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Pro football insiders debate whether the AFL champion Chargers could have beaten the Bears
in a 1963 Super Bowl.
It's an impossible question, but one that
continues to intrigue members of the 1963 AFL champion San Diego Chargers.
If the Super Bowl had started with the
1963 season instead of 1966, could the Chargers have beaten the NFL champion Chicago
"I've argued that for years and
years," says Sid Gillman, who coached the 1963 Chargers. "We had one of the
great teams in pro football history, and I think we would have matched up pretty well with
the NFL. We had great speed and talent, and I think at that time, the NFL really
underestimated the talent we had."
Paul Lowe, a game-breaking halfback who
led the Chargers with 1,101 yards rushing in 1963, is even more confident than Gillman
that the Chargers could have beaten the Bears in a 1963 Super Bowl. "Of course we
would've won," says Lowe. "With our defense, our offense, our bench strength, we
had no weaknesses. We knew we had a better team (than the Bears)."
"I wish we could've played the Bears
in 1963," says Keith Lincoln, the Chargers' starting fullback in 1963 who led the
league with a 6.5 yards-per-carry average. "We had a great team that year."
Ernie "Big Cat" Ladd, the 6-9,
321-pound anchor of San Diego's defense, pro football's original "Fearsome
Foursome," believes the Chargers could have matched up well with the Bears. "I
thought we could play with anybody in 1963," Ladd says. "We had the
Jack Faulkner, Administrator of Football
Operations for the Rams and a member of Sid Gillman's staff in 1960-61, echoes Ladd's
sentiments. "The thing with San Diego is that they had good players," Faulkner
notes. "In '63, I think the Chargers could've competed with the NFL. How they
would've done, who knows?"
Who indeed, but Steve Sabol, the
president of NFL Films, has viewed extensive film footage of every great pro football
team, and it is his considered opinion that the a 1963 Super Bowl would have been an
intriguing matchup to say the least. "I think Gillman's Chargers would've done very
well against the NFL champion Bears," Sabol says. "I think that (Charger) team
could've won. It would've been a very interesting matchup between a space-age offense and
a stone-age defense."
Pro football record books show that when
the Super Bowl began in January 1967, the AFL had to withstand two years of humiliating
defeats to the NFL on the field and public ridicule off it. It wasn't until January 12,
1969, when Joe Namath quarterbacked the upstart New York Jets to a stunning 16-7 victory
over the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III, that the AFL earned its first
championship game win over the NFL. Even so, it wasn't until Len Dawson led the Kansas
City Chiefs to a similar win one year later over the Minnesota Vikings in the fourth and
final Super Bowl between the AFL and NFL that the AFL finally got its share of respect
from both the NFL and football fans.
Those who know the AFL however, believe
that the 1963 Chargers, rather than the '68 Jets, might have gone down in history as the
first AFL team to win a Super Bowl.
Larry Grantham, a member of the '68 Jets,
played against the '63 Chargers and recalls the near-perfect blend of strategy and skill
San Diego exhibited. "Sid Gillman was one of the great innovators in pro football
history," Grantham says. "With players like Alworth, Lowe, Mix, he could've
shown (the NFL) some things."
The late Jerry Mays was a starting
defensive end on Kansas City's two AFL Super Bowl teams, and played opposite the Chargers
in '63. Mays agreed with Grantham that the Chargers would have beaten the Bears. "I
believe with all my heart," Mays stated, "that San Diego would have beaten the
Bears in 1963. They would have beaten them in an eye-blink. San Diego was the best team in
football that year. They won the AFL title over Boston and they looked awesome. It was
frightening how good they were."
Lou Saban, who coached the Buffalo Bills
to consecutive AFL title game victories over the Chargers in 1964-65, thinks the AFL was
ready to compete with the NFL by the mid-1960s. "I believe that," Saban says.
"We had four years to grow in the AFL, and we were getting some top-notch draft
Hank Stram, who split two Super Bowl
decisions with the NFL as head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, agrees with Saban.
"Sid's team in 1963 could have competed with anyone," Stram says. "San
Diego was like the 49ers (of the 1980s). Everybody talked about their offense, but they
had a great defense too."
Larry Felser, a sportswriter for the
Buffalo Evening News, covered the AFL beginning with its charter year, 1960. It is
Felser's opinion that had the Super Bowl begun with the 1963 season, the AFL might have
increased its number of Super Bowl victories by at least two. Felser called the Chargers a
"rousing offensive team that included at least two future pro football Hall of
Famers, wide receiver Lance Alworth and tackle Ron Mix, plus a pair of superb running
backs in Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe, and a skilled quarterback in Tobin Rote.
"The Bears were strictly a defensive
team. It was a good defense, but it didn't have Dick Butkus yet. The offense was far from
top-quality, and the quarterback was journeyman Bill Wade. Gale Sayers hand't arrived yet,
The Other Side
Members of the NFL old guard however,
disregard the notion that the junior league had, in just four years, risen to a parwith
the established NFL.
Tex Maule, formerly a pro football writer
for Sports Illustrated, scoffed at the idea that the Chargers could've competed with the
Bears. "San Diego and Buffalo (the AFL's 1964-65 champions)," Maule wrote,
"were still in the league in the years subsequent to 1964, but they were beaten by
Kansas City and Oakland, who, in turn, were demolished by the Green Bay Packers."
It was Maule's opinion that the Chargers
looked good only because the rest of the AFL was so weak, as [said he] Green Bay proved
in winning the first two Super Bowls.
Weeb Ewbank is the only coach to win
league titles in both the old NFL and AFL. Ewbank won consecutive [NFL] championships in 1958-59 as
head coach of the Baltimore Colts, and won an AFL [Championship] and Super Bowl [World Championship] with
the 1968 Jets. Ewbank was fired by the Colts after the '62 season, and joined the Jets the
next year, losing twice to the Chargers in '63.
Says Ewbank, "I don't think those
AFL teams (San Diego and Buffalo) could've beaten the NFL at that time. But I thought the
AFL was ready to compete against the NFL by the time of the first Super Bowl."
Dave Whitsell, who started at right
cornerback for the Bears in 1963, said that the Chicago defense was a physical matchup for
any team. "When you came to play the Bears," Whitsell said, "and you had to
go up against guys like Doug Atkins, Stan Jones, Ed O'Bradovich, Bill George, Richie
Pettibon, and Larry Morris, and you had some of those gorillas looking at you, come hell
or highwater, the Bears were going to put a physical beating on you. You were going to be
in the damndest football game of your life."
"That championship year of 1963, two
years before I got there, they came up with some characters who were tough
son-of-guns," said Dick Butkus. "They played the game the way it's supposed to
Said O'Bradovich, who started at left
defensive end for the '63 Bears, "(We) went out on the football field and knocked the
hell out of people."
How the Chargers and Bears would have
matched up is an impossible question to be sure. One thing however, is certain. A Super
Bowl game played in January, 1964 between the Chargers and Bears would have offered some
interesting matchups of great players, and these "games within a game" some
When San Diego had the ball, how would
all-pro tackle Ron Mix have done against Bears' defensive end Ed O'Bradovich? Nicknamed
"The Intellectual Assassin," Mix was an intelligent player who played in seven
AFL All-Star games and was called for holding just once in 10 years. O'Bradovich, called
"OB" by teammates, was a fierce pass rusher who symbolized the Bears' brutal
Could Charger receivers Alworth, Don
Norton and Dave Kocourek, who combined for 17 TDs in '63, find the holes in a Bears'
double-zone defense which led the NFL in interceptions?
How would Tobin Rote, the top-ranked
quarterback in the AFL, have fared trying to throw deep against Chicago safeties Richie
Pettibon and Roosevelt Taylor, both of whom made all-pro in '63?
And could San Diego backs Keith Lincoln
and Paul Lowe, the celebrated "L and L Boys" of the AFL's best rushing attack,
find running room against a Bears' front seven that listed all-pros in end Doug Atkins and
linebackers Bill George and Joe Fortunato?
When the Bears had the ball, could their
conservative rushinggame have mounted a consistent attack against the Chargers' great
And how would Bears' QB Bill Wade,
all-pro tight end Mike Ditka and speedy wideout Johnny Morris fare against San Diego's
ball-hawking secondary, headed by Dick Harris and Charlie McNeil, who combined for 12
interceptions in 1963?
Finally, there was the matchup of coaches
themselves, San Diego's Sid Gillman, "El Sid," against the "Papa
Bear", George Halas.
The Immovable Bears
Clearly, these were two teams whose
styles of play perfectly reflected their respective leagues.
The NFL of the 1960s was geared to
ground-oriented offenses and dominating defenses, styles personified by the Packers,
Bears, Browns, Colts and Vikings, who combined to win nine league titles in the decade of
The Bears defense in 1963 allowed just
10.3 points per game, and 144 points overall, the lowest total in 13 years. Chicago led
the NFL in a rare triple, finishing number one against the run, pass and overall. Working
under Halas, defensive coordinator George Allen installed a double zone pass defense that
puzzled opposing offenses, beginning with the two-time defending champion Packers in the
season opener an Sept. 15 in Green Bay. The Chicago defense, which led the league in
interceptions with 36, the most by any NFL team in the 1960s, picked off four Bart Starr
passes and held the powerful Packer offense to 73 yards passing and just 150 yards of
total offense in a 10-3 Bears' win.
The key to the defense was the double
zone constructed by Halas and Allen. When Halas returned to coaching in 1958 after a
two-year absence, he introduced the "BUZ" defense. In his autobiography, Halas
said BUZ was a code word for the Bears' new zone defense. The "B" stood for the
linebackers in the 4-3; the "U" instructed them to move closer to the line to
confuse enemy quarterbacks, and the "Z" told the 'backers to drop into coverage
at the start of the play and help the secondary against the pass, and told the defensive
ends to flare out to cover running plays.
Halas also introduced a color-coded
system of linebacker blitzes. "Red dog" was the blitz signal for the right
linebacker; "White dog" was the middle linebacker's blitz call; and "Blue
dog" the right linebacker's call.
Allen said the BUZ defense was designed
to get the Chicago linebackers into hook and flat zones as quickly as possible. The BUZ
proved particularly effective against screens and draws, as the linebackers dropped into
coverage, keying on the quarterback and aided by instructions from safeties Richie
Pettibon and Roosevelt Taylor.
Taylor led the league in interceptions
with nine, and he, Pettibon, defensive end Doug Atkins, and linebackers Bill George and
Joe Fortunato made the all-pro team. The front four was bookended by the 6-8 Atkins and Ed
O'Bradovich, with Stan Jones and Fred Williams at the tackles. Larry Morris joined George
and Fortunato at linebacker, and Whitsell and Bennie McRae started at the corners.
After beating the Packers in the regular
season opener, the Bears reeled off seven wins in their next eight games. On Nov. 17, they
met Green Bay in a rematch at Wrigley Field. Both teams were 8-1, and the winner would be
in control in the Western Division standings. The Packers were hurting, having lost
halfback Paul Hornung to a one-year gambling suspension and Starr to a broken hand. Still,
Allen succeeded in crossing up Green Bay head coach Vince Lombardi with an unorthodox
While most NFL teams played a straight
4-3, with the defensive tackles lining up on the outside shoulders of the offensive
guards, Allen designed an "odd" formation that presented backup QB Zeke
Bratkowski with a five-man look. While "odd" and "even" defenses had
been used in pro football before, Allen took the "odd" formation one step
further. The Bears confused Green Bay's veteran linemen by shifting from one
"odd"look to another before the snap of the ball. Chicago would move from an
overshifted defense to the left to an undershift to the right, with tackles Stan Jones and
Earl Leggett alternately going head-up on center Jim Ringo. With Green Bay's blocking
schemes confused, the Bears won easily, 26-7.
One interesting footnote to the Bears'
two victories over the Packers in 1963 was provided by Green Bay guard Jerry Kramer. When
Kramer played under Halas and the Chicago coaching staff in the Pro Bowl at the end of the
'63 season, he found out the Bears had picked up Green Bay's offensive play calling a year
before at the Pro Bowl. The man who unwittingly provided the information was none other
than Lombardi. In coaching the West All-Stars in the Pro Bowl the year before, Lombardi
had installed the Green Bay offense, with its list of formations, plays, signals and
blocking schemes. Chicago players who were on Lombardi's West team made complete notes of
the Green Bay offense, and by the time the '63 season opened, the Bears were ready for
every shift, every audible, every play the Packers called.
After beating Green Bay, the Bears went
on to finish first in the Western Conference with an 11-2-1 record. and prepared to meet a
New York Giants' team that led the NFL in scoring with 448 points, the second-highest
total in league history to that point.
On Dec. 29, in the frozen, eight-degree
sunlight at Wrigley Field, the Bears won the NFL title by intercepting Giants' quarterback
Y.A. Tittle five times in a 14-10 win. The game turned on a second-quarter tackle by
Morris, who blitzed Tittle and crashed into the quarterback's left leg, twisting his knee.
The injury prevented Tittle from planting his feet on his throws, and the unpredictable
Chicago winds and unyielding Bears defense troubled Tittle and the Giants' league-leading
offense the rest of the game.
The Bears' victory was a capsule of their
1963 season. Both of Chicago's touchdowns were set up by the defense. In the first
quarter, with the Giants leading 7-0, Morris stepped in front of a Tittle screen pass
intended for Phil King and returned it 61 yards to the New York five. Wade then scored on
a two-yard plunge to tie the game. Chicago's winning TD came courtesy of another
interception, with O'Bradovich picking off a screen pass and carrying it 10 yards to the
New York 14. Five plays later, Wade dove in from the one.
"The Chicago defense was supposed to
be damn near invulnerable," Tittle said later. "I must say it was very good ...
The Bears had size and experience and they played an alert ballgame."
The Chicago offense scored just 301
points in 1963, the lowest for any NFL title team in the 1960s, but they led the league in
turnover ratio. The Bears were paced by Wade and All-Pro tight end Mike Ditka, who led the
team with 59 catches. The Bears' ground game was by committee, with fullback Joe Marconi
leading the team with 446 yards. Speedster Willie "The Wisp" Galimore had five
rushing touchdowns, and fullback Rick Casares was one of the league's best blocking backs.
"We gave people a lot of fits with
our offense," Wade said. "We felt we did our part, but the defense was more
Though Halas and Allen made the Bears'
defense famous with their strategic planning, the offense came up with a few innovations
of its own. In preparation for their two meetings with the Lombardi Packers, the Chicago
coaching staff spent much of the 1963 preseason studying films of the Green Bay defense.
What they noticed was that Packer linebackers Ray Nitschke, Bill Forester and Dan Currie
dropped deeper into coverage than most NFL 'backers at the time. Armed with this
information, the Bears went to a greater number of underneath passes when they played the
Packers in 1963.
The Irresistible Chargers
While the veteran Bears dominated the NFL
with their "Monsters of the Midway" defense, the youthful Chargers zapped the
AFL with an offensive armada that led the league in seven different offensive categories,
including scoring with 399 points. The jagged lightning bolt that adorned San Diego's
helmets and jerseys symbolized the Chargers' quick-strike capabilities.
Running behind Mix on Gillman's
patented toss sweeps and inside traps, Lincoln led the AFL with an astounding 6.5 yards-
per-carry average, and Lowe high-stepped for 1,010 yards and averaged 5.7 yards per
attempt. Running the famous Charger Curl and Fly, Alworth used speed and grace to haul in
a team-high 61 catches for 1,205 yards and a league-leading 20 yards per-catchaverage.
Rote led the league in passing, completing an AFL-high 59 percent of his passes and
gunning the ball for 2,510 yards and 20 touchdowns. The triggerman on San Diego's
streaking deep patterns, Rote led the AFL in yards-per-attempted pass, averaging 8.7.
Lincoln, Lowe, Mix, Rote and Alworth were each named to the ALL-AFL team.
Defensively, the Chargers were led by the
AFL's first greatfront four. While NFL defenses in the 1960s were geared to dominating
middle linebackers -- like Bill George and later Dick Butkus in Chicago; Nitschke in Green
Bay; Joe Schmidt in Detroit; Sam Huff in New York; and later Tommy Nobis in Atlanta -- AFL
clubs relied on the charge up-front of outstanding defensive linemen. Every AFL club
seemed to have them. In Boston, the Patriots had Larry "Wild Man" Eisenhauer and
Houston Antwine; Buffalo listed Ron McDole, Tom Sestak and Jim Dunaway; Oakland looked to
Dan Birdwell and later, Ben Davidson and Tom Keating; Kansas City had all-pros in Buck
Buchanan and Jerry Mays, and later added Curley Culp.
In 1963, the Chargers had one of the
best, and certainly themost colorful, of the early AFL defenses. The San Diego unit was
spearheaded by all-pro end Earl Faison and massive, 6-9, 321pound Ernie Ladd, the
"Big Cat" of the Charger defense. End Bob Petrich and tackles George Gross and
Henry Schmidt filled out the front wall.
Just as Halas was ably assisted by Allen,
Gillman had capable lieutenants in defensive backfield coach Chuck Noll and offensive line
coach Joe Madro. Under Noll, the defense led the league in fewest points allowed,
surrendering 256. Two years earlier, San Diego's ball-hawking secondary set an all-time
pro record with 49 interceptions. Under Madro, the Charger offensive line gave Rote and
Hadl enought time to throw deep, and opened gaping holes for Lincoln and Lowe.
The Chargers cruised through the regular
season with an 11-3 record; they scored more than 30 points five times during the season,
and more than 50 twice.
While the Chicago defense had to prove
itself in the NFL title game against the league's best offense, so too did the San Diego
offense face a strong test when they faced a Boston Patriots team built on all-out
defense. Under head coach Mike Holovak, the Patriots smothered enemy offenses with a
variety of blitzes, including the eight-man maximum blitz.
For the championship game, Gillman
devised a precise three- page game plan aimed at countering the Patriots' blitz package
with traps and draws off motion plays. The fleet Lowe was assigned as the motion man, and
Gillman expected that Lowe's unexpected motion would cause the Boston blitzers problems at
the line of scrimmage. Gillman also tinkered with his passing game, lining up Alworth in
an "East Formation" that had the speedy flanker on the same side of the field
with split end Don Norton and turned tight end Dave Kocourek into a weak side receiver.
The "East Formation" forced Patriot strong safety Ron Hall, who was normally
accustomed to covering slower tight ends, to stay with Alworth or Norton, neither of whom
The Charger defense made adjustments too,
moving middle linebacker Chuck Allen to the weak side, where he would stunt and blitz into
the Boston backfield.
On Jan. 5, the 30,127 fans who crowded
into San Diego's sun-soaked Balboa Stadium saw the Chargers turn in the most dominating
championship game performance in AFL history. On the game's second play from scrimmage,
Lowe went in motion. The move caused instant confusion on the Boston defense, which was in
a blitzing formation. End Bob Dee nearly jumped offside, and the Patriot linebackers were
off-balance when Lincoln took Rote's handoff and broke through the line on a trap play
that carried for 56 yards. Two plays later, Rote carried in from the two, scoring the
first of San Dego's seven touchdowns in a 51-10 romp. Lincoln, who added a 67-yard TD run
in the first quarter and had a 25-yard scoring pass from backup QB John Hadl in the
fourth, rushed for a title-game record 206 yards on just 13 carries. Lincoln also had 123
yards receiving to account for 329 of the Chargers' 610 yards of offense. Lowe rushed for
94 yards, including a 58-yard TD run, and Alworth scored on a 48-yard TD pass from Rote.
"Our passing game was really the
ultimate," Gillman said. "We were probably as scientific as it was possible to
be at that time. The emphasis was on speed and quickness."
Gillman's offensive system called for his
wide-running attack to stretch the defense horizontally, and his deep passing game to
stretch it vertically."
Said Mix, "A football field is 100
yards long by 160 feet wide, and we used every inch of it."
In the Charger dressing room after the
game, Faison fired a verbal shot at the NFL-champion Bears when he said, "The Bears
can call themselves the world champions, but we're the champions of the universe."
Gillman added fuel to the fire, saying
"We're champions of the world. If anyone wants to debate it, let them play us."
In the aftermath of their win over the
Patriots, Otto Graham, the former Cleveland Browns' star QB, thought the Chargers were the
best team in football that year. "If the Chargers could play the best in the
NFL," Graham said after the AFL title game, "I'd have to pick the
Patriots' team owner Billy Sullivan
acknowledged that despite the final score of the title game, the Chargers' impressive win
benefited the young AFL, even if it had to come at the expense of Sullivan's team.
"It almost killed me to have to watch it." Sullivan said,"But when you
think about it from the stand point of our league, then you'd have to say that San Diego
did us all a favor."
Indeed. Whether or not the Chargers could
have defeated the Bears in a Super Bowl following the 1963 season will never be known.
What is certain however, is that the Chargers established themselves as the first of the
AFL's super teams. In so doing, they became the first AFL champion to invite serious
comparisons with the best of the NFL. Which in 1963, was victory in itself for a league
still struggling to create its own identity.


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Kvetching About Congress’s Big Trip to Israel
By John Hudson, The Atlantic Wire
For critics of the Israeli government, news that 20 percent of the U.S. Congress is heading to the Jewish state during the three-week recess is a pretty clear sign that the U.S. does not use an even hand in the Middle East. While many members of Congress scheduled visits to the Palestinian territories as well, the Israel trip is sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation, a group affiliated with the pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee. They signed up 55 Republicans and 26 Democrats, with Minority Whip Steny Hoyer leading the Democrats and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor leading a cohort of Republicans. The first group is scheduled to arrive today. The large group of vacationers (The Atlantic’s Jeffery Goldberg says the numbers “seem even higher than usual”) didn’t go unnoticed in the foreign affairs blogosphere.
“Action alert! Call your representative & ask them where they are during recess- in their districts or in #ISRAEL!?” tweeted Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink. Not wasting a moment, right-wing firebrand Andrew Breitbart first employed his signature hate retweet and then went straight for the ad hominem attack. “What’s not to H8 about sickening Code Pink? Jodie Evans, come clean on how you got & are spending your mega-millions! … Code Pink… is partially funded by leader Jodie Evans’ dead mega-capitalist hubbie!”
Taking a more measured approach, foreign affairs bloggers Jeff Blankfort and Phil Weiss at Mondoweiss employed sarcasm to make a point:
“This is just another example of how we are living in inflationary times. In 2009, the year before the last election there were only 55 members of Congress going to Israel during the August recess, 25 Republicans followed by 30 Democrats. This brings up the old joke: “Why doesn’t Israel want to become the 51st state? Because then it would only have two senators.”
Margaret O’Brien Steinfels at Commonweal got a little sarcastic herself. “Will they fit in visits to Egypt, Syria, and Yemen, I wonder?” Meanwhile, the pro-Israel blog Israel Matzav, home to an American expat living in Israel was ecstatic. “The Congress is coming, the Congress is coming!” read the headline. “Welcome to Israel, folks. And if you want to hear from an American blogger who grew up in Boston and last lived in the US in New Jersey, please send me an email.”
The Congress is coming, the Congress is coming!
‘Carl in Jerusalem’, Israelmatzav blog
There’s a Congressional recess ahead, and for many Representatives, Israel (where they are less likely to be asked about the United States’ financial problems) is the place to be. 55 Republicans (for whom trips to Israel are becoming de rigeur) and 26 Democrats are heading here over the next few weeks. For those of you who don’t do math, that makes 81 or more than 20% of the Congress.
Most of the representatives are freshmen congressmen, with 47 – or fully half of the freshmen Republicans voted into office in 2010 – making the trip.
For many of them, this will be their first trip to Israel.
The week-long trips are sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation, a charitable organization affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which brings large delegations of congressmen here every other August.
House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) will head the Democratic delegation, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) will lead one of the Republican groups.
Hoyer, in a statement, said he looked forward to “returning to Israel to continue learning firsthand about the evolving security situation in the Middle East, the deep challenges facing Israel, and the role the US can play in the region during this time of uncertainty.
I’m pleased members of Congress have this opportunity to study American interests in the Middle East and gain a deeper understanding of the issues involved in increasing stability in the region.”
The delegation will visit both Israel and the West Bank, and is scheduled to meet with President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.
Among those on the delegation arriving Monday are Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., Ohio’s Betty Sutton, and Pennsylvania’s Mark Critz.
In a related development, The Israel Project will be bringing a group of 18 Washington-based ambassadors from Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America to Israel on Monday for a weeklong tour and high-level meetings. Like the congressmen, they will also go to Ramallah, for a meeting with PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
Among the countries represented on the trip are Albania, Barbados, Belize, Burkina Faso, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Macedonia, St. Lucia and Uganda.
Some of these countries have been mentioned by officials in Jerusalem as likely candidates to either vote against, or at least abstain, when the vote on Palestinian statehood comes before the UN in September.
Welcome to Israel, folks. And if you want to hear from an American blogger who grew up in Boston and last lived in the US in New Jersey, please send me an email.
I wonder if this includes all the Representatives coming here for Glenn Beck. Heh.
Who’s paying for Congress to summer in Israel? Liberal foundations that give halls to Princeton and Yale and fund Human Rights Watch
by Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss
The center of student life at NYU is a striking building called the Kimmel Center on Washington Square. Martin and Helen Kimmel have given NYU millions. The Kimmels also give tons of money to the Metropolitan Opera, the Museum of African Art, Habitat for Humanity, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Sidwell Friends School, and Human Rights Watch too.
Yesterday the Washington Post said that 81 congresspeople are going to Israel this summer “courtesy of the AIPAC lobby”– as if we have the bad old right-wing Israel lobby to blame.
But that’s a delusion. It’s people like the Kimmels, the heart and soul of the liberal Jewish establishment. The Kimmels give big-time to the American Israel Education Foundation, the AIPAC spin-off that funds charities and pays for congresspeople to travel to Israel. The Kimmels gave $3.5 million to the American Israel Education Foundation, or AYE, over several recent years, according to the Form 990s that their family foundation has provided to the government.
Indeed, my search of 990s shows that the AYE is getting tons of money from the same people who fund good liberal institutions. I’ve looked at about a third of more than 300 federal filings of charitable contributions to the AYE in recent years; and the pattern is clear–many people who give to liberal causes like abortion right also pay for Israel junkets.
The Abby and Mitch Leigh Foundation gave the Abby and Mitch Leigh Hall to Yale University’s music school. It also gives generously to the Center for Reproductive Rights, which took on the Bush Administration on abortion policy. Well, the Leigh Foundation has given $35,000 to send your congressperson to Israel.
Or the Wilf Foundation. It gave Princeton University a lovely new brick dormitory called Wilf Hall, which is under construction. And meantime the Wilfs have given $150,000 to the AIEF, according to government filings.
Consider the Arlene and Daniel Fisher Foundation– the Fishers love the arts. They give money to the Actor’s Fund, the Roundabout Theater and the Manhattan Theatre Club, where young friends of mine have done workshop productions. But they also gave $175,000 to the American Israel Education Foundation, which is paying for congresspeople to learn how great Israel is.
Or Margaret and Richard Lipmanson Foundation. It gave the liberal group the ACLU $10,000 one year– and the American Israel Education Foundation $30,000.
Or the Long-Island-based Susan and Leonard Feinstein Foundation. It helps liberal causes, education and the arts– Gay Men’s Health Crisis, the American Ballet Theater, Nassau Coalition Against Domestic Violence, NYU School of Medicine. But the Feinstein Foundation gave $450,000 to the American Israel Education Foundation over eight years.
Yes, the American Israel Education Foundation gets hundreds of thousands, millions even, from right-wingers. Sheldon Adelson gives it money, for instance. There are many obviously-conservative Jewish-oriented foundations in the lists of AIEF givers. Susan Wexner’s foundation funds AIEF and also the David Project and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
And Haim Saban, the “ardent Zionist” toymaker, gave $8 million to the American Israel Education Foundation over two years and more than $6 million to the Friends of the IDF (Israeli army).
Saban was also giving millions to Bill Clinton’s Presidential Foundation and the Brookings Institution.
And that’s the point. When you comb through the lists of people who are paying for 1 out of 5 Congresspeople to spend their recess in Israel this summer, many of them are the heart and soul of the liberal Jewish establishment. And apart from the political corruption question– why is a Congresswoman in Israel not her home district this August as the economy disintegrates?– these donor lists speak to a larger cultural issue: the inability of the liberal establishment to address the Israel/Palestine issue in a liberal fashion.
When Princeton, and Yale, and NYU, and Human Rights Watch, and the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the American Ballet Theater, and the Manhattan Theatre Club and the ACLU are getting huge gifts from these foundations, do you think they don’t know which side their bread is buttered on?
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Thanks for this post. As a fairly conservative libertarian, I have been appalled at the naivety of the left, many of whom see unbridled support of Israel as a largely right-wing conception, a Republican issue, when in fact support of Israel is not only a massively bipartisan agenda, but also an issue that brings in financial support from ideologues across the political spectrum. When such fiercely partisan enemies can come together nearly unanimously in support of Israel, it’s worrisome. The sooner Progressives begin to examine their own camp’s complicity in this quagmire, the better for all of us.

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In a special interview from our San Diego 101 series, Maya Srikrishan interviews VOSD Podcast host Scott Lewis about San Diego politics — what’s happened since 2004 when he started covering the region as a journalist and how local politics has arrived at its current state.
It’s hard to overstate how big of a deal, historically, it is that Measure B passed in the city of San Diego. For actual decades we have seen and moderated countless public discussions about the city’s finances where someone would say “the city needs new money.” And someone else would say “where would you get […]
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San Diego used to have a neutral ground to witness the most basic function of a representative democracy. Golden Hall is now a homeless shelter and Election Central’s not happening. It may never again.
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Serine (ser) phosphorylation of IRS-1 may be involved in a feedback inhibition of insulin signaling and, under certain circumstances, in the pathogenesis of insulin resistance (IR). On the other hand, variations in expression of p85α subunit of phosphatidylinositol (PI) 3-kinase could also modulate the strength of insulin signaling by altering the competition between the p85α monomer and the p85α-p110 heterodimer for the IRS-1 binding sites. In this study we examined the relationship between ser-phosphorylation of IRS-1 and expression of p85α in the development of IR in cultured 3T3 L1 adipocytes. IR was induced by the transfection of the constitutively active myristilated Akt (myr-Akt). Myr-Akt caused activation and phosphorylation of mTOR and p70S6 kinase. The latter promoted ser-phosphorylation of IRS-1 with a subsequent decline in its association with p85α and p110 as well as a decline in PI 3-kinase activity and insulin-stimulated 2-deoxyglucose (2-DOG) uptake-hence IR. A concomitant transfection of p85α siRNA reduced p85α expression by 70% and rescued insulin-stimulated 2DOG uptake from the inhibition induced by myr-Akt by diminishing the competition between p85α monomer and p85α-p110 heterodimer. In conclusion, IR induced by the Akt-mTOR-p70S6 kinase via ser-phosphorylation of IRS-1 can be ameliorated by a reduction in expression of p85α. Thus, interactions between ser-phosphorylation of IRS-1 and expression of p85α are important in the development of and the defense against IR.
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When patients have to wait for long periods in overcrowded emergency departments (EDs), it’s not just an inconvenience. Evidence shows that ED crowding leads to significant patient harm, resulting from delays in treatment and increases in preventable harm. A systematic review in 2022 concluded that ED crowding was associated with higher mortality in 45 percent of the studies, worse quality of care in 75 percent, and a worse perception of care in 100 percent.
ED Crowding Has Multiple Sources
The problem of ED crowding is widely recognized. Too often, however, ED crowding is seen in isolation — as a matter of simply making ED operations more efficient. To be sure, there are ways that ED staff can improve their operations to ease crowding, but there are limits to how much those efforts can accomplish. Efficient, high-quality ED care is also dependent on factors outside the control of the ED — such as lack of sufficient and timely primary care and mental health services as well as timely availability of post-acute care services. To solve the problem of ED crowding and delays in admitting patients to the hospital, improvements in community-wide and hospital-wide patient flow are needed.
Indeed, the situation is reminiscent of the metaphor about the people who are all looking at a different part of an elephant. The one who sees a tusk thinks it’s a spear, the one who sees the tail thinks it’s a rope, and so on. Something analogous occurs when clinicians and staff only see flow problems from their perspective in the ED and within other units or departments throughout the hospital. While the ED staff see long delays in admitting patients, the clinical staff on medical and surgical units see unnecessary bed days and long delays in discharging patients to homes and community-based care settings. To improve patient flow in the ED, we need to look at the whole “elephant” — the whole system that impacts hospital-wide patient flow.
Efficiency Improvements in the ED
There is certainly some potential for improvement in the ED itself. For example:
- Separate flows in the ED (based on acuity) with dedicated clinical teams for each flow. Many EDs that have implemented these lean principles have significantly improved efficiencies and decreased the length of stay for patients discharged from the ED and for patients being admitted to the hospital.
- Create a separate protocol-driven unit for short-stay patients with relatively straightforward diagnoses. These units are intended for patients who may not be sick enough to warrant a hospital admission but are not well enough to be discharged immediately. A 2013 article found that, compared to patients under observation elsewhere in the hospital, patients in dedicated observation units with defined protocols had 23 to 38 percent shorter length-of-stay, and their likelihood of subsequent inpatient admission was 17 to 44 percent lower.
In addition, clinical teams in the ED can partner with community providers of care to shape demand for ED visits.
- Provide end-of-life care in accordance with patients’ wishes. This step often prevents admissions to intensive care units.
- Utilize case managers. These team members can facilitate discharges to home and arrange home care and timely follow-up care after discharge from the ED.
- Support patients with low-acuity needs in community-based care settings. Extend the hours of primary care offices and offer more virtual office visits for primary care, specialists, and mental health care.
Addressing Common Bottlenecks in the Hospital
Often, beds are not available in the hospital, leaving patients to wait for inexcusably long periods in the ED. A commentary in NEJM Catalyst suggests the problem is, in fact, getting worse.
Common bottlenecks and system constraints include:
- Discharge delays — Difficulty finding the right settings and needed services for patients who are otherwise ready to be discharged from the hospital causes delays. Address this bottleneck by focusing on efficient discharge planning and collaborations with family caregivers and community providers of care. In other words, focus on the “back door” in addition to the “front door” of the hospital.
- Unnecessary bed days — Unnecessary bed days occur when patients remain in the hospital for extra days or weeks after they are medically ready for discharge. Comprehensive assessments for post-acute care needs, interdisciplinary planning with a patient and their family, and decision-making can all take time and extend a patient’s stay. In addition, the lack of availability of post-acute facility beds and home care services often leads to long-term hospital occupancy. Inpatient units lose functional capacity as patients await placement in post-discharge health care settings (rehabilitation centers, skilled nursing facilities, or nursing homes).
- Uneven elective surgical scheduling — It is common for surgeons to schedule elective surgery in an uneven manner throughout the week, which can contribute significantly to hospital-wide flow problems. Efforts to “smooth” the flow of elective surgical patients throughout the week can have multiple benefits: more predictable flows of patients from the operating room to intensive care units and other inpatient units, less competition between ED and elective admissions, and more predictable and appropriate nurse staffing on units.
A NEJM Catalyst article identified essential steps to mitigate crowding in the ED, including acknowledging it as a serious problem and threat to patient safety, and urging visible, committed leadership buy-in as an essential part of the solution.
It is crucial to address hospital-wide patient flow, not just to pursue isolated improvement projects that may not have an impact on timely patient progression throughout the hospital. In addition, community-wide efforts to create timely access to care can prevent overutilization of ED services and lengthy hospital admissions. We need to see the “whole elephant” to address both system-wide hospital flow issues and the availability of community-based health care services which impact overutilization in hospitals.
Patricia Rutherford, RN, MS, is a retired Vice President for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and a faculty member for IHI's Hospital Flow Professional Development Program.
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Meaning Of Soil:
If you look around your environment, you will see human beings, animals, treess and grassess. All of them are standing or moving on the soil.
Soil, therefore, is the top covering or upper part of the earth surface in which plants or trees grow.
Types Of Soil
There are three main types of soil: Sandy Soil (sand), Clayey Soil (clay) And Loamy Soil (Loam).
1. Sandy Soil: When rain falls, water runs on the ground and leaves some soil along its path. When the ground becomes dry, It is easy to collect the soil left with the hand. This soil type is called Sandy Soil.
2. Clayey Soil: Clay is a dark-brown, and it is not found everywhere. This type of soil can be used in moulding E.g Moulding pot, Cup, etc.
3. Loamy Soil: Loamy soil is a mixture of sand, clay and some dead plants and organic matter. This is the soil type in which plants mostly grow. You will see the following on Loam soil: decayed organic matter, dark soil and small soil particles. It is, therefore, very good for farming.
Soil is formed in four main ways:
1. Through the breakdown of rocks into small particles by man, animals and plant roots.
2. By washing down the rock particles by water or wind.
3. Through heating of rocks by sunshine.
4. By the decay of plants and animals to form soil organic matter.
Have you ever seen a rock before? A rock is a big stone seen above the soil. Some farmers dry their crops on flat rocks. Some people build houses on rocks. Others sit on a rock to rest, while some others walk across it. All these acrivities help to break down rocks into small pieces.
Plants also help to break rocks into small particles as their roots crack rocks, especially trees which have very large roots. The breaking down of rocks into small pieces by man’s activities and plants helps to form soil.
Washing Down Of Rock Particles
The two major agents that cause this are water and wind. When wind blows on a rock and rain falls on it, they can break it down into particles that form soil.
Heating Of Rocks By Sunshine
This is the process by which the sunrays is heating the rocky hill. These hot rays heat up the rock, and it cracks in the process. The cracks form small particles. Then the heat from the sun helps to break the rock into small particles to form soil.
Decay Of Plants And Animals
Dead plants and animals decay to form soil. Decayed plants and animals form organic matter which helps to form soil.
Physical Properties Of Soil
Each soil type has some physical properties. The property of any soil type is what makes it different from others.
The soil is different from clay and loam in many ways:
i) Collect some dry sandy soil from a footpath with your left hand.
ii) Take a little of the soil with your right hand.
iii) Rub it in-between your fingers.
iv) How does it feel: Smooth or rough?
Sandy soil contains tiny stone particles. It is rough when rubbed between the fingers, and it runs freely through the fingers when dry. It is found mostly along footpaths, deserts and erosion areas It is lose and not that fertile.
Clayey soil is slippery and sticky when wet. When dry, clayey soil is hard, very smooth, feels like powder, and it cracks. Have you seen a cracked soil before? That is clay. Clay is a bit fertile.
i) Collect some wet clay and roll it between your palms. Describe what happens. Clay forms a ribbon-like shape when rolled wetween the palms.
ii) Allow the clay ribbon to dry.
iii) Grind the dry clay ribbon into powder.
iv) Rub the powder between your fingers.
v) Describe how it feels. Is it rough or smooth?
This property has properties that are different from sand and clay.
i) Take some soil from the school farm’s vegetable bed with a hand trowel.
ii) Rub a little of it between your fingers.
iii) Describe how it feels. Is it sticky or rough?
You will see that it is not as sticky as clay, and it is not as rough as sand. Loamy soil has a mixture of the properties of sand and clay. It is rich in humus. It is, therefore, fertile and the best for farming.
In this article you have learnt that:
1. Soil is the top covering or the upper part of the earth surface in which plants or trees grow.
2. There are three main types of soil: Sand, Clay And Loam.
3, Soil hold, plants to the ground and provides them with food and water,
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BERGEN, Norway -- OCTIO Group has completed a test of its new permanent reservoir monitoring system offshore Haugesund, Norway. The system features 4D sensors that are installed permanently in order to better visualize the dynamic behavior of the oil and gas reservoirs for increased production.
The test was designed to demonstrate the system’s performance (Vector Fidelity) in both trenched (buried in the seabed) and un-trenched mode and with different surface coupling solutions. The results of this test will be used to enhance deployment methods with the goal of reducing the installation cost and secure a safe and fast system deployment, the company says.
“This test marks our transition from being an R&D company to become an integrated service company with focus on operation and market growth,” says Bjarte Fagerås, CEO of OCTIO Group. “In parallel with the commercialization of the technology we are now establishing offices in Houston and Brazil to strengthen our presence in these two emerging markets for 4D operations.”
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OCTIO Group has completed a test of its new permanent reservoir monitoring system offshore Haugesund, Norway.


The Power of Smart Bulbs Enhancing Rhythm and Functionality: Revolutionizing the Way We Use Lighting in Our Homes
Lighting is an essential part of our daily lives, and with the advent of smart bulbs, it has become more than just a way to illuminate our homes. Smart bulbs are revolutionizing the way we think about lighting, and are quickly becoming a popular choice for homeowners looking to enhance the functionality and rhythm of their homes.
One of the key benefits of smart bulbs is their ability to be controlled remotely through a smartphone app or voice commands. This means that you can turn your lights on and off, adjust their brightness and color, and even set schedules and routines, all from the comfort of your couch or bed. This is particularly useful for those who want to create a specific mood or atmosphere in their home, or who want to save energy by turning their lights off when they're not needed.
Another advantage of smart bulbs is their ability to sync with other smart devices in your home, such as smart thermostats, speakers, and security systems. For example, you can set your lights to turn on automatically when you enter a room, or have them flash red if your security system detects an intruder. This creates a more seamless and integrated experience, and makes your home feel more connected and intelligent.
Smart bulbs also offer a range of additional features that enhance their functionality and rhythm. Many smart bulbs come with built-in speakers and microphones, allowing you to play music or take calls directly from your light bulb. Some smart bulbs even have built-in sensors that detect motion or ambient light, and adjust their brightness and color accordingly. This creates a more natural and intuitive lighting experience, and helps to reduce eye strain and fatigue.
Overall, smart bulbs are a powerful tool for enhancing the rhythm and functionality of your home. They offer a range of features and benefits that traditional light bulbs simply can't match, and are quickly becoming a must-have for homeowners who want to stay ahead of the curve. So if you're looking to upgrade your lighting system, consider investing in some smart bulbs and start enjoying the many benefits they have to offer!


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Situation, trend and policy interpretation of PLA degradable plasticsSituation, trend and policy interpretation of PLA degradable plastics
Corn starch - based biodegradable materials related topics.
Let's start with the plastic limit decree: in 2020, the National Development and Reform Commission announced an opinion on further strengthening the treatment of plastic pollution, which has been read more than 100,000 times. Here are a few things to keep in mind:
The import of waste plastics will be banned.
Prohibit or restrict the use of some plastic products
Non-degradable plastic bag
Disposable plastic tableware
Hotels, hotels disposable plastic supplies
Express plastic package
By the end of 2020, the production and sale of disposable foamed plastic tableware and disposable plastic cotton swabs will be banned. The production of daily chemical products containing plastic microbeads is prohibited.
What materials are being promoted and promoted?
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In shopping malls, supermarkets, pharmacies, bookstores and other places, the use of environment-friendly cloth bags, paper bags and other non-plastic products and biodegradable shopping bags will be promoted. Self-service and intelligent delivery devices will be encouraged to facilitate people's lives.
Promote the use of fresh products degradable packaging film (bag). We will establish a centralized system for purchasing and selling shopping bags in market s. Promote the use of straw mulch meal boxes and other bio-based products and biodegradable plastic bags that meet the performance and food safety requirements in the field of food and take-out. In key areas covered with film, combined with agronomic measures to promote the large-scale degradable plastic film.
It is known to all that the harm of white garbage (refers to disposable plastic materials that cannot be degraded) is obvious to all. The main harm of white pollution lies in visual pollution and potential harm. In cities, tourist areas, water bodies and roads scattered waste plastic packaging to people's visual stimulation, affect the overall beauty of the city, scenic spots, damage the city appearance, landscape, resulting in "visual... .
Polylactic acid (PLA) is a biodegradable resin used in packaging fruits, vegetables, baked goods and other materials. Polylactic acid is usually called corn plastic. It is made of L-lactic acid produced from corn cassava through polycondensation, pyrolysis, purification, polymerization and other technological processes, and is a new biodegradable material of AVIC. It is a technological and environmental protection product concerned with development. Widely used in electronic products shell, auto parts, medical equipment, auxiliary fiber, agricultural plastic film, food packaging, disposable tableware and other fields. With unlimited development space and future, it is a new material to be promoted vigorously in the new era.
PLA sheet extrusion line is suitable for the production of PLA and modified materials. PLA is derived from plant resources and can be extruded directly in English. The extrusion equipment is equipped with a solution metering pump for quantitative extrusion. The speed and pressure control make the thickness of the sheet more uniform, the roller drives independently and the linear speed is synchronous. Equipped with multiple extruders, it can produce two or more layers of degradable materials.

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The program hires nurses annually into full-time and part-time positions and recently, the program has welcomed new Ontario nursing graduates into the Maternal and Newborn Care Program through the Nursing Graduate Guarantee Initiative (NGGI).
The Ontario government introduced the New Graduate Guarantee in 2007. This initiative is aimed at ensuring that every new nursing graduate who wishes to work full time in Ontario will have that opportunity.
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By offering direct, private network connections from colocation data centers or corporate IT facilities to their cloud servers, public cloud providers like Amazon and Microsoft addressed two big hurdles to public cloud adoption by enterprises – concerns with security and performance – but setting up interconnects for cloud connectivity is a complex network engineering task, and many customers simply don’t have the necessary skills.
Those who can afford it hire third-party professional services, and those who cannot try and do it themselves. Many in the latter category fail, Greg Adgate, VP of global partnerships and alliances at Equinix, said. Equinix, for whom private interconnects between customer servers and cloud-provider servers inside its data centers is a rapidly growing business, hasn’t had the engineering resources allocated specifically for this but has used its solution architects and sales engineers to provide customers with guidance. But solution architects “are not supposed to be out configuring routers,” he said. “They’re supposed to be designing solutions.”
To close the gap, Equinix today announced new professional services to help customers configure their networks to work with Amazon Web Services Direct Connect through the Equinix Cloud Exchange platform and a blueprint for a Cisco-NetApp converged infrastructure solution for Direct Connect customers who don’t already have infrastructure inside Equinix data centers that can be connected to the Amazon cloud.
Service Providers Race to Offer Direct Cloud Links
Public cloud connectivity through private network links is promising to become a big business for data center colocation providers and network carriers. Microsoft has an equivalent offering for its Azure cloud called ExpressRoute, and Google Cloud Platform has something similar called Carrier Interconnect. The private connectivity service for IBM’s SoftLayer cloud is called Direct Link.
While Equinix is one of the largest, AWS has numerous other major data center service providers as Direct Connect partners, including Colt, CoreSite, Datapipe, Interxion, NTT, and Telx. Major network carriers, such as Level 3, AT&T, Verizon, and Zayo, also have the potential to be strong competitors in this space, since they can provide direct connectivity from customers’ own corporate data centers to the cloud.
Converged Infrastructure for Hybrid Cloud
Equinix’s new professional services capabilities and the enabling technology, announced at this week’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, come primarily from Nimbo, a certified AWS and Microsoft Azure partner Equinix acquired early this year. This is the first Nimbo-based offering Equinix has rolled out publicly, Adgate said.
The converged infrastructure solution is similar to FlexPod, the pre-integrated hardware-and-software bundle that combines Cisco UCS servers and NetApp storage, but optimized for AWS cloud connectivity
The reference architecture has been tested and validated, and Amazon engineers played a big role in its creation, according to Adgate. “They participated in testing and validation and the design,” he said about Amazon.
Amazon’s interest in making Direct Connect easier is substantial, according to him. Direct Connect enables enterprises to finally run production workloads in the cloud, and those workloads demand a lot of compute capacity.
The bundle, sold through partners, is a quick way to create a hybrid infrastructure that combines on-prem servers and storage in an Equinix data center with public cloud connectivity services. “We have a partner community that has an opportunity to monetize this by wrapping a managed service around it,” Adgate said. “We have a number of NetApp partners and a number of Cisco partners. Some of them are delivering FlexPod today.”
Corrected: A previous version of this article said Cisco Intercloud software was part of the bundle. Intercloud was included in a draft of the announcement by mistake, according to an Equinix spokesperson, who said the software will not actually be included in the solution.

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A big part of learning to be detached in your relationships includes looking at your past and childhood in a detached way. It is through stepping back as you would a painting and choosing a different perspective, that you are able to see the bigger picture.
This bigger picture contains family templates such as abuse, alcoholism, codependency, and control, to name a few, and it is vitally important to take a step back and realize our parents acted in the way they were "taught" by their parents.
If you are objective and honest with yourself you will see a repeating cycle of behavior within your family, where parent abused child, over the generations making them feel not good enough, like they could never measure up, that they were unloved and needed to control their surroundings.
You will also note that you are being given lessons in your relationships over the years to help you to overcome and break these family templates. Each relationship whether romantic or otherwise is to help you to overcome and break these cycles that run in families. If you do not recognize or learn the lesson and change the way you react, you will simply repeat the lesson in the next relationships. If you do not learn your lesson in one lifetime, it repeats into the next perpetuating the cycle.
Becoming aware, seeing, recognizing, and understanding these cycles and templates and having compassion and forgiveness for those who have hurt us allows us to step up and say “I refuse to perpetuate this cycle of fear, I do not accept this paradigm, I transmute it to love" and change our behavior.
Once you recognize when you are reacting to a situation as your parents did, it starts to become easier to see, easier to slow down and change your behavior, and it becomes much easier not to react. As you learn not to react, you will notice your relationships will change, for the better, which is what we all want, yes?
This is how we graduate from the prison of victimhood to freedom, detachment, forgiveness and most of all LOVE.
Love is the only way to heal these family templates and the emotional and mental pain that comes with them.
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The benefits of bodily exercise for folks of all ages are sometimes touted, but is it safe for seniors to exercise? As long as you are doing some form of cardio exercise for at least 30 minutes a day, and you embody two days of strength coaching a week, you possibly can think about yourself an “active” particular person. Ask almost any fat individual about her interactions with the health care system and you’ll hear a story, sometimes three, the same as Enneking’s: rolled eyes, skeptical questions, therapies denied or delayed or revoked.
The issue is that in America, like all over the place else, our establishments of public well being have turn into so obsessed with physique weight that they have ignored what is actually killing us: our food provide. It uses all the muscle mass in your body and builds complete-body power and muscle definition, whereas improving your cardiovascular health.
Any exercise in any respect that causes a sustained, elevated heart fee will burn fat from all over. For example, start off by walking for 10 to fifteen minutes at a time. No matter your age or health levelâ€”even for those who’ve by no means exercised a day in your life â€”there are steps you possibly can take to make exercise much less intimidating and painful and extra fun and instinctive.
Plan your exercises for the time of day whenever you’re most awake and energetic. It’s never too late to start out building your power and physical health, even should you’re a senior or a self-confessed sofa potato who has by no means exercised before. You will get health benefits even when you split it into a few quick bouts of exercise a day.
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This article was co-authored by Laila Ajani Laila Ajani is a Health Trainer and founding father of Push Private Fitness, a private training group based mostly in the San Francisco Bay Space. Science has additionally provided some proof that physically energetic folks have decrease charges of tension and depression than sedentary folks. ACSM Licensed Exercise PhysiologistsÂ® (ACSM-EPÂ®) take training to an advanced stage by conducting and decoding bodily fitness assessments and creating exercise prescriptions for people who are wholesome or have medically controlled illnesses.
Compound movements like squats, lunges and deadlifts work all the key muscle groups of your lower body to varying degrees and move three joints at once: Your hips, your knees and, to a lesser diploma, your ankles. Because the American Council on Exercise notes, some individuals never work all the best way up to actually explosive plyometrics exercises.
In case you really feel like you’re doing every little thing right but just aren’t seeing the outcomes you want out of your pores and skin, you might be missing a significant piece of your skincare puzzle. Although analysis shows that exercise is certainly good for one’s body and well being, properly timing exercise is critical to maximize the helpful effects.
How Seniors Can Benefit From Adopting An Exercise Routine
Everyone is aware of that exercise can improve your well being. It could be useful to use a heart fee monitor to let you watch your coronary heart rate response with exercise. To improve your stability, strive tai chi or exercises like standing on one leg. If somebody experiences pain or feels unwell whereas taking part, or after growing their exercise ranges, they should cease the exercise and seek medical advice.
In case your exercise is disagreeable or makes you’re feeling clumsy or inept, you are unlikely to stick with it. Do not select activities like operating or lifting weights at the health club just because you think that’s what it’s best to do. Instead, decide actions that fit your way of life, abilities, and style.
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Arkansas’ 2nd congressional district is another place where Democrats typically wouldn’t be competitive, but a strong national environment – coupled with a strong candidate – could put them within striking distance. AR-2 primarily represents Little Rock and its surrounding suburbs, together with a few adjoining rural counties. Represented by French Hill (R) since 2014, this R+7 district voted for Mitt Romney by 12 points in 2012, before supporting Donald Trump by a 10-point margin in 2016. They haven’t supported a Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton. However, like much of Arkansas, this district has a strong ancestral Democratic history. Indeed, the district was represented by Democrats for most of the 20th century – all the way up until 2010, when Vic Snyder (D) strategically retired (his reelection prospects were dubious at best).
The 2016 House election illustrates the extent to which Democrats let this district slip away. Rep. French Hill easily defeated Little Rock school board member Dianne Curry, winning everywhere except Pulaski county (Little Rock). Curry struggled outside the heart of Little Rock, failing to carry the small outlying cities of Benton (to the southwest) and Conway (to the northwest). Rep. Hill racked-up massive margins in the rural regions of the district.
The 2016 Presidential election tells a similar story – albeit one with more of a silver lining for Democrats. While still handily defeating Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump struggled substantially more than French Hill in the suburbs around Little Rock, and lost several precincts in the neighboring city of Conway, to the northwest. These suburban voters who stuck with French Hill – but flipped from Trump to Clinton – are the voters who will probably decide how high the “Blue Wave” rises in November. If Hill supporters in the immediate area around Little Rock decide that a vote for French Hill is a vote for Trump, then some fraction of them will defect.
Maybe the most encouraging 2016 map for Arkansas Democrats is former US Attorney Conner Eldridge’s 7-point loss to Senator John Boozman (R) in the district. Eldridge made significant progress in rural areas, routinely producing 20-point deficits, rather than the 40-point loses generated by Clinton and Hill. His trick was simple: he ran as a centrist-minded Democrat, who emphasized his concern for the national debt, and condemned Obama’s executive action on gun issues.
Comparing Clinton and Eldridge’s performance directly, we see an interesting divide between their voters. While their net performance was comparable, Eldridge did far better among rural residents, while Clinton was preferred by the city and inner-lying suburbs. Eldridge almost reflects an “old-school” approach by Democrats to tough elections: tack to the center, and try to pick-off enough conservative-leaning voters to assemble a majority. At the same time, Hillary Clinton tried – with mixed success – to make progressive ideas more palatable than Donald Trump to suburbanites. Whatever the merits of this approach, it seems to more closely reflect the strategy being taken by Democrats in this year’s midterm. That is to say, future Democratic hopes for this district probably rest more on the Little Rock suburbs, than on the rural northern areas.
This November, Rep. French Hill will face Clarke Tucker (D), a member of the Arkansas state house who represents part of Little Rock. Tucker is being supported by the DCCC’s Red-to-Blue program, and has done well fund-raising (though not as well as his opponent). The Øptimus legislative model is very skeptical of Democrats’ chances here though, giving Tucker only a 17% chance of victory.
(For additional information on the district, consider Noah Rudnick’s article from earlier this year.)


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After a fantastic summer and first year of trading, this really was the icing on the cake - or the sauce on the ice cream - for us. The Awards celebrate the best of Bristol and Bath and we were up against some stiff competition. Big thanks to Crumbs Magazine and all the fantastic Foodie judges for honouring us with this award - we will treasure it!
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Pennsylvania leads the all-time series 26-12.
Taillon (4-2) walked two and struck out four in his longest outing since returning from a battle with testicular cancer earlier this month.
Valley Christian left the North Coast League for another strong conference in the Portrage Trail Conference.
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President Donald Trump has welcomed the manager and several players from the World Series champion Chicago Cubs to the White House.
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High School football roundup: Vilseck celebrates grand opening
The Vilseck Falcons made their Division I debut a winning one Saturday, scoring 21 unanswered points in a 21-6 nonconference football victory over the visiting Kaiserslautern Red Raiders at Vilseck, Germany.
K-town, of Division I-North, broke sprinter Khairi Smith for a 40-yard TD run six minutes into the second quarter, according to Vilseck coach Jim Hall, but the Falcons turned back K-town’s two-point attempt and stuffed their guests the rest of the way.
"We gave them four possessions inside of our 20-yard line," said Vilseck assistant Sam Cassou, who coached Hanau to the 2007 D-IV championship before moving to Bavaria, "three of them inside the 10. Our defense stopped them every time."
Tyler Hall, like his father a transfer from Naples, threw a 28-yard TD pass to Jamal Grant just before halftime to tie the score, and the first of Phillip Linka’s three PAT kicks put Vilseck, which plays in I-South, ahead to stay.
Joe Camacho got Vilseck some breathing room in the third quarter when he returned a fumble 25 yards for a TD, and Neiko Carr, who carried 23 times for 121 yards, iced the outcome with 3:58 left on a 2-yard run. His score was set up, Cassou reported, by the younger Hall’s 27-yard completion to Shane Calder.
On defense, Hall made eight tackles, two of them sacks, and Vilseck lineman Angelo Hall, like Cassou a transfer from Hanau, posted 11 tackles, registered a sack and knocked down four passes.
In other games Saturday:
Ansbach 52, Patch 0: At Ansbach, Germany, the two-time defending European D-II champion Cougars ran their winning streak to 17 games by blanking Patch of D-I.
"We’re a young team," Ansbach coach Marcus George said by telephone, "but they’re a little younger."
Anthony Adams ran for two touchdowns, and Dominic Barrale passed for two in a game in which the scoring was ended in the third quarter by the courtesy rule.
Barrale completed a 38-yard TD pass to Shaun Francis and a 19-yarder to Carter Gunn. Francis also added a 20-yard TD run as Ansbach handed the ball off to 12 runners.
The Cougars scored twice on Patch fumbles, George reported. Freshman Tim Able fell on one in the end zone. Sam Freeman returned one 25 yards for a TD.
Kevin Stadler led Ansbach defensively with a sack among his eight tackles.
ISB 16, Lakenheath 15: At Brussels, Belgium, much of the excitement came in the game’s final 10 seconds, according to International School of Brussels coach Will Vreugdenhil.
Leading 9-7, International School of Brussels scored on a plunge by Gino Culotta, seemingly putting the game away. But Lakenheath’s Josh Gunter broke the kickoff return for a 70-yard score to make things close again as time expired.
Dominic Culotta led the defense for the D-II Raiders with 10 tackles.
Ramstein 12, Duesseldorf 0: At Ramstein, after a rainy, scoreless first half, Thomas Bolton completed a 20-yard TD pass to Deshawn Murray, and Bryan Hanks plucked a teammate’s fumble out of the air for a second TD as the Royals claimed their second consecutive victory over the German League powerhouse.
Ramstein posted a come-from-behind 25-21 victory over the Panthers last September.
According to Ramstein coach Rudy Oliveira, Murray split two defenders to haul in Bolton’s pass with three minutes left in the third quarter. Hanks’ score, Oliveira said, came after Tim Ortiz had intercepted a Panther pass. Ortiz was hit as he ran down the sideline and the ball popped free, but Hanks was there to make the play.
Heidelberg 38, Amsterdam 0: At Heidelberg, senior Kyle Ulses rushed 23 times for 191 yards and two TDs as the D-I runner-up Lions blanked the Amsterdam Panthers of the Dutch League.
Quarterback Jimmy Montfleury, who completed four of 11 passes for 96 yards, ran for a TD, as did Thomas Hogue, according to Heidelberg statistician Dale Pratt.
Alexander Savusa led the shutout defense with 11 tackles.
Wiesbaden 26, Mannheim 25: At Wiesbaden, Richard Nelson led the charge that denied Mannheim a game-winning two-point conversion with 1:26 to play.
Wiesbaden led 26-7, according to Wiesbaden coach Steve Jewell, but Mannheim, behind the passing of quarterback Ben Spindler, got back in the game.
"They hit a pass on third and long, and that got them started," Jewell said by telephone. "They scored three straight touchdowns."
Spindler, who finished 13 of 28 for 207 yards and four touchdowns, found Jeff Hartley five times for 141 yards and three of the TDs.
Jeremiah Simms ran for two Wiesbaden TDs, Marcus Williams ran for one, and Warriors quarterback Ryan Reagan passed to Tyrece Davis for a score.
"Mannheim played with a lot of heart," Jewell said after the II-North conference game. "They played well enough to win."
Sigonella 41, Hohenfels 0: At Sigonella, Italy, the Sigonella Jaguars romped over the visiting Hohenfels Tigers 41-0.
Chris Hamilton and Ryan Lastrella each ran for two touchdowns for the Jaguars in a game ended with 2:52 left in the first half by the 39-point courtesy rule.
Defense led to two other TDs for Sigonella, which won for the first time in two seasons.
DeAnthony Mitchell returned an interception for one score, and Dyrell Parkers blocked a punt and took it in for the other.
"It is nice to have this first victory," Sigonella coach Jen Bunyan wrote in an e-mail, "and we are looking forward to playing AFNORTH next week."
AFNORTH 54, Bamberg 18: At Brunssum, Netherlands, quarterback E.J. Ruiz ran for three touchdowns, scored a fourth on a fumble return and threw a touchdown pass to James Perea as the D-III Lions romped.
"They have a young, developing team," AFNORTH coach Greg Blankenship said by telephone, "and we have a solid core."
Blankenship’s son, Brock, is part of that core. He ran for three TDs, according to the elder Blankenship, and made a team-high 14 tackles.
Although the score got out of hand fairly quickly – it was 40-0 in the second quarter – the elder Blankenship praised Bamberg’s decision to play on against his reserves.
Bamberg’s Tyler Chancellor made it 40-6 with a TD run against his AFNORTH’s No. 1 defense. He later added a second TD, and Kevin Brown scored the third for Bamberg, playing in Division II this season for the first time.
SHAPE 21, Naples 13: At Naples, Italy, Jimmy Drago threw two first-half TD passes to Kewin Nelson, and Mitchell Goff ran for a score as the Spartans jumped ahead 21-0 at halftime.
Naples scored twice in the final quarter, according to new head coach Dan Dittmeier, on a quarterback keeper by B.J. Thompson and a 2-yard plunge by Shea Goodnature following a blocked punt. But SHAPE took a knee with 55 seconds to play to preserve the victory in the season opener for both D-II teams.
Vicenza 34, Aviano 21: At Vicenza, Italy, the D-III school claimed victory over its Aviano guests behind two TD runs from Reggie Haines and Mike Niccol’s fumble recovery in the end zone, according to Vicenza coach Adam Ridgley.
Vicenza’s Micky Stoner completed nine of 19 passes for 100 yards and ran seven times for 51 yards.
Kyle Kaus amassed 151 all-purpose yards, Ridgley reported by e-mail.
Jamal Tuck ran for all three Aviano TDs, Ridgley reported.
Wet weather played a factor in the game, he added, as each team fumbled six times.


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