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The Lord of the Drones:
The President and the White House Fly
By HEATHCOTE WILLIAMS
“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.”
(Ex parvis saepe magnarum momenta rerum pendent.)
Titus Livy, Annales, XXVII, 9
“At the beginning of his reign Emperor Domitian would spend hours alone every day catching flies and stabbing them with a needle-sharp pen.”
“In his first three years, Obama has unleashed 268 covert drone strikes, five times the total George W. Bush ordered during his eight years in office. All told, drones have been used to kill more than 3,000 people designated as terrorists, including at least four U.S. citizens. In the process, according to human rights groups, they have also claimed the lives of more than 800 civilians. Obama’s drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history; never have so few killed so many by remote control.”
Michael Hastings ‘Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret’ Rolling Stone, 16, April, 2012
“Everything that lives is holy.”
William Blake, America, A Prophecy, Lambeth: 1793, line 13
Out of nowhere, two magically exotic sounds, Barack Obama,
Would woo the world like spells, sizzling with expectation
Of hope and change; of wars ending, and of the earth transformed;
Of Peace and Goodwill to mankind and deliverance from hell.
Across the States the powerless and the impoverished seized on
A man whom they believed would alter their fate.
They’d flock to him in their millions to give him their money;
Voting repeatedly until he was wearing their crown.
80,000 supporters in Chicago would proclaim him ‘The One!’
As confetti fell from the air and fireworks exploded.
He’d accept their nomination from a huge Hollywood temple –
Its theatrical columns prefiguring the White House.
Six hundred million dollars was spent on his campaign
With lavish donations from Wall Street;
Both mass media and the grassroots ensured his election –
Declared to be a groundbreaking miracle.
After tributes to the President-Elect, staged at the Lincoln Memorial,
A screen actress, next to Obama’s podium, would say,
“It was like looking into the sun! You couldn’t look for too long!”
Laura Linney gushed, “It was just too overwhelming!”
Hard-bitten op-eds and TV pundits would preen themselves:
“Where else in the world but in the United States?”
And grown men wept openly in the streets, ‘What a great day!’
Overwhelmed by their candidate becoming President.
The historian, Simon Schama, trading objectivity for enrapture
Imagined the President channeling voices from the past:
“Head turned slightly aside, as if tuning into history’s promptings:
“’I hear you Abe, I hear you Martin; message coming in loud and clear’”.
Yet to Arundhati Roy, “the saddest thing is that we watched Obama
And felt moved, watching how happy people were,
But what has happened is that Barack Obama has come into office
And that he has now expanded the US’s wars.
“It was as though the tears of all the black people
Who’d watched him come into power
Were now cut and pasted onto the eyes of the world’s elite,
Crying with laughter as he excuses their wars.”
But the White House welcomed its new incumbent with fevered excitement
As it seethed with Secret Service special agents –
Each one weighed down by state-of-the-art weapons to fend off any invasion
Of the United States’ Holiest of Holies.
Every building near the White House bristled with concealed racks
Of ground-to-air Stinger missiles,
Designed to enforce a no-fly zone, as ordained by the Pentagon,
Together with saturation surveillance…
However, on a June day in the East Room of the White House,
During a keynote interview with the new President
Set up by his Press Office to “assess his current media standing”
A sprightly, renegade fly ignored all these measures.
It ascended and descended; skipped, zoomed and capered
As it defied the earth’s gravitational pull
Then, with its compound eye, deftly negotiated its way
Through knots of large figures and harsh lighting.
A glistening Harlequin, intricately miniaturized,
The anarchic Don Juan of the natural world;
It pirouettes on a sunbeam, and speed-dances in mid-air
Searching for sweetness to fuel its serenades.
“Hey! Get outta here!” America’s 44th President snaps fretfully
While addressing “the signature characteristic of our Admin…”
He’s forced to come to a stop in the midst of a complex sentence,
Being distracted by the signature buzz of this summer fly.
Anxiously aware of the new President’s impatient irritation,
And house-trained to turn trivia into ‘historic events’,
The earnest interviewer, John Harwood, declares momentously,
“That’s the most persistent fly I’ve ever seen.”
Interpreting this as a call to arms, the President of the US strikes:
The fly falls, then he kicks it across the carpet with his shoe –
Its only crime was to make use of the White House air for flying
Instead of for inhaling the US Administration’s platitudes.
“That was pretty impressive wasn’t it?” The President solicits approval,
Before exploding victoriously, “I got the sucker!”
At which the room swells with awed gasps:“Jesus!” and coos of “Nice!”
As everyone tries to outdo each other in admiration.
“You want to film that? It’s right there. There it is!” the President urges –
Pointing to his fallen victim, as he lets out a fastidious, “Yech!”
The crew swiftly focus on a trembling speck on the East Room’s carpet,
So the world at large may share in the Presidential achievement.
Pleased to exploit it, the President alerts his Press Secretary, “Did you see that Gibbs?”
Gibbs nods, and scuttles off to see the death’s presented to full advantage.
In a voice-over Gibbs name-checks the Karate Kid who caught flies with chopsticks
(Though Gibbs omits to tell CNBC’s viewers that the Kid let them go).
Upon Caesar’s giving his personal thumbs-down to the fly a film-clip goes viral
With the media’s Coliseum crowing – ‘Go for it, Mr. President!’
Commentators scorn all alternative ways to evict flies – ‘Come on, the President
Has a license to kill as Commander’ and bloggers agree, ‘Flies are evil!’
Yet Keats would delight in seeing flies in musk-roses, “the murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves”;
And Proust thought of them as the chamber music of summer, promising new summers of the soul;
Mad John Clare was comforted by seeing them as things of the mind “like fairies”;
Wordsworth loved their “tuneful hum” and Blake delighted in their antics, describing himself as a “happy fly”.
Kit Smart’s ‘Cat Jeoffrey’ chased and played with a fly till all three of them buzzed and hummed
With electric joy, cavorting with this seasoned acrobat dancing upside down on glass
– A chance stranger with honeycomb eyes and 2000 lenses with no need to be scape-goated
For flies flag up the life of a day, and deserve to be left alone.
Not only that, flies pollinate just as many plants as the more popular bee:
Without the fly the summer would be silent and fruitless
For it services edible crops: onions and carrots; cabbage and peppers;
Flies have star roles in the growth of tea, and of coffee;
Of sunflowers, and garlic; of catnip and cocoa; of lettuce and broccoli,
Of radish, and avocado – the fly escapes from its stereotype:
It spreads no more diseases than does man; and it breaks down waste
For topsoil; and without flies man would be buried in corpses.
Yet they’re despised, for man hates nothing more than those he wrongs
And, to the US President, the fly had a life unworthy of being lived:
It had cut in on a CNBC discussion of the media’s coverage of his power,
That Presidential superpower which sanctions killing with impunity.
“The snuff aspect of it, killing the fly, was psychologically useful for Obama.”
“He decided to take it out, and he did take it out.”
The President’s interviewer, John Harwood, would tell the New York Times,
He might have added, “for violence is our default position.”
And, of course, if a tiny fly has you gagging with schoolgirl disgust
Then why not just kill it? – though, like the ‘Brave Little Tailor’
In Grimm’s Fairy Tales who boasted he’d killed “Seven at one blow!”
Whoever does so risks the invitation, ‘Now why stop at flies?’
After blood’s drawn in the new White House, thanks to the fly’s execution,
The President’s quickly caught by the Pentagon’s cold grip –
And he’s ensnared in the vast web of war games that are America’s business
From which all Presidents have to learn how much they profit.
Suddenly this ‘peace candidate’ who had once claimed to admire Gandhi
Is sending over 30,000 troops to Afghanistan,
For a selection to urinate on victims, photograph themselves doing so
And then bring back severed hands as trophies.
‘And also’, the Pentagon whispers, ‘there’s a new toy we wish you to road-test:
Namely, the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, or the drone.’
This robot insect, it’s the Pentagon’s boast, means no Americans need die,
For its enemies can all be killed by remote control.
So, from January 23rd, 2009, the 44th President of the US gives orders
For hundreds of UAVs to hover above Afghan villages,
Where, with their artificial compound eyes, the drones spy on those below,
Aim Hellfire missiles at them, and burn them to death.
The Predator drone’s thermobaric weapons, with their fuel-air explosives,
Work by spreading an incendiary mist which then ignites.
A vacuum’s made by a firestorm tearing apart those in target buildings.
They can burst the internal organs of laborers in nearby fields.
On the President’s first directive 22 lives are destroyed, including 3 children;
In his first year the US President airily orders 600 drone attacks –
Over 90 are killed by one missile from a hovering drone above Farah province,
Signed off by the President, fresh from his triumph as a fly killer.
Shaky images of Pashtun children playing in colourful villages are relayed
Across eight-and-a-half thousand miles to Creech Air base in Nevada
Whereupon they’re misread as suspicious gatherings, inviting elimination
For being an unspecified threat to the US’s “full spectrum dominance”.
The Empire’s 44th attack-dog is now clear, “We must lead by building a 21st-century military,”
“We’ll have the strongest armed forces in the history of the world.”
Dr. Martin Luther King has been swept aside in favour of the US’s ‘core values’,
Namely the divine right to global resources and a license to kill.
Thanks to their ‘death chips’, or the Radio Frequency IDs, dished out by US Special Forces,
‘Got guys you don’t like? Bad guys? Put these near their huts. Here, money…’
President Obama’s drones can then triangulate these telltale homing beacons:
Feed their locations back to base, and trigger the drones’ cyber-murders.
A nineteen-year-old boy, Habibur Rehman, is given $122 to drop RFIDs in twists of paper
He flicks them into houses, “If I was successful, I was told I’d be given thousands of dollars;
So I started throwing the chips all over. I knew people were dying because of what I was doing. It was an easy job. I needed the money.”
His fellow-villagers find him and put him on trial, then shoot Habibur dead.
After the President’s first salvo, thousands of Pashtun turned out for the funerals;
One banner reads: “BOMBING TRIBES: OBAMA’S FIRST GIFT TO PAKISTAN”
A Waziri chief, Malik Taj Mohammed, asks, “Why doesn’t Obama understand poverty?
“Why doesn’t he spend his money trying to help us rather than kill us?”
The first President who might once have led the US out of a murderous mind-set,
Is inexplicably changing Dr King’s ploughshares into imperial swords;
The crown housing King’s revolutionary conscience is melted down for an Imperial diadem –
King’s keys to the Promised Land are traded for the drones of Obamageddon.
When eighty were killed at Makeen, Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Yousef Raza Gilani, implored Obama to stop
But the CIA’s Director, Leon Panetta, responded by saying his drones were “effective and the only game in town”
The Wall Street Journal parroted its government, “Drones make war-fighting more humane”
And, as war floats Wall Street’s boat, the Journal cheers, “Unmanned bombs away!”
“When I’m President,” Obama had swaggered, “we’ll wage the war that has to be won.”
“And on the right battlefield,” he’d promise, “in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
Though a corporal, Rick Reyes of the Marine Corps, would tell Congress the following April
“Almost a hundred per cent of suspected terrorists turn out to be innocent civilians.”
Impassioned crowds appear in Islamabad holding up banners: “STOP DRACULEAN DRONE ATTACKS”
An anguished headline reads: “Resulting Bloodshed of Innocent Pakistanis.”
Witnesses described being buzzed by delta-shaped bats terrorizing communities:
With mechanical fangs that spit projectiles, tearing flesh and ending lives.
From his distant base a Predator pilot, with his ‘sensor operator’, sits in a screen-filled office
From where they can both peep at an Afghan procession moving from the bride’s house to the groom’s
And can hear people singing the Pashto wedding song, Ahesta boro, Mah-e-man, ‘Go slowly, my lovely moon.’
But groups at dusk with strange instruments signal ‘Red Alert’ in their Reconnaissance Manuals.
While it’s traditional for Afghans to fire volleys with old rifles at wedding feasts,
When seen by digital snoops in Nevada, such displays are classed as threats.
Two drone operators exchange nods, then launch a fireball to engulf the wedding party
And the President’s favored weapon fries Pashtun flesh with 3000 degree flames.
The wedding song’s drowned out by explosions; the wedding’s future offspring are killed by keystrokes.
Then, their shift over, the drone operators use the drive home to Vegas to “decompress” –
There’s a brisk ritual in which the battle-hardened reassure novices: ‘Rag heads incubate terror.
‘You can save lives if you zap ‘em. It’s a neat plus, dude.’
Colonel Chris Chambliss of the 432nd Air Expeditionary Wing at the Creech Springs base
Plays tapes of his Predator drones to display his company’s skill-sets:
He boasts to defense journalists there’s an “insatiable appetite” for the system’s “capabilities”
And he adds, “We’re the victims of our own success.”
Remote controlled assassination is a “game changer” he proudly explains
To the National Defense magazine and to the military press
Whom he’s invited to watch his unit’s Hellfire missiles destroying vehicles.
He smiles with satisfaction, “This really is the weapon of choice.”
“Our sensor operators use their laser instruments after our pilots fire a missile,” “Eighteen-year-olds,” he elaborates, “guide them to its target.”
“Sometimes,” he admits, “sensor operators have sought out a chaplain after an attack.”
A staffer chips in, protectively, “No one walks into it blind.”
Protesters placard the Creech base: “Ground the Drones lest we Reap the Whirlwind”
But the President views his robot flies as being so smart blowback’s impossible
So he dispenses Predators and Reapers with impunity, like a radiant TV housewife
Whose sparkling smiles sell a brutal Empire by sprinkling it with magic dust.
In ‘All Falls Down’ Kanye West would sing “The prettiest people
Do the ugliest things on the road to riches” –
When it’s known that drone missiles are tipped with Depleted Uranium,
The President’s radiant smile looks radioactive.
A pro-Obama journalist writes, “Reaper aerial killbot harvests its first fleshies”
Gleefully adding, “Hapless meatsacks slaughtered by flying mechanoid”
But worlds away, Dr Munir Ahmad, a Miranshah psychiatrist, notes, “The women are so afraid of the drone’s noise
That even a door-slam scares them into uncontrollable tears.”
Mohammed Yaqoob, a Miranshah teacher, says, “The children are so frightened of drones
They can’t concentrate on their lessons. They just sit in the classroom
Looking up at the drones in the sky that continuously hover over the town.
They don’t sleep at night. They’re afraid of being bombed in their beds.”
An Afghan child may come to learn of the American Way of Life by being killed by it
Or by burying his family: his mother, father, grandparents, and siblings –
The last links in a chain of bodies from the White House to a bleak base in the desert
Where ‘pilots’ kill those ‘threatening democracy’ by their just being alive.
The air aces who once “slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God”
Are now downsized by the Pentagon’s techno-Taliban
To fantasy flyboys whose ‘situational awareness’ derives from hours spent gaming
In arcades rather than, more courageously, in the ‘wild blue yonder’.
A US Air Force pilot now only needs to be someone trained to sit upright, and who has played Game Boy 2.
Flight-Sim avionics will ensure the UAV vehicle’s takeoff and landing is fully automated.
Commanders-in-Chief – the drones’ warlords – who direct these squadrons of couch potato killers
Are turning their Air Force into a Chair Force, that can wipe out Afghans by flicking a joystick.
Air Force operators elatedly yell out “crispy critters” on turning screen figures to ashes –
Gloating over those they’re programmed to think inferior, a people they cannot know,
Yet Predator pilots pretend to be their own comic book heroes, vaporizing ‘alien forces of doom’,
Their technology can persuade them it’s brave to control a control-panel.
After more White House attacks, Afghan tribal chiefs record fallen villagers on slips for NGOs
Calculating Obama’s drone killings to be over a thousand in his first year,
Yet the Afghan ambassador who tells Obama he’s killing forty-eight civilians to each insurgent is dismissed
So the operatives of Creech Springs may continue their cyber-killing.
The 44th President has developed an appetite for these drones,
Ordering up hundreds more than his predecessor, Bush;
The President even jokes about them, by his threatening to use them
To keep the latest pop group away from his daughters.
At a White House Correspondents Association Dinner, on May 1st, 2010
The President announces excitedly, “The Jonas Brothers are here”.
He declares that his daughters are “huge fans” of the current pop icons,
Then says sternly with mock reproof, “But, boys, don’t get any ideas.”
He warns the Jonas Brothers, “I have two words for you – Predator drones!
Then he adds theatrically, “You will never see it coming!”
The joke proves so popular that the President milks it, “You think I’m joking?”
Loyal laughter signals a reluctance to search out his meaning,
Unless it’s thought a joke that one in three killed by drones are civilians;
Or considered funny for Afghan children who “never see it coming”
There’s a crass sadism in a President’s boasting about the power to kill
While his operators dispose of the unknown and cry “bug splat.”
A mind-set echoed by Admiral William Fallon,
The head of U.S. Central Command,
“These guys are ants,” he’s in the habit of saying,
“When the time comes, you crush them.”
The next day Obama ordered another air attack against the Pashtun in Helmand
Resulting in an “errant rocket strike” killing four children in Marja,
Yet that day his priority was the death of a former staffer, of whom he noted,
“She insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt.”
The President kills a harmless fly, then he’s trapped a sick cycle
Of death and narcissism, where his own psyche’s ensnared
By a huge armed tarantula, his Empire, with its thousand bases worldwide –
Each pestering him to supply it with bullets and bombs.
In November 2008, Pakistani children outside the Peshawar Press Club:
Showed their Eid savings of $261 they were sending to Obama;
They said it was for “Uncle Obama’s election campaign” and implored him
“Not to rain missiles on our country”. They were ignored.
Ignored by a candidate who’d blithely proclaim, “A light will shine down from somewhere.
It will light upon you. You’ll experience an epiphany. You’ll say to yourself,
I have to vote for Barack. I have to do it.”
All Presidents bathe in spotlights from which they gain a brief Faustian glow,
Before ending up as war criminals, with arrest warrants outstanding.
By contrast, the Americas’ last black leader, Toussaint Louverture,
Defeated three empires and abolished slavery in Haiti;
Whereas two centuries later, the US Empire’s honey-voiced President
Would be Lord of the Drones, technology’s Lord of the Flies.
“When the Americans were not here, things were so calm.
There was the same earth and the same sky,”
Said Abdullah Khan, a refugee from Helmand River Province,
And he asks, “What benefit did America bring us?”
The answer’s thirty million pounds of bombs since the United Stares arrived
A high point being Obama’s own operation, his ‘Strike of the Sword’.
And a refugee explains how this July 2009 bombing would scatter body parts
Reducing graves to chaos through “the theft of our arms and legs”.
In August 2009 five farmers were loading up cucumbers in Zhari to take to Kandahar
When Obama’s video-pilots thought them insurgents putting explosives in a van.
So strains of DNA from a people known to Alexander the Great were incinerated
By skill-sets acquired in teenagers’ dens and then honed by Attention Deficit.
Some Pashtun are Graeco-Bactrians with a language imbued with pre-Islamic Greek myth:
Shpane is ‘shepherd’, a word concealing Pan – the protector of flocks who plays the pipes;
Seshtan is the All Mighty in Pashto – Zeus-tan – signifying somewhere devoted to Zeus;
And Oris, is ‘cloud’, or Iris in Greek, a transformative goddess with a magical rainbow.
Mordozmai is the Minotaur haunting Hadira, the Pashtun for graveyard and the Greek Hades;
Hazhdahar is Hydra, the many-headed dragon, and there’s a Pashtun curse mentioning Tartarus –
The same word as their Greek forbears used for the nethermost region of hell –
And then Hora is wedding, like ‘Hera’, the wedding-Goddess, and Persely is Persephone, or Spring.
Pashtun boys are sent to a hojrah, to gain strength – the brotherhood barracks of Sparta –
The jirga derives from Greek democracy; tribal law has trial by jury
Yet after 23 centuries the Afghan Greeks are required to have their history ransacked, just like Iraq,
By an ignorant US Congress and its Godfather, their celebrity President.
The Pashtun wedding dance, the Attan, once Athenian and before that Zoroastrian,
Has Pashtun men and women spinning round a fire, attaining communion;
But at another wedding, this time in Farah, it would be a dance of death, finished off by swivel-seated killers
Swigging sodas and chomping burgers as they send in their gate-crashing missiles.
When tribesmen ask their invaders, Sta Kandi –‘What have you done?’ – They’re handed a few dollars for their dead with an ignorant shrug;
Should they ask themselves what they’re doing they know they’re defending their territory
And they wonder why the tahdedawal, the badmash (foreign philistine thugs)
Can’t understand two Pashtun words, Lere larsha – ‘Go away.’
“I don’t want the foreigners here when I clean blood from my home,”
Said a Helmand shopkeeper, Haji Dawood Khan;
“The more foreign troops there are, the more people will hate them.”
Echoed Mohammad Karigar, from Kandahar.
But Washington’s palazzo, its White House, which comes complete with feudal servants,
Still houses the same Petri dish that spawned its robber baron society:
The same zealots of profiteering still hide in the same enclaves of privilege
Still wage the same predatory wars against those they pretend are a threat.
And, using a strident Doomsday rhetoric to make her superfluous job significant,
The US Secretary of State calls Pakistan a “mortal danger” to the world:
Repeatedly claiming “global security” is endangered by dustbowl herdsmen
She’s maddened by a faith that so tryingly renders them fearless.
For the spirit of Badshah Khan, the nonviolent soldier of Islam, still guides many Pashtun:
He founded history’s first pacifist army to free Pashtun from the British;
He raised 100,000 Red Shirts gaining freedom from “the foreigners who disgraced us”
Through his “gentle and brave” Khudai Khidmatgars whose tactics were simply “patience”.
By contrast with this ‘frontier Gandhi’, the US Proconsul, its ‘Special Envoy’
Richard Holbrooke, would expose himself through coarse metaphors:
“The US victory”, Holbrooke said, “will be like pornography. We’ll know it when we see it.”
As if anticipating some undisclosed but obscene excitement.
But their so-called “good war” has already been filed under ‘Apocalypse porn’
For when President Clinton was being hounded by the mass media
To deflect scandal he’d launch seventy Cruise missiles which, in Khost,
Became known as ‘Lewinskys’ and it was these which provoked 9/11.
A stray girl in Balkh, the birthplace of Rumi, performs a song
About tying an angel’s wing to a donkey’s tail
So that the donkey will fly and it’ll be “like a beam of God” –
A kind thought implying the stupid can be saved.
But to Ata Noor, Balkh’s governor, this appears unlikely
Since “US troops fail to respect Afghan culture.
“They taunt Pashtun fighters, burn their bodies, point them west;
Then say they’re ‘lady boys’ for not retrieving them.”
“As a trick they offer food or medicine, then they kidnap those who appear,
Then they force them to tell them where their relatives are.
For the US to torture Pashtun into betraying their brothers is unwise
But they prefer bullets in our brains to lines from Rumi.”
“Rumi would promise us that beyond all ideas of wrong-doing,
Or even of right doing, there lies a beautiful meadow
Where Rumi said ‘I will meet you’. But who’ll get to it now?
For the way is blocked by those without any remorse.”
Tall Afghan turbans echo the layered peaks of Helmand mountains
Where, as with Pamir province, lie rich sources of uranium –
To extend their power the invaders plan to smash the very landscape:
To break heads to break into mountains so as to steal poison.
Three and a half million refugees would flee Obama’s drones in the North-West Frontier
And the media demonizes the insurgents into a Muslim Khmer Rouge.
As Pashtun villages are saved from the Taliban by being bombed by Obama’s drones
A servile media proclaims, “No flies on this ninja President!”
A survivor of a Granai drone points to patches of stained earth,
“My sister, my nephew and my nieces were killed in this place.
I found my nephew’s body here; yesterday a farmer found another body
Lying over there. There was a woman here;
“A head was there; some legs were here. All burned.
You wouldn’t be able to know who was who.
We knew them by their clothes or some other sign.”
Then he described an aircraft with no pilot
“That had made a ‘zzzz zzzz’ sound “like a fly”
And he added: “The bomb’s left people sick.
Their mouths bleed when they eat their food.” He asked,
“The bomb the Americans used in this place;
“Maybe it’s not been used anywhere in the world before?”
But it has and each thermobaric missile is tipped
With Depleted Uranium to penetrate Afghan buildings,
Causing even more damage to those yet unborn.
Mohammed Wali, a farmer in Mirali, said Obama’s attacks cause some to join the militants:
“My neighbour was so furious when a drone killed his mother, his two sisters and seven-year-old brother
That he filled his car with explosives and rammed it towards an army convoy,”
Wali explained. “He had to avenge the death of his loved ones. He killed twelve people.”
Dariya Khan, a Pashtun fighter from the Waziri mountains
Makes it clear why his fight is with Washington:
“Taliban means nothing in Waziristan. Talib is just a name.
We want to save our dignity and our houses.”
“But America told Pakistan ‘we need the oil
So we need to build this pipeline’.
But we won’t allow a pipeline on Pashtun land
And we don’t want Americans on it.”
“This is the reason why America told Pakistan
To kill Waziri Pashtuns;
This is why they bomb us, because we do not agree
With the terms set out by America.”
“There are 40 million Pashtun people
But no Pashtunistan.
Without a separate state for the Pashtuns
We will all be lost and disunited.”
“They murder us so they can build their oil pipe.”
And this is what America wants.
Pashtunkhwa Tarana, Pashtunkhwa Tarana,
Long Live Pashtunistan.”
Obama claims the US to be “the greatest force for progress in the history of the world”
Though such ‘progress’ means having 2000 nuclear missiles on hair-trigger alert;
“We must have the strongest military on the planet and sustain our technological edge”
Though that ‘edge’ dices children into carrion and fries them with flame-throwers.
Nicknamed ‘termites with thermite’ by their developers and funded by the White House,
Micro-drones, like napalm bats, can now enter buildings and spatter the inhabitants – They’re programmed to find flesh and to burn it with inextinguishable, chemical flames.
Next to those who devise such techno-trolls surely any housefly has soul.
To turn war into an electronic tournament detaches it from all human emotion;
Yet recruiting ads for the military now claim “the frontlines are unmanned”
For, thanks to PlayStation warfare, spilling blood is only an enemy’s problem
War’s murders can be packaged as ‘cool’– a technophiliac’s eye candy.
At Army Recruitment Centers war is now presented as war-gaming
Where teenagers are handed out model M-16s
To target CGI Muslims or round up Mexican migrants at the border
And to simulate shooting each of them in the head.
Such games condition a child’s eyes, hands and nervous system
To shoot fast without leaving a moment for reflective thought –
So when their electronic fidgeting has erased enough computer graphics
They can be signed up to cause real deaths on US army screens.
Drone operators are unmanned by such cerebral software being installed
For their mind’s then rewired to lower resistance to slaughter –
Forgetting thoughtless killing equates the Drone Age with the Stone Age,
With man’s primitive instincts rewired by techno-zombies.
At the outset of the US experiment its luminary, Tom Paine, announced
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
“An army of principles penetrates where an army of soldiers does not”
Contrast this with a recent progress report from the Empire:
An Urdu paper, the Jang, accuses the President of “shutting his ears
To the screams of untold thousands of women
Whom your drones have turned to dust, Mister Obama.”
His strikes had killed eighty-six at a Makeen funeral.
Writing in the radical Black Agenda Report in April 2012
Glen Ford records drones multiplying under Obama,
Saying of the Administration’s unscrupulous strategies:
The radical journalist I.F. Stone who spent a lifetime studying
The politics of the United States
In the end concluded that, “All governments are run by liars
And nothing they say should be believed.”
“I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out
By the time I am president, it is the first thing I’ll do.
I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war.
You can take that to the bank.” That was Obama in 2007.
Normally “You can take that to the bank,” means ‘trust me’
Although if it’s been said by the ethically cleansed
Then it only means that I’m against war until I’m in power –
Where blood money trumps all political promises.
“Now all my lies are proved untrue”, Kipling wrote,
“And I must face the men I slew.
“What tale”, he asked, “shall serve me here among
“Mine angry and defrauded young?”
But “In Obama’s war policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan”,
Says Tom Engelhardt, in ‘The American Way of War’,
“His imperial avatar is already plunging into the dark –
Into the distinctly opaque valley of death.”
Thanks to karma the US, given its lack of care for global health,
Comes inevitably to be regarded in an identical light
As the President’s first victim: Powerless. To be killed with contempt.
Now the United States itself arouses a similar disgust.
The fly the President crushed at the height of a Messianic reputation
Has morphed by a magic realism into denatured insects
Which incinerate children and swoop down and slaughter tribesmen,
And a fragile fly’s corpse leads to a President’s being seen as evil.
“What dost thou strike at, Marcus, with thy knife?”
Asks Titus Andronicus in Shakespeare’s play.
“At that that I have kill’d, my lord”; replies Marcus,
“A fly.” At which his brother Titus explodes.
“Out on thee, murderer! thou kill’st my heart;
Mine eyes are cloy’d with view of tyranny:
A deed of death done on the innocent
Becomes not Titus’ brother: get thee gone:
I see thou art not for my company.”
Confused by his brother the General, Marcus protests,
“Alas, my lord, I have but kill’d a fly.”
“But how”, Titus responds, “if that fly had a father and mother?
How would he hang his slender gilded wings,
And buzz lamenting doings in the air!
Poor harmless fly,
That, with his pretty buzzing melody,
Came here to make us merry! and thou hast kill’d him.”
‘Kill not the moth nor butterfly’, said William Blake,
‘For the Last Judgment draweth nigh’.
Yet Presidents can be persuaded they’re as great as gods
For they’re dishing out last judgments daily.
* * *
A Navaho youth entering adulthood will isolate himself
In the desert, where he is always visited by a fly:
‘Big Fly’, who answers questions about the natural order
On which the youth will be examined on his return.
Yet despite a fellow fly’s complex circuitry sustaining bio-diversity
And despite its being of such intricacy as to beggar Silicon Valley,
This fly was judged to have no place in the life of a colonial President
So he crushed it, blew its fuses, and sought applause for doing so.
Though “If all the insects,” as Jonas Salk said, “disappeared from the earth
Within fifty years life would end.
If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within fifty years
All forms of life would flourish.”
Unlike the fly, the White House is unable to change direction –
Its carbon boot-print firmly indents the planet’s neck
As if some “god-given” exceptionalism can guarantee the US
A privileged exemption from the end of civilization.
“It is a mistake of arrogance to mistake size for significance,”
The ‘Hellstrom Chronicles’ once declared;
But according to successive Emperors of the United States
What’s small can’t be beautiful, just in the way.
Yet “We should judge every scrap of biodiversity
As priceless,” E.O. Wilson has insisted,
For “If insects were to vanish, the environment
Would quickly collapse into chaos.”
A chaos presided over by a superman who triumphs over a fly;
A man changed by the forces released as he falls from grace;
Changed from being a global hero to becoming a mere criminal,
A mere fly making himself a prisoner of an Imperial web.
Pity that nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, farewells him with hooting, only to welcome another with trumpeting again.
– Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of the Prophet, 1934
“Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature […] and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears, would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell the truth!”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, book V
There is no creature He does not hold by the forelock.
– Qur’an, 11: 56
…the Fly, whose health is the honey of the air
– Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno, c 1763, MS page 1V, line 10
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Former Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett, who spent seven years in the NFL, drowned Tuesday off a Florida beach. According to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. He is 35 years old.
The sheriff’s office said first responders were called to the beach in Destin, Florida at 2:12 p.m. local time after a group of people swimming near a sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico struggled to get back to shore. One man, later identified as Mallett, was not breathing when he was pulled from the water and was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
“It is with great sadness that we share the loss of coach Ryan Mallett,” White Hall, the school district where Mallett coached high school football, said. wrote in a post on its website. “Coach Mallet was a beloved coach and educator. We ask that you remember his family, team, students, fellow coaches and staff of the White Hall School District in your prayers.”
Mallett played for the University of Michigan for one season before transferring to Arkansas, where he started a combined 26 games in 2009 and 2010. As a redshirt sophomore in 2009 under coach Bobby Petrino, he led the Razorbacks to an 8-5 record. In the Liberty Bowl, he earned offensive MVP honors.
His best season came in 2010, when he threw for 3,869 yards, 32 touchdowns and 12 interceptions with a 64.7 completion percentage and earned second-team All-SEC honors for the second time. He finished seventh in the 2010 Heisman Trophy voting.
“We are shocked and saddened by the passing of Ryan Mallett,” Arkansas football program He said in a statement on Twitter. “He was a Razorback legend with larger-than-life talent and a personality to match. He led our program to some of its greatest moments in recent memory. He will be missed by all who knew him. Our thoughts and prayers will be with him. Mother Debbie and his family.”
The New England Patriots selected Mallett in the third round of the 2011 NFL Draft, 74th overall. Coach Bill Belichick explained at the time that the team could not have enough depth at quarterback, leading to the selection of Mallett as one of Tom Brady’s backups.
“We felt he was a good player. He’s had success everywhere — high school, college. He’s an impressive guy to talk to,” Belichick said at the time.
Belichick described how the Patriots followed Mallett’s college career, starting at Michigan in 2007 and then when he transferred to Arkansas as a result of a new Wolverine coaching staff establishing a different offense. At Arkansas, Belichick noted how effective he was in a pro-style offense under Petrino, saying in 2011: “He’s a long way off compared to some of the other quarterbacks we’ve seen.”
In a statement Tuesday, Belichick said he was “deeply saddened by Ryan’s tragic passing. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and the many people he touched.”
Mallett played just 24 snaps as Brady’s backup in New England, resulting in Brady’s durability and occasional exit from games. He was traded to the Houston Texans prior to the 2014 season, where he made six starts and played in nine games over two seasons with the team before being released in October 2015, when he signed with the Baltimore Ravens. Two starts in eight appearances so far in 2017.
“Terrible news to read about Ryan Mallett. Gone too soon. Rest in peace bro,” J.J. Watt is Mallett’s former teammate in Houston. said in a tweet.
Mallett appeared in 21 NFL games for his career, making eight starts. He finished 190 of 345 attempts in the NFL with 1,835 yards and nine touchdowns with 10 interceptions.
After beginning his coaching career as an assistant at Mountain Home High School, he was hired as the head football coach at White Hall High School in 2022.
“I always knew I was going to coach,” Mallett said after being named coach in White Hall, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. “It’s natural for me. I understand it. I understand how everything works, and then I love football. You teach kids the right way at a young age, that’s something I love.”
ESPN’s Mike Reiss, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.


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This four-book series by Ronald M. Lee details the history of Australian airmail beginning with balloon mail in the 19th Century and concluding with the re-establishment of services after WWII. It provides, for the first time, an overview of the story and relates philatelic events to the events of the time.
- Book 1: The beginning via India 1934
- Book 2: The rapid advances between 1934-1939 of the England/Australia mail services
- Book 3: World War II: 1939 – December 1941
- Book 4: World War II: December 1941 – 1943
The series brings to light various myths which have gradually been accepted without any historic basis. In particular, this has changed our understanding as to when the first airmail was carried in Australia.
The information in this series is arranged chronologically making it easy, when examining a cover, to understand the historic events and attitudes of the time. This has exposed, as a myth, some assumptions made in the past. There are route maps showing the development of services in Australia with a comprehensive selection of historic photos and illustrations. Various types of mail items are defined, including opportunity airmail, first flight covers, airmail, flight souvenirs, company mail, official mail, etc.
During WWII the majority of mail, on some air routes, was mail to and from Australian servicemen abroad – soldiers, sailors, airmen, nurses and prisoners of war etc. Books 3 and 4 provide details of this mail together with war events which provide a deeper understanding of conditions at that time.
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Terpenes are compounds produced by a variety of plants, as well as some insects. They have strong odors and are often used by plants for protection, as well as to attract predators of pests. Terpenes and Terpenoids are produced from resin in plants, including cannabis. Terpenes are used by nearly every living creature to form new cells and create new chemicals.
Terpenes are found in many essential oils and are theorized to be a large part of the beneficial effects of aromatherapy. Cannabis contains many terpenes that through the “entourage effect” modify the effects of THC in the mind and body, as well as have therapeutic effects of their own.
Cannabis users with marijuana vaporizers have an opportunity to use their temperature settings to create vapor that is focused on specific terpenes. Vaping cannabis plant matter at the boiling point of the terpene desired will maximize the amount of therapeutic terpenes in the vapor. Below is a list of many of the primary terpenes in cannabis, their effects and the temperature at which to set your vaporizer.
- Boiling point: 166-168C / 330.8-334.4 degree Fahrenheit
- Properties: Analgesic. Anti-inflammatory, Antibiotic, Antimutagenic
Myrcene is known as the “couch-lock” terpene and is the most common terpene in most cannabis strains. Myrcene is found in many other plants in nature aside from cannabis, including Bay, ylang-ylang, wild thyme, parsley, cardamom and hops. Its effect is primarily sedative and pain-relieving. Set your marijuana vaporizer to 330 degrees Fahrenheit to maximize Myrcene extraction.
- Boiling point: 177C / 350.6 degree Fahrenheit
- Properties: Immune potentiator, Antidepressant, Antimutagenic
Limonene is the second most common terpene in cannabis. Limonene occurs in many plants, including mint, juniper, rosemary, pine, and all citrus rinds. Limonene is responsible for some cannabis strain’s grapefruit, lemon or tangerine smell. Limonene is energizing and antidepressant, as well as anti-cancer To help maximize Limonene terpenes in your vapor, set your vaporizer to around 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Boiling point: 198C / 388.4 degree Fahrenheit
- Properties: Sedative, Antidepressant, Anxiolytic, Immune potentiator
Linalool smells floral with a touch of spice. It is the major terpene responsible for Lavender’s scent. It is contained in many other plants as well, over 200 in fact. It is sedative and antidepressant, as well as anti-anxiety. Studies have shown at the opioid needs of people inhaling lavender oil, rich in Linalool, were greatly reduced compared to controls. To maximize Linalool extraction with your vaporizer, set your temperature to 388 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Boiling point: 224C / 435.2 degree Fahrenheit
- Properties: Memory booster, AChE inhibitor (anti Alzheimer’s, anti-parkinson’s, anti-schizophrenic), Sedative, Antipyretic
Pulegone is a minority terpene found in cannabis, as well as peppermint, catnip, pennyroyal and camphor. Pulegone can be sedative and fever-reducing as well as reducing some negative side-effects of cannabis such as short term memory loss. Pulegone is best consumed at high temperatures, so set your marijuana vaporizer to 435 degrees Fahrenheit to maximize the Pulegone content of your vapor.
- Boiling point: 176C / 348.8 degree Fahrenheit
- Properties: AChE inhibitor (anti Alzheimer’s, anti-parkinson’s, anti-schizophrenic), Increases cerebral blood flow, Stimulant, Antibiotic, Antiviral, Anti-inflammatory, Anti-nociceptive
Eucalyptol has a cool minty and mildly spicy taste. It’s found predominantly in its namesake tree, the Eucalyptus, as well as camphor laurel, bay leaves, tea tree, rosemary, sage and sweet basil. Eucalyptol is used in mouthwash, some cough suppressants and body powders. Eucalyptol has also been shown to be effective at fighting leukemia and colon cancer cells, as well as asthma. To properly vaporize Eucalyptol, set your vaporizer to 348 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Boiling point: 156C / 312.8 degree Fahrenheit
- Properties: Anti-inflammatory, Bronchodilator, Stimulant, Antibiotic, AChE inhibitor (anti Alzheimer’s, anti-parkinson’s, anti-schizophrenic)
Pinene is one of the most common terpenes found in nature. Most common in conifers, it also occurs in camphorweed, sage and cannabis. Pinene, as the name may lead you to believe, smells like pine, or a bit like rosemary. Pinene is an excellent bronchodilator, helping your lungs take in more oxygen, as well as an expectorant, helping clear sinuses and other mucus membranes. In Chinese medicine it is used to combat cancer. To get the most pinene in your vapor, set your temperature a little lower to 312 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Boiling point: 217-218C / 422.6-424.4 degree Fahrenheit
- Properties: Sedative, Antibiotic, AChE inhibitor (anti Alzheimer’s, anti-parkinson’s, anti-schizophrenic), Antioxidant, Antimalarial
Terpineol has a pleasing odor reminiscent of lilacs and is a common perfume and cosmetic ingredient. It is thought to be relaxing and sedative. Terpineol has been shown to have the highest antioxidant activity of any terpene tested and has been shown to inhibit tumor growth as well. To get the most Terpineol in your vapor, heat your vaporizer on the hotter side to 422 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Boiling point: 177C / 350.6 degree Fahrenheit
- Properties: Antibiotic, Anticandidal, AChE inhibitor (anti Alzheimer’s, anti-parkinson’s, anti-schizophrenic)
Cymene is a part of several essential oils, including Cumin and Thyme and smells a little of both. Cymene is anti-inflammatory and reduces pain sensation. Studies by the National Institute of Health showed that cymene significantly increased the time it took mice to notice pain caused by heat or inflammation. To extract the most Cymene into your vapor, set your temperature to 350 degrees Fahrenheit while vaping cannabis.
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Southern Governor His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa today opened the Family Fun Festival at the Bahrain International Circuit (BIC).
The opening ceremony was attended by Deputy Southern Governor Brigadier Isa Thamer Al Dosari, Southern Municipality Director General Asem Abdullatif and other officials.
The entertainment festival which runs until December 3 will be open to the public from 4 p.m until midnight. Over 100 projects and other sectors are taking part in the event.
The Governor toured the festival venue which features entertainments events, restaurants, cafes, children arcades in addition to cultural artistic shows
In a statement, HH Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa praised the festivals which caters to different categories of visitors, noting the the role of the Governorate as center for hosting major events.
Source: Bahrain News Agency

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3.5 Room cleanliness
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Posted Jul 27, 2015
Dated and not in a good way. Overpriced for the old place. Lots of job/travelers playing football in the parking area and partying into the night. Breakfast not available until 7:30 a.m. Knowing all that ahead of time, would not have stayed there. There was a nice vintage hotel in the town that looked far more inviting.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Montana
Clean Hotel!Posted Jun 12, 2015
Pros: Clean and friendly!
This was our 4th stay at this hotel. It is exceptionally clean and the owners and staff are super friendly! Would definitely recommend!
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Wonderful!Posted Jan 5, 2015
Cons: No improvement necessary!
We have a friend in Forsyth so we have stayed here twice. It is exceptionally clean and the owner is friendly. Bed is comfortable and we always feel at home here! I would recommend this hotel to anyone!
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Metaline Falls, WA
Revisiting ForsythPosted Aug 1, 2014
Pros: They got us checked in although we were several hours early. And they found out some information, and made recommendations on restaurants.
Cons: The room did smell of old smokers - new carpeting, drapes and bedding, and a real down-to-the-bones cleaning would help.
Location: Easy access from the interstate, and you MUST EAT at the Jersey Lily Bar & Café in Ingomar (30 minutes north of Forsyth) - the steaks are the best!
Having once lived in Forsyth, 33 years ago, I returned to just see what had changed - and much had. I remember that there was a "Sundowner Motel" but of course had never stayed there all those years ago... and I really wasn't expecting much. But the room was pleasant and the staff friendly and inviting. A comfortable bed and a clean bathroom are all we needed and we got that.
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Pros: Friendly staff. Next to gas station/convenience store. Comfortable beds.
Cons: The hand held shower head did not work very well this time. I notified the desk staff and they stated they would have it fixed.
Location: Near Interstate 90 and reasonable drive to North Dakota border.
The beds are comfortable for this price level. We stayed here while driving through North Dakota and Montana to bring my son to college again. It is about half way. We have not eaten at the continental breakfast. The sitting area is very small. Friendly staff.
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Good hotel for family.Posted Nov 6, 2012
Pros: The staff
Cons: The breakfast
We enjoyed this motel, the staff was wonderful. The breakfast room was small and that would be the only down side that I can think of.
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Cons: THE PROBLEM
One of the beds was wet. We heard quite a story about how it got wet that made my sister and I both sleep in the other double bed even after the wet bed was remade. It would have been better to hear that a cooler might have leaked instead of the story we heard which included the previous guest's need for a urologist. The staff came right over (at @ 12:30 am) to change the bed, but it was still too hinky to sleep in that bed. Unfortunatly, with the oil field workers going through to North Dakota, and the big wildfires all around, there are not many options in Forsyth, and we heard from relatives/friends that this is one of the better motels in Forsyth.
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Small-town friendly and comfortable.Posted Jan 25, 2012
Pros: Accommodated a very late checkout for my convenience while my spouse attended day-long meetings.
Nice, small-town motel with comfortable room and upgraded king bed. Continental breakfast. Pet-friendly, just a $10 fee.

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We have to have a good alternative before we can close hospice.
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This week, Bergen City Council will take an important step toward closing city shelters. The offer of temporary housing in Nyhavnsveien 10 has created a huge commitment, and now we can finally provide a good place to live for drug addicts in the city.
We understand that children and adults alike can feel intimidated when new unknown neighbors arrive in the vicinity. Strangers who are unlike anyone else, drunk, and who may have struggled to find a place to live in the past.
However, we can say that these populations individually are similar to all of us. They have challenges, but they also have hopes and dreams.
Rust Service in Nyhavn is a danger to all affected
Some of them can be moved on the street without thinking about it, while others may face more obvious challenges.
It is not the case that everyone who uses temporary housing is called ROP patients as the “Neighbor Group” wrote in BA 19.10. It is important that we discuss housing for vulnerable groups without referring to an entire group of people as criminal, violent or exorbitant.
The hospices we have in the city today are not a good, safe home for those in need of temporary housing.
The city council met the neighbors in Nyhavn: – Who should be first?
But before we can close hospice homes, we count on having a good alternative. First a temporary solution in Nyhavnsveien, then a permanent solution in Møllendalsveien. Nyhavnsveien 10 will be rebuilt, and qualified staff will take care of the safety of both residents and neighbours. In periods, staffing can be adjusted upwards if there is a special need for it.
Nyhavnsveien 10 shall not be a treatment institution or a permanent home with associated follow-up services. Thus, the research that neighbors refer to will be more relevant when we design permanent homes with follow-up services. We are planning it in the housing program.
Fortunately, we have a special offer for drug addicts in Bergen, also when it comes to temporary housing. People who require a higher standard of care accommodation offer will still receive care in other healthcare or treatment offerings.
There has always been broad political agreement that all people in Bergen should have safe housing and good homes. Next week we can show that we deliver on what we promised.
Degrading drug houses must be built in Nyhavn to be able to close the hospice in Møllendalsveien
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THEIR mindless damage and graffiti costs a borough more than half-a-million pounds a year.
And police are now urging residents to name and shame the vandals, arsonists and graffiti yobs that blight lives on the streets and estates of Gateshead.
After receiving repeated complaints from the public about unprovoked damage attacks officers from Northumbria Police’s Gateshead area command have today launched Operation 3D (Don’t Do Damage) to tackle criminal damage in the area.
Vandalism and graffiti costs the local authority, fire service, transport operators and housing associations hundreds of thousand of pounds every year to clean-up and repair. And individuals who have had their cars damaged or windows broken are also left to foot the bill.
But Gateshead Central Neighbourhood Policing Team Inspector Peter Storey, told the Chronicle that although the campaign aimed to curb this waste of public money, that could be spent elsewhere, criminal damage can also blight an area’s reputation and make residents feel less safe.
“I have spoken to numerous residents who have experienced completely unprovoked and mindless vandalism,” he said.
“Frequently such attacks are where vehicles have been randomly damaged.
“Criminal damage is a very visual offence. People see a broken window or a car that has been damaged and it affects how they feel about an area. It generates a lack of confidence.”
Since April, police in Gateshead have arrested more than 100 people for criminal damage, which has fallen by 18.2%, since last year.
But it continue to be an issue that concerns residents and costs individuals and organisations lots of money.
Gateshead Council’s Environmental Services department spends £80,000 a year removing graffiti across the whole borough and transport operator Nexus has to fork out around £77,000 annually to repair damage to bus shelters and their infrastructure.
And Tyne and Wear Fire & Rescue Service says deliberate fire damage in Gateshead cost £348,900 between April 2008 and July 2008.
“The costs of this minor damage I would estimate at well over half a million pounds a year,” Insp Storey continued.
As part of Operation 3D police are urging residents to help them identify offenders so they can be brought to justice.
Officers will be targeting key areas identified through intelligence gathering and conducting high visibility patrols. And they are also reminding vandals that convictions for criminal damage can lead to sentences ranging from fines of hundreds of pounds, to a spell behind bars.
“There is no rhyme or reason to kicking a wing-mirror off a car or to break a window,” Insp Storey added.
“My message to offenders is that not only will we robustly deal with you, I will ask the housing providers to look closely at your tenancy agreement and terminate it if appropriate.
“Residents of Gateshead should name and shame those responsible.”
Anyone with any information about criminal damage in Gateshead can call their Neighbourhood Team on 03456 043 043, ext. 69191, or contact CrimeStoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


Damen Shiprepair & Conversion has developed a new innovative product, the Quick Docking/Fuel Saving package. This offers owners a fast and low-cost additional docking with the sole aim of reducing fuel consumption in between the five-year statutory survey period. The first vessel booked under the new concept has docked at Damen Shiprepair Brest (France). It is the capesize bulker Castillo De Catoira operated by Spanish company Empresa Naviera Elcano. Damen expects to bring more of its vessels to its shiprepair yards. Jos Goris, Managing Director of Damen Shiprepair Brest and initiator of the concept, commented, “We know that hull resistance builds up during years of service and this can have a significant impact on performance and consequently, fuel costs.By introducing this product, we are thinking along with our customers and know that fuel costs are a major consideration for shipowners and charterers, especially in this economic climate.” Kees Jan Groen, Commercial Director Damen Shiprepair & Conversion added, “Charterers are focusing more and more on vessel performance and its impact on fuel consumption. Owners can add value by ensuring the vessel is performing in accordance with the chartering agreement and Damen can add value and help our clients perform better.” Quick Docking characteristics
First LNG Booking for Damen Shiprepair Brest. Damen Shiprepair Brest (France) received her first firm booking for the drydocking, maintenance and repair of an LNG carrier. The Bonny Gas Transport-owned, 79,822 DWT ‘LNG SOKOTO’ will arrive at the yard end of August for maintenance work, including drydocking. Jos Goris, managing director of Damen Shiprepair Brest, says: “We are very pleased with this order and we expect more LNG vessel owners to follow
For those convinced that the latest round of corporate consolidations is the last, think again. According to a new report from Drewry, the announcement by Keppel and Hitachi to further amalgamate the shiprepair industry in Singapore is the latest indication of a changing market structure through increased consolidation, diversification and an increased competitiveness from low cost emerging nations. The intense competition prevalent within the industry is exemplified by the announcement of
China Ship Building Corporation (CSBC) is in talks with United States’ General Electric (GE) to establish a naval shiprepair facility in Kaohsiung. General Electric provides the gas turbines for the Taiwanese navy. CSBC spokesman Paul Huang said the yard was looking to sign an agreement with the American giant in July and to have a facility adjacent to the shipbuilding base in Kaohsiung up and running by year end. There are more than 30 GE built turbine engines in Taiwan’s navy including the
Damen Shipyards acquires Swedish shiprepair yard Oskarshamnsvarvet. On May 16th, 2012 Dutch shipbuilding and -repair company Damen Shipyards Group has taken over the shares of Swedish ship repair and maintenance yard Oskarshamnsvarvet in Oskarshamn. The acquisition was prepared in close cooperation with the owners and includes the full continuation of the repair yard, both as to current operations and personnel. Oskarshamnsvarvet is a ship repair yard on the south-east coast of Sweden
Total revenue for the Singapore-based group increased by 7.7% year-on-year to $391.2-million in financial year ended 30, June 2012. ASL Marine Holdings Ltd. is a vertically-integrated marine services group principally engaged in shipbuilding, shiprepair and conversion, shipchartering and other marine related services, catering to customers mainly from Asia Pacific, South Asia, Europe, Australia and the Middle East.
Shiprepair and conversion specialist A&P Aberdeen has successfully completed the first contract at its newly opened Aberdeen workshop for Coflexip Stena Offshore. A&P worked on Coflexip's construction vessels CSO Orelia and CSO Alliance, which required equipment to be fabricated and delivered within a short timeframe. A&P's new facility, which opened its doors the beginning of June, was able to comply with these deadlines via a mobile workforce to fabricate the items; seafastening frames
Graig Shipping Plc has opened a new facility in Shanghai, China, to provide a centre of excellence for ship design, newbuilding supervision, shiprepair and classification. "Chinese ship yards have enormous potential," says Hugh Williams, CEO of Graig. "This facility will help owners to get the very best from China. Under one roof we now have Graig Ship Management, which provides the highest quality newbuilding supervision services, Graig Carl Bro Ship Design
Bahrain-based Ship Repair Yard Invests $188m in facilities; Expands offshore operations Bahrain’s Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Yard (ASRY) has come a long way since starting operations towards the end of 1977, as the Arabian Gulf’s first VLCC repair yard. Today ASRY is involved in the repair of all types of commercial vessels, naval craft and offshore jack-up rigs. It also has an expanding newbuilding division which has built specialist barges as well as completing four
Damen Shiprepair Brest (France) returned the Ultra Large Crude Carrier (ULCC) TI Europe to its owners EURONAV (Belgium) after completing a full technical survey and service. The sheer size of the vessel represents a considerable challenge in itself, he says, with the shipyard applying more than 46,000 square meters of silicon paint. However, the yard can comfortably accommodate such vessels given that its largest drydock, at 420 x 80 meters, is one of the biggest in Europe.
Headquartered in Singapore, ASL own four shipyards in Singapore, Indonesia (Batam) and China (Guangdong). They inform they have conditionally agreed to purchase for US$20-million a shipyard belonging to Miclyn Express Offshore Limited (MEO), located adjacent to its own yard in Batam, Indonesia.
Damen Shiprepair Brest (France) received a booking for the drydocking and repairs of two shuttle tankers managed by Knutsen NYK Offshore Tankers A/S. The 88,109 GRT sister vessels Karen Knutsen and Sallie Knutsen expect to arrive end February and Middle of March respectively.
The maintenance of passenger ferry Victoria I at Finland’s largest ship repair yard, a part of BLRT Grupp, has been finished. Scheduled maintenance of Victoria I was carried out within six days at Turku Repair Yard’s dry dock
Damen ARNO Dunkerque, part of the Damen Shiprepair & Conversion Group, has given a new set of feet to what they are caling the world’s first purpose-built offshore wind turbine installation and maintenance vessel, the 2003-built MPI Resolution*
The largest pontoon ever stock-built by Damen was sold to the Canadian McKeil-Malaspina partnership and will be towed to Newfoundland on the east coast of Canada this summer where it will be used to support offshore construction operations.
Group revenue increased 19.0% to S$465.4 million due to higher contributions from shipbuilding, shipchartering and engineering segments Gross profit margin improved across all business segments, taking gross profit 47.0% higher to S$83.6 million
Strategically located Gibraltar shipyard Gibdock has continued its run of technically advanced offshore support vessel repair and maintenance projects, securing a contract involving a returning customer. The Viking Vanquish, a high capacity 3D seismic survey vessel operated for CGG
Alewijnse Marine Systems performed electrical repairs and modifications on the flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes within a challenging timeframe. The vessel has left Damen Shiprepair Vlissingen after just three weeks of repairs, modifications and the commissioning of its electrical systems by a team
From a single newbuild and repair yard near Rotterdam in 1927, the family-owned Damen Shipbuilding group has expanded to 38 shipyards and related companies involved in new construction as well as repair and maintenance activities. Now with more than 8,000 employees and a presence in 34 countries
Damen Shiprepair & Conversion developed a new product, the Quick Docking/Fuel Saving package, offering owners a fast and low-cost additional docking with the sole aim of reducing fuel consumption in between the five-year statutory survey period
VT Halter Marine Inc. (VT Halter Marine), a subsidiary of VT Systems, Inc. (VT Systems), announced its newest facility, a 12,000 MT Floating Drydock, is now open for business and already has its first customers. The dock, measuring 546 ft.. in length, 105 ft. in breath and with a depth of 46 ft
Damen Shiprepair Brest (France) received her seventh LNG booking for the drydocking, maintenance and repair of the LNG carrier BachirChihan. The Hyproc Shipping owned and managed vessel will arrive November 25. The work scope on the BachirChihaniis extensive and reaches close to 30,000 man-hours
The company's Brisbane hub, aimed to serve Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, will provide warranty services, maintenance, training and spare parts, having been recently opened by the Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Captain Kasper Kuiper.
Damen Shiprepair Brest (France) received certification from Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) for aligning its quality and safety management systems with internationally recognized standards. A certificate of approval for the ISO 9001:2008
Hon. Raksha Mantri, Shri A K Antony today commissioned the second Fast Patrol Vessel ICGS Abheek of the Indian Coast Guard built by Cochin Shipyard. The event was attended by Prof K V Thomas and other distinguished elected representatives from Kerala


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If they keep Wade Davis out of the game, I like the Rockies' chances of evening this series. The Rockies were on a four-game win streak until the Padres beat up Davis and rallied to defeat Colorado on Friday.
Even with that win, San Diego is only 5-13 in its last 18 road games. The Padres also are 13-40 versus a lefty starter when on the road. Colorado is pitching southpaw Kyle Freeland, who has plenty of experience with Coors Field and pitching in Denver's thin air. Freeland was solid in his first start this season giving up two runs on four hits in six innings during a 5-2 win against the Rangers this past Sunday.
Eric Hosmer has missed the past three games for the Padres due to sickness.
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The closer this gets, the more I like Georgia’s chances – and I’ve never disliked Georgia chances. A leaky defense is like a rising tide: It can lift all boats, presumably even Jake Fromm’s.
Here’s another cliché/bromide, borrowed from a different sport: Good pitching stops good hitting. Georgia’s defense won’t shut down LSU’s offense in the SEC Championship game, but it won’t allow the Tigers to score 35 points, either. At issue is whether the Bulldogs’ offense, which hasn’t scored more than 27 points in an SEC game since Oct. 5, can break 30 itself.
LSU’s SEC opponents averaged 25.5 points. Georgia didn’t allow more than 17 in regulation in any conference game. (South Carolina hit 20 in overtime.) The road to ruin is paved with comparative scores, but sometimes they’re irresistible. Vanderbilt had 38 points against the Tigers; the Commodores got 10 against the Bulldogs. Florida had 28 against LSU, 17 against Georgia. Auburn had 20 and 14, respectively. Of the common foes, only Texas A&M scored bigger against Georgia (13) than the Tigers (seven).
When a great offense is matched against a great defense, neither is apt to dominate the other. Such a game is usually decided by the lesser units. That was essentially the story of Georgia’s overtime victory over Oklahoma on New Year’s Day 2018: The Sooners’ defense, which finished 67th nationally in yards against, turned the Bulldogs’ offense into a match for Lincoln Riley’s. Final score in double OT: Georgia 54, Oklahoma 48.
Such a shootout won’t happen Saturday. This Georgia offense can’t score like that against anybody. (Well, anybody except Georgia Tech.) That said, this offense isn’t as bad as advertised. It finished fifth among SEC teams in yards, fourth in passing efficiency, third in third-down conversions. LSU’s defense was ninth among SEC teams in yards against, 35th nationally. This isn’t to be confused with a Big 12 defense, but it’s not an immovable object, either. Four teams have scored 35 or more against it.
The Tigers got great mileage from their schedule, but look now. LSU’s two best victories, per the College Football Playoff rankings, were over No. 9 Florida and No. 11 Auburn. Both games were played in Baton Rouge. Georgia beat the same two teams, neither game being staged in Sanford Stadium. LSU’s big non-conference game was Texas. The Longhorns lost 45-38. Georgia’s out-of-league test was Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish lost 23-17. Notre Dame finished 10-2; Texas went 7-5.
Yes, the Tigers beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa with Tua Tagovailoa, and yes, Georgia lost at home to a bad South Carolina team down to its No. 3 quarterback by game’s end. If you’re wondering why LSU deserves to be favored (and you’re probably not), there it is. It hasn’t lost, while Georgia lugs the worst loss of any ranked team. But the Bulldogs responded to that egregious reversal the way you figured, more or less. They’re playing for the SEC title and a spot in the CFP’s field of four yet again.
The best thing about Georgia under Kirby Smart – this might sound like faint praise, but it isn’t – is that it doesn’t often mess up. It jammed a season’s worth of howlers into four quarters plus two OTs against South Carolina. Fromm hasn’t thrown an interception since. The Bulldogs make you beat them. In four playoff-level games – the 2017 and 2018 SEC Championship games, the 2017 CFP semi and final – only Alabama has done that, and both times it had to override a double-digit deficit behind a No. 2 quarterback.
What happens if LSU falls behind? It hasn’t trailed at halftime this season. It hasn’t trailed in the second half since falling behind Auburn by a field goal on Oct. 26. Its biggest second-half deficit was seven points for 3:42 of the third quarter against Florida on Oct. 12. It led Bama by 20 after 30 minutes, Texas A&M by 21 after 13-1/2. If the Tigers catch a flying start Saturday, the game’s over.
But let’s say Georgia doesn’t allow the Tigers to achieve separation. Let’s say the Bulldogs score first. Let’s say halftime arrives with Georgia up 16-14. Let’s say the game becomes the sort of grinder LSU hasn’t lately seen, the kind that Georgia has played a half-dozen times already. Let’s say Smart’s team runs the ball and, via Fromm, moves the sticks and, via Rodrigo Blankenship, finishes every promising possession with points.
Let’s say LSU scores with two minutes left to nose ahead 24-23. (Don’t say nobody can hold these Tigers to 24 points. Auburn held them to 23.) Could Fromm, game manager, put Georgia in position to win against LSU’s defense? Yes indeed. The bigger question would be if Smart could manage the clock, but let’s say this time he does.
That would leave it to Rodrigo, folk hero, to win it. Which he will. Georgia 26, LSU 24.
Yeah, I’m crazy. But Mad MB has a feeling about this one.
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The High Court of Uttarakhand at Nainital issued a circular stating that the relief will be provided to the affected persons, and the donations shall be made in the public charitable trust under the name of “Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and relief in Emergency Situations Fund, (PM CARES FUND) which has been set up by the Central Government.
The Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan of the Uttarakhand High Court have approved the proposals and stated that all the Hon’ble Judges would contribute Rs. 25,000/- each to the PM CARES FUND.
The court also said that Gazetted officers would contribute 3 day’s salary (Basic+ D.A), all Non- Gazetted officers/ Employees would contribute 2 Day’s salary (Basic+ D.A) and all Group D employees and Drivers would contribute 1 day salary (Basic+ D.A). Aforesaid contribution by the Hon’ble Judges and members of the High Court will be deducted from the salary of March, 2020 which would be paid in April, 2020. The court stated in the end that the contribution will be on voluntary basis.
The judges of the Uttarkhand High Court have now joined the bandwagon of judges contributing towards fund created against COVID-19. Judges of High Court across country have came forward and made voluntary donations in the said fund. The Judges of Supreme Court also on Wednesday also decided to donate Rs. 50,000 each toward the said fund.
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Riding with the King is a blues album by Eric Clapton and B.B. King released in 2000. The idea for a collaborative album began during the sessions for King's 1997 album Deuces Wild.
The album contains B.B. King classics like "Three O'Clock Blues", "Days of Old", and "Help the Poor" from Live at the Regal. Other tracks include the Big Bill Broonzy-penned "Key to the Highway", Chicago pianist Maceo Merriweather's "Worried Life Blues" and a cover of Isaac Hayes's composition "Hold On, I'm Comin'" originally a 1966 single for Stax Records artists Sam & Dave.
Riding with the King won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.
B.B. King was 77 years old when Reflections was released, which perhaps entitled him to reflect back on the song standards the album contained. Despite advancing age, King had already been unusually busy on the recording front for a septuagenarian, turning out the gold-selling duets album Deuces Wild in 1997, Blues on the Bayou in 1998, Let the Good Times Roll: The Music of Louis Jordan in 1999, the double-platinum Riding With the King with Eric Clapton and Makin' Love Is Good for You in 2000, and the seasonal recording A Christmas Celebration of Hope in 2002. For Reflections, he again worked with Simon Climie, who produced Riding With the King, and collaborated with a session band including such notables as Joe Sample, Nathan East, and Doyle Bramhall II.
When it comes to the greatest rockin' bluesmen in history, at the top of the electrified traditional list is B.B. King; at the top of the contemporary list is Eric Clapton. Riding with The King brings the two living legends together for an entire album for the first time. When it comes to rockin' blues, Riding With The King is as great as it will ever get…


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A North Carolina couple accused of murdering their baby and burying its remains in the backyard are cousins, a relative said.
Dustin James VanDyke, 28, and Gracie Kaylene Riddle, 18, reportedly “paniced” when they realized she was pregnant and the child was born alive, local NBC affiliate WRAL reported.
VanDyke and Riddle are now charged with first degree murder, prison records show.
The exact age and gender of the child have not been disclosed publicly, but Erwin, chief of police Jonathan Johnson, said detectives believe the baby was murdered in November 2021. to bury.
Police began investigating the two last Friday after a tipster the couple knew told investigators that VanDyke and Riddle had failed to report the death of their newborn baby last year. Police were given a warrant to search the property and were led to the decomposed body by a cadaver dog, Johnson said. VanDyke and Riddle were arrested the next day.
“Where the child was buried, there was a lawnmower that stood there for a long time,” one of VanDyke and Riddle’s neighbors told ABC11. “And it was a nice lawnmower, but it never moved. We just thought there was something wrong with it. And it just sat there. Now the lawnmower has moved in the past month, so now this child has been exposed.”
Additional charges are likely, according to police.
“I think this person finally got to the point where their conscience hit them and they decided they needed to talk about it and tell someone and that’s how we got the report initially,” Johnson told WRAL.
VanDyke and Riddle appeared in court on Monday, where a relative refused to answer questions from a CBS17 reporter. They remain in the Harnett County Jail and are due to appear in court again on September 6.
In the media, including on Monday, Johnson said he was “unwilling” to corroborate the stories of a family relationship between VanDyke and Riddle. However, a relative later confirmed to WRAL that the two are in fact cousins.
The death did not appear to be accidental, and autopsy results are pending, according to Johnson, who described the scene as “pretty horrific.”
“This is one that will stay with us for a while,” he said, noting that “if it’s a kid or a baby, it just makes it that much worse.”
Little information about VanDyke or Riddle has been made public. VanDyke’s social media footprint is littered with images of pickup trucks, Confederate flags, and dark aphorisms like, “Never trust the living.” On Instagram, VanDyke describes herself as a ‘Red for life’.
In an ominous 2014 Facebook post reviewed by The Daily Beast, VanDyke shared a photo of a red and white sign that reads, “NO TRESPASSING. We’re tired of hiding the bodies.’


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Babies born underwater (a water birth) can survive for several seconds underwater, getting oxygen through the umbilical cord. Almost as soon as they break the surface, they start breathing with lungs. … No mammal can survive without breathing air (even whales), apart from shortly after birth.
Can babies live underwater?
Baby can drown or even die if born in the water
The entry of water into the baby’s lungs can be avoided by lifting the baby out to the surface of the water as soon as possible. Babies by themselves will not breathe until exposed to air. Why doesn’t the newborn breathe underwater during a waterbirth?
Can newborn babies breathe underwater?
The first reflex is the diving reflex, which means if your baby goes underwater they will naturally hold their breath. You won’t see this reflex after six months of age, and that is why it looks so remarkable in babies who are just a few months old.
Can you dunk a baby under water?
Your safest bet is no! Although infants may naturally hold their breath on some occasions, they’re just as likely to swallow water. That’s why babies are more susceptible to the bacteria and viruses in pool water and lakes that can cause gastroenteritis and diarrhea.
How long can a baby stay under water during water birth?
Babies will not inhale water during a water birth. This same reflex aids in feeding as it prevents babies from accidentally inhaling milk. This reflex lasts for six to eight months.
Is water birth painful?
True or false: Giving birth in water hurts less than giving birth on land. Answer: neither! There is no definitive answer because each labor is unique and every woman tolerates pain differently. Compared to a land birth, water birth seems to be more relaxing for the mother and baby but not necessarily less painful.
Does Waterbith prevent tearing?
Water causes the perineum to become more elastic and relaxed, reducing the incidence and severity of tearing and the need for an episiotomy and stitches. As the laboring woman relaxes physically, she is able to relax mentally with a greater ability to focus on the birth process.
How long can a baby breathe underwater?
It works like this: Infants up to 6 months old whose heads are submerged in water will naturally hold their breath. At the same time, their heart rates slow, helping them to conserve oxygen, and blood circulates primarily between their most vital organs, the heart and brain.
Why do babies not drown in water?
A baby doesn’t drown during a water birth because the baby is already in water in the womb. It takes air for breath and when a baby comes from water into water without the introduction of air, the lungs remain collapsed and no water can enter.
Can babies breathe through their mouth?
Newborn babies breathe through their noses almost exclusively unless their nasal passage is obstructed in some way. In fact, young babies — until around age 3 to 4 months — haven’t yet developed the reflex to breathe through their mouths. (That is, unless they’re crying.)
What is dry drowning in infants?
What is the difference between dry and secondary drowning? Dry drowning occurs when a child inhales water through the nose or mouth, causing a spasm in the airway and difficulty breathing. The drowning is called “dry” because water does not enter the lungs because of spasm (reflex closing) of the vocal cords.
How common is secondary drowning in babies?
You’d likely notice your child having trouble breathing right away, and it might get worse over the next 24 hours. Both events are very rare. They make up only 1%-2% of all drownings, says pediatrician James Orlowski, MD, of Florida Hospital Tampa.
Is it OK to pour water over baby’s head?
Just like the rest of a baby’s skin, the scalp is very tender and sensitive. The simplest way to make sure all soap is removed is to slowly pour a cup or bottle of warm water over the scalp. Make sure the head is tilt back slightly to avoid the water getting in their eyes, ears or nose.
What if I poop in the birthing pool?
Urine and feces are an unavoidable part of birth. Although it may not bother you to sit in the tub with urine, sitting with poop might, though if you do defecate into the pool, your birth partner or midwife will quickly clean it out.
Do you poop when you give birth?
In fact, most women do poop during labor. It can happen more than once while you’re pushing, but it’s most common right before the baby crowns. The bottom line: Don’t worry about it. It’s all in a day’s work for a labor room pro, who will clean it up with some gauze or a clean towel.
How do babies breathe in the womb without drowning?
Babies do not exactly “breathe” in the womb; at least not by inhaling air they way they do after delivery. Instead, oxygen travels through the mother’s lungs, heart, vasculature, uterus, and placenta, finally making its way through the umbilical cord and into the fetus.

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