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Skelton is highlighting the military �because he doesn�t want to have to answer the questions about the economy and about his bad voting record 95 percent of the time with Nancy Pelosi,� Hartzler said in a recent interview.
Military matters might carry more weight in the Fourth District than in the rest of the state. Of Missouri�s nine congressional districts, Skelton�s has the greatest number of military veterans � comprising about 14 percent of the population, according to Census Bureau surveys.
The district also is home to Whiteman Air Force Base, Fort Leonard Wood and the headquarters of the Missouri National Guard.
In a rare move, the producers of An Open Secret, the documentary about child molesters in Hollywood that bombed recently at the box office, are blasting the film’s director Amy Berg for not supporting it, saying she turned down “dozens” of requests for press interviews. Berg, who gave interviews to many media outlets — including Deadline — didn’t do any major broadcast news interviews.
It’s doubtful, however, that those would have helped the film’s prospects much anyway: Because of its sensational subject matter, it received widespread media attention – and still flopped, opening June 5 via distributor Rocky Mountain Pictures in nine theaters in Denver and Seattle (it grossed about $200 in that first frame in Seattle). It appears that because of its subject matter, very few people wanted to see it.
Berg, currently filming a documentary about the life of rock legend Janis Joplin, gave interviews about An Open Secret to Deadline, BuzzFeed, The Hollywood Reporter, The Wrap and Elle Magazine – but Hoffman says she turned down requests from major TV news networks that could have expanded the film and its cause to a wider national audience.
Berg declined comment, but sources insist she gave “tons of interviews” about the film, and that the producers’ claims are simply not true. They say that Berg, who received an Oscar nomination for Deliver Us From Evil, her 2006 documentary about child molestation in the Catholic Church, remains “totally committed” to the film and to the prevention of child abuse in the entertainment industry. They also point out she warned producers that their decision to move up the film’s release date several months to June 5 would conflict with her schedule, when she would not only be filming the Joplin documentary but also travelling the festival circuit to promote Prophet’s Prey, her film about Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints who is serving a life sentence for sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault of children.
An Open Secret struggled to find a distributor, and when it did, struggled at the box office and has yet to get a TV deal that could bring it to a wider audience.
It is as though the nation has been placed in a high-speed accelerator. The dark Trump circus never seems to stop or even take a pause. There is no getting away from it. At risk of seeming a narcissist, I have to moan that there is a private aspect to the chaos and agitation that this whirlwind is reaping.
For instance, coming home from work, I can’t resist flipping on the tube to see what misadventure Donald Trump has undertaken today. By the end of the broadcast, my wife and I have shaken our heads and fists so much that we don’t need to go to the gym. At 10:30 p.m., we tune into Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Albert Camus taught that there is no situation that cannot be overcome with laughter, and every night Colbert relentlessly serves up a gut-splitting monolog on the Commander-in-Chief.
For millions, Trump is glass in the gut, and yet he has become an object that for some of us seems to compel constant meditation. If it weren’t for certain newspapers, I would not have any idea what was going on beyond the borders of Trumpworld.
I am in my mid- sixties. The balloon of my existence could pop at any moment, and I don’t want to be forced to think and agitate about this empty suit of a human being for so many hours of the day. After a few deep breaths, I try to calm myself with the reminder that many other nations have had to endure leaders who were unhinged. In addition to the public wreckage these Napoleons create, there is the daily drain they put on the individual human spirit. Indeed, my therapist friends confide that many of their clients can't get to the issues that are troubling them because they are obsessing about Trump.
These days, when I meet with friends, the first issue we resolve is whether or not we are going to risk getting churned up about Trump’s latest. Anger takes a bite out of people. At the same time, it can be fun to vent, especially with some pals. And yet, if our Incurious George of a president is a joke, he is an expensive joke. This man does have the nuclear code.
For my part, I feel an obligation to stay informed and to dialogue about Trump. After all, I have friends who are undocumented workers. They are good people whom Trump has condemned to a perpetual feeling of fear and jagged-edged vulnerability. For them, one broken brake light could mean a quick drive to detention, deportation, and a splitting up of the family. It might cast a shadow over the evening, but better to discuss than to repress mention of this creature from the unconscious who splits time between the White House and his Xanadu of Mar-a-Lago.
So talk we must, but for so many of us, Trump has wrought a strange form of personal collateral damage. He has cast a pall over our inner lives, a lingering premonition that a foot is about to come through the door, that bad, ugly things are about to happen.
Help! I need to develop some spiritual jiu-jitsu, some way of protecting my inner life from being consumed by the man at the helm who seems to be steering our nation at the behest of his personal demons and insecurities.
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At this time — now that police have left — traffic in the apartment complex is open and residents are free to enter and exit the complex.
A 54-year-old white male is in the custody of the Salisbury Police Department after he barricaded himself inside his apartment Tuesday morning.
Officers responded to the Island Club Apartments on Sharen Drive. Police could not clarify if anyone else was in the apartment with the man barricaded in the apartment, but no other arrests were made, police said.
During the negotiations and investigation, police had limited communication with the man, they said. The police used "all investigative methods to resolve the situation safely," they said.
Residents at the Island Club apartments were urged to stay in their apartments during the investigation, police said. However, at this time — now that police have left — traffic in the apartment complex is open and residents are free to enter and exit the complex.
Police in a New Hampshire community say a 58-year-old woman is dead after she was hit by a car in Keene.
Just before midnight Saturday, Keene police were called to the intersection of Washington and Woodbury streets where they found the victim, Noreen Whippie, of Keene, in the roadway.
Whippie was taken to the Cheshire Medical Center where she later died of her injuries.
Whippie was hit by a car driven by 28-year-old Bryan Bennett, of Keene.
The investigation is continuing. Police say it does not appear that speed or alcohol use by the driver were factors in the incident.
A crash this morning close to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Crawley has left a road partially blocked.
Two vehicles were reportedly involved in a collision on the A23 London Road, northbound at the A2011 Crawley Avenue.
Police are said to be on the scene and delays are reported.
A separate collision has also been reported on the B2036 Radford Road, which is also causing delays.
In the middle of June, my husband Jim was sick two nights in a row. He was sick at night but not during the day. Both days he thought it was indigestion & took a familiar antacid for relief. Sunday & Monday he felt just OK.
Tuesday he awoke at 3 am with pains in his abdomen. We both thought he had gas. I kept telling him to get up & walk, drink water, whatever. (Actually, I wanted to sleep.) Our 16-year-old grandson from Florida was visiting, so I took him to the basketball camp at Central that morning & then to meet Jim's sister for lunch. Jim called after we had finished eating. He said the pain had gotten worse. He asked his sister if he should go to the hospital emergency room or to one of the clinics. She said for him to go to the ER. We live about 2 miles from the hospital, so I had him there around 12:30.
Everyone in the ER was great. They ran an EKG, followed by X-rays. The doctor on duty evidently suspected the gall bladder. Since Jim hadn't eaten a bite of food all day, they could run an ultrasound. He did indeed have a problem with the gall bladder. At some point in there they called a surgeon. In the meantime, Jim was admitted to the hospital.
The next morning they ran a cat scan on Jim. It was suspected that he had a blockage in the bile duct, which he did. One doctor did a procedure that took care of that problem. He called the room & told me exactly what he had found & what he did. By this time Jim had jaundiced.
His gall bladder was removed the following day. His surgeon always explained everything to us in a courteous manner. I'm very pleased with the surgeon's treatment while Jim was in the hospital & on our two office visits since. He came by to see Jim two or three times each day in the hospital.
When we moved here almost five years ago, everyone seemed to complain about the old hospital. Then this nice new one was built. We had heard pros & cons about the new facility. Everyone who had anything to do with Jim was competent, cooperative, & pleasant. That includes doctors, nurses, technicians, the ER team & registration staff. I highly recommend the Heritage Medical Center.
Really glad Jim's issue was resolved. When I have "visited" the HMC I had similar experiences with professional, friendly and caring folks.
I guess there are times when things don't always go well (we humans can be a challenging bunch) and that is what we usually hear about, the complications.
It is always good the hear the successes as well, thanks.
I went to Heritage Medical Center about a year ago with the worst headache ever. Keep in mind that I am the type of person that does NOT take medicine when I have a headache unless it is unbearable. I do NOT take medicine of any kind unless I just absolutely cant take the pain any longer. I only take my blood preasure medicine etc. on a daily basis. Everyone at the hospital treated me very nice and were very helpful until the doctor walked in to see me. He walks in, asks me what my problem is, I tell him that I have a pain running up the back of my neck across the top of my head causing a terrible headache that is some of the worst pain I have ever had in my life and that I feel stupid to go to an ER for a headache but I just couldnt take the pain any longer. I explained to him that I had taken 2 very strong prescription pain killers with no change in the headache at all. He put his hands on his hips and says..."What would you like me to do?". I look back confused because since he is the doctor I thought that he should know what to do without asking me...DUH. So at this point I am not really sure what to say so my answer is..."I would like to know WHAT is causing the terrible headache and I would like you to make it go away?" Then he asks me again..."What would YOU have me to do to make it better?" By this time I am thinking I have never had an experience with a doctor like this before and was wondering why he wasnt examining me somehow, maybe asking me what I think caused the terrible headache or do what you would expect a normal doctor to do but instead he just repeatedly asked me what I wanted him to do. I finnally tell him that I want him to do whatever it takes to make the headache go away and he then says..."So you want PAIN MEDICINE?". By this time I felt like he was insinuating that I am someone that would lie about a terrible headache to just GET pain medicine which anyone that knows me could tell you otherwise. I told him that I have a full bottle of strong prescription pain medicine at home that was prescribed to me by my physicial for arthritis in my back that I only take on occassion and I dont even take no where near the amount that my doctor has listed on the bottle AND that I had already took 2 of them with no change in the headache. During the entire conversation with this doctor, he was insinuating that I was only there for pain medicine, he was rude, unprofesional and uncaring. He did not do any type of exam on me and when I asked him what was wrong with me he was hateful in his tone of voice and said "Um, you have a HEADACHE.". He left the room and told a nurse to give me a shot of something and a few minutes later I recieved the shot which immediately took away the pain and almost put me to sleep. Then my husband drove me home. I followed up the next day with my regular medical doctor which sent me for Xrays etc. that showed I have large bone spurs on my neck and arthritis in my neck that caused the terrible headache.
Since the hospital decided to move WAYYY out the road makes it extremely inconveniant for people that live on the opposite side of Shelbyville then if and when I ever need to go to the hospital again I will be going to Tullahoma since it is just as close to me and since I have had a bad experience more then one time with the old hospital and now with the new hospital.
My sister went to the hospital here with severe chest pain and was told that she had indigestion and they sent her home. She continued to have severe chest pain and couldnt stand it anymore she was driven to Tullahoma where they told her she had a heart attack. I could explain this story in detail but I wont. I will only finish by saying she only uses Tullahoma hospital now for her problems and refuses to go to the hospital here.
Be sure to pay that bill in 30 days or less. Anything over that and they will sue you. And if you only pay on it once a month, you'd better be sure you pay within 30 days each time, not 32 or 33 days because they will garnish your wages. Seems most everyone in town who goes there gets sued and garnished. Seems paying once a month is not enough. What I'm saying is, if you pay on the 15th of each month, don't wait until the 16th or 17th or you are out of luck. The Attorney that represents them is merciless.
MGM Resorts International released its first corporate branding campaign two weeks before a gunman turned one of its resorts into a perch for the country’s deadliest mass shooting. The entertainment company shut down the campaign Sunday night as its employees worked to help the wounded, said Lilian Tomovich, MGM’s chief marketing and experience officer, at the ANA Masters of Marketing conference in Orlando, Fla., today.
The ill-timed campaign from McCann was called “Welcome to the Show” and featured a line that MGM had “one mission: blow the mind of all mankind.” You can watch the 60-second TV spot below.
Tomovich had clearly planned to unveil a success story at the conference, where CMOs of major companies like Walmart and P&G share their greatest challenges and triumphs in TED-style talks to thousands of marketers. But instead, she spoke of how her city and co-workers are reeling. The gunman fired shots from a window of the Mandalay Bay resort, which MGM owns.
“I wanted to take a moment to recognize the events of Sunday—the horrific, inexplicable events of Sunday night in Las Vegas,” Tomovich said. “When I was on a plane last night flying here, the first time in four days I had a chance to think, and I was wondering what I could say to this lovely audience here, and I guess my message is just one of deep, deep gratitude for all of the support that we have received not only from the community in Las Vegas, the city, the country and frankly the world.
The CMO said her presentation, which included the TV spot, was prepared before Sunday’s events. “Please, if you could understand, some of the material that you will see in here reflects the campaign that we launched, unfortunately, about two weeks ago and then immediately shut it down on Sunday night,” she said. Tomovich did not say if the campaign will resume.
MGM spent 18 months crafting and implementing the initiative internally before debuting its integrated campaign to the public. The goal was to transform it from a hotel and casino business to a global entertainment brand, a move it saw as vital after the recession of 2008 nearly bankrupted the company.
Every employee received access to a hotline to resolve customer complaints on the spot, the ability to offer comps and the acronym SHOW as a customer service guide: Smile and greet, Hear their story, Own the experience, Wow the guest.
That training helped some employees through this week’s darkest moments, Tomovich said.
Belper Town chairman Alan Benfield has resigned from the club - less than 24 hours after sacking boss Aaron Webster.
He confirmed the news on Monday morning and will be joined by fellow local businessmen Chris Balls and Paul Waldron in leaving the club.
The club’s company secretary, Dave Laughlin said, “Alan and Chris have been valuable board members for 25 years with Paul being involved more recently.
“There is no doubt that their involvement and financial support will be badly missed, but the club will carry on with the remaining directors and will look to make boardroom replacements over the next couple of months.
“The hope is that we can identify find interested individuals who would be prepared to get involved with the club at Board level and help the remaining directors build for the future.
“There have been rumours circulating about a possible sale of the club to an overseas investor but I’m pleased to say that these have not come to fruition and the club will remain in local hands, with local people making the decisions for the benefit of the club.
“There is no doubt that these are challenging times for the club but I am confident that with the drive and enthusiasm of the remaining board members, we can rebuild the club after what has been a desperately difficult season.
“We are fortunate that we own our own stadium, have facilities that are as good as any club at our level and our finances are manageable, despite the ongoing challenges of operating at our level in the National League System.
“We are in a great position to move forward positively and with planning consent achieved for a new artificial training pitch at the stadium, we hope to make this a reality over the next 12 months so that the club can be fully self-reliant”.
“In the meantime, we have started the process of appointing a new manager to success Aaron Webster and will also be looking to supplement our band of club volunteers on whom we depend to ensure that the club operates efficiently.
“Accordingly, we would be interested in hearing from any individuals that would like to become involved with the club both on match days and throughout the week, with a variety of voluntary roles available across the club.
Gavin Allott has been ruled out of Boston United’s clash at York City.
The 10-goal striker has failed to get over a thigh injury picked up in last week’s defeat to Chorley.
Defender Ryan Cresswell will make his debut after arriving from Mickleover yesterday while Nicky Wroe returns to the starting XI to face his former club.
Max Wright also returns to the side with Jonathan Wafula, suspended Ben Middleton and Jake Wright, unavailable to face his parent club, missing out.
YORK: Bartlett, Griffiths, Ferguson, Newton, Mirfin, McLoughlin, Moke, Burgess, Parkin, Burrow, Langstaff; Subs: Bencherif, York, Kempster, Harris, Whitley.
UNITED: Willis, Davies, Smith, Wroe, Cresswell, Qualter, Thanoj, Abbott, Rollins, Walker, Wright; Subs: Wafula, Clare, Johnson, Slew, Jackson.
Between hearing that Nicole Richie will be the first guest judge and now seeing Tim Gunn's usual fatherly concern erupt into straight-up consternation in a preview clip, we're a little concerned about the new "Runway" cast.
In an preview clip of the new season, the contestants look more than a little behind for one of the challenges. As in: one designer's piece is still, well, in pieces on the table. Gunn is so frustrated that he drops what may end up becoming his new catchphrase for the season: "Recalibrate your ambitions."
Overall, the whole scene makes us think this season's group might be in serious trouble with incomplete work and, quite frankly, underwhelming performance compared to what the designers had in mind for themselves. Granted, we're all hoping for drama (last season was decidedly underwhelming on that front), but we also want to see some good design. We'll be watching!
While ATI and its newfound parent AMD continue discussing the potential benefits of actually pairing their technologies into one cohesive unit, now that their companies have been paired together in a similar fashion, their principal rival in the graphics arena decided it isn't waiting to make a similar play with Intel.
NVidia today may have launched the stand-alone GPU-centric computer business all by its lonesome, with today's announcement of a kind of computer system specifically designed to mesh graphics processors together to perform rich math functions.
The goal of nVidia's new Tesla computer, if it can be believed, is nothing short of staggering: over 2,000 gigaflops - billions of floating-point operations per second - in a system that meshes together four GPUs in parallel, each of which contains not two, not four, but 128 pipeline processors. If this is true, nVidia has surged all the way into multi-teraflop territory with a device that fits into a 1U package. By comparison, a 4P dual-core Itanium-based server (eight cores total) registers about 45 gigaflops in recent LINPACK tests.
Of course, the secret is that these GPUs aren't working in place of CPUs. They can't, because their instruction sets are not compatible. Applications have to be written in C and compiled the old-fashioned way, for execution through an operating system driver that dispatches math instructions to the GPU cluster's multiple pipelines. NVidia already produces tools for compiling C applications for GPU execution, using what the company calls CUDA architecture.
It will be hard to make initial comparisons at this level of CUDA applications against traditional CPU-driven programs, because if you think about it, a "floating-point operation" is a concept that is based essentially on CPU architectures. In the GPU realm, where matrix calculations can drive thousands of parallel computations just as easily as a single one - and with memory bandwidth hoisted to an incredible 76.8 GB/sec - a "flop" may be something entirely different than we generally accept it to be.
The first Tesla units are scheduled to go on sale this August. Don't expect it to be sold to the back-to-school crowd or to the gaming elite; this is a device that universities and research institutions will want to study. The problem they face now is, do they have to buy one in order to study it to see whether it's worth purchasing?
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign senior research programmer John Stone has jumped the gun on his academic colleagues, and has already experimented with prototypes.
In a prepared statement today, Stone said, "Many of the molecular structures we analyze are so large that they can take weeks of processing time to run the calculations required for their physical simulation. NVidia's GPU computing technology has given us a 100-fold increase in some of our programs, and this is on desktop machines where previously we would have had to run these calculations to a cluster."
The Tesla will support 32- and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3, 4, and 5; 32- and 64-bit SUSE Enterprise Linux versions 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3; and 32-bit Windows XP (curiously not 64-bit yet, and not Vista).
This is a re-post of a piece by Andrew Stafford a Brisbane-based journalist who writes widely on music, sport and birds and birding. It was first published at Staffo’s Patreon page, where, for not much more than the price of a cup of coffee a month, you can read more of his wonderful words. You can—and should— follow Staff on Twitter @staffo_sez.
The use and control of fire has long been assumed to be a skill unique to humans. Or at least, it’s a Western assumption – one that may not be shared by this country’s Aboriginal people, at least not those of northern Australia. According to a fascinating paper recently published in the Journal of Ethnobiology, it’s possible that birds of prey beat us to it. Moreover, it’s a phenomenon that’s long been recognised in sacred Aboriginal ceremonies.
But the idea that “firehawks” (a generic term for three widespread Australian raptors, the Black Kite, Whistling Kite and Brown Falcon) might intentionally spread bushfires to smoke out prey has for decades been treated with scepticism in scientific circles. This carefully written paper, by multiple authors including Alice Springs-based lawyer and blogger Bob Gosford, may finally change that.
It documents both Indigenous ecological knowledge and many first-hand observations by non-Indigenous people, including firefighters, of these avian pyromaniacs. As fires burn themselves out, the hawks pick up burning or smoking material – presumably at some risk to themselves – and carry it up to a kilometre before dropping it in unburned areas with the aim of creating fresh fronts on which to forage (as well as fresh headaches for firefighters).
There’s a delicious tension in the paper’s combination of new and ancient knowledge. It claims that across the world, sacred traditions connect raptors, crows and even cockatoos to the origins of fire. In Australia, it notes that around Ngukurr, in the Roper River region of the southern Top End, the Yabaduruwa ceremony sees Aboriginal people carrying out re-enactments of raptors both carrying and propagating fire.
This is an extraordinary claim: that the First Nations people of this continent – the oldest known living culture on earth – might have learned at least one way of manipulating fire for their own ends simply by watching birds.
Gosford muses over whether the tendency to dismiss such stories is a manifestation of cultural arrogance or, more innocently, a blind spot. “Mainstream Australian ornithology has never developed an appreciation of Aboriginal knowledge of birds, and so there’s this huge corpus of knowledge that’s just locked away,” he says. He once called Australia an “ornithological Terra Nullius” – a scorching epithet.
At the same time, he and his fellow authors were aware of a serious ethical issue: knowledge about firehawks was intimately connected to sacred ceremonies, sites and traditions. There is “inside” knowledge that only people who have been through the appropriate ceremonies are privy to. So, other than historical accounts such as Waipuldanya’s above, new data from Aboriginal sources has been excluded from this paper.
It’s hoped that future collaborations with Aboriginal authors will expand upon the knowledge summarised in the present paper in a way that will protect “inside” knowledge while reproducing “outside” accounts. For now, the new and most compelling data comes from a series of eyewitness observations, including by Aboriginal fire rangers and non-Indigenous firefighters.
One is co-author Nathan Ferguson. Currently stationed at Tennant Creek 1000 kilometres south of Darwin, he put out fires for the Australian Army for seven years and has been with the Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service for twice as long again. He reports witnessing avian fire-spreading on multiple occasions, and says it’s a possible variable that he’d heard canvassed in firefighting meetings from close to the beginning of his career.
The next step is to try to capture the behaviour on film, which the team are hoping to do during planned field experiments in May, to fully and finally silence the doubters. But heads have already been turned. Dr Stephen Debus, an expert on Australian raptors, and former Birds Queensland president Richard Noske both told New Scientist they were convinced by the weight of evidence presented in the Journal of Ethnobiology paper.
All this has major ramifications for land use and conservation across Australia’s northern savannahs and potentially beyond. Changed fire regimes by Europeans from those practiced for millennia by Aboriginal people wrought dramatic changes on the Australian landscape, a factor which imperilled (and continues to imperil) the existence of many native species. How do we account for birds as another potential fire vector?
Gosford’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since the paper was published. While the response in Australia has so far been somewhat muted, a story on New Scientist’s Facebook page was approaching 750K views at last count, with other publications expressing interest from all over the world. It’s already been cited in another, more highly ranked peer-reviewed journal, Evolutionary Ecology.
Computer Sciences Corp. has won a contract worth up to $307 million from the Air Force Air Education Training Command to provide base maintenance and operations support services, the company announced today. The one-year contract also has nine one-year options.
Under the contract, CSC of El Segundo, Calif., will provide a wide scope of base maintenance and operations support for the 81st Training Wing at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi.
Services will include facilities operation and maintenance; receiving, inventorying and distribution of supplies; fuels management; weather forecasting and reporting; and housing and personnel management.
The final decision on the contract award will be made after a 30-day public review period and administrative appeals process is completed, in accordance with an Office of Management and Budget mandate.
Keesler Air Force Base is responsible for training about 4,700 students each day.