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- Turn off the power to the system and then head outside to inspect the outdoor unit. Get rid of dirt and debris that may have collected over the winter. We recommend removing the cage or fan grill and then using a wet/dry vacuum to suck up leaves and anything else that may have gotten in there.
- Spray off the fins with a garden hose. You may want to use a sprayer nozzle to blast out dirt that has built up over the off-season. Just refrain from using a pressure washer as it could damage the fins or other parts of the system.
- Take a look around the outside of the unit. Keep in mind that at least 3 feet of space should be kept clear so rake away leaves and sticks and cut back shrubbery that has grown too large.
- Once the outside is cleaned, you can head back inside to clean or replace the filter. Remember that most of the air you'll be breathing in this season passes through the filter so you'll want to make sure it's spick and span.
You wouldn't go months on end without vacuuming your floors or cleaning the bathroom, right? So why would you go so long without giving your home's HVAC system a little attention? Now that temperatures are warming up and spring is here to stay, you're going to be flipping your thermostat from "heat" to "cool" in no time. Here's what you need to do in order to get your A/C system ready for the season:Categories:


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In a significant blow to Stanleybet, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has ruled against the international bookmaker in its long-running case against Italy authorities over the length of gambling licences issued by the country in 2012.
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I've been toying with seeing the new Hollywood version of Pride & Prejudice after reading some favourable reviews from Bloggers That I Trust. But given the ridiculous number of Sundays that sister Rhi and I used to spend watching the entire six-hour BBC version, only tearing our gaze from Mr Darcy long enough to refill the bowl of Crispy M&Ms, I felt it was her opinion that I should trust. And here it is, typos and all.
"P&P was bound to be a disappointment after the BBC mini-series, and it was. It was quite funny, more obviously so than the BBC version, but at crucial moments the dialogue was totally out of character (too Hollywoody for my liking). But then some of the casting was totally un-Hollywood – Keira's chest is as flat as a pancake and Mr. Darcy wasn't even moderately attractive (or tall). No tension, no lustful glances, no chemistry, no Colin Firth. The only improvement on the BBC version was the casting of Lizzie's older sister – beautiful instead of horsey!"
And a follow-up one month later.
"I saw Pride & Prejudice again, just to see if it improved the second time around (it didn't) because quite a few people have told me they thought it was good (idiots)."
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Fusionless Treatment for Scoliosis
A new treatment option for scoliosis: fusionless surgical tethering of the spine. This treatment modulates spinal growth and may allow for correction of scoliosis. Which is something bracing can't do, while maintaining the motion that fusion eliminates in a therapeutic manner.
About Scoliosis tethering
- Scoliosis tethering is an alternative to scoliosis bracing when bracing is ineffective or patient is non compliant
- Tethering may allow for moderate permanent correction of scoliosis.
- Permanent partial or complete correction is something bracing can't accomplish
- Tethering is best suited for scoliosis between 20 and 50 degrees where risk for curve progression beyond 50 degrees is high.
The Situation
Scoliosis effects approximately 7 million children in the United States. Historically the surgical treatment of scoliosis has been focused on correcting the curvature and obtaining a solid fusion of the growing spine, thereby halting further progression of the deformity and restoring acceptable spinal alignment.
The Challenge
The traditional surgical approach to scoliosis correction has the disadvantages of rendering large segments of the spine immobile, limiting the functionality of the spine and placing unfused spinal segments at greater risk for premature degeneration. Fusionless treatment is a more ideal option for most children suffering from Scoliosis.
The Solution
Fusionless surgery enhances the possibility of controlling "at risk" spinal deformity without the need for fusion, achieving substantial deformity correction through a single, minimally invasive intervention while simultaneously preserving the growth, motion and function of the spine.
What We Do
Dr. Baynham specializes in the treatment of spinal deformity. When surgery is indicated Dr. Baynham provides a diverse range of options from traditional spinal deformity correction and fusion to the more innovative growth modulation (spinal tethering / stapling) and growth preservation (growing rods) techniques.
Each spine, just as each patient, is unique. Therefore, no single treatment method is applicable to all types and severity of spinal deformity. As a result Dr. Baynham is committed to identifying and providing the method of treatment most appropriate for each individual patient.
Fusionless Surgery
VBT surgery, also called fusionless surgery, is a better option for many children because it corrects the spinal curvature while maintaining the spine's mobility. This allows the child's spine to continue to grow and function properly. Fusion surgery, a highly-invasive scoliosis surgery, substantially limits the mobility of the spine and recovery time can be much longer. Only through fusionless surgery can your child's
Dr. Baynham is an expert in fusionless surgery and he explains why it is a major step forward in the treatment of scoliosis.
Although scoliosis consists of a few typical factors, the specific condition and treatment options vary greatly depending on the type of scoliosis present as well as the severity of the curve. In adolescents, there are a few different forms of scoliosis: Idiopathic...
When considering fusionless surgery, or Vertebral Body Tethering (VBT) for scoliosis, parents naturally have questions about how this method differs from other surgeries and how it will ultimately benefit their child over other options. The questions below are some of...
The Scoliosis Research Society estimates that more than 80 percent of scoliosis cases don't have an identifiable cause. In addition, 90% of all cases of scoliosis occur in the adolescent and teenage age group ( > or = to 10 years of age) and possible explanations...
Can babies have scoliosis? Yes, it is possible for your baby to have scoliosis. Infantile or early- onset scoliosis can be diagnosed any time between birth and five years of age. It is an abnormal side to side curve of the spine, affecting more boys than girls. What...


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Continuing Education
Aerial Yoga 1 Basics: 30-hour Instructor Training with Daniel Sierralta Vargas
7-15 November Soundwill Plaza – Causeway Bay
This first level of Aerial Yoga instructor training introduces regular practitioners to a detailed understanding of an Aerial Yoga 1 class. Following a system nourished by different disciplines such as aerial arts, Pilates, suspension techniques, dance and yoga, you will have the foundational guide to ensure a safe, fun and effective teaching plan.
You will learn:
- How to use the Aerial Yoga hammock and how it helps to do inversions more easily, releasing spinal compression, improving core and general strength, developing spatial awareness and self-confidence
- The basic repertoire of poses and movements of an Aerial Yoga session, sequencing and spotting. Also through a brief mentorship – tips about class planning and practicum to be able to teach others or to deepen your self-practice.
-Study of more than 80 asanas and movements and their basic alignment. Balancing, core, flexibility, plus inverted, restorative and relaxing poses
-Introductory variations for beginner students
-Safety guidelines for students during practice
-Specific verbal instructions
-Physical and verbal adjustments
-How to spot inversions
Teaching methodology:
-Planning lesson structures for Aerial Yoga level 1
-Practicum group class
-'Common mistakes' clinic
-Introduction and closing of classes
-Hammock care and assembly
7-8 & 13-15 November
9:00am – 12:00pm
12:45pm – 3:45pm
Although the sequence will be explained from a very beginner level, having a previous regular Aerial Yoga practice is a plus.
Be free of the following contraindications:
High blood pressure, recent post-natal surgery (less than 12 months since), glaucoma, detached retina, vertigo or any severe condition affected by inversions. Pregnancy. Also, you should feel comfortable doing inversions during moon days.
To receive certification:
-100% participation is required
-You must lead a 20-min group class demonstration in English
Daniel started to deepen his yoga practice in 2009. He became interested in infusing his career as a dancer and circus artist with the science of yoga, amazed at how he could preserve his well-being on a portable mat and found that the space is wider within the inner-self. He decided to become a yoga instructor so that he could use his talents to benefit anyone outside the performing arts field, regardless of their fitness level. With a professional background in contemporary dance, partner acrobatics and aerial arts, he used to be found hanging on ropes and silks 10 meters off the ground – now he also stands on the mat, living the stability and serenity of the earth. Currently he performs an acrobatic hand-to-hand act with his wife and daughter, which has received international awards.
- Aerial Yoga Teacher Training Certification, 2012
- Yoga Teacher Training Course with Masters Santosh and Sujatha Kumar (500 hours), 2012
- FEDA Pilates Floor and Props I & II with Master Susana Moral PhD, Spanish Federation of Aerobics and Fitness Sports, 2011- 2012
- Yoga with Swiss Ball and Props with Master Adriana Monroy, Yoga Plus Method, 2011
- Circus Artist, Wuqiao Acrobatic Art School of Hebei, 2007
Aerial Yoga 1 Basics: 30-hour Instructor Training with Daniel Sierralta
Total 30.0 Hours
All Levels
**Limited Capacity: 11 - FULLY BOOKED
(PURE Cardholders) Early-bird 20% discount: HK$6,900 (ends 05 October)
(Non-PURE Cardholders) Early-bird 10% discount: HK$7,762 (ends 05 October)
Regular Price: HK$8,625
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Early-Bird Discount:
- Early-Bird Discount ends 05 October 2020. Please see above for listed prices.
- No refund or credit will be given for cancellation starting 06 Oct 2020
- All refunds are subject to a 10% processing fee that will be deducted from your refund.
Special offer from PURE Apparel:
- 20% off all PURE Apparel regular-priced products including accessories for all yoga event registrants on dates of the workshop
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- $200 discount on nood food 3-Day juice cleanse for all yoga event registrants on workshop dates. Ask nood food staff at your workshop location for details.
- 10% off all nood food items for all yoga event registrants on dates of the workshop.
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Saunders Co. Officers Make Record Pot Bust
Drug Bust Nabs Marijuana Activist
Police officers in Ashland, Neb., seized 150 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop Wednesday night on Highway 6.
The seizure was the largest in Saunders County history, said Ashland police.
Investigators say the record discovery was made late Wednesday, several miles away from Interstate 80..
I-80 has long been known to authorities as a drug pipeline, but as state and local law enforcement agencies step up enforcement efforts along the interstate, smugglers appear to be turning to back roads.
"They also come down the rural highways trying to avoid the interstate," Ashland Police Chief Mark Powell said.
That, he said, is exactly what one of his officers encountered near the city limits, miles away from the interstate.
He said the incident started when police stopped conversion van driving erratically. When the officer approached the van and saw several bags of marijuana in plain view, he called for assistance, police said.
Powell said multiple agencies responded to that call. The drugs were in duffel bags found throughout the vehicle, police said.
"Further investigation revealed 150 pounds of marijuana that was loaded inside the van," Powell said.
Ashland police said Saunders and Cass county sheriffs' deputies helped in the seizure.
Three men in the van were Christopher Ryan, Irvin Dana Beal and James Statzer.
All three are being held in Saunders County Jail and are suspected of drug possession with intent to deliver, officers said. They all face charges of possession with intent to deliver.
Beal is a political activist who has advocated for marijuana legalization in the U.S.
Powell said the bust is a reminder that I-80 isn't the only route on which authorities need to be alert for drug traffickers.
"Luckily, we have people around who are watching there, as well," Powell said.
Authorities said Ryan and Statzer are being held on $100,000 bond each. Beal is being held on $500,000 bond.


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Tan Sri Dato Seri Shahril Shamsuddin
Malaysian administrations company SAPURA ENERGY Berhad reported Monday it has secured RM760 million ($184.6 million) in contract wins for its drilling and building and development organizations. The most recent accomplishments have lifted the estimation of contract wins to RM9.3 billion ($2.3 billion) for its current financial year.
Sapura Drilling has been granted a contract in Angola by Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited, an auxiliary of Chevron Corporation, for the provision of its semi-submersible tender helped drilling rig, Sapura Jaya, for drilling works in the Angolan waters for a time of two years with expansion choices. The project involves utilizing a first of its specialized answer for enhancing productivity for the drilling effort.
Sapura Drilling additionally acknowledged an expansion of its contract with Sarawak Shell Berhad and Sabah Shell Petroleum Company Limited for the provision of Sapura Esperanza, a semi-submersible tender helped drilling rig. The contract involves drilling three wells offshore Sarawak.
Furthermore, Sapura Drilling has been granted a contract expansion by PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd for the provision of semi-tender helped drilling rig, Sapura Berani. The contract includes the drilling of two wells at the Sumandak office, offshore Sabah.
Then, Sapura Fabrication has been granted a contract from PETRONAS Floating LNG 1 (L) Ltd to attempt engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) works for the migration and tie-in of the PFLNG Satu (PETRONAS coasting condensed flammable gas), right now situated in he Kumang Cluster, offshore Sarawak.
Furthermore, Hess Exploration and Production Malaysia B.V. (Hess) has delegated Sapura Fabrication to play out the scope for offshore transportation and establishment works under a current contract for the provision of EPCC in addition to the establishment (EPCC+I) for its offices in the North Malay Basin.


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NEW YORK and REYKJAVIK, ICELAND (May 2, 2011) – JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU), New York's hometown airline, and Icelandair, the flagship carrier of Iceland, today announced the launch of a new interline partnership at a ceremony in New York. The partnership opens up new travel opportunities for customers connecting between JetBlue's network in the United States and the Caribbean and Icelandair destinations throughout Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.
Through this partnership, customers will now be able to book a single combined ticket for JetBlue and Icelandair-operated flights with one-stop check-in and baggage transfer between the two airlines. Customers may purchase JetBlue-Icelandair travel via travel agents, online, or through Icelandair's reservations call center beginning later this week.
When connecting in the Americas, Icelandair customers will enjoy JetBlue's award-winning service on flights from dozens of gateways including Chicago; Denver; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; and San Juan, Puerto Rico. JetBlue is the largest domestic airline in Boston and at New York/JFK, offering flights that feature all-leather seating, lots of legroom, in-flight entertainment at every seatback, and unlimited free snacks and drinks.
Icelandair offers three cabins of premium service featuring equally impressive new leather seats, personal in-flight entertainment and easy access to the popular destination of Reykjavik via Icelandair's gateway cities of Boston, New York/JFK, and Washington/Dulles. Icelandair will expand service from Boston and New York/JFK to Reykjavik with twice-daily flights on June 1, 2011 and will launch non-stop service from Washington/Dulles to Reykjavik on May 17, 2011 making JetBlue connections the perfect complement.
Once in Iceland, Icelandair offers non-stop connections to destinations in Scandinavia, including Billund and Copenhagen, Denmark; Bergen and Oslo, Norway; Gothenburg and Stockholm, Sweden; Helsinki, Finland and other popular European cities including Amsterdam, Glasgow, London and Paris. Connecting passengers may also stopover in Iceland at no additional airfare to experience the natural beauty and many attractions in Iceland.
"Icelandair and JetBlue share many of the same philosophies and place the customer's experience in the highest regard," said Helgi Mar Bjorgvinsson, Icelandair's Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "Our harmonious networks from New York, Boston and Washington, D.C. and like-minded customer service make this a natural partnership. Together we will open a new world of opportunities for customers traveling from the United States and the Caribbean to Iceland, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom and Continental Europe. We look forward to working together and strengthening our relationship into the future."
"We're pleased to welcome Icelandair to the JetBlue network as our tenth partner airline," said Scott Resnick, JetBlue's director of airline partnerships. "With its reputation for quality service, a comfortable in-flight experience, and an impressive array of connections across Scandinavia and throughout Europe via Reykjavik, teaming up with Icelandair is a great win for customers."
About Icelandair
Icelandair, the national carrier of Iceland since 1937, offers non-stop service to Iceland from Boston, New York-JFK, Seattle, and seasonal service from Washington, D.C., Minneapolis - St. Paul, Orlando Sanford, Halifax and Toronto. Connections through Icelandair's hub at Keflavik International Airport are available to over 20 destinations in Scandinavia, the U.K. and Continental Europe. Travel in style with Icelandair's three cabins of service including Economy, Economy Comfort and Saga. All cabins on Icelandair feature leather seats and in-flight entertainment centres, while Economy Comfort and Saga class offer two-by-two seating, premium meal service, Business Class check-in and lounge access, where available. Icelandair's Saga Class offers premiere seating and the ultimate in style, comfort and service when flying to Iceland and beyond. Icelandair also allows passengers to stopover in Iceland at no additional airfare. Additional information about Icelandair fares and packages to Iceland and beyond is available at www.icelandair.com.
About JetBlue Airways
JetBlue Airways is New York's Hometown Airline with other focus cities in Boston, Los Angeles, and Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida. In 2010, the carrier ranked "Highest in Customer Satisfaction Among Low-Cost Carriers in North America" by J.D. Power and Associates, a customer satisfaction recognition received for the sixth year in a row. Known for its award-winning service and free TV as much as its low fares, JetBlue offers the most legroom in coach of any U.S. airline (based on average fleet-wide seat pitch) and super-spacious Even More Legroom seats. JetBlue is also America's first and only airline to offer its own Customer Bill of Rights, with meaningful and specific compensation for customers inconvenienced by service disruptions within JetBlue's control. Visit www.jetblue.com/promise for details. JetBlue serves 64 cities with 700 daily flights. Later this year JetBlue plans to introduce service to Anchorage, Alaska and Martha's Vineyard, Mass. With JetBlue, all seats are assigned, all fares are one-way, and an overnight stay is never required. For information call +1 800 538 2583 from the U.S.A., +1 801 365 2525 from Europe, TTY/TDD +1 800 336 5530, or visit www.jetblue.com.


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Rising Lion is a four-piece roots-rock reggae troupe bringing the good vibes up from Orlando. The band is touring off the high of its fourth album, "Changes," released last year. A revolutionary spirit, along with uplifting messages, plants Rising Lion with classic anthems and familiar progressions that nod to the legend, Bob — while a little pop and accessible lyrics bring to mind 1990's groups Inner Circle and UB40. If you miss the groove the first night, Rising Lion has back-to-back shows for you at Abilene.
Rising Lion will play Friday, December 26, and Saturday, December 27, at Abilene Bar and Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 9:30 p.m. $6. abilenebarandlounge.com, 1lionproductions.com.


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By THE Editors
Date Posted: Tuesday, 14 December 2010
To care for children is a life rather than a job whether caring for one's own children or other people's children. A sense of what this means can be found in John Cross' contribution to this issue of the goodenoughcaring Journal. Those of us who are, as John Cross describes, "professional adults" with a responsibility for other people's children know this. At the end of the day or at the end of the shift we return to our own family homes and carry out our familial responsibilities to the full but we also bear in mind the children we left behind. We cannot stop ourselves from doing this just as the parent who is out at work bears in mind her child who is at school. This is one of the ways in which Max Smart suggests that the professional adult exercises generosity.
Sometimes we professional adults are praised. "I think its wonderful what you do for these children. I couldn't do it." However kindly this is meant, it is not helpful. It deals only with a part – and an idealised part – of the relationships which professional adults have with children. These relationships are real, gritty, and messy and yet fundamentally they are loving. In such a relationship mistakes are made by both parties. Certainly they are by the children but then that's what you expect. Not only are they by virtue of their age, naïve, but they are often troubled too. It is at times when professional adults are tolerant of children's mistakes that external agencies admonish us and tell us to "get real".
Mistakes are also made and always will be made by the adults. Adults are human beings and do act wrongly towards children. To an extent children should experience this. No child could survive the rough ride that is life if he or she is totally cosseted by over-protective, mistake free adults. It is important too for a child to hear an adult apologise for a mistake made. It also seems important that we should accept a child can resolve a situation by forgiving an adult who has made a mistake.
Yet we live in a time when regulatory bodies and governments cannot see that like parents, professional adults live a whole – warts and all – life. Neither can these bodies be persuaded that this is as it should be. We are condemned for these mistakes and then preached at, cajoled and bullied in an effort to coerce us to follow procedures which get in the way of engaging with children, and which are ineffective in stopping human error. All this is regrettable because most mistakes offer an opportunity for reparation in relationships. They have therapeutic potential. When children and professional adults are treated in this hectoring way we are perceived only as part objects and not whole beings and so something which has potential to be good is destroyed because we are directed to focus on and seek, retribution for what in the end in most cases are minor issues.
All the contributors to this issue confront this. Each has a sub-text which says "getting real" is as Hilary Mantel implies, not only about seeing those parts of a life and a culture in the condescending way which powerful agencies seem to demand of us.
However browbeaten and preached at we, as professional adults feel, we have a duty to keep children in mind and to acknowledge the whole human predicament by accepting and working through both the trials and the triumphs in our whole relationships with children. This is what getting real is about.


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Senior Wills 2018
May 7, 2018
As Sacred Heart Graduation grows near, over 40 seniors look back at the memories made at SHA throughout the past four years and leave their legacies behind to the underclassmen.
Taylor McQueen
I will to the underclassmen my SHA spirit at pep rallies and games.
Lucy Hubbs
To Olivia Ochsner, I will all of my Goldfish and ALL of my love! I will my calculator, car rides to Chick-fil-a, all of my binders, and my after school kids to Ella Hubbs. To Tori Hill and Emery Karem, I will you both my Open House walkie talkie and the great honor of being OHCCs. Make me proud!! To Julia Jardina, I will my ability to put on a practice penny correctly the first time. To Catherine Patton, I will my captain band and endless "stick-fives". To Lily Terrell, I will trips to Graeters and loud pregames/pump-up sessions in the locker room. Thanks for being the best lax buddy :).
Ashley Arnett
I will Eliza Burnett the leadership of Sacred Heart theatre, madrigals, continuing all of the fun traditions, ice cream dates, making everyone laugh, Darling State of Mind, my dog Jackson, and a love for SHA. I will Annie Nall my organizational skills, being the sweetest person ever, helping Mrs. Schurman, and dates to Drake's (you too, Eliza). I will Mary Grace Kelty lots of hugs, coffee, and the benefit of being able to visit me next year!! I will Gabbi Guerrero and Alex Ann Heim IB Music..good luck, and drink lots of water. I will Leah Goldberg Please and Thank You chocolate chip cookies and lemonade. I will SHA musical theatre 'Footloose,' 'New Rules' and 'Come on Eileen' dancing. To Mary Klarer Fultz, I will no stress and to have fun- it is worth the memories in the end (school is important, too). To Emily Hilbrecht, I will GSA musical theatre. To Molly Muennich and Elyse Shackleton I will winning more marketing competitions… and money. I will Allison Portaro hot chocolate at the hershey's Store in NYC, you'll be back your senior year. I will Sacred Heart all of my memories!!
Anna Brodzik
I will my love for service to all the members of CAC, especially Margaret Cunningham, make me proud next year and in all of your life endeavors. I will all my love for Student Council to those who come after me, trust me, its worth it & will give you the best sisters you could ever ask for:). I will my morning worship car rides and those AWFUL Saratoga Woods speed bumps to Megan Doyle, good luck in the next 3 years, smile big & don't wish away a single second because it'll be over before you know it!
Sophie Kallis
To Olivia Bates, Sophie Rowley and Margaret Glaser I give my mad prop making skills for SHA tech and my classic jokes. God speed kiddos.
Shelby Arnett
I will the relay baton, my wooden steering wheel, and breakfast dates to Lilly Mishloney. I will a lifetime of camaraderie, mountains and valleys, a plane trip to Portland, and all my love to my seven cross country juniors. I will my school spirit and Valkyrie Pride to Elaina Parker and Eliza Burnett. I will Royal's Hot Chicken and endless compliments to Leah Goldberg. I will all of Sacred Heart Academy my best memories. Thank you for an amazing experience!
Maggie Mitchell
To Emmie Jackson, Kendall Knight, Katie Beckman, Meredith Barnes, Ceci McCombs, Lillian Bennett, and Ella Rueff I will the 'beach' and xc fight nights.
Hannah Wehr
To Josie Wise and Kelsie Downs, I will to you my undying SHA spirit, because I need someone to keep the legacy alive #COACH. I will to you, Josie, many free-spirited, purely happy memories your senior year, because that is what I am reminded of when I look back on our memories. To you, Kelsie, I will many cackle laughs and random screams because that's what life is about (please don't forget our handshake. I want to do it when I come home). To Morgan Wagner, I will to you all of the car jams I would participate in if I wasn't at college. Many firefox chats, because she needs a visit from you at least once a week. I will to you many dance parties, but please only save the good awkward dance moves for when I come home.
Bella Estes
To field hockey underclassmen, I will you gauntlets, 20/40s, and the best season SHA field hockey has ever seen!!! To Eleanor Hinkebein and Taylor Whitlock, I will you the fun times being a field hockey buddy and an IB buddy, I love you all endlessly! To Miranda Stengel, I will you a fun (physics-free) senior year full of many laughs and memorable times! To Mary Grace Kelty, I will you everything great about senior year! I will you the ability to surround yourself with people who love and support you, because you are the best! I also will you my love for Centre so hopefully we can go to school together again ;)!! To the IB juniors, I will the ups and downs of IB, as it will truly pay off in the end. Always remember you are capable and the medal is near! Finally, to all underclassmen, I will you all my love and the best 4 years ever!
JonMarie Johnson
To Maddie Wilcox, I will my senior sweatshirt, spirit week costumes, and my LBYE tracksuit so you can be dressed for any occasion. I will my SERBA spot on the bus, and grant you permission to be in charge of the bagel bungalow. I will you the FRIDAY CHEER!!!!!!!! To Mary Grace Kelty, I will you my GSA spirit!!! Have the best time, and represent each and every dancer! To every transfer student, cherish each and every moment you have at SHA because it will be over before you know it. Transferring to Sacred Heart changed my life, and I will forever be thankful for all of the amazing friends and memories.
Zoe Hert
To Ashlyn Vale, I will stage manager of dirt crew, theatre rigging, and ensuing ripped pants. I will the ability to find an underclassmen tech as kind as you were to me, aside from the sleeve fights. To Elizabeth Gannon, I will minimal stress on your EE with Ms. Caruso and continued interest in your topic. You are a fantastic IB student and will succeed! To Olivia Bates and Sophie Rowley, I will you a list of fictional foils that you remind me of. I also will the ability to pretend to be annoyed at "that's what she said" jokes. To Margaret Glaser, I will you stage crew fun and the strength to lift those sets despite the frustration. To April Dong, I will Francis Center tutoring and our mutual frustrations with Rosemary. To the freshman robotics team, I will the drive to succeed and have fun while doing it! I also will teamwork as you all working together will lead to a fantastic robot. To the full IB juniors, I will the stamina, time management, and passion to get that medal with continued excitement for learning. To Kate McLarney, I will the laughter and skills to make it to the end of IB. You are so capable of crushing it! I will the shotgun seat of your car, an enlightening GSP, the candles of NHS, the peanuts and M&M's of robotics, our emotional carpool chats, VEX robotics on the whole, Meet the Robinsons, and a great future IB buddy.
Rosemary Dong
To April Dong, I leave Jordie Horan's message, endless c-dramas, 5:52AM alarms, non-existent hot pot dinners, "the" glasses, Tacos Lucy, and our 1 hour commute to school filled with either a) us jamming b) you sleeping c) mutual, comfortable silence. To Margaret Glaser, I will you our post-it chain message. I wish you the best in gov and theater. Don't let the bear get to you and the techies ;). To Eliza Kelly, I will you my mom-itude and daily high fives. Take naps, drink H2O, don't set a record # of injuries, and have fun! To Ashlyn Vale, I leave you 1 damaged fingernail and 1 healthy fingernail for rope pulling and vball. You'll be an amazing (non-official) stage manager :).
Camryn Thieneman
To Carly, I will you the passenger seat in my car for river road drives and a large mcdonalds coke (regular for me diet for you). I'm gonna miss you so much next year!!! Play our songs in the car for me when I'm gone…. you know the songs. Love you sister!!!
Elizabeth Heuser
I will Meredith Barnes, Kate Harty, and Megan Osting the IB experience, have fun and don't stress out too much. I will Julia Jardina and Anna Moorman the task of finding freshmen to adopt like I adopted y'all, make sure to barge into Craig's classes for me!! I will Eliza Moorman screaming our car songs. I will Eleanor Hinkebein and the future OHCCs the ambassador program, take care of it because it's the very best!! I will Mary Grace Kelty, Katie Beckman, and Miranda Stengel the distractions in class, sorry I got y'all in trouble so often! I will Gracie Estes, Lily Gahm, and Caroline Sheehan my love for open house so keep making it the best day of the year (and make sure everyone knows you're obsessed with it… that means doing my whoop at meetings whenever open house is mentioned). I will Ella Hubbs a McDonalds Diet Coke. To Lucie Potter and Allison Portaro I will my attendance to your shows, still there in spirit! And finally I will my seester Meredith Barnes the responsibility of being the biggest distraction in class ever and my entire legacy so please don't mess it up because I'm trusting you. And also the love yourself accept yourself dance and popsicles. Everyone else (including all of my sophomore retreat babies): I will you the best high school ever!! Live it up because there is no place like SHA. To Craig I leave nothing because he's literally my dad and I'll still see him.
Grace Jung
To my carpool (Emily White, Julia Horlander, and Sophie Jung), I will you all the aux and all the crazy loud rides. Emily please keep all limbs in the car and remember to play a country song for me (Gwace) and a hard core rap one for Liz. Get canes every time you want it because why not? High school doesn't last forever. To Sloane Rockwell and Mary Helen Hill, I will you guys the Blue Dog apple and turkey sandwich. There is nothing like it so embrace it and senior year because it will fly by. Always say yes, you never know where it will lead. To my lax bench buddies (Sloane Rockwell and Lily Clay Wedge) I will you all the sideline workouts. It really is a great way to utilize your time and make lax more enjoyable, don't let it die. To my junior laxers (KC, CPat, Bouroughs, Sloane) I will you all a victory royale in fortnite. Go get em. To Sydney Heitmann I will you my siblings. Please don't let them kill each other. You are an awesome therapist so I have full faith you'll live up to the job. Finally to my sister, Sophie Jung, I will you our last name and tardies. I worked hard to not to mess it up so please don't. Enjoy the rest of high school and don't worry about what people think about you because I promise they are thinking more about themselves. Try and get to school on time, but sleep is more important than punctuality so just space the tardies out.
Caroline Washle
I will my superb golf skills to Emily Warner.
Grace Fischer
I will my seat in Mrs. Schurman's room at the table to all if the Music Theory girls moving onto IB Music next year. I will my seat at our lunch table to Carol Schmidt. I will my part as a Soprano 2 to the underclassmen of A Capella.
Kiley Polk
I will Cam and Cara my entire life. Make me proud.
Emily Richardson
To Amanda Isaacs: The legacy of THS theatre. You're a boss, babe! To AP GOV: Our class song, hundreds of distressed Derrick pics, a daily Starbucks, and all my love to each and every one of you beautiful weirdos.
Olivia Watson
To Audrey Watson I will you complete control of the heat/AC in the mornings, the carriage house with your friends, the clothes I leave behind, and so so much happiness for your next three years at SHA :).
Tyece Shelton
Lucie Potter- please rule over SHA theater with love and drama. I will miss you twin. Hannah Thompson- YOU TOO HANNAH. I'm so proud of you. Gabbi- I will miss you more than words can say. You are incredibly talented and will go so far. Please do SHA theater. I'm glad we found out we're the same person this year. Love you mini me. Rat baby- I have loved being your rat mamma these years :(.
Nicole English
I will the number 6 locker in the locker room to only Lily Thornewill.
Katie Muldoon
To Ally Deweese and Liz Ginter- I leave you an endless amount of Starbucks trips and all of the carpool laughs and love. To Anna Laveck- I leave you all of the outfits you could ever want to borrow and a whole lot of mems. To the SHA LAX team- I leave all of our locker room concerts and all of my best LAX memories. To all underclassmen- please take good care of SHA for us. Don't take anyone or anything about it for granted.
Drayden Zaring
Kelly Claire Gray, I leave you with the opportunity to come visit me and Uncle Mike. Claire Mulloy, I wish I could give you the world, I would if I could, I love you! Ashley Owen, I miss your sweet smile already, anything you want it's all yours!!
Madelynn Hall
I will the Aqua-Valks yet another state championship and to keep our spirit and themes super fun. To every girl lucky enough to still be at SHA, I will you the best next couple of years of your life. Don't wish it away and become a part of the heart!
Lexi Hernandez
I will my weirdest to Emery Karem. Keep being yourself and always make people smile. Take advantage of the time you have and enjoy it all. I will my swimming career to Isabel Wagner. Swim fast and be the MVP of the Blairwood group… I believe in you and enjoy every second of it (if you even show up;)) much love.
Natalie Fichter
To my sister, Nicole, I will the left corner of the locker room, Chick- Fil- A for breakfast, the car dies with mom and dad to school and the after school talks with Mrs. Lawson. Never forget how pretty you are and how talented and smart you are sis. To Kaelin Gregory, aka, suga, I will to you to take care of nicole and be the big sister role for me and to keep killing it at softball. And to all the underclassmen, have fun and do not take anything for granted because your time here at SHA goes by so quick. -XOXO
Emily Raque
To Maria Julian I will the JCC. Remember that, even though Mr. G thinks he knows everything, YOU'RE the boss. Embrace the dirt and your tech family, cause they will always be there for you. Keep Gerry company, cause I know he'll miss us. Also, remember that the playground is a Holy Place, and only those who are worthy (the techies) are allowed to play on it. Keep an eye on Sophie and Olivia cause they're trouble makers lol, and take care of the JCC. To Margaret Cunningham I will the IB art + diploma struggle. Good luck dude. It's gonna be rough, but I honestly have no doubt that you'll do wonderfully. Work hard and try to stay positive (even though it's basically impossible :/). If you're ever upset just imagine yourself at SLU and it'll feel better. Also, hurry up and get to SLU so we can hang out. To Elizabeth DeLozier I will all the happiness in the world. Never lose your sense of joy and optimism, because you are truly a ray of sunshine. Anyone who is lucky enough to spend time with you knows that your smile and your yellow pants can light up even the darkest of times. Keep shining through IB, and good luck with all of your endeavors!
Elizabeth Solomon
To the Varsity Field Hockey Team, I will you a state championship and finally getting the schools tenth, dance parties in the parking lot, burpees, and the gauntlet. To the Student Council Exec Board, I will you endless amounts of school spirit and the ability to be the best leaders our school has had yet. Continue to make the best decisions you can and know you can never make everyone happy. To the future SAB President, I will you my amazing parking spot and the ability to make the school an even better place than it already is. To Taylor Whitlock, I will you way to much footwork and not letting a single ball in our goal. Protect Horton Field and make me proud!! Lastly, I will my love for Sacred Heart to all those lucky enough to still be here!! It is a one of a kind place!! Keep the Heart Beating!!
Emily Stoll
I will to Megan C. Doyle daily locker chats, lots of hugs, and endless laughs. XOXO!!
Hayley Byrne
I will my attitude, whatever I leave in my closet, and my studies to Grace Byrne. I will my room, bed, and bathroom to Grace Byrne's group of 11 friends for getting ready and sleepovers (take care of it).
Maggie Doheny
I will an amazing, happy, stress-free senior year to Lydia Schrage and Megan Mather. You all deserve countless laughs and to make great memories in your last year!! I'm so thankful for SHA dance just because I got to know you all, make fam proud! To all my other SHA girls, make the most out of your time here and enjoy every second. There's no place like SHA and it will forever be in my heart, keep it beating for us <3.
Caroline Tafel
I entrust locker 2231 and late nights at the Chenoweth Heine Bros to my IB buddy Julie Ries. I bequeath the rights to 'Ctaf' (the superior nickname) to Cpat. I leave Anna Moorman my goalie shorts because you never know when you're really going to need them. I bestow my spirit week legacy upon the entire SHA student body. Oh, and I will Eleanor Hinkebein my soul.
Jane Harris
I, Jane Harris, bequeath the following to my successors as I near the end of my time at SHA…To my QR girls– all the question sets that Staton bought us that went unused and the amazing taste of defeating St. X, you all make me proud. Allison– the sweet, sweet victory of winning QR matches as captain and the Varsity captain-ship when you become a senior, good luck! To my baby techies– much needed resilience during tech week when you're being yelled at and the truth that you are all capable, talented, and amazing. To Ashlyn– the new Tech Salute (instead of a bow), all the luck in the world on your EE and exams, and those Swedish Fish I promise I WILL buy you. To DeLozier– a million cute lizards and the luck and laughs needed to survive choir without me next year. Finally, to Kate– you are my best friend (by birth and choice) and the most intelligent and capable person I know. I will you all of our jam sessions and tea pouring in the car on the way to school, our gracious sharing of the aux cord and TV remote, our movie nights & music taste, great success in your academic endeavors over the next couple years, and all of my life and soul. I am so proud of you. Underclassmen, you are all truly super cool and I know you will go on to do crazy, amazing, successful things in the future. ROCK ON!!!
Scarlett Kiaras-Attari
To Clarissa Worthington I will the endless love and community Y club has to offer. The Y has given me so much and I wish the same for you. Cherish every moment of it, it goes by quickly. To Lily Hoffman I will another family member at SHA to share these experiences with and to talk about all things SHA at Christmas. I've loved being able to relate to someone in the family about all these experiences. Enjoy the next few years, they're some of the best! To Allison Portaro I will another carpool buddy to quick recall matches. Hopefully next year your ride won't get a random flat tire! Love you and all of our laughs. To Kate Harris, I will you more Yangkee Noodle dates. I love and appreciate all of the times me you and jane spent at Yangkee Noodle on half days spilling tea. Enjoy the rest of high school! To IB Juniors I will the best IB family. I've met the best of friends best through the IB. Despite it's stress, it's worth it in the end. Good luck on exams! To my sister and cousin, Coco and Gracie, I will the best four years ever. I truly have had the best experiences through SHA. It's given me the best of memories, opportunity and so much to be thankful for. I hope you both have the chance to love it as much as I do.
Kathleen Blim
To St. X Theatre chicas: I will carpool jams on the way to rehearsals, Heathers sing-a-longs, dressing room dance parties, and endless brownies. To present and future IB gals: I will you the courage to charge the mountain. Cherish your pearls, cherish each other, and celebrate each passing accomplishment. You can do it!!! To my lovely SHSA dance ensemble: I will you countless more hours in the studio, pointe shoes that never die, pre-show warmups & prayer, stamina to power through Snow, and the ability to form straight lines. To dearest MG Kelty and Gracie Carrigan: I will you Heine Brothers & Starbucks runs, car jam sessions before rehearsal, pre-show DJ-ing, the dressing room spot in the corner, and the passing of the senior ensemble leadership torch. Spread the love, and make us proud:) Dear Sacred Heart sisters: enjoy each other. Keep it fresh, and live the fourth!
Lauren Hoffman
To Shalleyball I will you countless trips to Applebee's, pelting the freshmen with water balloons, and lit car rides to Valley. To Sam Merkley and Lexi Uhrhan I will you frozen parodies. To Skylar Singleton I will you the aux cord in the locker room (don't let emily touch the aux). To Carissa Reyes I will you canes dates. To Mallory Lipski I will you my dance moves and dressing up as Brett for character day. To Kristen Clemons I will you my spot as libero. To the incoming senior class I will you my 105 in precal.
Payton Sims
I will the St. Xavier carpool to Elise Coughlan. I will St. X theatre to all my theatre babies. I will the parking spot to Annie Thompson. I will my sassiness to Emily Hilbrecht.
Jordie Horan
To Tessa Horan I leave my legacy of infamous hilarity that you won't live up to but will remember forever because although you're funny, everyone knows I'm funnier. I also leave you the responsibility to make sure this school NEVER forgets the Horan name. To April Dong I leave all my love because Rosemary doesn't give you enough. I also leave you the responsibility to make fun of Garcia for me because there cannot be balance in the universe without some bad to combat the good. To Maria Julian (MJ) I leave all my leadership powers and responsibilities from light tech for you to foster a new generation of JCC and to continue the use of unnecessary Russian accents and the little blue guy. Good luck and remember you're in charge ;). To Sophie Rowley and Olivia Bates collectively I leave a tiny voice in your head that greets you everyday and badgers you when you aren't together. Maintain the foil! To Emma Jury I leave you behind because I want you to stop following me EVERYWHERE. To Mallory Lipski I leave the care of Staton because he needs his daily dose of human communication or he gets sad and drinks his Ale 8 alone in his class waiting for someone to hear his terrible jokes. I also leave you the wisdom and confidence to make the right college decision even though I have faith that whatever you do you'll be absolutely fine.
Ryan Bender
I will to Taylor Edlin the Sacred Heart golf team, my big bows, the senior's seat in the back row of the van, and my pre-round hype playlist. I will to Jacqueline Steier the aux for car rides and practices and the responsibility of calming Taylor down. I will to Emily Warner the HCC range, my UK obsession, and all of the gluten free food in the snack bags.
Cassidy Beyer
I will the junior dancers the SHA dance candle and the powers of being a leader of the team. Lead the underclass man but do not over powering. I will the SHA dance team the many 1st place trophies and national jackets that you all deserve to win. I will to Katarina Beyer and Layni Lawton the morning and afternoon car rides, loud music, and our afternoon snacks before practice. To Kate Harty I will the many intense workouts we have done with our team. To Rachel Whitehouse, I will you the many photo shoots that we have had. And lastly, I will any juniors and seniors who take IB Physics next year the strength and studying to pass the final exam.
Bronwen Waddell
To all my theater babies, Hannah Thompson, Lucie Potter, Allison Portaro, Bree Hasken, Anna Marie Nash, Claire Elder, Mary Klarer Fultz, and Zoe Blake, I will to you the leadership of being an upperclassmen in theater. I know you all will rise up and be the best set of juniors and seniors SHA theater has ever seen and I know you will make me so proud. I love you all SO MUCH. To Maddie Stokes and Autumn Cambron, I will to you my friendship. You two are some of the most smartest and talented girls I have ever met. Do not let anyone tell you any different. I will miss rehearsal with you and rolling our eyes at Ms. Rozanna. I will miss you two so much and I am so lucky I get to call you all friends. To all the Holy Spirit girls, please visit Mr. Martin more often, he misses you. Finally, to Gabbi Guerrero (my soulmate), Annie Nall, and Eliza Burnett, I will to you my heart. You three are the greatest girls I have ever known. My heart already aches from how much I am going to miss you all. Do not have too much fun without me. Please remember that no matter what happens, ALWAYS be yourself and nothing but yourself. Your all's love, compassion, humor, and talent is unsurpassable and I am constantly in awe that I get to call you all friends. The memories I have shared with you all are unforgettable. Please come visit me in college. Love you all so much!
Abby Birk
To the field hockey team, I will countless practices, 20/40s, pre-game parking lot parties, and inside jokes. Enjoy every practice and game, because the season will be over before you know it. Oh, and win a state championship! To the baddies on the tennis team, I will long car rides with Kevin stopping every 20 minutes, even longer speeches by Kevin and Whitney, and Mort. To Eleanor Hinkebein, I will the Ambassador Program. You're going to be an amazing president, and I can't wait to see all the amazing things you'll do! To Natalie Chou, I will all my notes and my serve (do with that what you want, because I definietly don't want it). To Libby Nichols, I will rt10. To Callie Birk, I will our silent morning car rides, Caitlyn (don't let her slack off), and being the oldest Birk girl for the first time in your life (have fun with that). Enjoy every moment of junior and senior year! It goes by in a blink of an eye. Try not to miss me too much 🙂
Ashley Brangers
I will Allie Knight all of the car rides home after school and weekly family dinners. Take good care of Natalie while you all are at SHA together. I will Ashley Durik all of my notes and study guides. I will Callie Birk endless amounts of making fun of Abby. Make sure Caitlyn and Natalie are best friends. I will the SHA Soccer team countless practices and wins. Don't take it for granted because your last SHA Soccer game will be here before you know it. Go beat West Jess for me next year. I will Regan Nolan the Fourth Floor Pool and CP3 Honors. I will Cara Francke clammy hands. And finally, to Libby Nichols I will Chester.
Gabriella Floro
I will to Eva Larch my ability to procrastinate, even though she doesn't need it. I will to the Field Hockey Team the Reservoir – enjoy the hills!! I will to Eleanor Hinkebein the patience and ability to make Geofilters for Open House. I will the IB Diploma class two years of great classes and hours of exams.
Jenna Hall
I will my mirror to Eliza Burnett. I will dirt to Ashlyn Vale, Margaret Glaser, Sophie Rowley, and Olivia Bates. I will my 2 on the AP Psych exam to Erica Johnson. I will Katie Kushner my seat at lunch and mid-lunch hugs. I will "sumthn'" to Lauren Payne.
Lilly Williams
To Margaret, Kate, Eleanor, and especially Anna, Kate, and Allison, I will FCA :)).
Alex Pesek
For Elizabeth Wilson, Kylie Abrams, Sara Wise, and Julia Deters- all the classic carpool jams. For Skylar Singleton- graphing calculator skillz. For Sophie Rowley and Olivia Bates- TREDS. For MJ Julien- heat protectant gloves and an air conditioner. For Ashlyn Vale- my creative paint ideas. For Keely Burns- ketnips all day every day. For Kate McLarney- one real life whale experience. For Margaret Glaser- a big bucket of glue. For Eliza Kelly- SLEEP and hugs.
Class of 2018, you will be missed.


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As noted, WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar vs. WWE Champion Jinder Mahal is the planned WWE Survivor Series main event, according to Dave Meltzer of F4WOnline. Neither title will be at stake.
Meltzer stated on the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio that WWE has apparently had the idea for a long time of doing RAW vs. SmackDown matches for the Survivor Series. Meltzer added that there may be more RAW vs. SmackDown matches at the show.
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Michi Hoyer is member of Team ACR Zakspeed and is successfully participating in the FSR World Championship of rFactor 2. He is one of the best virtual race driver of the world. 25 years old and his journey only just started. Today, Michi will broadcast a Setup Guide / Setup Q&A in his Formula Renault 2.0 on iRacing Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. He will be with his Track Engineer Robert and races the done setup in the online open race series.
Michi Hoyer is one of the fastest RFactor 2 drivers on the earth. He runs in the highly prestigious Formula Sim Racing (FSR) league that has spawned some of the biggest names in all of sim racing.
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3 Measures of Momentum
Momentum is like a booster rocket. Ignition makes the path forward clearer and obstacles easier to overcome. When a team has momentum, they are "in the zone". Things just seem to flow.
Maxwell explains Momentum using an analogy of a train:
A train traveling 55 mph on a railroad track can crash through a 5-foot thick steel-reinforced concrete wall without stopping. That same train, starting from a stationary position, won't be able to go through an inch-thick block in front of the driving wheel.
It is never the size of your problem that is the problem. It's a lack of momentum. Without momentum, even a tiny obstacle can prevent you from moving forward. With momentum, you'll navigate through problems and barely even notice them.
As a leader, your responsibility is to understand momentum, to get it moving for your organization, and to sustain it over time.
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When I first learned about Momentum it helped me think about the leadership role in a new way. I realized then that I could come to work every day and focus on problems. On good days I would assist the team to solve those problems. I would feel good because I would see an immediate impact. But ultimately the impact I would have is small, fleeting, and doesn't scale. Problem solving is important, but the ultimate problem solver is a team with Momentum.
Problem solving only scales if it is the responsibility of the team. A leader's job is to enable the team by setting the right conditions.
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Crashed car ransacked while waiting for tow truck
A DRIVER, whose car was stripped while waiting for a tow truck after an accident, is appealing for information on the theft of thousands of dollars worth of equipment.
Dominic Wells lost control of his utility on Wednesday evening, 15km north of Roma along the Roma-Taroom Road.
His mother, Mel Thornthwaite, said her son had been transported to hospital after he aquaplaned in wet weather.
"He's fine but we are beyond belief that someone has stripped his car while he was in hospital," Ms Thornthwaite said.
"It happened some time between 7pm Wednesday and 10am the next morning.
"The tilt truck came out on Wednesday night but it was too wet and dark ... so it was to come back on Thursday."
Ms Thornthwaite said she and her family were appealing for information regarding the theft of the steering wheel and column, a Waeco car fridge, four electric window motors, the glove box and fuel tank.
"The car was left in position waiting for a tilt truck ... it was not abandoned," she said.
"Understandably after the accident, getting Dominic to hospital was a priority.
"That someone would do this is beyond belief.
"If anyone has dash cam footage or managed to get the registration of any vehicle would be greatly appreciated. If anyone has any information, they should contact Policelink."


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The "Witness," for the first Quarter, will be published but One a-Fortnight, deliverable on Saturday Morning. BDMs are found on page two above the editorial and on the same page as the shipping column.
Otago Witness Saturday February 8, 1851
Birth. At Rattray Street, Dunedin, on the 19th ult, the wife of Mr James CULLEN, of a son.
Population per Census taken for the Company to 31st March. 1850, .... 1149 souls.
February 22 1851
Birth. At Princes Street, Dunedin, on the 14th inst. the wife of Mr John HEALEY, of a son.
March 8 1851
Married. At Singapore, on the 10th Sept., 1850. F.A. CARGILL, Esq., son of Capt. W. Cargill, Otago, to Miss Jessie Spottiswood.
Died. On the 28th, ult, at his residence near Port Chalmers, Mr H.B. GRAHAM, late Editor and Proprietor, of the "Otago News" deeply lamented, by his relatives and friends.
The foundation stone of a house at Forbury, the property of W.H. Valpy, Esq., was laid on the 214th ult. The design is extensive and commodious; and the work of Mr David Calder, the builder. The stone is the best yet found in the settlement, (a compact, fine grained limestone) and is procured from a new quarry, opened by the proprietor, at Caversham.
Appointed by his Excellency the Governor-in Chief; James Macandrew, Esq., Otago, to be a Magistrate of the province of New Munster.
March 22 1851
Births. At Princes Street, Dunedin, on the 27th Feb., the wife of Mr Thomas Bain, clothier, of a daughter.
At Saddle Hill, on the 5th March, the wife of Mr William Jeffrey, shepherd, of a son.
Married. On the 14th inst., at the Half-Way Bush near Dunedin, by the Rev. Charles Creed, Alfred Chetham Strode, Esq., Resident Magistrate at Otago, son of Admiral Sir E. Chetham Strode, K.C.B., of South-hill House, near Shepton-Mallet, Somerset, to Emily, second daughter of the late William Borton, Esq., of Cottenham House, near Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Died. On Friday, the 10th January, at Melbourne, of scarlet fever, Henry George Stephen, third son of Sidney Stephen, Esq., Judge at Otago, in his 22nd year.
The following beautiful episode on the death of Mr Stephen is taken from the 'Melbourne Morning Herald' of the 14th January;_
'Yet even joy and beauty bloom,
And hope that dazzles in the eye,
Are blossoms gatherer for the tomb-
Soon, soon, to die.
'Just in the morning of his day
As young as we he died."
April 5th 1851
At Portobello Bay, on the 2nd instant, the wife of A.W. Shand, Esq., of the H.M. Customs, of a daughter.
At North-East Valley on the 24th March ultino, the wife of Mr Robert CHAPMAN, of a daughter.
Saturday May 17 1851
Birth. At Airlie Bank, on the 14th inst., the wife of Mr Louis Edwards, sawyer, of a son.
Married. At the Half-Way Bush, near Dunedin, on the 1st inst., by the Rev. T. Burns, Mr Edward Palmer, stockholder, Taieri, to Beatrice Fowler, youngest daughter of the late William Fowler, Haddington, Scotland.
At the Manse of Sandsting, Zetland, on the 3rd October, The Rev. Alexander Shand, minister of Nesting, to Helen Bruce Bryden, daughter of the Rev. John Bryden, minister of Sandsting.
June 7th 1851
Married. At Woodside Cottage, near Dunedin, on the 3rd instant, by the Rev. Thomas Burns, Daniel Macandrew, Esq., Architect, to Margaret Dundas Oswald, youngest daughter of the late George Hall, Esq., of Glasgow.
June 21 1851
Coroner's Inquest - An inquest was held at the Royal Hotel, Dunedin, on Monday, the 16th inst., by Mr Coroner Williams and a highly respectable Jury, on the body of Robert Scott, who died suddenly on Sunday the 15th. It appeared from the evidence of Mr William McDonald, with whom the deceased lodged, that while engaged in brushing a boot, he fell down suddenly; that he never spoke afterwards, but groaned once or twice, and died in about ten minutes. Medical aid was sent for, but was of no avail. The Jury returned a verdict of 'Died by the visitation of God.' The deceased was about 40 years of age, and came to this settlement in the 'Larkins,' and had since been working a boat in the harbour, in which business we believe he had acquired property. He had no relations in this colony.
June 21 1851
Birth. At Maungatua, on the 30th ult, the wife of Mr Francis M'Diarmid, of a son.
July 5th 1851
Birth. At Mavis Bank, near Dunedin, on the 19th ult., the wife of Mr Francis Marshall, of a daughter.
July 19 1851
Public Burying Ground of Otago. Rules.
John Falconer appointed grave digger.
19 July 1851
Birth. At Bellevue, near Dunedin, on the 11th inst., the wife of Mr A. Anderson, of a daughter.
2 August 1851
At Princes Street, Dunedin, on the 27th ult. the wife of Mr William White, shoemaker, of a daughter.
Death. At Maclagan Street, Dunedin, on the 21st ult., the wife of Mr James Wright, aged 37 years.
2 August 1851
Inquest. About three weeks since an inquest was held at Waikouaiti, before Mr Coroner Williams, on the body of a man who destroyed himself by tying the trigger of a gun to the stump of a tree, and discharging the contents into his heart. The deceased was a Greek, and came out from England in the emigrant ship 'Larkins,' in which vessel he was a sailor. Some time since he expressed a desire to return to his native country, and Captain Cargill procured him passage in the 'Phoebe Dunbar;' it appears, however he left that ship. The Jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity.
August 16 1851
Birth. At Pelichet's bay, on the 9th inst., the wife of David Bowers, gardener, of a Daughter.
Death. At Maclagan Street, Dunedin, on the 21st, ult. Mary Griffiths, aged 37 years, wife of Mr James Wright.
August 16th 1851Coroner's Inquest.
An inquest was held at the Royal Hotel before Mr Coroner Williams, on the body of William Underhill, late of Rattray St, Dunedin, Carpenter, who destroyed himself. ... He was about 26 years of age, and, arrived in this colony by the "Victory" upwards of three years ago. He has a brother somewhere in the neighbourhood of Christchurch.
August 30 1851 Births
At the Forbury, near Dunedin, on the 17th inst., the wife of Mr David Howden of a Son.
At Rattray Street, Dunedin, on the 20th inst., the wife of Mr Wm. Willocks of a Son.
At the Silverstream Sheep Station, on the 25th inst., the wife of Mr William Gibson of a Son.
Death. At the Green Island Bush, near Dunedin, on the 8th inst., James SHAND, aged 46 years, late of Inveruary, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
September 6th 1851
Married. On Wednesday last, the 3rd., at Clifton Cottage, Dunedin, by the Rev. Thomas Burns, John Hyde HARRIS, Esq., late of Deddington in the County of Oxford, but now of Dunedin aforesaid, to Annie CUNNINGHAM, second daughter of Captain William Cargill, late of Her Majesty's 74th Regt., and Commissioner of Crown Lands for the District of Otago.
The Times, Monday, Feb 16, 1852; pg. 9
On the 3d of September last, at Clifton-cottage, Dunedin, New Zealand, by the Rev. Thomas Burns, John Hyde Harris, Esq., late of Deddington, in the county of Oxford, to Anne Cunningham, second daughter of Captain William Cargill (late of H.M.'s 74th Highlanders), Her Majesty's Commissioner of Crown Lands for the district of Otago.
Extract from a letter, dated Mollineux, New Zealand, March 1850
I wrote you a few lines in January, informing you of our safe arrival in this far-off land, after a passage of 104 days, having sailed on the 12th September 1849 and landed at Port Chalmers on Christmas-day. Since that period I have been knocking about all over the country, and examined the whole of the Company's block from end to end. Port Chalmers, the only present se-port of the settlement, is most beautifully situate in a small bay. It is distant from Dunedin about nine miles, the country being all forest, or what is here called "bush." The sail up the arm of the sea, here called a river, is certainly beautiful, until you come within sight of Dunedin, when one of the coldest, bleakest, and most wretched-looking countries opens out upon you that you could well behold. The site of Dunedin itself is actually pitched upon a mass of hills, having such gullies between them, nothing save an earthquake coming to level them could ever make it suitable for the site of a town. To give you some idea how the scheme works. The most respectable emigrants who come out are supposed to bring with them from 150 to 250 in cash. Of this sum 100 go to pay the heavy expenses of living in the town with their families until they can get a house upon their suburban section; next comes the expense of transport of their goods and chattels over a country where roads were promised, but where none exist;...
September 13 1851
Births. At Claremont Lodge, Upper Kaikairi District, on the 7th inst., the wife of J.R. Johnston, Esq., of a daughter.
At Stafford Street, Dunedin, on the 31st ult., the wife of Mr Joseph Beale, of a son.
At the Half-Way Bush, near Dunedin on the 1st instant, the wife of Mr John Salmon, farmer, Carron Creek, Tokomairiro Plain, of a daughter.
At what date did you emerge from your "bark hut" into a suitable cottage? What the extent and cost for your cultivations, and the number of your cattle and sheep at present date?
October 4 1851
At Birnam Cottage, half-Way Bush on the 3rd inst., the wife of John Cargill, Esq., of a daughter.
At Riversdale Cottage, North-East Valley, on the 18th ultimo, the wife of James Gebbie, Gardener, of a son and a daughter.
October 25 1851
Births. At Home Farm, Taieri, on the 19th ult., the wife of Mr Neill J.B. M'Gregor of a daughter.
At Princes Street, Dunedin, on the 15 inst., the wife of Mr Alexander Garvie of a son.
Married. At Brighton, Melbourne, on Thursday the 17th of July last, by the Rev. Wm. Brickwood, Thomas Ferrier HAMILTON, Esq., third son of Col. Ferrier Hamilton and the Hon. Mrs Hamilton, of West Port and Cairn Hill, N.B., to Elizabeth Mary MILNER, second daughter of Mr Justice Stephen of Otago.
The area of New Zealand is 78,432,480 acres.
November 1 1851
Birth. At Karero, Molineux, on the 15th September, the wife of Mr Wm. Buswell, of a daughter.
November 15 1851
Birth. At Ambresbeg, Caversham Valley, on the 14th inst., Mrs John McGibbon, of a son.
December 6 1851
Married. At Halfway Bush, on the 28th inst., by the Rev. Thomas Burns, Lewis A. BERNAYS, Esq., son of Dr. Bernays, of King's College, London, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late William Borton, Esq., of Cottenham, near Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Original Poetry
"The Otago Witness was probably provided an important outlet for New Zealand writers by regularly publishing poetry and short stories."
May 3 1851 page 4
Homeopathic Broth (From the Two Worlds, American)
Otago Witness, 21 June 1851, Page 4
Oh ! how strong were those feelings which cheer'd us at times !
When we left our fond country for southern climes
In united and staunch little bands ;
When we forth from the land of our fathers did roam,
To adopt the bold isles of New Zealand our home,
And improve its uncivilised lands.
And how bright were the hopes which then burn'd in our breast,
When departing the country and those we love best,
For this foreign and primitive shore !
When we sought in the boist'rous Southern Seas,
That fair spot where in harmony, quiet and ease,
We might rest and our fortunes restore !
Thought we then that in leaving the land of our birth,
We were bidding adieu to all pleasure and mirth,
Good old friendship and brotherly love ?
That the vile seeds of discord were soon to be sown,
'Mongst a people whose bond of attachment had grown
E'en already so strongly unwove ?
But, alas ! that such feelings should ever be named,
Of a people whore almost proverbially famed
For their strong and unanimous mind ;
And may they who have thus by their actions abused
This community's peace, 'mongst themselves be confused,
And all who have with them combined.
Came we forth from our fatherland's peaceable realm
With no pilot to manage the difficult helm,
And point out the dangerous strand ?
Had we one quite indifferent as to our fate,
Or one likely his watchfulness soon to abate,
And obey while he's fit to command ?
"No ! the pilot who's guided our vessel so long,
Will grow careless indeed ere he see her go wrong,
And the course she shotild follow neglect :
And long, long may our trustworthy Captain remain,
Our bold cause to promote, his fond charge to retain,
Lest Otago's best hopes should be wreck'd !
The differences then which at present exist,
Let every one strive to o'ercome and resist,
And let Peace have unlimited sway ;
Let Unity's bond be made stronger than ever,
That nought may our little community sever,
Or lead its shrewd members astray.
Then this beautiful spot - when we 'cease to complain
Will bring forth the adventurous Britain again,
To people its lovely domains ;
Its broad plains will then" sing of Prosperity's days,
The green hills will give back the harmonious lays,
And rejoice in the lingering strains !
Otago Witness, Issue 10, 21 June 1851, Page 4
The Emigrant's Song
My barque is afloat ! � I'm afloat on the wave,
The sky shines above me, below frowns the grave ;
My heart beats in sadness, but my hopes are still bright,
As I'm wafted along 'neath the moon's gentle light.
Then weep not, dear Mary, Oh ! weep not for me,
I'm sailing away to the land of the free ;
My heart shall be with thee wherever I roam,
And with good Old England, my own dearest home.
My barque is afloat ! � 'tis the frail barque of life,
And wildly I'm tossed on the waters of strife ;
But the haven appears o'er the far distant wave,
And welcomes the stranger from the land of the brave.
Then weep not, dear Mary, Oh ! weep not for me,
I'm sailing away to the land of the free, &c.
When Fortune has smiled on the work of my hands,
I'll wander no more in those far distant lands ;
But again o'er the waves of the ocean I'll ride,
And then, dearest Mary, I'll make thee my bride.
Then weep not, dear Mary, Oh ! weep not for me,
I'm sailing away to the land of the free ;
My heart shall be with thee wherever I roam,
And with good Old England, my own dearest home.
Dunedin, May 29th, 1851
July 5th
To the Editor of the Otago Witness by XYZ
August 2 1851
Ladies Club
November 15 1851
The Gardener-in-Chief and his Otago Plants by MacPunchie
December 27 1851 page 3
To Otago by P.Q.R.
This page may be freely linked to but not duplicated in any fashion, wholly or in part, except for private study.


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Destabilizing Pakistan – Operation Breakfast Redux
February 19, 2010 Leave a comment
By Tom Engelhardt and Pratap Chatterjee
Almost every day, reports come back from the CIA's "secret" battlefield in the Pakistani tribal borderlands. Unmanned aerial vehicles – that is, pilotless drones – shoot missiles (18 of them in a single attack on a tiny village last week) or drop bombs and then the news comes in: a certain number of al-Qaeda or Taliban leaders or suspected Arab or Uzbek or Afghan "militants" have died. The numbers are oftenremarkably precise. Sometimes they are attributed to U.S. sources, sometimes to the Pakistanis; sometimes, it's hard to tell where the information comes from. In the Pakistani press, on the other hand, the numbers that come back are usually of civilian dead. They, too, tend to be precise.
Don't let that precision fool you. Here's the reality: There are no reporters on the ground and none of these figures can be taken as accurate. Let's just consider the CIA side of things. Any information that comes from American sources (i.e., the CIA) has to be looked at with great wariness. As a start, the CIA's history is one of deception. There's no reason to take anything its sources say at face value. They will report just what they think it's in their interest to report – and the ongoing "success" of their drone strikes is distinctly in their interest.
Then, there's history. In the present drone wars, as in the CIA's bloody Phoenix Program in the Vietnam era, the Agency's operatives, working in distinctly alien terrain, must rely on local sources (or possibly official Pakistani ones) for targeting intelligence. In Vietnam in the 1960s, the Agency's Phoenix Program – reportedly responsible for the assassination of 20,000 Vietnamese – became, according to historian Marilyn Young, "an extortionist's paradise, with payoffs as available for denunciation as for protection." Once again, the CIA is reportedly passing out bags of money and anyone on the ground with a grudge, or the desire to eliminate an enemy, or simply the desire to make some of that money can undoubtedly feed information into the system, watch the drones do their damnedest, and then report back that more "terrorists" are dead. Just assume that at least some of those "militants" dying in Pakistan, and possibly many of them, aren't who the CIA hopes they are.
Think of it as a foolproof situation, with an emphasis on the "fool." And then keep in mind that, in December, the CIA's local brain trust, undoubtedly the same people who were leaking precise news of "successes" in Pakistan, mistook a jihadist double agentfrom Jordan for an agent of theirs, gathered at an Agency base in Khost, Afghanistan, and let him wipe them out with a suicide bomb. Seven CIA operatives died, including the base chief. This should give us a grim clue as to the accuracy of the CIA's insights into what's happening on the ground in Pakistan, or into the real effects of their 24/7 robotic assassination program.
But there's a deeper, more dangerous level of deception in Washington's widening warin the region: self-deception. The CIA drone program, which the Agency's Director Leon Panetta has called "the only game in town" when it comes to dismantling al-Qaeda, is just symptomatic of such self-deception. While the CIA and the U.S. military have been expending enormous effort studying the Afghan and Pakistani situations and consulting experts, and while the White House has conducted an extensive series of seminars-cum-policy-debates on both countries, you can count on one thing: none of them have spent significant time studying or thinking about us.
As a result, the seeming cleanliness and effectiveness of the drone-war solution undoubtedly only reinforces a sense in Washington that the world's last great military power can still control this war – that it can organize, order, prod, wheedle, and bribe both the Afghans and Pakistanis into doing what's best, and if that doesn't work, simply continue raining down the missiles and bombs. Beware Washington's deep-seated belief that it controls events; that it is, however precariously, in the saddle; that, as Afghan War commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal recently put it, there is a "corner" to "turn" out there, even if we haven't quite turned it yet.
In fact, Washington is not in the saddle and that corner, if there, if turned, will have its own unpleasant surprises. Washington is, in this sense, as oblivious as those CIA operatives were as they waited for "their" Jordanian agent to give them supposedly vital information on the al-Qaeda leadership in the Pakistani tribal areas. Like their drones, the Americans in charge of this war are desperately far from the ground, and they don't even seem to know it. It's this that makes the analogy drawn by TomDispatch regular and author of Halliburton's Army Pratap Chatterjee so unnerving. It's time for Washington to examine not what we know about them, but what we don't know about ourselves. Tom
Operation Breakfast Redux
Could Pakistan 2010 go the way of Cambodia 1969?
by Pratap Chatterjee
Sitting in air-conditioned comfort, cans of Coke and 7-Up within reach as they watched their screens, the ground controllers gave the order to strike under the cover of darkness. There had been no declaration of war. No advance warning, nothing, in fact, that would have alerted the "enemy" to the sudden, unprecedented bombing raids. The secret computer-guided strikes were authorized by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, just weeks after a new American president entered the Oval Office. They represented an effort to wipe out the enemy's central headquarters whose location intelligence experts claimed to have pinpointed just across the border from the war-torn land where tens of thousands of American troops were fighting daily.
In remote villages where no reporters dared to go, far from the battlefields where Americans were dying, who knew whether the bombs that rained from the night sky had killed high-level insurgents or innocent civilians? For 14 months the raids continued and, after each one was completed, the commander of the bombing crews was instructed to relay a one-sentence message: "The ball game is over."
The campaign was called "Operation Breakfast," and, while it may sound like the CIA's present air campaign over Pakistan, it wasn't. You need to turn the clock back to another American war, four decades earlier, to March 18, 1969, to be exact. The target was an area of Cambodia known as the Fish Hook that jutted into South Vietnam, and Operation Breakfast would be but the first of dozens of top secret bombing raids. Later ones were named "Lunch," "Snack," and "Supper," and they went under the collective label "Menu." They were authorized by President Richard Nixon and were meant to destroy a (nonexistent) "Bamboo Pentagon," a central headquarters in the Cambodian borderlands where North Vietnamese communists were supposedly orchestrating raids deep into South Vietnam.
Like President Obama today, Nixon had come to power promising stability in an age of unrest and with a vague plan to bringing peace to a nation at war. On the day he was sworn in, he read from the Biblical book of Isaiah: "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks." He also spoke of transforming Washington's bitter partisan politics into a new age of unity: "We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another, until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices."
Return to the Killing Fields
In recent years, many commentators and pundits have resorted to "the Vietnam analogy," comparing first the American war in Iraq and now in Afghanistan to the Vietnam War. Despite a number of similarities, the analogy disintegrates quickly enough if you consider that U.S. military campaigns in post-invasion Afghanistan and Iraq against small forces of lightly-armed insurgents bear little resemblance to the large-scale war that Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon waged against both southern revolutionary guerrillas and the military of North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, who commanded a real army, with the backing of, and supplies from, the Soviet Union and China.
A more provocative – and perhaps more ominous – analogy today might be between the CIA's escalating drone war in the contemporary Pakistani tribal borderlands and Richard Nixon's secret bombing campaign against the Cambodian equivalent. To briefly recapitulate that ancient history: In the late 1960s, Cambodia was ruled by a "neutralist" king, Norodom Sihanouk, leading a weak government that had little relevance to its poor and barely educated citizens. In its borderlands, largely beyond its control, the North Vietnamese and Vietcong found "sanctuaries."
Sihanouk, helpless to do anything, looked the other way. In the meantime, sheltered by local villagers in distant areas of rural Cambodia was a small insurgent group, little-known communist fundamentalists who called themselves the Khmer Rouge. (Think of them as the 1970s equivalent of the Pakistani Taliban who have settled into the wild borderlands of that country largely beyond the control of the Pakistani government.) They were then weak and incapable of challenging Sihanouk – until, that is, those secret bombing raids by American B-52s began. As these intensified in the summer of 1969, areas of the country began to destabilize (helped on in 1970 by a U.S.-encouraged military coup in the capital Phnom Penh), and the Khmer Rouge began to gain strength.
You know the grim end of that old story.
Forty years, almost to the day, after Operation Breakfast began, I traveled to the town of Snuol, close to where the American bombs once fell. It is a quiet town, no longer remote, as modern roads and Chinese-led timber companies have systematically cut down the jungle that once sheltered anti-government rebels. I went in search of anyone who remembered the bombing raids, only to discover that few there were old enough to have been alive at the time, largely because the Khmer Rouge executed as much as a quarter of the total Cambodian population after they took power in 1975.
Eventually, a 15-minute ride out of town, I found an old soldier living by himself in a simple one-room house adorned with pictures of the old king, Sihanouk. His name was Kong Kan and he had first moved to the nearby town of Memot in 1960. A little further away, I ran into three more old men, Choenung Klou, Keo Long, and Hoe Huy, who had gathered at a newly built temple to chat.
All of them remembered the massive 1969 B-52 raids vividly and the arrival of U.S. troops the following year. "We thought the Americans had come to help us," said Choenung Klou. "But then they left and the [South] Vietnamese soldiers who came with them destroyed the villages and raped the women."
He had no love for the North Vietnamese communists either. "They would stay at people's houses, take our hammocks and food. We didn't like them and we were afraid of them."
Caught between two Vietnamese armies and with American planes carpet-bombing the countryside, increasing numbers of Cambodians soon came to believe that the Khmer Rouge, who were their countrymen, might help them. Like the Taliban of today, many of the Khmer Rouge were, in fact, teenage villagers who had responded, under the pressure of war and disruption, to the distant call of an inspirational ideology and joined the resistance in the jungles.
"If you ask me why I joined the Khmer Rouge, the main reason is because of the American invasion," Hun Sen, the current prime minister of Cambodia, has said. "If there was no invasion, by now, I would be a pilot or a professor."
Six years after the bombings of Cambodia began, shortly after the last helicopter lifted off the U.S. embassy in Saigon and the flow of military aid to the crumbling government of Cambodia stopped, a reign of terror took hold in the capital, Phnom Penh.
The Khmer Rouge left the jungles and entered the capital where they began a systemicgenocide against city dwellers and anyone who was educated. They vowed to restart history at Year Zero, a new era in which much of the past became irrelevant. Some two million people are believed to have died from executions, starvation, and forced labor in the camps established by the Angkar leadership of the Khmer Rouge commanded by Pol Pot.
Unraveling Pakistan
Could the same thing happen in Pakistan today? A new American president was ordering escalating drone attacks, in a country where no war has been declared, at the moment when I flew from Cambodia across South Asia to Afghanistan, so this question loomed large in my mind. Both there and just across the border, Operation Breakfast seems to be repeating itself.
In the Afghan capital, Kabul, I met earnest aid workers who drank late into the night in places like L'Atmosphere, a foreigner-only bar that could easily have doubled as a movie set for Saigon in the 1960s. Like modern-day equivalents of Graham Greene's "quiet American," these "consultants" describe a Third Way that is neither Western nor fundamentalist Islam.
At the very same time, CIA analysts in distant Virginia are using pilot-less drones and satellite technology to order strikes against supposed terrorist headquarters across the border in Pakistan. They are not so unlike the military men who watched radar screens in South Vietnam in the 1960s as the Cambodian air raids went on. Read more of this post


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THE GOOD: The Rays deserved 3 losses for last night. Thank goodness they only get one in the standings. And because everybody else in the division lost except for the O's, the Rays maintain their half-game lead in the division.
THE BAD: DO NOT try to feed us this pile of crap that Andy Sonnanstine was "better than score indicates". That's you Roger Mooney (by the way, we are still waiting for you to explain why the Rays did not like the Sports Illustrated cover). Just because 5 of the runs were unearned DOES NOT mean that Sonnanstine has no responsibility. It is not as if Evan Longoria committed 5 errors. Longoria did not give up the 2 hits before the error, or the 3 hits after the error. And as the Rangers broadcast crew mentioned last night, that error could have very easily been ruled a base hit. The ball had a wicked side-spin on it and took an angled hop. In fact the only player that deserves any blame close to what Sonny deserves is Eric Hinske. In the first inning, he played a single into a double by taking a crappy, slow angle and letting a ball get by to the wall. The next batter followed with an RBI double. In the second inning, Hinske once again played a single into a double by letting a ball get by him to the wall. Later in the game, while a valiant effort, Hinske dove for a ball that went off his glove. Hinske is giving the opposition extra bases on an almost nightly basis. How much more of this can Joe Maddon take?…And of course, then there was the bottom of the 3rd inning, with 2 runners on in a 5-run game, Carlos Pena got ahead 3-0 only to end up striking out…And of course, there was the 2-on, no outs, double play from Eric Hinske that killed a rally in the 6th, and the no outs double play from Carl Crawford that killed another one in the 7th inning.
THE TELLING: Her Rays has a much more insightful recap, if you are a masochist.
- Don't forget to VOTE for Carl Crawford to start the all-star game. If you haven't voted yet today, go NOW! [MLB All-Star Voting]
- The first vote totals were released and only Carl Crawford, BJ Upton and Carlos Pena are listed among the leaders. C'mon people. If we don't vote for CC, nobody will! [Rays Report]
- Joe Maddon says that Willy Aybar will rejoin the Rays when he comes off the DL. Marc Lancaster indicates that could happen in time for the White Sox series tomorrow…We will get to the rest of the garbage in this piece later. [Tampa Tribune]
- The Rays Index Live Blog-A-Baloo of the Week will be this afternoon with game 3 of the Rangers series and will be held right here.
- Rocco Baldelli stated once again that he once to play for the Rays this season. Joe Maddon says the team is "cautiously optimistic". In other words, nothing new here. [MLB]
- How bad is it right now for the Mets? One of the more popular Mets blogs is now following the Rays…maybe. [Mets Geek aka Rays Geek]


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Rodenstock / ALPA HR Alpagon 4.0/50 mm, SB34, in Aperture Unit
ALPA HR Alpagon 4.0/50 mm, SB34, in Aperture UnitHR ALPAGON 50 mm - for perfect details
Anyone who automatically thinks of a standard focal length at term 50mm exposes himself as a 35mm photographer - at least regarding ALPA dimensions. In medium format, the HR ALPAGON 50mm plays the role of a moderate wide-angle lens, which is often referred to as a "report wide angle". This aspect makes it the ideal complement to the super wide angle HR ALPAGON 32mm and the "normal lens" HR ALPAGON 90mm with which it forms the "Holy Trinity" at ALPA. Like its "siblings" (HR ALPAGON 32mm and 90mm), the HR ALPAGON 50mm is optimized for the perfect resolution of even the finest details, guaranteeing extremely detailed and vivid images with perfect micro-contrast and tonal values. As with the other lenses in this range, the "50s" also recommend the use of a perfectly matched lens hood.
Warning: If a short barrel lens is attached to an ALPA body without an appropriate adapter, mechanical damage to the rear lens element and the camera is possible. The focal plane shutter of the ALPA 12 FPS can also be damaged.
The HR ALPAGON 50mm is the shortest focal length in the ALPA universe, which is available as a so-called SB-34 lens with a "shortened" tube. This design allows a maximum of (creative) options (such as the combination of tilt and swing) and possible applications.
Scope of delivery: The product images are sample images and often show the lens with an ALPA HPF ring (High Precision Focusing). This HPF ring is not included in the scope of delivery of the lens. However, ALPA recommends the use of an HPF ring for optimum handling.
Lens tube: This is the standard version in Short Barrel. Version in Long Barrel available on special order.
Digital backs with electronic shutter (currently Rolling Shutter for Phase One IQ 3/4, Hasselblad X1D and partly H6D) are becoming increasingly available. The new Rodenstock aperture unit - with its almost round, 9-piece aperture pattern - optimally supports this shutter type. Besides, lens versions in short barrel can also be used on the ALPA 12 FPS with its built-in focal-plane shutter. Please consult the corresponding product pages for compatibility or ask your sales partner or ALPA directly.
ALPA Log: Photographic Shutters (EN)
Vermehrt sind digitale Rückteile mit elektronischem Verschluss (aktuell Rolling Shutter für Phase One IQ 3/4, Hasselblad X1D und teilweise H6D) verfügbar. Der neue Rodenstock Blendenkörper - mit seinem fast runden, 9-teiligen Blendenbild - unterstützt diesen Verschlusstyp optimal. Zudem können Objektiv-Versionen in Short Barrel auch auf der ALPA 12 FPS mit ihrem eingebauten Schlitzverschluss eingesetzt werden. Bitte konsultieren Sie die entsprechenden Produkteseiten für die Kompatibilität oder fragen Sie Ihren Vertriebspartner oder ALPA direkt.
ALPA Log: Fotografische Verschlüsse
Product remarks: Rodenstock / ALPA HR Alpagon 4.0/50 mm, SB34, in Aperture Unit, custom made for ALPA by Rodenstock.
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