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__label__wiki	0.785459	0.785459	Schlieffen plan - World War One German plan to invade France Title: The Schlieffen Plan To eliminate France as an ally of Russia during a war with Germany Count Alfred von Schlieffen, German Army Chief of Staff Six Weeks Result: Trench warfare The signing of the Franco-Russian Alliance in 1892 gave Germany cause to fear an attack on two fronts. This was followed by the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 and the Entente Cordial to create the informal Triple Entente, increasing Germany's perceived threat of a combined attack from France, Britain and Russia. Naval Warfare of World War One - Read about The Naval Race, HMS Dreadnought and the Battle of Jutland The German Army Chief of Staff Alfred von Schlieffen was given instructions to devise a plan that would be able to counter a combined attack from France, Britain and Russia. In December 1905, he circulated what later became known as The Schlieffen Plan, the key to his plan was that if war took place France had to be defeated quickly so that Russia and Britain would be unwilling to continue. The plan assumed: Russia would take 6 weeks to mobilise its army Belgium would offer little or no resistance France could be defeated in 6 weeks France would attempt to re-take Alsace and Lorraine; territories they lost to Germany during the Franco-Prussian war. Britain would remain neutral World War One Models It was vital to get France to surrender before Russia could use its huge army. His plan involved using 90% of Germany's land forces to attack France through Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg and thus avoiding the key French forts on the border with Germany. The remaining 10% of the army would be used to set up a defensive position in the east to stop any Russian advance. In 1906 Helmuth von Moltke replaced Schlieffen as the German Army Chief of Staff and he modified the plan by proposing that: the main route would be through the plains of Flanders in Belgium avoiding the need to invade Holland 34 divisions (80%) would attack France and 8 divisions would be used to stop Russia advancing in the east more divisions would be switched from the attack through Belgium to defend Alsace-Lorraine In 1914 Germany became increasingly convinced that war with Russia was going to occur and assumed France would also attack, as she was an ally of Russia and keen on revenge following her defeat in the Franco-Prussian war. The Schlieffen Plan had become an integral part of any plans for war against Russia. Germany planned to mobilise and assemble her army on foreign soil. The Schlieffen Plan was executed on the 2nd August 1914 after Russia declared war on Austria, an ally of Germany; accordingly the German Army invaded Luxembourg and Belgium. What happened though was: the advance was held up by the Belgians the Russians mobilized in just 10 days, not six weeks, so that more troops had to be diverted from the attack on France to defend the eastern border Britain entered the war on France's side due to an agreement with Belgium to defend her against German attack the British Expeditionary Force reached France and Belgium far quicker than expected the Germans failed to take Paris when they had the chance; instead they decided to attack the French army east of the capital at the Battle of the Marne (5th - 11th September 1914). After a short 'race to the coast', in which both sides tried to outflank each other, the German troops dug in to defensive positions, thus creating a chain of trenches from Switzerland to the North Sea and a military stalemate that was to last for nearly four years.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line1
__label__wiki	0.536073	0.536073	Entertainment / Other Entertainment magazines Where have fun Why do people die? Statistics and life Shkolazhizni.ru :.: Article 07.04.2019 at 21:00 Shkolazhizni.ru :.: Article Long Ago, our ancestors usually ended their lives in the stomachs of predators. Once you get older so that could not in time to hear approaching predators or do not have time to escape quickly and climb the tree, so welcome to their meals, as a snack. Since then, hundreds of thousands of years, people from the victims of the predators he was the most brutal predator on Earth. How many people now live and which die? In antiquity people had a life expectancy of approximately 30 years. Centuries have passed, life expectancy is gradually but very slowly grew, until in the last century it is not ripped up a giant jerk. The development of medicine and competent obstetric care has drastically, more than an order of magnitude, to reduce child mortality. But thanks to vaccinations, gone terrible epidemic that once ravaged the whole country. According to scientists, during the Neolithic, people lived an average of 21 years. Then the conditions of human life improved somewhat, and since the Copper age until the middle of XVIII century the average life expectancy of people on Earth made up from 31 to 35 years. During the Neolithic, people lived 21 godfathe: Source Then life expectancy in civilized countries began to grow, reaching Europe and the United States at the end of the last century 76-77 years. However, in Asian countries, life expectancy has declined from 40 years in the distant past up to 30-33 in the twentieth century. So the average life expectancy in the world remains from 36 to 66 years... until the XX century, the main cause of low life expectancy was a huge infant mortality. In childbirth often died and the baby and the mother, many children died before the age of 5 years. In addition, many dangerous diseases, which nowadays are easily treated, in the nineteenth century was fatal. Pneumonia, measles, smallpox, cholera, plague, dysentery... All those diseases, from which in our time or vaccinations in childhood, or have drugs, almost certainly their healing. Tuberculosis, a disease which in the XIX century was brought to the grave many residents, today is not considered life-threatening. Photo: Depositphotos unfortunately, from what we have learned to treat or prevent many diseases, the Golden age of medicine has not come. Yes, tuberculosis in our time — not a fatal disease. Yes, pneumonia is treated — the thing to run. Yes, venereal disease is no longer fatal, as it was only a century ago. Take a course of injections and any "Neapolitan" disease will disappear like a bad dream. The main thing — time to start to heal. But instead there are new diseases. HIV, hepatitis C became known to people only recently. In this cases they know that these diseases are not treated. Those who have contracted HIV or hepatitis C, you need to spend a lot of money just to stay healthy, then the disease remains in a chronic form, passing in the acute clinical form, because this means a strong rise in the cost of treatment and, unfortunately, impending death. Although the proportion of deaths from HIV is less than 3% of the total. About as many lives each year and carries hepatitis C. Photo: Depositphotos From what is nowadays most often people die? Diseases of the heart and blood vessels responsible for 31% of deaths. Cardiovascular disease — the scourge of our time.Communicable diseases account for about 11% of deaths.For diseases of the respiratory system, respiratory infections and infections of the lower respiratory tract also contributes about 11% of deaths.Various types of cancer responsible for 14,69% of the total number of deaths. Most of the remaining diseases in the statistics give a fraction of a percent of the total mortality. Each. I must admit that the statistics often hides information than it shows. How is the differentiation of causes of death by age? Because each of us is familiar (or familiar) with people once possessed of excellent health, which is a lifetime no disease took, died in very old age... old age. The once mighty organism after a certain age starts to weaken, aging, bones become brittle, weak heart, memory if quite disappears. And the argument begins to limp: the man that it seems he can't remember and execute once completely familiar to his manipulation, to do what he did decades every day. And easy cold suddenly leads him to death... many people past 80 years, there are particular senile diseases: dementia, Alzheimer's disease, bone fragility (osteoporosis). Today elderly people are suffering from diseases that were previously known, but they were not so massive, because in the past people simply could not live up to these diseases. Photo: Depositphotos nowadays doctors are working to cure osteoporosis, dementia and Alzheimer's disease. In the treatment of these diseases is a huge success. A little more time — and with the help of new drugs and the elderly will be able to overcome the known disease, while retaining activity, health and clarity of mind. While scientists suggest that people have a biological age limit a little more than 150 years. Today, many inhabitants of Western Europe and the United States can live up to 80-90 years, at least up to 100 years or more. The question: once people learn to treat diseases of old age, known in our time, allowing to live a normal active life and at the age of 100 years, what new "diseases of old age" appear? Because, you see, you can't live forever!... This article describe tags: life expectancy, average life expectancy, a dangerous disease, old age, statistics Read more on site shkolazhizni.ru What can "smart" clothes? A surprising number 06.04.2019 at 21:00 Like a shy schoolboy has grown a hero? Part 2 06.04.2019 at 21:00 You need diet jelly? 05.04.2019 at 21:00 Who owns the Golan Heights? 05.04.2019 at 21:00 Is it possible to live on a space station? Space squatters in literature and in life 05.04.2019 at 21:00 The film "Balkan frontier." Why silent Russian in 1999? 04.04.2019 at 21:00 As a popular designer Lego? 04.04.2019 at 21:00 What tournament is much surprise? 30.03.2019 at 21:00 As the eccentric collector became the prototype of Elijah? 30.03.2019 at 21:00	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line4
__label__cc	0.688185	0.311815	Horace William Madden GC George Cross, Heritage, Korean War, Outside RSA Horace William Madden (14/02/1924 – 06/11/1951) was awarded the George Cross for his actions between 24 April and 06 November 1951, while a Prisoner of War at Kapyong, Korea. “He was 26 years old and serving in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment when he was captured by Chinese communist forces. Despite the repeated beatings and many forms of ill-treatment because of his defiance towards his captors. Although deprived of food, resulting in severe malnutrition, he was known to share his meagre supplies, purchased from Koreans, with other prisoners who were sick. For over 6 months, despite his own health failing, he resisted stoutly and never co-operated with the enemy. He died from malnutrition in late 1951.” He is buried in the United Nations Military Cemetery, Busan, Korea. © DRW 2016-2018. Created 16/02/2017. Image and Information courtesy of Mark Green. Tags: Busan, George Cross, Horace William Madden GC, Korean War, Royal Australian Regiment, United Nations	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line5
__label__cc	0.518454	0.481546	Sitting Bull – The Photographs Sitting Bull – The Photographs Jan 15, 2019 11:02:08 GMT -5 Post by Dietmar on Jan 15, 2019 11:02:08 GMT -5 Thank you for the picture, Peter. Weren´t Trager & Kuhn located in Chadron? 1881, Fort Randall. Probably Cross (originally) Another was taken at the time: Last Edit: Jan 15, 2019 17:27:26 GMT -5 by grahamew Didn't think it would come out that large!!! "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." -Benjamin Franklin Post by Californian on Jan 17, 2019 22:26:04 GMT -5 I have a couple of copies of prints from the same session of this this group photo, mine have no photographer's hallmark - mine are period albumen prints but probably already re-prints as this one from the Chadron NE photographer certainly is. I heard too that it is believed by some to be by William Richard Cross [1839-1907], but given the fact that Sitting Bull was something of a superstar - I believe he would have made sure to take credit for it and much more, capitalized on it. I personally think these two photographs are actually by J.N. Templeman of Miller, Dakota Territory. He would have been dead by 1890 and thus the likelihood of his photographs getting duplicated unchallenged would have been more so possible. Dec 11, 2017 7:38:45 GMT -5 grahamew said: Still think this is a Scott photo and that it's later than 83. hi Grahamew, its year later since we last exchanged opinions about this image, I have acquired in the meantime another, similarly posed image, had the same kind of feel to it - Running Water and that one is on the original card stock of George W. Scott, thus I have to agree with you that this iconic image of SB is by the latter. Knowing that that D.F. Barry even reproduced and sold SB images by William Notman & Son of Montreal confirms that he liberally used the work of other photographers. Now I would date it around 1888 or even 1889. Last Edit: Jan 17, 2019 22:34:15 GMT -5 by Californian Sitting Bull – The Photographs Jan 18, 2019 2:24:30 GMT -5 Post by grahamew on Jan 18, 2019 2:24:30 GMT -5 Jan 17, 2019 22:26:04 GMT -5 Californian said: Whoever, it must be 'early' comparing it to the Goff and the images taken at Fort Randall. Post by gregor on Jan 18, 2019 7:46:06 GMT -5 Sitting Bull's mother passed away in 1884, so that is the last possible year. Toksha, Gregor Just looked at the PDF file in the first post of this topic and the Smithsonian attributes the photo to a photographer or studio 'Miller' so it may well be Templeman. Another Sitting Bull photo referenced in the PDF. However, rather than depicting March of Civilization Bismark Sept 3-5, 1883, it would seem to show the March of Civilization at the Constitutional Convention, Bismarck, 07 04 1889 and according to James McLaughlin, no less: "The picture I received in your letter of the l0th instant, was taken by D. F. Barry, photographer at Bismarck, on July 4, 1889. When I again, at the request of officials of North Dakota, and of the City of Bismarck in particular, took a party of Indians — men, women and children, about five hundred in number—to be present upon the occasion of the convening of the constitutional convention for the State of North Dakota, the members of the said constitutional convention being escorted by these 500 Indians of the Standing Rock Reservation, two troops of cavalry and two companies of infantry from Fort Yates, and two companies of infantry with a section of battery from Fort Lincoln, together with certain militia companies from different parts of the state. I had prepared the Indian part of this procession with a view to its historical aspect, by having the Indian section in five platoons; the first platoon being composed of but three Indians, namely: Bearded Chin, as chief of the lower Yanktonai Sioux of the Cannonball District, who was dressed up to represent "Brother Jonathan," Black Bull, a prominent Indian soldier of Chief Two Bears band of Yanktonai, carrying the United States flag, and an Indian named Red Horse, carrying a banner on which were the words, "March of Civili- zation." These three men were about ten yards in advance of the next platoon, whose banner was, "Dakota as a Territory," which platoon was comprised of the Indians, both men and women, in full Indian costume, behind which they had ponies and dogs hitched to travels, led by women and children as though marching on the plains. Following this platoon at about a distance of ten yards came the next platoon, which was composed of a section of thirty U. S. Indian police in new uniforms, and upon their banner, which was carried alongside of the U. S. flag, were the words, "Law and Order." About ten yards behind this third section, came the judges of the Indian police court, namely: John Grass, Chief Gall and Chief Mad Bear. Upon their banner was the scale and weights and the word "Justice." About ten yards behind this section came about two hundred Indians, chiefly young and middle-aged men and women, all of the men being dressed in new hats and linen dusters, and the women dressed entirely in white, women's style, and as the day was exceedingly warm many of them carried umbrellas. Their banner, which they carried alongside of the U. S. flag in the front column, held the words, "State of North Dakota, 1889." Sitting Bull appeared in the column of the Indians representing "Dakota as a Territory." He was on foot and marched in the front rank of the column near the middle. Every want of the Indians was fully supplied by the committee who had charge of looking after the welfare of the Indians, and that day is frequently spoken of yet among the Indians of the Standing Rock Reservation. It was unfortunate that some accident occurred to Photographer Barry which prevented him from taking the picture that he desired, and the picture you have, shows the Indians as they were coming from the south side of the railroad track, where they were encamped, to the main road, to take their places in the procession, and does not do the occasion full justice, but as you saw the parade yourself, you can supply much that is lacking in the picture." So he was there, but he's not the man with the flag and he would be too far back to see in the photo. Hi grahamew, great Information , completely new to me. I accept McLaughlins Information with one exception: I can't believe that Sitting Bull was there. SB was visited by Caroline "Catherine" Weldon about that Time ( according to the Bismarck Tribune of July 2, 1889). And she and S B had some troubles with McLaughlin. About this time, the Land Commission was expected on the Lakota Reservations, and about July 20/23 the Commission arrived at Standing Rock. Sitting Bull was the main opponent of the commission. Is it conceivable that he then participated in the march in Bismarck - to do a favor to McLaughlin? I am not convinced . When did Mclaughlin write the text quoted above? In his later years? Maybe he has confused the years. Or he liked to portray himself as SB's master. The only one who could impose his will on SB. Difficult to imagine.Grass, Gall or Red Horse would march for McLaughlin, But not S B. My opinion, but who knows. Jan 18, 2019 10:56:20 GMT -5 grahamew said: Thank you all - appreciate it. The power of multiple minds and deduction at its best . I am now more so than ever convinced these are by J. N. Templeman. There's a curious little detail - the pipe S.B. holds in his hands - it is actually a design/format more typical and familiar to the the Ojibwa nation, not Lakota or Dakota. Of course it is known that often photographers furnished props for their subjects to wear or hold in their hands, but then usually in a true studio setting. I thought that I should share this. It's in this: www.walshhistory.org/publications/Early-History-of-North-Dakota/files/assets/basic-html/index.html#page7 However, the page numbers don't correspond to the Contents Page Found it - a letter from McLaughlin dated 1917. Starts here: www.walshhistory.org/publications/Early-History-of-North-Dakota/files/assets/basic-html/index.html#page552 The caption on the photo is at odds with McLaughlin's description. Sitting Bull – The Photographs Feb 2, 2019 10:44:09 GMT -5 Post by gregor on Feb 2, 2019 10:44:09 GMT -5 Once again, I read some documents and thought about the parade and the claim that Sitting Bull participated and carried the flag. The Dakota Territory was split into two states with the “Enabling Act of 1889”. The first Constitutional convention of North Dakota, assembled in the city of Bismarck, July 4th to Aug. 17th, 1889. A constitutional convention parade took place at Bismarck, July 4, 1889, at Main and 4th streets. The parade was headed by Military Forces from Fort Yates under Major Fechet and included a delegation of about 500 Lakotas from Standing Rock Reservation. The group was led by a man carrying the American Flag in western clothes. Another man carries a sign that reads “The March of Civilization”. A second sign reads: Dakota as a Territory. It is held by a Lakota leader wearing traditional clothing. The sign implies that conflicts with Indians are part of North Dakota’s territorial past and that civilization has replaced Indian cultures on the northern Great Plains. The “March of Civilization” seems to go back to McLaughlin, who organized and transported the Lakotas to Bismarck. He assembled the 5 part march as follows: 1st: “the orators” (= celebrity), 2nd: The representation of the “old way”, 3rd: The Indian Police (McLaughlin’s “role models”), 4th: the Tribal Judges and 5th: the “New Indians”. According to Donovin Arleigh Sprague Hunkpapa Medicine man Hairy Chin led the parade, dressed as “Uncle Sam” (see David F. Barry Photograph). Some sources say he was in the advance party, some say (eg PBS) he was the last of the Lakota group. Hairy Chin died only three days after performing as Uncle Sam in the parade (pneumonia?). In the known Photograph of “The march …” I can’t identify neither Hairy Chin nor Sitting Bull. In Publications on “History of North Dakota“ we often read „A big parade celebrated the event; five hundred Sioux from Standing Rock, led by Sitting Bull, who carried a huge American flag, took part.” This statement/sentence seems to rely on McLaughlin publications. During the times of the St. Paul Visit, the “Sitting Bull Combination” and SBs participation with Buffalo Bills Wild West (1884 – 1885) there seems to be somehow a Business relationship between McLaughlin and the chief. However, after the Wild West Tour ended and with the upcoming negotiations with the Land Commission in Washington (October 1888) the relations were strained. In summer 1889 the Land Commission under Crook travelled the Reservations (Rosebud, Pine Ridge in June 1889 and Cheyenne River and Standing Rock in July) and Sitting Bull knew the results via Weldon. And we know that SB persisted in his defiance of McLaughlin’s authority. He was no District Farmer and no Indian Judge as Gall or John Grass in the 1887 to 1889 years. And McLaughlin disliked SB from the very beginning and had an ongoing disrespect for the chief. So, why should SB take part in the parade or carry the flag? In my opinion he did not, here some thoughts/facts: In summer (June/July) Weldon arrived at Standing Rock, and was thrown off the Reservation in September. We know that SB was ill with pneumonia about that time. On June 18th, 1889 the Yankton Daily Press reported that SB “…was now healthy enough to be interviewed..” And the Bismarck daily Tribune of July 2nd, 1889 reported that Weldon (“Wilder”) had a quarrel with McLaughlin, because the agent didn’t permit SB to travel to Pine Ridge. In a letter of July 3rd, 1889 Carolin Weldon writes to Red Cloud, that McLaughlin denied a pass for Sitting Bull to travel to Pine Ridge to discuss the Land issue. And last but not least: 2 children with Four Robes died in 1889; it is said that a girl died in early summer. That is the time frame. Is it conceivable that the man now gladly participates in a celebration and cheerfully swings the flag of a hated system? So, why does McLaughlin then claim that he participated in the parade? SB was a celebrity even after his death. McLaughlin was probably the best and most effective agent in Lakota Reservation history. He'd gotten Gall, Grass, Low Dog, Crow King and others under control. But not Sitting Bull. A stain on his “white vest”. After SB s death, the chief could not defend himself and now McLaughlin determined the image of the chief in public. And it should look like he, McLaughlin, was able to direct his Indians at his will. If I – McLaughlin - want SB to go to St. Paul or to join Buffalo Bill, or to swings the flag on a parade – he has to. McLaughlin believed that or he wanted the public to believe this. As said, my opinion. But I'm open to docs and facts outside the "Mclaughlin area" Last Edit: Feb 2, 2019 10:49:06 GMT -5 by gregor Sitting Bull – The Photographs Feb 3, 2019 6:07:48 GMT -5 Post by grahamew on Feb 3, 2019 6:07:48 GMT -5 If it is Hairy Chin, it certainly doesn't look like he has his Uncle Sam outfit on. I can't help thinking that the reason Sitting Bull was identified as the flag bearer (though not by McLaughlin in the statement I posted above, where he identifies the man as Black Bull) is because the clothing he's got on resembles those in the photo where he wears the hat and Metis style jacket (which is probably by Scott). Here's a sketch showing the laying of the cornerstone of the Capitol building in Bismarck, 1883 - another event that Sitting Bull attended and, occasionally, the photo under discussion has been said the represent that - wrongly. Present were Ulysses S. Grant, who laid the cornerstone, James J. Hill, of the Great Northern; President Henry Willard, of the Northern Pacific; newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, Sitting Bull, General H.H. Sibley and W.D. Washburn, and Chicago merchant Marshall Field. Artist Henry Farny was also there and supposedly introduced Sitting Bull to Grant (though whether or not he drew or painted the scene, I don't know) (see www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1950/1950february_taft.pdf). Sitting Bull arrived by train from Fort Yates with McLaughlin and Flying By, Spotted Horn Bull, Crow Eagle, Tall as the Clouds, Grey Eagle, Tomahawk, Two Bears (the Yanktonai leader); the next day, Young Fire Heart, Long Dog and Long Soldier arrived and they all rode in a parade. Sitting Bull later presided over a dance and sold photographs of himself. I'm guessing that's Sitting Bull on the platform wearing a feather The only photo of the event I can find is this, but it appears to be the reverse angle to the sketch: While I'm on the topic of artistic representations of Sitting Bull, this is by W. Gilbert Gaul and was supposedly painted from life at Standing Rock in September 1890. I'm not convinced that it doesn't look an awful lot like one of Barry's portraits, though he certainly was at Standing Rock and painted a number of realistic scenes of life on the reservation (something about the use of shadow and light gives me the impression he may have taken photos and used them as a basis for his paintings) as well as being responsible for a number of romanticised ones... Last Edit: Feb 3, 2019 6:11:29 GMT -5 by grahamew Managed to find another illustration of the laying of the conerstone from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper: Unfortunately, I can't read the text and the picture of Sitting Bull from the article is a sketch based on Goff's photo not one from his actual appearance at the event.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line8
__label__cc	0.500387	0.499613	By loges- [email protected] On Dec 28, 2019 167 0 A master plan for developing industries around Sri Lanka’s southern Hambantota Port is on the horizon, says Ravindra Jayawickrema, CEO of Hambantota International Port Services (HIPS) which is a subsidiary of port operator Hambantota International Ports Group (HIPG). Jayawickrema told Xinhua in an interview that a master plan for industries, undertaken by an international group of companies who are competent in the field, has almost been finalized.”What is being envisaged is to allocate a certain area of land within the port for various light, heavy and food industries,” he said. Once the plan is finalized, the port operator HIPG will go to the market to entice investors to set up export-oriented manufacturing to take advantage of Hambantota Port’s free port policy and strategic access to one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes located just a few nautical miles south of the port. Along with industrial development, Jayawickrema says the port operator hopes to catch the container overflow from the congested Port of Colombo and develop Hambantota’s bunkering and fuel supply operations once the tank farm comes into operation early next year. “Sri Lanka lies between Singapore and Fujairah, two of the largest fuel depots in the world that supply over 60 million tonnes of fuel per year. We are trying to tap into that market to a certain extent,” he said. According to Jayawickrema, shipment volumes at Hambantota have tripled since 2017. The majority of this is trans-shipments, followed by imports. While exports are yet to take off, imports coming through the port have created economic opportunities for locals. As the majority of Sri Lankan automobile imports arrive through the Hambantota Port, Jayawickrema noted that entrepreneurs have set up vehicle repair yards around the port and created jobs for locals. The port also imports slag and clinker, raw materials used by local cement manufacturers. Dispelling rumors of a “Chinese takeover” in Hambantota, Jayawickrema emphasized that the port is governed by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority Act. “All ships entering the port have to gain approval from the Harbormaster in Colombo. The pilots who bring the ships in and out of the port are direct employees of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority,” he said.The Hambantota Port recently celebrated the second anniversary since operations were given on a 99-year lease to HIPG, a joint venture between the China Merchants Port Holdings and the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA). (Xinhua) China Merchants Port HoldingsHambantota PortInternational Port ServicesSri Lanka Ports Authority Plans to re-open Kantale sugar factory SME loan recovery suspension: CB to issue directives	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line16
__label__wiki	0.687747	0.687747	The Jewish Agency / Education / Israel / Leaders / Dayan Moshe The Story of Zionism Ben Gurion Herzl Law of Return Historical Aliyah Russian Aliyah British Mandate Hadaf Hayomi Israel Diaspora Relations Lebanon War Six Day War The Gulf War Places in Israel Sport in Israel Struggle & Defense Zionist Glossary Worldwide Community Dayan Moshe (1915-1981) Israel military commander and statesman was born in Deganyah Alef, a kevuzah, and raised in moshav Nahalal. As a young man he was a guard in the village fields, later joining the Haganah. Dayan was arrested in 1939, together with 42 of his friends, for participating in an illegal Haganah commanders' course, and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Released in 1941, he joined a British army unit and lost an eye in a battle with Vichy (French) forces in Syria. During the War of Independence (1948), Dayan commanded the defense of Jewish settlements in the Jordan Valley. In August 1948 he was appointed commander of the Jerusalem front, and after the war he participated in the cease-fire talks between Israel and Jordan. From Dec. 1953 until Jan. 1958 he was commander-in-chief of the Israel army. He successfully commanded the Israel forces throughout the Sinai Campaign of 1956. Dayan ended his army service in 1958 and in the fall of 1959 was elected to the Knesset as a member of the Mapai party, and became minister of agriculture. In October 1964, after a disagreement with Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, he resigned his post in the government. A year later he was elected to the sixth Knesset as a member of the new political party Rafi. During the crisis proceeding the Six-Day War in June 1967, Dayan was appointed minister of defense. After successfully conducting the war, Dayan administered the territories occupied by the Israel army. He conducted a policy of liberal military government, opening the borders to trade and travel between the occupied territories and Arab countries. After the Yom Kippur War in October 1973, Dayan became a controversial figure in Israel. He suffered heavy criticism for not being prepared for the Arab attack and after the war left the Ministry of Defense. Although elected to the Ninth Knesset (1977) as a Labor party member, he served as foreign minister in the Begin government until 1980. For the 1981 elections he formed a new party, Telem, and represented it in the Tenth Knesset. Many Israelis regarded Dayan as their country's greatest military and political leader. He was buried in Nahalal. Biography, with internal links to contextual background http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/Dayan.html Biography emphasizing Dayan's archeological activities, bibliography - extensive http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_27.htm Memorial stamp http://www-personal.umich.edu/~szwetch/Stamps.of.Israel/69.html Short biography, bibliography http://www.historycentral.com/Bio/people/dayan.html Entry taken from "Junior Judaica, Encyclopedia Judaica for Youth" CD-ROM by C.D.I. Systems 1992 (LTD) and Keter. 02 May 2005 / 23 Nisan 5765 0	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line17
__label__wiki	0.857727	0.857727	Denis O Hearn Denis’s scholarly interests are in social movements, the sociology of economic change, industrialisation and transnational corporations. Denis was brought up in the middle of the New Mexico desert and remembers a childhood of many social and cultural divides. “There was a majority Chicano or Mexican American, so I grew up in a community that were marginalised economically. They had this very rich culture and I had a lot of friends who were Chicanos. It was the time of the civil rights struggle…. the issue of black and white was an important one, race and ethnicity was a key issue….” Denis remembers bring aware of politics from an early age, the strike at the pot ash mine where his father worked, various social injustices and as he grew older and went to university, the race riots in Albuquerque, where he attended rallies and protests and on one occasion was shot at by armed police. His interest in economics stemmed from this interest in social injustice “I thought that the field of economics was were one could do something to change the world, later I realised economics was just this formulaic, mathematical thing where you were just generating crazy models that had nothing to do with reality.” Denis came to Belfast in the early 1970s. He was amazed by the differences between academic life and life in other parts of Belfast. “I would have been into the Village or the Falls Road and people were horrified back at the University, I wasn’t meant to be going into these areas, attitudes have changed to a certain extent but at that time you were meant to stay in this nice little cocoon around the University.” Denis was only in Belfast a few months when he had first hand experience with sectarianism. A young man he had got to know was shot dead. “It was something that was happening all the time, but the first time you go through that, it’s something that sticks in your memory.” Denis was interested in action orientated community research, which led to him becoming the Chair of the West Belfast Economic Forum. This community development focused organisation provides independent information, monitoring, research and lobbying resources concerned with issues of social and economic justice. “It was very clear from the beginning that something had to be done in terms of how one would attack the problems of marginalisation. The West Belfast Economic Forum was formed out of a series of meetings.” Denis sent his children to an Irish Language Primary School, Scoil Na Fuisoige and was soon asked to be on the Board of Governors. “It was a great school because it was small. The children had a very good open experience. There was a tension that was always there between religion and education, between the Irish aspect of the school and the catholic aspect of the school.” In 1997, after reading a biography on Che Guevara, Denis started thinking of writing a book on Bobby Sands. “The peace process was going on and I remember thinking what way could you use biography as a lens into this process. There were a lot of people who didn’t want the book published.” He found an agent in New York who took on the task of publishing the book. The work involved interviewing ex-prisoners and this aspect of the Bobby Sands story would lead Denis to working with prisoners who were detained in supermax prisons across the United States. “They’re in a far worse situation, they are far more isolated than the ‘Blanketmen’ were in the North.” Looking to the future: “I think that politics with a big P has to become less orientated towards Assemblies, Parliaments and elections and more orientated towards what is happening every day on the street, what’s happening in communities, how people can be organised in their own community to make their world a better place. That is what I would like to see.” Nothing But an Unfinished Song: The Life and Times of Bobby Sands, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-1560258889 Our Generation Stories, Special Collections America, Civil Rights, Community Development, Falls Road, Hunger Strikes, Irish Language, Our Generation Stories, Scoil Na Fuisoige, Village, West Belfast Economic Forum Rod Stoneman David Hyndman talks to Rod Stoneman the former Deputy Editor of Independent Film & Video at Channel 4 and former CEO of the Irish Film Board, about his childhood in Devon, his participation in grassroots avant-gar... Hazel McCready Marie Breen-Smyth, Associate Dean International, University of Surrey, talks to Hazel McCready, a former part time police officer who was injured whilst driving to work. Mother of one, Hazel McCready was a teacher ... The Law Centre The story of NI's Law Centres The Law Centre NI was set up in the early 1970s by a dedicated group of solicitors to help those who suffered social inequalities. “It was about using the law as one aspect of a much broader campaign involving tena... Helen Bell Tales from the lower Shankill Born in 1947 in Hopewell Street at the bottom of the Shankill Road, Helen remembers the late 1960s and the first time that real “trouble” started on the Shankill Road, with rioting and flares being shot into the air. ...	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line19
__label__wiki	0.803084	0.803084	True US History ‘Wheat is a weapon’: US Gov-funded, Democrat-linked think tank Proposes Starving Syrian Civilians to Weaken Assad By Ben Norton Jun 25, 2019 - 10:05:19 PM https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/19/wheat-weapon-us-think-tank-starving-syrian-civilians-assad-negotiate/ A fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a Democratic Party-linked think tank bankrolled by the US government and arms industry, says the "wheat weapon" can "be used to apply pressure on the Assad regime" As the eight-year war in Syria winds down and the US regime-change operation falters, strategists in Washington are plotting new ways to terrorize Damascus into submission. An analyst at a think tank bankrolled by the US government and NATO has an idea: Use the "wheat weapon" to starve Syria's civilian population. "Wheat is a weapon of great power in this next phase of the Syrian conflict," insisted Nicholas Heras, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) in Washington, DC. Washington can pressure its Kurdish allies to restrict the country's food supply, Heras argued, "to apply pressure on the Assad regime, and through the regime on Russia, to force concessions." As a CNAS fellow, Nicholas Heras has produced a paper offering "bottom up" steps to facilitate the arming of Syria's "moderate opposition." The header image of the document features fighters from the Salafi-jihadist militia Nour al-Din al-Zinki using US-made TOW missile systems in Syria. In 2017, just months after Heras published his paper, al-Zinki entered into a formal coalition with local al-Qaeda affiliates, including a group that called itself "The Bin Laden Front." Heras previously served as a researcher for the Pentagon, and oversaw research projects funded by the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. He is also a senior fellow at the neoconservative Jamestown Foundation, a think tank founded under the watch of CIA Director William Casey in 1984 to provide support for Soviet bloc defectors. Nicholas Heras A Democratic elite think tank, brought to you by the arms industry The Center for a New American Security functions as a revolving door to the Democratic Party's foreign-policy elite, giving veterans of Barack Obama's Pentagon and State Department a chance to cool their heels while a Republican controls the White House. CNAS' top donors include leading weapons manufacturers like Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and BAE Systems. CNAS is also directly funded by NATO and the governments of the United States, Japan, Germany, and Switzerland; the Open Society Foundations (OSF) of anti-communist billionaire George Soros, and giants from the fossil fuel industry. Until this February, the think tank was directed by Victoria Nuland, a key architect of the 2014 Maidan coup in Ukraine, a Hillary Clinton confidant, and the wife of neoconservative ideologue Robert Kagan. Harnessing the "wheat weapon" Nicholas Heras issued his call to use Syria's food supply as a "weapon" against its government in an interview with the international news agency AFP. CNAS endorsed its fellow's proposal by approvingly tweeting his quote, along with a link to the report. CNAS✔@CNASdc "Wheat can be used to apply pressure on the Assad regime, and through the regime on Russia, to force concessions in the UN-led diplomatic process." - @NicholasAHeras tells @AFP's @Delilsouleman: https://yhoo.it/2F0gjrN 1211:09 PM - Jun 18, 2019Twitter Ads info and privacy In Syria's breadbasket, Kurds and regime battle for wheat Gazing over his wheat field in northeastern Syria, farmer Adel Othman expects a bumper crop this year, but two rival authorities squabbling over his harvest have dashed his enthusiasm. After succes... finance.yahoo.com 46 people are talking about this On June 11, AFP published "In Syria's breadbasket, Kurds and regime battle for wheat." The article, reprinted by Yahoo News, was filed from Amuda, a town in Syria's northeastern al-Hasakah governorate, which it refers to as the country's "breadbasket region." Though ethnically diverse, this area is largely under the control of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), which considers the Syrian territory to be an autonomous Kurdish region, popularly referred to as Rojava. The local administration's armed wing, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), is directly allied with the US military. The SDF has collaborated and embedded with American soldiers and enabled the construction of a dozen US military bases, which Kurdish leadership has insisted will remain for decades. (A US general has even taken credit for creating the SDF "brand".) The national Syrian government, led by President Bashar al-Assad, is offering farmers in Hasakah a high, subsidized price for their wheat. But the US-backed local Kurdish government has "said no wheat can leave the region under their control," AFP reported. The article notes that Syria is "a country where millions depend on bread as a staple food to survive." Millions of Syrians are food insecure, and crippling sanctions imposed by the United States and Europe have exacerbated the humanitarian situation. Hasakah's local Kurdish government is only offering farmers 160 Syrian pounds for a kilo of wheat, compared to the national Syrian government's offer of 185 pounds. But the Kurdish grain authority chief, Salman Bardo, told AFP, "We will not allow it to leave northeast Syria." AFP reported, "The Kurds would not permit the regime to ferry the cereal to other parts of Syria." To explain this strategy, AFP turned to CNAS's Heras, who said, "Assad needs access to cereal crops in northeast Syria to prevent a bread crisis in the areas of western Syria that he controls." The Kurdish leadership and their US ally "have a significant stockpile of this wheat weapon," Heras told AFP. "Wheat is a weapon of great power in this next phase of the Syrian conflict," he added. "It can be used to apply pressure on the Assad regime, and through the regime on Russia, to force concessions in the UN-led diplomatic process." [Colour fonts and bolding added.]. Ben Norton is a journalist and writer. He is a reporter for The Grayzone, and the producer of the Moderate Rebelspodcast, which he co-hosts with Max Blumenthal. His website is BenNorton.com, and he tweets at @BenjaminNorton. https://bennorton.com	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line24
__label__cc	0.64185	0.35815	Texas Laws Gangs and Guns Tobacco and Alcohol Gun and Gang Busters began as a program facilitated through Safe City Commission Crime Stoppers and the Northern District of Texas Project Safe Neighborhoods. In addition to the traditional Crime Stoppers money rewarded for a particular crime, Safe City Commission Crime Stoppers will add a bonus reward of up to $250 for tip information leading to an arrest(s) in gun and/or gang-related crimes in Tarrant County. The program aims at breaking down a code of silence that often exists among gangs and people who witness gang-related or gun-related crimes. What kinds of tips are eligible for the bonus reward? Any tip involving the seizure of a gun, a crime in which a gun was used, or crimes that are gang-related or gang-involved are eligible for the bonus reward. Examples include but are not limited to aggravated offenses involving a gun, drug offenses involving a gang member(s), gang graffiti and criminal mischief, and coercing, soliciting, or inducing gang membership. Only tips that are received through the Crime Stoppers hotline, 817-469-TIPS (8477), and this website, www.469tips.com, are eligible for the reward. How is the bonus reward determined and how is it funded? The Crime Stoppers Coordinator from each city and school is responsible for recommending the bonus reward when submitting the disposition on the Crime Stoppers tip. The coordinator may recommend a bonus reward on a scale from $50 - $250 based on the severity of the crime and only after an arrest has been made as a result of the tip. Bonus rewards will be approved, along with the regular Crime Stoppers tips, at the monthly Safe City Commission Crime Stoppers Standing Committee Meetings. The bonus rewards are funded through the Safe City Commission. To provide information on a gun and/or gang crime, call 817-469-TIPS (8477) or submit a tip online.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line25
__label__wiki	0.967763	0.967763	Goffage, John William Pilbean (1909–1971) by A. F. Pike John William Pilbean Goffage (1909-1971), by John T. Harrison Australian War Memorial, OG0068 John William Pilbean Goffage (1909-1971), actor, was born on 26 March 1909 at Broken Hill, New South Wales, son of John Goffage, an agent from England, and his native-born wife Violet Maud Edyth, née Joyce. Nicknamed 'Chips' by his schoolmates, he was educated in country towns and at Parramatta Intermediate Boys' High School. He learned to ride and to box, and developed a lifelong love of painting. Apprenticed as an ironmoulder at the Clyde Engineering Co. Ltd, Sydney, he left to roam through the eastern Australian bush as a drover, shearer and boundary rider; he later worked as a deckhand in coastal boats and as an assistant in a Sydney wine cellar. He sold poems and stories to newspapers and magazines, and the occasional water-colour painting. At St Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Macquarie Street, on 16 November 1935 he married Colina Jean Stewart Ferguson, a 19-year-old dental nurse; they ran an ice-cream parlour before they were divorced in March 1941. With his thin build and height of 6 ft 6 ins (198 cm), and an irreverent sense of humour, Goffage first entered show business as a magician's assistant, then was hired as an extra in a film, Come up Smiling (1939), produced in Sydney. He attracted attention in a small role as a gangling member of a slapstick bushfire-fighting team in Dad Rudd, M.P. (1940), and was promptly cast as the comic lead in Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940), Charles Chauvel's much-publicized tribute to the Australian Light Horse in the Sinai desert campaign of World War I. An outstanding commercial success at home, the film screened favourably in Britain and the United States of America, bringing 'Chips Rafferty' (the screen-name Goffage adopted) instant fame in Australia. On 28 May 1941 at the registrar general's office, Sydney, Goffage married Ellen Kathleen Jameson, a 37-year-old dressmaker. Known as 'Quentin', she was to be his close and constant companion until her death on 27 May 1964. They had no children. On 29 May 1941 Goffage had enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force. He was amiable, unaffected and popular with the airmen. Commissioned in the Administrative and Special Duties Branch in April 1943, he performed welfare and entertainment duties in Australia and New Guinea. On secondment, he acted in several Australian propaganda films for the Department of Information, including South West Pacific (1943), and in a second feature film for Chauvel, The Rats of Tobruk (1944), in which he again played one of the leading roles, this time as a member of the A.I.F. in North Africa. He was demobilized with the rank of flying officer on 13 February 1945. Rafferty's first postwar film, The Overlanders (1946), marked a turning-point in his career. He was cast by British director Harry Watt in the role of a bushman who headed a team which drove a vast herd of cattle across northern Australia beyond the reach of possible Japanese invaders. With a brilliant background in documentary, Watt was determined to create authentic Australian characters in his factually based drama. Under his perceptive and disciplined direction, Rafferty moulded the character of the tough, laconic Australian bushman which he continued to play, with minor variations, for the rest of his life, both in public and on screen. Following a postwar decline in local production, Rafferty took numerous roles in British and American films made on location in Australia, most notably Bitter Springs (1950), Kangaroo (1952), Smiley (1956) and The Sundowners (1960). Like many Australian actors, he went overseas to find work; he was given parts in The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947), The Desert Rats (1953) and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). In 1952 Rafferty had joined an Australian documentary film-maker, Lee Robinson, to produce a totally local film, The Phantom Stockman (1953), a 'Western' with Rafferty in his standard bushman role. Although crudely produced, the film was profitable, and Rafferty and Robinson formalized their partnership in a company, Southern International; they developed an ambitious production programme for film and television designed to revitalize the ailing local industry. After King of the Coral Sea (1954), directed by Robinson and starring Rafferty as a Torres Strait pearl fisherman, Southern International secured French finance for three films, among them Walk into Paradise (1956) with Rafferty as a New Guinea patrol officer. He was also active in the administration of the company's projects and in selling the completed films. An outspoken advocate of government support for the film and television industries in Australia from the 1950s, he was a man of strong opinions, strongly expressed, and a Freemason. Not only did he risk personal resources in Southern International, but he used his considerable public image to take a patriarchal role in the local film community. Despite his efforts, his film company foundered and ceased production in 1959. He continued to work as an actor at home and abroad in films such as They're a Weird Mob (1966) and Double Trouble (1967) with Elvis Presley. He also made numerous guest appearances on Australian television, in variety shows, in Australian series like 'Skippy' (1970), and in American series which included 'The Wackiest Ship in the Army' (1967) and 'Tarzan' (1969). In 1971 he gave one of his finest performances—and his last in a feature film—as an outback policeman in Wake in Fright. Chips died suddenly of lung disease and heart failure on 27 May that year at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, and was cremated with Anglican rites. As an actor, Rafferty owed much to a tradition of comedy going back to Pat Hanna and his series of 'Diggers' stage shows in the 1920s. After his screen character was remodelled by Watt in The Overlanders, Rafferty abandoned broad comedy and emerged as a stereotype of the Australian outback male, becoming identified with the character more thoroughly than any other actor of his generation. To the film critic of the Sydney Morning Herald (30 September 1946), he was 'the Australian Everyman, in speech, action and character'. For the postwar generation he symbolized essential Australian qualities, and was both honoured (M.B.E., 1971) and reviled for his association with heavy drinking and cultural crudity. A. Pike and R. Cooper, Australian Film, 1900-1977 (Melb, 1980) B. Larkins, Chips, the Life and Films of Chips Rafferty (Melb, 1986) Film Weekly, 13 Sept 1945, 3, 10 Oct 1946 People (Sydney), 8 Oct 1952 Walkabout, 19 Oct 1970 Continuum, 1, no 1, 1987 Australian, 12 Nov 1969 Sydney Morning Herald, 1 Jan, 29 May 1971 Canberra Times, 29 May 1971 Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), 8 June 1986 Daily Mirror (Sydney), 26 Oct 1988 Murdock, George Henry (work colleague) Smith, William Joshua (artist) A. F. Pike, 'Goffage, John William Pilbean (1909–1971)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/goffage-john-william-pilbean-10317/text18259, published first in hardcopy 1996, accessed online 20 January 2020. Chips Rafferty Rafferty, Chips Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia actor (film) air force officer	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line26
__label__wiki	0.87102	0.87102	Ross, Robert Samuel (1873–1931) by Joy Damousi Robert Samuel Ross (1873-1931), socialist journalist and trade-union organizer, was born on 5 January 1873 in Sydney, son of Robert Mitchell Ross, compositor from Scotland, and his English wife Anne Matilda, née Bonham. Aged 12, Bob Ross moved with his parents to Queensland where his father was to edit a paper. Educated at state schools in Sydney and Brisbane, he began his working life as a messenger boy in a Brisbane drapery establishment, and at 17 was apprenticed as a compositor. A sporting enthusiast, Ross was editor of the Queensland Cricketer & Footballer when 20, and subsequently of the Queensland Sportsman. Inspired by the writings of William Lane, who believed that a co-operative society could be constructed through trade-union organizations, Ross attempted to disseminate his principles among the unions. He worked energetically as a journalist, speaker and agitator and was a founder of the Queensland Socialist League in 1894 and Socialist Democratic Vanguard in 1900. On 14 March 1900 in Brisbane he married Ethel Slaughter, who remained a constant support during his political career. They had two sons, Lloyd (1901-87) and Edgar (b.1904), both of whom became influential writers and prominent trade-union activists. From Brisbane, Ross went to Broken Hill in January 1903 to become editor of the Barrier Truth, the 'voice' of the Broken Hill union movement. When he expressed disillusionment with attempts made to ameliorate workers' conditions through arbitration and encouraged militant industrial action, he was accused of undermining the local branch of the Australian Labor Party. His vehement anti-clerical comments created further animosity. A vote of no confidence was eventually passed in his editorship and he resigned in November 1905. Next May Ross launched the Flame, published by the Barrier Social Democratic Club of which he was chairman, writer and public speaker. One of his lifelong convictions, apparent in his association with the labour press, was that only through education and dissemination of propaganda would workers mobilize. As municipal librarian at Broken Hill in 1906-08, he introduced radical literature. In August 1908 Ross accepted an offer by the Victorian Socialist Party to become secretary and editor of its magazine, the Socialist. A formidable debater, persuasive speaker and effective organizer, Ross was the driving force behind the V.S.P. during its halcyon days and was largely responsible for building it into an influential propagandist organization. A delegate to all annual Socialist Federation of Australia conferences in 1907-12, Ross moved toward the adoption of permeation tactics following the failure of socialists against the Labor Party candidates. Under his guidance, the more radical elements in the V.S.P. were emasculated. In 1911-13 he edited the Maoriland Worker in Wellington. Although Ross celebrated the success of the Russian revolution in 1917 he continued to believe that socialism would be achieved in Australia by parliamentary means, with industrial unionism—organized along the lines of the One Big Union—supporting a Labor government which would socialize industry. He was prominent in combating members of a communist group trying to take over the V.S.P., who were eventually expelled. Ross remained with the party—the 'old show'—through its declining fortunes but was also active in the left wing of the Labor Party. In 1919 and 1921 he unsuccessfully sought Senate pre-selection. He was one of the main architects of the A.L.P.'s socialist objective, adopted in 1921, and was vice-president of the Victorian branch in 1930-31. For urging socialists to retain the policy of 'boring from within' Ross was scorned by those who advocated revolutionary action and in some circles was derisively called 'Fighting Bob Ross'. Ross assisted in forming the Queensland Typographical Association, the Broken Hill branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association and the Tailoresses' Union; he was a member of the Australian Workers' Union and the Melbourne Trades Hall Council delegate for the Federated Clerks' Union. He also edited several union publications. During the 1920s he was appointed publicity officer of Labor Papers Ltd and travelled extensively to gather funds to establish a labour daily newspaper. An ardent pacifist, Ross was one of the few who outspokenly criticized Australia's involvement in World War I and attempted to mobilize support for the Hardie-Vaillant resolution of 1914 calling for a general strike against the war. He was a founder of the No-Conscription Fellowship and active in other anti-conscription organizations in 1916-17. Defending free speech and civil liberties, Ross was arrested several times for his defiance of war-time and post-war censorship regulations. A member of the Victorian Rationalist Association, he preached the growth of 'rational' individuals through education. Self-educated himself and an omnivorous reader of socialist and rationalist literature, Ross contributed prolifically to labour journals. He was a socialist with strong literary leanings; Joseph Furphy's Rigby's Romance was first published as a serial in the Barrier Truth in 1905-06. Two of his own pamphlets—Eureka—Freedom Fight of '54 (1914) and Revolution in Russia and Australia (1920)—won widespread acclaim. But his most notable literary achievement was the launching in 1915 of his own magazine, Ross's Monthly of Protest, Personality and Progress—an iconoclastic polemical journal which discussed cultural issues. It survived until 1924 when it was incorporated into Union Voice with Ross as editor. He was also a member of the Y-Club and ran Ross's Book Service which offered a wide variety of literature. Ross became council-member (1925) of the University of Melbourne and trustee (1928) of the Public Library, museums and National Gallery. In November 1930 he was appointed a commissioner of the State Savings Bank. Slightly built, thin-faced and softly spoken, Ross was remembered by contemporaries as quiet, modest and good-natured, with a generous spirit. Respected for his integrity and capacity for work, he inspired affection even from those who disagreed with him. Ross died of uraemia on 24 September 1931 at Richmond. His funeral was attended by a few intimate friends, including Tom Tunnecliffe, J. P. Jones, Don Cameron and Harry Scott Bennett. He was cremated after a rationalist service. During a lifelong involvement in the labour movement, Ross travelled the path from 'red ragger' to respectable labourite. A genuine altruist, he summed up his life's endeavours in 1916 as the fight to 'emancipate men … from the intolerable and unjust cruelties of a system where they toiled for profit', and to 'set up a new order guaranteeing food, shelter, clothing to all'. Street (Brisbane), 15 Jan 1898 Daily Standard (Brisbane), 29 Apr 1925 Bulletin, 4 June 1930, 30 Sept 1931 Sydney Morning Herald, 25 Sept 1931 Westralian Worker, 2 Oct 1931 J. Damousi, Against the Current: Ross's Monthly of Protest, Personality and Progress 1915-1922 (B.A. Hons thesis, La Trobe University, 1983), and for bibliography L. and R. S. Ross papers (National Library of Australia). Ross, Lloyd Robert Maxwell (son) Pearce, Harry Hastings (acquaintance) Joy Damousi, 'Ross, Robert Samuel (1873–1931)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ross-robert-samuel-8274/text14497, published first in hardcopy 1988, accessed online 20 January 2020. anti-conscriptionist labour party organiser magazine/journal editor magazine/journal owner newspaper editor newspaper owner secularist trade union official	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line27
__label__wiki	0.933301	0.933301	Bronx District Attorney's Office cracks down on human traffickers The Bronx District Attorney's office says it isn’t playing games when it comes to cracking down on human traffickers in the Bronx. Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark tells News 12 The Bronx that her office has seen an uptick in human trafficking cases, and now they're focusing differently on it. The DA's office handled 220 cases last year involving patronizing a prostitute. The office says 47 people were indicted for sex trafficking offenses in the Bronx in the beginning of 2019. The alleged traffickers are now facing felony charges. Clark says herself and her team helped changed a law in the state that made prostituting or having sex with a minor a Class B felony with a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. She also says a judge is dedicated to human trafficking cases in the Bronx once a week, which started six years ago. The DA's office says it’s working on a unit within the office to focus on trafficking cases. January marks Human Trafficking Awareness Month.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line30
__label__wiki	0.606029	0.606029	Michael Tomasky on Mitt Romney’s Naïve Evasion Strategy TAX PROBLEM Romney is working to fend off scrutiny. Can a master of prevarication make it into the White House? Michael Tomasky Special Correspondent Updated May. 12, 2017 5:49PM ET / Published Aug. 02, 2012 4:45AM ET Uriel Sinai / Getty Images I’ve been pounding away at Mitt Romney’s lack of spine on the basis of his unprecedented reversals of position. We have never in modern American history had a presidential nominee who, as he ascended from the state to the national level, changed so many positions so shamelessly. But that’s not the only manifestation of his weakness. Take the three issues of his lack of specificity about the policies he supports, his inaccessibility to the press, and his refusal to release his tax returns. These highlight another aspect of the problem, one that’s no less telling and serious: His desire to sneak into the White House all but unexamined by voters. Even Bill Kristol has complained that Romney is on “autopilot” and is not laying out a serious and clear vision. Romney hasn’t said what tax loopholes he’ll close or what federal programs he’ll slash. He then tries to argue that to do so would be foolish, like a football coach posting his playbook online (my metaphor, not his, but it’s the essence of what he says). The problem goes beyond lists of loopholes or programs to the elements that constitute what we usually call a politician’s vision. What he’s going to do to fuel manufacturing, to spur innovation, to improve education; what he sees as the two or three main economic priorities for the next decade; where he will shift and direct federal resources; we know none of this. It may all exist on his web site in small and bromidic doses, but mostly what he says on the stump is that that Obama fellow is an awful anti-capitalist and I, Romney, will unleash the power of the free market and trust me, everything will light up guns-ablazing. Moving on: On what has to have been the most politically maladroit trip abroad by a presidential candidate since Earl Browder went to Russia, Romney, as you probably know by now, took a grand total of three questions from the traveling press. He did consent to two brief sit-down interviews—both of which he botched, by the way, one with Fox and the other with ABC. But the standard practice on these trips is to do a “press avail” every day or at least most days and submit to a handful (five, six) of questions each time. He took just three questions, once. This tracks with his well-known general behavior throughout the campaign of almost never making himself available to the media, except of course for Fox, where he can usually (with a small number of exceptions) count on being asked questions about exactly how awful Barack Obama is. Despite the Romney campaign’s assurances that this will change, I wouldn’t bet on it. As for the tax returns, Romney made a potentially huge error telling ABC’s David Muir while on the trip that he would be “happy to go back and look” at the tax rates he paid in past years. That’s perilously close to a commitment on which he can be pressed from now until Election Day. But what he will try to do, of course, is ride it out and stonewall Muir and everyone else. And just as he won’t name the loopholes he plans to close because doing so would merely allow those loopholes’ defenders to prepare for battle, he can’t release his tax returns, you see, because the Obama people would just distort them. There are always innumerable ways for cowards to explain how they were forced into cowardice. He will try to stonewall for two reasons. First, it’s likely there’s something bad in there. Maybe really bad. If you missed this fascinating New York Times op-ed by Michael J. Graetz, a tax-law professor and a Republican ex-Treasury Department official, read it post haste. He sounds like he knows where the bodies may be buried. It’s mostly about that $100 million IRA. If some of Graetz’s suppositions are correct, Romney would be severely hurt if the information got out. So that, from the Romney view of things, is the practical reason to stonewall. But the second reason is in a way of greater interest to me. He doesn’t want to release more tax returns for the same reason that he doesn’t want to talk to the press if at all possible, and for the same reason that he wants to lay out as few specifics as he possibly can. He wants to get to the White House without having to endure all the difficult challenges presidential candidates have always faced. It’s another manifestation of his weakness. First, he completely reinvents who this “Mitt Romney” person is to placate a right wing whose power he fears. Second, having apparently accomplished that successfully, the point is now not to have to take any new positions, answer any annoying press questions, or reveal the truth about his fortune and his tax history. All of those can gum up the narrative he has crafted so carefully. This is partly a reflection of the pathetic state of the GOP. In the primary season, he didn’t have to think through positions, argue specifics, as Obama and Hillary Clinton did over the details of health-care policy. All he had to do was plant himself to the right of everyone else and use his vast money advantage to club Rick Santorum in ads (from the right). But it’s also a reflection on the man. It’s astonishing to think that he might be able to go through this campaign without answering questions about his flip-flops and without saying much more than I love America, I worship the free market, and by the way, I’m not Barack Obama. And it’s even more astonishing to think that someone who hopes to be the president of the United States would want to.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line39
__label__cc	0.645099	0.354901	Climate Change in the Arctic & around the globe Blog and Blogger Arctic and Ice Svalbard 2010 This year’s ice-blog destination is the Svalbard archipelago at 79° North, a focal point of the world’s Arctic research. Spitsbergen is the largest of the Svalbard islands, which are governed by Norway. Just 1200 km from the North Pole, scientists from all over the world monitor what’s happening to our climate and how changes affect ecosystems at the research station of Ny Alesund. This is also the spot where Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen started the first airship flight over the North Pole in 1926. I took these pictures during a visit in 2007. Once the site of a coal mine, around 30 scientists and crew now live in Ny Alesund through the dark, Arctic winter, in the world’s most northerly permanent settlement. When the snow starts to melt in spring and life awakes, biologists and glaciologists migrate to Svalbard to carry out their field research. Amongst them this year is a team from the IFM GEOMAR, the Leibniz Insitute for Marine Sciences of Germany’s Kiel University, headed by Professor Ulf Riebesell. For the first time, they are cooperating with Greenpeace. The Greenpeace team is headed by Dr. Iris Menn and Martin Kaiser. The organisation’s ship the “Esperanza” is transporting the scientists and their special equipment to monitor the effect of ocean acidification on the Arctic ocean ecosystems off the coast of Spitsbergen. Expedition prepares to depart – report by Chiponda Chimbelu EPOCA, Greenpeace, IFM-Geomar, Ny Alesund, ocean acidification, research, Svalbard The Arctic headlines that weren’t? Although I’m a journalist myself I still often find myself wondering why some things make it into the headlines with some media and others don’t. Sometimes you hear something in the news in the morning that disappears very rapidly. And sometimes, especially if you’re interested in and concerned about climate change, you read and hear things that shock or worry you then, again, don’t make it into any other media. I have a couple of examples here. The first I can find an explanation for, although I don’t find it justified and hope the situation will change in the next few weeks. Scientists from one of Germany’s most renowned scientific institutes, the Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences at Kiel University, set off on an Arctic expedition today.They’ve joined forces with Greenpeace. The Greenpeace ship Esperanza is transporting some giant “test-tubes” up to the Svalbard archipelago, where they’ll be lowered into the water to look into the effects of climate change on the marine ecosystems. The scientists are particularly interested in the acidification of the oceans. I’ll be writing more about this later – in fact I’ll be catching up with the team and finding out more first-hand. But the reason I’m mentioning it today is that when I searched the news agencies, I didn’t find anything in English about this venture, although it’s using new, unique technology, and we know how susceptible the Arctic is to climate change – and what a key role it plays in regulating the world’s climate. I assume the reason is the ship left from the German port of Kiel, so only attracted German media. But come on folks, this is not a German story, the implications are as global as you can get. I wasn’t able to go up to Kiel for the launch, but one of my colleagues went, so I’ll have more on that soon. The other story which is even more worrying is one I came across in the online version of the German news magazine Focus It’s headlined (in German)”Melting poles: No Ice, No Summer”. The article reports on a story in the magazine Science which warns of the dangerous effects of melting ice in the Arctic and Antarctic on the deep ocean currents which help regulate the climate. In a highly over-simplified nutshell, it seems possible that at some point in the future, melting fresh water from the glaciers could reduce the salinity of the sea-water to the extent where the pump effect of dense salt water sinking into the depths would be hampered. This could interrupt the flow of warmer water which helps keep the climate of the British isles, southern Scandinavian and part of northern Germany mild. Now why am I finding it difficult to get any more information on this from other media? EPOCA, Greenpeace, IFM-Geomar, Media, Ny Alesund, ocean acidification, Svalbard Scotland as marine energy Saudi Arabia? Your ice blogger has been in Scotland over the past week, intrigued by claims by the country’s First Minister (Scotland is part of the UK but has a devolved parliament in Edinburgh) Alex Salmond that Scotland could become the “Saudi Arabia” of renewable energy, in particular marine energy. The country is well suited to develop tidal, wave and wind energy and some interesting announcements were made while I was there. Scotland has ambitious emissions reductions targets, higher than those of the UK as a whole. More anon, when I have processed some of the material I collected. There should be some photos here by tomorrow at the latest. March 22, 2010 \| 1:05 pm ocean, Renewables, Scotland The Tiny Crustaceans and the Co2 We haven’t heard a lot about the iron fertilisation controversy in the Antarctic for a while – at least not in the mainstream media. (The German research vessel Polarstern, belonging to the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, conducting the research with Indian partners). – See blog entries of 9.-15-1-2009 for the background – Are you surprised to hear that the controversial experiment did not produce the desired results? Artificially fertlizing the ocean with iron is not a way to substantially reduce the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere! It seems the scientists on board the Polarstern were surprised by what did actually happen during the German-Indian experiment. March 26, 2009 \| 10:48 am Arctic, Climate, geoengineering Census of Marine Life in the Arctic and Antarctic The Census of Marine Life, which is an ongoing project to document life in the oceans, has published some interesting findings about species in the Arctic and the Antarctic, and changes caused by climate change. It’s hardly surprising that cold-water-loving species are migrating towards the Poles to escape water that has become too warm for their comfort. The results are based partly on some amazing resarch voyages during the international polar year. It’s well worth a read. And there are some amazing photos and video sequences. Arctic and Antarctic species online Antarctic, Arctic, Oceans 123...8910111213 Icebergs, glaciers, snow-white foxes – the beauty of the polar regions features large on the Ice Blog. But what’s happening to all this in a changing climate? And how does the melting of the polar ice in turn affect the rest of the globe? Environment journalist Irene Quaile has been observing climate change in the Arctic and around the globe since 2007. 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__label__cc	0.577769	0.422231	And My Heart Almost Stood Still Visual Theatre an interrupted solo, inspired by Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and a letter by Helen Keller Ari takes the viewers on a journey into his own world of nonverbal, sensual communication where even the subtlest of sensations can become full of joy, pain or beauty. Inspired by Keller’s observations and by the connection she describes to the by-then deaf Beethoven, this piece too wishes to experience the power that music can have to communicate beyond boundaries, disabilities and loneliness. “…Teperberg has created a minimalist and precise work on the human difficulty to connect and communicate. His thought and emotion provoking piece is like a special and delicate gift…” (Nano Shabtai, Haaretz theatre review, August 2018) “There are very few stage works such as this one… a fascinating and exciting experience” (Zvi Goren, Ha’Bama, 2018) 4 February 2020, Imaginale Festival, Stuttgart, Germany 14-15 January 2020, Festival Vagamondes, La Filature, Mulhouse, France 16 May 2019, International Puppet Theatre Festival, Materia Magica, Klaipeda, Lithuania 28 October 2018, Theater HochX, Munich, Germany 23 September 2018, Open Door Festival, Muzeum Śląskie, Katowice, Poland 24, 25 August 2018, B-Motion Festival, Bassano del Grappa, Italy 11 August 2018, Solniki 44, Solniki, Poland photo: Efrat Mazor The trigger for this creation process was a letter sent by the famous deaf-blind author and intellectual Helen Keller to the New-York Symphony Orchestra in 1924, in which she describes how she “listened” to their performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony, simply by touching the radio’s membrane and feeling the vibrations. The piece wishes to generate a space of heightened sensation, in which an alchemy between the senses takes place. The text by Keller, as well as Beethoven’s haunting music, appears and disappears through different mediums and vibrates like a suppressed volcanic force, wishing to erupt. We are granted a close-up look into the body of the performer, who calibrates himself to hypersensitivity, seeking desperately for an alternative language through which to communicate. Ari Teperberg, Biography Ari Teperberg, born in Jerusalem in 1989, is a theatre-maker, opera director and performer. He graduated from the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem (2013) and is the recipient of the Jerusalem Foundation Prize, 2011. In 2018-19 Ari will direct the opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Mozart in the Jerusalem Opera, and will work as dramaturge and co-curator in an exhibition in the Israel Museum. His independent work as a creator includes the pieces “And my Heart Almost Stood Still” (co-produced by the Westfluegel Theater in Leipzig, Germany); “I Want to Dance, Kate!” (premiered at the Akko Festival 2014), winner of the prize for best stage language and best costumes; “What Happened to my Voice” (an evening with two pieces created during his studies); In 2009 Ari Co-founded with Inbal Yomtovian the “Golden Delicious” ensemble, creating and touring with the Object-Theatre shows “Jonathan and the Blue Table,”“Small Change,” “Crystal Clear,” and “Heidi” in Israel and in many festivals around the world. In Opera, Ari directed “Giulio Cesare in Egitto” (Handel), “Haensel und Gretel” (Humperdinck), “Dan the Guard” (Lavry, 1943), which was the first full production of what is said to be the first Hebrew opera, and was a site- specific production in the Israel National Library; “The Marriage of Figaro” (Mozart) and “In search of the Orchestra” – a children’s opera show written by him. As a performer he dances in the pieces “Common Emotions” and “Simple Action” by choreographer Yasmeen Godder. In the past few years he performed in works by Yonatan Levy, Sharon Zuckerman-Weiser, and Ana Wild. Ari teaches Object-Theatre at the Haifa University, movement for singers at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, and works as a guest director in the opera workshop of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. https://www.ariteperberg.com/	cc/2020-05/en_head_0012.json.gz/line44
__label__wiki	0.602665	0.602665	Posted by Booksteve at 11:21 AM 1 comment: Links to this post Lone Ranger Socks Posted by Booksteve at 11:13 PM 1 comment: Links to this post BatmanXXX-A Porn Parody Whether or not you're into this sort of thing, seeing this box one HAS to admit they've certainly made a sincere effort to capture the visual aspects of the original 1966 BATMAN TV series. In fact, my favorite aspect is the Joker having a mustache beneath his greasepaint! Talk about paying attention to detail! The video is just out and I read last week where SUPERMANXXX is next! In a bizarre but understandable reversal of form, the video comes with a version of the film with all of the sex scenes edited out! In the past, some films have edited out the "plot" parts for those who just want to see what they were paying for! Posted by Booksteve at 6:56 AM 3 comments: Links to this post RIP-Dennis Hopper Dennis Hopper died today. His story was, of course, the very definition of a second act. Or was it a third? He first appeared onscreen at age 18 and was in smallish roles for many years before his career seemed to peter out in the heady days of the late sixties. But then came EASY RIDER and he was suddenly respected as an actor and a filmmaker....briefly. The disastrous reception to the money pit that was 1971's drug hazy THE LAST MOVIE was, along with projects like Hopper's participation in Orson Welles' unreleased THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND, enough to send him back to cameos and lower budget productions. Hollywood wrote him off...again. Then came David Lynch--the Quentin Tarantino of the eighties--and BLUE VELVET. This time, Hopper not only regained the respect of fickle Hollywood but he kept it. Thus his passing today finds this veteran film star of more than five decades leaving us not as a trivia question but as a star. Rest in peace, Dennis and thank you for your performances! Casper Meets Ultraman?? I'm sorry? Did I somehow miss a period in the 1990's when Harvey Comics of all people were publishing ULTRAMAN?? Posted by Booksteve at 10:13 AM 2 comments: Links to this post Classic TV Preservation Shouldn't Stop With the Shows As the Classic TV Preservation Society's Person of the Week this week, I felt an obligation to say something on the death of Gary Coleman and what we do to older stars. This was originally posted earlier today on Facebook. The passing of Gary Coleman earlier today drives home yet again the sad fact that we all tend to prefer puppies and wish the older dogs would just go away. Oh, we don’t do it on purpose. We don’t mean to simply put our old friends out to pasture…but we do it anyway. Over and over and over. I first saw Gary Coleman on Norman Lear’s spoof talk show series AMERICA 2 NIGHT. At age 10 but looking even younger due to what we would all later find out was a physical disorder, he was cute and he was funny so, of course, he ended up with his own TV series. DIFF’RENT STROKES came along at a time when sitcoms had become “relevant” to their times, often featuring episodes about modern day problems. In a way, it was an updated version of the sixties CBS series, FAMILY AFFAIR in that a middle-aged single white man ended up raising three kids with the help of his servant. In this case, the twist was that two of the kids were African-American. Episodes dealt with abuse, drugs, sex, and, of course, racism. The writing and direction were often heavy-handed but the characters were endearing and the show settled in for a long and popular run. The children all attracted fans of all ages. For eight seasons on two networks, DIFF’RENT STROKES was their life. Then, as with all TV series, it ended. The adults moved on to other jobs and the kids were more or less left to their own devices. Almost immediately, Dana Plato became the poster child for child actor issues and they eventually led to her suicide. Todd Bridges had anger and drug issues and legal problems that dragged him down for years. Gary Coleman spent two decades dealing very publically with family problems, health issues and the ever-present and undeniable fact that he was no longer that impossibly cute little kid the world loved. And that’s just it. It isn’t only child stars. It’s older stars in general. For every William Shatner and David McCallum who makes a comeback, there’s a Ken Berry or a Mike Conners that everyone thinks must surely be dead or else they’d be on TV. When was the last time you saw Chad Everett or Stefanie Powers? Will Hutchins or Georgia Engel? Based on the reception these stars always get when they show up at any event whatsoever, I’m going to go out on a limb and say it’s the people running what passes for Hollywood these days who neither know nor have the least amount of respect for their own history. Earlier this month I had the chance to work onstage with Bob Hastings and Rosemary Rice. Hastings appeared regularly on McHALE’S NAVY and semi-regularly on ALL IN THE FAMILY. He can also be found guest-starring in scores of TV series and films from the sixties through the eighties. At 85, he is healthy, sharp and reliable and yet his last on-camera appearance was 18 years ago. Ms. Rice, still a wonderful actress and a popular TV star of the 1950’s on the long-running series, MAMA, hasn’t appeared on camera in 50 years! So younger stars are eaten up and spit out by the system while older stars are simply ignored after a time no matter how big their fan base. Ask yourself, were you really that enamored with Arnold on DIFF’RENT STROKES or was it what Gary Coleman brought to the role? Why is it that all of these big budget, big screen remakes of old TV shows always seem to be missing something? Was it really Sgt Bilko that was such a great character or was it that Bilko—as played by Phil Silvers—was such a great character? I believe that Hollywood itself typecasts performers more than the fans. I believe that if given the chance the fans would relish the chance to see their old friends in new roles and not just cameos and tributes. Betty White’s current success is NOT a fluke! There are a hundred other beloved TV actors and actresses of all ages out there who would be welcomed back on our screens—big or small—if only they were given a chance! We talk about preserving classic TV but that shouldn’t mean just the shows. We also owe a debt to the people who brought us those shows. Let this be a wake-up call. Find out today which of your favorite TV stars of old have an official website. Many of them do! At the very least write and thank them for what they’ve shared with us over the years. In the past year I’ve written to Wendell Burton (Charlie Brown on a memorable Hallmark Hall of Fame live action special of the 1970’s), Bo Svenson (from the first season of HERE COME THE BRIDES), Kip King (from CHARLIE & CO.) and Donna Loren (SHINDIG) and I’ve heard back from every one. You’ll be surprised and they will appreciate hearing from you! Lois Lane at 22 Since comics characters age slowly if at all, most companies go out of their way to avoid mentioning characters' ages but here's an ad for the first issue of SUPERMAN'S GIRLFRIEND, LOIS LANE from 1958 in which National trumpets to the world not only our intrepid girl reporter's age but her weight as well! Classic TV Preservation Society Over on Facebook, I've been named the Person of the Week by the Classic TV Preservation Society founded by BEWITCHED FOREVER author Herbie J. Pilato. I am, of course, humbled. I'm told I was even the first to present an acceptance speech. That said, the Society is a worthy cause and is in the process of moving beyond the virtual confines of Facebook. Anyone interested in preserving the more positive aspects of our television heritage (you know, like TV LAND used to talk about but doesn't seem to prioritize anymore) should look up the Classic Television Preservation Society's page on Facebook. It's fun, informative, family friendly and nostalgic. Basil Wolverton's Bing Bang Buster Don Rosa Documentary Needs Your Help We all know that Don Rosa is one of my favorite comics creators of all time. Even though so much of his work builds on Barks, I like Don's better! His sense of humor, his pacing, his storytelling...even his art is more enjoyable for me. In parts of Europe, Don is revered for his work and even as we speak, Danish filmmakers are working on what will undoubtedly be a fascinating and hopefully definitive documentary feature on the now retired comics creator. Here's a link to the raw trailer. They need money to finish the project and they have a posted goal with updates as to how close they're getting. As usual, I happen to be broke but my contribution to the Don Rosa project is to spread the word! What's your contribution going to be? http://www.donrosamovie.com/ The Fox, Now and Then Things change. Simon Kirby Ad (no "&")-1950's Steve Martin's First Film Attention trivia fans! What was Steve Martin's first movie? Off the top of your head, you'd probably say THE JERK. Made in 1979, that was most definitely the popular stand-up comic's first starring film role but did you know that the largely forgotten SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (featuring Steve as the homicidal Maxwell Edison) appeared a year earlier in 1978? That's still not the answer we're looking for though! Steve Martin, as most who care already know, was a writer and sometime on-camera player for the Smothers Brothers and their controversial TV variety show of the late sixties. In the early 1970's, Tom Smothers and Jonathan Haze produced a satirical political film called ANOTHER NICE MESS that was directed by another of the series' writers, Bob Einstein (later AKA Super Dave Osborne and brother of the funniest man alive, Albert Brooks!) It was an odd little picture to say the least and we wrote about it and how it had long since disappeared here http://booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/2005/10/another-nice-mess.html Well, the Internet being what it is, I finally today had a chance to see this forgotten little gem--and that's what it is, flaws and all--and who do I spot in one scene? STEVE MARTIN! Thus, contrary to what IMDB will tell you, Steve Martin's film debut was not in 1979 or even 1978...but way back in 1972, in ANOTHER NICE MESS! When Batman Met Nancy DC's long-running (nearly two decades!) ADVENTURES OF BOB HOPE title was not spared the company's understandable but shameless exploitation of Batman in 1966. Here, from issue 103, is a fun full pager featuring the Caped Crusader with Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy! Robin doesn't look too happy. Note also Sophia dissing the Fab Four to Ringo, Sinatra putting down Phyllis Diller and Stanley and his monster being kept apart from their forbidden love over religion. The series at this point was usually drawn by Bob Oksner but this issue seems to be the work of Joe Orlando, then newly arrived at DC. This page, however...Comics creator Stephen DeStefano insists that the Dynamic Duo are by Carmine Infantino (then their regular artist). I can see that. Except that the celebrity caricatures look to me like the work of Mort Drucker, himself a longtime artist on the Bob Hope title. Stanley and his miscolored monster seem to be drawn by Oksner! Was this a jam page? Was Orlando imitating everyone's style? Was Carmine brought in to keep the Batman figures on-model. Does anyone out there have a clue? Okay, here you have this guy, the Shark, barely dressed and posing oddly in front of what appears to be some sort of giant Etch-A-Sketch...in 1939...or is it an early webcam?? Hmmmm....??? MLJ/Archie Ad Little did these early 1940's superheroes suspect that the red-headed kid (or blonde as seen here) and his pal, Jughead, would eventually do to them and all of their cohorts what no Nazi or mad scientist or racketeer was ever able to do. Archie had premiered in PEP COMICS but his stories were soon invading the other MLJ titles, also. This ad--featuring Mister Justice, Steel Sterling, Black Hood and the long forgotten Sgt. Boyle--is for Archie's debut in JACKPOT COMICS. Don Rosa Finland Interview 2008 A nice, long, self deprecating interview with Don Rosa from what appears to be a Finnish morning TV show. One of my favorite fan writer/artists through the early seventies, I was thrilled when he started doing comics for Gladstone. Don told me once that I was the first person to ask him to do a signing but, as written about previously here on the blog, he politely declined. Nice to see how big he has gotten internationally but I remain perplexed as to why he never quite hit the big time he deserves here in his own country. Don deals here straightforwardly with the eyesight issues that led to his having to withdraw from comics work. I know he has read this blog from time to time and Don, if you do see this piece, I just wanted to say I continue to send good thoughts your way, sir...and thanks for everything! Science Fiction Double Feature--Richard O'Brien Vicki Lawrence Blooper Vicki Lawrence has long been a favorite of mine--oddly NOT including her "Mama" character. Here, introduced by Dick Clark from one of his blooper specials and with animation from Sergio Aragones, is a succession of giggly outtakes as she tried to record a plug for her talk show. Another favorite from my youth is Ms. Stefanie Powers who was kind enough to answer a a letter from 13 year old me while appearing in summer stock in 1972. I first saw her in THE GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. in 1966 but she had already co-starred at that point with John Wayne in 1963's McCLINTOCK and appeared in dozens of other TV series and a few films. When her role as the Modesty Blaise knock-off, April Dancer, dried up, Stefanie went on to become the queen of series guest roles and TV movies through the mid-seventies. A much publicized (and not without controversy) relationship with veteran actor William Holden led to her becoming an animal and environmental activist and a charismatic teaming with old friend Robert Wagner led to her finally becoming a major star on TV's HART TO HART in the late 1970's. Bennett Cerf's Book of Riddles This was the earliest book I remember actually owning. I received it as a birthday gift for my 5th birthday. I, of course, had absolutely no idea who Bennett Cerf might be but I came to associate the name with funny wordplay. In the years that followed, I learned that Bennett Cerf had also written a newspaper column of amusing celebrity anecdotes for many years and that many of these were collected in multiple volumes of hilarious books. I found that he was a lifelong collector of all types of humor as well as a singularly important figure in the field of twentieth century publishing. As founder of Random House, he was associated with several of the major literary censorship fights as well as the man who gave Dr Seuss--already an entertaining author/artist-- his first great push toward becoming a legend! Add to that the fact that he was one of the regular panelists on WHAT'S MY LINE?, without a doubt the classiest, most entertaining and most civilized panel show of all time--as well as a favorite of mine from its mid-sixties final years through today where I watch episodes daily on YouTube! He even had a marvelously entertaining posthumous autobiography entitled AT RANDOM! BENNETT CERF'S BOOK OF RIDDLES! I may not be able to recall a single riddle at this late stage but I certainly recall Bennett Cerf. Who says books don't inspire? Not the Beatles But an Incredible Simulation bookdave is an appropriately hangdog Ringo. He actually had a RINGO STARR AND HIS ALL-STARR BAND T-shirt on that day. That's me as Paul looking--I'm told--like Weird Al from the 'stache up. But all that hair! Ah, nostalgia! Bottom right is the ever-delightful Brittany Rose making a cute dude! Reminds me of both HR PUFNSTUF's Jack Wild and Joanna Lumley as THE NEW AVENGERS' Purdey. John is played here by my lovely bride, Rene, who, quite frankly, has had that hairdo in the past few years and thus looks quite natural! This, by the way, was the absolute only thing I purchased at last weekend's OTR Con. Another young woman whose images loom large in my memories of the sixties is Nancy Sinatra. This is particularly odd, though, because I wasn't really a fan of hers until this past decade. Nonetheless, when I see her publicity pictures, posters, etc, it always takes me back. I first heard and heard of Nancy when the record, SOMETHING STUPID, was a hit in 1966. A duet with Frank Sinatra---which makes it undoubtedly the first time I ever heard if him, also--this beautifully orchestrated love song sounds odd today due to Nancy's almost monotone recitation of the lyrics and Frank's insistence on attempting to match her when it seems like she should be harmonizing with HIM! Of course, it sounds even odder when one realizes this is a father and a daughter singing it! This was made no less squicky when Frank, Jr took the male lead in one TV version! It plays up the fact that Nancy wasn't really much of a singer, however, in spite of her genes. At the time, I liked SOME VELVET MORNING, one of several collaborations with producer/singer/songwriter Lee Hazlewood that somehow managed to play on what strengths she did show by having her alternate verses rather than attempt to harmonize on them. The revelation to me is her 1967 theme to the fifth James Bond film, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE. She actually sings, shows some range and does a surprisingly bang-up job with the whole thing! Her greatest hits package, however, is filled with more monotone recitations and collaborations like JACKSON and SUMMER WINE. Oh, and of course, THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKING! The latter song put Nancy on the map and if that was all she was ever remembered for, it would have been enough. Nancy Sinatra in her blonde-white hair and go-go boots has become iconic. Arguably her career peaked when she co-starred in SPEEDWAY with Elvis Presley but looking back it seems an odd-combination of two iconic performers both of whose careers were being mis-managed horrendously when compared to their enormous potential! When Nancy appeared in PLAYBOY many years later after plastic surgery and with plenty of flattering soft focus and airbrushing, she reportedly broke the news to Frank only to have him ask how much they were paying her. She told him and he supposedly said, "Uh-uh. This much." and scrawled a number on a piece of paper. Nancy is said to have called Hef and without any hesitation, Frank's number was accepted. It really was, as they used to say, Frank Sinatra's world and the rest of us--Nancy Sinatra included--were just living in it. Now THAT is something stupid! Posted by Booksteve at 6:26 AM 1 comment: Links to this post RIP-Annie My first exposure to Harold Gray's LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE--the classic newspaper strip whose imminent retirement was announced today--was probably when we started buying the Sunday edition of THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS in the late sixties. The color comics printed a week early for some reason but that's another story. LOA was never a real favorite of mine although I did enjoy the still present at that time top strip, MAW GREEN. Thus when the big reprint volume in the early seventies came out, I stayed away from it. I did enjoy the various MAD lampoons of Annie and her cast and later, as I discovered them, the POGO parodies also. When the seventies musical play was made into a film, I did--in spite of the horrible choice of John Huston as director--enjoy the soundtrack! I liked what I saw of Leonard Starr's version of the strip after Harold Gray passed but it was intermittent as ANNIE was still never carried locally. I also liked Alan Kupperberg's version although he doesn't exactly speak very highly of the circumstances in which it was created. Quite frankly, I haven't seen anyone's version in years now. What I have discovered, though, only within the past year, were some reprints of the 1930's and 1940's LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE sequences and they are true gems of comic strip storytelling! Gray at his best was a master of suspense and characterization and, unlike today's continually shrinking strips, he was given enough space in which to create his worlds. At times as violent as DICK TRACY, the strip could be very dark and genuinely dramatically affecting! Annie, herself, however, remained an eternal optimist in hard times of war and depression but generally without the cloying characterization that could have easily become. The owners of LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE, echoing that optimism, indicate a certainty that we haven't seen the last of Annie and Sandy (ARF!). Looks like the newspapers have, though. Duffy's Tavern Starring Me! Cincy Con regular Jim Widner recorded and posted this past weekend's re-creation of a lost episode of DUFFY'S TAVERN from 1941 (as adapted and transcribed by Derek Tague). Geez, I'm out of shape but otherwise, not too shabby for an amateur if I do say so myself. And the colorfully garbed actress next to me who plays Madame Sickelsby, the genial-ologist, is my lovely bride of 19 years next month! Note also bookdave and Brittany Rose in the audience, lower right, attempting to tape the same piece until her battery ran out! the 25th Annual Cincinnati Old Time Radio and Nostalgia Convention! Unlike in previous years, the dates, guests and hotel for next year's convention have already been set! Mark your calendars now! Other Than That, How Was the Play...? As usual in all of the various online and on-air reviews of this past weekend’s 24th Annual Cincinnati Old-Time Radio and Nostalgia Convention, the live re-creations of the old shows get dismissed with a terse, “Oh, and there were also some onstage re-creations.” Sigh. For many, myself included, the re-creations are a major highlight every year—especially these days when I can no longer afford to drop three or four hundred bucks in the dealers’ room! In my case, the main reason I went back to the third Convention more than two decades back now was because my then girlfriend, Rene, and I, had been founding members of G.R.A.C.I.E.—the Golden Radio Association of Cincinnati: Imaginative Entertainment. G.R.A.C.I.E. performed radio re-creations onstage, on mike, with sound effects and all at various functions around town…none of which ever really appreciated us. But by the time we talked the Con into letting us add our re-creation to their already in place re-creations from the ad hoc Dave Warren Players, we had honed our single show into a well oiled machine! We rehearsed RESULTS, INC.—adapted and directed by myself—at the Con that year with that year’s guest, Willard (THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE) Waterman standing in for our absent announcer. It was a thrill. When we went on it was for our biggest and most appreciative audience to date. Although I have, throughout my entire life, been sometimes painfully shy, I relished those moments onstage! Dave Warren liked our performance and drafted many of our members to also appear in his productions which, that year, were episodes of TOM MIX, DUFFY’S TAVERN, FRED ALLEN and a LET’S PRETEND version of “The Brave Little Tailor.” My wife played Mrs. Nussbaum in Allen’s Alley and my mother in the LET’S PRETEND! I played Jack, the title role! I was also cast as the acerbic Fred Allen and as Eddie, the waiter at Duffy’s. It was a thrill—a genuine thrill and I assumed it was all over at that point. G.R.A.C.I.E. dissolved amidst petty politics and we weren’t even sure we’d go back for the third convention. In fact, when we did, we went as dealers, renting a table to sell stuff. When “Big Dave” Warren saw me behind the table, he chastised me for not being at the auditions and cast me in a small role in an ESCAPE with that year’s guest Parley Baer. That particular re-creation was directed by Bob Hastings, who would become a fixture of the Con in future years. Dave also made me promise to audition for more parts the following year! And I did. That next year I played Homer to Ezra Stone’s HENRY ALDRICH as directed by Donald Ramlow who would become our regular director to this day. The following year was the first of two turns as Jughead to Bob’s ARCHIE ANDREWS. Over the years my wife and I literally became the repertory company. She played, amongst others, mothers, daughters, witches, a fake medium, a monster, announcers, and, in a matter of obvious typecasting this year, a geneaologist. Every year I felt my moment must surely have passed but every year I was cast in at least a small role with a scene-stealer every once in awhile! I’ve played a dog, a frog, a ghost, a talking crow, an intelligent mouse, a robot, a cowboy, an alien, a number of teenage boys, a few old codgers, mobsters, a wisecracking photographer, a druggist, a detective, and a dozen others! Along the way, we’ve made friends with so many of the folks who attend more or less every year—Dan, Kathy and the delightful Karen Hughes, Meredith Grainger, Derek Tague, Steve and Laura Jansen, Ken Borden and others. Besides those guests I’ve already mentioned, we’ve had a chance to work with Rosemary Rice, Hal Stone, Herb Ellis, Lon Clark, Will Hutchins, Tyler McVay, Esther Geddes and more veterans of old-time radio and TV. Rene continually got parts, our son David began to get small roles and even unofficial goddaughter Bree, whom we first brought in 2008, auditioned and won roles. A few years ago, Rene and I even won the dave Warren Award, named after the now-late director who made me promise to keep auditioning! Last year, I got only two small roles and, having had a notable change in my speech due to the necessity of having two teeth removed in November of 2008, I figured it perhaps best that I be relegated to small character parts. At this year’s convention, however, there were four shows…and I was given major roles in three of them, all of which were to be done on Saturday! First rehearsal was at 10 AM, second at 11. First show was at 1:00 and second at 1:30. Third rehearsal was at 3:30 for the Saturday evening performance. I was onstage for the first rehearsal when Bob Hastings came walking in. He saw me and said, “Well, there’s Jughead so everything’s going to be just fine.” In a lost DUFFY’S TAVERN script painstakingly transcribed and adapted by the sadly absent Derek Tague, I had, after two decades, finally graduated from waiter to manager as I played Archie, the lead role. In my best Bugs Bunny accent, I led the cast through a tale of Archie’s greedy attempt at hoodwinking a society dame by faking a phony pedigree. I haven’t seen the video yet but Bree got the first half before her battery died and she said everyone loved the performance! Next came GUNSMOKE with Bob as an outlaw and Rosemary (I REMEMBER MAMA) Rice as Miss Kitty. I was Doc. When I tried to imitate the original voice actor, Howard McNear, I couldn’t seem to avoid drifting into Floyd the Barber from THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW, one of his other great creations. This was made worse by the fact that there were barber jokes in the script! So I did it as more a grumpy old, DeForrest Kelly type. “Dammit, Chester, I’m a doctor not a barber!” Director Ramlow said he really liked the voice. Finally, for the evening performance, they saved the best of this year’s scripts—a funny episode of the 1950’s radio sitcom classic, OUR MISS BROOKS. Rosemary was the title character, Esther Geddes McVay was her landlady and Bob was Mr. Conklin, the school principal. Karen Hughes was Bob’s character’s daughter and I was 16 year old, squeaky voiced Walter Denton, a role originated by a young Richard Crenna (arguably THE most successful actor to come out of radio). In all modesty, I believe I stole the show. “You nailed Walter!” someone yelled afterwards and a number of folks wanted to shake my hand or pat me on the back as I left the stage. It felt good. Once a year that shy little kid still in me is somebody for just a few short minutes….even if that somebody is quite literally not me! And all the reviews just rave about this year’s convention—the great new hotel, the friendly crowd, the great deals and dealers…oh…and there were also a few re-creations. Yes. Yes there were…and for some of us, THAT’s what we remember most over the years—not so much the brief moments of adulation but the chance to play. I don’t do “fun” well. Never have, sadly. I’m 51 this year and my wife is 48. Karen is 25 and Bree is 27. Bob Hastings is 85. Esther Geddes McVay is about to turn 93! And this weekend we all played together and boy, did we have fun! RIP-Lena Horne RIP-Frank Frazetta Frank Frazetta had already given up comics by the time I became aware of him. I saw his Conan paperback covers everywhere in the late sixties and early seventies and on occasion I would encounter him doing covers or illustrations for Warren magazines or NATIONAL LAMPOON. Even movie posters like Clint Eastwood's THE GAUNTLET. What really introduced me to the truly beautiful style of Frazetta, though, were his five volumes in Ballantine's "Fantastic" series in the mid-seventies. THE FANTASTIC ART OF FRANK FRAZETTA collected paintings and sketches and treated him not like a comic book artist but like a "real" artist. He was respected in a way that Jack Kirby, Jeff Jones and Frank Miller--although they more than deserve it-- never would be; he was looked on as more than just an illustrator. With his passing, undoubtedly all the seemingly sordid details of the problems of the artist's final years will emerge. Nothing, however, will take away the power and lush beauty of Frazetta's women, his lions, his ultimate macho men and his fantasy worlds! Rest in peace, sir, and thank you for sharing your imagination with us for so long! Posted by Booksteve at 12:18 PM 3 comments: Links to this post Classic TV Preservation Shouldn't Stop With the Sh... the 25th Annual Cincinnati Old Time Radio and Nost... 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__label__cc	0.672711	0.327289	Research Topics Youth Voting/Political Participation Iowa Caucus Youth Turnout: 4%, Overwhelmingly Supported Paul, Provided Candidate 1/3 of Total Votes Iowa Caucus Youth Turnout: 4%, Overwhelmingly Supported Paul, Provided Candidate 1/3 of Total Votes About 18,000 Iowans Under the Age of 30 Participated in Last Night’s Caucuses MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. – Four percent of eligible Iowa voters under the age of 30 participated in last night’s presidential caucuses, according to preliminary analysis by The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE). Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) drew the support of 48% of the under-30 caucus-goers, with Rick Santorum coming in second among young people with 23%; Mitt Romney drew just 14% of the young voters (see Table 2). According to CIRCLE’s estimate, approximately 8,800 young people turned out for Ron Paul in last night’s caucus. In comparison, at least 30,000 young people turned out for Barack Obama in the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, contributing to his victory there. Almost twice as many young voters supported Obama in 2008 as supported all the 2012 Republican candidates combined. The 48% support for Rep. Paul was the highest level of support for any candidate among any age group in yesterday’s Caucuses. (Mitt Romney won 33% of the votes of ages 65 and older, the second strongest concentration of support.) Youth represented a typical proportion of all the Iowa Caucus-goers in 2012 at 15%. “For the second election in a row, youth played an important role in the Iowa Caucuses,” said CIRCLE Director Peter Levine. “In 2008, they turned out strong and gave their support to both parties’ Iowa Caucus winners, Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee. In 2012, they turned out at a more typical rate but threw such a high proportion of their votes to Ron Paul that he finished close. It is statistically unlikely that the young Paul supporters of 2012 had caucused for Obama in 2008. It is more likely that a different group was mobilized in each year.” Because of lack of available data, the CIRCLE turnout estimates do not include young people who participated in yesterday’s uncontested Democratic Caucuses. The 2012 youth turnout was the same as in 2004 (the last year in which only one party had a competitive race). In the two recent years that had both Republican and Democratic competitive races, the youth turnout was 13% in 2008 and 3% in 2000. See Table 1 below. 2004 statistics only include the Democratic Caucus. There was no Republican Caucus in 2004, because President George W. Bush was an incumbent and the GOP nomination. *2012 and 1996 statistics only include the Republican Caucus. In these years, there was/is no Democratic Caucus, because there was an incumbent president from the Democratic Party that took the nomination. Source: The share of Caucus participants is obtained from the 2012, 2008, and 2004 IA entrance poll conducted by Edison Research, and the 2000 and 1996 IA entrance poll conducted by Voter News Services. The numbers of votes cast are obtained from the Associated Press at 6:20 am Eastern Time on January 4, The numbers of votes cast in the past election years were obtained from various sources including the Washington Post archives (1996), Federal Election Commission (2000 and 2004), and CNN.com (2008). Estimated voter turnout is obtained by taking the estimated number of votes cast by young people and dividing it by the estimated population of the 17-to-29-year-old citizens from the Current Population Survey (1995-2011). See p. 2 for definitions. Comparisons to past years must be made with caution, because turnout is affected by the date of the caucuses and by the nature of the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns, which are different in every cycle. For example, in 2008 both the Republicans and Democrats held caucuses, but in 2012 only the Republicans held a competitive caucus. Table 3 provides estimates of youth participation in Iowa caucuses by party and year. Youth: For the purpose of this press release and estimation of youth participation in the Iowa Caucus, we define “youth” as citizens who were eligible to vote on January 3, 2012, as permitted by state election law. Number of youth who participated: An estimate of how many youth participated in caucuses or primaries. Youth share: An estimate of the number of young people who participated in the caucus as a percentage of the number of all people who participated. Youth turnout rate: An estimate of the number of young people who participated in caucuses or cast ballots as a percentage of the total number of young people who were eligible to participate on January 3, 2012. The youth turnout rate is the best indicator of how young Americans are engaging in the political process. The other statistics—the sheer number of youth participants and the youth share of the electorate—can change because of factors unrelated to youth engagement. To sign-up to receive copies of CIRCLE’s cutting-edge research on young Americans and next-day voter turnout estimates for the 2012 elections, please email amy@lunamediagroup.com. CIRCLE (www.civicyouth.org) is a nonpartisan, independent, academic research center that studies young people in politics and presents detailed data on young voters in all 50 states. CIRCLE was founded in 2001 with a generous gift from the Pew Charitable Trusts and is part of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University. CIRCLE’s reputation for reliable, independent, timely research has been hailed by experts in the field of civic partnership, such as Harvard University professor Robert Putnam who said CIRCLE had brought “the best and most serious research to one place.” The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service (http://activecitizen.tufts.edu/ ) is a national leader whose model and research are setting the standard for higher education’s role in civic engagement education. Serving every school of Tufts University, Tisch College creates an enduring culture that prepares students to be lifelong active citizens. Tufts University (www.tufts.edu ), located on three Massachusetts campuses in Boston, Medford/Somerville and Grafton, and in Talloires, France, is recognized as one of the premier research universities in the United States. Tufts enjoys a global reputation for academic excellence and for the preparation of students as leaders in a wide range of professions. A growing number of innovative teaching and research initiatives span all Tufts campuses, and collaboration among the faculty and students in the undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs across the university’s schools is widely encouraged. This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 4th, 2012 at 8:34 am and is filed under Youth Voting/Political Participation. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed. 22 Responses to “Iowa Caucus Youth Turnout: 4%, Overwhelmingly Supported Paul, Provided Candidate 1/3 of Total Votes” Ron Paul Dominates the Iowa Youth Vote- But Why? – NextGen Journal Says: […] of 30 who participated in the GOP Caucuses last night, Paul earned the support of 48%, according to data collected by CIRCLE. 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