, Microsoft Defender is a an entire multiplatform, multi vendor platform suite of. Integrated services for protecting corporate systems and data from attack, breach, ransomware and theft. Their product suite extends across Identity (Defender for Identity), Cloud, Endpoint, IoT and Office 365 to name just a few.
You can find out more about the Microsoft Defender suite of products for corporate customers here.
Microsoft also annouced last month the release of Microsoft Defender for individuals which provides enterprise grade protection for Microsoft 365 consumers and family users. Microsoft Defender is a cross-device security app that helps individuals and families protect their data and devices, and stay safer online with malware protection, real-time security notifications, and security tips. You can read more here.
Windows 11 Build 22621.169 is rolling out for Release Preview Channel Insiders
After Microsoft released the Windows 11 22H2 update to the Release Preview channel back in June, they have now started to roll out a new cumulative update for Windows Insiders that are running the Windows 11 build 22621 in the Release Preview channel. As you'd expect, this update is mainly focussed on essential bug fixes as we get closer to the formal 22H2 release.
You can visit the official blog site for the full list of changes here.
The major changes / fixes in this build include
Fixing the issue which stopped OneDrive working correctly via the file explorer shell
Adding support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 in the Windows client and server LDAP implementations.
Fixed an issue with Edge sandbox mode.
How to Join the Windows Insider programme
For instructions on how to join the Windows Insider Program and join your device to the Release Preview Channel, click here.


President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have now met in a much-ballyhooed summit in Helsinki. Together, the United States and Russian Federation represent two of the most militarily powerful countries in the world. Unlike so many presstitutes in the West, I believe that President Trump should get high marks for the meeting.
It was America that made a mess of relations with Russia, and President Trump's tweet this morning was right on the mark. You can usually gauge the merits of this president's public statements by the decibel level of the protests.
The one area of growing concern for me, as a national security space policy analyst, is in the area of space-based weapons development. You see, while I generally believe that Trump took the right track by appearing somewhat conciliatory and friendly with his Russian counterpart, we can never forget that Russia is not our friend. Yes, Trump said repeatedly that Russia was a "competitor." He is correct.
I cannot stress enough how dangerous it would be for the United States to give concessions to Russia over its potential space force or its already-ailing nuclear arsenal.
Right now, the United States is threatened by the specter of nuclear warfare at a level it hasn't been since the heady days of the Cold War. Unlike the simpler (though decidedly scary) Cold War, there aren't only two nuclear-armed states squaring off against each other. On the contrary, there are now multiple states — all spread throughout the world, at various levels of development, with wildly different political systems and cultures, all of which have differing intentions.
Notably, the threat of nuclear-armed rogue states ranks high (and has, for many years) on the list of potential grave threats to the United States. Various forms of statecraft can be used to mitigate these threats. Options range from traditional diplomacy to covert action; sanctions to cyber espionage; and everything in between. Each threat can be handled with different tools.
With North Korea, diplomacy seems to be the best way to operate — for now. Though, it is important to understand that within the next two years, regardless of what happens between Trump and Kim, North Korea will likely have a fully functional nuclear weapons arsenal. Yet, it is possible that Trump playing nice with Kim will keep his wilder urges at bay — maybe.
However, playing nice with the other, major nuclear-armed rogue state — Iran — will not deter the Mullahs from war. In fact, as the late Mideast historian, Bernard Lewis, cautioned: such niceties (weakness, in the eyes of the mullahs of Tehran) would likely induce Tehran into greater, nuclear-armed aggression against their neighbors and the United States.
At the same time, though, there is no way that the United States would willingly risk another major Middle East war against a somewhat capable (and rabid) enemy in Iran. If diplomacy is unlikely to ameliorate the threat and conventional warfare is likely to do more harm than good to the United States (and the wider region), a technical solution is needed.
This is where former President Ronald Reagan's idea for a space-based missile defense system — popularly known as "Star Wars" — comes in. By placing defensive weapons in orbit that can track and immediately shoot down nuclear missiles in orbit, the United States (or an ally) is protected from annihilation. It also gives the United States time to respond to an attack, and a space-based system would likely keep any serious fallout from even reaching down to Earth. Even if these regimes could be wooed diplomatically, the political culture of these two states imbues a degree of internal instability that could eventuate in a nuclear threat to the United States.
There is another, longer-term strategic issue: the rise of China.
The People's Republic of China has not only moved into a highly competitive role with the United States on Earth, but China is also seriously focused on developing space capabilities to challenge the United States. What's more, China does not make a distinction between their military and civilian space programs. They are fused.
This explains why a Chinese military space station, the Tiangong-2, is presently floating above the planet conducting experiments that likely have military applications. Further, Chinese military doctrine explicitly outlines the need over the next decade to fully militarize the cosmos to further Chinese state interests — at the expense of the United States.
Therefore, it not only behooves the United States to develop defensive space-based weapons capabilities, but to also place offensive systems in orbit. Such a move would deter aggression and ensure that the cosmos remain open to the United States. At present, China's military buildup in the strategic domains of land, sea, air, and cyberspace are truly threatening to the United States' military dominance. Further, China's economic strength and the increase in its technological capabilities — if fused to a robust space policy — would spell the end of America's once-unquestioned full-spectrum dominance.
For its part, Russia is insistent on preventing the United States from realizing its dreams for space-based weapons. Understandably, the Russians view any American space-based weapons system as a direct threat to their country. What's more, as F.H. Buckley recently argued, the Russians are dying for legitimacy in the eyes of the world — and they want Washington to view Moscow as an equal. The Russian nuclear arsenal ensures that they will always be given greater importance by Washington than, say, Italy (whose GDP is roughly equal to that of Russia's).
Space-based weapons will undermine the potency of Russia's nuclear deterrence. Given Russia's horrific economic conditions — and the fact that it was the potential of an arms race in space with the United States in the 1980s that destroyed the Soviet Union — Putin knows that he cannot afford to compete with the United States for space-based weapons.
President Putin is right when he argues that the United States has wronged Russia since the end of the Cold War (though he is not innocent either). However, Trump is not like his post-Cold War predecessors. He genuinely wants better relations with Moscow. It is my firm belief that Trump has exhibited more good will — and afforded Putin more, genuine respect — than any of Trump's predecessors.
Thus, going forward, Trump must work to preserve the necessity of American space-based weapons while not losing the capacity to make the mother of all geopolitical deals with Russia over the most pressing issues straining the relationship.
After all, just as Reagan tried to convince Mikhail Gorbachev, an American space-based weapons capability can be a mutually beneficial defense for both the United States and Russia against our shared enemies. More importantly, the presence of a reliable space-based weapons network would allow for the United States to seriously engage in nuclear arms reductions without sacrificing its own defense. But many in Washington (like those in Moscow) fear the "destabilizing" effects American space weapons would have on potential, peaceful relations.
This is an unfortunate pattern that played out in the Cold War from the crucial years of 1964-73. As Derek Leebaert recounts in his damning Cold War history, The Fifty-Year Wound: How America's Cold War Victory Shapes Our World, the Johnson Administration consistently undercut investments into more accurate nuclear weapons and antiballistic missile defenses on the fear that it would "destabilize" the relationship with the Soviet Union, thereby encouraging the Soviets to engage in a massive arms buildup. As it turned out, it was the lack of adequate investments into America's nuclear arsenal and its antiballistic missile defense systems that encouraged Moscow to take risks.
Should President Trump listen to his Russian counterpart and abandon his claimed commitment to establishing America's first-ever space force, or should he reduce nuclear arms without similar — provable — concessions from the Russians, he might be inspiring the same kind of aggression that Johnson did. Even if Russia didn't interpret such self-deterrence as a weakness to be exploited, China most certainly would… along with both Iran and North Korea.


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Lepidium arbuscula is a rare species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names `anaunau and Waianae Range pepperwort. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known only from the Waianae Mountains on the island of Oahu. In 2003 there were ten populations remaining with fewer than 1000 individuals in total. It is a federally listed endangered species of the US.

This is a shrub growing to a maximum height near 1.2 meters. The leaves are clustered around the ends of the gnarled branches. Little is known about the biology of the species.

It is threatened by the loss and degradation of its habitat, which is mainly due to the presence of feral ungulates such as goats and pigs, and introduced plant species such as fire tree (Morella faya).

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arbuscula
Endemic flora of Hawaii
Biota of Oahu
Waianae Range
Plants described in 1888


Back in April, Pleasure P released the bedroom record "Love You Little" and he's back again with the ballad "For A Long Time". The song was produced by Bryan-Michael Cox and written by the late Static Major. You may recognize this song as we featured Static's version as well on the site before as well as covers from the likes of Ginuwine and Johnny Gill.
Pleasure P's version of the song shouldn't come as a surprise as him and Static were very close and collaborated throughout Pleasure's time with Pretty Ricky. Along with that, Pleasure P told his a few years ago that he had planned on rerecording Static Major's unreleased solo album "Suppertime" and putting it out as a tribute CD. That project has yet to come out, but this could be the start of it.
Pleasure P is also set to put out a new album with Pretty Ricky later this year as they've been in the studio with Rico Love.