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Protecting Nations- How to Secure a Nation as Smart Cities Grow

By Stephen Brennan, SVP, WCyber Network Defence, DarkMatter

Stephen Brennan, SVP, WCyber Network Defence, DarkMatter

It is often taken for granted, or at least there appears to be a conscious ignorance, that everything from the electricity that charges our smartphones and powers our houses, through to the vast and complex supply chains that stock our countries’ grocery stores, rely almost completely on complex information systems. This infrastructure ensures today’s nations and their citizens have the opportunities to prosper, helping to build a stronger tomorrow.

However, assigning responsibility for critical infrastructure protection is complex and will only grow as smart cities develop. Whilst the government has a role to play in ensuring the supply of essential services, up to 85 percent of critical infrastructure in the United States and 90 percent in Australia for example, is owned or operated by private industry or public/private partnerships. Some industries have strong regulatory frameworks and well-established cyber security practices, but some sectors struggle to maintain basic levels of cyber resilience.

National security, economic prosperity and social well-being rely on the availability, integrity and confidentiality of a range of information and communications technology. This includes desktop computers, the internet, telecommunications, mobile communication devices and other computer systems and networks.

The risk to the national economy from computer intrusion and the spread of malicious code by organised crime has been assessed as high. An increase in the scale, sophistication and perpetration of cyber crime has made it increasingly difficult to identify and defeat. Attacks affecting critical infrastructure that power smart cities, have become regular events and alarmingly effective.

The growing array of state and non-state sponsored actors who are compromising, stealing, changing or destroying information is increasingly blurred, potentially causing critical disruptions to information systems. The distinction between traditional threat actors—hackers, terrorists, organised criminal networks, industrial spies and foreign intelligence services—is also becoming more difficult to differentiate.

A nation’s approach to cyber security is contained within its Cyber Security Strategy. The aim of the strategy is to promote a secure, resilient and trusted electronic operating environment that supports national security and maximises the benefits of the digital economy.

The objectives of a cyber security strategy are that:

• All citizens become aware of cyber risks, secure their computers and take steps to protect their identities, privacy and finances online.

• Businesses operate secure and resilient information and communications technologies to protect the integrity of their own operations and the identity and privacy of their customers.

• The Government ensures its information and communications

technologies are secure and resilient.

The core principles established as best practice to meet these goals include:

National leadership: The scale and complexity of the cyber security challenge requires strong national leadership.

Shared responsibilities: All users, in enjoying the benefits of information and communications technologies, should take reasonable steps to secure their own systems, exercise care in the communication and storage of sensitive information, and have an obligation to respect the information and systems of other users.

Strategic partnerships: In light of these shared responsibilities, a partnership approach to cyber security across all governments, the private sector and the broader local and international community is essential.

Active international engagement: Given the transnational nature of the internet, in which effective cyber security requires coordinated global action, corporates and individuals must adopt an active, multi-layered approach to international engagement on cyber security.

Risk management: Today’s current threat landscape is truly global where all internet-connected systems are potentially vulnerable and where cyber attacks are difficult to detect, there is no such thing as absolute cyber security. It is imperative that we apply a risk-based approach to assessing, prioritising and resourcing cyber security activities backed up by the trusted ability to validate.

Protecting national values: Successful next generation communities and economies must pursue cyber security policies that enhance individual and collective security while preserving fundamental values and freedoms. Maintaining this balance is a continuing challenge for all modern economies seeking to meet the complex cyber security challenges of the future.


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IFF Completes Combination with Frutarom, Establishing a Global Leader in Taste, Scent and Nutrition

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2018-- Regulatory News:

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (NYSE:IFF) (Euronext Paris: IFF) today announced it has completed its acquisition of Frutarom.

The new IFF is a global leader in taste, scent and nutrition:

  • Creates a differentiated portfolio with an increased focus on naturals and health and wellness as well as more comprehensive solutions.
  • Provides opportunities to expand into attractive and fast-growing categories, such as savory solutions, natural colors, natural food protection and health ingredients
  • Broadens complementary and growing customer base, including enhanced exposure to the fast-growing small- and mid-sized customers, such as private label
  • Establishes enhanced platform to deliver sustainable, profitable growth
  • Provides strong value creation opportunities to maximize shareholder value – including cross-selling benefits as well as cost synergies

“The coming together of IFF and Frutarom is a momentous achievement. We are excited to be moving forward as one company and pursuing new opportunities that benefit all our stakeholders around the globe,” said IFF Chairman and CEO, Andreas Fibig. “Over the past several months, our integration planning teams have been working to ensure that we capture the best of both companies and create a seamless and efficient transition to achieve both our operational and financial targets for this combination. Today, we are celebrating the creation of a new IFF with even greater aspirations as a leader in taste, scent and nutrition. On behalf of everyone at IFF, we welcome Frutarom and its talented team, and look forward to working closely with all employees to continue to deliver winning products to our customers and maximizing long-term value for our shareholders.”

IFF anticipates the combination with Frutarom will translate into accelerated financial performance, with robust top and bottom-line growth. The Company expects to generate an average sales growth of 5-7%, and 10% adjusted cash EPS growth, on a currency neutral and pro-forma basis, over the 2019 to 2021 period. IFF also believes it will realize $145 million in cost synergies by rationalizing procurement, optimizing global footprint and streamlining overhead expenses by the third full year after the completion of the merger. The Company will be prioritizing repayment of debt and anticipates to be less than 3X net debt to EBITDA in 18-24 months to retain its investment grade rating.

As previously announced, holders of Frutarom ordinary shares are entitled to receive $71.19 in cash and 0.249 of a share of IFF common stock for each Frutarom ordinary share they owned. Frutarom shareholders will also receive a special dividend, on a per share basis, equal to 0.249 of the per share value of IFF dividends with a record date between May 7 and October 4, 2018. The combined company will be headquartered in New York City and will maintain a presence in Israel.

Effective today, the Company trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Euronext Paris under the ticker symbol IFF. On October 9, 2018, IFF shares will also trade on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) under the ticker symbol IFF. The ordinary shares of Frutarom are no longer listed for trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange or the London Stock Exchange.

Meet IFF

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (NYSE:IFF) (Euronext Paris: IFF) is a leading innovator of scent, taste, and nutrition, with over 110 manufacturing facilities, 100 R&D centers, and 33,000 customers globally. At the heart of our company, we are fueled by a sense of discovery, constantly asking “what if?”. That passion for exploration drives us to co-create unique products that consumers experience in more than 150,000 unique products sold annually. Our 13,000 team members globally take advantage of leading consumer insights, naturals exploration, research and development, creative expertise, and customer intimacy to develop differentiated offerings for consumer products. Learn more at, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

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Kelly Ford | Head Softball Coach, Cal State Fullerton Titans

“We flat out use the Jaeger bands every day at practice as well as game days. It serves as a stretching, strengthening and preventative arm work out for our athletes. There is a direct correlation between the decrease of arm injuries in our program and the use of the Jaeger bands.”

Kirk Walker | Assistant Coach, UCLA

“Over my 30 years of coaching at the collegiate level, I believe the J-Band program along with the long toss warm up are the most complete daily activation to maximize improvements and minimize arm and shoulder issues. The daily commitment to the J-Band and long toss program is time well spent and will keep athletes performing at their peak levels far longer during a demanding season, with fewer days lost to injury, recovery, or rest from over use.”

Matt Lisle | Assistant Coach, Santa Clara Broncos

“I’ve been working with the Jaeger Sports, J-Band program for over 10 years. There isn’t a better program out there for Arm Care & Long Toss than the Jaeger program. I have seen first hand incredible results from players in both baseball and softball from doing the program and recommend it to every player I come across.”

Dee Dee Kingsbury | Head Softball Coach, Whittier College

“The J-Band system, along with the Long Toss Throwing Program is a must for any team at any level. When our team had arm issues a few years ago, the first change we made was to purchase the J-Bands. Not only did we see a decrease in arm pain, but we started to see a dramatic increase in arm strength and accuracy. Being a pitching coach, I really like the addition of Monica Abbott to the video and the new drills that the pitchers can do. I would highly recommend this program to anybody.”

Jimmy Kolaitis | Assistant Softball Coach, University of Oregon

“Having coached both baseball and softball at the collegiate level, the Jaeger band is one training tool that I have used in each sport. Not only does this program help in the development of arm strength, but more importantly it allows the athlete to maintain health to their arm. I have seen the positive results in all athletes, and strongly believe that it is instrumental in keeping our athletes stronger and healthier throughout the length of a season.”

Michelle Gromacki | Head Softball Coach, Cal State University Fullerton

“Throwing is done more than any other physical action in our game. It is extremely important to have a stretching and throwing program. We have found that the J-Bands are the tool that provides that program. It is of great strength to not only our pitchers but all of our players. We do the program everyday. We have learned how to modify the exercise routines depending on practice vs. game day. We were fortunate last season to have not had any shoulder injuries that didn’t already exist. I believe that the J-Bands were the reason.”

Kama Tucker | Assistant Coach, University, North Carolina Wilmington

“J bands has the history, the reputation and the program that WORKS. The program is sport specific and easy to follow. If you haven’t started using J bands yet, you are missing out. This should be as important to you as the stretching program and the throwing progression you have your young ladies doing. J-BANDS WORK. GET ON IT TODAY.”

Mike Candrea | Head Softball Coach, The University of Arizona, 8 Time NCAA National Champions

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Sue Enquist | Former UCLA Softball Coach, 27 years, 11-time National Champion, 5-time Hall of Fame

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Monica Abbott | Pitcher, Chicago Bandits, 2007 USA Player of the Year, 2008 USA Olympic Team

“The J-Bands and Long Toss throwing program allow me to best condition my arm and pitch at my top speed.”


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So I had a concept of what I was going to do for my Vector project, so I had to spend some time sketching out some stuff. I decided to do a vector of a spaceship flaming through space; realizing how spot on the tablets were, I decided to give doodle drawings a shot.

The result was a Sheena, Yukari and Ling Ling all going googly eyes at the pretty spaceship. Hence the name of the post, which roughly translates to “Ooooh, a beautiful space battleship!”

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The War Against Values in Mathematics

The Do’s and Don’ts of Values in Mathematics

In each Teacher’s Guide, there’s a Notes section at the start of each lesson that includes work learned in previous grade levels together with the connection to the present work in the lesson. Be aware this to get to every Game, it’s required to Click the Link that we’ve supplied. The huge school curriculum doesn’t teach the children the ideal way of learning the subject.

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However, questions that spring up within these domains generally can’t be resolved by science. Nothing was accomplished, therefore, the moment the disputation ceased. They also ought to apply general wisdom and common sense.

Finding a great grip in Math, through understanding and practice, will tend to come up with your brain in a huge way and allow you to clasp on the concepts in the rest of the subjects with increased speed and efficiency. At length, scratch paper is strongly encouraged. The idea that important skills need regular reinforcement and that practice in such skills should reappear many times throughout the plan of study won’t be controversial and isn’t original.

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Students should know how to critique the data and the way it’s presented. Discussion is a significant part of working with these props and tools. Listed below are a list of practical issues which have been implemented into SIR-type models.

What Everybody Dislikes About Values in Mathematics and Why

Let’s look at mean price, the worth of a function at a particular point, and value as worth. There’s a limit to the maximum criteria that can be tested in one cell. It’s also known as a step function.

Knowing one angle measure of a perfect triangle, you can figure out the proportion of the surfaces of the triangle. The vertical axis is known as the y-axis. To learn the image distance, the lens equation has to be used.

All About Values in Mathematics

This module was made to allow students to undertake additional study in a place of specific interest. Gaining wealth and live the life span of luxury isn’t bad. When you look at that instance, you can intuitively see that every student will receive only one last grade once class is over.

If you prefer, you may always pick more points in the intervals and graph them to find a better idea about what the graph resembles. I think that you’re prepared to go ahead and graph. Line graphs can on occasion be utilized to create predictions for values that weren’t measured, by interpolating or extrapolating the trend, or by studying the shape.

You should not presume that your mean is going to be one of your initial numbers. Evaluate the aforementioned messy expression and you’ll also get 0.0174524064. The set of potential benefits, after you crank those values throughout the math machine, is known as the codomain.

Get children to help the Worm figure out the number of ladybugs are in every one of the four buses by utilizing all their place values knowledge! Even when it’s structured into big ideas between which connections are created, the entire thing can receive the skeleton of a jellyfish. In the very first plane of development, the human inclination to produce order together with the sensitive period for order support the exactitude by which the kid classifies experience of the planet.

Vital Pieces of Values in Mathematics

The Example two line was actually an easy Addition Rule relationship. Values which include partial units are generally called decimal numbers. There are not any numbers involved.

Mathematically proficient students begin by explaining to themselves the significance of an issue and searching for entry points to its solution. Together with having the ability to identify clearly what the graph or table is telling us, it is necessary to identify what regions of the story are missing. Order under girds the capacity to reason, and adapt to modify in the surroundings.

An equation is a significant portion of calculus that another major branch of mathematics and with help of calculus it is simple to solve a number of different types of issues. Independent variables are values that could be changed in a specific equation or experiment. Multiply the numerator of the very first fraction by the denominator of the second fraction and compose the consequent product beside the very first fraction.

The end result of multiplying the numbers is the item. An easy equation employed in the discipline of physics may be used to demonstrate the connection between independent and dependent variables. The expression value can likewise be utilized in various ways in math.

There’s exactly 1 identity matrix for each square dimension collection. For that reason, it is reasonable use the same sorts of pieces better. Our place value is put on proportional representation.

It will enable you to check and see whether you experience an understanding of these sorts of problems. Problem solving can also enable the whole person to develop by experiencing the total assortment of emotions associated with assorted stages of the solution approach. See also Sturm-Liouville issue.

Under some circumstances the 2 roots could have the exact same price. The foundation supplied in this topic will make it possible for students to build strategies for operating with signed numbers. An explicit attempt was made to explore several exposures to important concepts and abilities, spread over a few years.


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  • November 3, 1937 - January 22, 2020
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I'm so sorry for your loss. Mom loved him so. Jean Cockerham is my mother. Will be praying for all of you.

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York Idling Signage

A package of measures aimed at deterring stationary vehicles from idling was approved at a Joint Decision Session of the Executive Member for Planning and Transport, and Executive Member for the Environment, on 7th February 2019. It was agreed that Council officers should be authorised to use discretionary powers under the Road Traffic Regulations 2002 to issue fixed penalty notices of £20 to drivers who refuse to switch off their engines. Enforcement will only be undertaken as a last resort with the problem of stationary vehicle idling being addressed first and foremost, by raising awareness, particularly in those areas of the city where complaints arise, such as residential areas and outside schools.

A Fixed Penalty Notice will only be issued if a vehicle has been observed idling on the public highway for more than two minutes (without reasonable cause) and the driver refuses to switch their engine off when asked. Anyone issued with a Fixed Penalty Notice for idling would have 28 days to pay. If they fail to do so, the fine would rise to £40.

The legislation only applies to the public highway and not to private land, such as car parks, where the issue will be addressed in a different way. It is also not applicable to vehicles waiting in a queue of traffic, unless there’s an obvious source of prolonged delay, such as a level crossing or an incident that’s blocking the highway. Driver’s will also be allowed a reasonable period in which to defrost their vehicles to a safe level during periods of cold weather.

Observations made around the city have indicated that there’s an inconsistent approach to idling among vehicle operators; that those driving in the course of the work do not always comply with their company’s policies; and that the use of technology designed to automatically cut off power to a vehicle when it’s stationary is ad-hoc. Awareness-raising activities carried out on Clean Air Day 2017 and 2018 observed idling by buses and coaches.

A research report undertaken on behalf of the council concluded stationary idling has no benefit for most vehicles; that it’s better to switch off the engine if idling is anticipated for one minute; that the health and environmental benefits, and fuel savings, significantly outweigh the cost of taking anti-idling measures; that most idling can be addressed by offering education and advice to drivers; and that very few Fixed Penalty Notices have been issued for idling offences by other local authorities.

An anti-idling awareness-raising campaign will be launched in mid-2019, six weeks before the proposed introduction of anti-idling enforcement patrols, which will be timed to coincide with Clean Air Day 2019 on 20th June.

Councillor Peter Dew, Executive Member for Transport and Planning, said: “Through the Quality Bus Partnership, we’re working closely with bus operators around the city, who have been extremely proactive in terms of helping us to raise awareness of this issue among their drivers. Many buses now also have technology on board to prevent idling, and the introduction of more electric buses during the course of 2019 will also help to address this issue.”

Councillor Andrew Waller, Executive Member for the Environment, said: “Idling is an issue that we receive complaints about, particularly near schools and residential areas. These measures are aimed at improving air quality and public health, as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and vehicle noise.”

Following consultation with York’s Quality Bus Partnership, signage will be erected at bus stops around the city to remind drivers of their responsibilities. To find out more about the report visit:


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Endless Loop: Four Hearts in a Can

smogHave you ever had one of those songs that gets stuck in your head for days…weeks…years? Sure you have. These are the songs that always make the cut. The songs on repeat. We all have them. I have a ton. Welcome back to Endless Loop.

“Four Hearts in a Can” by Smog

Do you have that part of you that just wants to get lost?  To get in your car, to go out for milk or cigarettes, and to never return?  To pull off of the freeway and turn onto a lonely road that leads to…somewhere?  Or nowhere.  There’s this little piece of me that wants to drive into the desert, a beautiful, serene sunset to one side of me and an ominous, terrifying stormfront to the other.  Nothing in front of me but road.  And nothing behind me but dust and more road.  I’m not running from anything, I just need some quiet.  I just need to breathe.  Alone in my thoughts.  Alone in my head.  Alone in my car.

Pinks and oranges and blues and yellows.  The universe turns into an array of colors before me, the result of light and particles and different wavelengths.  And I drive onward, windows open, wind and the remaining sun on my face, the hum of the engine and tire tread on pavement, until I’m reset.  Until I’m restored.  Until…

…I’m back.  I always come back.

Cue up “Four Hearts in a Can” from Smog’s 1996 album The Doctor Came at Dawn, and start the engine.  Check the gauges, and the fluids, and the gas.  Then go.

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family justice

4.1 Offer a broad range of services

Make family law services easier to find, including triage, early intervention, integrated and collaborative processes, parenting and financial services

4.2 Promote consensual resolution

Develop and expand proactive management of family issues and more consensual approaches and services, maintaining a focus on safety

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Educate people about less adversarial approaches and experiment with new services and processes to create opportunities for consensus resolution

4.4 Restructure family courts

Locate all of the aspects of family law in the same place, including separation, custody and access, and divorce, ideally under one judge

Progress in 2019

Family law continues to be a major focus of access to justice efforts in Canada. The majority of self-represented litigants in Canadian courts are dealing with the legal aspects of separation and divorce, or are managing the ongoing custody and financial arrangements between parents.

Legal clinics and public legal information services have long focused on helping people understand the processes, forms and options in family disputes. Family courts, lawyers and mediators continue to provide direct legal services while alternative approaches work to reduce conflicts or avoid legal disputes altogether.

In 2019, the focus in family justice was on increasing the remote, in-person and online tools available to litigants, using legislation and policy to increase the potential for early resolution and to give strength to enforcement efforts, and affirming the justice sector’s commitment to the best interests of the child.

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Client Intelligence Portal Makes Accessing Data Easy

By: Kishore Agasthi

Monitoring an enterprise’s key performance indicators (KPIs) in a challenging economic environment makes the difference between profitability and loss, exceeding or failing stakeholders’ expectations, success or failure. Agility is essential, but challenging to achieve without a comprehensive platform that enables executives to see the whole picture as well as each component in real time.

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Data for Social Good: Helping Nonprofits Enter the Digital Age

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While governments and businesses have reaped big benefits from the revolution in big data and software analytics, nonprofits sometimes lag behind the public and private sectors when it comes to adopting advanced machine learning techniques.

ESG Accountability: A Tangible Way of Tracking Value

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March 15--During CECP’s recent Board of Boards CEO convening held on February 29th, 2016, CECP provided attending CEOs of the world’s largest companies with a comparison of financial and ESG performance, between companies that are affiliated with CECP (“CECP companies”) and other large companies in the Fortune 500 not affiliated with CECP (“non-CECP companies”). Discover with us the most compelling findings.

CECP Launches 2016 Survey

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NEW YORK, January 19, 2016 /3BL Media/ -- CECP, a nonprofit that believes business can and should be a force for good in society, is pleased to announce the opening of the 2016 Giving in Numbers Survey, in association with The Conference Board. The survey is open online January 15, 2016 to March 31, 2016 to companies with revenue of US $2 billion or more, including companies not yet affiliated with CECP.

5 CSR Trends to Watch for in 2016

As far as corporate responsibility goes, 2015 had its ups and downs! We’ve watched as corporate scandals have blurred the line between good deeds and PR, and rejoiced to see many companies in it for the long haul as they’ve successfully aligned their goals to affect long-term sustainability.

Now that 2015 is winding down, it’s a great time to reflect on how far corporate social responsibility (CSR) has come in the last decade, and to look forward to the coming year. Here are 5 CSR trends you’re sure to see more of in 2016.

Using Data for Good Is Good for Business

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Can doing good be good for business? Bloomberg, the financial data company, measures a firm's sustainability in terms of its social and environmental impact.

And the Winner is… Prizes Announced for Data Insights That Help Increase High School Graduation Rates

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Congratulations to Linda Roesch, a research fellow in Atlanta, for winning the $20,000 first-place prize in our “Data for Diplomas” challenge!

We asked data experts from across the nation to experiment with public data sets and demonstrate insights that could help boost U.S. high school graduation rates to 90 percent, up from 81 percent today. They studied everything from high school student transfer rates to cold-weather climates.

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Mother Bumpkins is on a mission. She is leading a small but dedicated contingent of environmental activists on a field trip to a remote part of southeastern Utah. The exact destination can't be revealed, not yet, for the element of surprise is crucial to the success of the mission. For the purpose of egalitarianism, the five members of her team--two women and three men--are all named "Bob." They are dressed in camouflage attire that would blend in better with a background of dense rain forest than the red rock of the Colorado Plateau they are traversing. Still, the clock has just struck first light, and they would be hard to spot even if someone was specifically looking for them. Someone will surely be looking for them soon, though, for the mission of the group is what the government likes to call an act of ecoterrorism.

Mother Bumpkins and the five Bobs naturally don't see it that way. To them, they are merely trying to preserve the environment. And if that means turning road grading equipment into performance art, well, so be it.

In this part of southeastern Utah--and, very well, here's a hint: the six just dived behind a stand of box elders when a car's headlights briefly illuminated the area as it raced north on Route 191--in this part of southeastern Utah, both state and federal governments seem intent on building roads in the most pristine tracts of wilderness imaginable. For precedent, they cite an 1866 revised statute that permitted road construction to help commerce move over federally owned lands. The statute was repealed 90 years later, but with a significant loophole left in: any road already constructed was valid, and local officials immediately claimed that any old cowpath constituted a road. Given the current pro-development tenor of the administration and its lapdog Congress, the only logical recourse is to blow up road grading equipment.

Intent on keeping a low profile, they travel low to the ground, darting amongst the creosote bushes and ocotillo like guerrilla fogdogs. The Bob who is carrying the map and compass spots a cairn that she built a week ago and motions for the others to head down an adjacent arroyo. The path is narrow and steep, and they must proceed in single file. Binoculars Bob takes the lead, signaling for quiet. But he inadvertently kicks a stone into the dry gulch that startles a covey of ravens. They take flight, loudly protesting the interlopers. Camera Bob, who is even now documenting the event with a night-vision cam-corder, follows Binoculars Bob down the slope. Mother Bumpkins ties off Mortar Bob and Bazooka Bob, so they can be lowered without having to stow their armament. Then she and Compass Bob scramble over the edge. At the bottom, Binoculars Bob is frantically gesturing for quiet. Not fifty meters away sit eight pieces of insidious road building equipment. There is no sign of activity, and if all goes according to plan, the machinery's inactivity will soon be permanent. Mother Bumpkins identifies a Marini-Fayat 221 track-mounted paver; a Komatsu PC-120 excavator; a Kubota self-propelled broom with tow package; a Detroit diesel chip spreader; a John Deere loader-backhoe; a Perkins pneumatic roller-compactor; a Sasta vibration road roller; and a 1960 Ford Galaxy 500, prized personal transport of the county commissioner whose pet project this ruinous right-of-way is. She smirks as she taps Bazooka Bob's shoulder and points to the Galaxy. Let that be the first casualty.

Binoculars Bob climbs atop a slickrock outcropping to take his position as lookout. Camera Bob slips back up the gully to get a better viewing angle. Compass Bob pairs with Mortar Bob to help her sight the targets. And Mother Bumpkins joins Bazooka Bob to expedite the gun-loading process.

In less than a minute, both Mortar Bob and Bazooka Bob have readied and aimed, but a millisecond before they fire, Binoculars Bob whistles loudly. They stop, holding their positions and their breaths. Barely visible in the early morning light is an approaching car, driving without headlights. It pulls right up to the construction site and stops. Two men get out. They are talking, gesticulating at the equipment, but they keep their voices low and Mother Bumpkins can't understand the content. Then they furtively attach a pair of cables from their car to the Sasta road roller, an action that suggests that they, too, are interlopers here.

The tension among the six is palpable. What now? Mother Bumpkins spots the little glowing red eye on Camera Bob's cam-corder. Yes, they have a film to make. And if in the process a little collateral damage occurs, so be it.

But the Galaxy can wait. She points to the paver and the excavator, and Bazooka Bob and Mortar Bob line up each in his and her respective sights. It's nasty but necessary, thinks Mother Bumpkins, and she gives the signal to fire.

Two massive explosions rip the still air of the high plateau as the projectiles find their targets. Flames leap high from the Marini-Fayat paver as its nitroglycerin fuel cell detonates. Mother Bumpkins discharges the steaming shell casing from the bazooka, loads another, and taps Bazooka Bob's shoulder. He aims for the John Deere and fires. Another hit! Meanwhile, Bobs Compass and Mortar have taken out the chip spreader and broom with one well-placed mortar shot. "Nasty but necessary," Mother Bumpkins repeats to herself, as she clears the bazooka's chamber again. But she is increasingly anxious, and as a result she drops the new shell. It rolls away from her down the ravine. She scrambles after it, but bumps Mortar Bob just as she fires at the compactor. There is another massive explosion, but it isn't the Perkins. It is the car of the interlopers.

Though shocked, Camera Bob continues to document the event. Perhaps he'll edit out the collateral damage later. In less than a minute, the road roller, the compactor and finally the Galaxy are history. He focuses on their charred and twisted remains, then gradually blurs the image and fades to black.

The weapons are dismantled for easier cross-country travel, Compass Bob checks her bearings, Binoculars Bob signals that the coast is still clear, and the six silently absquatulate in the growing half-light that is already turning the pools of dark shadows into an identifiable red rock landscape. But emergency vehicles are already racing down Route 191, their sirens shrilling, and Mother Bumpkins can hear a helicopter in the distance. "Nasty but necessary?" She hoped so, but she was no longer quite so sure.

We're not sure of much, except that this 423rd episode of Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar has the potential to be explosive in its own right, and here with the collateral damage part of the show is Kalvos.


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My friend texted me the abbreviation “SMH” not long ago, and I finally googled it and found out what it means.  It’s short for “shaking my head” and it implies disappointment, frustration, disapproval or impatience. We’ve all been doing a lot of SMH lately and will continue to do so for a while.

COVID-19 is a terrible thing, but the grotesque, counter-productive, disgraceful political partisanship that relentlessly influences every public policy decision is a plaque in and of itself.  *SMH*

Speaking of shaking your head-- it’s connected to your neckbone, and your neck bone is connected to your backbone, and your backbone's connected to your tailbone… etc.  you get the picture.

In case you didn’t know, chiropractic has been improving the quality of life for patients since 1895. There is not an effective drug or surgery for the vast majority of spinal conditions. Chiropractors care for patients of all ages and as an essential component to the healthcare delivery system can help keep patients out of high-risk physician’s offices and emergency rooms.

I will continue to be here for you, delivering the best chiropractic care that I can. In the meantime, Life is Short. Enjoy It!

Stay well adjusted,

Dr. Dan Kammer