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Mission #17
Target: La Spezia Harbor, Italy
The Primary Target was Parma Marshalling Yard, Italy. Alternate targets were any active Marshalling Yard in north Italy except Florence and Rimini. Colonel Glantzberg led the Wing. The formation ran into overcast at 21,000 ft. short of the target. After dropping to 18,000 ft. to get under the overcast, the Colonel lost part of his own Group formation and the remainder of the Wing formation in making a 360° turn at l5,000 ft. The Colonel reassembled the eighteen planes left in his formation and bombed La Spezia with fair results.
Twenty other planes of the Group bombed a total of eight other targets in northern Italy. Despite the fact that this was the second mission within a month on which the Colonel had lost his formation in weather, had reassembled above the weather and had gone on to bomb an alternate target, he was worried as to what the Fifteenth Air Force would think of the Group and Wing accomplishments for the day.
All was forgiven and forgotten when later reports showed that F/O Keith L. Fuller and his co-pilot, F/O Mac L. Lucas, making a single plane attack, had sunk their target of opportunity, a warship in the harbor of La Spezia. The navigator on the plane was 2nd Lt. Thomas E. Daly, Jr., and the bombardier was 2nd Lt. Roque Gonzales.
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Target: Ploesti Marshalling Yard, Ploesti Roumania
Major Knapp led the formation on the first mission this Group ever flew to Ploesti. About 30 enemy planes were seen, and a few were encountered. There were no claims. Flak at the target was intense, accurate and heavy. Crew members were surprised at the amount of flak coming from guns placed in open fields outside the city limits.
Seeing that his target had been hard hit and was completely obscured by smoke, the lead bombardier, Lt. King, swung from his briefed target to the large South Marshalling Yard which was hit with fair results. The decision by Lt. King brought repercussions from the Group Commander, the 49th Wing, and the Air Force.
On the return route, the formation passed over the defended Bor Mines area and was shot up badly by flak. As a result of this flak, the Group brought back with its first man killed in action, 2nd Lt. Joseph F. Meyers, a bombardier. Two other men were wounded and every airplane in the formation was hit.
Target: Pitesti Marshalling Yard, Roumania
When Major Applegate, the Group Leader, aborted, his Squadron Operations Officer, Captain Hoermann took over the lead. This was the first time that a leader of this Group had aborted. The field order for this mission called for an axis of attack different than that for any other mission previously flown by this Group. Instead of hitting the marshalling yard at an angle, the formation dropped its bombs while flying along the tracks. With an intervalometer setting of 325 feet the bomb strikes began at the briefed aiming point at one end of the marshalling yard and walked straight down the rows of tracks, a distance of 5,500 feet. Because of the intervalometer setting, it was mechanically impossible to drop a large concentration of bombs within 1,000 ft. of the briefed aiming point. This mission, nevertheless, was considered highly successful because of the many hits the whole length of the target.
Target: Marshalling Yard, Bucharest, Roumania
Back to the familiar target area of the Chitila Marshalling Yard of Bucharest, the Group employed practically the same procedure in attacking this target as had been used the previous visit at Pitesti. The briefed aiming point was in front of a plot of rectangular buildings located near the round house near the northwest end of the marshalling yard. The mission was well led by Captain Goree but the bombs of the first section were somewhat scattered and many of them were to the right of the target. Lt. Faherty, lead bombardier of the second Section, however, rang the bell with a beautiful pattern on the briefed aiming point. Reconnaissance pictures showed the target was hard hit by concentration of 39 percent of our bombs within 1,000 feet of the briefed aiming point. Only a few enemy airplanes were seen and only three of our bombers were damaged by flak.
Target: Wiener Neustadt, Nord Airdrome
Failure to recognize and hit the target on the Group's first mission to the "hot" target of Wiener Neustadt robbed Lt. Col. Hawes, Wing and Group Leader, of rare distinction. The formation flew through showers over the Adriatic and ran into a front in Yugoslavia. Colonel Hawes led the Wing through this front and continued on course. At the initial point, part of the formation was hit by enemy fighters. 1st. Lt. W.C. Wallace, flight leader of "B" flight in the second section, was shot down and his flight was attacked aggressively by enemy fighters. This was the first Group airplane ever lost to fighters. The attack cost the enemy seven planes destroyed, seven probables and three damaged. The long bomb run, made into a strong headwind, kept the formation in the flak for eleven minutes. As a result of the mission, Lt. Wallace and his crew were missing; S/Sgt. Joseph Nobile, the ball turret gunner, was killed; six other men were injured and twenty-six aircraft were damaged. All the crew members returning from this mission agreed that Wiener Neustadt was as "hot" as it had been reported.
Target: Marina DiCarrara Marshalling Yard, Italy
In anticipation of this mission, Colonel Glantzberg, Lt. Colonel Hawes, Major Lott and Major Burke attended a special conference held by Colonel Lee at Wing Headquarters on 11 May 1944. There they learned the following facts:
1. "H" hour for the Italian front had been set for 2300 o'clock 11 May 1944.
2. All heavy bomb groups in the Fifteenth Air Force were assigned to fly two missions against marshalling yards in the Po River Valley area, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, on 12 May 1944.
3. The route out for these missions was planned in such a way as to take nineteen Groups over south-central Italy to within sight of the bomb line, then west along the bomb line, and then north on the Anzio beachhead.
In executing this mission, many of the Groups including the 461st did not fly the afternoon missions because of bad weather.
The target of the morning mission for our Group was the Castel Maggiore Marshalling Yard. Alternate targets were any active marshalling yard in north Italy except Florence and Rimini. For the third time since the Group became operational, Colonel Glantzberg, leading the group, was forced to hit an alternate target because of bad weather at the primary. He made five 360° turns in an effort to find the target. Finally a run was made on the marshalling yard at Marina di Carrara. Not much damage was done to the target, but an aluminum plant near the target was hard hit with a beautiful pattern by a flight led by Captain Goree. Even more important, a concentration of enemy munitions stores nearby was squarely hit with considerable damage resulting.
TARGET: Imola Marshalling Yard, Italy
Missions of the Fifteenth Air Force on this day followed the general pattern of those for the 12th of May. The target assigned to this Group was the marshalling yard at Faenza. From the initial point at Marradi the lead bombardier, Lt. Murphy, picked up the wrong target. As a result, the Group bombed the marshalling yard at Imola, which is but a short distance northwest of Faenza on the Rimini-Florence Railway Line. A beautiful bombing pattern covered the target with 28 percent of the bombs within a 1,000 feet of the briefed aiming point. As was the case on the previous day, no enemy airplanes were seen. This was the first mission the Group had flown without one or more early returns.
Target: Padua Marshalling Yard, Italy
The whole Air Force was still hammering away at the marshalling yards in northern Italy. The target for this mission was a marshalling yard at Padua that was heavily defended by anti-aircraft guns. The lead bombardier, Captain Leffler, turned in a superior job with 60 percent of the bombs dropped falling within a 1,000 feet of the briefed aiming point. Again no enemy aircraft were seen, but thirty-two of the thirty-six planes over the target were hit by flak and one man was injured.
Target: Porto Ferrajo Steel Mill and Harbor (Elba Island)
Continued good weather and good bombing marked this mission. From a coordinate in the Tyrrhenian sea as an initial point, the bomb run resulted in a splendid pattern and a score of 29 percent. The steel mill and some of the harbor installations were hard hit. Lt. Stiles was the Lead Bombardier.
Target: Belgrade Zemun Airdrome,Yugoslavia
Strategy of the Fifteenth suddenly switched the Bomb Groups on this date from marshalling yards in northern Italy to the oil refineries at Ploesti. Bad weather prevented the group from getting to their primary target, Xenia Oil Refinery at Ploesti, Roumania. The target selected for bombing was the now familiar alternate and last resort target, the Belgrade Zemun Airdrome in Yugoslavia, above a solid undercast. Colonel Glantzberg led the group in such a way as to make it possible to drop the bombs on the center of the most concentrated flak area. Results were unobserved.
Target: Recco Viaduct, Italy
The Recco Viaduct, on the main railroad line from Genoa to Rome, was the first bridge attacked by the group as a primary target. Part of the bomb load for this mission was 2,000 pound general purpose bombs. This was the first time bombs this large had been used by the Group.
Crews were briefed to hit this target by flights. When they arrived at the target area, they found the viaduct obscured by a 9/10 undercast. No flak at the target permitted the flights to circle and make repeated bomb runs on the target. Lt. Colonel Hawes, who led the formation, made eight passes at the target, the last from 3,000 feet. some flights abandoned the target in search of targets of opportunity. No hits were scored on the bridge. Enemy fighters in northern Italy were still conspicuous by their absence.
Target: Piombino Harbor Area, Italy
Against the supply dumps and harbor installations at Piombino the Group carried incendiary clusters for the first time. The weather over the target was CAVU. Major Burke, the formation leader, maintained his record of leading highly successful missions when the crews laid down a superior formation pattern directly on the target. Only two enemy airplanes were seen on this mission. For the second time this month there were no early returns.
1st Lt. James T. Bennett, who was being checked out as a flight leader by 1st Lt. Edward W. Peterson and his crew, were lost on this mission. The plane left the formation near the initial point in the Tyrrhenian sea and was not seen again.
Target: Subiaco Road Junction, Italy
The Group was assigned on a tactical mission in support of the ground forces in Italy who were pushing the enemy northward. The target was a highway junction at the foot of steep hill in a deep narrow valley. Ground maps had to be used instead of target charts. Crossing over a series of mountain ridges, the Group found its target despite an eight-tenths undercast. Sixty-seven percent of the bombs dropped on this target were within 1,000 feet of the center of impact.
Target: Wiener Neustadt Wollersdorf Airdrome, Austria
Another mission to Wiener Neustadt, this time with Colonel Glantzberg leading the wing. The possible success of this mission was ruined by excessive cloud coverage of the target plus the fact that oil, which had leaked from a line on the nose turret guns, froze and obscured the vision of Captain Leffler, lead bombardier. Overshooting the target on the first run, the Group made a 360° circle, lost the other groups in the formation and made another run. Because of crippled planes in the formation, the lead ship dropped its bombs rather than make a third run on the target.
Again, there was fighter opposition and intense flak. Thirty enemy planes were encountered and the following claims were scored: two destroyed, one probable and three damaged. Twenty-three of our planes were hit by flak, and two were lost. Flight Leader 1st Lt. Robert S. Bigelow, with the 766th Squadron Operations Officer Captain John W. Dickenson as co-pilot, was lost to flak over the target. 2nd Lt. William R. Diggs lost an engine over the target, dropped out of formation and was not seen again. The Wiener-Neustadt target was rough!
Target: Carnoules Marshalling Yard, France
The Fifteenth Air Force suddenly swung to France for targets. In the absence of both flak and fighters with CAVU weather, the Group got 35 percent of its bombs within 1,000 feet of the briefed aiming point on the marshalling yard and roundhouse at Carnoules, France.
Target: Lyon-Vaise Marshalling Yard, France
Back again to France, this time to the Lyon-Vaise Marshalling Yard. Again the weather was CAVU, there was no flak, and only two enemy aircraft were seen. Major Burke turned in another excellent mission when the Group dropped 54 percent of its bombs within a 1,000 foot circle.
On this mission, Flight Leader 1st Lt. Marion C. Mixon furnished a splendid example of the determined aggressiveness with which this group was handing out damage to the enemy. Flying as co-pilot while checking out 2nd Lt. Robert G. Wester as a first pilot, Lt. Mixon was forced to turn back from the mission when he lost an engine over the Tyrrhenian Sea. Instead of dropping his bombs in the water or returning them to base, he went looking for a target of opportunity. After passing up two targets, the navigator, 2nd Lt. Paul Dietrick, saw a long convoy of enemy vehicles. The bombardier, 2nd Lt. James Colavito, Jr., threw a road block in front of the convoy which was then strafed by RAF Spitfires.
Target: Salon De Provence Airdrome, France
This mission to France was different from the previous two in that extremely accurate heavy flak greeted the group at landfall on the French Coast. This time the target was the airdrome at Salon de Provence, a nest of JU-88 aircraft had been raiding shipping in the Mediterranean.
The score for the mission was 24 percent. 2nd Lt. Gerald Maroney's plane was damaged by flak and left the formation. When last seen, the plane was heading north over France.
Target: Wiener Neustadt Werke 1, Austria
Wiener Neustadt again. This was Lt. Colonel Hawes's second trip to this target as Group Leader, and Lt. Strong's second trip as lead pilot. The field order dispatched thirteen Groups of the Air Force to the airplane manufacturing and servicing installations on both the Nord and Wollersdorf Airdromes. Our target was Werke 1 on the Nord Field. The 461st Group was one of the last Groups to arrive over the target. After the Group was on its bomb run, it was necessary to change course because of the possibility of being dropped through by another group flying directly overhead. As Lt. Strong pulled the formation to the right, the lead bombardier, Lt. King, released his bombs on the four large buildings nearest the line on Wollersdorf Field.
As a result of the bombing done by the thirteen Groups, Wiener Neustadt really burned. As combat crew members looked back when leaving the target area, they were convinced it would be a long time before they would have to return to the target they disliked more than any other target to which they had been assigned. Again flak was intense, accurate, and heavy over a large area, and the enemy fighters were aggressive. Our gunners claimed three enemy airplanes destroyed without any losses to our Group. The combat crews flying the mission were enthusiastic about the coverage given by our fighter escort.
Target: Wels Aircraft Factory, Austria
At Wels, Austria, the Group had the new and pleasant experience of attacking an aircraft factory at which there was no flak. Neither were fighters seen on this mission. The lead navigator, Lt. Dusenberry, carefully kept the Group out of range of the heavily defended areas close to the target. The lead bombardier, Lt. Murphy, completely sprayed the target with incendiaries to give the lead pilots, Major Applegate and Lt. Specht, a superior mission.
From: Lee, CO, 49th Bomb ~ (H), AP0520.
To: Commanding Officer, 451st, 461st, 484th Bomb Group (H), APO 520.
The following Teletype is quoted for your information.
"Cite FAF Baker 27 the terrific destruction inflicted on the enemy by units of the Fifteenth Air Force on 29 and 30 May is a record without precedence anywhere. Let us keep this high standard of attainment as our goal. The Hun can't take it."
Target: Concordia Vega Oil Refinery, Ploesti, Roumania
On the last day of the month the Group made its second trip of the month to Ploesti. In defense of the target, the enemy added smoke screens to his aggressive fighter resistance and flak concentration. Despite this resistance Captain Leffler got a score of 27 percent for the mission.
2nd Lt. Samuel N. Norris got his damaged plane back to the Island of Brac, where he and his crew were forced to bail out. 2nd Lt. George N. Ryder Jr. attempted to bail his crew out on the Island of Vis, but they missed the Island. The crew members landed in the water and all of them are believed to be lost.
From: Lee, CO, 49th Bomb Wing (H), APO 520 .70
To: Commanding Officers; 451st, 461st, 484th Bomb Group (H), APO 520.
The following teletype is quoted for your information:
"Recognition of your accomplishment by the Commander in Chief of the United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe, Lieutenant General Spaatz, is passed to you with my most sincere congratulations added thereto. Weight and effectiveness of your attacks during the past month represent full exploitation of the power within your force. These attacks have not only continued the excellent operations of previous months in wearing down the German air strength, which stands guard over their war machine, but have struck heavily at its heart. Particularly successful have been the attacks on the enemy's limited oil resources, both against Ploesti refineries and the synthetic oil plants in Germany. Please extend my commendations to the air crews and all others of your command responsible for these operations."
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La desigualdad de género en Venezuela continúa siendo un problema en el país a pesar de la adopción de medidas enfocadas a disminuirla. La estructura social en Venezuela generalmente ha sido descrita como sexista.

Estadísticas

Trabajo
En la participación en el trabajo, el papel de las mujeres en la fuerza laboral aumentó de un 17.5% en 1950 a un 43.0% en 1998. Esto incluía a mujeres casadas que no podían dedicarle tanto tiempo al trabajodebido a los estándares tradicionales para establecer una familia.

Ley
Bajo la presidencia de Luis Herrera Campins, el gobierno venezolano se concentró en renovar la "ley familiar" nacional. El 16 de julio de 1982, el Congreso de Venezuela aprobó enmiendas a la ley que le garantizaban a la mujer venezolana igual poder que su marido para tomar decisiones familiares, al igual que divorciarse en caso de que su pareja fuese infiel. Anteriormente, la ley venezolana declaraba que una esposa "tenía que seguir a su marido a donde decidiese vivir" y que el "marido tomará todas las decisiones relacionadas con la vida matrimonial".

Véase también
 Matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo en Venezuela

Referencias

Venezuela
Discriminación en Venezuela

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The Texas Rangers are now in contention after a few seasons of rebuilding. With Mike Minor and Lance Lynn now sporting the Texas Rangers uniform, the Rangers are heading into the 2020 season with a new feel. The Texas Rangers do not have any World Series titles under their belt, but have a solid history regardless. They are historically a huge slugger team, housing players like Juan Gonzalez, Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and Josh Hamilton. The Rangers will play at Globe Life Field this season, a brand new ballpark. The Texas Rangers 2020 season is now available, so get your Texas Rangers tickets today!
The Texas Rangers joined Major League Baseball in 1972, when the Washington Senators relocated to the Lone Star State when then owner Bob Short decided to move the team to Arlington. Since that point, the Rangers have built an incredibly loyal fan base that continues to support the Rangers in their quest for the franchise's first World Series title.
Since the team's inception, the Rangers have seen their fair share of famous faces as part of the franchise, including former president George W. Bush (part-owner 1989-94), manager Billy Martin (1973-1975), and pitcher Nolan Ryan (1989-93 and CEO & president). Another famous figure that has played a part in the franchise history is the team's first manager, baseball legend Ted Williams. Unfortunately for the fans in Arlington, not even Teddy Ballgame could overcome a bad roster of players, and the Rangers lost 100 games in their inaugural season. In fact, it took until 1996 before the team finally got a taste of the MLB playoffs, and ultimately went three times in four years, losing each time to the New York Yankees. The greatest level of success for the Rangers happened from 2010 to 2011, when the team was American League champions in both seasons. Each year the team failed to capture the World Series championship, losing to the San Francisco Giants in 2010 and the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011.
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Zuleyka Jerris Rivera Mendoza (Cayey, 3 oktober 1987) is een Puerto Ricaanse miss en soapactrice.

Nadat ze Miss Puerto Rico 2006 was geworden, mocht ze meedoen aan de Miss Universe 2006-verkiezing. Op 23 juli 2006 won zij de 56e Miss Universe-verkiezing, die werd gehouden in de Amerikaanse stad Los Angeles.

Zuleyka's overwinning leverde haar vaderland Puerto Rico haar vijfde Miss Universe-titel op en Puerto Rico is hiermee na de Verenigde Staten het meest succesvolle land in de Miss Universe-verkiezingen.

Vlak na haar overwinning viel ze tijdens de eerste officiële persconferentie flauw. In een televisieprogramma lichtte ze toe dat dit het gevolg was van haar zware avondjapon die met zilveren kettingen was afgewerkt en de felle lichten die op haar waren gericht.

Tegenwoordig speelt ze mee in de Spaanstalige soapserie Dame Chocolate.

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After coaching many Scrum teams over the past few years, I observed that many new Scrum teams seem to struggle because of low quality User Stories. Even the best teams are likely to fail if they do not have good stories to work from since they define the level of quality and scope for the end product the team will deliver.
I'm sure you have already come across many articles that provide guidelines for what a "good" user story should be; the acronym "I.N.V.E.S.T." likely rings a bell or two for you. While those guidelines are helpful, they do not necessarily tell you HOW to write a good user story, but offers you insight to determine whether your story meets the standard or not.
To take a more practical approach, let's try to map out tactically how we go about writing an effective user story.
More often than you might expect, Product Owners begin writing stories with the solution in mind. They have already thought through what the business users' needs are and how their problems should be solved, so they write the stories to describe the end product. This is not an ideal approach because the Product Owner is essentially constraining the team's freedom and limiting their ability to come up with a creative solution. A more effective approach is for the Product Owner to explicitly identify the end user through definition of a "persona". This term may be familiar to those of you who have written requirements or use cases; in the context of use cases, a "persona" is essentially an "actor". For this example, we will say that we have a typical banker who uses the banking system to do his work on a daily basis.
By determining a fictional (or real) user, the Product Owner steps into the shoes of that individual to take that person's perspective, which enables him/her to see the problem in the right light. This is a critical step in the process that many teams fail to do.
Not so hard after all? Right?
An easy way to spot a poorly-written user story is to look at its basic form. Does it describe a process or solution, or does it indicate action of some sort? If the story starts with an action word (e.g. a verb), it's a sign that it's not in the right format and will likely need rework.
Why is this the case, you might ask. Don't we want to tell the developers/development team exactly what they need to do? Aren't we doing them a favor by telling them what the task will be?
Not exactly. The purpose of a user story is to describe the desired user experience, their personal interaction with the end system/product, so that the team can build the best possible, most efficient product that meets the user's needs. The team building the product is the best resource to figure out the specifics of HOW to deliver that solution. The Product Owner must have confidence in the team to do their part.
An example of this scenario might be: "Build an application that can print checks automatically", or "Design a scheduler to run on a daily basis that can print checks at specific times during the day".
As you might observe, both of these suboptimal user stories describe the solution in a very narrowly-defined matter, which will likely constrain the team's thinking and limit their ability to innovate and come up with something that neither the Product Owner nor the banker has thought of.
Ultimately, the most important thing to keep in mind is that you want to leverage the user story as a tool to describe the user experience. Give the team room to think outside the box, to experiment with something new and unfamiliar yet meets the customers' needs. Give them just enough guidance and they may deliver something extraordinary.


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CSE and HighlightHER Finalize Deal for National Cup Tournament Series
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Elkridge, Md. (February 11, 2021) —
Corrigan Sports Enterprises has finalized a deal with HighlightHER to provide coverage of the 2021 National Cup Tournament Series.
HighlightHER, the female-specific partner to HouseofHighlights and Bleacher Report, is one of the fastest growing women's sports media platforms. HighlightHER shines a light on women's sports through a unique blend of compelling, empowering, and light-hearted moments.
"HighlightHER was built to empower sisterhood and amplify women in sports and culture," said Ari Chambers, the one-woman social producer and mixed-media journalist behind HighlightHER. "We're excited to highlight inspiring moments from some of the best athletes in lacrosse."
"We're excited to partner with HighlightHer on the 2021 National Cup Series. Our goal is to elevate girl's lacrosse to a new stage. Partnering with ESPN to air (3) championship games live on their family of networks, combined with the unique social media visibility of HighlightHer is going to be special. HighlightHer will also play a pivotal role in the selection of the coaches awards happening across all (4) events." Ryan Corrigan, Director of Sales at Corrigan Sports Enterprises.
Since debuting in 2019, HighlightHER has nearly 100,000 followers on Instagram and will use their platform to feature athletes at The National Cup Tournament Series. Together they will celebrate the contributions of players and coaches at an awards banquet during the National Cup weekend.
Corrigan Sports will host an awards banquet at the National Cup Championship event in Tampa, Fla. on December 4-5. The banquet will recognize the top coaches/club administrators in the sport. CSE/HighlightHer will also name the top ten girls in each graduation year to the "All-National Team". The banquet will be available to all athletes, coaches, and parents.
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The joy of advent and God's faithfulness
My dear sisters and brothers in Christ, one of the great joys of coming to Adelaide is the unexpected surprise of November.
Archbishop Patrick O'Regan Friday, December 11
Where are the hard questions on refugees?
Over the past 12 months the story that has had the biggest impact on me personally, and hopefully our readers, is that of three 'forgotten families' on bridging visas struggling to cope during the COVID-19 restrictions.
Jenny Brinkworth Friday, December 11
A time for trust and hope
As has been said so many times in recent months, 2020 has been a year like no other. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruption and change in almost every area of our lives, including the way we have celebrated Mass and the other sacraments. As we approach Christmas we look forward to the hope of a more 'normal' 2021.
Jenny O'Brien Wednesday, December 09
Drawn into the communion of saints
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, recently I have visited two museums with what might be called a religious theme, and an educational sub-theme. One, the Mary MacKillop Museum in Kensington, and, second, more recently, the Jesuit Retreat Centre's historical display at Sevenhill. Both well worth a visit.
Archbishop Patrick O'Regan Friday, November 06
The abortion debate we need to have
It is 50 years since the SA Parliament debated and passed legislation relating to abortion. A lot has changed since then and the Attorney General Vickie Chapman has decided it's time to 'modernise' the legislation.
Jenny Brinkworth Friday, November 06
Halloween - the eve of All Saints
As we approach the end of the year, a challenging one at that, there is a sense of rounding out the year liturgically as well as with our everyday calendar of events.
Kathy Horan Wednesday, November 04
Seek the Lord each day
St Bernard of Clairvaux 1090-1153 once wrote 'A saint is not someone who never sins, but one who sins less and less frequently and gets up more and more quickly'.
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Take fresh courage – share the hope
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The Palestinian torturers
Two reports released this week are throwing the spotlight on Palestinians who are detained without charge and tortured by the Hamas and Fatah forces. Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights group, has detailed how more than 1,000 have been arrested in the last year, with "an estimated 20%-30% of the detainees" having suffered torture "including severe beatings and being tied up in painful positions".
Human Rights Watch is today releasing a similarly-focused report which concludes that "the use of torture is dramatically up". Al-Haq accuses both Hamas's Executive Force, and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)'s Preventive Security Force of widespread maltreatment of detainees.
A report like al-Haq's must be welcomed for its attention to detail and courage in documenting unjustifiable abuses of power – all the more so since these kinds of findings can easily be manipulated or ignored for political reasons.
This catalogue of human rights abuses will no doubt be eagerly seized upon by Israel apologists – as has happened in the past – by exactly what it proves is unclear: that Israel doesn't have a monopoly on the use of arbitrary detention and torture?
As it happens, a week ago an al-Haq fieldworker was detained by Israeli forces at the Huwara checkpoint. The organisation's report describes how one of the soldiers claimed the man's arrest was connected to "the nature of his work as someone monitoring and documenting the actions of the Israeli military". Al-Haq notes that this is part of a wider trend of "arbitrary arrests and detention of human rights defenders in the OPT, as well as those monitoring or documenting Israeli human rights violations in any way" (including the father of the girl who filmed the shooting of a blindfolded prisoner).
However, reporting abuses by Hamas and Fatah can also make some western pro-Palestinian groups feel uncomfortable. Al-Haq's findings and recommendations could well be sidelined, or merely noted in passing, out of fear of providing ammunition to Israel's propagandists, or perhaps out of a misplaced sense of prioritising the publicising of the occupation's injustices.
Neither can the PA's western donors say much by way of serious reprimand – and not just because detention and torture in the Middle East is a bit too close to the bone. The international community did nothing when Arafat's men were arresting hundreds of Islamic movement activists and clerics in the mid-1990s. This crackdown, often accompanied by human rights abuses and torture, was directly linked to the anti-Fatah violence that accompanied the Hamas military seizure of control in Gaza in 2007:
"For Hamas members, the gutted prison bloc in the back of the Gaza City headquarters of the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Service was their Abu Ghraib. It was here that the seeds of the rivalry with Fatah were planted a decade ago."
Moreover, after Hamas's success at the ballot box in 2006, the US began intense planning and cooperation with elements of Fatah to prepare for a military confrontation, so much so, that in the aftermath of the fighting in June 2007, "many Western officials and analysts" considered Hamas's offensive as a "pre-emptive strike".
Israel is also complicit in the PA's campaign of fear. Over the past few weeks, Nablus has been the focus of IDF raids targeting everything from charities and mosques to schools and a TV station, as well as sweeps by the PA. The fact that arrests by Israeli occupation forces and Abbas' police are occuring in tandem, unsurprisingly leads some to see "Fatah's relationship with the Israelis as one of collusion more than competition". Independent MP Mustafa Barghouti concludes that Israel is "trying to turn the PA into a security sub-agent like the Vichy government (in occupied France)."
Human rights abuses by Palestinian security forces are nothing new (as this recent report by the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group makes clear) – though now it's Hamas personnel responsible, as well as the PNA. As it happens, seriously tackling these abuses would also make a vital contribution to the Palestinian struggle. But this is not an issue for political point scoring; it is a question of basic dignities and justice. Fighting against torture and detention without charge cannot come second to any other agenda.
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Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836; Austin, Moses, 1761-1821. The American Mercury - Page 1. August 2, 1790. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. January 17, 2020. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/earlytex/item/452/show/446.
Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836; Austin, Moses, 1761-1821. (August 2, 1790). The American Mercury - Page 1. Early Texas Documents. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/earlytex/item/452/show/446
Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836; Austin, Moses, 1761-1821, The American Mercury - Page 1, August 2, 1790, Early Texas Documents, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed January 17, 2020, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/earlytex/item/452/show/446.
Title The American Mercury
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Taylor Mill an All-Star Neighborhood
The city will host a series of events in honor of the All-Star Games coming to town July 14.
Taylor Mill an All-Star Neighborhood The city will host a series of events in honor of the All-Star Games coming to town July 14. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/1Immy5B
Melissa Stewart, mstewart@communitypress.com Published 7:34 p.m. ET June 28, 2015
Taylor Mill City Administrator Jill Bailey.(Photo: File photo)
TAYLOR MILL – Taylor Mill has been named an All-Star Neighborhood.
The designation comes from Community Organizing Committee, a group that formed a partnership with the Cincinnati Reds and the Cincinnati USA Convention and Visitors Bureau to create the All-Star Neighborhood Project as the region gears up for the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Games coming to town July 14.
"Taylor Mill was very thorough in their application and gave a sense of enthusiasm for bringing this to their neighborhood," the committee's neighborhood co-chair Jill Jansen said. "It was also clear that they had experience executing an event of this type and that they had the right kind of working relationships to pull it off."
The committee chose 10 communities in the Greater Cincinnati area to receive the honor. Taylor Mill and Bellevue are the only Northern Kentucky communities that made the cut.
"We are thrilled to be selected," Taylor Mill City Administrator Jill Bailey said. "The city has had so many great things going on and this designation helps us spotlight the construction of our new five-lane highway, development that has already occurred in the Districts of Taylor Mill as well as the future development possibilities.
"Taylor Mill is at a pivotal point of growth in our community and we are working hard to distinguish ourselves as a great place to live, work and play for not only our current residents but for future generations to come."
All-Star communities have been selected to be directly involved in festivities in conjunction with the 2015 Major League Baseball All-Star Game on July 14 in Cincinnati, Jansen said. These neighborhoods will receive funding, a Baseball Across the Region ceremony, a select number of Fan Fest tickets for residents and support for celebratory items such as signage, giveaway items, food and entertainment.
The program culminates with several All-Star Neighborhood Celebrations, some which may occur on the evening of the big game. These celebrations are unique to each of the selected neighborhoods and are being envisioned and created by civic and residential leaders in each area, Jansen said.
Taylor Mill has three All-Star activities planned:
Wednesday, July 1 – Taste of All-Star Neighborhood Taylor Mill and Ball Across the Region Ceremony will be 5-9 p.m. on Holland Drive, which is located within the Districts of Taylor Mill and at the site of Taylor Mill's new multi-story development, which is home to LaRosa's, Graeters bakery and ice cream store, Skyline, Golf Exchange, and the Holland and Rosen headquarters. The band DV8 will perform at 6-9 p.m. with a variety of food booths from local restaurants set up selling food and drinks. Beer will be available for purchase. Bailey said the city hopes the ceremony will include participation by prominent local officials, special guests, and all-star players from the various local high school baseball teams. The ceremony is still in the planning stages, but is anticipated to take place at about 7 p.m. Commemorative All-Star Taylor Mill baseballs will be available for purchase for $5 each.
Tuesday, July 14 – The All-Star Neighborhood Celebration will be 5-11 p.m. at Pride Park. There will be a variety of food trucks on site for food purchases, and beer will be sold. Live music featuring Nashville's Dan Varner Band will perform from 5:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. Between 7:15 and 7:30 there will be fireworks to kick off the All-Star Game which can be viewed live at Pride Park at approximately 7:30 p.m. Commemorative baseballs will be available for purchase. A variety of inflatables will be available for children as well as an inflatable obstacle course for adults.
"We are hoping for a stellar turnout from not only our community, but also surrounding communities as we celebrate the All-Star Games coming to our region," Bailey said. "It is such an economic boom for our local businesses and we genuinely want to see them be successful. It's nice to have Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky on a national stage."
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Frederick Miescher isolated DNA from cells for the first time and called it nuclein.
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James D. Watson and Francis H. Crick described the double helix structure of DNA. They received the Nobel Prize for their work in 1962.
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In 1982, products derived from contaminated blood led to the first CDC-reported cases of patients with hemophilia A developing pneumonia and other infections that met the case definition of AIDS.
In October 1984, Dr. Barrie Carter published A Human Parvovirus, Adeno-Associated Virus, as a Eucaryotic Vector: Transient Expression and Encapsidation of the Procaryotic Gene for Chloramphenicol Acetyltransferase, an article first describing the use of adeno-associated virus as a vector.
Expression of Active Human Factor VIII From Recombinant DNA Clones by Dr. Gordon Vehar and his colleagues reported on the successful cloning of factor VIII, a breakthrough advancement.
A 4-year-old girl suffering from adenosine deaminase (ADA), a condition in which people cannot resist common infections, became the first person to receive a non-AAV gene therapy treatment.
Throughout the 1990s, synthetic factor products were manufactured using recombinant technologies. In 1992, the first recombinant factor VIII product was approved by the FDA. In 1997, the first recombinant factor IX product was granted FDA approval. In 1996, rFVIIa was approved in the European Union and in 1999 in the United States for use as a bypassing agent in patients with hemophilia A or B (factor VIII or factor IX deficiency) and an antibody inhibitor.
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ADB's Regional and Sustainable Development Department (RSDD) will manage the fund in consultation with ADB's operations directors responsible for IDRM activities in Southeast Asia and will be the focal point for the fund for technical matters. The IDRM steering committee will include the directors general of the Southeast Asia Department, RSDD, and one other regional department, and will be chaired by the director general of RSDD. The IDRM steering committee will guide the strategic direction of the fund and will approve allocations from the fund. A working group with representatives from the relevant operations departments, and sector representatives in RSDD (including those responsible for disaster risk management and gender) and chaired by the director general, RSDD (or their designate) will be constituted to oversee, review, and make recommendations on funding applications from the fund based on eligibility criteria agreed between the Government of Canada and ADB.
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Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister will be held to their public undertaking to make public the EPU methodology and data for computing ethnic breakdowns of New Economic Policy equity ownership when Parliament meets on Monday
(Tawau, Friday) : The Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak will be held to their public undertaking to make public the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) methodology and data for computing ethnic breakdowns of New Economic Policy (NEP) equity ownership when Parliament meets on Monday.
This will be one of the major issues I will highlight on Monday during the debate on the Prime Minister's Department's allocations under the 2007 budget, for which two days have been set aside.
When he returned from Mecca two weeks ago (Oct. 16), Abdullah said that Malaysians have the right to question the government or to seek answers on issues when referring to calls for the public disclosure for the EPU methodology and data.
Abdullah said: "If people question, then we must have answers. We do not have a problem. If we are transparent, what is the problem?"
A day earlier, Najib said that the government's methodology to calculate bumiputera equity ownership was no secret and could be disclosed.
The thunderous silence and failure in the past two weeks to make public the EPU methodology and data seem to indicate that the government is having very serious problem in "walking the talk" about transparency.
Abdullah and Najib must realize that both of them would lose all credibility if they fail to honour their public undertaking to make public the EPU methodology and data, especially after the Malaysiakini exclusive report of a 2002 University of Malaya research study and finding that the 30 per cent bumiputera equity ownership as targeted under the NEP had been achieved a decade ago in 1997.
The research, entitled "Bumiputeras in the Corporate Sector – Three decades of performance 1970-2000", by Dr. M. Fazilah Abdul Samad, head of department of finance and banking in the Faculty of Business and Accountancy, was based on a 10-year analysis of bumiputera equity ownership between 1988 and 1997 of public listed companies on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE), now called Bursa Malaysia.
Fazilah's study is the first publication of the inaugural Research Reports Series of the Centre for Economic Development and Ethnic Relations (CEDER), University of Malaya, involving a team of researchers from the Faculty of Economics and Administration and Faculty of Business and Accountancy in a research project started in early 2000 to study the implications of the New Economic Policy on the Bumiputera community.
As Professor Dr. Jahara Yahaya, Director of CEDEC, wrote in his preface to Fazilah's study, the coverage of topics intended for the CEDEC research studies was extensive – to embrace areas such as the emerging problems of the Bumiputera middle-class in the post New Economic Policy period, Bumiputera entrepreneurs a decade after NEP.as well as Bumiputeras in the corporate sector. Other issues intended for the study are the proliferation of private higher educational institutions, Malay poverty and the dilution of Malay land ownership.
According to Fazilah's study, bumiputera equity ownership reached 33.7 per cent in 1997, comprising 30.6 per cent bumiputera corporate equity ownership and 3.1 per cent individual bumiputera share ownership.
This is however an underestimate, as it did not include nominee company ownership which many economists have argued would be held in the majority on behalf of bumiputeras.
Furthermore, it does not take into account government-held ownership (9.5 per cent), as was done in the study by the controversial Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute (Asli)'s Centre for Public Policy Studies, and both the CEDER and ASLI studies have arrived at very similar conclusion of 45% bumiputera equity ownership achievement if 70% of government-held ownership are attributed to bumiputeras.
Parliament must demonstrate on Monday that Members of Parliament regardless of political party or race can set the national example of debating in a rational and responsible manner the important issue of the proper methodology and data to be used in the computation of the ethnic breakdown of NEP equity ownership without anyone playing the race card to become a communal hero at the expense of national unity and the 15-year National Mission proclaimed by the Prime Minister during the launching of the Ninth Malaysia Plan on 31st March this year.


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I grew up in Oklahoma City. Reading was a passion for me from the time I was five years old. By the time I got to the first grade, I was already writing and illustrating stories of my own. I spent long afternoons at the library reading everything I could get my hands on, but my favorite books were novels with horses in them. The Black Stallion. King of the Wind. My Friend Flicka. I read them all, which evidently caused so much eyestrain that I needed these stunning glasses.
From the time I was twelve years old to the time I went to college, I spent a majority of my time on horseback, traveling to horse shows all over Oklahoma and Texas. I was taking college prep courses to become a veterinarian, only to be told by my high school counselor that veterinary medicine was "a difficult field for a woman" (can you imagine?) and I should choose something else. She said I had shown some talent for writing, so I ended up in the Professional Writing program at the University of Oklahoma.
I graduated from college, but I didn't write again for fifteen years. I did, however, meet the love of my life and got married. Brian's personality is so different from mine that the priest who married us had reservations about doing it. My husband is a quiet, reserved engineer who never met a detail he didn't like, and I'm a life-of-the-party type who can barely remember to get out of bed in the morning. But we stubbornly ignored the priest's reservations and got married, anyway.
In this photo, our daughter is about four years old. I have no idea how old Big Bird is. I also have no idea why I thought that hairstyle was attractive and why my husband had that caterpillar sitting on his upper lip.
When our daughter was in junior high, we took a trip to Disney World. She was growing into a truly beautiful young woman. Brian had lost the hairy lip. I, however, still had the horrible hair.
It was about this time that we got our first computer–-a used PC-XT we bought from a guy out of his garage. I could actually store words, so I was getting the burn to write again.
In 1999, my book Stray Hearts was a finalist for Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart Award for the best unpublished manuscripts in a given year. I didn't win, but an editor at Harlequin who judged the final round bought the book. It was published in a two-for-one romantic comedy line called "Harlequin Duets."
In the next two months, I sold four more books to both Harlequin and Random House. It was looking as if my high school counselor had actually set me on the right path, even if it was for the wrong reason.
My romantic comedy, Tall Tales and Wedding Veils, is about two people who fall in love in spite of the fact that they're total opposites. Speaking of total opposites, remember the guy I married who the priest thought maybe I shouldn't?
This photo was taken on the Caribbean cruise we took for our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. We thought we'd go ahead and stick it out for another twenty-five years before we addressed the possibility that we made a really big mistake.
To date, I've written 22 romance novels. Ten of them have been finalists for Romance Writers of America's RITA Award. As the years went by, my fellow writers dubbed me the Susan Lucci of the RITA award because I was a finalist so many times but never won.
It appears tenth time is a charm. At the 2015 Romance Writers of America conference in New York, BABY, IT'S YOU brought home the RITA Award for Best Long Contemporary Romance.


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from setuptools import setup, find_packages
import sys, os

version = '0.1'

setup(name='sqla-taskq',
      version=version,
      description="Simple task queue executed by a daemon",
      long_description=open('README.rst').read().split('Build Status')[0],
      classifiers=[
          'Operating System :: OS Independent',
          'Programming Language :: Python',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
          'Intended Audience :: Developers',
          'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
      ],
      keywords='taskq, unix, sqlalchemy, task, queue',
      author='Aur\xc3\xa9lien Matouillot',
      author_email='a.matouillot@gmail.com',
      url='',
      license='MIT',
      packages=find_packages(exclude=['ez_setup', 'examples', 'tests']),
      include_package_data=True,
      zip_safe=False,
      install_requires=[
          'SQLAlchemy',
          'transaction',
          'python-daemon==1.6.1',
          'zope.sqlalchemy',
          'importlib',
          'supervisor',
      ],
      setup_requires=[
          'nose',
      ],
      test_suite='nose.collector',
      tests_require=[
          'mock',
          'coverage',
      ],
      entry_points="""
      # -*- Entry points: -*-
      [console_scripts]
      sqla_taskq_daemon = sqla_taskq.run_daemon:main
      sqla_taskq_initializedb = sqla_taskq.scripts.initializedb:main
      """,
      )

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Thursday, January 10, at House of Blues.
by Matt Wardlaw
Eddie Money rock Sam & Dave
Eddie Money will be sh-sh-sh-shakin' at House of Blues.
Way back in 1978, Eddie Money recorded a song called "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" on his second album, Life for the Taking. It's pretty much served as the campaign slogan for Money's hit-packed 30-year career. Local music fans in particular have shown a longstanding loyalty to the former New York City police officer. "He was well aware that Cleveland was the first market outside of his hometown of San Francisco to like his music," says former WMMS program director John Gorman. "If it were not for WMMS, he'd probably still be playing small clubs in San Francisco."
Money looks to the past on his latest CD, Wanna Go Back. But you won't find "Two Tickets to Paradise" here. Rather, the rocker revisits a bunch of soul-shakin' tunes from the '60s, including Jackie Wilson's "Higher and Higher," Sam & Dave's "Hold on, I'm Comin'," and the Motown classic "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," in which Money duets with his daughter. Money is now on the road with a show that features lots of those golden oldies as well as his own monster radio hits. Get ready to drunkenly sing along to "Shakin'," just like you did back in the day.
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Lady Gaga's Enigma show wows in Vegas
Lady Gaga stunned fans as she kicked off her highly anticipated Las Vegas residency shows.
More than a year after announcing she would be taking her new show, Enigma, to the Park Theater at the new Park MGM resort for 23 dates, the singer wowed the sold-out crowd of more than 5,200 with her debut.
She also introduced her new alter ego, a glittery metallic alien named Enigma, who was projected on a screen, and was voiced by Gaga.
"Welcome to the show," the alien told the crowd, before asking fans to turn off cameras and cell phones.
The 100-minute show features hits such as Just Dance, The Fame, The Edge of Glory, Bad Romance and Applause.
"We have shared so much. I love you with all my heart," the 32-year-old told the crowd.
Before she finished the concert with a performance of her and Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born song Shallow, she broke down in tears as she opened up to her fans about the meaning of the track.
"For a really long time I felt so misunderstood about the way I dressed, the way I talked, my attitude. They thought the way I dressed, the way I talked, attitude, they thought it was shallow, but this s— is deep as f—. I'm so proud to be this far, but the truth is, you gave birth to me," Gaga gushed.
Lady Gaga became a singer after failing as an actress
Lady Gaga talks 'A Star Is Born' and not giving up on her pop star dreams
'A Star Is Born' actors go gaga for each other at Toronto premiere
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Strike! The Musical, a historic reflection of today's headlines
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Rye Brook, NY - March 15, 2018 – One of the greatest competitors of all time, Michael Jordan, once said, "Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." Today, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® (LLS) officially kicks off the 29th annual competitive fundraising campaign, Man & Woman of the Year®. In 80 communities across the country, a select group of individuals and their campaign teams come together for an exciting 10-week philanthropic competition to see who will win the title of Man or Woman of the Year in their community.
Driving federal and state laws and policies that increase development of and access to new treatments.
This year's candidate class will be featured in an announcement advertisement in USA Today on March 16.
Man & Woman of the Year candidates across the country compete in honor of a local boy and girl who are blood cancer survivors, to raise the most funds for blood cancer research. Every dollar counts as one vote, and the titles are awarded to the man and woman with the most votes at the end of the campaign. The top local fundraisers in the country win the national titles.
This year, a record breaking number of past participants will show their star power by competing again in Man & Woman of the Year's "All Star" competition. This program provides an opportunity for select Man & Woman of the Year alumni to represent their local campaign nationally.
Visit the Man & Woman of the Year website (www.mwoy.org) to support a candidate and learn how you can become engaged with LLS.


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Dime Novels From Oblivion
This is a collection of anecdotes from the fringes of reality, a tapestry stitched together from our dreams as well as our nightmares, from the fears that haunt the collective imagination. These are the symptoms of the sickness known as the human condition.
Genetics are the only thing that might be considered a legacy that lasts for any significant time. Every descendent that carries on a lineage contributes their own lasting piece to the DNA that will recombine again and again folding into its structure recessive traits and genetic sequences that will be weaved into a new biological entity. Six-year-old Attley was an example of the innumerable anomalies this process produces. Even so early in his life, the boy demonstrated prodigious intelligence despite emerging from a lineage of people who showed very little in the way of intellectual capacity. At some point during the biochemical process that catalyzed the boy's very existence, he was imbued with a combination of genes that destined him to join the ranks of the anointed children of his colony that was selected to attend elite academies on the distant worlds where they could be closer to the nucleus of power.
Despite his inherent intellectual prowess, little Attley was more apprehensive about his predetermined path than his father who knew nothing of where his son was being sent, save what rumors were carried along by the deep space vessels. The birth and the explosive growth of human civilization on their planet were marked by so much misery and pain that it was hard for most people to notice it had already gone into terminal decline.
"I don't think I want to leave," the reluctant boy said over and over again in the days leading up to his departure.
"You're going to love it there," his father assured him. "It's so much better than it is here."
During Attley's short life all he had ever known was the sights of rusting machinery looming over empty quarries and massive drills sinking into the ground where they got stuck swiveling gaping chasms into the surface. The dusty infertile soil gleaming with fragments of heavy metals that accumulated in the human body was familiar to him. The older generations that were physically deteriorating, withered away by a lifetime of their toils were just an ordinary aspect of life from Attley's point of view, and it was beyond him to ever imagine growing into one of them. It was the inescapable destiny of everyone who found themselves condemned by fortune to a lifetime in Attley's home. To Attley's father, they were like looking into a distorted mirror and time was quickly transforming him into that broken and deformed reflection. Even though he barely had half his child's IQ, he understood a great deal better where the circumstances of life were going to leave him.
"Why can't you come with me?" Attley predictably asked.
"I can't where you're going is only for special kids. Just remember that's why you're going there because you're one of the best," his father explained.
"Best at what?" Asked Attley.
Attley's father watched with the other teary-eyed relatives as the fire spewing engines carrying their children into space became a just a white twinkle against the black tapestry of space. They quietly dispersed and headed for home. Each one of them continued to reassure themselves about their sacrifice. The advancing necrosis of the world they built reinforced their justifications. They were all convinced a long and prosperous life was something they could never have assured for their now departed children. How could they ever hope to reverse their slow collective death? Unlike the children they had just offered up to their distant gods these were all questions none of them had the aptitude to address much less hope to answer.
On the Eve of Extinction
The river was like a massive indigo snake coiling in the shadow of the canyons its eternal flow cut out of the very earth. Somewhere along the watery corridor, settled human life grew out of the muddy banks. The tribe sustained itself on the arterial river, steadily expanding and contracting with the rhythm of its flow like a beating heart. As far as anyone in the tribe knew no other arrangement had ever existed. The river had birthed them, molding sand and clay into flesh, and infusing the husks with its life-giving waters. Life under the desert's smooth turquoise sky seemed safely stagnant. There was no inkling, no deciphered omens, absolutely no hunch of the approaching cataclysm lurking just out of sight obscured by the landscape's jagged ridges. Not far from the isolated patchwork of green and brown earth settled by this tribe, the scion of ancient god well into his twilight years was on the cusp of fulfilling his divine purpose. Harmakar was sitting in the dust staring into t
Until now, the gears of history had ground at such a slow pace our perception of it was like a puzzle. The constantly shifting pieces created an eternally changing picture inhabited and shaped by generations. Progress made it possible for the change to arrive in the form of a flash just a millionth of a second long with a blinding light and the pain of flesh-searing fire that burned away the world I knew as if it were covered in lighter fluid. For us, there were no blue skies. Daytime was just when the sun was shining bright enough to penetrate through the acrid black clouds that had consumed the sky and mingled with the distant glow of the burning horizon, painting the atmosphere with blood. For an indeterminate number of hours, maybe as long as a day, it was the only thing I saw. The constant screams became white noise; as I spiraled into death, my perceptions continued to dim until there was nothing left but fear and pain. Every hour the world became dimmer, and I saw everything t
Too Little Too Late
"Ichika, Ichika wake up!" The six-year-old girl was jolted away by her father's hands. Her mother was standing in the doorway, clenching her little brother Reo against her chest. The majority of Ichicka's short life had been against the backdrop of total war. She dutifully kept her boots and shelter knapsack ready to go at the foot of her bed and made sure never to let go of her father's hand in the crowded shelter. Reo was even more accustomed. The desperate stampedes to the overcrowded shelters were becoming his earliest memories. Her father grabbed her by the hand, and they rushed out into the street. Ichicka's father was walking too fast for Ichika to keep up, and the girl stumbled. Without a word, her father picked her up and started walking faster than before. "Please hurry," he urged his wife, who was also struggling to match his pace. Despite her father's panic, the city seemed peaceful. The streets were virtually empty, and the sirens were silent. "Hideshi!" Aiko called to h
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