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The Raven's Shadow (The Wild Hunt 3) – Chapter 3
Gair was on fire.
No matter how he writhed and struggled, he couldn't escape the heat. His skin split, juices ran; his flesh popped and hissed like a sausage in a skillet. Pain obliterated every thought, left him blind and deaf to everything but his agony. He opened his mouth to scream and choked on the stench of his own meat cooking.
His eyes flew open. For one endless second he was caught in the crushing grip of asphyxia, then his chest heaved in a breath. Another, and the clutching panic retreated, the pulse pounding in his ears began to slow. Weak with relief, he slumped on the pallet and sucked in lungful after lungful of the arid air as if it was as sweet and cold as Leahn spring-water.
Dear Goddess in heaven, he felt as if he'd been flung down a flight of stairs. His hip and thigh ached; so did the back of his head, and his right side was throbbing. He put a hand to it and found he was shirtless, his ribs snugly bandaged. Someone had taken care of him, but he had only the vaguest recollection of recent events. Flames, and falling, then nothing but bad dreams.
Propping himself carefully on his elbows, he looked around. The light was too dim to make out much more than vague, blocky shapes stacked waist high. There was a sense of space above him, a suggestion of beams in the shadows overhead, and a dusty, dry-wood scent to the air. From somewhere out of his line of sight he heard a susurrus that might have been voices, and soft scuffling sounds, like mice behind a wainscot.
Memory returned in broken pieces. Silver blades and yellow sashes. A flight of sparrows. The skirling, surging power of the Song turned to sawtoothed discord, and then flames.
There'd been flames inside his head, too, and they'd left his thoughts raw and tender as burns. He rubbed his eyes wearily. Even they ached.
'So you live,' said a woman's voice from above him.
He looked up. A young Gimraeli woman in a stained and soot-dappled barouk sat cross-legged on a pile of grain sacks next to his pallet, her kaif looped carelessly around her neck. Her name was Tierce, he remembered. She was eating a peach, levering pieces off the stone with the blade of her knife; between slices, she flicked the dripping knife through her fingers as if she was unable to sit entirely still.
'After a fashion,' Gair said, twisting around on the pallet so he could lean back against the wall, too tired and sore to hold himself up any more. 'What is this place?'
'We are not far from the Lion Gate. This warehouse belongs to a friend of ours. You can shelter here for a few hours, then travel on at dusk.' She bit into a piece of peach. Back and forth went the knife, sticky blade gleaming.
'Thank you.'
She shrugged. 'Consider it payment for all the Cultists you gave us to kill.' Holding out a tin plate of cheese and fruit, she added, 'The sisters say you must eat. When your wound opened it cost you some blood. You need red meat to make more, but this is all we have.'
He took the plate but had no appetite for the cheese, and contented himself with a handful of grapes. Their juice soothed his dry throat.
'Where are the others? Are they meeting us here?'
The desertwoman refused to meet his gaze, focusing instead on the peach in her hand. As she pried another slice off the stone, her barouk sleeve fell back, revealing a bandage on her forearm. A sudden unease prickled down Gair's spine.
'Tierce?'
'My brother sent me to fetch the rest of our cadre to help retrieve those books that your friend was so wedded to,' she said shortly. 'When we returned, the Daughterhouse was lost.'
For a heartbeat it didn't register in his smoke-fogged brain. 'Lost?'
'Lost!' Her voice rose in pitch. 'Taken! In flames! How many ways do you want me to say it?'
More memories. A column of smoke in a blue sky, and a woman's voice, low, afraid. They may have escaped. Tierce jabbed words at him like spears, and his mind flinched from them even as his imagination showed him the street door hacked to pieces, the burning lean-to that had fired the stables and the Cultist torches that had fired the rest. Roofs and floors, the carved vaulting in the chapel, all gone; only blackened stone remained. Of Alderan and her brother Canon there had been no sign.
Her hand began to tremble around the hilt of her knife. The jagged hurt in her eyes was too private to share and she looked away.
Gair covered his own face with his hands. Coming to Gimrael had been a mistake. A huge mistake, and he'd known it from the start. It had achieved precisely nothing. Now the books were destroyed, and Alderan was gone.
You and those books can go to hell.
Guilt stabbed at him. If he'd only kept his temper, maybe Alderan would still be alive. If only he'd managed to persuade him not to come to Gimrael at all . . . He raked his fingers through his hair.
Damn it, Alderan! Why wouldn't you listen to me?
'I'm sorry for your loss.' It was all he could find to say. 'Your brother was a good man. A man of honour.'
With a jerk of her arm, Tierce hurled the peach-pit at the wall and Gair had to duck as it rebounded off the plaster next to his head and rattled away across the floorboards.
'Do not speak of what you do not know, Empire!' Unshed tears shone in her furious, frozen glare. 'After Uril, my brother was the finest man I have ever known. He deserved a warrior's death, not to die for some ammanai books in a fight that was not even his.'
She hopped down from her perch and stalked away. If she'd been a cat, her tail would have been lashing.
'I meant no offence, Tierce,' Gair called after her, but she kept walking and gave no sign that she'd even heard him.
He let his hands fall into his lap. Even a shared grief only sharpened the woman's hostility.
Closing his eyes, he tried to make sense of it all. Inside his mind the fires had dimmed to embers, but the welts they'd left across his thoughts made it difficult to concentrate, especially when what felt like a hundred individual smaller wounds clamoured for his attention. Exhaustion didn't help; he'd apparently been unconscious for some hours, but he hadn't slept at all the night before and weariness dragged at his limbs like leaden chains.
'She won't hear you,' said the Superior from nearby. 'Not yet. Her grief is still too new, like yours.'
Gair squinted up at her. He hadn't heard her approach, had no idea how long she'd been standing by the grain sacks, Uril's qatan cradled in her arms. Long enough to have heard at least some of what had passed between him and Tierce, anyway. He let his head fall back against the wall again.
'You don't know anything about me, Superior,' he said and shut his eyes, hoping she'd leave him be. Saints, he needed to sleep.
'I know what I saw in your face just now,' she said. 'In the eyes are the gates of the soul.'
'Proverbs, chapter two, verse fifty-four. To find an honest man, look with the eyes of a liar.'
'Abjurations four, thirty-eight. You know your Book.'
'Ten years at the Motherhouse leaves its mark.' He rubbed his thumb over the scar on his palm. In more ways than one.
Her footsteps came closer. 'I brought this from the square – I thought you might have need of it.'
Gair opened his eyes again to see the nun holding the sword out to him. He took it and drew the blade a few inches. It had been cleaned and oiled by someone who knew how to care for a weapon. Tierce, perhaps? He slid it back into the scabbard and set it down beside the pallet.
'Thank you. I owe my friend N'ril enough as it is without losing his brother's sword into the bargain.'
He kneaded his brow, trying to think clearly. Trying not to think about Alderan. Part of him was tempted to reach out for the old man's colours, but remembering those rich colours turned muddy as an old tapestry, he pushed the power away again. The wound was painful enough without looking for reasons to pick at it. Still he was unable to silence the bitter hiss of vengeance at the back of his mind that said with the old man gone, there was nothing holding him here any more.
'Did you see what happened, Superior?'
'Some of it.'
She hitched herself onto the sacks where Tierce had sat, feet dangling several inches above the floor. With her round rosy cheeks and curly hair unconstrained by a wimple, she looked like a farm girl on a gate. Apart from the severe black habit, of course.
'I'd like to know what you saw,' Gair said. 'I don't remember much of it very clearly.'
She folded her hands in her lap, looking vaguely uncomfortable. 'When the Cultists appeared from the main street, you threw some kind of protection over the sisters. You drove the mob back with fire and with something else I could not see.'
'It's called the Song—' he began, but she held up her hand.
'It's called mortal sin, my son, and that is all I care to know about it.' Taking a deep breath, she collected herself. 'You fought until your foes became too many, then you surrounded yourself with flames. Something made you fall from your horse, because the fire went out and there you were on the cobbles in a dead faint. We thought you had been struck on the head by a stone, though later we could find no injury apart from the one in your side. Then the girl came, with warriors.' Shuddering, the Superior blessed herself. 'In the confusion of their attack, we slung you over your horse and fled, I'm afraid. She found us shortly after and led us all here.'
It was barely more than he already knew, but it was better than nothing.
'Who do I need to thank for taking care of this?' He touched the bandage around his ribs.
'Sister Resa. She appears to have taken you under her wing.'
'Please tell her I'm grateful.' He would tell her himself when he saw her, but for now he was too battered and weary to go looking for her. 'And to you, too, Superior.'
'We should thank you, Gair,' she said. 'You have put yourself in harm's way for us more than once in recent days and because of it, we all still have our lives. As a daughter of the Church I must deplore your methods, but as a fellow soul under the Goddess I can find little to criticise.' She rose to leave, brushing chaff from the skirts of her habit. A small smile softened her face. 'It appears even mortal sin can have practical applications.'
Then she walked away to rejoin the other nuns.
Leaning back, Gair let the wall support him. He needed sleep, lots of it, but he also needed to know why he had lost control of the Song again. No one had struck him. He'd taken no new hurts at all beyond a few bruises, most of which he must have collected from the cobbles in the fall. Nothing to explain why his grasp on his gift had slipped, why the Song had turned on him the way it hadn't since the iron room. Something inside him was broken.
Carefully, he probed the shield in his mind that scabbed over the worst of the reiving's scars. Like the dull ache of an old wound, he had become so accustomed to it that he barely gave it any thought, but as he tried to examine it, his focus kept slipping away. After a few attempts, he gave up and let the shield be. It wasn't as if he even knew what he was doing.
Alderan might have been able to explain some of it. Though he'd been no Healer, the old man had worked the Song for almost three times as long as Gair himself had drawn breath and his interests had been eclectic enough that he'd known a surprising amount about many, many things. Except Alderan wasn't there. Alderan was gone.
Two days had passed without sign of Baer. Two days of bald, wind-scoured ridges where dead trees thrust skywards like fingers raised in admonition, and of precipitous, pine-choked valleys whose frost-hardened floors the sun never reached. Two days through mists and stumbles, with hunger gnawing at their bellies, through backtracks and deadfalls and stinging hail, and every evening the bitter shadow of Tir Malroth reached out and gathered them up. Two days had never felt so long.
A bright bead of blood glistened on the pad of Teia's thumb where she'd stuck herself with the needle. She couldn't sew with mittens on and without them the cold soon made her fingers next to useless. She sighed. It was almost worth leaving the rip in the knee of her trews unmended, were it not for the wind that found its way through the smallest gap in her clothing and pinched her hard enough to make her yelp. She sucked the blood away and tried once more to stitch the rent.
A dead tree had tripped her, sent her crashing down on hands and knees. Her mittens had saved her palms, but her trews had torn on the same sharp-edged rock that had gouged her flesh. Following her instructions, one of the other women had cleaned the wound and dressed it with some of Ana's salve, but the ragged fabric was proving more bothersome.
I should have thought to bring another pair. His sealskin ones, or even the elk-hide – something that would have stood up to rough treatment better than this wool. She puffed and grunted, straining past her belly to make the first stitch. Or at least something else I could have put on to stay warm whilst I mend these! Macha, I'm so cold. Another stitch and she fell back gasping. This would take for ever.
Neve appeared around the blanket that made the door to the women's shelter, carrying a steaming bowl. 'Tea, Banfaíth,' she said, setting it down next to Teia.
It was colourless, little more than hot water; the leaves had been reused too many times to have much left to give. She picked it up and sipped. Flavourless as well, but at least it was hot.
'Thank you, Neve.'
The other woman sat back on her heels. 'You'll burn your eyes, stitching in that poor light,' she said, taking the needle from Teia's numb fingers. 'Fetch it closer and I'll see to the mending.'
Wordless, grateful, Teia sent her little globe of light to hover over Neve's capable hands. She didn't even object as Baer's woman unpicked her clumsy stitches and started again. Banfaíth she might be to her little clan, but in the women's tent she was no more than a girl again. Neve saw to that.
Teia leaned back on her arms and tried to ignore the ache in her lower back. Moving into the women's tent had been her idea; it had felt wrong to her that the men should spend time constructing a separate shelter for her, just because she was the Banfaíth, before they could begin work on one for their families. It made more sense to have just two shelters, she had argued, one for men and one for women, which the warmth of their bodies could heat against the night's chill. She had expected an argument from the men, but without Baer, Isaak did not feel strong enough to stand up to her and the rest of the menfolk followed his lead.
'He's gone, isn't he?' asked Neve quietly, head bent over her sewing. 'Dead.'
'I don't know. I hope not.'
'Ought to have been back with us by now. It'd take more than a bit of snow to stop my man.' She twitched the rest of the rent closed and held it taut with one hand as the other dipped and drew, dipped and drew. 'Reckon dead makes most sense.' Her voice was brisk, dispassionate.
Reaching out, Teia touched Neve's arm. 'I haven't given up hope.'
'Aye, well.' Neve tied off the thread and snapped it around her fingers. She handed the needle back but didn't meet Teia's eye. 'Hope don't keep me warm at night, is all.'
'I can scry him out, if you like.'
The older woman hesitated. 'You can see where he is?'
'Not exactly, but maybe I can tell if he's—' She almost said if he's alive, then corrected herself at the last minute. 'If he's safe.' Surely she knew Baer well enough by now to seek him out.
Neve fussed with her shawl, folding and refolding her arms over it. Teia guessed she wanted to know but was afraid of what she might learn.
As gently as she could, she said, 'At least then you'd know, one way or the other.'
The older woman worked her hands deeper under her armpits and gave a crisp nod. 'True enough. I'll fetch some water, shall I?'
Teia held up her tea-bowl. 'This will do,' she said. 'It's near enough water as it is.'
The power came quickly, but all the tiny bowl showed was snowflakes the size of goose feathers swirling in the air. Teia squinted to see the landscape beyond them, but with no moonlight she couldn't make out more than ghostly grey shapes.
Show me Baer.
The viewing in the bowl turned to black and Neve recoiled. 'Macha's mercy!'
'It's all right,' Teia reassured her. 'I think he's under cover somewhere, and it's just too dark to see.'
Neve began to lean towards the bowl again then stopped, suddenly dubious. 'You're sure?'
'Sure as I can be,' Teia said, with more cheer than she actually felt. It was the absolute truth, but it tasted like the worst lie in the world. She was as sure as she could be on the basis of no more evidence than a feeling in her gut. 'If Baer was . . . well, if something had happened to him, I don't think the water would show me anything at all.'
Looking up, she met Neve's gaze. A little bewildered, a little haunted, but strangely resolute. Teia released her power and let the viewing fade. 'That didn't help much, did it? I'm sorry, Neve. Maybe if I try again in the morning, when it's light?'
'No.' The older woman sat back, rewrapping her shawl again. 'Thank you, Banfaíth, but I reckon I've seen enough for now.'
She pushed herself to her feet and Teia wished she hadn't made the offer to scry. It hadn't eased Neve's mind at all.
'Thank you for your help with this.' She gestured at her newly mended trews. 'And the tea.'
'It was no trouble. Banfaíth,' Neve added by way of excusing herself and left.
Teia watched the blanket fall closed after her, despair chilling her as much as the gust of cold air. Oh, Neve, I'm so sorry.
She should never have let Baer go. She was a fool to be so concerned about others when she had Lost Ones of her own to care for. They should be her first duty, always.
Teia swiped a hand across her eyes. The longer Tir Malroth's shadow lay over them, the more her strength dwindled, but they'd come too far to turn back now. The journey to the Broken Land would surely be longer than the distance that still lay ahead. It had to be. If she let herself believe otherwise . . .
No. She had to believe that the worst was behind them, not ahead. If she allowed herself even to think that was not so, she would lose what little hope she had left. She looked at the tea-bowl in her hand, still steaming faintly, and swallowed the drink down.


Cabot Credit Management (CCM), the leading acquirer and manager of consumer debt, has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Mortimer Clarke Solicitors, following the grant of alternative business structure (ABS) status to the law firm by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
This means that Mortimer Clarke Solicitors, a law firm specialising in consumer credit debt recovery litigation, is now a member of the CCM group.
CCM will continue to use its careful decision making processes to litigate only as a last resort. This development provides CCM with a unique operating model and strengthens its position as a market leader in the field of consumer debt management.
Mortimer Clarke Solicitors is now a member of the CCM group. It will continue to operate from its current location in Worthing, West Sussex, under its existing brand.
Cabot Credit Management is a market leader in debt purchasing, contingency collections, and customer tracing, and is divided into four specialty businesses: Cabot Financial, Cabot Financial Ireland, Apex Credit Management and dlc.


Each fondue is served with bread cubes, pickled vegetables, boiled patatoes and marinated onions.
Served with meat cubes of your choice.
Served with several types thinly sliced meat.
The fondue is served with a garnish of stewed broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, asparagus, cornichon pickles, ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard.
asparagus, butter sauce with lemon, garlic and dill.
Cheese is served with toasted bread slices, sausage and boiled potatoes.
Served on a pre-heated griddle – you can cook the meat according to your taste.
The meat is served with a garnish of potato Rösti, pickled vegetables, cornichon pickles, ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard.


Transportation and Law is a public high school of the St. Louis City School District located in St. Louis, MO. It has 370 students in grades 9th through 12th. Transportation and Law is the 226th largest public high school in Missouri and the 13,212th largest nationally. It has a student teacher ratio of 13.2 to 1.
You can also use the form below to search for alumni info and Transportation and Law students.
Transportation and Law is ranked 97th out of 602 ranked schools in Missouri, for total students on lunch assistance.
The percentage of Transportation and Law students on free and reduced lunch assistance (100.0%) is significantly higher than the state average of 44.4%. This may indicate that the area has a higher level of poverty than the state average.


Computer product distributors do not want to deal with amateurs or people who keep asking too many questions.
They just want to sell! Therefore, simply go to the distributors' website and download the reseller application.
Fill it out completely, and then fax it back to them along with a copy of your sales tax license, or VAT license with your business name on the license certificate.
Do not fax or present a sales tax license with your own personal name on it as this will most likely cause distributors to reject your application.
Most computer product distributors see resellers who possess a sales tax license in their own personal name as people who are looking to purchase computer products at wholesale for personal use and not for resale.
They know very well that true computer resellers, genuine dealers, and real computer reseller businesses have sales tax licenses in the name of the business as this proves that they are a genuine computer reseller business and not just someone trying to save money for personal purchases.
When it comes to answering questions on the applications pertaining to trade references simply enter in your bank references or the words "new business".
Most computer product distributors ask for your computer reseller website address on the application. This is why it's important to at least have a website with your logo and a brief description of your business on the main page until you are able to start building pages and adding products.
A computer reseller website gives distributors something to see and builds instant credibility while your reseller application is being reviewed.
If you are a new computer reseller business or have bad credit then do not ask for credit terms as this too may also cause your reseller application to be declined. Specify 'pre-paid by credit card', direct debit, and COD for purchasing options.
No distributor is going to offer credit terms for new businesses. Credit terms will have to be earned after by conducting business with the distributor for a short period of time. This is how credibility is established and credit terms are granted.
There are many computer hardware and software distributors which you can get signed up with. Yet, you do not have to get signed up with all of them. You should only have to get signed up with 2 to 3 full product line distributors.
Note: When speaking to distributor representatives on the phone, you should never tell them that you're working from your home office, as doing so may diminish credibility.
Instead, (if asked), tell them that you're working out of an office selling computer products online via your own business website which will not be lying. You are indeed working from an office, (your home office) yet you do not have to tell them everything. Withholding personal information is not lying.
Once you have faxed in your resellers application, along with your sales tax license (with your business name on it), then you will receive a response from the distributors shortly.
Once your reseller application has been approved, then they will send you catalogs, sales materials, and grant you access to their website where you'll be able to view product inventory and real time pricing.
Then you can proceed to building your online store and adding products to your computer reseller website.


Yep..mapping the animal rescue centres in the UK (see more below map plus link to Irish Republic map). Cursor disappears? Click anywhere on the map.
Animal rescue UK — Some notes about this map.
Please click on yellow markers for details of the rescue center – move + zoom the map to suit.
Controls using keys: Place cursor over map and tap trackpad or left click mouse…To zoom in use the "+" key. Zoom out use the minus key. To move the map use the arrow keys. Hold the key down to move the map fast.
There are 311 rescue centers also called animal sanctuaries, marked on this map. I believe that this represents about 90% of all animal rescue centers/facilities in the UK. The purpose is to provide a one-stop web page where people can find out how far or near the nearest animal rescue UK center is from them. I hope this proves useful.
The map actually covers Northern Ireland as well and the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. However, Google struggled to map the very few sanctuaries at these places. Update: I have now mapped the major animal rescue sanctuaries in the Republic of Ireland.
Cat Protection is a large rescue organisation that, almost exclusively, uses foster homes in their extensive operation. The foster homes of individual volunters cannot be mapped for obvious reasons and there is no point in mapping them in an case. You might like to visit their website. Update: I have mapped the areas of operation of several branches in the south west region of England. If you slide the map around (click on map and drag mouse) you will see more. Click on the lines, placemarkers and shaded areas to see what they represent. I am working on doing something more comprehensive but the mapping tools that I have at my disposal don't allow this currently.
The Blue Cross is another large animal rescue operation that has shelters and which uses foster homes. Accordingly their entire operation is not mapped.
The RSPCA is the biggest in the animal rescue field and they have by far the most animal rescue homes or sanctuaries. All of these have been mapped bar one or two. RSPCA sanctuaries should probably be the first places to investigate if you are looking to adopt an animal that needs a home.
Some independent rescue centres have not been mapped because Google could not find them. If you are one of these independent rescue organisations and would like to be on the map, please click the link below.
If there are errors, and there will be some despite my best efforts to achieve accuracy, please also click on the relevant link below and tell me if you have the time.
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Interesting and a coincidence (we so think alike): I've been looking for a new place to move to and been mapping out where the vets and rescues are in relation to properties I've looked at. It's a high priority. I've nixed quite a few because the vets were too far away or not more than one to choose from. It's a big drawback when wanting to move to the country.
Yes, a good point. We need good facilities near by and good vets are important.
Super handy map for those living in England. I like the other maps as well.
Would be useful to find the closest animal rescue centers from where ever a person lives.
Thanks Liz. I did that one by hand 😉 It took me ages. I forget how long, probably about 40 hours.
A worthy and valuable project, Michael. Very useful. Everyone should print it and put it on their refrigerator.
Thanks! It took ages. It took weeks 🙂 And the number of visits does not not justify the effort! Never mind. I tried..


I accept referrals from individuals as well as family physicians, psychiatrists and attorneys in the Tri-State area.
For over 20 years, I have worked with many of the attorneys, Family Law Judges and Circuit Court Judges in West Virginia. I am often court ordered by judges to provide counseling to children and their families.
I am often subpoenaed to testify in high conflict divorce and custody cases as well as those involving expert testimony in abuse and neglect. I render my expert opinion in areas of child development which involves making sure that the emotional needs of children are not being compromised.
I also assist parents in the development of court ordered parenting plans. These cases are often high conflict cases and require a great deal of work with the entire family system.


Before Christmas, Arizona finished its 2nd Congressional District recount, showing Republican Martha McSally beating incumbent Democrat Ron Barber by 167 votes. This means there will be 247 Republicans in the House in the 114th Congress -- one more than was elected to the House in the 80th Congress in 1946. It's the most Republican House since the one elected in 1928, a year when very few of today's voters were alive.
But while the party numbers are almost precisely the same in the Houses elected this year and 68 years ago, the composition of the two parties' caucuses (the Republicans call theirs a conference) is sharply different.
One reason is that the reapportionment of House seats following the seven censuses from 1950 to 2010 has shifted many seats from the Northeast, Midwest and Mississippi Valley to Texas, South Atlantic and Western states.
Altogether, 100 seats have been transferred from 27 states to 17 other states. Only six small states have the same number of seats as they did in 1946. The big losers have been New York (down 18 seats), Pennsylvania (down 15), Illinois (down 8) and Ohio (down 7). The big gainers have been California (up 30), Florida (up 21) and Texas (up 15).
The House Republican Conference that assembled in January 1947 was dominated by members from New York (28), Pennsylvania (28), Illinois (20) and Ohio (19). Most came from courthouse towns and sought to roll back the New Deal. They provided the impetus behind the Taft-Hartley Act, which limited the power of labor unions -- a law that passed despite Harry Truman's veto and is still in effect today.
They had the votes to override because the House Democratic Caucus included many conservatives in 1947. A majority of its members -- 117 of 189 -- came from the South (defined here as the 11 old Confederate states plus West Virginia, Kentucky and Oklahoma).
The largest state delegation was from Texas, including former and future Speaker Sam Rayburn and future President Lyndon Johnson. Only one Northern state, New York, elected more than 10 Democrats. Freshman Rep. John Kennedy's party was outnumbered 9-5 in the Massachusetts delegation.
This 80th House provided crucial bipartisan support for Truman's Cold War policies, including the expensive Marshall Plan. One Michigan Republican who balked was beaten in the next primary by a young lawyer named Gerald Ford.
House Republicans lost their majority in 1948 but made important changes in public policy that were permanent or long lasting. Pelosi tried to do the same in 2009 and 2010. Can House Republicans succeed in reversing or significantly adjusting those policies? Not clear.


The plan of this book had its inception in a course of lectures on arithmetical functions given by me in the summer of 1964 at the Forschungsinstitut fUr Mathematik of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, at the invitation of Professor Beno Eckmann. My Introduction to Analytic Number Theory has appeared in the meanwhile, and this book may be looked upon as a sequel. It presupposes only a modicum of acquaintance with analysis and number theory. The arithmetical functions considered here are those associated with the distribution of prime numbers, as well as the partition function and the divisor function. Some of the problems posed by their asymptotic behaviour form the theme. They afford a glimpse of the variety of analytical methods used in the theory, and of the variety of problems that await solution. I owe a debt of gratitude to Professor Carl Ludwig Siegel, who has read the book in manuscript and given me the benefit of his criticism. I have improved the text in several places in response to his comments. I must thank Professor Raghavan Narasimhan for many stimulating discussions, and Mr. Henri Joris for the valuable assistance he has given me in checking the manuscript and correcting the proofs. K. Chandrasekharan July 1970 Contents Chapter I The prime number theorem and Selberg's method § 1. Selberg's fonnula . . . . . . 1 § 2. A variant of Selberg's formula 6 12 § 3. Wirsing's inequality . . . . . 17 § 4. The prime number theorem. .


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Blog post: When climate change becomes personal – A reflection on researching non-economic loss and damage
By cecilia [dot] von_arnold [at] lucsus [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia von Arnold) - published 30 June 2020
Flooding in India. Image credit: Asian Development Bank
It feels almost shameful to admit, but climate change has always felt like something abstract and far away. Of course, I know that climate change is happening. I can explain the greenhouse effect. I even use climate change as an argument for banning meat from my diet, reducing my consumption of animal-based products, and travelling through Europe by bus and train.
I do all of these things because of what I know. Yet, now, for the first time in my life, climate change touched me emotionally. Or rather, slammed me in the face.
During the past three months, I have been looking at about 300 extreme weather events that scientists have attributed to climate change in the last twenty years, ranging from wildfires in Australia and California, to droughts in Africa and hurricanes in Central America. For each event, I searched for research on the non-economic loss and damage that it had caused. Non-economic loss and damage includes all types of destruction that are difficult or even impossible to put a price tag on. Examples are human mortality, loss of biodiversity, destruction of cultural heritage, negative health and mental health effects, loss of culture and identity, and so on. Perhaps "Suffering" would be a more appropriate term to describe it.
Exploring human suffering from climate change in the midst of a pandemic
So there I was, in an almost-empty office due to pandemic times, collecting articles about different shades of human and non-human suffering.
And even though I only read titles and abstracts, the stories slowly seeped through my skin. Behind every article were real people and places. Even the scientific language in a title such as "Maternal micronutrient status and decreased growth of Zambian infants born during and after the maize price increases resulting from the southern African drought of 2001-2002" could not stop me from imagining stunted children, desperate mothers and families whose poverty got even more hopeless because of climate change. The title "Management of the dead in Tacloban City after Typhoon Haiyan" made me freeze for a moment. In the abstract, the authors described that they found a "dignified and efficient way of identifying corpses" to enable "rapid body processing" after the typhoon. I took a deep breath and added it to the database.
For some extreme weather events, I did not find any articles about non-economic loss and damage. Such unsuccessful searches left me wondering: had these specific droughts and floods not been so bad after all, or was it just that nobody had done research on them? Even though I hoped for the first explanation, the second one is more probable. My list of extreme weather events also included hurricane Katrina, which destroyed New Orleans in 2005. A search for its impacts yielded around 3,000 articles. After scrolling through them and downloading relevant articles for three days, I gave up. I had not even managed to get through half of them. And already I felt numbed by all the studies on displacement, violence, mental health effects, destruction and loss of life caused by this single event. The project team wisely freed me from the task and decided to instead create an algorithm to dig through the "biggest" (most researched) climate events.
When it becomes personal
Perhaps it is quite useful to feel overwhelmed from time to time. It seems to create a healthy dose of humility.
Doing this research, I often wondered whether my bearing witness and my empathy had value, in some way, for someone. I don't know. But I felt I couldn't simply turn my empathy off. That would have been just another way of denial. "It won't disappear if I look away, so I can as well look at it", I remember saying to myself. The effect was that climate change now has become something that touches me emotionally. It's about people suffering, forests burning, corals bleaching – and no longer just about some graphs on rising concentrations of CO2.
A starting point for resistance and change
Apart from the usual anti-depression advice (take a walk, meet friends, do things that you enjoy), it helped me to see my work in a bigger picture. Although my literature review on non-economic loss and damage did not feel particularly hopeful in itself, it is part of a bigger research project. In this broader scheme of things, an inventory of the effects of climate change can be linked to policy making, environmental litigation and social mobilization for climate justice. Although human and non-human suffering could be seen as the end product of climate change, it can also be the starting point for resistance and change.
Iris Maria Hertog, June 2020
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Iris Maria Hertog has been working as a research assistant at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies during the past academic year. The last few months, she worked within the research project DICE - Recasting the disproportionate impacts of climate change extremes. Iris has a bachelor degree in Forest and Nature Conservation (Wageningen University, the Netherlands) and graduated from the master programme in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science (LUMES) in 2019.
Iris' advice to others working with climate change
Acknowledge for yourself that you cannot resolve all the suffering in the world.
Try to find a balance between professional distance and human concern and empathy that works for you
Find ways to express your sorrow, fear, anger, hope, etc. in a constructive way, for example through art, music, writing, etc.
See your work in a bigger picture, and remind yourself regularly of its purpose and meaning
Join an organization or a social movement to feel empowered
Talk with colleagues who might be dealing with similar issues
Alternate between different taskts if a particular task become too heavy
Find out whatever other strategies work for you!
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How Much Could Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Pay For Security If They Come To The U.K.?
By:The Royal Observer Staff
Jan. 31 2022, Published 11:19 a.m. ET
If Meghan Markle and Prince Harry decide it's safe enough for them to visit the U.K., they may end up paying a lot of money for their own security, royal expert Richard Aitch noted.
"It's very difficult to put a figure exactly on it," the director of operations for Mobius International Security told Us Weekly. "The cost for a personal protection officer from the [Metropolitan Police] has been estimated to be around £100,000 a year."
Aitch noted that the cost could change over time, as flights, accommodations and their children — Archie, 2, and Lilibet, 7 months — also play a key role when adding things up. "What may appear as a wish on paper is far more in reality, and the costs can certainly be quite huge," he said.
Earlier this month, the red-headed prince threatened to take action against the U.K. government, as he wants security when he returns home, in order to protect his children and wife. (When he left the royal family, he had to pay for security out of his own pocket.)
Going forward, a royal committee with gather and come to a conclusion. "This committee decides on who receives protection by the police, and if they do receive it, what capacity does appear," Aitch said. "Their responsibility is to make a determination on security provision to members of parliament, such as the prime minister, the foreign office minister, the home secretary and so on, in addition to members of the royal family."
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Since Harry decided to leave the royal family, he is no longer required to get protection.
"At the end of the day, the members of royal family provide a service to the people. They have loyal duties to undertake, and by virtue of that, the U.K. taxpayer then funds the protection for that service," Aitch shared. "He has relinquished his royal duties, he no longer provides a service to the U.K. people, right? And therefore in the eyes of the government, the question is why then should the U.K. taxpayer pay and fund his personal security? … And that his fully understandable."
"The subject of cost shouldn't be focused on whether [or] how he provides a service to the people or not alone. By virtue of the fact that he is a senior member of the royal family, he is exposed to a wide variety of serious threats, and the risks to those threats have increased since his departure from the royal family," Aitch added. "The fact he no longer receives police protection [means] his risk to threats have certainly spiked."
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In a statement, Harry said: "Prince Harry inherited a security risk at birth, for life," a statement began. "He remains sixth in line to the throne, served two tours of combat duty in Afghanistan, and in recent years his family has been subjected to well-documented neo-Nazi and extremist threats. While his role within the Institution has changed, his profile as a member of the Royal Family has not. Nor has the threat to him and his family."


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QUEEN: A NIGHT IN BOHEMIA – A SPECIAL CINEMA EVENT MARCH 8
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Announcing a special cinema event, Queen: A Night in Bohemia, coming to cinemas worldwide and featuring the legendary Hammersmith Odeon concert from 1975 restored with stunning 5.1 sound, plus a never-before-seen (outside the UK) archive documentary that includes interviews with all four members of the band and offers an illuminating insight into the game-changing year of 1975. The 89-minute film will have Canadian screenings on the night of March 8 in Halifax and Toronto.
Filmed live on Christmas Eve 1975 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London, and bringing to a climax the most eventful and exciting year so far in the band's career, this ground-breaking concert was transmitted live on BBC Two's Old Grey Whistle Test and captured the band firing on all cylinders as they performed breakthrough hits like Killer Queen, Liar, Keep Yourself Alive and Now I'm Here, as well as the first ever live recording of the now monumental classic Bohemian Rhapsody. It sealed Queen's transition from ambitious upstarts into one of the biggest and most important bands of the era – and beyond.
Brian May of Queen says: "This concert was very special because it was the first time we ever played a whole show completely live on TV… the Christmas Show. The quality, after great rescue work and transfer into the digital domain, is amazing. And the energy we had comes across very forcefully."
The cinema event features a new documentary that digs deep into the archive to tell the story of Queen as it follows their journey from a struggling band gigging at pubs and colleges to the moment they captured hearts and minds with what was to become one of – if not the – greatest song of all time – Bohemian Rhapsody.
Queen's formative years have never been explored in such detail. With a wealth of unseen interviews, recently unearthed rushes of Queen's first ever video and outtakes from the recording sessions of Bohemian Rhapsody itself, this is the unique story of early Queen told by the band themselves.
Queen – A Night At The Odeon – Hammersmith 1975 is also available on CD, DVD, SD Blu-Ray, 2 LP vinyl, Super Deluxe Box Set and digitally via Virgin EMI/Universal Music Canada.
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Daze Like This by LittleRed5
TV » Nanny Rated: T, English, Humor & Friendship, CC B., Fran F., Words: 10k+, Favs: 9, Follows: 4, Published: 6/28/2012 Updated: 7/10/2012}
5 Chapter 1: They said, then he told
Here as, REDMW555. There as, REDPOET123 (The Dreamer)
I made a list of songs, that I got from my iPod, shuffled, and wrote them down. 25 songs. I put each one in a small piece of paper, and put them in a bag, chose one, and that will be the song I'll use for a story. After I finish the story, I choose another. Same on the seasons. You know, season 1, and so on. Raffle. I use the song in 3 different ways, I either, use it in the story, use the lyrics, or the tone, (I think that's the word) like if it sounds scary, and the lyrics are not, I'll ignore the lyrics, and use the music as inspiration.
First song, and story. I'll use this song in the story.
Inspiration:Love Gun
By Cee-Lo Green Ft. Lauren Bennett
It took literally 2 hours. They have been going on and on. Fighting over nothing, both to proud to lose over a single (and LONG) conversation. The worst thing about it, it's still going on. The kids covered their ears, Niles used some earplugs, and Maxwell closed the door to his office. Though, none of these worked, as Fran's voice traveled afar. And to their surprise, C.C had a loud voice as well, obviously trying to overpower Fran's. The only people who know why they're fight are the two of them.
"Look, If I choose to change my appearance I'll call you, but right now—like in NEVER— I won't!"
"Ms. Babcock!" Fran Whined.
"Do you think men will respect you for you? Hm?"
"Do YA think men will find ya attracted with those clothes! Hm?" She mocked her.
"Oh, GOD your annoying! Li-sten-to-me! How many boyfriends have you had?"
"Too many ta count?"
"And how many of them asked you about your life?" C.C lifted her eyebrows
"Well... none." Fran frowned.
"Well then that just proves it!" C.C walks away, and the whole household smiled at the finally finished conversation...until Fran walked toward C.C and opened her mouth yet again. They frowned.
"How bout ya, Ms. Babcock? How many have ya had, Huh?" Fran crossed her arms, as C.C turned around to face her. She thought for awhile.
"Enough."
"Did they evah tell ya, how sexy ya look?"
C.C thought, and sighed. She rolled her eyes, and crossed her arms as well.
"No. But at least they're going for me, because of me. Not because of the sluttish style you have there!"
Fran gasped. Her face turned bright red, and if it was not C.C Babcock, they would be terrified. Instead, she smiled, with one eyebrow in the air.
"Well, at least I don't dress likah grandmothah near retirement!"
"Yeah well, good luck selling yourself in the streets! I heard your almost out of the job. What, you weren't good enough for the clients!"
"Ugh! Ya know Babzy Babes, that's probably one thing we got in common. But hey, at least men don't want me because I'm damn expensive, you on the othah hand, are free, and still, men won't touch ya!"
Fran was walking away, trying for the office door, C.C followed. As soon as they entered, Maxwell lost his mind.
"Expensive?" C.C laughed.
"Nanny Fine, you are worth less than a penny! In fact, less than half a penny!"
"That's enough tah say, I'm worth more than ya!"
"WOULD YOU BOTH STOP IT! MS. FINE, C.C! BOTH OF YOU SIT DOWN ON THE COUCH NOW, OR YOU'S WILL END UP JOBLESS!"
Both of them jumped, scared, and ran as fast as they could to the couch. Both have never seen Maxwell this angry before. Stunned at his reaction to their performance.
"IF..." Maxwell stop for a bit, trying to calm himself down.
"If you two ever say another word like that again, I'll replace you both."
Niles of course, being Niles, listened in. Watching the girls. He knew Fran was scared, her face expression says it all, but C.C was just surprised, and a little angry. Probably because Maxwell was yelling at both of them. He knew she hated getting in trouble. She would always blame the person next to her. In this case, Fran. Niles smiled a bit and laughed to himself.
"Now I know the two of you aren't the best of friends, but can you's at least be friendly to each other? C.C I know your a bit sad that you lost your stallion, and you have been crying about it, for the past week, but did you have to take it out on Ms. Fine?"
"Yes," She mumbled, and thank god Maxwell missed this, otherwise he would have killed her, by the look of his eyes, she can tell.
"And Ms. Fine, just because you don't have a date on Saturday, doesn't mean you have to bother C.C. She was just fine here. You just had to ask her, no, demand her to go with you to the mall."
Fran turned her head away from him, and away from C.C
"Val was to busy," she whispered.
"Look, since you two are acting like teenagers, I'll treat you's like one. For this week, starting tomorrow, for seven full days, you two will be alone in this house, I'm taking the children to a small vacation before Maggie's sweet sixteen, to celebrate. Niles I'll need you to come and help me with the children."
He turned to Niles, who was nodding,
"Yes sir,"
"What!" The two women shouted.
"Maxwell you can't seriously think I'll spend my week with this insane woman. She's a huge distraction to my work!"
"Mistah Sheffield, she scares meh! She might kill me!"
"Might?" C.C said. Just to scare her a little. It worked, by the look of her face.
"If I hear any whining again, it will be two weeks!"
Both shut their mouths, mistrusting their mouths.
"So the rules are, you two have to be together. Like how friends are. If one wants to go on shopping, the other follows. If one wants to, what the kids say now, hang out at the bar, then the other follows."
Fran and C.C couldn't believe what came out of that british mouth. Mostly because he said 'hang out,' the thought of it made them giggle. Until they realized what he said next.
"If I, or anybody I know catch you two separate, then there will be consequences,"
"Fine."
"Whatever." C.C rolled her eyes.
"Oh, and C.C don't worry about her interrupting work, because you won't...at all."
"Huh? But Maxwell!"
"No buts, C.C. You will do as I say. Ms. Fine, if C.C touches or even goes in to this office, you better tell me,"
Fran smiled.
"What!"
"C.C don't worry, I have one for Fran. If she ever goes to the mall by herself, you tell me,"
"Ha," C.C said. Fran stuck out her tongue.
"Enough! Now, C.C I suggest you start going home, and pack for the week, and have a good sleep, you'll come here at the usual time, and remember, no work."
"Yeah I know,"
"And I'll tell the rest to start packing, because we are going on a trip." He smiled.
"Oh and one more thing, if something happens to my painting, you two will be hanged."
The two turned to each other, and thought about the painting of Maxwell hanging out on the other side of the office wall, in the hall. He was of course in love with it, it's new, and it has his face in it. No one, not even Niles couldn't touch it, just to clean it. Maxwell claimed to have some expert on painting to be the cleaner.
"I'm expecting to have the painting cleaned in a couple of days, so when I come back, I expect it to be flawless."
The two nodded.
"Now, you two can go." as they left, Maxwell turned to Niles, realizing his face,
"You do know they'll kill each other, right?"
"Niles, old man, as long as I have some peace, I'm ok with it."
"Uh, ok. But sir, what if they do go off on their own?"
"Oh, Niles. That's not a problem. They have to listen to me, because if they don't, I'll notice."
"Mhmm," He doubts that.
"You see, this is how it works. If one decide to go on her own, the other will surely tell me, so the other gets in trouble."
"But what if they both agree to go on their own, and promise each other to never tell you?"
"Well— Shut up Niles!" He said, frustrated.
Niles walked away, hoping to find C.C in the kitchen, hoping she hadn't left yet. To his surprise, she was. And was alone. Possibly thinking about what just happened in the office. When she heard his footsteps, she looked up at him, and rolled her eyes.
"I'm just surprised it wasn't us,"
"What?" She asked, confused.
"We always fight, and yet he hasn't snapped like that at all."
"Ugh, well, it's probably because that voice of hers,"
It was silent for a bit. It had been like this for a week now, since it was just that, when the kiss happened. Drunk, yet they remembered everything. The touch, the feel of satisfaction, and the taste.
Although neither of them want to talk about it...that is until now.
"Ms. Babcock, what happened in the, uh living room—I"
"Look Niles, we were both drunk, maybe let's just leave it at that."
"But you felt...something, didn't you?"
C.C thought for a while.
"I-I don't know what I felt Niles,"
He believed her, because she did look lost in thought about it, he smiled.
"I just want you to know, that, I felt something. Ms—C.C," He stopped, couldn't find the words to say to the woman he loves.
"Niles, I-I have to go and pack. But when you come back, when all of this is over, you can tell me. And maybe then, I'll know what I felt that night. Ok?"
He smiled softly at her, and nodded. He watched her go, and sighed.
"That woman is something else."
C.C sat at home thinking about her conversation with Niles, and the memory of them kissing that night. It gave her chills just thinking about it. She longed for that moment, and just when it happened, they were drunk. Though, when Niles said he felt something, her heart jumped. That feeling, it came back to her, the same feeling she felt in the living room. It was there once again, and she was confused. Is it love? Or wanting? Longing for that one night stand?
She closed her eyes, and had Niles in her thoughts, all the things he did to her, the smile after an insult. She just couldn't stop thinking about him.
Oh but she did, when a certain yenta came on. After the talk with Maxwell, she ignored Fran, and Vice Versa. She had never seen Fran like that, because usually she's to afraid of her to say anything. Maybe it was just the confidence she gained from winning on jeopardy. She blames her brother for that. He knew she wouldn't back down from a bet.
She wondered if he was thinking about her. If he felt what she felt. If he loves her.
She felt like a teenager, the childish fights, the feeling of a love struck idiot, thinking if he's thinking about her. She shook her head, trying to knock it off. She took a look at the clock, and realized the time.
She got up from her couch, and started packing for what will be the worst week of her life.
If only she knew she was half right.
Interview.
"Why did you decide to do this project?"
"Because I'm bored,"
"Well, that sounds reasonable."
"I know."
Lol. Comment if you like, I don't mind. Any questions, feel free to ask me, PM me if you want.
I promise this story will be interesting.
-REDMW555 ;)
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The opening of this brilliantly straight-faced "documentary" posits that hundreds of hours of footage was mysteriously deposited at a Norwegian TV station, which then went about distilling it into the movie we are about to see. And to Troll Hunter's credit, that's the hardest thing to believe in this undercover exposé that reveals the truth about trolls—giant, flesh-eating monstrosities of various species, normally contained within electric power-line corrals in the remotest regions of Norway but which occasionally slip out. The subject of covert scientific study by the government, they are nonetheless dispatched with extreme prejudice when they escape their confinement. That's when you call in the troll hunter—who is no Indiana Jones but a weary, workmanlike professional who has to fill out paperwork after each kill.
What follows is both a remarkably suspenseful voyage—with at least three heart-stopping sequences of the building-sized beasts either lumbering after these interlopers or converging on a cave where the troll hunter and the three students are hidden—and a dry-witted commentary on the nature of expedient bureaucracy, in which even awful miracles of nature become merely something to be dealt with as case files that need to be closed so that everyone can knock off and go home. Not that troll hunter Hans gets much chance to do that. As played by Norway's top comedian, Otto Jespersen, in what ought to be a star-making dramatic performance, he's a weary former commando who lives out of a trailer hitched to his truck and sees his job more akin to that a pest exterminator than anything else. The students—producer-interviewer Thomas (Glenn Erland Tosterud), sound person Johanna (Johanna Mørck) and camera operator Kalle (Tomas Alf Larsen)—initially find him an interesting eccentric who might lead them to the real poacher. They gradually grow to admire the unassuming, no-nonsense hunter as something of a national hero whose lifesaving accomplishments are classified and so completely unknown to the public. But now Hans, after years of being the government's only troll hunter—and, OK, that's a stretch, given the danger posed by escaped trolls—does what any fed-up, underappreciated and doubtlessly underpaid worker would do: He throws up his hands, finally tired of all the crap he takes from his bosses, and agrees to give the kids their story.
Naturally, that rouses the ire of his immediate superior, the officious Finn (Hans Morten Hansen) of the government's Troll Security Service. But in between the blustery Finn's threats, we learn all about the different kinds of trolls, how their physiology works, what habits they have, where they fall in the animal kingdom and so on—all organically in conversation, never lecture-like. By the movie's climax in the tundra, up against the most fearsome type of troll extant, we get a Jurassic Park ride of terror and heroism. Part horror movie, part social satire, and bursting with Norway's savage beauty — from waterfall streams on hard-chiseled cliffs to river-fed lakes in storybook valleys — this remarkable film opened to highly positive reviews in Norway in 2010, then rolled out to international audiences starting with the USA in 2011 to a mostly positive critical reception. Talk then turned inevitably to an English-language remake, which perhaps thankfully has not yet got off the ground – it's hard to see this movie translating to any environment other than the harsh allure of Norway, and for me at least the subtitles oddly add an air of authenticity to the whole affair. Anyway, you'll want to catch this clever movie before Hollywood ruins everything with an inferior remake!
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Shocking Revelation Made By CDC Director on Thursday! "Schools Are The Safest Places For Kids To Be And Should NOT Be Shutdown."
By Tom Zenner • Nov. 19, 2020 • News Flash, Headlines • 1,105 Views
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield holds a face mask as he speaks during a news conference with the coronavirus task force at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
It would be nice if U.S. Governors had access to information from the CDC when making some of the heavy-handed decisions they come down with that adversely affect millions of people. Oh, wait, they actually do have the info available, which means they simply choose to ignore it.
Case in point, the announcement made Thursday by CDD Director Robert Redfield that K-12 schools should remain open because their data shows that schools are among the "safest places" kids can be in protecting them from the pandemic." He then added that attempts to close schools are nothing more than an "emotional response."
This announcement comes on the heels of the decision in New York City to close all public schools indefinitely. And in other states, including California, where over four months into a school year all the teaching has been done with distance learning. Schools haven't been open since March. Clearly, Governors like Gavin Newsom of California are simply ignoring this information. "Today, there's extensive data that we have—we've gathered over the last two to three months—that confirm that K-12 schools can operate with face-to-face learning and they can do it safely and they can do it responsibly," Redfield said. "The infections that we've identified in schools when they've been evaluated were not acquired in schools. They were actually acquired in the community and in the household."
Redfield made the point the biggest threat for transmission of coronavirus is from small family gatherings, not from kids being in school. "The truth is, for kids K-12, one of the safest places they can be, from our perspective, is to remain in school, and it's really important that following the data, making sure we don't make emotional decisions about what to close and what not to close, and I'm here to say clearly the data strongly supports that K-12 schools—as well as institutes of higher learning—really are not where we're having our challenges."
For Governors who constantly preach messages they are following the science and the data, we'll soon learn if they actually mean it or are pushing some alternate agenda.


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Every year the American Film Institute holds an intimate luncheon to honor 10 television shows and 10 movies that it deems culturally and artistically representative of the year's most significant achievements in the art of the moving image. Winners this year were; Richard Linklater's Boyhood, Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, civil-rights drama Selma, the Angelina Jolie directed World War II drama, Unbroken; wrestling drama Foxcatcher; the acclaimed show business satire Birdman; Disney musical Into the Woods; the Los Angeles noir paparazzi themed Nightcrawler; the jazz school drama Whiplash; Clint Eastwood's American Sniper; and the code-breaker drama The Imitation Game.
This gathering always draws some of the industry heavy hitters, and this year was no exception, with Fashion One on hand to record the glamorous arrivals. Esteemed director and actor Clint Eastwood was there representing his controversial smash hit American Sniper, which chronicles deadly sniper Chris Kyles war in Iraq as well as his subsequent PTSD. The cast of Boyhood––a tale literally of a boy's transformation to adulthood––including Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane and director Richard Linklater were in attendance. Interstellar, a transcendent science fiction epic was represented by director Christopher Nolan and the entire cast, including current Hollywood darling Matthew McConaughey alongside female co-stars Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain. The Imitation Game, which chronicles the efforts of brilliant but precocious scientist Alan Turing to crack the Nazi's enigma encryption code during World War 2, was well-represented by a full contingent with star Benedict Cumberbatch joined by his co-star Keira Knightley, along with director Morten Tyldum and writer Graham Moore.


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Your resume is your talent profile; it's a testament to your skills, capability and successes in the workplace. What you put on paper can determine whether you get an interview and eventually a job. That's why it's essential to properly pinpoint and display the significant results obtained through previous positions in your talent profile or resume: to give future or current employers an idea of your capabilities.
Make a list of each job or position that you have held. For each one, note all of the major campaigns, projects or events that you worked on.
Write down the specific tasks or your role in each project. For graphic designers, maybe you prepared all of the artwork for the invitations and websites; for those in marketing, it could be bringing in sales and putting together advertisement campaigns. Events, campaigns and projects are successful because you contributed to them.
Be specific about your role in the success of the company. It could include minor things such as making sure everyone was prepared and organized, implementing new policies and procedures, or highlighting problems and implementing solutions.
Give examples of how you were successful in tasks. Whether it is improving sales through marketing techniques, using your savvy computer skills to resolve problems or assisting a disgruntled customer, the key is to provide specific examples of your skills and abilities.
Make a checklist of the things the employer is looking for. This could include specific skills such as training in a type of database or good organization and an eye for details. What the employer does can guide you in showing how you can apply your own skills to the employer's personnel needs.
Demonstrate how these skills and abilities can be applied to a current or future position. This will help employers envision you in the position and give them an idea of how you would handle situations. Essentially, you are displaying your talents in a way that employers can equate to their own future business success.
Add the list of successful projects in which you participated and skills you acquired from each of your jobs to your resume. You can highlight your business success at the beginning of the resume, so employers can see your career ccomplishments first.
Have a friend read over your resume to make sure it flows properly and that your skills and accomplishments are displayed in an effective manner. Sometimes it can be difficult to read and edit your own work.
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Travel Tuesday – How Tully made the most of adversity
grahamcairns / January 19, 2021
There's an old Scottish proverb which (in modern terms) says "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."
But there's also a 20th-century American aphorism that says, "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade."
Tully, in Far North Queensland, is a great example of thumbing your nose at the former and grasping the latter with both hands.
Tully is a small town which exists mainly to service the local sugar mill – and its main claim to fame is as Australia's wettest town.
Babinda (80km further north) regularly averages more rain each year – 3.5 metres of rain compared to 2.8 metres.
But Tully has the record for the most rain in a single year (7.9 metres of rain in 1950) and so it claims a dubious honour – and has erected a giant gumboot to celebrate the fact.
Now, there are few locations that would say to tourists "Come and stay here – we almost guarantee it will rain" … but Far North Queensland is a curious place 🙂
To be honest, most tourists who travel to Far North Queensland stay in the city of Cairns, or further north in the tourist mecca of Port Douglas.
But there's also some overflow into what is known as the 'Cassowary Coast', which effectively stretches from Babinda in the north to Lucinda in the south.
All the towns along that 200km stretch of the Bruce Highway use whatever attractions they can muster to tempt those travellers who have struck out from Cairns on day-trips – or seek somewhere different to stay.
Euramo, for example, trades on claims of UFO sightings and crop circles dating back to 1966.
El Arish is proud of its origin as a 'soldier settlement' – a place where returned diggers from World War One were granted plots of land to farm, a gift from a grateful nation.
Babinda is home to Josephine Falls, and to The Boulders – a popular swimming spot despite claiming 15 lives in the past 60 years (I did say that Far North Queensland is a curious place!)
Innisfail is a town with a multitude of Art Deco buildings (all built in the wake of a devastating cyclone)
And then there's Tully's Golden Gumboot – a nine metre tall 'big thing' of the sort Australia seems to love so much.
Visitors may climb a spiral staircase inside the gumboot – reading newspaper articles, cartoons, photographs and displays which wallpaper the inside.
And when they reach the top and look out, it is possible to visualise just how much rain fell in that record year: 7,898 mm (or 310 inches in the old measurement).
So, who would make a special trip to see a Golden Gumboot?
Well, the last time we were in Tully we were only there for about an hour – but during that hour, there were at least 5 groups of people who called in to check it out.
And every one of those groups had made a conscious decision to do so, rather than just stopping at the highway service centres at the entrance to the town.
How's that for making lemonade from lemons?
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The Debunking Handbook 2020: References
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