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(Not exactly OT) The COMPLETE text of the most famous Patriot's Call
The War Inevitable
by Patrick Henry
No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve.
This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.
Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?
Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land.
Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love?
Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years.
Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves.
Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne!
In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope.
If we wish to be free -- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending -- if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained -- we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us! They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength but [by] irresolution and inaction?
Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!
The war is inevitable -- and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
I know not what course others may take but as for me: give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry then took his seat. No murmur of applause was heard on March 23, 1775 when he gave this speech at a convention in Richmond assembled after Lord Dunmore suspended the Virginia Assembly. The effect was too deep. After the trance of a moment, several members started from their seats. The cry, "To arms!" seemed to quiver on every lip and gleam from every eye.
One HE## of a Rabble Rouser, eh? He also was able to rouse the gentry, as History records above.
NOW, go back and read this as a metaphor for this forum.
Chuck, a Part time Sysop, over on the Prep forum, who drives at Night and Rails at the Dark and Gathering Gloom http://www.webleyweb.com/klh/kh-amdoc.index.html
Click http://www.webleyweb.com/klh/kh-amdoc.html to return to Ken Holder's American Documents Page, or use the BACK button on your browser (that's what I always do).
-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), August 02, 1999
Sorry about the minor formatting glitches. It's too early in the morning (1022). I'm going back to bed.
-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), August 02, 1999.
Words to remember. Thanks, Chuck.
Surprising what we don't know about our own history... or else... don't take time to pay attention to.
-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), August 02, 1999.
I do not know what kind of eduction others may have had, but I had to memorise the end of that speech in the seventh grade. We even had a field trip to St. John's Church and we all got to sit in the pew that Patrick Henry sat in when attending that historic meeting.
-- chicken farmer (chicken-farmer@ y2k.farm), August 02, 1999.
Sooo...DID Patrick Henry fight?
-- Spidey (in@jam.commie), August 02, 1999.
Anyone today who holds or espouses opinions similar to this is a conspirinoid right wing militia nutcase. These are dangerous radicals who are a threat to society. They do not recognise the legitimacy of the Crown, they are anti-government. Tory sentiment is actually in the majority in these Colonies, these terrorists are only a tiny, violent minority, bent on using divisive rhetoric and terror to further their warped seperatist agenda. All this talk about Natural Law and the Creator smells of some sort of atheist/agnostic cult. They have agreed to communally share their Lives, their Property, and their Sacred Honor, so they are probably Communists as well. They are infringing on the Rights of their Commonwealth. They advocate arming the peasants to overthrow the government! Well, it's time to send the British Royal Beaureau of Rum, Cavendish and Blunderbusses to clean out their compound in Philadelphia. Also we should sieze their illegal weapons, Powder and Shot they have stockpiled in Lexington and Concord. One good brigade of professional soldiers will easily dispose of these stupid militianoid rednecks.
-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), August 02, 1999.
And AMEN Chuck.
My lips also quiver with "To arms!".
Unfortunately, what you posted above is treasonous...and considered a "terrorist mantra" by this most corrupt government.
Patriotic statements by the likes of Patrick Henry, are to be taken as quaint record of our history...and nothing more. To put modern- pretense on such statements is akin to inciting insurrection against this government...and can only seve the "extremist" views of those who are a danger to our society.
You sir Chuck, by posting Patrick Henry's statement in a forum filled with those who would use Y2K as a launch pad for fulfilling their fanatical "apocalyptic visions", are engaging in treason against the peaceful and compassionate people of these United States, who heed and are shackled by deceitful instruments of a now corrupt institution.
I therefore applaud you sir, sign my name bold next to yours, and invite you to repost this truth here weekly...that we may never forget the heritage that forged this nation to begin with....
...and that we may take back our birthright. By peaceable means if possible, by force if trodden upon.
C'mon folks...say it. It is your birthright responsibility.
-- INVAR (gundark@sw.net), August 02, 1999.
Well, pretty much by definition, those documents that we refer to as the "Founding Documents", whether they be Declaration of Independence (Openly treasonous), Federalist or Anti-Federalist Papers (Nearly treasonous by most rational definitions), Articles of Confederation (CLEARLY OPENLY treasonous) are treasonoous.THen they were treason against the extant government. We MUST remember that the Founding Fathers are ONLY FOUNDING FATHERS because they WON!! Otherwise they would be the failed rebels of the failed rebellion of 1775, traitors all.
the victors write the History Books
Patrick Henry's Treasonous Exhortation...in a present Y2K context:
"Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts."
It IS natural for us to hope for the best, but should we stick our heads in the sand about the Y2K calamity about to befall us, and continue to believe the spin from the liars who want to prevent a panic and prolong this run of prosperity, until it is too late to prepare and desperation turns us into starving beasts? "Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?"
Should we be like the pollyannas who have intelligence, but refuse to believe the possiblitly of losing the stuff society puts all their blind faith in?
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it."
Self explanatory. Ditto by the way.
"...I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received?"
We can judge the reality of what may come, and how folks may react to Y2K by lessons from the past. I wish to know what our government and industry have done in the past ten years to convince the blind hope of the public and pollyannas to lull themselves into complacent sleep? Does the government not botch whatever it touches? Or is it the reassurances from C.E. O.s and government leaders that say "everything is fixed...not to worry." without any proof, and in the face of failures and late-starts of remediation?
"Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land."
Don't trust these liars, that have alterior motives to preserve self at your expense. Don't be decieived by assurances of a BITR, or a "Three day snowstorm". Ask yourselves how our preparations and discussions have been spun and demouguoged by those in power, and compare these with the warlike preparations government is making to keep itself in power against the people.
"Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love?"
Are command bunkers, Marines training law enforcement in Urban Assault tactics, National Guard Mobilizations, statements from the Secretary of Defense that Americans need to "get used to seeing troops on the street", talk of govenors declaring Martial Law, necessary to illustrate our government has our best interests at heart? Are we so untrustworthy as a people that force must be ready to ensure security and order?
" Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it?"
Let us not deceive ourselves. These are tools of government towards absolute control and subjugation of panicking masses; the last resort of a power-mad traitorous reprobate president, that loves himself and his power above the Constitution, and wags his finger in our faces with contempt and lies continually so, in order to endear the populace to himself. And also a spineless Congress and Senate that has its own interests and party politics above the good of the nation's peoples. I ask, why are such military-type actions being made by our government if it is not to ensure its own survival and and not force the remnants of opposition to the suspension of Constitutional Liberty into submission or elimination? Anyone else have a reason for it?
"Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years."
Does the government have domestic enemies of such power that warrant ignoring Posse Commitatus laws to augment law enforcement with armed soldiers and array military and national Guard Units with training programs to deal with "protesters and hordes begging for food"? No, they are meant for us. For those who have not prepared and are uncivil in their pursuit of sustenance, and also for the prepared who will willingly resist their calls to contribute to the "commune" for redistribution and relocation. These units and programs are designed to bind and chain us into slavery upon the trigger mechanism of Y2K. This government has been long forging Socialist systems into the fabric of our Republic in all insidious subtleties, and the screams of the dependant on this taskmaster to enslave us in nannycare will be loud. For a tyrranical leader such as we have, cannot maintain control in chaos and disorder. For such is the reason for lulling the people to sleep with all kind of pollyanna spinspeak and complacent tone, and the demouguoging and scapegoating of the Administration's perceived enemies.
What shall we oppose them with? With factual and logical arguments? We have been trying to do that for the last several years. All to no avail as our society is filled with the desire for emotional rhetoric and deflective scapegoating...so they can feel better about themselves and our situation.
"Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves."
Ditto. Let's not pretend we are not in trouble.
"Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne!"
We've done all we can to avert the consequences of ignoring the coming storm. We have petitioned, remonstrated, pleaded in public, on the internet, we have testified before the Senate and implored officials of both local and state to take Y2K seriously. But as with the Impeachment of William jefferson Clinton...no one cares, nor heeded our warnings. Instead, we have been villified, persecuted, ridiculed, scorned, laughed at and demouguoged by the populace and by both business and government leadership.
"In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope."
In vain, after the rollover, we hope that society can get along and return to our ability to survive together with a reasonable division of labor, without a tyrranical hand of opressive military or government rule over us. There is no longer any room for hope that Y2K won't cause significant if not calamatous disruption.
"If we wish to be free -- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending -- if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained -- we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!"
If we wish to be free, we must be vigilant to threats from without and within to subdjugate us in the event of chaos. To rely on our birthrights and depend on our duty to defend them, first by being responsible to self and family, and then to the community if it seeks cooperation in freedom. Duties to God, to family to country...and in that order. If anyone attempt through subtle beguilings and in the face of unrest give his libetrty to attain a portion given by the confiscation from another, then he is a slave. And if the arm of those that seek to confiscate your liberty and freedom in the name of safety and security knock...I say we must fight back. By force if necessary. Success however only comes with one body and mind. A handful cannot hope to accomplish that which takes many if so opressed.
" They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength but [by] irresolution and inaction? "
There are those that will say the above. And when will the American people say "enough!"? When we are totally disarmed by California- style gun restrictions and.or confiscations, thereby vulnerable to every criminal intent both individual and institutional? When we become a police state? Shall we stand and be strong in an encampment designed for "troublemakers"? Will we have liberty so long if we remain silent and do nothing? Will Y2K ignore us if we ignore it?
"Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
Ditto and ditto again.
"There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!"
There is no stopping Y2K problems now, and if left indifferent and dependant on the "system", we will be relegated to submission and slavery by the state. Our chains have already been forged by over 35 years of Socialistic Liberalism that has left the people dependant on government subsidy and a fragile infrastructure to which they cannot even understand in its links and interdependencies. The rumblings of unrest already seen manifest in the various riots, shootings and chaos that has plagued our society in unmeasured time of wealth and planty.
"The war is inevitable -- and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come."
Chaos and unrest is inevitable due to our complacency and obfuscation of the true nature of Y2K and indeed intenational security problems. Brace for it! I repeat, brace for it!
"It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!"
It is a shame we are so gullible. They cry "Peace! Peace!" but there is no peace. We have made more enemies abroad than at any other time, given away our weapons secrets for cash, demoralized and drawn-down our military, waged illegal wars to sidetrack a cancer on the nation's leadership...we are so fat, lazy and complacent as to our vulnerability, it is truly staggering. The willingness of so many to cede their liberty to the silly notions of security and prosperity at the hand of the state is overwhelming. The blind faith of our fragile infrastructures to provide us with all sorts of acustomed comforts is truly our achilles heel. And despite all the signs and evidenses as to our decay, and the slow shackles of slavery placed around our necks in greedy gratitude...it is truly amazing that we as a people cherish the wealths of being provided for by the state...than by their own hand...or their own vigillance. They trust unseen and unknown souls with their very lives. Unwitting slaves all...God help us!
The next storm of hardship and trial for this nation, sweeping in from the East may yet be the sound of our very social fabric ripping apart at the seams. As those so dependant, and led to believe in the myriad divisions placed on their hearts by deceitful leaders seeking power and position...will fracture us asunder in a deafening crash of chaos and confusion...out of which the fires of hatred and divisions long sown rend us apart as the spoiled brat within us takes to inhuman means of surviving. Thus this fate now possible, lie open the prospect for the deceitful hand of the State to take the steel shackles about our necks and clam down hard to maintain stability and order. In which our freedoms long fought and suffered will have perished forever at the hand of the wolf in sheep's clothing. For once absolute control and power is tasted by those seeking it...the breath of freedom is forever suffocated.
"I know not what course others may take but as for me: give me liberty or give me death. "
And for many, sadly, that may indeed be our fate. But who are we to be any different?


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The Snuts: "Our debut album says there is a place for guitar music in 2021"
The West Lothian four-piece on coming up with Lewis Capaldi, engaging with Nicola Sturgeon on the future of live music in Scotland and connecting with their fans on a deeper level than just "causing you to throw pints"
By Nick Reilly
The Snuts. CREDIT: Gaz Williamson/Press
"We didn't want to put ourselves in a box," The Snuts' Jack Cochrane tells NME. "If you record the same song over and over again, then people will just expect that from you. It was something that we were always cautious of while making this album."
Cochrane is speaking to NME on behalf of the West Lothian band, who are preparing to release their debut album 'W.L.' next week and gear up for a tour that, COVID-permitting, will see them play three sold-out gigs at Glasgow's iconic Barrowlands in June.
One listen to the record makes it easy to see why the four-piece are already packing out shows. Stadium-ready songs like 'All Your Friends' sit happily alongside the tender melodies of 'Somebody Loves You', the kind of track you'd imagine being warmly embraced as the soundtrack to finally meeting up with your mates for a long-overdue boozy BBQ this summer.
Crucially, though, 'W.L."s sonic variety doesn't come across like a cynical attempt to get everyone on side. Instead, genre-hopping producers like Rich Costey have helped The Snuts avoid the all-too-common pitfall faced by bands whenever they dare to step out of their lane for the first time to try something, well, different.
"You see it with a lot with UK bands: as soon as they try something new, their fans immediately get stand-offish about it," says Cochrane. "We want our sound to take you to different places: instead of causing you to throw pints, we want to connect on a deeper level. This album says that there is a place for guitar music in 2021, and it's nice for us to be able to say that we're not sticking to that classic UK indie sound."
The record is also, in many ways, a lifetime's work. While Cochrane might be a relative whippersnapper at 25, album opener 'Top Deck' includes verses he wrote when he was just 13 – and it's just one example of the many long-written lyrics which are scattered throughout the record. After all, The Snuts began life when the bandmembers were all in their teens and attending the same school in Whitburn, West Lothian.
"There were only heavy metal moshers, and we were never any good at doing covers!" Cochrane recalls with a laugh about the band's early days. "I was never meant to be the singer: we went through so many singers that it got to the point that someone had to step up or the band was dead. That bond we have as best friends is what has glued us together, and it's made us more comfortable."
The Snuts quickly outgrew performing in the school hall and soon found themselves on the local gig circuit that also included a little-known singer called Lewis Capaldi, long before he established himself as one of the biggest British solo stars in a generation.
"We're from the same town. There's only 10,000 people [there] so we'd always be playing in the same pubs and clubs for no money, just so that our friends could come and hear our songs," Cochrane says. "We've been on tour with Capaldi – which was intense. It was like opening up for Jesus Christ!"
Cochrane likens Capaldi's breakthrough success to that of guitar-wielding troubadour Gerry Cinnamon, who has secured a similarly near-religious status among music fans north of the border.
"Seeing people go above and beyond where they belong is inspiring, and there's a belief right now in Scotland that work and hard perseverance will get you there," Cochrane says of the general feeling of optimism within the country's music scene. "They've got a work ethic that you don't notice on first glance – but this is what happens."
The Snuts (Picture: Gaz Williamson / Press)
Looking to the near future, Cochrane says that The Snuts are hoping that their upcoming tour will provide a bit of much-needed unity during these darkest and most divisive of times.
"We never agree about anything in Scotland, but there's something about music that brings all of these different sub-cultures and beliefs together into one room – and there's something quite special about that," he says. "Any artist I've spoken to around the world, they've always said that playing at the Barrowlands or a Scottish festival, or when a Scottish artist is doing well, it really brings people together. There's never any division for that: people just like to see others doing well."
While their fans might be only too aware of music's healing power, Cochrane isn't so sure if the Scottish government are quite as onboard with that sentiment. The frontman says he's spent every day in lockdown so far writing a letter to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon asking her to save the country's cash-strapped and shuttered music venues.
"We wrote an open letter to say: 'This is what we need'. None of it was financially-driven, it was us asking if we could have this conversation about what we're going to do to get back on our feet," he says about the devastating impact of the live music shutdown. "It was on behalf of our live crew, our tech [crew] and all the guys whose livelihoods have been completely destroyed. We wanted to give us a voice."
Sturgeon's response, however, struck far from the note that Cochrane had been hoping for. "She eventually responded and told me she just received the one letter – but that's madness, because I dated them all and took pictures of them!" Undeterred by her otherwise non-committal reply, Cochrane says that he "just wanted to have that conversation [about live music], and I'll keep trying until she does".
In the meantime The Snuts are continuing to dream of that first post-pandemic show, where they'll have that banging debut album already under their belt. "I'm gonna be fucking terrified when it comes to stepping on stage for the first time again," Cochrane admits. "Livestreams might be the new normal at the moment and we appreciate the fact people are staying on-board, and it's a real help at the moment. We just can't wait to play live for them again."
The Snuts' debut album 'W.L.' is out on April 2.

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It's all-comedy all-the-time on this Sunday's Tales From SYL Ranch.
About three-fourths of the show is my informal "best of" "Weird Al" Yankovic. His career stretches back to the early 1980s. The task became narrowing it down to about an hour-and-a-half.
They're all gems. In fact, I had to cut some I liked for time, so it's really the best of Al's best.
Update: "Weird Al" dropped a new collection, Medium Rarities, this week. The timing was entirely unintentional. However, I've changed the playlist accordingly.
"It's Still Billy Joel" has been downgraded from "rare" to "medium rare." "Chicken Pot Pie" is still "very rare" and is from my personal collection.
The Holy Grail of "Weird Al" fans, "Belvedere Cruising," has downgraded all the way to "medium rare." It's the song that got Al his break on the Doctor Demento show; which in turn propelled him to stardom.
Then I have a new, permanent addition to the podcast. Henceforth, I will be running The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy radio program.
Younger listeners may not be aware of the Hitchhiker's Guide strange history. It began as a BBC Radio series, then a couple of books, then more radio, then TV, then more books, then a movie, and then more radio.
I'll be playing all five radio series, starting with series one, episode one on Sunday. I'll be running them for about four years.
And the following two weeks , you'll hear my voice for the first time — and you will ultimately be grateful for the respite of The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy.
I'm going to do a two-part "Old Fan's Commentary" of Star Trek – The Motion Picture.
I'm doing this not because I have any great backstage knowledge. I'll talk about what I know, but that's not the point. This is a fan commentary. I'm going to talk about Star Trek fandom in the 1970s, and how it was for a teen-aged Trekkkie to see the film for the first time.
I'll be commenting on the Director's Edition, so if you want to follow along, get out your DVDs, stream from your favorite service, or … well, you know.
For reference, here's the full playlist. With the exception of the Hitchhiker's Guide, they're all "Weird Al" Yankovic songs.


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Asia Times|Opinion
China poised to become Pakistan's new strategic benefactor
By Adnan Aamir
The United States' top diplomat, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, visited Pakistan this month, along with the chairman the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford. This was the first high-level visit by US officials to the country after the new government in Pakistan assumed office. However, this visit failed to restore normalcy in bilateral relations.
Pakistan-US relations started deteriorating after President Donald Trump assumed office. In a New Year's tweet, Trump blamed Pakistan for reciprocating $33 billion in US aid with deceit and lies. He threatened to cut down the aid to Pakistan and has made good his claim. Just a few days before Pompeo's visit, the US announced it would cut $300 million in military aid to Pakistan.
Moreover, the new Pakistani government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan was contemplating applying for a financial bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, Pompeo opposes this proposed bailout package on the grounds that Pakistan would use the funds to repay Chinese loans.
In this context, Pompeo's visit was very significant for Pakistan. Political pundits attached great importance to the outcome of his meeting with Khan. Pakistan's new government, however, wanted to give a strong message to Washington that it would not easily bow down to US pressure. Symbolically, it sent mid-level officials from its Foreign Office to greet Pompeo at the airport. However, the tough message given by Pakistan failed to pressure Pompeo and his team.
Pompeo arrived in Pakistan on September 5 and spent only two hours in the country. He met with Khan in a high-level meeting where the military leadership of Pakistan was also present. Pompeo later told the press that he wanted to reset Pakistan-US relations after the change of guard in Islamabad.
At the same time, he told Pakistan's leadership that it needed to take "sustained and decisive measures" against terrorists who threaten regional peace. He defended the US decision to cut $300 million in aid to Pakistan. In short, the outcome of the visit did not change anything for the deteriorating relations between the two countries.
On one hand Pakistan failed to gain from Pompeo's visit but on the other hand, its strategic arch-rival India gained a lot. After concluding his quick trip to Pakistan, Pompeo headed to India. There, he not only praised the Indian democratic system but also signed a military communications agreement.
As a part of this agreement, the US will provide India with the latest communication system, which will enable India to transmit real-time encrypted messages to its naval ships and aircraft. The US included India on its favored-nations list for receiving sophisticated military supplies through this agreement. This agreement will increase the defense capabilities of India against Pakistan and China.
This decision will have negative impacts on the strategic equation for Pakistan against India. The two countries have been at loggerheads ever since they were carved out of British India in 1947. Pakistan considers India to be its primary external security threat and blames it for fostering terrorism in Pakistan. Therefore, when the US signs a major military supply agreement with India, it's considered to be a strong message of adversity against Pakistan.
The Pompeo visit has closed the doors on effective strategic cooperation between Pakistan and the US. This will reinforce the assertion in Islamabad that complete strategic reliance on China is inevitable for the national interests of Pakistan
The Pompeo visit has closed the doors on effective strategic cooperation between Pakistan and the US. This will not only further deteriorate the relations between those two countries but will reinforce the assertion in Islamabad that complete strategic reliance on China is inevitable for the national interests of Pakistan.
First, Pakistan is in dire need of bailout loans to keep its economy running. The US government is blocking one of the options for this bailout package in the form of the IMF, whereas China has offered to provide supplementary loans to Pakistan, in addition to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, to help it out of the financial crisis. In fact, China has provided guarantees to Pakistan for financial assistance that will allow the South Asian country to avoid the IMF option.
Second, the US is militarily supporting India, which is considered a threat by Pakistan. Indirectly, the US is increasing the strategic threats to Pakistan, as perceived by the Pakistani government. In contrast, China is not only actively opposing India in diplomatic forums for the sake of Pakistan but also militarily supporting Pakistan in the form of facilitating production of JF-17 Thunder aircraft for the Pakistan Air Force.
Third, the US government has suspended military aid at a time when Pakistan is facing problems at its western border. Pakistan has started an ambitious project to fence its entire border with Afghanistan, which is 2,430 kilometers in length. Cutting off military aid will affect the capability of Pakistan to continue fencing its porous border with Afghanistan. Given the plight of its economy, Pakistan will be left with no choice but to seek China's help to compensate for the shortage of resources due to the reduction of US military aid to Pakistan.
Thus the failure of a major breakthrough in the meeting with Pompeo has cast aside the US as a major strategic partner for Pakistan. China is all set to take its place as the principal strategic and financial benefactor of Pakistan. This will massively increase the Chinese influence on the government of Pakistan.
Consequently, it will further reduce the influence of the US in Pakistan, which will not bode well for the latter, because the majority of global institutions are still under the influence of the US.
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Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych – NCBJ – (ang. National Centre for Nuclear Research) powstało 1 września 2011 r. z połączenia dwóch instytutów na mocy rozporządzenia Rady Ministrów. Instytut Energii Atomowej został włączony w struktury Instytutu Problemów Jądrowych, tworząc największy instytut badawczy w Polsce, zatrudniający ponad 1000 pracowników.

Główna siedziba Centrum mieści się w Świerku, dzielnicy Otwocka, 31 km od centrum Warszawy. W Świerku mieści się większość zakładów NCBJ, cztery są zlokalizowane w Warszawie i jeden częściowo w Warszawie i w Łodzi.

W skład NCBJ wchodzi 11 zakładów naukowych, 6 zakładów badawczo-rozwojowych, reaktor jądrowy Maria, dwa laboratoria nie posiadające statusu zakładów naukowych oraz zaplecze administracyjne i transportowe (Zakład Transportu Samochodowego Świerk). Prowadzą one badania w dziedzinach:
 fizyka cząstek elementarnych i promieniowania kosmicznego;
 fizyka jądrowa w szerokim zakresie energii;
 fizyka plazmy gorącej;
 fizyka akceleratorowa;
 badania materiałowe;
 rozmaite techniki pomiarowe, w tym szczególnie budowa detektorów promieniowania;
 elektronika jądrowa.
NCBJ uprawnione jest do prowadzenia studiów doktoranckich w zakresie fizyki doświadczalnej i teoretycznej oraz do nadawania stopni naukowych doktora i doktora habilitowanego w dziedzinie fizyki.

Dzięki projektowi z lat 2009–2015, sfinansowanemu w 85% przez Europejski Fundusz Rozwoju Regionalnego i w 15% przez rządową dotację celową, powstało Centrum Informatyczne Świerk wyposażone w superkomputer, który w końcu 2015 r. znalazł się na 155 miejscu na liście Top 500 najszybszych komputerów świata.

Częścią NCBJ jest Ośrodek Radioizotopów POLATOM, producent i dystrybutor preparatów izotopowych wykorzystywanych w medycynie, nauce, przemyśle i ochronie środowiska.

Co roku NCBJ odwiedza ok. 7–10 tys. osób – głównie uczniowie, młodzież, studenci w ramach działalności edukacyjnej i dydaktycznej Centrum.

Historia
Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych sięga korzeniami Instytutu Badań Jądrowych, który został powołany do życia 4 czerwca 1955 r. W 1958 r. wyłączono ze struktury Instytutu oddział krakowski, który w 1960 r. stał się samodzielnym Instytutem Fizyki Jądrowej, a w 2003 r. został włączony w skład Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Po śmierci w 1959 r. organizatora i pierwszego dyrektora Instytutu Badań Jądrowych, prof. dr Andrzeja Sołtana, nazwa Instytutu została zmieniona na Instytut Badań Jądrowych im. Andrzeja Sołtana. 1 stycznia 1983 r., na mocy zarządzenia Prezesa Rady Ministrów, Instytut został podzielony na trzy nowe instytuty: Instytut Energii Atomowej, Instytut Problemów Jądrowych oraz Instytut Chemii i Techniki Jądrowej, ten ostatni na bazie dotychczasowego ośrodka na Żeraniu. Ponowne połączenie dwóch pierwszych instytutów nastąpiło 1 września 2011 r.

W 1958 r. w Świerku oddano do użytku radziecki reaktor jądrowy EWA, a w ówczesnym krakowskim oddziale Instytutu pierwszy cyklotron U-120. W 1965 r. uruchomiono maszynę cyfrową GIER. W 1966 r. rozpoczęto budowę reaktora jądrowego Maria, który został uruchomiony w 1974 r. i pracuje do dziś. Również w 1974 r. zainstalowano maszynę cyfrową CYBER. Tymczasem w 1971 r. w ośrodku na warszawskim Żeraniu uruchomiono akcelerator elektronów LAE 13-9.

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Linki zewnętrzne
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When using the debug, info, etc. functions from the nagare.log module (SVN r223), the inferred caller of log records is these functions themselves.
This means the %(filename)s, %(funcName)s, %(module)s formatter arguments do not resolve to the correct source. For instance %(module)s resolves to 'nagare.log'.
Logger.findCaller rewinds the stack until it finds the standard logging module (itself) using _srcfile, which is only used for that purpose. Nagare may hijack it for the formatting functions to work correctly.


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Obasanjo visits late Maj.-Gen. Adebayo's family in Lagos
Published March 9, 2017 March 9, 2017
Adeyinka Adebayo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday said the late Maj.-Gen. Adeyinka Adebayo was an officer many looked up to in the army.
Obasanjo spoke with newsmen during a condolence visit to the Ikeja GRA home of the Adebayos in Lagos.
The former president, who arrived at about 8.00p.m., said: "He (Adebayo) was my boss and in the military; when we were acting militarily, we put proper decorum.
"But on a very serious note, Gen. Adebayo is probably the last of the officers that we looked up to in the army when we joined the army just before the attainment of independence.
"We had a lot to learn from them. After him, may be among the officers we will be talking of somebody like David Ejoor.
"So when the old order is being completely turned over and the new order coming up, I think the way things are going, in another five to ten years, there won't be many of the officers that were commissioned before independence left."
"Sincerely they have done their best and they yielded the ground to those who are coming behind; we just hope that they will do their best and yield the floor after that."
Earlier, the former president chatted with the widow of the deceased, Mrs Dupe Adebayo and some other family members and prayed that God would be with them.
Obasanjo praised God that Adebayo did not die in pain and anguish.
In the condolence register, he wrote: "Rest in Peace".
Adebayo died on Wednesday on the eve of his 89th birthday.
The late general served as the military governor of the then Western region comprising Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ekiti, Ondo and some parts of Lagos State between 1966 and 1971.
Many dignitaries have been visiting his home to commiserate with the family.
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Q: R - how to add scale functio to a theme object in ggplot2? I am trying to prepare a custom theme for ggplot in order not to copy-paste the theme all the time. I stacked on an issue that I can not add scale functions to theme object. Does anyone know how this should be solved?
 library(ggthemes)
 theme_RTCGA <- function(base_size = 11, base_family = "", ...){

    theme_pander(gm = TRUE, gM = TRUE, ...) %+replace%
        theme(panel.grid = element_line(),
                    panel.grid.major = element_line(colour = "grey90", size = 0.2),
                    panel.grid.minor = element_line(colour = "grey98", size = 0.5),
                    legend.position = "top") +
  scale_colour_pander() +
  scale_fill_pander()
 }

 library(ggplot2)
 # plot
 df <- data.frame(gp = factor(rep(letters[1:3], each = 10)),
                                 y = rnorm(30))
 ds <- plyr::ddply(df, "gp", plyr::summarise, mean = mean(y), sd = sd(y))
 ggplot(df, aes(x = gp, y = y)) +
    geom_point() +
    geom_point(data = ds, aes(y = mean),
                         colour = 'red', size = 3) + theme_RTCGA()
Error: Don't know how to add scale_colour_pander() to a theme object

A: According to @baptiste comment it shoul dbe
theme_RTCGA <- function(base_size = 11, base_family = "",...){
list(theme_bw(...), scale_colour_pander())
}

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Green House Hotel is clean and standard, fully equipped with services and offers differ vision of relaxation. We offer 44 rooms, coffee shop and restaurant, and a souvenir shop. Nearby you can easily visit great shopping areas, local restaurants, and the harbor. We have taxi/van, laundry, tour information counter, airport transfer/ transfers from the boat pier, bus station, or within Krabi town are free of charge as in our gracious services.
Hotel situated right on the city, very close to shops and super markets. Not a place for tourist attraction as this area is far away from sea beach. Stayed only one night because next day we were leaving for Koh Lanta. Clean room but no window, very suffocating. Very, very poor breakfast.
Hotel is too far from Ao Nang Beach. Not much happenings at Krabi Town and too quiet.
Much noise from the streets below. Hard to get a proper good nights sleep. Otherwise ok. Stayed only for one night before heading for Bangkok.
Very good hotel and the price was ok. Situated centrally in town with nice lean rooms.
Green House Hotel, another choice of relaxation accommodation which convenient and comfortable in the city center of Krabi. This Green House is clean and standard, fully equipped with services and offers differ vision of relaxation.
We offer 44 rooms, coffee shop and restaurant, and a souvenir shop. Nearby you can easily visit great shopping areas, local restaurants, and the harbor. The V.I.P. room inside decorated beautifully to several styles for you to check in as requested together with standard room with both single and double room, beautifully and wonderful sight of decoration but provides a reasonable price. Lady to service with standard restaurant and karaoke rooms.
Choose between Family Suites, Family Rooms, Deluxe Rooms and Superior Rooms. All of our rooms are tastefully decorated, air-conditioned and comfortable. Our full service restaurant and coffee shop are available through room service.
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Minecraft is a game that has delighted millions. It helps children learn how to use technology and the basics of coding, all in one place. But, you can also have fun and learn with Minecraft away from the computer.
Follow along to learn how to make your very own Minecraft brewing station and learn about chemical reactions at the same time!
This experiment is ideal for kids aged 10 and up.
Place your containers on a large tray.
Pour vinegar into each container and dye them to match the colors of your Minecraft potions. We did blue, red, and clear, then by mixing, we made a purple, which became a potion of regeneration.
Add baking soda to each potion a teaspoon full at a time.
Keep adding baking soda to the potions until they stop reacting.
Science: Learn about endothermic reactions.
Technology: Make the potions in Minecraft.
Engineering: Use different shaped containers for the experiment and determine which expands the most.
Math: Calculate how long it takes for the reaction to occur using different amounts of vinegar and baking soda.
The Minecraft brewing station is an experiment in endothermic reactions. When baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and vinegar (acetic acid) mix, they produce sodium acetate, that also creates a byproduct of carbon dioxide and water.
The reaction takes more energy to react than it gives, which makes the reaction a few degrees cooler after reacting then it was before the reaction.
CH3COOH + NaHCO3 = CH3COONa + CO2 + H2O.


I was working on my MindMap when for some reason I refreshed the Chrome Tab the app was running in.
After that my Map only showed a yesterday's version, when the Map was only half the size.
Do you have cached files of all MindMaps saved and could restore mine?
It happend roughly around Sunday, 7 October 2018 22:00:20 CEST (Check in your Timezone).
I will check it and restore it and give you maps filename. It will take some time. Give me a couple of hours. Let me check.
Give me your email address so that I can send you the map filenames. Okay?
Can you tell me where did you save it? In Mindmaps public server or Google Drive?
I am not able find maps with Central Idea: 'GMU'. May I know where did you save it? Mindmaps Public server or Google Drive?
Please send me exising map you have with Central Idea: 'GMU'. I shall search along with this idea.


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Q: startActivityForResult deprecated for android, any alternative? I am trying to upload the image on firebase storage and i am using the startActivityForResult with the intent and the request code but looks like it is deprecated. Is there any alternative for it.
Code for reference
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When you go to any service provider outside of healthcare, you are clearly the customer. You call the shots and the provider is unquestionably and ultimately accountable to you. If he doesn't do a good job for you or if he costs you too much, you just won't be back. You decide to go back and refer your friends only if you find value and convenience in the services that were provided. This sounds familiar because this is the way it happens for every other service we receive in our economy except for healthcare.
Having a direct relationship with your doctor works in very much the same way it does with any of your other type of service. Your doctor is working for you again. Access to your doctor is easy and customer service is important again. Your direct practice doctor is interested in addressing your concerns, all of your concerns and not just the ones reimbursed by your insurance. By eliminating necessary diagnostics, ER visits, and prescription drugs, your direct practice doctor can reduce our out of pocket costs too. Your doctor is motivated now to take care of you and to keep you well by preventing problems and keeping you out of the hospital, the way it should be.
In ancient China, doctors would be paid only until their patients got sick.
We offer you three different direct pay options. Because every situation is different and insurance can be so dang complicated, you choose the option that works best for you.
The personal touch is gone, visits are hurried and It's almost as if they just don't even care to keep you as a client. Many of us don't even see our doctor anymore but instead see physician assistants or nurses. We have come to accept the impersonal hurried and fragmented healthcare experience as normal. It is because you are no longer the customer in this transaction. Your doctor and his staff are catering to their real client, the one that's paying them, that third-party insurance company.
Modern clinical encounters and medical decision-making are influenced by insurance companies on more levels than you might imagine. From the amount of time your doctor spends face to face with you, to the tests ordered, to the choice of medications, to the multiple visit required, to the choice of specialists; it's all done to maximize reimbursement and minimize work. Your doctor has essentially become an extension of the insurance companies through their careful manipulation of the payment framework.
It seems as if the whole point of our insurance driven third party healthcare is to keep us sick and scared seeing more doctors, doing further diagnostics, taking more prescription drugs, and spending greater amounts of money every year.
Insurance companies are like Las Vegas casinos. Casinos are happy to keep you playing and paying so they toss you a small payout every now to keep you interested. These casinos will never pay out more than they take in. They work hard to maximize the money coming in and limit expenditure on your health. The margin is necessary to cover their overhead, overpaid executives' salaries, and anticipated corporate profits.
Imagine if 100% of your healthcare dollars actually going toward your healthcare. When you have a direct relationship with your healthcare service providers, that is exactly what happens.
When you have a direct relationship with the healthcare service providers, you choose to pay only for the services you actually receive. Patients tell us we can save them thousands of dollars over the course of the year in this way. It's hard to imagine today some people still continue to pre-pay monthly premiums for services they will not likely ever need.
Insurance was originally intended to protect us in the unlikely event of a very expensive catastrophic incident. Consider your homeowner's insurance policy for example, that would engage in the unfortunate event such as a total loss due to a fire. But such events are statistically unlikely to happen in your lifetime and that is what keeps home insurance premiums affordable. On the other hand, you would never use your homeowner's insurance for minor maintenance items such as unclogging a drain, minor pest control, or gardening. If you wanted that service, you would choose a gardener who you believed will do a good job and pay a fair price for the service out of pocket.
Imagine if your homeowner's insurance decided to raise the monthly premium and include gardening as a benefit. They would of course use a portion (maybe 50%) of your added premium to pay for your gardening as promised. You might first get a pre-authorization for your gardening and then, when approved, have to use their "in-network" gardener. They have already established a network of gardeners willing to work for a reduced fee and the promise of high volume referrals. The insurance company would have rules so they would never lose money on this new benefit. They would dictate which types of shrubbery and trees are covered under your policy, how often the gardener can come to your home, and of course you would have a copay for every gardening visit.
Why would anyone decide to pre-pay for home maintenance like gardening and give up their right to have a direct relationship with their gardener?
Insurance companies invest large marketing dollars convincing you they have the best providers in their networks, and scare you into believing your cost would be so much more if you had a direct relationship with the service provider.
More expensive than ever and still climbing, health insurance has gotten way out of hand. The health insurance companies expect us to pre-pay every month higher and higher premiums by promising to cover more and more items. What they don't tell us is that we are not very likely to use or need many of these added items that we are paying for. They make the rules like prior authorizations and out of pocket co-pays to discourage utilization of those benefits. They know exactly how much they are will pay out and set premiums accordingly to protect their margins and continued corporate profits.


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Originally from New Jersey, Tanvi Kanchinadam is a rising high school senior at Phillips Academy Andover interested in the relationship between Global Health Policy and International Development in the context of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs), and the effect these technologies have on disadvantaged communities on a grassroots level. Previous work includes a focus on the correlation between caste and the inequity of healthcare delivery between low and high caste communities in India. Tanvi is also the founder and organizer of TEDxPhillipsAcademyAndover, an annual TEDx conference consisting entirely of student speakers. In the past, the conference has centered around themes such as '21st Century Citizenship,' and 'Our Generation's Mission Statement.' Tanvi is also passionate about government and politics, and she hosts a weekly online radio show 'Chai Time' to discuss issues concerning the South Asian diaspora, as well as broader issues at play in the American political thicket. She also engages with the South Asian community as president of the Hindu Student Union at Phillips Academy. Tanvi is a classically trained double-bassist who plays in the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Phillips Academy Chamber and Symphonic Orchestras. Additionally, she occasionally dabbles in Jazz and other forms of contemporary music.
Quinn Robinson
Quinn Robinson is a rising Senior at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and lives in Wellesley, MA. He is particularly passionate about combating issues of privacy on the internet and in various sources of media, which he hopes to incorporate into his projects at Berkman Klein, his future collegiate studies, and his work beyond. He also enjoys studying in the general fields of social science, history, and mathematics. During the school year, he serves as a board member and competitor of both the Philomathean Debate Society and the Phillips Academy Model UN team, a resident advisor, and the head of MOSAIC– an affinity group for multiracial students and faculty. He holds decent proficiency in Mandarin, which he teaches to elementary school students from Lawrence, and has for long been interested in Chinese culture and politics– culminating in a summer-abroad program last year spent investigating the role of state-owned enterprises in the modern Chinese economy. In his free time, Quinn loves listening to music, travelling, and playing squash and tennis.
Skyler Sallick
Skyler Sallick is a rising sophomore at Claremont McKenna College looking to major in Philosophy and Public Affairs, with an emphasis on tech policy and ethics. During her first undergraduate year, Skyler pioneered a project with Shared_Studio's Portal Project, as a student initiative aiming to bring Portal technology to Claremont in 2019. A recent graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover, Skyler spent much of high school as the Founder and Director of the Andover Satellite Editorial Board for the award-winning, global, online magazine, KidSpirit, that explores the ways in which the internet connects youth voices around the world on meaningful topics. Additionally, she had several articles published through the magazine, including one in the Huffington Post entitled The Basic Intricacies of Kindness and Compassion. Through KidSpirit, Skyler spoke on a panel at the 2015 Parliament of World Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah on the importance of youth involvement in change making. She was featured on the Garrison Institute Podcast for her work surrounding youth involvement in discussions around climate change. Additionally, Skyler was a documentary finalist in the All American High School Film Festival. She also serves as a Volunteer Ambassador for Be the Match: City of Hope. Skyler has a passion for exploring the opportunities and challenges technological innovation such as AI and VR/AR can offer education, specifically exploring the ethics and potential policies around technology that affect youth.
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I have seen the worst come out in people when it comes to religion, race and politics. Some feel that their viewpoints are the only ones worth listening to. I have seen family and friends get into bitter feuds because they were on opposite sides of the fence. I don't apologize for my viewpoints nor will I shove them down someone's throat. Please do not label me…I am not that, "crazy conservative" or "damn liberal"…I am just an American with a right to respectfully express my opinions.
I have been to social functions where someone will ask me, "What do you do for a living?" I will share that my husband and I own and operate a janitorial service. (One of several things we do.) Sometimes they will smile politely and move on. It is their loss because if they had taken the time to get to know us, they would have discovered an interesting couple with many decades of life and entrepreneurial experience. It is unfortunate that we label people as worth knowing or not worth knowing by their career choices.
We live in a country that labels a person successful if they have lots of money. If they lose it, that person immediately gets labeled a failure. We forget about everything else that person has done in their life and we toss them aside like yesterday's news. We love stories about lottery winners especially if they are what we call "rags to riches" stories. We forget about the millions of successful people who live paycheck to paycheck and manage to take care of their families and meet all of their obligations.
I used to write a human interest column about people who our society labels as ordinary. They were cashiers, food servers, sales clerks, window washers, baggers…the list goes on and on! I found something very extraordinary about each one of them. They had a passion for life and shared it with others. I chose each of them to write about because even if it was a brief encounter, they touched my life in a positive way.
I used to be a teacher and I would meet kids who at a tender young age had already been labeled a loser. Many of these children fell between the cracks of the American educational system. I tuned out the teachers and administrators who chose to negatively label these students and instead chose to see each child as worthy of my time. I have never regretted my decision. One adult can make a positive difference in a child's life.
How do you feel about the labels that society puts on each of us? Have you ever been labeled because of the way you look, the life you live, your viewpoints or for any other reason?
From what I know about you…I do not think that those labels have stopped you from living your life to the fullest.


In this week's Marketing & Media pull out of The Sunday Independent, Immedis Marketing Director, Patricia Khalifa is interviewed about the challenges of bringing a new brand to market.
What is Immedis and what does it offer?
Immedis is a specialist division of The Taxback Group. Our core business is to service the multi-country payroll and tax obligations of companies with overseas staff. We have a team of international tax and payroll experts who advise clients on their obligations and run their international payroll requirements.
We have also developed an innovative technology platform, allowing companies to manage their global payroll and employment tax needs all in one place. Our clients include Airbus, Kerry Group, The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Wayfair and Harvard University.
Many organisations still view Marketing as a cost centre rather than a growth engine. For that reason, it's crucial that Marketing works closely with Sales to ensure they are helping move prospects through the funnel to close deals while keeping close to customers and their needs and wants. Using data and analytics to track and measure the effectiveness of different initiatives will help prove the value Marketing brings to the business.
B2B sometimes gets lost in the features and functionality, forgetting there's a person at the end of the process who has a lot more to lose. B2B decision makers are under a lot more pressure than B2C buyers. If you or I buy a car or shampoo that doesn't quite live up to our expectations, there's no harm done. But if you're the CFO who makes the decision to implement a global payroll solution that affects how your employees are paid, and it goes wrong, that's a career defining moment. And not a good one.
Early on I learned that sometimes throwing the brand guidelines out the window to create something unique that achieves cut through and resonates with the decision maker is more important. At the end of the day, it's about results, leads and driving growth.
What markets does the company service?
We operate in two distinct, yet complementary markets. The Global Mobility Tax Market is worth over $5bn a year in managing the tax obligations for employers and employees sent as expats on international assignments. It's a huge market and growing constantly as organisations expand internationally.
Payroll outsourcing is the fastest growing segment of the global HR outsourcing market. Companies are rapidly adopting payroll services to achieve cost reduction for a business critical function. Research has shown that organisations that outsource spend on average 20% less than those that don't.
A key market driver is the need for cost visibility and a key trend we see is the increased use of technology to simplify management and reporting. This is what we have spent the past 4 years developing with our payroll platform.
We have two sets of competitors – global payroll software providers and tax advisors.
We are unique. We sit in the middle, which sounds ominous in traditional marketing theory, but our research has shown that clients really need this.
A global payroll software solution is only as good as the person behind the screen. Looking at payroll from a tax perspective to ensure everything remains compliant and each country is adhering to local regulations and legislation in each country is what complicates matters. Technology can't do that alone. Human intervention is needed to make it work.


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CPD: A Guide to Level 2 BIM
30 November 2018 | By John Adams
Autodesk's John Adams offers an overview of BIM Level 2 BIM and what needs to be in place to achieve it.
In May 2011, the UK Cabinet Office announced a long-term government construction strategy aimed at improving the efficiency, cost-effectiveness and sustainability of UK government construction projects.
The strategy's short-term goal is to reduce construction costs by 15 to 20%, and it is part of a broader set of goals for the industry, which are to reduce construction costs, project delivery time and long-term operating costs, and to help the UK meet carbon reduction targets for buildings.
A key part of the strategy is the requirement to use collaborative 3D BIM processes on all centrally funded public projects (both buildings and infrastructure) by April 2016.
Since the strategy's launch, a number of public-private steering groups and organisations have been helping to implement and strengthen the BIM capabilities of both government organisations and industry supply chains.
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Several standards and specifications have been created. Policies, protocols and tools have been devised, and others revised, and government projects have been used to test methods and obtain feedback.
Based on this development effort, the UK BIM mandate now includes a number of main components that enable project teams (government owners, supply chain designers, contractors, and fabricators) to understand, specify and adhere to BIM processes and procedures for working together on BIM projects.
These "pillars" – PAS 1192-2, PAS 1192-3, BS 1192-4, PAS 1192-5, the CIC BIM Protocol, Government Soft Landings, the Digital Plan of Works (DPoW) and Uniclass classification system – are summarised below.
For each centrally procured UK government project, the government client will evaluate the proposed approach, BIM capability and capacity of a supplier and its supply chain to deliver the required information.
As such, a potential "Tier 1" government supplier (such as a lead designer, main contractor or joint venture partner) must convince its government client that it is BIM ready by detailing the processes that it will use to fulfil the client's requirement. Likewise, a supplier further down the supply chain must demonstrate its BIM readiness to its higher-tier client.
Part of a company's BIM readiness is the software it uses to provide services, produce deliverables and deliver the information required by the government client. Autodesk BIM software solutions can help companies to the meet the technical requirements of BIM Level 2.
Working with COBie
As a project moves from design to construction to commissioning and handover, the project information grows and eventually represents what has been built and delivered to the government client. This information is then used to support the operations and maintenance of the built asset. COBie (Construction Operations Building Information Exchange) is the UK government's chosen Level 2 BIM exchange schema for this information.
Facility owners and operators require a wide range of information, from as-built drawings of the facility to serial numbers and installation dates of warrantied equipment. Traditionally, this was provided during handover via boxes full of paper drawings, operations and maintenance manuals, or by CDs containing electronic versions of the same information, possibly taking thousands of hours to process and enter the data into systems used for FM, operations and maintenance.
In 2007, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) developed the COBie exchange format as a pilot standard for its own building projects. Since then, it has been used by private and public organisations around the world. COBie enables the capture of facility information throughout the phases of a project, and the exchange of that information in a structured format using neutral spreadsheets.
Two types of assets are included: "visitable" spaces and managed or maintained components and equipment. COBie enables the supply chain to provide electronic information directly as that information is created.
The COBie spreadsheet will contain data from design consultants, the contractor and subcontractors, suppliers and the client. In a collaborative BIM project, the COBie spreadsheets from all these participants are merged together. In general, COBie files are not intended to be "read" by end-users. Instead, they are a vehicle that can be used to exchange space and equipment information between systems.
BS 1192-4 provides guidance for using COBie to exchange facility information between the employer and the supply chain. The timing and number of exchange points (or COBie data drops) are aligned to project stages and will vary depending upon the requirements of individual government clients to suit their internal processes and approvals.
There are likely to be at least four data exchanges: at the end of preparation and brief; at the end of conceptual design; at the end of design development; and at handover.
How Autodesk supports COBie
Autodesk personnel have worked on the various technical committees that developed the original USACE standard, BS 1192-4 and the many other standards that include COBie.
Moreover, Autodesk has developed compliance with the COBie standard in its own products. For example, Autodesk Revit can create and export COBie building handover information directly, either via a spreadsheet or via an IFC model. Autodesk provides a free plug-in for Revit that provides the capability to export the model directly to the UK COBie spreadsheet standard format.
The free Revit Model Checker tool can be used to verify that a Revit model contains the necessary information needed to meet the client's specific project requirements, based on a configurable checklist. The tool also includes a Revit Model Checker for COBie that checks to make sure that a COBie spreadsheet exported from Revit meets the UK's requirements for COBie.
Alternatively, COBie-enabled Revit models can also be exported to the IFC FM Handover Extended Model View Definition data option. In addition, a UK government client or supplier can use the NBS BIM Toolkit (DPoW) in order to digitally verify that a supplier's project data provided in a COBie spreadsheet meets contract requirements.
The Revit Classification tool allows you to add Uniclass information to BIM objects within your model and works in conjunction with the Revit COBie extension to create COBie drops.
For projects which don't use Revit for all or any of the design and for construction phases of a project, Navisworks can be used to federate the models and a free COBie export tool for Navisworks can be used to aggregate COBie data from various file formats. This can be exported as spreadsheet or a SQL database.
For some of the COBie required data such as serial numbers and installation information, which is typically gathered at the commissioning phase, a mobile solution for the construction site such as BIM 360 Field can be used to collect data to be brought back into the model for COBie export from Revit.
The Common Data Environment
A successful implementation of the UK government strategy and Level 2 BIM mandate relies on a Common Data Environment (CDE) to support a project's information delivery process, as specified in both PAS 1192-2 and BS 1192. A CDE is defined as a single source of information for any given project, used to collect, manage and disseminate all relevant approved project information for multidisciplinary teams in a managed process.
PAS 1192-2 Section 9.2 describes how a CDE should accommodate information from government BIM projects and enable multidisciplinary project teams to collaborate in a managed environment. A CDE may use a project server, extranet, file-based retrieval system or other toolset, but should allow information to be shared efficiently and accurately between an extended project team that may work across companies and geographic locations.
A CDE helps to ensure that information is only generated once and is then reused as necessary by all members of the supply chain, and that information is constantly updated and enriched. To accommodate collaborative BIM processes, it should include four fundamental capabilities:
A shared project workspace for project team members from different disciplines, companies and locations;
Controlled access to the information stored in the CDE;
A structured, configurable approval process to control the flow of project information;
A process to track and manage activity related to the CDE's information and controls.
Autodesk BIM 360 Docs is a cloud-based platform that provides general document management as well as specialised functionality for 2D drawings, 3D models, and other project information. BIM 360 Docs helps to support the collaborative workflows described in BS 1192 and PAS 1192-2, and has been designed to fulfil the UK government's technical requirements for a CDE.
In addition, the security controls and features in BIM 360 Docs assist UK government clients, suppliers and asset operators who use the CDE to comply with PAS 1192-5. Specifically, it supports the "need-to-know" approach to the sharing and publication of information about built assets.
For more information on BIM Level 2, download your free copy of Autodesk's indepth white paper on the mandate and how to meet it at: www.bim360.com/bim-level-2
Autodesk, BIM 360, Navisworks, and Revit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the US and/or other countries.
The pillars of BIM
1. How BIM should be used
PAS 1192-2:2013 is at the heart of the UK BIM mandate, identifying how BIM should be used for a project's design and construction. It is underpinned by BS 1192:2007, which defines the collaborative production of architectural, engineering and construction information and establishes project team roles and responsibilities, as well as rules for naming, classifying, layering and exchanging project data.
2. The Asset Information Model
PAS 1192-3:2014 deals with the operational phase of a project. It describes how an Asset Information Model (AIM) should be created from the Project Information Model (PIM) that was developed during design and construction, including the establishment of data requirements from the beginning of a project. It also describes how the AIM should be used and maintained through the life of the asset.
3. Exchanging information
BS 1192-4:2014 defines expectations for the exchange of non-graphical project information using the COBie standard, which enables the exchange of structured information for the commissioning, operation, and maintenance of a project in a neutral spreadsheet format. The facility owner can then use this in decision-making tools, and FM and asset management systems.
4. Sharing information safely
PAS 1192-5: 2015 provides technical security considerations for UK government owners and project stakeholders regarding vulnerability issues, and the controls that are required to help ensure that information is being shared in a security- minded fashion.
5. Legal aspects of data-sharing
The Construction Industry Council (CIC ) BIM Protocol is a legal addendum to design and construction contracts that allows parties to share data within a contract when working to Level 2 BIM. It establishes specific obligations, liabilities and limitations on the use of project models.
6. Handing over the asset
The Government Soft Landings (GSL) is a policy of graduated handover for government projects. It requires project teams to stay in touch with government clients for several years to assist them in learning how to operate their asset effectively.
7. A common language for BIM
To support the construction strategy, the UK government commissioned a unified classification system (Uniclass) that provides a "common language" for all team members. A single classification system enables electronic project data to be indexed and structured to be accessible and searchable.
8. Defining the data requirement
The government also commissioned the development of a digital plan of works (DPoW), which defines the data required at a specific point in a project's lifecycle, and who is responsible for creating and issuing that data. The DPoW also integrates into the classification system (see 7).
Visualising a more efficient future
Simulating scenarios saves housebuilder Hill £20,000
With the advent of BIM, London and south-east housebuilder Hill was eager to embrace a more efficient way of working, as well as drive the productivity of its workforce, tackle the inefficiency of procurement and improve quantification. The company adopted a range of Autodesk tools to help in the process, including BIM 360, Navisworks and Revit.
Autodesk cloud-based technology on synchronised iPads and other devices allows Hill employees to spend more time on site and be more productive, as they are empowered to carry out more admin tasks while in the field. In addition, Navisworks enabled greater project visibility for head office.
Projects that have benefited include the redevelopment of the South London YMCA at Upper Norwood, where the site had a steep topography and the building was difficult to visualise.
By using the BIM modelling tools, Hill was able to simulate different scenarios and make better-educated decisions regarding the design and construction of the building. Access to this information saved Hill around £20,000.
Mike Beckett MCIOB, director at Hill, says: "Using Revit and Navisworks means our site managers can in time expect to increase productivity by between 30 and 40%, which allows them to get more done."
He adds: "As a result of working with Autodesk, we're now looking to roll out more projects with BIM as a standard."
WYG tests project impacts at city scale
Global project management and technical consultant WYG has long been committed to implementing digital technology, BIM and more recently BIM Level 2 processes throughout the entire group. It first introduced Autodesk and Revit in 2006.
While initially the business met some resistance when it introduced new tools, WYG trains up individuals in each office
to champion the new product and get teams on board.
In order to test out its use of the latest technology, WYG entered a team into Build New York Live,a 48-hour virtual design competition. The intention was to show how data can flow between different systems and the benefits that brings to WYG stakeholders. Forty-five staff working in 16 disciplines took part in the competition, which involved delivering a complete building and FM package for a site in New York (pictured above).
Autodesk products allowed data to flow between WYG team members located across various sites, significantly increasing their ability to collaborate – and the team went on to win a top award at the competition.
Johnathan Munkley, BIM director at WYG, says: "Implementing BIM and digital workflows has allowed us to stay competitive and it allows us to offer the best service to clients. We're now able to win more tenders and offer a better, more engaging service that our clients want. We wouldn't be winning the work we're winning now if we hadn't embraced BIM and technology in this way."
As a leader in BIM software, Autodesk helps to transform business process and deliver innovation to the construction industry. As the industry evolves, Autodesk continues to develop guidelines and standards associated with both BIM and with collaboration.
As the founder of the International Alliance for Interoperability, the forerunner of today's BuildingSMART, Autodesk has been actively involved in developing and maintaining the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) standard, the data format commonly used to share data on BIM projects.
Also, as members of the steering groups and technical committees involved in developing PAS 1192-2 and BS 1192‑4, Autodesk staff have been supporting the development of the CDE and COBie requirements for many years.
To find out more about BIM Level 2 and the impact that technology and process improvement can have on your business visit www.bim360.com/bim-level-2.
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Flint is home to several colleges and Universities. The most well-known of these establishments would be the University of Michigan – Flint, and Kettering University. Kettering University, formerly General Motors Institute (GMI) is a university who's main focus is on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and Business fields. It offers bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering, math, science, and business. Kettering is a popular university and known for producing some of the best engineers in the country.
Right around the corner from Kettering are the campuses of the University of Michigan – Flint, and Mott Community College. U of M Flint is one of the most popular campus choices in Genesee County. U of M Flint offers bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in a wide variety of majors, but is best known for their highly competitive and popular nursing program. Mott is a local community college with various satellite campuses across Genesee County that offers associate and bachelor degrees in a wide range of fields. Mott has been ranked among the top ten community colleges in the United States for over a decade.


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A - B - Seymour: I'm Baaaack with an Updated Halloween Pack Giveaway!!
I'm Baaaack with an Updated Halloween Pack Giveaway!!
The beginning of this year has been a little rough to say the least. Every school year seems to demand more and more. I just needed to take a break from the blogging world and keeping up with TpT.
I think I'm ready to come back now. I've really missed blogging and sharing things. I have taken so many pictures and I think I'll blog about that, but then I never seem to have the time to sit down and blog.
This pack is full of fun Halloween activities. You can use them on a sub day, when you're progress monitoring your kiddos, or when you need a few minutes to get some make-up work done. It seems like I am always needing a few minutes to get something done!
I always read The Night Before Halloween by Natasha Wing to my kiddos every year. They love it so I highly recommend it with this pack! Click on the book below to purchase it on Amazon!
Since I have been gone for sooooo long I am giving this pack away to the *first 10 people* who leave a comment with their email address below sharing their favorite Halloween activity as a thank you for sticking around my blog!
I know what you mean. Each school year demands more. You're Halloween pack looks great!
Don't feel so bad, we all know what it's like trying to manage school, blogging, TpT, AND family! Your Halloween pack looks great. I love to do a lot of pumpkin activities and games that I can use candy corn with! I'm on my third bag so far and I just took 2 bags to school. Yikes!
I hear you! After this many years, you'd think it would be easier each year, but maybe back then we didn't have so much to worry about!
Glad you are back...but don't stress about keeping up with your blog on top of everything else. I am happy to read whenever you post.
I love doing graphing activities with halloween candy! The kids love it too!
I live having pumpkin day in the classroom. Everything pumpkin! Graphing, adjectives, etc.
I love the school halloween carnival and carnival pumpkins. My daughters favorite book is the old lady who swallowed a bat.
I love our school's giant Halloween parade!
I'm so glad you and your ideas are back:)! I love all of the Halloween books (Spookley the Square Pumpkin, Even Monsters Need Haircuts, Hallo Wiener)!
I am so excited to go to the farm! Pumpkin patches are definitely one of my favorite Halloween activities! Glad you're back!
I know how you feel, Rachel. I've been having troubles keeping up, too!
I love watching the kids trick or treating!
Love your Halloween ideas! Isn't it funny that you can miss doing something that often stresses you out?!
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