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A timed race differs from a fleet race in that there is no pre-race practice. As soon as the race opens for registration your boat is "live", the first course command you execute denotes the beginning of your first attempt at that course.
You also cannot log in as the sol boat to preview the course - the sol boat isn't registered until the race opens for everyone.
Once registered in the race, if you don't want to commit yourself to race against the clock straightaway. then use the wx slider at the bottom of the game screen to see what sort of conditions are likely to be coming up over the next few hours... that way you don't start immediately and then realise if you had waited a little while, your first timed run might have been better. Highly competitive SOLers who are members of SOL's Yacht Club ("SYC") often won't start for days, waiting for the precise best conditions so that their SYC ranking is improved and not worsened by the race!!
The majority of SOLers, however, will start within a few hours and just enjoy the cameraderie and friendly match-racing that can happen.
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It is imperative that the closing of Timed Race corresponds to last possible start.
So for example if the race closes at 12 00 hrs your latest start time is until that hour.
This question is well discussed in past and we agreed that closing the race while hundreds of boats are still running(Ocean Timed Race)is not practicable.
This question must be cleared once for all and in NOR should read "This race will close for last start on ........"
How long should we leave the race open after the latest possible start then?
People leave their boats sailing without finishing for various reasons so it's not possible to wait for all boats to finish.
By announcing the close time by with you have to complete your run before the race, everyone has the same chances to win.
If you choose to start near the race close time it's up to you take the risk how near the end you will start. In my mind it adds another interesting factor to the game. It can be frustrating if it doesn't work but surely rewarding if it does.
The last possible start in a Timed race is right up until the last moment prior to the race close. No one is going to start at that time, though, with most people wanting to complete their last runs (probably) well before then.
When a Timed Race closes, all aspects of the race close at the same time (unlike fleet races which usually have registration closing some time before the race closes).
I could just say that I am sorry that you do not understand my point.
I am sorry for all those good solers that miss to arrive on time,some even for few seconds like for example ATLET in last timed race.
Now let's take example of an ocean time race.
1000 boats started on very good wind and very probable for all of them to improve their times.Till few hrs before arrival it shows that for most of them it will be record run.Than the wind situation changes drastically and few miles before arrival the race closes.Hundreds of boat skippers are furious.
That is possible scenario and when it happens, than you will understand my point of view.
As a reply to Marku Haninen:The race could be opened for double of the best time in short races and progressively less for longer races.
I agree with Cap. Would be easy to close registration and have last finish a set time after that. I would have gone for a final run in the last timed race as the wx looked good, but would not have been able to finish in time based on the current rules.
I am happy with whatever the majority decides EXCEPT that until any of this process is automated, y'all have to remember that I (usually me, for the past couple of years but not always!) have to be awake and online to open/close races and registration.
In the past we used to close registration and let folks race on in Timed races but there was one time when I was unwell/away from my home and computer and I couldn't close the registration exactly on time.
This caused tremendous disquiet africa you will remember the incident I am sure, I was accused of playing favourites and roundly attacked. It reduced me to tears at the time and, frankly, I am not prepared to undergo such treatment from anyone on SOL again.
If it is, then in future someone(s) must take responsibility for determining what will be the times of registration close and race close BEFORE the race starts (to avoid a moveable feast that disadvantages those not online when times change on-the-run) and subject to agreeing the times in question SOL Admins can decide among themselves who will take responsiblity for closing registration and the race at the agreed times.
RC I always said I admire your work in SOL and also always told you if you need a help for technical question that I am always on disposition.
For you or whoever closes the race is just the same.Instead that you write "the race closes at ......." you write "the race closes for last run at .......".
Than, after reasonable time(depending on the length of the race), close the race altogether.That final closing will not affect top 100-200 racers and therefor it is not so important.
I do not fight for me but for many others as I have proven in last timed race,where I was 2nd and would I have not gone for last two hours on tennis would have probably won that race,as was leading to Winston.
Important is however that no changes are done after NOR is delivered.
traditional name of my boat in virtual races is the name of my real boat VANNA(my granddaughter),therefor I would like to change Africa to Vanna if possible.
RC, you do a fantastic job of organising us, who act like a bunch of kids or pirates! We are just debating whether a rule needs a slight change. You are doing what we all agreed before.
In the basis current system is very clear and fair.
Cutt - off time is specified pre race on the second and equal for everybody.
race finishing time - estimated track time.
Every second he is starting later he is gambling on better winds although he knows that race wil be closed.
All other methods for closing are not exactly fair and independent as they can not be determined pre race when NOR is presented.
Africa basically you're suggestion is exactly the same as it is now only difference is in the present situation the skipper is responsible for departing on time, with you're suggestion the server is responsible. I like to be responsible for my own actions so i choose option one.

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For a historical example of wishful cynicism and institutional optimism, Snyder quotes from a Jewish newspaper, published after the 1933 German elections, that doubted Hitler’s victory meant the policies circulated in Nazi propaganda would actually come to be: “[The Nazis] will not suddenly deprive German Jews of their constitutional rights, nor enclose them in ghettos, nor subject them to the jealous and murderous impulses of the mob. They cannot do this because a number of critical factors hold powers in check.” Incredible as it seems in retrospect, this was a fairly common attitude toward Nazism at the time. Snyder is emphatic that similar delusions not afflict the opposition to Trumpism.
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About fifteen of us would get together to talk and try to find arguments opposing [the Nazis]. It was not easy…From time to time, one of our friends said: ‘I don’t agree with them, to be sure, but on certain points, nevertheless, I must admit for example the Jews…’ etc. And this was a symptom. Three weeks later, this person would be a Nazi.
The atomization of society, coupled with the balkanization of information online, played a role in getting Trump elected, and whatever else Trump may be, he’s certainly frivolous to the point of being fatal. He’s a quasi-fascistic, nepotistic banana republican and the perfect president for the troll age: a complete joke who by sheer force of American credulity is now no laughing matter. Read Snyder’s book on how to resist tyranny, then do all you can.


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7. Exemplifying Trump’s organized crime associates and the services they provided–courtesy of Roy Cohn–were Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno and Paul Castellano. ” . . . Trump bought his Manhattan ready-mix [concrete] from a company called S & A Concrete. Mafia chieftains Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno and Paul Castellano secretly owned the firm. S & A charged the inflated prices that the LeFrak and Resnik families complained about, LeFrak to both laws enforcement and The New York Times.
As [reporter Wayne] Barrett noted, by choosing to build with ready-mix concrete rather than other materials, Trump put himself ‘at the mercy of a legion of concrete racketeers.’ But having an ally in Roy Cohn mitigated Trump’s concerns. With Cohn as his fixer, Trump had no worries that the Mafia bosses would have the unions stop work on Trump Tower; Salerno and Castellano were Cohn’s clients. Indeed, when the cement workers struck in summer 1982, the concrete continued to flow at Trump Tower. . . .
10. With Trump poised to name a number of Supreme Court justices, we note that the venue of one of Weichelsbaum’s cases was changed in a highly suspicious, revealing and inauspicious manner. ” . . . When Weichelsbaum made a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to one of the eighteen counts in the Cincinnati case, something very suspicious happened. His case was transferred out of Ohio for the guilty plea and the sentencing. Logically, the case might have gone to South Florida, where Bradford Motors [one of the Weichselbaum drug-trafficking fronts] was located, or to New York, where Weichselbaum lived. Indeed, that is exactly what Weichselbaum’s Ohio lawyer, Arnold Morelli, sought in a January 30, 1986 motion requesting his case be transferred to either Manhattan or Miami for ‘the convenience of human beings such as the defendant and witnesses.’ Instead the Weichelsbaum case was moved to New Jersey. There it was assigned to Judge Maryanne Trump Barry–Donald Trump’s older sister.
11. This program concludes with the reading of a poem by Robinson Jeffers, “Be Angry at the Sun,” which encompasses Mr. Emory’s feelings about the recent election, as well as the people and institutions that have precipitated this event–one that figures to be devastating in its manifestations.
This comment is not directly related to FTR #933 but I really need your help.
I’ve known about your web site for a few years now and at times I have felt you were absolutely correct and at other times I have felt you were mistaken but with Trump’s election my world has been thrown completely upside down and I don’t know what to believe anymore! All the so called “alternative news sites” I used to read, which I thought were constitutionalist libertarians, turned out to be outright Nazis and RT, which I thought was an unbiased news source, turned out to be Russian disinformation. They convinced me and millions of people worldwide there would be WWIII if Hillary was elected. Now I see this was just fear mongering to influence the US elections but here comes my first question: Why? Why would Putin want a Nazi, or at least a fascist sympathizer like Trump, in the White House? Is it because Putin himself is a Nazi as Garry Kasparov claims or was it simply because Trump would not intervene with Russia’s geopolitical plans in the Middle East. If so, here comes the first contradiction, who ever heard of a Nazi anti-war, non-interventionist country? If Trump is a Nazi then why does he want to withdraw from NATO and isolate the US from the international community? Isn’t that a contradiction in terms? Or is Trump merely a puppet within the grand scheme of things. If this is the case then is Robert Mercer part of the Bormann Capital Network?
I have heard you say the end game is for Germany to recapture it’s lost power and reinstate the Third Reich but honestly, Merkel seems to be the only rational voice left! I have personally seen her squelch any kind of nationalistic attitudes and she openly stated the “Heil Trumps” in the recent Alt-right meeting video which circulated on youtube were “repugnant”. So what’s the deal? Is the downfall of Germany the future check-mate move? Because right now the countries I see as totalitarian Nazi-like states are the US and Russia….. not Germany!
So, will the real Allen Dulles please stand up? I spent 5 years of my life doing research on the JFK assassination but apparently everything I thought I knew was mistaken! I did see the subtle nazification of the US but I thought the line went through Dulles to the Bushes and subsequent administrations, both Republican and Democrat, slowly eroding American’s freedom and civil rights. And to be honest, would we now be in this pickle if all the administrations since Kennedy hadn’t put their little grain of sand to advance the national security state while giving more power to the executive branch of government?
Please answer my questions directly. If I could deduce the answers to them by reading the information on your web site I wouldn’t be asking them. I don’t know which way is up or down and I am sure there are many people who are just as confused as I am with Trump’s election. It would be so helpful if you, Pterrafractyl or anybody else you trust with these issues, could post a synopsis or schematic diagram that would clearly explain exactly who advanced this Nazi agenda in the US, where Trump fits into the picture and what can we expect within the next 5 to 10 years. Subsequently we can do the legwork ourselves but we need to know which path to follow if we are to take the first step.
Wishing you a peaceful Thanksgiving….
Yours is a very good question and is, no doubt, shared by many other listeners, readers and users of this website.
Alas, a simple, brief explanation is ever elusive.
The strong part of my work is its academic rigor, sourcing, and correct foreshadowing of events to come.
Sadly, its weakness is that is long, time-consuming to absorb and, as a result, beyond the reach of many who do not have the time or physical resources to access the documentation upon which my presentations are made.
The answer is–as briefly as I can make it–that Trump is a vehicle for the Underground Reich.
Putin, like Stalin, is trying to avoid encirclement by a hostile alliance and sees–mistakenly in my opinion–Trump as a means to that end.
Stalin signed the Hitler/Stalin pact not because he was a convert to Nazism, but because he sought a buffer zone between an ascendant Germany and the USSR and sought to buy time.
As a result of that pact, the Soviet Union got the Baltic States, Moldavia (then usually referred to as Bessarabia) and parts of Poland, after the war started.
Stalin turned out to be deeply mistaken, of course, and I suspect that Putin may be as well.
Germany wants to supplant NATO (in the long run) with a German-dominated all-EU military.
Germany also wants to establish an economic trade union stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok. Preliminary discussions are already under way, although the realization of such a project is a long way off.
The underlying concept, in my opinion, is to start a bidding war between East and West that will ultimately benefit Germany.
To understand this, one must understand German Ostpolitik.
I recommend doing a search in the “For The Record” category for keywords “Trump” and “Steuben.” Be sure to use the quotes.
If one were to pursue the Bormann group from a journalistic standpoint, there would be few places to turn and Allen Dulles would have been one of them.
Note that Manning was almost certainly “doubled on” during his search. The book makes his difficulties clear and my interview with Peter Manning (his son) goes into that at further depth.
A couple of elemental, fundamental aspects of espionage work–spies don’t manifest their true allegiances on the surface. They are, after all, spies.
The cardinal rule for a good double agent is to make oneself indispensable to the effort.
I’ve no doubt that Dulles, being a skilled operative, would have done just that.
He would have made himself indispensable to the effort, while at the same time betraying Manning to the Bormann group.
Thank you so much for you reply. It was indeed very helpful and I am deeply impressed with your knowledge regarding this issue.
I also appreciate the peaceful and subdued tone in your explanation because this allowed me to step back and see things more clearly. When the election results first came through I was in a state of panic. I thought nobody could be trusted because at that precise moment I realized how Russian propaganda had affected the results but now I see the truth can be found anywhere, if one knows where to look.
No wonder Putin once said he thought he knew everything as a KGB agent until he became president and realized even the most sophisticated KGB operations were child’s play compared to international politics!
while Putin is happy because he thinks a Trump presidency means a withdrawal from NATO and the threat it represents for Russia. In the meantime, nobody sees Germany as a major threat to anyone! Well, nobody except Britain who left the EU because (among many other things) it did not want to form part of a EU army with Germany as it’s leader.
So, it seems Mr. Trump, Mr. Farage and Mr. Putin have all been played by Germany. Well, all I can say is…… Wow!
Merkel wasn’t saying no, as I previously thought. Maybe she was just saying: No, No, No….. not yet!


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This series of half-hour documentaries, created by the Sundance Channel, focuses on individuals at the forefront of innovative ideas and processes for transforming the planet’s future, offering creative green solutions for some of the world’s looming challenges. 2008, video, 30 minutes.
Savor an array of live music, dance, and art-making activities in this special birthday launch event, part of Minneapolis MOSAIC 2008, a citywide festival celebrating the breadth and diversity of the local arts and cultural scene.
Discover Bharatanatyam, a classical dance form from southern India with Ragamala Music and Dance Theater. Blending dance, music, and poetry, Ragamala’s work provides a bridge between cultures both ancient and modern. After the show, learn some moves in a workshop led by members of the company.
Design a toy inspired by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Spoonbridge and Cherry fountain-sculpture.
Smile, it’s the 150th birthday of Minneapolis and the state of Minnesota! Get your snapshot taken and see it projected at the State Theater later that evening during the kick-off party of MOSAIC 2008.
Highlighting July’s Free First Saturday event and part of Year of Trisha festivities, Trisha Brown Dance Company members re-mount four important site-based dance works from the 1970s. In their exploration of space and gravity, these early movement experiments are now viewed as both highly influential and remarkably inventive. For the first time in the U.S. since its original performance in SoHo in 1970, the spectacular Man Walking Down the Side of a Building will be staged on the facade of the Walker’s seven-story Barnes building. Company members will also restage Spiral (1974) on trees in Loring Park and Group Primary Accumulation on Rafts on Loring Park Pond, the location of the original premiere during a Walker-sponsored Trisha Brown residency in 1974. Finally, five of the company’s leading female dancers will perform one of Brown’s most popular early works, the witty and sensual Spanish Dance (Line Up, 1979) in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
Summer Music and Movies: Elected!
The Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board’s popular annual series of free concerts and film screenings in Loring Park returns with Elected! to mark the year of intense interest in political campaigns. For six nights enjoy bands under the summer sun, then watch classic films about Hollywood’s take on Washington’s internal and external affairs.
In 2005, the Walker Art Center exhibition Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Houses featured FlatPak, one of today’s most innovative made-to-order homes. Created by Minneapolis-based Lazor Office, the FlatPak is a “kit of parts” that can be configured in a variety of ways to create a home.
The Walker acquired this full-scale exhibition model of FlatPak, which will be installed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden as part of the 20th-anniversary celebration. The FlatPak’s glass walls and airy space, along with a new deck, will provide an inviting atmosphere for welcoming Garden visitors. A special “open house” will be hosted during the July Free First Saturday.
The FlatPak will be open to the public seasonally April though mid-October. Visitors will be able to pick up sculpture garden maps, check-out Garden WACPAKs (kid-sized backpacks filled with creative ideas for family activities), and learn more about the artworks in the Garden. The FlatPak will also host hands-on art-making activities during Target Free Thursday Nights, Free First Saturdays, Summer’s Cool classes, artist-in-residence workshops, teen classes, and Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate—a program for toddlers and caregivers.
The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, a project of the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, is an ideal setting for sculptures of various sizes, from human-scale bronzes to towering constructions in steel. Expanded in 1992, the 11-acre Garden offers visitors from around the world an unusual opportunity to view important 20th-century art out-of-doors.
The original 7.5-acre Garden, made up of four 100-foot-square tree-lined plazas inspired by Renaissance and 18th-century Italian garden models, was designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, architect of the Walker’s 1971 building, in association with landscape architect Peter Rothschild, of Quennell Rothschild Associates, New York. The 1992 expansion, adding 3.7 acres less formally structured than the original acreage, was designed by the landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The sculptures on view along the Garden’s walkways and in its plazas date from the early 20th century to the present. Styles range from the archetypal organic abstraction of Henry Moore’s Reclining Mother and Child (1960–1961) to the social realism of George Segal’s Walking Man (1988).
A spectacular focal point in the Garden is the 29-foot-high Spoonbridge and Cherry (1987–1988) fountain-sculpture designed by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Spanning a free-form pond in the Garden’s middle sector is a gigantic gray spoon with a Bing-red cherry in its bowl. Visible from all points of the Garden, it has become a symbol for Minneapolis.
Amidst vine-covered arches and changing horticultural displays in the three-part Cowles Conservatory is Frank Gehry’s sculpture Standing Glass Fish (1986). Attracting visitors’ attention, the 25-foot-tall see-through leviathan rises from a lily pond surrounded by palm trees.
The Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge (1988) reflects the vision of the Minneapolis-based artist Siah Armajani. This double-arched footbridge connects the Garden to Loring Park, representing a major link to the downtown area and, subsequently, to the central Minneapolis riverfront.
The section added in 1992 contrasts the geometric formality of the original Garden area. The 3.7-acre section features groves of deciduous trees, a rectangular, granite-paved sculpture plaza for rotating exhibitions, a 300-foot-long vine-covered arbor, and a perennial garden. Permanently sited in this area of the Garden are Scott Burton’s Seat-Leg Table (1986/refabricated 1991), Mark di Suvero’s Molecule (1977–1983), and Judith Shea’s Without Words (1988).
The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is a project of the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board.

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The Philadelphia School Reform Commission drew praise Thursday from education advocates by banning most suspensions for kindergartners and ending suspensions for students who violate the dress code.
"We can't educate children who are not in school, and the fact that kindergartners are being suspended for things that are not considered violent behavior, that's something that we need to address," School Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. said after the SRC meeting.
"We have not seen zero tolerance be very effective, particularly for younger students," said SRC Chair Marjorie Neff.
The changes are "not saying there can't be consequences for not wearing your uniform," she added. "It's saying we're not excluding students from school."
The Student Code of Conduct was amended to read, "Kindergartners shall not be suspended unless their actions result in serious bodily injury, and those suspensions shall not be more than three days without an assistant superintendent's approval."
Alex Dutton, an attorney with the nonprofit Education Law Center, said the SRC should also restrict the use of suspensions for first and second graders.
Citing numbers from the state Office of Safe Schools, Dutton told the SRC that last year 448 Philadelphia kindergartners, 1,500 first graders, and 1,900 second graders were suspended. Ninety percent of those suspensions were for nonviolent offenses, Dutton said.
"Research has affirmatively demonstrated that students who are suspended at an early age are more likely to face future educational barriers and challenges, like discipline, truancy, and school dropout - all of which predict a student's entry into the school-to-prison pipeline," he said.
Also supporting the changes enacted Thursday were the American Civil Liberties Union, the Philadelphia Student Union, and Youth United for Change.
School officials told Dutton that although they also support curtailing suspensions of first and second graders, that can't happen this year because teachers in those grades have not received the necessary training in conflict resolution and other discipline strategies.
Under the new policy, which goes into effect this school year, suspensions will be replaced by interventions, said Karyn Lynch, chief of student support services.
Students' failure to wear uniforms often is the result of poverty-related factors, such as homelessness and lacking the facilities to wash clothes, she said in an interview. Therefore, teachers, counselors, nurses, and other school personnel are being trained to work with students on addressing the issues that cause them to violate the dress code policy, Lynch said.
She noted national statistics indicate a disproportionate number of black and brown boys get suspended, which the federal government has asked school districts to address. Chicago and Baltimore have already restricted suspensions for the youngest students and have reported positive results, she said.
In other news, Hite announced that 700 new teachers had been hired for the school year that begins Sept. 7, and that 97 percent of teaching vacancies had been filled.
He also reminded parents that the registration period for kindergartners and all other students opens Monday. The district has room for 12,000 kindergartners, but just over 5,000 had registered as of this week, officials said.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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You don’t need to be a medical expert to know how to manage risks relating to the interventions you undertake to improve your health.
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I’ve recently lost a lot of weight but am not finished yet. My wedding set was too big so my hubs got me this one as my temp ring. Love the size and weight!


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A 5-year-old child died yesterday, 21st of January, at a hospital in Blagoevgrad, after flu complications, the autopsy result showed. The child was admitted with bilateral viral bronchopneumonia, which developed very rapidly, and despite the efforts of the doctors in the hospital's ward, and subsequently the resuscitation, it was unfortunate that the outcome was fatal.
The child had been with a fever and high temperature for a few days. After his condition got worse, his grandmother took him to the emergency centre in Blagoevgrad. He was initially placed in a children's ward, but his condition suddenly worsened and had to be moved to the resuscitation.
Dr. Veselka Moncheva, RHI - Blagoevgrad: The child was being cared for, but there are cases in which the symptoms hit very quickly and unfortunately nothing can be done.
The most common complications of influenza are bronchopneumonia, meningitis and otitis. In Blagoevgrad, parents of young children filled theGP surgeries after the tragic death of the 5 year old.
The number of people affected by flu in Blagoevgrad is increasing, but has not yet reached the epidemic levels, the Regional Health Inspection explained.
Because of the complications of the flu, doctors advise people to avoid self-treatment and seek help from general practitioners as soon as they have symptoms.


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July 2014, the month the wheels stopped turning on my full time cycling career. A near 10 year trip was complete. 3 National medals, round after round of Tour Series, full winters spent at the Revolution track events, several trips around the Tour of Britain and a whole load of experiences across the world stopped, crossing one last circuit race finish line!
So that was the easy bit, stopping. The hard bit… What to do? Who to become? Remembering what they told me back at Uni. How to start all over after 10 years sat in the saddle each day, not to mention who was going to make up the wet bag and food box each day.
But in truth I’d been looking forward to this day, I was lucky enough through cycling to live outside of the “rider bubble” a little, I came to enjoy working with sponsors, developing products, speaking with the media/press and passing on a “pro” insight to amateur riders through my job as full time rider. Early on I perhaps didn’t realise fully what a full time sponsored rider was responsible for other than turning the pedals, but I had enjoyed growing into that role more and more through the years. The years had also sent me on a journey through team roles, from aspiring youngster, through domestique (team helper), on to team leader and finally on to the “experienced head” of the team. Passing on experience and knowledge to the new aspiring youngsters on the team was perhaps one of the most satisfying seasons out of the lot, so much so that during that final season I came to enjoy this role so much it motivated me to keep pushing myself on and perhaps was responsible for sending me off in this new direction in some ways.
All that meant that come July 2014 I was more than ready to embark on a new challenge within the sport and setup Tom Murray Cycling. There have been early challenges, remembering to pack the suit instead of the Lycra, taking up a spot on the spectator side of the railings instead of the start line and remembering that I no longer have to listen to the five same songs on repeat for each hour during the summer circuit race months… FREEDOM! But the competition and the drive to be successful remains the same. The challenge now is to help others achieve their best, be it amateur cyclist, sportive master or elite racer, with the benefit of 10 years of full time cycling and a knowledge of coaching practices gained from working with those within the cycling world together with the latest coaching theories, I’m loving it!
I have discovered this whole world of cycling away from competition. A completely new direction has been a breath of fresh air, the appetite for cycling in this country at the moment is unbelievable, school kids, HGV drivers, you name it, people want to cycle and develop, through cycling packages, events and professional training days, I have spent the past year helping them do that. Changing perceptions with haulage companies, inspiring kids to take up a bike or just helping people to get going again after many years away is hugely rewarding, this whole community side to cycling alongside its competitive famous brother is developing too.
So 12 months or so on, stepping away from cycling has in fact given me a chance to become even more involved within it. The wheels are turning again, in fact there going more than ever and best of all it’s like being right back at the start all over, ready to go along for the ride again, new experiences, new challenges, new motivation!
Take a moment or two over your next coffee and head over to www.tommurraycycling.co.uk to keep up to date with the Tom Murray Cycling team and follow us @TMCyclePackages on twitter to be part of the journey!
Preparing for your next Season #1 – Who do I ride for?
So, how do you get on a team? There are two ways; either you will be approached by a team manager or director sportif (generally riders who have had many notable results and are highly sought-after), or you apply to a team. Probably 90% of team riders are there through application rather than head-hunting, so if you haven’t been approached by a team, that is no reflection on whether or not a team would want you to ride for them.
When selecting the teams you want to go for, you need to decide why you want to join a team, because every team is different. Maybe you want a group of riders to get together with so that you are not so alone when you go to races? Or are you attracted to the professionalism of a team, where you get the support of mechanics and soigneurs and get the fancy kit and the bikes and make a real show in front of the crowds? Or are you after results, do you want to be a part of a team that gets good results and always has their riders at the front of the peloton? Do you want to be amongst riders that you can learn from – where you are the support rider for the team, or one that you can lead, where you will be the supported rider? Is a team that rides with tactics and a clear game-plan important to you? If you’ve paid enough attention at races, you should be able to pick out the teams that are geared towards your goal. But be realistic. Don’t waste your time on a team that you are not suited to. One year’s racing isn’t enough to apply to a UCI team. That being said, there is nothing wrong with being ambitious.
Firstly, make a note of all of the teams that you have seen out on the circuit this year. If you are not sure, take a look at race results. The British Cycling website has a team rankings list, which is useful for this sort of thing (although you will have to click on each team to see if they are a women’s team or not). Follow teams on Twitter and Facebook and check their website if they have one. These places are where they are likely to advertise for riders and should provide contact details (usually an e-mail address).
Facebook groups are also a good way of finding out about new teams that might be starting up. If there is a local cycle racing group page, make sure that you are a member. The London Women’s Cycle Racing group is also a good one to be a member of, even if you are not based in London, because they have a large following and it is therefore a good place for new teams to advertise.
So you’ve got your potential target teams, then what? Sending an e-mail to a team manager saying that you want to ride for them is not likely to get you anywhere. If you do get a response, it’s likely to be a polite request for your CV. You must look at it in the same way you do when applying for a job, which in some ways you are, although it’s more than likely not a paid position.
A team manager will want to know how you will fit in the team. Whether that’s the level of rider you are, the type of rider you are, or your character. They will also want to know what you can add to the team.
sum up your level as a rider, so if you have taken part in a stage race, include this result even if it is not as good as you would have liked, that you have experienced a stage race is of benefit to the team. Also, if you came 2nd or 3rd in a race behind a notable rider, include who the winner was. This helps the team manager understand the level of competition that you had in that race.
When selecting which results to include, also think about what sort of races the team is likely to be doing and the type of races you would want to do. You may have decided that you are better at stage races, or longer distance road races, so balance your results to show these types of races. Alternatively, you might want to focus on criterieum races or racing on the track, so show these. Most teams will want versatile riders, as they are not able to support enough riders to have those that specialise, for example, in crits and those that specialise in road races, so ensure that you do show results from your less favoured disciplines too.
You’ve got your palmares sorted, now what? This is your chance to talk a bit about the side of you that your results don’t convey. Very few riders believe that their results show their strengths as a rider, so this is your chance.
You need to think about why you want to join that particular team. Make sure that you tailor what you write to suit that particular team, as you would with a job. Don’t write one generic CV and blast it off to any and every team that you can get contact details for.
Why are you applying to that team specifically?
They will want to know why you want to ride for that team. “I just want to ride for a team” is unlikely to get you anywhere. They also want to know what you will bring to the team. You will need to tell them about your strengths, what type of rider are you? Are you a strong climber, sprinter, support rider, good all-rounder? You may not yet know. You also need to be honest and tell them what your weaknesses are. If you climb like a sack of potatoes, tell them. You won’t feel comfortable turning up at your first race for the team on a course that doesn’t suit you because you twisted the truth a little bit on your CV. The team may ask you to still ride races that don’t suit you, but it will feel much better if you’ve told them. You might also include areas that you are currently struggling with, for example, technical cornering, but also include how you are addressing this weakness.
So, you’ve now got your palmares and you’ve told them what your strengths and weaknesses are, what you will bring to the team and why you have chosen to apply for that team. You will also need to include a short introduction to yourself. Tell them something interesting that will give you personality. If you work, what is your job, are you still at school/university? What are you studying? When did you start cycling, is there a nice story of how you got into the sport. What inspires you as a cyclist?
Once you’ve got this together, it is really important to remember that a team is looking for someone who is going to represent their sponsors. Professionalism is very important both on and off the bike, your attitude and actions will reflect back onto the sponsors. Try to include something that will indicate that you will act responsibly and professionally. Sponsors are after promotion, so if you have been in the local paper, write a blog or do any other promotional work, include this. A sponsor may see you as someone who will provide them with added opportunities to advertise them, so it could bring an added dimension to your application and will give you something to bring to the team that other riders may not have.
Now you need to put this together into a complete CV. I would suggest no more than 2 pages, keep your paragraphs clear, concise and to the point. Punchy, not wordy, some teams will receive hundreds of applications; they simply won’t read it if there is too much information. Think about the layout, make it look attractive. Include photos, but think about why you are including them. Each photo should be there for a reason; does it show you in a break-away? Riding amongst top riders? You on the attack? It’s a good way of showing the type of rider you are and will provide an attractive element to your CV. Take a look at CVs on the internet for inspiration. It’s not a work CV, so don’t be afraid to add some colour, but don’t go over-the-top. Never lose sight of what your CV is for, keep it legible and clear, but make it stand out!
Don’t forget to add your contact details. Your e-mail address and telephone number are vital. You don’t want to be in a position where a team wants you but can’t contact you!
Once it is complete, you are happy with it and you have asked other people to read through and check it for you, put it into an appropriate format. A pdf is the most common format, but you may be an IT whizz and create a website for your CV (just make sure that the link works, it’s easy to use and not open to Joe Public if you don’t want it to be). If you do create a website for your CV, it is a good idea to have a pdf version of your CV too, as some team managers will want to print all of the CVs out to go through them, rather than look at them on the computer.
Job done? Not quite – you will need to write an opening e-mail which will quickly introduce yourself, explain the reason for your e-mail and highlight that you have attached your CV. This e-mail is important, as it’s the first impression that they will have of you, so think about what you write. You don’t want them to dismiss you without reading your CV. And MAKE SURE YOU ATTACH YOUR CV! It’s always a good idea to include any attachments before you write the e-mail. Sending another e-mail saying “oops I forgot to attach it!” doesn’t give a good impression, although don’t panic if this does happen to you, we’ve all been there!
So, CV sent. Time to bite those fingernails and wait for a response! There’s nothing you can do about it now? WRONG! Remember what you told them about being a professional and understanding the importance of promoting a sponsor in the right way? Well that starts now. Potential teams and sponsors might be reading what you put in your blog, twitter, facebook, instagram etc… go through your old posts and delete anything that doesn’t represent who you want them to see. Once you have sponsors, you are in the public domain. If you are one of those people who thinks “it’s my account, I’ll write what I like”, you are unlikely to be the type of rider that a sponsor is looking for. So keep it positive, don’t “slag” people off, keep swearing to a minimum and avoid writing anything that is overly offensive, rude, prejudice or political . You never know who might be watching!
When waiting for a response, remember, teams don’t make up their minds straight away, they want to see who applies and build a team around who they want. It may take months, so be patient. All teams generally respond in one form or another, so be patient. You may get lots of rejections before you get a call from an interested team.

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WOLF PRO has been designed for professional use, with or without mulching film.
The SP onion is intended for the harvesting of all onion varieties and it has been designed for highly-professional use.
The machine is attached to the tractor with the traditional 3-point linkage, both fixed and oscillating.
A single operator can simulta-neously fill two paired rows of transplant; the distance between rows is adjustable from cm 60 to cm 120.
A single operator can simultaneously fill two rows of paired transplants, patented by Checchi & Magli; the distance between the 2-paired rows is adjustable from a minimum of 25 cm to a maximum of 30 cm.
TRIUM: Total-control transplanter. Semiautomatic for tapered and pyramid-shaped clod plants up to 3 cm in diameter (6 cm only with special kit optional) driven by tyred driving wheels. 3,4,6 rows versions also with foldaway hydraulic frame (TPI).
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Science and religion have been the two most influential entities for answering critical questions of humanity and remedying its ills throughout history. Medieval art and bioart are the two most alike genres for this reason – they both seek to artistically express a specific doctrine (biblical, peer-reviewed) that attempts to save people (heaven, prolonged life) through institutions (the church, the laboratory). Artists in the medieval/Renaissance asked the same questions of religion (see Leo Steinberg The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and Modern Oblivion) as bioartists do of science - the reigning enterprises of truth.
Artists in the medieval period were dealing with Christianity when it was in transition, constantly evolving as religious leaders quibbled over the specifics of salvation. We are at a comparable stage with biotechnology, inflection points of innovation mark a new and unpredictable discipline characterized by competing theories. Medieval artists were the communications specialists of their time (especially considering literacy) and addressed inconsistencies in religious values while still inspiring faith in a long term commitment to the church.
Art that brings religion and science into conversation with each other can identify visual and ideological similarities, pitting religious beliefs against scientific realities in an age of miracle, wonder, and consequence.

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elle in a nutshell Elle Ellinghaus has a love-hate relationship with the color pink, thinks a Lilly Pulitzer dress can fix any bad day, and is a Southern Belle at heart. She holds a firm belief that all houses should have flower boxes and that if it doesn’t move, it should be monogrammed. Elle is married to her prince charming and is an obsessed Momma to their strawberry-blonde little girl, Emmy Lou. She designed their house in the country in 2015 and they live Southernly complete with a porch swing, donkeys in the backyard and toddler sized riding boots in the mudroom. Her personal instagram is based around living this “Pink Pineapple Life” and is filled with the #theellinghouse, style, behind the scenes EED and being a Momma to little Emmy Lou–usualy in matching outfits. Jillian and Elle are sisters and you can often find them showing up to events in unplanned, matching outfits, and laughing as vendors confuse them with the other.
the start of a dream Elle has always had a passion for design and a strong work harder than you can dream ambition. She did not aspire to be a wedding planner and she actually never wanted to get married herself! It wasn’t until she met her husband that she fell in love with love. Once her green eyed boy walked into her life, she knew she wanted to combine her love of beautiful spaces with her passion for romance and become a wedding planner. Elle spent countless hours of hard work doing hands-on industry & event research to find out what works and what doesn’t, what a good planner should be and what tools they need. As she was creating EED, fellow planners asked her to help design their weddings; this lack of design in the wedding planning industry made her business plan a goal of combining the meticulousness of planning with the graceful art of design. With that, Elle Ellinghaus Designs began “officially” in 2010 and has become a leader in the world of weddings. Elle was chosen for “Top Ten” in Baltimore Magazine, her work has been and continues to be featured in countless publications and she was invited to be a featured author in the Event Planning Major’s textbook used in colleges nationwide. Since 2015, she has been mentoring and coaching wedding planners & small businesses as a cheerleader for their success and speaking at workshops and events across the country sharing her knowledge and story.
le petit pineapple When Elle was asked to work with clients after their wedding for baby & bridal showers, first birthdays, debutante balls and more, her heart melted! In her words, “There is nothing more sweet than a petit little fete,” so in 2016 Le Petit Pineapple was dreamed up. A brand carried from the EED pink pineapple still focusing on high style planning, but for more petite soirees. She named EED producer, Chatara, as the lead designer and together they bring to life petite little parties.
thankful Elle is so grateful and honored her dream that started with a sketchpad, blossomed into a wedding planning company that would be featured, have her designing in cities around the world and be asked to mentor others through workshops and speaking. You will never meet a girl so ambitious, determined, and incredibly humbled.
Elle works with 2-3 luxury Full Wedding Planning & Design packages each year for clients wanting a full service, fully designed wedding. EED has an amazing team of experienced ladies to work with those wanting anything from Day of Coordination to Partial & Full Planning if this isn’t you! You can also find her inspiring others to follow their dreams as she did, and sharing the tools & knowledge do so through mentoring, workshops & speaking. For more information, see the Dream Followers tab!


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THE MAYBELLINE STORY : Meet my Maybelline cousin, 'NCIS' star Brian Dietzen, who portrays Jimmy Palmer, medical examiner Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard’s (David McCallum) assistant.
Meet my Maybelline cousin, 'NCIS' star Brian Dietzen, who portrays Jimmy Palmer, medical examiner Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard’s (David McCallum) assistant.
The video, which is below shows Dr. Cina stating, "They know what they're doing. The respect they show the patient is apparent. We treat our people like patients as well."
"I think the detail for the anatomy is very good. I think the special effects are actually quite good," the real medical examiner added.
"They really stay with ancillary role of the medical examiner or forensic pathologist. They're not central to solving a crime. That's not our role. We bring out medical fact," Dr. Cina explained of how NCIS carries out what a medical examiner does in real life.
"We try to be as true to life as possible," Dietzen said of the series, adding, "But within the reality of we have to tell the story in 42 minutes or less. That's our biggest cheat probably. The amount of time it takes to do what you guys do, which might take weeks."
Dietzen also commented on how his character and Dr. Mallard "have a life outside of the victims".
"You have to have fun, you have to joke, you have to talk about the game last night, you have to talk about your girlfriend or your wife, talk about real life," he shared.
"In our show that really translates to a lot of funny stuff," Dietzen added.
NCIS airs on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.
Brian visits the Paul Harvey show in Chicago, his hometown. He mentions his mother Trudy's wisdom on keeping a happy marriage.


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ZOUR MAGHAR, Syria — On the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, Kurdish militiamen aligned with American troops burrow into sandbagged positions and eye their foes across the water.
On the other side, Arab rebels backed by Turkey shoot at anyone who nears the river.
For millenniums, the Euphrates has given farmers in the village of Zour Maghar water to irrigate fields of wheat, eggplant and sunflowers. Generations of families have sprawled on its banks for picnics, the older children teaching the younger to swim.
But after seven years of war, the river that has fed life in Syria’s parched east has become a hostile front, separating warring sides as it travels north to south. Deprived of its water, families have fled Zour Maghar, abandoning their mud-brick homes and leaving their fields idle.
Syria’s war has taken hundreds of thousands of lives, displaced millions and left entire cities in smoking ruins. It has also ensnared the Euphrates, an arc of the Fertile Crescent that is considered a cradle of civilization.
On a recent trip along the river, we found a wasteland dotted with depopulated towns, gutted factories and civilians struggling to get by.
We mostly stayed on the east bank, an area out of Damascus’s hands that is effectively stateless and boxed in by hostile powers. The only way in was to cross the Tigris River from Iraq in a shaky, seatless motorboat.
As the government of President Bashar al-Assad has focused its military power on defeating rebels in the north and south, the river has emerged as the collision point for the great powers and their local allies struggling for influence in the east.
On the eastern bank are mostly American-backed Kurdish-led militias. On the west, along the northern part of the river, are Turkish-backed rebels. Farther south are Syrian forces supported by Russia and Iran. The Islamic State still holds a pocket along the river near the border with Iraq.
For now, the division is holding because none of the other powers wants to confront the United States, which has about 2,000 soldiers on the eastern side and whose fighter jets control the skies there.
Most of the world has accepted that Mr. Assad will continue to rule Syria, but the standoff and shattered landscape along the Euphrates raise questions about whether he can ever stitch the whole country back together.
The immediate question is how long the United States will stay. President Trump has said he wants to pull out the troops, who lead an international coalition against the Islamic State. If he does, the United States’ local allies fear the worst.
Three hulking, armored American military vehicles leave their base in the olive groves east of Manbij and rumble off to patrol the front lines. American soldiers staff gun turrets atop each vehicle, helicopters or drones fly overhead, and the convoy flies large American flags to make it clear who is driving.
The Americans came to Syria in 2014 to fight the Islamic State, but the jihadist group’s nearest outpost is 200 miles away. The convoy heads out several times a day to protect Manbij, a town with no resources and which few Americans have heard of, from Turkey, a NATO ally.
The American presence in Manbij is a clear indication that the United States came to Syria with one goal but picked up others along the way, complicating a potential withdrawal.
As the United States worked with Kurdish forces to take territory back from the Islamic State, its footprint in eastern Syria expanded. The area, about one-quarter of Syria and mostly desert, is now dotted with American military bases — housed in fields, in an out-of-use cement factory and in oil and gas facilities that the Syrian government would like to take back.
The American security umbrella has allowed Manbij to become a relatively stable island in a war-torn country. It is a local economic hub, with a bustling market and about 200,000 new residents displaced from elsewhere.
But Turkey sees Syria’s Kurdish militia as a terrorist threat on its border and has threatened to attack it. The United States worries that a Turkish attack on Manbij would siphon off the Kurdish fighters from the battle against the Islamic State in the south. Thus the American patrols to keep the Turks at bay.
But as the battle against the Islamic State winds down, the Americans will have less reason to stay.
On the flat roof of a cinder-block farmhouse converted into a military base west of town, Kurdish militiamen pointed across a shallow valley at Turkish military positions and acknowledged that the Turks could storm the area quickly if they wanted. But they did not because of the American military base nearby: a few trailers surrounded by armored vehicles, the Stars and Stripes flying overhead.
“If it weren’t for the Americans, there would be a disaster here,” said Ibrahim Sheikh Muhammad, a Kurdish militiaman.
Most of the territory held by the United States and its Kurdish allies was once ruled by the Islamic State, and the scars of the military campaign to defeat it run deep.
South of Manbij stands the Tabqa Dam, which the Soviets built in 1973, creating Syria’s largest body of water, Lake Assad, and generating power for much of the country.
The jihadists of the Islamic State ran the dam for years but blew up its turbines when they retreated.
It is now back at work, sort of. Its 350 employees work in buildings shattered by coalition airstrikes that blew holes in walls and shook tiles off the floors. Inside the hydroelectric station, rows of charred circuit boxes set alight by the jihadists sit below ceilings stained black from smoke.
But three of the dam’s turbines were whirring as water rushed through below, and a man with a blowtorch worked to repair a fourth. From eight damaged turbines, engineers had salvaged enough parts to rebuild three of them.
The dam is a rare example of cooperation across opposing sides. A power line that connects it to a smaller dam passes through a government-controlled area, sending electricity to the station that provides drinking water to the city of Aleppo, said Mohammed Sheikho, the head of the mechanical department. And the Syrian government still pays salaries to some workers.
But the dam is just limping along.
New heavy electric cables cannot be installed because the German company that made them will not send its engineers into a war zone. And the country best able to fix the rest of the dam, Russia, is allied with the Syrian government.
Even worse, there isn’t enough water.
Since the Kurds took over the area, Turkey has reduced the amount of water it allows into Syria by more than half, limiting the generation of electricity, said Muhammad Tarboush, the dam’s supervisor.
The situation had never been so dire, he said, even when the Islamic State was in charge.
“They are boycotting us with water,” he said.
On the rocky banks of the Euphrates in the former capital of the Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate, boatmen yell to coax passengers onto rickety metal barges. Once they are filled with passengers, cars, motorcycles and trucks bearing everything from diapers to flatbread, the motors roar and belch black smoke as the men pilot their charges across the pale green water.
Raqqa was once a commercial center for Syria’s breadbasket. Now, it is an orphaned city in ruins.
The military campaign that drove out the jihadists in October left two-thirds of the city’s buildings damaged or destroyed, local officials said. Entire city blocks were erased and apartment buildings brought to the ground. Residents have returned to find walls and ceilings missing from their homes. Some even struggle to find their homes.
But the world powers who fought here, led by the United States, are staying out of reconstruction, so Raqqa’s residents are largely on their own.
All 32 bridges in the area were destroyed. The two major bridges spanning the Euphrates are impassable, cutting the city in half. One has a hole large enough for a tractor-trailer to fall through. Under the other, boys climb downed electrical cables to plunge in to the water below.
That has left only the barges to get people across.
Muhammad Jassem, a heavy-machine operator, lives on one side of the river and his elderly parents on the other. The once-simple trip to visit them now takes longer, costs more and gets his shoes and trousers wet.
“As you can see, life is a bit miserable here,” he said after wading ashore.
Everyone relied on the boats: a woman taking her grandson to the doctor for diarrhea; a family of four crowded onto a single motorcycle; a shopkeeper hauling chips and soft drinks.
Since the battle ended, the United States has put $13.7 million into Raqqa for water, electricity, rubble removal and other projects, in addition to $54 million to clear mines left by the Islamic State, according to the State Department.
But it is not rebuilding the city, which Ahmed Ibrahim, the city’s co-mayor, estimated would cost $5 billion.
He had no idea where that money would come from and worried that a lack of support would leave a vacuum that the Syrian government or an extremist group like the Islamic State could exploit.
“As long as they give concrete aid, the people will belong to them,” he said.
Farther south, the road along the Euphrates is strewn with the remnants of an economy blown back decades by the war: a gutted sugar factory, an idled cotton mill, a train station littered with cars blown off their tracks.
The Syrian government controls Deir al-Zour, the largest Syrian city on the Euphrates, but the bridge that connects it to its eastern suburbs across the river is destroyed.
The Kurds, their Arab allies and the United States hold the eastern side, with bases in the oil and gas fields to keep the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian allies from retaking them.
In some places, opposing bases face each other across the water, so close that soldiers can see each other’s flags and watch each other smoking cigarettes. At one crossing point, a local militiaman monitored the eastern side, while Syrian soldiers stood on the other, about 200 yards away, while residents rowed across in battered metal canoes.
“It’s like an international border,” said a woman on the Deir al-Zour civil council after stepping off a metal canoe that carried her from the government side.
The woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity so that she could continue to visit her parents on the western side, said that most of the forces on the government’s side were Syrian but that she sometimes saw Russians and Iranian-backed militiamen from Iraq and Afghanistan buying items in shops.
Incursions in either direction are rare. In February, a column of tanks carrying about 500 pro-government forces, including Russian mercenaries, crossed the river in what appeared to be a push to seize an oil field. The United States repelled the raid, killing 200 to 300 of them.
Since then, all sides have largely accepted the river as the dividing line, an understanding likely to hold until the Americans leave.
The division was bad for Syria, the local councilwoman said, but she did not know how to end it.
“God willing, the sides will come together again,” she said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump delivered a ferocious putdown of George W. Bush from the debate stage, central to his effort to convince voters that they don’t want another Bush deciding when to take the country to war. But were his key facts right?
In short, he told it like it was, and like it wasn’t, in a multipronged indictment of the ex-president, laid out in front of a livid Jeb Bush, the Republican presidential candidate and former president’s younger brother.
THE FACTS: No record has been established that Trump issued a clarion call against the March 2003 invasion of Iraq before it happened. In his few unearthed comments before the invasion, he said the economy was a bigger problem than Iraq.
To be sure, he was well ahead of Bush loyalists in making that harsh judgment. But it does not reflect the foresight he claims to have had before the war started and went downhill.
THE FACTS: He is right that no weapons of mass destruction were found — undermining a central rationale for the invasion. Another rationale for the war, that Iraq had close ties with al-Qaida terrorists, also proved bogus.
THE FACTS: It’s true that the Bush administration received repeated warnings from the CIA and other elements of the intelligence apparatus that bin Laden’s al-Qaida organization was planning to attack in the U.S., and soon. Most famously, a top-secret document prepared by intelligence agencies, in early August 2001, came with the headline: Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.
It’s the subject of continuing — perhaps endless — debate whether such warnings were specific enough so that the U.S. could have headed off the attacks of that Sept. 11.
Rubio and other Republicans argued that President Barack Obama, as a lame duck, should not fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia but leave it to the next president — which they hope will be one of them.
But the example of Kennedy, who is still on the court, shows that presidents in their last year aren’t always powerless in shaping the court — and not shy about trying.
THE FACTS: That’s an over-the-top conclusion, tapping a real concern that Iran has too much influence.
Iraq is a sovereign nation with its own government, armed forces and right to act independently. Both the U.S. and Iran have great influence over the military struggle against the Islamic State group.
Iranian clout skyrocketed after U.S. troops withdrew in late 2011, but was countered in 2014 when the Islamic State militants destabilized the Iraqi military and took over about a third of the country. Since then, Iranian military advisers have been key in guiding Iraqi ground troops toward victory in cities like Tikrit and Jurf al-Sukhar, and Washington remains worried about the risk of Iran staging a de facto takeover.
Associated Press writers Vivian Salama, Sam Hananel, Alicia A. Caldwell and Jill Colvin contributed to this report.


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“I like apples” vs “I like apple”?
Are frozen pizzas countable or uncountable?
As you know pizzas are countable But when you add another word like, frozen, does it remain countable? Generally, when you add an adjective to a countable word are there any changes?
So, “Some advice” or “some advices”? Which is correct?
A code or some code?
I like dog or I like dogs which is correct and why?
Why do we say 'I like dogs'? Why can't we say 'I like dog' if we are referring to a particular dog? Most people use 'I like dogs'. Which is correct and why?
Is it “if you need further instruction” or “if you need further instructions”?
Having a debate with a friend about whether it is "instruction" or "instructions"
Is radish countable or uncountable?
Can 'surgery' be a count noun in the sense of 'medical procedure'?
Is “troop” unique among English words in meaning both a group and an individual member of that kind of group?
My favorite food is apples. Or my favorite food are apples.
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I know a lot of people are burnt out on atheist organizations after the last few years. I am less so than most people I know, but even I feel it from time to time. Still, the SSA is one of the groups that continues to regularly receive the revenue I make from this blog. Let me tell you a little bit about why.
Everybody screws up. That doesn’t make every screw-up equal, much less trivial. It does, however, mean that I pay more attention to what happens after something goes wrong than I do to the fact that something bad happened. Does the person or organization try to attack or undermine whoever points out the problem? Or do they take responsibility, look for the root of the problem, and try to find ways to keep it from happening again?
I talk to a lot of people working for movement organizations about ways to make the movement better. There are people at almost every organization who work incredibly hard to improve things, and when some of us get together, we geek.
All too often, though, these conversations happen furtively. There’s a sense that if bosses and/or donors knew that movement employees were putting heads together with someone who has been a vocal critic of movement organizations even when that person has also been a vocal supporter, things wouldn’t go well. Despite the fact that these organizations make changes in the name of improvement all the time, there’s a feeling that it’s a problem if criticism is explored rather than fought.
With the SSA, I don’t get that sense. In fact, the SSA has several times directly and officially solicited my feedback on problems they face or solutions they were considering implementing. This is not standard procedure. It’s not unheard of–several organizations have asked me for input on codes of conduct–but the SSA has done so on a much more regular basis.
Nor is mine anything like the only input the SSA has solicited. (Thank goodness. I’m a geek, which makes bouncing around ideas fun and potentially illuminating. I’m not a guru with all the answers.) When I talked to August Brunsman a couple of months ago about the SSA’s new mission statement, he was clear that the direction the SSA was taking on this came out of the priorities of student groups. He also said that ideas for implementation would continue to be influenced by the groups themselves, as has always been true for the SSA.
That openness is why I continue to support the SSA. If it appeals to you as well and you can afford it, I encourage you to take advantage of SSA Week to make that support concrete.
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Dharma Seal on "Absence of Self"
Selections from Ven. Da Yu's "Songs of Emancipation"
Impression of Guru's Grace: Revised by Guru Lin and written by disciple Yeo Jui Khin.
A Beautiful Amulet: It is a "liberation through wearing" amulet that grants blessing to beings who wear it on their body.
The Importance Of Seeing Your Guru As Buddha: by Lama Zope Rinpoche.
Tokens of Gratitude Jokes spoken by Dr. Yutang Lin to his physician while being treated for Hemorrhoids.
Mani Rings Origination of the making of blessed Mani Rings based on Dr. Yutang Lin's caligraphy of the Six Syllable Mantra of Avalokitesvara.
Sky and Ocean A poem by Dr. Lin.
Chanting Practice for Christians Introduction to the Prayer of Jesus: a simple but effective spiritual practice originating from Christianity for Christians.
A Brief Introduction to Setting up a Buddhist Altar A practical guide to setting up a Buddhist altar for lay Buddhists as taught by Yogi Chen.
Crossing the Gate of Death in Chinese Buddhist Culture Various aspects of death discussed in the context of Chinese Buddhist Culture.


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