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Double-glazing firm in court over worker's ladder fall
The owner of a Blackpool double-glazing firm has appeared in court after one of his employees was seriously injured in a fall from a ladder.
The 68-year-old fell nearly five metres and landed on a concrete patio after climbing up a ladder to measure a bathroom window on a house in his village. The employee suffered a broken knee and ankle, four broken ribs, a punctured lung and a badly damaged right foot.
The owner was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after an investigation found the worker had been allowed to work alone without anyone at the foot of the ladder to stop it falling.
Blackpool Magistrates' Court heard the worker has still been unable to return to work due to the extent of his injuries following the fall.
The owner pleaded guilty to a breach of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 by failing to ensure the work was properly planned, adequately supervised and carried out in a safe manner. He was fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £2,000 in prosecution costs.
Speaking after the hearing, the investigating inspector at HSE, Allen Shute, said:
"Workers can easily be killed or seriously injured in a fall of just a few metres. It's therefore vital employers properly manage work at height."
Last year, 38 workers were killed in Great Britain as a result of a fall and more than 4,000 suffered major injuries.
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The D.A. Show: MLS Commissioner Don Garber: The Future Of MLS In Boston
March 28, 2011 8:00 PM
Don Garber joined the D.A. show to discuss the start of another MLS season. He spoke at length regarding the league's desire to have a soccer only facility in the city of Boston. He thinks that due to the large amount of international students and cosmopolitan population that a soccer only facility would be a no brainier.
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When Andre, 34, was struck and killed crossing Lee Road after her car broke down last Tuesday, her death threw the lives of those children — ages 3 to 17 — into chaos.
Now split up between the homes of three relatives, her four daughters and six sons are shell shocked and yearn to be back together, said Andre's mother, Andrea Renee Wingster.
"She always kept her children together, always. Words can't describe how close they were," Wingster said.
A counselor who has worked with Andre's children for the past year and a half said their mother's death is one of the worst tragedies he's seen in 25 years of working with families.
"It really makes you appreciate what you have," said social worker John Lott III.
The family loved to walk together to the park, swim, go to the beach and the movies. At home, they played board games like Monopoly and Uno, and video games, when they had a game system that worked.
"Every time I close my eyes, she's right there," said Wingster, 51. "I can't believe she's gone."
The grandmother plans to take in all 10 of her daughter's children, but she'll need to move to a larger place. A Christmas tree and a few bicycles will be delivered this week, but the children will need "everything," including food and clothing, in the weeks and months to come.
Andre, who was divorced from the father of her first four children, leaves behind Kiara, 17; Kierin, 15; Kiera, 14; Kaira, 12; Jada, 11; Jadarius, 10; Jadon, 8; Jalen, 7; Jalonta, 4; and Javonta, 3.
"She did whatever she needed to do, for them," even though it was a struggle, Wingster said. "She did it all by herself."
Her six middle children were with Andre, heading home after a tutoring session at Lake Silver Elementary for two of the youngsters, when she was struck. Wingster said the children were on the side of the road and Andre was crossing back with water to cool her 2000 Dodge Durango, which had overheated for the second time that day.
According to the police report, a 2005 Honda sports utility vehicle struck her while she was crossing the westbound lanes of Lee Road east of Edgewater Drive a little after 6:30 p.m. There are no charges pending against the driver.
In the hospital, Andre tried to take off the neck brace that doctors had put on to stabilize her. "She said she had to get home to her kids because they needed her," Wingster said.
She never made it. A blood clot broke off and lodged in her lungs, killing her.
Because of long-standing car trouble, Andre had moved the family to a three-bedroom apartment within walking distance of her primary job. As a home health aide for Firstat Nursing Services in Winter Park, Fla., she earned about $10 an hour helping an elderly woman with daily tasks such as bathing, cooking and cleaning.
Andre was one of Firstat's best, most-reliable employees, said company president Denny Allen.
"We have had thousands of employees through the years," he said. "If there was an all-star team, she would have been on it."
Lott has been helping the family through their tragedy. He has arranged for the children to get counseling through an alliance of African-American ministers. Lake Silver Elementary staff members also have taken up a collection for the family, and Wingster is working to set up a trust fund for the children.
A funeral service for Andre has been tentatively set for Saturday.
Wingster, a food service employee at Orlando Health, was the person Andre turned to when she needed help, Lott said. Although Wingster had a string of arrests in the 1980s and '90s, she appears to be the best placement for the children, said Kristi Gray, public information officer with the Orlando office of the Florida Department of Children and Families.
"On the bright side of it, there are relatives willing to take in the children," Gray said. "It would be nearly impossible for us to keep those children together in foster care."
Andre's death has been particularly hard on her eldest daughter Kiara, 17, who helped her mother take care of all the younger ones, and on Javonta, 3, who was so attached that he cried when his mother left him to go to the bathroom. The two oldest and two youngest children are staying with their grandmother. The rest are with aunts and uncles.
"Just pray for me and the children," Wingster said. "We're gonna need it."
By Lauren Roth - Orlando Sentinel (MCT)
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Breaking Bud Part Three: The Frontcourt
While the Hawks backcourt features some familiar faces, the frontcourt has a very new look to it. Al Horford returns for his seventh season with the Hawks but has a very different supporting cast around him. Gone are the veterans he grew up in the organization with like Josh Smith and Zaza Pachulia, and in have come the likes of Paul Millsap, Elton Brand, Pero Antic and Gustavo Ayon. The only player that Horford has played any minutes with in the frontcourt is second year forward Mike Scott, who played a grand total of 38 minutes with him last season.
A new system and new players means building chemistry and trust between the players, especially in the frontcourt, which will be crucial to the Hawks' success on both ends of the floor. Learning how to communicate and play off of each other will be important for the Hawks' bigs in Coach Mike Budenholzer's system that requires a lot of motion and screening while maintaining proper spacing.
Horford's apparent fit into Bud's system is something I've detailed at length earlier this summer, and in speaking with Horford and Bud they appear to feel the same way. Horford will be asked to play a lot of pick-and-roll/pop in Bud's offense, something he's been effective with in his Hawks career. In pick-and-roll/pop plays last season Horford averaged 1.01 PPP (points per possession) as the roll man, good for 59th in the league (per Synergy Sports). Horford spoke about how he thinks Bud's system will be a good fit for his preferred style of play.
"It does, it does excite me," he said. "Movement is a big thing that we've lacked here in the past, and I think that with the players that we have here everyone's going to buy into that. For me, I feel like it's going to help my game, rolling to the basket or popping to the wing and making plays, getting those shots it's definitely going to benefit me."
Joining Horford in the frontcourt is former Jazzman Millsap. Millsap shares many of Horford's offensive strengths as a strong mid-range shooter and athletic big that uses speed and quickness over brute strength. They shot almost the exact same percentage from 16-24 feet last year (where the majority of pick-and-pop looks come from) with Millsap shooting 42.4 percent and Horford shooting 42.3 percent. Millsap and Horford also had the exact same PPP on post-ups (0.85) and were very similar on spot-ups (0.86 for Paul, 0.83 for Al).
Bud's system is very different from that Millsap operated in with the Jazz. In Utah, pick-and-roll accounted for just 12 percent of Millsap's offense, where he averaged 0.91 PPP. That percentage will likely come close to doubling in Atlanta this season. Millsap thinks the pace of the offense and the emphasis on pick-and-roll will play well to his strengths.
"Well, yeah [I'm excited to play in this system]," Millsap said. "I haven't played pick-and-pop for a while, you know, it's been awhile, but I feel like I'm pretty strong in that area, I know Al's pretty strong in that area, and we got the point guards and the guards to do it and make it happen."
The biggest change for Millsap will be that he won't be asked to create as much on his own. In Utah, only 69.3 percent of his 16-24 foot makes were assisted. For comparison, Horford, whose looks were primarily out of pick-and-pop, had 86.2 percent of his 16-24 foot makes assisted on and for Tim Duncan, in Bud's offense, an incredible 94 percent of his made 16-24 footers were assisted. In the restricted area, Millsap only had 55.3 percent of his made baskets assisted on, while Horford had 77.2 percent of his makes assisted on and Duncan had 66.1 percent assisted (per NBA Stats). By allowing Millsap to work more off the ball, he can quickness to create separation from his defender better, especially in these areas on the floor, and get more open looks at the basket.
Millsap and Horford's similarities have opened up questions to how they will work together on the floor. Both like to operate in space, whether on spot-ups or pick-and-pops, and are most effective in the mid-range shooting from the elbows rather than the baseline. They are also more effective facing up instead of backing down in the post because it allows them to better use their quickness advantage over bigger, longer bigs. The two will spend much of their time together on the floor as the starters at power forward and center, and I asked Bud how he plans on taking advantage of their similarities while maintaining floor balance and spacing.
"I think there's a lot of potential for them to work well together and to learn how to space and read off of each other, and the whole group to learn to take advantage of Paul and Al's strengths," Bud said. "We also like to have Paul and Al extend to the corner threes and make that part of our spacing and part of our offensive attack. I think they're both dynamic in catching and attacking a closeout and catching and making a pass, making a play for a teammate and especially for each other and the big to big relationship and finding each other. I think they're going to be really good together because they're such good passers. You know if the defense makes a mistake or the defense over-commits they know how to find each other, they know how to work off the ball.
So, I think, even though, it's correct or accurate that they have a lot of similarities as far as the ability to make mid-range shots and play pick-and-pop, we're also going to need them to roll and attack the basket and get in the paint to collapse the defense as a roller in screening action also. To have two guys that are very good at pick-and-pop or pick-and-roll situations, you have more options to attack the defense. You know, sometimes teams have a big or you can pick on certain situations or certain bigs and make them pay because you have two guys that are both capable."
Bud sees advantages having two bigs with the athleticism and shooting ability to both be weapons as pick-and-roll and pick-and-pop situations. As I noted in Part Two, Bud likes having options to run multiple pick-and-rolls within the same offensive possession using two guards that can handle the ball. Having a pair of bigs that are efficient and effective in both pick-and-roll/pop plays opens up more opportunities to create mismatches in those sets.
"I think the first thing is we want to get early, deep post ups," Bud said. "So we want to play with pace and that includes early, deep post ups. I think Al and Paul will have the ability to beat their opposing bigs and the defense down the court, establish deep post-ups and score early in the clock, score deep in the paint. That comes with running and a commitment to running with pace, but also with the proper spacing and the proper discipline, and the whole group knows this, looking at them early in the post is a priority.
I think both of them, again, with their quickness and their abilities, I think they can play one-on-one or they can play in the post. If they're playing against guys with length or guys bigger than them, then they can beat them facing, driving, and attacking and getting to the free throw line. Making bigs move their feet, making bigs do things that maybe are to Paul and Al's strengths and not to playing to the opponents strength, and they'll learn to play to theirs with is quickness and speed."
Semi-transition will be a big part of the Hawks offense off of opponents makes and misses. The Hawks have shown a commitment to this in their first two preseason games. Bud feels that the Hawks bigs can out-run other teams' bigs down the floor, which will allow them to get that early, deep post position for easy baskets. Along with quick post-ups for the bigs, one of Bud's favorite ways to use semi-transition is in the quick high pick-and-roll. This set here is one of the pet plays of Bud's system that they will run a variation of a number of times each game.
The set up is simple, the two wing players go to the weak side with one in the corner and the other on the wing, one of the bigs on the strong side baseline, and the point guard bringing the ball to the wing with the other big trailing. The trailing big will set a quick high pick-and-roll and slip towards the basket as the other big flares to the corner, clearing the paint. The point guard drifts towards the top of the key to open up the passing lane to the big. The weak-side corner defender is forced to choose between helping down on the big or stay with the shooter in the corner. The key to the play is the pace they run it at. Going quickly and making the pass early to the big forces the defense to make the choice which can lead to either an easy basket at the rim or a quick kick-out for the corner three (and if the wing defender drops to the corner a touch pass to an open three from the wing).
A variation of this set you could see from the Hawks, and one that would take advantage of the versatility of the guards to handle the ball and the bigs as pick-and-roll threats, is something like this.
The set up is similar, but has the wing in the strong side corner rather than the weak-side, and the big on the weak side baseline instead of the strong side. The first high pick-and-roll would operate out of the same look, with the big coming from the top of the key and slipping to the rim and the guard driving toward the elbow from the wing. The weak side big clears up to the opposite elbow and if his man helps on the roller, it opens up a second pick-and-roll opportunity.
Here, you see the point guard quickly kicks to the opposite guard, who starts a screen-and-roll with the big that moved up to the elbow. Once the pass is thrown to the other guard, the initial roller clears out to the corner and the first guard goes back to the wing to keep the floor balanced and spaced.
Along with playing in transition and semi-transition to get quick post-ups, these types of concepts with multiple pick-and-roll opportunities in the same offensive set will be one of the ways Bud neutralizes size advantages of the opposition and makes it an advantage for the Hawks athletic bigs.
Horford and Millsap will be the likely starters, and how they work together will be important to the success of the team. Bud mentioned passing as a strength for both players, and the high-low game between the bigs will be another part of the offense this season. We saw it at times in the first two preseason games, and it's something Horford excelled in last season with Smith.
Horford had 118 of his made baskets assisted on by Josh Smith, which was the second highest combination for Horford behind Jeff Teague at 151. The Hawks' two-man game was lethal last year and was a major part of their offense, especially in the final minutes of games. The Hawks will use different sets this year to work the high-low game with Al, Paul and the rest of the bigs, but Bud likes the passing ability of his bigs, especially Paul and Al, and expects that to continue to be a big part of the Hawks offense.
This is one such play that the Spurs ran last year using their bigs together, especially with Boris Diaw on the floor as the trigger-man and Tim Duncan as the shooting big. The concept is simple with one big operating with the ball on the wing, the point guard in one corner, and a wing in the other. The two-guard comes down from the top of the key and sets a pin-down for the big on the baseline who comes up to the elbow for a shot. As I mentioned in Part Two, using guards to set screens is something that is regularly done in Bud's system to put extra pressure on the defense to execute, and this is an example of that. If the defense switches then the big can then operate from the elbow with a mismatch, if the screen is successful the big has an open look from 16 feet, and if both go with the big the guard is open underneath for an easy layup.
Horford and Millsap will be the likely starters all season and their success on the court together will be vitally important to the Hawks success this season. The other four bigs on the bench also have Bud excited, and when asked about how his rotations will look next year, he said that he sees players staying in their traditional roles rather than going big or small, like we saw last year with so many line-up combinations.
"I think we've got a good group of bigs, you know six guys that I'm excited about and I think most of the time you'll see two of them on the court, a couple of wings and a point guard, and you could possibly see two point guards in at times," he said. "But, I think the way the roster's constituted right now we're going to be fairly traditional. Our bigs I think are athletic and versatile enough that I think we can stay big even when other teams go small."
Brand is the best known player of the other free agent bigs that were brought in this offseason. The veteran center (as Brand, Coach Bud, and Danny Ferry have all noted, he is very much a center at this point in his career) comes to the Hawks after an up and down year in Dallas. Despite early difficulties, Brand adjusted to his new role as a bench player and had a very solid season for the Mavericks. As he told me earlier this summer, he's excited about getting to play in Bud's offense because of the emphasis on ball movement and where the bigs get touches.
"Yeah, I know the bigs are spacing the floor, touching the ball, shooting the mid-range, and facilitating also," Brand said. "I feel like I fit in well. I can be very effective in it. I know I'm excited to touch that ball in those spots."
Brand was around the league average from 16-24 feet last season and shot 42.1 percent from that range. Brand was good in pick-and-roll/pop scoring finishing 70th in the NBA among roll-men with 0.98 PPP and shot 47.7 percent from the field. He struggled as a spot-up shooter, shooting just 41.1 percent from the field on spot-up attempts and had just 0.76 PPP, 320th in the NBA. From 16-24 feet, Brand shot much better from the right side of the floor (54.5 percent), than the left or middle of the court (32.6 percent). From a floor-balancing perspective, the Hawks have versatility with their bigs, but, to put them in their most comfortable spots in the mid-range, will have to allow them to operate in different spots on the court.
Al Horford, Paul Millsap, and Elton Brand (left to right) shot charts from 16 to 24 feet.
As their three shot charts show, each is very similar in their overall percentages (only a 0.3 percent variance between the three) and that Horford had a great deal more attempts than the other two combined, due to the offense he was in and his role as one of the primary offensive weapons. However, it also shows how the Hawks can put all three in different areas to space the floor and have them be at their most efficient from the mid-range.
Millsap works best from the baseline rather than the elbows, while Horford excels on the left-side and especially from the left elbow, and Brand is most comfortable on the right side (although with an admittedly small sample size). How those shots are created is crucially important to how efficient the shot is, but this offers an idea of ways to use these three players together and keep proper floor spacing and balancing.
The other two free agent acquisitions for the front-court this offseason were Ayon and Antic. Ayon has never been used as a major offensive option in the NBA, and got most of his shots from cuts to the basket last season, which was cut short due to injury. He had just 10 post-up shot attempts (he made seven of them) among his 126 attempts last year and does not present much of an offensive threat in the post.
Ayon did have a tremendous FIBA Americas tournament and looked exceptional for Mexico as they won the championship and he won tournament MVP. The Hawks will hope that he continues to show that good form once he returns form his shoulder injury, but do not expect him to be a primary offensive option; rather he will get his opportunities on the offensive end by cutting to the basket and getting put-back attempts on offensive rebounds.
Antic is an intriguing 6'11" power forward that has range to the three-point line. He said at media day that he is most comfortable on the offensive end on the outside and in early preseason action Antic has looked for that three-point shot and has been used more as a floor-spacing jump shooter on the offensive end.
The final big on the roster is Scott, who despite only being in his second-year in the league is tied for third, only behind Horford and Teague, in longest tenured players on the team. Scott has trimmed down 15 pounds this offseason and has said all summer that he's been working to become a more versatile player on the wing, adding a more consistent three point shot and trying to become a more agile defender. With Bud's focus on playing a more traditional lineup, I asked what Scott's role will be this year and whether he would look at Mike as an option at small forward.
"I really think I want Mike to focus on the four position and learning the four position and being really efficient and really good," Bud said. "In the system it's a significant difference in those two positions, and it's not something we do a lot with the four-to-three or three-to-four. I'm not saying it hasn't ever happened, it has occasionally, but I think for Mike to start the season I think his focus and our focus is on him to play the four even though he does have some natural abilities and some things defensively and offensively where you could at least consider that or think about it, but that's not really the plan."
While Scott will not be played at the three, he still can have value in the offense. He has been extremely impressive in the preseason, leading the team in scoring through the first two games, and has looked very comfortable stepping out and spacing the floor all the way to the three point line, something Bud's mentioned he will look to see out of his bigs. Scott is a polished jump shooter that has an opportunity to succeed in Bud's offense as a pick-and-pop player with the ability to also knock down corner threes regularly. The biggest question for Scott will come on the defensive end, where he will be undersized against other fours and will have to stay committed on that end and show he's capable of matching up with power forwards to earn and keep his minutes.
The offensive system Coach Bud is bringing over is, as Kyle Korver said, very different from what the Hawks had been running under Larry Drew. With new players and a new system that emphasizes ball movement and motion, building on-court chemistry in camp will be crucial to how successful the Hawks will be early on. Finding a rhythm together on the court and learning how each other plays is going to take time. The Hawks will be slowly implementing their offense and more complex sets and concepts as the season progresses, which we will detail for you as it is instituted. For now, look for pace and motion to be the hallmarks of the Hawks offense, along with some of these basic pick-and-roll principles outlined in this series.
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Christopher Columbus may have his own federal holiday, but it's barely a secret at this point that he was actually a hateful jerk. Learning about the man's real history sure puts a damper on any festivities you may want to have every second Monday of October.
Surely, there are countless people more deserving of a national holiday in America than Columbus. Here are five famous – and much more respectable – figures that we could be proud to swap in for Christopher and commemorate annually instead:
1. Albert Einstein
One of the great scientific minds to ever live deserves proper recognition. A holiday for the man would not only commemorate Einstein himself, but the process of intellectual inquiry and discovery.
Granted, Einstein is German born, but he became an American citizen in 1940, exemplifying the immigrant experience on which this country was founded. Although much better known for his scientific contributions, his civil rights activism makes him an admirable person in other respects, as well.
2. Eleanor Roosevelt
If there's a holiday to honor the Presidents of the United States, it only seems fair to give a nod to one of the hardest working First Ladies, as well. Roosevelt refused to be a standard shrinking violet while in the White House, openly advocating for the rights of women, African Americans and Asian Americans at a time such talk was scandalous. She wasn't afraid to disagree with her husband on a few issues, either.
Even after her husband died, Roosevelt stayed committed to public service by advocating for and subsequently representing the United Nations with the goal of improving human rights worldwide. She is a true example of someone who used her influence for good.
3. Cesar Chavez
Arguably the country's most influential labor activist, Chavez fought tirelessly — yet non-violently — to establish the union that would go on to become the United Farm Workers. His work not only validated the value of organized labor in this country, but also empowered the nation's Latino community to stand up for their rights.
Texas, California and Colorado already each have state holidays to commemorate Chavez's life, but his contributions are worthy of federal recognition. Particularly in an age where labor forces are unjustly vilified, his legacy is critical for Americans to remember.
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Ask any Native American or Native Hawaiian what they think of Discovers' Day, and their responses will be much like most of the comments posted here. It's good to know that most Care2 readers don't buy into the bullshit revisionist history that was taught in our educational system.
Christopher Columbus did not even discover America~~the Native Americans were already here. How about a Native American holiday???
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These are fine suggestions, with my heart leaning toward Mark Twain.
Other nominations to occupy the Columbus spot might include:
Skennenrahawi, aka The Great Peacemaker
Chief Joseph
Harriet Tubman
Susan B. Anthony
Benjamin Franklin
Howard Zinn
Harvey Milk
Paul Robeson
Helen Keller
Nikola Tesla
Studs Terkel
Chief Tecumseh
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglass
Eugene Debs
Woody Guthrie
W.E.B. DuBois
Jane Addams
Lucretia Mott
Malcolm X
Jesse Owens
Johnny Appleseed
As I read through the comments I found many of my admittedly haphazard list had already been mentioned.
I like Roxane C.'s suggestion of changing Columbus Day to DISCOVER AMERICA DAY.
All great people who made a difference in the US.
I have long pushed for a Great Americans Day to replace several holidays. Makes a great school lesson, lots of opportunity for TV to educate on that day, and opens the door to lots of discussion as to who should be included.
I suppose given how much better they are than Columbus, almost any American could be on the list (none, I believe, were responsible for as much wanton terror and torture as Columbus). He also wasn't an American. Of the singular recommendations, none, in my view, deserve such a singular holiday.
Of course, you could create a publication list celebrating each person on their birthday or on a date of newsworthy note in their life. No holiday is needed -- just recognition on a calendar or by news shows or by Congressional decree. We would learn more and, with 365 days on the calendar, there's always something to be learned and appreciated.
Holidays -- derived from "holy days" -- should be for reflection. If it's just for shopping or BBQs, that's OK from a celebration point of view, and we certainly deserve more days off, but we should keep clear on our purpose.
Washington's birthday is a national holiday. In some states, Lincoln's birthday has been a holiday. We now have President's Day to combine the two and any others individual areas find worthy. March, April, June, and August have no holidays whatsoever. We don't need to look far to find amazing people who've done much to better the country and/or make our lives better.
Once I understood that Columbus did not, in truth, "discover" America, I wondered why we made a holiday of his birthday. I think I was in high school at the time. It's nice to have a holiday in October. I just wish it were for a more laudable personage.
Given that everybody loves a paid day off from work (or school), why can the personage we celebrate be one who contributed good things and made the world a better place to live?
All are unique people with special skills and experiences....I would like the next to be Ms. Parks.....
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Olive baboon
|Olive baboon[1]
|Scientific classification
|P. anubis
|Binomial name
|Papio anubis
(Lesson, 1827)
|Geographic range
The olive baboon (Papio anubis), also called the Anubis baboon, is a member of the family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys). The species is the most widely ranging of all baboons:[3] It is found in 25 countries throughout Africa, extending from Mali eastward to Ethiopia and Tanzania. Isolated populations are also found in some mountainous regions of the Sahara.[3] It inhabits savannahs, steppes, and forests.[3]
Physical characteristics[edit]
The olive baboon is named for its coat, which, at a distance, is a shade of green-grey.[4] Its alternative name comes from the Egyptian god Anubis, who was often represented by a dog head resembling the dog-like muzzle of the baboon. At closer range, its coat is multicolored, due to rings of yellow-brown and black on the hairs.[5] The hair on the baboon's face, however, is coarser and ranges from dark grey to black.[4] This coloration is shared by both sexes, although males have a mane of longer hair that tapers down to ordinary length along the back.[3] Besides the mane, the male olive baboon differs from the female in terms of size and weight and canine tooth size; males are, on average, 70 cm (28 in) tall while standing and females measure 60 cm (24 in) in height.[3][6] The olive baboon is one of the largest species of monkey; only the Chacma baboon and the mandrill attain similar sizes.[7] The head-and-body length can range from 50 to 114 cm (20 to 45 in), with a species average of around 85 cm (33 in). At the shoulder on all fours, females average 55 cm (22 in) against males which average 70 cm (28 in). The typical weight range for both sexes is reportedly 10–37 kg (22–82 lb), with males averaging 24 kg (53 lb) and females averaging 14.7 kg (32 lb). Some males may weigh as much as 50 kg (110 lb).[8][9][10][11]
Like other baboons, the olive baboon has an elongated, dog-like muzzle.[3] In fact, along with the muzzle, the animal's tail (38–58 cm or 15–23 in) and four-legged gait can make baboons seem very canine.[12] The tail almost looks as if it is broken, as it is erect for the first quarter, after which it drops down sharply.[4] The bare patch of a baboon's rump, famously seen in cartoons and movies, is a good deal smaller in the olive baboon.[3] The olive baboon, like most cercopithecines, has a cheek pouch with which to store food.[13]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
The olive baboon inhabits a strip of 25 equatorial African countries, very nearly ranging from the east to west coasts of the continent.[13] The exact boundaries of this strip are not clearly defined, as the species' territory overlaps with that of other baboon species.[4] In many places, this has resulted in cross-breeding between species.[4] For example, considerable hybridization has occurred between the olive baboon and the hamadryas baboon in Ethiopia.[12] Cross-breeding with the yellow baboon and the Guinea baboon has also been observed.[4] Although this has been noted, the hybrids have not as yet been well studied.[4]
Throughout its wide range, the olive baboon can be found in a number of different habitats.[3] It is usually classified as savanna-dwelling, living in the wide plains of the grasslands.[14] The grasslands, especially those near open woodland, do make up a large part of its habitat, but the baboon also inhabits rainforests and deserts.[3] Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for instance, both support olive baboon populations in dense tropical forests.[4]
Behaviour and ecology[edit]
Social structure[edit]
The olive baboon lives in groups of 15–150, made up of a few males, many females, and their young.[15] Each baboon has a social ranking somewhere in the group, depending on its dominance.[15] Female dominance is hereditary, with daughters having nearly the same rank as their mothers,[15][16] with adult females forming the core of the social system.[16] Female relatives form their own subgroups in the troop.[15] Related females are largely friendly to each other. They tend to stay close together and groom one another, as well as team up in aggressive encounters with other troop members.[16] Female kin form these strong bonds because they do not emigrate from their natal groups.[17] Occasionally, groups may split up when they become so large that competition for resources is problematic, but even then, members of matrilines tend to stick together.[17] Dominant females procure more food, matings, and supporters. Among olive baboons in Tanzania, high-ranking females have shorter interbirth intervals and higher infant survival, and their daughters tend to mature faster than low-ranking females.[17] However, these high-ranking females also appear to have a higher probability of miscarriages and some high-ranking matrilines have inexplicably low fertility.[17] One theory suggests this occurs due to stress on the high-ranking females, although it is controversial.[17]
A female will often form a long-lasting social relationship with a male in her troop, known as a "friendship".[16] These nonsexual affiliative friendships benefit both the male and female.[17] Males benefit from these relationships because they are usually formed soon after he immigrates into a new group,[17] and helps the male integrate into the group more easily.[17] He could also potentially end up mating with his female friend in the future.[17] Females gain protection from threats to themselves and their infants (if they have any).[17] Also, a male will occasionally "baby-sit" for his female friend, so she can feed and forage freely without the burden of having to carry or watch the infant.[17] These friendships are sometimes formed between sexually receptive females and newly immigrated males.[15] These relationships are sometimes enduring and the pair will groom and remain close to each other.[15] They will also travel, forage, sleep, and raise infants together, as well as fight together against aggressive conspecifics.[16]
Males establish their dominance more forcefully than females.[15] A male will disperse,[17] or leave his natal group and join another group, after reaching sexual maturity.[15] Adult males are very competitive with each other and will fight for access to females.[16] Higher dominance means better access to mating and earlier access to food, so naturally a great deal of fighting over rank occurs, with younger males constantly trying to rise in position.[15] Because females stay with their groups their entire lives, and males emigrate to others, often a new male will challenge an older one for dominance.[15] Frequently, when older baboons drop in the social hierarchy, they will move to another tribe.[3] The younger males who pushed them down will often bully and harass them.[3] Older males tend to have more supportive and equal relationships than those of the younger males. The former may form coalitions against the latter.[18]
Despite being hierarchical, baboons appear to be "democratic" when it comes to deciding the direction of collective movement. Individuals are more likely to follow when multiple decision-makers agree on what direction to go rather than simply following dominant individuals.[19]
Reproduction and parenting[edit]
Females are sexually mature at seven to eight years old, and males at seven to 10 years.[3] The beginning of a female's ovulation is a signal to the males that she is ready to mate. During ovulation, the skin of the female's anogenital area swells and turns a bright red/pink.[20] The swelling makes it difficult to move and increases the female's chance of microbial or parasitic infection.[20] Females with larger swellings reproduce at a younger age, produce a larger number of offspring per year, and a larger number of those offspring survive. Females with larger swellings attract more males and are more likely to cause aggressive fights between them.[15] Olive baboons tend to mate promiscuously.[15] A male will form a mating consortship with an estrous female, staying close to and copulating with her.[21] A male will guard his partner against any other male trying to mate with her. Unless a female is in a multiday consortship, she will often copulate with more than one male each day.[22] Multiple copulations are not necessary for reproduction, but may function to make the actual paternity of the female's offspring ambiguous. This lack of paternal certainty could help reduce the occurrence of infanticide.[3] Occasionally, male olive baboons will monopolize a female for her entire period of probable conception.[22] The male will prevent other males from mating with his female during consortship.[23]
Newborns have black natal coats and bright pink skin. Females are the primary caregivers of infants, but males also play a role.[15] For the first few days of life, the infant may be unable to stay attached to its mother and relies on her for physical support. However, its grasp grows stronger by its first week and it is able to cling to its mother's fur by itself.[15] By two weeks, the infant begins to explore its surroundings for short periods, but stays near her. The distance the infant spends away from its mother increases the older it gets.[24] In general, higher-ranking females are usually more relaxed parents than lower-ranking females, which usually keep their offspring close to them.[3] However, this difference only lasts for approximately the first eight weeks of an infant's life.[3] Olive baboons do not seem to practice co-operative parenting, but a female may groom an infant that is not hers. Subadult and juvenile females are more likely to care for another's young, as they have not yet produced offspring of their own.[3] One theory for why immature females tend to seek out infants is that they can prepare for their future roles as mothers.[17] Infant baboons born to first-time mothers suffer higher mortality than those born to experienced mothers, which suggests prior experience in caring for infants may be very important.[17] Adult males in the groups will also care for the infants, as they are likely to be related to them.[25] Males groom infants, reducing the amount of parasites they may have, and calm them when they are stressed. They may also protect them from predators, such as chimpanzees. However, adult males exploit infants and use them to reduce their chances of being threatened by other males.[25]
Olive baboons communicate with various vocalizations and facial expressions. Throughout the day, baboons of all ages emit the "basic grunt".[26] In addition, other calls given by adults include the "roargrunt", "cough-bark", and "cough geck". The latter two are made when unknown humans or low-flying birds are sighted, and the former is made by adult males displaying to each other. A "wa-hoo" call is made responding to predators or neighboring groups at night and during stressful situations.[26] Other vocalizations include "broken grunting" (low-volume, quick series of grunts made during relatively calm aggressive encounters), "pant-grunts" (made when aggressive encounters escalate), "shrill barks" (loud calls given when potential threats appear suddenly), and "screams" (continuous high-pitch sounds responding to strong emotions).[26] The most common facial expression of the olive baboon is "lipsmacking", which is associated with a number of behaviors.[15] Lipsmacking, as well as "tongue protrusion", "jaw-clapping", "ear flattening", "eyes narrowed", and "head shaking", are used when baboons are greeting each other, and are sometimes made with a "rear present".[26] "Staring", "eyebrow raising", "yawning", and "molar grinding" are used to threaten other baboons.[15] A submissive baboon will respond with displays such as the "rigid crouch", "tail erect", and "fear grin".[26]
One major reason for its widespread success is that the olive baboon is omnivorous.[4] As such it is able to find nutrition in almost any environment, and it is able to adapt with different foraging tactics.[27] For instance, the olive baboon in grassland goes about finding food differently from one in a forest.[4] The baboon will forage on all levels of an environment, above and beneath the ground and in the canopy of forests.[27] Most animals will only look for food at one level; an arboreal species for instance, such as a lemur, will not look for food on the ground. The olive baboon will search as wide an area as it can, and it will eat virtually everything it finds.[27]
The diet typically includes a large variety of plants, and invertebrates and small mammals, as well as birds.[28] The olive baboon will eat leaves, grass, roots, bark, flowers, fruit, lichens, tubers, seeds, mushrooms, corms, and rhizomes.[28] Corms and rhizomes are especially important in times of drought, because grass loses a great deal of its nutritional value.[28] In dry, arid regions, such as the northeastern deserts, small invertebrates like insects, spiders, and scorpions fill out its diet.[28]
The olive baboon will also actively hunt prey, from small rodents and hares to foxes and other primates.[4] Its limit is usually small antelope, such as Thomson's gazelle and also, rarely, sheep, goats, and live chickens, which may amount to 33.5% of its food from hunting.[4] Hunting is usually a group activity, with both males and females participating.[4] Interestingly, this systematic predation was apparently developed recently.[29] In a field study, such behavior was observed as starting with the males of one troop and spreading through all ages and sexes.[29]
In Eritrea, the olive baboon has formed a symbiotic relationship with that country's endangered elephant population. The baboons use the water holes dug by the elephants, while the elephants use the tree-top baboons as an early warning system.[30]
Conservation status[edit]
The olive baboon is listed as Least Concern by the IUCN because "this species is very widespread and abundant and although persecuted as a crop raider there are no major threats believed to be resulting in a range-wide population decline".[2] Despite persecution, the baboon is still widespread and numerous.[2] However, competition and disease have possibly led to fewer baboons in closed forests. It has been actively persecuted as a pest.[2]
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Just like a newborn child needs care to keep them healthy and happy, we need our Lord more than ever. ?????So, why would the Lord allow His plan for us to be tested at such a vulnerable time? It is because at this stage He is the strongest; when we NEED HIM the MOST. We are in desperate need of His help in our infancy. We don't know what we're doing and He likes it that way. It is at this stage that God seeks to input a SINGULAR TRUST and RELIANCE IN HIM. HE IS IN CHARGE, and with every trial we grow stronger and stronger IN HIM, and we are DRIVEN more and more into God. We know our need is great. We see now how vulnerable we are and how much we need to obey Him.Jesus was no exception. LISTEN: Jesus was very special, but this little baby COULD NOT save the world AT THIS STAGE, but that was HIS DESTINY He could not even change His own diaper, but three kings, many shepherds, and a host of angels honored Him as the Savior of the human race. Herod feared Him and realized there was no better time to try and destroy Him than to kill the Savior while He was a helpless child. Herod killed hundreds or perhaps thousands of babies while he was trying to destroy Jesus in his INFANCY. Even with all his horrendous efforts to kill Jesus and stop the promise from coming to pass...HEROD FAILED. Herod did not destroy Him because God saved Him again and again.This is one thing that we know to be true......when your destiny is birthed, all Hell seems to come against it. Your destiny, even in its infancy, is a PRIME TARGET for the enemy. He wants to destroy it while it is small and seemingly helpless...we should EXPECT THIS WHY IS THIS SO IMPORTANT TO KNOWWhen the attack comes, we will KNOW it is just an attack and LISTEN…….. NOT THE END of our destiny.You may not look very threatening to the enemy now; you may even feel like a failure. However, satan, like Herod, is terrified of your future.We know he does not play fair, that he will strike us at our weakest. He did not play fair with Jesus and he won't play fair with us.Isa 43:1 But now so says Jehovah who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel; Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine. Isa 43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; nor shall the flame kindle on you. When we walk through the waters of persecution, we SEE God MORE CLEARLY and experience a GREATER MEASURE of His power to protect us. We shouldn't become fearful because of these circumstances, but let it INCREASE our CONFIDENCE in the Lord.When He was born, Christ's defeat seemed inevitable. He was the Savior, but He was just a helpless baby...or was He? Don't forget the God of destiny. The God of the whole universe is watching out for you. WHATEVERcomes upon you, you will have nothing to fear because God is with you.Gen 28:15 And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you in every place where you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken of to you. God is WITH YOUThrough every trial, you gain knowledge. With every test, whether you pass or fail, you become more aware of God's mercy and grace. It is God's desire that you possess more of His Son's character through every trial you endure.When a woman gives birth there is PAINShe is in great pain, but her pain is a part of the plan.How often we want the pain to stop. It hurts and we do not understand it. But it is a part of God's plan for us and we need to TRUST HIM. Our trials produce a power in us that can be gained by nothing else BUT PAINDon't waste your energy trying to rush through or away from your pain. Work with it to produce the purpose and power God intends.When the Lord Builds the House IT STANDS……God set into motion the days that we live in, he PURPOSED THEM to BE AS THEY AREGod KNEW DIDN'T HE???Every morning when we awake and the sun rises with us, we experience God's faithfulness to the plans He has spoken into being for our lives. It doesn't matter if we make mistakes; God is faithful to defend what He has set in place.Psa 33:10 Jehovah brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He breaks the plots of the people. Psa 33:11 The counsel of Jehovah stands forever, the thoughts of His heart to all generations. The Lord HAS TO BUILD THE HOUSE!Psa 127:1 A Song of degrees for Solomon. Unless Jehovah builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless Jehovah keeps the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. STOP TRYING TO DO THINGS YOUR WAYSTOP TRYING TO BUILD YOUR OWN HOUSEOnly God can keep you. If He has set you into place, He will be faithful to keep you. What God has established, He is faithful to protect. Your destiny is in God's hands and He will not fail you.The ONLY DESTINY worth having is the one God has planned for you. The only house that is of any value to you is the house which God has built for you.ALL OTHERS were built ON THE SANDI WANT MY HOUSE BUILT ON THE ROCKIn conclusion:Understand that when God births something new in your life and HE ALWAYS births something new.The enemy will come in and attack in the infancy stage!But THIS IS NOT THE END….it is the VALIDATION that God has birthed something!!!!!!Prophetic Picture of Living Word Church:LWIC – 5.5 years no longer an infantUnder so much attack it was unbearable at times…..Many times because the devil is such a coward he would attack my family instead of meFinances, health, marriage, you name it he sent his minions after it.BUT we are no longer an infant are we at 5.5 years?We are a child! And what does Jesus say about the children?Mat 19:14 But Jesus said, ALLOW the little children to come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of Heaven. NO Longer infants but childrenYou are to be allowed into the PRESENCE and BLESSINGS of JesusITS TIME for the GIFTS and BLESSINGS FOLKS!ITS TIME for the POWER AND GLORY OF GOD to MANIFEST at LIVING WORD ChurchLWIC is NO LONGER an INFANT we are now CHILDREN of the MOST HIGH GODPsa 33:22 Let Your mercy, O Jehovah, be on us, according as we hope in You.


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DOUGLASS, KELSEY HARRIS (?–1840). Kelsey Harris Douglass, Nacogdoches merchant and Republic of Texas congressman, came to Texas sometime before the Texas Revolution. In March 1836 he sold several large orders of apparel and dry goods to the Texas army. He issued paper notes in Nacogdoches, payable either at his store or at his office in New Orleans. These notes circulated at or near par alongside Republic of Texas currency. In 1837–38 he represented Nacogdoches County in the House of the Second Congress in Houston. He joined Col. Edward Burleson, who along with his volunteers from East Texas, succeeded in pushing the Cherokee Indians from Texas. Douglass was in command at the battle of the Neches. He was also a charter member of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas. He married Minerva Benton. He died in Nacogdoches on October 4, 1840, and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery. His wife went bankrupt paying off his debts and currency after his sudden death. The town of Douglass is named in his honor.
Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832–1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.Kim Perkins, "DOUGLASS, KELSEY HARRIS," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fdo25), accessed October 13, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.