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Regarding target shooting, the X-10 ring on the 1000 yard servce rifle target is 20 inches in diameter.
A 2 MOA Military Rifle is capable of cleaning that target.
Problem is, there are few cleaned 1000 yard targets.................but its not the gun that's the limiting factor.
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USAMU Sniper School Oct '78
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Following the rather unpleasant Mel Gibson controversy of the last few weeks, the Hollywood rumor mill is starting to swirl Is Disney looking to unload Gibsons Apocalypto on another distributor. According to Roger Friedman at Fox News Mel Gibsons movie Apocalypto, which Disney was supposed to release on Dec. 8, is being shopped to other potential distributors, sources tell me.Get A Quote
Were now only a week away from the opening of the new Mel Gibson film Apocalypto. Im really interested to see how film fans react to this movie on two different levels 1 In a day when people are crying about the lack of originality in Hollywood today, a movie with no big stars attached and is a Mayan-language epic about the decline.Get A Quote
2020-8-31Speaking of DC animated titles, it looks like the DC Showcase title Batman Death in the Family may be coming to Blu-ray and 4K as well in the months ahead, based on word from retail sources Now then this isnt officially announced yet, but there would appear to be a new Blu-ray and DVD release of Mel Gibsons Apocalypto coming on 728. The distributor is listed simply as Samuel.Get A Quote
Gibsons next historical epic, Apocalypto, released in December 2006, focused on the decline of the Mayan civilization and was filmed in Yucatec Maya language with subtitles. The film, which.Get A Quote
2019-6-16Though Mel Gibson referred to the estate as Wayne Manor, the current owner renamed it Old Mill Farm and provided several new renovations. Besides upgrading the master suite with two Calcutta Gold marble bathrooms, the redo made family bathrooms more luxurious and added double chefs kitchens as well as a state of the art movie theatre and.Get A Quote
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2020-9-1Mel Gibson, de son vrai nom Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson m l b s n 1, n le 3 janvier 1956 Peekskill, dans ltat de New York, aux tats-Unis, est un acteur, ralisateur, scnariste et producteur de cinma amricain Aprs avoir pass une partie de sa jeunesse en Australie, il devient clbre en tenant le rle-titre de Mad Max en 1979.Get A Quote
M el Gibson is sick, but his new film profits from his weakness. When he inserted a photo of himself into the trailer for Apocalypto, he wasnt just needling his criticshe was both prophesizing his anti-Semitic tirade in Los Angeles and the lunatic violence this film releases onto movies screens like some bibilical flood.Tragically, Apocalypto will make more money in its opening weekend.Get A Quote
2020-8-30After releasing Apocalypto, Gibson was involved in a series of highly publicized events that included a drunken fight with a police officer, controversial statements about gay people and Jews, an arrest for domestic abuse and other problems Gibsons wife Robyn Moore filed for separation in 2006. Most of Hollywood turned against Gibson. His agency dropped him.Get A Quote
2020-6-23Mel Gibsons Apocalypto is set in present-day Los Tuxtlas, Mexico in the year 1511 and depicts the final days of Maya civilization through the eyes of a man named Jaguar Paw.The main theme of the film is summarized by the Will Durant quote displayed at the beginning A great civilization is not conquered from without until it destroys itself from within.Get A Quote
Biography Despite a thick Australian accent in some of his earlier films, actor Mel Gibson was born in Peeksill, NY, to Irish Catholic parents on January 3rd, 1956. One of eleven children, Gibson didnt set foot in Australia until 1968, and only developed an.Get A Quote
Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins start off on course, but the famous mutiny doesnt live up to its billing in this 1984 epic. Apocalypto and the end of the wrong civilisation.Get A Quote
In Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson continues to present an alternative world-view to filmgoers. It is one at odds with almost all that emanates from Hollywood, but, nevertheless, is one that finds a welcome reception in the real world, where family and marriage, patriotism and courage, faith and self-sacrifice still form part of the daily lives of people of good will, and where these things still.Get A Quote
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2020-7-30Mel Gibson, American-born Australian actor who became a star with a series of action films in the 1980s and later earned acclaim as a director. His best-known movies included Mad Max, Gallipoli, Lethal Weapon, The Year of Living Dangerously, Braveheart, and The Passion of the Christ.Get A Quote
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2020-2-29Gibson poured all his tough guy charm into the role of an imprisoned criminal out for a final score. His true return to form however, was this years Blood Father. It may have been a run of the mill story about a man protecting his daughter from thugs, but it was entertaining and heartfelt.Get A Quote
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2020-8-30Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York on the 3rd of January, 1956. One of Gibsons younger brothers, Donal, is also an actor. His first name is derived from Saint Mel, a fifth-century Irish saint, and founder of Gibsons mothers native diocese, Ardagh. Gibson is also an Australian permanent resident.Get A Quote
In 2007, the highest asking prices for residential property in town were 39.5 million for the 76 acre estate of actor Mel Gibson on Old Mill Road, 19.7 million for a 13000 sqft mansion on 8.7 acre with a private lake, and 38 million for an estate with formal gardens and a greenhouse the size of a cottage. Greenwich, Connecticut-Wikipedia.Get A Quote
2020-8-31Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson, AO 3. Januar 1956 in Peekskill, New York ist ein irisch1-US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Filmregisseur und Produzent. Er wurde durch Rollen in weltweit erfolgreichen Actionfilmen bekannt, fr die er vor allem in den 1990er Jahren Rekordgagen erhielt. Fr seinen Film Braveheart erhielt er im Jahr 1996 zwei.Get A Quote
2019-1-29Gibson has also directed films such as Braveheart, Apocalypto, and Hacksaw Ridge. 01. of 10. Mad Max 1979 Mad Max. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. George Millers futuristic action tale put Mel Gibson on the map. In Mad Max, Gibson stars as a cop whose family is killed by a vicious gang so he sets out for revenge.Get A Quote

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Lucy Jones received one of the most prestigious awards for a federal employee last year to the surprise of no one. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) seismologist earned the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal in the citizen services category for her work in seismic research.
That award came largely because of her work in 2014 in Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office for a project that aimed to shape public policy toward the eminent Big One the city faces. The work resulted in the Resilience by Design report and important legislation. Garcetti called Jones’ work with Los Angeles groundbreaking in the way it bridges the gap between seismic science and public action. Jones announced that her last day with the USGS is March 30.
What’s the Resilience by Design program?
Probably the most important part of the water plan actually was the creation of what we call the Resilience by Design program within the Department of Water and Power.
There is a full-time person in charge of seismic resilience for the system developing these retrofit projects and evaluating new projects as they come forward.
The commitment is to a future of seismic-resilient pipes. The path to that is going to be starting with a network of hardened arteries. So they’re setting up priorities for replacement to maximize the network and get water to as much of the city as possible.
There are two different types of pipes. The Japanese approach is called the earthquake-resistant ductile iron pipes. The joints between the pipes are done with O-rings and flexibility.
Ductile iron doesn’t break, but the joints do. In the 2011 magnitude 9 in Japan, Tokyo Disney needed so much water, so they laid their own water pipes and did it with these earthquake-resistant pipes. During the earthquake you had two overlapping water systems: one traditional and one with the new earthquake-resistant pipes in the exact same area. There were lots of breaks in the old pipes and none in the new ones, so it was a great test.
The other approach is polyethylene. There is high-density polyethylene and mid-density polyethylene. There was a test installation when the Christchurch [New Zealand] quake happened and they lost water to the whole city, but the test installation did fine.
How much of an impact do you expect Resilience by Design to have?
The city is moving forward in a way that I was afraid might not happen. It’s easier to say we’re going to do something than to actually do it. And I’ve been really impressed at the implementation.
On the building side there were three recommendations for ordinances to mandate retrofitting. Two of them have passed and the third one is in the works. There was also a call for a voluntary rating system working with the U.S. Resiliency Council to be able to say whether a building is worth it or not. That’s going forward. The USRC was just getting started as we were doing this; they are not fully formed.
The city has gotten an agreement with them about how to rate their own buildings. On the rating system it was like the mayor was really interested in the idea of just mandating ratings. Right, we give you a rating on your restaurant. The reality is it’s very expensive to rate a building.
It also really panicked building owners. Part of the reason they didn’t oppose the mandatory retrofit is because we backed off a mandatory rating system. The city committed to rating all of its own buildings and disclosing the information. The rating process is underway and will be released in the winter.
The other part of the recommendations on buildings is what we call the Back to Business program, the process for a big corporation to facilitate doing the ratings right after a big earthquake. Everything is moving forward. Three are completely done and the other two are on the way.
You’ve said we’re good at preventing deaths. What’s the biggest fear?
Collapse of the economy because we’d lose our rental housing, we’ll lose our commercial building stock and we’ll lose our water, and people won’t stay here. And like what happened in New Orleans after Katrina — it’s taken them a long time to get back.
We’ve reached a point, at least in the Los Angeles Metro area and the Bay Area, where people know they’ve got an earthquake problem. What we haven’t done is gotten them to the place of being aware of how they can change the outcome. That’s getting better. I’ve been impressed with San Francisco and how they’ve grappled with their utility issue and the big bonds they’ve passed to start strengthening the water system.
We need to support getting the science to people and getting it used. I think we have an awareness of the problem, but we have not yet developed a sufficient understanding of how we can prevent the problem.
Our country is much better at responding to a disaster than preventing it. We’re willing to pay firemen, but we aren’t willing to pay for mitigation in general. I’m passionate about the mitigation — how do we move beyond just responding to the disaster and start being able to prevent it? Because most of it is preventable.
Talk about the water problems.
When we did our model of a big earthquake, fire following the earthquake doubled the losses and business disruption doubled the losses. Business disruption was primarily from lack of water. Lack of electricity would also do it, but it looks like we would be out of water for a much longer time.
Then there is the really big issue: Here in Southern California we get a large percentage of our water from outside the region. Last year 88 percent of its water came from outside the region and every drop of that had to cross the San Andreas Fault to get to us. There are four aqueducts serving Southern California and every one of them crosses the fault.
Up until now much of the planning has been, “Well OK, so we lose an aqueduct, we’ve got three others. We’ll be OK.” Which is not noticing a very important feature of big earthquakes — the way they become big is because there is a longer piece of the fault that breaks. The only way to have a magnitude 8 is to have such a long section of the fault that we break all of them at the same time.
The geologists all knew that all [the aqueducts] are going to break at the same time, the water planners were assuming only one. That changes the dynamics. There are two big pieces to that. One is to retrofit Los Angeles’ aqueduct, and the other one is to work with the other two entities, the California Department of Water Resources and the Metropolitan Water District [of Southern California], which operates the other three aqueducts. Both of those things are underway.
Talk about the future of response.
The USGS and Caltech jointly run the earthquake monitoring and detection system in Southern California. There is a similar partnership between the USGS and Berkeley in Northern California. All of those together along with the state Strong Motion Program is called the California Integrated Seismic Network. Since 2000 those have been tightly coordinated and are merging toward being operated as a single system.
We at the USGS have put together a plan for how we could expand on the existing system where we do it so rapidly that we could provide an early warning for earthquakes. The survey put together this plan — it’s like $16.5 million a year to operate such a system, and people want to say, “What does it cost to build it?” But that’s sort of immaterial — you have to operate it. That operation plan includes a 10-year lifecycle on the instrument, so if we operate at that level for 10 years, we will have built out the whole thing.
That’s the whole western U.S. — Washington, Oregon, and Northern and Southern California — and we would operate them out of three centers (Southern California, Northern California and Seattle) because that’s the way we’ve been operating the networks.
It’s being funded at $5 million a year. And then we’ve been doing what we can to keep it going, building on existing networks and using existing organizations and systems. Los Angeles was able to use some UASI money to help with the network to buy instruments and hire contractors to install them. It added more than 100 new stations here in Southern California, so we have the density needed for early warning across the region.
One of our big challenges is that we need to be telling people what the shaking is going to be. Your appropriate reaction if it’s going to be barely noticeable is going to be different from something that’s bringing down your house. We need to describe how strong the shaking is going to be.
Our conclusion is we’ve done a very bad job of educating the public about earthquakes. We’ve gotten them all trained to think about magnitude. Magnitude is the number representing the size of the earthquake — it doesn’t tell you what you feel.
Intensity is the description of what you feel. We can describe the intensity of the shaking through accelerations or velocities, numbers that make the scientists and engineers happy, but in general people do a better job of having a more arbitrary scale so the Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale goes from one to 10 and describes the level of shaking. The worst shaking in the Northridge and Loma Prieta earthquakes was intensity 9.
When we have our big San Andreas earthquake, we’re going to have intensity 10 running through San Bernardino. So even though it’s smaller — 7.8 — the intensity of shaking will be stronger than a magnitude 9 or offshore in Cascadia. Intensity tells you what you’ve got, but mostly people don’t know the scale.
One of the things the research showed us was that people remember numbers much better than descriptors. So intensity 7 means a lot more than strong shaking, but only if you know what intensity is. One of the conclusions of this is that early warning needs an education program to teach people about intensity and get them ready to use it.
Does this mean it’s hard to envision a recovery?
The big part is that the losses and the recovery can dwarf what happens in the disaster itself. If you look at Hurricane Katrina, the lost GDP is on the order of something like $150 billion — substantially more than they lost in the hurricane itself. What we really need to figure out is how to get a quick enough recovery. It also doesn’t make sense to say, “Let’s try and prevent all losses.” That’s really not doable, but we can prevent a lot of them. What we should be trying to do is focusing on the ones that have the biggest potential for delaying the recovery.
This article was originally published on Emergency Management.

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text: recent years the popularity of mobile phones, smartphones, laptops and computers of Indian production has increased noticeably among the world and national consumers. Apple does not hide its interests in the region: the production of iPhone 6 and 6S models starts in Bangalore and later the most budgetary model in the line iPhone-SE will join them. Apple is going to squeeze the Indian famous manufacturers. A vivid example is the success of Micromax – 11% of the local mobile phone market. One of the newest and most popular low-cost smartphones: Coolpad Note 3S, Coolpad Note 5 Lite C, Selfie 2 from Micromax, Storm, Buzz and Hyve Pryme from Hyve Mobility. It is worth noting that India is experiencing a selfi-boom – all and everywhere are photographed. Manufacturers take this trend into account and rely on high-quality front and rear cameras, a large amount of built-in memory, an appropriate display extension and a powerful processor. They are not inferior in design and convenience. One of the obvious advantages is the price of Indian mobile phones. Allow yourself to buy them can any average person. In India itself, even in small towns and villages shiny displays flutter more and more in the hands of local residents: people listen to music, watch their favorite films and shows, share photos, order goods in online stores, thereby erasing borders and shortening distances.

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A Hand-Painted Typographic Experiment by Tien-Min Liao
Handmade Type is a typographic experiment by designer Tien-Min Liao wherein shapes painted on her hands are transformed by gestures to create letterforms. However she gave herself a unique constraint: the painted figures on her hands for each individual letter had to be utilized for all variations of the letter, both upper and lowercase and sometimes even italic and handwritten. See more examples and the full alphabet over on Behance.
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Imagine being chased by a swarm of robots that just would not stop no matter how many of its parts have already been destroyed.
It sounds like a scene from science fiction, but the technology is starting to become a reality, courtesy of researchers at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
'Gray Goo' Robots
In a study featured in the journal Nature, a team from Columbia engineering and MIT developed cell-inspired "particle robots" capable of moving together as a collective.
Individually, these tiny robots can only perform simple functions such as slightly expanding and contracting. They are not capable of moving independently.
However, when thousands of them a grouped together in a "sticky" cluster and made to oscillate in response to a light source, the particle robots can move forward slowly, toward where the light is coming from.
Hod Lipson, a professor at Columbia and one of the authors of the study, likened their new robot creation to the proverbial "gray goo".
"Our robot has no single point of failure and no centralized control," Lipson said. "It's still fairly primitive, but now we know that this fundamental robot paradigm is actually possible."
Lipson and his colleagues believe their research can help explain why cells cannot move individually but they can do so when they are grouped together.
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Scientists have developed different kinds of autonomous robots before, but many of them are non-biological machines that are not capable of growing or healing themselves from damage.
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Lipson said they have been trying to rethink their approach to robotics to come up with a different way to build machines.
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Lipson, Rus, and their colleagues have begun testing their new robot system using a larger number of particles. They are also looking at how they can create other forms using the machines, such as vibrating microspheres.


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Hey, did you hear the joke about the “Gastric Sleeve” that saved fat people from a life of torment from obesity? NO? That’s because it’s not a joke!
It is widely known that a large percentage of the civilized world is obese or well on their way to obesity. These people suffer from shame and embarrassment as well as the scorn of others. If you are among the afflicted then I need not elaborate.
The saddest fact of all is that the obese believe that their dilemma is a life sentence and that solutions are beyond their grasp.
Not true! This is where the gastric sleeve surgical procedure comes to their rescue!
Now, the Gastric Sleeve Pics procedure is not to be confused with a gastric bypass or adjustable gastric banding which up to this point have been the procedures of choice.
In simple terms, a surgeon removes about 85 percent of the stomach so that it takes the shape of a tube or sleeve. This operation is performed laparoscopically, meaning that the surgeon makes small incisions as opposed to one large incision. This approach has many benefits.
If you are wondering if this is for you, the National Institutes of Health require that you be at least, 100 pounds overweight if you’re a man and 80 pounds overweight if you are a woman.
If you opt for the gastric sleeve surgery you can expect to lose 50 to 80 percent of your excess body weight over the first six to twelve months after surgery. Additionally, if you suffer from diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol or sleep apnea you can expect improvements within one to two years.
As it is said with every surgery, there are risks or complications that are a function of the surgery process itself. They are:
- Blood clots
- Stretching of the stomach which can result in some weight gain
- The sleeve suffers leaks as a result of the staples coming loose
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Over 400 Sharpshooter rifles, which fire a 7.62mm round, are being purchased as part of a £1.5 million “urgent operational requirement”.
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Quentin Davies, Minister for Defence Equipment and Support, said: “Troops in Afghanistan are already bristling with a variety of weapons they can use when fighting the Taliban.
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“When you’re making so many dry-hopped beers, the question becomes where yeast comes from then?” Bell said. “It’s not a problem when everyone’s drinking Amber Ale and Oberon. But everyone seems to like IPAs these days. It puts constraints on us.”
The upgrades in Comstock will also include additional office space as well as a new employee gym, Bell said.
Once completed, Bell said he anticipates hiring 10 to 12 new full-time employees between both brewing facilities.
“Texas was a really big market,” Bell said, and expanding there gives his brewery access to many former Michiganders who have fled to the Lone Star State.
“As that [the Texas expansion] settles down, New Mexico gives us that connection all the way out to Southern California,” Bell added. “So that route will be done.”
Bell doesn’t anticipate adding new territory this year, although he believes New England will be the next area where his company will attempt to establish a presence.
“We need to look there,” he said. “There’s some territory in Connecticut that we feel good about. Massachusetts is full of big markets. There are big breweries that have gone to Vermont and died. Maine is the same way.
“We’ve had preliminary talks with people out there,” he added. “Do I expect those markets to light us up on fire? Not necessarily.”
Bell’s will also look at adding territory in the Pacific Northwest and the Mountain West, although Bell said filling out a U.S. map isn’t among his company’s priorities.
“We just don’t have a manifest destiny mindset to do it as quickly as we can,” he said. “We work a little more methodically.”
Sales grew 14 percent last year as the brewery sold more than 421,000 barrels of beer, according to the Brewers Association. Bell added that sales of his company’s beers were up 10 percent through the first six months of 2017.
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The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, spoke about measures to stabilize and restore law and order in the settlements of the Kherson region freed from Russian occupation.
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A photographer has taken a unique approach in creating a photographic record of all of the RNLI's stations and crew.
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Unedited audio transcript produce by GGLOT on 6/6/2020. Calif. governor bans police training of neck hold:
(00 : 00) across this country, we train techniques on strangle holds that put people’s lives at risk. Now we can argue that these air used as exceptions, but at the end of the day, erotic hold that literally is designed to stop people’s blood from flowing into their brain that has no place any longer 21st century practices and policing. And so I am immediately directing Post, which is our police officers training to end the training of that practice, and I could not be more pleased. No sooner did we make a commitment on this proposal that a member of the Legislature, Mike Gibson, to his credit, just introduced a piece of legislation that I will support and sign as soon as it gets to my desk toe legislatively on that practice in the state of California.


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Stop me if you’ve heard this one.
Gerald Butts, the Prime Minister’s principal secretary, Ahmed Hussen, the federal immigration minister, and Lisa MacLeod, Hussen’s provincial counterpart, walk into a bar and…
Fine. I’ll spare you the joke, which (believe me) requires a mountain of set-up, and instead leave you with the punchline: Lisa MacLeod is a white supremacist!
What? That’s not funny? Well, I suspect that’s in the ear of the beholder. In any case, please direct all complaints to the Prime Minister’s Office, ℅ Mr. Butts, the author of the joke.
To be fair, the Butts quip wasn’t that blunt or direct. He wouldn’t dare call MacLeod a white supremacist outright. His dig was of the dog-whistle variety, one the federal Liberals have been blowing with increasing frequency as we approach the next election. And so let’s just say it wasn’t a surprise to see it deployed following the acrimonious federal-provincial meeting on immigration starring Hussen and MacLeod.
“Enough is enough,” Butts tweeted after the meeting. “It’s time to stand up to this divisive fear-mongering about asylum seekers. Let’s not allow the alt-right to do here what they’re doing elsewhere.”
And what were the particulars of the Hussen-MacLeod dispute, that it devolved to “fear-mongering”? It hardly matters. It’s the use of “alt-right” that’s key. Indeed, it’s the latest slur gifted to the right from the left. That’s why Doug Ford is now “alt-right.” It’s why Andrew Scheer is “alt-right.” And it’s why cookie-baking hockey mom MacLeod is “alt-right,” too.
And as with so much else in the world today, we have Donald Trump to thank for it.
COUNTERPOINT: When politicians want to Make Canada Great Again, what are we supposed to say?
It was Trump who brought the “alt-right”—then, as now, a bunch of white supremacists and violent fascists—into the light. But the President’s tacit acceptance of these “deplorables” gave license to Trump’s political opponents to paint all of his support—the vast majority of which are neither racist or supremacist—with the alt-right brush, especially those who oppose the current immigration system, which no one can describe as perfect. This is the dynamic the Liberals—once the purveyor of sunny ways, let’s not forget—seem to be trying to import into Canada.
Although the migrant problems facing Canada’s borders are nowhere near the scale of those between Mexico and the United States, they are as complex, and nearly as intractable, absent a willing partner in the White House. Hence the PMO’s desire to reach for the shorthand of the “alt-right”: It’s better to brand your opponents than explain why you can’t get the job done.
Because MacLeod is certainly correct that the feds don’t (yet) have a workable plan to stem arrivals at non-designated border crossings. She’s also correct when she says the provinces are bearing a lot of the costs of housing and caring for refugees and asylum seekers. Nor is she the only one raising the alarm; it’s been a constant criticism from the federal Tories as well. No wonder it rankles the PMO. I’d be yelling “alt-right” too, especially if I knew my opponents didn’t have a workable plan either.
READ MORE: Why Canadians believe there’s a border crisis—and why only Trump can help
Now, Butts doesn’t actually think MacLeod is a noxious white supremacist like Richard Spencer, the lodestar of the U.S.’s alt-right movement. But he is certainly happy to have that association linger in your mind, no matter how untrue or uncharitable it might be. Here, the application of the label “alt-right” is meant to stifle debate on immigration, not encourage it. If there can be no reasonable critique made on immigration then the status quo, no matter how bad, will carry the day.
It’s a trick the right has pulled on the left on many occasions. A school shooting? Can’t criticize the Second Amendment, my fellow American, or else you ain’t a patriot. Or, to pick a less noxious example, any plan by a left-of-centre party to raise a tax—any tax—is evidence of economy-killing communism or socialism. Again, it’s a tactic meant to kill nuance and throttle debate. Just ask Stéphane Dion about his “Green Shift,” aka the “permanent tax on everything.”
The Liberals are clearly casting around for slurs that stick in a similar fashion. They’ve largely leaned on using Stephen Harper’s name as a bogeyman; voters grew tired of the Harper government’s perceived nastiness in the last election, hence the longtime Liberal habit of shouting “Harper” in every crowded theatre. It’s why Trudeau himself fronted the “it may be Andrew Scheer’s smile, but it’s still Stephen Harper’s party” attack line at the recent Liberal convention. Slagging Harper sells.
But it doesn’t work nearly as well when speaking about problems the Liberals have created, like the deficit, or inherited and made worse, like the border. Tweeting “Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada” might have won a news cycle, but it’s come back to bite the Liberals in the backside in the form of multiplying “temporary” asylum shelters and an overwhelmed processing system.
Step forward the “alt-right.” And even if the shoe doesn’t quite fit, the Liberals are going to try their damnedest to make the Conservatives wear it. Because, whether Canadian conservatives like it or not, a lot of their European brethren are piling in against immigration in a nasty fashion. And the reality is that Canada’s vaunted all-party support for immigration might crumble all the same if it faced European-like numbers of asylum seekers, too—just the kind of circumstance that birthed such alt-right movements elsewhere. No conservative party is truly safe.
Nor should liberals rest easy either. The European left is struggling mightily too, and it’s largely because they underestimated the people’s tolerance for an immigration system that clearly could no longer deal with what was coming its way.
To fight back against the alt-right slur, Conservatives in Canada need to do three things: keep supporting much-needed immigration and legitimate refugee claims; avoid hyperbole while making valid criticisms of the government’s actions; and uprooting any actual and visible forms of alt-right support in their party. The Republicans missed their weeding moment; the Tories can’t afford to miss theirs.
Because if they do miss it, it will be Trudeau’s Liberals who have the last laugh—no matter how poor their joke.
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- Trudeau won’t condemn Trump’s migrant policy. That’s duplicitous and irresponsible.
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- ‘Change’ or just more of the same? It’s campaign slogan déjà vu.


Photo: Kentucky teachers rally inside the state Capitol for education funding. AP Photo/Bryan Woolston
By Amanda Menas
Public school advocates will remember the election of 2019 as one in which their voices were heard—loud and clear. Stunning victories in Kentucky and Virginia are being celebrated not only in those states, but nationwide.
Educators undeniably played a role in those wins. Kentucky governor-elect Andy Beshear put it best: “To our educators, this is your victory.”
Here are the lessons from the 2019 elections that public school advocates can carry into 2020:
1. Public education carried the day
Kentucky Governor-elect Andy Beshear and Lt. Governor-elect Jacqueline Coleman pulled off a stinging defeat of Gov. Matt Bevin, who had the strong backing of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the president himself.
Bevin’s disdain for teachers and the union reached a fever pitch this spring when his administration issued subpoenas to school districts to find out which teachers called in sick in order to rally at the state capitol. It was Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear who jumped in to defend teachers’ Constitutional rights to protest.
Beshear pledged during his gubernatorial campaign to champion public schools and treat educators with the respect they deserve. He chose as his running mate Jacqueline Coleman, a classroom teacher from Harrodsburg, Ky.
Beshear went on the record with the Louisville Courier Journal with his intention to push back on “Bevin’s draconian education policies, inspired by wealthy elites like the Koch Brothers and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.” He continued, “[Bevin’s] solutions involve implementing the American Legislative Exchange Council’s carefully orchestrated schemes to underfund and undermine Kentucky’s public schools, turn our ‘persistently low-achieving’ schools over to outside operators and drastically cut teacher compensation and benefits.”
Educators’ message was clear: Our students and educators deserve better than Matt Bevin. Voters ultimately agreed.
Education was a main factor in another stunning turnaround: Virginia voters toppled the GOP’s longtime control of their state legislature. Taking both the state House and Senate for the first time in 24 years, Democrats fought for school funding and teacher salaries, which had stagnated in that time.
For years, Virginia has ranked near the top of the list of wealthiest states in the nation, but ranks a sad 42nd in per-pupil state funding and 34th in teacher pay. Voters decided they had had enough, and removed from office those preventing the state from doing far better for its public school students and educators.
2. Educators are a force in elections
In 2018, Kentucky educators and parents from around the state made a promise.
“We’ll remember! Come November!” thousands chanted in front of the capitol in Frankfort. They were rallying for increased school funding and drastic cuts to teacher pensions.
One year later, Kentucky educators unseated Matt Bevin. Their protests reminded voters how Bevin expanded vouchers, defunded schools, and bullied educators. Educators and parents worked hard to make that win possible, turning out in droves after months of canvassing neighborhoods and working the phones.
Virginia educators made a similar promise. In recent years, parents, students, and educators made it clear that they would not accept the status quo, showing up by the thousands at the state capitol to hold their legislators accountable this January. Since then, educators have walked door to door, made phone calls, and dedicated their scant free time during evenings and weekends to help carry pro-public education candidates over the finish line.
3. Educators and NEA make waves in 2020
These victories “demonstrates the power of educators and how the #RedforEd movement is reshaping the political landscape,” said NEA President Lily Eskelsen García. “Educators are empowered and engaged like never before, and they made their presence felt in this election,” she said.
Across red states and blue states alike, educators and parents have been coming together to advocate on behalf of students and our neighborhood public schools, and volunteered on campaigns in unprecedented numbers. Grassroots #RedForEd movements from California to Virginia have organized parents, students, and educators to advocate for and win billions of dollars in increased funding for public schools.
NEA has supported these initiatives by providing expertise in digital communications, logistics, member mobilization, research, and legislative strategy. This backing will help channel the enthusiasm of nearly 3 million NEA members and other public school supporters, who are excited to elect champions for our public education in 2020.
Everyone is invited to join NEA’s Strong Public Schools campaign to elect pro-public education candidates. Take the first step in promising to vote by signing our Strong Public Schools EducationVoter pledge!


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The misunderstanding of Abraham: patriarchal thinking and painful realizations in ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’
July 26, 2023
Abraham Weissman is a man shaken to his core.
A one-time tenured professor of mathematics at Columbia University and then an employee of Bell Labs, Abe is experiencing a new career as a theater reviewer for The Village Voice. Yet, as the fifth and final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel unfolds, Abe’s sensibilities have turned inside out.
As part of a long lineage of Jewish polymaths, Abe believes, like his father before him and grandfather before him, that the best way to bring out the genius of his family’s intellect is to encourage one’s son to manifest that brilliance on their own. Ignore the boy, he counsels his son-in-law, Joel Maisel. Spend no meaningful time until the son has shown his true inheritance by doing something brilliant, displaying an aptitude that cannot be explained other than the patriarchal heritage, the giftedness passed down from father to son, suddenly making itself known. This is the way, Abe Weissman believes, of how the men, and only the men, of his line manifest their genius.
Hearing the piano down the hall, Abe excitedly goes to see his grandson Ethan at the bench, replicating from memory a tune he has heard Abe play.
But it is not Ethan who has taken up the piano after Abe introduced him to the tune. It is his granddaughter, Esther, playing the piano after overhearing her grandfather spending time with his grandson on the piano.
Abe realizes the error of his family lore and tradition. Following the tradition of the men in his family, he ignored his own granddaughter’s potential. What else, he wonders, had he missed?
His thoughts turn to his own children. He had expected his grandson to be the prodigy, and he realized not only had he ignored Esther’s capacities, long had Abe ignored Esther’s mother, his own daughter Miriam, aka Midge, whose stand-up career onstage as “the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” would grow into a veritable comedy legend.
At dinner shortly after Esther manifested her giftedness, Abe arrives for dinner with friends and work colleagues. While they banter over wine selection and the menu, they also talk about how they are experiencing rapid change in society, sometimes beyond their comprehension. Abe cannot think of anything else than this epiphany about Esther and its humbling effect on his worldview:
“My daughter was dumped by her husband, out of nowhere…. Instead of collapsing from the weight, she emerged stronger. A new person, so I thought.
But now I think… perhaps that was who she was all along. I never really took her seriously. My son Noah I took seriously.
I would take him to Columbia with me every week so he could dream of what he could be.
I don’t remember if I ever did that for Miriam. I don’t think it ever occurred to me. And as unfathomable as this career choice of hers is, she’s doing it on her own. With no help from me or her mother. Where did this come from? This strength, this fearlessness that… that I never had. That my poor son never had.
What could she have been if I had helped her and not ignored her, ignored who she really is?
My daughter is a remarkable person, and I don’t think I’ve ever said that.” (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, season 5, episode 8, “The Princess and the Plea”)
The ideological framework Abe Weissman begins to shed in season five of ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ unfortunately is pernicious and alive and well in today’s world.
When he first told his son-in-law about this theory of extraordinary men in his family, Abe brought out a handsomely bound volume, detailing generation after generation of the male Weissmans’ achievements and accomplishments. Now he knows all this lore to be suspect, missing entirely the possibilities of the women who descend from this lineage, including Midge and Esther. And his perpetuation of this belief has led Abe to miss altogether the ability to see and encourage Midge, who is already well on her way to surpassing her parents.
As part of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s final season, viewers are privy to new insights into the characters by way of flashbacks and flash forwards. In the flashbacks, we see the burgeoning romance of Midge and Joel. In the future scenes (from the 1960s to the first decade of this century), we encounter Esther as a Harvard doctoral program student, talking with her therapist. She is every bit her mother’s daughter, down to the frenetic pace of speaking. (Such witty, brilliant, and snarky female characters are a staple of creator Amy Sherman-Palladino’s various other TV projects.)
Abe Weissman has spent his life in academia and other pursuits, his access to such heights allowed him as a white man in a patriarchal culture, profession, and yes, even religion. He means well, yet he has come to the realization all of this has come at a cost to the women in his life and his entire lineage. My daughter is a remarkable person, and I don’t think I’ve ever said that” is a painful line. It is an honest moment of self-awareness, even if the other men at dinner did not hear it in the moment.
Midge keeps gaining ground in her career. She has a successful late-night talk show appearance (despite being introduced namelessly as “our lady writer” from the writing staff). She soars well beyond her sometime mentor Lenny Bruce and cements her name in the legends of stand-up comedy, a profession that still deals with the Jurassic attitude that women by and large “aren’t funny.”
Abe Weissman’s realization of his wrongheaded thinking is refreshing, especially in light of events at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in June, complete with disfellowshipping churches in their ranks who have clergywomen pastors. For nearing a half-century, the largest U.S. Baptist group has made its point that women are theologically inferior to men, particularly when it comes to ordained leadership.
Midge Maisel would have a pointed word about this, one uproariously wise yet unprintable in this fine digital-first family publication. Nonetheless, I despair that our culture, religion, and politics are far from free of this sexism that keeps women from realizing their full personal, professional, economic, and social potential.
Abe finally came to his senses. The ideological framework he begins to shed in season five unfortunately is pernicious and alive and well in today’s world. Such thinking has held back humanity’s fuller potential and undercut the gifts of half of humanity.
Rev. Jerrod H. Hugenot is associate executive minister, American Baptist Churches of New York State.


PED monitoring | Cases of the virus slowing but there is still work to do
DES MOINES, Iowa — Hog farmers have a brief respite from the worst of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus and researchers are scrambling to make it more than just a pause.
“It seems to be declining,” said Tom Burkgren, executive director of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians, about summer temperatures apparently causing fewer weekly new outbreaks of PED.
“Don’t let your guard down. It’s not time to let your biosecurity down. It’s time to leverage the heat.”
Burkgren said PED outbreaks are likely to surge again in the fall and researchers hope to make hog farms better able to handle the virulent disease — which has now killed about seven million piglets — when it returns in full force.
PED, like many viruses, survives well in cold weather but is unstable in warm temperatures. Over the fall, winter and spring PED infections rose from about 100 in late May 2013 to 4,700 by the time of this year’s World Pork Expo in the first week of June.
The disease has spread across the American hog herd and into both eastern and western Canadian herds. It is actually two strains of PED, which most researchers believe came into the U.S. already separately developed, while delta coronavirus is also circulating the in U.S. herd. All three diseases appeared after March 2013.
National Pork Board vice-president for science and technology, Paul Sundberg, said researchers need to crack some remaining mysteries of PED in order to give farmers the tools to control its spread.
That includes understanding how to create and sustain immunity in sows that have been exposed to the disease.
A number of veterinary experts said solving the mystery of sow immunity is key to stopping the resurgence of the disease in barns “cleaned” of an outbreak, because outbreaks have been taking longer to end since January.
Burkgren said the virus acts mysteriously, badly affecting some barns that practice high biosecurity but being less damaging to some that have lower biosecurity.
And it will hit some sows hard but ones right behind them little. And right when it seems to have disappeared from a barn it can reappear.
“We don’t know a lot about sow immunity,” said Burkgren.
“It is a surprising virus and it just pops up.”
Sundberg said researchers hope to use the masses of information they have already compiled to unravel the remaining mysteries.
“We’ve had a lot of success,” said Sundberg.
“We’ve learned an awful lot.”
The search for the disease origin continues, with multiple veterinarians at the World Pork Expo saying solving that mystery is key to ensuring that pathway of disease is closed. However, U.S. Department of Agriculture animal health inspection head John Clifford described that as searching for a “needle in a haystack.”


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Specializing in rare cuts by classic and modern bands, Prog Rock Deep Cuts is a forward thinking radio show that promises to match the obscure with the new and fresh. Intelligent, emotional, and visceral classic to modern progressive rock broadcasted live every Thursday from 7-10 pm EST on www.progrock.com.
This week (February 6th), Deep Cuts is proud to present yet another varied playlist. To start with, we’ll be featuring tracks from the highly anticipated collaboration from Peter Hammill (Van der Graaf Generator) and Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart) entitled “Other Worlds”.
Though the playlist will ultimately be determined during the show, other music in consideration include tracks from Italian proggers Il Tempio delle Clessidre and their new record “AlieNatura” as well as classic tracks from Il Balletto di Bronzo’s “Ys”, a 1970’s rollercoaster ride of a concept album about Mount Vesuvius.
Additionally, cuts from Hamster Theater and their zany “Carnival Detournement”, led by accordionist Dave Willey, also of Thinking Plague. Also, tunes from the now-defunct obscure Pittsburgh-based progressive folk band Psoas (pronounced So-az) caught my ear as potential Deep Cuts material, a mysterious and subtle group marked by haunting acoustic guitar and female lead vocals.
To top it off, tracks from echolyn, Guapo, Djam Karet, and The Fierce and the Dead are in consideration. Lastly, classic music from Henry Cow, Hawkwind, Magma, and Egg will be sprinkled into the playlist, making for an epic and engaging voyage into prog’s less-charted waters.
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