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How 'unremarkable Mark' became WA's rock star Premier
WA election
This was published 10 months ago
By Hamish Hastie
WA Premier Mark McGowan speaking at Labor's campaign launch at RAC Arena. Credit:Peter de Kruijff
In late January last year Mark McGowan was tucking into pies with his children at a bakery in Dawesville, a coastal suburb 75 kilometres south of Perth, when his phone lit up.
"We were sitting at a table eating and my daughter was demanding more tomato sauce and the Prime Minister rang me," he said.
Covered in mud after a successful crabbing expedition with his kids, the WA Premier grabbed some sauce and took Scott Morrison's call.
"He said, 'I'm going to have to shut down flights from China'."
A year later, McGowan has emerged from the crucible of COVID-19 a political superhero in the west, soaring high on the popularity of his hard border policy. His polling for the upcoming March 13 election threatens a wipeout of his Liberal opposition, which could cause headaches for Morrison at next year's federal election.
Australia's state leaders have all enjoyed a surge of popularity during the pandemic but the rock star status of McGowan, a 53-year-old from the Perth mortgage-belt suburb of Rockingham, has turned political orthodoxies on their heads.
It's a world where Labor is at war with unions over automation in ports and has become the darling of business in its relentless pursuit of jobs growth. Meanwhile, the state's Liberals are adopting policies from the Greens' playbook, including the astonishing pledge to shut down coal-fired power plants.
McGowan's 'middle of the road' approach has created an upside-down political landscape in WA offering lessons to federal branches, says veteran WA political journalist Peter Kennedy.
"[He's] forced the Liberals out, they've had to go more to the right, but then my view is that the Liberals were so far to the right they had nowhere to go, so they leapt back over the centre and went to the left with that energy policy," says Kennedy.
Mark McGowan was a Navy lawyer based in WA before joining politics.
"One of the criticisms of federal Labor was that it went too left on things like tax policy and too influenced by the Greens on climate change. If they want to imitate McGowan then they need to push back into the middle and try and push Morrison to the right."
The cult of McGowan
McGowan's hardline policies during the pandemic, controversial elsewhere in Australia, have resulted in celebrity-like fandom in WA. Children as young as five know his name, he has featured in numerous viral videos, and one fan even tattooed McGowan's face onto his leg.
Polls back the anecdotes up, predicting a Labor tidal wave come March 13. His personal approval rating cracked 91 per cent in September and has hovered around the high 80s ever since. A recent Newspoll found Labor was primed for 59 per cent of the primary vote, which would leave just two Liberal seats out of 59 in the lower house.
Morrison has avoided the state and opposition leader Zak Kirkup is at risk of losing his seat, taking the extraordinary step last week of conceding his party would lose the election and pleading for votes because "democracy is at risk" if Labor gains total control of the parliament.
A hard-border approach to the pandemic has proved popular across the nation, but no one went as hard as McGowan, who halts free travel between the states after just one case of community transmission in another state.
Despite the recent hotel quarantine bungle that sent the state into a five-day lockdown, McGowan's willingness to restrict free travel into the state and his tit-for-tats with "naysayers and doomsayers" such as the NSW government and Clive Palmer have swelled the ranks of his supporters.
The unrestricted COVID-free life WA has been living for most of the past 10 months has its citizens proclaiming him a "life saver". Even lifelong Liberal voters publicly profess their intent to vote for him at the election.
Perhaps the most astounding aspect of McGowan's rise is that despite not being born in Western Australia, he has captured the hearts and minds of a fiercely parochial public often cynical of the benefits of the federation.
Who is Mark?
While his popularity is new, McGowan's ambitions go back a long way.
Born in Newcastle in NSW in 1967, he headed west in 1989 to start a career as a navy lawyer at the Garden Island naval base. After meeting Sarah, a teacher who became his wife, they settled in the southern coastal Perth suburb of Rockingham where they remain to this day, raising their young daughter Amelia and two teenage sons Samuel and Alexander.
McGowan's father Dennis, a squash centre owner, sparked McGowan's interest in the ALP and by 1996 he was elected as the local MP in what is a safe Labor seat. A political junkie, one of his most cherished political memories is sharing a beer with his idol Bob Hawke at the eponymous Bob's Bar in Perth ahead of the 2017 WA election.
One Labor insider, who was not authorised to speak on behalf of the party, said during his early years McGowan demonstrated himself as a hard worker and bright but struggled to get traction because of his east coast heritage.
Mark McGowan with his parents Dennis and Mary in the mid-90s.
He persevered, working his way into the inner circles of former federal opposition leader Kim Beazley and former premier Geoff Gallop.
For a time, his colleagues nicknamed him 'Sneakers'; someone who 'brown-nosed' his bosses so vigorously that all you could see was his shoes. His most notable political feature was how completely unremarkable he was, knowing when to keep his head down.
After a stint in the Gallop cabinet and then in opposition he was elected as Labor leader unopposed in 2012, surviving a bruising defeat in the election the next year. By 2017, WA voters loathed Liberal Party leader Colin Barnett and McGowan and his re-energised team led by his chief of staff Guy Houston, Chevron's former corporate relations adviser, romped home to victory with a record 9 per cent swing in the primary vote.
Gallop, now an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney, says McGowan always showed leadership potential.
"If you want to deliver something in the rough old world of politics you have to be capable of setting priorities, capable of winning support and capable of negotiating," he said.
"He is a person very committed to the political process and making sure he is effective in it."
WA Premier Mark McGowan speaking at his campaign launch. Credit:Peter de Kruijff
McGowan's formula and the upside-down election
McGowan's obsession with budget surpluses, prioritising resources jobs over climate action and a populist promise to keep the state "safe and strong" means even the staunchest Liberal voters face a tough choice this election.
That choice is made even harder when the WA Liberal Party's signature election policy—labelled a lemon by their own federal colleague Andrew Hastie—is to shut down government coal power stations and bring carbon emissions from state-owned assets to zero from 2030.
WA Labor has also demonstrated far more politically impressive outcomes with the federal Liberal party than the former state Liberals could muster, achieving a 70 cents in the dollar GST floor. Plans to introduce a floor were announced by former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull alongside Barnett before McGowan's election but they weren't actioned until after Labor's win. Barnett rejects the idea that he did not have a good relationship with his federal colleagues but concedes it was a "pretty cynical exercise" to introduce the floor after he had lost.
The business community also naturally gravitated toward McGowan's government. One of his biggest cheerleaders is multimillionaire developer and card-carrying Liberal Party member Nigel Satterley, who has benefited greatly from the state's COVID-19 housing stimulus package.
"I know a lot of leading Liberal supporters around Perth think he's doing an outstanding job. He's tough, he's fair and he's respectful," Satterley told Perth radio station 6PR.
But these policies and the closeness to business have come at a price. Old union allies have turned against Labor and the party has opened itself to comparisons to the dark days of the 1980s when taxpayers were left hundreds of millions of dollars out of pocket as a result of then-premier Brian Burke's questionable dealings with Perth's biggest businessmen.
A rare moment of controversy during the pandemic came courtesy of the government's relationship with media mogul Kerry Stokes, who was granted exemptions to hard-border policies. Freedom of Information documents revealed McGowan's office was directly involved in Stokes' application to enter WA from Colorado in April.
In August, Stokes' oil and gas venture Beach Energy and its Waitsia onshore gas project in the state's midwest were granted an exemption to WA's onshore domestic gas reservation policy.
McGowan says his office forwarded lots of border exemption requests and becomes exasperated when asked about his relationship with business leaders such as Stokes.
"When I try and get on with business I'm attacked for that, if I do something on behalf of working people or a union, I'm attacked for that," he says.
His biggest ruction has been with the Maritime Union of Australia, which accused McGowan of leading a "Liberals Lite" government that will put wharf jobs on the chopping block as he pushes forward with plans to build a heavily automated outer harbour container port.
McGowan says he is proud of his government's economic and jobs record but emphatically rejects the suggestion he has somehow switched political sides.
"We did obviously have a pretty serious breakdown in relations over the [hard] border when the Commonwealth backed Clive Palmer, so the idea that somehow we were aligned with them, I think, is a misplaced thing," he says.
West Australian Premier Mark McGowan entering the Dumas House media room ahead of a press conference during the state's recent lockdown. Credit:Peter de Kruijff
"Like all the premiers, you try and work with the [federal] government and get good outcomes. I'm outcomes-focused.
"But where it's necessary to stand up for the state, I will stand up for the state."
In any normal election year, these criticisms may have caused headaches for a first-term government seeking re-election, but this is the new normal and politics is no exception.
"I think [the pandemic] showed people that we're human and me and the other Premiers and the Prime Minister, we're all human and we try and do the best we can in the circumstances," he said.
"If it lifted the stature of people in elected office, well, then that's a good thing."
Hamish Hastie is WAtoday's state political reporter.Connect via Twitter or email.


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Jan. 12, 2019 4:55 p.m.
A routine patrol of an alley in the Lower Mainland community of Delta gave police pause last week.
"Police officers don't scare easily. But imagine you are patrolling down a dark alley and your flashlight hits upon this," reads a caption to a photo the Delta Police tweeted on Friday.
The image shows several mannequin heads peeping out of a dumpster that's slightly ajar. One, with scraggly dark hair, hangs from the lid, beside a metal chain.
The police officer who spotted the heads late last Monday evening probably "had a second of 'Oh my, what have I got here?'" said police spokeswoman Cris Leykauf.
The officer quickly investigated and found a number of mannequin heads in the dumpster, she said, along with even more that filled a garbage bag.
"It seems a little grizzly sounding when you say it like that, doesn't it?" she asked with a laugh.
There are clothing stores and hair salons nearby, she noted, so police aren't sure where the heads came from.
Leykauf said she's not sure exactly how the veteran officer responded when he found the heads.
"I emailed and I asked his boss, 'Did he scream? What happened?' He never confessed to any of that so I have no idea," she said.
Earlier in January, an Edmonton neighbourhood was taped off for several hours after police discovered what appeared to be a body.
Leykauf said Delta hasn't seen any homicides in the past two years, and if these mannequin heads are the most gruesome thing they have all year then they're doing very well.


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Originally published in Journal of Creation 15, no 2 (August 2001): 42-45.
Two great creatures, behemoth and leviathan, are described by God in Job. Some commentators have suggested behemoth was an elephant or hippo but the description simply doesn't match (e.g. behemoth "moves his "tail like a cedar"). It's appears God is describing a sauropod dinosaur and a fearsome now-extinct sea creature.
In Job 40 , the Lord is infallibly describing a real historical creature, called 'Behemoth'. No known living animal, such as the elephant or hippopotamus, fits the passage adequately. A detailed analysis of the key clause Job 40:17a suggests that the most natural interpretation is that the tail of Behemoth is compared to a cedar for its great size. Consequently, the most reasonable interpretation is that Behemoth was a large animal, now extinct, which had a large tail. Thus some type of extinct dinosaur should still be considered a perfectly reasonable possibility according to our present state of knowledge.
Artist's impression of man and sauropod. Artwork by Steve Cardno.
The passage Job 40:15–24 gives a detailed description of the creature named 'Behemoth'. There has been controversy as to what Behemoth really is. This paper focuses on the clause Job 40:17a , which is crucial to the proposition that Behemoth could have been a type of dinosaur. The other common proposals are also analyzed, and some general considerations are made concerning the whole passage.
The word 'Behemoth' ( Job 40:15 ) is literally a plural form of a common Old Testament (OT) word meaning 'beast'. However, practically all commentators and translators have agreed that here we have an intensive or majestic plural, so that the meaning is something like 'colossal beast'. This case is similar to the word 'Elohim' (the most common name of God in the OT), which is actually a majestic plural form, but is always used with a singular verbal form, just as is encountered in this passage. Also, we read in verse 19 that Behemoth was the 'chief of the ways of God', which suggests that Behemoth was one of the largest (if not the largest) of God's creatures.
There are basically three animals that have been put forward as candidates for Behemoth which we will consider in this paper: the elephant, the hippopotamus, and some type of dinosaur.
Gordis gives an interesting overview of how Behemoth has been interpreted throughout history, noting that 'the interpretation has oscillated through the centuries between two poles, mythical and real'.1 The interpretation that Behemoth was an elephant is very old and was common among mediaeval scholars. The original KJV-1611 had a marginal note 'Or, the Elephant, as some thinke [sic]'. But the French Protestant pastor Samuel Bochart in his Hierozoicon (1663), which analyzed the animals in the Bible in great detail, suggested that Behemoth was a hippopotamus, and this has since remained as the most common interpretation. The suggestion of a dinosaur has only arisen in relatively modern times.
The descriptions of the physical and behavioural characteristics of Behemoth are also not consistent with mythological creatures.
Now if we believe in the inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible we must maintain that the words spoken about Behemoth (and also Leviathan), were spoken by their Creator, who would have known the intimate details of His own design. The description of the animals in chapters 38 to 41 is given to convince Job of his ignorance and folly. It is thus a critical observation that, when the purpose is to show how marvellous an animal is, surely the most amazing facts about that animal, and the ways in which it is different in habits or appearance from all others, should be stated.
KJV: He moveth his tail like a cedar.
NASB: He bends his tail like a cedar.
NIV: His tail sways like a cedar.
NKJV: He moves his tail like a cedar.
REV: His tail is rigid as a cedar.
RSV: He makes his tail stiff like a cedar.
RV: He moveth his tail like a cedar.
Septuagint (Greek): He sets up/erects (estesen) his tail like a cypress.
Vulgate (Latin): He ties up/binds (constringit) his tail like a cedar.
Luther (German, 16th C): His tail stretches (streckt sich) like a cedar.
Statenvertaling (Dutch, 17th C): According to his pleasure (Als 't hem lust), his tail is like a cedar.
Diodati (Italian, 16th C): He raises (rizza) his tail like a cedar.
As can be seen, the translations have varied significantly! The reason is that the Hebrew verb in this clause is very problematic, so we shall study it in some detail.
A) châphêts: means 'delight, take pleasure', usually with preposition be ('in'), thus: 'delight in'. A proposed Arabic cognate word means 'be mindful, attentive'.
B) châphâts: means 'bend down'. A proposed Arabic cognate word means 'lower, depress'. They then translate our clause: 'he bendeth down (extendeth down stiffly) his tail'.
A) châphêts: means 'desire'. A Syrian cognate means 'to try to get', and an Arabic cognate means 'to keep, to take care'.
B) châphâts: has an Arabic cognate meaning 'to make lower'. They then suggest that the verb in our verse, coupled with the word zânâb ('tail') means 'to hang', while an alternative translation is 'to hold stiff'.
Now most commentators also assume at the outset that Behemoth is a hippopotamus.
In contrast, other commentators, still labouring under the hippopotamus assumption, try to make the meaning of the verb fit this assumption! Many give to verb (B) the sense of 'harden' or 'stiffen', so that the whole verse is interpreted as meaning that Behemoth's tail is compared in some way to a cedar tree for its stiffness or hardness. This idea is followed by Rowley,15 BDB (translation for (B), above), and Koehler and Baumgartner (alternative translation for (B), above), for example, and is probably the idea behind the translations of the REV, RSV and Vulgate versions of the Bible, quoted above. But there are no cognates given in Arabic or other languages to justify the sense of 'harden' or 'stiffen'. It seems that this translation has only been proposed by those who make the a priori assumption that Behemoth must have been a hippopotamus! Furthermore, it doesn't fit anyway, since the hippopotamus' tail is short and fat (as Andersen, etc. above realized)!
Others have suggested the idea 'stretch out' (e.g. Perles, above). Gordis states that the verb 'is generally derived from the Arabic hafasa "lower, depress", hence "bend, arch" (P.), but the reference to the cedar makes this meaning inappropriate'.6 But he then dogmatically states that the context (i.e. his assumption that Behemoth is the hippopotamus!) requires the meaning 'stretch out'.
The verb châphêts (A) ('delight') normally takes the preposition be ('in', 'with'), but that is missing in this clause, which does give weight to the view that we do not have root (A) here. Also, because the preposition kemô ('like) is normally used adverbially, so is tied to the verb, the 'delight' sense is dubious: it is hard to know how the animal could 'delight in its tail like a cedar' (with the 'like a cedar' referring to the manner in which it delights!). Note that the Dutch Statenvertaling is the only translation quoted above which interprets the verb in this way, but the whole clause is rather meaningless in this translation.
The sense 'hang' proposed for root (B) (e.g. by Koehler and Baumgartner, above) at least has a sense related in some way to its proposed Arabic cognate meaning 'to make lower'. Furthermore, all translations and commentators quoted above have tended to assume that the creature Behemoth is the subject of the verb and 'his tail' is the object of the (presumed transitive) verb. However, if the 'hang' sense were admissible, then 'his tail' could be the subject of the verb, so that the clause could be translated 'His tail hangs like a cedar'. This would certainly be valid grammatically, if the verbal sense were correct, but it remains difficult to give a good sense to the clause if the expression 'like a cedar' must be tied adverbially to the verb.
In conclusion, it seems very unlikely that we have the 'delight' root (A) here, while we cannot be sure what root (B) precisely means, since the only proposals are based on tenuous connections with other Semitic cognates, and there is also a good possibility that root (B) is some dialectal word not in standard Biblical Hebrew. But from current philological considerations alone (ignoring the context of the whole clause), we can say that the only meanings of the verb which might be admissible are the 'delight' concept or something like the 'lower' or 'hang' concept. There is absolutely no philological justification for the 'hardness' or 'stiffness' idea!
Finally, note that the Septuagint (LXX), as quoted above, translates the key verb as 'erects', and it is just possible that the LXX translators were following an interpretative tradition which was based on a better knowledge of the Hebrew word or its origin, so that this would be the true sense of the word. But this is pure speculation—the LXX translators most probably just guessed at the meaning of the verb here, as most other translators appear to have done.
Moving on from the verb now, how could one compare a tail to a cedar?
Since several passages in the OT make a comparison with cedars because of their great height (e.g. 2 Kings 19:23 , Isaiah 2:13 , Isaiah 37:24 and Ezekiel 17:22 , Ezekiel 31:3 ), it may be that in Job 40:17a the tail is compared to the cedar for height. This could suggest the interpretation that Behemoth's tail is lifted up high. We noted previously that the LXX sense of 'erects' could just possibly be the correct sense. It would give a reasonable sense to the whole clause, as animals can lift up their tails, and this might be applicable to some kinds of dinosaurs. But it must be emphasized again that this is pure speculation.
Another thought is the following: since the book of Job is independent in several ways from the other OT books (that is, it does not mention Israel, etc.) and is probably old, the literary expressions used in it need not be strictly interpreted in the light of the common imagery found elsewhere in the OT. Thus the vertical height of the cedar itself need not be stressed here. So an alternative interpretation which is quite natural is that the cedar is mentioned simply for its great size or length, and the fact that it is vertically high is not necessarily significant, as a cedar lying horizontally on the ground is just as much a cedar as one standing vertically. In Psalm 92:12 , we read that the righteous shall flourish like the palm tree and 'shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon'. Here the key idea is simply that of great size and strength, and height is not important.
At this point we should also note that some have suggested that the word 'tail' here could be interpreted as 'trunk' (see, for example, the footnote for this verse in the NIV19), so that Behemoth would thus be the elephant. But the most glaring objection to this idea is that we read later in verse 24 about Behemoth's nose (and that it cannot be pierced)! The animal cannot have a trunk (described by 'tail') and also a distinct nose! Since the Lord is infallibly speaking in this passage, why would He not have used 'nose' in verse 17 if Behemoth is the elephant? Also, the word for 'tail' here (zânâb) occurs eight other times in the OT,20 and in each case the key idea is the base or end of something, or inferiority (which is also the natural way one uses the word figuratively in English). So it would be extremely unnatural in itself to interpret the word 'tail' as a 'trunk', whatever the context. The elephant's tail proper is as inappropriate as the hippopotamus's tail for the comparison with a cedar.
We saw above that there is absolutely no etymological or philological justification for the sense 'harden' or 'stiffen', while something like the sense of 'hang' might be possible, and the LXX also suggests the sense of 'erects'. So it seems that the only reasonable way that one could compare the tail of an animal to a cedar as a distinctive feature of the animal is either for its height (assuming it is lifted up) or simply for its great length or size. The key point is that some significant comparison is made with the cedar (whatever the precise meaning of the verb may be) in order to highlight a distinctive feature of Behemoth.
The elephant's and hippopotamus's tails are thus completely inappropriate for such a comparison. But in contrast, the idea of a dinosaur with a very large tail is quite appropriate. In particular, specimens of sauropods have been found which have very large tails worthy of comparison with the cedar tree.
Finally, we will very briefly examine the suitability of the proposed animals in the light of the whole passage.
The elephant is outstanding for its trunk, its great size (especially its feet), its enormous appetite and its ears. None of these unique features are mentioned in our passage, but they ought to have been, if Behemoth was the elephant. Also, the elephant retreats to the depths of the forest during the hot part of the day.21 This does not seem to fit with Job 40:21 , which suggests that Behemoth spends his time in marshy areas.
The hippopotamus is noted for its weight, its large and strong mouth, with its deadly tusks, its thick skin, its pink sweat and its ability to walk on the bed of a river for long periods. It spends most of the day in the water, as its skin dries out very quickly in the sun.22 Again, none of these unique features are mentioned in our passage! Similarly, the hippopotamus stays in the deeper water, and this does not seem to fit with Job 40:22 , where we are told that Behemoth stays under the trees on the bank.
The main features of the dinosaurs are unknown, apart from the size of their bones, which indicates that some of them were much larger than any known land animal alive today. Consequently, because of our ignorance here, there is nothing in the passage to eliminate this possibility!
It is not surprising that before fossils of large extinct animals were found in great numbers, older conservative commentators only tried to identify Behemoth with some of the largest known living animals (even though none of these animals are suitable). The possibility of very large extinct animals did not really occur to them!
The whole passage in Job 40 concerning Behemoth certainly suggests a large animal, and no known living animal fits the passage adequately (for various reasons, including the detailed habitat presented).
The most natural interpretation of the key clause Job 40:17a is that the tail of Behemoth is compared to a cedar for its great size, and there is nothing in the context which contradicts this possibility, even though the exact sense of the verb is extremely difficult to determine.
Consequently, the most reasonable interpretation (which also takes the whole passage into account) is that Behemoth was a large animal, now extinct, which had a large tail. Thus some type of extinct dinosaur should still be considered a perfectly reasonable possibility according to our present state of knowledge.
I would like to thank Noel Weeks for reading a draft version of this paper and for several helpful suggestions.
Gordis, R., The Book of Job: Commentary, New Translation and Special Studies, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, p. 569, 1978.
Gordis, Ref. 1, p. 571.
Keil, C.F. and Delitzsch, F., Commentary on the Old Testament, Vol. IV, Job, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, p. 357, 1988.
Gesenius, W., Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, translated by S.P. Tregelles, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, p. 105, 1979.
Driver, S.R. and Gray, G.B., A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Job, T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, Part II, p. 326, 1921.
Gordis, Ref. 1, p. 476.
Brown, F., Driver, S.R. and Briggs, C.A., A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament with an appendix containing the Biblical Aramaic, based on the Lexicon of William Gesenius, as translated by Edward Robinson, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1951.
Koehler, L. and Baumgartner, W., The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, p. 339, 1994.
Barr, J., Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament, Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, p. 71, 1987.
Driver and Gray, Ref. 5, Part II, p. 327.
Jenni, E. and Westermann, C., Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament, translated by Mark E. Biddle, Hendrickson, Peabody, MA, pp. 466–467, 1997.
Andersen, F.I., Job: An Introduction and Commentary, Inter-varsity Press, Leicester, p. 289, 1976.
Pope, M.H., The Anchor Bible: Job, Doubleday, Garden City, NY, p. 323, 1965.
Hanson, A. and Hanson, M., The Book of Job, SCM Press, London, p. 112, 1953.
Rowley, H.H., The New Century Bible Commentary: Job, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, p. 256, 1980.
Pope, Ref. 13, p. xlviii.
Driver and Gray, Ref. 5, Part II, p. xlvi.
Young, I., Diversity in Pre-Exilic Hebrew, J.C.B. Mohr, Tübingen, p. 132, 1993.
Note also that the NIV adds a note to the word 'Behemoth' at verse 15: 'possibly the hippopotamus or the elephant'.
Exodus 4:4 ; Deuteronomy 28:13 , Deuteronomy 28:44 ; Judges 15:4 ; Isaiah 7:4 , Isaiah 9:14 , Isaiah 9:15 , Isaiah 19:15 .
Rue, L.L., III, Elephants, Todtri, New York, p. 68, 1994.
Article 'Hippopotamus', World Book Encyclopaedia, Field Enterprises Educational Corporation, Chicago, Vol. 'H', p. 228, 1976.


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Roosevelt Franklin, one of The Busby Twins, Farley, and Roosevelt Franklin's Mother, are among the crowd, while unnamed AMs include a Jim Henson Fat Blue (resembling Mr. Johnson), a Jerry Nelson Hot Pink (resembling Prairie Dawn), and others.
The insert has also been featured on Play with Me Sesame as a "moving and grooving" segment, with Grover appearing with the other Muppets (using chroma key). Grover ends up not having any room as more characters gradually appear.
A similar number with Grover, Big Jeffy, and a lavender AM (referred to in scripts as "AM Handclaps") features clapping and scatting in a nearly identical rhythm using comparable vocal expressions.
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Old School: Volume 1 (2006)
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Over the last year I have had the privilege to do several different shoots with Megan. And last week we got up early on a Sunday morning to capture some more memories. Like Emily, Megan is my roommate and my life has been made infinitely better in the last two years by having her in it.
Megan is a University Scholar focusing in English and story structure at Baylor University. She plans to attend law school and eventually practice human rights law as an advocate for women and children.
These first two images are actually from and earlier shoot with Megan but I think they capture an aspect of Megan's personality that we didn't in our "senior shoot."
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I'm a full time Rv'er now taking it day by day and hope to lead lots more from this page!!
Never mind I finally saw it oh jeez my bad!! Anyways I work in Geneva!
Daniel where are you from? Here is another question how do I know what size brakes calipers etc I need I was told that it's on 5 1/2 ton axles?? Does this make sense?
I bet I have some Dodge parts around. Front Grille, tail lights off the Tioga, van doors (with very little rust on them). Mirrors. I even have the fresh water tank and potty! I salvaged another '77 Coachman to fix the LH1 but never did it.
Glad to have a "local" contact to share info with! Best of luck with the Buddy Heater, hope you don't have to use it much longer.
Thank you so much Pat I will look into that there is so much information on this site I love it!!
Welcome, Frances. You're goal of full time living in an rv is a great life of freedom and adventure. There's lots of information in our How To section on the right of our home page, down the center of Members How to's and a couple blogs like Diane's who's been living full time for 8 years. Also, use the tiny little SEARCH BOX very top right of the home page to search any topic... there are hundreds on finding, buying and full timing in vintage rvs. Thanks for joining us.


86 M T D D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 8 F o c u s O n I n d u s t r y I n our November issue, Modern Tire Dealer ran a story on the rise of a new tire category: the rugged terrain, or R/T, tire. Not every tire company has an entry in that "hybrid" segment; however, it's not marketing hype. Many light truck tire manufacturers and marketers have confirmed consumers want a tire that fits in-between the A/T and M/T tire segments. e trend began four years ago when Toyo Tire USA Corp. introduced the Open Country R/T. At the 2018 SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) Show, two more tire companies introduced their versions. 2 R/T TIRES FROM SENTURY Sentury Tire USA Inc. is marketing two new R/T (rugged terrain) tires in 2019: the Delinte DX12 Bandit R/T and the Landsail CLX12 Rogueblazer R/T. Executive Vice President Max Wee said the market demanded it. "ere's a segment of the market that wants something a little more aggressive than the A/T, but does not want to go all out for the M/T." e noise and ride comfort levels for the company's R/T tires are less extreme than they are with traditional M/T tires, even in the 12-ply (Load Range F) sizes, said Wee. "For the late-model pickup trucks, you need an F-range tire to accommodate the load ratio and psi," added Sales Director Nick Gutierrez. e DX12 Bandit R/T is available in 17 sizes. Six are 12-ply sizes ranging from 33x12.50R20LT 123R to LT325/45R24 127/124S. e other 11 are 10-ply sizes ranging from LT285/75R16 126/123S to LT325/60R20 126/123S. e CLX12 Rogueblazer R/T is available in 19 sizes. Eight are 12-ply sizes ranging from 33x12.50R20 123R to LT325/45R24 127/124S. e other 11 are 10-ply Load Range E sizes ranging from LT285/75R16 126/123S to LT325/60R20 126/123S. In addition, the Rogueblazer R/T features a unique "double sidewall" design. Customers have the option of either the "R" (for Rough) design shape for a more dynamic and aggressive look, or the "T" (for Tough) shape for a more traditional appearance. Both tires are produced in ailand. ey also feature the 3-Peak Mountain Snowflake symbol. MILESTAR PATAGONIA X/T Some companies, like Atturo Tire Corp., refer to their hybrid tires with an "X" (for extreme) instead of an "R." Tireco Inc. does the same thing with its Milestar Patagonia X/T. Andrew Hoit, vice president of sales and marketing, said the Patagonia X/T has the aggressive looks of a mud-terrain tire but the road manners of an all-terrain tire. It is designed for vehicle owners who spend 90-plus percent of their time on the road, but want the look of an off-road tire. e Patagonia X/T will be available in 20 sizes. "We're definitely differentiating ourselves by the size lineup," said Hoit. "It'll be from 33-inch overall diameter all the way up to 40-inch overall diameter. e new trucks are coming with such large wheel wells that it's extremely easy to put 38- and 40-inch tires under them." Tireco is the first manufacturer with a 40-inch size (40x13.50R17LT) in this segment, he said. e 40-inch, Load Range C size will be available in 2019, along with a 37x12.50R20, Load Range F size. ■ More on R/T tires A NEW CATEGORY CONTINUES TO EMERGE AT THE SEMA SHOW Atturo adds Trail Blade X/T sizes Atturo Tire Corp. has added five sizes to its Trail Blade X/T line. The new sizes "offer the opportunity to improve both the multi- terrain performance and create a more rugged appearance for an array of vehicles," said Joe Gomez, marketing manager. The new sizes are LT255/75R17, LT255/70R18, LT265/60R20, 265/50R20 and LT305/50R20. They increase the number of X/T sizes to 29. "Of important note, the LT305/50R20 size will carry a 12-ply rat- ing, making it a suitable plus size for many three-quarter and one ton pickups without a lift or leveling kit required," added Gomez. Three tough layers of poly- ester cord fabric and high strength steel belts give the Delinte DX12 Bandit R/T (pic- tured on a 2019 Jeep Wran- gler) puncture resistance. Hoit said the 37-inch Milestar Patagonia X/T tires on the 2019 Ram in the Tireco booth "look small because the body is so big. The wheel wells on the Rams and the Fords are very large and round." The tire is available in size 40x13.50R17LT. The chisel hammer and ag- gressive block tread pattern gives the Landsail CLX12 Rogueblazer R/T "outstanding grip and traction" off-road, said Sentury Tire USA.


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This party has been identified as Rodlin Amilcar. Thanks to info from Burlington, Woburn and Salem PD's.


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What Is Scoliosis?
Scoliosis is a progressive condition, not a disease, causing the spine to curve or twist into a "C" or "S" shape. Scoliosis symptoms include uneven shoulders, shoulder blade prominence and waistline discrepancies. Scoliosis reportedly affects two to three percent of school-aged children and has a tendency to run in families. It most often affects 10- to 15-year-old girls.
In congenital scoliosis, the cause is known. For example, a child may be born with a misshapen vertebra, one of the building blocks of the spine. A curve may also develop from an underlying neurological disorder (neuromuscular scoliosis). Most often, however, the cause is unknown, or idiopathic. Slouching, bad posture, sleeping position, lack of calcium or carrying heavy books, backpacks or purses does not cause scoliosis. It's not the result of doing anything "wrong," and there's no way to prevent it.
Finding scoliosis is easy when examining the back closely, but it can be missed if you're not looking for it. Sometimes clothes don't hang properly. For example, one pant leg may be longer, or a skirt hem doesn't look level. A shoulder blade may look higher and be seen through clothes or when wearing a swimsuit. Parents or friends might notice the curve, but most curves are found through a scoliosis screening in schools or by a pediatrician. A trained examiner can detect even a slight curve when a child bends over to touch his or her toes.
We provide a multidisciplinary, patient-centered approach to scoliosis treatment. Our experts analyze spinal maturity; the degree, extent and location of the curve; and the potential for progression. We then use this information to determine the best treatment option. From observation to bracing to surgery, we ensure that every child receives the highest-quality care.
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Why do kids get scoliosis?
There are many types of scoliosis, and kids can develop it at any age. The most common form has a genetic component. Our doctors and researchers have recently linked the condition to three different genes.
Other types of scoliosis are far less common and can be caused by an abnormal shape of one of the vertebra (congenital scoliosis) or associated with an underlying neuromuscular condition (neuromuscular scoliosis).
Scoliosis is not the result of any behavior. And there's no known vitamin, mineral or nutritional deficiency that leads to spinal deformity.
How do I know if I have scoliosis?
Scoliosis is a curvature of the spine into a "C" or "S" shape. A parent, school nurse or friend may notice a small difference in the shape of your back. You might notice that clothes begin to fit differently or that one hip is higher than the other. When you look in a mirror, you may see that one shoulder is raised or that you lean to one side. A doctor can confirm the condition with an X-ray.
Does scoliosis hurt?
Scoliosis does not usually hurt, and healthy teenagers shouldn't have curve-related pain. If you do feel pain, it's a good idea to schedule an appointment with your doctor for evaluation.
When do I need to see a specialist?
If your curve measures more than 10 degrees. Slight curves in the spine may not need any treatment other than periodic monitoring by your doctor.
What do I need to become a patient?
If your nurse detects a spinal curve, the best thing to do is to see a pediatrician or general practice doctor, who can examine the curve and determine if it's scoliosis. If your doctor confirms scoliosis, they can refer you to Scottish Rite Hospital for further evaluation. Your school nurse can also call our Patient Access department for additional information. An X-ray is not necessary for a doctor's referral.
Will I have to wear a brace? Will it hurt?
Scoliosis braces are usually prescribed for those curves above 20 degrees in patients whose spines are still growing. Wearing a brace is the only effective nonsurgical way to prevent the curve from getting larger.
Your brace will be custom-made for your back's shape. It shouldn't hurt, but there will be some pressure applied to the side of the chest to partially correct the curve. You may feel some discomfort at first, but it should decrease over time. If your brace hurts while you're wearing it, contact your orthotist to see if it needs an adjustment.
You can participate in almost every activity you currently enjoy while wearing the brace. Apart from wearing it to school and while at home, you might be able to take off your brace while competing in certain sports or activities. The more you wear it, the more effective it will be at aligning your spine. Read more about our bracing study that was featured in The New York Times.
What are the goals of scoliosis surgery?
The primary goal of scoliosis surgery is to stop the curve from getting worse. The secondary goal is to correct deformity. Through surgery, the physician safely corrects the curve while maintaining balance of the spine. An average amount of correction is usually 50 to 80 percent of the curve.
Will I get a scar from surgery? How big will it be?
Scoliosis surgery is usually done from the back, leaving a scar on the middle of the back. If the surgery is done through the side, the scar is on the side. The length of the scar depends on the number of curves that need to be corrected. Every patient's situation is different, but the scar usually heals as a thin white line within a year of operation.
What activities can I do after surgery?
Children can typically return to school approximately three weeks after the surgery, but lifting heavy objects, such as backpacks, is discouraged for several months.
For the first month, limit activity to walks and light chores. Depending on your type of surgery and other factors, you may be ready for light sports as early as three months after surgery, and back to full activity at six months. In general, you should avoid heavy lifting, bending or twisting for approximately six to nine months.
The specialists in our Center for Excellence in Spine have spent a lifetime treating, researching and pioneering care for scoliosis, so kids around the world can stand a little taller. Our Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay/Martha and Pat Beard Center for Excellence in Spine Research was established in 2005 to determine the cause of scoliosis, better understand factors that lead to curve progression, explore ways to prevent curve progression and improve treatments. This revolutionary center provides a forum for experts from diverse disciplines to collaborate on specific challenges related to spinal deformities.
In April 2007, our researchers identified the first gene – CHD7 – associated with idiopathic scoliosis. In 2011, they identified two additional genes – CHL1 and DSCAM – that give new insight into the condition. These gene discoveries lay the groundwork for future research and may lead to improved scoliosis prevention and treatment methods.
Many of our scoliosis patients participate in one or more of our various research studies. Our Pediatric Scoliosis Database currently contains information collected over the past 15+ years on more than 1,500 individuals with idiopathic scoliosis (with hundreds more and their family members participating in our Genetic Scoliosis Database). Information such as age, weight, family history, age of onset, scoliosis progression over time and clinical measurements can easily be compared and linked to clinical, radiographic and laboratory data. The database will ultimately integrate information for several hundred research participants with idiopathic scoliosis in the next three to four years. Learn more.
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The result was Smart Nitrogen™. Introduced in 1987, the slow-release liquid nitrogen product quickly became the cornerstone of their business. Tom Irwin has been a major partner in Growth Products' success due to the company's unique approach to client service, according to Craig Lambert, Growth Products' Northeast Sales Manager.
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FEW BLUESMEN AS AUTHENTIC (AND AUDACIOUS) AS BOBBY RUSH:
Photo: Bobby Rush plays a gig at Club Ebony in Indianola, Mississippi.
Bobby Rush came from Louisiana and Arkansas, fled to Chicago, played the blues, returned to Mississippi, and played more blues. He's toured the world and performed with masters such as Muddy Waters and Jimmy Reed. Now in his 80s, he's still chugging along, keeping the blues alive with a new album arriving this week.
Rush was a Chicago club mainstay who then became a popular Chitlin' Circuit blues and soul performer across the Deep South. He went (slightly) uptown and more funky with 1979's Rush Hour, his great sounding album (that includes some nice harmonica touches by Rush) with Philly-soul record producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. But Bobby Rush has always come back home.
I first encountered Rush--sometimes introduced as "The Pride of Jackson, Mississippi"--at the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival, held on a bayside beach in Annapolis, Maryland. Thinking back to that show, perhaps in 2000, the list of performers was impressive: the Robert Cray Band, Taj Mahal, Shemekia Copeland, Otis Rush, Little Milton, Rush, and others.
My friend John and I didn't know what to make of Bobby Rush. He seemed less blues, more soul--and all for show. On stage, Rush's female dancers wore tight outfits and turned their backs to the audience, often bending over and shaking their things. Rush made raunchy jokes as he spoke and sang through classics of his like "Chicken Heads" and "What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander."
While some of Rush's antics were sexist no doubt, I looked around to check other spectators' expressions. I saw lots of smiles. Including on the faces of African-American women, most of whom seemed to be in on the joke.
This was my introduction to superstar Bobby Rush.
John and I later saw Bobby Rush perform under a hot tent on Pennsylvania Avenue during a summertime barbecue festival (that's pork and ribs, not a hamburger, for the uninitiated) in Washington, D.C., where I lived at the time.
We also saw Rush perform solo in a much more subdued, blues-focused performance at Washington's Hamilton nightclub, just him and a guitar, and harmonica, with a little help on some songs by a young woman singer.
I liked this Bobby Rush better. He's a gifted, old-school blues harmonica player. It was this Bobby Rush who won a Grammy Award in 2017 for Best Blues Performance for his album, Porcupine Meat.
After the show at The Hamilton, a great venue where I've also seen Mavis Staples, the Secret Sisters, and others, Rush was glad to pose for a photo with me, John, and our good friend Sean.
I told Mr. Rush thanks for all the good music and good times. He said, "God bless you, brother!" and wrapped us in his arms.
Somewhere I have a couple of Polaroids to prove these encounters. But I'm only one of many to have posed and cavorted with Bobby Rush.
For a great introduction to Rush and a glimpse of his authenticity--and his importance as a surviving blues and soul man, check out The Road to Memphis, one of Martin Scorsese's films from The Blues, a 2003 documentary series for PBS. The blues life wasn't and isn't glamorous for many performers. Riding an old bus and staying in run-down Howard Johnson hotels ain't Hollywood. But it's the truth.
"That's all I know," Rush says in his release materials for the new record. "I'm sitting on top of the blues. I'm a bluesman who's sitting on the top of my game, proud of what I do and proud of who I am, and thankful for people accepting me for what I am and who I am."
Rush's new album, "Sitting on Top of the Blues," on the bluesman's own Deep Rush imprint, (distributed by Thirty Tigers Records), is out August 16, and features some remakes. After a quick listen, I've enjoyed some of Bobby Rush's more roots-oriented records more, but the new album is shimmering and tight. Full of Rush's funky, feel-good songs, these tracks will serve him well live: "A knife and a fork, and a plate of greens. That's the way you spell New Orleans," Rush sings on a resurrected "Bowlegged Woman."He'll even be performing alongside many younger (and white) singers and songwriters in September at Americanafest in Nashville.
The new record is produced by Grammy Award-winning blues guitarist and band leader Vasti Jackson, a fellow Mississippian who worked with Southern soul legends Johnnie Taylor, Denise Lasalle, and Little Milton (whose "We're Gonna Make It," later brilliantly redone by Mavis Staples and Donny Gerard, and "Grits Ain't Groceries" are two of soul's finest jewels).
"Records ain't selling like they used to, but nevertheless you have to keep going to the grinding mill to get corn ground," Rush added.
You can't argue with the real thing.
Here's to Mr. Rush for keeping the blues flame alive, for putting a smile on so many faces deep in Mississippi and the South, including little towns where many performers no longer play. And for being himself.
Long live Bobby Rush.
Some facts about Bobby Rush (from his publicist):
Born Emmett Ellis, Jr., outside Homer, La., his daddy was a preacher and knew enough about a harmonica to pass along a few riffs to his progeny, who twanged a diddley bow before picking up a guitar around age 11.
The senior Ellis relocated his family to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in 1948. When young Bobby went professional as a blues musician, he changed his moniker so as to not disrespect his devout dad.
He played with Delta blues guitarist Elmore James among others in Arkansas in the early 1950s before leaving for Chicago.
He played with a young Freddie King on guitar. Luther Allison joined the combo later.
His debut single was "Someday" for the Jerry-O label in 1964. He encored with "You're the One for Me" for the Palos imprint, a single so obscure that a copy couldn't be located for inclusion on Omnivore Recordings' award-winning four-CD box set Chicken Heads: A 50-Year History of Bobby Rush, which spanned his entire career to that point.
Rush then recorded briefly for Chess and ABC records. In 1971, he broke through on the national charts with the lowdown funk grinder "Chicken Heads" for Galaxy Records, which has been featured in the film Black Snake Moan, among other shows and commercials.
Rush signed with Warner Brothers records for his 1974 album, "Get Out of Here."
He moved back South, to Jackson, Mississippi, where his legion of fans eagerly embraced him. The lascivious "Sue" didn't chart for him in 1983 on the LaJam imprint, but it blasted out of countless jukeboxes and sold over a million records.
His reputation for spectacular live performances growing exponentially as he did a minimum of 200 shows a year,
He was nominated for his first Grammy for his 2000 album, Hoochie Man,
He's won 12 Blues Music Awards and 48 nominations, including the prestigious B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award and Album of the Year.
He appeared in the 2014 documentary film Take Me to the River with Terrence Howard, Snoop Dogg, and Mavis Staples. That same year, Bobby joined Dan Aykroyd on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon to perform two songs, marking his first late-night television appearance.
Rush has traveled the world to play the blues--the Byron Bay Bluesfest in Australia, across Europe, Japan, and in America at Bonaroo and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. He even became the first bluesman to perform at the Great Wall of China, attracting an audience of more than 40,000 and earning him the title of "China's Ambassador of the Blues."
Bobby Rush on his influences: "I often talk about how I came up and who did I love and who influenced me. I think the first one was my daddy, as a preacher. And the next person was Louis Jordan. I respect Little Walter, because he was a good, slick harmonica player. Sonny Boy Williamson, I like the way he plays harp, and I like the way he delivers his songs and writes the songs."
More from Rush: "I like Howlin' Wolf because he was good and he was different because of the voice he had. I also like Bobby Bland, the way he kind of squawked with a soft voice. And I like B.B. King and respected B.B. And I like Junior Parker because he was so smooth and slick with what he done. I guess you can find about 20 guys that I like, and when you hear my music, you can hear a little of this, a little of that, a little up, a little down. You put 'em all in a bowl and stir 'em up, you get a Bobby Rush. That's called a Bobby Rush blues soup."
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JOHANNESBURG – Sasol Limited (Sasol) and the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited (IDC) have concluded a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) to jointly develop and shape an enabling environment to advance South Africa's green hydrogen economy.
Underpinning the MOC is acknowledgement by the parties that South Africa is in a unique position to leverage its world class renewable resources endowment and infrastructure, as well as Sasol's Fischer-Tropsch technology and skills to position the country as a leader in a global hydrogen economy.
Sasol and the IDC will, among others, collaborate on a non-exclusive basis in advocating at relevant international fora for policy frameworks to enable a hydrogen economy; developing pilot and commercial scale hydrogen projects to pioneer viable and sustainable solutions; accessing local and international financing options; and pursuing strategic projects that benefit the country's energy transition and economic development goals.
Priscillah Mabelane, Sasol's Executive Vice President: Energy Business, said: "Green hydrogen provides an exciting opportunity for the country to create new hydrogen ecosystems and become a credible exporter of sustainable energy and chemical products, such as hydrogen, ammonia and sustainable aviation fuel, while increasing much-needed employment opportunities."
"Our ambition is to lead and co-create South Africa's hydrogen ecosystems through strategic partnerships, leveraging our proprietary technology and integrated value chain. We are delighted to partner with the IDC in jointly pursuing South Africa's green hydrogen potential to support a just energy transition and unlock new value chains to ignite the country's economy," concluded Ms Mabelane.
Joanne Bate, Chief Operations Officer from the IDC said: "The development of the hydrogen industry is a key enabler in South Africa's just transition to a decarbonised future. Hydrogen has the potential to decarbonise various industrial sectors. IDC intends on getting involved in the development of those catalytic projects needed to develop this new industry. We are looking forward to working together with Sasol in identifying and co-developing such catalytic projects. Our involvement in the development of the hydrogen industry also provides opportunities to fulfill our development mandate which entails job creation and opportunities to involve previously disadvantaged entities."
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The .416 Barrett cartridge is a 10.6 x 83mm round that is known for it's immense power and reliable accuracy. 416 Barrett ammo was designed by Chris Barrett, son of famed rifle designer Ronnie Barrett. (Yep, it's the same company produces one of the most popular 50 caliber rifles on the market). The .416 Barrett was designed in accordance with an order Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division, as an alternative to the 50 Browning Machine gun round.
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Wow, woke up to a storm this morning. It seems that a couple of weeks ago facebook changed their terms and conditions and today the worlds media caught on to this fact and it's become headline news. There's also a huge back lash on facebook with tens of thousands of users joining various groups protesting the change.
We've notice a fairly big spike in the amount of new users joining so I wanted to take this opportunity to reassure any newcomers that our terms are very simple.
We don't own your photos….we don't want to own your photos and never will want to own your photos.
I value my photographs and the copyright that goes along with them very highly and have absolutely no intention whatsoever of attempting to claim ownership of anybody elses, meaning that if you post your photos on a photoswarm site, only you retain the copyright. Sound good? Thought so.
Spread the word because facebook shouldn't be allowed to get away with what amounts to blatant theft.


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VISSA, BHAI, a Bhardvaj Brahman who accepted Sikhism at the hands of Guru Arjan. The name occurs in Bhai Gurdas, Varan, XI. 20.
UGARU, BHAI
UGARU, BHAI, a native of Dalla, a village in present day Kapurthala district of the Punjab, was a devout Sikh of the time of Guru Amar Das. He was among those who waited upon the Guru when he visited Dalla and received initiation at his hands.
UDDA, BHAI
UDDA, BHAI, a Jatt of Harike in present day Amritsar district of the Punjab, received initiation at the hands of Guru Arjan. He was accompanied by Bhai Gangu and Bhai Nau, Bhai Rama and Bhai Dharma, who were also initialed along with him. The Guru, according to Bhai Santokh Singh,...
UDAI SINGH, BHAI
UDAI SINGH, BHAI (d. 1843), the last ruler of Kaithal state, was the younger of the two sons of Bhai Lal Singh. After the death of Bhai Lal Singh, his elder son Partap Singh succeeded him, but died soon after without a male heir. Udai Singh therefore became the next...
TOTA, BHAI
TOTA, BHAI, received initiation at the hands of Guru Arjan. He was trained in the martial art in the time of Guru Hargobind and became a skilled swordsman. He laid down his life in the battle of Amritsar in 1629. His name is included in Bhai Gurdas, Varan, XI. 18....
TODA MAHITA, BHAI
TODA MAHITA, BHAI, a Mahita Khatri, was a pious Sikh of the time of Guru Arjan. His name is included in the roster of the Guru`s devotees in Mani Singh, Sikhan di Bhagat Mala. He was one of those who performed dedicated service and received instruction at the time of...


In our attempts to fulfill customers requests for uniquely designed pieces, we have developed another new 8-10mm sound with a nicely shaped egg style tip and array of sensory enlarged areas along the shaft with slightly varying diameters and containing gently sloped valleys throughout the length of the sound. The egg shaped tip is the initial diameter of 10mm followed by the first valley at approximately 8mm. The following 7 enlarged areas are also approximately 10mm and the valleys are all in the 8mm diameter range. The last ball just in front of the final retention valley is also approximately 10mm and the final safety flange is 16mm in diameter. This is an awesome sound and should present some incredible sensations.
This sound is available in five levels of softness as shown in the drop list box selections. It should be extremely comfortable yet still quite stimulating for extended wear if that is what you desire. I would also like to note that the #10 silicone is moderately soft, much like the consistency of the semi-firm artificial fishing worms used by anglers. The #00-50 is even softer and works very well as a stretching material as it is more compressible than the #10. It takes a bit longer to insert, however, it is very comfortable for extended wear. It is also very stimulating in that it seems to have a delayed movement action everytime you move. The #00-50 silicone is only available in the translucent white color.


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#define QWINDOWSYSTEMINTERFACE_QPA_P_H

#include "qwindowsysteminterface_qpa.h"

QT_BEGIN_HEADER

QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE

class QWindowSystemInterfacePrivate {
public:
    enum EventType {
        Close,
        GeometryChange,
        Enter,
        Leave,
        ActivatedWindow,
        Mouse,
        Wheel,
        Key,
        Touch,
        ScreenGeometry,
        ScreenAvailableGeometry,
        ScreenCountChange,
        LocaleChange,
        PlatformPanel
    };

    class WindowSystemEvent {
    public:
        WindowSystemEvent(EventType t)
            : type(t) { }
        virtual ~WindowSystemEvent() {}
        EventType type;
    };

    class CloseEvent : public WindowSystemEvent {
    public:
        CloseEvent(QWidget *tlw)
            : WindowSystemEvent(Close), topLevel(tlw) { }
        QWeakPointer<QWidget> topLevel;
    };

    class GeometryChangeEvent : public WindowSystemEvent {
    public:
        GeometryChangeEvent(QWidget *tlw, const QRect &newGeometry)
            : WindowSystemEvent(GeometryChange), tlw(tlw), newGeometry(newGeometry)
        { }
        QWeakPointer<QWidget> tlw;
        QRect newGeometry;
    };

    class EnterEvent : public WindowSystemEvent {
    public:
        EnterEvent(QWidget *enter)
            : WindowSystemEvent(Enter), enter(enter)
        { }
        QWeakPointer<QWidget> enter;
    };

    class LeaveEvent : public WindowSystemEvent {
    public:
        LeaveEvent(QWidget *leave)
            : WindowSystemEvent(Leave), leave(leave)
        { }
        QWeakPointer<QWidget> leave;
    };

    class ActivatedWindowEvent : public WindowSystemEvent {
    public:
        ActivatedWindowEvent(QWidget *activatedWindow)
            : WindowSystemEvent(ActivatedWindow), activated(activatedWindow)
        { }
        QWeakPointer<QWidget> activated;
    };

    class UserEvent : public WindowSystemEvent {
    public:
        UserEvent(QWidget * w, ulong time, EventType t)
            : WindowSystemEvent(t), widget(w), timestamp(time) { }
        QWeakPointer<QWidget> widget;
        unsigned long timestamp;
    };

    class MouseEvent : public UserEvent {
    public:
        MouseEvent(QWidget * w, ulong time, const QPoint & local, const QPoint & global, Qt::MouseButtons b)
            : UserEvent(w, time, Mouse), localPos(local), globalPos(global), buttons(b) { }
        QPoint localPos;
        QPoint globalPos;
        Qt::MouseButtons buttons;
    };

    class WheelEvent : public UserEvent {
    public:
        WheelEvent(QWidget *w, ulong time, const QPoint & local, const QPoint & global, int d, Qt::Orientation o)
            : UserEvent(w, time, Wheel), delta(d), localPos(local), globalPos(global), orient(o) { }
        int delta;
        QPoint localPos;
        QPoint globalPos;
        Qt::Orientation orient;
    };

    class KeyEvent : public UserEvent {
    public:
        KeyEvent(QWidget *w, ulong time, QEvent::Type t, int k, Qt::KeyboardModifiers mods, const QString & text = QString(), bool autorep = false, ushort count = 1)
            :UserEvent(w, time, Key), key(k), unicode(text), repeat(autorep),
             repeatCount(count), modifiers(mods), keyType(t),
             nativeScanCode(0), nativeVirtualKey(0), nativeModifiers(0) { }
        KeyEvent(QWidget *w, ulong time, QEvent::Type t, int k, Qt::KeyboardModifiers mods,
                 quint32 nativeSC, quint32 nativeVK, quint32 nativeMods,
                 const QString & text = QString(), bool autorep = false, ushort count = 1)
            :UserEvent(w, time, Key), key(k), unicode(text), repeat(autorep),
             repeatCount(count), modifiers(mods), keyType(t),
             nativeScanCode(nativeSC), nativeVirtualKey(nativeVK), nativeModifiers(nativeMods) { }
        int key;
        QString unicode;
        bool repeat;
        ushort repeatCount;
        Qt::KeyboardModifiers modifiers;
        QEvent::Type keyType;
        quint32 nativeScanCode;
        quint32 nativeVirtualKey;
        quint32 nativeModifiers;
    };

    class TouchEvent : public UserEvent {
    public:
        TouchEvent(QWidget *w, ulong time, QEvent::Type t, QTouchEvent::DeviceType d, const QList<QTouchEvent::TouchPoint> &p)
            :UserEvent(w, time, Touch), devType(d), points(p), touchType(t) { }
        QTouchEvent::DeviceType devType;
        QList<QTouchEvent::TouchPoint> points;
        QEvent::Type touchType;

    };

    class ScreenCountEvent : public WindowSystemEvent {
    public:
        ScreenCountEvent (int count)
            : WindowSystemEvent(ScreenCountChange) , count(count) { }
        int count;
    };

    class ScreenGeometryEvent : public WindowSystemEvent {
    public:
        ScreenGeometryEvent(int index)
            : WindowSystemEvent(ScreenGeometry), index(index) { }
        int index;
    };

    class ScreenAvailableGeometryEvent : public WindowSystemEvent {
    public:
        ScreenAvailableGeometryEvent(int index)
            : WindowSystemEvent(ScreenAvailableGeometry), index(index) { }
        int index;
    };

    class LocaleChangeEvent : public WindowSystemEvent {
    public:
        LocaleChangeEvent()
            : WindowSystemEvent(LocaleChange) { }
    };

   class PlatformPanelEvent : public WindowSystemEvent {
   public:
        explicit PlatformPanelEvent(QWidget *w)
            : WindowSystemEvent(PlatformPanel), widget(w) { }
        QWeakPointer<QWidget> widget;
    };

    static QList<WindowSystemEvent *> windowSystemEventQueue;
    static QMutex queueMutex;

    static int windowSystemEventsQueued();
    static WindowSystemEvent * getWindowSystemEvent();
    static void queueWindowSystemEvent(WindowSystemEvent *ev);

    static QTime eventTime;
};

QT_END_HEADER
QT_END_NAMESPACE

#endif // QWINDOWSYSTEMINTERFACE_QPA_P_H


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The Impossible (2013)
Naomi Watts and Tom Holland survive extreme circumstances in The Impossible
Director: JA Bayona
Cast: Naomi Watts (Maria), Ewan McGregor (Henry), Tom Holland (Lucas), Samuel Joslin (Thomas), Oaklee Pendergast (Simon), Marta Etura (Simone), Sönke Möhring (Karl), Geraldine Chaplin (Old Woman)
In 2004 the Boxing Day tsunami hit the Indian ocean. The resulting tidal waves devastated communities in several countries, with almost a quarter of a million casualties. The impact left rich and poor alike in a desperate struggle to survive. These terrible events form the basis of this emotionally powerful, if sometimes manipulative, film that recreates the remarkable story of a Spanish family, separated in the tsunami, who all miraculously survived.
Here the family is re-imagined as British (presumably to sell the film around the world a little easier, as they now all speak English). Maria (Naomi Watts) is a doctor who for the last few years has been a stay-at-home mum for her three sons Lucas (Tom Holland), on the cusp of becoming a teenager, Thomas (Samuel Joslin) and Simon (Oaklee Pendegast), both younger. Her husband is businessman Henry (Ewan McGregor). Staying in Thailand for a Christmas vacation, the family are separated when the tsunami hits their resort. Maria (badly injured) and Lucas make their way to a hospital, where Lucas struggles to get the life-saving treatment his mum needs. Henry is trapped in the resort with their other two sons, desperately trying to find his missing wife and child. Around them swirl an entire country of refugees and affected people, all of them trying to find family members.
The Impossible gets an awful lot right. The recreation of the tsunami is faultless. You'll feel every moment of terror as the water rips through the family's high-end vacation spot. As Maria and Lucas are swept far away by a deep swell of fast-flowing water (stuffed with mud, filth and debris) you'll feel every blow to bodies as debris hammers into them, and feel like you've lived through every moment of desperation as the two fight against the current to reach each other. The sense of powerlessness and fear – a mother trying to be brave for her son, a son frightened and desperate for reassurance, ashamed at being scared – are powerful, deeply affecting and hugely immersive. Bayona's experience of directing horror comes wonderfully into play here, as he knows exactly how to push our buttons and make us feel the emotion, fear and anxiety of the situation.
This tone continues through most of the film's first hour which largely follows Maria and Lucas as they attempt to reach the hospital. Running on adrenalin, Maria only slowly begins to succumb to exhaustion as her grievous wounds (smashed ribs, a horrifically graphic leg injury) sap her strength, even while she tries to maintain an air of calm for her son. What is intriguing in this sequence is that, like a set of scales, as the mother becomes weaker the son becomes stronger – Lucas suddenly propelled into become an adult. Lucas increasingly takes decisions on how best to survive, argues at times for hard calls and becomes, in many ways, the adult in the situation.
This sequence is helped hugely by the performances of the two actors. The physical commitment of every actor isn't to be doubted (Holland and Watts spent hellish weeks in water tanks filming – although this is only relative compared to the horror of the actual tsunami). Watts (Oscar-nominated) brings power to a mother who believes she is the only thing her son has left in the world, and must survive at all costs for him. Her buttoning down of her terror for as long as she can is deeply moving, and she brings the part significant heart. Tom Holland is simply a revelation as Lucas. He develops an authority well beyond his years, the complexity of the emotions he deals with – from fear to anger and defiance, determination, anxiety, relief and despair – would have challenged an actor three times his age. Holland never loses trace of the central kindness in Lucas – no matter how desperate the situation – and he is the undoubted star of the film, his portrayal of a child forced to grow up scarily quickly is deeply affecting.
Ewan McGregor offers similarly excellent work. Left searching through the rubble of his holiday home, McGregor brilliantly captures a sense of a father trying to deny that his control over events has disappeared. He excels in an extremely moving breakdown scene – after finally contacting his wife's parents in the UK, he collapses in desperate, uncontrollable sobs of guilt and fear, apologising for not knowing what to do. It's some of the actor's best work, brilliantly tapping into his natural warmth for excellent effect.
Where the film struggles more is in its focus. While it is a story of one – affluent – Western family, so naturally its focus will be there, it does turn the rest of the cast into little more than extras. Some focus is given to the Thai people: a group of poor local people is crucial in saving Maria and Lucas' lives and getting them to a hospital, their immediate humanity and generosity reducing Maria (and the audience) to tears of gratitude, but that's the only real look we get at them. The hospital where a large part of the story is set is full of Westerners, bar the staff. All the victims we spend significant time with are white and Western (all are presented sympathetically, bar a pair of Americans for whom the tsunami is a holiday inconvenience).
But you could watch the film and not realise that so many of the people who died were part of the indigenous population – and while thousands of Westerners also perished, the survivors did at least return to their homes, whereas those living in affected countries lost everything.
The film's other flaw is the manipulative tone it moves into late on, in particular a series of prolonged "missed moments" as the separated family walk around the hospital, just missing each other. This may well have actually happened, but is so contrived that it feels like a narrative flourish. The plot slows down in the second half as the characters search for each other. The film's final title cards were a perfect opportunity to bring more focus to other victims – and to mention the death toll and impact on the countries – but avoids all of this to simply confirm it's based on a true story.
The Impossible has lots of powerful moments. Its moments of emotion are raw and affecting and, manipulative as it is, you do celebrate when the family is reunited. But it's also a film that loses its way a bit – which captures a superb survivalist story but then becomes too sentimental towards its end. And by not doing more to acknowledge the impact on the Thai people, among others, you can't help but feel it turns this tsunami into something that affected rich, white, Westerners – which is harder to forgive.
Labels: Disaster Films, Ewan McGregor, Geraldine Chaplin, JA Bayona, Naomi Watts, Tom Holland
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