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New Zealand Police continue to monitor knife crime trends worldwide while other jurisdictions introduce tough new laws, getting ahead of the curve before it’s too late. What they’re monitoring is reported offending involving knife crime – the likes of serious assaults and aggravated robberies. Between December 2023 and December 2024, there were 1,639 incidents involving a stabbing or cutting weapon – a 1.7% decrease from the year before. But, while New Zealand has not seen attacks like the Bondi Junction attack in Sydney, it hasn’t been immune, with notable individual attacks and mass events like the New Lynn mall attack. South Australia hasn’t seen spikes in knife crime either, but that hasn’t stopped the state introducing the toughest knife laws in the country. Today on The Front Page, we’re joined by South Australian Attorney-General Kyam Maher to talk through the state’s decision and what advice he’d give New Zealand lawmakers. And later, acting Deputy Commissioner Mike Pannett is with us to chat about what police are doing to prevent knife crime here. Follow The Front Page on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can read more about this and other stories in the New Zealand Herald, online at nzherald.co.nz, or tune in to news bulletins across the NZME network. Host: Chelsea DanielsSound Engineer/Producer: Richard MartinProducer: Ethan Sills See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Forecast: Murdoc botnet storms hit IoT devices, Mastercard's DNS flaw clouds visibility, and DHS shutdowns leave security in the dark. ‍ In this episode of Storm⚡️Watch, we explore a major DNS misconfiguration at Mastercard that went undetected for over four years. Security researcher Philippe Caturegli uncovered a simple but critical typo in Mastercard's DNS nameserver records where "akam.net" was written as "akam.ne". This error affected one in five DNS requests to Mastercard's infrastructure and could have allowed attackers to intercept emails, capture Windows authentication credentials, and distribute malware through trusted domains. The cybersecurity community was rocked by news that several crucial Department of Homeland Security advisory committees have been terminated. The Cyber Safety Review Board, which was actively investigating the Salt Typhoon hacks targeting U.S. telecommunications companies, was among the disbanded groups. This move has interrupted ongoing investigations into communications targeting high-profile political figures and raised concerns about gaps in information sharing and policy recommendations. A sophisticated new variant of the Mirai malware called the Murdoc Botnet has emerged, targeting IoT devices worldwide. With over 1,300 compromised devices and more than 100 command-and-control servers, this botnet specifically exploits vulnerabilities in AVTECH IP cameras and Huawei HG532 routers. Between December 2024 and January 2025, the botnet has launched significant DDoS campaigns against Japanese corporations, banks, and organizations across multiple sectors in various countries. The 2022 HIPAA Breach Report reveals concerning trends in healthcare security. There were 626 incidents affecting over 41 million people, with hacking and IT incidents accounting for 74% of all large breaches. Surprisingly, paper records remain a significant vulnerability, especially in smaller breaches. The report highlights persistent issues with weak authentication practices, insufficient audit controls, and incomplete risk analyses, resulting in major settlements totaling over $2.4 million. Join us for an in-depth discussion of these critical cybersecurity developments and their implications for the industry. Don't forget to check out the upcoming GreyNoise University Live event for more insights into threat intelligence and network security. Storm Watch Homepage >> Learn more about GreyNoise >>  

Elephant seals are not your small, cuddly marine mammals. They are behemoths. Males, known as bulls, can reach 5,000 pounds, while females, known as cows, routinely clock in at around 1,000 pounds or so.   If you're a wildlife watcher, now is the time to check elephant seals off your life list. Between December and March, they come en masse to Point Reyes National Seashore in California to give birth and mate again. But they don't come ashore to simply laze about and soak up the sun when it's shining. Males are building their harems much like bull elk do, and that can sometimes lead to fights between these ponderous animals.   To learn more about elephant seals, how they spend their days, and where you can see them at Point Reyes, we're joined today by Sarah Codde, a marine ecologist at the national seashore.

Just seven days after a quadruple homicide in Wichita, Kansas, a second would take place. This crime, known as The Wichita Massacre, would become one of the most famous crimes in the history of Kansas, along with those committed by infamous serial killer, Dennis Rader (known as BTK). Between December 7 and December 14, 2000, two brothers, Reginald and Jonathan Carr, went on a robbery, rape and murder spree in Wichita. The Carr brothers inflicted great pain and suffering upon their victims, and their victims' families. However, from this terrible tragedy, arose a story of tremendous triumph, and, of all things …love. Sponsor: EveryPlate: Join EveryPlate today and pay only $2.99 per meal, PLUS get 50% off your first box, for all box sizes! Get this amazing deal by going to EveryPlate.com/podcast and entering code MURDERISH299 Hers: ForHERS.com/MURDERISH for your personalized weightloss treatment options Dirty Money Moves: Women in White Collar Crime - Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-money-moves-women-in-white-collar-crime/id1619521092 Follow Jami on Instagram & TikTok @JamiOnAir and join the Serial Streamers true crime TV club! Subscribe to Jami's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@jamionair Visit murderish.com to learn more about Jami and the podcast. You can also buy merch & sign up to become a MURDERISH | Behind the Mic Patreon member and get access to exclusive perks.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Between December 1937 and January 1938 on of the great crimes of Japan's war against China occurred at the Chinese capital of Nanjing. Determined to break Chiang Kai Shek's nationalist forces, the Japanese murdered tens of thousands of captured soldiers and proceeded to slaughter the civilian population. The Japanese army went of the rampage, killing children and raping the city's female population. In 1985 a permanent memorial hall to the horrors inflicted on the city and on China by Japan was unveiled in the city and this podcast hears from Keith Lowe's Prisoners of History as the historian explores the memorial hall and explores its significance the the questions that arise from contested historical memory.I will be running a livestream Q&A for students on Wednesday November 20th. You can access it here, subscribe to the channel to get your reminder.Help the podcast to continue bringing you history each weekIf you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:If you want to go ad-free, you can take out a membership hereOrYou can support the podcast via Patreon hereOr you can just say some nice things about it here Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/explaininghistory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics: Warm Start: TribalNet! TLP:CLEAR | FB-ISAO Newsletter. The September 2024 Newsletter has been directly distributed to members and may be accessed here.   Main Topics:   Assassiination / Election Security:  FBI and CISA Release Joint PSA, Just So You Know: False Claims of Hacked Voter Information Likely Intended to Sow Distrust of U.S. Elections. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are issuing this public service announcement (PSA) to raise awareness of attempts to undermine public confidence in the security of U.S. election infrastructure through the spread of disinformation falsely claiming that cyberattacks compromised U.S. voter registration databases. PDF. CISA: Physical Security Checklist for Election Offices and Election Infrastructure Cybersecurity Readiness and Resilience Checklists 2025 Counting and Certification of Electoral Votes Designated a National Special Security Event   BEC.  Business Email Compromise: The $55 Billion Scam. The BEC scam continues to target small local businesses to larger corporations, and personal transactions while evolving in their techniques to access those business or personal accounts. Between December 2022 and December 2023, there was a 9% increase in identified global exposed losses. In 2023, the IC3 saw a growth in BEC reporting where funds were sent directly to a financial institution housing custodial accounts held by third-party payment processors, or peer-to-peer payment processors, and cryptocurrency exchanges which directly contributed to the increase in global exposed losses. IC3 data shows the BEC scam has been reported in all 50 states and 186 countries, with over 140 countries receiving fraudulent transfers. Based on the financial data reported to the IC3 for 2023, international banks located in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong often acted as an intermediary stop for funds, followed by China, Mexico, and the UAE. The following BEC statistics were reported to the FBI IC3, law enforcement and derived from filings with financial institutions between October 2013 and December 2023: o   Domestic and international incidents: 305,033  o   Domestic and international exposed dollar loss: $55,499,915,582 o   Total U.S. victims: 158,436  o   Total U.S. exposed dollar loss: $20,089,561,364  o   Total non-U.S. victims: 6,546  o   Total non-U.S. exposed dollar loss: $1,638,490,375   All-Hazards. The disaster no major U.S. city is prepared for. Experts warn this type of catastrophe — a combined power outage with a heat wave — is a scenario that cities and states are unprepared for. “I don't think it's likely — I think it's an absolute certainty,” said Brian Stone, a professor and director of the Urban Climate Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “I think it's an absolute certainty that we will have an extreme heat wave and an extended blackout in the United States.”   Quick Hits:  FBI Publishes 2023 Cryptocurrency Fraud Report Hacker tricks ChatGPT into giving out detailed instructions for making homemade bombs Recorded Future: H1 2024: Malware and Vulnerability Trends Report Kentucky I-75 shooting suspect vowed over text to ‘kill a lot of people,' arrest warrant says

Last time we spoke about the battle of Wakde. Operation Tornado, the amphibious assault of Wakde island faced many logistical challenges, but not as much Japanese resistance. The landing at Arare was a large success, seeing the allies secure a beachhead before advancing inland. Through a combination of air, naval and ground attacks, the smaller Japanese force was pushed back. Likewise the islands of Liki and Niroemoar were taken with relative ease as well. Over in the Burma-India theater, the battle for Kohima was gradually seeing the Japanese fail to meet their objectives. Without ammunition or provision supplies flowing to them, the Japanese at Kohima had no hope of holding back the allies. Thus the Japanese were beginning to fall back and now were setting up a defense to stop the allies from entering central Burma. Meanwhile a siege was being erected against Myitkyina. This episode is the Siege of Myitkyina  Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  Last time we saw General Stilwell had managed to seize the Myitkyina airstrip. Now allied forces were gradually securing northern Burma, pushing further towards Mogaung. The Japanese 18th Division were absolutely battered and barely holding on around Kamaing. However when the American-Chinese forces seized Myitkyina's airstrip, they had failed to quickly attack the main town, which the Japanese were reinforcing heavily. Now they were being attacked from both ends. This prompted General Stilwell to dispatch General Boatner with the task force to try and turn things around. Simultaneously, Stilwell had just received word of the Chindits abandonment of the Blackpool stronghold, outraged by this he ordered them to advance northwards to support the attack on Mogaung. Three brigades, the 111th, 14th and the 3rd West Africans were to advance north to support Calvert's 77th Brigade to take Mogaung. The Chindits were incredulous. Nonetheless, Lentaigne, pressed by Stilwell, sought to have his 3rd West Africans, the 14th and 111th Brigades squeeze the Japanese along the western flanks of the Mogaung valley, in which Mogaung occupied the lowest point of an inverted triangle, with the other two points being Kamaing on the top left and Myitkyina on the top right. With any luck, his three brigades could capture Kamaing, which occupied an enviable place on the Mogaung River. The 111th Brigade was to move north-east and operate in the Pahok-Sahmaw area, destroying dumps and blocking enemy movement. Thebattered men of the 111th Brigade struggled to cope with the march north, to the hills east of Lakhren and west of Mogaung. Conditions were appalling on the three-day march to Lakhren village. From there, the best approach to Mogaung would be identified. They were making for a waterlogged, mosquito-infested area north east of the Lake. This area was also alive with Japanese units. They were required to support 77th Brigade's attack on Mogaung, by pushing from the west as Calvert's command advanced from the south-east. However, 111th Brigade was spent after Blackpool and many men were forced to return to Lakhren village. There was also a new task for 14th Brigade – the capture of Taungni. With the casualties evacuated, 14th Brigade abandoned the Kyunsalai Pass and headed north towards Mogaung. The steamy swamps continued to take their toll within the ranks of the York and Lancaster columns. Dysentery was rife. Animals collapsed and were shot where they dropped. They reached Mokso on June 25. This much-used rallying point, consisting of four huts, was a sea of mud and detritus, decorated with black clouds of flies. Rations were being consumed rapidly in an area devoid of drop zones. Brigadier Brodie, 14th Brigade's Commander, responded to the extreme circumstances. His men, despite their dangerously poor condition, were still expected to harass the Japanese along the railway and support 77th Brigade's assault on Mogaung. He formed his columns into “Light Battle Groups”, free of heavy weapons and the wounded and sick, now lying together in the mud. Meanwhile, some Nigerian units were now struggling on the road to Lakhren along the reailway, as were the York and Lancaster sick – around 300 in all, 200 of whom were dangerously ill. On May 25th, the same day the Chindits had quit Blackpool, Stilwell ordered the Morris Force to seize Waingmaw, across the river from Myitkyina. Unfortunately, the Japanese had entrenched themselves at the town and enjoyed the luxury of a natural moat after heavy rains flooded the fields on the approaches to the town. Morrisforce was not a proper brigade, having only two columns of troops, to which a third from the 111th Brigade had been added 1,500 troops in total. It had been conceived to harass the Japanese on jungle areas. Now, they were up against fortified positions. The result was a bloodbath. Morrisforce then began to rapidly deplete in strength. By July 14th, it was to consist of exactly three platoons, roughly 120 men. On May 31st, Boatner then launched his first coordinated attack against Myitkyina seeing the 42nd regiment reach the Waingmaw ferry road. Built up twelve feet above the neighboring paddy fields, the road gave the Japanese a magnificent defensive position, which they exploited cleverly. The Chinese recoiled from this natural fortification but were able to beat off a Japanese counterattack. The 150th Regiment reached the riverbank and drew up in an arc about a sawmill in which the Japanese had a strongpoint. Meanwhile Colonel Hunter's 2nd battalion reinforced with engineers advanced to Radhapur where they were heavily counterattacked by the 114th Regiment. The next day, the inexperienced 236th Engineer Battalion was sent against Namkwi. The motive behind the 236th's attack was to contain the Japanese in the Namkwi area and introduce the battalion to combat under relatively easy conditions. One company of the 236th did succeed in entering Namkwi but instead of promptly consolidating to meet the inevitable Japanese counterattack fell out for a break. The Japanese counterattacked and drove the unwary engineers right back out of the village. Both the engineers and the 2600 replacements of the Galahad Unit that had recently arrived lacked adequate experience fighting the Japanese and as such suffered badly when fighting against them. Colonel Hunter's veteran Marauders, however, had suffered ample casualties and thus needed these green replacements in order to continue existing as a fighting force. Boatner tossed a last ditch effort on June 3rd, but his Chinese forces had suffered 320 casualties and their ammunition was running low. While he waited for supplies to build up, he used his green american troops to give them some experience, the Chinese meanwhile tunneled towards the Japanese still suffering heavy casualties. This allowed more Japanese troops to break through and reinforce Myitkyina, with a huge relief force of the 52rd Division soon on its way. Meanwhile, Lieutenant-General Matsuyama Yuzo of the depleted 56th Division was facing a deadly offensive of his own on the Yunnan front. After a series of negotiations between Chiang Kai-Shek and the Americans, it had been agreed, General Wei Lihuang's Y Force would cross the Salween River to attack the Tengchong and Longling areas. This would effectively allow the allies to link the Ledo Road with China, bypassing the heavy Japanese concentration along the Burma Road. Although the Americans had supplied the Y Force with artillery and ammunition, the Chinese had failed to bring the Y Force divisions up to strength, and many questioned their training. Regardless, General Wei planned to have elements of the 20th army group cross the Salween at several points before initiating a full assault against Tengchong once reinforcements had been ferried through. Further south, elements of the 11th Army Group would also cross the Salween to launch attacks on Pingda and Longling.  On the night of May 11th, the Chinese forces began to cross the Salween River against little Japanese resistance, since Matsuyama had decided not to defend the crossing sites, instead placing his main line of resistance along the ridge line some 10 miles west. The 198th Division was able to assemble in front of the Mamien Pass; the 36th division was successfully ferried through Mengka; the brand new 39th Division managed to secure the Hueijen bridge and the 76th and 88th Divisions were converging on Pingda for the attack. On May 12th, the 198th were making good progress against the Mamien Pass as the 36th had surrounded the Japanese outposts in the eastern end of the Tiantouzhai pass. However Colonel Kurashige Yasuyoshi had his 148th regiment launched two surprise night counterattacks. All that night, the Japanese quietly filtered down from a nearby ridge and assembled near the Chinese position. Attacking at dawn, they surprised the Chinese and almost wiped them out before aid came. When darkness came, the 36th were at their bivouac. That night, the Japanese attacked vigorously, overrunning the division command post and causing the flustered 36th Division to fall back to the Salween. At dawn, the 53rd Army commander, Maj. Gen. Chou Fu-cheng, pushed a regiment across the Salween and restored the situation by attacking the Japanese flank. General Chou was an aggressive and tenacious fighter, whom his Manchurian soldiers had nicknamed Old Board-Back, and who had the reputation of never having yielded an inch to the Japanese. But even Chou could not immediately restore the morale of the 36th Division, which for some weeks took no further part in the Ta-tang-tzu fighting, and the rest of the 53rd Army had to bear the burden of clearing the pass. In response to this, Lt General Zhou Fucheng of the 53rd Army pushed the 116th and 130th Divisions across the river to resume the advance towards Tiantouzhai. At the Mamien pass, the 592nd and 594th Regiments began clearing out the Japanese strongpoints while the 593rd Regiment moved west over mountain byways to emerge into the Shweli valley by the 16th, securing the western end of the pass and forcing Kurashige's men to withdraw into the fortified village of Shangzhaigongfang. To the south, the New 39th would be able to secure Hemushu by the 17th. Yet the Japanese under Colonel Matsui Hideji soon recovered from the initial surprise of the Chinese offensive and the 1st battalion, 113th regiment drove the Chinese from Hung-mu-shu. The Japanese exploited their success and pushed the entire New 39th Division back against the Salween. Further south, the 76th Division met outposts of the 1st battalion, 146th regiment and forced them back to the heights overlooking Ping-ka. Meanwhile the 88th Division from the north was fighting through a series of fortified villages as it headed south to join the 76th Division. By the 16th, thirteen villages were occupied in the area northeast of Ping-ka, but the Japanese, as they withdrew, received reinforcements. Strengthened by the 2nd battalion, 113th regiment, the Japanese did not attack the Chinese who were pursuing them, but moved south and hit the Chinese 228th Regiment south and west of Ping-ka.  Sensing the imminent danger from the north,  Matsuyama redirected the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 113th Regiment to reinforce Shangzhaigongfang, where Kurashige would continue to resist staunchly. Reports from the American liaison teams were not cheerful. Americans observing the Kaolikung Range actions found that Japanese fire was accurate and economical, and that the enemy's use of camouflage and concealment approached perfection. The Japanese revealed no disposition to surrender though they were heavily outnumbered, often surrounded, and had neither air support nor air supply. On the other hand, the Americans reported that the Chinese endlessly wasted manpower and ammunition in costly frontal attacks. They reported that relations with the Chinese were not always as friendly as had been hoped, and they believed there would have to be better cooperation between Chinese and Americans if the Japanese were to be defeated. The Chinese were described as merely tolerating the Americans' presence and as paying little attention to their advice. The liaison personnel freely admitted their own shortcomings, and by their reports suggested that patience was the most important quality for a liaison officer to cultivate when dealing with the Chinese. Matsuyama ha spread his forces widely, over a near 60 mile sector, thus he would be unable to perform mobile operations and was gradually shifting to a defense of the Kaolikung mountain range by the 20th. This allowed the 53rd Army to continue their advance and the New 39th to retake Hemushu. By late May, with the 198th Division apparently contained on the north, Kurashige then rushed with the 113th Regiment to reinforce the Tiantouzhai front, where they successfully stopped the 53rd Army on its tracks. Yet on June 1st, the 54th Army, emerged in the Shweli valley from Ta-tang-tzu pass to join the 593rd Regiment from the Ma-mien pass. Next day the Chinese occupied Chieh-tou village and began patrolling the Shweli valley. They took the advice of Y Force officers and donned Burmese clothes. So disguised, they found it easy to enter Japanese-held villages. When taken by surprise, the Japanese were willing to abandon many of their outer defenses. With TNT charges dropped by the 27th Troop Carrier's C-47's when the weather cleared, the 198th Division also blew up the last pillboxes at Chai-kung-tang on June 13th. When the last shots had been fired and the Chinese farmer boys of the 54th Army reported the area secure, there was bewilderment at finding only 75 Japanese bodies in defenses that must have been manned by at least 300 men, and shock and nausea when the Japanese kitchens revealed how the defenders had been able to prolong their stay. Pitiful and ghastly evidence showed that the Japanese had resorted to cannibalism when their rations failed. On June 14th the Japanese further quit Chiao-tou-chieh, leaving many stores to the 2nd Reserve and 36th Divisions. In the end, the Kurashige Detachment would pull back to Watien while the Inose Battalion retreated towards Kutungchieh. General Wei then ordered the 71st Army to cross the Salween, just below the Huitung Bridge to attack Longling while a containing force attacked the strong Japanese harrison at Lameng. 20,000 troops of the 71st would cross the river by June 5th. At this time the 76th division left a regiment to besiege Pinga while the bulk pushed on to attack Matsuyama's HQ at Mangshi, while the 9th Division crossed the Salween, cutting off Pingda's line of communication. On June 4th, the new 28th Division attacked Lameng and forced Major Kanemitsu Keijirous garrison to retreat into the Mount Song fortress where they would hold out for several months. While the New 28th held down Kanemitsu, the 87th Division continued towards Longling, joining up with the 88th on June 8th to begin a siege of the main Japanese position on the Yunnan front. The Japanese still held onto the Burma Road east of Lung-ling, but as of June 7th the 87th Division had covered about two thirds of the distance along the Burma Road from the river to Lung-ling. The Chinese had to deal with small Japanese tanks, which had some moral effect but failed to halt the Chinese advance. Indeed, the latter had been fairly swift, for the Chinese had surprised the Japanese, and had been able to ease their supply problems by the capture of some Japanese rice depots.  To meet the new crisis, Matsuyama dispatched the 1st battalion, 119th regiment to stop the 2nd army at Xiangdaxiang and then attack Longling from the south. Matsuyama ordered Colonel Matsui Hideji to immediately relieve Longling from the north; and for the Yamazaki Composite Group to keep the Mangshi-Longling road open. Meanwhile, Lieutenant-General Song Xilian, had been making some progress against Longling's two outer heights, the stout defenders would manage to repel the uncoordinated Chinese assaults for about a week. Four days of un-coordinated infantry attacks, with little artillery support, failed to carry the three mountains inside Lung-ling, and there was nothing to show for the heavy drain on the 71st Army's ammunition stocks. This gave more time for Matsuyama's reinforcements to arrive by June 14th. On the 15th Matsui launched a heavy attack, in coordination with the besieged defenders, successfully defeating the 71st Army and consequently driving the Chinese from the vicinity of Longling. The Japanese had thus been able to drive back 10000 Chinese effectives by an attack with only 1500.  Repeated attempts by American liaison personnel with the 71st Army to learn how a small Japanese garrison could drive back a Chinese army group only brought embarrassed smiles from Chinese officers. The Chinese finally related on June 25th that the 261st Regiment had bolted, and that the commanding general of the 87th Division had attempted suicide. When fuller details of the fighting around Longling were available, anger and annoyance spread from Y Force to the Generalissimo himself. Y Force personnel considered the Chinese decision to withdraw from Longling inexcusable because the 11th Army Group had sent forward no reinforcements to meet the initial Japanese counterattacks. Of 21 battalions in the Longling vicinity on June 14th, only 9 took part in the fighting. In describing the defensive attitude of the 259th Regiment, as an example of the conduct that had cost the chance of a speedy breakthrough into Burma, one American liaison officer wrote: "From the time that we crossed the river until we reached Longling, the regimental commander continually had his troops in the rear digging emplacements and trenches in the fear that they would have to retreat." Yet that is it for the Yunnan battle for now as we need to head over to the Kamaing area. General Tanaka's 18th Division were withdrawing with the 22nd and 38th division in hot pursuit. To the south the Seton Roadblock was being held by 112th Regiment, threatening to thwart Tanaka's plans. Coming to their aid, General Sun sent his 113th and 114th Regiments to descend upon Lawa, where General Aida began an unauthorized retreat on June 4th. The abandonment of Lawa severely affected the defense of Kamaing, thus General Aida was relieved of command and replaced with Colonel Imaoka Soshiro. Colonel Shoshiro immediately began to dig in at Lagawng. Meanwhile the bulk of the 55th and 56th regiments were holding onto the Nanyaseik area as General Liao's 65th regiment cut their withdrawal route off on June 1st. While the rest of the 22nd Division were applying pressure from the north, the heavily outnumbered Japanese had no choice but to quickly cut a trail southeast, finally withdrawing on june 7th. Their retreat was chaotic, both regiments lost contact with each other and with their subordinate units as they made separate ways towards Kamaing. It would only be the 3rd battalion, 56th regiment who would arrive at Kamaing by June 10th, most of the others would reach Lakatkawng in late june. While retreating, their artillery units were intercepted by the pursuing Chinese and the artillerymen chose to die with their guns. While the 22nd Division and 149th Regiment thus pushed towards Kamaing, General Sun had also sent the 113th Regiment to take Zigyun and the 114th Regiment to advance southwards and support the Chindit assault on Mogaung. The Chinese were able to encircle Kamaing from the west, north and east as the 149th Regiment then moving across the fields and into Kamaing to take the settlement on June 16th,  pushing Tanaka's battle-weary troops to the hills south and west of Kamaing. Meanwhile Brigadier Calbert was able to reach the Mogaung area by the start of June. 12 miles from Mogaung, Calvert's forward troops began to run into Japanese patrols and snipers. Despite taking losses, the 3/6th Gurkhas led by Colonel Claude Rome, who in his previous incarnation had been overlord of “Broadway,” pushed on, seizing the western heights overlooking Mogaung on May 31. On June 1st, Calvert's South Staffords linked up with Rome and the Gurkhas at the village of Loihinche. Other elements of the brigade reached the southern foothills of the heights, three miles south of the town, on June 2 and went straight into the fray. That same day, the Lancashire Fusiliers and the South Staffords also attacked Lakum (held by some ordnance troops and a field hospital). The leading force of Fusiliers was soon pinned down by heavy fire, the impasse only broken when a Bren gunner in the leading rifle section went wild, and ran “straight up the hill, firing from the hip and screaming curses at the Japanese.” Softening up the Japanese with airstrikes from Air Commando Mustangs, troops of the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers and 1st South Staffordshires attacked and wrested Lakum village away from Japanese and occupied the summit of the range of hills overlooking the city, to the northwest.  Calvert decided he would need to build a base akin to White City, where he could collect supplies and build an airstrip to take out the wounded. Calvert fixed his eye on the village of Lakum, occupying a strategic spot on the eastern foothills of the heights overlooking the Mogaung plain. Upon capturing the village, the Chindits would also find substantial ammunition, a field hospital and buildings which had obviously hosted several Japanese headquarters. The country leading up to Lakum, however, was hard stuff. It was in the midst of thick jungle intersected by deep ravines. The path proved difficult to follow as it sometimes wound along a ridge and sometimes went straight up or straight down. The place was a defender's paradise. “A handful of resolute men could hold successive hill-tops for hours against a large force such as ours overburdened with mules and heavy stores,”. In response to the new threat, Colonel Okada Hakuji rushed over with some units of his 128th Regiment to protect Mogaung, leaving his 1st Battalion to face the rapidly-approaching 114th Regiment and immediately recalling his 3rd Battalion from Seton. Alongside this General Honda ordered General Takeda to turn back from Myitkyina and instead secure the Moguang-Kameing area. Thus the chance to lift the siege of Myitkyina was lost. By June 3rd, the Chindits had built a new airstrip near the Tapaw Ferry, allowing airdrops of supplies and equipment to spill in. Calvert was now ready to launch his attack.  Early on June 8th, the 1st South Staffords set off to secure the Pinhmi. The village was defended by elements of 3rd battalion, 128th regiment who were also protecting some ammunition dumps in the area. The Staffords routed the Japanese and destroyed the dumps, clearing the way to the bridge. By now it was afternoon, and they stepped aside to let the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers move on to capture the 150-foot-long bridge. All seemed well until a hail of gunfire shattered the silence, tearing into the Fusiliers. Two companies were pinned down in the ditch while another was in the jungle further down. At about 6 pm, Calvert arrived at the front to confer with Major David Monteith of the attacking company. It was decided that two platoons, under the cover of a mortar barrage would dash across the bridge and secure the other bank. Calvert's mind went to the 4.2” mortars. He intended to use them to deadly effect now. Two platoons of Fusiliers moved in on the bridge, with one platoon attempting to move along the ditch, only to struggle against the thick, waist-high grass, as the second slipped off the road into the jungle. The mortars, about 60 yards behind them, began firing, slowly at first, but then as fast as the men could drop bombs into the tubes. The men, with fixed bayonets, charged across the bridge. The Japanese waited until the British were halfway across before opening fire. Tracers filled that little space, bullets tearing into flesh. The Chindits toppled left and right. Some crawled in their bellies, trying to get just far enough to throw their grenades upon the enemy positions. By 6.15, it was all over, the retreat was called. Calvert summoned US airstrikes. Mustangs swooped in, bombing and machine-gunning the enemy emplacements, but one Mustang mistakenly bombed a group of Fusiliers unloading mules. Because of the unexpected opposition, Calvert would instead direct his forces to ford the Wettauk Chaung and take Mahaung and Ywathitgale, which successfully fell on June 9. The following morning, a Gurkha company attacked towards Kyaingyi and the railway to create the impression that the main attack would come from this direction while the bulk of the 3/6th Gurkhas made a wide right flank advance to attack the bridge from the rear. At dawn on the 10th, Shaw's Gurkhas moved forward, waist deep in marsh water and mud. The bridge assault party was under the command of Captain Michael Allmand, a one-time cavalryman commissioned into the Indian Army in 1942 after escaping from Singapore. Allmand moved his men forward warily. The approaches to the bridge were narrow with the road up on a high embankment with swampy, tree-heavy low-ground flanking both sides. Coming in from the marsh, the Gurkhas set upon the bunkers at the bridge with grenades and small-arms fire, but the Japanese held their ground. At 10 am, they tried again, shooting and hurling grenades from amid waist-deep mud of the Wettauk. Allmand, who was close to shore charged. Throwing grenades to scatter the enemy, he closed in to kill three with his kukri. Rallied by his heroism, the Gurkhas rushed the remaining defenders, capturing the bridge. About 35 Japanese were killed at the bridge and the Gurkhas captured one medium machinegun and two light machineguns. In return, Chindit casualties in the encirclement and capture of the Pinhmi Bridge came to about 130 killed and wounded. By mid-afternoon, Calvert had deployed two battalions up on the Mogaung-Pinhmi Road, while a third occupied the bridge area. Conquering the brigade saw the Chindits suffer 130 casualties, while Okada's troops had also suffered heavy casualties, yet they had successfully delayed the Chindit advance for four days, which allowed Takeda to bring the bulk of his forces back into Mogaung. Knowing full well that the Japanese had been able to reinforce Mogaung, Calvert decided to wait for the arrival of the Chinese troops that Stilwell had sent to reinforce him; but in the meantime, he launched a successful attack against the courthouse on June 11, followed by a failed advance towards the river. To secure his right flank, Calvert had decided to send a company of South Staffords under a new replacement officer, Major “Archie” Wavell Jr, son of the venerable Viceroy, to secure the area between the road and the Mogaung River. The Staffords made good headway, but near the river, they came under heavy fire from entrenched Japanese. Wavell was hit in the wrist, the bullet almost taking the hand off; and he was then pulled out of the line and walked back to the field hospital near Gurkha village, clutching onto his hand, which was now hanging on by a sinew. That night, the surgeons at Gurkha Village were to remove the hand entirely. Wavell Jr's war was over. In the end, the Staffords also had to pull back towards the road after the loss of their commanding officer. By June 15th,  the Chinese had still not appeared, thus the Chindits ultimately had to withdraw to Pinhmi.  Back over at Myitkyina artillery was arriving by air. Two batteries plus one platoon of 75-mm. howitzers; two 105-mm., and two 155-mm. howitzers, were landed. All except two pieces with GALAHAD were kept under headquarters control. During the siege they fired 600 tons of ammunition, very rarely with massed fire. Boatner renewed his offensive on June 13th, sending almost all his forces to attack the town from all directions. The American-Chinese forces would struggle to make much progress against General Minakami's defenses. Utilizing a system of night attack and daylight defense, heavy casualties were consequently inflicted on the enemy and large supplies of weapons and ammunition were captured and used in the defense of the city. On June 12th the Japanese hit a platoon of K Company, New GALAHAD, so hard that the company broke and re-formed on the L Company line. The portion of the Japanese thrust that hit the perimeter next to the river made most of the men "take off," but two stayed in place and repelled the Japanese with an automatic rifle and a machine gun. To the west of this little break the Japanese worked their way in close but were stopped by grenades and small arms fire. As a result of the attacks, however, the 3rd Galahad Battalion had cut the Maingna ferry road and reached the Irrawaddy north of Myitkyina by June 17th, with the 150th and 88th Regiments also gaining up to 200 yards. The allies needed to capture the Myitkyina-Mogaung-Sumprabum road junction; but for such few gains, Boatner had lost many men and thus had to stop his attacks on June 18th. Stilwell ordered the end of all infantry attacks. Boatner replied that he would stop attacking Japanese positions until ". . . our troops are steadied and a favorable opportunity presents itself." There was reason for the troops to need steadying. A and B companies, 209th Engineers, were cut off from their main body by infiltrating Japanese. Trying to close in on them, Company C and Headquarters and Service Companies were in turn halted by Japanese. The condition of A and B Companies became critical during June 14th, for they had only one meal with them. Two of their men managed to work their way back to the block on the Sumprabum Road with news of their plight, but enemy small arms fire prevented airdrops. The isolated companies finally made their way back in small groups to the rest of the battalion over 15 and 16 June. The 3rd Battalion of GALAHAD reported trouble in effecting reorganization and enforcing orders. The Americans were not alone in their problems. Two companies of the Chinese 2/42nd which had made a small penetration into the Japanese lines on 14 June were wiped out by counterattack that night. These setbacks emphasized the nature of the Myitkyina fighting. The Allies held a ring of battalion and regimental strongpoints enclosing a similar Japanese system. Though the Allied strongpoints were close enough for the troops in one to sortie to the aid of another should that be needed, they were not so close that interlocking fire could be put down to close the gaps. Consequently, there was plenty of room for maneuver and ambush, and the inexperienced engineers and New GALAHAD troops often suffered at the hands of General Minakami's veterans. On the other hand, the Myitkyina Garrison did not emerge entirely unscathed, as they too suffered heavily, losing approximately 1000 men during the month of June alone. But that is all for today with the CBI theater as we now need to head over to New Guinea to start the Battle of Lone Tree Hill. After the fall of Wakde, General Tagami had sent Colonel Yoshino Naoyasu's 223rd Regiment to cross the Tor River inland to attack Arare while Colonel Matsuyama Soemon's 224th Regiment attacked the Toem area from the other side. In the meantime, General Doe's 163rd Regiment patrolled across Tementoe Creek and the Tor River, encountering heavy Japanese resistance at Maffin but successfully repelling some enemy counterattacks. While the 163rd strengthened its defenses on the Tor and at Arare, Doe would also see the arrival of Colonel Prugh Herndon's 158th Regiment on May 21. General Krueger's plan was to use this regiment in a vigorous overland drive toward Sarmi, aimed at throwing the enemy into the defensive and therefore securing the Wakde area. This decision was based upon scanty and incomplete information concerning Japanese strength and dispositions. The Japanese had no intention of abandoning Sarmi and the two airstrips between the town and the Tor without a desperate struggle.  The Americans were also finalizing their plans for an operation against Biak, codenamed Hurricane. General Fuller's plan was to land the 186th Regiment in the Bosnek area at 7:45 on May 27th to secure the Green Beaches and its two jetties. Once the two jetties were secured, LCI's bearing the 162nd Infantry, supporting troops, and the task force reserve were to move inshore and unload. LST's were also to move to the jetties when the beach area surrounding them had been cleared by the 186th Infantry. LCM's bearing artillery, tanks, and engineering equipment were to move to the beaches as soon as channels through the coral were found or made, or to the jetties in waves following the 186th Infantry's assault companies. As soon as it reorganized ashore, the 162nd Infantry was to advance rapidly west along the coast from Bosnek to seize the three airdromes. This drive was to be supported by eight tanks of the 603rd Tank Company and the 146th Field Artillery Battalion. The fields were to be repaired quickly to accommodate one fighter group and then expanded to receive an additional fighter group, a heavy bomber group, a reconnaissance group, a night fighter squadron, and one photo reconnaissance squadron. Mokmer Drome was to be the first field developed. Brigadier-General Edwin Patrick would also replace Doe in command of the Tornado Task Force, as the latter would resume its duties as assistant commander of the 41st Division. Admiral Fechteler's Task Force 77 was to provide naval support and cover the assault shipping. Naval fire support was to begin at H minus 45 minutes, 6:30. From that time until H Hour, cruisers and destroyers were to expend 400 rounds of 8-inch, 1,000 rounds of 6-inch, 3,740 rounds of 5-inch, and 1,000 rounds of 4.7-inch ammunition on targets in the airfield area west of the landing beaches. After H Hour the cruisers were to continue intermittent fire on the airfields, bombard targets of opportunity, and respond to calls for support from the forces ashore. Because there were many known or suspected Japanese gun emplacements along the south shore of Biak, counterbattery fire was to take precedence over all other types of fire. Bombardment of the landing beaches was also to begin at H minus 45 minutes. Five destroyers were to bombard the beaches and adjacent areas until H minus 30 minutes, when they were to move westward to join the cruisers firing on the airfield area. Then four other destroyers were to continue beach bombardment until H minus 3 minutes. Total ammunition allowance for beach bombardment was 4,900 rounds of 5-inch and 4.7-inch shells, while 40-mm. and 20-mm. ammunition was to be expended at the discretion of individual ship commanders. Rocket and automatic weapons fire from three rocket-equipped LCI's and two SC's was to provide close support for the assault waves. This fire was to begin at H minus 5 minutes and was to last until H Hour or until the initial wave was safely ashore. Meanwhile General Kenney would toss 52 B-24's to bomb the beaches just before the landings. Additionally, medium bombers and fighters from 5th Air Force would cover the force from the air; and from May 17th onwards, the bombings on Biak's airfields would increase sharply in violence to soften up its defenses. As elsewhere along the absolute defense zone perimeter, primary emphasis was laid upon the construction of airfields. Between December 1943 and the enemy invasion of Hollandia in April 1944, two of three projected fields on southern Biak were completed and put into operational use by planes of the Navy's 23rd Air Flotilla. Their usefulness ended almost immediately, however, when the enemy's vastly superior air forces began operating from Hollandia bases. As in the Wakde-Sarmi sector, the concentration of effort on airfield construction until the Hollandia invasion resulted in dangerously delaying the preparation of ground defenses against enemy amphibious attack. In the five weeks which elapsed between the Hollandia and Biak invasions, the Biak garrison forces, under able leadership and by dint of desperate effort, succeeded in organizing a system of strong cave positions, which proved highly effective after the enemy landing. However, time, equipment and manpower were so short that defensive preparations could not entirely be completed. Some 15-cm naval guns, brought to Biak immediately after the Hollandia invasion to strengthen the coast defenses, were still unmounted when the island was attacked. On May 23rd, the 158th advanced west from the Tor River Bridgehead. The advance of Company L met increasingly strong resistance. Japanese defenses were centered around three small, brush-bordered lakes near the beach about 1,800 yards west of the Tor. The rest of the 3rd Battalion, 158th Infantry, across the Tor before 1130, quickly moved forward to assist Company L, which had been pinned down along the main coastal track west of the lakes by Japanese machine gun and rifle fire. Company K pushed up to the left flank of Company L, while Company I moved toward L's rear. With the aid of mortar fire from the 81-mm. weapons of Company M, Companies K and L were able to push gradually forward during the afternoon, advancing on a front about 400 yards wide. Finding that the attack was not progressing as rapidly as he had expected, Colonel Herndon ordered his 1st Battalion across the Tor. The 1st Battalion did not start moving until 1400 and could not get far enough forward to join the attack before dark. Tanks would probably have been of great help to the 3rd Battalion, but by the time the mediums of the 1st Platoon, 603rd Tank Company, moved across the Tor, the forward infantry troops had already halted for the night. In the end, Companies L and K would dig in for the night across the main coastal track about 400 yards east of Maffin.  The following morning, after an ineffective mortar and artillery bombardment, Herndon resumed the attack. Despite the lack of extended artillery support, Companies K and L moved out as planned at 7:30. Company L, on the right, advanced along the beach encountering only scattered rifle fire but Company K, on the main road, had hardly started when Japanese machine gun and rifle fire from concealed positions in a wooded area on the left front halted its advance. Unable to gain any ground, Company K called for tank support. Two tanks, together with a flamethrower detachment from Company B of the 27th Engineers, arrived at Company K's lines about 1000. With the flamethrowers and tanks blasting the way, the infantrymen overran the Japanese defenses, killing ten of the enemy and capturing two machine guns. The remainder of the Japanese force, probably originally some forty men strong, disappeared into the jungle south of the road, whence scattered rifle fire continued to harass Company K. Company L reached the outskirts of Maffin No. 1 about 1400. The movement had been slow, not as a result of Japanese opposition but because the battalion commander did not believe it prudent for Company L to advance far beyond Company K. Despite the return of two companies, most of Colonel Kato's engineers would have to withdraw behind the Tirfoam River against such heavy firepower. Captain Saito's reconnaissance unit, meanwhile, retreated to the jungles south of Maffin alongside one engineer company, which was under Kato himself.  Over the Tirfoam River, however, the Americans were again stopped by the tenacious engineers, which again forced Herndon to request tank support. As the tanks moved into position elements of the Right Sector Force, comprising Captain Saito's men of the 1st Battalion, 224th Infantry and an engineer company, charged out of the jungle. The Japanese were under Colonel Kato, Right Sector Force commander, who was killed as he personally led a small detachment against the American tanks. The enemy was quickly thrown back with heavy losses by the combined fire of the four tanks and Company L's riflemen and machine gunners. However, under cover of their infantry attack, the Japanese had dragged a 37-mm. anti-tank gun forward out of the jungle. As the enemy infantrymen withdrew to the southwest after the death of Colonel Kato, the anti-tank gun opened fire. It was soon destroyed and its crew killed, but not before three of the American tanks had been so damaged that they had to be withdrawn for repairs. Facing such heavy resistance, Herndon then sent his 1st Battalion to carry out a deep envelopment to the south across the Tirfoam, yet these troops would similarly be unable to break through by nightfall. After killing 28 men and wounded 75 others, Kato's force allowed Tagami to dispatch the 2nd Battalion, 223rd Regiment to reinforce the Ilier Mountains line. On the morning of May 25, Major Matsuoka Yasake also arrived there with an infantry company to assume command of the remainder of Kato's forces. Meanwnhile Yoshino had crossed the Tor River, 3 days behind schedule and to the east, Matsyuama was assembling on the right bank of the Tementoe River. Herndon relieved his 1st Battalion with the 3rd and then pushed west with the 2nd Battalion following behind them. The next objective for the 158th was Long Tree Hill. Lone Tree Hill, known to the Japanese as Mt. Ilier,  had been named for a single tree which was depicted on its crest by the map then employed by the Americans. Actually, the hill's coral mass was covered with dense rainforest and jungle undergrowth. Lone Tree Hill was about 175 feet high, 1200 yards long north to south, and 1100 yards wide east to west. The north side dropped steeply to a rocky shore on Maffin Bay. The hill's eastern slope was fronted by a short, violently twisting stream which was promptly dubbed the "Snaky River" by the 158th Regiment. The main road curved away from the beach to pass south of the Snaky River and Lone Tree Hill through a narrow defile. The southern side of this defile was formed by two noses of Mt. Saksin , a terrain feature about 100 feet higher than Lone Tree Hill. The more westerly of these noses was named "Hill 225", known to the Japanese as Mt. Sento after its height in feet. No name was given to the eastern ridge line, which pointed toward Lone Tree Hill from the southeast. There was a small native village at the eastern entrance to the defile and another at the pass's western outlet. Mt. Saksin was a name given to an indefinitely outlined hill mass which forms the northern extremity of the Irier Mountains, extending inland from the coast at Lone Tree Hill. The name Saksin was specifically applied to a prominent peak about 2,000 yards due south of Lone Tree. On or about May 23rd General Tagami had moved his headquarters into the Mt. Saksin area, apparently on the southwest side of the central peak.  Herndon forces continued the advance through the abandoned enemy positions, albeit without tank support, for they could not cross the fragile Tirfoam bridge. In the afternoon, the Americans were finally halted below the southernmost bend of the Snaky River, subjected to heavy machine-gun fire and an intermittent artillery bombardment. General Patrick, who had succeeded to the command of the TORNADO Task Force during the morning, was informed of the opposition encountered by the 1st Battalion. He ordered the advance stopped for the night and instructed the 158th Infantry to remain well east of the Snaky River so that American artillery could register on the native village and the defile without endangering the forward troops. Harassed by a few artillery shells, which by now had been recognized as originating from Japanese 70-mm. or 75-mm. weapons, the 1st Battalion pulled back about 500 yards east of the Snaky. A perimeter was set up with the battalion's left resting on the road and its right on the beach. The 2nd Battalion established a series of company perimeters back along the road to the east. Casualties for the day had been 22 men killed and 26 wounded, almost all in the 1st Battalion, while about 50 Japanese had been killed. When the attack orders for the day had been issued, it had been hoped that the 1st Battalion could reach the top of Lone Tree Hill before nightfall. Since the unexpectedly strong enemy opposition had prevented the realization of this hope, plans were made to continue the advance westward on the 26th. The ultimate objective was the east bank of the Woske River, 2,000 yards west of Lone Tree Hill, and the intermediate objective was the native village at the eastern entrance to the defile. The advance was to be preceded by naval shelling of the northern slopes of Lone Tree Hill from 6:30 to 7:00. A fifteen-minute artillery preparation was also to precede the advance, and the infantry was to start moving at 8:45. The next morning, naval fire started ten minutes late. Two destroyers lying offshore shelled the northern slopes of Lone Tree Hill and the Maffin Bay area, firing on known or suspected enemy defensive positions and assembly points. After a twenty-minute bombardment the two support vessels withdrew. Artillery fire did not begin until 8:30. The time lag gave the Japanese ample opportunity to prepare for the infantry attack which had been heralded by the destroyer fire. The artillery, aiming its shells into the defile and against the eastern slopes of Lone Tree Hill, ceased firing about 8:45. A few moments later the 1st Battalion, 158th Infantry, Company B again leading, started moving westward. The infantry's line of departure was nearly 1,000 yards east of the village at the southeast foot of Lone Tree Hill, and the advance had to be slow because the road ran through heavily jungled terrain. The enemy therefore had sufficient time to reoccupy positions in the defile and on Lone Tree Hill which might have been vacated during the American artillery barrage. The value of both the naval and artillery bombardment had been lost. Herndon's 1st Battalion moved once again against Lone Tree Hill. Company B moved forward to the point at which it had been held up the previous afternoon and was again stopped--this time by fire from the southeastern corner of Lone Tree Hill. Company D's heavy machine guns were brought up to spray a densely wooded area in front of the point rifle platoon. The fire dispersed the Japanese riflemen, and Company B moved forward again. Less than 100 yards of ground had been gained when the company again encountered machine gun and mortar fire originating in the native village. Company A, initially off the road to the right rear of Company B, turned north to the mouth of the Snaky River. One platoon crossed at the river mouth at 1030 but was quickly forced back to the east bank by Japanese machine gun fire from the rocky beach below the north face of Lone Tree Hill. Artillery support was called for, supplied, and proved successful in stopping the enemy fire, and about 1:50 all Company A crossed the Snaky. Orders were to move down the west side of that stream to establish contact with Company B and to send one platoon up the eastern slope of Lone Tree Hill to probe enemy positions. Other efforts were meanwhile being made to scatter the Japanese opposing Company B. Company E moved up to the left flank of Company B and on the south side of the main road. The combined efforts of the two rifle companies proved insufficient to dislodge the Japanese from their positions at the eastern entrance to the defile, and the enemy fire forced the American units to seek cover. Company F was therefore ordered to pass through B's left flank and proceed to Hill 225 to take the Japanese positions from the rear. Company F's attack could not be started before dark and Company A, moving up the west side of the Snaky, was unable to relieve much of the pressure on Company B. Finally, Company A was forced for a second time to withdraw to the east bank of the river as a result of enemy fire from Lone Tree Hill. Tanks would have been of great help to Company B, but the bridge over the Tirfoam could not bear their weight, and the road west of the stream was in such disrepair that tanks probably could not have negotiated it. Only Company A would manage to cross the Snaky River through much effort, yet it would be unable to relieve the pressure from Company B's front and would have to retreat by the end of the day. To prevent further casualties from being inflicted by Japanese patrols, which were expected to roam around the flanks of the forward elements during the night, a semicircular perimeter was ultimately established. Although Herndon's attacks on May 26th had been completely unsuccessful, the 158th Regiment had located and probed some of the principal Japanese defenses in the area and could now be ready to launch a more effective assault.  I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. General Vinegar Joe was experiencing some major setbacks, but it looked like Myitkyina was as good as his. However the American officers' reports of how difficult the going was for the Chinese was quite disheartening. Over in New Guinea, the allies were yet again faced with a great obstacle, now in the form of One Tree Hill.

Two drugs for type 2 diabetes are being restricted to only those already prescribed them, due to a global shortage. From Wednesday funded access to dulaglutide and liraglutide known as Trulicity and Victoza respectively will be restricted. Between December last year and March about 5000 people started taking these medicines and Pharmac says if the growing trend continued it would start to have difficulty with filling prescriptions. The drugs are used alongside metformin and help to trigger the body's feeling of fullness. General Practice New Zealand chair Dr Bryan Betty says the drugs are a "game changer" for those with type 2 diabetes and he expects Pharmac to work to resolve the situation as soon as possible. Diabetes NZ chief executive Heather Verry says there's no doubt the shortage comes from a global demand to use the drugs for weight loss. Dr Ruth Large, is chair of the New Zealand Telehealth Forum.

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Welcome to this week's episode of Fast. Feast. Repeat. Intermittent Fasting for Life, with Gin Stephens and Sheri Bullock.To make a submission for the podcast, go to fastfeastrepeat.com/submit. We are a community-driven podcast, and we look forward to sharing your questions, success stories, non-scale victories, IF tweaks, motivational quotes (and more!) on each episode of the podcast. Are you ready to start the New Year with a 28-Day Fast Start, January 4-31, 2024? First, preorder Gin's new book 28-Day Fast Start Day-By-Day by going to https://www.ginstephens.com/get-the-books.html. The new book will arrive on 12/26/23. You also want to join the community by going to ginstephens.com/community. Between December 26-January 3rd, you'll read the first part of the book, craft your why, and get ready for the fast start. January 4th will be day 1 of the community fast start. From January 4th-31st, join others in the community and feel supported for the first 28 days of your IF journey. From February 1-January 3rd, 2025, we will go through the first year together. Then, on January 4th, 2025, we will celebrate your first fastiversary. Resources used in today's episode:Muslin Comfort: https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1838537&u=2975466&m=114633&urllink=&afftrack=Use Code LIFELESSONS for a special listener discount! Go to fastfeastrepeat.com to see Gin's and Sheri's favorite things, and to shop with us. Every purchase you make through links on our website help to support this podcast so we can keep bringing you episodes each week. Are you ready to take your intermittent fasting lifestyle to the next level? There's nothing better than community to help with that. In the Delay, Don't Deny community we all embrace the clean fast, and there's just the right support for you as you live your intermittent fasting lifestyle. Connect with both Gin and Sheri in the community, as well as thousands of other intermittent fasters who are there to support you along your journey. If you're new to intermittent fasting or recommitting to the IF lifestyle, join the 28-Day FAST Start group. After your fast start, join us for support in The 1st Year group. Need tips for long term maintenance? We have a place for that! There are many more useful spaces beyond these, and you can interact in as many as you like.Visit ginstephens.com/community to join us. An annual membership costs just over a dollar a week when you do the math. If you aren't ready to fully commit for a year, join for a month and you can cancel at any time. If you know you'll want to stay forever, we also have a lifetime membership option available. IF is free. You don't need to join our community to fast. But if you're looking for support from a community of like-minded IFers, we are here for you at ginstephens.com/community.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5913143/advertisement

It's the Battle of the Titans! The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones. Who will prevail? This will, most likely, be the last time these two legendary acts appear together on the Billboard or Turnip Music Radio music charts.  Also featured on this month's chart is a Juno-winning artist from Toronto, Ontario, who is joined by artists from all over the world: Spain, South Africa, Canada, Japan, Australia, the UK, and the US. Do any of these artists stand a chance against the decade-spanning industry stalwarts? You'll have to listen to find out! The Turnip Music Radio Top 25 chart is an eclectic mix of music covering multiple genres including singer-songwriter, pop, folk, old-school rock, dance music, adult alternative, and heavy rock. You're sure to find something you'll love. The year-end Turnip Music Radio Best of 2023 chart and playlist is complete! Between December 2nd and December 9th, you can help us choose Turnip Music Radio Best of 2023! Simply go to www.derringerdiscoveries.com/2023 to rate your favorites! The winner will be revealed in our mid-December episode, scheduled for release somewhere between December 15 and 24. Check out all the songs on the Turnip Music Radio Top 25 - December 2023 chart: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1CLzNqR1HEB75ddqSfJ90Z?si=85d1e45e354f4cdd. To submit your song directly to Derringer Discoveries and/or cast votes for your favorite songs for the monthly Turnip Music Radio Top 25 chart, please visit: www.derringerdiscoveries.com/tmr. Turnip Music Radio is the music curation, playlist creation, and artist promotion affiliate of Derringer Discoveries – a music adventure podcast. © Copyright 2023 | Derringer Discoveries | All Right Reserved

It's the Battle of the Titans! The Beatles vs. The Rolling Stones. Who will prevail? This will, most likely, be the last time these two legendary acts appear together on the Billboard or Turnip Music Radio music charts.  Also featured on this month's chart is a Juno-winning artist from Toronto, Ontario, who is joined by artists from all over the world: Spain, South Africa, Canada, Japan, Australia, the UK, and the US. Do any of these artists stand a chance against the decade-spanning industry stalwarts? You'll have to listen to find out! The Turnip Music Radio Top 25 chart is an eclectic mix of music covering multiple genres including singer-songwriter, pop, folk, old-school rock, dance music, adult alternative, and heavy rock. You're sure to find something you'll love. The year-end Turnip Music Radio Best of 2023 chart and playlist is complete! Between December 2nd and December 9th, you can help us choose Turnip Music Radio Best of 2023! Simply go to www.derringerdiscoveries.com/2023 to rate your favorites! The winner will be revealed in our mid-December episode, scheduled for release somewhere between December 15 and 24. Check out all the songs on the Turnip Music Radio Top 25 - December 2023 chart: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1CLzNqR1HEB75ddqSfJ90Z?si=85d1e45e354f4cdd. To submit your song directly to Derringer Discoveries and/or cast votes for your favorite songs for the monthly Turnip Music Radio Top 25 chart, please visit: www.derringerdiscoveries.com/tmr. Turnip Music Radio is the music curation, playlist creation, and artist promotion affiliate of Derringer Discoveries – a music adventure podcast. © Copyright 2023 | Derringer Discoveries | All Right Reserved

On this day in legal history, September 28, 1850, President Millard Fillmore signed an appropriations bill that abolished flogging as a punishment in the Navy. Flogging, carried out with a cat-o-nine-tails—a whip made of nine knotted ropes—was a common method for maintaining discipline on naval ships. The move to end flogging was influenced by public opinion, which had been galvanized by two significant publications: "Two Years Before the Mast" by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. in 1840, and "White-Jacket" by Herman Melville in 1850. Between December 1849 and June 1850, the Senate received 271 petitions from citizens urging the end of this cruel practice.Democratic Senator John P. Hale of New Hampshire had previously attempted to abolish flogging but found success only when the public mood shifted. When Congress ended flogging, it did not immediately suggest alternative disciplinary methods. Naval officers experimented with various forms of punishment, including tattooing, branding, and confinement in irons on bread and water. However, long-term confinement was generally avoided as it took sailors away from their duties, increasing the workload for others.In 1853, President Millard Fillmore issued a "System of Orders and Instructions" to guide naval discipline, but this was deemed unconstitutional as it infringed on Congress's power to set rules for the Navy. Finally, in 1855, Congress established a new disciplinary system based on rewards and punishments. Despite these reforms, some harsh practices like branding with a hot iron or tattooing were not completely outlawed until 1872.Abraham Lincoln advocated for flogging as judicial punishment for men found guilty of spousal abuse, a crime then-referred to as “wife-beating.” It remained on the books in many states as a punishment for that crime well in to the 20th century, with the last recorded instance of it being meted out occurring in Delaware in 1951. The future of mobile sports betting in Florida is uncertain as local casinos have challenged a $2.5 billion deal between Governor Ron DeSantis and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The casinos filed a petition in the Florida Supreme Court, alleging that the 2021 agreement allowing the tribe to operate "off-reservation" mobile sports betting violates the state constitution. According to the casinos, the constitution would need to be amended to permit expanded tribal gaming beyond tribal lands. The complaint accuses the Governor and the state Legislature of circumventing the constitution by deeming online bets placed anywhere in the state as having occurred "exclusively" on tribal lands.This legal challenge is the latest development in an ongoing saga that will determine the future of sports betting in Florida, a state with a strong following for both professional and college sports. The casinos had previously lost a federal Administrative Procedure Act challenge in a federal appeals court in June. However, the court explicitly stated that it was not ruling on the constitutionality of the pact under Florida law, leaving that question for the state's courts to decide. The casinos are now urging the Florida Supreme Court to clarify the law, citing the federal appellate court's reasoning as justification for state-level judicial review.Casinos Challenge DeSantis' $2.5 Billion Sports Betting DealThe Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives is set to hold its first impeachment inquiry hearing against President Joe Biden on Thursday. The hearing, led by the House Oversight Committee, is not expected to reveal new information about Biden's financial ties to his son, Hunter Biden. Instead, the hearing aims to justify the ongoing probe and review the details that Republicans have gathered so far, according to James Comer, the committee's chair. The panel will hear from a forensic accountant, a former U.S. Justice Department official, and a law professor.Republicans allege that Biden and his family profited from policies he pursued as vice president under the Obama administration. They also claim that the Justice Department interfered with a tax investigation into Hunter Biden. However, no evidence has been provided to support these allegations. The White House has dismissed the inquiry as politically motivated, especially with the 2024 presidential election on the horizon.It remains uncertain whether House Republicans, who hold a narrow majority, would have enough votes to proceed with actual impeachment. Even if they do, it is unlikely that the Senate, where Democrats have a majority, would vote to remove Biden from office. The inquiry also focuses on allegations that Biden pressured Ukraine to fire a top prosecutor investigating a company where Hunter Biden was a board member, a claim Ukraine's former president has denied.The timing of the hearing coincides with a looming government shutdown, which could slow down the impeachment inquiry. The White House criticized House Republicans for prioritizing "conspiracy theories" over government funding. Former President Donald Trump, who was impeached twice and faces four criminal indictments, has expressed support for the inquiry.Republican US House to hold first Biden impeachment inquiry hearing | ReutersU.S. Senator Bob Menendez is facing calls for his resignation from more than half of his Democratic colleagues after pleading not guilty to federal bribery charges. A total of 27 senators, including key figures like Dick Durbin and Gary Peters, have urged Menendez to step down. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer criticized Menendez's actions but stopped short of asking for his resignation. Prosecutors allege that Menendez and his wife accepted gold bars and significant sums of money in exchange for using their influence to interfere with law enforcement investigations and assist the Egyptian government.Menendez has vowed to remain in office and fight the charges. His Senate seat is up for grabs in the 2024 elections, and while New Jersey has not elected a Republican senator since 1972, Menendez's legal issues could jeopardize his party's narrow control of the Senate. He has so far drawn one challenger for his seat.Embattled US Senator Bob Menendez to face Democrats who want him to resign | ReutersThe judge initially assigned to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) antitrust lawsuit against Amazon has recused himself, according to court documents. Senior Judge John Coughenour, who was appointed by former Republican President Ronald Reagan, did not provide a reason for his recusal in the court filing. The case was filed against Amazon in a federal court in Seattle and has now been reassigned to U.S. District Judge John Chun, who was nominated by President Joe Biden last year. Chun previously served as a judge for the Washington State Court of Appeals.The FTC's lawsuit accuses Amazon of abusing its market power in the retail sector. Specifically, the company is alleged to have given preferential treatment to its own products while penalizing merchants who wish to sell their products at lower prices on other platforms. Amazon is also facing a series of smaller, private consumer cases that are currently pending in the same federal court. These cases are overseen by Judge Ricardo Martinez.The FTC has argued that its case against Amazon should be assigned to Judge Martinez to avoid any duplication or conflict with the existing consumer cases. The reassignment of the case to Judge Chun comes amid growing scrutiny of Amazon's business practices and could have implications for how the case proceeds.Judge assigned to US antitrust case against Amazon recuses himself | Reuters Get full access to Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast at www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

Between December 2023 and September 2024, Telstra, Optus and Vodafone will close their 3G networks to make room for new, faster services. The 3G network shutdown will affect vital equipment and services across the road transport sector. Devices that rely on 3G will no longer function and need to be upgraded or replaced to continue operating. Commonly affected devices include: telematics and vehicle/asset tracking devices installed in heavy and light vehicles, as well as general assets such as trailers, generators, etc. traffic management signs used in school zones, intersections and freeways weather systems and stations alarms/building entry devices that incorporate gateway or mesh backhaul personal Emergency Response (PER) systems phones and tablets. Businesses, government, and industry are being urged to commence their transition immediately to avoid lapses in vital equipment and services across the road transport sector. Early transition and planning are vital given the large number of devices affected by the shutdown. The migration process can take months, and timing is dependent on the number of affected devices and the availability of installers. New Zealand is also shutting down their 3G network. The country will close their services between August next year and the end of 2025. This webinar, organised by Austroads and Transport Certification Australia (TCA), provides high-level information on the impacts of the Australian 3G shutdown and what local government and transport industry need to do to prepare for the transition. Presenters are David McIntosh, Telstra's National Telematics Domain Lead, Michael Reynolds, Head of Network Products, Programs and Services at Optus, Mark Joselin, Followmont Transport Compliance Manager, Adam Ritzinger, Chief Technical Officer at Heavy Vehicle Industry Australia, and John Gordon, Manager Strategic Development at TCA.

Jacqueline Fernandez is best known as a Bollywood actress and model of Sri Lankan descent, who very recently has been accused of receiving funds from a conman and allegedly being involved in money laundering.  Jacqueline has been accused by the Enforcement Directorate of India of both financial impropriety and destruction of evidence. But did she also commit the unforgivable crime of falling in love? As a FirstPost article from July 2022 says about Jacqueline and alleged lover Sukesh Chandrashekar -- "Love knows no bar". Between December 2021 to today, Jacqueline has been called in a bunch of times for questioning by the Enforcement Directorate over her involvement in potential money laundering by Sukesh.  She was questioned over whether she was given gifts or other items by the conman in question, likely totally about tens of crores of Indian rupees. She has been prevented from travelling out of India, which has impeded her professional and personal life, leading to a PR nightmare and her being removed from high-budget movie projects.  She was charged officially for working with Sukesh to convert his black money holdings into legitimate assets.  Oh and of course, since she is a woman, her character has been called into question through sheer gossip and rumours, most of which remain unconnected to the story at hand.  Jacqueline was already a very famous face. But this case took her to a whole other level of infamy. Find out more at - https://ivmpodcasts.com/miss-conduct-blog You can follow our hosts on Instagram: Miss Conduct: https://instagram.com/missconductpod Ragavi: https://www.instagram.com/ragi.dosai/ Nisha: https://www.instagram.com/just.nishful.thinking/ Do follow IVM Podcasts on social media: We are @IVMPodcasts on Facebook, Twitter, & Instagram. Follow the show across platforms: Spotify, Apple Podcasts, JioSaavan, Gaana, Google Podcasts, Amazon MusicSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

TRUE CRIME: What really happened With The WOLF CREEK Backpacker Murders in the Australian Outback?Between December 1989 and April 1992 there were seven young backpackers hitchhiking between Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, and they went missing. At the time the cases caused plenty of fear amongst tourists in Australia but were quickly forgotten when the murderer was caught. For the teenagers, it was a case of wrong place at the wrong time.The bodies of the hitchhikers were all discovered in the Belanglo State Forest, south-west of Sydney and 80 miles west of the New South Wales city of Wollongong in Australia.TRUE CRIME: What really happened With The WOLF CREEK Backpacker Murders in the Australian Outback?

TRUE CRIME: What really happened With The WOLF CREEK Backpacker Murders in the Australian Outback?Between December 1989 and April 1992 there were seven young backpackers hitchhiking between Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, and they went missing. At the time the cases caused plenty of fear amongst tourists in Australia but were quickly forgotten when the murderer was caught. For the teenagers, it was a case of wrong place at the wrong time.The bodies of the hitchhikers were all discovered in the Belanglo State Forest, south-west of Sydney and 80 miles west of the New South Wales city of Wollongong in Australia.TRUE CRIME: What really happened With The WOLF CREEK Backpacker Murders in the Australian Outback?

TRUE CRIME: What really happened With The WOLF CREEK Backpacker Murders in the Australian Outback?Between December 1989 and April 1992 there were seven young backpackers hitchhiking between Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, and they went missing. At the time the cases caused plenty of fear amongst tourists in Australia but were quickly forgotten when the murderer was caught. For the teenagers, it was a case of wrong place at the wrong time.The bodies of the hitchhikers were all discovered in the Belanglo State Forest, south-west of Sydney and 80 miles west of the New South Wales city of Wollongong in Australia.TRUE CRIME: What really happened With The WOLF CREEK Backpacker Murders in the Australian Outback?KURIOUS - FOR ANSWERS TO ALL THINGS STRANGE"We all have the questions, that's why we stay KURIOUS"

Three hundred and thirty-nine people lost their lives to drowning last year while a further 686 experienced a non-fatal drowning incident. Between December 1 and January 9 alone, 35 people drowned across Australia. It's a combination of a number of factors that create these scenarios.We're joined by Dr Amy Peden - A research fellow at the School of Population Health, UNSW, a leader in drowning prevention research and advocacy, to find out what you can do to save someone whilst keeping yourself safe as well. In this episode of the Briefing, Australia's drowning crisis.   Headlines: Over 40 people dead after Pakistan suicide bombing Opposing politicians launch No campaign against the Voice Rental crisis set to get worse after new Chinese studying laws Boris Johnson claims Vladimir Putin threatened him Bill Gates ABC interview Follow The Briefing: Instagram: @thebriefingpodcast Facebook: TheBriefingNewsAUTwitter: @TheBriefingAUSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“If you don't take care of yourself, you can't take care of anyone else. And as caretakers, we are professional caretakers. It is completely true, although we like to think that it's not. We like to think that with our training and with our logic, that we can just overcome everything.” - Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington Physicians across the country are feeling burned out. We're committed to finding ways to decrease stress in our lives and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Between December 2021 and January 2022, about 2,500 US physicians took a survey conducted by researchers at the AMA, Mayo Clinic, Stanford University, and the University of Colorado. The survey results showed that 63% of physicians had at least one manifestation of burnout. If you're a physician, clinician, or healthcare worker and you're feeling burned out, not only are you not alone, you're likely a part of the majority. Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington is back on the show to have a frank conversation about burnout and the importance of prioritizing your own well-being in order to begin to shift your life. If you're not experiencing burnout, chances are you're already doing some of these things to protect your resilience and well-being.  Dr. Bright Ellington is an internal medicine physician and medical billing expert. She earned her M.D. at the University of Michigan Medical School and trained at the Cambridge Hospital of Harvard Medical School. She's practiced in primary care and psychiatric settings and then transitioned her work into the insurance world where she became a health insurance executive. She's the author of the What Your Doctor Wants You to Know series, is a former NY1 News health contributor, and has been featured in Dallas News, several podcasts, and national magazines. You can hear my previous conversations with Dr. Bright Ellington in the episodes linked below. Dr. Bright Ellington shares her amazing story of how she took control of her mental and physical health and well-being. Not only did she take the risk to shift her career, but she also had to battle breast cancer. If she hadn't made the commitment to put herself first when she did, her diagnosis and road to recovery would have been much more difficult. In medical school, physicians are taught to be superhuman at all times, which just isn't practical or sustainable. We discuss why you should put yourself and your family over your job, why it's important to lean on friends, therapists, and coaches, and the importance of setting yourself up financially to take the leap. What's Inside: Dr. Bright Ellington's transformative story of how she overcame burnout and breast cancer. Why you should prioritize your well-being and your family over work. The importance of setting yourself up financially before stepping away from a career. Mentioned In This Episode: DocWorking.com 26: Physician Burnout: Proactive Steps You Can Take Today 195: Americans and Crushing Medical Debt with Dr. Virgie Bright Ellington 210: One Physician's Journey into Non-Clinical Work with Dr. Virgie Bright-Ellington Dr.Virgie@CrushMedicalDebt.com Find full transcripts of DocWorking: The Whole Physician Podcast episodes on the DocWorking Blog The past few weeks have been busy at DocWorking! We have been working behind the scenes to add even more CME credits to the THRIVE memberships. Let your CME budget help you prioritize your own wellness so you can get on with living your best life on your own terms, as defined by you, with DocWorking THRIVE. You can take the first step today by taking our 2-Minute Balance to Burnout Quiz! Where are you on the Balance to Burnout Continuum? Take the quiz and find out today! DocWorking empowers physicians and entire healthcare teams to get on the path to achieving their dreams, both in and outside of work, with programs designed to help you maximize life with minimal time. If you like our podcast and would like to subscribe and leave us a 5-star review, we would be extremely grateful! We're everywhere you like to get your podcasts! Apple iTunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Google, Pandora, Stitcher, PlayerFM, ListenNotes, Amazon, YouTube, and Podbean. You can also find us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Some links in our blogs and show notes are affiliate links, and purchases made via those links may result in payments to DocWorking. These help toward our production costs. Thank you for supporting DocWorking: The Whole Physician Podcast!

Between December 24 and 26, 1992, people of Dayton, Ohio should have been enjoying Christmas festivities and focusing on their loved ones. But instead, they were plagued with fear and sadness, because four little shits decided to go on a crime spree and shooting rampage that left 6 people dead, 2 people injured, and a community forever impacted by the senseless violence. This is the sinister story of the 1992 Christmas Killing Spree. Please rate, review, and subscribe wherever you're listening! ♥ Buy Us A Coffee ♥ Buy A Patch ♥ Follow And Message Us On Instagram ♥ Email Us Some Dark Love

Dolores had a very informative conversation with two powerhouse American Patriots Mickey Hale and Carrey Hirt!Mickey Hale is Treasurer of Montana Election Integrity project. Mickey is a Mom and Super Grandma who started as a grassroots citizen canvasser.  She graduated to canvass leader, then to working with the Data Experts in completing the Canvass Report and is standing up for truth and exposing election fraud!!!Carrey Hirt is Vice President of Montana Election Integrity Project Carrey is committed to protecting American freedom and liberty by ensuring our elections are transparent, secure, and accurate. Carrey helped to create and execute a non-partisan, grassroots, citizen driven Montana Canvass of the 2020 General election. Between December 2021 and June 2022 - Montana Election Integrity Project led a grassroots effort of more than 150 volunteers. They canvassed six Montana counties to ask questions about the Montana 2020 General Election in which 612,075 votes were cast. The counties canvassed were Carbon, Flathead, Lewis & Clark, Missoula, Ravalli, and Yellowstone.Stunning: Montana election integrity organization found more than 120,000 invalid votes cast during 2020 electionMore evidence has emerged detailing how massive the Democrat-led fraud was during the 2020 election that was stolen from President Donald Trump and Republicans.While much of the attention post-2020 has focused on battleground states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia, other states appear to have suffered major fraud as well, including Montana, a new report notes.The Montana Election Integrity Project said that it's investigators found more than 120,000 invalid votes out of a sample of just over 612,000 cast.The final Canvass report can be found at www.mtelectionintegrity.org/canvassThanks to my sponsors: https://www.DWSPatriotShoppingClub.comIf you're tired of shopping at the big Box retailers and are ready to tap in to a Patriot manufacturer where all products are made here in America with 30 to 50% off! Reach out for your virtual tour!!!DWsViewStandUp is also sponsored by American Patriot Mike Lindell of “MyPillow” – Go to my website: https://www.mypillow.com/standup get your free gift and SAVE$$ on lots of great products with the Promo Code is “Standup.” Also call: 1 800-645-6436.Kim Yeater Peak Performance Coaching: If you are a business owner, entrepreneur, or leader who is feeling frustrated or anxious because you are not performing at the level that you know you are capable of, go to: https://UnlockYourLifeCoach.com and set a time with Coach Kim for a Strategy Session to Unlock your life and elevate your performance to the next level!!!Contact Dolores Williams at dwsviewstandup@gmail.com 

Between December 1819 and the first quarter of 1820, 21 ships left England and Ireland bound for the Cape carrying five thousand men, women and children. The ships docked at Cape Town after weeks at sea to take on food and water, and for officials to come aboard. Settlers were not allowed to leave the ships, which then sailed onwards to anchor in Algoa Bay starting in April 1820. The rest would follow through to the end of July, the mid-winter in South Africa, and not the best time to land a ship on the coast. You can imagine the immigrants shock as they looked out over the bay from these vessels, because there was nothing in the way of settlements, just bush, and the landscape was alien – at least at first. The Eastern Cape is a remarkably beautiful area, but its rugged, full of succulants, dry, but when it rains, seemingly covered in vegetation. Who were these people, these 1820 settlers? The Colonial Office initially had instituted rigid conditions to ensure that those of sound character were shipped out. But these rules were broken almost immediately. Some were parties under the leadership of men of means and ability as you've heard, those who could take indentured servants, labourers and mechanics. The Colonial Office's original idea of taking only agricultural men and women who'd been dispossessed of their land in Britain was poorly instituted. IT appeared that many of these farmers were not farmers at all, but artisans, tradesmen and mechanics, who'd changed CVs so to speak, they pretended to be men of the earth when they were really men of settlements. They had grand dreams of paradise, after all the Times and other newspapers had published glowing reports of this new land of milk and honey and would do anything to get out of Britain. Some parishes sought to unload their less productive citizens and falsified their skills on the resumes. Why did so many people want to escape from England at this time? Basically, it was hell back home. Riots, uprisings, land theft, economic decline, government oppression, it all tore at the fabric of British society and for many of these people escape to South Africa – or virtually anywhere for that matter – was better than staying at home. Ironic then that in the 21st Century, Africans are trying to make the reverse trip. Times change.

Between December 1819 and the first quarter of 1820, 21 ships left England and Ireland bound for the Cape carrying five thousand men, women and children. The ships docked at Cape Town after weeks at sea to take on food and water, and for officials to come aboard. Settlers were not allowed to leave the ships, which then sailed onwards to anchor in Algoa Bay starting in April 1820. The rest would follow through to the end of July, the mid-winter in South Africa, and not the best time to land a ship on the coast. You can imagine the immigrants shock as they looked out over the bay from these vessels, because there was nothing in the way of settlements, just bush, and the landscape was alien – at least at first. The Eastern Cape is a remarkably beautiful area, but its rugged, full of succulants, dry, but when it rains, seemingly covered in vegetation. Who were these people, these 1820 settlers? The Colonial Office initially had instituted rigid conditions to ensure that those of sound character were shipped out. But these rules were broken almost immediately. Some were parties under the leadership of men of means and ability as you've heard, those who could take indentured servants, labourers and mechanics. The Colonial Office's original idea of taking only agricultural men and women who'd been dispossessed of their land in Britain was poorly instituted. IT appeared that many of these farmers were not farmers at all, but artisans, tradesmen and mechanics, who'd changed CVs so to speak, they pretended to be men of the earth when they were really men of settlements. They had grand dreams of paradise, after all the Times and other newspapers had published glowing reports of this new land of milk and honey and would do anything to get out of Britain. Some parishes sought to unload their less productive citizens and falsified their skills on the resumes. Why did so many people want to escape from England at this time? Basically, it was hell back home. Riots, uprisings, land theft, economic decline, government oppression, it all tore at the fabric of British society and for many of these people escape to South Africa – or virtually anywhere for that matter – was better than staying at home. Ironic then that in the 21st Century, Africans are trying to make the reverse trip. Times change.

Between December 1819 and the first quarter of 1820, 21 ships left England and Ireland bound for the Cape carrying five thousand men, women and children. The ships docked at Cape Town after weeks at sea to take on food and water, and for officials to come aboard. Settlers were not allowed to leave the ships, which then sailed onwards to anchor in Algoa Bay starting in April 1820. The rest would follow through to the end of July, the mid-winter in South Africa, and not the best time to land a ship on the coast. You can imagine the immigrants shock as they looked out over the bay from these vessels, because there was nothing in the way of settlements, just bush, and the landscape was alien – at least at first. The Eastern Cape is a remarkably beautiful area, but its rugged, full of succulants, dry, but when it rains, seemingly covered in vegetation. Who were these people, these 1820 settlers? The Colonial Office initially had instituted rigid conditions to ensure that those of sound character were shipped out. But these rules were broken almost immediately. Some were parties under the leadership of men of means and ability as you've heard, those who could take indentured servants, labourers and mechanics. The Colonial Office's original idea of taking only agricultural men and women who'd been dispossessed of their land in Britain was poorly instituted. IT appeared that many of these farmers were not farmers at all, but artisans, tradesmen and mechanics, who'd changed CVs so to speak, they pretended to be men of the earth when they were really men of settlements. They had grand dreams of paradise, after all the Times and other newspapers had published glowing reports of this new land of milk and honey and would do anything to get out of Britain. Some parishes sought to unload their less productive citizens and falsified their skills on the resumes. Why did so many people want to escape from England at this time? Basically, it was hell back home. Riots, uprisings, land theft, economic decline, government oppression, it all tore at the fabric of British society and for many of these people escape to South Africa – or virtually anywhere for that matter – was better than staying at home. Ironic then that in the 21st Century, Africans are trying to make the reverse trip. Times change.

Between December 1819 and the first quarter of 1820, 21 ships left England and Ireland bound for the Cape carrying five thousand men, women and children. The ships docked at Cape Town after weeks at sea to take on food and water, and for officials to come aboard. Settlers were not allowed to leave the ships, which then sailed onwards to anchor in Algoa Bay starting in April 1820. The rest would follow through to the end of July, the mid-winter in South Africa, and not the best time to land a ship on the coast. You can imagine the immigrants shock as they looked out over the bay from these vessels, because there was nothing in the way of settlements, just bush, and the landscape was alien – at least at first. The Eastern Cape is a remarkably beautiful area, but its rugged, full of succulants, dry, but when it rains, seemingly covered in vegetation. Who were these people, these 1820 settlers? The Colonial Office initially had instituted rigid conditions to ensure that those of sound character were shipped out. But these rules were broken almost immediately. Some were parties under the leadership of men of means and ability as you've heard, those who could take indentured servants, labourers and mechanics. The Colonial Office's original idea of taking only agricultural men and women who'd been dispossessed of their land in Britain was poorly instituted. IT appeared that many of these farmers were not farmers at all, but artisans, tradesmen and mechanics, who'd changed CVs so to speak, they pretended to be men of the earth when they were really men of settlements. They had grand dreams of paradise, after all the Times and other newspapers had published glowing reports of this new land of milk and honey and would do anything to get out of Britain. Some parishes sought to unload their less productive citizens and falsified their skills on the resumes. Why did so many people want to escape from England at this time? Basically, it was hell back home. Riots, uprisings, land theft, economic decline, government oppression, it all tore at the fabric of British society and for many of these people escape to South Africa – or virtually anywhere for that matter – was better than staying at home. Ironic then that in the 21st Century, Africans are trying to make the reverse trip. Times change.

Dave Kavanagh of Grant Park is our guest, discussing commodity trading strategies and alt-investing. Mr. Powell is a Party Pooper - taking away the punch bowl again. Crude oil seems to have a floor now - THANKS OPEC! David M. Kavanagh, president of the general partner has been responsible for overseeing all operations and activities of the general partner since its formation and has been registered as an AP with the CFTC and listed as a principal of the general partner since December 1995. Commencing in October 1998, Mr. Kavanagh also became president, a principal and an associated person of Dearborn Capital Brokers Ltd., an independent introducing broker. It became registered as an independent introducing broker in October 1998 and was formerly also registered as a commodity pool operator from September 1999 until October 2009. Between October 1998 and October 2011, Dearborn Capital Brokers Ltd. performed introducing brokerage services for MF Global Inc., a former futures commission merchant. From November 2005 through March 2006, Mr. Kavanagh was registered with the CFTC as an AP of MF Global Inc. Neither Dearborn Capital Brokers nor Mr. Kavanagh provides brokerage services to Grant Park's trading account. Mr. Kavanagh has served as the president of DCM Brokers, LLC a registered broker dealer, since October 2007, which serves as Grant Park's lead selling agent. Between December 2010 and December 2012, Mr. Kavanagh served as the president of Knollwood Investment Advisors, LLC, which was formerly a registered investment adviser from January 2011 to December 2012. Effective October 2013, Mr. Kavanagh is a listed principal of EMC Capital Advisors, LLC where he serves on the Board of Managers but does not manage day to day affairs. He was also an owner from May 2012 to April 2014 of a greater than 10% interest in an unregistered proprietary trading firm, XHedge LLC, and provided occasional consulting services to this firm from May 2012 to April 2014. In 1980, Mr. Kavanagh received an M.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and in 1978 graduated with a B.S. in business administration from John Carroll University. Grant Park Funds Looking for style diversification? More information on the TDI Managed Growth Strategy - https://thedisciplinedinvestor.com/blog/tdi-strategy/ eNVESTOLOGY Info - https://envestology.com/ Stocks mentioned in this episode: (@CL), (DXY), (UNG), (CORN)

Hello and welcome to a little taster of another podcast I am working on. True crime has been a passion of mine for a while now so I thought I'd go for it. In this episode of AMS I discuss the crimes of Richard Chase - The Vampire of Sacramento. Between December of 1977 and January 1978, 6 people were brutally murdered. Ambrose Griffin, 51, 22 year old Teresa Wallin who was 3 months pregnant, 38 year old Evelyn Miroth and her son 6 year old Jason, her 22 month old nephew David and her friend 51 year old Daniel Meredith. Thank you for listening to American Murder Stories! If there are any cases you want me to cover from North, Central or south America, please email americanmurderstories@gmail.com For updates please follow: Instagram - American Murder Stories Twitter - american_murder Facebook - American Murder Stories Sources: https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/richard-trenton-chase/ (https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/richard-trenton-chase/) https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/11279433 (https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/11279433) https://www.aafp.org/afp/2014/1201/p775.html (https://www.aafp.org/afp/2014/1201/p775.html) https://sacramento.newsreview.com/2021/08/13/revisiting-the-vampire-of-sacramento/ (https://sacramento.newsreview.com/2021/08/13/revisiting-the-vampire-of-sacramento/)  https://www.thehealthboard.com/what-is-renfields-syndrome.htm Sky True Crime: World's Worst Serial Killers - Richard Chase Serial Killers: True Stories of the World's Worst Murderers - Al Cimino p139-148 The Vampire of Sacramento: The True Story of Richard Chase The Blood-Thirsty Cannibal by https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=Genoveva+Ortiz&text=Genoveva+Ortiz&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=digital-text (Genoveva Ortiz) & https://www.amazon.co.uk/True-Crime-Seven/e/B07V1D9MYD/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_2 (True Crime Seven)  Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI By Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman - Chapter 1  A Thirst for Blood: The True Story of California's Vampire Killer by Ray Biondi and Walt Hecox

The Journal of Rheumatology's Editor-in-Chief Earl Silverman discusses this month's selection of articles that are most relevant to the clinical rheumatologist. Included is an excerpt from this month's Editor's Picks spotlight interview with author Sofie Gernaat about her and her co-author's article "Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Risk in Pregnant Women With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus" - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.210087 This month's selections also include: Movahedi, et al: Physician- and Patient-reported Effectiveness Are Similar for Tofacitinib and TNFi in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Data From a Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.211066 El Tal, et al: Consensus Approach to a Treat-to-target Strategy in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Care: Report From the 2020 PR-COIN Consensus Conference - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.210709 Thompson, et al: Modifiable Factors and Incident Gout Across Ethnicity Within a Large Multiethnic Cohort of Older Adults - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.210394 Widdifield, et al: COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake Among Individuals With Immune-mediated Inflammatory Diseases in Ontario, Canada, Between December 2020 and October 2021: A Population-based Analysis - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.211148 Van Praet, et al: Acute Perimyocarditis in a Case of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Adults - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.210850 Chang, et al: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Increases the Risk of Gestational Diabetes: Truth or Illusion? - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.211374 McCormick and Choi: Racial Disparities in the Modern Gout Epidemic - https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.220173 To read these, and other full articles visit www.jrheum.org. Music by David Hilowitz

Matterport, Inc. Announces Completion of Redemption of Public Warrants SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Matterport, Inc. (“Matterport” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: MTTR), the leading spatial data company driving the digital transformation of the built world, today announced the results of its previously announced redemption of all of its outstanding publicly held warrants (“Public Warrants”) to purchase shares of the Company's Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”). Between December 15, 2021, the date on which the Company announced the redemption of all of its outstanding Public Warrants, and January 14, 2022 (the “Redemption Date”), approximately 9.1 million shares of Common Stock have been issued upon the exercise of Public Warrants by the holders thereof at an exercise price of $11.50 per share, resulting in aggregate proceeds to Matterport of approximately $104.3 million. All unexercised and outstanding Public Warrants as of 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the Redemption Date were redeemed at a price of $0.01 per Public Warrant and, as a result, no Public Warrants currently remain outstanding and the Public Warrants have ceased trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Warrants to purchase Common Stock that were issued under the Warrant Agreement in a private placement simultaneously with the Company's initial public offering and that are still held by the initial holders thereof or their permitted transferees were not subject to this redemption and remain outstanding. “We are pleased to announce that we have raised a total of $104.3 million through exercises of public warrants in connection with the redemption process,” said JD Fay, Chief Financial Officer of Matterport. “We also saw private warrants exercised during this period, leaving just 1.7 million in total outstanding warrants. The combined redemption and exercises also simplify our capital structure.” About Matterport, Inc. Matterport, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTTR) is leading the digital transformation of the built world. Our groundbreaking spatial data platform turns buildings into data to make nearly every space more valuable and accessible. Millions of buildings in more than 194 countries have been transformed into immersive Matterport digital twins to improve every part of the building lifecycle from planning, construction, and operations to documentation, appraisal and marketing. Learn more at matterport.com and browse a gallery of digital twins. ©2021 Matterport, Inc. All rights reserved. Matterport is a registered trademark and the Matterport logo is a trademark of Matterport, Inc. All other marks are the property of their respective owners. Source: Matterport

*PLEASE NOTE: This episode was recorded prior to the release of Murderotica. Any mention of "This is Trash" is in reference to our former podcast. We just really loved this episode and wanted to give y'all something to binge. Here's to more foreplay and less foul-play!* – Between December 22nd and December 28th, 1987, Ronald Gene Simmons (not to be confused with the douchey bass player from Kiss) went on a murder spree. Those involved included ex colleagues and his ENTIRE family.  What led this once decorated military man to such despicable and disgusting events. Listen in as Jamie picks apart Ronald's childhood, work life, marriage and fatherhood and tries to make sense of such a tragic ending. Spoiler: you can't. - References:  Murderpedia https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s1/simmons-ronald-gene.htm Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Gene_Simmons Bella Fiori YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzWgwoIhWC4 – Find us on: instagram | twitter | murderoticapodcast@gmail.com

Between December 11 and 16, alone, the planet experienced a significant number of natural disasters at record levels, and the power of destruction is increasing. This shows that Global Climate Change is gaining momentum. In this episode reporters of Breaking News from around the world. As it was said at the conference "Global Crisis. Time for the Truth" - the climate is our common enemy, which is attacking hard! Every second of our inaction is its advantage. We, humans, have only one chance left - to unite on human qualities and direct our attention to building the Creative Society. Creative Society Project official website: https://creativesociety.com E-mail: info@creativesociety.com #GlobalCrisis #CreativeSociety #Time4truth #ClimateNews #Climate #Disasters #Flooding #earthquake #snowfall #ClimateBreakingNews #climateReport

Between December 1942 and July 1945, a team of scientists, working in secret facilities in various parts of the U. S., researched, built, and tested the world's first atomic bomb. Japan's failure to surrender, together with the possibility of hundreds of thousands of casualties, motivated President Truman to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Despite the bomb's destruction of the city, including the immediate deaths of up to 80,000 people, Japan's leaders still refused to surrender. Three days later, an American bomber dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki, leveling that city and killing nearly as many people as had perished at Hiroshima. Soon after, the Emperor led Japan to surrender. In this episode, James and Scott discuss the Manhattan Project, the dropping of the two atomic bombs, the Japanese surrender, and the end of the Second World War.

S01E17 - Hi-Tech ATM Scammers Withdrawal $250K (2019)Jason Connell and Sal Rodriguez breakdown the true crime story of the Hi-Tech ATM Scammers Withdrawal $250K in 2019. Between December 2018 and May 2019, a Romanian trio consisting of, Marius Catalui, Ioana-Christina Pavel, and Szilard Farkas, operated a sophisticated ATM scam across Virginia's Roanoke Valley which targeted hundreds of personal bank accounts.Recorded: 11-17-21Studio: Just Curious Mediahttps://www.JustCuriousMedia.com/Listen: https://ThatsACrime.buzzsprout.com/Watch:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbw014MVA3wQM8INVVe0Obw/Follow:https://www.facebook.com/ThatsACrimePodcast/https://www.instagram.com/ThatsACrimePodcast/Hosts:https://www.instagram.com/MrJasonConnell/https://www.instagram.com/SalvadorLosAngeles/#justcuriousmedia #thatsacrime #mrjasonconnell #salvadorlosangeles #truecrime #misdemeanor #murder #mystery #suspense #thriller #horror #criminal #serialkiller #thief #suspect #victim #guilty #jail #prison #hitechatmscammerswithdrawal250k

Between December 1990 and March 1991, a serial killer terrorized Dallas, Texas. Murdering and mutilating prostitutes in the area. Charles Albright was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but was he the one to actually commit the crimes? Join me this Friday as we dive into the creepy case of the Eyeball Killer. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/creepycases-spookyspaces/message

The astrology for the New Year is about forming something useful out of the rubble of the past.  2020  was an exhausting year due to the virtual siege of cosmic events in one calendar year. 2021 will pick up where the old year left off.  The crisis is over; yet the battle is not quite won.  In the coming months, we begin sorting through the remains and pick up the pieces, what to salvage and put to good use. 2021 will not barrage us with nearly the onslaught of cosmic triggers.  The year will be calmer and gives a reprieve for us. There are remarkably fewer major cosmic events in 2021:  there are 4 eclipses instead of 6, Mars and Venus stay direct all year, and the titans Pluto-Jupiter and Saturn are separating as we speak and moving on, the latter two giving us breathing room in airy Aquarius.  With much less stirring of the celestial pot so to speak, we are able to move about our business with less interruption.  So here's the month by month breakdown of 2021 JANUARY:  The overarching theme setting the tone for the entire year begins straight off the bat.  With Saturn is firmly in Aquarius, it begins a year-long showdown with Uranus.   We take a cue from this dynamic:  Old versus new is the dominant theme for all of 2021. Both Uranus and Saturn are in FIXED signs:  Saturn is in Aquarius, a fixed air sign and Uranus is in Taurus, the earth fixed sign.  Never say die is their motto.  They stick to their beliefs, work, or relationships see something through to the finish.  As a result the fixed signs are notable for stubbornness, inflexibility and yes, rigidity.  So you can guess what's coming. Saturn the Taskmaster, is now in Aquarius, sign of innovation, revolutionary, technology, groups, networks, friends, the humanitarian, teams.  In this air sign Saturn mandates the NEW, whether products, methods, processes.  Unusual, alternative, non-mainstream, avant garde are Aquarius' favorite words.   For the first half of the year, Generous Jupiter is closely paired with Saturn, marking the Age of Aquarius. Meanwhile Uranus is cycling through Taurus. And it is not so comfortable in earthy, sensual Taurus, the SHOW ME the money sign.  And in Taurus, the sign of natural resources and values, Uranus awakens us to how we utilize our skills and talents, our worth, the money we earn, in a whole different way. Boxing with each other in the beginning of 2021, Saturn sets the tone and agenda while Uranus counters and disrupts.   Uranus changes our values, what we value and assign worth to; while task master Saturn says you'll need to come up with something new to meet the crisis at hand. On Wednesday, January 13th, a new moon occurs conjoined to transformer Pluto in austere Capricorn.  The very next day, Uranus turns direct motion on Thursday, January 14th.  This gear shift can often stir up extremely unpredictable and unexpected events.  Take it easy this particularly stretch of the January; especially through the 21st of the month as Mars approaches Radical Uranus, both challenging the Titans Jupiter-Saturn duo.   You will feel the wheels grinding against each other, big time resistance. The good news is that we have a two week window from January 15th-29th where the all ten planets are cycling forward.  We accomplish our tasks more easily.  Keeping an open mind and heart during this two week stretch is key as we head into the Full Moon in Leo on January 28th opposite Jupiter, Sun and Saturn in Aquarius, with Uranus in the middle.  Watch deeply entrenched positions where each person or group believes their way is the ONLY way.  Our perception of the opposing viewpoint is big as we want to imagine; if each was willing to give a little, our problems would solve themselves.  Messenger Mercury turns retrograde on Friday, January 29th.  Our thoughts turn inward for the next three weeks in the sign of Aquarius, the Great Connector and Inventor, problem-solver extraordinaire.  Remember to practice the Retrograde RE words:  rest, restore, review, relax, renew, renovate, revisit.  The messenger planet stays retrograde for three weeks until February 20th. FEBRUARY: THE BIG SHIFT.  FIVE out of ten planets are in innovative Aquarius this month including: Sun, Messenger Mercury, Valuable Venus, and the two Titans Generous Jupiter and Taskmaster Saturn.  Aquarius treats everyone the same, wants what's best for everyone, the common man most of all. The New Moon Joins the Aquarian Cadre on February 11th.  Aquarius is detached allowing for cooler heads to prevail which is greatly needed as Saturn and Uranus are really going at it now. The Fab 5 converge in Aquarius until February 18th, when the Sun rolls into dreamy Pisces. Messenger Mercury turns direct motion on the 20th continuing forward now in Aquarius. Mercury shines particularly well in this airy sign:   Our minds are sharper, our words land better, we connect to the right people and ideas.   Common sense and ingenuity prevail.  Mercury's lengthy passage through Aquarius is one of the blessings of 2021 since due to its retrograde, it will be in its favorite sign from January 9th all the way to March 16th.  The Full Moon peaks on Saturday, February 27th.  Dream and go with the flow of Mr. Sun if you must, but first take a bath and brush your teeth wags this Moon.  And don't forget to do the dishes before you leave… MARCH. All Planets are direct!!!   Now that Messenger Mercury turned direct last month, all ten planets are forward motion through the very end of April.  TAKE ADVANTAGE!!!!  Build baby build; put your dreams into motion.  Now is the time.  We rarely get planetary opportunities like this once in a while so make the most of it.  Mars turns into Gemini a sign where Mars sharpens its tongue.  Listen carefully as Gemini is the salesman of the zodiac; so caveat emptor.  Watch that you do not spread yourself too thin and overcommit, or pick a fight just for the sake of it.  Watch your thoughts and mind your mouth. Set your intentions on the New Moon on Saturday, March 13th.  This weekend is one of the highlights of 2021 as the energy is SO gorgeous.  If you are looking for a date to get married this year, the weekend of March 13th and 14th is IT.  Talk about TRUE LOVE!  All New Moons are about new beginnings but WOW, we are enveloped by Love, Love, Love as we set intentions for our goals and wishes.  The Sun and Moon conjoin Venus and her older sibling Neptune, all in compassionate Pisces. These four align helpfully with transformer Pluto and Generous Jupiter.  We come together, we unify, our understanding grows.  We BELIEVE.  Mercury enters Pisces, the visionary.  Create a vision of what you want to achieve over the next few months or by year's end.  Especially as a few days later on the 20th of March the Sun enters Aries, marking the Spring Equinox.  Valuable Venus joins Mr. Sun on Monday, the 22nd and we have all the energy and fortitude we could ever ask for. The Full Moon in Libra occurs on Sunday, March 28th.  Libra strives for balance in all things, especially relationships.  Watch for an us-versus-them mentality around the end of March.  The good news is healer Chiron pairs up with the Sun-Venus duo at Full Moon, delivering new healing modalities and measures.  APRIL: April 2021 could live up to its reputation as the most violent month statistically with the balance of planets in Aries;  Messenger Mercury joins the Sun-Venus duo in Aggressive Aries and we are impatient and impulsive.  This fearless threesome are joined by the New Moon in Aries on April 10-11th.  We have enough energy, will power or firepower, to blast through any resistance put up by the on-going Saturn-Uranus stand-off.  In your rush to get going, just don't forget to hand write your New Moon intentions on the 11th or 12th of April. Valuable Venus moves into her own sign of earthy Taurus on Thursday April 15th followed by Mercury's turn into Taurus four days later on the 19th and the Sun on the 20th. Look under the hood, focus on value, so you know what your hard earned dollar is getting in return.  It's the original Show me the money sign.  A few days later, on Friday, April 23rd, Motivating Mars moves into Cautious Cancer the Crab, a sign it's definitely not comfortable in.  Mars is a warrior, ready for battle. Cancer is gentle and soft. Wants to curl up under the covers, watch Netlix with a cuppa tea.  So make sure are as forthcoming as possible rather than resorting to passive aggressive measures for which Mars in cancer is notorious. The Full Moon in Scorpio on Monday, April 26th opposite four planets in practical Taurus:  Sun, Mercury, Venus and Uranus.  With five planets in the money signs Scorpio and Taurus, we are ALL about the money, power, resources, who has it, who doesn't, who wants to get it, and who is keeping secrets.  The full Moon in scorpio is especially notable as the next day Pluto, the ruler of Scorpio, turns retrograde. KABOOM.  Thus ends the 9 week run with all planets moving forward in direct motion. May Messenger Mercury twirls into its own sign of Gemini on Tuesday May 4th followed by Venus on May 9th, Mothers Day.  We turn toward messaging as Gemini is versatile.  Where there is a will, Gemini will find a way to make it happen.  Just remember to allow equal time for both Gemini twins:  talking AND  listening; hearing AND speaking. The New Moon in Taurus on Tuesday the 11th of May; sun and moon are loosely conjoined to Change Agent Uranus.  Hand write your intentions and goals for the next month and season and plant them in the fertile May earth.   Generous Jupiter rolls into Mystical Pisces on May 14th where he'll stay until the end of July.   Jupiter is the planet of Faith in the spiritual sign of Pisces. Here he unifies, unites and flows together. On Friday, May 21st the Sun moves into Gemini joining Valuable Venus and Messenger Mercury as we find our ideas, thoughts and words witty and quick to the draw.  The Gemini planets helpfully align with Taskmaster Saturn in Aquarius which turns retrograde on May 23rd.  The first eclipse of 2021 on Wednesday, may 26th. Full Moon Total Lunar eclipse in Gemini and Sagittarius: the Sun is in the air sign of Gemini opposite the Full Moon in adventurous Sagittarius.  Both Sun and Moon challenge Jupiter in Pisces, pushing us to search for truth in the midst of thick spin, smoke and mirrors, and overthinking.  Watch your words:  that you say what you mean and mean what you say now. The eclipse falls just days before Mercury turns retrograde in the sign of communication, Gemini where it will stay for 6.5 weeks until July 11th.  Good thing Messenger Mercury will only be retrograde through June 22n, at the time of the summer solstice.  Just remember to do the RE words for the next three weeks:  Rest, Restore, relax, renew, Revisit, renovate, research. JUNE: June is a full of gear shifts.  First:   Valuable Venus turns into Cancer the Crab.  Venus thrives in this maternal, nurturing and compassionate sign.  New Moon Solar Eclipse in Gemini on Thursday, June 10th.  Conjoined to Messenger Mercury, this eclipse is about  your thoughts, words and intentions.  Watch for matters involving siblings, your car, neighbors or community surfacing.  Mystical Neptune challenges Mercury during the eclipse requiring us to REALLY FOCUS and pay attention as the air is rife with disillusionment.  Discern what is truth vs. spin.  Two days later, Motivating Mars rolls into Leo on June 12th.   Your creativity soars for the next two months. The third week of June hosts cosmic gear shifts in quick succession.  First, Generous Jupiter turns retrograde on Sunday, June 20th.  We may experience some delayed gratification in our goals.  The next day is the Summer Solstice on Monday, June 21st as the Sun moves into Cancer the Crab on the longest day of the year! Messenger Mercury turns direct motion the next day, Tuesday, June 22nd.  Proceed with large purchases such as cars, homes and appliances and signing major documents and contracts.  Full Moon in practical Capricorn on Thursday, June 24th.  The next day, the tides roll out as Dreamy Neptune turns retrograde has us reflecting on our deeper, soul purpose.  Last, Valuable Venus changes signs to join Mars in Look at me Leo.  For the next month, these two will be the spice of life by bringing a much needed sense of humor and fun to our world. JULY! The Peak Month of the Summer is notably calmer than June as there are fewer planetary shifts. That said, Motivating Mars joins the ongoing fray between Radical Uranus and Taskmaster Saturn for the first week of July resulting in deep frustrations.   After the holiday weekend of July 4th, the tension eases up heading into the New Moon in Cancer the Crab on Friday, July 9th.  Feel the flow!  Because we will be IN IT as Dreamy Neptune aligns with both Sun and Moon, our will and emotions.  Beach and boating activities, any water born endeavor really, will be magical this second week of July.  Venus joins Mars in Leo, moving him away from the very hard edge earlier in the month to Uranus and Saturn.  The dynamic duo make for a joyful, festive and creative mid month while Messenger Mercury finally shifts out of Gemini on Monday, July 12th where it's been since early May!  Now in Cancer the Crab, our mind and words turn toward home, family and food. Venus shifts into Virtuous Virgo, the same day that the Sun turns into Leo on Thursday, July 22nd.  Pay particular attention to messages and what you are being shown now under the blazing light of the Full Moon in Aquarius the very next day, July 23rd.  Messenger Mercury opposes Pluto and while we may not like what we are hearing or seeing, it is incredibly important to pay attention to what crosses our radar and not sweep it under the rug. Messenger Mercury turns into playful Leo on July 28th followed two days later by Mars entering Virtuous Virgo.  In between, Generous Jupiter reenters Aquarius where it will remain for the rest of 2021. AUGUST The Luckiest Day of the year 8/8 finds a New Moon in Leo on this most auspicious day, Sunday, August 8th.  Watch for potential big announcements around this time as Messenger Mercury conjoins the Sun and Moon, in expressive Leo who loves to make a splash.  Hand write your goals and intentions for the coming weeks and months and plant them in the ground. Thursday, August 12th, Messenger Mercury shifts into its own sign of Virgo, sharpening our minds and words into precise, detailed language.  Virgo rules health, work and service. As Mercury gradually joins Motivating Mars in Virgo and both align to Uranus in Taurus, our ingenuity streamlines our lives now.  Plan and prepare for future days and focusing on healthy choices.  The downside of Virgo is perfectionism:  watch for anxiety, guilt, worry or controlling too much. Do what you can and let the rest go. Monday, August 16th  Valuable Venus moves into her own sign Lovely Libra.  Here she seeks to bring balance to our world through grace and beauty.  We will need her help as the trickiest day of the month and perhaps the year on August 20th when Radical Uranus turns retrograde until January 2022.  This gear shift is never comfortable as Uranus rules shock and surprise.  Expect the unexpected around this time especially as Uranus turns retrograde leading into the Full Moon on Sunday, August 22nd.  The Moon conjoins Jupiter in Aquarius, ruler of Uranus.  With both the Sun and moon in the final degrees of Leo and Aquarius, we could be in for a big awakening, or surprise. Again, I must emphasize this could be the trickiest period of all 2021. The Sun turns into Virgo the very next day on August 23rd, joining Mars while Messenger Mercury moves into Lovely Libra a week later on August 30th, balancing out our thoughts and words.   SEPTEMBER: Labor Day New Moon on Monday, September 6th in Virgo, the sign of work, labor, service and health.  Both Sun and Moon loosely conjoin Motivating Mars, our energy and drive to get things done, as it exactly aligns to its elder sibling Powerful Pluto.   This is one powerful New Moon for manifestation.  Be sure to set your intentions and goals over the coming month and season.  Valuable Venus shifts into Scorpio on Friday, September 10th.  Scorpio rules power, money, shared resources, joint finances and yes, secrets.  Venus brings all of these in spades through the end of September.  Her counterpart Mars turns into Libra on September 15th.  Lovely Libra is not the most comfortable fit for Masculine Mars who prefers battle and conflict.  For next two months, watch you aren't picking fights but rather use this energy to build constructive relationships, including with yourself. Taskmaster Saturn and Radical Uranus pull apart, separating for the greatest distance during September and October.  Take advantage of this break by creating what you want to grow. The space they offer is part of the Full Moon on Monday, September 20th.  This is a particularly tricky full moon as the Sun conjoins Mars opposing the Pisces Moon conjunct Neptune. Illusion and escapism are hard wired into this Full Moon so use the discerning Sun in analytical Virgo to your advantage rather than wanting to run away from everything or expecting life to be other than how it is which only results in disappointment.  We certainly will get a better handle on any situation when Mercury turns retrograde on Monday, September 27th, giving us the next three weeks to reflect, review, and revisit our lives, to take stock of who we are and how to proceed from here. OCTOBER: LOTS of changes this month!  All three heavy hitters, Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn turn direct motion along with Messenger Mercury.   Until they get going forward again, the opening week of October may feel very sluggish.  You may find your energy is stagnant or you can't make any headway on projects or goals.  The energy shifts as Powerful Pluto turns direct on Wednesday, October 6thth, the same day as the New Moon in Libra! The New Moon is conjoined to Motivating Mars and Messenger Mercury, meaning:  maximum manifestation power!  With 4 out ten planets in Libra, we feel centered; balancing our lives comes more easily.  We have an artful and peaceful outlook.  Handwrite your goals to grow over the coming months and plant them in the ground.  Valuable Venus rolls into adventurous Sagittarius on Thursday, October 7th, opening us up to learning and seeking answers near and far.  On Monday, October 11, Taskmaster Saturn turns direct motion followed by its counterpart Generous Jupiter on the Monday, the 18th.  It is especially noteworthy as Messenger Mercury turns direct the very same day as Jupiter.  Expect a BIG announcement or to receive news around this time as we head into the Full Moon in Aries on Wednesday, October 20th.. The Aries Moon opposes the Sun joined to Mars in Libra so please take a breath, take a beat as needed and hit the pause button as this full Moon approaches from Sunday, October 17th through the 20th so tread lightly. With four planets now forward motion again within the span of two weeks, we see more clearly and understand. Any projects, purchases or plans that you have been holding off on during Mercury retrograde, proceed as needed. Sign major documents or significant contracts. A few days later, on Saturday, October 23rd, the Sun moves into Scorpio followed one week later by Mars on Halloween, Sunday, October 31st to get your spooky ON! NOVEMBER Several planetary gear shifts occur as November opens with the New Moon in Scorpio, on Thursday, November 4th.  Both Sun and Moon directly oppose Radical Uranus in Taurus with Taskmaster Saturn challenging them. Meaning:  no one wants to budge.  You may feel dug in or feel the resistance of others.  Use caution with this New Moon.  The energy is combustible.  The seeds of this New Moon will be harvested two weeks later on the Full Moon Lunar Eclipse in the money signs, Taurus and Scorpio.  This November is not for the faint of heart.  The day after the New Moon, Venus turns into Capricorn, pragmatic, cold and calculating, while Messenger Mercury shifts into Scorpio the next day, Saturday, November 6th.  Valuable What Mercury turns over from its detective work digging underneath the surface, it hands over to Venus to manage.  The mid-month occurs Full Moon Lunar Eclipse on Friday, November 19th.  Messenger Mercury and Motivating Mars join the Sun in Scorpio opposite the Taurus Moon shining a spotlight on any dirt or dreck swept under the rug over the past months or years.  There is no hiding from anyone or anything now. The Sun turns into Sagittarius on Monday, November 22nd, the fiery sign of education, spirituality and the law takes all that was turned up by the Lunar Eclipse and either teaches it a thing or two or prosecutes to the fullest extent possible.  Especially after Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 25th when Messenger Mercury joins the Sun in Sagittarius to really tell it like it is.  DECEMBER: On Saturday, December 4th the New Moon occurs as a total Solar Eclipse in truth telling Sagittarius.  With both the Sun and Moon tightly conjoined to Messenger Mercury in honest, adventurous Sagittarius, we speak our minds, or, speak truth to power regardless of the consequences.  Set clear intentions and goals for what you seek to manifest in the coming weeks and New Year just around the corner. Motivating Mars joins the Sun in Sagittarius passing the baton to Messenger Mercury as it exits into practical Capricorn on Tuesday, December 14th.  While Sun-Mars are focused on education, travel, truth and justice, Mercury ruler of our minds and mouths pursues real world application of all that book learning. Mercury tips us off as Valuable Venus turns retrograde motion in the sign of Capricorn on Saturday, December 18th.  For the next 40 days, Venus, planet of relationships has us reflect on pieces of ourselves we have disowned, what Carl Jung calls our shadow.  In Capricorn, we  look at the basic foundations of our life.  Is it firm or flimsy?  Do the bare bones and hard facts of our lives need reworking?  Venus rules Values and in Capricorn, she wants a full accounting and taking stock at what we're made of. It is no accident that Venus turns retrograde just one day before the Full Moon on Sunday, December 19th.  Under the spotlight of the Full Moon, we see exactly where we fall short in our relationships, including to our Self.  Naked under the Full Moon in communicative Gemini opposite the truth telling Sagittarius Sun, we see our flaws as well as our perfections. Use this Venus retrograde passage to reconnect with parts of yourself, what you may have forgotten about or pushed aside.  Between December 18 and January 29th, 2022  review your financial situation; reconnect with old friends or relatives; embark on reflective retreats for deep psychological dives. Invest the time and money to improve yourself as you will emerge from this period with greater self respect and clearer understanding of how to move forward.  Just remember:  BUY YOUR HOLIDAY GIFTS before December 18th this year!  Purchases made after December 18th when Venus turns retrograde will be returned. The Winter Solstice occurs on Wednesday, December 22nd. From here, the light only grows stronger and brighter. Links:  www.hilaryharley.com hilary@hilaryharley.com IG: @hilary-harley FB:  hilary harley;  hilary harley astrology;  harley holistic healing

December 23rd: Victor Kennedy Enters Annie Orr’s House(1980) He said she said can make any case difficult. What happens when there is a case with conflicting physical evidence and 2 men involved who both have different stories. Between December 23rd and 24th 1980 a woman was attacked inside of her home and murdered by two men she knew. And, though they were brought to trial for the crime, it’s difficult to determine what actually happened that night. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange local true crime story you want to share, or you just want to say hi? Email the show here: morningcupofmurder@gmail.com Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Morning Cup of Murder is Edited and Produced by Dillon Biemesderfer Follow Dillon on instagram: @dungeonsanddillons Information for this episode collected from: Murderpedia, reuters.com, irishtimes.com, apr.org, aw.justia.com

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This Podcast Is Episode Number 0376, And It's About Brace Your Construction Business From Recession The pains caused by an economic downturn can be excruciating, which is why most of us dread it. A recession can mean massive layoffs, jobs becoming harder to find, and wages frozen, which means consumers hunker down and spend less-- often worsening the slowdown unknowingly.  For most businesses, especially small businesses, recessions can be brutal. Just take, for example, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) that struck the world in 2008. Between December 2008 and December 2010, approximately 1.8 million small businesses shut down. When Investopedia looked into the financial crisis's impact on small businesses after a decade, they found out that business creation has not yet returned to pre-crisis levels.  As the battle against COVID-19 is far from over, global financial markets have been impacted, consumers are tightening their belts, and global demand is falling. All these signs point to one thing: the next economic downturn may be right around the corner. Don't get us wrong; we are not here to scare you. Our hope is for you to build a successful, future-proof construction business. That means you need to be aware of the possibility of another recession so you can prepare adequately.  Stay Close to Your Numbers Without a crystal clear picture of your business' financial health, you will not create an effective strategy that will help you weather this significant business challenge. By making an effort to understand your financials, including your revenue, expenses, profits, and cash flow numbers, you will be able to plan accordingly. Check-in with us and we'll help you review your cashflow forecasts. These forecasts will help you conduct best, moderate, and worst-case scenario planning. Doing this will help you make sound business decisions based on updated financial data, rather than being driven by emotion, intuition, or just guessing! Improve Your Cash Flow Cash flow is the lifeblood of your construction business, and ideally, you should be bringing in more income than the amount you are spending to sustain your business. However, before you can improve your cash flow, you must first ensure that you have accurate financial records and an effective accounting system.  Once you have these sorted out, it will be easier for you to control your cash position through: Payments from clients-- timely invoicing, chasing debts, and offering to restructure overdue payments Reducing your expenses by reviewing software subscriptions, renegotiating terms with your suppliers and lenders Secure financing from government stimulus funds, take on investors or get short-term financing. However, if you are thinking about incurring debt during a recession, we would recommend consulting with your accountant or financial advisor first. Make extra effort in nurturing your relationship with existing customers Enhance your products and services Maintaining, Or Even Better, Growing Your Client Base If you want your business to thrive during a recession, you likely need to grow your client base. One way to do this is by digging deeper into your target market and coming up with ways to tweak your offers to entice them to hire your services even during severe economic conditions. You should also research your competitors, identify your point of difference, and plan how you will communicate those selling points to interested customers. We understand that getting more clients during a time like this is easier said than done, but what many business owners fail to realize is the fact that their existing customers are often their best opportunity to make more sales. Keep your clients happy, identify how you can add more value to their lives, and reach out to them to take advantage of untapped sales opportunities. Focus On Your Strengths The concept of "diversification" is usually taken in the wrong way. Merely adding a host of different products and services to your offerings will not magically transform your construction business. It may be a waste of time and resources and stop you from focusing on the things you do best. During an economic downturn, you should re-evaluate your existing services, and focus on your key strengths or core competencies. Improve Your Marketing Efforts One of the most common construction business owners' mistakes is that whenever they need to minimize their expenses, they automatically cut their marketing budget or even re-allocate it entirely. Marketing and sales go hand-in-hand. So if you want to keep a healthy flow of sales coming in, you need to have strong marketing. In today's fast-paced world where consumers are restless, they will become even more careful in their buying decisions. Marketing is your tool to help them find and see your services as the best options. So instead of quitting marketing, now is the right time to step up your marketing efforts. Don't Be Afraid to Play Offense Those who go full survival mode and limp through the economic downturn will be much slower to recover and have a lower chance of catching up. Secure your cash reserves and know when is the right time to play offense. Think about ways to innovate your services, streamline your operations to boost efficiencies, expand your market share by improving your offerings to be ten times better than your competition, and consider mergers and acquisitions. There is No Fool-Proof Way There is no specific strategy that will make your business 100% recession-proof, but these tips will make a difference in navigating through these difficult times. In the business world, ups and downs are normal, and growth stalls are inevitable due to cyclical reasons. Thriving in a recession boils down to having exceptional industry expertise, getting better business visibility, implementing efficient processes and best practices, and having a business advisor who can provide you with expert guidance, fresh insights, and timely advice. And, more importantly, condition yourself for success. Be-Do-Have. Be the person, do the work, have the results. In life, contractors produce reasons or results, and reasons don't count. What's next for your business? Get in touch with us, and we'll help you work out a customized strategic plan for your situation. About The Author: Sharie DeHart, QPA is the co-founder of Business Consulting And Accounting in Lynnwood, Washington. She is the leading expert in managing outsourced construction bookkeeping and accounting services companies and cash management accounting for small construction companies across the USA. She encourages Contractors and Construction Company Owners to stay current on their tax obligations and offers insights on how to manage the remaining cash flow to operate and grow their construction company sales and profits so they can put more money in the bank. Call 1-800-361-1770 or sharie@fasteasyaccounting.com  

Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, the "Ken and Barbie Killers", are without a doubt Canada's most famous serial killers. On the outside, the couple seemed to have it all - good looks, steady jobs, and an undeniable romantic chemistry. Unbeknownst to everybody around them, both Bernardo and Homolka were sexual sadists who pushed each other to the limit. Between December 1990 and April 1992, the pair raped and killed three teenage girls, capturing nearly every moment on video. The details of their gruesome crimes continue to shock Canadians to this day, and their subsequent criminal trials generated some of the most newsworthy moments of the time. In the eighth installment of our Killer Canucks series, we discuss the life and crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. Support Big, If True on Patreon at www.patreon.com/bigiftrue Subscribe to Big, If True on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts - while you're at it, leave us a rating or review telling us what you love about the show! Email us at: bigiftruepodcast@gmail.com Follow us on:Twitter: bigiftruecastInstagram: bigiftruecastFacebook: bigiftruecastTumblr: bigiftruecast.tumblr.comMinds: bigiftrueGab: bigiftrue Intro/Disclaimer: Josh McLellan (http://www.fiverr.com/joshmclellan) Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

This JCO Podcast provides observations and commentary on the JCO article “Erlotinib Versus Gemcitabine Plus Cisplatin as Neoadjuvant Treatment for Stage IIIA-N2 EGFR-Mutant NSCLC (EMERGING-CTONG 1103): A Randomized Phase II Study” by Zhong et al. My name is Tony Mok, and I am a Professor of Clinical Oncology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong. My oncologic specialty is Medical Oncology.   With the advent of molecular targeted therapy, patients harboring driver oncogenes may now survive longer and better than before, and EGFR mutation is the prime example of such achievement. However, evidence for “cure” of patients with metastatic EGFR mutation positive lung cancer remains scanty. In contrast, It may be more reasonable to first attempt cure of patients with earlier stage disease using molecular targeted therapy. CTONG 1103, published in this issue of Journal of Clinical Oncology, is the first randomized study comparing neoadjuvant erlotinib with chemotherapy for patients with stage IIIA EGFR mutation positive lung cancer.   CTONG 1103, the report that accompanies this podcast, is not an easy study to conduct. Between December 2011 and December 2017, investigators from 17 centers across China managed to screen 386 patients with stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and identified only 72 (which is about 19%) eligible EGFR mutation positive patients. They were randomized to receive either erlotinib 150mg daily for 42 days or two cycles of chemotherapy using gemcitabine and cisplatin as neo-adjuvant therapy. After neoadjuvant therapy, 73% of the erlotinib arm, and 63% of the chemotherapy arm, received curative surgery, including two patients in erlotinib arm who received pneumonectomy. The primary endpoint of this study is tumor response rate, which is 54.1% for erlotinib and 34.3% for chemotherapy. However, the odds ratio of 2.26 for tumor response rate was not statistically significant. Two other important and impactful endpoints include major pathological response and progression free survival (PFS). Major pathological response is defined as less than 10% residual viable tumor cell and it occurred only in 10.7% of patients who received erlotinib and none with the chemotherapy. But on the other hand, PFS was significantly better with erlotinib arm, reporting median of 21.5 month comparing with 11.4 months with chemotherapy arm.   In reference to the primary endpoint of tumor response rate, we should conclude that CTONG 1103 is a negative study. Zhong et al has reasonably estimated the sample size based on a presumptive response rate of 70% in the erlotinib arm and 36% in the chemotherapy arm.  The reported response rate at 54.1% with erlotinib in this study has significantly fallen short of the expected rate of 70%, which was actually the widely accepted response rate in patients with stage IV disease. The authors selected to offer 42 days of neo-adjuvant erlotinib in order to match the two cycles of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. While there is no biologic reason to explain the low response rate in earlier stage disease, the shorter duration of treatment may contribute to the relatively lower response rate. The other important outcome is the major pathological response of 10.7% with neo-adjuvant erlotinib, which is supposed to be a surrogate for overall survival. Hellman et al were among the first groups to suggest the predictive power of major pathological response for neo-adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with early stage lung cancer. The lower than expected major pathological response may be considered a surrogate indicator for overall survival but it is more important to wait for the mature survival outcomes.   A negative study can still be impactful. This study has established the feasibility of neo-adjuvant EGFR TKI for patients with potentially resectable EGFR mutation positive lung cancer. The first single arm phase II study on pre-operative gefitinib published in 2009 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology enrolled 36 patients but only 6 harbored the activating EGFR mutations. Tumor response was observed in 4 patients and all were positive for the mutations. Another single arm study published in 2018 in the journal The Oncologist enrolled 19 patients with EGFR mutation positive stage IIIA NSCLC and treated with neoadjuvant erlotinib for 56 days. Tumor response rate was 42.1% and resection rate was 68.4%. Only 5 of the 14 patients (35.7%) with surgical resection had documented pathologic downstaging from N2 to N0/N1 disease. The median PFS and OS was 11.2 and 51.6 months respectively. CTONG 1103 is the first and only randomized comparative study that confirmed the feasibility and efficacy of neo-adjuvant EGFR TKI. Tumor response rate is higher than chemotherapy by 20% although not statistically significant, but toxicity profile is better, which is an established fact from multiple phase III studies on advanced stage disease. The resection rates were similar between the two arms but it was unclear how many of the enrolled patients had unresectable disease prior to neo-adjuvant therapy. Key objectives of neo-adjuvant therapy are to down-stage tumor/nodal disease and to improve resectability. This randomized study may potentially document if erlotinib is more capable of converting unresectable stage IIIA disease to being resectable, however, this data is not currently available.   The authors of the current study have also reported improvement in progression free survival, but we cannot conclude that the improvement is solely due to the neo-adjuvant therapy. As per study protocol, patients from neo-adjuvant EGFR TKI arm did receive 12 months of erlotinib as adjuvant therapy while the chemotherapy arm received only 2 more cycles of similar treatment. Considering the duration of therapy, the adjuvant erlotinib may in fact  contribute more to prolongation of progression free survival than the neo-adjuvant therapy. In 2017 in the journal Lancet Oncology, the same group of investigators have reported a randomized phase III study comparing adjuvant gefitinib with chemotherapy and the median disease free survival was 28.7 months and 18.0 months, respectively. All patients enrolled in this study had resectable lung cancer with over 60% of patients having N2 disease, and the authors had concluded on the potential survival advantage of adjuvant EGFR TKI. Thus, the improvement in progression free survival should be explained by both neo-adjuvant and adjuvant erlotinib.   In summary, CTONG 1103 is a negative study but it has significant impact on management of stage IIIA EGFR mutation positive lung cancer. With high screening failure rate at 80%, it took the authors 6 years to enroll 72 patients. This study will remain the only randomized study on this patient group for a long time as similar  large scale phase III trials of this strategy will be unlikely. Clinicians are obligated to share and explain CTONG 1103 to patient with stage IIIA EGFR mutation positive lung cancer. For patients with resectable disease at presentation, the benefit of neo-adjuvant EGFR TKI may be debatable. But for patients with un-resectable stage IIIA disease, neo-adjuvant EGFR TKI may potentially downstage the disease status and facilitate resection.     This concludes this JCO podcast. Thank you for listening.

Just seven days after a quadruple homicide in Wichita, Kansas, a second would take place. This crime, known as The Wichita Massacre, would become one of the most famous crimes in the history of Kansas, along with those committed by infamous serial killer, Dennis Rader (known as BTK). Between December 7 and December 14, 2000, two brothers, Reginald and Jonathan Carr, went on a robbery, rape and murder spree in Wichita. The Carr brothers inflicted great pain and suffering upon their victims, and their victims’ families. However, from this terrible tragedy, arose a story of tremendous triumph, and, of all things …love.MURDERISH now has a Patreon page. If you’d like to support Murderish, and get extra perks in exchange, click here: www.patreon.com/murderish. Follow MURDERISH on social media:Facebook: Murderish Podcast https://www.facebook.com/groups/540494462961219/ Twitter: @MurderishPod https://twitter.com/MurderishPodInstagram: @MurderishPodcast Send comments and advertising inquiries to: MurderishJami@gmail.com MURDERISH merch now available (t-shirts, mugs & other swag): Murderish online merch store https://murderishpodcast.threadless.com/.Preroll Disclaimer by: Josh Mankiewicz, Correspondent for Dateline NBC.Midroll Sponsors: HelloFresh & Mott & Bow. HelloFresh (meal delivery service): For $80 off your first month of HelloFresh, go to HelloFresh.com/MURDERISH80 & enter promo MURDERISH80.Mott & Bow (kick-ass jeans company): For 15% off your first purchase, go to MottAndBow.com & enter promo code MURDERISH. These have become my FAVORITE pair of jeans!This episode was researched & written by: Steve Field | MURDERISH Researcher.This episode was Edited, Mixed and Mastered by John Bukenas of Audio Editing Solutions www.audioeditingsolutions.com. Need a great audio editor? John B. is your guy!Music in this episode created by: Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams. Contact Nico at nico@wetalkofdreams.com or www.wetalkofdreams.com if you’re interested in working with him to create music for your podcast …or any project!Remember, listening to this podcast doesn’t make you a murderer …it just means you’re MURDER…ish.

Between December of 2005 and December of 2007, a serial killer terrorized sex workers in Daytona Beach, Florida. 45-year old LaQuetta Gunther was the first to be targeted, falling prey to this unknown individual on Christmas Eve 2005. 34-year old Julie Green would follow just a few weeks later - on January 13th, 2006 - and the killer would strike again a month later: killing 35-year old Iwana Patton at some point in February. Nearly two years would pass, in which the Daytona Beach Police Department urgently tried to find the killer. Unfortunately, he would surface once more in December of 2007 to murder 30-year old Stacey Gage, before disappearing once and for all. Police believe that the suspect has since moved on from the region, but a cavalcade of suspects and theories continue to haunt those affected by the case... Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal WhelanLearn more about this podcast at http://unresolved.me/ If you would like to support this podcast and others, consider heading to https://www.patreon.com/unresolvedpod to become a PatronMusic CreditsBorrtex - "Fog In The Street"Rest You Sleeping Giant - "Sleep"Blear Moon - "Cold Summer Landscape"ROZKOL - "Happiness Free For Everyone and Let No One Be Forgotten"Blue Dot Sessions - "Olivia Wraith"ROZKOL - "All the Little Pieces"Graham Bole - "Lurking"Other music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

Between December 28 and January 10, there was all kinds of movement in the Ontario Hockey League. Teams like the Guelph Storm stocked up while the Oshawa Generals found that unique balance of remaining competitive now and still building for the future. Jake and Mike talk about some of the big deals and why some trades are made in the OHL and speak with Storm Head Coach and General Manager George Burnett and the Vice-President and G.M. of the Oshawa Generals Roger Hunt.

Read the related article "Addition of Vincristine and Irinotecan to Vincristine, Dactinomycin, and Cyclophosphamide Does Not Improve Outcome for Intermediate-Risk Rhabdomyosarcoma: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group" on JCO.org This JCO podcast provides observations and commentary on the JCO article “addition of vincristine, irinotecan to vincristine, dactinomycin and cyclophosphamide does not improve outcome for intermediate risk rhabdomyosarcoma a report from the Children’s Oncology Group by Hawkins, et al.” My name is Alberto Pappo and I am a pediatric oncologist and Head of the Division of Solid Tumors at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Investigators of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) developed a prospective randomized study to improve the outcome of patients with intermediate risk rhabdomyosarcoma by comparing the addition of the doublet vincristine and irinotecan (which will be called the irinotecan arm) to standard vincristine actinomycin D and cyclophosphamide (which will be called the VAC arm) to VAC chemotherapy only. Intermediate risk disease comprises the largest subgroup of patients with rhabdomyosarcoma and comprises patients with embryonal histology who present with tumors that are non-metastatic and unresected and arise in unfavorable sites as well as patients who present with non-metastatic alveolar histology tumors. The authors nicely review prior failed strategies that were aimed at increasing the outcome of this group of patients including dose intensification of active agents as well as the  addition of novel agents such as ifosfamide, etoposide and topotecan. 1-3 Irinotecan is a prodrug that is converted to its active metabolite SN38 and inhibits topoisomerase I. In a front-line trial for patients with metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma demonstrated a high level of activity with a 70% early response rate and an 8% disease progression rate.4 Based strong preclinical and clinical data, this agent was incorporated into an upfront randomized trial for rhabdomyosarcoma testing the benefit of adding vincristine and irinotecan to standard VAC in intermediate risk rhabdomyosarcoma. Eligibility criteria included patients with embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma who had stage II and III clinical Group 3 disease and any alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma without evidence of distant metastases.  During the first 12 weeks the two treatments were identical in duration of schedule with the exception of the substitution of irinotecan for dactinomycin and cyclophosphamide at week 4 and for cyclophosphamide at week 7 and 10 in the irinotecan arm.  During the next 30 weeks irinotecan replaced actinomycin D and cyclophosphamide at weeks 16, 19, 25, 31 and 37 in irinotecan arm.  Patients were evaluated for response at week 15, 30 and at the end of therapy.  Radiation therapy unlike the prior COG D9803 trial  started early at week 4 instead of 12 and the dose was determined by the clinical group and histology with doses ranging to 36 Gy for those with clinical group I and II to 50.4Gy for those with Group III disease. The study was designed with an 80% power to detect an overall increase in the long term event-free survival from 65% with VAC chemotherapy to 76% with the doublet VAC VI with a sample size of 486 patients.   Between December 2006 and December 2012 there were 481 patients enrolled on the study of whom 33 were ineligible.  Of the remaining 448 eligible patients 222 were randomized to VAC and 226 were randomized to the irinotecan arm.  The patient’s characteristics were similar between both arms and to other COG trials. There was a slight predominance of males, 61% of patients were between 1 and 10 years of age and 71% were Caucasian.  Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma was the predominant histology seen in 53% of the patients and 86% had clinical Group III disease. The most common primary site was parameningeal followed by bladder prostate, extremity and retroperitoneum.    With a median followup for surviving patients of 4.8 years the estimated 4 year event-free survival was 63% for the VAC arm and 59% for the irinotecan arm.  The estimated 4 year overall survival rates was 73% for the VAC arm and 72% for the irinotecan arm. There were no differences in radiographic response among clinical Group III patients as assessed by institutional report by week 15 and no evidence of differences in outcome by treatment arm in the histologic subgroup analysis.  When compared to the previous trial D9083 which had slightly different eligibility criteria, there were no differences in event and overall survival for patients with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. However, patients with embryonal tumors had an inferior 4 year event-free survival in this trial when compared to patients in D9803 although the 4 year overall survival rates were similar.  The vast majority of treatment failures were due to tumor progression or recurrence. The 4 year local failure rate was 22.4%, the 4 year regional lymph node failure rate was 5.7% and the 4 year distant failure rate was 18%.  Hematologic toxicity and febrile neutropenia were more commonly observed in the VAC arm whereas diarrhea and mucositis were more prevalent in the irinotecan arm. Hepatopathy was more common in the VAC arm and patients in the irinotecan arms who developed grade 3 4 diarrhea were more likely to carry the UGT1A1  7/7 genotype.  The authors conclude that the addition of vincristine and irinotecan to a VAC backbone failed to improve the outcome of patients with intermediate risk rhabdomyosarcoma. However, the lower cumulative doses of cyclophosphamide in the irinotecan arm which could potentially reduce the risk of infertility in selected patients and the lower rates of hematologic toxicity in this regimen have provided a rationale for the COG to use a VAC irinotecan backbone in their current up front randomized trial for intermediate risk rhabdomyosarcoma.   This trial highlights the lack of significant advances in the therapy of pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma despite the fact that irinotecan showed significant preclinical and clinical activity in metastatic patients with this disease.5,6 Similarly, in a previous study, the addition of another camptothecin, topotecan failed to improve the outcome of intermediate risk patients despite promising clinical activity in newly diagnosed metastatic patients 7suggesting that identification of novel agents based on their activity in  phase II window studies for high risk rhabdomyosarcoma is not an optimal method for selecting active compounds that could be incorporated into front-line studies for intermediate risk disease. As suggested by the authors of the paper just discussed, other novel mechanisms of drug testing such as randomized phase II studies in recurrent disease might offer alternative more effective strategies for identifying agents to be tested in intermediate risk patients. In contrast to this results, the European Pediatric Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Group has recently reported at the ASCO 2018 meeting improved outcomes for a similar population of patients when maintenance therapy with low dose cyclophosphamide and vinorelbine is added to a backbone of vincristine, ifosfamide and actinomycin D (VAI). 8  In this trial, patients with non metastatic incompletely resected embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma arising in unfavorable sites and localized alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma without nodal metastases who achieved a complete remission after 9 cycles (27 weeks) of VAI with or without doxorubicin were randomized to stop treatment or receive maintenance chemotherapy with six 28 days cycle of vinorelbine and cyclophosphamide.  The study was initially designed with an 80% power to detect an increase in the 3 year EFS from 55% to 65% with a hazard ratio of 0.67 but was then amended to allow detection of a relativity reduction rate in the relapse rate of 50%.  This trial accrued 670 patients of whom 371 were eligible and 186 were assigned to the standard arm and 185 to the maintenance arm.  The clinical features were well balanced between the two groups. With median follow up of 5 years in surviving pts, the 3 year event-free survival and overall survival in the maintenance arm and the standard arm were  78.4% vs 72.3% (p value 0.061) and 87.3% vs. 77.4 (p value = 0.011).  The investigators concluded that the addition of maintenance therapy is a novel strategy that improves the outcome of this group of patients with rhabdomyosarcoma and establishes the new standard of care for patients in Europe.  The results of this trial however, need to be interpreted with caution and cannot be generalized. The follow-up of patients is relatively short and only those who achieved a complete radiographic response after chemotherapy were eligible to be randomized, no information was provided regarding outcomes of patients who were randomized to receive doxorubicin, there are only 9 cycles of chemotherapy given prior to randomization to maintenance therapy whereas the COG studies give 14 cycles of therapy and finally, there are slight differences in the eligibility criteria when compared to the previous COG  trials.    In conclusion, the addition of an irinotecan backbone to standard VAC chemotherapy does not improve the outcome of patients with intermediate risk rhabdomyosarcoma. However, the irinotecan containing regimen offers potential advantages such as outpatient administration of chemotherapy, reduced hematologic toxicity and cumulative cyclophosphamide exposure and has therefore become the standard backbone for patients with intermediate risk rhabdomyosarcoma in the United States.  This concludes this JCO podcast.  Thank you for listening.    

Between December 1972 and June 1980, authorities in seven Southern California counties recorded the violent deaths of at least 44 young men and boys, their bodies dumped on roadsides and down alleyways. While strangulation was the favoured mode of mrder, some victims has been stabbed with knves or ice piks, and their bodies bore the marks... of unspeakable torture. Could this be the work of just one man? Or did Caifornia have a much bigger problem on their hands? Let’s find out...as we tell the story of William George Bonin (aka The Freeway Kiler)-----------------------SOCIALS-----------------------Twitter: @MurderlandPodFacebook: Adventures In MurderlandAlans Twitter: @AlanCassidy2009Mikes Twitter: @itsmicjamesMikes YouTube Channel: youtube.com/itsmicjames

Between December of 1968 and October of 1969, four separate attacks left the San Francisco Bay Area shaking. Two attacks happened in the area of Vallejo, another took place along scenic Lake Berryessa, and the final incident took place in San Francisco itself - in the wealthy neighborhood of Presidio Heights.A madman, who referred to himself as "The Zodiac," began corresponding with the media at around the same time. He took credit for the attacks, and - as the attacks progressed - he became more confident and began threatening police, journalists, and even school-children.Throughout the years, many have theorized connections to this mysterious killer: other possible crimes, noted suspects, etc. But the many mysteries of the Zodiac killer continues to linger...Part three of three. Written, hosted, and produced by Micheal WhelanLearn more about the podcast at unresolved.meIf you would like to support this podcast and others, consider heading to patreon.com/unresolvedpod to become a Patron Music CreditsBlue Dot Sessions - "Olivia Wraithe"Soft And Furious - "Melancholic Ending"Laoish Ma - "Enoch"noiseonport - "Spectre"Artem Bemba - "Respiratory Waves"Blear Moon - "Cold Summer Landscape"Percival Pembroke - "North Atlantic Treaty Organization"Marcos H. Bolanos - "Stranger In The City"ROZKOL - "Opening Credits"DR - "Afanassij Iwanoswitsch... - Part 2"Andrew Reddy - "Ossuary"Blue Dot Sessions - "Threads Of Clouds"Ailsa Traves - "Unresolved"

Cannock Chase has been home to some tragedies. Between December of 1964 and August of 1967, four young girls were kidnapped, stranged, and their bodies dumped in the Cannock Chase area. Out of these four, only one, a 9-year-old girl, survived. Join the ladies this week as they discuss a compelling story with one disgusting criminal and some very scary ghosts. If you enjoy this episode, please rate and review us on your favourite app. And if that's not enough you can join us on Patreon at the haunted pods. You can connect with the Haunted Ladies on Facebook @thehauntedpods and on Instagram and Twitter @theladydicks. This episode was researched and voiced by Nikki K., Andrea C. & Tae H., the “Haunted Ladies.” And was written, edited and produced by Tae H. You can find the Haunted Podcasts online at www.thehauntedpodcasts.com or email questions, comments or inquiries to stories@thehauntedpodcasts.com. For full resources and show notes please visit www.thehauntedpodcasts.com. Support this podcast

Welcome to day 12 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.Today's final recommendation comes from Stacey.Podcast: Note to SelfHost: Manoush ZomorodiEpisode: The Privacy ParadoxDescription: Feel like you've got no control over your data? Join our 5-day plan to take back your digital identity...and maybe even your soul.Note to Self is WNYC's tech show about being human. Join host Manoush Zomorodi for your weekly reminder to question everything.[shortcode-variables slug="footer"] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to day 11 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.Today's recommendation comes from Chris.Podcast: CriminalHost: Phoebe JudgeEpisode: Any and All!Description: Criminal launched January of 2014 and is based in Durham, North Carolina. New episodes come out twice a month, always on Fridays.In 2015, we won a Third Coast International Audio Festival “Best Documentary” award for our story, 695-BGK, and were chosen as an iTunes “Best of 2015.” In 2016, we were featured in “Best of” lists in Wired, The Atlantic, USA Today, and Rolling Stone. We travel all around the country to interview people, and sometimes take the show on the road to tell stories live.[shortcode-variables slug="footer"] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to day 10 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.Today's recommendation comes from AJ.Podcast: The GaryVee Audio ExperienceHost: Gary VaynerchuckEpisode: Any and All!Description: On Gary's global top 100 podcast The GaryVee Audio Experience, you'll hear a mix of his best highlights from his youtube DAILYVEE documentary video series, #AskGaryVee Show episodes, keynote speeches on marketing and business, interviews, fireside chats, and any of the new and current thoughts that he records specifically for this audio experience! [shortcode-variables slug="footer"] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to day 9 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.Today's recommendation comes from Stacey.Podcast: Pod Save AmericaHost: VariousEpisode: Have Some Crullers, BureaucratsDescription: Republicans don't yet have the votes to jam through their Donor Relief Act, Trump goes all-in for Moore, Conyers steps down from Judiciary, Tillerson guts State, and Mulvaney appoints himself consumer watchdog. Then Senator Elizabeth Warren talks to Jon, Jon, and Tommy about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Cass Sunstein joins to talk about his new book, Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide. [shortcode-variables slug="footer"] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to day 8 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.Today's recommendation comes from Chris.Podcast: ESPN 30 for 30Host: VariousEpisode: The Lights Of WrigleyvilleDescription: When the Tribune Company bought the Chicago Cubs in 1981, its executives saw nighttime baseball as a way to turn around the club's fortunes. The only problem? Scores of Wrigleyville residents were ready to fight against it. Produced by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister of Long Haul Productions. Narrated by former Cubs PA announcer Wayne Messmer. [shortcode-variables slug="footer"] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to day 7 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.Today's recommendation comes from AJ.Podcast: Art of ManlinessHost: Brett McKayEpisode: Episode 356 - How to Finally Beat ProcrastinationDescription: Procrastination. We've all done it and we tell ourselves we'll never do it again. So we come up with an elaborate time management system to get us on track only to find ourselves continuing to put things off. While some procrastination can be mildly infuriating, chronic procrastination can be financially, professionally, and personally devastating — overdue bills result in calls from collection agencies, late reports result in getting fired, and undone chores turn your house into a dump. [shortcode-variables slug="footer"] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to day 6 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.Today's recommendation comes from Stacey.Podcast: Wow in the WorldHost: Guy RazEpisode: Back to School: Recess 101Description: How in the world does recess make us smarter? Where in the world do kids enjoy the most of it? Join Guy Raz and Mindy Thomas on an expedition to better understand the science of taking a break! It's the Who, What, When, Where, Why, How, and Wow in the World of RECESS! [shortcode-variables slug="footer"] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to day 5 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.Today's recommendation comes from Chris.Podcast: Art of ManlinessHost: Brett McKayEpisode: #360: Understanding Male FriendshipsDescription: It's a common trope that adult men don't value friendship as much as their female counterparts and that men really don't need or want friends like women do. But my guest today argues that assumption is wrong and comes from viewing friendship from a strictly female point of view. In fact, based on his research, most adult men very much want good friends but just don't know how to make them. What's more, he says, male friendships look different from female ones and we should stop judging the quality of male friendships based on how women do them.[shortcode-variables slug="footer"] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to day 4 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.Today's recommendation comes from AJ.Podcast: Hidden BrainHost: Shankar VedantamEpisode: Kinder-GardeningDescription: Many parents think they can shape their child into a particular kind of adult. Psychologist Alison Gopnik says the science suggests otherwise. She thinks we'd all be better off if we had a different understanding of the relationship between parents and kids.[shortcode-variables slug="footer"] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to day 3 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.Today's recommendation comes from Stacey.Podcast: How I Built ThisHost: Guy RazEpisode: The Chipmunks: Ross Bagdasarian Jr. & Janice KarmanDescription: Years after his father created a hit singing group of anthropomorphic rodents called The Chipmunks, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. made it his mission to revive his dad's beloved characters. Over the last 40 years, Ross Jr. and his wife Janice have built The Chipmunks into a billion dollar media franchise – run out of their home in Santa Barbara, California. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," how Daniel Clark-Webster and his three friends came up with RompHim – a company specializing in male rompers.[shortcode-variables slug="footer"] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to day 2 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.Today's recommendation comes from Chris.Podcast: StartEdUpHost: Don WettrickEpisode: #122: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, & Your RetirementDescription: There has been a LOT of talk about Bitcoin lately. So I had a talk with two of my students (yes, two high school students) to talk about understanding blockchain, and why you might want to consider getting on the cryptocurrency bandwagon- responsibly.[shortcode-variables slug="footer"] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to day 1 of the 12 Days of Podcasts!Between December 25, 2017, and January 5, 2018, we are recommending one podcast or podcast episode per day! All of our recommendations will encourage you to laugh, think, cry, or do.Today's recommendation comes from AJ.Podcast: Note to Self (WNYC)Host: Manoush ZomorodiEpisode: Should We Post Photos of our Kids Online?Description: Kids are all over the Internet. But… should they be? In this episode, they tackle a debate about whether or not to post pics of children. Do your parents post pictures of you? Or did they when you were younger? Do you post pictures of your kid?[shortcode-variables slug="footer"] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Between December 2005 and February 2006 the bodies of three women were found shot in the head. Two years later another body was found with matching circumstances. Who is killing these women and where did he go? We speak with Christine Pelisek about this and a similar case.

Stand in front of the C-46, where you’ll see the Engineer Aviation Battalions diorama. Many African-Americans served in support units during World War II, and the Engineer Aviation Battalions, or EAB, with their skilled engineers and construction workers, were one of the more significant support units. The self-contained EAB became the core of aviation engineering efforts during the war. The original concept envisioned a small group of skilled construction and engineer troops, closely trained alongside air units, with the ability to repair bomb-damaged airfields, to camouflage airfields and if necessary, to defend airfields. These troops would also be capable of constructing light duty airfields in forward locations. Aviation engineers employed the same basic construction techniques around the globe. After an area had been cleared of trees or other obstructions, Caterpillar tractors towing carryalls cleared the area. Most of the black EAB units formed during World War II served in the Pacific or China- Burma-India Theaters of Operation. The first two black aviation engineer units shipped out of the United States were the 810th EAB and the 811th EAB. Between December 1941 and December 1942, the number of battalions jumped from 12 to 51, and three-quarters of them were already overseas.

Mike, Dave and Steve discuss Restaurant Inspection Reports, Techie Hotels, 12 days of Christmas and Time Magazine Person of the Year.   Discussion 1. Kern County's Environmental Health Services Department has added another dimension to their restaurant inspection reports. The department has synced its search engine with several smart phone applications to allow users the ability to pull up a restaurant or facility's inspection reports and violations instantly. Does your local health agency have these types of services? Let us know. 2. Techie Hotels When we think tech in hotels, we think about flat screen TVs, high speed Internet access, touch screen slot machines, and iPod docking stations. Steve had a new experience with a hotel in Laughlin, NV. A hotel key controlled the lights and electricity of the hotel room, turning the lights on and off as you enter and exit the room. Not only is this a subtle way of integrating tech but also a way of caring for Mother Nature. 3.iTunes 12 days of Christmas On the 12th Day of Christmas, Steve Jobs sent to me....12 free downloads! Between December 26 and January 6, Apple is offering iTunes users free books, apps, songs, movies, and TV episodes. Apple is releasing a special app for the occasion, iTunes 12 Days of Christmas. Users will be alerted when new items are added to the freebie list. Look for it soon. 4.  Times Magazine Person of the Year - Mark Zuckerberg The Waves crew has some very mixed opinions on Mark Zuckerberg being named the “Person of the Year” by Times. The award does not sit well with Steve and Dave, arguing that the success of Facebook is user based and there are more worthy persons deserving. Mikee argues that Zuckerberg has created a platform unlike anything else, connecting 300+ million people. 5.  Roku player software version 2.9 b1509 now available Get it. It's a great one! 6. Microsoft planning to unveil Verizon and Sprint Windows Phone 7 devices at CES Microsoft plans on announcing that WP7 will be available on the Verizon and Sprint networks. Mikee provides a good analysis of the Microsoft move and talks about his recent WP7 purchase....for one cent!  

Between December 7th and 9th, 2007, the most influential designers, art gallery owners, dealers, and collectors have gathered in Miami’s Design District to present and absorb the latest trends from the world of design. This year, Audi again was present as the exclusive automobile sponsor and creative exhibitor at “Design Miami/ 2007”. The focal point of the creative presentation was the Audi Cross Cabriolet concept study - see the presentation and experience the Audi design processes in the official Audi video podcast.