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GreenPolicy360 / New Horizons of Security
New Definitions of National & Global Security
GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands / #StratDem
GreenPolicy360/StrategicDemands: The key to 21st century security is "strategic realism". Any full scientific assessment of security threats on the horizon is replete with environmental/global risks that are drawing daily into view. These risks are presenting a clear and present danger, in U.S. Department of Defense terms, yet are being in the whole set aside within current U.S. defense planning due to political exigencies. Forward planning with a new and more acutely aware vision of security is demanded now. GreenPolicy360 and its associate Strategic Demands challenge the prevailing view that is not focused as it must be on existential threats of our era.
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Environmental Security ↔ National Security
National Security: Enhanced via Environmental Security
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Existential... Language Capturing the Seriousness, the Challenge and the Crisis
Via The Guardian / May 17, 2019
The Guardian has updated its style guide to introduce terms that more accurately describe the environmental crises facing the world.
Instead of "climate change" the preferred terms are "climate emergency, crisis or breakdown" and "global heating" is favoured over "global warming", although the original terms are not banned.
"We want to ensure that we are being scientifically precise, while also communicating clearly with readers on this very important issue," said the editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner. "The phrase 'climate change', for example, sounds rather passive and gentle when what scientists are talking about is a catastrophe for humanity."
"Increasingly, climate scientists and organisations from the UN to the Met Office are changing their terminology, and using stronger language to describe the situation we're in."
The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, talked of the "climate crisis" in September, adding: "We face a direct existential threat." The climate scientist Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, a former adviser to Angela Merkel, the EU and the pope, also uses "climate crisis". Advertisement
In December, Prof Richard Betts, who leads the Met Office's climate research, said "global heating" was a more accurate term than "global warming" to describe the changes taking place to the world's climate. In the political world, UK MPs recently endorsed the Labour party's declaration of a "climate emergency".
The scale of the climate and wildlife crises has been laid bare by two landmark reports from the world's scientists. In October, they said carbon emissions must halve by 2030 to avoid even greater risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people. In May, global scientists said human society was in jeopardy from the accelerating annihilation of wildlife and destruction of the ecosystems that support all life on Earth.
Other terms that have been updated, including the use of "wildlife" rather than "biodiversity", "fish populations" instead of "fish stocks" and "climate science denier" rather than "climate sceptic". In September, the BBC accepted it gets coverage of climate change "wrong too often" and told staff: "You do not need a 'denier' to balance the debate."
Earlier in May, Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who has inspired school strikes for climate around the globe, said: "It's 2019. Can we all now call it what it is: climate breakdown, climate crisis, climate emergency, ecological breakdown, ecological crisis and ecological emergency?"
Planet Citizen Greta Speaks to the European Union
'Wake Up and Take Action'
Strategic Demands: Ominous 2019
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• https://www.strategicdemands.com/regional-nuclear-conflict-global-nuclear-catastrophe/
• https://www.strategicdemands.com/global-security-fears-climate-and-u-s/
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Jerry Brown Joins with The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
California Governor Jerry Brown to focus on 'existential threats', climate and nuclear weapons, as his fourth term in office draws to a close and his next chapter of life begins:
"I'm a planetary realist. We are linked in this community of people, 7.3, 7.4 billion people whether it's cyber, or the international monetary system, or weather, or disease, or climate change or habitat destruction, or if there's a nuclear war. For the first time in history we're all linked together. So there is a planetary quality to our politics, or there should be."
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•https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Governor_Jerry_Brown
Jerry Brown's warning with the Atomic Scientists
"The blindness and stupidity of the politicians and their consultants is truly shocking in the face of nuclear catastrophe," Brown said. "We know that thousands of these weapons on high alert could be launched by mistake…. We are almost like travelers on the Titanic, seeing the iceberg up ahead but enjoying the elegant dining and the music."
"The danger and probability is mounting that there will be some kind of nuclear incident that will kill millions, if not initiating exchanges that will kill billions."
Re: the Risks of Nuclear Weapons @StrategicDemands, GreenPolicy360's associate
•https://www.strategicdemands.com/bulletin-of-atomic-scientists-two-minutes/
•https://www.strategicdemands.com/dems-re-intro-bill-to-prevent-nuclear-first-use/
•https://www.strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/
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Rethinking the Risks of Nuclear Weapons
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Nuclear use? What is it there for, if it can't be used?
— The U.S. President
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• http://strategicdemands.com/oversight-us-nuclear-arsenal/
We Must Change from an Era of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
to a New Century Vision Advancing Nuclear Non-proliferation
• http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-weapons-treaty-adopted-historic-moment/
• http://strategicdemands.com/long-game-diplomacy-war/
• http://strategicdemands.com/status-nuclear-ban-negotiations/
• http://strategicdemands.com/the-trump-doctrine/
• http://strategicdemands.com/day-to-remember-june-1-2017/
• http://strategicdemands.com/the-way-of-war/
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We Must Change our Vision of Security to International Cooperation
Strategies of Survival, 'Eco-nomics' and Sustainable Progress
National Security Shifts from Climate Science and Nuclear Weapons Control
US President drops climate change from national security strategy
The U.S. stance represents a sharp change from the Obama administration's national security strategy
Trump administration rejects international consensus on containing global warming and limiting nuclear weapons
U.S. turns away from leadership in the international community in clean energy and advocates a return to nuclear weapons dominance
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Earth Right Now
Earth Science Vital Signs
Earth Science Research from Space
Earth and Space, Politics
US Politics & Earth Science/Atmospheric Science
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Responsibilities of Planet Citizens
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SJS / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:
Over the decades in my political work, I have endeavored to develop "new definitions of national security."
In the late 1960s, inspired by the nascent moments of the modern environmental movement with images from an Apollo mission of the Earth rising from beyond the moon, a life-changing January 1969 cover of Life Magazine, and 'Whole Earth' realizations being shared for the first time, I began my involvement in larger strategic questions.
My initial political mentor George E. Brown and new relationships with thoughtful figures such as Dan Ellsberg at Rand Institute in Santa Monica brought insight into war and peace and challenged me.
The opportunity to become involved in the first Earth Day expanded my vision far beyond academic constraints and I began to explore connections between environmental security and international, global affairs.
Today the mission continues: To create a new security paradigm, a school of thought that identifies and advances contours of "real and resilient security".
Strategic Demands: A New Vision for a New World
Security Brief prepared for the Green Institute by Roger Morris & Steven Schmidt
Strategic Demands @ GreenPolicy360
Visit GreenPolicy's Associate -- Strategic Demands
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US House of Representatives Says 'No' to Pentagon Prepping for Climate Impacts/Disruption
Republicans in US Congress Vote to Block National & Global Security
http://strategicdemands.com/nasa-pushes-earth-science-to-strengthen-security-capabilities/
Undercutting Security:
2015/16, US Congress Attempts to Cut Earth Science Research
"House Science Committee guts NASA Earth sciences budget... attack on climate research and responses"
"Republicans in the House and Senate don't want NASA studying Earth..."
Earth Science, NASA Climate Change Research Continues In Peril
"Slash and Burn Earth Sciences"
Funding cuts to NASA's critical Earth science and space technology programs?
On May 1, 2015, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Dr. John P. Holdren issued the following statement on proposed funding cuts to NASA's critical Earth science and space technology programs:
"If enacted, the NASA authorization bill headed to the House floor later this month would do serious damage to the Nation's space program, as well as to Earth-observation and Earth-science programs essential for predicting, preparing for, and minimizing the damage from disasters both natural and human-induced...
The House bill would also gut the NASA "mission to planet Earth"—the satellite observations and related research that provide key measurements and insights relevant to forecasting and tracking hurricanes, fighting wildfires, observing the state of the world's farms and forests, mapping the extent of droughts, measuring the stocks of groundwater, and monitoring the likelihood of landslides. The draconian cuts in the House bill would also delay advances in our ability to research and prepare for volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis and blind us to changes in the Earth's oceans and ice sheets that can be discerned only from space.
NASA's mission to observe, understand, and explore the solar system and the cosmos beyond has long been matched in importance by its mission to use the unrivaled vantage point of Earth orbit for looking downward, to better understand the only home that humanity currently has. It is difficult to understand why, at this time of U.S. leadership in both the outward-facing and inward-facing facets of NASA's operations in space, the Congress would want to undermine that leadership and sacrifice the panoply of benefits it brings to the Nation."
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Environmental Protections Nationally and Globally
Climate Change Laws Around the World
Trends in Climate Change Legislation
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National Security & Environmental Security: Editorial Opinion from GreenPolicy's Associate, Strategic Demands
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Multi-Sum Security: Five Distinct Dimensions
Five discrete but overlapping dimensions of global security are discussed – including the oft-overlooked importance of transcultural security – to extend beyond the traditional, statecentric security paradigm.
Since the 1990s, there have been a number of attempts to broaden the conception of security beyond the purely state-centric model. A cooperative security concept was advanced in response to the realization that states needed to cooperate to tackle the multiple security challenges that were identified in the post-Cold War era. This concept suggested that national security was no longer just a national concern and called for enhanced cooperation between states.
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In the U.S., the world's second-largest producer of greenhouse gases, transportation makes up the largest share of emissions.
Plugging in cars and trucks is a critical national challenge. How far has the U.S. progressed in its move to electric vehicles and transportation networks?
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The Roto Royal
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Tag: Lucas Duda
Should O'Hearn be a mainstay in the Royals lineup? (and what does this mean for Duda?)
Royals first baseman Ryan O'Hearn was one of the few bright spots in an otherwise dreary campaign in 2018. In 44 games and 170 plate appearances, O'Hearn posted a slash of .262/.353/.597 to go along with an OPS of .950 and wRC+ of 153 (53 runs above average). The former 8th-round-pick demonstrated considerable power in his late-season call-up to the big league club, as he hit 12 home runs, had 30 RBI, and posted an isolated slugging of .336, an insane number, despite the sample size. With the Royals embracing a youth movement going into 2019, it seemed like O'Hearn would be part of Dayton Moore and the Royals organization's plans at first base for the future.
But then in spring training, the Royals re-signed Lucas Duda (who was traded in 2018 to Atlanta) to a minor league contract.
The move to sign Duda was not a surprising one and is defensible in many regards. With O'Hearn relatively unproven at the Major League level beyond his hot finish to 2018, and Hunter Dozier and Jorge Soler having their fair share of struggles with inconsistency and injury the past couple of seasons, Duda, in theory, would provide temporary insurance at the plate at the first base and DH spots should none of the three live up to expectations in 2019.
Well, as we know Dozier has been a machine at the plate, and Soler, despite strikeout issues, is also proving to be a mainstay in the RF/DH spot thanks to his power. The only one with issues has been O'Hearn, who got off to a rough first month of the season, as evidenced by a .167/.283/.333 slash, .616 OPS and 67 OPS+ in the first 26 games of the season (where he accumulated 99 plate appearances). Granted, Duda hadn't been much better in April (.174/.304/.326 slugging; .630 OPS in 56 plate appearances) before he hit the 10-day injured list, but there was the fear that Duda, a veteran in the league, would start to get preference at first or DH over O'Hearn unless O'Hearn turned it around offensively.
Well, so far, with Duda on the shelf, O'Hearn has finally begun to showcase that 2018 self at the plate. In 24 plate appearances in May, O'Hearn is posting a .350/.458/.600 slash with a 1.058 OPS to go along with a home run and 5 RBI. What has been most impressive about O'Hearn's start to May is his improved eye at the plate. After striking out 25 times and only walking 13 times in March/April, he has only struck out three times and walked four times, nearly double the BB/K ratio. While it's a small sample size, and there's plenty of baseball left to be played in May as well as the season, it shows that O'Hearn is improving his approach at the plate as he gains more Major League at-bats.
And that is why the Royals would be better off cutting Duda off sooner rather than later.
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O'Hearn is not an elite prospect by any measure. Fangraphs rated him as the 18th best prospect in the Royals system going into 2018, and John Sickels of Minor League Ball rated him 17th in the Royals System in his 2018 Royals prospect rankings. Here's what Sickels had to say about O'Hearn in his Scouting Report:
17) Ryan O'Hearn, 1B, Grade C+: Age 24, eighth round pick in 2014 from Sam Houston State University; hit .253/.330/.455 with 22 homers, 55 walks, 139 strikeouts in 479 at-bats in Double-A/Triple-A; a solid enough year but as with Samir Duenez it isn't huge production for his position plus O'Hearn is older; could be a useful role bat along Clint Robinson lines. ETA 2018.
For those who don't remember, Robinson was blocked in the Royals system by Eric Hosmer and struggled to get an opportunity at the big league level despite a decent skill set. Thankfully for O'Hearn, with Hosmer gone, and Dozier more of a mainstay at third base, he has gotten the opportunity to get at-bats in Kansas City that Robinson never did (though as mentioned in the article, Robinson is doing okay with the Nationals).
O'Hearn is mostly known for his bat rather than his glove, and unlike Dozier, he doesn't offer much position flexibility. It's pretty much first or DH for O'Hearn with lackluster speed (rated a 30/30 speed according to Fangraphs) and questionable defense (rated a 40/45 field according to Fangraphs). But the bat has always been there for O'Hearn, especially when it comes to power. Fangraphs gave him a 45/55 Game Power grade with a 60/60 Raw Power rating. In many ways, O'Hearn does profile as a younger, more cost-controlled Duda, which makes the re-signing of Duda this offseason questionable. (why get a rental of Duda when you can get a younger version way cheaper and with more controlled years?)
But as expected with a Duda 2.0, strikeouts are a problem for O'Hearn.
Even during his breakout campaign of 2018, the former Sam Houston State star posted a high strikeout rate. In 2018, he had a strikeout rate of 26.5 percent and a contact rate of 70.6, both pretty sub-standard marks in those respective categories. And this also was an issue in the minors, as he had a 23.9 percent strikeout rate in Omaha in 2018, and in 2017, he had strikeout rates of 25.7 and 26.3 percent in stints in Omaha and Northwest Arkansas, respectively. Granted, O'Hearn had made up for this deficiency with good walk rates (11.8 percent with the Royals last year; 11.1 in Omaha in 2018; 9.7 and 13.2 in Omaha and Northwest Arkansas, respectively, in 2017). But unfortunately, guys who struggle to make consistent contact, regardless of batting eye, in the minors like O'Hearn don't have a great track record of prolonged success at the big league level (i.e. John Bowker for those who are Giants fans).
However, despite a flawed skill set, O'Hearn has done his part to improve on his approach. He has increased his walk rate (13.8 percent) and contact rate (75.9) while decreasing his strikeout rate (22.8 percent) and swinging strike percentage (12.3 to 9.2 percent). So even though the production wasn't there initially in March/April, O'Hearn's skill set was, and now in May, we are starting to see that production coming through now that his BABIP is corresponding upward (.375 BABIP in May compared to a .193 BABIP in March/April).
That isn't to say O'Hearn is going to develop into an Eric Hosmer anytime soon. O'Hearn truly is a younger Duda in the sense that he profiles closer to a three true outcomes (walk, strikeout or home run) guy than a Hosmer or Dozier. He probably won't ever hit for a high average (.270 may be best case scenario), and even though he will get on base, he is strictly a station-to-station guy, which doesn't really gel with Ned Yost's "run at all costs" approach this year. But O'Hearn will be productive, and hopefully, he can turn this hot start in May into consistent production this summer, which would solidify the Royals' lineup at first (or at least against right-handed hitters; he's 0-for-23 against lefties this year, which limits his everyday value).
There is some value to Duda and his skill set: he's a veteran at-bat, and he can still showcase some power on occasion. But he's nowhere near the 30 home run guy he was two years ago, and injuries and a declining skill set have ravaged him to a more regular DH/PH role. For a team in playoff contention, that kind of role would be needed. For a team rebuilding, however? Duda's tools, especially with O'Hearn on the roster, is excessive. Yes, he's only costing the Royals $1.25 million this year, and he is on a one year deal. And sure, eating $1.25 million is not easy for any club, especially a small market one like the Royals. But as long as he's on the active roster, Duda will be doing more harm than good as he will be blocking someone more deserving in Triple-A, such as Nicky Lopez, who could offer some versatility in the infield with third-baseman Kelvin Gutierrez, who has also performed well in his call-up to the big league club, and is posting a .300/.317/.450 slash (though for this scenario to happen, the Royals may need to part ways with Chris Owings, who has become Chris Getz 2.0).
Duda still is on the IL, which means that this problem of "what to do with Duda?" won't need to be handled immediately. But it will be interesting to see how Moore handles Duda when he is eligible to return. The Royals young players are starting to come around, and already have showcased some glimmers of hope, especially offensively, after a big 12-2 win over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night.
But this needs to be certain: O'Hearn needs to be a mainstay in the Royals lineup in 2019. If Yost continues to give him the opportunity, it's possible that he could help make the middle of the Royals lineup one of the more effective (as well as surprising) ones in the AL Central by year's end.
What can the Royals do to avoid the most losses in franchise history? (Hint: They have 3 choices…)
The Kansas City Royals ended the "first half" of the 2018 season much like they started: by getting the crap kicked out of them by Chicago White Sox (and I say first half because technically it is beyond "half" numerically, but games before the All-Star Break are officially considered the first half, regardless of the number; confusing I know, but I didn't create this obviously flawed system). As we enter the All-Star break, the Royals are 27-68 through 95 games, which makes them officially the worst team in baseball going into the Mid-Summer Classic (the Baltimore Orioles surpassed them after a 1-0 win over the Texas Rangers on July 15th, which put their record at 28-69). To make matters worse, not only is this Royals team one of the worst in baseball currently, but they could be the worst Royals team in the 50-year history of the club. (What a great way to celebrate such an anniversary, right?)
The team that currently holds the worst record in Royals history is the 2005 Royals, who went through three managers (Tony Pena, Jr., Bob Schaefer, and Buddy Bell) en route to a 56-106 record. Much like the 2018 Royals, the 2005 squad had just experienced some surprising success a couple of seasons prior. In 2003, the Royals won 83 games, their first winning record in over a decade at the time. (They previously had a winning season in 1993, thanks to the pitching of Kevin Appier. Yes, I know, it sounds weird in retrospect.) Unfortunately, the Royals were unable to build on the "feel good" campaign, fell back to earth in 2004, and went 58-104, the worst mark in franchise history at the time until they topped that loss mark by two games a year later. The horrid two-year stretch had a huge ripple effect throughout the organization, as not only did managers and rosters change dramatically from 2004 through 2005, but the club also parted ways with general manager Allard Baird, and replaced him with current general manager and former Atlanta Braves exec Dayton Moore on the last day of May of 2006.
For many Royals fans, the ghosts of 2004 and 2005 seemed to be a distant memory after such a period of success from 2013-2017. In the five-year stretch, the Royals won 80 games or more each season, made the playoffs and World Series twice (2014 and 2015), and added the second World Series championship in the club's history to their mantle in 2015 (in addition to their one in 1985 where they beat I-70 rival St. Louis). Yes, the Royals were a small market club. Yes, they didn't have the payroll of the Yankees, Cubs, Dodgers, or Red Sox. But, it was widely thought that the Royals had set a foundation for various levels of success for years to come.
Oh, how misguided and incorrect Royals fans were.
The poisonous brew of players leaving the club in free agency (Lorenzo Cain and Eric Hosmer), poor free agent signings (Ian Kennedy and Brandon Moss), and a lackluster farm system that had been gutted by mid-season trades (Sean Manaea going to Oakland in the Ben Zobrist Trade) and prospects failing to live up to expectations the past few seasons (Kyle Zimmer and Bubba Starling) has resulted in this season being the nightmare Royals fans were dreading at the conclusion of the 2017 campaign. Not only are the Royals the worst team in baseball now, but they are actually outpacing the 2005 club in losses at this point as well.
By the All-Star break in 2005, the Royals were 30-57 after 87 games (due to the season starting later than this year).
Yep, that's right: the 2005 team was three wins better than the current Royals by this time of the season (and in 8 fewer games to boot). To make matters worse, for the Royals to tie that putrid 2005 squad, they have to to go 29-38 for the remainder of the season, which means they would have to win at least 43 percent of their remaining 67 games. To compare, in the first half, the Royals only won 28 percent of their 95 games.
To put it lightly, Kylie Jenner winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 would seem like an easier and more plausible task than the Royals tying or surpassing the 2005 Royals' 56 wins. If the Royals duplicate their win percentage in the second half, they would only go 19-48, which would result in a record of 46-116. So, as you can see, the Royals would have to make up 10 games, just to even tie, which seems like an incredible feat, especially when one considers the trade deadline is July 31st. It is entirely possible there will be one to a few players on the current roster missing come August, hence making the team even weaker down the stretch.
So what should the Royals' strategy be? What should Moore and manager Ned Yost due to avoid history and the moniker of "Worst Team in Royals History?" Here are a few "strategies" the Royals could take that might have an effect on their fortunes after the All-Star break.
The Royals could keep playing veterans like Alcides Escobar, and hope they turn it around in the second half.
Strategy #1: Keep the Vets, Play to Win
It seems like a foregone conclusion that the Royals by the trade deadline are going to part ways with Mike Moustakas, and it seems highly likely that they will also part with Lucas Duda and/or Whit Merrifield to help give a contending team an offensive boost down the stretch. And it makes sense. The Royals are going nowhere, and they need to re-stock their farm system, which was ranked near the bottom in the Majors by nearly every publication of note. To trade some established stars for prospect depth at the deadline is a proven strategy that has worked for many clubs in years past (the Oakland A's are masters of this approach).
But, teams these days value their prospects more than ever, and it is possible that the Royals may not get much in return for some of their current players. After all, Moustakas didn't field much interest in free agency last off-season (hence him still being on the Royals), and while he's having a solid season (19 home runs, 58 RBI, .250 average, and a .775 OPS), he has been overshadowed by Manny Machado when it comes to trade talks. Duda is a big bat, but he's going through a down season at the plate and is a defensive liability, making him useless on a National League team. And while Merrifield offers position versatility and is a threat with the bat and on the basepaths, he won't be a free agent until 2023, and he'll be turning 30 next year, not an age where players of his skill set typically get better.
So with that being known, Moore may say "screw it" to all offers and just let it ride on the vets, and hope that they can stay healthy and turn around this season. The positive? Well, the Royals certainly would have a better chance to win with Merrifield and Moustakas and Duda in the lineup for the rest of the 2018 season as they have shown glimpses of success this year and in previous seasons. The negative? The veteran strategy would also employ vets such as Alcides Escobar, who has a negative-1.8 WAR, the worst mark on the team, as well as Kennedy and Jason Hammel in the rotation, who each have a 5.13 and 6.15 ERA, respectively.
Yost is a loyal, player-friendly manager, and if given the chance, he would trot Moustakas, Merrifield, Duda, and Escobar in the infield every day until the last game of the season, regardless of their performance. So the decision to employ or not employ this strategy would rest on Moore, who would need to trade at least one of these vets to take the lineup card out of Yost's hands.
Youngsters like Jorge Bonifacio (center) playing with veterans like Whit Merrifield (left) and Mike Moustakas could be a recipe for success.
Strategy #2: Play the youngsters, but in the right spots
We're starting to see this strategy a bit in July, as Yost has started to depend on Adalberto Mondesi at SS rather than Escobar. (Though I do not get why he's playing Escobar out of position in the outfield; he's the worst hitter on the team…why is he continuing to play?) He's also been giving Hunter Dozier, and Jorge Bonifacio at-bats as well, a sign that the organization wants to start seeing which "prospects" will have a future with the big league club, and which ones will be traded or triple-A fodder in the next couple of years.
But, going all out on the youngsters carries some risk. Some of the young players have responded, such as Mondesi, who has finished the first half with a .714 OPS. Some still leave a lot to be desired, like Dozier, who was touted as a strong-hitting, corner infielder, but is only hitting .211 with a .604 OPS and has negative-1.0 WAR, the second-worst mark on the team. So, it would be wise to balance out lineups with young guns and veterans on a day to day or series to series basis.
Want to start Mondesi, Dozier, and perhaps Cheslor Cuthbert, when he comes back from the DL (or perhaps Nicky Lopez, who may get called up from Omaha soon), in the infield? Well, make sure Merrifield is in the lineup to stabilize things. The same strategy applies to the outfield. Going with Bonifacio and Rosell Herrera? Then Gordo will be the left fielder to provide veteran mentorship to the lineup as well as in the field. The same works in the rotation, as Danny Duffy could be a veteran mentor for young starters like Brad Keller and Trevor Oaks (who should get called up again sometime in the second half).
The strategy carries a little more risk, since many of the young players on this roster are pretty unproven, and as stated before, they come from a system that isn't highly regarded by any means. That being said, these lineups offer a little more upside than a "veteran only" strategy, and could also provide some hope for the future for Royals fans.
The Royals could go all in on their prospects at the big league level, like Adalberto Mondesi at SS.
Strategy #3: Go all in on youth…regardless of the result
The Royals could do the equivalent of the "blow it up" NBA model. Moore and Yost could say "You know what? Screw the veterans! Who cares if they won us a title in 2015! Let's rebuild now!" Escobar? Now a benchwarmer. Duda and Gordon? Spot starters. Hell, even give Salvador Perez a couple of days more off than usual so we can see what Cam Gallagher can do.
The strategy works in two ways:
The young players get at-bats and experience, and if there's anything that makes a younger player better at the Major League level, it's more at-bats and experience. (It's just common sense, but it's amazing how some fans don't understand this basic concept of "more experience = better development; less experience = less development.")
And if the young players suck, well, the Royals get a high first-round pick, and they know for sure who to build around for the future, and who not to sooner rather than later. When employing strategy #2, the problem is teams can get hung up on players longer than they want because the player is not getting enough at-bats to make a definitive decision. However, if you give 400-500 at-bats to a young player in a season, and he is clearly bad, well…it's easier to cut ties because that is a pretty large sample size.
So there are some strong benefits to the "go young and let it ride" approach. Nonetheless, it's a strategy that also carries a ton of risk (definitely the most of the three) and could alienate the fanbase more than the box office would like (i.e. it could kill ticket sales; the Royals still rank 11 out of 15 in the AL in attendance, which is a lot better than the 2005 squad). While the Royals need to rebuild and start looking to the future, the typical Royals fan wants to see faces he or she remembers from the 2015 team. So that means seeing Gordo, and Salvy, and Escobar for better or worse. Maybe they're not the same players they were three seasons ago, but at least seeing their faces brings up good memories and nostalgia over copious amounts of Miller Lite in the bleacher seats.
And fans buying more Miller Lite is good for business at Kauffman stadium.
Manager Ned Yost will have to make some interesting decisions to help turn around this club in the second half.
What strategy is the best for the Royals?
Personally, from an economic standpoint, number two is obviously the most logical. There are some players worth playing and keeping on this roster. Gordon deserves to play as long as he wants as a Royal (he's earned it by helping them win a title and has been loyal to the organization through thick and thin), and Merrifield is a gritty player who provides a spark to this club and probably wouldn't get what he's worth on the trade market. But, there are a lot of veterans who need to go. As unexpectedly great as Moustakas has been this year, his value will never be higher, and the Royals need to get something in return to help stock their Royals system (after all, they received three prospects for Kelvin Herrera; I'm sure the Royals can get more for Moose). Escobar's defense and timely hitting was appreciated in the 2014 and 2015 playoff runs, but his time as a serviceable MLB player is up and Mondesi deserves his shot. And while Duda brings a veteran bat to the lineup, I would rather see Dozier get a full shot at the position to see if he can be a big-league player, or if he's simply a "four-A" prospect.
Overall, it's likely the Royals will probably employ an overall #2 strategy as well. (I mean, really, how could you not? It's the most practical strategy.) But the big question will be this: Will Moore and Yost's strategy be closer to #1 or closer to #3? Will they still be loyal to the vets? Or will they ride their fortunes a little more on the young guns, with "low-key" hopes to secure the No. 1 pick if those youngsters don't pan out?
I think Royals fans will have a good idea of their choice in strategy come August 1st.
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De N327 is een gewestweg in België tussen Sint-Baafs-Vijve (N357) en Wingene (N370). De weg is ongeveer 21 kilometer lang.

De gehele weg bestaat uit twee rijstroken voor beide rijrichtingen samen.

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N327a

De N327a is een aftakking van de N327 in Wingene naar de N370. De weg heeft een lengte van ongeveer 1 kilometer en verloopt via de H. Sacramentstraat.

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Since my queries are only selects (no updates or modifications and no transactions) I think it should be possible to run simulatanious queries. How can I make this possible?
I am using Zend_Db::factory($config->db->adapter, $dbConfig);
I am not sure if this limits the connections or try to re use same connection always. I manually close the connection between each call in the "serie of calls".
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A: You probably have a connection pool set up in Apache which is running out of connections. I'm not sure which module you're using in apache, but if its mod_dbd then check your DBDMax parameter.

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Systematic Investigation of the Effects of Long-Term Administration of a High-Fat Diet on Drug Transporters in the Mouse Liver, Kidney and Intestine
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Xianyuan Lu, Yaqian Dong, Zhichao Jian, Qingyun Li, Linna Gong, Lan Tang, Xuefeng Zhou* and Menghua Liu* Pages 742 - 755 ( 14 )
Background: Long-term intake of a high-fat diet is a crucial factor contributing to obesity, which has become a global public health problem. Progressive obesity subsequently leads to hepatic injury, renal damage and intestinal atrophy. Transporters expressed in the liver, kidney and intestine play important roles in the deposition of nutrients and drugs, but researchers have not clearly determined whether/how the expression of transporters changes after long-term administration of a High-Fat Diet (HFD). This study aims to explore the effects of the long-term administration of a HFD on the expression of drug transporters in the liver, kidney and intestine in mice and to provide useful information for medical applications in the clinic.
Methods: Male C57BL/6J mice were fed either a basal diet or HFD for 24 weeks, and oral glucose tolerance tests were performed after 3, 11 and 23 weeks. Serum was obtained to measure lipid metabolism, inflammatory mediators, renal function and hepatic function. Adipose tissues, kidney, pancreas and liver were collected for hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining after 4, 12 and 24 weeks. The mRNA and proteins expression of drug transporters in the liver, kidney and intestine were detected using real-time PCR and western blot, respectively.
Results: Compared with the control group, long-term HFD administration significantly increased the adipose index. The serum lipid levels, including Total Cholesterol (TC), Triglyceride (TG), and Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (LDL-C), as well as the levels of the inflammatory cytokines Interleukin-10 (IL-10) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) were significantly elevated in HFD-induced obese mice. H&E staining revealed pathological changes in the adipose cells, liver, kidney and pancreas from the obese group following the long-term administration of the HFD. The liver of the obese group presented increased mRNA expression of the efflux transporter Mrp2 and uptake transporter Oat2 at 24 weeks. The relative expression of Oat2 increased 4.08-fold and the protein expression of Oat2 was upregulated at 24 weeks in HFD-fed mice, while the mRNA expression of the uptake transporters Oct1, Oatp1b2 and Oatp1a4 decreased by 79%, 61% and 19%, respectively. The protein expression of Oct1 was significantly downregulated in obese mice at 12 weeks. The mRNA expression of the efflux transporter Mdr1a was significantly reduced in HFD-fed mice compared with the control group at 24 weeks. Western blot showed that the trend of protein level of Mdr1 was consistent with the mRNA expression. In the kidney, the level of the Oct2 mRNA increased 1.92- and 2.46-fold at 4 and 12 weeks in HFD-fed mice, respectively. The expression of the Oat1 and Oat3 mRNAs was markedly downregulated in the kidneys of mice with HFD-induced obesity at 4 weeks. The decrease of 72% and 21% in Mdr1a mRNA expression was observed in the obese model at 4 weeks and 12 weeks, respectively. Western blot showed that the protein levels of Mdr1 and Oat1 were consistent with the mRNA expression. The qPCR experiments showed a 2.87-fold increase in Bcrp mRNA expression at 24 weeks, and the expression of the Pept1 mRNA increased 2.84-fold in intestines of obese mice subjected to long-term administration of the HFD compared with control mice at 12 weeks. Western blot showed that the trend of protein levels of Mdr1 and Mrp2 were consistent with the mRNA expression.
Conclusion: The expression of uptake and efflux transporters mRNAs and protein levels were altered in obese mice compared with control mice, providing scientific evidence for future medical applications in the clinic.
High-fat Diet (HFD), obesity, lipid metabolism, inflammatory mediators, uptake drug transporters, efflux drug transporters.
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong, CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guangdong
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With composure and compassion, I Am Breathing documents the final months of husband and father Neil Platt, diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease at the age of 33. Served a bleak prognosis, Platt began chronicling his struggles with the debilitating condition, dictating blog posts that would eventually reach a readership of 10,000. At the same time, he and wife Louise began shoring fragments of his life – photographs, home videos, mementos – to ensure their one-year-old son would grow up knowing not only how his father died, but how he lived; a project for which I Am Breathing can occupy a keystone position.


Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is an autosomal recessive disorder of DNA repair mechanism that results in damaging effects on sun-exposed parts of the body.,, A review of 100 patients with XP revealed that they never received vitamin D supplementation, although they had consulted dermatologists, physicians, and pediatricians in the past. It was also observed that many in their adulthood had short statures and were noticeably shorter than their unaffected parents.
We evaluated and compared stature of XP patients with age-matched normal Indian population obtained from literature. Further, we studied serum vitamin D levels in 14 patients including children <18 years. Vitamin D levels were evaluated using chemiluminescence assay (levels <10 and 10–20 ng/ml were reported as vitamin D deficiency and vitamin D insufficiency, respectively).
Stature of 31 adult patients [median age 28 years (interquartile range, 23–31 years)] was examined by internists. Nineteen were males (61.3%). Both males and females were significantly shorter when compared with age-matched normal population [Table 1]. Mean height deficits in males and females were 6.7 and 5.9 cm, respectively, and were independent of age (P = 0.81 and P = 0.13, respectively, Spearman correlation). Per a simpler classification, 73.7% of males and 75% of females were shorter, whereas Hadj-Rabia et al. showed ~52%. Median serum vitamin D3 was 8.65 ng/ml (interquartile range, 7.37–10.81 ng/ml). None of the patients had vitamin D supplementation at presentation or before.
The study reveals that patients with XP have shorter statures and are vitamin D deficient. Although specific factors contributing to a stunted growth cannot be investigated, it is presumed that a vitamin D deficiency during growth period could be attributed to the failure of attaining a normal stature. Since XP patients visit a dermatologist, ophthalmologist, pediatrician, or physician based upon their initial complaints, it is important to sensitize all healthcare providers about the need for vitamin D supplementation in the routine care and follow-up of these patients.
Chaurasia S, Mulay K, Ramappa M, Sangwan V, Murthy S, Nair R, et al. Corneal changes in xeroderma pigmentosum: A clinicopathologic report. Am J Ophthalmol 2014;157:495-500.e2.
Mohamed A, Peguda R, Ramappa M, Ali MJ, Chaurasia S. Corneal endothelium in xeroderma pigmentosum: Clinical specular microscopy study. Br J Ophthalmol 2016;100:750-3.
Sevel D. Xeroderma pigmentosum with ocular complications. Br J Ophthalmol 1963;47:687-9.
Som S, Ulijaszek S, Pal M, Bharati S, Bharati P. Variation in height and BMI of adult Indians. J Biosoc Sci 2014;46:47-65.
Hadj-Rabia S, Oriot D, Soufir N, Dufresne H, Bourrat E, Mallet S, et al. Unexpected extradermatological findings in 31 patients with xeroderma pigmentosum type C. Br J Dermatol 2013;168:1109-13.


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The Best Noir Fiction of 2019
A look at the year's best and bleakest hard-boiled reads.
December 19, 2019 By CrimeReads
What is noir, anyway? Some define it simply as "starts bad, gets worse;" others believe that noir implies a certain bleak atmosphere, and many find noir to refer to murky morality and no happy endings. Noir is, perhaps, like obscenity—difficult to define, but you know it when you see it.
When we set out to assemble a list of the year's best noir, we were both impressed at the diversity of subgenres represented, and surprised that the classic gumshoe made few appearances. Below, you'll find art world noir, rural noir, Detroit noir, Los Angeles noir, gentrification noir, church noir, and other variations on a theme. Each of these works exists in the ambiguous edges of morality, the spaces between people, and the porous boundaries of thought and action. Each is bleak, beautiful, and and imbued with distinct authorial style. We hope you cry your heart out enjoy these modern classics.
Barbara Bourland, Fake Like Me (Grand Central)
Barbara Bourland's art-world thriller is both elegant and visceral. Bourland's down-on-her-luck protagonist has just started making a career for herself in the cut throat art world when all the paintings for an upcoming and lucrative show are destroyed in a house fire. She heads upstate to an artist's colony haunted by the mysterious death of a beloved sculptor, and soon becomes obsessed with the dead artist's work. While not strictly noir, Fake Like Me is imbued with the intensity of artistic struggle in a manner that resonates with the high stakes and sharp precipices of classic crime writing.—Molly Odintz, CrimeReads associate editor
Un-su Kim, The Plotters (Doubleday)
Everyone loves a good hit man noir, and The Plotters is one of the best thrillers I've ever read, featuring contract killers or otherwise. A colorless assassin is getting sick of his job after a contract goes out against the closest thing he has to a friend, and a new romance may push him into active rebellion. Also of note: there are two cats in this book, named Desk and Lamp, and they are treated royally.—MO
James Sallis, Sarah Jane (Soho Press)
I've already preached the gospel of Sallis around these parts, but a new book is another chance to get readers in the fold as well as a pleasure in itself. Sarah Jane paradoxically feels spirited and serious at the same time. Sallis likes a wanderer, and Sarah Jane is rootless and restless–there was a military stint, and a brief marriage, and several years roaming the country getting work here and there as a short-order chef. When she lands in a town in need of a sheriff, her life takes yet another turn. Sallis's mastery of noir means no matter what happens to Sarah Jane the dark side of life is omnipresent, a force she needs to reckon with and ultimately control.—Lisa Levy, CrimeReads contributing editor
Marcie Rendon, Girl Gone Missing (Cinco Puntos)
Marcie Rendon burst onto the crime scene with her debut, Murder on the Red River, in which her pool-shark protagonist Cash takes on a double murder at a reservation. In her second, Girl Gone Missing, Cash is newly at college, and in between pool games and gawking at hippies, Cash begins investigating the mysterious disappearance of a number of blonde women who are fellow students. Marcie Rendon, a member of the White Earth Nation, has previously worked as a community activist and written several works of nonfiction, including two children's books.—MO
Leye Adenle, When Trouble Sleeps (Cassava)
Amaka returns! Leye Adenle burst onto the international crime scene with his debut Easy Motion Tourist, an intricate, fast-paced thriller that takes us through the underworld of Lagos as a British tourist teams up with a human rights attorney named Amaka to get the bottom of a wave of violence targeting sex workers in the Nigerian capital. In the second installment of the series, When Trouble Sleeps, Adenle picks up right where he left off, as Amaka continues to investigate and bring down those who would threaten Lagos' most vulnerable population; this time, however, Adenle ups the stakes with a complex political subplot that dovetails perfectly with the main mystery for a stunning conclusion. You can read an interview with Adenle here.—MO
Stephen Mack Jones, Lives Laid Away (Soho Press)
Stephen Mack Jones's August Snow is still making waves as one of the most innovative and exciting new PI novels to come around in some time, a bold new take on the classic form and a deserved spotlight on Detroit. In this year's second installment, August Snow is the only man who knows Mexicantown well enough to investigate a human trafficking ring taking advantage of ICE raids. This is noir as it was meant to be: incisive, socially conscious, distinctly situated, told with style.—Dwyer Murphy, CrimeReads managing editor
Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay (Ecco)
Cha's new standalone, about the long shadows of history and the need for reconciliation, is both a reckoning and a space for healing. When a young Korean-American woman living in Los Angeles learns her mother was responsible for a racially motivated and deadly shooting, she decides to make amends with the victim's family, 25 years later. This one does what the best noirs do, i.e., make you want to cry your heart out over the humanity of it all.—MO
Wil Medearis, Restoration Heights (Hanover Square Press)
Medearis' debut is a novel of ideas wrapped up in a detective story, as a young art handler living in Bed-Stuy goes on the search for a missing heiress whose world has intersected with his own at a number of surprising points. Hidden forces abound in Medearis' New York: new buildings going up, neighborhoods melting away, relationships torn apart, all of it rendered with a melancholic prose that flares up in righteous indignation, as more and more secrets make themselves known. Medearis is a novelist of real energy and ambition, and Restoration Heights is the kind of biting social critique that crime fiction has always excelled at and made necessary.—DM
Patrick Coleman, The Churchgoer (Harper Perennial)
Patrick Coleman combines evangelical malpractice, noirish cynicism, and seedy southern California underworlds in this debut novel. When Mark Haines, a former youth pastor who has succumbed to a more hedonistic life, meets a young drifter who seems inauspiciously connected to a failed robbery, he suddenly finds himself captivated by the young woman, following her trail into the depths of California drug trade and straight into the Evangelical megachurch of his past. With a palpable nod to Raymond Chandler, this forceful mystery is an exploration of religion, responsibility, and the inverted forces at play in the modern world.—Olivia Rutigliano, CrimeReads editorial fellow
Laura McHugh, The Wolf Wants In (Spiegel & Grau)
McHugh is one of the most talented practitioners of rural noir we have, and Wolf takes on the biggest tragedy to hit small-town America in eons: the opioid crisis. As in her previous novels, Arrowwood and The Weight of Blood, family ties weigh heavy in Wolf. In the way of small towns, everyone is related by blood or marriage, and solving a murder consists of unraveling those ties to see who has the most to gain.—LL
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William Boyle, A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself · Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangiers · Lisa Sandlin, The Bird Boys · Joseph Knox, The Smiling Man · Ken Bruen, Galway Girl · Jake Hinkson, Dry County · Michael Hughes, Country · Craig Johnson, Land of Wolves · James Ellroy, This Storm · Matthew McBride, End of the Ocean · Don Winslow, The Border · Laura Lippman, The Lady in the Lake · John Galligan, Bad Axe Country · Ace Atkins, The Shameless · Brian Panowich, Like Lions · Dylan Struzan, A Bloody Business · Phillip Kerr, Metropolis · Greg Iles, Cemetary Road · Lori Roy, Gone Too Long
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M. saraf; M.R. Mosavi; K. Mohammadi. "Novel Radial Basis Function Neural Networks based on Probabilistic Evolutionary and Gaussian Mixture Model for Satellites Optimum Selection". Journal of Aerospace Science and Technology, 9, 2, 2633, -.
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In this study, two novel learning algorithms have been applied on Radial Basis Function Neural Network (RBFNN) to approximate the functions with high non-linear order. The Probabilistic Evolutionary (PE) and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) techniques are proposed to significantly minimize the error functions. The main idea is concerning the various strategies to optimize the procedure of Gradient Descent (GD) in terms of the input feature vectors. The probability density of all feature vectors can help to optimize the learning rates of RBFNN by applying GMM. Another possibility is to utilize the Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) to find the optimum solution. However, EAs often behave randomly which canandrsquo;t be mathematically controlled. So, a combined RBFNN based on novel PE algorithm has been proposed which has a soft behavior through the learning of non-linear function. The PE algorithm defines the occurrence probability of local minima in the space of extracted features as a Gaussian distribution correspondence to each chromosome. Then, it estimates the entire probabilities of local minima in an iterative procedure. These techniques have been utilized in the application of robust satellites subset selection. Geometric Dilution of Precision (GDOP) is the main factor to estimate the strength of goodness of each satellites subset. Then, the subset with the lowest value has been selected for improving the positioning performance, but it is so non-linear and has computational burden to navigation systems. These techniques have been implemented and the results on measured GPS data demonstrate that it significantly track the non-linearity of GPS GDOP comparison with the other conventional approaches.


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A Different Kind of Pain es el cuarto álbum de estudio de la banda de post grunge Cold. Fue lanzado el 30 de agosto de 2005 en los Estados Unidos y el 12 de septiembre de 2005 en el Reino Unido.

Los dos títulos propuestos para el álbum fueron And A Sad Song Lives On y The Calm That Killed the Storm (frase repetida en la canción "Anatomy of a Tidal Wave"). Estos títulos fueron cambiados para ampliar la interpretación de las canciones del álbum.

Inspiración y escritura de las canciones

Antes de escribir el álbum, Cold estaba en el proceso de buscar un nuevo sello discográfico. Al  regreso del grupo a Jacksonville, Ward fue internado brevemente en rehabilitación antes de descubrir que su hermana, Jen, fue diagnosticada con cáncer.

El nombre del álbum y gran parte de sus letras se inspiran en la batalla con el cáncer de Jen. De hecho, la banda escribió gran parte del material en la casa de los padres de Ward, en particular en
la habitación de su hermana.

Ward describe la realización del álbum como "un proceso de sanación" y por suerte, ya que cuando la banda estaba terminando el disco, su hermana había entrado en remisión.

Recepción

A Different Kind of Pain recibió críticas mixtas, a los críticos en gran medida les molestó el énfasis emocional del álbum, afirmando que la banda se había alejado demasiado de sus raíces. Johnny Loftus de Allmusic lo resumió con la frase "A Different Kind of Pain podría funcionar como terapia, pero falla musicalmente."

El primer sencillo del álbum no alcanzó un éxito considerable con respecto de singles anteriores como Stupid Girl, y no recibió la misma atención que otros singles.

A pesar de la reacción mixta de los críticos, los más aficionados se han apreciado el cambio de estilo y el trabajo emocional del álbum.

Canciones
 "Back Home" – 4:31
 "Feel It in Your Heart" – 3:46
 "Anatomy of a Tidal Wave" – 4:27
 "A Different Kind of Pain" – 5:19
 "Another Pill" – 3:45
 "Happens All the Time" – 3:28
 "When Heaven's Not Far Away" – 3:06
 "God's Song" – 3:13
 "When Angels Fly Away" – 3:58
 "Tell Me Why" – 3:21
 "Ocean" – 3:46
 "Check Please" (Bonus CD) - 3:53
 "Wasted Years (Piano/Strings Version) (Bonus CD) - 3:52

Personal
 Scooter Ward - voz, guitarra, piano, teclado
 Kelly Hayes - guitarra
 Jeremy Marshall - bajo
 Sam McCandless - batería

Créditos
 Michael "Elvis" Baskette - productor
 Dave Holdredge - ingeniero
 Jef Moll - edición digital
 Ben Grosse - remezclas

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Cold Army, Sitio oficial de la banda.
 Cold On MySpace, MySpace Website para Cold
 Bleedthisillness.com, Sitio de los fanes de Cold.
 Bleedinginternally.com, Sitio de los fanes de Cold.
 Spread The Cold, Sitio de los fanes de Cold.

Álbumes de 2005
Álbumes de metal alternativo
Álbumes de post-grunge
Álbumes de Cold
Álbumes producidos por Michael Baskette


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I told him I just sat silent in every corner where I had great memories trying to imprint every detail in my mind… I was aware that I might never see it again, going alone to a place I've never seen before.
I sat on the dining table where we worked on monitoring state-run media coverage of elections.
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