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COMMENT: Newport rail link still vital
12:40pm Monday 30th July 2012
By South Wales Argus
12:40pm Monday 30th July 2012
By South Wales Argus
IT DOES not surprise us one iota that the bus link connecting Rogerstone station to Newport city centre is attracting so few passengers.
Put simply, it is not what people want.
And, in our view, the lack of support for it should not be taken as any indication of the level of demand there would be for a direct railway link from Ebbw Vale to Newport.
It is just not a fair measure.
Regular readers of this column will know just how long we have been campaigning for the railway line.
We still have not heard any real argument as to why it has not become a reality already and we can see no reason why there are still no concrete plans in place.
The re-opening of the railway line between Ebbw Vale and Cardiff has been a huge hit, with passengers from all those communities now with a direct link to the capital city.
But we also believe the direct link to Newport would be just as successful.
The trouble with the bus link is that it makes the journey that little bit more difficult and that little bit longer.
In other words, it puts people off.
The fact that so few people are using the bus link may well lead to it being taken away.
But for us, the solution is obvious: get the rail link working and the passenger numbers will follow.
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Golden State. And I'm not saying that because they smoked the Lakers last night.
When I tuned into that game last night, they looked fantastic. I guess I had not kept up on their acquisitions in the off-season. I thought last year they already had a great young roster. So I'm looking at the screen, checkin out who they ahve on the court.... "Ah, there's Steph Curry... David Lee... yep, Klay. Oh wow, forgot they got Bogut. AND Iguodala... holy crap." So I keep watching, and they sub in JO, Speights, Draymond Green, Douglas.
It dawns on me, "Holy crap they are stacked." Their starting 5 is pretty ridiculous.
And then it dawns on me that I forgot about Harrison Barnes, who's out with a minor injury.
Good grief. And then you got Mark Jackson, who in my mind is a brilliant basketball mind, out to prove that he's a top-flight coach.
This is a dangerous team. About the ONLY thing I could see being a problem for them in the playoffs is their youth and inexperience. A team like Miami, SA, Indy might beat them on just pure veteranmanship (I just invented that word). But that team is going to be a handful this year, and even scarier in the years to come if they can keep those pieces together.


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For American parents who want their kids to be fit, focused and feeling good, the first step could be out in nature. National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has issued a health report, Whole Child: Developing Mind, Body and Spirit Through Outdoor Play, which reveals how America's technology overload is seriously affecting our physical and mental health.
Reviewed by an independent panel of medical experts, the report begins with a day in the life of the average kid in 2010, immersed in technology. It suggests that Americans wake up to the reality that children today spend only four to seven minutes outside each day in unstructured outdoor play. While their parents spent free time in activities like a neighborhood game of tag, building forts, or climbing trees, the modern child's day includes far more screen time than green time.
"As this report reveals, nature may indeed be the best kind of nurture," says NWF Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President Jaime Matyas.
While not considered a cure, exposure to natural settings may be widely effective in reducing ADHD symptoms in kids, according to researchers. In fact, research has revealed that that all children can benefit academically with nature regular outdoor time. According to NWF's March 2010 survey of nearly 2,000 educators, 78 percent of respondents feel students who spend regular time in unstructured outdoor play are better able to concentrate, more creative and more adept problem solvers.
According to Deputy U.S. Surgeon General Dr. David Rutstein, lack of outdoor time is a key factor in the childhood obesity epidemic and, if trends aren't reversed, may contribute to a generation with not only less healthy but also shorter lives. "Overweight and obese adolescents have a 70 percent chance of becoming obese adults," Dr. Rutstein said. "If this problem is not addressed, we will leave our children a legacy of shorter life spans for the first time in history." In addition to obesity, the report highlights the rising rates of childhood diabetes, vitamin deficiencies, asthma, and vision problems, all of which can be tempered with adequate outdoor time.
An increasing number of experts recognize the role that outdoor time plays in enhancing kids' mental health by helping to better connect them to one's self, to others and to the natural world. Children who spend much of their time indoors watching television or playing video games can become isolated and withdrawn, even if they are connecting to people online. Nature reduces stress and help kids interact in positive ways, as demonstrated by one study which found that children are more caring when spending time outdoors.
"I would rather write a prescription for safe, outdoor play for my pediatric patients than see them five years later with depression, anxiety and obesity," says Wendy Kohatsu, M.D. with Santa Rosa Family Medicine and assistant clinical professor at the University of California in San Francisco.
Whole Child includes recommendations for caregivers, healthcare providers, educators and leaders so that, together, they can change America's indoor habits. Recommendations include asking parents to model "un-plugging" from technology, taking part in the Be Out There pledge to go outside as a family, and advising pediatricians to write prescriptions for regular outdoor time.
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Children's Book Illustrator Takes Heat for Ferguson Drawing
Over the past week, Facebook has played host to an abundance of outcry and opinion responding to the events unfolding in Ferguson.
Mary Engelbreit can attest to the platform's role – and not without frustration.
A St. Louis illustrator whose subjects typically take the form of Santa Claus delivering toys and rosy-cheeked children at the beach, Engelbreit chose a different angle this week when she created a print called "In The USA.'' The print features an African-American mother and child reading a newspaper with the headline "Hands Up! Don't Shoot.''
Floating text above the pair reads, "No One Should Have To Teach Their Children This In The USA.''
Beloved Illustrator Mary Engelbreit Blasted Over #Ferguson Artwork http://t.co/K48Kr88dBn pic.twitter.com/aRwUdGrXbF— Jesse Stommel (@Jessifer) August 23, 2014
Engelbreit posted an image of the print on her Facebook page Tuesday. She also wrote: "These events unfolding now in my hometown and across the country, shining a light on the ugly racism that still runs rampant in our country, made me think that maybe this drawing could help in some small way.''
The image has caused quite a stir on Facebook. As of this writing, Engelbreit's post had 16,588 "Likes'' – but the comments tell a different story. One Facebook user responded with a reference to "thug culture'' as the culprit for what happened in Ferguson. Wrote another, "I think this was premature until all of us have heard or seen the proof…too many unanswered questions for a print like this to be put up…makes me sad really.''
Engelbreit wrote on her page that she had posted a follow-up message on Facebook that was deemed "offensive'' by the social media platform and was removed. She then posted an image of the removed message on her Facebook timeline and wrote, "To be clear, I did this drawing as an illustration of the ugly, hard truth that racial profiling is still happening in this country. The drawing did not address the Michael Brown case specifically, nor did I claim to know any of the facts about what actually happened.''
According to St. Louis Public Radio, Engelbreit said she has since heard from a Facebook representative who apologized and reinstated the post.
But wait a minute — how is it possible that enough Facebook users flagged the illustration as "offensive'' that it got removed? Especially when the author had agreed to leave her comments section open, knowing that she'd endure plenty of backlash and criticism?
If Facebook users are going to use comment sections as an open marketplace for ideas and discussion, shouldn't they respect the author's post that generated such a free exchange of ideas?
That the print comes at a moment when "The Talk'' that many African American mothers describe having with their sons – an education on how to talk to police officers so that they can prevent getting in trouble, or worse – only underscores the curiosity of Facebook users' judgment.
The author also wrote that she decided to donate the proceeds from the sale of the print, which is being sold for $49.99, to the Michael Brown Jr. Memorial fund because she was "so heartbroken that he was left lying in the middle of the street for 4 hours.'' She ended the post by saying that she will only delete anyone's comments that contain "derogatory words.''
"We can only hope that all the people who said they were going to unfollow me have done so, and maybe today we can have a more civilized stream of comments,'' Engelbreit wrote.


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Get Ready Bargain Hunters, The 36th Annual Kingswood Rummage Sale is This Week!
The largest organized rummage sale in South Dakota is back for the 36th year this Wednesday-Saturday in western Sioux Falls.
The Kingswood Rummage Sale is unlike anything you've experienced if you're new to the area. People take vacation not just to put on the sales, but to go shopping! Food and beverage vendors are set up around the area so you don't have to leave the shopping area. And for those of us that have participated for years, it's a rite of spring in the city and a chance to find all kinds of 'treasures'
The primary Kingswood Rummage Sale area is in southwest Sioux Falls, between I-29 on the East and Sertoma Avenue on the West, 41st Street on the South and Coughran Court on the North.
The expanded Kingswood Rummage Sale area is southwest Sioux Falls, between I-29 on the East and the Tea-Ellis Road on the West, 49th Street on the South and 12th Street on the North.
The days and hours that individual sales will be open will vary but you can check out the website for all the listings, a map of the area and even a section called 'yard sale etiquette' and 'Garage Sale Survival Tips'
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The Peculiar History of the Toilet
Posted February 15, 2014
Mention the unmentionable -- toilets and the, um, urgent function thereof -- to the average person and you're likely to provoke a flushed face and a nervous giggle. Should you continue the conversation by asking about the type of toilets used in ancient times, the response will probably be: "A hole in the ground." (If you test this on your co-workers, try not to pop the question until after lunch.)
The general population, usually so enamored of facts and figures of every description, is woefully ignorant about this subject, which actually figures pretty prominently in their daily life -- that is, if they live in the Western world. It's time for some serious education. So without further ado, let us plumb the depths of the fascinating history of toilets.
What may well be the earliest toilets known to humankind are small cells attached to homes in a ruined settlement in the Orkney Islands, believed to date back over 40,000 years. The Indus Valley civilization also had an impressive sewage and water supply system, dating to approximately 20,000 BCE. Moving right along, the first clearly identifiable latrines, built about 1700 BCE, were found at Crete's Palace of Knossos in the form of shallow earthenware vessels hooked up to a relatively sophisticated water supply. Various other plumbing "systems" were implemented over the next thousand years, from pit toilets and chamber pots to sewage drains -- either aboveground or more discreetly, and more hygienically, underground.
It is really the Ancient Romans, though, who used their engineering ability and concern for sanitation to advance the cause of toilets. Recognizing the importance of separating human waste from the drinking water system to prevent disease, they built 144 communal (!) public toilets. (This tradition lives on, as an image from Sochi testifies.)
The following millennium or two did not bring much headway for toilets in the Western world beyond chamber pots, communal privies and, for the nobility, garderobes -- small private rooms with an opening strategically positioned over a moat. Finally, toward the end of the 16th century, the forerunner of today's plumbing system was invented -- a cistern with a valve that flushed water through a small pipe. Notable developments over the next few hundred years were the odor-controlling S-shaped pipe and the bathroom fixture showroom, pioneered by the unforgettably named Thomas Crapper.
The real toilet revolution occurred in the 1900s. This halcyon age saw the development of toilet paper rolls, flushable valves and toilet tanks directly atop the toilet bowl. As the 20th century came to a close, environmental awareness gave birth to many new types of toilet: low-flow, dual flush, tankless, waterless and composting. (So far there is no model which takes out the recycling.)
This combination of improved sanitation and green technology is commendable. However, many users are much more impressed by today's trends in toilet luxury. If you're getting ready for a New York bathroom remodel, you'd better start thinking about your toilet options!
Automated hands-free flushing systems have become standard issue in many North American public restrooms. For at-home use, temperature- and pressure-controlled personal cleansing sprays, with optional massage feature, are followed by a warm air drying system which may well give toilet paper a run for its money.
The latest inventions leave those luxuries far behind. For true 21st century toilet technology, you'll need a computerized toilet. When you install one of these in your Bathroom of Tomorrow, it will automatically lift the lid for you, play your favorite classical music, purify the air, light up your life with a nightlight or illuminated seat, analyze your...um, output (input?) for hormonal and nutritional levels and swing out a 21" computer monitor to let you be more productive while you're producing
But the most awe-inspiring toilets of all are the special models encrusted with Swarovski crystals or plated with real gold. They may well leave you speechless, except for one question: "Who do I call to install and repair that beauty -- a plumber or a jeweler?"
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What We Love about January
There were very few new series that made quite as large a splash as did Lena Dunham's quirky brainchild. As Girls' four eclectic leading ladies navigate all of Brooklyn and two-thirds of Manhattan, we'll be eagerly tuning in on January 13 for the HBO show's second season. We know we can't wait for more Robyn-fueled dance scenes.
If this year's Olympics taught us anything, it's that now 17-year-old vault phenom McKayla Maroney is not satisfied with an uncharacteristic second-place finish. These addictive memes brought us Not Impressed with President Obama, Not Impressed on Noah's Ark, and Not Impressed at MTV's Music Video Awards.
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A small bat with large ears that roosts in and around the Point Reyes National Seashore could get some added protection.
Presently the Townsend's big-eared bat is listed as a "species of special concern" by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. That same agency is now being asked to increase the level of protection to "endangered" or "threatened."
"We find them here in old barns and under bridges," said John Dell'Osso, chief of interpretation at Point Reyes. "We also find them in tree hollows. In the springtime we have maternal roost colonies. It's an interesting species, and they have those large ears."
While their bodies average about 4 inches in length, their ears grow to 1.5 inches. Those large ears make it easier to hear predators and they are believed to provide lift during flight and assist with temperature regulation. The bats leave roosts as the sun goes down, feeding on mosquitoes, moths and other insects.
Human activity resulting in the loss of roost sites during the maternity and hibernation seasons are considered the primary factors that have hurt the species in California, although disease, climate change, pesticide use and other factors may also play a role, according to the National Park Service.
It is believed before humans came to the state, tree hollows were a primary source of habitat. But when forests were logged for wood to build homes, huge swaths of habitat were lost. The bats were able to adapt and began using old buildings and abandoned mines, but as they are taken down or sealed up, they are lost as habitat too.
The species does fairly well in Marin.
"They are seen in large, old growth redwoods trees and Marin has those," said Scott Osborn, wildlife biologist with fish and wildlife. "The coast in Marin is fairly well protected and that helps these bats."
But in other parts of the state they are not faring as well. In November, the Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition to the California Fish and Game Commission to formally list the bat as a threatened or endangered species. During the next year the department will conduct a status review on whether to list the species.
The Townsend's big-eared bat occurs throughout the west and is distributed from the southern portion of British Columbia south along the Pacific coast to central Mexico and east into the Great Plains, with isolated populations occurring in the central and eastern United States, according to the park service.
The bats live to about 16 years old, but can survive up to 30 years. The maternity colonies form between March and June, with pups born between May and July. Female bats usually only have one young a year. There is a strong maternal bond and the young bats squawk when the mother is away, which can be heard near roost sites.
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Two brothers went the extra mile to raise money for our Give Us A Chance Appeal.
Lee Coe, 32, of Linnet Lane, Melksham, wanted to do his bit for Devizes Opportunity Centre in thanks for the help received by his two young sons.
He recruited his brother Danny, 30, for a challenge cycle from the centre in Devizes to their home town of Chessington, Surrey.
Rain made the towpath along the Kennet and Avon Canal boggy and meant they had to leave their cross-country route and take to the main roads.
Eleven hours after the 7am start the men were starting to feel the pain as they arrived in Farnborough, Hampshire.
Mr Coe's wife Terrie-Anne, 32, reported to followers on Facebook: "Spoke to Lee who said he is shattered, but not far to go now."
Less than an hour and a half later the brothers arrived in Chessington after more than 85 miles of cycling and Mrs Coe said: "Well done fellas we are all so proud of you."
Her emotion was echoed by staff of Devizes Opportunity Centre who said: "Well done lads. What a fabulous achievement."
Mr Coe said: "It was a very tough day, but worth every moment of agony just to help such a fantastic centre."
The Coe family became involved with the opportunity nursery two years ago when their elder son Scott was referred by a paediatrician as he was nearly three and still not talking.
Scott, now five, was later diagnosed with autism and Asperger's, but thanks to the help he received at the centre he talks fluently and has settled into a special unit at Manor Primary School, Melksham.
His younger brother Kaiden, aged 22 months, who shows some similar traits but is yet to be diagnosed, started at the nursery earlier this year.
The couple also have a daughter Jasmine, three, who is developing normally.
So far the brothers have raised £479.25 on their Virgin Money Giving page to boost our appeal to help the centre raise as much money as possible towards the £50,000 it needs this year to cover running costs not covered by a grant from Wiltshire Council.
You can donate to the Give Us A Chance Appeal through virginmoneygiving.com at http://tinyurl.com/oarw99t


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German Atrocities in Cemetery
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Running Time
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Canadian War Records Office, Ministry of Information
This clip includes a series of images of cemeteries. The first shot of a German grave is followed by several images of a French civilian cemetery. We then see a small cross inscribed with the words "3 Gunners, 3rd Battery CF, Killed in Action 2 June 1916," followed by two pans of soldiers walking around cemeteries. A travelling shot shows an immense cemetery with thousands of graves. A still image of a crucifix is followed by a marker inscribed with the phrase "To an Unknown British Hero." Two shots of a monumental cross commemorating the dead at Vimy Ridge are followed by a series of images of gravestones, one inscribed in German.
Scenes of destroyed graveyards are a staple of wartime propaganda. Along with images of bombed churches and hospitals, they are intended to illustrate the enemy's barbaric behaviour. In fact, many of these images may be documenting collateral damage — accidental damage inflicted during attacks on adjacent targets. In other cases, cemeteries may have been used for military purposes and thus have become legitimate military targets.
The inscription "3 Gunners, 3rd Battery CF, Killed in Action 2 June 1916" indicates that the cross marks the burial site of three Canadian artillerymen from the 3rd Battery Canadian Field Artillery, a unit of the 1st Canadian Division. The date suggests that they were killed on the first day of the Battle of Mount Sorrel. They probably died in counter-battery fire – i.e. enemy fire that deliberately engaged Canadian artillery in order to silence it.
The Canadians who fought in the Battle of Mount Sorrel were mostly from the 3rd Division. Early in the morning on June 2, 1916, the German forces suddenly unleashed a storm of artillery fire upon the Canadian positions. The attack continued for hours and was the heaviest attack experienced by Canadian troops until that time. The unit that took the hardest hit was the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles – from a total of 702 officers and men, only 76 survived.
The cross at Vimy Ridge honours men from the 2nd Canadian Division as well as members from the 13th British Infantry Brigade, who were attached to the Canadian Division for the Vimy operation. Canadian troops were vital in the capture of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 — the most significant Allied victory until that time. This cross was later brought home to Canada by members of the 22nd Battalion and is now displayed at the Citadel in Quebec City, home of the Royal 22e Régiment.
It was common practice for units and formations to honour fallen comrades by placing markers on the battlefield. Most markers were made of wood and would disintegrate with time, but a number were brought back to Canada and displayed in regimental museums. The only known Canadian unit memorial that remains in its original location is in Passchendaele, Belgium, where the original monument to the 85th Battalion (Nova Scotia Highlanders) was replaced in 2002 by a replica made of Nova Scotia granite.
Pieces of History
Remembering Those Who Died on the Field of Honour
Mourad Djebabla
Researcher for the Hector Fabre Chair in Quebec History at Uuniversité du Québec ŕ Montréal.
During the war itself, soldiers were first honoured by their comrades on the front. Behind the front lines, isolated in no man's land, simple, temporary wooden crosses marked the graves of those who had died in combat. Owing to the terrible extent of human losses, Canadian war cemeteries were established, starting in 1917, and maintained by the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). But the bodies of 19,598 Canadians were never found; many of them had been torn to shreds by the waves of violent shelling the infantry faced. The names of most of those men are engraved on the base of the war memorial at Vimy. In France and Belgium, where Canadian soldiers distinguished themselves during the war, 13 memorials in all were erected between the wars. The main one, and the most imposing, is the one at Vimy, which was inaugurated in 1936, with Canadian veterans and King Edward VIII in attendance. Located at the site of the Canadian victory of April 9, 1917, it honours all Canadians who fell on the field of honour during the Great War.
The Canadian soldiers of 1914–18 were also commemorated at home. Starting in November 1918, most Canadian municipalities signalled their intention to erect a monument in tribute to their dead, and to engrave on the marble, for posterity, the names of their citizens who died in the war. The war memorials gave civilians a way of publicly grieving and paying tribute to the war dead. These monuments were, for the first time in Canada's history, on more than just a family or local scale: from sea to sea, over 1,300 cenotaphs went up, all commemorating the same event in which thousands of Canadians had taken part.
Between the wars, the federal government left it up to each community to erect its own memorial. Monument committees were set up, often on the initiative of women. The committees had to manage the finances, select an architect and determine a location for the monument, which, once inaugurated, was officially handed over to the municipal authorities. But a cenotaph was only a physical manifestation of the respect for the memory of those who died in 1914–18, and gradually, as the 1920s progressed, it became the focus of a commemorative ritual: Remembrance Day, November 11.
The choice of this date, originally known as Armistice Day, recalls first and foremost the end of the four years of slaughter and the peace won thanks to the soldiers' sacrifice. The commemorative service of November 11 gradually took shape in the 1920s to honour the soldiers who had given their lives. Like religious rites, once established, the elements of the memorial liturgy were unchanging.
The November 11 ceremony is a structured space in which each player and each element of the commemorative rite has an important role to play:
– Since the early 1920s, the ceremony has generally opened with the national anthem, "O Canada." This is the most meaningful moment, because at this instant, everyone present is united in the same respect and love of country that the soldiers being honoured died to preserve. The anthem confers upon the ceremony its duly patriotic character. Yet it is "God Save the King" (or later, the Queen) that closes the ceremony, recalling the constitutional link between Canada and Great Britain.
– After the secular, profane anthem, the religious dimension is reflected by prayers, often accompanied by hymns. Just as the national anthem serves to unite people in their love of their country, the religious element of prayer unites the members of various religious communities in the same place on the same occasion. Prayer is a reminder of the noble sacrifice of the dead for a cause deemed just by the living. Its function is nothing less than to glorify the dead in the eyes of the living in order to lessen the pain of their loss and give it meaning.
– Next follow two minutes of silence, introduced in 1919 on the recommendation of King George V, to give all those present a chance to turn their thoughts to those no longer among them. The silence is a time to reflect on the sacrifice of the men being honoured.
– The laying of wreaths is the funerary aspect of the ceremony and the implicit acknowledgement of the souls at rest. Decorated with flowers, the monument takes on the symbolic appearance of a collective tomb.
As part of the November 11 ceremony, the laying of wreaths by civilian and military authorities, but also by the crowd, expresses collective piety towards the war dead.
- Military units also take part. At the end of the ceremony, the units march through the streets, marking the return of life with a demonstration that calls for admiration of their handsome uniforms after the tribute to the dead.
The role of the army in the ceremony is not to celebrate the victory of November 11, but rather to represent the dead. The marching soldiers provide an eternally young and living image, a timeless image, as remembrance must be.
– The veterans, as well as the widows (dressed in black between the wars), are present, bearing witness for those no longer there and honouring comrades, sons and husbands. The spectators in the crowd also pay tribute to the veterans.
Along with war memorials and the Remembrance Day ceremony, a third tribute to the war dead is the wearing of poppies, which began in 1921. The poppy, celebrated in John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields," was officially recognized in 1925 as the symbol of remembrance of those who died in 1914–18. Profits from sales were used to help war invalids. Wearing poppies each November 11 was a visible sign of respect for the memory of the soldiers who died in the Great War.
All these customs that were adopted in the aftermath of the First World War were also followed after the other wars of the 20th century, gradually diluting the specificity of the Great War: the war memorials, the November 11 ceremony and the poppies now honour all the dead of modern wars.
Selected Bibliography
Djebabla-Brun, Mourad, Se souvenir de la Grande Guerre: la mémoire plurielle de 14-18 au Québec, Montréal, VLB, 2004.
Labayle, Éric, 9 avril 1917: les Canadiens ŕ Vimy, Louviers, Ysec, 2001.
Shipley, Robert. To Mark our Place: A History of Canadian War Memorials. Toronto: NC Press, 1987.
Vance, Jonathan. Death so Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2000 (1997).
Wood, Herbert, and John A. Swettenham. Silent Witnesses. Toronto: A. M. Hakkert, in association with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Canadian War Museum, 1974.
Directorate of History and Heritage, Department of National Defence, National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials:
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Vimy Ridge
Joyce Kennedy
By late March 1917, some battle-weary troops thought the war would never end. Many had once thought they'd be home by Christmas in 1914. But now the war was in its 32nd month, with no end in sight.
Worse yet, they seemed bogged down in a stalemate of sodden, static trench warfare. In spite of fierce fighting and grievous casualty lists, there had been no Allied breakthroughs, no stunning victories and no major advances. On the contrary, there had been devastating slaughter on the Somme and at Verdun the year before. And German U-boats were wreaking havoc on the seas, sinking tons of Allied shipping daily. Would it ever end?
In early April came a glimmer of hope. The United States was finally entering the war. Canadian trench raids, though costly, were finding critical intelligence regarding the status of German defences. And the British were planning a new offensive in the critical Arras sector of France. Canadian troops, as part of the British First Army, would have a major role in the "Battle of Arras."
To the Canadian Corps, under the command of British Lieutenant General Sir Julian Byng, fell the heavy responsibility of providing the defensive flank for the Third Army, and capturing what was reputed to be the strongest German defensive position in Northern France. It was "tactically one of the most important features of the entire Western Front."1 Its name was Vimy Ridge.
There was just one problem. It was thought to be impregnable. Many, on both sides of No Man's Land, believed the Ridge couldn't be taken. After all, the Germans had held it since early in the war (October 1914) and had repulsed both British and French attempts to re-capture it2.
The Germans well appreciated its value, and to this end had tightened up their defensive lines, reinforcing them with concrete gun emplacements, complete with barbed wire. They had also fortified their trenches and dugouts, knowing that well-entrenched troops, with machine guns and artillery, could repulse a numerically superior enemy. They called their massive defensive system the Siegfried Stellung, more popularly known as the Hindenberg Line. Vimy was its "anchor point" or keystone.
And so the scene was set.
Byng had called upon the increasingly impressive Canadian, Major General Arthur Currie, Commander of the 1st Canadian Division, to assist in the Vimy preparations. Both Byng and Currie, respectful of the price their troops would have to pay, were careful planners. Both knew the importance of sound preparation for such an endeavour. They would leave nothing to chance. (Currie even visited Verdun for insights.)
Massive preparations had begun in February. Old roads were repaired. New roads were built. More ammunition dumps were constructed. Light railway tracks were laid. Additional cable and telephone lines were installed. And Byng and Currie insisted that not just the officers but every man know his task and what to expect in the confusion of battle. Soldiers received detailed maps of the enemy territory. (About 40,000 maps were distributed.) They were to memorize the location of every trench, every mound, every fortification. Even a replica of the battle area was constructed behind the Canadian lines to familiarize soldiers with the terrain. It was revised daily as aerial photographs revealed changes in the German front lines. Training was relentless, thorough, disciplined.
And there were more arrows in Canada's quiver. The attacking troops would approach Vimy Ridge in stealth through 12 underground tunnels ("subways") constructed largely by the British with some Canadian work parties. While the tunnels could hardly be called sophisticated, some had electric light, running water and ventilation systems. Most important, they would conceal and protect the attacking troops till the last moment.
But the real key to victory on Vimy Ridge would rest with the artillery. As some liked to say, "the artillery conquers and the infantry occupies." And the artillery had several surprises in store for the Germans.
The preliminary bombardment, under Brigadier-General E.W.B. Morrison, had already begun (March 20-April 2). It was relentless, pulverizing German targets day and night. Using information from aerial observers, trench raids and prisoner interrogation, the artillery fired not only on trenches, machine gun emplacements and strong points, but ammunition dumps, roads and communication systems. And that was just for preliminaries.
The artillery had still more in store for the Germans. Lieutenant Colonel A.G.L. McNaughton, Counter-Battery Staff Officer, had studied the deleterious effect of gun barrel wear on bombing precision, and ensured that key guns were carefully calibrated for accurate firepower. Brigadier General Raymond Brutinel perfected "indirect" machine gun fire to disrupt German road traffic, incoming troops and supplies. By Easter Sunday, 1917, all was in readiness. Troops waited, taut with anticipation.
Overhead, fierce aerial battles had already begun. In the days prior to the Arras offensive, 28 British aircraft were shot down (to Germany's 15). Among those who still plied the skies were Canada's Billy Bishop (who won the Military Cross on April 7), and Germany's Baron Manfred von Richthofen.
At 5:30 on Easter Monday morning, April 9, the heavens reverberated with the sound of nearly a thousand guns and mortars. In driving sleet the first waves of more than 30,000 men of Canada's four divisions, all fighting side-by-side for the first time, stretched out over four miles in the clinging mud3. Immediately in front of them, in practised precision and split-second timing, the artillery spread a carpet of fire — a "creeping" (or "rolling") barrage4.
The rest is history.
Twelve hours later, most of the ridge — expect for Hill 145 and "The Pimple — had been taken. By dawn of April 12, Canada had captured all of Vimy Ridge. The Canadian Corps had accomplished in a few days what neither the British nor French could do in two years.
They had advanced some 4,000 metres, seized 54 guns, 104 trench mortars and 124 machine guns. They had taken more than 4,000 German prisoners5. Four valiant men had won the VC, but nearly 3,600 troops would never see Canadian shores again. More than 7,000 were wounded.
It cannot be said that the capture of Vimy Ridge changed the course of the war. It was, in fact, part of a larger campaign that failed. But it can be said that Canada won the first major offensive of the First World War. Some say the Vimy Ridge "was one of the notable feats of arms of the entire war."6 Some say that the real significance of Vimy Ridge came in 1918, when the German assault on Arras "would certainly have been successful had they still held Vimy Ridge."7 Some say the feat helped earn Canada its own place at the League of Nations.
And still many others say that it was on that blustery day in April 1917 that Canada truly "came of age" when its noble sons did the impossible on the sodden crest of Vimy Ridge.
1Nicholson, Official History, page 244
2The French had suffered heavy losses trying twice to capture Vimy Ridge in 1915, and the British lost ground there in 1916.
3Nicholson notes (Official History, page 252) that the Canadian Corps had a strength of approximately 170,000 men, all ranks, including British Units.
4The barrage had been introduced, with limited success, the year before on the Somme.
5Source; Nicholson, Official History, page 265
6Tucker, page 128
7Cruttwell, page 408
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In Flanders Fields
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch, be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields
"In Flanders Fields" was first published in England's Punch magazine in December, 1915. Within months, this poem came to symbolize the sacrifices of all who were fighting in the First World War. Today, the poem continues to be a part of Remembrance Day ceremonies in Canada and other countries.
Reproduced with permission from Veterans Affairs Canada.
John McCrae
Born in Guelph, Ontario, on November 30. John McCrae began writing poetry while a student at the Guelph Collegiate Institute. As a young boy, he was also interested in the military. He joined the Highfield Cadet Corps at 14 and at 17 enlisted in the Militia field battery commanded by his father.
While training as a doctor, he was also perfecting his skills as a poet. At university, he had sixteen poems and several short stories published in a variety of magazines, including Saturday Night. He also continued his connection with the military, becoming a gunner with the Number 2 Battery in Guelph in 1890, Quarter-Master Sergeant in 1891, Second Lieutenant in 1893 and Lieutenant in 1896. At university, he was a member of the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada of which he became company captain.
In 1898, John McCrae received a Bachelor of Medicine degree. He worked as resident house officer at Toronto General Hospital from 1898 to 1899. In 1899, he went to Baltimore and interned at John Hopkins Hospital.
The South African War
When the South African War started in October 1899, John McCrae was commissioned to lead an artillery battery from his home town. This Guelph contingent became part of D Battery, Canadian Field Artillery. After a year with his unit in South Africa, John McCrae resigned from the 1st Brigade of Artillery in 1904 after being promoted to Captain and then Major. He was not involved with the military again until 1914.
The Young Doctor
Back in Montréal in 1901, John McCrae resumed his studies in pathology. As Governor's Fellow in pathology and resident assistant pathologist, he had the dual function of research work in the Medical Faculty laboratories at McGill and autopsy duties at Montréal General Hospital.
In 1902, he was appointed resident pathologist at Montréal General Hospital and later also became assistant pathologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital. In 1904, he was appointed an associate in medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital. Later that year, he went to England where he studied for several months and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians. In 1905, he set up his own practice although he continued to work and lecture at several hospitals. He was appointed pathologist to the Montréal Foundling and Baby Hospital in 1905. In 1908, he was appointed physician to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Infectious Diseases.
The Cost of War
On August 4, 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. John McCrae enlisted and was appointed brigade-surgeon to the First Brigade of the Canadian Forces Artillery with the rank of Major and second-in-command. He took with him a horse named Bonfire, a gift from a friend. In April 1915, John McCrae was in the trenches near Ypres, Belgium, in the area traditionally called Flanders. Some of the heaviest fighting of the First World War took place there during that was known as the Second Battle of Ypres. John McCrae tended hundreds of wounded soldiers every day, surrounded by the dead and the dying.
The day before he wrote his famous poem, one of McCrae's closest friends was killed in the fighting and buried in a makeshift grave with a simple wooden cross. Wild poppies were already beginning to bloom between the crosses marking the many graves. Unable to help his friend or any of the others who had died, John McCrae gave them a voice through his poem. It was the second last poem he was to write.
Soon after it was written, he was transferred to No. 3 (McGill) Canadian General Hospital in France where he was Chief of Medical Services. The hospital was housed in huge tents at Dannes-Cammiers until cold wet weather forced a move to the site of the ruins of the Jesuit College at Boulogne. When the hospital opened its doors in February 1916, it was a 1,560-bed facility covering 26 acres. Here the wounded were brought from the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the third Battle of Ypres and from Arras and Passchendaele.
John McCrae was deeply affected by the fighting and losses in France. He became bitter and disillusioned. For respite, he took long rides on Bonfire through the French countryside. Another animal companion was a casualty of the war, the dog Bonneau, who adopted John McCrae as his special friend. Writing letters and poetry also allowed John McCrae to escape temporarily from the pressures of his administrative duties at the hospital. His last poem, "The Anxious Dead", echoed the theme of "In Flanders Fields" but was never as popular as the earlier poem.
During the summer of 1917, John McCrae was troubled by severe asthma attacks and occasional bouts of bronchitis. He became very ill in January 1918 and diagnosed his condition as pneumonia. He was moved to Number 14 British General Hospital for Officers where he continued to grow weak.
On January 28, after an illness of five days, he died of pneumonia and meningitis. The day he fell ill, he learned he had been appointed consulting physician to the First British Army, the first Canadian so honoured. John McCrae was buried with full military honours in Wimereux Cemetery, just north of Boulogne, not far from the fields of Flanders. Bonfire led the procession, McCrae's riding boots reversed in the stirrups.
Reproduced with permission from Veterans Affairs Canada.
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A Remembrance Day Ceremony
Grade Level: Secondary 9-12
Time Allowance: 45 minutes
Film: German Atrocities in Cemetery
Summary: Students plan a Remembrance Day assembly.
World War I ended on November 11, 1918, at 11 am. Since 1931, Canadians have remembered those who were wounded and killed during the war on November 11 at 11 am, Remembrance Day. Later, the soldiers who died in World War II and the Korean War were also remembered on the same day. The number of Canadians who died in these wars is as follows:
World War I(1914-1918)
Population: 7,800,000
Served: 625,825
Died: 61,082
Wounded: 154,361
World War II(1939-1945)
Population: 11,500,000
Served: 1,086,343
Died: 42,042
Wounded: 54,414
Korean War(1950-1953)
Population: 14,000,000
Served: 27,751
Died: 516
Wounded: 1,072
Served: N/A
Died: 119
Wounded: N/A
Your Task:
Watch the German Atrocities in Cemetery film and plan a Remembrance Day assembly to be held on November 11 at 11 am in your school. As you plan the event, answer the following questions:
• What footage of the wars will you show?
• Who will you invite to your assembly? Why?
• What symbols will you use?
• What poetry will you read?
• What music will you play?


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The FDA issued a letter Monday warning cantaloupe farmers and packers that the federal agency would be inspecting them and testing melons for pathogens this year, after two years of illness and recalls.
The FDA does not routinely target an industry for scrutiny, and its inspectors have rarely reached smaller farms or food packers more than once every few years.
But the Monday letter urging cantaloupe growers to adhere to FDA growing guidelines to avoid food illness outbreaks said the agency will begin inspecting a "subset" of melon handlers.
"The aim of these inspections is in part to assess the current practices by this segment of the produce industry and to identify unsanitary conditions that may affect the safety of cantaloupe destined for distribution to consumers. In the event of adverse findings, we will take action as needed to protect the public health," read the letter, from Michael Landa, director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
A listeria outbreak traced to Colorado's Jensen Farms killed 33 people in 2011, and more were sickened last year in an outbreak traced to salmonella at an Indiana cantaloupe packer. The incidents and other pathogen outbreaks have forced inspectors and agriculture experts to rethink safety with the "netted" melon rinds that carry bacteria.
It's not clear how the proposed cantaloupe inspections would fit with sequestered U.S. spending, which threatens across-the-board budget cuts to many domestic agencies by the end of this week. The FDA said it would force a cut of 2,100 inspections at food handling facilities across the nation and abroad.
"If they don't back it up with inspections, and they don't back it up with enforcement, what's to stop the next outbreak?," said Seattle food safety attorney Bill Marler, who represented most of the victims in Colorado's cantaloupe outbreak.
Rocky Ford cantaloupe grower Eric Hanagan said new scrutiny will be "no problem" since farms instituted a rigorous harvesting and testing program in cooperation with the state. Last year's harvest and sales were strong, Hanagan said.
"It's nothing new for us. We're right on track. We know we need to do everything we can to ensure a safe food source for our consumers," Hanagan said.
Federal agencies have occasionally asked specific industries to rework safety plans, including California's leafy greens industry after a 2006 E. coli outbreak in spinach.
In the Jensen Farms outbreak, FDA and state inspectors traced the listeria to puddles in the packing shed. The farm also used sorting equipment that couldn't be sanitized because it was meant for raw potatoes.
The FDA has since told farmers they should follow industry guidelines requiring a cooling of field-hot cantaloupe before packing, and use chlorine or another sanitizer in produce wash.
Colorado's other melon growers, who in good years constitute an $8 million industry, banded together last year to create a sanitary central handling system.
Jensen Farms, meanwhile, declared bankruptcy, freeing up insurance money for victims. Marler and other attorneys have pushed for a settlement with distributors and produce auditing labs to create a larger compensation pool.
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Looking healthy, Crain earns spot on roster
MILWAUKEE -- White Sox manager Robin Ventura made it official Saturday morning -- Jesse Crain has made the Opening Day roster.
Crain reported no ill effects on Saturday from his 11-pitch outing on Friday night, an appearance where he threw nine strikes and looked like the effective right-hander he was last season.
"Everything's good, so he made the team," Ventura said before the White Sox closed Spring Training with a game against the Brewers at Miller Park. "That's a big hurdle for us as far as making the decision on him. He's available for Monday."
Crain missed much of Spring Training with a strained right abductor and had pitched tentatively in three outings in Arizona. He looked much better against Milwaukee on Friday.
"He looked like you would think as far as his effort and velocity and all that," Ventura said. "It was a comforting inning to watch him pitch."
Crain was 2-3 with a 2.44 ERA in 51 relief appearances last season.
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Bortezomib in Treating Patients With High-Risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Remission
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|Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Multilineage Dysplasia Following Myelodysplastic Syndrome Adult Acute Minimally Differentiated Myeloid Leukemia (M0) Adult Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia Without Maturation (M1) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Remission Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With 11q23 (MLL) Abnormalities Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Del(5q) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(15;17)(q22;q12) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(16;16)(p13;q22) Adult Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (M3) Adult Erythroleukemia (M6a) Adult Pure Erythroid Leukemia (M6b) Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia
|Drug: bortezomib
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Study of Subcutaneous Bortezomib as Maintenance Therapy for Patients With High-risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Remission
- Progression Free Survival (PFS) [ Time Frame: Up to 2 years ]Number of days from enrollment to recurrence of acute myeloid leukemia as determined by the reappearance of blasts in the blood or marrow
|Study Start Date:
|November 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2, 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 28, 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Treatment (enzyme inhibitor therapy)
Patients receive bortezomib SC on days 1, 8, 15 and 22. Treatment repeats every 35 days for up to 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: bortezomib
Given SC
Other Names:
Detailed Description:
I. To determine if bortezomib when given as maintenance therapy for six months post-remission can improve the progression-free survival (PFS) rate by 50% (or 4.5 months) in first remission patients with high-risk AML.
I. To determine the overall survival (OS) after maintenance therapy with bortezomib in first remission AML patients.
II. To assess the safety and tolerability of subcutaneous (SC) administration of bortezomib given as maintenance therapy to first remission AML patients.
Patients receive bortezomib SC on days 1, 8, 15 and 22. Treatment repeats every 35 days for up to 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 4 weeks, every 3 months for 2 years, and then annually for 3 years.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- All adults with first remission AML including those with prior myelodysplasia (MDS)/AML, therapy-related AML, AML with trilineage dysplasia (AML-TLD), and AML with adverse cytogenetics
- History of histopathologically documented AML that is currently in first remission with the presence of 5% or less blasts by morphology and/or flow cytometry from a bone marrow aspirate and/or biopsy obtained within 14 days of enrollment
- Patients must start therapy between 3-8 weeks after receiving their last prior therapy (either induction therapy or consolidation therapy)
- Patients may receive up to 4 courses of remission consolidation therapy (e.g., cytarabine) prior to enrollment
- Normal kidney and liver function with serum creatinine =< 2.0 mg/dl
- Total bilirubin =< 1.5 upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =< 2.5 x ULN
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 2
- Male subjects, even if surgically sterilized (i.e., status postvasectomy) must agree to 1 of the following: practice effective barrier contraception during the entire study treatment period and through a minimum of 30 days after the last dose of study drug, or completely abstain from heterosexual intercourse
- Female subject is either postmenopausal for at least 1 year before the screening visit, is surgically sterilized or if they are of childbearing potential, agree to practice 2 effective methods of contraception from the time of signing the informed consent form through 30 days after the last dose of bortezomib, or agree to completely abstain from heterosexual intercourse
- Understand and voluntarily sign the informed consent form for this study
Exclusion Criteria:
Favorable AML features defined as the following:
- t(8;21)(q22;q22); RUNX1-RUNX1T1
- inv(16)(p13.1q22) or t(16;16)(p13.1;q22); CBFB-MYH11
- Mutated NPM1 without FLT3-ITD (normal karyotype)
- Mutated CEBPA (normal karyotype)
- Persistent clinically significant non-hematological toxicity that is > Grade 1 by National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE) v4 from prior chemotherapy
- Active uncontrolled infection
- Known infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Medical condition, serious concurrent illness, or other extenuating circumstance that, in the judgment of the Principal Investigator, could jeopardize patient safety or interfere with the objectives of the study
Uncontrolled or significant cardiovascular disease, including:
- Uncontrolled angina or myocardial infarction within 6 months
- Current or history of congestive heart failure New York Heart Association (NYHA) class 3 or 4, unless a screening echocardiogram (ECHO) or Multiple Gate Acquisition Scan (MUGA) performed within 1 month prior to study screening results in a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) that is >= 45% (or institutional lower limit of normal value)
- Prolonged QTc interval (> 450 msec)
- Diagnosed or treated for another malignancy within 3 years of enrollment, with the exception of complete resection of basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, an in situ malignancy, or low-risk prostate cancer after curative therapy
- Patient has a platelet count of < 30,000 within 3 days before enrollment
- Patient has an absolute neutrophil count of < 300 within 3 days before enrollment
- Patient has >= Grade 2 peripheral neuropathy
- Patient has hypersensitivity to bortezomib, boron, or mannitol
- Female patients who are lactating or have a positive urine pregnancy test during the screening; pregnancy testing is not required for postmenopausal or surgically sterilized women
- Participation in clinical trials with other investigational agents not included in this trial, within 14 days of the start of this trial and throughout the duration of this trial
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01465386
|United States, Washington
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109
|Principal Investigator:
|John Pagel
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
|Responsible Party:
|Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01465386 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2011-03115 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
|Study First Received:
|October 10, 2011
|Results First Received:
|February 17, 2017
|Last Updated:
|February 17, 2017
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Leukemia, Myeloid
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute
Leukemia, Erythroblastic, Acute
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Bone Marrow Diseases
Hematologic Diseases
Precancerous Conditions
Myeloproliferative Disorders
Antineoplastic Agents
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I have some updated video. I'm still not getting my weight forward enough as you can see from the image below:
Is it correct that my body should be on the angle that I drew in the picture? Also, is that step too far out front?
However, I can't see a difference in the video and the last one, but It feels smoother over all.
I'm throwing elements in the video below. Any advice would be appreciated. The last 2/3rds of the video is the same throws in high speed.
One thing I noticed is i'm gripping the disc with my ring finger as the primary pressure point, which is probably horrible for distance.


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I have been given the impression over many conversations and articles that the state of the Sangha, at least in Thailand, is much to be desired. Lots of corrpution of the monasic rules well really just breaking them. Monks living way outside the code.
The issue for me is that I have come to view news of Thailand by western sources with some healthy gain of salt. So, many western sources love bashing Thailand over the head for all sorts of things. I am wondering the about the truth. What is the current state of the Sangha in Thailand?


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text: Now I've trying to get the the bottom of this for a while so if you have already helped you don't have to answer again - Thats where the problem is, It seems know one knows for sure! Some said they did and they were wrong and vice-versa. Here goes I bought "The Complete Glock Reference Guide" and on page 188 they show the Mech Tech carbine model, (That I am not intrested in at all) and below they show a Glock with a barrel that looks to be 18" long. The book said all you have to do is drop it in, beef up your recoil spring, and your good. Now the reason I'm after one is because I have a fully tricked out G17L with a scope and the works. I recently discovered that they make a detachable stock which I want very badly as well and have access to - but I was told that then it would be illegal without the barrel: SBR. I love my Glocks along with all of my firearms and I'm not going to do anything to screw that up. So if anyone has knowledge on this subject please help. I really want this to happen, I know the parts exist- just hard to find. Also If you know of a company that makes there own barrels (18") I'm willing to pay to have one made. One more thing to add- I discovered another method that I believe I understand, basically you have a extended threaded barrel, and with couple extra pieces and a longer barrel you can go that way? Someone please let me know what I have to do to get this done legally. -SMOKES-


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- U.S. stock index futures were pointing to a higher open for Wall Street Friday after a report said central banks of the world's biggest economies are preparing a coordinated response to provide further monetary stimulus measures if the outcome of Greece's weekend election spooks the markets. European shares gained and Asian stocks finished mostly higher. The Nikkei 225 index in Japan was essentially unchanged at 8,569.32, but Hong Kong's Hang Seng jumped 2.3% to close at 19,233.94. U.S. stocks on Thursday finished higher. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped more than 155 points, or 1.2%, to close at 12,652, returning to positive territory for the week.
The economic calendar in the U.S. on Friday features the Empire manufacturing index for June at 8:30 a.m. EDT; industrial production and capacity utilization for May at 9:15 a.m., and the preliminary reading of the University of Michigan consumer sentiment survey for June at 9:55 a.m.
Yammer agreed to sell itself to Microsoft ( MSFT) for $1.2 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter. It's unclear when the acquisition of Yammer, the business-software company, will be completed and announced, said a person familiar with the deal, the Journal reported. Yammer is often called Facebook for the workplace because it creates private social networks inside companies, the newspaper noted.
Dell ( DELL) is the "strategic bidder" that offered to buy Quest Software ( QSFT) for $2.15 billion in cash, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. PC maker Dell is the unidentified company mentioned in a statement made by Quest, which disclosed on Thursday that it had received an offer from a "strategic bidder" of $25.50 a share, Reuters said. The reported Dell bid tops an earlier offer of nearly $2 billion from private investment firm Insight Venture Partners. Shares of Quest Software gained more than 9% Thursday to finish at $26.06.
Human Genome Sciences ( HGSI) said Friday it set July 16 as the bid date for definitive offers to acquire the biotech company. Human Genome invited GlaxoSmithkline ( GSK) to participate in the ongoing process. Human Genome previously rejected a buyout offer of $13 a share from GlaxoSmithKline as inadequate, prompting GlaxoSmithKline to take the bid direct to shareholders through a tender offer.
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Understanding Obamacare is a lot harder than reading the law
Remember when people used to boast about having read the entire Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?
It was an impressive feat, but it pales beside what would now be required to get an accurate picture of what the law entails. These days, the law itself wouldn't do you much good; it has been almost entirely supplanted by the ongoing flood of regulation and administrative fiat. (In other words, I'm trying to think of some Obamacare detail that hasn't changed from law to implementation, and coming up with the medical device tax -- maybe. If the notable efforts to repeal it don't succeed.)
By "ongoing," I mean just that. Most of the press lately has been about the website and its woes, but that doesn't mean other important details have stopped changing. In case you missed it, on Nov. 26 I wrote about a regulatory proposal to change the reinsurance program payment parameters for 2014, partially because of President Obama's Nov. 14 announcement about the option to renew existing policies.
But that wasn't all the 255-page proposal issued on a holiday week included. There was also a plan to exempt some self-insured group health plans from the last two years of reinsurance fees. It didn't make it into my Nov. 26 article because -- confession alert -- although I read fast, the regulations' length and complexity far outstrip my ability to assess them for the news cycle. Although I do delve into them myself, I rely largely on getting a heads-up from some other poor soul whose job involves staying up all night scouring the Federal Register. And in this case, I didn't see anything on this angle until later.
And now, a short sentence in which I say only, "Here's the angle."
"We propose to modify the definition of a 'contributing entity' for the 2015 and 2016 benefit years to exclude self-insured group health plans that do not use a third party administrator in connection with claims processing or adjudication (including the management of appeals) or plan enrollment," the proposal says. The administration decided against exempting the specified plans from the 2014 fee because doing so without raising the rates on the remaining payers would disrupt the program, it says.
(Background interjection: The $25 billion reinsurance program is supposed to help stabilize premiums for coverage in the individual market from 2014 through 2016, as the implementation of Obamacare mandates significant change to the industry. A $63-per-person fee on major medical plans from health insurance issuers and third-party administrators on behalf of group plans will be assessed in 2014; the proposed rate for 2015 is $44 per person.)
That's the regulatory version. For the fighting words version, I would direct you to this Investors.com editorial by U.S. Sen. John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota who chairs the Senate Republican Conference. It's titled "Unions Again Seeking Special Favors Under ObamaCare." He's not just railing; Thune has also introduced legislation on the subject.
Then, and I quote, "To circumvent the broken transfer process, the Obama administration agreed Friday to let states use an incomplete set of data — known as a 'flat file' — to enroll people in Medicaid, even though those files lack critical information that states normally use to verify eligibility."
I hope you're counting "thens," because here's another one. As you may have heard in the past two months, insurers reported problems with the 834 forms they were getting from healthcare.gov -- what is generally referred to as the back end of the Obamacare website. The administration has said it's working on the problem and has put fixes in place and, in a conference call Monday, said about 80 percent of the problems with 834s was attributable to a single glitch, which has been fixed.
However, here's the thing: Despite concerted journalistic pressing, the administration has, as of this writing refused to provide details about those crucial errors -- how many there were or are, etc. Given that they felt able to quantify that one glitch was responsible for 80 percent of the problems, it seems ... well, let's dive lazily into my email account, where I get candid.
"Appearing to hold back on any info right now is a very dangerous game for the administration," I wrote in one email exchange. "And presumably they know that, which means the numbers must be really, really bad. And if the back end stays that bad, speeding up the front end is a recipe for disaster. I'm betting a lot of them have their fingers crossed right about now."
I should also mention at this juncture that last Friday, America's Health Insurance Plans' President and CEO Karen Ignagni said this: "Healthcare.gov and the overall enrollment process continue to improve but there are significant issues that still need to be addressed. Until the enrollment process is working from end-to-end, many consumers will not be able to enroll in coverage. In addition to fixing the technical problems with healthcare.gov, the significant 'back-end' issues must also be resolved to ensure that coverage can begin on January 1, 2014. In particular, the ongoing problems with processing '834' enrollment files need to be fixed."
To be sure, I think the website is very likely working better today than it was last Friday. But without a more factual, less cagey response from the administration on the back end issues, it's hard to tell whether "better" is anywhere close to "good enough."
Addendum: Last night The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association issued the following joint statement.
"Ensuring that all Americans who need coverage are properly enrolled is a top priority for all of us. We are working together closely to resolve back-end issues between health plans and healthcare.gov. This is a very focused effort that is being driven by a team of experts from CMS, key outside contractors working closely with health plan representatives and overseen by CMS's general contractor, Optum/QSSI. We will report on our progress."
Make of that what you will.
On a very different tenor, welcome to the new Surprised and Delighted section of my blog, which will probably appear extremely rarely.
I was impelled to create it because, on Monday, the administration announced that the healthcare.gov window shopping feature had been greatly improved, and lo and behold, it was true.
It may have even been an understatement.
You can now go to the site and -- without signing in or creating an account or entering anything more sensitive than your age and county of residence -- see a plan's approximate deductible, co-payment and co-insurance and access a provider directory and covered drug list.
We've been waiting so long, I almost can't believe it. But there it is.
Now I get to start waiting to hear what the nation thinks of all these newly available details.
That first segment was such a morass that I feel like even the Surprised and Delighted entry was not enough to counterbalance it. Therefore, allow me to offer up this perhaps unintentional gem from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Its title and subtitle are "Research Uncovers Disconnects Between What Newlyweds Say and Do Regarding Tough Insurance Conversations: New Insurance Survival Guide and Interactive Game from the NAIC Help Couples Initiate 'The Talk.'"
I dare you to read its gaspingly earnest expressions of concern without giggling.


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This cabbage salad has a lot of healthy red cabbage and a lot less bacon than mom's salad, and the dressing is mostly made from olive oil, for tasty salad with less saturated fat. I used six slices of pre-cooked bacon (which has only 3 grams of fat per slice.) Then I cooked the bacon until it was very crisp and blotted off and drained more fat. The small amount of fat that's left in the pan delivers just enough bacon flavor!
(Warm Red Cabbage Salad with Bacon and Goat Cheese was first posted April 2007 and updated with new photos April 2015. And if you're a big cabbage fan like I am, here are more Favorite Salads with Cabbage.)
Warm Red Cabbage Salad with Bacon and Goat Cheese
1 small head red cabbage
6 slices bacon (For South Beach, use pre-cooked bacon, then crisp and blot off as much fat as possible)
3 T extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 cup diced red onion
3 T red wine vinegar or sherry vinegar
fresh ground black pepper
3 oz. crumbled goat cheese (about 2/3 cup)
Heat a frying pan (large enough to hold the cabbage) and cook bacon until very crisp. Drain bacon on paper towels. Pour out bacon fat, but don't wipe out frying pan.
Remove discolored outer leaves of cabbage, then quarter cabbage and cut away the core. Slice cabbage into thin strips and put into large bowl.
Add olive oil to pan and saute onions until barely softened, 2-3 minutes. Add vinegar and simmer 30 seconds. Add cabbage and cook 2-3 minutes, stirring to coat cabbage with dressing. Cabbage should still be crisp.
Crumble bacon while cabbage cooks. Turn off heat and season cabbage with salt and pepper. Pour cabbage back into bowl, add bacon, crumble goat cheese over and stir to combine. Arrange salad on individual plates and serve.
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
This salad would be a great side dish for any phase of the South Beach Diet, keeping in mind that it should probably be a "once in a while treat" due to the saturated fat. It would be suitable for most other types of Low-Carb eating plans.
Find More Recipes Like This One:
Apple-Jicama Slaw with Sweet and Spicy Sriracha Dressing ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Red Cabbage Salad ~ Taste and Tell
Thai-Style Spicy Cabbage Slaw with Mint and Cilantro ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
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A Hilarious Labor of Love and Laughter. By William Shakespeare. When a King decrees that his court be free of women so that he and his men may study without distraction, what could possibly go wrong? Nothing, until a beautiful princess and her delectable entourage pay a visit and put the men's resolve to the ultimate test. Love letters gone awry set in motion a series of hysterical misadventures which turns the court topsy-turvy in a hilarious Shakespearean study of "Wooing 101."
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GREEN-FINGERED children planted a piece of history in honour of the Queen's diamond jubilee.
Pupils from St Mary's and St Catherine's Catholic Primary Schools planted trees behind Nova Hreod College on Tuesday and Wednesday, which will form part of a 60-acre broadleaf woodland to mark the jubilee.
The woodland, which will see more than 30,000 trees planted by pupils and members of the public across the town, will connect Shaw Forest Park with Mouldon Hill Country Park and Purton Woods, creating the town's largest continuous woodland of more than 100 hectares.
Clare-Marie Burchall, the headteacher of both St Mary's and St Catherine's said: "This is a great opportunity for the pupils of both St Mary's and St Catherine's to participate in a truly historic event to mark the Queen's diamond jubilee.
"These trees will be evidence to future generations of Queen Elizabeth II's 60 glorious years on the throne of our country and we have been a part of that.
"This makes our school communities very proud."
The project is being led by the Great Western Community Forest, Swindon Council and the Woodland Trust and will be one of 60 diamond woods being created across the country to mark the jubilee.


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The Quick 10: 10 People with Photographic Memories
It's hard to say whether a photographic memory actually exists or not. So far, only one really conclusive test has ever been done to prove that there are certain individuals who can look at massive quantities of information and remember it verbatim even years later. But there are plenty of people who have claimed to possess eidetic memory (that's the official name). Here are 10 of them.
1. Tesla. According to Tesla himself, photographic memory was just one of his brain quirks. He said he had no problem memorizing entire books, but also experienced random, blinding flashes of light that were sometimes accompanied by hallucinations as well. Tesla had detailed flashbacks to earlier parts of his life and could visualize his inventions in astonishing, complicated detail before he even started tinkering with making them come to life.
2. Teddy Roosevelt could recite entire newspaper pages "" not just articles "" as if they were sitting in front of him. He was also a speed reader and is reported to have read two or three books a day.
3. Kim Peek. Peek was the real-life Rainman "" he was the person Dustin Hoffman's character was based on in the 1988 movie. Before his death just last year, Peek was said to have memorized every word of every book he had ever read, estimated at around 9,000. It took him up to just 12 seconds to read one page, and each eye could read a page independently.
4. Abbie Hoffman made the claim in his 1968 book Revolution for the Hell of It that he was able to remember things in great detail after merely a glance.
5. Guillermo del Toro. The director of Pan's Labyrinth (love that movie) and the upcoming Haunted Mansion movie (love that ride) is said to have photographic memory. Maybe that's why his movies are so visually interesting.
6. Jerry Lucas. He was an amazing basketball player from the "˜50s to the "˜70s and has even been named one of the top 50 players to ever master the sport. But it's his impressive memory that's paying the bills these days. Lucas has written 60+ books on memory, has developed a memory-retention system and travels the country giving lectures on the subject. Memorized lectures, I'm sure.
7. Ferdinand Marcos. The president of the Philippines was said to have a photographic memory, which would have come in handy when cataloging Imelda's shoes.
8. Mr. T. Yes, the Mr. T. I'm guessing this is an instance of Mr. T. having a pretty great memory and simply referring to it as "photographic," but I could be wrong. The man who was born Laurence Tureaud says that he didn't need to study in school because of his "photographic memory." "Most of the time I stared out the windows, just daydreaming."
9. Rachmaninov. The composer may have had a type of photographic memory that helped him memorize sheet music with astonishing speed. This was aided by his extraordinary ear for music. Russian composer Alexander Siloti would give him complicated and demanding works to learn and Rachmaninov (also spelled Rachmaninoff) would have it completely memorized to perfection a day or two later.
10. Elizabeth. Not the queen "" just "Elizabeth." She's the one person who has ever really been proven to possess true eidetic memory. She passed tests that convinced even skeptics, including remembering poetry written in a foreign language she did not know and remembering random dot patterns to an amazing exactness. In fact, she was even able to remember two separate dot patterns, then fuse them together in her mind to reveal a stereographic image "" that's a "Magic Eye" image to most of us, where you sort of look past the dots to reveal a hidden picture.
Do you know anyone with a photographic memory, or even just an outstanding memory? I have the opposite of photographic memory"¦ mine's terrible.


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The head of the Grocery Manufacturers Association took exception this week to a new book which portrays consumers as hapless victims preyed upon by food industry giants that peddle addictive products.
In "Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us," author Michael Moss paints an unflattering picture of food companies who pursue a win at all costs strategy by artfully manipulates salt, sugar and fat to addict and fatten consumer with disastrous results.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association understandably took exception to Moss' characterization of the food industry.
"Obesity is a serious problem in the United States and globally, and Michael Moss's work misrepresents the strong commitment America's food and beverage companies have to providing consumers with the products, tools and information they need to achieve and maintain a healthy diet and active lifestyle," said GMA president and CEO Pam Bailey.
She listed a number of industry actions regarding the introduction of product choices with reduce calories, fat, sodium and sugar, the adoption of advertising criteria and the introduction of new labeling systems.
"The root causes of obesity are well known," Bailey said. "Too many calories consumed from any source, combined with a sedentary lifestyle are the main risk factors for obesity. As such, public policy proposals to ban, tax or restrict consumer access to certain foods or beverages will not solve the obesity problem."
While the food industry has taken a number of high profile actions, Bailey contends personal responsibility has to play a role, with consumers needing to learn to balance calories consumed through food and beverages with an appropriate amount of physical activity.
"GMA and its member companies strongly support First Lady Michelle Obama's goal of solving childhood obesity within a generation. If we are going to meet that goal, everyone – industry, government, parents, schools, communities and healthcare providers – must do their part. The food and beverage industry is proud of its successful track record and the role we play in helping to combat obesity both in the United States and around the world, and we look forward to continuing our ongoing commitment to help consumers live healthy and active lifestyles."
According to promotional materials for the book, Moss is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times and his book documents the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic.
"Moss takes us inside the labs where food scientists use cutting-edge technology to calculate the 'bliss point' of sugary beverages or enhance the 'mouthfeel' of fat by manipulating its chemical structure," according to promotional materials. "He unearths marketing campaigns designed—in a technique adapted from tobacco companies—to redirect concerns about the health risks of their products: Dial back on one ingredient, pump up the other two, and tout the new line as 'fat-free' or 'low-salt.'"
According to the book, the process food industry would cease to exist without salt, sugar, and fat because consumers are addicted to those ingredients and so too are the companies that sell them.


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Ford: Who's In, Who's Out?
ESPN NBA Insider Chad Ford is keeping an updated list, with analysis, of who's in and out of the 2011 NBA draft. Column
Butler junior guard Shelvin Mack, who led the Bulldogs to a second straight NCAA championship game appearance, will declare for the NBA draft but not sign with an agent, coach Brad Stevens said.
According to Stevens, Mack will test the draft process between April 24 and May 8 to see where he would fall in the first round.
Mack averaged 16 points during another attention-grabbing run for the Bulldogs in the NCAA tournament. He led the team in assists per game (3.4) and minutes played (32.1).
A year ago, Butler lost Gordon Hayward to the draft. The forward was selected ninth overall by the Utah Jazz.


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The Big-Ass Book of Crafts 2
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moreTLC's While You Were Out top designer Mark Montano's wildly anticipated follow-up to The Big-Ass Book of Crafts features more than 300 easy and fun crafts, with tips and tricks for quirky projects to make at home.
Searching for crafty inspiration?
Eager to try some new techniques?
Need some more junk for your trunk?
Well, look no further!
In this cheeky sequel, Mark Montano picks up where his wildly popular The Big-Ass Book of Crafts left off, with even more spectacular—and easy-to-make—projects sure to satisfy crafters of all skill levels. Turn colorful ribbons into a show-stopping scarf . . . transform old cargo pants into a kick-ass carryall . . . a high-drama neckpiece made out of zippers? Absolutely. Along with a host of other wearable wonders, this exciting all-new volume includes sections such as Pillow Talk (fun, comfy, and made from the most surprising materials), Letter Perfect (cool designs to pop into the mailbox nearest you), Hey, I Could Use That (make a big statement with little things from magnets to nail polish), Just Kid-ding (cheery décor made from kid-centric stuff, guaranteed to make you smile!), That's Shoe Biz (fun fixes that give sidelined footwear and handbags a whole new life), and dozens of other ideas that are inventive, imaginative, and just plain fun.
With his trademark humor and no-holds-barred approach to crafting, Mark will have you tapping into your creative soul and taking simple techniques to a whole new level in no time. We're not talking plant-hangers and potholders here—the more than 150 handmade projects in this truly unique compendium are artistic, eye-catching, and cutting-edge, from cool brooches and earrings to ingenious belts and bags, from Bauhaus-style furniture to fishbowl lanterns, and so much more!
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Last weekend we traveled down to the Bay Area for my nephew's wedding. I have many remarkable nephews, so just to clarify; this is the one who can juggle fire. Somehow he went from a tiny little boy in red overalls and an impish grin to a fine grown-up man with a career and a house and now a family (but still the same impish grin). Go figure. Auntie's proud.
It was a quick trip, but we were able to spend Friday afternoon in San Francisco. Oh, that breezy, magical city. We had lunch at the Zuni Café. Although I have visited San Francisco many times, and I have The Zuni Café Cookbook, and Michael has been there before, this was my first time at the iconic restaurant. The experience was everything I anticipated, and more.
Sunlight poured through tall windows, glinting off the polished copper bar. At every table, casually elegant patrons chatted as they ate. The wait staff glided cheerfully past at just the right intervals, never obtrusive, but always available. And the food—adjectives fail me. I had spaghetti with roasted cauliflower, fennel, and capers. Michael had a burger on focaccia bread with pickled onions and zucchini on the side, and shoestring potatoes.
Then we absorbed a caramel pot de crème and a cheese plate with toasted almonds and chunks of bittersweet chocolate. All of this was accompanied by a series of what-the-hell-I'm-living-this-one-up drinks–from aperitif through digestif. So maybe it was the grappa that filled me with a giddy sense that all was utterly well in the world, but I think it was more than just the buzz of that firewater in my veins.
As our meal drew to a close, I leaned back in my chair for a satisfied moment. A platter of oysters arrived at the next table, then a bottle of champagne. The waiter poured, then retreated. The couple raised their glasses and toasted each other, "To the greatest day, ever!"
I've been pickling like crazy this summer. Several weeks ago, inspired by The Zuni Café Cookbook, I tried my hand at pickling Sea Beans (also known as glasswort). Sea Beans are a succulent that is foraged from coastal areas during the summer. They are delicious sautéed–a bit like asparagus. It turns out that they are also delicious pickled. Pickled Sea Beans are delicate and crunchy. I like them on a sandwich, in the same way that I would top a sandwich with cucumber pickles, peppers, or olives, to provide some sharp, vinegary bite. They are also excellent–chopped up a bit–on a potato salad or pasta salad, or anywhere you want a little kick.
I am not specifying amounts for this recipe, because it all depends on the size and quantity of jars you intend to fill. If you find Sea Beans at the farmer's market, buy some to sauté fresh and a few more handfuls to try pickled.
Pickled Sea Beans
(adapted from The Zuni Café Cookbook)
- fresh sea beans
- white wine vinegar
- peeled garlic cloves
Sort through sea beans, pinching off and discarding any woody stems or discolored sprigs. Rinse well, then pack in glass jars with 2-3 peeled garlic cloves per jar. Add vinegar to cover. Put lids on jars. Let sit for two weeks in a cool, dark cupboard, then refrigerate. The sea beans are ready to eat at that time, but will keep well in the refrigerator for quite a while.
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