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RE: General Gopher Talk - 11/21/2018 8:36:48 AM
ORIGINAL: SoMnFan
Is there a major league of softball somewhere?
It sounds like she plans to transfer to a Pac 10 or SECC school to enhance her chances at a college world series and improve her chances for the Olympic team. The article said that the NCAA changed the rules for softball to that players can transfer and play right away. The rule change is expected to be devastating to conferences like the Big Ten.
"The eternal fate of the noble and enlightened: to be brutally crushed by the armed and dumb."
SoMnFan
Status: offline Damn, that sucks.
Once again ... thanks, NCAA.
You and Bettmann!
RE: General Gopher Talk - 11/24/2018 10:26:20 AM
Status: offline Unfortunately the volleyball team will not finish the Big Ten season undefeated. They lost in 5 sets at Penn State.
RE: General Gopher Talk - 12/7/2018 12:11:53 PM
Status: offline MINNEAPOLIS -- They know each other so well that they finish each other's sentences. Minnesota associate athletic trainer Ronni Beatty-Kollasch met Taylor Morgan, the daughter of Gophers women's track coach Matt Bingle, when Taylor was a little girl, running around the Bierman Field Athletic Building or the crumbling maroon track behind it. They bonded when Morgan committed to Minnesota for volleyball.
As Morgan endured four knee surgeries, she and Beatty-Kollasch often met at 6 a.m. in the basement training room of Maturi Pavilion, Minnesota's home court, for rehabilitation sessions. The room was cold, isolated, and so crowded that some athletes exercised in the hallway. Those early mornings featured heart-to-heart talks and fragile emotions, especially after the last surgery in January. The first three had been on Morgan's left knee. This time, she tore the meniscus in her right knee.
"This fourth one was like, 'OK, the other one now?" Morgan said. "This was Old Faithful. Now you're going to mess up on me?
"Mentally, I'm going through it. There were a lot of tears. A lot of me calling my mom. A lot of calling Ronni, coming down there, crying."
Coach Hugh McCutcheon and the Minnesota medical staff met with Morgan and her parents shortly after the surgery, wondering whether Morgan, a reserve middle blocker, should continue. Morgan was adamant. She wanted to be a Gophers volleyball star more than anything, and felt she couldn't face her two little sisters (they're 12 and 14 years old) if she quit before it happened.
"Taylor didn't hesitate," Beatty-Kollasch recalled. "She didn't even look at her parents. She might have glanced my way a bit, and then said, 'We're going to do this.' OK, here we go.
"The rehab process is really complicated. There are a lot of emotions involved with it, and this is her fourth time. We had a lot of talks about this. 'Do you want to play?' She never wavered. She said, 'I don't care if I never get a spot. I want to try.' "
Morgan won a starting job in the preseason and rose to be one of Minnesota's best and most fiery players. Her play could be key as the No. 2 Gophers (27-3), bidding for a hometown berth in the Final Four, meet No. 15 Oregon (22-10) on Friday afternoon in the Minneapolis Regional semifinals. The winner faces either defending national champion Nebraska (26-6) or SEC champion Kentucky (26-4) in Saturday night's regional final.
In a deep and balanced Gophers attack, Morgan is one of five players with at least 200 kills. Morgan's .381 hitting percentage and 1.09 blocks per set ranked second on the team to All-Big Ten Conference first-team selection Regan Pittman (.407, 1.16). Morgan made second-team All-Big Ten, which she relished, and was one of six Gophers named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association's All-North Region team.
"She's probably one of the ... if not the toughest person I know, because of all the injuries she's had to go through," said Gophers setter Samantha Seliger-Swenson, the Big Ten Player of the Year. "The path to becoming the player she is today has not been easy at all. But she's just super determined."
Taylor Morgan won a starting spot in the preseason and has been one of the No. 2 Gophers' go-to hitters since.
Morgan's parents were track athletes in college, and she ran in high school as well, but volleyball became her passion. Her knee issues began with a torn left anterior cruciate ligament early in her junior season at Blaine High School, north of Minneapolis. "I kind of came down on a block weird, and it just kind of popped," she said. Because Beatty-Kollasch and Morgan knew each other before the injury, the NCAA allowed Morgan to rehab at Minnesota.
Then came three meniscus tears. The first, in a scrimmage in August 2015, her freshman year, was repairable but cost her the season. Morgan attended her first college class on crutches.
Morgan played off the bench her redshirt freshman and sophomore years before tearing a different part of the left meniscus in a November 2016 match against Wisconsin. Debridement surgery the following January removed the damaged tissue. Almost exactly one year later, a shredded right meniscus required another debridement.
"The right one, I think, probably was the most heartbreaking even though it wasn't the most serious," Beatty-Kollasch said. "That was hard for all of us."
Was a fourth rehab worth it for someone who wasn't playing much? McCutcheon could not guarantee Morgan a starting job if she came back. And every surgery increased the chances of arthritis down the line. But Morgan stubbornly pressed on.
"I've been through so much," Morgan said. "At the end of the day, I don't want my two younger sisters to look up to me and be like, 'She was a good volleyball player, but she never got to play because she was hurt all the time.' Or, 'She could have done this or done that, but she was hurt all the time and just kind of gave up and didn't do it.' I know they would never say that, but I know kids, and kids talk to their friends, and all that stuff.
"I want them to look at me and go, 'Wow. Yeah, I'm going through something tough. I might be getting bullied. I'm going through some situations with my family. But I'm not going to give up, because it's going to get better.' "
-Taylor Morgan
"Not only to my little sisters, but to the little girls who are in the crowd. I want them to look at me and go, 'Wow. Yeah, I'm going through something tough. I might be getting bullied. I'm going through some situations with my family. But I'm not going to give up, because it's going to get better.' There's always a storm before the rainbow. It always gets real hard right before it gets real good."
Morgan recovered quickly enough to attend USA Volleyball tryouts in Colorado Springs in March, an annual three-day all-comers session she had never been healthy enough to attend before. "We weren't sure we were going to send her until literally we were leaving that day," Beatty-Kollasch said. "But she held her own. The USA staff, they said, 'Wow, where did she come from?' I said, 'We had her in the training room for three years.' "
Minnesota's spring conditioning camp is notoriously demanding, but Morgan made it through without restrictions. Morgan plays with energy and abandon, oblivious to the enormous left knee brace she insists on wearing. "She's not afraid to take big swings in big moments for us," Seliger-Swenson said.
And when the Gophers need reassurance, Morgan provides it. "I live for tough moments," she said.
Like Nov. 3, when Michigan State forced the Gophers into a fifth set at the Pavilion -- the first five-setter Minnesota played all season. Gathering her teammates, Morgan calmly declared the Gophers were the better team and would not lose in front of their fans. The Gophers didn't, jumping to a 7-2 lead and winning 15-7. Minnesota brings a 16-0 home mark into the weekend.
"She's really impactful on the court with her energy and her presence," sophomore opposite hitter Stephanie Samedy said. "The fact that she's been through a lot of knee surgeries, and still wants to come back and fight, shows her character."
Now Morgan and the Gophers are two victories away from their season-long goal, qualifying for the Final Four across town at the Target Center. Morgan relishes another crack at Oregon, which dealt the Gophers their first loss, in four sets in early September at the Big Ten/Pac 12 Challenge.
"In the beginning of the year, we were still figuring a lot of stuff out," Morgan said. "Oregon is a great team. They found our weakness and they utilized it. Kudos to them. I'm very excited to come at them. Our team, we mesh so well together now. We're excited to see what we can do against them, and it's personal now."
Friday's lineup
No. 3 Illinois vs. No. 14 Marquette, noon ET, ESPNU/WatchESPN
No. 7 Nebraska vs. No. 10 Kentucky, 2 ET, ESPNU/WatchESPN
No. 6 Wisconsin vs. San Diego, 2:30 ET, ESPN3/WatchESPN
No. 5 Texas vs. Michigan, 4 ET, ESPNU/WatchESPN
No. 2 Minnesota vs. No. 15 Oregon, 4:30 ET, ESPN3/WatchESPN
No. 8 Penn State vs. Washington, 6 ET, ESPNU/WatchESPN
No. 4 BYU vs. Florida, 6:30 ET, ESPN3/WatchESPN
No. 1 Stanford vs. No. 16 Washington State, 8:30 ET, ESPN3/WatchESPN
RE: General Gopher Talk - 12/8/2018 6:25:30 AM
kgdabom
Status: offline Oregon defeats the Gophers Volleyball team again.
By Joel Odom | The Oregonian/OregonLivejodom@oregonian.com
The Oregonian/OregonLive
The No. 15 seed Oregon Ducks knocked off No. 2 seed Minnesota 3-1 on Friday in the third round of the NCAA volleyball tournament in Minneapolis.
The Ducks outlasted the Golden Gophers to win a marathon second set 41-39. Oregon carried that momentum into the final two sets, winning 25-14 and then 26-24 in the decisive set.
Oregon now advances to the Elite Eight of the national tournament and will face No. 7 seed Nebraska at 3 p.m. PT Saturday.
"So let it be written.
So let it be done."
RE: General Gopher Talk - 9/16/2019 2:10:28 PM
Status: offline No mention of the Women VBers stomping mighty mighty Stanford?
You go, girls
Had started rough on the year, that win was outstanding. Beat a tough team the night before, too.
Work like a Captain.
Play like a Pirate.
No mention of the Women VBers stomping mighty mighty Stanford?
The year will really depend on how fast McCutcheon can develop the setters. The Gophers returned all of their big hitters including Samedy, but graduated their captain and All America setter.
From: Minne-so-ta
Status: offline Gophers are the #7 seed and start the NCAA tournament at home
Escape while you can!
ORIGINAL: Mr. Ed
Gophers are the #7 seed and start the NCAA tournament at home
Pretty good, since they had to overcome a lot of injuries this year and the Big Ten is an insanely good conference. The Gophers knocked off Penn State, on the road, over the weekend to force a 3 way tie for 2nd place in the Big Ten. First place was Wisconsin
The team is completely healthy now, so they should out perform that #7 seed.
Status: offline Another sweet 16 in volleyball
Too bad the big money programs are at this level of competence
Status: offline The Creighton match was a coronary classic. The Gophers were at two elimination points in the fourth game, but pulled it out and then won the final set. They are finally healthy for the first time since the beginning of the season. Let's hope they get in rhythm by the time they play Florida.
RE: General Gopher Talk - 12/9/2019 10:01:10 AM
Status: offline SOLID program
There are a couple programs at the U who don't get near-enough credit.
This is one.
RE: General Gopher Talk - 12/13/2019 9:57:32 PM
Status: offline Elite 8 after 5 set/game win vs Florida
RE: General Gopher Talk - 12/13/2019 10:27:19 PM
Status: offline Texas next. I think that's who knocked the Gophers out of the semifinals last year.
Status: offline That's what I get for assuming. Number 2 Texas lost in a massive upset to unseeded Louisville., who the Gophers play next.
Status: offline Sweep of L-ville
Sweep of L-ville
Nice. Hopefully they can win it all.
Status: offline Here's an ESPN preview of the final four.
https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/28292202/undefined
Status: offline Ouch
Swept by a team we beat during the year.
twinsfan
On the bright side, at least Wisconsin won.
55% of Republicans think the Earth is 5,000 years old. All kinds of people believe all kinds of crazy things. You just gotta move on, man.
-James Carville - 12/15/20 - The Beat with Ari Melber
Status: offline So Wisconsin won last night in volleyball. I say that means that on Monday night Minnesota gets to win at football. Who's with me?
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Status: offline Bummer
Final Four and.......
Nothin'
Status: offline Good to see Wiscy put up less of a fight in the Final to Stanford, than we did in the semis.
Good to see Wiscy put up less of a fight in the Final to Stanford, than we did in the semis.
There is always that. As I have said 1,000 times before; I hate UW athletics with every fiber of my being,
RE: General Gopher Talk - 4/7/2020 2:01:49 PM
Status: offline Potential 75 million dollars hit for the U athletic department.
Just one f many schools that will be taking a hit because of the panic pandemic.
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Guinea's opposition leader declares election win
Emmanuel Donkor October 20, 2020 News
Guinea's opposition leader, Cellou Dalein Diallo, has declared himself winner of Sunday's presidential election ahead of the official announcement of results.
Mr Diallo told journalists and his supporters that he had won the first round despite "anomalies".
The electoral commission said vote counting was still ongoing and that it was the only body mandated to announce the winner.
Mr Diallo's supporters who had taken to the streets to celebrate were dispersed by police. He later tweeted that three people had been killed and several others injured by the police.
Guineans had protested for months following the decision by President Alpha Condé to run for a third term.
Results of the tensed election are expected by Wednesday after which candidates have eight days to appeal.
Presidential candidates need more than 50% of the vote for an outright victory, or there will be a second round on 24 November.
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Trump's War on College Kids
By David A. Tomar
Donald Trump didn't speak too much on the subject of college during his 2016 presidential campaign. When prompted, he recognized that colleges had become too expensive and that student loan debt represented a genuine economic threat. These marked two exceedingly rare occasions, those in which the candidate spoke accurately and factually on a subject.
That's where his empathy for the next generation of college-bound kids ended though. On his campaign website, Trump listed among his educational priorities the intent to "Ensure that the opportunity to attend a two or four-year college, or to pursue a trade or a skill set through vocational and technical education, will be easier to access, pay for, and finish."
Compare this language to the terms of budget proposal released by the White House in March of 2017. A stark contrast emerges between the candidate's stated intent and the president's agenda. Indeed, outside of massive increases for military spending, immigration enforcement, and the construction of a wall along America's southern boarder with Mexico, Trump's budget is a colorful pastiche of public funding decreases that include painful cuts in programs benefiting student borrowers, particularly low-income borrowers.
In March of 2017, the Trump Administration released "America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again." Among the key strategies for Making America Great Again are a $15.1 billion (17.9%) cut to Health and Human Services; a $6.2 billion (13.2%) cut to Housing and Urban Development; $2.4 billion (13%) cut to the Department of Transportation; and a devastating 31% cut ($2.6 bn), from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Also on the chopping block? $9 billion in funding slashed from the Department of Education, or a 13% single-year cut. According to Trump's "Blueprint," student borrowers will shoulder a hefty portion of that cut.
During the tumultuous 2016 Presidential Election, Hillary Clinton dominated with voters between the ages of 18 and 24, winning by a margin of 21% according to USA Today exit polling. Millennials were right not to trust Donald Trump. The real estate tycoon pledged that as president he would treat the United States government like one big business. If the philosophical imperative is to run government like a corporation, loaning money to students for college has been a poor investment.
One way to improve upon this investment might be to strengthen the quality of the investment itself. Another way might be to lower the cost of the investment. Yet another way might be to simply cut the least fortunate of Americans out of this investment. That, evidence suggests, is the approach the Trump Administration has chosen.
The Trump spending bill places low-income college aspirants directly in its crosshairs.
Let's take a quick look at some of the cuts that the Trump budget proposes and how they might impact opportunities for the current generation of students. If passed in its current form, the Trump budget would:
Eliminate the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG)
The administration has said that the federal government would save roughly $732 million by dismantling a program which is based on a combination of financial need and available funding from a chosen college or university. The budget claims that the FSEOG is a "less well-targeted way to deliver need-based aid than the Pell Grant program."
Reduce Pell Grant Funding by $3.9 Billion
So what about Pell Grants, then? The budget proposal says that the best way to "safeguard" the program is to cut $3.9 billion worth of annual funding. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the Pell Grant program is the single largest federal grant program.
Unlike other government-funded loans for college, the Pell Grant is one that the borrower is not required to repay. This sum is largely set aside so that low-income families have the chance to send their children to college. At $28.2 billion spent on Pell grants in the 2015-2016 academic year, it is the single largest expense bore by the U.S. Department of Education. U.S.A. Today reports that this expenditure is largely justified by need. The article points to schools like New Mexico State University and Texas A&M, two institutions where 80% or more of the student body received Pell Grants during the 2014-2015 school year.
Cuts in this area place the onus of budget-balancing on the lowest-income families, an outcome which would appear to stand in direct contradiction to Trump's pledges on education during the campaign.
Reduce Federal Work-Study
The proposal would see a reduction in the allocation of funds for work-study programs, which match students with on-campus jobs to help offset the cost of their higher education. The goal behind this cut, says the budget proposal, is to reform "the poorly-targeted allocation to ensure funds go to undergraduate students who would benefit most." According to Forbes , the cuts to federal work-study opportunities would likely amount to $487 billion.
Reduce Funding for Federal TRIO and GEAR UP Programs
These programs offer an array of services designed to improve the prospects of college attendance for disadvantaged individuals. The Trump cuts would take $193 million from the program's beneficiaries.
End Debt Forgiveness
2007 saw the establishment of a Public Service Loan Forgiveness program that "forgives federal student loans for borrowers who are employed full-time (more than 30 hours per week) in an eligible federal, state or local public service job or 501(c)(3) non-profit job who make 120 eligible on-time payments over 10 years."
More than 550,000 borrowers have signed up for the program and the first of them will be eligible for forgiveness this year. Those who have been counting down the days to forgiveness may have the rug pulled out from under them just on the cusp of completing their obligations. According to Forbes, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos issued a legal filing in March of 2017, indicating that "student loan borrowers could not rely on approval letters for Public Service Loan Forgiveness sent by the program's administrator, FedLoan Servicing, because any approvals are considered tentative."
Those who have been counting down the days to forgiveness may have the rug pulled out from under them just on the cusp of completing their obligations.
This seems to imply that even those already approved for the program stand to lose their eligibility under Trump-era rules. Further, this would appear to be the opening assault on a forgiveness program ultimately targeted for total elimination.
According to U.S. News and World Report, eliminating this program would save the government an estimated $859 million.
These were the details of likely budget cuts in a condensed version of Trump's proposal as released in March. But two months later, in May, details of a fuller proposal leaked, and with them came evidence of even steeper cuts for aspiring college kids. Among them, the budget would:
Allow the Perkins Loan Program to Expire
According to Inside Higher Ed, the Trump Administration would decline to renew a program that allows students to secure loans directly through their college of choice. This cut would save the federal government an estimated million.
Eliminate Subsidized Student Loans
Details from the May 2017 budget proposal indicate an intent to eliminate subsidized student loans as well. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the federal government could save roughly $26.8 billion over 10 years by eliminating the subsidized lending, in which the federal government pays the interest cost for certain student loans for as long as the borrower is in school.
Naturally, ending federal subsidies on student loans would only further grow the massive sum of collective student debt, further deepen the crisis of debt-to-earnings facing most new graduates, and almost certainly increase the number of student borrowers who default on their loans. But hey, that reduction across ten years would offset nearly half of the increase in defense-spending for just fiscal year 2018.
If this seems like a non sequitur, take the time to truly peruse the details of Trump's Budget Blueprint. There is an inextricable correlation between massive funding cuts to all public service dimensions of our federal government and even more massive increases in funding for defense and immigration enforcement. Most problematic of correlations is that between these spending cuts and a host of tax benefits that will be enjoyed by only the wealthiest Americans.
Indeed, the devastating cuts to various programs benefiting college aspirants would offset only the slimmest margin of the $5.5 trillion in tax cuts proposed for America's corporations and wealthiest private citizens.
The point is, under the terms of this budget proposal, college kids will now undertake the patriotic duty of helping to fund a defense budget which already triples the amount spent by the next closest nation and a tax cut that improves fortunes for people that can afford to buy their very own colleges.
Like most of this president's intended legislative gestures, the budget proposal is merely theoretical. In practical reality, even a deeply partisan Congress would be hard-pressed to sell such severe cuts to the American public. According to Insider Higher Ed:
"When the White House proposed reductions in spending midyear, that was a nonstarter for congressional appropriators," said Justin Draeger, president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. He said he's less confident about the next funding cycle.
"I have a hard time believing lawmakers could pick all of these cuts up," Draeger said. "But it sort of sets the playing field. It provides a menu for potential cuts for Congress if they're so inclined."
For now, the federal budget merely extends already existing spending allocations, a compromise reached by Congress as it figures out how to manage the president's poorly conceived expectations. But this is a battleground that will be revisited in the war over 2018's fiscal budget.
As we approach this war, the details of the Trump budget proposal send a pretty clear message to student borrowers, low income families and the Millennial generation as a whole. Prepare for a fight. You are under attack.
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August at Camp
Labor Day has come and gone. Kids are back at school. Dads and Moms are back at work. Another summer in Maine, another glorious summer has passed.
New World Disorder and America's Future
Those of us participating in the 31st Camden Conference last weekend were braced for serious dialogue given the conference theme "New World Disorder and America's Future". We were not disappointed. From Friday's keynoter Stephen Walt, Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School to the final address "This Too Shall Pass" from Chas Freeman, a retired dean of the Foreign Service, the Camden Opera House was alive with spirited dialogue, healthy debate, and a sense of community as welcome as it is rare these days.
Refugees and Global Migration: Humanity's Crisis
Last weekend's thirtieth Camden Conference once again showed the uncanny knack conference organizers have for selecting a topic, a year in advance, that turns out to be front and center in global consciousness by the time we all get to Camden.
Day 3 of President Elect Trump
A note on this piece: writing is a way for me to process the results of this shocking Presidential Election. I have written something each day since the election and what is here represents how it takes shape and meaning for me. It is really for me and maybe my kids. Lots of voices trying to make this seem like a "normal" transition. President Obama meets with Trump in the Oval Office. David Brooks takes his best shot at a "healing", responsible Op Ed in the New York Times. Try as he might, he can't quite pull it off (note last paragraph). The View From Trump Tower
The State of the Union
Those regular readers of this blog will know that it has been a few months since my last post. My pen has been stilled for two reasons: first my wife Sally and I took a lengthy trip to Europe in June to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. More fundamentally, I have not known what to say. I am deeply troubled by the political situation in our country.
The New Africa
The 2016 Camden Conference was devoted to Africa, the new Africa to be specific. Just what the new Africa meant was sometimes unclear but generally it was meant to distinguish it from "Africa: The Hopeless Continent", a much-remarked on cover story from the May 13th, 2000 issue of the Economist.
Naval Academy Class of 1965 50th Reunion
hat to say about 50ths: they are quite a milestone when you think about it. Something I had associated with very old people!But it didn't seem that way once I was involved in one. Maybe because I am in good health. I am still working, though not full time. I don't feel I have lost too many steps.
Scouting for Boys
Recently I came across a quote that caught my imagination. It was from Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell, the British General who founded the scouting movement back in the early 1900's. The quote went something like this: "When a knight comes across a difficult situation like being confronted by a dragon, the knight does not hesitate but charges right in, armed only with his lance. Even though hopelessly overmatched, the Knight invariably triumphs. This is just what a scout should do when confronted with a dangerous situation."
The first surprising thing about Denali National Park, in the heart of Alaska and home to Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain on this continent, is how few animals one sees. It is not that the animals aren't there in this largest and most remote of America's National Parks. The Park abounds with grizzly bear, caribou, Dahl sheep, and moose but, unlike Yellowstone or Glacier, Denali is not accessible by car.
In the book Mitchell talks about his working relationship, when he was Majority Leader of the Senate, with Bob Dole, then Minority Leader. Their relationship was built on mutual respect. They had many disagreements. However, they forged even more understandings and accommodations that resulted in the passage of significant legislation, including a landmark Clean Air Bill.
The Fall of Vietnam
April 28th marks the 40th anniversary of the fall of South Vietnam. Last week my wife Sally and I attended an MPBN screening of their Oscar-winning documentary "The Fall of Vietnam" which will air this week nationwide on The American Experience.
Who among you has heard of Lee Kuan Yew? He died last week and his headline in the Washington Post ran "Lee Kuan Yew, whose efficient but often heavy-handed leadership helped transform Singapore from a chaotic British colonial backwater into one of the world's most prosperous and orderly states, died March 23rd in a Singapore hospital. He was 91."
Camden Conference 2015 - Russian Resurgent
My wife and I are just back from the Camden Conference. This year's topic was "Russia Resurgent". With Russia's aggressive support of rebels in Eastern Ukraine and its earlier annexation of the Ukrainian Crimea, the topic could not have been more timely. Reflecting this, all three Conference venues: the Camden Opera House, the Strand in Rockland, and the University of Maine's Hutchinson Center in Belfast were sold out, over nine hundred attendees in all - quite remarkable for a cold and snowy February weekend in mid-coast Maine.
Portland Symphony's 90th
The Pastoral, Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, is a favorite. It is unique among Beethoven Symphonies as it depicts a lyrical walk through the Viennese countryside on a lovely day. Birds are singing, the local band is playing; a (famous) thunderstorm intrudes but quickly gives way to peace and calm. John Tanzer, the Portland Symphony Orchestra's principal timpanist, recently told me that, though he loves this music, it has little work for the timpani, except during the thunderstorm. Most of the other eight Beethoven Symphonies , of course, have plenty to keep a timpanist on his toes.
What to make of the 2014 elections in Maine? Against the odds (or so it seemed to this observer) our incumbent governor Paul LePage is returned to the Blaine House with a much higher proportion of the vote than in 2010 (48% versus 38%). Moreover, it seems he would have beaten Democratic challenger Mike Michaud even if Independent Eliot Cutler had not been in the race – given that Cutler's final (disappointing) 8% was estimated to be approximately two thirds Democratic-leaning and one-third Republican leaning. All of this from someone thought to be vulnerable for a litany of good reasons known to most all of us.
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South Africa v Sri Lanka, 1st Test – Dimuth Karunaratne
"Never faced a situation like this," says Sri Lanka captain after losing three members of six-man attack
Sri Lanka were in such a good situation in the early stages of the first Test they could even have dominated had multiple injuries not hit. This, at least, was the view of Sri Lanka captain Dimuth Karunaratne, whose dressing room was decimated by injury through the course of the four days at Centurion.
Sri Lanka made 396 in the first innings – their highest ever score in South Africa – but lost Dhananjaya de Silva to a thigh strain during what was arguably their most fluent innings of the Test. In subsequent days Kasun Rajitha and Lahiru Kumara withdrew from the attack due to injuries, meaning Karunaratne had only three good bowling options remaining.
Despite the good first-innings total, they went on to lose by an innings and 45 runs, after South Africa racked up a total of 621 against a substantially depleted attack.
"I've never faced a situation like this and maybe no one has, where in one match you lose three bowlers," Karunaratne said. "When we started we had a balanced attack, with bowlers I could use for various roles. But in the first innings we lost that. We had been in a position where we could have even dominated the game. We had been in worse situations than this on our last tour to South Africa when we won those games. Losing this [game] by an innings is a huge disappointment.
"We had scored the most we'd ever scored [in South Africa] in the first innings. We knew after making that total that it's going to get harder to bat on later in the game as well. If our bowlers had stayed fit we would have been able to do something. Our batsmen did a good job in this match."
Karunaratne was unwilling to be too severe on the second-innings batting effort either. Sri Lanka conceded a first-innings lead of 225, but aside from the absence of de Silva, they also had to contend with a niggle that Dinesh Chandimal picked up, as well as Rajitha and Kumara's inability to do anything but hobble between the wickets. Wanindu Hasaranga was also struggling to run after injuring his thigh diving on the ball on day three.
Karunaratne suggested that Sri Lanka's collapse to 180 all out in the second innings was at least partly due to injuries having wiped out their prospects of victory.
"We were 200 runs behind and if we'd chased that down and set a target, we still wouldn't have had any bowlers to defend it," he said. "We had two wicket-taking bowlers, and once their spells finish, the next bowlers we had available are myself, Kusal Mendis and Dasun Shanaka.
"We have three wicketkeepers in the XI, so we don't have a lot of part-time bowlers. I think that must have been in the batsmen's minds in the second innings, because no matter how well we set up a target, it's still not going to be easy. And when batsmen can't run, that makes it tough because then you can only score with fours or sixes. Sticking around for two and a half days on this wicket would have been tough. It was still seaming and the bounce was inconsistent."
Sri Lanka hope to have senior seamer Suranga Lakmal back for the second Test, but he is battling against time to recover from a hamstring niggle by Sunday. Chandimal is also doubtful with what seemed to be groin problem sustained while batting. Top-order batsman Oshada Fernando is expected to be fit for the second game, however. Sri Lanka also have fast bowlers Dushmantha Chameera and Asitha Fernando in reserve, while Vishwa Fernando got through the first Test unscathed – the only frontline quick to do so.
"We're not sure about Suranga's fitness. We hope he'll be fit, but we'll have to watch a few more days. Chandimal's injury also needs to be observed. We don't know yet whether he'll be able to play, but I suspect he'll be able to. We'll need to replace Dhananjaya de Silva. The big loss going to Wanderers is that we don't have our best attack anymore. We'll do what we can with the players we have left.
"In the dressing room, it's not easy to handle this kind of situation. As a captain I need to work out how to keep my head up and keep the players together. There's a lot of disappointment because we arrived on this tour with a lot of hopes. We'd been in a positive mindset. But the series isn't over yet. I'm sure the replacement players will do well in the second Test."
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Danny Jordaan, president of the South African Football Association (SAFA), has confirmed that the country has been asked by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to step in as hosts for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.
CAF announced on Friday that Cameroon have been stripped of hosting rights due to delays in construction of their stadiums, and added that countries wishing to bid for the 2019 AFCON finals have until the end of December to submit their bids.
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I have some concerning news to report: A security risk prompted me to cancel my plans to attend the AAFCO conference next week. The reason for my decision was based on information I received which, unfortunately, led me to fear for my safety. This risk involves more than just myself but my colleagues as well. I do, however, plan to participate in the meetings via the teleconferencing system, but sadly I will not be able to attend in person.
Until matters are resolved, I thought it wise to remove myself from any possible danger. Until such time, I hope for everyone involved, that a solution to the problem will come to an easy and peaceful resolution.
I want to assure my supporters who generously donated funds to help me attend the conference that their donations will be used to attend the next conference which will be held in Florida.
Special thanks to Susan Thixton of Truth About Pet Food who has been my sole support during this stressful time. She helped me make the same decision she had to make which was not to attend next week's AAFCO conference for the same reasons. Deciding to cancel our trips was an agonizing one to make, and it has been an enormous disappointment for the both of us.
What I can say is that it was not for the fearless reporting we both do to expose pet food companies whose practices are directly responsible for the illness and death of pets we would not be in fear for our lives. We make powerful enemies in this business, and some of those enemies go so far as to threaten us in attempt intimidate us into silence. That will never happen as long as we have breath in our bodies, but at the same time, we are prudent enough to take precautions for our safety. When appropriate all relevant authorities, hotel security, and local police departments are notified if we receive any threats.
The decision to not go was a heartbreaking one as I felt an enormous responsibility to the people who donated their hard earned money to help me pay for the ghastly expense of attending these meetings. I was also looking forward to discussing the topics which are on the schedule, but fortunately, with the aid of modern technology, I can still participate by submitting my comments digitally and by attending virtually via WebEx. So, all is not lost!
Just as I will be attending virtually via a live WebEx hookup, consumers do the very same thing. It's a free and easy way to find out what happens at these meetings. Although – not to disappoint – I have to warn you, most of the topics will be of interest only to pet food manufacturers, industry associations, Federal and State regulators, feed control officials, and pet food nuts like myself. But there are a few items of interest I know you all will want to listen to the proposed changes to the "human grade" pet food rule and another tantalizing update on hemp!
Consumers who would like to listen to what is said in the AAFCO Pet Food Committee can listen to the meeting for free. The Pet Food Committee meeting will be held Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 3:00 to 5:00 PM, Pacific Time. To view the AAFCO meeting via WebEx should register here: http://fass.webex.com and listen to the meeting via the conference call line at 1-650-479-3207. The access code is 664 016 138#.
There is a topic on the Pet Food Committee agenda listed as a minor edit to the "human grade" pet food rule that was submitted as a proposed amendment to the rule. There is a lot of interest in changes to this rule as it is held in high regard to consumers and manufacturers alike. From the feedback I've gotten, it looks to be a lively discussion and one that I will have something to say about. Hope you'll all be listening!
The AAFCO Ingredient Definition Committee might be interesting for consumers to listen to as well. On the Ingredient Definition Committee agenda are some exciting items, but the item I think most consumers will find fascinating will be a discussion and an update on the issue of hemp. The meeting is on Tuesday, January 23, 2018 from 10 – 11:30 AM Pacific Standard Time. To view the meeting via WebEx register here: http://fass.webex.com and to listen to the meeting call the conference line at 1-650-479-3207. The access code is 660 343 806 #.
Find out more, visit the AAFCO Meetings page. There you will find available the full committee agendas and the minutes reports for past meetings.
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Mollie, I just heard that Chewy.com is behind making the changes to the human grade claims- it was announced at a company meeting. Can you confirm?
That is a rumor I heard as well, but actually, the proposed change to the human grade definition was put forward by an advisor to AAFCO (Dave Dzanis) – not Chewy.com. However, if Mr. Dzanis has a business relationship with Chewy's it would be highly unethical for him to make a proposal based on his relationship with any company that would have a financial interest in the outcome of that proposal.
I'm just curious, what company meeting did you hear this information in?
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Chapter 3-4
This section now concludes Chapter 3. The central incident in this chapter is one that I could not invent. It's drawn from the diaries of Florence Farmborough, an English woman who was in Russia at the time that war broke out in 1914 and served throughout the war as a Russian Red Cross nurse.
The Great Retreat. Galicia. June 4th, 1915. The next day the retreat continued. They loaded their patients back onto the ambulances and once again there were the hours of dusty trudging or alternating with jouncing to each bump and rut in the road while taking rest in one of the wagons. But the conclusion of that chance encounter in the woods stayed with Natalile and from it came a new confidence. When Lieutenant Popov asked which building should be taken as the temporary hospital in another village at the end of the day's march, she directed him and he did ask she requested. When she made up her the list of rations for the hospital patients at night, she included food for Vitek and Eva's family, and Mamushka quietly obeyed.
One evening when she brought food to them Natalile found Eva even more pale and drawn than usual, but she held in her arms a bundle tightly wrapped in clothes. She showed Natalie the baby's face, with its tiny nose and mouth quietly working in sleep.
"She came last night, and one of the old women from our village midwifed me," Eva said. She lowered her voice to little more than a whisper. "Vitek said I mustn't travel today, even in the hand cart. But the cossacks were driving all of us on from the village and setting fire to the houses. Vitek tried to argue with them, and they beat him." She looked over to where her husband sat a little way off with his back to them. "When the march stopped today, he went and bought a pot of liquor. He doesn't drink often, Sister. But you know how men are. They're not like us. They must have their pride."
The next evening, Vitek was his usual self, deferential and courteous. But Eva was flushed and looked at her with glazed eyes. Natalie knew even before putting a hand to her hot forehead that she had a fever. The four year old girl held the baby, bouncing it gently in her arms and giving it a small, dirty finger to suck while Natalie examined Eva.
"When did the fever start?"
"Today. During the march. Vitek pushes me on the hand cart, but it's so hot."
"Is there pain in your stomach?"
"Only the after pangs when she nurses."
"And at the birth, was there much bleeding?"
Eva nodded. "It took a long time to stop. I had to stuff full of rags to staunch the blood when we set off in the morning."
Of course. What would she do for bleeding but treat it as she treated her time of month. And yet whatever rags the midwife or family had been able to use were surely carriers for infection. Natalie's hospital training cringed against the use of anything other than sterile bandages and antiseptic wash for cleaning an open wound. And when it came to infection, was this tearing of the body any different from the battle wounds she treated? She tried to recall the brief section on female anatomy and childbirth in her Red Cross training manual. There had been no intention that the nurses assist at childbirths. That was work for doctors, or in the countryside for village midwives, and so the subject had been given only the briefest outline. She could remember no more of use other than the risk of bleeding and the importance of avoiding infection.
"The midwife gave me willow bark to chew for the fever."
"That may help the fever, but it will not cure the infection. You must try to stay cool as much as possible. Bathe your forehead with a cloth soaked in alcohol if you find yourself sweating too much. It will cool you faster. And I will get you a bottle of antiseptic solution. You can use it to clean yourself." She paused to see if Eva knew what she meant. "To clean inside. It may hurt, but it will fight the infection if it has not gone into your blood."
"Am I going to die?" The question was asked so calmly. Natalie had heard soldiers cry those words so many times, but seldom had she heard them in such a quiet, gentle voice.
"I hope not. I'll do everything I can. After all, you have this beautiful child to live for." She took the swaddled infant from the little girl, and looked at the tiny red features for a moment before nestling the bundle into her mother's arms.
She brought the bottle of antiseptic solution later that night. Eva was sleeping, so Natalie gave it to Vitek and along with strict instructions on its use. He shifted awkwardly and looked away when she explained how to wash with the solution and sterilize rags with it, but nodded and promised it would be done.
The next two nights found Eva worse. The fever grew higher. Her mind wandered, and she had difficulty nursing the baby. The midwife, an old woman draped in a black veil, was sitting with her on the second night. Natalie could get no sensible words out of Eva, but the midwife told her that although she had stopped bleeding, the rags were now coming out soaked with a yellow discharge that smelled of putrefaction.
All though the next day's journey, the sick young mother was in Natalie's mind. The sick mother, the nursing baby. Both seemed all too similar to the story her father had told her of her own mother's death when she was only a few months old. The little silver framed picture was buried deep her in her bag where she could not get at it, but in her memory the little photograph of her infant self laid one last time in her dead mother's arms was hauntingly clear.
Holy Virgin, please, among all this suffering, do not let this tiny child grow up without a mother.
When, in the afternoon, Lieutenant Popov rode up and told her that the the regiment had at last received orders to dig in and hold the line, ending the retreat for now, Natalie's first thought was that at last Eva would be able to rest as a recovering mother should. Only after another moment did the military implications of his statement strike her. If they stopped retreating, there would be fighting. All this time, the Germans and Austro-Hungarians had been following just a day or two's march behind them.
"We will need somewhere to set up the hospital that gives us space for casualties," she said.
Popov had clearly been waiting for this to occur to her. He winked. "I have found just the place. Wait till you see it."
The place he had found was a nobleman's country house. This was no small rural retreat, like the hunting lodge in which the hospital had made its home through the winter and early spring, with its wooden walls and wide porch. This as a major estate, the main house built of white stone, with rank on rank of windows looking out upon the woods and gardens. The hospital's ambulance wagons -- wooden vehicles covered in canvas and pulled by shaggy, ill groomed horses -- looked distinctly out of place as they made their way up the tree-lined drive.
An old woman, the retired housekeeper, met them on the steps and declared that she would report to Prince Uvarov if anything was stolen or damaged. Otherwise, however, the house was empty. Even the servants had fled.
Natalie gave orders and set the housekeeping sisters and the orderlies to work turning several of the large ground floor rooms into wards. The house war far larger than they could ever need. The upper floors and the north wing would be completely shut off. They would touch as few rooms as possible. But those they needed must be stripped of their finery, both in order that the paintings, rugs, and furniture be preserved, and also so that the newly bare rooms could be scrubbed down with antiseptic solution.
It was late when she finally was able to go in search of Eva and Vitek. But although many refugees had encamped in the estate's woods and outbuildings, she could not find their family nor any word of them. She returned to the house after midnight, exhausted and worried, but telling herself that surely Vitek must have found some place where Eva could rest along the way. Perhaps the Cossacks were at last employed in fighting the enemy rather than driving the peasantry ahead of them.
The housekeeping sisters had prepared a room for her. Just a small guest room by the standards of the house, but still grander than anything Natalie had stayed in since the hotel in Warsaw where her father had sent her after their meeting. She took a minute to revel in the canopied bed, the inlaid mahogany wardrobe, and the gilt mirror hanging over the dressing table. Then she sat down to take off her shoes and stockings in order to walk barefoot through the soft pile of the oriental carpet.
At last she slipped between the clean sheets: smooth, oft-washed linen against her skin. She felt a moment's guilt that the availability of water had allowed for the washing only of hands, feet, and face the last few days. Surely this bed was used to more refinement. But for tonight it was hers, and she drifted quickly into a dreamless sleep within its softness.
The next day was one of constant activity. Guns could already be heard in the distance when one of the housekeeping sisters woke Natalie in the pre-dawn light. Wounded began to arrive in the mid-morning, even as the wards were still being prepared. It was the first time they had faced a major influx of casualties without a surgeon. Natalie called the other two nurses together as the first patient arrived.
"Sister Travkin, you have the most experience with triage. Can you take charge of receiving patients?" A nod. "We won't be able to perform major surgeries, just clean, stitch and bandage, so adjust the categories as needed." She turned to the other nurse, "Sister Gorka, you have the steadiest hand with wound preparation. Would you be willing to act as a surgical nurse and trim and stitch where needed to close up wounds?"
This was the part which she had almost been afraid to speak, the violation of all their training. Here they were treading upon doctors' territory and without the necessary training. And yet, more casualties would survive the three to five day journey through ambulances and hospital trains to a hospital back in Warsaw, Kiev, or Moscow if they first received the most basic surgical care. The difficult cases might not survive anyway, but at least men would be less likely to die from blood loss or infection due to wounds that avoided the organs and bones.
Sister Gorka nodded slowly. "I will attempt it, but I will be much slower than Doctor Sergeyev."
"Of course. Take all the time you need. Whatever you can do will be better than they would receive otherwise. And I will deal with wound cleansing and bandaging."
They set to work. The morning turned into afternoon and then evening, the time marked only by the stream of patients who filled the cots in the wards. Battle weary men lay looking up at the plaster medallions and chandeliers which in times past had looked down on balls thrown for the local nobility. It was as the windows began to darken with evening that one of the housekeeping sisters approached Natalie.
"I'm sorry to bother you, Sister, but there's a little girl here who says she knows you."
Natalie looked down and saw the four year old daughter of Vitek and Eva.
"What's wrong? How is your mother?" What was the little girl's name? Amid the pressures of the wound ward she could not recall whether she had known.
"She's nursing the baby in heaven, and father is drinking. Do you have food for me? There's been no food all day."
Had Eva died? The baby had not seemed sick. Had something happened to her as well?
Natalie made her excuses to Sister Gorka and secured the chance to step away for a few minutes. She took a loaf of army bread and a jar of the plum preserves they had found in the country house's store room. Then she asked the little girl to show her where her family was.
The girl led her out into the parkland of the estate. Here and there, where the woods gave cover from the Cossacks and other authorities who might try to force them to move on, peasant families were encamped with their belongings among the trees. The girl picked her way among them, munching the piece of bread spread with preserves that Natalie had given her. Then the old woman Natalie recognized as the midwife who had been helping to treat Eva rushed towards them.
"Hannia! Where have you been? You bad girl!" She swung an open palm at the girl's ear, which she deftly dodged.
"What's happened? How is Eva? Where is Vitek?" Natalie asked while Hannia took shelter behind her skirts.
"Ah, it's very sad." The old woman clucked her tongue. "Poor Eva died last night. She'd gone into convulsions on the road, the fever would not drop. Nothing she said was sensical. Poor child. Vitek stopped his cart and cradled her in his arms as she died. I offered her every curative I had, but when the Lord's time comes, there's naught that can be done. At least she went quietly in the end, poor soul."
"But the baby?" Natalie asked, looking around. She spied the cart, and next to it Vitek lying prostrate and rumpled like a pile of dirty clothes. "Did she sicken as well?"
"That was the hardest thing. Her milk had given out all day, the fever burning her up so. And the baby cried till she could cry no more. Poor thing, it was a suffering to hear."
"At peace, poor babe. Vitek dug the grave for Eva himself, dug it all night. And in the morning he laid her in it, and the baby at her breast. That calmed the poor creature. He wept as he put each shovelful of earth back over her, but what else could he do? With the mother dead, there was no way to feed the baby while driven through the country like this. It was that or watch the child suffer for days."
"Are you saying he buried the baby alive?"
The old woman shrugged. "God has mercy on those who suffer. You've seen Vitek. He's a kind man. How could he let the baby die in fear and hunger? It's she and Eva that are at peace. Pity the living."
Natalie turned away. She could not speak. The weight of the idea pressed down on her like so many feet of earth. Smothering. All the wounds they had treated in the hospital that day seemed honest and kind now by comparison. This was what it all came to. War. Destroying villages. Burning crops. Driving people from their homes. And now a man who in any other time and place would have been a doting father had laid his living infant daughter at her dead mother's breast and shoveled earth on top of both of them.
Hope and love and life were buried, smothered by this war.
And that child, that little child who knew nothing but the need for food and touch, laid at the breast of her dead mother and buried alive.
The thought choked her. Who was she but the daughter of a peasant woman who had died young? She had the photograph, her infant self laid upon her mother one last time and photographed by the undertaker. She could have been that child, thinking that she was loved and sheltered from all the world as the earth was shoveled over her.
She cried and couldn't stop as she stumbled back towards the country house, whose beauty the night before had seemed like such a refuge. Now it seemed a whitened sepulchre that hid the rot inside.
Near the door she stopped and leaned against the wall. The stone was cool and rough against her forehead. She had to stop crying. The horror and despair had to be forced away into some quiet place within her until the patients and her fellow nurses did not need her any more. Then her bed could absorb her tears, if they must come.
Slow breaths went from ragged to smooth. She stepped away from the wall. Smoothed her skirts. Squared her shoulders. She could do nothing for Eva and the baby. There were others whom she could help.
The ambulances had stopped coming near sunset, and the sound of guns in the distance had died down for a time. Nevertheless it was nearly midnight when the last of the day's casualties had been cleaned and bandaged by the nurses and laid in a cot by the orderlies.
In the kitchen one of the field kitchen cooks had kept stew hot for them, and there was a buzz of cheerful chatter from the housekeeping sisters and orderlies as they ate and talked in groups. Natalie hesitated in the doorway and realized that she had passed the point for eating that night. She turned away and went slowly up the curving marble steps of the main staircase and to her room. There she stood, he back against the door, looking at the bed and carpet which had seemed so welcoming and opulent the day before.
Were these some great injustice or fraud? How was it that the war took everything from Vitek and Eva and yet to her it gave a room that looked as if it might be in a palace.
In the silence of the room she felt tears begin to grip her again, her throat tightening. Then she heard a sound. Someone else was crying, long desperate sobs.
The grip of her own pain loosened as she turned and let herself quietly back into the hall. Up and down, listening at each door, she found the room the sound was coming from and knocked softly. The crying stopped. A few loud sniffs, and then, "Come in."
She opened the door and found herself facing Sister Gorka.
"It's you." The words were flat and lifeless. Sister Gorka sat back down at the chair in front of her dressing table. There was a bottle on the table. Sister Gorka poured pale brown liquid into a glass and took a sip. "Madeira. Whoever our hosts are, they kept a full cellar. The cook put it under lock and key for fear of the soldiers, but he got this for me. Do you want some?"
Natalie shook her head.
"It's not ladylike, is it," Sister Gorka said. "But I haven't been a lady today, and here I am drinking like a real doctor." She took another sip, and held her hand up and examined it. "Steady now. I was shaking like a leaf when I came in here. Maybe that's why Doctor Sergeyev couldn't leave it off."
"I heard you," Natalie said. "What's wrong?"
Sister Gorka folded her arms on the table before her, laid her head down on them, and began to cry again. For a long moment her shoulders shook with the wailing. Natalie stepped forward and put a hand of Sister Gorka's shoulder. She had never seen the other woman show such strong emotion.
At last the crying subsided and Sister Gorka raised her head again. "I don't know how they do it. Every time I went to pick up the scalpel or the needle my hands shook. Whenever I cut flesh or pushed the needle through skin I felt my teeth on edge."
Natalie's hand was still on her shoulder. "Whatever you felt, you always looked calm and precise. You did good work today. You helped a lot of patients."
"I know. I forced it down all day, but I hate it. I hate it so much."
Another bout of crying. Then Sister Gorka started to pour another glass of madeira but slipped and spilled it.
"Here. I'm sorry I asked you to do it," Natalie said, mopping up the spilled wine with a handkerchief. "You must be exhausted. Why don't you come to bed?"
She guided Sister Gorka across the room to the bed, sat her down, and helped her take off her shoes. Then she settled her back in the pillows and tucked her in, sheet pulled up to the chin, like putting to bed one of the small girls back at the convent school.
The other nurse clung to her hand. "I don't want to be a burden, but please... Sit here a while. So that I'm not alone."
Natalie sat down next to her in the bed, still holding her hand. Sister Gorka's breathing slowed, and at last her grip on Natalie's hand loosened in sleep, but by that time Natalie herself found her whole body, and particularly her eyelids, heavy with tiredness.
The two of them were awakened by one of the housekeeping sisters, who threw open the curtains to let in the pale light of dawn.
"There's news!" she said, showing no surprise at finding the two nurses together, both still in their uniforms as they lay on the bed. "A new surgeon arrived during the night. He'll be taking over the hospital."
The Great War, a novel
© 2014 Brendan Hodge
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Meet Delia Johnson, a rider from Burke, who kindly spent a few minutes with FABB to talk about bicycling on Bike to Work Day 2018. Delia rides her bike regularly to get around the county. She commutes to her job at George Mason University and uses her bike for trips to the store and her local library. For her, the exercise is great but she also appreciates saving money that might otherwise be spent on gas and parking. In response to our question about what she most likes about riding, Delia told us that she likes the exercise and health benefits along with the feeling that she is doing her part for the environment and congestion by taking one car off the road. She would love to see a bike lane on Braddock Road to make is easier and safer to ride around Burke.
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Q: How to convert VOB files to a single AVI file I want to convert a DVD which has many VOB files into a single playable AVI file on my computer.
I can convert each individual VOB file to an AVI but is there some way to convert all of them into a single AVI file.
Any ideas?

A: Thanks for the replies.
I used the free Format Factory which works very nicely.
Avidemux looks interesting and is also free whilst MS Expression Encoder is not free.

A: You can do this all via command line using cat and FFmpeg.
Unclear what OS you are on, but if you are using a Unix-like system — such as macOS or Linux — you have more options at your disposal; most all of them 100% free!
As per this answer for a similar question on Ask Ubuntu, you can use cat to concatenate the separate VOB files into one VOB file like this:
cat VTS_01_*.vob > output.vob

Then with that output.vob you can run a command like this; a fairly common FFmpeg command that will copy video streams without transcoding:
ffmpeg -i output.vob -codec copy output.avi

If that somehow doesn't suit your needs, or you want to convert the video and audio to another format, then just read up on how to use FFmpeg and set command like options and just always use ffmpeg -I output.vob for your input.

A: Try Avidemux.
When you open the first VOB, it asks you if you want to combine it with the others available. Therefore the VOBs have to be in the same folder.
After that you can export the whole thing to AVI.

A: I do this:
ffmpeg -hide_banner $(printf -- "-i %s " VTS_01_*.VOB) -c:v libx265 -x265-params "lossless=1:no-deblock=1:no-sao=1" -map_metadata -1 "../MOVIE.mkv"

where $(printf -- "-i %s " VTS_01_*.VOB) creates the list of files to combine.

A: Old post, but still... Most of the solutions proposed in the other answers won't work with encrypted DVDs, and almost all the commercial DVDs are encrypted. They are easy to decrypt, but you need a tool that will do that. MakeMKV will do do it for free (it's a paid software for BluRay decrypting, but free for DVDs). It can read a DVD, a DVD image, or a VIDEO_TS folder that contains the VOB files, and produces a MKV file without reencoding (I assume today that an AVI file is no longer desired). If reencoding is desired, then Handrake is a must-have software, which will decrypt and reencode any DVD (it won't decrypt BluRays, though).

A: ... or if you are using Windows, you can do VOB to AVI conversions using Expression Encoder.
Haven't tried combining AVI files, but you should be able to by dragging them to the Timeline, and encoding as an AVI

A: If you're willing to pay the 20 bucks, DIVX PRO has a great high quality (up to 1080p) conversion software of multiple video file types, including VOB files.

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Scottie Scheffler has now won twice in his last three starts.
If there's one thing everyone agreed on entering the final round at Bay Hill, it's that no one had any clue what was in store on Sunday.
And how would they? The first three rounds of the Arnold Palmer Invitational were filled with 54 holes of thick rough, fast greens, high winds, double bogeys and pros throwing putters into lakes.
Further proof that this tournament was completely up for grabs came from the final pairing, Billy Horschel and Talor Gooch, who entered the day tied for the lead at seven under. They played the front nine a combined 11 over.
There was never any clarity until Scottie Scheffler proved he wasn't about to make a mistake. The 25-year-old won the Arnold Palmer Invitational, essentially winning a trophy for leaving Bay Hill with the least amount of bruises. As the contenders found bunkers and missed fairways and couldn't get putts to drop during the final hour, Scheffler had the most boring round of all — but boring can win trophies, too. After shooting one over on the front, he made just one birdie and eights pars on the back for an even-par 72. Six of those pars came on the final six holes, a stretch in which his steadiness allowed him to stay on top as others sometimes flashed but more often faltered.
His five-under total was good for a one-stroke win over Viktor Hovland, Tyrrell Hatton and Horschel.
"I had my head down all day," Scheffler said. "I kind of just tried to stay patient. I didn't make any mistakes on the back nine."
Scheffler, ranked 6th in the world, needed 71 starts on the PGA Tour to get his first victory, when he won the WM Phoenix Open on Feb 13. It took him two more starts to get his second.
Entering Sunday, Horschel and Gooch led Hovland by one, Scheffler by two and Gary Woodland by three, but Gooch played himself out of it by making two double bogeys and shooting seven-over 43 on the front. Horschel wasn't much better, signing for 40.
A couple of hours later, it came down to a wild final few holes. And in the meantime, Hatton waited. Teeing off seven pairings before the final twosome, Hatton shot three under on the back to sign for 69 and take the clubhouse lead at four under. It almost turned out to be good enough.
Scheffler took the solo lead at five under when he rolled in a 22-footer to save par on 15, and Hovland made bogey. A few minutes later, Woodland erupted the gallery, draining a 24-footer for eagle on 16 to leapfrog the leaders and get to six under.
But, as was the trend for the day, it didn't last. He chunked a shot out of the bunker on 17 and made double bogey, giving it all back.
Hovland birdied the par-5 16th to tie Scheffler at five under, but, just as the 17th bit Woodland, it got Hovland, too. He missed the green right and couldn't get up and down from the sand, made bogey and dropped one off the pace. He needed to birdie the 18th to tie Scheffler but left his 16-foot putt short of the hole.
Scheffler, as he was all back nine, was solid. He got on the 18th green in regulation and two-putted from 69 feet to set the clubhouse lead at five under.
He finished first in Strokes Gained: Approach, and he was 17th in Strokes Gained: Putting.
"Kind of went into today thinking I need to shoot maybe a couple under, and it turns out even was good enough," he said. "The way the greens are, making putts out here is so hard. There's not a lot of friction on the greens, and with the way the wind is blowing, any little bit of a gust has such an extreme effect on the golf ball. It's so difficult."
Horschel, the co-54-hole leader, was the last player with a chance to catch Scheffler. He battled back after a rough start and needed to birdie 18 to force a playoff. He gave himself a 29-footer for birdie but missed it on the high side.
Scheffler, who was about to start hitting range balls to stay loose, heard Horschel missed, hugged caddie Ted Scott and celebrated another victory. He's starting to get used to them.
Josh Berhow is the managing editor at GOLF.com. The Minnesota native graduated with a journalism degree from Minnesota State University in Mankato. You can reach him at joshua_berhow@golf.com.
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Q: Implementing IJavaObject on MonoDroid I'm currently trying to implement an ILocationListener on a class in order to receive GPS updates - this is not on an Activity, just a normal C# class.
As part of the ILocationListener contract I need to support I JavaObject:
    public IntPtr Handle
    {
        get { throw new NotImplementedException(); }
    }

What should I do for this?
Also, are there any good documents and/or blog posts out there which talk about how C# classes and Java objects are bound together in MonoDroid - if I can find those documents, then I probably won't need to ask questions like this and I'll hopefully also be writing much better code.
Thanks

A: Taken from Xamarin's docs:

There are times when you may need to implement an Android interface, such as Android.Content.IComponentCallbacks. Since all Android classes and interface extend the Android.Runtime.IJavaObject interface, the question arises: how do we implement IJavaObject?
The question was answered above: the reason all Android types need to implement IJavaObject is so that MonoDroid has an Android callable wrapper to provide to Android, i.e. a Java proxy for the given type. Since monodroid.exe only looks for Java.Lang.Object subclasses, and Java.Lang.Object implements IJavaObject, the answer is obvious: subclass Java.Lang.Object

Basically you should always inherit from Java.Lang.Object in these cases, as implementing IJavaObject yourself won't actually work since Mono for Android won't generate the callable wrapper.
If it helps, I have an example implementing ILocationListener available here. It implements it directly on an activity, but you can inherit from Java.Lang.Object instead of Activity.

A: I think I've found the first piece of the puzzle myself - it seems like there is a Java.Lang.Object handy and I can use that.
I'll continue to look for the binding information - hopefully I'll then know what I'm doing :)

A: This also solved my Seg Fault crash [mono-rt] Got a SIGSEGV while executing native code..... problems that was being caused by a Class that implemented IJavaObject!


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The Community Power Coat
During COVID lockdown, I was commissioned by Collective Encounters to create a piece of art that reflected the thoughts and feelings of my local community.
Do you remember how great it felt when your school mates (and one of two of the more sound teachers) signed your leavers shirt? Do you remember finding it hanging in the back of your wardrobe or rolled up in a memory box in the loft years later? How wonderful does it feel to remember those life events?
I took my cue from this feeling. I remember leaving primary school with the positive weight of good and hopeful wishes, literally on my shoulders. Fast forward five years and there I was again, leaving senior school with messages from all my friends scribbled and drawn all over my sleeves and chest.
Physically wearing thoughts and feelings is a truly transformative experience and one the majority of us remember fondly. Sadly it only seems to happen in childhood.
When I first moved to Liverpool age 8, I remember hearing my mum say 'Oh, she'd give you the shirt off her back. referring to a friend who would help anyone and everyone, whenever she could. The saying stuck with me.
As my teen years wore on in L13, I became increasingly aware of labels. I wore Bon Bleu, Sweater Shop, Fila and Nike Air Max 95's. Our school coats were Helly Hansen and Sprayways. The lads all wore Rockport (in tan, obvs). Labels enabled us to fit in where it mattered. If you didn't wear those labels, you weren't cool, or in with the popular kids. It's an age-old cycle on which we've all been on one side or another.
I looked more closely at how labels and their meanings change to us as we grow older. During the pandemic, labels such as Key Worker, NHS, Furloughed, and asymptomatic became more prevalent as we learned new ways of social acceptance.
Back in May 2020, Collective Encounters commissioned 10 new works by emerging artists. The commissions form part of its Above & Beyond project, and respond to themes of "community power" and "community action". To fulfill my artistic brief, I combined the ideas of wearing feelings, labels to fit in, and labels to stand out and engaging with a community with human kindness at its heart.
I created a coat. It's a run of the mill, beige trench coat that you'll see on any street in any town or city, around the world. Men and women wear this style and its colour is universal.
I began collating input from friends and family, then on social media and then with my neighbours, local food bank, and volunteers involved with food hampers and medicine deliveries.
I asked the questions: "What does community power look like, to you?" and "What does community power mean?". The answers to these questions, coupled with the labels, words, sayings, and phrases that have become the 'norm' during the COVID pandemic, then formed the pattern for The Community Coat.
The more I explained to people what I was working on, the more giving they were with their own experiences and feelings. Grief was an overriding theme as elderly loved-ones in care homes passed away without family members present. This gave way to rising anger as political figures were seen to be flouting the rules while funerals were watched through Zoom.
New behaviours and hobbies came to the fore. Family bike rides, street bingo, and making masks all got a mention. While riding the highs and lows of mental health on the Corona Coaster also featured heavily.
I used mixed textiles to recreate symbols old and new during this time. Black Lives Matter protests and moving tributes to the late George Floyd are there alongside nods to the International Space Station, our incredible NHS, and our city's iconic architecture – surrounded by wildflowers, reminding us that the world revolved, without us.
From crayons and sharpies to embroidery, temporary tattooing, stitching, gluing, painting, stenciling, feathering, and caligraphy – The Community Coat pays homage to a city filled with passion, dealing with grief, injustice, and new normals, all while having each other's backs.
My profound thanks to Collective Encounters for allowing me to do something different with a creative brief, and for helping me to bring people from my community together, during unprecedented times.
Thank you so very much to each and every person who generously donated their words to The Community Coat. I hope it speaks volumes about our lives during the lockdown.
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he former occupied the northern part of New Jersey and a portion of Pennsylvania, and the latter inhabited lower New Jersey, the banks of the Delaware River below Trenton, and the whole valley of the Schuylkill. The Mohegans were a distinct tribe on the east side of the Hudson River, and under that name were included several independent families on Long Island and the country between the Lenni-Lenapes and the New England Indians. The New England Indians inhabited the country from the Connecticut River eastward to the Saco, in Maine. The principal tribes were the Narragansets on Rhode Island; the Pokanokets and Wampanoags on the eastern shore of Narraganset Bay and in a portion of Massachusetts; the Massachusetts in the vicinity of Boston and the shores southward; and the Pawtuckets in the northeastern part of Massachusetts, embracing the Pennacooks of New Hampshire. The Abenakes (q. v.) were eastward of the Saco. Their chief tribes were the Penobscots, Norridgewocks, Androscoggi
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chain of commerce. After the Revolution, the States of Virginia and Maryland took measures which resulted in the formation of the famous Potomac Company, to carry out Washington's project. In 1784 Washington revived a project for making a canal through the Dismal Swamp, not only for drainage, but for navigation between the Elizabeth River and Albemarle Sound. The oldest work of the kind in the United States is a canal, begun in 1792, 5 miles in extent, for passing the falls of the Connecticut River at South Hadley. The earliest completed and most important of the great canals of our country is the Erie, connecting the waters of Lake Erie with those of the Hudson River. A committee appointed by Congress during Jefferson's administration reported in favor of this canal, and a survey was directed to be made. Commissioners were appointed in 1810, who reported to Congress in March, 1811. In consequence of the War of 1812, the project languished until 1817. In that year ground was
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ting permanent settlements there; and the same year (1623) they sent over thirty families, chiefly Walloons, to Manhattan. The management of New Netherland was intrusted to the Amsterdam chamber. Their traffic was successful. In 1624 the exports from Amsterdam, in two ships, were worth almost $10,000, and the returns from New Netherland were considerably more. The company established a trading-post, called Fort Orange, on the site of Albany, and traffic was extended eastward to the Connecticut River, and even to Narraganset Bay; northward to the Mohawk Valley, and southward and westward to the Delaware River and beyond. To induce private capitalists to engage in the settlement of the country, the company gave lands and special privileges to such as would guarantee settlement and cultivation. These became troublesome landholders, and in 1638 the rights of the company, it was claimed, were interfered with by a settlement of Swedes on the Delaware. In 1640 the company established
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Hampshire as an independent State is represented in the engraving. The tree and fish indicate the productions of the State. Shortly after the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), settlements in New Hampshire began to extend westward of the Connecticut River. The territory of New Hampshire had been reckoned to extend, according to the terms of Mason's grant, only 60 miles in the interior ; the commission of Benning Wentworth, then (1741-67) governor of New Hampshire, included all the territory to the boundaries of his Majesty's other provinces, and in 1752 he began to issue grants of lands to settlers west of the Connecticut, in what is now the State of Vermont New York, by virtue of the duke's patent in 1664, claimed the Connecticut River as its eastern boundary. A mild dispute then arose. New York had relinquished its claim so far east as against Connecticut, and against Massachusetts it was not then seriously insisted upon. Arguing that his province ought to have an extent w
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In the spring of 1614 Block sailed through the dangerous strait at Hell Gate, passed through the East River and Long Island Sound, discovered the Housatonic, Connecticut, and Thames rivers, and that the long strip of land on the south was an island (Long Island); saw and named Block Island, entered Narraganset Bay and the harborf lat. 45° N., until a long time afterwards. These emigrants were soon scattered to different points to form settlements— some to Long Island, some to the Connecticut River, others to the present Ulster county, and others founded Albany, where the company had built Fort Orange. Four young couples, married on shipboard, went to ted the Indian tribes, and systematically administered the affairs of the colony. He came in collision with the Swedes on the Delaware and the English on the Connecticut River. During his administration he subdued the Swedes (1655), and annexed the territory to New Netherland. Finally serious political troubles overtook the colon
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Pequod War, the The most powerful of the New England tribes were the Pequods, whose territory extended from Narraganset Bay to Hudson River, and over Long Island. Sassacus, their emreror, ruled over twenty-six native princes. He was bold, cruel, cool, calculating, treacherous, haughty, fierce, and malignant. Jealous of the friendship of the English for the Mohegans, and believing the garrison at the mouth of the Connecticut River would soon be strengthened and endanger his dominions, Sassacus determined in 1636 to exterminate the white people. He tried to induce the Narragansets and the Mohegans to join him. The united tribes might put 4,000 braves on the war-path at once, while there were not more than 250 Englishmen in the Connecticut Valley capable of bearing arms. Sassacus undertook the task alone. First his people kidnapped children, murdered men alone in the forests or on the waters, and swept away fourteen families. A Massachusetts trading-vessel was seized by the
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l......1632 Governor Winthrop, of Massachusetts, visits Plymouth......Oct. 25, 1632 A vessel of thirty tons built at Mystic called Blessing of the Bay......1632 Plymouth colonists send Captain Holmes to erect a trading-house on the Connecticut River at Windsor, above Hartford......1633 John Oldham and three others travel as far as the Dutch trading-houses on the Connecticut River, and bring back flattering reports of that country......1633 Salary of the governor of Massachusetts Connecticut River, and bring back flattering reports of that country......1633 Salary of the governor of Massachusetts Bay fixed at £150......1633 Griffin brings 200 passengers, some of them eminent men, as John Haynes, afterwards governor of Massachusetts, John Cotton, Thomas Hooker, and Samuel Stone......1633 Small-pox destroys many of the Indians of Massachusetts......1633 Ipswich settled......1633 Scituate settled......1633 Roger Williams returns to Salem from Plymouth colony......1633 Thomas Dudley chosen governor and Robert Ludlow deputy governor of the Massachusetts colony......1634
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of Lord Loudon......1756 First newspaper in New Hampshire and the oldest in New England, New Hampshire Gazette, published at Portsmouth......August, 1756 On application of New York, the King in council declares the western bank of the Connecticut River the boundary between New Hampshire and New York......July 20, 1764 Concord, settled in 1727, called Rumford in 1733, takes the name of Concord......1765 George Meserve appointed stamp distributer for New Hampshire, resigns his office representatives at Philadelphia, Josiah Bartlett and John Wentworth......Aug. 8, 1778 Phillips Academy at Exeter founded......1781 Daniel Webster born at Franklin, N. H.......Jan. 18, 1782 Sixteen towns, on the eastern side of the Connecticut River refuse to send delegates to a constitutional convention in New Hampshire, and desire to be admitted into the new State of Vermont. Vermont agrees to accept these additional towns, but Congress in its act of admission makes it an indispensab
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J., where Fort Nassau is built......1623 Capt. Thomas Young, receiving a commission from Charles I., sails up the Delaware River to Trenton Falls......Sept. 1, 1634 Number of English families settle on Salem Creek, at a place called by the Indians Asamohaking......1640 Dutch acquire by deed a large tract of land in the eastern part of New Jersey called Bergen......Jan. 30, 1658 Royal charter executed by Charles II., in favor of the Duke of York, of the whole region between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers......March 20, 1664 Present State of New Jersey granted by the Duke of York to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret by deed of lease and release, to be called Nova Caesaria, or New Jersey......June 23-24, 1664 By license from Colonel Nicholls, governor under the Duke of York, a company, the Elizabethtown associates, purchase the site of Elizabethtown from Indians, and establish the first permanent settlement in New Jersey......Oct. 28, 1664 Philip Carte
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s under General Stark......Aug. 16, 1777 Legislature at Windsor divides the State into two counties: one east of the Green Mountains, called Cumberland, and another west, called Bennington......March 12, 1778 Stockade fort and block-house erected at Rutland......April, 1778 Col. Ethan Allen, prisoner of the British since 1775, exchanged, is welcomed to Bennington by a salute of fourteen guns, one for young Vermont ......May 31, 1778 Convention of towns on both sides of the Connecticut River, including eight from Vermont, at Cornish, N. H., proposes to form a State, with capital on the Connecticut......Dec. 9, 1778 Assembly of Vermont declares the union of 1778, with the sixteen towns east of the Connecticut, null and void......Feb. 12, 1779 Legislature of New York refers to Congress to determine equitably the controversy between New York and Vermont......Oct. 21, 1779 Town of Royalton attacked by 300 Indians from Canada; many buildings burned......Oct. 16, 1780