Anthem accelerating launch of its own pharmacy benefit manager means it could emerge as a formidable competitor sooner than expected, taking on some of the nation's largest PBMs.
But they'll be playing catch-up.
Even though Anthem is the nation's second-largest insurer, its PBM IngenioRx will have a considerably smaller footprint out of the gate. In terms of market share, IngenioRx will likely trail the nation's fourth largest PBM, Humana's Pharmacy Solutions, Dean Ungar of Moody's told Healthcare Dive.
"They're not going to be in the leading position," Ungar said.
He said it's important to note that Humana does not compete with traditional PBMs for third-party business. They provide PBM services to their existing medical clients. And although Humana's PBM will be closer in size to Anthem's than the giant market leaders, IngenioRx's is positioned differently as it will be going after third-party business.
Before Anthem can go out and win new business, the first major hurdle is executing a smooth transition to its new PBM. IngenioRx will start with 14 million members once it peels them away from Express Scripts, starting March 2.
That compares with UnitedHealth's Optum, with about 92 million members and CVS' Caremark's 93 million.
Once that one-year transition is completed, Anthem's IngenioRx will likely compete with Express and Caremark for new business in 2021, Ana Gupte, an analyst with Leerink, told Healthcare Dive.
There's opportunity within Anthem for new business. It can start trying to sell to its clients who are enrolled in medical coverage, which covers about 40 million, Ungar noted.
"If they don't have the scale it's going to be hard to compete," Ungar said. "This is not like a no-brainer but I do think that their expectation is that they'll have a more competitive product in the marketplace and be able to grow market share and take business."
The move comes at the expense of drug wholesaler AmerisourceBergen, which partners with Express Scripts. On the flip side, it benefits McKesson, CVS' drug distributor, Brian Tanquilut, an analyst with Jefferies, told Healthcare Dive. Anthem previously inked a five-year deal with CVS to have the pharmacy retail giant provide prescription fulfillment and claims processing.
Anthem's move to bring its PBM in-house is part of a larger trend of insurers merging with PBMs, pivoting away from a time when independent PBMs dominated the industry.
"I do think that these companies, in general, are making a long-term strategy to offer comprehensive services," John Boylan, an analyst for Edward Jones, told Healthcare Dive. "The more you know about their healthcare needs, the better you serve them and we think that's why you're seeing these comprehensive strategies."
The move comes at a difficult time for PBMs, however, as they seem to be bearing the brunt of the Trump administration's ire toward high drug prices. HHS last week dealt a blow to payers when it proposed ending safe harbor protections for drug rebates through PBMs, Medicare Part D plans and Medicaid managed care organizations. Stocks tumbled and analysts speculated PBMs could see their role in the pharmaceutical supply chain diminished as commercial rebates are now at risk as well.
Clarification: This article has been edited to add more information about Humana's PBM.


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A new waterfront restaurant is being planned for a site along the east side of the Intracoastal, between the Atlantic Boulevard Bridge and the Sands Harbor Resort & Marina. The owners of Taha Marine Center want to transform a 2,500 square-foot building into a casual fresh seafood restaurant serving locally caught fish. The restaurant will seat 200 to 300 people, with dining available both indoors and on an outdoor deck. The boat fuel dock that has been in service for over 50 years will remain.
Another component of the project involves a larger retail building, located at 3157-3231 E. Atlantic Boulevard, just east of Taha Marine Center. A new café-style breakfast and lunch spot is planned for the space located on the corner of Atlantic Boulevard and North Riverside Drive. The exterior of the building will undergo extensive aesthetic improvements, and one of the two right-hand turn lanes on Riverside Drive that lead into Atlantic Boulevard will be eliminated to create an outdoor seating plaza.
The exterior renovations, which are likely to exceed the $400,000 budgeted, include new impact storefront windows, paver sidewalks, updated signage and contemporary exterior lighting. The Pompano Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) recently approved a $200,000 grant offered through its façade and business site improvement program to help the Taha family cover some of the costs.
According to Nader Taha, whose family has owned the site with the two buildings since 1974, the project complements the upgrades that the City is currently making to the Atlantic Boulevard Bridge, as well as all the other development that is taking place in the beachside area, including the Pompano Beach Fishing Village near the pier. Harbor Promenade, a new dining and retail complex that will include a 500-seat steakhouse, is being built along the Intracoastal just south of the Taha family property.
The enhancements to the Atlantic Boulevard Bridge include a pedestrian waterfront promenade under the east side of the bridge that will connect Harbor Promenade to restaurants, shops and other amenities to the north. Taha said he has been working with the CRA to connect the promenade to a walkway fronting the Intracoastal that already exists on his family's property.
The total cost to revamp the two buildings on the property is expected to be approximately $1-2.5 million. Taha is currently working with an architect and engineer to create a site plan, which he hopes to submit to the City in about two months. A groundbreaking is anticipated for spring or summer of 2019, and work is expected to take 3-7 months.
Taha said his family has been working on the project for about six years, trying to find the best fit for the property.
"Pompano is ready for it now," he said. "We're excited to be part of the redevelopment in our area."
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I recently visited the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History – or, as I knew it growing up in Albuquerque, the Atomic Museum. The museum has a brand new full size building, with enough room to display most of their catalog for the first time, but not quite enough money to do so professionally. The result is a brief, magic window in which rare artifacts are finally out on display, but you can touch them and bang on them and crawl around in them. Many of the larger items, including a disassembled B-52 bomber and many rocket engines, are simply dumped in rows in a dirt courtyard in back.
Somehow, I expected that I would traipse through the museum, looking at old photographs and brushing up on my nuclear weapons trivia, with perhaps some solemn moments of reflection in front of the reproductions of Fat Man and Little Boy. Instead, I found myself oscillating between uncontrollable sobbing and open-mouthed technological awe. It went something like this: "Wow, a cyclotron! Holy crap, the Potsdam declaration. (Muffled sob.) A real nose-cone from an ICBM, cool! Whoa, photos of ground zero at Hiroshima. (Fountain of tears.)" I went back the next day to take some original photographs with the intention of writing a thoughtful, well-researched article on my personal experience.
Unfortunately, I have discovered that I seem to know almost nothing about the history of nuclear arms testing and development – and this is from someone whose parents worked on the Strategic Defense Initiative (Reagan's "Star Wars"), who read Richard Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" AND "The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb", who grew up in New Mexico, home of the Manhattan Project. More accurately, I knew some of the relevant facts, but in a vague sort of manner devoid of any connection with everyday life. They were numbers of megatons in a reference book, fictional movie plots involving lost nuclear weapons, and contrived acronyms for arms reduction treaties.
But walking through the museum, I saw brass Nazi goggles and notebooks, the car that carried the Trinity bomb to the test site, a copy of the Potsdam Declaration, movies of ordinary Japanese citizens clearing rubble with hand baskets in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the dented shells of nuclear missiles that were, for reals, lost in a midair collision over Spain and recovered after a multi-million dollar search. (Far more were lost and never found, in or over the ocean.) I saw, and touched, and yet still almost could not believe in, the outer shell of a "Davy Crockett" miniature tactical nuke – a literal "backpack nuke," small enough that I could encircle it in my arms. I thought backpack nukes were only a theoretical possibility, and yet they were manufactured, assembly line style. I was particularly struck by how heavily the shoulder straps of the backpack were padded – a consideration so practical and down-to-earth in the face of the incomprehensible horror of the weapon itself.
And then I really got myself in trouble: I bought a copy of Michael Light's 100 Suns from the book shop. It is a collection of 100 photographs of nuclear explosions from the U.S. nuclear testing program, during the time when nuclear tests were conducted above ground. I knew, intellectually, that Enewetak and Bikini Atolls had been practically obliterated by thermonuclear bomb tests, but seeing a 20″x26″ color photograph of the fireball of a 11 megaton explosion is… entirely different. And entirely different than seeing it on the computer screen – the image below has nothing like the power of that in the book.
Each photograph in this book symbolizes and encapsulates the conflicting and overpowering feelings I had in the museum: awe, excitement, and deep grief. My favorite photos are ones of the people watching the tests – most of them are bored, or matter-of-fact, but a few of the faces show the same awe and awareness that I feel when I look at the photos of the explosions, decades after the fact. The photos are accompanied by short footnotes at the end of the book, describing the technical and political circumstances and fallout (literal and figurative) of each test.
And here, yet again, I learned how little I knew: that several of the thermonuclear bombs accidentally exceeded expected yield by several megatons and accidentally sickened people (How!? can something as complex as a thermonuclear bomb go wrong – and result in even greater power?? That's not how computers work!), that we actually exploded nuclear weapons above the atmosphere and were surprised by the resultant EMP (I thought physicists predicted it, not that we knocked out Hawaii's power grid by accident and worked backwards from there), that the largest nuclear explosion ever was a 50-megaton test by the Soviets in the Arctic ("test" – it was entirely for political effect), that we exploded thermonuclear bombs in the continental U.S., that U.S. soldiers were put in trenches close to bomb tests in Nevada so that they could conduct maneuvers within a few hundred feet of the smoking, radioactive craters immediately afterwards.
It never even occurred to me that thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of people had witnessed nuclear tests and that I could go talk to one of these people and ask them what it was like. And I never would have guessed that I would be jealous of them, because more than likely, no human will ever witness a nuclear explosion first-hand ever again.
I don't know what to do now. Maybe most people already know these things, in which case it will be difficult to communicate my awe. Maybe they don't know these things, but I won't be able to cross the boundary between intellectual knowledge, like what I knew before I went to the museum, and the intense visceral awareness that the physical objects and photos gave me. Maybe I can't do better than Michael Light's magnificent book and I should just write him a positive Amazon review. Maybe I can do better, if I use all the resources available to me on this here World Wide Web.
Which of the above facts surprised you? What is the most shocking thing you know about nuclear weapons and the Cold War?
Do you know anyone who saw a nuclear explosion in real life? Have you asked them about it? Are they willing to talk about it?
What is the movie/book/web site/whatever about nuclear weapons that you would recommend the most?
Any advice for me on what (if anything) to do with this project?
Thank you for reading all the way through this.
I knew about all the things you listed. I think I was surprised when I learned how Teller-Ulam bombs worked (and how big the first ones were). Klaus Fuchs was interesting, especially compared to the Rosenbergs in crime and punishment. Similarly, Mordechai Vanunu is an interesting tale. So I guess I go more for stories about the humans involved these days.
I think I knew the facts you listed, and don't think I know anyone who's seen a nuclear detonation. Perhaps the most shocking thing about these weapons is how matter-of-fact our generation seems to be about them; we generally don't think about the import of maintaining such a horrifying arsenal as "deterrent".
A couple of years ago I had a chance to explore the Scottish secret bunker with some British acquaintances who are a generation older; they talked about the fatalism that comes with growing up in the shadow of nuclear war when almost all of your population is within 15 miles of a primary target.
I knew quite a few of those facts from there.
Let us hope, pray for those that have prayers that nobody ever sees a nuclear explosion ever again.
_Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman_ – Richard Feynman Section entitled Los Alamos From Below. Which is mostly humorous recollections of the project, its "success" then his subsequent breakdown when he realised the implications of not stopping when the Nazi threat was over, given this was the original reason for making the bomb. I'm sure you've read it, if you haven't it's a must read even if you avoid all of the Los Alamos section. It's entertainment. Funny as the day is long.
The Cold War could start again (or something even worse) at a moment's notice. The terror we grew up with is not gone or anything like gone.
Oh yeah and SDI was a total crock, scared me silly. It was not possible to prevent nuclear attack, so was technically useless, but it made the opposition nervous about war being more likely. Not at all good. Mercifully the worst didn't happen as a result.
The only thing I didn't know was that there was surprise at the EMP. I'd assumed that was expected.
"Edge of darkness" was an interesting cold war nuclear thriller shown on British TV in the '80s. It doesn't go into the technology itself much, but there's a lot of nuclear politics. It's available on DVD. Apparently there's a remake with Mel Gibson due out next year. I shudder at the thought.
I don't know anyone who has seen a nuclear explosion. I come more from the kind of background where I can find you a lot of people who've seen unusual things in livestock (as do you in a way) than have been present for major events.
Most of what I know comes from either Richard Feynman's memoirs or South Pacific stuff. The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by French agents ('Opération Satanique' apparently). I remember the wave of anti-French protests and sentiment in Australia around 1995 when the moratorium on testing at Mururoa was lifted. I know that the safety of the land around Maralinga in South Australia is constantly discussed, particularly with reference to the traditional owners, but don't know a lot of the story. I don't know if there is a good reference work on British or French testing, but it would probably be a worthwhile inclusion in the project: it's more interesting to me personally (obvious geographic bias) that the British tested in Australia and that the French killed a protester in New Zealand than that the US tested on within its own borders.
Oppenheimer's reactions to Trinity are interesting to read (as are the second-hand accounts of them).
I tend to be most surprised by the 'unintended consequences' things. The EMP? Wow.
I think you're fairly safe on the question of most people knowing about these things, obviously as long as you don't really mean "US 20th century military or science history geeks" when you say "most people". Sure, readers of your journal might. But my mother and I have been reading military and science history for years and I can't imagine she's better versed in nuclear testing than I am. So you've got lots of scope. I'm sure conveying awe is possible, if perhaps not of the same type that one hundred explosion photos creates. I was thinking about this over dinner and I suspect it would be a question of what point of view you write from. I have not got a good opinion of what might work there. I don't think self-insertion of the style people use when they get some money to spin their New Yorker pieces out into books (the story of how I, Valerie Aurora, learned more about nuclear testing, in chronological order) is right, but the individual perspective is important.
I thought of a possible science writing project for myself the other day, but unfortunately it wouldn't have such a potentially cool writing process. If you want a sounding board let me know.
But there's also a significant impact of nuclear weapons outside the US sphere. I'm thinking particularly of the British nuclear testing at Maralinga, South Australia.
As for movies/books, it's far more contextual as to the military-industrial complex, but Why We Fight is one of my favorite documentaries around this subject, and somewhat tangentially, The Fog of War.
My father-in-law was one of the soldiers present at a test on US soil and asked to perform excercises in the aftermath. Later he was a guard at Groom Lake (Area 51). He has plenty of life insurance.
I think I've learned most of this stuff over the years, save the EMP results. But I've talked to a few people about this topic and I think I had a weird take on it. From a very young age, nuclear weapons have always scared the crap out of me. They were the End Of The World, a button-push away by some crazy American or Soviet politician. It was particularly galling that, being Canadian, we had no input in the matter either way. We were just parked inbetween the US and USSR by accident, on the missile path for both of them. Likely cross-fire victims. We got to house the DEW line so we could know a few minutes beforehand when the world was going to end. Nice booby prize.
For many years I went to sleep convinced that a neighboring country might well destroy the world before I woke up. That "if I die before I wake…" prayer always seemed quite tangible. The cold war ending was one of the biggest sighs-of-relief I ever felt.
Learning Real Facts about nuclear weapons as I've grown older, the difficult part has been learning to take them less seriously. New facts put them in context, as something a nation might develop in any state other than that of a suicide cult. It's been hard to believe that, for example, they have a quantifiable, limited per-weapon yield — even Tsar Bomba! — or that fallout is largely heavy and sinks.
When I was a kid they were just The Instant And Awful End Of The World.
I had a much more stoic reaction to visiting that museum (before their new building) and visiting Los Alamos, but the feelings you describe are absolutely the heart of it.
Richard Rhodes' books are the best I've read on the technical subject, but on the human side, the best I've read is Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Sort of the Diary of Anne Franke of the Hiroshima bombing. There's also the Anime film Grave of the Fireflies, though that deals with conditions in wartime Japan in general.
I do wish I was as confident as you that no human will witness another nuclear explosion, but life is long, and there are many lands and many hands holding these things.
My parents are chemists and my father took a course taught by Kistiakowsky in college. So they had an interest in the history of atomic weaponry and bought all of Richard Rhodes books on the subject. They also didn't believe in hiding those books away from children, so at the age of 8, I innocently picked up The Making of the Atomic Bomb and flipped through it till I came across the picture section. The photographs of the melted bodies of Hiroshima made my heart stop and I think a part of me has been haunted by them ever since. I haven't ever completely read any of his books, but I've skimmed through them so many times over the years.
I was also obsessed with the film The Atomic Cafe. Yeah, I was a rather morbid kid. But because of that film, I knew about the soldier guinea-pigs marching towards the mushroom cloud. (I didn't know about the EMP disruption, though.) Needless to say, I insisted on visiting Hiroshima when we were in Japan last year. "Intense visceral awareness" from the objects… oh yeah.
Joe and I read Survival City earlier this year. It's about the remaining structures associated with the nuclear arms build-up and is a good reminder of how obsessed America was and how much it's still a fact of life, albeit much more in the shadows these days.
Ooh, can I borrow Survival City?
Which fact surprised me? I guess that the first EMP effect actually knocked out power in Hawaii.
Do I know anyone who saw a nuclear explosion in real life? No.
Movie that I would recommend the most? "The Day After," simply because it was the first time someone ever had the gall to show what a real nuclear war would be like. Along with changing American's perceptions of nuclear war, it also changed Reagan's mind about tactical nuclear war, and helped lead to actual arms reductions treaties with the Soviet Union.
Photos from RVSN museum at Pervomaysk, Ukraine.
and mechanics capable to open it in 7 seconds or detonate away if said mechanics became damaged and couldn't open via normal means.
to order second strike survived.
all political and economical clusterfsck in Russia after USSR decay.
Wow, that is amazing! Thank you so much for the pointer. The Nuclear Sciences Museum looks amazingly similar to the RVSN museum – except New Mexico doesn't get enough rain to grow grass around the abandoned missles.
I can try to translate text if you want.
I would appreciate that – I sent some of it through Babelfish but didn't understand much.
Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence.
Also ++ on Sadako and the 1000 paper cranes.
I really believed there was a good chance I had no future, and I was utterly powerless to prevent nuclear war. This was something that would be determined by bigger nations than mine, and if we weren't directly hit due to our secret US comms bases, we would die a horrible death from nuclear fall out.
Didn't happen. But everytime there's posturing about nuclear weapons, a little part of me thinks "here we go again".
The fact these weapons are still being made AT ALL by ANYONE is still a powerfully depressing thought.
Translation isn't exact of course. I don't know accurate translation of some words.
[RVSN is transliteration of shortcut not shortcut itself.
an tower equipped with minigun, infrared detectors and remote control.
and 15 USD for foreigners. Russia citizens are counted as locals which is good.
Museum can be divided in 3 parts.
First, exposition inside Officers' House.
History of unit, dismantled control panels, radios, photos, schemes, charts etc.
with possibility to explore internal and external structure.
maintaince and for some reason ZIS-3 cannon.
One can touch anything and study.
And finally, silo itself with infrastructure.
Khmel'nickii, Kolomii, Kotovsk. Command Center was at Vinnica.
Silos At Belarus also shown: Postavy, Lida, Mozyr'.
with highboiled [sorry, –adobriyan] components and autonomous control system.
Carribean crisis happened exactly because of R-12.
Need to point out that exactly this rocket unit didn't have Satan.
There were solid-propellant RS-22 (SS-24 –adboriyan) here.
But not for long. RS-22 was accepted by Ministry of Defense in the end of 1989.
however, its modifications are in armoury still.
(very tight), radio transmitters, batteries, life support system for 20 days.
(automatical system for ordering second strike).
silo, after that cover was sealed.
Do not open if DG 1,2 are opened.
Elevator moved down to where lauch command could be actually ordered.
One can buy a badge of RVSN of Ukraine (!) and DVD(?) with video of launches.
Those who live in Pervomaysk probably aren't aware of such museum near them.
Learning Real Facts about nuclear weapons as I've grown older, the difficult part has been learning to take them less seriously.
This was my experience as well, though I was closer to it. (Dad worked for the US military, and we were right next to Washington DC for most of the Cold War.) So any mention of the subject provoked fascination and horror of exactly how that hot dog stand in the middle of the Pentagon was going to go down, and studying the weather patterns of the day so that we could determine whether our likely lifespan would be measured in seconds or days. It was all entirely out of my control, but somehow I was subsumed in the "we" of one of the sides by sheer virtue of geography.
Thanks for the time and care it took to write this. It was very interesting.
It's funny– I don't think I knew enough to be surprised, but I was fascinated nonetheless. And recently watched two films about the survivors' experiences of hiroshima ("After Hiroshima Mon Amour" is one and I can't remember the other title — it was part of a lecture).
What definitely didn't surprise me was the part where they didn't predict EMP until it knocked out the grid and that the bomb gave too much power. Science *often* works by working backwards from unexpected side effects or something engineers get working (like steel alloys) before science can explain why. Computer Science is odd in this respect because computers are fragile so comp engineering is all about precision and if precise assumptions about its mechanisms are not maintained, it breaks, seg faults, or aborts. :) Chemicals don't seem to work so much like that.
The unpredicted EMP surprised me because so much of nuclear weapons making is planning and predicting and modeling in advance. Most nuclear weapons work the first try. The first nuclear fission reactor worked first time as well, with only slight miscalculations on the dimensions of the pile. Usually, science and engineering are full of surprises and accidents, but not when they involve weapons or space flight.
Yeah, i guess for weapons that are dropped and decimate, like nuclear bombs, the mechanism seems like it has a large margin of error. Decimation can happen in many ways and too much power still sorta accomplishes the death and awe. But for planes and targeting incidents, it is surprising. I wonder, though, to what extent that is an artifact of how the histories of these things are written. I wonder what counts as "the first time" you try something — does that exclude all the smaller scale experiments that led up to it?
Thank you for the translation! I didn't know about Satan and the automated second strike. Crazy.
Here's a NYT piece on the evolution of Obama's agenda to eliminate the global nuclear arsenal.
I had a similar museum experience last week when I visited the Bradbury Science Museum at Los Alamos, NM. If you get a chance to visit the Bradbury, take it. Although it is a fairly small museum, it has many excellent, exhibits that showcase the past and present work at Los Alamos. Like I said, it is physically small, but it is packed with lots of great things to see and do.
I grew up in the 50's and 60's under the constant Cold War threat of instant nuclear annihilation. At school, in addition to regular fire drills we had nuclear attack drill where you either hid under your desk or went out in the hall, sat down on the floor with your back against the wall, put your head between your knees and your arms over your neck. It was scary.
I either outgrew my childhood fears or developed a love / hate relationship with nuclear power as my first two college degrees were in Nuclear Engineering, however I have never practiced that discipline. I have always been a real nuclear history buff.
At the Bradbury, I was surprised by the large number of kids that seemed truly interested in Fat Man, Little Boy and their descendants. The one thought that I could not get out of my head is that these kids did not have to grow up with the same fears of these terrible devices that I did. That made me happy.
I recommend two fairly recent biographies,Einstein : His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson and American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin. My favorite Cold War movie is Fail-Safe, but Dr. Strangelove gets my vote for best Cold War dark comedy.
May be you'll find shocking that the most powerful bomb was exploded by USSR in 1961. It was 50 megatons. Its shock wave travelled around the Earth 3 (three!) times.
The test took place in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. Before the test it was planned to make 100 megatons bomb, but according to Khrushchev it was decided to make 50 to not damage windows in Moscow (which is several thousand kilometers from Novaya Zemlya).
> What is the most shocking thing you know about nuclear weapons and the Cold War?
That at the time of Cuban missile crisis one Russian sub was cornered by US Navy, depth charges were dropped on it (allegedly, to harass it, not destroy), and as we now know, they had a nuclear-tipped torpedo and had permission to use it if sub would be damaged! We were this >< close to a nuclear war.
That Tsar Bomb, even though did not kill a single human, did kill and incapacitated a lot of animals. The 57 MT blast has HUGE flash radius. Eyewitnesses say that a lot of sea gulls and other birds were blinded. These blind birds were flying haphazardly, like bats, and were dying from starvation. Polar bears were similarly affected by the flash, and also by radiation in their food chain (fish).
It references Lake Karachay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Karachay) in western Russia that's so polluted with nuclear waste from weapons manufacturing, that standing next to it for one hour would give you enough of a dose of radiation to kill you within two weeks.
I wish that were so, but I fear it isn't. Either they will be used against us via a "rogue" nation, or someday we will have to use them defensively. Of course my saying so doesn't make it so, but still it is so. The world is a cruel, harsh, animalistic place. We like to think we are beyond that, but we aren't.
I also spent much of my childhood both terrified and mesmerised by nuclear weapons. That's never really gone away, either. It all started with an English lesson when I was about 9 years old, at boarding school, and the teacher assured us very confidently that there would be a nuclear war at some point in the next ten years. Thankfully, events have proved him wrong, but what a way to terrify a bunch of 9 year old kids!
Anyway, an interesting little book I picked up once is "Megaton mornings"; a memoir of a British man doing his national service in the RAF, who in about 1962 was posted to Christmas Island, and witnessed a couple of dozen American thermonuclear tests. The memoir is quite interesting in its descriptions of the reactions of other servicemen, ranging from the blasé sleeping through the tests (!) to grown men cowering under tables, unable to control their fear, even though they were at a safe distance, upwind, and knew it. I don't suppose anyone knows where they'd be on that scale without being there.
It's not the world's most literary read, but was nevertheless an unusual perspective. I think it's quite a hard book to find though, I think it's out of print now, and I don't know where my copy is.
If you're really keen on trying to get your head around what nuclear weapons mean then I'd advise visiting Hiroshima. I had the opportunity to visit a few years ago, and am very glad I did. I won't describe it as pleasant (although the modern day city of Hiroshima is a lovely place and had I not been there to visit the memorials and museums it would have been a very pleasant weekend), parts of it were frankly harrowing, but I felt it gave me a new perspective on the nature of warfare and the use of nuclear weapons. Bizaarly it was a number of the smaller things that stayed with me, the sign, maybe 5 minutes walk from the center of the explosion marking the edge of the fireball; the wall covered with copies of telegrams of protest from the major of Hiroshima to various world leaders, one letter for every weapon test; ceramic roofing tiles blistered and distorted from the heat of the blast and the section of steps with a human shadow burnt into them, with the accompanying addition to the description text that relatively recently a visitor to the museum had identified the shadow as probably belonging to their mother who had worked nearby and just to stop and sit there.


In their study of the consequences of a negative self-evaluation on the immune system, researchers from the University of Wisconsin sought to validate the assumption that negative affect induced by a negative self-appraisal can mediate changes in immune responses (Strauman, Lemieux, & Coe, 1993). The study relied on self-discrepancy theory to examine the impact of certain stressors on an individual's self-evaluation. This is consistent with other studies that correlate the impact of stressful life events to the meaning or personal appraisal of the stressor by the individual, whereby positive or negative self-evaluation is closely associated with distinct responses to stress and coping styles (Segerstrom, Taylor, Kemeny, & Fahey, 1998; Stowell, Kiecolt-Glaser, & Glaser, 2001).


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what is the average temperature in mississippi
3. Average temperatures are increasing in states along both the upper and lower Mississippi, although at varying rates. Yes, this is for homework, and I am having little luck with finding a specific one for northern mississippi. Temperatures this winter may be colder than average in parts of the northern and eastern U.S., while above-average temperatures are likely in the western and southern states. Kosciusko Weather by month // weather averages October, the same as September, is a moderately hot autumn month in Vicksburg, Mississippi, with average temperature varying between 78.8°F (26°C) and 51.8°F (11°C). Kosciusko average temperature. Mississippi River, the longest river of North America, draining with its major tributaries an area of approximately 1.2 million square miles, or about one-eighth of the entire continent. - … Tupelo, Mississippi climate information including graphs for average temperature, annual rainfall 2. Overall, the average maximum and minimum temperatures tend to closely track the hottest and coldest months on record. Hot season / summer is in June, July, August and September. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 26.5 °C | 79.7 °F. The temperature varies little statewide in the summer; however, in winter, the region near Mississippi Sound is significantly warmer than the inland portion of the state. January, the same as December, in Iuka, Mississippi, is another chilly winter month, with average temperature ranging between min 26.6°F (-3°C) and max 48.2°F (9°C).The coldest month is January, with an average high-temperature of 48.2°F (9°C) and an average low-temperature of 26.6°F (-3°C). Average high and low temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit are listed below for Mississippi River. Temperature In October, the average high-temperature drops, from a tropical 87.8°F (31°C) in … Ambient Temperatures - Below Ground. For climate figures for other places and regions in Mississippi please, visit the individual climate pages. It is the lowest average temperature of the whole year. For example if EWT is 70 then use tank temperature as 70F+130F/2.25=89F . and does anyone have any idea what the following question means? On average, the warmest month … This rainfall is typically spread over 7 days, although this may vary considerably. Frost Depth. Where is hot in Mississippi in November for 2021/2022? Read below for more weather and travel details. You can expect to have about 5 days with temperatures under 32°F, or 16% of time. Note that seasonal normals in contrast with those observed in Mississippi in the month of january with a maximum record of 76°F in 2013 and a minimum record of 16°F in 2018. January has the lowest average temperature of the year. Average monthly Rainfall, Sunshine, Temperatures. Jackson average temperature. Residential, preheat tank solution, use average tank temperature of 130F plus the local EWT, divided by 2.25. Below are average maximum temperatures at popular destinations in Mississippi in November. Average minimum and maximum temperature in Southaven (Mississippi) in fahrenheit The months April, May, September and October have a nice average temperature. Temperatures in Mississippi were highest in the 1920s and 1930s, followed by a substantial cooling of almost 2°F throughout the 1960s and 1970s (Figure 1). Dress accordingly during your houseboat vacation. Lowest Temperature: The lowest temperature in Mississippi, -19°, was recorded on January 30, 1966 at Corinth. It is 6.0 °C | 42.8 °F. On the flip side this corresponds to an average of 8.9 hours of sunshine per day. The exact frost depth will vary depending on the specific soil … With its tributaries, the Mississippi River drains all or part of 31 U.S. states and two provinces in Canada. The warmest Gulf of Mexico average water temp in January is 26.8°C/80.2°F (in Cancun), and the coldest Gulf of Mexico sea surface temperature … Residential, single tank solution, use average tank temperature of 130F plus the local EWT, divided by 2.0. However, the state is subject to periods of both drought and flood, and the climate rarely seems to bring "average" conditions. Daily minimum temperatures in January average 27 and 43° F … On average April is the 3rd driest month of the year in Biloxi with around 115mm 4.5 inches of rain making it a damp time to visit. Mississippi High Temperatures Map. Monthly averages Gulfport Longitude: -89.0928, Latitude: 30.3674 Average weather Gulfport, MS - 39501. That said, there really isn't a bad time to visit Berlin. In January, the average temperature is 7.3 °C | 45.1 °F. Thus, the mean temperature average in january in Mississippi is 49°F. The annual precipitation average is 58.48 inches. Complete climate information for Forest, Mississippi. During the spring months, the average temperature is … Average Temperature: Monthly average temperatures range from a high of 92.5 degrees to a low of 34.9 degrees. While, in December 2015 the situation was reversed and much of the east had significantly above average temperatures. This rainfall is typically spread over 8 days, although this may vary considerably. On the flip side this corresponds to an average of 6.6 hours of sunshine per day. Find the best time to go to McComb (Mississippi). You just need to be prepared with both an umbrella (Regenschirm) and a bathing suit (Badeanzug).Here is an overview of the weather in Berlin for all the seasons with information on average temperatures, what to wear, and what to do every season. Answer Save. Considering only changes to air temperature, 2020 to 2099 average stream temperatures may increase by 1–8 C above 1950 – 2010 average water temperatures, with non-uniform increases along the river. The frost depth can be fairly accurately calculated as it is usually directly related to the number of freezing degree days for a given geographic location. If you need additional assistance, please contact us toll-free at 888-454-8825 or click here to submit a request for more guidance. Mississippi has short winters and long, humid summers. August 13th to October 21st. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 27.2 °C | 81.0 °F. Temperatures have risen since that cool period by about 2°F, such that the most recent one to two decades have been slightly above the long-term average. (homework help!)? Mississippi weather history reports an annual average temperature of 63.5 °F with an average high temperature of 74.7 °F and an average low temperature of 52.0 °F. Climate: Average yearly precipitation for Mississippi, from 1971 to 2000, is shown on this chart from Oregon State University. These temperature trends are explored more closely below. Select a destination to see more weather parameters. Weather in January » Monthly: 1981-2010 normals During the winter months, the average temperature is 25 degree Celsius. August is forecast to have above-average temperatures in the Northeast. based on average temperature and humidity from NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). Forest, Mississippi Climate - 39074 Weather, Average Rainfall, and Temperatures Weather map with the current High Temperatures for Mississippi. The normal annual temperature in Mississippi ranges from 60° F in the northern border counties to 67 in the coastal counties. Current High Temperatures map for Mississippi. Find out how often it rains, snows, and the gets cold or hot in Forest. The West Coast and Southwest could be hotter than average. In January sea water temperature in some cities on the Gulf of Mexico coast is above 20°C/68°F and it is enough for comfortable bathing. Station Data. Biloxi, on the Gulf coast, averages 82°F (28°C) in July, while Oxford, in the north-central part of the state, averages 80°F (27°C). The average weather in Mississippi indicates a relative humidity in the morning of 87.3%, and 66.7% in the afternoon and evening. Jackson, Mississippi climate information including graphs for average temperature, annual rainfall Climate and average weather for McComb (Mississippi), United States of America displayed in graphs. The figures below are for Jackson and cannot be seen as an average for this state. Temperatures average about 81 °F (27 °C) in July and about 42 °F (6 °C) in January. Daily highs in January average about 48 in the north to about 61° F along the coast. Cooler conditions will prevail in portions of the Plains and Midwest. In some portions of the MRB, stream temperatures could increase above survival thresholds for several native fish species during summer. 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On the Berkeley and Davis Protests
By Adam Thomas on November 19, 2011
Back in February 2010, 11 Muslim students from UC Irvine and UC Riverside interrupted a speech given on the Irvine campus by Israeli ambassador Michael Oren to protest against that nation's occupation of the Gaza strip. Although each protester only spoke for a few seconds, and although Oren's speech was delayed by only a few minutes, the students were arrested and subjected to university sanctions. Afterwards, criminal charges were brought, at which point many students and faculty voiced their belief that this was a step too far. 100 UC Irvine faculty signed an open letter to the Orange County DA, asking that the charges be dropped. There was a wide consensus on campus that the DA's increasingly Islamophobic and vindictive campaign against the students needed to end. Despite their efforts, ten of the eleven were convicted of criminal charges by the Orange County District Attorney in October 2011. At the time, faculty, students, and most people who read about the prosecution in the press worried what about the future of political expression on campus. Fears were hardly allayed by the administration's statement that it still sought to "nurture robust debate, promote free speech, and welcome different points of view."
Over the last week, we have seen those fears realized. I use the "Irvine 11" incident to open a discussion about the violent suppression of peaceful (and they were peaceful – linking arms is not a violent act, no matter what the Berkeley Chancellor might say) protests at Berkeley and Davis, because I realized today, to paraphrase Malcolm X, that the chickens have come home to roost. The actions we have seen this week appear to me as part of a longer trend in which the university proves itself willing to silence its students, and to renege on its supposed commitment to political engagement. Because while criminal charges against the Irvine 11 seemed unnecessary to many, for a significant portion of the community, the university's own sanctions against the protesting students belied a desire to stifle free speech. While it could be argued, as administrators did, that Oren lost his right to free speech when the students drowned out his words, he was able to give his speech shortly after. He then cut short the Q & A to attend a Lakers game. The students, who weren't backed by a government, exercised their rights to protest (peacefully) and were penalized. When the university temporarily banned the Muslim Student Union and imposed further individual punishments, many students worried about the potential consequences of voicing their political opinions. The administration emailed students shortly after the arrests, explaining that they encouraged free speech in "designated areas," where it would not disturb anybody's work. Apparently speech was only free where nobody could hear it.
Now, when students on other UC campuses have confronted authority and articulated their grievances in a way that, at worst, caused a minor inconvenience, they have been met with riot police wielding batons, tear gas, and pepper spray. Nobody was rioting in Berkeley and nobody was rioting in Davis. The highest ranking officials at both institutions thought a reasonable response to a minor inconvenience was to call in heavily armed police. The police thought a reasonable response to the minor inconvenience was to pull protesters by the hair, hit them repeatedly with batons, and today, to hold their mouths open and pour pepper spray down their throats. The disparity between protesters' peaceful action and the administration and police's violent response is so large that it defies description. And the administration is equally responsible for the injuries protesters have unnecessarily suffered. The blood of UC students and faculty is on their hands too. Davis professor Nathan Brown has written a letter to the Davis Chancellor, Linda P. B. Katehi , demanding her resignation, because as he says, her decision making has compromised the safety of Davis community. What happened at Berkeley last week made it obvious that police cannot be trusted to restrain themselves, and Katehi should have known this.
On top of the grievous injuries done to people who did what they had every right to do in an organized, peaceful manner, the outcome of all this is a suppression of the very free speech upon which the University of California, the academy at large, the country, and the peaceful areas of the world rely. I have been a graduate student at UC Irvine for two and a half years, and I was once proud to be a part of one of the best public university systems in the world, a university with a tradition of political engagement. Now I am ashamed to be a part of an institution whose government thinks that speech should only be free in certain areas, that riot police have a place on campus, that linking arms denotes violence, and that use of weapons is a proportionate response to peaceful action.
The police need to be held accountable, just as they should have been in Oakland, New York, and countless other cities across the country in the last few months. Brutality seems to have become the norm, and the casual manner in which a policeman sprayed a line of protesters with a poisonous gas in Davis speaks volumes about how comfortable some policemen are with the injuries they inflict. That these people are allowed to act like this against innocent victims anywhere, on campus or off, without reproach, beggars belief. UC administrators who have allowed this to happen, like city mayors have, must also be stopped. Just as appointed administrative officials don't think twice about unleashing an armed force on defenseless protesters everywhere, so many member s of police everywhere don't think twice about using those arms. Both of these habits need to end here and now. This is a society-wide problem in need of immediate and drastic redress.
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That's about how long it should take a passenger to get from the Las Vegas Airport to their Strip hotel in Las Vegas, most times of the day. Heck, you can see the Strip right under you as you land in the plane (it's one of the great sights in aviation). The two are not far apart.
And yet, according to industry news publication Travel Weekly, some 22.5% of passengers are being taken on much longer rides than necessary when they use a cab to get in from the airport. They've gotten those statistics from a Nevada Leglistlative Counsel Bureau report.
Are cabbies pulling a quick one on passengers? Most probably. The article noted that during rush hour, taking a longer drive may result in shorter travel time. But those routes can sometimes double the fare. The average fare between the Airport and such center Strip properties as Bally's or the City Center hotels should be between $14 and $19.
You want to save those extra dollars for the craps table, right?


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For children local to our centres, we provide both direct one to one intervention, and the supervision and consultation necessary to develop and maintain an individualised intensive ABA programme. One to one teaching sessions can occur in our therapy centres, at home, in a nursery or school setting and in various community locations. At the beginning of intervention, one to one teaching is used to rapidly develop skills. Group teaching opportunities are provided for the purpose of further developing social skills, generalising skills developed in one-to-one instruction, learning how to learn in group settings and further developing the maintenance of appropriate behaviour in a variety of settings. We provide support for parents on how to manage challenging and maladaptive behaviour and how to maximise the child's learning while at home outside of formal therapy time.
For children who are not local to our therapy centres we can provide ongoing consultation services to assist parents conducting their own home or school-based ABA programmes. We can provide ABA programme services anywhere in the UK and worldwide. Children who are just beginning their ABA programmes, not progressing as well as expected or who have especially complex learning and behavioural needs can participate in a week long intensive intervention with highly-qualified practitioners providing the therapy.
For professionals involved in the education of children with autism, we offer comprehensive training in ABA methodology, training workshops, professional development and consultation for developing ABA classrooms.
Every year there is a new intervention which is declared to be highly effective in educating individuals with ASD. So how does one decide which intervention to select? We are firm believers in the scientific method. It is important to separate those procedures that merely sound good, make sense, or feel right from those that actually produce positive change. This really is no different from what we would expect or want when it comes to medical intervention. If one had a life-threatening medical illness, one would not take a drug merely based on the claims of the manufacturer. The patient would look for medications that have gone through scientifically rigorous examination and have proven to be effective. That way the patient would also know the risks associated with taking them. The same should be true for any psychological intervention, including intervention for autism.
Unfortunately, many approaches claim to be effective but lack rigorous scientific testing to support the claim. Some interventions originally produced a lot of excitement based on anecdotal evidence, but have later been shown not to have any effect, for example, secretin. Other interventions have been later shown to be actually harmful when used over a long period of time, for example, fenfluramine. Therefore, it is essential that parents be well-informed and objective when deciding on an intervention for their child.
Parents should critically evaluate the evidence for effectiveness of an approach, look for carefully conducted scientific research and beware of pseudoscience. What the research consistently shows is that one approach meets this scientific standard, with more than three decades of research demonstrating incredible effectiveness: Intensive Behavioural Intervention based on Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA). There is no other intervention that has been proven to be more effective or has the same amount of scientific evidence to support it. For more information we invite you to explore research findings on behavioural intervention of autism.


Published on July 30, 2016 | Updated 2:12 a. m.
Two area organizations whose missions include feeding the hungry will be able to increase those efforts thanks to grant money awarded this week by the Wal-Mart Inc.'s charitable foundation.
The Lorain County Boys & Girls Clubs received $50,000 to buy a new food truck that will be used to deliver hot meals to low-income, food-insecure children throughout Lorain County.
Meanwhile, Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio received $75,000 to increase its efforts to make more protein-rich food available to its partner charities.
Both awards were part of some $840,000 awarded by Wal-Mart and its foundation during Thursday's statewide "Day of Giving to Fight Hunger" program that saw funds presented to 18 nonprofit organizations across the state.
The Lorain County organizations received checks during an event in Cleveland.
The $50,000 awarded to the county's Boys & Girls Clubs is a godsend, according to Mike Conibear, the organization's executive director, who said the money will go far in feeding hungry youngsters.
The county's Boys & Girls Clubs provide about 960 breakfasts and lunches as part of its summer vacation meals effort at 19 locations, including club outlets and community locations, such as churches.
The same number of kids also are fed during the school year through the club's afterschool program, according to Conibear.
The new vehicle will enable hot and cold foods to be driven to distribution sites from a newly refurbished kitchen at Boys & Girls Clubs' Oakwood facility on Pearl Avenue in Lorain.
Hot food will be delivered in boxes that will be slid into the side of the truck, enabling it to maintain desirable temperatures.
"This will allow deliveries to be done more efficiently," Conibear said.
The vehicle also may be used for catering special community events.
Second Harvest Food Bank will use a $75,000 Wal-Mart grant to buy more protein-rich foods including eggs, which will be distributed by the food bank's pantries and hot meals programs to boost the amount of protein in diets of those served by the program, according to Julie Chase-Morefield, Second Harvest's executive director.
This marks the second year in a row that the food bank has received funds from Wal-Mart that primarily were used to buy eggs.
This year's grant is a 50 percent increase in the amount of money provided over last year's $50,000 grant, Chase-Morefield said.
Prior to receipt of the Wal-Mart grants, the food bank was only able to make eggs available periodically.
Other protein-rich foods such as turkey sausage also will be purchased, but the bulk of the grant will buy eggs, she said.
The increased capacity for storing food at the food bank's new $5 million, 41,000-square-foot Nordson Food Distribution Center, as the facility is formally known, is allowing officials to buy and accept much more food.
Previously, the food bank's refrigeration units only had room for produce, but the new facility's walk-in refrigerated area has ample room for produce and eggs "all the time," Chase-Morefield said.
Contact Steve Fogarty at 329-7146 or sfogarty@chroniclet.com.


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Red Warrior Camp urges world to come stand with them and push back National Guard
"They are putting our lives in jeopardy." Cody Hall.
Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016
CANNON BALL, North Dakota -- Red Warrior Camp spokesman Cody Hall urged the entire world to come and stand with them and push back the show of force targeting peaceful water defenders, and burial place protectors, camped on Treaty lands of the Standing Rock Nation.
"I'm asking the whole world to hear our plight, that we are wanting you to show up in a peaceful manner and come stand with us on the front lines," Hall said today.
Hall said Governor Jack Dalrymple called in the National Guard during a press conference, but the governor did not disclose the number of soldiers that would be at the camp tomorrow.
Hall said it is a show of presence.
"Round one was when they used attack dogs on us," Hall said in a video media statement today.
Now, Round two is calling in the National Guard to make a heavy force on the peaceful water protectors and sacred site protectors.
"I'm asking the whole world to hear our plight, that we are wanting you to show up in a peaceful manner and come stand with us on the front lines."
He said it is their God-given right to be on these county roads and "protect what is ours and what has always been ours."
"Please come and support us. This is no game anymore. They are putting our lives in jeopardy."
Hall said those protecting the water of the Missouri River, and the sacred burial places, are expressing their Amendment rights, their civil rights.
"Please show up in support. Stand with us, so this pipeline is defeated."
Hall urged the people of the world to come and push back this show of force, push back the governor and the Morton County Sheriff, who are asserting their authority on peaceful protectors.
"We won't back down, and we are standing ground for what we believe in."
Standing Rock Dakota, Lakota and Nakota are joined by Native Americans and other supporters blocking the destruction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
On Saturday, burial place protectors were attacked by vicious dogs, maced, and assaulted. Six were bitten by pipeline security attack dogs, including a pregnant woman and child.
The Morton Co. Sheriff's office released a statement of lies, accusing the protectors of being violent and armed. Those lies were repeated by the media, including The Associated Press.
Responding to questions in Laos this week, President Obama claimed he was clueless about the Standing Rock defense of the Missouri River water and burial place. Obama said he would have to ask his staff about it, after being questioned on his role in protecting the water and upholding environmental justice.
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Good to see all the relatives are going on a walk to town. Tell your own story! You water protectors are Great & Proud people. You are the heart, soul, spirit,love, strength. Take Courage ! I wouldn't pay any attention to those lying racist jerks that said that they have to call out the guard cuz of a blocked parking space ! People all over the world love you, support you, they may even want to be you ! You are the real American heroes, Turtle Island people heroes/ protectors! When you go on that walk will you remember me and the ones who wish we could be there too? The water protectors are Inspiring people to feel that there is Life and Hope & We will Stay Standing Strong with Respect.
Your actions will be a beacon for the world to protect our resources and turn the tide of greed that has stripped our planet and desiccrated our faith
Warren Osborn said...
Hoka He!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We need beacons all over the world. A world revolution
Mrs Vinegar said...
I'm an English Grandmother, I live in South Somerset, England. My daughter lives in Seattle and told me about the plight at Standing Rock and that no major news in USA or UK, was covering the injustices and rape of the American Indians land and the Environment. If I had money I would fly to USA and give these courageous people my last breath. All I can do is pray and sign my heart and soul to Unity, Solidarity and Peace with the Native Americans. May God protect and bless them and your newspaper.
Mrs Sally Hearn,
Somerset, England
Matt Lucero, Denver Colorado said...
Thank You Mrs Hearn. Got back last week and the SRS were so appreciative of every one's help. People from all walks of life were there living in perfect harmony. Drones, planes and helicopters overflew us all day and night, while daily life on the ground bustled with activity. Have never seen such peace, harmony, respect, and genuine gratitude. No one left a stranger. No one left unmoved.
Directions to get to camp need
I can not be there in person but I support you guys from the UK.. Good luck I am routing for you all.. Gemma Marshall From Hyde Manchester England
What airport would I fly into? What supplies should I bring?
It is between mandan and cannonball on 1806 just a little bit out of cannonball.
I'm in support of Standing Rock! I pray for you everyday. I want to get you supplies and help. But have no way to get them to you. Peace and love.


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Let the good times roll at the library
Laissez les bon temp rouler! Shreve Memorial Library is joining in the revelry of Mardi Gras season, and you are invited to join us! Throughout the month of February, the library will have a variety of programs
Let the good times roll at the library Laissez les bon temp rouler! Shreve Memorial Library is joining in the revelry of Mardi Gras season, and you are invited to join us! Throughout the month of February, the library will have a variety of programs Check out this story on shreveporttimes.com: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/life/2019/02/14/let-the-good-times-roll-at-shreve-memorial-library/39047461/
Samantha Bonnette Published 10:00 a.m. CT Feb. 14, 2019
Laissez les bon temp rouler! Shreve Memorial Library is joining in the revelry of Mardi Gras season, and you are invited to join us! Throughout the month of February, the library will have a variety of programs for all ages letting the good times roll. Programs include mask-making workshops, preschool Mardi Gras parade and storytimes, as well as a cool program sponsored by the Genealogy Department highlighting the history of king cakes – and who doesn't love a good king cake?
The Mardi Gras program schedule at SML is as follows:
• Genealogy Class: History of King Cakes (samples included) at Broadmoor Branch – Feb. 18 at 2 p.m.
• Preschool Mardi Gras Parade & Storytime at Hamilton/South Caddo Branch – Feb. 22 at 10 a.m.
• Teen Mardi Gras Mask Making at Wallette Branch – Feb. 21 at 3:30 p.m.
• Mardi Gras Kazoos for Teens at Atkins Branch – Feb. 25 at 4 p.m.
• Mardi Gras Mask-Making Craft at Hosston Branch – Feb. 25, 27 & 29 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
In addition to these great programs, be sure to look for the Shreve Memorial Library krewe in the upcoming Mardi Gras parades. The Mobile Library and outreach team will be riding in the Krewe of Centaur, Krewe of Gemini, and Krewe of Highland Mardi Gras parades.
In addition to celebrating Mardi Gras, we are also asking our SML Social Media Ambassadors to share their library love stories with us in honor of Valentine's Day. Be sure to follow @shrevememorial on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and see what our ambassadors have to say about loving the library.
What's New at the Library
Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking (non-fiction)
New York Times Bestseller. The world-famous cosmologist and author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the biggest questions facing humankind. Stephen Hawking was the most renowned scientist since Einstein, known both for his groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and for his mischievous sense of humor. He educated millions of readers about the origins of the universe and the nature of black holes, and inspired millions more by defying a terrifying early prognosis of ALS, which originally gave him only two years to live. In later life he could communicate only by using a few facial muscles, but he continued to advance his field and serve as a revered voice on social and humanitarian issues. Hawking not only unraveled some of the universe's greatest mysteries but also believed science plays a critical role in fixing problems here on Earth. Now, as we face immense challenges on our planet – including climate change, the threat of nuclear war, and the development of artificial intelligence – he turns his attention to the most urgent issues facing us. Will humanity survive? Should we colonize space? Does God exist? These are just a few of the questions Hawking addresses in this wide-ranging, passionately argued final book from one of the greatest minds in history.
The Reluctant Healer by Andrew Himmel (fiction)
Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2018. Between Doubt and Belief. The Reluctant Healer tells the story of a young attorney who is torn between mounting evidence that he has the spiritual ability to heal others and his life-long skepticism of alternative views. Will Alexander is cautious and conventional. But when he meets Erica, a beautiful, intense energy healer, he becomes troubled not only by her unorthodox endeavors but also by the limitations of his own existence. Amidst his turmoil, Will is startled to discover that he may possess metaphysical gifts of healing that confront the narrow doctrines of his regulated life. The Reluctant Healer paints a portrait of a reasonable man who traces a path between skepticism and belief. Flawed, funny, and agnostic, Will distrusts much of the alternative world, even as he struggles internally with phenomena that challenge both his sense of self and his orderly perspective. Will's love for Erica, the exposure to her world, and his newfound powers place his life in a state of uncertainty, teetering between disruption and liberation.
Vindication by H. Terrell Griffin (fiction)
Premier adult community with everything you could possibly want, need, or dream of doing in your retirement years is just a golf cart ride away – now the scene of a murder. In this John Grisham style mystery, Matt Royal, the retired lawyer-turned-beach-bum is called back into the courtroom to defend his girlfriend J.D. Duncan's Aunt Esther, who lives in the sprawling North Central Florida retirement community of The Villages. A best-selling author has been murdered after a book signing, and Aunt Esther has been arrested. Matt has a history with the local sheriff – one which may not bode well for his client. Matt reluctantly suits up for the courtroom, and J.D. takes a leave from the police department to go undercover. A bizarre specter from the past haunts their investigation every step of the way. As they delve further into the case, the pieces of the puzzle refuse to fall into any kind of coherent pattern. Jock Algren arrives with his special skill set to expose the real murderer and free Aunt Esther, but to no avail. Not until the case goes to trial and the evidence is revealed does the truth emerge – and a strange kind of justice prevails.
Samantha Bonnette is marketing & development manager at Shreve Memorial Library.
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Injured In An Accident with A Commercial Vehicle? Protect Your Rights.
Due to the nature and size of commercial vehicles and the fact that commercial drivers are often rushing to their next job or delivery, many accidents occur every day involving personal automobiles and commercial trucks or vans. This is especially true during holiday seasons.
In addition, the size and weight of most commercial vehicles result in a disproportionate number of injuries and more severe injuries when accidents do occur.
While your first priority is to seek needed medical evaluation and treatment, you should contact a personal injury attorney with experience in commercial vehicle accidents as soon as possible to ensure that your rights and future are protected.
I understand that the hours and days after an accident can be confusing and frightening. There are concerns about your physical well-being as well as how your medical bills will be paid. If the injury is serious and you will be out of work for a period of time, what will you do?
I am a personal injury attorney at Frank P. Bianco, P.A. I live and work right here in Pasco County and have extensive experience with commercial vehicle accidents. I am your neighbor and will provide you with the guidance and representation you need so that you can focus on getting well.
You will always work directly with me from your first consultation right through any negotiations and/or legal processes. During your initial no-cost consultation, I will review your case and advise you of the best course of action.
Understanding Commercial Vehicle Accidents — Your Attorney Can Help!
Any accident involving a business truck or vehicle (for example, being rear-ended by a truck driver) is considered a commercial accident. While it is always wise to get advice from a personal injury lawyer if you've been injured in an accident, this is especially true when a commercial vehicle is involved.
In some cases, commercial drivers or the business they own or drive for carries insurance with large companies that will hire an adjustment firm. These firms specialize in keeping potential compensation to a minimum. In these instances, I will attempt to reach an amicable settlement with the insurance company. If an acceptable settlement cannot be reached, I will file a lawsuit on your behalf and will then work with the insurance company's attorneys.
In other cases, businesses or trucking companies are self-insured, so any compensation comes directly from their bottom line. This is a different type of negotiation process that requires an attorney with experience in commercial accident cases, which is experience that I possess. Self-insured businesses will often drag their feet or offer insufficient settlements until faced with litigation.
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Well, it's another doozy. Can't wait to see you all there tomorrow night. As always, we will have an option for everyone. Don't forget that points are up for grabs for costumes, spirit, and potluck contributions...NOT for workout performance. Only bragging rights are up for grabs for workout performance.


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Q&A: Tommy Lee
Mötley Crüe's drummer has a solo CD, a reality show and a hot tour – but he still can't score Eva Longoria
Musician Tommy Lee of Motley Crue arrives at the 2nd Jack Awards Ceremony at the Seymour Center in Sydney, Australia, on May 10th, 2005.
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Somehow, between gigging on Mötley Crüe's current world tour, writing an autobiography, banging chicks, getting wasted, being a father and attending classes at the University of Nebraska for his new NBC reality series, Tommy Lee has found time to record a new album! Lee's third solo disc, Tommyland: The Ride, features collaborations — some surprisingly mellow and melodic — with bros like Dave Navarro, Sum 41's Deryck Whibley, Good Charlotte's Joel Madden and Backstreet Boy Nick Carter. Answering questions while on a bus trip to Washington, D.C., for a Crüe gig, Lee says he is exhausted and hung over. "I got fucking mashed last night," he says. "I had champagne, vodka, Jägermeister — a full-on alcohol salad. I was partying with Eva Longoria and a couple of buddies. She said she was going out with some French basketball dude. It's so wrong."
Do you remember the first time you broke a drumstick?
I was probably twelve when I started breaking them. I remember every time I'd break one I'd have to tape the fucking things back together. I was mowing lawns and painting houses just to afford them. At that point, the Regal Tips were, like, five dollars a set.
What Mötley Crüe song did you write the fastest?
"Girls, Girls, Girls." I was like, "Y'know what, every night all we fucking do is go to strip clubs. I gotta write about this experience." It wrote itself in about five minutes.
Nice. What song reminds you of your two kids?
I have a song on my new record called "Good Times." My youngest boy, Dylan — he's almost eight — he plays that fucking thing over and over and over. It freaks me out, but I love it — that one of his favorite songs is by his dad. It's so fucking rad.
How long did you debate having Nick Carter on your new record?
[Laughs] I knew that was coming. Nick wanted me to write for him on his solo record. He wanted something edgier, and I was like, "Hmm, I don't know." But I took a meeting with him, and much to my surprise he was a huge rock fan. I popped out his CD player in his car and it was filled with Physical Graffiti and AC/DC and Sabbath. It kinda blew my mind. We did these two killer tracks together, so I said, "Can I use one of those?" Let me tell you something: That motherfucker came into the studio and out-partied people like Slash. [Nick's] a fucking maniac. And that's coming from me. I mean, I'm serious.
So your studio is stocked with everything you need to party?
Whatever you want, it's all here.
Have you ever done a huge rail of coke off your snare drum?
Not off the snare, but I used to fill up a beer cap to the brim and smash the fucker into my nose and play the last two songs of an encore. Definitely.
Who's the best producer in hip-hop?
Rick Rubin produced "99 Problems" — the raddest hip-hop track ever. And Timbaland did Missy Elliott's "Lose Control," and that's a fucking bangin' track. I've talked to Missy about making some beats: "Just let me wail on some drums — we could make the fucking sickest shit ever." We're working on that.
Have your college classes inspired any new songs?
Not yet. But during English Literature the professor had my autobiography on her desk. She said, "One of our students here is a best-selling author, and we're going to dissect his writing today!" I was like, "Wow, this is fucking surreal." She thought it was interesting that it started with me arguing with my penis. She said it was clever.
Best drum solo ever?
"Moby Dick," dude. Fucking John Bonham. By far.
Your new CD is cheap: $9.99. Do you think that albums, in general, are a rip-off?
I can't even remember the last time I went to a record store. I've spent a lot of money on iTunes — got my credit card up there and I just keep clicking. I'm so sick of buying records for two good songs.
What have you downloaded lately?
There's this new band called Fall Out Boy. I like them. Some Sigur Rós. And Anna Nalick's song "Breathe" — I think the lyrics are genius.
What two musicians would you pay to see in a sex tape right now?
Fuck! Eminem and Shakira. It's time for him to release a sex tape. He's slippin'.
What's the most insane thing you've seen looking into the audience on this current Crüe tour?
Every night we have the Titty Cam, where all these girls get their fucking titties out. That doesn't suck. But Nikki [Sixx] will get the whole crowd to sit down and say, "Take a good look around. This is what it looks like at a Creed concert." Then he says, "On the count of three. I want everyone to jump up and lose their fucking minds!" When they get up, it's the craziest thing I've ever seen. Fucking bananas.
Has any band ever seen more tits than the Crüe?
Not a chance.
Mötley Crüe's autobiography The Dirt is being made into a movie. What will be your favorite scene?
[Laughs] Watching Nikki OD and die for a few minutes.
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OLD SACRAMENTO -- A major soccer tournament is coming to Sacramento this fall.
Street Soccer USA National Cup announced its decision to have Old Sacramento as its host site in October.
Lisa Wrightsman is the director of the Sacramento chapter of SSUSA.
"I've been telling people, friends, family about this event the last eight years and so now they finally get to be a part of it," Wrightsman said.
But 10 years ago, Wrightsman was in a different place after finishing her collegiate soccer career at Sacramento State. She became addicted to drugs and alcohol. She found herself in jail, homeless and later in rehab.
It wasn't until she learned about SSUSA that she rediscovered her love for the game.
"Hardships and challenges and missteps usually bring a lot of shame and it's important to be around people where you can acknowledge that but move past it," Wrightsman said.
Wrightsman is now nine years clean but her story is not uncommon. There are 300 players and all of them were either homeless or an at-risk youth, many turning their lives around because of the sport.
"It's really important to celebrate the success stories and the small goals and the steps that we are taking forward," Wrightsman said.
On Wednesday morning in Old Sacramento, Wrightsman was joined by Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and other city officials to announce the cup right where the 4 on 4 games will be played.
Once the competition is over, the top eight men and women will go to Mexico City for the Homeless World Cup.
"These folks are competitive and they want to win the tournament," said Rob Cann, co-founder of SSUSA.
Some will win but Wrightsman knows on the 72-by-52-foot pitch, there is a bigger lesson at hand than the final score.
"You've got two goals and you're moving towards it," Wrightsman said. "It's a very direct path and I think sometimes we complicate that. So when you put people on the soccer field they just naturally learn how to move forward again."
Wednesday at 9 a.m., city leaders and SSUSA officials will hold a press conference to announce everything we can expect when the National Cup rolls in from October 5 to 7.


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