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Dear Mr President We Still Have Insurance Problems: Gene Taylor Writes a Letter to the Prez

Congressman Gene Taylor
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Fourth District of Mississippi

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For Immediate Release
Contact: Ana Maria Rosato (202) 253-1308
October 13, 2009

Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) Urges President Obama to Reform National Flood Insurance Program, Act on Multiple Peril Insurance legislation

Bay St. Louis, Miss. — With the President’s upcoming visit to New Orleans on October 15, 2009, Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) wrote Mr. Obama urging the Administration to reform the National Flood Insurance Program and revisit the Multiple Peril Insurance Act of 2009, his proposed solution to the homeowner insurance crisis that is sweeping America’s homeowners throughout the Gulf and Atlantic coastal states. Rep. Taylor urged the Administration to engage in “more actively in reforming the National Flood Insurance Program, providing for better disaster insurance coverage, and improving other disaster response and recovery programs.”

Rep. Taylor’s letter opened by reminding President Obama that since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Mississippi Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, he has not yet visited the area either as a Senator, a candidate for President, or as President. In the letter, the Mississippi Congressman stated:

“Immediately after [Hurricane] Katrina, we learned that some of the largest insurance companies in America were not going to honor their [homeowner] policies.”

Rep. Taylor pointed out in great detail the impact that the insurance industry’s refusal to honor their homeowner contracts had not only on coastal Americans, but also on federal taxpayers throughout the nation.

“The insurance tactics not only overbilled the federal taxpayers through the National Flood Insurance Program, but also resulted in billions of dollars of additional federal disaster assistance to assist the displaced residents during their long insurance disputes. Most homeowners whose wind insurance claims had been denied eventually reached some settlement with their insurers after years of delay, but in the meantime, thousands of displaced residents were dependent on federal assistance.

“FEMA provided 42,000 trailers at an average cost of $31,000, $15,000 for the travel trailer itself and $16,000 for the ridiculous no-bid, cost-plus contract to Bechtel Corp. to deliver, install, and maintain the trailers. FEMA also provided individual assistance, housing vouchers, and other help for displaced residents. The Homeowner Grant Program in Mississippi provided about $2 billion in grants to homeowners who did not have flood insurance, were not in the flood zone where flood insurance was required, but had homeowners insurance that did not pay for their loss. The remaining uncovered losses that were not directly subsidized by federal payments were eligible for subsidized disaster loans and casualty loss tax deductions.

Because homeowners were not able to rebuild because of uncovered losses and lengthy insurance disputes, federal taxpayers continued to subsidize cities, counties, and schools that could not recover without their local tax base. Small businesses and commercial districts also could not recover because their customers and employees had not returned.”

Rep. Taylor continued.

“If no other lesson is learned from the experience of the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, we should have learned that coastal residents need to be able to buy hurricane insurance that will cover hurricane damage without gaps in coverage, without lengthy disputes over the cause of damage, and without inherent conflicts of interest that allow insurance companies to shift liabilities to taxpayers.”

Rep. Taylor concluded, “I sincerely believe that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but only if the prevention measures are effective, efficient, and accountable. In the case of the flood program, its effectiveness is heavily dependent on the integrity of levees and other flood control structures, the accuracy of the flood risk maps, and local enforcement of building codes and flood plain management standards. All of these factors call for better federal administration and oversight of contracts.

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August 10, 2008

Democratic National Convention Countdown, No. 16-15: Advice From 1968 "Chicago Eight" Moonbat Tom Hayden

Photo by Don Caspere © Chicago Tribune/1968--The Chicago Seven, who were charged with conspiring to incite the riots that erupted during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, are, in foreground from left: Lee Weiner; Rennie Davis; David Dellinger, holding his granddaughter; Abbie Hoffman; Jerry Rubin; Tom Hayden; and John Froines. The group was called the Chicago Eight until Bobby Seale's case was severed.

Democratic National Convention Daily Digest and Open Thread
Saturday August 9 and Sunday August 10, 2008--Nos. 16-15

•Awww--Tent State says no to daily "Long March" from City Park to the Pepsi Center, moves to the much-closer (but still off-limits to camping) Cuernavaca Park near Coors Field; Tent State nixes $1000/night digs (price for the whole group, not individually) at the Denver Coliseum

Denver building managers prepare for the worst, including building lockdowns

•In part 1 of a project 10 part "Unconventional Wisdom" series, 1968 DNC "Chicago 8" arrestee and New Left moonbat Tom Hayden offers some advice to Denver--oh, and the FBI is evil, by the way:

•No bikes at the Pepsi Center or Invesco Field--security concerns trump "green" convention mandates

Democrats plan a little old-time religion for "people of faith" with an interfaith service on Sunday, August 24 (you can grab some tickets by RSVPing for required tickets, the service is free and open to the public)

Some very serious (and not so serious, though quite humorous) suggestions for visitors concerned with altitude sickness here in Denver

Close, but no cigar--former President Bill Clinton will have to speak at the convention on behalf of presumptive nominee Barack Obama and not his wife Hillary; tentative line-up of potential A-list Democrat politicos speaking at the DNC

What, exactly, is a delegate to a national party convention?; Delegates will see a "bolder" platform than the one put forth in 2004

Other Western states aren't happy about the ticket arrangement for Barack Obama's Invesco Field speech

DIA gets DNC makeover; Let 1000 DNC banners bloom

•Convention security "Fusion Centers?"

•Mason Tvert and SAFER--a different "green" for the DNC

•Good news for protestors--DNC legal observer training continues

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1 Critical Theory

2  Central Themes  Emphasis on “inequality” and “power”  Crime as “political” concept  CJS serves interests of powerful  Solution to crime is more equitable society  EXPLANATION OF LAW and CJ SYSTEM rather than crime

3  George Vold Group Conflict  Multiple groups in society with varying levels of power ▪ Political interest groups ▪ Social movements ▪ Broad segments of society ▪ Political parties  Those who win conflict get control over the law and coercive power of the state Pluralistic Conflict—Explanation of the Law and Criminal Justice

4  The formulation of law  Interest groups’ influence on law-making  Research on consensus over laws  The operation of the CJS  Research on “extra-legal” variables  “Legal” = prior record, offense seriousness  “extra” = RACE, CLASS, GENDER  Demeanor? Empirical Evidence

5  After controlling for legal factors, race-CJS studies are all over the board  Especially if one controls for demeanor (Reiss, 1966  observed police)  Research issues  The meaning of prior record and demeanor  How to isolate and study bias  Different stages of the legal system Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice

6 Racial profiling ▪ Difficult to determine ▪ Minorities more likely to live in high-crime areas ▪ Alfred Blumstein ▪ Racial disparity in incarceration due largely to disparities in arrest rates ▪ Blacks at a disadvantage in the criminal justice system, especially for less serious crimes Race and Justice II

7  Race and Capital Punishment  Victim x Race interactions  Race and Drug Prosecutions  Long history of connecting drugs to “dangerous” populations  Chinese  Opium  Mexicans  Marijuana  African Americans  Crack Cocaine e  “Crack Multiplier”  Enforcement patterns for drug offenses Where the Evidence is Clear

8  Thorston Sellin (1938)  Cultural conflict theory  Gist: violate laws of the majority simply by following the norms of one’s own reference group  George Vold (1958)  Group conflict theory (crime that results from conflict)  Labor strife, protest-related crime Conflict: An Explanation of Street Crime

9  Communist Manifesto  Means of production determine the structure of society  Capitalism: Owners of the means of production (capitalists) Workers = proletariat, lumpen proletariat Karl Marx

10  The laboring class produces goods that exceed the value of their wages (profit)  The owners invest the profit to reduce the workforce (technology)  The workers will no longer be able to afford the goods produced by the owners Capitalism will Self-Destruct

11 ▪ Early attempt to tie Marx and Crime Together ▪ Altruism as a defining characteristic of society and human nature ▪ Egoism characterizes capitalist society ▪ Capitalism builds social irresponsibility and creates a climate of crime ▪ Solution: socialism (which allows altruism to flourish) Wilhelm Adrian Bonger

12  Instrumental Marxist Position  Hard line position  Crime and the creation and enforcement of law the direct result of capitalism  Structural Marxist Position  Softer Position  Governments are somewhat autonomous  Over time, the direction of the law (creation and enforcement) will lean towards the capitalists Marxist/Radical Criminology

13  Richard Quinney (1980)  All Conflict is organized around capitalist versus the poor  Either you are an oppressed lackey or a capitalist  Anyone who does not realize this (or identifies with capitalism) has false class consciousness  The real power and authority is exclusive to the ruling class Instrumental Marxist Criminology

14  Primary goal of capitalists? Maintain Power!  To do this, must trample rights of others  But, also must portray an egalitarian society  Accomplished by controlling media, academics Quinney (1980) cont.

15  Capitalists control the definition of crime  Laws protect the capitalists (property, $)  Laws ignore crimes of the capitalists (profiteering) Implications for Law

16  CJS is the tool of the capitalists; used to oppress (not protect) the working population  Crimes of the rich treated with kid gloves  Property crimes strictly enforced  “Street crimes” are enforced only in poor neighborhoods  Incarceration to control surplus labor Implications for the Criminal Justice System

17  Crimes of the Capitalists (must control)  Economic Domination  Crimes of the Government  Crimes of Control  Social Injuries (should be crimes)  Crimes of the Lower Class  “Rebellion”  Crimes of “Accommodation” Implications for Crime?

18  The policy implication of Marxist Criminology is clear.  Dismantle the capitalist structure in favor of a socialist structure. POLICY IMPLICATION?

19  An “underdog theory” with little basis in fact  Are “socialist societies” any different?  Other capitalist countries have low crime rates  Most crime is poor against poor—Marxists ignore the plight of the poor. Criticisms Radical/Marxist Criminology

20 ▪ The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison ▪ Key point = harmful acts of the rich are often ignored (unneccesary surgery, environmental harm, etc.)  White collar crime less serious and less likely to be enforced ▪ Pollution, Hazardous work conditions, Unsafe products, Insider trading, Embezzlement, Fraud ▪ Even w ealthy people who engage in street crime are less likely to be formally charged and better able to avoid sanctioning Jeffrey Reiman

21 ▪ Only some forms of capitalism encourage crime ▪ Market economy (compassionate capitalism)  Japan (Top down)  Scandinavian (Bottom up) ▪ Market society (high levels of inequality and poverty) ▪ Solution: softer, gentler capitalist society Elliot Currie—Slightly Less Radical

22 ▪ Mechanisms that link market societies to high rates of violence ▪ Destroys livelihoods ▪ Tendency toward extremes of inequality ▪ Weakens public support ▪ Erodes informal social support ▪ Promotes a culture of competition and consumption ▪ Deregulates the technology of violence ▪ Weakens alternative political values and institutions Elliot Currie

23  Feminist Criminology  Relationships between gender, crime, and the criminal justice system  Gender Ratio and Generalizability Gender and Crime

24 ▪ Emphasizes equal opportunity and importance of sex-role socializations ▪ Focus on “patriarchy”—male dominance exerted over females through financial and physical power ▪ Types ▪ Liberal feminism ▪ Socialist feminism ▪ Radical feminism Feminist Criminology

25  Good example of conflict theory in action  Feminists responsible for shaping the law and law enforcement  Marital Rape  Intimate Partner Violence  Feminists also largely responsible for the recent focus on gender/crime issues Feminist Criminology

26 ▪ Gender ratio (Gender Gap) ▪ Males account for the vast majority of delinquent and criminal offending ▪ UCR, NCVS, self-report ▪ Gender gap shrinking? Liberation hypothesis (Not supported by research)  WHY is gender ratio so large?  Can traditional theories explain? (Social bond, delinquent peers, etc.)  Masculinity & sex roles Gender-Crime

27  Generaliziblity issue  Can “Male” theories explain female offending?  Many theories blatantly sexist (See, Cohen)  Many theories simply ignore females  Mainstream theories do explain male and female offending similarly  Could we do better explaining female criminality?  Salience of sexual/physical abuse among delinquent girls Gender and Crime II

28 ▪ Street women ▪ Harmed-and-harming women ▪ Battered women ▪ Drug-connected women ▪ Other women Daly’s Typology of female offending

29 ▪ Research findings ▪ When gender effects are found, females are treated more leniently  Chivalry Hypothesis  Paternalism Hypothesis  Seriousness of offense differs in ways that most research doesn’t count  Sort-of-legal-factors (“familied”) Gender and the Criminal Justice System

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  • First we study regression models to the purpose of estimating appropriate grasps for the observed object, starting from visual cues. This mapping may be useful, not only for the very purpose of learning how to grasp objects, but also to exploit multi-modality in object classification. Indeed, multi-modality is a fundamental feature that characterizes biological systems and lets them achieve high robustness in understanding skills while coping with uncertainty. Relatively recent studies showed that multi-modal learning is a potentially effective add-on to artificial systems, allowing the transfer of information from one modality to another.
  • Second, we investigate the adoption of a string-based representation of motor information for analysing and classifying action patterns (Prevete et al., 2005; Prevete et al., 2006). Kernel-based algorithms may be used to evaluate the similarity between motor acts (see Pittore et al., 2000 and Noceti et al., 2008 for previous investigations and preliminary results). The contribution of such framework is to provide a tool for assessing the role of motor representation in action observation.

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You can configure your HTC EVO to play an audio file and also vibrate when you receive a text message. If you transfer an MP3 file to the appropriate folder on your EVO, you can use it as a notification when you receive SMS messages. All you have to do is configure the message settings on your phone.

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Saturday, May 12, 2012

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It is true that there is absolutely nothing in the world I wanted to be, ever, more than being a mom. I marvel sometimes at how I can be a mom now to two teenagers and one wanna-be teen. You know that feeling that somewhere out there, you still exist as a 14-year-old, 18-year-old, 25-year-old? I have that a lot.

This is motherhood right now. My oldest, 19,  has been home from college for almost two weeks. He is stretched out on the loveseat, with his legs dangling over the sides. He is 6' 1", dressed in hiking boots, army green pants, and a white t-shirt. His hair is in ringlets as always, and a cup of Starbucks is next to him. He is reading Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, which he is forcing himself to get through, as he almost did with Moby Dick and Ulysses

My daughter is in her bedroom with her best friend. They are 14. They laugh a lot and they are very, very beautiful. Every now and then they emerge from her room, bursting out and running, laughing. Just now my daughter's friend has smeared shaving cream on my Laurel's face, and they have chased each other outside. It is good be to be a giggling 14-year-old girl. I know. I once was one.

My youngest is at a birthday party. I noticewhen he is gone, always. There is an empty place here without him. He is the one who is frequently at loose ends, being 11. He is growing out of the season of toys and so is often at a loss as to what to do. He would love to watch TV or play the Wii all day long, but we have these tedious restrictions for such things. Instead, he wanders about outside, climbing trees or exploring the yard. He is the one who always finds the new flower or a bird's nest. He'll report on the amount of sawdust the carpenter bees have left or a pile of mushrooms in the front yard.

Outside the birds are singing and a cool breeze comes through the open windows. I am surrounded by the sweetest dog ever and two cats, one old and one new. My time of quiet is over. My oldest gets up and announces he is 500 pages into the book, then he heads off to Starbucks again to meet a friend. I have to slip on my flip-flops, take my daughter's friend home and pick up Duncan from the party. Being a mom is so very, very good.

Happy Mother's Day!

  1. I never wanted to be the mother of "big kids." I was afraid of teenagers and just wanted to hold on to the baby days as long as I could. But now that I have an almost 13 year old and an 11 year old as well as two elementary aged kids, I am finding that I enjoy this new season of motherhood. Most of the time I would agree that it is wonderful to be a mother!

  2. Happy Mother's Day! I also marvel at what wonderful people the "small bundles of joy" have turned into now that they are teenagers (14 & 15). I absolutely love the quirkiness, energy, and hope they exude. I'm absolutely LOVING this age as a parent.

    1. I agree!! I always cringe when I hear people dread the teen years. Teens are so much fun!

  3. Happy Mother's Day! Older kids are wonderful in an entirely different way from young ones...I have a mix of both types in my house.

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. I was afraid that would happen.

Like many Jewish people, Christmastime for me is generally a conflicted period. The carols rule (name another genre of music in which artists like Bing Crosby, Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, The Beach Boys, The Pointer Sisters and Alvin and the Chipmunks have all recorded the same song), the blue spruce and Douglas fir trees smell like little slices of heaven and, as is the case with most Jews (although few will admit it), I’ll jump at any excuse to eat party ham.

But I’m constantly bidding Christians a polite “Happy Holidays” in response to their “Merry Christmases,” because otherwise I feel a little disingenuous (just as I imagine anyone outside of the tribe might feel awkward asking God to inscribe me in the Book of Life during Yom Kippur). I try hard to figure out the six degrees of separation between Frosty the Snowman and the birth of Jesus (via Santa Claus). And I remind myself that even though it’s a holiday that’s advertised sometimes as early as July, it actually only falls once a year (or twice, depending if you count how many times “Ernest Saves Christmas” and “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause” are shown on TBS).

My husband has all but humbugged every Christmas in the time I’ve known him. A self-described recovering Catholic with agnostic leanings and Jewish tendencies, he thinks there’s no better time than Dec. 25 to indulge in Chinese food, watch movies and patiently pass the time until Dec. 26.

But this year his mom is coming to stay with us for Christmas. While we cheerfully invited her, I’m now under no small amount of pressure to get my Christmas on. Mixed holiday feelings aside, Santa Claus will be joining my mother-in-law at our home, and as an unofficial disciple of Martha Stewart, it’s my duty to shovel as much joy and warmth into the occasion as possible.

A few years ago we bought a small, pre-lit tree. (I wasn’t about to be the subject of one of those news stories where the house burns down because no one remembered to water the freshly cut tree. We have a hard enough time remembering to refill the fish tank every few months.) It gets decorated with nothing more than plain silver ornaments. It’s a simple, elegant tree for a proud, mostly Jewish home.

We also have stockings. I picked out the ones from Pottery Barn Kids that were the most religiously ambiguous — like the one with the ballerina and the one with the train. Although I suppose the act of actually having a stocking erases any doubt as to what holiday is being observed. After all, last time I checked, quilted stockings played no role in the Maccabees’ celebration of that drop of oil that miraculously lasted eight nights.

The do-it-yourself gingerbread house kit is traditionally a big December activity in our house. Thankfully there’s nothing religious about gumdrops and jellybeans. Candy knows no spiritual boundaries.

However, I’m concerned that our slipshod Yuletide tokens won’t suffice now that we’ll be officially recognizing Christmas this year, so I’ve been scrambling to beef up our non-existent traditions.

We bought new ornaments last weekend (because our existing ones are actually glass and will be gleefully tossed, broken and eaten by our almost-16-month-old daughter before she can say “emergency room” and “stitches”) and browsed other decorations at Target. However, the gold wreaths seemed too, well, gilded. And the Peanuts nativity scene seemed too proselytize-y. I might have taken myself out of the running for Jew of the Year, but I have to draw the line somewhere.

Then there’s the matter of the Christmas dinner menu. My mother-in-law usually eats gumbo and boiled crawfish with my brother-in-law and sister-in-law’s family in Louisiana on Christmas. The problem is, I’m still scarred — emotionally and literally — from the roux of the gumbo I made a few years ago. So I investigated flying in live crawfish instead, but judging by the price, they’re demanding to be seated in first class.

From my cursory research, I’ve determined that gelatin salad molds are also common Christmas fare. Forgetting that Jell-O is up there with bacon cheeseburgers in terms of the holy grail of non-kosher foods (not that ham is exactly pareve), simply making anything with the word “mold” in it just feels wrong.

To be sure, I’ve got my work cut out for me — channeling my inner WASP to try and make this year’s Christmas one that everyone will treasure. It’s just not easy creating a meaningful holiday when it’s not your holiday. It’s kind of like throwing someone a surprise party when the theme is based on a book you didn’t read.

Except in this case, the book is the New Testament, it’s Jesus’ birthday and someone other than him will be on the receiving end of the cake. That’s a lot of guesswork for a Jew. Here’s hoping for a Christmas miracle.

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That’s according to City Hall’s Office of Sustainability and the Environment, which is recommending all property owners to shut off irrigation systems for the coming weeks. City officials would like for people to adjust automatic timers or stop manual watering.

City officials recommend installing a weather-based irrigation controller, a user-friendly technology that, among other things, cancels watering schedules during and after rains.

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City Council rejects smoking ban

Finally there is hope for a town in MO.

I realize some people do not like cigarette or cigar smoke and they feel they should be able to go to a restaurant/bar and not have to inhale it.

HOWEVER, they do not own the establishment. They have no other investment, other than their time and the money they spend. In essence, they are “renting” under certain conditions, and those conditions are set by the OWNER….ie the person taking all the risk and responsibility of running the establishment. If the owner wishes to exercise his private property rights (no different than owning a home and smoking around guests that visit) and thinks he can make a living, be profitable and stay open by allowing people to smoke, then so be it. If you do not like it, go somewhere else.

Meanwhile, if you are a worker and you do not wish to work around smoke….find a job elsewhere. Working at a bar/resturarnt is not a right, but a priviledge. If you set the conditions of no smoking, and the owner rejects your offer, then you don’t get the job. If you take the job KNOWING that they smoke there, you made an educated and informed adult decission. Live with it.

Great job for the City Council of Webb City for realizing that personal property rights override the “Will of the People”. Especially when only a little more than 400 people in a population of more than 10K turn out out to vote on a measure.

Webb City council rejects smoking ban

WEBB CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Although Webb City voters supported a smoking ban, the city council voted against implementing the ban in the southwest Missouri city.

The council voted 5-3 Monday night against the ban.

Webb City residents voted 452-348 on April 5 in favor of the ban. Mayor John Biggs said the vote was only a straw vote to guide the council.

Opponents had argued the ban infringed on the rights of citizens, particularly business owners. Proponents say smoking is a health issue even for non-smokers .

The Joplin Globe reports that the ban would have prohibited smoking in public places or places of work. Smoking would have been allowed in buildings used by dues-paying members and stores that primarily sell tobacco.

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“Daddy, daddy, there’s a yellowjacket in the bedroom!” cried Izzy.

And somehow, the dusty old synapses fired and I replied, “It’s not a yellow jacket, it’s a fly.”

Now, I guess I could have been premature — it wouldn’t have been impossible for it to be a yellowjacket — but the odds were against it. In early May there are few yellowjackets around. All but fertilized queens die in late fall and early winter. These fertilized queens generally overwinter under bark, in stumps and logs and under leaf litter. Some occasionally find refuge in man-made structures, usually barns or other out buildings.

When they do emerge, and it can be as early as early May, these queens immediately get busy building nests and laying eggs that will eventually become those huge picnic spoiling colonies of late fall.

However, now that spring has arrived the odds of a fly slipping in one of the seemingly always-opened front or back doors that serve, like Alice’s rabbit hole, as portals to wonderland for my two little girls, are much greater. But a fly that looks like a yellowjacket? Yep, enter the yellowjacket hover fly.

Hover flies or flower flies are true flies in the family Syrphidae. These flies are noted Batesian mimics. Named from British naturalist, Henry Walter Bates, these mimics, usually insects, closely resemble unpalatable or harmful species and are therefore avoided by predators, 7-year-old little girls and probably a majority of humanoids who, upon hearing a buzz and seeing a bright yellow and black “bee” quickly begin swatting and retreating.

The retreating is not so bad. The hover fly is unscathed and the humanoid gets to breathlessly recount being “that close to being stung by a yellowjacket.” The swatting, spraying, mashing, bludgeoning or other dispatching of the offending “bee” is, however, a sadder affair.

Flower or hover flies are actually quite beneficial insects. Flower flies are major pollinators. In agri-ecosystems like orchards, flower flies out-perform all other native pollinators. The only more productive pollinator would be the honeybee. But honeybees only pollinate. Flower flies are also beneficial as predators. The larvae wreak havoc on aphids, caterpillars, thrips and other harmful insects.

If you can still yourself till the “fight or flight” response passes, it’s fairly easy to distinguish between the yellowjacket hover fly and the yellowjacket. The fly has only two wings. The yellowjacket (and all wasps and bees) has four. Yellowjackets have long antennae. The hover fly’s antennae are shorter than its head. Hover flies actually hover, yellowjackets don’t.

The hover fly’s mimicry doesn’t stop with appearance. Once your logic has overcome your flight or fight response and you have captured the hover fly in your hands, it will press its abdomen to your palm and don’t be surprised if you react by waving your hand and dancing a jig while squealing like a 13-year-old girl at a Jonas Brothers concert. That flight or fight response is not called “hard-wired” for nothing.

After two or three captures you will regain your swagger and be one of the first to say, “here, let me take care of that for you.” But as you reach for the culprit you will be going through a mental checklist: two wings, long antennae, it was hovering, right?

This little buzzer is also known as a “buzz bee.” It has the habit of getting in your face and buzzing loudly. In parts of Appalachia it is known as the “good news” bee. The folklore goes: if one buzzes in your ear you will soon experience good news.

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Is Dynamic Endpoint Selection practical?

The concept of dynamic endpoint selection sounds really neat. At service runtime, the service consumer need not know what service is going to be invoked to fullfill its invocation request; rather, a SOA governance tool can help faciliate this decision of choosing a providing service, based on the pre-defined contractual functionality, interface, SLA, and policy. The SOA governance tool will choose the best service to invoke to accomplish the consumer's requests, bind the consumer to the provider, and complete the "transaction". This sounds super helpful and a bit optimistic, but is it practical? In other words, Are there really architectures using this approach of having services "swap in and swap out" at runtime according to the consumer's needs? I've only had 1 customer to date consider this feature of SOA, as most don't have a complex enough requirement to justify the feature in the architecture. A couple things come to mind when thinking about this capability:

-- Dynamic Endpoint Selection is probably most applicable with external hosted services, outside your corporate firewall. For example, if I need to get a stock quote or a weather service, I probably have less concern about who the Provider is, as long as my Quality of Service (QoS) needs are met. Just get me the info! However, internally hosted services won't have backups that applicable to my business. Getting customer or Supply Chain information that is specific to my business is impossible to replicate externally, or is just questionable architecture if it is redundant internally (putting failover and D/R aside).

-- This could work well in a B2B scenario or for a multi-agency government scenario. This is better known as a Community Cloud. If one provider can not provide a consumer the information needed at the time the consumer needs it, another provider can "step in" and fullfill the request. In a community, a lot of the participants have access to same or similiar information sources.

-- This could be really nice to automate a B2C retail online transaction. I don't need to know who the merchant is selling the product, just the price and terms. In Amazon, we get presented with a checkout to a specific merchant. What if I don't ever need to know who the merchant is until after purchase (like Rather, a service does the dynamic selection. This would assume vendors have connected their inventory systems into the marketplace for an automated inventory check before purchase order completes. Still, today's buyer is normally accustomed to know who they are buying a product from before the committ to purchase. Part of this is brand identify, part educated consumer, and part skepticism with all the horror stories of purchasing products over the Internet.

-- Creating the general interface contract and getting proper provider compliance can be cumbersome. Does the end justify the means? How many consumers will use this approach, if the investment is put up from the providers?

  1. Jordan,
    I think you are right on with this usage, can't say that I see a lot practical examples of this in the in house IT space.

  2. Although I understand what you are saying combining dynamic endpoints with business rules for example has a lot of power. For industries where laws keep changing (i.e. the implementation) but not the contract (binding or data) this would be very useful. For an example please see my blog here:


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Birthday: 1972-11-06

Birthplace: Born in Berkeley, California USA

Marital Status: Engaged to Jerry O'Connell (actor)

Rebecca was born in Berkeley, California, USA. Her parents are of Dutch ancestry (Jaap Romijn and Elizabeth Kuizenga).

While studying singing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she became involved with fashion modeling and moved to Paris, France for more than two years, to model. She has modeled for the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated and for Victoria's Secret. Once a year you can see her in the Times Square Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.

She also was the host of MTV's House of Style from 1998 to 2000.

Rebecca has had the fortune of being one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 1997 and again in 1999. She was also GQ's Woman Of The Year in 1997.

Rebecca has been in a handful of television shows and films. Her most well known role to date is Mystique, in X-Men! She has received 2 awards for acting, and 4 nominations!

She is left-handed.
She is fluent in French and Portuguese.
She was once married to actor John Stamos

Career Highlights

Ugly Betty January 18 - Present
X-Men: The Last Stand - Raven Darkholme/Mystique 2006
Man About Town - Nina Giamoro 2006
Lies & Alibis - Lola 2006
Godsend - Jessie Duncan (as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) 2004
The Punisher - Joan (as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) 2004
X2 - Mystique/Grace (as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) 2003
S1m0ne - Faith (uncredited) 2002
Femme Fatale - Laure/Lily (as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) 2002
Rollerball - Aurora (as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) 2002
X-Men - Mystique (as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) 2000
Dirty Work - Bearded Lady 1998

Pepper Dennis (TV series) - Pepper Dennis (12 episodes, 2006)
Just Shoot Me! (TV series) - Adrienne Barker (8 episodes, 1999-2000)
Hefner: Unauthorized (TV movie) - Kimberly Hefner (as Rebecca Romijn-Stamos)
Friends (TV series) - Cheryl (1 episode, 1997)

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Won, Saturn Award - Best Supporting Actress for X-Men (2000)
Won, Blockbuster Entertainment Award - Favorite Supporting Actress - Science Fiction for X-Men (2000)

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Real Salt Lake’s loss in Champions League will be a bother, but not much mroe

How much trouble is Real Salt Lake in, now that its CONCACAF Champions League fight has begun with little bit of a bloody nose?

Not much, really. Three matches remain in group play, two against Panamanian champion Tauro FC and one more against last night’s opposition, Herediano of Costa Rica.

The 1-0 loss Tuesday does shrink the CCL margin for error. It adds a little more pressure to get wins, not ties, in the two subsequent home matches in the tournament. And it means RSL must pay closer attention to goal difference during matches in Utah and the one in Panama – which may adjust manager Jason Kreis’ strategy here and there.

(This year’s reformatted CCL competition includes three-team groups rather than four-team groups as before.)

What Kreis said about last night’s 1-0 loss in San Jose, Costa Rica, where defender Nat Borchers’ ejection left the Utah side with 10 men for the final half-hour. (His complete quote sheet is here.)

We struggled to get possession of the ball and we’re a team that likes to have possession of it, control the tempo of the match and we struggled to do that. And then we got punished for it, I think rightly so when Herediano scored a very scored a very good goal. But as the game wore on I thought we got better and better. Towards the end of the first half we put some pressure on them and I thought we were a little unfortunate not to score a goal.

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MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - JANUARY 15:  Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Manchester United (2R) celebrates with team mates as he scores their first and equalising goal during the Premier League match between Manchester United and Liverpool at Old Trafford on January 15, 2017 in Manchester, England.  (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)
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Five Premier League games are coming your way at 10 a.m. ET on Saturday and you can watch them all live online.

[ STREAM: Every PL game live here ]

Stoke City host Manchester United, Everton head to Crystal Palace, Bournemouth host Watford, while Middlesbrough welcome West Ham and Sunderland travel to West Brom.

[ STREAM: “Goal Rush” here ]

For those of you familiar with the Premier League Breakaway Show during busy days (Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, Championship Sunday etc.) in the PL, this will follow that model of being very similar to the NFL RedZone with action shown from all of the games in the 10 a.m. ET window.

The feature game this weekend on “Goal Rush” will be Stoke City vs. Manchester United and as goals and incidents occur around the league, you will be transported to the action as it happens.

More info is available here, plus the schedule for all six games at 10 a.m. ET is below. You can stream each game live by clicking on the links below or above.

10 a.m. ET: Stoke City vs. Manchester United – NBCSN [STREAM]
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Liverpool 2-3 Swansea: Swans shock Klopp with historic win

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  • Liverpool’s first defeat at home in 25 games
  • Llorente, Firmino both score twice
  • Swansea’s first-ever league win at Anfield
  • Swans out of relegation zone

Swansea City beat Liverpool 3-2 at Anfield on Saturday as they secured their first-ever league win away at Liverpool.

Fernando Llorente put Swansea 2-0 up with strikes early in the second half, but then Liverpool came roaring back with Roberto Firmino scoring twice to make it 2-2. However, Gylfi Sigurdsson scored the game-winner with 15 minutes to go to seal a vital win for Paul Clement’s side in their battle against relegation.

As for Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp, their title bid took a huge hit with their first home defeat in the PL in almost a year as they could fall 10 points behind leaders Chelsea who play on Sunday. Swans move on to 18 points and out of the bottom three with their third away win of the season.

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Liverpool took the game to Swansea from the off and Firmino broke free down the right and dinked a delicious ball to Adam Lallana but his bicycle kick went over.

The Reds kept pouring forward but were caught on the break as debutant Tom Carroll saw his cross deflect off Dejan Lovren but hit the near post with Simon Mignolet beaten.

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As half time approached Firmino was free in the box again but Alfie Mawson blocked his shot and then Nathaniel Clyne miscontrolled in a good position on the right as the home fans at Anfield started to grow anxious.

0-0 at the break with Liverpool having 72 percent of the possession but neither team having a shot on target.

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The second half started with a bang as loose defending from Lovren saw him concede a corner and from that Swansea took the lead.

Federico Fernandez nodded the ball back in and at the second attempt Llorente poked home the opener. 1-0 to Swansea as Anfield was stunned.

Four minutes later it was 2-0 to Swansea as the two new boys Martin Olsson and Carroll combined on the left and the latter sent in a superb cross which Llorente headed home. Anfield was in shock.

[ MORE: Full lineups, stats, box score

Three minutes after going 2-0 down Liverpool pulled a goal back. James Milner‘s left-wing cross was swung into the box and Firmino rose above Olsson to nod home. 2-1. Game on.

After that crazy spell of three goals in seven minutes things settled down as Mawson glanced a header just wide to almost put Swansea 3-1 up but with 20 minutes to go it was 2-2.

Georginio Wijnaldum clipped a ball in from the left side of the box and Firmino controlled beautifully before slamming home. 2-2.

Up the other end Swansea then when 3-2 up as a shot deflected into Sigurdsson’s path and he slotted home. Madness with 15 minutes to go.

Late on Liverpool pushed for the equalizer as Lukasz Fabianski denied Divock Origi but the Swans held on as Lallana headed a glorious chance over.

Pep Guardiola: “Maybe I’m not good enough”

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Pep Guardiola has admitted he “may not be good enough” for his players at Manchester City.

Ahead of City’s clash against Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday (Watch live, 12:30 p.m. ET on NBC and online via NBCSports.com) Guardiola has been defended his squad after severe criticism from the media.

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City were hammered 4-0 at Everton last weekend, their worst league defeat since 2008 and Guardiola’s worst-ever league defeat as a manager.

With plenty pointing the finger of blame at goalkeeper Claudio Bravo and City’s defense, their manager put himself in the firing line.

“They are good players. I have respect for the guys, so why would I say the guys are not good? So I don’t understand the lack of respect for the professionals when they have been amazing players, and [people saying] they are not good enough for me. Maybe I am not good enough for them,” Guardiola said. “They are Manchester City players, top players. They have a lot of quality. They have shown that many times in the past and this season.”

Mind games.

Guardiola, 46, is no doubt facing the biggest challenge of his season as City look to at least seal a top four spot in this his debut season in England. The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager has already “said goodbye to the title” and if they lose against red-hot Tottenham at the Etihad Stadium then more questions will be asked of his tactics and if they can work in the Premier League.

So far the possession-based slow build up style has been hot and cold for City, with plenty of counter-attacking teams in the PL (Chelsea, Spurs, Everton, Leicester etc.) having a field day against a shaky defense.

Despite being 10 points off the pace, Guardiola is sticking by his philosophy. One thing really sticks out to me from his first few press conferences in England: “We will see if my style of play can work in the Premier League.”

So far, it’s not.

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Liverpool host Swansea City to Anfield on Saturday (Watch live, 7:30 a.m. ET on NBCSN and online via NBCSports.com) with the Reds aiming to stretch their unbeaten run at home in the Premier League to 18 games.

Jurgen Klopp is a little concerned with the number of games his team have had to play over the past few weeks, but a victory against the struggling Swans would momentarily move his side just four points behind leaders Chelsea who play on Sunday.

As for Swansea, new manager Paul Clement knows a win would take his team out of the relegation zone and with new signings arriving that would be a massive boost. It would also be a massive ask for the Welsh side to get anything at Anfield but this may be a good time to play Liveprool after their midweek trip to Plymouth in the FA Cup and the EFL Cup semifinal second leg against Southampton coming up on Wednesday.

In team news Liverpool start with Philippe Coutinho once again, while Joel Matip is on the bench after the Reds finally settled the dispute with Cameroon. Swansea hand debuts to new signings Martin Olsson and Tom Carroll.

Liverpool: Mignolet; Clyne, Lovren, Klavan, Milner; Can, Henderson, Wijnaldum; Lallana, Coutinho, Firmino. Subs: Karius, Sturridge, Moreno, Lucas, Origi, Matip, Woodburn

Swansea City: Fabianski; Olsson, Mawson, Fernandez, Naughton; Cork, Carroll, Fer; Sigurdsson, Llorente, Routledge. Subs: Nordfeldt, Rangel, Amat, Fulton, Dyer, Borja, McBurnie


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Md.'s Medicaid Claims System Contract Suspended, According to Audit

By Deidre McPhillips

ANNAPOLIS—More than $27 million has been paid to replace an outdated system that manages Medicaid claims for the state, but work has fallen grossly behind schedule and is unreliable in quality, according to an audit released this month by Maryland's Department of Legislative Services.

A five-year, approximately $171 million information technology contract has been suspended indefinitely, the audit said.

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene found that “the existing project schedule and related documents contained pervasive logical errors and factual inaccuracies” and “a shifting and fundamentally unreliable account of the progress of the project,” the audit stated.

The new Medicaid Enterprise Restructuring Project, or MERP, would have replaced the current Medicaid Management Information System to meet certain federal requirements and improve oversight of the Medicaid program, a process that many states have started.

A separate analysis of the fiscal year 2015 budget for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene by the Department of Legislative Services indicates that the project was awarded to Computer Sciences Corp. with Board of Public Works approval in February 2012, but that “progress on the MERP has significantly deteriorated.”

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene declined to comment on the audit’s findings.

The contract suspension will allow the state’s new health secretary and Medicaid director the “opportunity to thoroughly review the department’s options prior to moving forward,” Karen Black, a media representative for the department, wrote in an email. The review period is expected to be complete by March 20.

Computer Sciences Corp., a Virginia-based information technology company, could not be reached for comment.

The company awarded the contract has implemented similar systems in two states, but with cost increases up to 300 percent and schedules up to three years beyond the original plan, the audit states.

The company also had similar contracts canceled in two other states due to significant cost increases and work defects, the audit states.

Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene knew this when they awarded the contract to Computer Sciences Corp. in January 2013, the audit states.

But this potentially deal-breaking information was not shared with the Board of Public Works before the contract was signed, the audit says. In fact, the company’s technical proposal was rated “excellent.”

The audit also reports that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene changed the terms of the contract proposal eight times, but only reported one change to the Board of Public Works—a change in contract language that brought the contractor’s liability down from unlimited to three times the value of the contract if there was a breach. According to the audit, the department was legally required to submit that change for review.

Thomas J. Barnickel III, legislative auditor with the Department of Legislative Services, said that while he recognizes that the department didn’t do anything illegal, he does not think officials there are addressing the issue appropriately.

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Here we are again,
Backs to the answers,
Facing the same old questions,
Every day,
Though tiresome this may be,
And in vain we go on,
Driven forward by the fact,
That one day blessed will be our souls.

Red waves of fire,
The sunlight is darkness,
Same old porcelain dolls,
That makes up reality,
Black gloss of obsidian,
Volcanic moldings,
Forever never giving up.

The guitars form our footsteps,
The bass is our eyesight,
Vocals make up our definition,
The drums are the very pulse of our hearts,
Through thick and thin,
Brothers never separate,
Our music is the chain,
That binds together our souls.

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Sol has sunken behind the mountains
And the velvet curtain came falling
Daily world is put on hold and the less of it we perceive
The brighter is the sight to beyond

Answer the firmament again
The wind plays the reeds
A signal for stellar voyagers
And like mist they will come

Waiting for a sign, back to see old friends
Appointed we are in carnation
Anointed into stellar civilians

Do you remember?
As a child you sometimes awoke in tears with a sense of falling
And a familiarity to the stars

Thoughts pervade in looking for words
And stories start being told.

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Mark Eyles was a writer for the UK publication Sonic the Comic. He replaced Nigel Kitching as lead writer on the Tails strip for a while, producing the "Zonerunner" stories among others, and also wrote some Sonic's World strips, for which he created the characters B.A.R.F..

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Artist Sonya Paz has paved new directions in the pop art movement through her exuberant use of color and playful forms. Bold shapes and vibrant colors leap off her canvases, while her images explode in an energetic and wildly whimsical style. Learn more about Sonya’s artwork.

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    Acquiring art doesn’t need to be difficult… in fact we make it quite easy for you to obtain a fun artful gift or collectable.             The imagery of Sonya’s paintings lend themselves well for accessories and wearable art. It may be a fun tote bag or a metal wallet to […]

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    Sonya’s gallery in San Jose is what we call a “Working Gallery and Studio”, meaning we designed the space to not only showcase Sonya’s artwork and retail items, but is essential for the creation of new art and the creation of products.  Sonya and her team creates and designs  and manufactures many of the retail […]

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Sunday, December 10, 2006

Always something there...

NEW YORK ROUTE 17K, somewhere about a mile east of Route 17. Gentle hill, on the upslope, woods on either side and maybe a lake to the right, and over the crest are a bunch of puzzling, dancing, greenish-brown lights, about a dozen, dim but piercing, bobbing, disappearing and reappearing. They all disappear without the bright lights, then reappear, multiplied, with the brights back on...

Cresting the hill slowly now, and the lights are fixed, and then bodies grow behind them, in the middle of the road, one, two, three, what, maybe seven or eight, standing to one side, then fanning out slightly across the road, watching the other lights, waiting, and are there more behind them? Who knows, but there's nothing to do but wait...

And finally the biggest one, on the left, no longer interested, raises and turns his head and canters off to the left, and the other six or seven turn their heads and canter off behind, and the road is clear again, leaving just the guy in the car, his heart pounding...

Oh, deer.

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    Master of nothing, let alone the mind,

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Sony Hackers brag about their Success

These hackers are really rubbing it in. CNN received a message from them, cheering their success in canceling the film, The Interview.

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"It's very wise that you have made a decision to cancel the release of 'The Interview,'" the message said, according to CNN. "We ensure the security of your data unless you make additional trouble."
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George's Marvelous Medicine

Written by Roald Dahl

Reviewed by Nour K. (age 9)

Once there was a boy named George. He liked inventing medicine. When his parents leave home, they keep him in charge of his grandma's medicine. George doesn't know his grandma needs a special medicine. George made a weird medicine for his grandma because she's like a big mean witch. She is always creepy and scary. He wants to make her into a nicer person.

To make the medicine, he goes into the kitchen to get a pot. After that he marches into the bathroom. George grabs some soap, shampoo and other washing stuff. He heads to the basement and puts the pot on the table. He stirs the potion. That is his magic medicine. Read the book and find out what will happen when his grandma drinks the potion!

I think this book is good because it is interesting how all those washing detergents make such a strange medicine. My favorite part was when he made the medicine because I don't like his grandma either! I found George interesting because he is a good medicine inventor.

I recommend this book to good readers who like Roald Dahl books. This one is short and funny!

Nour K. is a student in Gretchen's 4th Grade Class


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It came from beneath the sink

Written by R. L.. Stine

Reviewed by Hunter (age 10)

I read "It Came from Beneath the Sink" by R.L. Stine. I thought it was a very good book because it was scary and suspenful.

Kat and her family move 10 blocks away. They live on East Main St. When they first get into the new house, Killer, their dog barked at the sink. This was very strange. Their life was going along just fine until they found the monster. Then things really started to change and get weird!

Kat and her brother find a monster in the house but their parents don?t believe them. A lot of weird things are going on. These situations make the story very suspenseful. The only person that believes them is their dog! They can't even get their parents to believe them about what's going on. Kat picked up a sponge and it came alive. Their dad takes a look at the sink but, there was nothing there. Their mother was telling them not to lie but they said they were not.

It was a good book. You should read it if you like scary stories. I think this is R.L.Stine?s best book. People that like suspenseful stories will like it.

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Royal Flying Corps

Military aviation in Britain began in 1878 when the Royal Engineers formed a Balloon unit. However, it was not until 1907 that a powered army airship became operational. The first Air Battalion was established in 1911. At first progress was slow and by 1912 the Air Battalion only had eleven qualified pilots compared to 263 in the French Army Air Service.

Great Britain founded the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in May 1912. It was decided that initially the BE-2 would be the main fighter plane. By the end of 1912 the RFC had one squadron of airships and three of aircraft. Each squadron had twelve machines.

At the beginning of the war the RFC mainly used the BE-2, Farman MF-7, Avro 504, Vickers FB5, Bristol Scout, and the F.E.2. By May 1915, the Royal Flying Corps had 166 aircraft. Therefore the vast majority of the operations on the Western Front was carried out by the Aéronautique Militaire, which had 1,150 aircraft available.

In August 1915 Hugh Trenchard became the new RFC field commander. Trenchard took a much more aggressive approach and insisted on non-stop offensive patrols over enemy lines. British casualties were high, and by 1916, an average of two aircrew crew were lost every day. It became even worse the following year, and in the spring of 1917 the RFC were losing nearly fifty aircraft a week.

By the time the Battle of the Somme started in July 1916 the RFC had a total strength of twenty-seven squadrons (421 aircraft), with four kite-balloon squadrons and fourteen balloons. The squadrons were organised into four brigades, each of which worked with one of the British armies.

It was only with the arrival of improved fighter planes such as the Bristol Fighter, Sopwith Pup, Sopwith Camel, S.E.5 and Airco DH-2 that losses began to decline. Britain also developed new bombers such as the Handley Page and Airco DH-4. By the end of 1917 the British has established their superiority over the German airforce.

General Hugh Trenchard, the RFC field commander in France, was a strong supporter of strategic bombing. Eventually, in January 1918, Trenchard was appointed chief of staff to the Royal Air Force with the promise of being able to create a mass bombing fleet of aircraft. By the end of the war the RAF operated 4,000 combat aircraft and employed 114,000 people.

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(1) Harold Chapin, letter to Alice Chapin (2nd April 1915)

Aeroplanes are every day - almost every hour - occurrences, and bombs are dropped here and there about the country in general in charming profusion. They seem to do amazingly slight damage - especially to the military (either men or works). The civil population suffer slightly but apparently no more than does the London public from traffic and fires.

(2) Captain Chapman was one of Mick Mannock's teachers at the School of Military Aeronautics. He later described Mick Mannock's early training.

When he arrived he seemed not to have the slightest conception of an aeroplane. The first time we took off the ground, Mannock, unlike many pupils, instead of jamming the rudder and seizing the joystick in a herculean grip, looked over the side of the aeroplane at the earth, which was dropping rapidly away from him, with an expression which betrayed the mildest interest. He made his first solo flight with but a few hours' instruction, for he seemed to master the rudiments of flying with his first hour in the air and from then on threw the machine about how he pleased.


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We are a global organization with programs in 170 countries. This site may be customized by language and geographic region.

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When I started with Special Olympics in Colorado I wasn't that fit and sometimes had a hard time moving. By the time I went to my first state games I had played two seasons of soccer. When my team had won our gold medals, I felt that I could do anything. Then I started golf. I got the movement back into my hips because of plates and screws. I was really proud of myself because I could do things other people couldn't do. With Special Olympics Colorado I got the freedom and confidence to move.

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PlayStation Follows Xbox to China

Sony signs up deal to get PlayStation into potentially huge new market

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Just under a month since Microsoft announced an agreement with local Chinese company BesTV, Sony has announced that it's partnering with the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Culture Development Group (OPCD) to take Playstation to China.

This is excellent news for Chinese gamers, but mostly for the Shanghai Media Group, which owns both BesTV and OPCD.

According to Marketwatch, "Sony's partnership with OPCD will result in the creation of two companies: Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) will be 70% owned by Sony and is presumed to be the software side of the operation, and Shanghai Oriental Pearl Sony Computer Entertainment Culture Development (it probably sounds better in Mandarin) is the hardware and sales side of the business and will be 51% owned by OPCD."

It also points out that, "The government now allows the consoles to be sold in the country but it will continue to censor or ban games that it believes are controversial or subversive. Earlier this year the country's minister of culture said, "We want to open the window a crack to get some fresh air, but we still need a screen to block the flies and mosquitoes."

We're sure that Sony won't give a damn for censorship laws however, as a slice of a $12b market (currently) will surely cheer currently depressed shareholders.

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Iceland Euro 2016 Kits

The Iceland Euro 2016 kits will be worn at Iceland’s first-ever participation in Euro competitions.

The kit boasts of a modern design in the colors of the Icelandic flag, blue, white and red and it has been manufactured by Italian brand Errea.

Iceland Euro 2016 Home Kit Design

The Iceland 2016 hone kit is predominantly dark blue with white sleeve cuffs. On the left side of the Euro 16 home shirt, three parallel strips of alternate white and red colour runs down from the shoulder to the bottom.

On the right hand side, the manufacturer’s logo Errea, who has been Iceland’s kit supplier since 2004, is found on the chest.

A Prussian blue stripe borders the v-shaped collar of the Hungary 2016 Euro jersey while the inside of the shirt reads ‘Fyrir Island’ in large white letters.

Blue shorts and socks complement the Euro 16 home kit and gives an all-blue look. The Icelandic flag is placed on the upper back below the neckline.

The Iceland 2016 away kit is mainly white with red and blue details. Two blue, two white and a broad red strip runs down on the left side of the Iceland Euro 2016 away jersey.

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Cristiano Ronaldo set for Old Trafford return?

Updated: November 9, 2011

Could Cristiano Ronaldo once again be playing at Old Trafford? Well if the stories are to be belived then the flying winger could be tearing down the wing at Od Trafford next year.. for one game only though.

Sadly for Manchester Utd fans there will be no dramatic return of Ronaldo to the Utd red, however it is hoped that he wil make a one night only apperance for Rio Ferdinand’s testimonial.

Rio, 33 yesterday, will complete a decade at Old Trafford next summer and it is understood United’s top brass are keen to plan a year-long series of events and fundraisers with the defender in January.

That includes trying to lure Ronaldo back for an apperance in the testimonial. Everything will hinge however on his Real Madrid schedule and if he will have the time to make the trip back to Manchester.

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