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The SA80 assault rifle.
Light Support Weapon
|Place of origin||United Kingdom|
|Used by||See Users|
1991 Persian Gulf War
Sierra Leone Civil War
Heckler & Koch
|Number built||Approx. 350,000|
L86A1 Light Support Weapon
L86A2 Light Support Weapon
L98A1 Cadet Rifle
L98A2 Cadet Rifle
|Weight||3.82 kg (8.4 lb) (L85A1 empty)
4.98 kg (11.0 lb) (L85A1 with SUSAT sight and loaded 30 round magazine)
6.58 kg (14.5 lb) (L86A1 LSW)
4.42 kg (9.7 lb) (L22A1)
|Length||785 mm (30.9 in) (L85A1)
900 mm (35.4 in) (L86A1 LSW)
709 mm (27.9 in) (L22A1)
|Barrel length||518 mm (20.4 in) (L85A1)
646 mm (25.4 in) (L86A1 LSW)
442 mm (17.4 in) (L22A1)
|Action||Gas-operated, rotating bolt|
|Rate of fire||610–775 rounds/min|
|Muzzle velocity||940 m/s (3,084 ft/s) (L85A1)
970 m/s (3,182.4 ft/s) (L86A1 LSW)
|Effective range||400 m with iron sights, 650 m with SUSAT (L85A2)
850 m (L86 LSW)
|Feed system||30-round detachable STANAG magazine|
|Sights||Telescopic SUSAT, ACOG and ELCAN LDS scopes, aperture iron sights|
The SA80 (Small Arms for the 1980s) is a British family of 5.56mm small arms. It is a selective fire, gas-operated assault rifle. SA80 prototypes were trialed in 1976 and production was completed in 1994. It is the only main british rifle used by the British army
The L85 rifle variant of the SA80 family has been the standard issue service rifle of the British Armed Forces since 1987, replacing the L1A1 variant of the FN FAL. The improved L85A2 remains in service today. The remainder of the family comprises the L86 Light Support Weapon, the short-barrelled L22 carbine and the L98 Cadet rifle.
The SA80 was the last in a long line of British weapons (including the Lee-Enfield family) to come from the national arms development and production facility at Enfield Lock. Its bullpup configuration stems from a late-1940s programme at Royal Small Arms Factory Enfield to design a new service rifle known as the EM-2, which though similar in outline, was an entirely different weapon. The EM-2 was an advanced bullpup configuration rifle, which despite good performance and being officially adopted by the British Army in 1951, never entered service.
The system's history dates back to the late 1940s, when an ambitious programme to develop a new cartridge and new class of rifle was launched in the United Kingdom based on combat experience drawn from World War II. Two 7mm prototypes were built in a bullpup configuration, designated the EM-1 and EM-2. When NATO adopted the 7.62x51mm rifle cartridge as the standard calibre for its service rifles, further development of these rifles was discontinued (the British Army chose to adopt the 7.62mm L1A1 SLR semi-automatic rifle, which is a licence-built version of the Belgian FN FAL).
In 1969, the Enfield factory began work on a brand new family of weapons, chambered in a newly designed British 4.85x49mm intermediate cartridge. While the experimental weapon family was very different from the EM-2 in internal design and construction methods, its bullpup configuration with an optical sight was a clear influence on the design of what was to become the SA80. The system was to be composed of two weapons: an individual rifle, the XL64E5 rifle and a light support weapon known as the XL65E4 light machine gun.
The sheet metal construction, and the design of the bolt, bolt carrier, guide rods, gas system and the weapon's disassembly showed strong similarities to the Armalite AR-18 which was manufactured under licence from 1975 to 1983 by the Sterling Armaments Company of Dagenham, Essex, and which had been tested by the UK MoD in 1966 and 1969. During the development of the SA-80 a bullpup conversion was made of an AR-18 and a Stoner 63 at Enfield.
Technically in the mid-1970s the 4.85x49mm round was seen as superior to the then existing version of 5.56mm M193 round in use by the US (for the M16/M16A1) and by other forces. (This was the expressed view of trials team members whilst demonstrating the XL64E5 prototype at the British Army School of Infantry at Warminster.) It should be noted that development of small-arms munitions have a long and continuous life and it was estimated by the trials specialists from Enfield that this weapon would ultimately be superior in the 4.85mm configuration. For the 4.85mm round, both propellant and projectile were at the beginning of their respective development curves. Also, weight for weight, more rounds of ammunition could be carried by an individual soldier - a considerable advantage on the battlefield. It was regarded as probable at the time that the argument for the 5.56mm standard within NATO had more to do with the economics involved. Over the lifetime of a small-arms weapon type far more money is spent on the munitions than the weapons themselves. If the 5.56mm supporters had lost the argument in favour of a British 4.85mm round, the economic impact would have been very large and political pressure undoubtedly played a part in the final decision.
In 1976, the prototypes were ready to undergo trials. However, after NATO's decision to standardise ammunition among its members, Enfield engineers re-chambered the rifles to the American 5.56x45mm M193 cartridge. The newly redesigned 5.56mm version of the XL64E5 became known as the XL70E3. The left-handed XL68 was also re-chambered in 5.56x45mm as the XL78. The 5.56mm light support weapon variant, the XL73E3, developed from the XL65E4, was noted for the full length receiver extension with the bipod under the muzzle now indicative of the type.
Further development out of the initial so-called "Phase A" pre-production series led to the XL85 and XL86. While the XL85E1 and XL86E1 were ultimately adopted as the L85 and L86 respectively, a number of additional test models were produced. The XL85E2 and XL86E2 were designed to an alternate build standard with 12 components different from E1 variants, including parts of the gas system, bolt, and magazine catch. Three series of variants were created for "Environmental User Trials". XL85E3 and XL86E3 variants were developed with 24 modified parts, most notably a plastic safety plunger. The E4's had 21 modified parts, no modification to the pistol grip, and an aluminium safety plunger, unlike the E3 variants. Lastly, the E5 variants had 9 modified parts in addition to those from the E3/E4 variants.
After receiving feedback from users and incorporating the several design changes requested, including adapting the rifle for use with the heavier Belgian SS109 version of the 5.56x45mm round and improving reliability, the weapon system was accepted into service with the British Army in 1985 as the SA80. The SA80 family originally consisted of the L85A1 IW (Individual Weapon) and the L86A1 LSW (Light Support Weapon). The first rifle was issued on 2 October 1985 to Sergeant Gary Gavin, a 26-year-old in the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters.
The SA80 family was designed and produced (until 1988) by the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock. In 1988 production of the rifle was transferred to the Royal Ordnance's Nottingham Small Arms Facility (later British Aerospace, Royal Ordnance; now BAE Systems Land Systems Munitions).
In 1994 production was officially completed. More than 350,000 L85A1 rifles and L86A1 light machine guns had been manufactured for the United Kingdom. They are also in use with the Jamaica Defence Force.
With the exception of the L98A1, the SA80 system is a selective fire gas-operated design that uses ignited powder gases bled through a port in the barrel to provide the weapon's automation. The rifle uses a short-stroke gas piston system located above the barrel, which is fed gas through a three-position adjustable gas regulator. The first gas setting is used for normal operation, the second is for use in difficult environmental conditions, while the third setting prevents any gas from reaching the piston and is used to launch rifle grenades. The weapon uses a rotating cylindrical bolt that contains 7 radially mounted locking lugs, an extractor and casing ejector. The bolt's rotation is controlled by a cam pin that slides inside a helical camming guide machined into the bolt carrier.
The family is built in a bullpup layout (the action is behind the trigger group), with a forward-mounted pistol grip. The main advantage of this type of arrangement is the overall compactness of the weapon, which can be achieved without compromising the barrel length, hence the overall length of the L85 rifle is shorter than a carbine, but the barrel length is that of an assault rifle. However, the adoption of this layout also means the rifle must be used exclusively right-handed since the ejection port and cocking handle (which reciprocates during firing) are on the right side of the receiver, making aimed fire from the left shoulder impossible. This can also give rise to a tactical disadvantage when firing around the left of cover, where the shooter must expose the majority of their body.
The SA80 family is hammer-fired and has a trigger mechanism with a fire-control selector that enables semi-automatic fire and fully automatic fire (the fire selector lever is located at the left side of the receiver, just aft of the magazine). A cross bolt type safety prevents accidental firing and is located above the trigger; the "safe" setting blocks the movement of the trigger.
The weapons are fed from a STANAG magazine, usually with a 30-round capacity. The magazine release button is placed above the magazine housing, on the left side of the receiver. When the last cartridge is fired from the magazine the bolt and bolt carrier assembly lock to the rear.
The weapon's receiver is made from stamped sheet steel, reinforced with welded and riveted machined steel inserts. Synthetics were also used (i.e. the handguards, pistol grip, buttpad and cheek rest were all fabricated from nylon). A Picatinny railed handguard was also developed for the type.
Rifles used by the Royal Marines, British Army infantry soldiers (and other soldiers with a dismounted close combat role) and the RAF Regiment are equipped with a SUSAT (Sight Unit Small Arms, Trilux) optical sight, with a fixed 4x magnification and an illuminated aiming pointer powered by a variable tritium light source (as of 2006 almost all British Army personnel deployed on operations have been issued SUSATs). Mounted on the SUSAT's one-piece, pressure die-cast aluminium body are a set of back-up iron sights that consist of a front blade and small rear aperture. Rifles used with other branches of the armed forces when not on operations are configured with fixed iron sights, consisting of a flip rear aperture (housed inside; what appears to be but is not used as, a carry handle, mounted to the top of the receiver, replacing the SUSAT sight) and a forward post vertical blade foresight, installed on a bracket above the gas block. The rear sight can be adjusted for windage, and the foresight—elevation. In place of the SUSAT a passive night vision CWS scope can be used, and also—independent of the SUSAT—a laser pointer.
Weapons used by some Royal Marines, Infantry, Ministry of Defence Police and other soldiers with a dismounted close combat role in operations in Afghanistan have had the SUSAT replaced with the Trijicon Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight (ACOG).
In 2011 the Ministry of Defence began issuing ELCAN SpecterOS 4x Lightweight Day Sights (LDS) in an effort to replace aging SUSAT units across the British Armed Forces, forming the first stage of the FIST infantry enhancement project. In order to mount the new sight, the weapon has been provided with an adapter to convert the existing sight rail to the Picatinny standard, in keeping with the updated handguard. The FIST project has also seen upgrades to the existing Qioptiq CWS (4x) and Maxi-Kite (6x) night vision scopes, and the introduction of the FIST Thermal Sight, following operational experience with the VIPIR-2+ thermal weapon sight in Afghanistan. All of the new FIST weapon sights have the capacity to accept a 1x 'red-dot' Close Quarter Battlesight attachment.
The L85 is supplied with a sling, blank-firing adaptor, cleaning kit and a blade-type bayonet, which coupled with the sheath can double as a wire cutter (the sheath contains a small saw). The rifle can be adapted to use .22 Long Rifle training ammunition with a special conversion kit. The rifle variant also accommodates a 40 mm under-barrel grenade launcher such as Heckler & Koch AG-36 40mm grenade launcher variants.
There are 4 main variants that make up the SA80 'family': the L85 IW Rifle, the L86 Light Support Weapon, the L22 Carbine and the L98 Cadet rifle. The family has currently undergone two major models, LxxA1 being the first issue weapons, and the LxxA2 to distinguish weapons that have undergone H&K upgrades. (the 'L' designation is for "Land Service".)
The L85 rifle (full name Rifle, 5.56mm, L85A2), in its improved A2 version, is the standard individual weapon for the British armed forces.
On operations the rifle is often fitted with a LLM01 Laser Light Module. The L85A2 can also mount the L123A2 UGL 40 mm underbarrel grenade launcher. The addition of the underbarrel grenade launcher adds another 3.30 lb (1.49 kg) to the L85A2's weight.
Magazines issued with the L85A1 were aluminium, and not very robust. There are now three types of magazine issued with the L85A2, the most recent being the plastic Magpul EMAG purchased as an Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR), the other two are of steel construction with a stainless steel follower. The main variant is for live ammunition, and the other is exclusively used for blank ammunition. The blank variant is identified by yellow stripes on the magazine, and is designed to prevent the loading of live rounds. As blank rounds are shorter than live rounds, live rounds will not physically fit into the blank magazine. Blank rounds will fit into the normal magazine, but their slightly shorter length creates problems with jamming.
From 2007 an upgrade including the provision of ACOGs, a new handguard incorporating Picatinny rails (with optional hand grip/bipod), and a new vortex style flash eliminator is being introduced for use by selected units.
The L86A1 LSW is a magazine-fed automatic weapon originally intended to provide fire support at a fireteam level. It has a longer barrel than the L85A1 rifle and a bipod, shoulder trap and rear pistol grip, together with a shorter handguard. The extended barrel provides an increased muzzle velocity and further stabilises the bullet, giving a greater effective range. The weapon is otherwise identical to the L85 version on which it is based, and the same 30-rd magazines and sighting systems are used. Like the L85 rifle, it has a rate-of-fire selector on the left side behind the magazine housing, enabling either single shots or automatic fire.
The increased barrel length, bipod and the optical performance of the SUSAT give the weapon excellent accuracy. From its inception, the L86 was a target of criticism on much the same basis as the L85. The LSW has the additional issue (shared by any light support weapon derived from a rifle, for example the heavy-barrel FN FAL) of its inability to deliver sustained automatic fire as it does not have a quick-change barrel, and is not belt fed.
The primary use of the LSW has shifted to that of a marksman's weapon within many infantry sections, capable of providing extremely accurate precision fire at ranges of over 600m. The role of a light support weapon is instead filled with the L110A1 FN Minimi which is a belt fed weapon with a quick-change barrel.
The L86A1 was upgraded to the L86A2 at the same time as L85A1 rifles were upgraded to L85A2 standards, undergoing the same set of modifications.
Based on the L85A1 a compact carbine known as the L22A1 was developed with a short, 442 mm barrel, giving a total weight (with the optical sight) of 4.42 kg and a total length of 709 mm. The forward handguard was replaced with a vertical grip. The weapon uses the same SUSAT sight as found on the full size L85. The weapon has been upgraded with a Picatinny rail accessory rail instead of the fixed front grip. These carbine variants are used in small numbers by armoured vehicle crews.
The L98A1 Cadet GP Rifle was a general purpose (GP) rifle used by the Combined Cadet Force and Sea, Marine, Army and Air Cadets in the United Kingdom. It was introduced in 1987 replacing the .303 Lee Enfield No 4 rifles and .303 Bren guns used for weapons training. The L98A1 rifle is now no longer in use, it began a phased decommission in early 2009. UK cadet forces have now received the new L98A2 rifles and LSWs.
The GP rifle was similar to the L85A1 but without the gas parts. It was a manually operated, single-shot rifle, with a cocking handle extension piece mounted on the right side of the weapon, and was cocked with the right hand. It was also fitted with adjustable iron sights.
The L98A1 had a number of design features that caused problems. A stoppage occurred if the cocking handle was not fully retracted and released because the spent round failed to eject cleanly fouling the breech and preventing the loading of the next cartridge. This fault was often caused by poor cleaning as dirt, grit and rain easily foul and removed the oil from the exposed cocking handle slide making the action harder to cycle. The absence of the flash suppressor on the L98 also prevented the fitting of a blank firing attachment (BFA) thus increasing the safety distance from 5m to 50m.
Two conversion kits existed which enabled the L98A1 to fire .22 LR rimfire cartridges instead of the standard 5.56 mm NATO cartridge. This allowed the weapon to fire live rounds on .22 ranges when full size military ranges are unavailable. Both kits consisted of modified working parts (springs etc.), a special magazine that is the same size and shape as the standard 5.56 mm magazine and a special adapter, shaped like a 5.56 mm cartridge, which was fitted into the L98A1's breech. This adapter contained a smaller breech into which the modified bolt inserts the .22 cartridge. The modified magazine locked into the magazine housing exactly like a normal one would. The first kit was fitted with the standard GP cocking handle and worked in exactly the same way as a single-shot L98A1 cadet GP rifle. The second kit (the L41A1 sub-calibre adaptor) was fitted using a L85A1 cocking handle. It allowed .22 rounds to be fired semi-automatically using direct blow back against the bolt to cycle the next round. The conversion was not permanent and either kit could have been removed from the L98A1 in the time it took to normally strip and reassemble the weapon.
There was a Drill Purpose (DP) version of the L98A1, known as the L103A1. It was similar to the 'GP' rifle, however, modifications had been made in order to deactivate it: the barrel was sealed by filling it with lead, the firing pin was cut and welded down to the bolt face and the hammer was filed down, making reactivation uneconomical. The weapons were used by cadets for weapons training. The 'DP' could be identified by a white stripe on the hand guard and near the butt of the weapon with the letters 'DP' in the stripe. The bolt carrier assembly was painted red and this can be seen from the breech on the right hand side of the weapon.
The L98A2 GP Rifle was introduced in 2009, as a replacement for the L98A1 Cadet GP Rifle. The main difference between the L98A2 rifle and the L98A1 is the addition of gas parts making the weapon semi-automatic. Unlike the L98A1 the A2 has the same cocking handle and operation as the L85A2. The L98A2 can be fitted with the Safe Blank Firing System (SBFS) incorporating a Blank Firing Attachment (BFA) and a blank-only magazine, reducing the danger area when firing blanks from 50m to 5m.
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The L103A2 Cadet DP Rifle is used by cadets for practicing rifle drill and weapons handling. The L103A2 contains similar working and gas parts to the standard live firing weapon.
Key distinguishing features and marks on the DP show that it is not capable for live firing:
The SA80 gained an initial poor reputation amongst British Soldiers and Royal Marines as being unreliable and fragile, a fact picked up by the UK media, entertainment industry, and members of the House of Lords. The writer and former soldier Andy McNab said in his book Bravo Two Zero, that the British Army procured a "Rolls-Royce in the SA80, albeit a prototype Rolls-Royce".
Immediately after the first Gulf war 1990 (Operation Granby), the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) commissioned the LANDSET Report (officially entitled "Equipment Performance (SA80) During Operation Granby (The Gulf War)"), into the effectiveness of the L85A1 IW & L86A1 LSW. This report criticised the acceptance of the weapon into service. Neither weapon had managed to pass the sand trials and both frequently jammed. The mechanism of both weapons needed to be well lubricated as the weapon became prone to seizure if fired "dry", yet in sandy condition the lubricated weapon became unreliable due to the lubricant attracting sand into the moving parts. The LANDSET report identified in excess of 50 faults. Most notably the magazine release catch, which could easily be caught on clothing and therefore accidentally release the magazine; the plastic safety plunger which became brittle in cold climates; firing pins that were not up to repeated use and prone to fracture, if used in automatic fire mode. Although this report identified over 50 faults, and some of the rifle's problems were corrected as a result (e.g. the magazine release guard and trigger); these modifications only addressed 7 of these issues and complaints over reliability in service continued.
As a result, a more extensive modification programme was executed. In 2000, Heckler & Koch, at that time owned by the British defence conglomerate BAE Systems, was contracted to upgrade the SA80 family of weapons. Two hundred thousand SA80s were re-manufactured at a cost of £400 each, producing the A2 variant. Changes focused primarily on improving reliability and include: a redesigned cocking handle, modified bolt, extractor and a redesigned hammer assembly that produces a slight delay in the hammer's operation in continuous fire mode, improving reliability and stability. There were equivalent LSW and Carbine modifications. The British Ministry of Defence describes the L85A2 revision as "modified in light of operational experience... the most reliable weapons of their type in the world". Army trials indicated extremely good reliability over a range of climates for various operational scenarios, though with a decline in reliability in hot, and especially hot and dry conditions.
The modified A2 variants are distinguished by the 'HK A2' marking on the top of the weapon just forward of the buttplate, and the distinctive comma shaped cocking handle (shaped to aid the ejection of the empty round casing and prevent stoppages). A forward picatinny accessories rail supplied by Daniel Defense was incorporated from 2008. The Magpul Industries polymer EMAG magazine was introduced from 2011 to replace the Heckler & Koch steel STANAG 4179 magazine.
The SA80 has been used in all conflicts in which the British Army has been involved since its introduction in the mid-1980s. Deployments include Northern Ireland, the First Gulf War, Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq. The British went into battle with fixed bayonets on the SA80 in Iraq, the first time fixed bayonets had been used since the Falklands War.
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A new study has analysed how often medicines regulators in four countries issued safety advisories about the same potential health risks, to identify differences in communication of important drug safety information.
“Between 2007 and 2016, Australia’s regulatory authority for medicines – the Therapeutic Goods Administration or TGA – issued safety warnings on less than 30 percent of the issues identified by regulators in Canada, the US and UK,” said chief investigator Associate Professor Barbara Mintzes, from the Evidence, Policy and Influence Collaborative at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre and School of Pharmacy.
“These findings reveal Australia’s regulator is falling well below the other countries in terms of how often emerging health risks of medicines are communicated, and that there is low consistency between countries.”
Before new medicines hit the market, each country’s regulatory agency must first approve them for use with decisions generally based on limited safety evidence collected during clinical development. However once a drug enters general use, other safety issues can become apparent including rarer or longer-term effects – prompting regulators to issue safety advisories on how to avoid or manage these risks.
Published in a research letter in JAMA Internal Medicine today, the paper identified 1441 advisories issued in the four countries over the 10-year period, covering 680 drug safety concerns.
“Overall, we found that regulators were only consistent in the decision to warn 10 percent of the time,” said Associate Professor Mintzes.
We really need better understanding of how decisions to issue safety warnings are made, to ensure emerging risks of medicines are effectively communicated to doctors and other prescribers as well as the public.
“Just how much does the seriousness of the risk or strength of the evidence come into play, and more importantly what are the public health implications of such decisions – especially for patients?”
The research likely reflected the different ways each country approaches drug safety, with national medicines policies determining the behaviour of medicines regulators and the availability of information to healthcare professionals and the general public, said study co-author Joel Lexchin, a visiting professor at the Charles Perkins Centre and from York University in Canada.
“In Australia, around 250,000 hospital admissions each year are due to harm from medicine use, at an annual cost of $1.4 billion dollars,” said Professor Lexchin.
“Around half the time this harm is preventable. We would like to see much more attention paid to ensuring that doctors and patients are informed of new evidence of harmful side effects of medicines, and what to do to prevent them.
“For this to happen, more resources are needed both for safety communication and to evaluate what works best to get these messages across.”


Smart meters and other intelligent devices should use the outmoded GSM system as a dedicated network, according to academics at Aalborg University in Denmark.
MIT Technology Review reported that PhD fellow Germán Corrales Madueňo and colleagues have calculated the capacity of the existing network and how it could become the communications backbone of a new generation of smart meters.
Mr Madueňo said: “Our findings shows that, with a suitable reengineering, GSM networks can support a surprisingly massive M2M (machine-to-machine) devices at even a single frequency channel.”
Data management speed
The news comes as the Chinese city of Macau is due to switch off the GSM network in June next year as the second-generation technology is superseded by 3G and 4G networks.
MIT Technology Review reports that GSM is becoming increasingly obsolete for smart phone users as it manages less than 300 kilobits per second compared to a gigabit per second for 4G networks.
However, M2M communication is more about efficient distribution than increasing overall data rate makes it an ideal vehicle for this kind of communication.
Smart meter data
Madueňo and his team calculated the numbers that are likely to appear in a standard suburban setting along with how often they are likely to send data and how much.
They assume that within 1,000 meter radius of a standard base station, with roughly three smart meters per home, there are likely to be over 20,000 devices competing to communicate over the network.
These range from smart gas and electricity meters sending data every few minutes, to credit card machines in local shops and even traffic sensors and movie rental machines. Most are unlikely to send more than a few hundred bytes at a time and often very infrequently.
Madueňo said that the network can be made more efficient by assuming that many of the devices will have very similar requirements that can be catered for en masse with some straightforward engineering changes.
These changes should make the network more efficient.
They go on to calculate that a GSM cell operating on a single frequency could support up to 70 messages per second. This translates into approximately 13,000 smart meters reporting every five minutes. That is 133% more than is possible with the current GSM network standards.
Competing communication standards
MIT Review concludes that Aalborg University’s concept is “an interesting idea” and it makes sense to use an existing resource for this purpose.
However, the review commented: “Although the engineering challenges seem straightforward, a more difficult hurdle will be getting global agreement to use GSM in this way.
“Radio frequency real estate is a valuable commodity, so don’t be surprised if there is a fierce battle ahead for those who back this idea.”


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DeVos kicked off a $180 million grant program that will allow money from the coronavirus stimulus bill to be accessed by states if they apply for the grant with plans to provide for students’ needs. There are three categories available for the competitive grant program and one of them would help families pay for various educational expenses, and yes, private school tuition would be covered by those “microgrants.”
DeVos also provided guidelines for how another portion of education funds from the stimulus bill should be used. The guidelines say that funds should not only target public schools that are clearly in need based on the amount of poor students they have enrolled, but should also be doled out to affluent private schools, too. Obviously critics say that this takes much needed money directly from public schools at a crucial time during the widespread closures.
DeVos has spent a good portion of her time as Education Secretary trying to push private schools and their success and critics are saying that her latest moves will ultimately come at the cost of public schools.
Sasha Pudelski, the advocacy director of the School Superintendents Association, said, “I can’t think of another week where she’s had two major victories like this, in terms of redirecting federal resources to private schools.”
Pudelski maintains that through the microgrants program, DeVos is redirecting public funds and using them for private schools.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) say the microgrants are really just “vouchers” by another name. Notoriously, voucher programs prop up private schools through the use of public funds. DeLauro says that this type of backhanded money moving leads to and promotes “divisive, ideologically driven policy priorities.”
Basically, DeVos and her strategies will ultimately use this pandemic to bolster private, often religious, schools, thereby creating an even greater, and more uneven, divide between them and public schools.
DeLauro said in a statement, “At best, the secretary is exploiting emergency relief legislation to insert secretarial priorities not outlined in this section of the CARES Act… At worst, the secretary is deliberately misreading the law to conjure up purposes for these resources that were not provided.”
Robert Enlow, president and CEO of EdChoice which is a nonprofit school choice research and advocacy group, had this to say on the matter, “We should be thinking about what families need and meeting them where they are.” He advocates the funding, saying that this puts power in the hands of parents and not into “buildings.”
DeVos’ other move could absolutely wreck public school finances, even as systems are facing draconian cuts. Public school groups are fearful of the repercussions, one such group which represents some huge city districts believes we will see the laying off of more than a quarter million teachers in the public school system. Devastating.
Regarding the CARES Act, DeVos released her recommendations on how $13.5 billion should be distributed. Normally, the amount of federal money school districts are given is based on the amount of low income students they have and private schools are also entitled federal money based on students they have living in poverty as well. But DeVos’ new guidance will see private school programs accessing CARES funds simply based on HOW MANY students they serve, NOT whether or not they have kids living in poverty.
Public districts, however, will still only be given those federal funds based on the number of poverty-level kids they have. How is this even legal?
That’s what many groups representing public schools are asking. Some groups say this actually a violation of the intent of the law and is an unprecedented move.
The School Superintendents Association and the two national teacher unions are calling on DeVos to amend these guidelines and to revise them to protect public schools from any unethical violations. In a letter to DeVos, they said, “Absent these edits, the CARES Act equitable services guidance is inequitable and creates an environment where wealthy children in private schools are counted … at the direct expense of low-income children remaining in public schools.”
The Council of Chief State School Officers also penned a letter to DeVos pointing out that in one Louisiana parish, “at least 77% of its CARES formula allocation would be directed to non-public schools in the area.”
The Department of Education spokesperson Angela Morabito offered their defense, saying, “Congress directed the department to make sure all students are able to be served through the CARES Act.” She said that if money is only provided for low-income private school students then private school teachers and students are unfairly placed at a disadvantage. Huh?
Just as public schools have advocacy groups, there are private school advocacy groups, as well, and at least one group representing private schools says they don’t believe they will need access to those CARES funds.
The VP of the National Association of Independent Schools, Myra McGovern, says very few of the schools she works directly with takes any Title I money. She cites fear of infringement on the schools’ autonomy as the primary reason they don’t access federal funds. She admits that it is unclear if their need to use federal money will change in light of the pandemic.
Some private school groups have been vocal about an uncertain future, with many speculating that they, too, could see devastating losses putting them in a more vulnerable position and therefore needing all the help available.
Sister Dale McDonald, director of public policy for the National Catholic Education Association, said, “Every kid in public school and private schools is affected [by this crisis], it’s not dependent upon whether they are poor… Everybody is at risk during this time frame, trying to learn under really trying circumstances.”
McDonald states that Catholic schools are already losing money at an unsustainable rate with parents no longer being able to afford tuition and churches unable to take up collections which help support the schools. Many are already in the position of closing for good. She said, “Every school deserves better.”

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if you’re looking to buy the best camera smartphone, then there are plenty of options available in the market like you
- Huawei P 30 Pro 2
- Samsung Galaxy S 10 class
but if you’re looking to buy a new phone, then here is the upcoming list of best camera phones that gives the best picture quality. WE will talk about the best future smartphone from October to December, which offers the best picture quality.
the best mid-range camera phone from real me which has got 64 mp primary lens, so this phone is launching on September 20 and available for purchase in October 2019 this spoon will be power by Qualcomm snapdragon 712 chipsets coupled with 4gb and 6 GB of ram comes to the display of 6.4 inches which isn’t super AMOLED display, but the main USP is its quad-camera setup which is of
Realme XT Specifications :
- 64 MP primary lens + 8 MP of wide-angle lens + 2 MP of the depth sensor and 2 MP of microsensor
- It also comes along with a 16 MP or front camera, which is a pop-up selfie camera.
This camera module guarantees your pass picture quality both the rear and the front if you are looking for a mid-range phone that gives best picture quality then this is best for you this one also packs of 4000 images of battery and comes with a VOOC charging support that charges the phone faster this phone is price around 250 dollars.
Redmi Note 8 Pro:
The king of the mid-range smartphone is coming back again with the Xiaomi Redmi note8 pro, which is the best mid-range camera that will be available to purchase in October 2019, priced at around 240 dollars. This is the best smartphone at the price point it is coming with this phone will be powered by the dominant media attack Helio g90 chipset coupled with 6 GB of RAM comes with a 6.5 three-inch of IPS LCD with full SD plus resolution, but the main USP of this phone is its quad-camera setup that comes with wide range.
- 64 MB of the primary lens, which is on Samson sensor plus 8mp of wide-angle lens plans to MP of the depth sensor and 2 MP of the microsensor camera module, is precisely the same as real me XT, but we have to see which one will win the race.
- It also comes along with the 20 MP or front selfie camera, which takes impressive selfies this one packs a 4500 MAH of the battery comes with a quick charging support a dock price point it is happening with this is the best and the best mid-range camera phone.
Oppo RENO 2:
there or you know to is the next best camera phone that you can buy in October 2019 which will be launching on September 2019 so Oppo is known for this best camera smartphone, and Oppo Reno lineup gives the best picture quality Oppo Reno – is powered by the Snapdragon 730 G coupled with massive 8gb of RAM it comes with a 6.55 inch of dynamic AMOLED display that gives you fantastic display experience the main USP of this spoon is its quad-camera setup that is coming along with number of options.
- the 48 MP primary lens + a DMP of the wide-angle lens + 13 MP plus 2 MP, this squad camera module capable of shooting the best pictures and also provide you a 20x hybrid zoom.
- This phone is coming with a shark fin 16 MP of front selfie camera, which retakes impressive selfies.
This phone packs both of an image of the battery that comes with a VOOC charging 3.0 technology that charges the phone faster. This phone is the price at around $500.
Google Pixel 4 XL:
Google is known for its excellent camera smartphone is coming with the fourth edition of pixel series. Google pixel for Excel is expected to launch on October 10, 2019, and will be available to purchase in October and November 2019. This one will be price around 1100 to 1200 US dollars. This phone will be power by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 processor coupled with 6 GB of RAM comes with a 6.3 inch of OLED which gives the users a fantastic display experience the main USP of the spoon is,
- its camera, which is a triple real camera setup, comes with a 12 MP + 16 MP + 5 MP of triple rear camera that takes the best pictures you have ever seen.
- This one also offers a dual selfie camera, which is 8 MB + 5 MP.
This phone packs 3007. An image of a battery comes with fast charging support. This is the first phone that will feature Android 10, which is the Android Q operating system.
iPhone 11 Pro:
Most awaited smartphone that is launching at the end of 2019 is the iPhone 11 series – 11 Pro is one of them, and it will be the excellent camera smartphone this phone will have and a 5.8 inch of OLED display reduce amazing display experience this phone will be power by Bionic a13 chipset coupled with 6 GB of RAM comes with the best camera.
- The triple rear camera setup which is off to MP and there is a 12 MP off front selfie camera this camera module is known to take best pictures and gives the best picture quality this phone banks and 3190 MH of battery and comes with the three variants of 128 GB 256 GB and 512 GB storage variants the expected price will be around one thousand dollars.
The it is this one will be available from October 2019 in Apple stores online and offline, so these are the upcoming great camera smartphone that you can buy at the end of 2019 and at the beginning of 2020.


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He Took Up Arms Against Liberalism
J. Gresham Machen (1881–1937)
Machen was cut off in the midst of a great work — the establishment of Westminster Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He hadn’t set out to found a seminary or a new church. But given who he was and what he stood for and what was happening at Princeton, where he had taught for... Continue Reading
Reformed Ethics Could Save Your Life
Ron Gleason traces Bavinck’s career teaching theology and ethics between Kampen and Amsterdam, but no one knew that a manuscript on ethics was preserved in the Bavinck archive.
Bavinck had prepared the manuscript for publication, yet several formal issues may have held him back from publishing the work (RE, 2019; xxxv, xli-ii). Along with the manuscript’s discovery by Dirk van Keulen, two additional manuscripts from Bavinck’s students have been uncovered, providing invaluable insights into his classroom presentation and support for translation. The wealth... Continue Reading
Preaching for a Verdict: A Book Review
If you preach regularly, you should read this book. Here are four reasons why.
“The call to exhort,” wrote Smith, “is the call to speak to the will of the hearer, not just to inform the mind of the hearer. It is pleading, persuading, and strongly urging the hearer to respond in obedience to the Word of God. It moves beyond suggested application into a definitive call to respond”... Continue Reading
Imputation of the Active Obedience of Christ in the Westminster Standards: Book Review
The rush of books, articles, reviews, and even a hymnal that has flowed from the pen (or, more likely, keyboard) of Dr. Alan D. Strange has been a most appreciated and welcomed gift to the church.
Strange’s stated aim is to advance the argument that “while the Assembly may never have explicitly affirmed active obedience in what it finally adopted, nonetheless, the Westminster documents, taken as a whole, tend to affirm it” (2). He seeks to accomplish this by carefully considering both the original intent of the framers of the Westminster... Continue Reading
How on Earth Did Jesus Become God?
The challenge, argues Hurtado, is not simply explaining how Jesus was seen as divine by early Christians, but rather the challenge is explaining the manner in which he was seen as divine.
All the chapters in the volume are helpful, but the first two are the most foundational. In chapter one, Hurtado gives us the lay of the land by surveying the variety of other approaches to Jesus devotion within early Christianity, offering a brief critical review of each of them, so that his own approach can... Continue Reading
Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
The human race is only now realizing what demons flew out of that particular Pandora’s box.
The long loneliness is seen in the woman who never had children in order to please a selfish husband, who then divorced her for a younger woman. It is there in the face of a sincere, but nerdy young man who can’t find a decent girl to marry or the faithful young woman who is... Continue Reading
O Come, Thou Day-Spring, Come and Cheerthe Presence of a Good Reputation
The sun has indeed come up again. Tomorrow is now today. And in the context of this song, this is Jesus.
Jesus is called the “Day-Spring.” The dayspring is the dawn – it’s that moment, which ebbs and flows according to the season, when light first breaks over the darkness. But it’s more than that – it’s the first sign every day of the dispelling of darkness. It is the daily reminder that the mercies of... Continue Reading
Why Small-Town Ministry Matters: A Review of “A Big Gospel in Small Places”
Yes, ministry in forgotten communities still matters.
A Big Gospel in Small Places is filled with a combination of quotes from the likes of Puritans and contemporary thought and statistics on ministry. There are many pastors in small places who need to be reminded that preaching a Bible-saturated, gospel-centered sermon to forty-five people matters. This book is oozing with that kind of... Continue Reading
How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics
Today’s identity crisis is part of a larger undoing.
I do not intend to provide a critical review of Eberstadt’s book, something which would take much more time and effort, and something which has already been done (such as this review by Carl Trueman). Instead, I wanted to offer a summary of the book’s main lines of argument and offer it as a very... Continue Reading
Emblems of the Infinite King by J. Ryan Lister
Make no mistake – this is a serious book. And serious books have life-changing implications.
Emblems of the Infinite King strikes a biblical balance that celebrates orthodoxy but also warms the heart with imaginative prose and a compelling story. Each chapter describes a particular key that explains a doctrinal reality that ultimately leads to the throne of God. Dr. Lister presents each branch of systematic theology in the framework of the... Continue Reading

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Soon, you will recognize this part of the circus.
Kseniya Simonova transforms a mixture of volcanic sand and salt as she creates animations live in front of her audiences, who can see both the creator of the illusion and the illusion as it is created.
Circus, by Kseniya Simonova
Her story about love and war won the TV competition Ukraine’s Got Talent.
Between 8-10 million Ukrainians were killed during World War 2.
Kseniya Simonova performing on Ukraine’s Got Talent
– Kseniya Simonova, Wikipedia>>
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R144m ransom demand for missing wife of wealthy Norwegian investor
Stockholm - The wife of one of Norway's wealthiest businessmen who has been missing since late October is feared to have been abducted, Norwegian media outlets reported on Wednesday.
A ransom of 9 million euros (roughly R144 million) has been demanded for Anne-Elisabeth Falkevik Hagen, who has been missing since October 31, according to Oslo daily VG.
Falkevik Hagen is married to Tom Hagen, an investor with business interests in power generation and real estate estimated to be worth 1.7 billion kroner (200 million dollars), according to financial site Kapital.
Police were due to give a press conference on the matter later Wednesday.
News of the disappearance was not made public previously due to a threatening note left at Falkevik Hagen's home in Akershus, near Oslo.
The ransom payment was requested in the cryptocurrency monero to make it harder to trace a transaction, dailies Aftenposten and VG reported.
A large police operation is underway. Norwegian police have also engaged international counterparts in Interpol and Europol as part of the probe.dpa

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It’s inevitable. I have to talk about it. Everyone else is.
Tim Burton’s version of Batman was released 25 years ago today. I was 15. I was the ideal demographic of the summer blockbuster. 1989 was also the summer that gave us Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, GHOSTBUSTERS 2, and Back to the Future 3. It also gave us Turner & Hooch and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, but… never mind. Batman was the one I looked forward to the most. Batman was the blockbuster I saw three times that summer… at least one of those times happened while on vacation in Hawaii. At the time, my exposure the Batman had been Adam West and “Superfriends.” If not for the hype surrounding Dark Knight Returns and Death in the Family (the story that killed the second Robin), I may not have been prepared for the dark, cynical psycho-drama with explosives that set the tone for a generation of comic book movies.
So how did this film impact my life from 15 to 40? What do I remember? And what have we forgotten.
Michael Keaton as the Caped Crusader – Keaton’s career in the 80s had been a successful string of comedies, including Mr. Mom and Burton’s Beetlejuice. Even more forgettable films like Gung Ho and Nightshift helped establish Keaton as a comic everyman, which is far removed from the traditional image of the action hero. The existing image of Adam West and the campy 60s TV series set the expectation for a tongue-in-cheek, wink to the camera Batman. This set that comicbook batfans on a campaign of outrage. Even before the wide use of the internet, anti-Keaton-rage was comparable to the venom provoked by “Bat-fleck” in 2013.
Keaton delivered. His brooding, human approach to Bruce Wayne paired with the “strong-silent” Batman showed the world that this actor had range. His career in the 90s would include darker, more dramatic roles intermingled with his familiar comedies. We haven’t seen as much of him lately, but we’ll soon see him in Birdman, where he plays an underemployed actor whose career never recovered from the late 80s comic book franchise he starred in.
Jack Nicholson as The Joker – Heath Ledger would win a posthumous Oscar for this character nearly 20 years later. In the summer of 89, though, there was trophy talk for Jack’s performance as the clown prince of crime. Most of that buzz came from teenagers, but many can agree that Nicholson is good, even when he’s going larger-than-life. This version of The Joker brought the character from an absurd bank robber to a physically and mentally damaged serial killer. The actor’s eyebrows have made him a classic villain, while the prostatic smile has left preeminent wrinkles in his aging face. The image of clowns had already been long tarnished by the likes of IT and Ronald MacDonald. If there was anything harmlessly comedic about The Joker, it was destroyed by dark and twisted high jinx. The laughter is included in the nightmare.
Kim Basinger as Vicki Vale – Remember Kim Basinger? You probably remember her winning and Oscar for LA Confidential. You probably remember when she was married to Alec Baldwin. I remember Basinger as one of those actresses I crushed on as a teen. Her and Michelle Pfeifer… and Uma Thurman… Funny how they all ended up in Batman movies. Anyway…
Vicki Vale is one of those easily forgotten characters. She doesn’t wear a form fitting thematic costume. She neither fights nor commits crime. She does, however, have the fleeting affection of Bruce Wayne. We’ll occasionally see her in the comics. The problem with her there is the writers and editors can never decide what to do with her. Does she know Bruce’s secret? Does she not? Is she hot on his trail? Is she intimately close to him? Does he even exist?
It’s not surprising that we don’t see her in the sequels considering her presence would unnecessarily complicate Batman’s relationship with Catwoman or (yawn) every other blonde woman in Gotham. Like the comic book version of the character, Vale comes off as a less aggressive version of Lois Lane. Had this version of Batman ever crossed over with Superman, would there be a redundancy in spunky, thinly written newswomen?
Alfred was awesome, but not a big name- Michael Gough played Alfred in all four Batman films from this era. He was the only element to really connect the entire series. Sure, Pat Hingle played Commissioner Gordon all four times, but that character seemed to become progressively dumber and more useless with each film. Gough was pitch perfect in the entire franchise, even in the lesser Joel Schumacher films. He made the character a memorable fan favorite. I believe this is why Warner Bros. went for the big guns when casting his successors, tapping Michael Cain for Christopher Nolan’s trilogy and Jeremy Irons for the new Justice League centric films.
Lando was almost Two-Face – Remember Billy Dee Williams in this flick? Remember who he played? District Attorney Harvey Dent. Burton only made two Batman films and was naturally steered to utilize the three most recognizable villains (The Joker, Catwoman, and Penguin). I believe that had he made a third film, he would have likely included Harvey Dent becoming Two-Face, with Billy Dee Williams in the role. Imagine Lando’s indelible smirk half mutilated, half his charm replaced with bitter crazy. For better or worse, Burton was released from any obligation he had to a third film after WB’s disappointment in 1992's Batman Returns. Two-Face did appear in the franchise, but Williams was replaced with Tommy Lee Jones opposite Val Kilmer’s Batman in Schumacher's Batman Forever in 1995.
Danny Elfman could have been the new John Williams – The best element in a lot of Tim Burton’s movies is the musical score. For many of Burton’s films, this music is provided by Oingo Boingo front man Danny Elfman. The theme from 1989’s Batman is one of the most enduring comic book film scores, second only to John Williams’ Superman theme. There have been many films based on comic books in the past 25 years. Danny Elfman was the go-to guy for many of them, most notably Sam Raimi’s Sipder-man in 2002. While many composers will come and go in this genre, the familiar tunes by Elfman will be forever associated with Batman.
This was the franchise that introduced me to the internet- In 2014, it’s not uncommon to talk films on the internet. In the 1990’s, however, the internet was a new toy. The first time I attempted to build a web site, it was devoted to an analysis of the four Batman films from 1989 to 1997. This was my first attempt and using search engines, gathering information from other pages, finding gifs and jpgs. It was also my first experience with trolls. The internet really hasn’t changed… it just got faster and shinier.
This was the first franchise that made me dislike studio executives – Batman started a trend that is still alive a quarter century later. A lot of people still look at the first installment with nostalgic fondness. And these same people are unrelenting in their hatred of the final chapter, Batman & Robin. The latter is a classic example of studio interference. If you look at the list of “writers” and “producers” credited with the fourth film, it’s clear that too many cooks spoiled that particular stew. George Clooney still apologizes for Batman & Robin. I’ve never heard Keaton apologize for Batman.
As I write this on Batman’s silver anniversary, I’m rewatching the film in question. If this film were released today, it would appear dated and melodramatic… but not as much as some of its successors. Like 1978’s Superman, it still holds up as an entertaining movie. Also like it’s brightly colored counterpart, the dark and murky outing is a product of its era.


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Maryanne w/Butch Patrick “Eddie Munster”
Maryanne and original BATMOBILE!
Car show season has arrived!
Kicking off the season is an event my husband and I love to attend each year called, “Dead Man’s Curve.” There are hundreds of hot rods and historic cars, vendors, bands and celebrities from yesteryear.
This year we got to meet Butch Patrick from “The Munsters.” He was super cool. I actually meet him years ago in a bar. He approached me and said, “Hi, I’m Butch.” I just said, “Hi,” smiled and didn’t say much because I am shy. When I’m not in journalist mode, interviewing someone famous, it’s so much easier when my husband is around because he’s great with people.
While my husband took our picture, Butch said, “So, Maryanne, you finally escaped from Gilligan’s Island.”
I said, “Actually, I’m a Ginger wannabe!”
How true! How true! (My favorite episode of “Gilligan’s Island” was when Maryanne got amnesia and thought she was Ginger and sang, “I Wanna Be Loved By You.”)
We met Candy Clark too. She’s best known from “American Graffiti” and I must say, she’s still a fox! Very nice lady and funny as hell. We overheard her telling another fan that she spent some time in Montclair (my former hometown) and she loved shopping for antiques there. VERY COOL!
We got to see the Batmobile (for the second time! And this time I got to go inside!)
There were some great bands too: The Tarantinos, a surf garage band from NYC that did all songs from Tarantino’s movies. And Rockabilly Express played, which featured Brian Setzer’s (from Stray Cats) brother, Gary Setzer. A friend of theirs came up front and did some crazy hula hoop moves.
Finally, we got to check out vendors. I scored an old issue of “Planet of the Apes” magazine and “Dynamite” (an ultra cool publication for teens in the ’70s published in NYC).
Ahh, what a happy day and a great start to car show season! And I just started my tan!
I love your article.. The cars, the era, the creativity bought back by your photos and story.
You always have the most intriguing stories , I love it.
Aww, thanks so much! The car shows are always a lot of fun, great people, good energy! xo
That had to be a blast to meet Butch Patrick and Candy Clark the same day. I guess Butch was typecast, but would have to check imdb.com to see what roles he played after Munsters.
I can still remember Candy Clark from American Graffiti. That movie was always special to me since the posters for it said “Where were you in 62?” It just happened to be the year I graduated from high school, so I really identified with the movie. My new profile photo was taken at my 50th high school reunion two weekends ago.
Yeah, “American Graffiti” seemed so authentic, as opposed to “Grease” (which was a great movie, but it didn’t give you that feeling that you were in another time zone). You are blessed to have lived during such a super cool era! Congratulations on your 50th high school reunion! (You should blog about it!)
Have thought about blogging about the reunion, but then I am worried it might make some classmates upset if I mention names, but am still mulling over the idea of writing it without names.
Loved the scene with Wolfman Jack in American Graffitti. One of the best soundtracks ever.
I looked at Candy Clark’s page at imdb.com and her role on Criminal Minds as JJ’s mom was her first role on TV or in movies since 2009.
She was married to Jeff Wald, executive producer of the Gong Show for just one year and then later married Marjoe Gortner for one year.
Candy played the character David Bowie was playing for one scene:
She played Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie’s character) in one scene in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), with a hat strategically pulled over her face on a day when Bowie was too ill to perform.
Oh wow, that is crazy that she played David Bowie! I saw that movie too, but it was a very long time ago. Now here’s something weird — I was going to tell Candy Clarke she looked like Cyrinda Foxe (who performed in David Bowie’s “Jean Genie” video), but I didn’t think she’d know who that was — but now knowing this, she definitely would know — plus the fact that Cyrinda dated Bowie briefly!
That is amazing that you found even more of a Candy Clark connection with David Bowie. I don’t see how they got away with using her as David Bowie’s character if only for one scene. It wouldn’t take much for movie viewers to know she wasn’t David Bowie even with the hat strategically placed.
I’d have to see the movie again to figure it out. Are you familiar with The New York Dolls? One of their guitarists was a big junkie (Johnny Thunders) and for one of the photo shoots of their albums, he was too strung out for the shoot and they used another guy who kinda looks like him. And I never knew until someone pointed it out to me, and I’m like, “You’re right, it isn’t Johnny!”
You got me on New York Dolls….have never heard of that band. I am mostly into 40’s music, classic country music and blues and southern gospel music, which I sing at church from time to time.
Ahhh, well the New York Dolls were influenced by the blues! But you probably wouldn’t like them … or maybe you would. You can find plenty of songs on You Tube. Their lead singer, David Johansen became the most famous. He was most known for his alter ego, Buster Poindexter. (I’m sure you heard of him, he had a hit, “Hot, Hot, Hot.”) And even later on, David Johansen had a band called The Harry Smiths and they did all old blues. Really good stuff! (P.S. – I liked 1940s too, I listen to the ’40s station on Sirius a lot — and I love classic country, especially from the 1970s, all the really sad, heart-breaking songs).
I have heard of David Johansen…think I saw him on MTV in the 80’s or 90’s but not positive.
It is exciting to see celebrities up close like when I saw John Schneider throw up in person at a Dukes of Hazzard festival. He had been inside signing autographs, when he suddenly came outside and threw up in some bushes. When he finished he said “That was embarrassing”.
Did he throw up from drinking or heat exhaustion or bad food? That’s a great story. Just goes to show, we’re all human! That reminds me of the time when I met Debbie Harry in a bar, by chance. She was performing that night. I was at a bar, and she was right nearby with her band mate (and former love) Chris Stein. He was very outgoing and talked a lot to me and my friend, hugged me and gave me a big wet Grandpa kinda kiss. But she was very shy. I smiled at her and she gave me a half smile, then said, “I had too much wine with dinner!” It was such an honest moment!
John Schneider may have thrown up from any one or all three of the possible reasons you mentioned. It was extremely hot that day though. Debbie Harry was probably my favorite female singer of the 80’s, even though my favorite music was from the 40’s through the 70’s. That was very honest of of her to admit she drank too much.
I saw Johnny Cash at a concert on our Army base in Hawaii in the 60’s. He was slurring his words when he sung, probably because he was on drugs at the time.
Oh wow, you got to see Johnny Cash!! LUCKY!!!! I wish I saw him before he died. He’s a legend. We have tickets for Glen Campbell in a few weeks, so that will be exciting. Who else did you see in the 1960s? I used to work with a man who saw Elvis — as a warm up act for Hank Snow!! He also saw Marilyn Monroe when he was in service.
We were watching a Monroe, Louisiana television station one night, when they said tickets were going on sale for an Elvis Presley concert. We were lucky enough to get seats on about the 20th row down on the floor. I will never forget the electricity that night when he took the stage. This was 1974 and he was still at its best and drugs hadn’t shown any affect on him physically. Elvis even indirectly got me a job in Monroe, which was about 100 miles from where we were living. We passed the newspaper on the way to the concert and decided to apply there, so wrote asking for an interview and we wound up living there for two years.
We moved back to Alexandria, Louisiana two years later and we saw him one night in a two concert stand. He had once said he was never going back to Alexandria, when very few showed up to see him before he was well-known. Then about 22 years later he plays two concerts in Alexandria, a city of 50,000, which baffled me to think he would do two concerts in a city that small.
Our seats were the worst possible seats in the place up at the top of the stadium, the seats couldn’t have been any further away. By now Elvis was very big and puffed up looking. This was in March of 1977. He started feeling ill during the concert and had one of the backup singers sing a song so he could rest. Then a day or two later he was set to do a concert in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but was so ill, that he was sent to a Memphis hospital and was dead less than five months later.
Enjoy the Glen Campbell concert. May have seen him without knowing it. Knew he sang with Beach Boys one summer, but not sure if it was the summer I saw them.
Saw the Beach Boys in Hawaii in 1963, but can’t recall any details of the show, but have been a life-long Beach Boys fan. Have their Live at Knebworth video from 1980 and remember Dennis Wilson giving Mike Love fits while Mike was trying to sing.
Still can’t believe Dennis Wilson let Charles Manson live in his house along with all his groupies. Dennis finally had enough and moved out and let them have the house.
Yeah, that is crazy! I can’t believe it myself!
The Beach Boys had a lot of offstage stuff going on in their lives, like Mike Love being married five times and that was from a book I read several years ago. Dennis Wilson broke out of drug rehab places several times. Felt bad for Brian Wilson because his dad was so mean to him. Carl Wilson died of cancer in 1998. Glad they finally re-united after all these years. They had split into three different groups with Al Jardine having his own band, Mike Love and Bruce Johnston in another band and Carl Wilson had his own solo act going on.
Yeah, I know a lot about the Beach Boys. My husband is a big fan, so he tells me a lot about them. (Our home is in a constant state of music. He’s a musician and we’re always playing music — upstairs and downstairs. He’s five years older than me, so he covers all the classic rock stuff with his collection, then my collection takes off with punk and new wave and newer stuff. And we both love Jack White!)
Jack White produced an album for Loretta Lynn. Met her at a concert about 40 or 50 years ago and she was amazingly beautiful woman. She was touring with Ernest Tubb back then.
DUDE — you need to write a book!!! That’s fantastic!
If I wrote a book it might sell almost as many copies as Javier Colon sold records after winning the voice. He had got fired from a record company before entering The Voice competition and last I heard he had sold 38,000 albums compared to Scotty McCreery who had sold over a million.
May have been just as well to not see Elvis up close at the concert shortly before his death. We would have seen close-up how far down drugs had taken him. And to think he talked President Nixon into letting him join the fight against drugs.
Wow, I’m so impressed that you saw Elvis TWICE! And cool story about the newspaper job! I love your stories! You should blog all this stuff! 🙂
Have blogged a lot of this. Used to blog at blogger.com, but it was too technical for me working with HTML. Love blogging on WordPress. Have had over 348,000 hits at the Nostalgia and Now website in a 3 years and one month, while had very few readers at blogger.com.
Elvis in my book is the best entertainer ever. Some singers don’t cover many songs of other singers, but Elvis covered a lot of great songs and sang them better than the original.
Yes, Elvis is amazing. My husband and I go to all the Elvis impersonator shows. Some are pretty off the hook amazing!
My grandmother was a big Elvis fan. Before she died we had an Elvis impersonator come to the house to sing for her. She was so cute, she flirted with him. When he sang, “Are You Lonesome Tonite?” She said, “Not if you’re with me, baby!” She was a hoot. When she died, we buried her wearing her Elvis watch.
Thanks for sharing the story about your grandma and Elvis Presley impersonator. Some of the impersonators look more like Elvis than Elvis did. Can’t believe Elvis would be 77 if still alive.
I would have loved to have heard that Tarantino band… super sexy Batmobile pic!!!… looks like a lot of fun
Aww, thanks! You can probably You Tube the Tarantinos. They have a website and they are on Face Book too. As you know I’m not officially on Face Book, but I “liked” them for support.

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Community Cats and Social Workers in Animal Welfare
An Interview with Peter Wolf
Peter Wolf is a research and policy analyst with Best Friends Animal Society, a nonprofit animal welfare organization that focuses on outreach to promote pet adoption, animal shelters that minimize euthanasia and spay-and-neuter education. He visited the Graduate School of Social Work in October of 2018 to lead a discussion on community cats. Peter, like many we have talked to in the animal welfare field, came to his work with community cats by a somewhat unconventional route. Growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, he did not have pets in his home but was always fascinated by and bonded with community cats.
Peter moved from Michigan to Arizona to pursue a Master's in Engineering and later became a professor. Around 2010, he started a blog, Voxfelina, to explore current research about community cats and began to identify issues with current programs, including Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) programs. He continues to use the information from his blog to work towards improving programs for community cats. His dedication and keen observations led to his position as research and policy analyst with Best Friends Animal Society. Peter is an advocate for TNR and the Red-flag cat model. The later allows shelters to flag community cats that come in, so workers can discover new colonies for tracking and TNR services.
Peter sees great value in involving social workers within the animal welfare field. There is a strong human element to animal welfare, and social workers are well positioned to engage with others for improving animal, human and community health. Peter discussed the importance of getting out in communities, showing empathy and building trust with not only individuals who care for these cats, but also those who are seeking solutions. Social workers have the skills needed to build relationships with diverse community members and to lead an integrated approach to community health and well-being.
Peter has also recognized the strong bonds people forge with community cats. We often think of our pets as family members, but may not consider what other animals, such as community cats that do not live in the home, mean to those who care for them. When working with clients, social workers have considerations for everyone involved in clients' lives. Peter argues that this should also extend to the animals present in people's lives. These relationships can influence the decisions they make.
There are also opportunities for social workers to incorporate community cats into their practices and the spaces in which they work. For example, Peter contemplated how powerful it could be to have colonies of cats present at places such as nursing homes. This could be a mutually beneficial relationship where the cats are looked after, and the residents can build meaningful relationships during a time in life where they may experience loneliness and depression.
Considering social workers' strong interpersonal skills, experience working with communities and commitment to social justice, Peter thinks our profession can make significant contributions to the animal welfare field. Peter encourages social workers to take notice of animals as another part of an individual's social environment and believes that it could lead to positive change for communities as well as the human and non-human community members that live there.
Written By Amanda Olguin, IHAC Intern 2018-2019

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Perhaps it's too early to be talking about Oscars but, at this point, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker absolutely belongs in the mix. There's more tension in this gripping tale than in the waistband of Oprah's skinny jeans -- which is pretty freakin' tense.
A bomb-squad thriller about an adrenaline junkie who gets his kicks disarming improvised explosive devices (known in the jargon as IEDs), The Hurt Locker brings it right to the viewer without pandering to him. It's an intense tale of men facing death at any moment, relying on their wits, their will and their skill to get them out alive.
Much already has been made of the fact that this is an expertly made film whose commercial fate is fraught with as much suspense as its action sequences, which will have you chewing your fingernails frantically. It seems cruel to suggest that it might face the same sorry commercial fate as such deserving films as In the Valley of Elah, A Mighty Heart and Lions for Lambs, simply because it too is set in the midst of the Iraq war.
Directed by Bigelow from a script by Mark Boal, the film stars Jeremy Renner as Sgt. Will James, who is brought in to head up the EOD unit after its commander is blown up in a street bombing. The other members of the squad, Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Eldridge (Brian Geraghty), have a little more than a month left in-country and their first impression of their new commander is an alarming one.
They've been trained to follow a step-by-step protocol that maximizes their safety, beginning with a rolling robot-cam to give them a close-up of the explosive from a safe distance. So they watch in horror as James jumps in feet-first as it were.
Rather than donning the bomb-protection suit as a last resort after first assessing all options, he skips the robot-cam altogether, slips into the padded suit and strides off to find the bomb himself. He grabs and snips wires, handles blasting caps -- in other words, he goes total gonzo cowboy, all but juggling the bombs as he tracks wires and disarms an octopus-like series of explosives.
As he says to Sanborn and Eldridge afterwards, what fun is the job if you play it safe? How do you know you're alive unless you confront death and walk away still breathing?
The credo of the extreme-action type: James makes it clear that he lives for those moments when it can all go either way without warning. But his squad mates just want to go home -- alive, not in a box.
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Last week something amazing happened. Fall Out Boy announced they were back to making music after being on a three year hiatus. Fall Out Boy are hands down one of my most favourite bands in the whole wide world. I was beyond happy when I found out they were back to making tunes.
To celebrate, I decided to make this embroidery that I've had pinned on my Pinterest board for ages now.
Here's the drawing I made the pattern from.
If you've no idea what this embroidery is, check out the Sugar, We're Going Down video and it might make a little more sense!
Believers Never Die.

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Description: Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (1824-1886), France, XIX c, antique oil painting. Ladies and gentlemen in the garden. Material: Oil on the wooden panel with thickness of 8 mm; Signature: no visible signature (by the way, 80% of his painting were not signed). Age: 19th century. Country: France; Size of the wooden board: 17.5 x 32.7 inches = 44 cm x 83 cm = 3,652 sq. cm; Size of the frame: 22 x 37 inches = 55.5 x 94.5 cm. Weight with a wooden frame: 3-5 lb. Provenance: The painting was purchased by Eternity Gallery, Tampa, FL in 2011 from antique dealer in Clearwater, Fl. He bought this painting in London, UK about 25 -30 years ago and brought it to USA about 20 years ago. Biography of the artist:Born in Marseilles, Adolphe Monticelli worked in his hometown and in Paris. He studied under Paul Delaroche in 1846-8 in Paris and also learned from examining the Old Masters work in the Louver. In 1856 (Paris) he acquainted with Diaz and was influenced by his style and colors. He painted landscapes, still lives, portraits, and circus scenes. His career reached its height in the 1860s. Van Gogh greatly admired by Monticelli's work. After the Franco-Prussian War began, Monticelli returned to Marseilles to retire. Prices Realized at Auction House "Christies": £6,875 = $9,522; Size: 14½ x 18. 3/4 in. (37 x 46.3 cm = 1,713 sq cm) £10,800 = $20,768; Size: 14 x 8 in. (37cm x 23 cm = 851 sq cm) $37,500; Size 63 x 38 in. (161.3 x 97.8 = 15,775 sq. cm) £9,200 = $15,254 Size 11 in x 20 in. (29.2 x 51.4 cm = 1,500 sq cm). Prices realized at Auction house: "Damien Leclere"-France, Marceille: £36,993 = $60,615 "Le Bal masque", oil on panel 19.3 x 28.1 in (49 x 71.5 cm = 3,503 sq. cm). £36,091 = 40,000 EUR = 59,136 USD, "Femmes dans les Sous Bois" Size: 21.7 x 40.2 in (55 x 102 cm =5,610 sq. cm)
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Condition excellent for the age, no defects, because of the thick wooden panel, which was a genius choice of the artist.
Low Estimate: 50000.0;
High Estimate: 150000.0;