1. Technical Field
The invention relates to an apparatus and process for trapping fine particles entrained in hydrocarbon fluids produced from an unconsolidated hydrocarbon-bearing formation and more particularly to an apparatus and process for gravel packing a wellbore in fluid communication with an unconsolidated hydrocarbon-bearing formation.
2. Background Information
A hydrocarbon production well in fluid communication with an unconsolidated formation is typically completed by casing the wellbore, cementing the casing, and perforating the well at spaced intervals down the length of the production zone. Without further steps, formation fluids produced into the wellbore can entrain fine particles such as sand. The presence of fine particles in the produced fluids presents operational problems for the wellbore tubing and other production equipment. Furthermore, if sand is allowed to wash out from behind the casing, the washed out sections of the wellbore can cave and subsequently collapse the casing.
Gravel packing is a method of trapping entrained sand and other fine particles before the formation fluids enter the production string. Many gravel packing methods exist in the art as exhibited by the following list of U.S. Pat. Nos.:
______________________________________ 3,216,497 Howard et al 3,884,301 Turner et al 4,018,282 Graham et al 4,018,283 Watkins 4,046,198 Gruesbeck et al 4,350,203 Widmyer 4,428,431 Landry et al 4,438,815 Elson et al 4,522,264 McNeer ______________________________________
U.S. Pat. No. 4,018,283 to Watkins exemplifies a circulating gravel packing process. In general, a circulating gravel packing process places a tubing string terminating in a perforated base pipe into a wellbore. The base pipe extends concentrically through the wellbore down the length of the production zone. The base pipe defines an annulus in the wellbore between it and the production zone.
The gravel pack is performed by injecting a slurry containing gravel and a carrier fluid into this annulus. The gravel accumulates in the annulus while the carrier fluid leaks off through a screen into the base pipe and circulates back to the wellhead. Gravel packing is continued until the entire annulus adjacent the production zone is filled with gravel.
An optimum gravel pack is uniformly packed throughout the annulus. If the gravel pack contains non-uniformities, produced fluids carrying fine particles can channel through the gravel pack and into the production tubing. This defeats the filtering function of the gravel pack.
Circulating gravel packing processes continually confront the problem of bridging, duning and the formation of other non-uniformities, especially in wellbores deviating from the vertical. The upper end of a conventional base pipe often diverts the carrier fluid from the annulus before the slurry reaches the lower end of the annulus. Gravel prematurely builds up at the point of leakoff which creates a bridge in the upper annulus and a void in the lower annulus.
A circulating gravel packing apparatus and process are needed which enable proper leak off of the carrier fluid and which enable uniform gravel packing across the entire length of the annulus between the wellbore wall and the base pipe adjacent the production zone. An effective gravel packing apparatus and process are needed for highly deviated wells where the problem of bridging and duning is particularly acute.


FOX Exec Discusses The Exorcist, The Last Man on Earth, and Gotham

Deadline Hollywood talked with FOX Chairman Gary Newman at the INTV conference about several of the network’s shows, and he had less than promising things to say about The Exorcist and The Last Man on Earth. For the former show, his comment was that it’s “clearly a show that’s on the bubble.” Apparently FOX hoped that they would “be able to tap into a moviegoing crowd who didn’t want to go out to the movies”, but the show’s numbers were low in its first year and slipped further this past Fall. As for The Last Man on Earth, Newman said that one was also a “bubble show” and that whether it comes back is “really going to be a matter of, as we sit down and schedule, what kind of room do we have? How do our pilots pan out?” Newman also talked about Gotham and seemed more upbeat at that show: “We asked a lot of it this year moving to Thursday nights and I thought it did a pretty good job of opening up that night for us. I feel like Gotham should have a place in our schedule.” He did qualify that by stating that is its “purely be a matter of scheduling.”

Those are definitely not encouraging words for The Exorcist and The Last Man on Earth, especially considering that network execs usually try and talk up even their poorest performing shows. I have had the former series On the Bubble most of the season and I will probably be moving that one to Cancellation Likely. The Last Man on Earth has been a bubble show for the majority of its four seasons, but I thought they would give it one more year to get it to a syndication friendly count of episodes. I am not so sure about that at this point. For Gotham, I figured its fate depended on what sort of deal its studio Warner Bros. offered to FOX, but it sounds like the network has a definite interest in it returning to the schedule. All three of these shows could definitely use a Call to Action from fans at this point which could potentially sway the network’s decision because the fate for none of them appears to be secured at this point.

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is Closed for Good

BBC America’s sci fi comedy series Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency was cancelled in December of last year, but fans have held out hope and carried on a raucous campaign as the show’s producers have shopped it around to other venues. But executive producer Arvind Ethan David has confirmed in the tweet below that they were unable to find a new home for the show and that it will not return for a third season.

An update for all of you working to #SaveDirkGently — from all of us who made #DirkGently with much, much love. #Dirktectives pic.twitter.com/FozJgKHUH4 — Arvind Ethan David (@ArvD) March 10, 2018

That show took top honors in our Fall Save My Show poll and also managed to rack up over 100K signatures from its online petition. It sure seems like one of the networks or streaming services would have had an interest in continuing a show that had that much support, but the entertainment industry has a very short attention span and is probably already looking for the next thing. Fans have started up a new petition to at least get a finale for the show, and as of this writing it is closing in on its five thousand signature goal after only two days. Stay tuned for updates on that.

Ratings Results of Interest: Timeless Has Decent Debut

On Sunday, NBC’s Timeless returned for its second season and posted a 0.8 rating based on same day viewing for the 18-49 demographic. Those are decent numbers for the Sunday 10 PM EST timeslot, but that does not give the show much leeway for slippage. Fans will definitely need to remain vigilant in support of this one on the social networks. Over on AMC, The Walking Dead slipped yet again, this time to a 2.8 rating with 6.6 million total viewers as the “Walking Dexit” carries on. Over on Starz, Ash vs. Evil Dead improved slightly to a 0.08 rating with 160K total viewers, but its numbers remain below its prior season average.

On Saturday, USA’s Falling Water improved slightly to a 0.11 rating with 335K total viewers, though those numbers are still pretty low.

On Friday, Agents of SHIELD remained low at a 0.5 rating with two million total viewers as that show’s prospects seem to have taken a downward turn at this point in its fifth season.

On Thursday, Gotham slipped to a series low 0.7 rating with 2.4 million total viewers. If those numbers continues to sink as it wraps up its fourth season, FOX may lose interest in trying to find a place for it on next year’s schedule. Also on Thursday, Freeform’s Beyond almost fell off the radar as it slipped to a 0.05 rating with 153K total viewers. That show’s future is very much in doubt at the moment. ABC’s Kevin (Probably) Saves the World had its season finale on Tuesday and improved to a 0.7 rating with 2.5 million total viewers. But that seems like too little too late to help that show much.

You can see the full ratings results at this link, and you can keep up with the latest ratings results throughout the week at the Cancelled Sci Fi Twitter Site.


[Bacterial meningitis with a low leukocyte count at the beginning of hospital treatment].
The clinical pictures and the course of bacterial meningitides in 7 patients with leukocytes in the peripheral blood below 6.0 x 10(9)/l was examined out of 7 patients 6 were female and 1 male, from 7 months to 56 years of age, the mean age X = 22.3 years. At the beginning of the hospital treatment, patients from this group were more frequently afebrile or subfebrile (5 patients) meningitic signs significant (4 patients). Parameters of nonspecific inflammatory response in blood, SE and fibrinogenaemia were less expressed, while the response in liquor to bacterial infection was normal. Gram-negative bacteria were more frequently isolated among etiologically established causes of meningitides. In patients with leukocytes below 6.0 x 10(9)/l, purulent meningitides were more often serious and very serious diseases (4). There were no complications in some patients and 5 patients were completely cured (71.42%), while in 2 patients (28.58%) there was a mild hyperproteinorrachia in the liquor at the time of leaving hospital.


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Another one bites the dust

Do you ever sit and think about all of the things you've done in a 24 hour period? Sometimes when I make the mental list, my life seems so completely disjunct that I have to laugh at myself. Does any of this stuff really matter? For example, the last 24-ish hours of my life:

Cleaned out from under the master bathroom cabinets, throwing away expired medicines and crap we don't use,

Did some laundry,

Frantically pumped gas and fought traffic from behind a school bus to pick up S's rocking chair while trying to make it to swim class on time,

Swam like a very pregnant fishie,

Fought traffic again to pick up dinner and meet M at the hospital for another birth-related class (woo-hoo for the lack of videos),

Realized, simultaneously with hubby, that "rhythmic breathing" through contractions is not for me as practicing it nearly sent me into hyperventilating panic attacks,

Actually considered, for the very first time, the possibility of a drug-free childbirth,

Watched Justin Timberlake open the great spectacle that is the VS Fashion Show and wondered if he knew, upon recording SexyBack, that he'd get to perform/drool at the supermodels in the show,

Discussed with Otis how he always uses the same tricks to try to get attention and it's getting old (he should learn a new trick),

Finished the dining chairs,

Painted the pink stripe on S's dresser,

Decided to type this asinine list chronicling what I've been doing, and

Realized that no one is likely to still be reading this post.

Everything just seems so bizarrely random and unimportant...I take that back, I count childbirth classes and laundry as fairly important. It just seems like the rest of this stuff is trivial, and when I realize that about 90% of the stuff I do would be considered trivial by about 90% of the general population, I wonder if my life is trivial. Not in a morose, listen to the Cure in a dark room while smoking clove cigarettes kind of way- just in a "how can I make a difference" sort of way. I'm sure that, for the rest of the day, I'll be consumed by that question...entranced in a philosophical state that most of the population would deem trivial.

You're living your life! All I do, I feel, is grade papers and procrastinate and then complain about all the papers I have to grade. This is why the thought of going shoe shopping this weekend has me frantically happy. You're making things happen!

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Joe Girardi Has Faith

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The postseason has so far provided a useful corrective to what I thought of Joe Girardi after reading (and writing about) Gay Talese’s recent profile of the Yankee manager in the New Yorker. One thing I didn’t say, but probably should have, in trying to puzzle out why Talese made Girardi seem so bland, was that perhaps Girardi himself is bland, just not interesting enough for a long profile. I blamed Talese, but Girardi might actually have been the culprit.

Yet I’m glad I didn’t make that speculation. These playoffs have put Girardi into numerous tough positions where his binder was going to get him only so far, and his character and instinct were going to have to take over.

First thing first: Girardi has a reputation as a bullpen tinkerer. I don’t know whether the numbers really bear that out, but I was prepared for long slogs through the late innings of the Yankee postseason as Coffee Joe did his Joba-Rapada two-steps, drove his Buffalo Bill Cody Eppley to Dan’l Boone Logan wagon train, all to get to the shining sea of Robertson and Soriano. (No, I did not expect David Phelps to pitch high-leverage innings; but then, neither did David Phelps, probably.)

So it was a delight to see Girardi stick with his starters longer than the Orioles’ Buck Showalter did. After two games of the ALDS, Yankee relievers had thrown only 17 of 235 total team pitches, all by David Robertson. For the series, Yankee starters threw 78 percent of the team’s pitches; Orioles starters, 63. The capper, of course, was CC Sabathia’s complete-game closeout in Game Five, during which he looked so unflappable, so much like a man simply going to work, that it was easy to fail to marvel at the canny way he mixed and located his pitches—and all of this in a game that was far from a blowout. It was as if he made Coffee Joe calm; Girardi just let him go.

Now as Ben Lindberghnoted after Game Two of the ALCS, “some questionable calls by Girardi… exacerbated” what was already a bad night for New York. Some of those calls were the ones he made to the bullpen in rapid sequence in the eighth inning, which resulted in five straight Tigers facing five different pitchers, with basically game-ending results.

But at that point, desperation had set in, the instantly infamous blown call at second base having torn a hole in the painted scenery flats of the Yankees’ postseason theater. I found myself thinking that the main reason we need umpires to get calls right is, more (and more simply) than any other, so that ballplayers and managers can do their jobs the way they’re supposed to be done. Omar Infante made a bad mistake there, Nick Swisher and the Yankees made him pay for it, and Nelson took away what they had earned, forcing them to do more and harder work. That work, which included the domino-fall of relievers, essentially guaranteed failure, I thought, including Girardi’s failure to get Robertson or Soriano ready in case of meltdown.

Which was what happened, of course. Hindsight questions: Does Girardi leave his three days’ rest starter in there to get one more out if Nelson makes the right call? (I was watching at work with no sound on, one eye on my customers at the bar, no contextual understanding of the situation.) If he was going to make a change regardless, should he have gone against matchup handedness and used Joba Chamberlain versus the left-handed Quintin Berry, instead of setting up Boone Logan against Avisail Garcia? The right-handed Chamberlain was actually better against lefties this season, and Berry historically has hit right-handers a good deal worse than he has hit southpaws.

But I don’t want to play three-ring-binder (or rather, iPad) games with Girardi here. He made his bad decision—the only bad one he had made to that point, perhaps, since the playoffs began—and anyway maybe the data he needed came from a different book: Logan’s Run means mandatory premature death, and this was the inning that did in the Yankees before their natural time. (And don’cha know, one of the projectiles Logan’s gun fires is called a Homer.)

Joe Girardi is managing. He is irate, yet he banks his rage at umpire Jeff Nelson until after Logan allows Avisail’s hit—no rocket, which makes it worse; a soft soul-crusher. It’s 2-0 and the Tigers are going to win. It’s obvious. Girardi comes out and we see the flip side of the “soulful monkishness” Talese saw in him, religious intensity wronged by sin. Girardi blows a gasket, because it’s obvious to him, too, that New York has lost. Jeff Nelson has cost Girardi the game. I’m not sure if Girardi is trying to get ejected here, exactly—there’s something tactical in all manager freakouts, even when they’re unexpectedly sparked—but I do know that he must get ejected. He acted on good faith and Nelson violated it. This line—the line of faith—cannot be crossed.

I can’t help thinking that part of what Girardi was mad at was the way in which Nelson missed the call. Nelson was in the right position, but he was looking only at Infante’s hand and didn’t see Robinson Cano tag him in the chest. Umpires are managers of the game, too, in a sense, and as such they need to have a stepped-back view, just as a skipper does. They need to see multiple things at once; they need to anticipate. Nelson had tunnel vision, and that tunnel vision sent Girardi down a tunnel of his own: a tunnel of relievers, which is never good.

Above all, Girardi had to broadcast to the ballpark and the TV audience that this was simply not okay, as he did again later in his pointed comments about the need for instant replay. Talese made a big deal about Girardi’s faith in his article, and in this case Girardi was really making a plea to the higher power of video. There is a greater authority out there, he seemed to be saying. Why not use it? Why let the error and shortcoming of our ways sabotage us and lead us down the path to ruin?

It’s starting to seem to me like Joe Girardi’s binder is only a prayer book, and that he’s really operating on faith alone. The cardinal evidence of this argument is his decision to bench Alex Rodriguez. It was the right move to pinch-hit for him, but the right move is often the one that defies sentiment, honor, tradition. God has no Hall of Fame. Humility is necessary, especially for Rodriguez. Clarity is all. “We cannot revive old policies or beat an antique drum,” writes the religious poet. I’m starting to see the character of Joe Girardi. I’m starting not to think he’s bland anymore. I’m thinking Gay Talese looked at all the wrong things, and the one thing he didn’t look at was Joe Girardi managing a game. I recall thinking, after I read Talese’s profile, that Talese came off as not really understanding baseball at all, and now Joe Girardi is showing me why I thought that.

I admired Girardi’s strong postgame words about the need for instant replay, and for noting practicalities (he’s a Midwesterner, after all) like the comparative length of time between checking a replay and arguing a call. I admired him for his patience in explaining to yet another reporter who was missing the point that a 1-0 game is vastly different from a 3-0 game, and also why it’s different. He was a man straddling the worlds of patience and impatience, as a manager must but often does not, as the truly faithful do.

And I admired him for helping the injured Derek Jeter off the field. It’s probable that he would have done the same for Jayson Nix or Nick Swisher or anyone else (even A-Rod, though? and would Jim Leyland do that for Miguel Cabrera?). Still, this was Derek Jeter. This was an extraordinary circumstance, perhaps the single most extraordinary Yankee circumstance since the 2004 ALCS meltdown against Boston, if not the 2001 World Series. Girardi was communicating to the crowd—the thinned-out, disbelieving, disappointing crowd, like tourists visiting a church—that he knew what the moment meant, and that he was equal to its gravity and crisis. He was also acting like a teammate, not aloof or above as he often seems to be. He’s in this in the same way that his players are.

Game Three: He sits A-Rod again. Sits Nick Swisher, too. But should he have benched Curtis Granderson, instead? What do the numbers tell us, or maybe more accurately, tell him? Swisher: 11-55 lifetime against Verlander, four doubles, three homers, seven walks, 20 strikeouts, 727 OPS. Granderson: 3-16 lifetime against Verlander, two doubles, one homer, two walks, seven strikeouts, 778 OPS. Both mired in dreadful slumps. (The whole team mired in dreadful slumps.) Granderson a bad fielder, apparently, Swisher better. Granderson: former Tiger. Is that an asset? Swisher was shaken by his treatment by the home fans over the weekend, and told reporters so. Is that a liability?

Did Girardi make this choice on faith, then? A hunch? Something he knew about Granderson and Swisher and we didn’t? It appears not to have mattered much, in the end. Girardi’s faith is being tested in this series because he is going to lose it, regardless. The ninth-inning dramatics in Game One were, it seems, just an initializing confirmation of Girardi’s faith, a way of reminding him in advance that there will be reason to believe even after Jeter breaks his ankle and Jeff Nelson breaks Game Two and Phil Hughes breaks his back in the fourth inning of Game Three. This time the bullpen chain didn’t break, but Eric Chavez—playing for A-Rod, of course—let one get through them, anyway.

Girardi makes the right moves, the faithful moves—although he again keeps his two best relievers out of the game, for no good reason—and they will not work. Eduardo Nunez isn’t starting because he’s better than Jayson Nix, he’s playing because he isn’t Jayson Nix. Nunez’s ninth-inning home run proves nothing. Joe Girardi knows this. He knows the same of Robinson Cano’s subsequent 0-for-29-ending single. There’s no proof of anything to the faithful, only the promise of what is to come, which is unknown, and which has to be lived for.

But he should have pinch-hit A-Rod for Ibanez in the ninth. Check the numbers.

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if i read correctly, arod had homers in each of the last times he had faced the big V, and i wondered why he didn't start, though not surprised by it; at any rate, i think girardi has big ones, and think he was the victim of his recent success in the ninth, when ibanez, the savior, was in a bad matchup against coke, who would seem like the answer to arod's prayer, if ever he was going to be saved...as for nunez, he had the kind of at-bat against the almighty V that even an nyy fan has a hard time fathoming


Last updated on .From the section England

Sturridge scored as Liverpool were beaten 2-1 by Manchester United

Daniel Sturridge has been ruled out of England's Euro 2016 qualifier with Lithuania on Friday with a hip injury.

The Liverpool striker, 25, also misses the friendly against Italy in Turin on Tuesday, 31 March.

Sturridge sustained the problem during Liverpool's 2-1 Premier League defeat by Manchester United on Sunday.

His absence could pave the way for Tottenham's Harry Kane to make his debut at Wembley for the Group E leaders.

Sturridge's Liverpool team-mate Adam Lallana is out of the England squad after suffering a groin injury against Louis van Gaal's side and has been replaced by the uncapped Ryan Mason.

Sturridge had been hoping to make his first England appearance since September when he played in the 1-0 friendly victory over Norway.

Since then, injury has forced him to miss all of England's Euro 2016 qualifiers - against Switzerland, San Marino, Estonia and Slovenia - as well as the friendly against Scotland.

The England medical team took the decision to rule him out on Monday evening, having assessed the striker following the squad's arrival at St. George's Park earlier in the day.

Sturridge scored the hosts' consolation against Manchester United at Anfield, but afterwards complained of discomfort in his hip.

Uncapped Kane, captain Wayne Rooney and Arsenal's Danny Welbeck are alternative forward options.

England lead qualifying Group E by six points thanks to a 100% record in their first four games.

The top two countries qualify automatically for the finals in France next summer.

Revised squad

Goalkeepers: Joe Hart (Manchester City), Rob Green (Queens Park Rangers), Jack Butland (Stoke City).

Defenders: Leighton Baines (Everton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Nathaniel Clyne (Southampton), Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal), Phil Jagielka (Everton), Phil Jones (Manchester United), Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).

Midfielders: Ross Barkley (Everton), Michael Carrick (Manchester United), Fabian Delph (Aston Villa), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Ryan Mason (Tottenham), James Milner (Manchester City), Raheem Sterling (Liverpool), Andros Townsend (Tottenham Hotspur), Theo Walcott (Arsenal).

Forwards: Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Danny Welbeck (Arsenal).


'Sonny' Ransom

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Posted: Sunday, April 13, 2003

James ''Sonny'' Ransom, of 315 North Bluff Drive, died Wednesday, April 9, 2003.

A native of Greene County, Mr. Ransom was a son of the late Lazarus and Nora Bell Dunn Ransom. He was employed by Clarke County Board of Education as a custodian at Fourth St. Elementary School and attended Randolph Baptist Church, Union Point.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Randolph Baptist Church with the Rev. Tommy Johnson officiating. The body will be placed in the church at noon. Burial will be in the church cemetery.


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Distributed interactive virtual environments for collaborative experiential learning and training independent of distance over Internet2.
Medical knowledge and skills essential for tomorrow's healthcare professionals continue to change faster than ever before creating new demands in medical education. Project TOUCH (Telehealth Outreach for Unified Community Health) has been developing methods to enhance learning by coupling innovations in medical education with advanced technology in high performance computing and next generation Internet2 embedded in virtual reality environments (VRE), artificial intelligence and experiential active learning. Simulations have been used in education and training to allow learners to make mistakes safely in lieu of real-life situations, learn from those mistakes and ultimately improve performance by subsequent avoidance of those mistakes. Distributed virtual interactive environments are used over distance to enable learning and participation in dynamic, problem-based, clinical, artificial intelligence rules-based, virtual simulations. The virtual reality patient is programmed to dynamically change over time and respond to the manipulations by the learner. Participants are fully immersed within the VRE platform using a head-mounted display and tracker system. Navigation, locomotion and handling of objects are accomplished using a joy-wand. Distribution is managed via the Internet2 Access Grid using point-to-point or multi-casting connectivity through which the participants can interact. Medical students in Hawaii and New Mexico (NM) participated collaboratively in problem solving and managing of a simulated patient with a closed head injury in VRE; dividing tasks, handing off objects, and functioning as a team. Students stated that opportunities to make mistakes and repeat actions in the VRE were extremely helpful in learning specific principles. VRE created higher performance expectations and some anxiety among VRE users. VRE orientation was adequate but students needed time to adapt and practice in order to improve efficiency. This was also demonstrated successfully between Western Australia and UNM. We successfully demonstrated the ability to fully immerse participants in a distributed virtual environment independent of distance for collaborative team interaction in medical simulation designed for education and training. The ability to make mistakes in a safe environment is well received by students and has a positive impact on their understanding, as well as memory of the principles involved in correcting those mistakes. Bringing people together as virtual teams for interactive experiential learning and collaborative training, independent of distance, provides a platform for distributed "just-in-time" training, performance assessment and credentialing. Further validation is necessary to determine the potential value of the distributed VRE in knowledge transfer, improved future performance and should entail training participants to competence in using these tools.


Got this on my Dashcam last night in Brooklyn started filming from McDonald ave and avenue I going down ave I till east 15 - if anyone knows any owners of the cars that got hit let them know.-The cops were called rite away at the first accident and i was on the phone with them the whole time.at the end the guy came out of his car was taking down to the ground and held till the cops showed up and arested him.


The Washoe County School District’s ousted superintendent, Traci Davis, won’t be taking the principal job at West Prep Academy in Las Vegas.

Instead, she has been hired as a third-grade teacher at Kit Carson International Academy, a magnet elementary school in Las Vegas, Clark County School District officials confirmed late Monday. A document showing licensed personal employment, approved by the Clark County School Board last week, lists her effective salary as $39,355 and her start date as Nov. 27, 2019.

Her employment as a teacher comes several months after school district officials confirmed that Davis had been recommended for the principal position at West Prep Academy by the school organizational team and Superintendent Jesus Jara. In July, Davis was terminated as Washoe County’s superintendent for allegedly being involved in leaking confidential information. But Clark County’s top education leader praised the potential Davis recruitment.

“I am extremely excited to recommend a proven leader to turnaround West Prep Academy,” Jara said in a statement at the time.

Her candidacy, however, sparked some public criticism and never moved forward. Davis’ proposed contract was abruptly pulled from a Clark County School Board meeting, where it was up for approval, in November.

Less than a month later, on Dec. 9, the school board approved the selection of Monica Lang as West Prep’s next principal. Lang most recently served as principal of Canarelli Middle School.

At the same meeting, trustees approved the transfer of two assistant principals — Yolanda Brown and Stacy Schaumburg — to West Prep. Schaumburg also came from Canarelli Middle School; Brown transferred from Bonanza High School.

District officials would not comment on why Davis didn’t wind up with the West Prep principal position, nor did they initially say whether she was under consideration for other jobs aside from noting she would follow the normal application process.

After the original version of this story published, The Nevada Independent received information indicating Davis had been hired as a teacher. Bryan Callahan, a public information specialist for the school district, later confirmed that and said he hadn’t been aware of her hire during the initial conversation.

District officials could not immediately explain how her salary for the third-grade position was determined. Davis previously worked in the Clark County School District before moving north and serving as the Washoe County School District’s deputy superintendent and, later, superintendent.

Davis could not immediately be reached for comment.

Jara plans to hold a news conference Tuesday at West Prep, where the superintendent’s student equity and access commission will unveil a report examining ways the district can “optimize rigorous academic experiences,” officials said.

This story has been updated to correct wording regarding the approval of the West Prep principal and assistant principals. It was updated a second time to include new information provided by the Clark County School District regarding the employment status of Traci Davis.


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|-----------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Searchable Post | We only index a post when it is in the `published` state and if its post type is not `excluded_from_search`. |
| Post            | We only index a post when it is in the `published` state if it has no password.                              |
| Term            | We only index a term if it has been assigned to at least 1 post (count > 0).                                 |
| User            | We index a user if he has authored at least 1 post.                                                          |

You can hook into the indexing decision making for searchable posts, posts, terms and users by using respectively the `algolia_should_index_searchable_post`, `algolia_should_index_post`, `algolia_should_index_term` and `algolia_should_index_user` filters.

**Here is an example for filtering user indexing:**

```php
<?php
/**
 * @param bool $should_index
 * @param WP_User $user
 *
 * @return bool
 */
function filter_user( $should_index, $user ) {
	if ( false === $should_index ) {
		return false;
	}

	return $user->ID !== 1;
}

add_filter( 'algolia_should_index_user', 'filter_user', 10, 2 );
```

In the above example, User with ID 1 would never get indexed. This example is trivial, but at least gives you a quick overview on how to filter your items to index.
Also note how we return `false` early on if the decision has already been taken to not index the content.

**Another example to exclude posts from the searchable_posts index where the noindex option from the Yoast SEO plugin is set to "noindex"**

This example assumes you are using the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress

```php
<?php
/**
 * Don't index pages where the robot index option
 * in the Yoast SEO plugin is set to noindex.
 *
 * @param bool    $should_index
 * @param WP_Post $post
 *
 * @return bool
 */
function filter_post( $should_index, WP_Post $post )
{
    if ( false === $should_index ) {
        return false;
    }

    return get_post_meta($post->ID, '_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex', true) == 1 ? false : true;
}

// Hook into Algolia to manipulate the post that should be indexed.
add_filter( 'algolia_should_index_searchable_post', 'filter_post', 10, 2 );
```

**Exclude post types from `searchable_posts_index`**

In this example we exclude the `page` post type from the `searchable_posts` index.

```php
<?php
/**
 * @param bool    $should_index
 * @param WP_Post $post
 *
 * @return bool
 */
function exclude_post_types( $should_index, WP_Post $post )
{
    // Add all post types you don't want to make searchable.
    $excluded_post_types = array( 'page' );
    if ( false === $should_index ) {
        return false;
    }

    return ! in_array( $post->post_type, $excluded_post_types, true );
}

// Hook into Algolia to manipulate the post that should be indexed.
add_filter( 'algolia_should_index_searchable_post', 'exclude_post_types', 10, 2 );
```

**Add post type to `searchable_posts_index`**

By default, the plugin will only index post types that are not flagged as excluded from search.

If you want to manually determine the post types you want to index, you can use the `algolia_searchable_post_types` filter:

```php
add_filter( 'algolia_searchable_post_types', function( $post_types ) {
    $post_types[] = 'custom_post_type';

    return $post_types;
} );
```

**Exclude a post by it's ID**

The following snippets skips the post with ID `18517`.

```php
<?php

function filter_post( $should_index, WP_Post $post )
{
    if ( 18517 === $post->ID ) {
        return false;
    }

    return $should_index;
}

// Hook into Algolia to manipulate the post that should be indexed.
add_filter( 'algolia_should_index_searchable_post', 'filter_post', 10, 2 );
add_filter( 'algolia_should_index_post', 'filter_post', 10, 2 );
```

## Queue processing

Every time a change of your content is detected, see [previous section](#triggers), we synchronize the item.

You can disable automatic sychronization by removing all the watchers using the `algolia_changes_watchers` filter:

```php
add_filter( 'algolia_changes_watchers', function() {
    return array();
} );
```


The federal government is warning residents in a small Wyoming town with extensive natural gas development not to drink their water, and to use fans and ventilation when showering or washing clothes in order to avoid the risk of an explosion.

The announcement accompanied results from a second round of testing and analysis in the town of Pavillion by Superfund investigators for the Environmental Protection Agency. Researchers found benzene, metals, naphthalene, phenols and methane in wells and in groundwater. They also confirmed the presence of other compounds that they had tentatively identified last summer and that may be linked to drilling activities.

"Last week it became clear to us that the information that we had gathered" "was going to potentially result in a hazard -- result in a recommendation to some of you that you not continue to drink your water," Martin Hestmark, deputy assistant regional administrator for ecosystems protection and remediation with the EPA in Denver, told a crowd of about 100 gathered at a community center in Pavillion Tuesday night. "We understand the gravity of that."

Representatives of the EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, which made the health recommendation, said they had not determined the cause of the contamination and said it was too early to tell whether gas drilling was to blame. In addition to contaminants related to oil and gas, the agency detected pesticides in some wells, and significant levels of nitrates in one sample -- signs that agricultural pollution could be partly to blame. The EPA's final report on Pavillion's water is expected early next year.

ProPublica first drew attention to Pavillion's water in late 2008, and reported extensively on the EPA's ongoing investigation there last August.

EnCana, the oil and gas company that owns most of the wells near Pavillion, has agreed to contribute to the cost of supplying residents with drinking water, even though the company has not accepted responsibility for the contamination.

EnCana spokesman Doug Hock told ProPublica in an e-mail that the petroleum hydrocarbon compounds the EPA found "covers an extremely wide spectrum of chemicals, many of which aren't associated with oil and gas."

"ATSDR's suggestion to landowners was based upon high levels of inorganics -- sodium and sulfate that are naturally occurring in the area," he said.

EPA scientists began investigating Pavillion's water in 2008 after residents complained about foul smells, illness and discolored water, and after state agencies declined to investigate. Last August the EPA found contaminants in a quarter of samples taken during the first stage of its investigation, and the agency announced it would continue with another round of samples -- the set being disclosed now.

In the meeting Tuesday, the agency shared results from tests of 23 wells, 19 of which supply drinking water to residents. It found low levels of hydrocarbon compounds -- various substances that make up oil -- in 89 percent of the drinking water wells it tested. Methane gas was detected in seven of the wells and was determined to have come from the gas reservoir being tapped for energy. Eleven of the wells contained low levels of the compound 2-butoxyethanol phosphate -- a compound associated with drilling processes but that is also used as a fire retardant and a plasticizer.

The scientists also found extremely high levels of benzene, a carcinogen, and other compounds in groundwater samples taken near old drilling disposal pits. Some of the samples were taken less than 200 yards from drinking water sources and scientists expressed concerns that the contaminated water was connected to drinking water wells by an underground aquifer.

"The groundwater associated with some inactive oil and gas production pits" "is in fact highly contaminated," Ayn Schmit, a scientist with the EPA's ecosystems protection program, told residents. But she also cautioned that the EPA has not determined the cause of the contamination and is continuing its investigation.


European car-market is collapsing, recovery may take years

The European car industry has weakened over the past months, with the chances of a recovery any time soon looking doubtful. Harsh austerity measures across the Eurozone have severely impacted the industry, driving demand down.

The demand for new cars in the 27-member European Union slumped
by 8.2% last year, hitting its lowest level since 1995, Europe's
automotive industry association reported. German new car sales data
showed a slump of more than 10% in February year-on-year. Tightened
consumer incomes, subdued wages and wide-spread austerity measures
across Europe, have driven the sales to rock bottom. Overcapacity
in the region is also a serious issue in the area. General
sentiment is still rather depressing, the president of Renault
Nissan, the world's fourth-largest automaker, Carlos Ghosn told the
media, speaking at the 83rd Geneva Motor Show.
"Capacity is a problem and competitiveness is a problem but these
are of second and third magnitude in comparison to the fact that
the total market is collapsing," Carlos Ghosn told CNBC.

Industry leaders have expressed pessimism about the European car
market recovering any time soon. Stephen Odell, CEO at Ford Europe
admitted the market would continue to fall again this year.

"The way we count Western Europe we would expect it's down
between 3 to 5 percent. So it's very tough and difficult,"
Odell told CNBC.

"Frankly, who knows what happens in the second half," he
said, as reported by Reuters, adding it could take four or five
years for the European market to recover to the 17-million to
18-million vehicle sales range seen in 2007, before the global
financial crisis erupted.

Even the CEO of luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover admitted
sales in Europe were "challenging" and would remain so for "years
to come."

"Overall it's challenging especially in the south of Europe but
there are some good opportunities in Eastern Europe and the UK is
stable," Ralph Speth told CNBC.

Chief executive Norbert Reithofer of German premium carmaker BMW
similarly warned of a long haul to recovery.
"We believe that the underlying problem in Europe, which is mainly
about debt, will persist for at least five more years," Mr
Reithofer told Reuters.

A Europe-wide strategy to deal with the industry's issues is
needed, Mr Ghosn told the Sky news.

"There should be some kind of European strategy encompassing
support for specific technologies, support for the development of
specific products," he said.


Thanks for the replies. The blokes I go for a ride in the mornings seemed to be interested in comparing the rides of some of the pros, but they were necessarily competing. It was more about the ride and less about the time.

When I have ridden classic climbs OS it has been part of longer trips riding most days (French Alps 2011 I rode 21 from 28 days 2100km and 75,000m vert) so rode most of the climbs tempo focusing on enjoying the climbs and didn't download. The few I did ride hard I did post to Strava (Mont Ventoux and Alpe d'Huez) out of curiosity. I hit the interval button for both climbs anyway, but posted on Strava mainly wanting to confirm I had used the correct start and finish points.

I did post all my rides from the USA trip from this year regardless of how I approached them, not sure why the change in behaviour? I don't bother with Strava at all when back home.

Note though that you won't be comparing your times to the pros as most of them don't post on Strava.

I certainly take an interest in how much I suck going up any given climb compared with the pros, using Strava on the iconic cols in France and Italy. There's a small but select band of top pros that do post Strava rides, such as Jeremy Roy, Thibaut Pinot and Laurens ten Dam.

But it doesn't stop me from looking at the scenery, enjoying the company of the people I'm riding with and thinking how lucky I am to be there. If Strava ever got more important than that I'd give it away.

When riding overseas, I'd rather try to find the most scenic routes and enjoy the ride. I may ride some famous climbs, but I will unlikely turn Strava on to record the ride (it's not a training session).

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Q:

Angular 8 - Can not call webapi

I am trying to get data from web api using parameter.i can't get data.no t showing error message also.
dash board component
Countrymodel: Country = {
        country_id: '',
        country_name: '',
        status: false
    }
    Countries: Observable;
constructor(private api: RestApiService, private router: Router) { }

ngOnInit() {
    let currentUserName = localStorage.getItem('currentUserName');
    console.log(currentUserName);
    this.GetCountry(currentUserName);

}
GetCountry(currentUserName: string) {
    this.Countries = this.api.getcountry(currentUserName);
    console.log(this.Countries);
}

}
api.service
   export class RestApiService {
Url = 'http://localhost:xxxx/Api/Example/';
header: any;
constructor(private http: HttpClient) {
    const headerSettings: { [name: string]: string | string[]; } = {};
    this.header = new HttpHeaders(headerSettings);
}
getcountry(currentUserName: string): Observable<Country[]> {
    console.log(this.Url + 'GetCountry?Username=' + currentUserName);
    return this.http.get<Country[]>(this.Url + 'GetCountry?Username=' + currentUserName);

}
WebApi
[Route("Api/Example/GetCountry")]
    [HttpGet]
    public IHttpActionResult GetCountry(string Username)
    {
    }

A:

You have to subscribe to the call if you want it to execute. See the HttpClient
this.api.getcountry(currentUserName).subscribe((data)=>{
    console.log(this.Countries);
});


Monday, April 23, 2007

Vacation Flights

I finally nailed down flights for my upcoming trip in June:

Orlando - Lisbon, June 7

Lisbon - Prague, June 11

Budapest - Lisbon, June 22

Lisbon - Orlando, June 23

I've been eyeing a bike tour for a few years now, and decided that if I didn't just book it and go, it would never happen. The two most interesting ones to me were Prague to Budapest and Treasures of China, and since I recently visited China I leaned towards the European one.

The planning became slightly more complicated since a friend from the Seattle area is getting married in Portugal on June 9th. I looked at the calendar and figured, why not try to do both!

So I'll fly in to Portugal and then make my way to Évora where I'll stay at the Convento do Espinheiro, which looks to be a super fancy hotel, and attend the wedding. Then I'll fly out to Prague in time for the bike trip, from June 12 to June 20. I'll have an extra day in Budapest before returning to Lisbon and then back to Orlando.


Q:

The input buffer does not reliably clear after reading

I'm writing a small serial proxy so that I can eavesdrop on the conversation between a legacy application and the device it's intended to control.
My plan is to:

Intercept the application's commands using a Virtual Serial Port that sends Serial packets to a TCP port
Relay those commands to the device
Relay the device's responses back to the application.

It's working reliably so far when I use only my test commands. However, it's failing intermittently when I initiate communications using the application. Apparently the app sends a 'wake-up ping' over the wire to verify a successful connection to the device. That 'ping' comes as a single byte value of ChrW(3), to which the device responds => (success). This works well as long as the input buffer is clear before I attempt to read it.
That's the intermittent part. Sometimes that ChrW(3) gets stuck in there, sometimes it doesn't. Subsequent calls just pile on top of it. On the other hand, my test commands always clear out. It just seems to be something about that low-order character.
Here's my code, pretty simple I'd think:
Private Sub TcpClient()
  Dim aData As Byte()

  Dim _
    sLogger,
    sDevice As String

  Dim _
    iBytes,
    iPort As Integer

  sDevice = String.Empty
  iPort = 5001

  Using oClient As New TcpClient("localhost", iPort)
    Using oStream As NetworkStream = oClient.GetStream()
      aData = New Byte(255) {}

      Console.WriteLine("Waiting...")

      iBytes = oStream.Read(aData, 0, aData.Length)
      sLogger = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(aData, 0, iBytes)

      Console.WriteLine($"Logger: {sLogger}")

      Using oPort = New SerialPort("COM3", 9600, Parity.None)
        oPort.Open()
        oPort.WriteLine(sLogger)

        Do While sDevice = String.Empty
          Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000)
          sDevice = oPort.ReadExisting
        Loop

        Console.WriteLine($"Device: {sDevice}")

        oPort.Close()
      End Using
    End Using
  End Using
End Sub

How can I reliably clear that input buffer? I've found several SO posts discussing it, but none have been able to solve my specific problem.

A:

It's working now.
It turns out that the application sends three of these ChrW(3) 'pings' before timing out, where my code was picking up only the first one. This was making it seem as though the input buffer wasn't being cleared when it actually was. It was also the cause of the intermittent results.
I discovered this by reversing the relationship between my code and the Virtual Serial Port, making my code the server and the port the client. (This is a more stable model anyway.)
Here's the updated code:
Private Sub TcpListener()
  Dim oIPAddress As IPAddress
  Dim oListener As TcpListener
  Dim oClient As Socket
  Dim aData As Byte()

  Dim _
    iIndex,
    iPort,
    iSize As Integer

  Console.WriteLine("Starting TCP listener...")

  iPort = 5001
  oIPAddress = IPAddress.Parse("127.0.0.1")
  oListener = New TcpListener(oIPAddress, iPort)
  oListener.Start()

  While True
    Console.WriteLine($"Server is listening on port: {iPort}")
    Console.WriteLine("Waiting for a connection...")

    oClient = oListener.AcceptSocket()

    Console.WriteLine("Connection accepted.")
    Console.WriteLine("Ready to receive data...")

    aData = New Byte(99) {}
    iSize = oClient.Receive(aData)

    Console.WriteLine($"Data recieved @ {Now}: ")

    For iIndex = 0 To iSize - 1
      Console.Write(Convert.ToChar(aData(iIndex)))
    Next

    Console.WriteLine()
    oClient.Close()
  End While

  oListener.Stop()
End Sub


Why Hamas Loves Death (and Cease-Fires)

No less than 20 rockets were firedinto Israel Wednesday (11/21/12) night within the first three hours after the cease-fire understanding between Israel and Hamas ostensibly began at 9 p.m. local time. Despite inauspicious beginnings, following an overnight calm, by Thursday morning (11/22/12), senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials maintained they believe Hamas and Islamic Jihad intended to implement the cease-fire with Israel, and prevent other jihadist factions from firing into Israel.Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak clarified that the cease-fire was not an agreement with Hamas, but rather a document of "understandings" -- between Israel and Egypt, on the one hand, and Egypt and Hamas, on the other. During an interview with Israel Radio, Barak insisted, "There is no agreement. I am holding the paper in my hands." Moreover, Barak and the IDF believe that despite Hamas' public triumphant crowing, the Gaza regime was privately aware of the significant level of damage its jihadist infrastructure had sustained during Operation Pillar of Defense.

Hamas' renewed jihadist violence against Israel was punctuated, initially, by messages extolling their "love of death" to terrorize and demoralize the Israelis, then suing for a cease-fire when the Israelis retaliated with devastating effectiveness. These actions epitomize the archetypal jihad tactics of Islam's founder Muhammad, idealized as the eternal model for behaviors that all Muslims should emulate.

Nearly six decades ago (in 1956), Arthur Jeffery, a great modern scholar of Islam, reviewed Guillaume's magisterial English translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, the oldest and most important Muslim biography of Muhammad. Jeffery's review included this trenchant observation:

Years ago the late Canon Gairdner in Cairo said that the best answer to the numerous apologetic Lives of Muhammad published in the interests of Muslim propaganda in the West would be an unvarnished translation of the earliest Arabic biography of the prophet.

As incidents in the life of an Arab conqueror, the tales of raiding, private assassinations and public executions, perpetual enlargements of the harem, and so forth, might be historically explicable and therefore pardonable but it is another matter that they should be taken as a setting forth of the moral ideal for all time.

As recorded by Palestinian Media Watch, Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades -- named after the murderous 1930s jihadist Izz al-Din al-Qassam -- issued a November 18, 2012 message which addressed to Israeli soldiers, which stated:

From the Al-Qassam Brigades to the Zionist soldiers: The Al-Qassam Brigades love death more than you love life. [emphasis added]

Such macabre, hideous sentiments are intrinsic to Hamas' ideology, and deeply rooted in Islamic theology.

The Preamble to Hamas' 1988 foundational covenant plainly affirms its abiding, ancient commitment to jihad "martyrdom," in the context of re-conquering all of historical Palestine:

[Hamas] joins arms with all those who wage jihad for the liberation of Palestine. The souls of its jihad fighters meet the souls of all those jihad fighters who sacrificed their lives for the land of Palestine, from the time when the Prophet's companions conquered it until the present.

And the specific motif of Muslims as "loving death" more than infidels, especially perfidious Jews, love life, also dates back to the advent of Islam.

According to Islam's seminal early historian, al-Tabari (d. 923), during Abu Bakr's reign as Caliph (i.e., immediately after Muhammad's death), his commander Khalid b. al-Walid's wrote a letter in 634 to a Persian leader in Iraq identified as "Hurmuz," warning of a prototypical expansionist jihad campaign, spearheaded by Muslim warriors enamored of death.

Now then. Embrace Islam so that you may be safe, or else make a treaty of protection for yourself and your people, for I have brought you a people who love death as you love life [emphasis added].

"Martyrdom operations" have always been intimately associated with the institution of jihad. Professor Franz Rosenthal, in a magisterial 1946 essay (titled, "On Suicide in Islam"), observed that Islam's foundational texts sanctioned such acts of jihad martyrdom and held them in the highest esteem:

...death as the result of "suicidal" missions and of the desire of martyrdom occurs not infrequently, since [such] death is considered highly commendable according to Muslim religious concepts.

Lo! Allah hath bought from the believers their lives and their wealth because the Garden will be theirs: they shall fight in the way of Allah and shall slay and be slain.

And Muhammad himself celebrated jihad martyrdom as the supreme act of Islamic devotion in the most important canonical hadith collection [Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Numbers 53 and 54]:

Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said, "Nobody who dies and finds good from Allah (in the Hereafter) would wish to come back to this world even if he were given the whole world and whatever is in it, except the martyr who, on seeing the superiority of martyrdom, would like to come back to the world and get killed again (in Allah's Cause)."

Narrated Abu Huraira: "The Prophet said, 'By Him in Whose Hands my life is! Were it not for some men amongst the believers who dislike to be left behind me and whom I cannot provide with means of conveyance, I would certainly never remain behind any Sariya' (army-unit) setting out in Allah's Cause. By Him in Whose Hands my life is! I would love to be martyred in Allah's Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and then get martyred."

Imbuing such tactics with supreme "holiness," Muhammad became the ultimate prototype sanctioning jihad terror, as recorded in this canonical hadith (Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 220):

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy)."

Muhmmad, well-practiced at his own canonical dictum, "War is deceit" (from Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 267), also conceived the tactical doctrine of a temporary truce, or "hudna," when infidels thwarted the Muslims' jihad depredations, and had them at a military disadvantage. This doctrine is based upon what Islam's classical legists characterized as "the truce which the Prophet concluded with the unbelievers in the year of Hudaybiyyah." Later, Muhammad unilaterally broke this agreement, when the Muslims regained military superiority, and vanquished the Meccan "unbelievers." As I conveyed to a confused Charles Krauthammer during 2009 when Hamas' previous sustained jihad campaign was reversed by the IDF, such bellicose dogma was described lucidly by Antoine Fattal (in 1958), a seminal Lebanese scholar of Islamic and modern international law:

Connected with the notion of jihad is the distinction between dar al-harb (territory or "house" of war) and dar al-islam (house of Islam). The latter includes all territories subject to Moslem authority. It is in a state of perpetual war with the dar al-harb. The inhabitants of the dar al-harb are harbis, who are not answerable to the Islamic authority and whose persons and goods are mubah, that is, at the mercy of Believers. However, when Muslims are in a subordinate state, they can negotiate a truce with the Harbis lasting no more than ten years, which they are obliged to revoke unilaterally as soon as they regain the upper hand, following the example of the Prophet after Hudaibiyya.

Abiding the teachings of Islam's prophet Muhammad, Hamas' leadership, jihadist rocketeers, and homicide bombers, fully supported by the pious Muslim masses who empower Hamas, continue to demonstrate they "love death" -- especially if their "martyrdom" kills or terrorizes Israeli Jews. Also consistent with Muhammad's example, and the actions of jihadists worldwide across space and time, when these tactics of jihad terror are thwarted, Hamas pleads for a cease-fire (or "hudna"), to regain a tactical advantage, pending renewal of its jihadist aggression.

No less than 20 rockets were firedinto Israel Wednesday (11/21/12) night within the first three hours after the cease-fire understanding between Israel and Hamas ostensibly began at 9 p.m. local time. Despite inauspicious beginnings, following an overnight calm, by Thursday morning (11/22/12), senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials maintained they believe Hamas and Islamic Jihad intended to implement the cease-fire with Israel, and prevent other jihadist factions from firing into Israel.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak clarified that the cease-fire was not an agreement with Hamas, but rather a document of "understandings" -- between Israel and Egypt, on the one hand, and Egypt and Hamas, on the other. During an interview with Israel Radio, Barak insisted, "There is no agreement. I am holding the paper in my hands." Moreover, Barak and the IDF believe that despite Hamas' public triumphant crowing, the Gaza regime was privately aware of the significant level of damage its jihadist infrastructure had sustained during Operation Pillar of Defense.

Hamas' renewed jihadist violence against Israel was punctuated, initially, by messages extolling their "love of death" to terrorize and demoralize the Israelis, then suing for a cease-fire when the Israelis retaliated with devastating effectiveness. These actions epitomize the archetypal jihad tactics of Islam's founder Muhammad, idealized as the eternal model for behaviors that all Muslims should emulate.

Nearly six decades ago (in 1956), Arthur Jeffery, a great modern scholar of Islam, reviewed Guillaume's magisterial English translation of Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, the oldest and most important Muslim biography of Muhammad. Jeffery's review included this trenchant observation:

Years ago the late Canon Gairdner in Cairo said that the best answer to the numerous apologetic Lives of Muhammad published in the interests of Muslim propaganda in the West would be an unvarnished translation of the earliest Arabic biography of the prophet.

As incidents in the life of an Arab conqueror, the tales of raiding, private assassinations and public executions, perpetual enlargements of the harem, and so forth, might be historically explicable and therefore pardonable but it is another matter that they should be taken as a setting forth of the moral ideal for all time.

As recorded by Palestinian Media Watch, Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades -- named after the murderous 1930s jihadist Izz al-Din al-Qassam -- issued a November 18, 2012 message which addressed to Israeli soldiers, which stated:

From the Al-Qassam Brigades to the Zionist soldiers: The Al-Qassam Brigades love death more than you love life. [emphasis added]

Such macabre, hideous sentiments are intrinsic to Hamas' ideology, and deeply rooted in Islamic theology.

The Preamble to Hamas' 1988 foundational covenant plainly affirms its abiding, ancient commitment to jihad "martyrdom," in the context of re-conquering all of historical Palestine:

[Hamas] joins arms with all those who wage jihad for the liberation of Palestine. The souls of its jihad fighters meet the souls of all those jihad fighters who sacrificed their lives for the land of Palestine, from the time when the Prophet's companions conquered it until the present.

And the specific motif of Muslims as "loving death" more than infidels, especially perfidious Jews, love life, also dates back to the advent of Islam.

According to Islam's seminal early historian, al-Tabari (d. 923), during Abu Bakr's reign as Caliph (i.e., immediately after Muhammad's death), his commander Khalid b. al-Walid's wrote a letter in 634 to a Persian leader in Iraq identified as "Hurmuz," warning of a prototypical expansionist jihad campaign, spearheaded by Muslim warriors enamored of death.

Now then. Embrace Islam so that you may be safe, or else make a treaty of protection for yourself and your people, for I have brought you a people who love death as you love life [emphasis added].

"Martyrdom operations" have always been intimately associated with the institution of jihad. Professor Franz Rosenthal, in a magisterial 1946 essay (titled, "On Suicide in Islam"), observed that Islam's foundational texts sanctioned such acts of jihad martyrdom and held them in the highest esteem:

...death as the result of "suicidal" missions and of the desire of martyrdom occurs not infrequently, since [such] death is considered highly commendable according to Muslim religious concepts.

Lo! Allah hath bought from the believers their lives and their wealth because the Garden will be theirs: they shall fight in the way of Allah and shall slay and be slain.

And Muhammad himself celebrated jihad martyrdom as the supreme act of Islamic devotion in the most important canonical hadith collection [Sahih Bukhari, Volume 4, Book 52, Numbers 53 and 54]:

Narrated Anas bin Malik: The Prophet said, "Nobody who dies and finds good from Allah (in the Hereafter) would wish to come back to this world even if he were given the whole world and whatever is in it, except the martyr who, on seeing the superiority of martyrdom, would like to come back to the world and get killed again (in Allah's Cause)."

Narrated Abu Huraira: "The Prophet said, 'By Him in Whose Hands my life is! Were it not for some men amongst the believers who dislike to be left behind me and whom I cannot provide with means of conveyance, I would certainly never remain behind any Sariya' (army-unit) setting out in Allah's Cause. By Him in Whose Hands my life is! I would love to be martyred in Allah's Cause and then get resurrected and then get martyred, and then get resurrected again and then get martyred and then get resurrected again and then get martyred."

Imbuing such tactics with supreme "holiness," Muhammad became the ultimate prototype sanctioning jihad terror, as recorded in this canonical hadith (Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 220):

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy)."

Muhmmad, well-practiced at his own canonical dictum, "War is deceit" (from Sahih Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 267), also conceived the tactical doctrine of a temporary truce, or "hudna," when infidels thwarted the Muslims' jihad depredations, and had them at a military disadvantage. This doctrine is based upon what Islam's classical legists characterized as "the truce which the Prophet concluded with the unbelievers in the year of Hudaybiyyah." Later, Muhammad unilaterally broke this agreement, when the Muslims regained military superiority, and vanquished the Meccan "unbelievers." As I conveyed to a confused Charles Krauthammer during 2009 when Hamas' previous sustained jihad campaign was reversed by the IDF, such bellicose dogma was described lucidly by Antoine Fattal (in 1958), a seminal Lebanese scholar of Islamic and modern international law:

Connected with the notion of jihad is the distinction between dar al-harb (territory or "house" of war) and dar al-islam (house of Islam). The latter includes all territories subject to Moslem authority. It is in a state of perpetual war with the dar al-harb. The inhabitants of the dar al-harb are harbis, who are not answerable to the Islamic authority and whose persons and goods are mubah, that is, at the mercy of Believers. However, when Muslims are in a subordinate state, they can negotiate a truce with the Harbis lasting no more than ten years, which they are obliged to revoke unilaterally as soon as they regain the upper hand, following the example of the Prophet after Hudaibiyya.

Abiding the teachings of Islam's prophet Muhammad, Hamas' leadership, jihadist rocketeers, and homicide bombers, fully supported by the pious Muslim masses who empower Hamas, continue to demonstrate they "love death" -- especially if their "martyrdom" kills or terrorizes Israeli Jews. Also consistent with Muhammad's example, and the actions of jihadists worldwide across space and time, when these tactics of jihad terror are thwarted, Hamas pleads for a cease-fire (or "hudna"), to regain a tactical advantage, pending renewal of its jihadist aggression.


TY - JOUR
AU - Schuwerk, Tobias
AU - Jarvers, Irina
AU - Vuori, Maria
AU - Sodian, Beate
PY - 2016
M3 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01696
SP - 1696
TI - Implicit Mentalizing Persists beyond Early Childhood and Is Profoundly Impaired in Children with Autism Spectrum Condition
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01696
VL - 7
SN - 1664-1078
N2 - Implicit mentalizing, a fast, unconscious and rigid way of processing other’s mental states has recently received much interest in typical social cognitive development in early childhood and in adults with autism spectrum condition (ASC). This research suggests that already infants implicitly mentalize, and that adults with ASC have a sustained implicit mentalizing deficit. Yet, we have only sparse empirical evidence on implicit mentalizing beyond early childhood, and deviations thereof in children with ASC. Here, we administered an implicit mentalizing eye tracking task to assess the sensitivity to false beliefs to a group of 8-year-old children with and without ASC, matched for chronological age, verbal and non-verbal IQ. As previous research suggested that presenting outcomes of belief-based actions leads to fast learning from experience and false belief-congruent looking behavior in adults with ASC, we were also interested in whether already children with ASC learn from such information. Our results provide support for a persistent implicit mentalizing ability in neurotypical development beyond early childhood. Further, they confirmed an implicit mentalizing deficit in children with ASC, even when they are closely matched to controls for explicit mentalizing skills. In contrast to previous findings with adults, no experience-based modulation of anticipatory looking was observed. It seems that children with ASC have not yet developed compensatory general purpose learning mechanisms. The observed intact explicit, but impaired implicit mentalizing in ASC, and correlation patterns between mentalizing tasks and executive function tasks, are in line with theories on two dissociable mentalizing systems.
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Author has written 9 stories for Supergirl, High School Musical, Castle, and Remington Steele.

I have been working as a freelance English Editor for ESL clients and as a Researcher for the past 2 years . I began dabbling in fan fiction writing in November 2008 although I have been writing original fictional work since my high school days. I hope to see one of my original fiction works published in the future. That is why I am seriously working on improving my novelist skills via fan fiction writing at the moment.

Twin Flames are literally the other half of your soul for which all souls are driven to find and join. Sharpay is up to her scheming ways in trying to get Troy Bolton, the hottest guy at East High. Penname changed from GimmeABeat to CanonAntithesis

They haven't seen each other since high school graduation, but a chance meeting between Troy and Sharpay at a bar on a hot summer night in NYC creates a pivot point which will change their lives forever. Penname changed from GimmeABeat to CanonAntithesis

Life didn't go as planned: no bball scholarship, no NBA career. 14 years later, Troy found his niche as a Private Investigator and his latest client is the world famous actress, Sharpay Evans. Penname changed from GimmeABeat to CanonAntithesis

Uber fic Sharpay is an actress in New York. Troy is a senior at NYU. What does a scheme by a rich and powerful society couple have to do with Sharpay and Troy? Better summary inside TroyPay; Penname changed from GimmeABeat to CanonAntithesis

It was just supposed to be a practical joke, but something happens on the night of the Twinkle Town cast party that changes two lives forever. Complete! Please read and review. TroyPay; Penname changed from GimmeABeat to CanonAntithesis

This story takes place in between the end of Lofty Steele and Steele Your Heart Away. I've always wondered how the hospital in Ireland knew to call Laura Holt when Remington Steele lost his memory and what the significance was of the I.D. bracelet that he wore. This is my take on how he ended up wearing that piece of jewelry.

My first Castle fan fic. What happened when Martha called Beckett to tell her Castle has said he loved his mother? My take on the missing scenes and possible show of emotion on Beckett's part. One-shot. Edited to reflect a neglected character scene.

What if the summer at Lava Springs happened differently because of Troy's personal tragedy? One woman helps him deal with the changes, the other, refuses to acknowledge his pain. Will he finally learn what true love is all about?

Based upon characters from the 1984 movie. Set 4 years after A New Home. Kara / Linda tries to balance her personal life, duties, and priorities. A new nemesis presents itself threatening to destroy a future legacy that Kara has to learn to handle.

Chronicles the destruction of Argo City and the inner turmoil that Kara must now battle in order to finally embrace Earth as her new home. The story is set 1 year after Kara last returned to Earth. Keeps within the Supergirl 1984 movie universe.

Keeps within the Supergirl movie 1984 universe. This story takes place 2 months after Kara has returned to Argo City with the Omegahedron. Having tasted life as a human, she longs for the excitement she had as Supergirl.


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A video showing a woman pushing a trolley through the cross harbour tunnel has sparked disbelief amongst internet users. The video, posted on Facebook at around 10am on Friday morning, has received over 1,300 “likes” and over 400 shares.

Photo: Wikicommons.

One netizen commented: “What? Wonder how much the tunnel will charge her for the toll?”

“The cross harbour tunnel is 1.8 km, and a normal person would take around an hour to walk 4km. So by conservative estimates she would have taken half an hour,” another said, adding that overtaking is not allowed inside tunnels.

A third expressed concern that the woman may have dementia and that she should be taken to the doctor.

The police confirmed to Oriental Daily that they received a call stating that an elderly woman had been found walking through the cross harbour tunnel. The police took her to the station.

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It’s been a little while since I’ve updated. But it’s also a little easier now, since we made a few changes here to make it more readable. I’ve got a new computer to play with, too. I call it the Dreaded Grey Beastie, because it is. A useful, helpful beast, too…

Meanwhile, even though it’s the heat of summer, I’ve still been spinning a lot. Mostly to help me relax. Every time I check the news there’s new reasons to unplug and do something else for a while. I’ve been spinning magenta and fuchsia yarns, with lots of sparkle and fluff.

Fuchsia merino and angora yarn with sparkles

It seems my hunger for this color is shared by lots of people. When I bring a spindle to work, my coworkers glom onto the bright color. I sold the yarn in the photo, and people asked for more like it. I’ve already had to dye another kettleful of this shade, and now I’m out of magenta dye. (Which means I have to brave the big, gorgeous selections of Halcyon Yarns to get more. *mock sobbing*)

You think I’d get tired of this particular color…but funny enough, I’m not. Not even close. It’s just so hypnotically attractive.

Yesss….good…let the Hypnoyarn fill your mind…

I must be out of my mind, spinning all this wool in July. But–but–fuchsia!!

Ah, the holiday season…where everybody, including me, starts to panic about presents for the loved ones in their life. Like anybody who knits, I get loads of requests for last minute speed-knitting of pretty, warming things. Some of them are very doable. Many are too time-crunching. A few are jaw-droppingly ludicrous. Sweaters. Elaborate socks. Entire blankets. Union suits. Alien face-hugger masks with bendable leggies. Huge Dwarf helmet-hats with horns and braided beards. While it’s extremely flattering to hear that people think I have magical knitterly skills, I have to turn the big projects down. I also start getting that hunted look on my face, where I’m expecting to sprint down the corridors at work with my coworkers chasing me, yelling, “No, wait, it’s just a last-minute thing, I know you can do it by Christmas!! Come Baaaack!”

But that said, I’ve cranked out a few pretty things, here and there…

Mochi Marshmallow wristwarmers, with mohair,merino and handspun angora…A skein of silver angora I plied with a soft silk thread for extra strength and shine…

Both of these lovely things have already been claimed. I should make more. When can I make more? So many things to make!! So many! Do I have enough yarn? The right kind? Do I have to make some? Why did I make this fussy, time-consuming thing that everybody wants now? I Must Make Many Many THIIIIIIIINGS!!

And then possibly ask Santa for a Time-Turner, or manybe a Margarita machine. It’s medicinal, I tellya…

The dog days of August are of course the very best days to knit up a winter hood…A blue angora hood with little embroidered snowflakes…

I think all the extra winter knitting is just for comfort. When things get a bit stressed out with my work at the Jade Mines, I knit to redirect my mind to a cosy world full of colors and textures. Though there are days that have compensations. Like the conversation I had with someone over the phone the other day…

Caller:(Incoherent muttering)
Me: “Hello? You’ve reached the Mines of Glorious Jade. What can I do for you?”
Caller: “I wanna, like sign up for the Cordon Bleu classes. I saw your add on tv! Like, I’m good at cooking and I wanna do the Cordon Blue.”
Me: “I’m afraid that’s a different institution–we don’t offer cooking classes. This is a museum.”
Caller:”Well, howabout animation? You, know, (slurs) animation?I’m really interested in your Cordon Bleu classes, but I wanna be an animator too.”
Me. “I’m sorry, we don’t offer anything like that. We’re a museum.
Caller:”Whaaaat? Museum?”
Me:”Yes, that’s right. Museum.”
Caller: “Like, when are you open? I have a 2 year old and he really likes art!” (background yodels of small shrieking child)
Me:*silent facepalm* We’re not open today.
Caller. “Oh. Okay. Bye!!”

It was still not as funny as the guy who wanted to come and hold one of our samurai swords, just because reasons. The world is full of people who have, shall we say, interesting demands…


COLLEGE STATION - According to the Centers for Disease Control, about one in six Americans gets food poisoning each year. Additionally, virus infection risks from consumption of raw oysters in the U.S. are estimated to cost around $200 million a year.

To address the issue of health risk from eating raw oysters, Texas A&M University graduate student Chandni Praveen, along with Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientist Dr. Suresh Pillai and a team of researchers from other agencies and institutions, studied how electron-beam pasteurization of raw oysters may reduce the possibility of food poisoning through virus.

Other entities involved in the study included the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and University of Texas School of Public Health-El Paso regional campus.

The results of this study will be published in the June issue of the leading microbiology journal, Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

"The study was performed using a human norovirus surrogate called murine norovirus (NoV), and a hepatitis A (HAV) virus along with advanced quantitative microbial risk assessment tools," explained Pillai, professor of microbiology and director of the National Center for Electron Beam Research at Texas A&M University. "A salient feature of e-beam pasteurization technology is that it uses commercial electricity to generate the ionizing radiation that inactivates the viruses. It is a green technology because no chemicals are involved."

Pillai said the FDA already has approved the use of electron beam technology as a pathogen intervention strategy to control the naturally occurring Vibrio vulnificus bacterial pathogen in shellfish.

According to the FDA, raw oysters contaminated with Vibrio vulnificus can be life threatening or even fatal when eaten by someone with liver disease, diabetes or a weakened immune system.

"We're all for any means of technology that enhances the safety of our product," said Sal Sunseri, co-owner of P&J Oysters and a representative of the Louisiana Oyster Dealers and Growers Association. "While we provide a safe product, we know there are at-risk groups, and that processing methods like freezing, high-pressure treatment and electron-beam irradiation reduce or eliminate the risk for those groups and enhance the overall safety of our product."

At this time, however, electron-beam technology is not being used for commercial oysters sold in the U.S.

"For the study, we chose the norovirus and hepatitis A virus, as these are pathogenic threats to those consuming shellfish, and chose oysters as they are a type of mollusk that's more commonly eaten raw," said Praveen, a doctoral candidate in the toxicology program of the Food Safety and Environmental Microbiology Laboratory at Texas A&M.

Praveen said she and the other researchers also chose the viral pathogens as opposed to bacterial as they were more difficult to treat and also require a host species.

"Bivalves such as oysters are also filter feeders that obtain their food by pumping water through their system and filtering small organisms," she said. "This can lead to the possible accumulation of NoV and HAV viral pathogens, as well as bacterial pathogens."

Pillai said non-thermal food processing technologies are needed to reduce these infection risks.

"This is the first study that has attempted to quantify the reduction in infection risks of raw oysters contaminated with different levels of virus when pasteurized at FDA-approved doses," he said.

Pillai said that the study showed if a serving size of 12 raw oysters were contaminated with approximately 100 hepatitis A and human noroviruses, an e-beam dose of 5 kGy (kilograys) would achieve a 91 percent reduction of hepatitis A infection risks and a 26 percent reduction of norovirus infection risks. A kilogray is a unit of absorbed energy from ionizing radiation.

Pillai said the study showed that if electron-beam pasteurization technology was included as part of a comprehensive food safety plan to reduce illnesses from raw oysters, significant public health benefits and, by extension, significant savings in medical and related expenses due to foodborne illness, can occur.

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I'm a 30 something who loves to travel. I have a full time job and enjoy writing (or blogging) about my travels. I've traveled through several countries in Europe as well as Russia and Egypt. I also enjoy domestic travel in the United States, including Disney. My long term travel goal is to do a round the world trip.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Bad Lands by Tony Wheeler - A book review

About a year ago I read this book and really enjoyed it. Tony Wheeler discusses his travels through some of the countries known as "the axis of evil." Afghanistan, Albania, Burma (Myanmar), Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia. I'll admit there weren't too many surprises for me when I read the book since I had heard an interview with Tony Wheeler before reading the book. But still I was surprised that he wasn't too impressed with Cuba, seemed to love Iran, and I'm not sure if he was as unimpressed as I was with Saudi Arabia.

What I liked about the book was that it wasn't too heavy. A book about these countries you might expect to be heavy with drama and politics, but it was really about the experience of being there. It's an unconventional look at these countries, nothing you'll see on your network news.

So, what was wrong with Cuba? The fact that a tourist could buy anything they wanted, but a Cuban can't. He didn't like the double standard that was imposed by the government. The good about Iran - the people, they're very warm and hospitable. Iranian's are nothing like you would think based on what you see in the news, but the do have a dramatically different public life then their private life. What's up with Saudi Arabia, an ally of the United States? I can't visit until I'm married or an old maid (a 45 year old single female for the Saudi's.) Well I could go, except that I don't think my father would go with me and he was my only other in. After reading this book I was more interested in visiting North Korea then Saudi Arabia, maybe I wouldn't be allowed to take pictures at leisure, but at least I was welcome to go out in public.


Oct 31 (Reuters) - U.S. oil and gas producer Apache Corp reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit and raised its U.S. production forecast for the year as it benefited from rising oil prices and increased output from the Permian basin.

Apache and its peers are reaping the benefit of a 44 percent surge in global crude oil prices from a year earlier. Oil prices are expected to rise further as U.S. sanctions on Iran remove a major supplier from the market.

The Houston-based company said average realized oil prices jumped about 40 percent to $69.12 per barrel, while total production rose to 476,255 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d) from 448,235 boe/d a year earlier.

Production from Permian Basin, the largest U.S. oil field and the center of the country's shale industry, rose 38 percent to 222,259 boe/d.

U.S. shale oil production in the Permian has nearly doubled in the last three years to 3.4 million barrels per day (bpd).


John W. Martin

John Wellborn Martin (June 21, 1884 – February 22, 1958) was an American politician. He was the 24th Governor of Florida, serving from 1925 to 1929. He also served as Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, from 1917 to 1923. Born in Plainfield in Marion County, Florida, Martin and his family moved to Jacksonville in 1899. Despite only about four years of formal education, he studied law and was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1914. Three years later, Martin ran for Mayor of Jacksonville and easily defeated incumbent J. E. T. Bowden, becoming the city's youngest mayor at age 32. He would be easily re-elected twice in landslide victories, serving three consecutive terms in that office.

Martin declined to seek a fourth term in 1923 and instead ran for Governor of Florida in 1924. In the Democratic Party primary, he defeated four other candidates, including former Governor Sidney Johnston Catts. With the Democratic primary then being tantamount to election, Martin won the general election with nearly 83% of the vote against Republican William R. O'Neal. During his tenure, tourism, land speculation, and road development increased, despite the collapse of the land boom in the mid-1920s. The contemporaneous Constitution of Florida barred Martin from seeking a second consecutive term in 1928. He unsuccessfully ran for United States Senator in 1928 and Governor of Florida again in 1932. Martin died on February 22, 1958, about a month after having a severe heart attack.

Early life
Martin was born in Plainfield in Marion County, Florida, one of five children born to John M. Martin and Willie Owens Martin. During his childhood, Martin worked on his father's plantation and received a country school education, but estimated that he had only about four years of formal education. Martin and his family moved to Jacksonville in 1899. He married Lottie Pepper in 1907. The couple had one child, John Wellborn Martin, Jr., but he died during infancy. Martin had studied law since his family moved to Jacksonville and passed the Florida Bar exam in 1914, before establishing a law career. Prior to seeking public office, Martin toured the state and gave a number of speeches in favor of President Woodrow Wilson's policies.

Mayor of Jacksonville and Governor of Florida
In 1917, he was elected Mayor of Jacksonville at age 32, becoming the youngest mayor in the city's history. Martin easily defeated incumbent J. E. T. Bowden by a vote of 2,890 to 2,056. He would easily be re-elected twice, winning 14 out of 15 of the city's wards in his third and final campaign for the office. During his tenure as Mayor of Jacksonville, Martin supported a progressive program of public improvements and sought reform for the fire and police departments.

Toward the end of his third term as Mayor of Jacksonville, Martin announced he would not seek re-election and instead declared his candidacy for 1924 Florida gubernatorial election. In the Democratic Party on June 3, Martin defeated former Governor Sidney Johnston Catts, Frank E. Jennings, Worth W. Trammell (brother of Senator and former Governor Park Trammell), and Charles H. Spencer. There were 55,715 votes for Martin, 43,230 votes for Catts, 37,962 votes for Jennings, 8,381 votes for Trammell, and 1,408 votes for Spencer. Because no candidate received a majority, the second choice of Jennings, Trammell, and Spencer voters were added to the totals for Martin and Catts. Martin won with 73,054 votes versus 49,297 votes for Catts. With the Democratic primary then being tantamount to election, Martin won the general election. He defeated Republican William R. O'Neal by a vote of 84,181 to 17,499, a margin of 65.58%.

Martin was inaugurated on January 6, 1925, and served until January 8, 1929. On May 30, 1925, the Florida Legislature established Martin County – named after Governor Martin while he was in office – created from about  of land from southern St. Lucie County and northern Palm Beach County; the city of Stuart was designated the county seat. Indian River County was established on the same day. Later in 1925, the state's newest counties were established – Gulf and Gilchrist. During his tenure, tourism and land speculation purchases increased, road and highway developments were advanced, and an industrial plant for physically disabled prisoners was created. Martin also advocated for state-funded public schools and for granting free schoolbooks to all students through sixth grade.

Despite the growth, Martin also presided over the collapse of Florida land boom of the 1920s. In a failed attempt to fight bad publicity about real estate scams, Martin and a delegation went to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, owned by T. Coleman du Pont (an investor in Addison Mizner's projects), in New York City and held a seminar called "The Truth About Florida". Two of the worst hurricanes in the history of the state – the 1926 Miami and 1928 Okeechobee hurricanes – also occurred during Martin's tenure. The former devastated the areas in the vicinity of Miami and towns along the western shores of Lake Okeechobee, such as Clewiston and Moore Haven, leaving at least 372 fatalities and up to $125 million (1926 USD) in damage. The hurricane also resulted in further discussion between Martin and officials across the state about drainage projects around Lake Okeechobee. However, disputes about financing the projects left many residents along the lake vulnerable to flooding. After wreaking havoc in coastal Palm Beach County, the 1928 hurricane caused Lake Okeechobee to breach the then- mud dikes at its southeastern shores, inundating areas with as much as  of water. The cities of Belle Glade, Chosen, Miami Locks (today Lake Harbor), Pahokee, and South Bay were devastated, with the loss of more than 2,500 lives. After personally assessing the damage with Florida Attorney General Fred Henry Davis, chief engineer Fred C. Elliott, and Florida Adjutant General Vivian B. Collins, Martin telegraphed all mayors of Florida cities to send aid to the victims. Discussion about drainage and dikes along Lake Okeechobee re-commenced, but the projects did not begin until after the passage of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1930, after Martin left office.

Post-governorship
The Florida Constitution at the time barred a governor from serving two consecutive terms, with Martin being succeeded by Doyle E. Carlton in January 1929. Martin decided to run for United States Senator in 1928. However, he was defeated by incumbent Park Trammell in the Democratic primary, losing by a vote of 138,534 to 100,454. Martin made his final run for political office in 1932, seeking the governorship of Florida again. He received the most votes in a seven candidate field that included state's attorney David Sholtz and former Governor Cary A. Hardee. However, he garnered only 24.19% of the vote, well short of a majority. Martin thus advanced to a run-off election against Sholtz, but was defeated by a wide margin of 62.8%—37.2%.

After retiring from politics, Martin built his own house in Tallahassee in 1933, which has been listed as a National Historic Place since 1986. After living at the property for about seven or eight years, Martin sold the house to local developers in 1941. He returned to Jacksonville, where he continued to practice law and became an investment broker. Martin was appointed a co-trustee of the Florida East Coast Railway, along with former Senator Scott Loftin. Upon Loftin's death in 1953, Martin became the sole trustee. On February 22, 1958, Martin died of a heart attack at East Coast Hospital in St. Augustine. He was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville.

References

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Official Governor's portrait and biography from the State of Florida

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Dental trauma in showjumping - A trinational study between Switzerland, France and Germany.
Showjumping is one of the sporting activities with a high injury risk. Unpredictable behaviour of the horse, considerable speed and the height of the rider in the saddle make this sport to one of the most dangerous, with the highest risk of injury and the highest mortality rate per competitor. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of dental trauma, the wearing of protective gear such as helmet, back protector and mouthguard as well as the knowledge of primary care after dental trauma. Within the framework of this study, 608 female and male showjumpers from Switzerland, France and Germany were questioned in a personal interview consisting of 14 questions about general injuries, dental injuries and the usage of protective gear. The competitors were subdivided into different categories according to amateur or professional level, gender and age. Of the 608 competitors, 189 (31.1%) had witnessed an accident involving tooth injury and 91 (15.0%) had suffered one themselves. The prevalence of dental trauma rose with increasing age and more riding experience. A total of 436 (71.1%) of the competitors were familiar with mouthguards, of which only three owned one. The main reasons for not wearing a mouthguard were both doubtful necessity (22.5%) and a generally low acceptance among the riders (26.3%). Less than half of the competitors (44.4%) knew that an avulsed tooth can be replanted and only 4.1% had knowledge about the existence of a tooth rescue box. The results of this study show that in equestrian sports still little is known about dental trauma and protective measures.


"We are protesting patriarchy and sexism, and that this antiquated way of thinking about women exists at all," organizers said on the Facebook page. "We are protesting the implied demand that women be silent and appreciate, regardless of whatever circumstances, their role as non-providers."