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Germantown, Pennsylvania, Battle of
Germantown, Pennsylvania, Battle of
GERMANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, BATTLE OF. The very name, "Germantown," says much about the social complexities of the military task that William Howe accepted in agreeing to bring his army to Pennsylvania in 1777 to try to fatally wound the rebellion. When the former Pennsylvania assembly speaker and then Loyalist, Joseph Galloway, assured Howe that Pennsylvanians were eager to return to their allegiance to their king, he was referring primarily to Quakers and other Englishmen, not to the province's German-speaking inhabitants, supposedly nostalgic for George, the former elector of Hanover. As both captured and deserting Hessian mercenaries would discover to their dismay between 1776 and 1783, the colony's Germans were for the most part firmly committed to independence.
Germantown was not named for the hordes of Rhineland migrants who flooded through Philadelphia between 1720 and 1750, creating a Germanic belt in the near-western counties of Northampton, Berks, and parts of Lancaster and York. Its name, rather, derived from the old German Township, settled by people from Frankford and Crefeld in the Roman Empire who were contemporary with and recruited by William Penn in the 1680s and 1690s. Settling compactly about fifteen miles northwest of Philadelphia, north of the Schuylkill Valley, these people had created an artisanal and craft village by the mid-eighteenth century. The town had a linear streetscape, stretching for a mile mostly along the Germantown Road. Its small houses had backyards, gardens, and orchards, tightly fenced and covered with outbuildings, along a handful of intersecting roads and lanes. These structures were mixed after 1750 with a few large summer houses for members of the provincial gentry, who made the half-day drive from town to escape the heat, noise, and occasional return of pestilence.
Shortly after the Battle of Brandywine, General Washington moved the Continental army to Germantown before striking up the Schuylkill Valley in an unsuccessful effort to keep the British out of Philadelphia. Thus, he had a much better sense of the ground than he had possessed at Brandywine three weeks before. The army moved by small steps down the Schuylkill between 29 September and 2 October until the troops were within about twenty miles from Philadelphia. Washington drew small reinforcements from the reserve kept in the middle Hudson River Valley in late September. In doing so, he potentially exposed General Horatio Gates—north of Albany and facing British General John Burgoyne's invading force—to attack from behind by any rescue force sent north from New York City by General Henry Clinton to extricate Burgoyne. On 28 September, Washington called a council of war to discuss the possibility of taking offensive action. His generals advised against an immediate attack but urged watching for a favorable opportunity.
General Howe, meanwhile, moved cautiously to take possession of Philadelphia. He sent a garrison force of five thousand troops there directly across the Schuylkill on 26 September but left the bulk of his army at Germantown until he could prepare the city for occupation. He had witnessed civil-military tensions during the previous two years in both Boston and New York. His main objective after Brandywine was to clear obstructions from the Delaware River below Philadelphia so that Admiral Richard Howe's transport fleet could reach the city docks with provisions. Howe's commissary general, Daniel Weir, managed to feed the army from the countryside between Head of Elk and the Schuylkill, reaching Philadelphia with slightly more provisions than he had carried away from the fleet in August. But those supplies would now diminish, and the British would be held politically responsible for any shortages that civilians faced in competition with soldiers. The rebels still held forts at Red Bank in New Jersey and at Mud Island on the Pennsylvania side, near the mouth of the Schuylkill River, and they had obstructed the channels between those positions by placing partially sunken wood and metal barriers called chevaux-de-frise across the river. The latter were chained together and threatened to damage British warships. Washington learned that Howe was making detachments from his force in the city to the lower Delaware as part of an effort to seize the forts and to clear these river obstructions. He informally communicated this news to his general officers, who on 2 October advised Washington to execute an attack on the British garrison at Germantown.
If General Howe's battle plan for Brandywine was loosely modeled on the one that he had used successfully the year before on Long Island, Washington's thinking about Germantown reflected his successful counterstroke four months later at Trenton and Princeton. The action would begin overnight, it would involve a surprise attack on an exposed outpost, and it would be elaborately timed and conceived, requiring very careful coordination among diverse army units. Washington divided his army, with its militia reinforcements, into four separate columns. The outside wings of the attack would be executed by militiamen, who in some cases were led by regular army officers. The interior columns would be composed of regular troops and led by the officers in whom Washington had the greatest confidence. The army was about fifteen miles above the outer positions of the British force at the northern end of Germantown. The troops were ordered to leave their packs behind to foster mobility, and they carried substantial but finite supplies of ammunition, which amounted to about forty rounds per man.
The largest Continental column, about five thousand troops under General Nathanael Greene, pushed off at mid-evening on 3 October. They marched down Skippack Road, then filed off into Limekiln Road and approached their target from the northwest. Shortly after Greene left, the second Continental column, commanded by General John Sullivan and accompanied by Washington, followed down Skippack Road then turned into Germantown Road, the main street through town. Greene would form the left and Sullivan the right wing of the main Continental attack. Washington ordered about two thousand Pennsylvania militia troops, commanded by the aging but highly regarded John Armstrong, to approach Germantown along the Manatawny or Ridge Road, which followed the Schuylkill, until he reached the junction of the Wissahickon Creek with that river. This force would serve as the right wing of the overall attack. It was intended be in a position to support the action if the regulars were successful. A smaller group of about one thousand Maryland and New Jersey militia, under Maryland General William Smallwood, took a much more circuitous (and very poorly described in its instructions) route, designed to bring it out to the north of Germantown, to add force to an effort to drive the British downhill toward the Schuylkill River.
As had been the case at Trenton the previous year, the plan assumed that a diverse group of poorly trained units would be able to arrive at the point of battle almost simultaneously. To achieve this end, it was expected that each column would maintain mobile peripheral parties and that couriers would cross back and forth between them, maintaining frequent communications. The columns were instructed to arrive at their battle positions, within two miles of the enemy's watchmen, by 2 a.m. on 4 October, and then to rest for about two hours. Then they would organize their units and strike at 5 a.m. against the enemy pickets or watchmen. Washington wanted the latter to be quietly overwhelmed with bayonets or, if necessary, captured, to avoid signaling the sleeping encampments at Germantown of the impending attack.
THE BATTLE BEGINS
Major aspects of this attack plan went awry from the beginning, although the operation initially appeared to succeed. Most divisions were late getting to their halting points, although the built-in interval for rest absorbed some of this delay—possibly at the cost of tiredness and confusion after daybreak. Toward dawn, a typical mid-Atlantic early morning autumn fog arose, thicker than the one that had benefited Howe's flanking detachment at Brandywine three weeks before. Somewhere between Chestnut Hill and Mount Airy, well short of the British lines at Germantown, Sullivan's advance units encountered parties of British infantrymen. Thus, the action began not with muffled or bayoneted guardsmen, but rather with a small, sharp, and noisy skirmish. The defenders resisted, then gave ground to an attack force whose size they could not estimate. Both attackers and defenders groped in the murky first light. Retreating British forces set fire to small fields of mature buckwheat plants, ready for harvest, and to hay stubble, both of which burned eerily and smokily. As American troops reached the edges of Germantown proper, the webs of fencing and other agricultural infrastructure that littered the small fields and garden plots behind the houses presented difficult obstacles that had to be passed or dismantled at great risk to the men.
Washington was concerned and confused as much by silences as by familiar battle sounds coming out of the obscure light. He expected noise telling him that Greene's, Armstrong's, and Smallwood's columns had joined or were about to join the battle, but he heard none. He also inferred from the retreat of musket fire in front of him and from its subsequent increase closer in that the British were indeed withdrawing under American pressure, but that Sullivan's troops were discharging their weapons too freely and risking the exhaustion of their limited ammunition supplies. Washington quickly ordered that those troops be restrained from undisciplined firing. On several occasions he moved up right behind the first lines of attackers and had to be urged by his own aides and officers to stand back and avoid exposing himself unnecessarily to gunfire. Again and again he was unable to resist trying to move to the heart of the battle itself.
General Howe, meanwhile, became involved in directing the defense on the other side of the fog. Howe made his quarters at Stenton, the country house of the prominent Logan family of Pennsylvania, situated about halfway between Germantown and Philadelphia proper. When the action began, Howe was awakened by messengers who could not say for sure whether the army was under sustained attack or merely facing a limited series of tactical probes. Until evidence proved otherwise, he chose to presume the latter. He dressed, mounted his horse, and rode northwest toward the center of Germantown. Arriving near the lines he chastised his troops, saying that he "never saw you retreat before," and he claimed that the attackers were "only a scouting party." Howe's privates knew better, as did, presumably, his dog, who accompanied the general, then wandered out of line in the fog and quickly became a Continental prisoner of war.
As the British retreated into the fog, one hundred members of an infantry regiment somewhat impulsively took shelter in a large stone house sitting back from the Germantown Road by several hundred feet and began barricading its lower doors and windows. This was the summer country home of Benjamin Chew, a Philadelphia gentleman and the late chief justice of the defunct provincial supreme court of Pennsylvania. The redcoats withdrew to the second floor, from whose windows they could pour deadly fire on passing American troops. Washington's aides and generals debated what to do about this situation. Several of them advocated leaving a guard party near the building to prevent the embedded soldiers from escaping and then diverting the flow of the attack out of range of its sniper fire. However, the commander of Continental artillery, General Henry Knox—a soldier whose somewhat doctrinaire military ideas reflected his earlier career as a colonial bookseller and an avid reader of military histories and treatises—invoked an old aphorism about the dangers of leaving a fortified "castle" in the army's rear. Washington accepted Knox's judgment and ordered American artillery to try to reduce the "fort." The building's thick stone walls were impervious to cannon fire, however, and the fierce firing kept up by the redcoats prevented their dislodgement by any other means. Washington eventually acceded to the more conservative wisdom of the dissenters and ordered a guard thrown around the house. But a large number of Americans died in the Chew House's capacious front yard that morning, and valuable time was lost forever. Washington then threw the reserve troops that he had held back from the initial assault on Germantown into the chase. He soon allowed himself to imagine that his enemies were abandoning the field in a disorderly retreat.
THE AMERICAN PLAN DISSOLVES
Something like the opposite was instead happening. As General Howe relinquished the convenient fiction that his forces had been attacked by a "scouting party," he began to regain control over his shaken troops. At about the same time, Washington lost a measure of control over his own men. The fog, gunsmoke, and smoke from burning fields, fences, and outbuildings was a disadvantage to troops on both sides, but it was easier for the British to retreat through it than for numerous separate attacking bodies of men to advance while trying to form a unified line. Despite Washington's orders to conserve ammunition, many of Sullivan's men began to run out and in the process were losing confidence in their own safety. The other three columns of which the initial American attack consisted had either not become involved in the action at all or had stumbled into it in problematic ways. Down the Wissahickon Ridge toward the Schuylkill River, John Armstrong's Pennsylvania militia companies had probed their way hesitantly along the riverbank. Upon reaching its junction with Wissahickon Creek, above the Falls of Schuylkill, their only route into the action was uphill and through the mist. It is difficult to conclude that they were very anxious to make that climb into what must have sounded like noisy chaos.
The other body of militia, forming the left wing of the Continental thrust, had been given a very circuitous marching itinerary, with written instructions to guides that invoked local names for mills, lanes, and houses—some of them referring to the names of long-departed owners. Even General Smallwood's guides had difficulty making sense of these directions, and his forces floundered around ineffectively in the mist on the north side of the town and thus of the battle. More problematic than the units that did not join the clash was the dilemma of the largest single section of the army, under the command of general Greene, that did in fact become belatedly involved. Greene's column had missed one turn because of a confused guide, and the distance it had been assigned to cover had been miscalculated, preventing it from reaching its staging area on time.
Although Greene's troops were at first able to push the British units that they encountered back with little difficulty, their lateness in arriving at the center of Germantown prevented them from forming a smooth juncture with Sullivan's men—some of whom were already retreating as they pushed forward. The confusion was not diminished by the fact that one element of Greene's party, David Forman's troop of New Jersey regulars, was wearing captured red British uniforms. At some point, Greene's troops and elements of Anthony Wayne's division attached to Sullivan's column over-lapped and began firing at each other in the confusion. One division of Virginia soldiers under Greene's command was the victim of its own aggressive activity. It fought its way to the Germantown Market Square, at the center of the British encampment, after the American units in the center column had already withdrawn from that area. While the Virginians had taken a number of prisoners, they were eventually themselves surrounded and thus captured en masse.
By shortly after 9 a.m., a general panic began to sweep the American lines, as first individuals and then whole groups of men withdrew in an undisciplined mass. Officers tried to stop the retreat and Washington threw himself into the action behind the lines, trying—as he had successfully done at Brandywine—to shore up a shaky situation. This did no good, and eventually the artillery division and even some of the officers were abandoning the field. By 10 a.m. it was clear to Washington that the only realistic step was to try to extract the army from a hopeless situation. Howe and Cornwallis again did not seem disposed to run a defeated adversary into the ground, and the American retreat became relatively more orderly and gradual with every mile that it moved away from Germantown. The army followed the same general route to the northwest by which it had arrived that morning, up the east side of the Schuylkill River to well-known places in the northwestern part of Philadelphia County. By nightfall, the exhausted American troops—some of them literally sleeping on the backs of slowly ambling horses—came to a halt at Pennypacker's Mill, about twenty miles north of the Chew House.
The Americans casualties were 152 men killed, over 500 wounded, and more than 400 missing. British sources admitted a total of about 387 casualties, but subsequent estimates are closer to 500, including about 70 men killed and nearly 400 wounded.
Washington began drafting yet another rueful, analytical announcement to Congress conceding an unsuccessful endeavor, this time one in which he firmly believed that victory had been thrown away. His staff and field officers in some cases slept in their clothes that night. Over the next several days they too began to pick through the shards of bitter memory, trying to figure out what had gone wrong.
Washington believed, probably sincerely, that victory had been "declaring itself in our favor" before the unaccountable American panic turned the tide. While we can and should be impressed by the American ability to drive substantial British-trained units back with the benefit of surprise, there is little evidence that Howe was anywhere near to "taking to his ships" that morning (as another American officer believed). The British gave their adversary full credit for its willingness to mount a major offensive a few weeks after having been soundly beaten at Brandywine. Without abandoning his intention to reopen the lower Delaware River as soon as possible, Howe quickly made plans to begin building earthwork redoubts across the neck of land between the Delaware and Schuylkill just north of Philadelphia. He also pressed his aides to complete inventorying available officers' quarters and building barracks in the city so that he could remove the troops at Germantown from harm's way by placing them in the garrison.
Eighteenth-century contemporaries and later historians have picked elements of the Germantown battle and battle plan apart in search of either an explanation for the result or for a scapegoat. Washington's decision to have largely unreliable militia forces operate on the wings of the attack while the center was comprised of units tested at Brandywine has been questioned. Critics have suggested that instead of wandering on the periphery of the battle, militia might have been "stiffened" by their placement between sturdier regular columns. But—given the finite nature and number of approaches to Germantown from the north and west—it is hard to imagine what could have been accomplished by irregulars as the opening battering ram of the surprise. Washington's decision to treat the problem of the Chew House as a priority item—rather than as an annoyance that could have been isolated and dealt with later—has seemed to many analysts to have been a substantial error of judgment. His initial battle plan, which depended on the ability of multiple columns marching in the dark to time their arrival at the point of attack to within close ranges, now seems almost quixotic. Whatever tribute that plan paid to the resourceful performance of the "old" army at Trenton ten months before, it was ill adapted to the strengths and weaknesses of its "new" successor. Two months later, in the first days at Valley Forge, Washington would once more envision a complex descent by the whole of what was left of the army on Howe's lines north of Philadelphia, a movement entirely at odds with his concurrent depiction to Congress of the army's immobility. Thankfully, he thought better of the idea, and it was quietly shelved.
GERMANTOWN AND SARATOGA
It was at best with mixed feelings that Washington, shortly after extracting his army from Germantown, received notice (and had to announce to his troops) that Horatio Gates's northern army had won a second major engagement with John Burgoyne's invading force at Saratoga, New York, and that Burgoyne had agreed to a convention that removed his troops from the war. There would inevitably be invidious comparisons between Gates's successes in the north and Washington's bitter defeats in Pennsylvania. In preparing his soldiers for their nightlong march to Germantown, Washington had urged them to "Covet! My Countrymen, and fellow soldiers … A share of the glory due to heroic deeds." They would now have to wait for that share. The awkward way in which news of Gates's triumph was officially sent to Congress would play a part in the perhaps inevitable growth of tensions between Gates and Washington that—before the end of the winter—would threaten the military establishment with internal division.
That tension at the command level had its counterpart in the army in the field. Shortly after Saratoga, Washington ordered substantial reinforcements from Gates's force to join him in Pennsylvania to continue the campaign to hold the Delaware River. Most of Gates's soldiers were Yankees and New Yorkers, while many of the men in the main army came from places located from New Jersey through the Lower South. The northerners crossed the Delaware just as the Pennsylvania campaign stalled, and there were predictable personal and cultural tensions between two very different subcultures of Anglo-Americans. Yankees made the word "burgoyne" into a smug verb form to describe their humbling of a superior adversary. Many of them wondered why their new campmates had not done as much to William Howe. These tensions would somehow have to be reconciled at Valley Forge before the army could be "continental" in anything more than name.
TAKING AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW
For what it was worth, many if not most of Washington's commanders and field officers agreed with him that victory had been at hand at Germantown, and that it had been snatched away by a stroke of what was more fairly described as bad luck than enemy superiority. If only to console themselves, they quickly reduced these feelings to words in letters to their friends. William Alexander (Lord Stirling) wrote that "this affair will convince the world that we can out general our enemy, that we dare attack them, that we can surprise them, that we can drive them before us several miles." Benjamin Tallmadge of Connecticut insisted that the Americans had driven their adversaries "from post to post" on 4 October, and he recalled that he had "expected to have been in Philadelphia by ten o'clock." An army commissary official stationed in New Jersey heard about the "bloody and almost fatal to our enemy [action] at Germantown." A delegate to Congress in York, Pennsylvania, relayed reports that "a most compleat victory seemed in full prospect [un]till this unfortunate mistake occasioned by the fog snatched it out of our hands." General Weedon of Virginia rationalized that "tho[ugh] the enterprise miscarried, it was well worth the undertaking, "as … [the British] light infantry (the flower of their army) was cut to pieces." These accounts were at best highly selective, but the officer corps, at least, seems to have embraced them as real by mid-October. They were accompanied by insistent predictions that the army would soon have "another tryal," "another battle," "another attack," and "another brush" with the redcoats, in which the Americans almost universally expected to prevail.
These hopeful predictions were not to come to pass. But their failure to materialize owed more to supply and organizational failures, whose causes were largely invisible to officers and troops, than they did to failures of army nerve. The soldiers—especially the Yankee reinforcements joining the army from the Hudson Valley—saw the sheer abundance of Pennsylvania and wondered why they were going unsupplied in what they portrayed as a biblical Land of Goshen. They also wondered why the local militia was anxious to call it a campaign by November and go home for the winter. The results of these perceptions—set largely in reaction to the complex events of 4 October—shaped the Valley Forge winter.
SEE ALSO Alexander, William; Brandywine, Pennsylvania; Galloway, Joseph; Greene, Nathanael; Howe, William; Knox, Henry; Philadelphia Campaign; Smallwood, William; Sullivan, John; Tallmadge, Benjamin, Jr.; Wayne, Anthony; Weedon, George.
Lengel, Edward G. General George Washington, A Military Life. New York: Random House, 2005.
McGuire, Thomas J. The Surprise of Germantown, or the Battle of Cliveden, October 4, 1777. Philadelphia: Cliveden of the National Trust and Thomas Publications, 1994.
Reed, John F. Campaign to Valley Forge: July 1, 1777 December 19, 1777. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965.
Taafe, Stephen. The Philadelphia Campaign, 1777–1778. Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
Wolf, Stephanie Grauman. Urban Village: Population, Community, and Family Structure in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1683–1800. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976.
revised by Wayne K. Bodle

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HOUSTON, MO — Two people were injured early Tuesday morning in a serious single-car crash on Highway 17 near Houston, according to a crash report by Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Trooper C. L. Goodwin responded to the crash along a stretch of Highway 17 four miles north of Houston in Texas County at around 3:00 a.m.
A 2008 Ford Focus was traveling southbound on the highway when it crossed the centerline, ran to the left of the roadway, striking the ground and a utility pole.
The driver, a 34-year-old male resident of Licking, was transported by ambulance and later flown to Mercy Hospital in Springfield with serious injuries. He was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.
His passenger, a 33-year-old female resident of Licking, was taken by ambulance to Texas County Memorial Hospital with moderate injuries.
No other information regarding the cause of accident has been released.
This article is one in a series presented by OnderLaw to inform our neighbors about car accidents and traffic news across our city. It should not be interpreted as legal advice. However, if you or someone you love has been injured in a car accident, we would like to discuss your case in detail. Depending on the circumstances, you may be entitled to financial compensation for your medical bills, your lost income, and other expenses. More importantly, the only way to fight for safer highway conditions or fix the root cause of many accidents is to enlist the help of an experienced attorney that has the possibility to effect change and can prevent this from happening to another family. Contact us today to speak to one of our compassionate St. Louis car accident attorneys.


DESOTO COUNTY, Miss.-- Several voting irregularities have been reported to the authorities regarding the November 6th general election from DeSoto County.
Election Commission Chairman Paul Beale said six cases have been turned over to the authorities and that includes the FBI.
He commented on one of the irregularities.
"One guy came in and registered who was a convicted felon, and in doing so he was disenfranchised from voting"
That wasn't the only problem that was prevalent multiple times on that Tuesday.
"Another irregularity was that some people just came in and voted under other peoples' names," Beale added.
He confessed that there's only one-way to fix the problems at hand in his mind.
"Without voter ID we cannot correct this problem."
Beale said the likelihood of anyone getting caught and convicted is very slim in these cases because it's very hard to prove someone was present and committed a crime without having cameras and such to document the fraud.


Matt Graham, the star of Discovery Channel’s DUDE, YOU’RE SCREWED program who recently dropped in the jungles of Costa Rica is kind of in trouble with the country’s Tourism Board.
The part of the film that irked Costarricense de Turismo (ICT) officials is where he attempts to spear an animal for his own survival. The clip shows Matt, after walking in the jungle for more than 50 hours without food, missing his target.
Hermes Navarr0, head of ICT’s Tourism Management, said he will be asking Discovery Channel for explanations.
“We don’t support such programs because it is not what we want to sell (promote) and will be asking explanations why they (Discovery) made such a film that does not contribute anything to the environment”, said Navarro.
According to Navarro, groups like Discovery that come to film in the country do not need to ask permission unless they are filming in protected areas or a public place. However, by decree there is a regulation establishing conditions for doing so.
Among them, the production company is required to pay US$1.000 for each day of shooting, half if for educational programs. The regulations also prohibit harming the flora and fauna of our country.
The Matt Graham episode was shot in the Braulio Carrillo national park, as identified at the start of the show.
“The day there are some kind of firm rules we would be very happy, to be honest, we’d like all who come here to shoot a film for use abroad, to at least come by the ICT for some type of review”, said Navarro.
Navarro said the ICT was not aware of the Discovery Channel crew in Costa Rica.
In case you wanted to a proper translation of Dude, you’re screwed: in Costa Rica with would be: Mae, Estas Jodido.


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The Buccaneers seemingly emerged from a five-losses-in-six-games run by winning two in a row. And then, just as it appeared they’d found their groove, they blew a late lead against the Browns and lost in overtime.
It was the first time a Tom Brady team had ever blown a seven-point lead and lost in the final minute. Previously, he was 218-0 in those situations.
Appearing on the Buccaneers Radio Network, coach Todd Bowles seemed to suggest that it’s primarily for Brady and other team leaders to turn it around.
“It’s a players team,” Bowles said, via JoeBucsFan.com. “Every team that has winners that wins is a players team. . . .
“The leaders lead and everybody else follows. So it’s time for our leaders to lead and step up. And everybody else has to follow, and make plays. Not just lead but make plays. And show them by example, show them by being vocal, show them by how they practice. And they’ve been doing that for the most part but, you know, we can’t piss away any more ball games sort of speak. So it’s time for us to step up and make plays. We got six games left until we’ve got to get in the tournament.”
The Bucs remain the most likely choice to win the NFC South, primarily because the other three teams are even farther under .500 than Tampa Bay. The real question is whether the Bucs can string together wins in the tournament, if they get there.

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The Republican-controlled House is poised to strip funding to expand the Medicaid health insurance program from Gov. Bill Walker’s budget, the first shot in what’s expected to be a contentious debate over one of Walker’s central campaign planks.
A House committee Thursday approved a plan to cut the Legislature’s spending by 1.7 percent, well short of the reductions proposed by Gov. Bill Walker to state agency budgets under his control.Nathaniel Herz
A North Pole Republican’s budget plan to fire a pair of Democrats in the administration of Gov. Bill Walker drew objections of micro-managing in a House committee hearing Wednesday morning, though it nonetheless moved forward. Another Republican said it was nothing personal.Nathaniel Herz
In the face of a multibillion-dollar deficit, the administration of Alaska Gov. Bill Walker and state labor unions should renegotiate contract terms to lower health care costs and wage increases, a nonpartisan economic policy group said Wednesday. Dermot Cole
A Montana law enforcement official said his state has opened a criminal investigation into Roland Maw, who was appointed by Alaska Gov. Bill Walker to the Alaska Fish Board in January but who withdrew his name from consideration last week without explanation.Nathaniel Herz
As state lawmakers contemplate painful cuts and look for efficiencies to close a $3.5 billion deficit, one line item in their own budget has so far received little scrutiny: the cafeteria in the Capitol building that costs some $20,000 each month to operate during the 90-day legislative session.Nathaniel Herz
A Kenai Peninsula commercial fishing advocate who Gov. Bill Walker had hoped to see appointed to the Alaska Board of Fisheries, Roland Maw, has withdrawn his name from consideration after his nomination became increasingly controversial.Pat Forgey
As state lawmakers got more grim news about the future of Alaska's film tax credit program, a new annual report revealed that the number of production companies applying for the incentive hit new highs last year. Zaz Hollander


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In the entrance to a new 6,000-square-foot guesthouse of a Singapore residence, works by Roy Lichtenstein, left, and Frank Stella converse across Lee Man Fong's Horse.
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OnePlus 10T parameters exposed: Snapdragon 8 +, 16GB super memory
According to previous news, OnePlus will also launch its own Snapdragon 8+ flagship model in July/August, which will be named "OnePlus 10T" if nothing else.
Today at noon, well-known bloggers @数码闲聊站 revealed some of the core parameters of the machine, the first confirmed that the machine will use a plastic center frame, compared to the first half of OnePlus 10 Pro will be significantly heavier.
The front side features a 6.7-inch 120Hz flexible straight screen, but whether it is LTPO adaptive refresh rate is still unknown.
The news broke that the machine is positioned as a performance stack model, in addition to will be equipped with Snapdragon 8+, but also has 16GB LPDDR5 memory, and up to 512GB of UFS 3.1 storage, this configuration can be said to be the first echelon of the regular flagship proper.
According to the previously exposed score information, OnePlus 10T can reach more than 1.13 million points, combined with the currently known models, only this is not yet released Red Devil 7S series 1.15 million, but in the conventional models should be the performance limit.
Comprehensive known news, OnePlus 10T for 6.7-inch OLED flexible straight screen, equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 + flagship processor, rear 50 million main camera + 16 million ultra-wide angle + 2 million macro, the battery is 4800 mA, support 150W flash charging.
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Managing telecommunications for the census is no simple task, of course. The company estimates that it will need to provide census-takers at Harris Corporation with 500 MPLS sites, 150,000 active telemetry wireless devices and about 1,500 managed devices and mobile broadband connection cards. Bill White, Sprint's vice president of federal programs, says that the 150,000 telemetry devices were custom-built by HTC and were wirelessly connected by Sprint to help tie together the 450 local census offices that Harris is operating.
The big goal is for Sprint to provide census workers with secure connections that will allow them to wirelessly transmit sensitive data over a secure connection to the Harris Field Data Collection Automation (FDCA) database for safe storage. White says that one of the big advantages that Sprint has in helping take the census is its private wireless network that allows government and enterprise users to securely link between their wireless devices and their central server without using the public Internet.
"One of the unique aspects of our wireless capabilities is the ability to securely transmit information from a wireless handheld computer to a server farm without using the public Internet," he says. "With traditional wireless data services, once information leaves the device it goes over the Web."
Sprint says that its coverage capabilities give it another advantage in tackling the census, as its wireless capabilities "exceeded" the Harris's program requirements. For areas where the carrier's wireless coverage isn't as strong, it's implementing an IP dial-up service that will provide users with a secure, albeit antiquated, way of transmitting data.
"We've found a way of doing this that uses both old and new technology to make connections," says White. "The type of information that is sent through the census computers tends to be short bursts of data stream. While we do have a dial-up service available, we're confident that our wireless services cover a large majority of the country."
This story, "Sprint Helps 2010 Census Go Wireless" was originally published by Network World.


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A group of more than 20 faculty members from around the country have formed a new coalition to help college athletes become recognized as employees. According to its Web site, the College Athletes Rights & Empowerment Faculty Coalition will partner with players' unions and other associations fighting for stronger protections for college athletes, educate legislators about the issue, and oppose efforts "which seek to allow college sport entities to be 'reformed' in ways that do not result in justice and fairness for athletes whose labor generates revenue for their institutions." Their work will focus on athletes involved in men's basketball and football.
The coalition includes sports management, economics and law professors from more than a dozen colleges; two faculty members from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which is facing lawsuits from athletes who say being steered toward fraudulent "paper classes" there robbed them of an education; and three faculty members from institutions in Michigan, which recently passed a law barring college athletes from unionizing.
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The 2020–21 NBA season is the 75th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the regular season has been reduced to 72 games, and began on December 22, 2020.
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Why are there 82 games in an NBA season?
NBA officials opted to have each franchise to play other teams in their conference eight times a season and teams outside their conference seven times each season. Under that framework, each team played 82 games per season for the first time.
What months are NBA basketball season?
2019–20 NBA season
Has an NBA team ever went 82 0?
Out of these four teams, the Warriors were the only ones to have the best overall season and lose in the NBA Finals. AND it was in that same season that the pitiful Sixers suffered the worst season in NBA history…
How many games will NBA play?
How long is the NBA season 2020?
It’s done: The NBA comes back on Dec. 22, a 72-game season. Free agency signings will start on Nov. 22, followed by a 72-game regular season beginning Dec. 22.
Has an NBA team went 16 0 in the playoffs?
2016–17 Golden State Warriors season
How many times does each team play each other in the NBA?
Each team plays each division opponent 4 times during the regular season (twice at home, twice away) for a total of 16 games out of 82 total regular season games.
How are the 82 NBA games played?
Scheduling Formula There are 15 teams in a conference, and after a team plays against all four teams in their division, there are still 10 opponents left. Then, a five-year rotation decides which of those teams are played against four times and which teams are played against three times.
How long is the basketball season?
Q: How many games will each team play in 2020-21? Each team will play 72 regular-season games, which is 10 games fewer than in a typical, 82-game NBA season.
How many games does each NBA team play each other?
“During the regular season, each team plays 82 games, 41 each home and away. A team faces opponents in its own division four times a year (16 games), teams from the other two divisions in its conference either three or four times (36 games), and teams in the other conference twice apiece (30 games).”
Has any NBA team ever went undefeated?
No NBA team ever finished 0–82. The worst record percentage-wise was The 2011–12 Charlotte Bobcats who finished with a 7–59 record and . 106 Percentage. The worst record suffered by an NBA team in an 82-game season was the 9-73 record by the 1973 Philadelphia 76ers for a .
How are NBA games played in a season?
Each team will play two games against each interconference opponent (30 total games per team), with each pairing featuring one home game and one road game. The 2020-21 regular-season schedule will be released in two segments.
Why does the NBA have 82 games?
The NBA allows every team to come together and play at least two times with an 82-game schedule. In times like the days of LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, this allows fans to see two greats compete together every year without having to meet in the playoffs or finals to do so. In a star-driven league, this is ideal.
Can NBA teams go 82 0?
An NBA team can’t finish 82-0.
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Viridor has been awarded a two-year contract to process and sell dry recyclable material from Kent county council, the waste management firm has announced.
Beginning this month, the contract also has the option of a one-year extension and will see kerbside collections from seven boroughs and districts in the county processed at Viridor’s materials recycling facility (MRF) in Crayford, Kent.
More than 61,000 tonnes of material – including paper, card, plastic bottles, foil, cans and glass – will be processed at Crayford each year from collections in Ashford, Dartford, Gravesham, Maidstone, Sevenoaks, Swale and Tunbridge Wells.
Taken over by Viridor when the firm acquired Grosvenor Waste Management in December 2007, the Crayford MRF has the capacity to process around 400,000 tonnes of material each year.
Last year, Viridor won a two-year contract to process 21,000 tonnes of material from the London borough of Hillingdon at the Crayford facility.
“I’m delighted the great team work shown in this bid process has produced this result for Viridor,” said June Barlow, bid manager for Viridor. “We’ve successfully shown Kent county council how we’re stronger in partnership with our customers and will relentlessly pursue quality to bring them the best service.”
Several different contractors handle collections for the seven Kent councils involved in the Viridor deal. Recycling collections in Ashford, Swale, Maidstone and the county council are handled by Biffa; Cory Environmental handles Tunbridge Wells’ recycling collections; while such services are operated in-house by Gravesham borough council.


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After this learning session, attendees will be able to:
- Define stigma and describe how stigma impacts health outcomes in the context of HIV, SUD, and other chronic diseases.
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Officials are claiming secret evidence that Syria did not declare the entirety of its chemical weapons program’s capabilities, and are complaining that at the end of the disarmament program Syria still retains the technological and practical capability to manufacture such arms.
Some officials claimed the secret evidence had been provided to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) months ago, but there is no indication that it went anywhere or led to any findings.
Likewise, the technological capability to mix chemicals is a fairly trivial one for any industrialized state, and there had never been any supposition that dismantling the chemical arms factories meant Syria as a whole would forget how chemistry works.
Thus while scary the latest allegations don’t amount to much, if anything, and seem primarily to be a continuation of Western efforts to oppose the OPCW ending its chemical disarmament program just because the chemical weapons as such are gone. Western officials have suggested they’d prefer to leave the OPCW there more or less permanently.
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To prevent contracting COVID-19, you need to have strong immunity. To activate this, the body needs vitamins D, C, zinc, and selenium. Doctors advise filling your diet with foods containing these or taking them in pills.
Due to the excessive demand for vitamins from the warehouses, almost everything has been sold – pharmacists explain and reassure; delays in the delivery of new batches are temporary. Soon the entire “antiviral” range will return to the shelves of pharmacies.
“The manufacturers of these medicines do not have time to produce them; for this, they need to buy a substance that is produced abroad. It needs to be delivered, planned production, delivered to the pharmacy, and the pharmacy will only be able to sell it later,” comments the chairman of the pharmacy association Vladimir Rudenko on the air of the TV channel “Ukraine.”
Ordinary fruits and vegetables can replace pharmacy vitamins. Immunologists advise those who eat poorly or have health problems to take “pharma.” For example, 200 grams of minced beef, pork, or chicken will satisfy the body’s daily requirement for zinc or 2 cups of baked beans. One vitamin C tablet can replace a handful of fresh or frozen berries.
“There should be a balanced diet because, for example, meat and fish contain a sufficient amount of zinc. Also, the diet should have at least three fruits a day. Thus, you can get a sufficient amount of vitamin C”, – comments the immunologist Alla Volokha in the program ” Ranks with Ukraine
Also read: How To Drink Vitamins, So They Don’t Harm Your Health. “
How to replace vitamins in autumn
A monthly complex of vitamin D and zinc costs at least 150 hryvnias each. The cost of domestic vitamin C does not exceed 30 hryvnias. The main thing is not to prescribe vitamins to yourself, but to use them only after consulting a doctor because hypervitaminosis for the body is just as dangerous as a lack of vitamins.
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Yesterday's meeting started out with Joe's creation of a Portonic Rosé. This was made of one part Port Rosé and two parts tonic, with a dash of lime. I'm not generally big on cocktails, but this had a hint of bitterness that I liked, and makes for a refreshing and easy cocktail for the warm months.
After discussing the practical aspects of the business (of which I'm mostly a silent observer because my German pretty much extends to talking about my family and hobbies), we started on the tasting aspect of the business - unashamedly my favourite part.
We tasted altogether 15 bottles last night, which Joe had picked out. This is to introduce us to different wine varieties as well as interesting wines or grapes varieties we may not have tried or heard of before.
Here are a few of my favourites from the tasting:
This Marmorelle Salento Bianco from Tenute Rubino is made from Chardonnay and Malvasia Bianca grapes from the region of Puglia, Italy. On the nose were hints of tropical fruit, with subtle lime notes. The wine is light and lively, with good acidity and a well-rounded structure. I enjoyed the mineral flavours and softness, which makes it an easy-drinking wine on its own.
The second wine that spoke to me was Divo Famoso's Ravenna Biano IGT. The bright label on this bottle really stood out. It was light, floral and fresh with plenty of fruity notes that lingered on the tongue. I also loved the hint of lychee on the palate. This is one that would go well with delicate fish dishes like sashimi.
Masut Da Rive's Pinot Grigio and Sauvignon Blanc were also wines I found myself enjoying yesterday evening. The Pinot Grigio was rife with flavours of rich, tropical fruits at the beginning and hints of florals that lingered throughout. The wine is balanced and elegant, with good acidity and flavour. The Sauvignon Blanc on the other hand, took me right back to my years in New Zealand with its bright capsicum flavour, notes of elderberry and citrus fruits on the palate.
The Silente Delle Marne 2014 is made of 100% Chardonnay grapes matured on oak barrels. This was one that stopped us all in our tracks thanks to its interesting nose and flavour. It is rich, intense, full-bodied and juicy with a creamy mouthfeel. This was one I wasn't sure I liked initially, but it certainly grew on me the more I tried it, and one that stood out the most for me because it had such depth.
My favourite red of the night was the Vignalina 2016 from Tenuta Santa Caterina. From the Piedmont region of Italy, this wine had blackberries and plums on the palate, and was full-bodied and savoury with good intensity, depth and lovely, chewy tannins that lingered long after the last mouthful. This is one that would go well with duck and gamey dishes, perhaps one to keep in mind for the winter months!

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When Dee arrives at the house of her mother then she views the house as being the symbol of her upbringing. The very first thing that is being noticed by Dee is the benches as when she admires the benches, she states "You can feel the rump prints" (Walker 112). Walker in this sentence is actually trying to make the readers feel that the benches have been in the home for years. Because of this, the benches are actually depicting the past of the character. Another symbol includes the butter churn and the dash.
The Beauty of the Southern Flowers “Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.” (Lee 278). When it comes to the topic of flowers, most of us will readily agree that they represent development, growth, beauty and happiness. For instance, Roses are known for signifying love and deep passion while Lotus flowers are known for purity of the heart. Nonetheless, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee utilizes flowers to symbolize the strength and character that women of Maycomb possess. To get started, the azaleas in the novel represent Maudie Atkinson because of her loving, strong minded, and compassionate character.
At the hospital, Jeannette explains to the doctors and nurses, “‘Mom says I’m mature for my age … and she lets me cook for myself a lot’” (Walls, 11). Clearly, Jeannette’s mother neglects her daughter by not providing any food for her. Instead, Jeannette’s mother should be making meals for her daughter and watching her. Having to cook for herself helps Jeannette develop independence for the ability to cook among other skills. At only three years old, Jeannette has a skill most children do not learn until they are ten years old, putting her ahead
In John Steinbeck’s short story, ‘The Chrysanthemums’, Elisa Allen is a thirty-five year old farmer’s wife whose underappreciated sensuality appears in the blooming flowers of her chrysanthemum garden. Elisa gets little attention from her husband even as she expresses her traditional skills in housekeeping and gardening. When a persistent repairman commends her for her chrysanthemums, she is willing to open up and give a part of herself in the form of chrysanthemum sprouts. Once the repairman gains his daily bread, the sprouts are seen strewn across the road into town. Symbols of repressed growth, femininity, and manipulation signify that Elisa Allen’s womanly qualities are overlooked to the point where men can manipulate her feminine nature
In the kitchen window lays a potted plant, second to only family in Mama’s most prized possessions. Mama cares for the plant by feeding, watering and checking all through the day on it to make sure it was still doing well. She also does this for the family. Mama always wants the best for them and would do anything to keep them happy and well. Mama uses the plant as her fuel to always put the family first and to remember her dreams, as well as remind her family of theirs (Shmoop Editorial Team).
Through out the documentary, different scenes have background music that connects to what is happening. One example was a scene where Caroline is baking treats. Music was placed over top of the baking scene and was depicted as sweet, creating the vibe and sense of joy and innocence. The music placed in a cooking scene gave the impression of innocence and kindness that leads to having Caroline Grills, being kind hearted just as the music portrayed her to be. By including the joyful sweet music with Caroline’s case study; the composer has made sure that this is how the audience will sense both Caroline and her case, guiltless and kind hearted.
Tea Cake allowed Janie to feel secure about herself, and learn to love life, and enjoy inner peace. 4. Nanny • Although she is not in the book for long, readers meet Janie’s grandmother, Nanny, early in the novel. Janie has grown up with this lady, after her mom left her at a young age. Nanny wants Janie to marry into wealth, which is why she motivates Janie into marrying Logan Killicks.
After much tribulation, she runs away with Idgie to open their own café, named the Whistle Stop Café, to raise her baby in a safe environment and get away from the abuse from her husband. The food that they prepare and serve at the café not only saves Ruth from the terrible suffering she had to go through, but also brings life into the small town that they live in. The first time that fried green tomatoes are brought up in the film is a very significant moment in Idgie and Ruth’s relationship. The fried green tomatoes that Idgie made have a connotation regarding the happiest moments of their lives during the film. The café that they worked hard at and the fried green tomatoes that were very popular, along with their barbeque, made the two women very successful in that small town and allowed them to get very close and grow their friendship.
In Kamala Markandaya’s novel, Nectar in a Sieve, she tells the story of a misfortunate girl, Ruku and her family. The novel takes place in a small village where Ruku settles with her arranged husband, Nathan, on a farm where they grow mainly rice. Their first child of 7, Ira, grows to become a beautiful, caring, and strong woman. As she faces the struggles of poverty, arranged marriage, and a drought, these conflicts shape her into a brave, selfless woman. To start off, since Ira was the first child of Nathan and Ruku she was rich in milk and rice for the first seven years of her life.
Based on a short story "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, a mother in this poem tried to give her young daughter with all the good advice on how to live a fulfilling life in society, so she can be growing up and becoming a woman. Even though, she still young, and her mother is very worried about her daughter can be lead a bad situation about sexuality in her personal life. More than that, she was linking many objects to the topic of sexuality to dare her daughter Jamaica such as “squeezing bread before buying it” and “don’t sing benna on Sunday school” (Kincaid 172) because Benna Antiguan folksongs is a symbol of sexual and it was forbidden. Thus, the mother always repeatedly uses the word "slut" with her daughter to address all the problems in her


Audiences were stunned to find Brian Eno in the audience with them on Saturday night for Sona Jobarteh’s Jazzlines gig.
The kora, is traditionally played by male griots, and never by women. Sona is the woman who decided to change the rules. She stands as she plays, demonstrating elegant and intricate musicianship; a fine singer, with a cool, laid-back style. She has won over audiences all over the World with her captivating voice and catchy melodies bringing messages about the issues that she champions - cultural identity, gender, love and respect, whilst remaining utterly faithful to her Gambian heritage.
Musician, producer, visual artist, thinker and activist Brian Eno first came to international prominence in the early '70s as a founding member of Roxy Music, and immediately followed with a series of critically-praised and influential solo albums. His visionary production includes albums with David Bowie, Talking Heads, Devo, Laurie Anderson and Coldplay, whilst his long list of collaborations includes recordings with John Cale, David Byrne, Grace Jones and James Blake.
Less widely discussed although equally notable and arguably even more prolific are his visual experiments with light and video. These are the fertile ground from which so much of his other work has grown, they cover an even longer span of time than his recordings, and have in recent decades paralleled his musical output.


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Characteristics and Longer-Term Outcomes of Contemporary Patients <18 Years of Age with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.
We describe characteristics and outcomes of contemporary pediatric hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (PHC) patients. We studied 398 consecutive pediatric HC patients (<18 years, median 14 years, 65% boys) seen at our center between 2002-2018. Baseline clinical and pediatric echocardiographic data was collected. Left ventricular outflow tract gradient (LVOTG), LV fractional shortening and Z-score for left ventricular (LV) wall thickness were calculated. Sudden cardiac death (SCD), appropriate internal defibrillator discharge (ICD), myectomy and orthotopic heart transplant (OHT) were composite primary endpoint. 133 (33%) had symptoms [71 (18%) dyspnea, 77 (19%) angina and 19 (5%) syncope], 109 (27%) were on betablockers; 179 (45%) had family history of HC. 146 (37%) underwent genetic testing [of which 91 (62%) were HC-gene positive]. Basal septal LV thickness, septal LV z-score and fractional shortening were 1.2±0.6 cm, 4.8±5.6 & 42%±8, while 23% had extreme LV hypertrophy (z-score>6) and 8% had LVOTG >30 mm Hg (range 0-139 mm Hg). At a median of 5.9 years [interquartile range 2.4, 9], there were 23 (6%) ICD’s placed and 47 (12%) primary composite events [9 (2%) deaths, 3 (1%) appropriate ICD discharge, 29 (7%) myectomy and 8 (2%) OHT]. There were no in hospital deaths following myectomy/OHT. Presence of symptoms (Hazard ratio or HR 2.45), ventricular tachycardia (HR 1.52) and higher basal septal LV z-score (HR 1.10) were independently associated with primary composite outcomes. LV septal z-score >4 was independently associated with events on spline analysis. Rate of SCD/appropriate ICD discharge was 0.5%/year. In conclusion, contemporary PHC patients seen at an experienced center have excellent outcomes with presence of symptoms and higher LV septal thickness associated with primary composite events.


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Most of us are hardworking responsible people who put our heart and soul into our work. Kamala Harris, Vice-President of the United States, is the first woman to hold that office and the first woman of color to be second-in-command, isn’t doing that. In my opinion I could do her job 1000% better and so could just about ever American citizen.
What for-the-love-of-Brandon has she done since January, 2021, when she officially started “work?”
To answer this question I had to dig deep, scouring the internet for some substance. Remember how popular she wasn’t during the presidential primary? She was the least favorite during the primaries to the point that she dropped out of the race in December, 2019. Why was she chosen for the office of Vice-President? Possibly Biden and his party thought she would guarantee votes to win the election, or did they think she would be capable of doing everything, as most women are, in case Sleep Joe bit the dust. Surprise! She does not represent most women and doesn’t seem capable of doing anything.
What has Kamala Harris accomplished since January, 2021?
Biden crowned Harris as the Border Czar which led to . . . NOTHING! She lashed out at Lester Holt when he asked why she has refused to go to the border in the 76 days since Biden put her in charge of the crisis. Her answer was . . . “I haven’t gone to Europe either” followed by a sickening laugh.
Along this same subject, several top members of the Biden administration were in Mexico City October 8th for a meeting with Mexican officials regarding security along the U.S.-Mexico border. The VP was a no-show. I guess it was more important to visit a daycare center in New Jersey and play bingo with the children. Btw, I did watch the video of this particular event. Harris acted like she was trying out for the part of Glinda, the good witch, in The Wizard of Oz. Wasn’t it Nero who fiddled while Rome burned? She could play that part very easily.
Kamala showed up on The View, no surprise there, to cackle with the other morons hosting that inane show. During her 10 minute interview she was asked 2 softball questions about nothing. What else is new?
Harris was sent to Vietnam and Singapore amid the chaos in Afghanistan. When that trip was over, she stopped off in Hawaii to visit Pearl Harbor. Any Americans who wanted to hear why Harris supported the decision to pull U.S. forces out of Afghanistan last spring would have to wait till the cow jumps over the moon, because the press was blocked from the event. This is typical behavior for both POTUS & his VP. If we don’t talk about it, it doesn’t exist.
Since Harris took office, she has yet to hold even one formal press conference and very, very few one-on-one interviews. Why you might ask. “Her handlers seem to know there’s very little upside in having her say anything unscripted on the crisis at the U.S. southern border, where the migrant numbers are at 20-year highs amid a pandemic” as reported by Jazz Shaw of Hot Air. Obviously Harris and Biden are under the same umbrella regarding the media.
Kamala Harris is being paid $235,100 per year. and gets free transportation and accommodations; added to that, a lifetime supply of pants suits and masks. She is not a roll model, but an embarrassment for all women.
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It seemed like finally, after a decade or more of study and delays, the US Environmental Protection Agency was going to tackle the safe disposal of coal combustion wastes, including fly ash, bottom ash and scrubber sludge.
It seem that surely the massive collapse of a mountain of ash, piled in a pond, in December 2008 near Kingston, Tenn., would be enough to move the agency into action to adopt the nation’s first comprehensive rules on storage and disposal.
But there’s just too much of the stuff to make any decision about it easily, even if now outgoing EPA administrator Lisa Jackson made it among her first promises.
Now comes word out of Washington that there’s no end in sight to the delays.
At least EPA officials are being honest about that now.
Bloomberg BNA reports:
The Environmental Protection Agency still cannot provide a “definitive time” for promulgating final regulations on the management of coal ash from power plants, an agency senior official told BNA.
Mathy Stanislaus, EPA assistant administrator for solid waste and emergency response, said Jan. 7 the agency needs to issue an additional notice of data availability prior to issuing final regulations because of new information that “could potentially influence our risk analysis and cost estimates.”
Here’s betting the “new information” says ash isn’t so risky to the environment after all.
EPA had proposed two ways to regulate ash — one, treating it as a hazardous waste, and the other treating at as nonhazardous solid waste.
Kentucky and Indiana produce among the most ash in the United States. Currently, the waste is regulated by a patchwork of state laws.


'Essential' Welsh tax collection body is separate from government
The body that will collect Welsh taxes for the first time must be completely separate from the Welsh government, a committee of AMs has said.
A Welsh Revenue Authority (WRA), like HM Revenue and Customs, will collect stamp duty and landfill tax from 2018.
The AMs said the WRA's independence needed strengthening. Ministers said they would respond in due course.
The chancellor said income tax powers will also be devolved, but there is no timetable for that yet.
Jocelyn Davies, the Plaid Cymru AM who chairs the assembly Finance Committee, said: "Under new devolved powers, Wales is in a position to collect its own taxes for the first time in 800 years.
"That is why we believe that a Welsh Revenue Authority that is completely independent of government; and that sets out its purpose and what people can expect from it in a clear manner, is essential to ensure that the business of managing the collection of taxes is efficient and effective from the outset."
A Welsh government spokesman said: "We are pleased the Finance Committee has agreed the general principles of the Tax Collection and Management (Wales) Bill.
"The Bill represents a significant milestone for Wales which will send a message that we are confident taking this next key step in the devolution of taxes."
AMs will debate the legislation in December.


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From Publishers Weekly
This is the journeyman Bill Buckley. Part memoir, part political history and part reportage, Flying High
sparkles with joie de vivre and syntactical expertise, giving lively accounts of Nikita Khrushchev's historic—and theatrical—visit to the United States, the 1960 Republican convention and fallout, and National Review
's heady first years. Readers are made privy to Buckley's behind-closed-doors meetings with other right-wing mavens as they debate the John Birch Society, commission Buckley's brother-in-law, Brent Bozell, to ghostwrite The Conscience of a Conservative
and attempt to propel its putative author Goldwater into political office—only to find themselves dramatically excluded from the 1964 campaign. Although the book's scattered time line is slightly jarring (Buckley jumps between the 1964 campaign and affectionate memories of Goldwater), that does not detract from this book's modest and utterly satisfying pleasures. (May)
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Buckley’s recent death casts a valedictory shadow over his posthumously published tribute to the man who, for an entire generation, gave American conservatism its most recognizable public face. In his own inimitable style—elegant yet edgy—the crown prince of conservative intellectuals recounts the decisive events that forged the paradoxical Barry Goldwater presidential campaign of 1964. Though doomed to an abysmal electoral defeat, that campaign galvanized the conservative cadres who would go on to decades of political triumph. Predictably, Buckley highlights his own role in formulating Goldwater’s right-wing agenda and in promulgating that agenda through the magazine (National Review) he founded. More surprising for many readers will be the story of how Goldwater’s landmark political credo Conscience of a Conservative took shape through one of National Review’s carefully groomed correspondents acting as the author’s ghostwriter. Yet it was Goldwater’s own indomitable personal courage that converted a paper-and-ink philosophy into an unforgettable public presence, inspiring bold new hopes among the conservative Republicans who rallied to his banner. Buckley particularly highlights the unlikely circumstances that allowed a relatively new Republican convert—a B-movie actor named Ronald Reagan—to deliver a riveting speech in the waning hours of Goldwater’s ill-fated presidential run. A compelling reminder that individual personality still matters in the modern world of mass politics. --Bryce Christensen

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Recipe: Medjool Dates and Caramelized Onion Flat Bread
Cultivated in the Middle East over 6,000 years ago, Medjool dates are called the ‘king of dates’ because they are the largest of the hundreds of date varieties — and they were once reserved only for Moroccan royalty. Medjool dates are fat and cholesterol free and a source of fibre, energy and magnesium.
1 tbsp (15 mL) olive oil
1 large red or yellow onion, thinly sliced into rings
1/8 tsp (0.5 mL) salt
2 cups (500 mL) shredded mozzarella cheese,
Medium or large store-bought pizza crust, cut into 4 flat breads
¾ cup (175 mL) Natural Delights Medjool Dates, pitted and chopped
1 tsp (5 mL) dried rosemary
— Brush the bottom of a non-stick frying pan with olive oil, and heat over medium-high heat until the oil is shimmering. Add the onion slices and stir to coat the onions with the oil.
— Spread the onions out evenly in the pan and cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle salt over the onions with salt and let cook for 30 minutes to an hour more, stirring every few minutes and scraping pan frequently, until the onions are a rich, browned color.
— Preheat broiler. Sprinkle cheese over flat breads and place under the broiler just until cheese starts to melt (2 to 4 minutes.) Remove from oven and top with onions, Medjool Dates and rosemary, dividing evenly among the flat breads.
— Place back under the broiler for about two more minutes until toppings are hot and bread is toasted. Serve immediately.

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Entrepreneurs chasing the silver dollar
It's no secret that the world's population is getting older.
According to the United Nations there will be two billion people over the age of 60 by 2050 - more than double the number today.
How to cover the costs of an ageing population is concerning governments around the world. But for businesses the prospect of a silver economy has a silver lining - the "silver dollar".
"The message is that we can't afford old people. But that's economically untrue," says Jody Holtzman of AARP (formerly called the American Association of Retired Persons), a US advocacy group for people over 50.
"Only in Washington [among politicians] is the task of addressing the unmet needs of 100 million people in the US seen as a financial burden. In the private sector that's called an opportunity."
The economic activity generated by people over 50 in the US is worth an estimated $7.1 trillion (£4.1tn) per year, according to AARP.
It adds that this figure includes $3tn spent on consumer goods, and $1.6tn on healthcare, helping to create and sustain millions of American jobs.
With that much money being spent, it is perhaps no surprise that an increasing number of North American entrepreneurs and small firms are seeking to meet the needs and wants of the elderly.
'Freedom not fear'
California-based GreatCall specialises in providing elderly men and women with help and support via specially adapted mobile phones.
Its handsets have a dedicated button which, when pressed, calls one of GreatCall's trained health and safety experts.
The GreatCall agent then offers medical and safety advice over the phone, or alternatively calls emergency services on the elderly person's behalf, after assessing the problem using additional personal information (such as previous health problems, provided at the time of registering) and GPS tracking.
The system can cut down on unnecessary and stressful hospital treatment, and gives customers a greater degree of independence.
GreatCall chief executive David Inns used to work as a senior marketing manager at Canadian mobile phone group Bell Mobility before setting up the firm in 2006.
However, he quickly realised that creating a useful product is one thing, but marketing it to the target customer is quite another.
After canvassing work he found that elderly people do not like being called "old", and are less likely to buy products that reinforce negative perceptions of ageing.
"There were words they had a visceral reaction to, and there were words that made them feel very comfortable," he says.
"[So] instead of 'fear' it was 'freedom'. Instead of 'vulnerability' it was 'confidence'."
With a rising number of technology firms in particular now going after the silver dollar, Mr Inns cautions that they have to be careful to research the actual needs of the elderly.
"There are so many people coming into this market who are thinking way too much about the technology first, as opposed to looking at the older consumer population, identifying a specific need, and then designing the technology around that need," he says.
'Understanding the elderly'
Thankfully for technology firms thinking of going after older customers, but who are concerned that they don't know exactly what the market wants, help is available from experts in the field.
"That's where I come in because I understand seniors," says Prof Andrew Carle, an expert in senior health and housing at George Mason University, Virginia.
"I'm trying to bridge the great divide between geeks and grannies."
"I go to conferences and see all these technology people from great schools who are excited about something they've invented [for elderly people].
"But unfortunately [their product is] not going to work with an 85-year-old widow. They just don't understand the people they're trying to help."
The power of the silver dollar
- The global spending power of consumers aged 60+ will reach $15tn per year by 2020
- The 55+ age group account for half of all home improvement spending in the US
- Baby boomers spend $120bn a year globally on travel
- People over the age of 50 account for 64% of casino visitors in the US
- European women aged over 60 buy twice as many skincare products as women under 25
Source: Merrill Lynch
Prof Carle says other technology companies often do not realise they already have a product that could be useful to older people.
Los Angeles-based GTX is a case in point.
Founded in 2002 and employing 20 people, it specialises in wearable technology. One GTX product aimed at athletes is a GPS tracking device placed in the sole of a running shoe, called the GPS Smart Sole.
Prof Carle got in touch with the company and suggested marketing the same technology to patients with Alzheimer's disease, a form of dementia which afflicts more than five million people in the US.
Alzheimer's sufferers often wander and get lost - as a result, many are placed in expensive care facilities for their own safety.
But wearing a tracking shoe that can be monitored by a relative or other caregiver is a low-cost alternative that can enable patients to live at home for longer.
GTX began testing its newest smart sole among dementia patients earlier this year, and plans to launch the product next month.
"We are adapting ourselves to where the market needs are," says GTX director Andrew Duncan.
"We expect several million dollars in revenue next year in relation to our insole products in the senior care, assisted living market."
'Make the difference'
Some "low-tech" entrepreneurs have been targeting the silver dollar for some time.
Julie and William Buck started their adaptive clothing business in Seattle 37 years ago.
Mrs Buck was an administrator at a nursing home and realised there was a great need for functional clothing that was easy to wear and remove.
Their company, Buck & Buck, now employs about 25 people and sells its garments around the world.
The clothes are mainly manufactured in the US and are sold online or via catalogue orders. They are increasingly sought after by people who want to live at home but have difficulty dressing.
"Velcro behind buttons on a shirt can make all the difference for somebody who wants to continue to self dress - nobody will know they can't do buttons any more," says Mrs Buck.
"It's simple things - looking at what [elderly] people need and trying to figure out how to solve it."


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For more than a week Jordan Stafford has been running a marathon nearly every day. And he’s not done yet. By the time he reaches the Triangle on Friday, the NC State student will have logged 260 miles, traversing the state from Asheville to Cary.
There’s little in the way of loneliness for this long-distance runner, however. Friends from the Millstriders running club in Chapel Hill have joined him along the way and a pace car is never far behind, thanks to Hendrick Auto Mall in Cary.
“Lots of long hills,” Stafford wrote from the road last Thursday. “Hills, hills, hills.”
Running for a Reason
It’s quite an undertaking for someone who’s never run a 10K, much less a marathon. But Stafford’s endurance is fueled as much by inspiration as perspiration. Money donated by sponsors will help the Mariposa School for Children with Autism in Cary, where Stafford’s dad serves as interim executive director.
In fact, Stafford got the idea for the run from his dad when they were brainstorming ways to help the nonprofit school.
“I said I was thinking of training for a triathlon,” Stafford recalled. “Dad said, why don’t you run across the state.”
What started as a joke quickly turned into a challenge. And Stafford knows all about challenges. As a teenager, he was diagnosed with a disease called adenoid cystic carcinoma.
“It’s so rare, only about 10 people under the age of 50 have ever had this,” he said. “That’s not the way I wanted to be special.”
After a treatment regimen that included six weeks of neutron beam therapy at the University of Washington, Stafford returned home to rebuild his health and get on with life.
“When I’m on my 18th mile you know what I’ll be thinking,” he said before beginning the run. “If I can handle cancer, I can handle this. This is easy. All I have to do is run.”


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The Jalopy Journal
Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Jobe, Apr 27, 2010.
Exciting racing action!!!!
Picked up a '63 Thunderbolt at the store last night. Might do some portin' & polishin' before the next race so I'll have a chance against some of y'all's rocket ships!
looks like the left lane won!!
Only the Yay-Hoos would have a photo finish set up ! Way Cool ! Just a regular Monday night in Austin ...
I didn't race but STILL HAD A BLAST!!! Thanks Jobey- Best D&D in awhile. Ill post the phone video I have as soon as i figure out how
Awesome video Blake...
So anyone here good with electronics? I have a thought about a more accurate finish gate...
What about that setup on the redlinederby forum? Not the best looking but it works http://www.redlinederby.com/2010/01/pvc-pipe-finish-line/
Not that I am competitive or anything, but it does look like the left lane took it on that one, but it was so close we went again and I am SURE I won that race! hahaha
Nice signature there Laura! ;-)
Hahaha...thanks Bryan. If the shoe fits...
Hey Guys and .... GALS ..... I was in the left lane .....
Blake is the instant video replay official of the track
And the winner is .....?
Let the HAMB ..... Decide
Vote after the video replay .... <O
oh man, this is going to get nasty...and going to be the ultimate rematch...
NOW we're talking!!
Welcome to the world of diecast racing!
Yeah - Jobe and I have been emailing about that stuff. I say he should take a collection and get the blutrack and "The Judge" timer and do this all legit!
I obviously vote for my speedy little vet because we had a rematch and I obviously took the race! If it means that much to you I'll be happy to give you the certificate.
You guys are too cool! And Blake is the king of photography and video! I built a track like this back in '01 when there was no plastic track available so I had to make mine out of masonite and plastic trim procured from Home Depot. I used a timer from these guys: http://www.microwizard.com/ Check out the photo and you'll see my "deceleration box" made out of foamcore and foam padding. It worked really well and we had a blast with it until the enthusiam died out and I gave the whole thing away. (I have more confidence in the Yay-Hoos making this a tradition.) Of course the real fun was in modifying the cars for more speed. Hint: Don't waste your time making a car full of lead like I did. It's a lot more important to have good wheels. Well, actually, it's a lot more important to just have fun!
Uh-oh... I know it's getting serious when we get DESIGNIT to chime in!!!! How ya been, JOHN?
if you can find one of these, its a ringer
Here's how I see it - Laura won the event, but we're still not sure who has the fastest car since, all told, you guys each won 2 of 4 races against each other (including the final 'Winner take all!')... unless I'm missing something...?
Total grudge match material.
I went right from work to the store yesterday and found some of the "dragstrip demons" series Hot Wheels , looks really cool , I wonder how fast they would be with the rubber tires or if the plastic 97 cent versions are better?
Plastic is better...but those are really nice cars!
I'm going to have to set the track up at home...got the bug to do some racin'!
I ran a '57 Chevy Hot Wheels w/ rubber tires against Laura and lost. From what I read rubber tires don't do that great.
I think too much grip would slow it down. Some of the funny cars are a heavy chunk of metal.
To have REAL Austin die-cast drags you need one of these-
An Austin !!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I know the real reason we missed you at "Slots of Doom"... you were getting a car ready for this!
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Doin' great. Of course the company you left started suffering immediately after your departure. Now they are completely selling out to the Chinese, but other than that, things are pretty good. Actually, I think I can pinpoint the decline of the Houston area business world to the day you (and your much renown "genius" quality) left for Austin.
Looks like I had more beers than that camera didI never said I was perfect.Hey Moe and L.A.W. guess there needs to be a rematch for sure.Nice video Blake,we watched it over and over but it wasn't that clear Monday night.
Even thought I totally lost in the first round, I will race and probably lose again. I do not care that was a blast!
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According to Time magazine's
Oct. 22 issue, the FBI has checked student records at a truckdriving school
in Colorado as federal agents nationwide attempt to prevent the use of trucks
loaded with dangerous materials in terrorist attacks. As many as 35 Arab men
who reportedly took the school's two-week truckdriving course over the past
two years never asked for help finding jobs.
The magazine says agents
visited Careers Worldwide trucking school in Henderson for a few hours last
week, checking for specific names of 25 to 35 Arab men.
The men, who attended
the school in small groups, all received Colorado truckdriving licenses despite
their inability to speak any English, the Time article reported. The men reportedly
all had the same interpreter.
But a man who has taught
at the school for the last four years told the Denver Post the report is bogus
and that the men never attended the school. The school's owner also denied
that non-English speakers were being trained there.
The FBI and other agencies
have been visiting truckdriving schools nationwide. They have scrutinized
2.5 million licenses to carry hazardous material because of concern trucks
hauling such cargo could be used as bombs. Careers Worldwide does not provide
training for hazardous-material transport and is not certified by the Professional
Truck Driver Institute.

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Bronze Model of a High Chest
- Sold for:
- European Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2542B
- Date / Time :
- April 09, 2011 10:00AM
Bronze Model of a High Chest, late 19th century, a replica of the vault that won a gold medal for renowned vault and safe maker E.A. Rosengrens of Sweden at the 1897 World Fair, ht. 12 1/2 in.


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This was another fun project for Christmas. They can be ornaments but I think I will use them to as name plates on presents. The pattern is from Sue Mey and the center is chalk board paint. So you can write someones name on it with chalk and simply wipe it off and continue to use it year after year.
I think I will do some more of these.

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The information is not recorded in the format requested by financial years. National health service publications are produced by the Department as well as by NHS agencies and local organisations and records are not held centrally.
The Department commissioned translation services at a total cost of £180,319.29 in the calendar year 2006 and £141,352.03 in the calendar year 2007. These costs were for publications branded either NHS or Departmental or jointly branded, as well as for the translation of correspondence and guidance. Printing or recording and production costs are not included in these figures.

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Mapbox, a synthetic intelligence (AI)-powered location knowledge and mapping providers supplier, on Tuesday stated it had received a brand new $280M funding from SoftBank Group (OTCPK:SFTBY) (OTCPK:SFTBF).
Mapbox creates utility programming interface and software program improvement kits together with ready-made map types, and dwell updating knowledge that permits one to construct customizable maps for internet, cellular, automotive and augmented actuality.
According to the corporate, its prospects embrace Toyota (TM), General Motors (GM), and BMW (OTCPK:BMWYY). It stated a few of its providers embrace rendering animated radar maps for The Weather Company to serving to Instacart (CART) ship groceries on-time
“This new funding accelerates Mapbox efforts to bring AI into the car, with new ADAS features for automated driving and safety that work across a wider range of roads and more geographic locations,” the corporate stated in a assertion.
“This investment will allow Mapbox to bring its AI technology closer to the sophisticated camera and LiDAR sensors inside the vehicle, so split-second decisions can be made with the best data possible,” the corporate’s high boss Peter Sirota stated.
Mapbox’s newest funding spherical is one other showcase of the frenzied curiosity within the AI house, which has helped the general know-how sector scale huge features. Chip large Nvidia (NVDA) alone has participated in funding rounds for knowledge analytics startup Databricks, chatbot startup Inflection AI and huge language models-developer Cohere earlier this yr.
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