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                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
                  df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
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                  return json_reader.read()
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                  obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
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                File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
                  raise e
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__label__wiki	0.804042	0.804042	Bringing Characters to Life with the Stratasys J750 By STG March 19, 2019 The award-winning, stop-motion animation creators at LAIKA make no secret that the thousands of faces used in each film are 3D printed. Animators of such films as “Coraline” and “ParaNorman,” “The Boxtrolls” and “Kubo and the Two Strings,” have counted on the additive technology to provide naturalistic facial animation for the stop-motion puppets that give the films their distinct look and feel. “The idea was to harness the power of the computer and these emerging 3D printing technologies to try to push facial performance, or push a character’s performance into a whole new realm,” said Brian McLean, director of rapid prototype at LAIKA. For more than a decade, the additive technology has been a creative mainstay at LAIKA, ever-evolving with LAIKA’s increasingly ambitious artistic vision and rapid advancements in 3D printing and software. “It’s really kind of an insane process that we’re doing, where we’re taking 3D printing and we’re fusing it with this really old technique of stop-motion and replacement animation and forcing these two technologies and techniques together to come up with some amazing performances and amazing results,” said McLean. McLean received a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in 2016, for pioneering the use of rapid prototyping for character animation in stop-motion film production. In turn, LAIKA seeks innovation around every corner, never settling for what’s already been done. “It takes us a very long time to decide on the feel for a new film,” said McLean. “There’s lots of experimentation before we arrive at the look of characters and the feel of the movie.” LAIKA also prides itself on increasingly complex stories with each film and “in order to tell a really complex story you want to be able to see and go along with that character’s emotional journey,” said McLean. “The quality of the 3D printing and the efficiency with which we’re printing these faces reached a point where each subsequent director wanted to have something more customized.” Creative Driving Technology “The decision to push the technology is very much driven by creative,” said McLean. After the success of “Coraline,” LAIKA acknowledged both the power of 3D printing and also its present limitations – namely, having to hand paint each individual face. “I still remember being in meetings with the director of “Coraline” and negotiating the number of freckles that “Coraline” had on each side of her face because we knew a painter had to hand paint each one of those freckles.” During early planning for their fourth film, “Kubo and the Two Strings,” creators were faced with the realization that the three character designs under consideration were not possible with the 3D printing technology the Studio was currently using. “So I called Stratasys,” McLean said, “and while it took a bit of convincing because it was still early stages,” the team partnered on Beta testing of the 3D printing company’s first color 3D printer, the Objet Connex3™. “That was a really powerful alliance that suddenly allowed us to break into this color plastic printing world. We had a hunch this Connex3 was just the beginning of their road map. And we were right.” One of the things LAIKA was most excited about with “Kubo and the Two Strings,” “is that we embarked on something truly unique. For the first time, we were taking hardware from a company and co-developing software. And customizing the software for our needs. Working with Jon Hiller, an independent software developer, and Stratasys we were able to unlock the Connex3 hidden Voxel Print capabilities,” said McLean. “By doing so we were able to create sophisticated and unparalleled color plastic 3D printed faces for Monkey, Beetle and Moon Beast.” The next step in LAIKA’s 3D printing partnership with Stratasys came when LAIKA was invited to be a Beta customer on the Stratasys J750™, the first full-color, multi-material 3D printer. Due to LAIKA’s long history with Stratasys they created a unique partnership with Fraunhofer, the creators of Cuttlefish software, allowing LAIKA early access to Voxel Print on the Stratasys J750. The groundbreaking 3D printer has 360,000 different color combinations; with Voxel Print, that capability grows exponentially and is combined with the ability to compose new textures and gradients, enabling 3D printing with extraordinary precision. “This is what we’re using on ‘Film Five,’” said McLean. “Basically we have a workflow now that allows us to have an animator sit down, animate a unique line of dialogue, specifically for that one-shot in the movie and we’re able to print that out, process it and deliver it to set.” The result of LAIKA’s desire to create unprecedented stop-motion animated performances has led them to continue to push the limits of the 3D printing technology they use. “Coraline” had roughly 20,000 faces, “ParaNorman” had 40,000, “The Boxtrolls” had 56,000, “Kubo” had 64,000, and “we’re well on the way to producing between 85-90,000 faces for our next movie,” said McLean. “The only reason we do what we do is for the performance,” said McLean. “It all goes into that idea of us being able to tell stories that have never been able to be told in stop-motion animation.” According to McLean, “Being able to have a 3D printer like the Stratasys J750 that’s repeatable and accurate with this full range of color and materials has afforded us the idea of being able to achieve this shot-by-shot customized animation.” LAIKA’s relationship with Stratasys over the past ten years or so “has been reinforced in film after film. There’s this level of trust that allows us to continue to push each other in really positive ways and I’m excited to continue to forge this relationship on our next movie and in movies to come,” said McLean. To learn more about the Stratasys J750, join us at a launch event at the Victoria University of Wellington where we will be launching the first and only multi-material and multi-colour 3D printer in New Zealand. Reserve your spot now >> Bringing Characters to Life with the Stratasys J75...	cc/2020-05/en_head_0029.json.gz/line0
__label__cc	0.72791	0.27209	The festival of San Fermin is a deeply-rooted celebration held annually from 6 July to 14 July in the city of Pamplona in north-eastern Spain. While its most famous event is the running of the bulls (the encierro), the week-long celebration involves many other traditional and folkloric events. It is known locally as Sanfermines and is held in honor of Saint Fermin, the patron saint of Pamplona and Navarre as a whole. Its events were central to the plot of The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway. It has become the most internationally renowned fiesta in Spain. 2 The running of the bulls 2.1 Preparation 2.2 The actual run 3 Connected activities The festival's origins are not clear. When certain relics of the saint were brought back to Pamplona in 1196, the city decided to mark the occasion with an annual event. Over the centuries, the saint's festival, the ancient annual fair, the running of the bulls and the subsequent bullfights have all melded together. Archives document the bull runnings only as far back as the late 14th century, but even if one does not know that the bull is a sacred animal in the Mediterranean world, or is unaware of the bull-dancers in Minoan frescos, an unprejudiced outsider still may detect the remnants of an ancient pre-Christian ritual. At Pamplona Saint Fermin, who was actually martyred at Amiens, is now sometimes said to have met his end by being dragged through the streets of Pamplona by bulls, a fate also attributed to his mentor, Saint Saturnin of Toulouse. Up to the 15th century, the festival was held on Saint Fermin's feast day, September 25. The Pamplona fiesta was transferred to July in 1591. The running of the bulls The Encierro involves running in front of bulls down an 825-metre stretch of cobbled streets of a section of the old town of Pamplona. The biggest day is 7 July, when thousands of people accompany the effigy of Saint Fermin along the streets of Pamplona, along with dancers and street entertainers, such as carnival giants. Each morning's event starts at 8 A.M. Competitors are clad in white, with a red handkerchief tied about their necks. The racers gather in an area beneath a church, where they sing three times an ode to Saint Fermin: A San Fermín pedimos, por ser nuestro patrón, nos guíe en el encierro dándonos su bendición. ("We ask San Fermín, as our Patron, to guide us through the Bull Run and give us his blessing.") Anyone who survives a close encounter with a panicky bull is said to have been protected by San Fermin's cloak. The actual run The fiesta begins with the letting off of a rocket, an event known as the Chupinazo. A firecracker announces the release of the bulls from their corral, and a second firecracker signals that the last bull has left the corral. The event is dangerous. Since 1924, 14 people have been killed (the most recent, a 22-year-old American in 1995), and 200 have been injured. Most injuries nowadays, however, are caused by the stampede of participants seeking to run away from the powerful bulls. The organisers release multi-lingual guides (with safety tips) to running the event: it is strongly recommended that these be read beforehand. It must be said that in more recent years, beginning with the publication of Ernest Hemingway's novel in 1926 about the event called The Sun Also Rises, a large percentage of runners are tourists. Many tourists have made the event much more dangerous due to their lack of the experience and skill needed to run safely in the Encierro. Local people, as well as visitors from certain areas of Spain have had more opportunity to practice in other encierros, bull and cow fests, which used to be held in a wider space than in Oldtown Pamplona. Stray bulls become extremely agitated (they are herd animals who do not like to be separated from the pack), and so the organisers arrange for a "second wave" of calmer and older steers to run through the streets after the "first wave," on order to collect any stragglers. The shops and residences along the course are boarded up to prevent damage by either bull or human during the race. One particular stretch of the course, called Mercaderes, is particularly notorious for injuries: on rainy days the bulls cannot turn well on the cobblestones, and often collide into the wall; tear marks from the sharpened horns against the pulp wood barriers give an indication as to the events of days before. While locals are always keen to avoid this corner, it is not uncommon to see tourists getting trampled and seriously injured there. The course concludes at Pamplona's Plaza de Toros, and the bulls are herded inside the Corralillos to participate in the afternoon's Corrida. The participants of the Encierro are left in the stadium, and smaller bulls (with wrapped horns) are released into the arena and toss the participants, to the general amusement of the crowd. Once all of the bulls have entered the stadium, a third rocket is released while a fourth firecracker indicates that the bulls are in their bullpens and the run has concluded. Connected activities During the days, the town has a carnival with rides and ferris wheels, as well as an abundance of sangria sold by bars and restaurants. At night, the town erupts into an enormous party, and the thousands of tourists find themselves asleep in parks. The Comparsa de Gigantes (Company of Giants) parade the streets— enormous puppets accompanied by brass bands. The streets are filled with drunken revellers. The city hall is offered by the town as a storage facility for backpackers' gear. After nine days of partying, the people of Pamplona meet in the Plaza Consistorial at midnight on July 14, singing the traditional mournful notes of the "Pobre de Mí? ('Poor Me'), in a magical, candlelit ending. Nowadays on the 15th of the month, after the fiesta is over, some diehards assemble once more at 7 a.m. and run one last time, pursued this last time by the early-morning commuter bus. Unofficial website on San Fermin (http://www.sanfermin.com) and on encierro (http://www.sanfermin.com/guia/in_encierro1.shtml) Guide to the running of the bulls. (http://www.pamplonaadventuretours.com/patron.htm) Official guide to the fiesta of San Fermin. (http://www.pamplona.net/VerPag.asp?IdPag=763&Idioma=5) An alternative demonstration against the running of the bulls: Encierro Humano (http://www.encierrohumano.com/) (in Spanish)es:Sanfermines de:San Fermín sv:Tjurrusning Retrieved from "http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/San_Ferm%EDn" Categories: Spanish culture \| Navarre	cc/2020-05/en_head_0029.json.gz/line1
__label__cc	0.735058	0.264942	Steve Alten on hostile ground: Conservative Talk Radio - & Holds His Ground. AJFan Wed, 04/16/2008 - 2:45pm Michael McConnell Steve Alten Tuesday April 15, 2008 Steve Alten went onto hostile ground today and battled with DJ Mike McConnell to promote his book, and the notion of False Flag terror. (18:49 Min - 5.39 Meg) Also at Michael Wolsey's Visibility 9-11: http://visibility911.com/media/?p=271 http://www.700wlw.com AJFan's blog Steve! Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth! Memorize it! Next time one of these chumps tries to tangle you up, challenge the knuckle-dragger to bring on Richard Gage or Steven Jones. Let a spokesman for Structural Engineers play Engineer. But that was very hostile ground. You held your own for the most part... Reprehensor on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 3:01pm. 911blogger users! I gave the Week of Truth 2.0 thread one last kick, throw down some ideas: http://911blogger.com/node/14812 Reprehensor on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 6:22am. My email to McConnell I recommend that you bring on architect Richard Gage of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth: http://www.ae911truth.org/ Contact: http://www.ae911truth.org/contactus.php You are actually wrong about most of your assumptions about the building collapses of 9/11 (800) THE BIG 1 (843-2441) #700 on the new AT&T midday@700wlw.com great job getting out there instead of just "preaching to the choir". Here are two resources custom-made for interviews: (1) http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2008/04/secrets-of-persuasion-for-t... ; and (2) http://www.911summary.com / Go get 'em! GW. GeorgeWashington on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 3:54pm. Some people with demolition experience questioning 9/11 http://demolitionexpertsquestion911.blogspot.com/ Vesa on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 4:16pm. What a neo-con shill Mike McConnell demonstrates profound intellectual dishonesty in this interview. At least he didn't start yelling and cutting off Alten's mic, but this interview was a pathetic excuse for debate. This interview made me so mad I don't even know what to write. WHY DON'T WE HAVE SOME BALLS???? Call these motherfuckers out on their obvious bullshit. If this Steve Alten is to be the new spokeperson for the movement he better brush up on his facts and stick to the most basic facts and not get swayed by the person he is debating. He took every piece of bait McConnell gave him. He needs to realize when he is being baited and know how to get back on track. Pulverized concrete, building 7, freefall speed, pieces of steel flung 400 feet laterally, molten metal, ground zero being the longest commercial fire in history, burned for 99 days, not one frame of video showing a plane at the pentagon. DON'T TAKE THE BAIT STEVE!!! If you are going to talk about wargames at least brush up on all the different types of wargames and demonstrate how out of the ordinary it was. If you are going to talk about the Phoenix and Minneapolis FBI agents KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!! You just let him shut down your perfectly legitimate arguments because you didn't bring up enough facts and in the eyes of his audience he is right and you are a misguided believer in false facts. I know it is easier said than done but this Mike McConnell would have been an easy target for anyone with some balls and some self-righteousness. YOU SHOULD KNOW YOU ARE RIGHT AND SHOULDN'T TOLERATE FOR ONE SECOND THIS IGNORAMUS TRYING TO TELL YOU "HOW IT REALLY IS." I still say Jesse Ventura is the best spokeperson we have. Sorry for the rant sometimes I feel I am going crazy waiting for a 9/11 spokeperson who can actually break through the bullshit we face. "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government. -Declaration of Independence, 1776 KNOWAR on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 3:56pm. Mike McConnell= TURD Joe on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 4:57pm. Steve Alten... ...was awesome. What a great voice for the truth - poised and sincere. Things are looking up. Kevin Ryan on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 5:40pm. God, I'm so tired of us God, I'm so tired of us being labeled as "wack job conspiracy theorists" by people who show little or no interest in analyzing the biggest bunch of liars in US history...the Bush Admin and all appendages to it. John_Parulis on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 5:46pm. Put Options Per Michael Ruppert CIA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR "BUZZY" KRONGARD MANAGED FIRM THAT HANDLED "PUT" OPTIONS ON UAL http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_09_01_krongard.html "A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard - The current Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is the former Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown and former Vice Chairman of Banker's Trust. John Deutch - This retired CIA Director from the Clinton Administration currently sits on the board at Citigroup, the nation's second largest bank, which has been repeatedly and overtly involved in the documented laundering of drug money. This includes Citigroup's 2001 purchase of a Mexican bank known to launder drug money, Banamex." Buzzy was on the board of Blackwater which got brother "Cookie" in hot water (Like AJ says, you can't make this stuff up) AJFan on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 6:02pm. I listened to McConnell when I listened to McConnell when he had Cincinnati 9/11 Truth on a few weeks ago. Other than that and the clips here, I wouldn't even know the derp existed. chersolly on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 6:23pm. Umm, sorry guys.... Mr. Alten still needs a lot of training if he is going to be effective in countering standard tactics and arguments used in interviews. STILL not ready for prime time. Jiminy Crickets! That was painful. (Did he really say that SEVEN came down in 10 to 15 seconds? Did he really let that SCOOP bs get by?) The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward. LeftWright on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 6:59pm. Painful. Free fall collapse speed through undamaged steel structure is impossible. Party's over. Stand down of NORAD ? Molten Metal in the ruins ? Binkster on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 11:09pm. Yeah. And I was really honestly hoping for better. History was most certainly not made today. And Steve Alten, while doing a good job keeping his cool under fire, is not the "best spokesman" for our movement, and in fact makes it quite clear in this interview above that he needs to do a bit more homework. He didn't have some of his facts straight, he wasn't prepared to respond to the most common arguments against 9/11 truth, and he continued to suggest that his story could come true. I suppose its technically possible. I'm sure he would do better with a less antagonistic host. That guy was just about as bad as they come, spewing official excuses left and right. And in fact, I think it was probably good for Alten to go up against someone like that. He may well be better prepared next time as a result. Here's a transcript of the first minute of the show: Mike: Alright. What do we have? Shifting gears. Got a guest standing by here. Steve Alten. Gentleman has a book out. Which it turns out is a novel. Don't do novels anyway, but it part of a larger organization relating to the events of 9/11. The national coalition of 9/11, the Week of Truth is in effect right now. It just kicked off, well I guess today's day number one, April 16th to the 22nd. The guest will be Steve Alten, and Steve, great to have you on the program. How's life with you? Steve: Good Mike. And it's an honor to be with you. Mike: How many of these different organizations are part of the national coalition? Steve: There must be 30 or 40 of them that have joined together for the first time since September 11th to back this book. Mike: And what is it that they hope to see come out of this? Steve: Well, The Shell Game is a cautionary tale written in the guise of a novel. But it deals with the end of oil, the next 9/11 event that will bring us into a war in Iran. And they are really using it to put light onto the issues that have been ignored for the last six years dealing with 9/11 and the truth behind 9/11 and really to try to stop what could be another false flag event from happening. Mike: Did you say the end of oil? Steve: The end of oil. Mike: When's the oil gunna end? Did you catch that? Its an unprecedented coalition for the movement that is using the book to try to shed light on the truth behind 9/11 and stop another false flag event. I'm a bit concerned again about the potential here for a poisoning of our well. If the movement is behind this book, dismissing the book is dismissing the movement. And I think its pretty easy to dismiss predictions about future false flag attacks. I only hope future interviews with more reasonable hosts reflect better on the movement. I know that its not easy going up against an antagonistic host. But if 10,000 books get sold and if Alten books a lot of interviews, he might do with a bit of homework and some coaching. I suppose I'm trying to end this on a constructive note. Someone help this guy out by sitting him down with a good devil's advocate who really knows the facts. Jules on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 1:04am. AHAHAHAHA!!! "We're getting way off track, way off track" Why isn't Dick Cheney in prison? Jon Gold on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 7:05pm. Opposition to the official narrative is breaking into the media . . . that is what I was highliting . . . Steve was battling a bullshit artist and maintained his balance better than I could in that situation. My only suggestion to Steve is that you are at your best when you use every available opening to forward your argument rather than try to counter bullshit which is impossible in this setting. AJFan on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 7:24am. Audience of Mike McConnell. I'm trying to find (and can't) the estimated audience of Mike McConnell's radio show? If anyone knows a way to get this information I'd like to know. Peace. Orangutan. on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 10:02pm. Alex Jones on "The Shell Game" and Steve Alten Relevant part begins at 7 minute mark: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2008/160408Rant.htm metallus2 on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 3:26am. Here Ya Go Friday March 7, 2008 Alex Jones speaks with Steve Alten about his new book "The Shell Game" and takes questions from callers (33 Minutes - 9.7 Meg) http://www.infowars.com Wuddaya mean "here ya go"? Did you watch the clip that metallus2 posted? What do you think about Jones' take on Alten "AJFan"? 7 minutes in... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGv7dpwOM38 "If I had just paid $20 million for the NIST report, I'd be asking for a refund!... The trouble with the NIST Report is that it isn’t even science because it's not capable of being verified or negated!" -Dr. Frank Greening stallion4 on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 2:46pm. correct . . . i assumed which is always a mistake listening to it . . he doesn't "take on alten" (my opinion). . he's bothered by the the (over-kill) promotion of a work of fiction when we have Jesse Ventura coming out about the same time. I agree with him. The caller's question is somewhat of a strawman in that he portrays Alten as promoting himself as the 9/11 truth mesiah which he doesn't . . . Bill Douglas does . . . but Steve doesn't. I've heard him say the same thing about Alten several times . . . once when Daniel Sunjata brought the subject up . . . Alex simply said he supported it but didn't want to promote it on his show. Wednesday April 9, 2008 Alex Jones and Daniel Sunjata talk about the Shell Game (Alex supports the book but feels that the story has been over saturated), The Jesse Ventura phenom and about how Alex is talking to other celebrities he knows hoping they will go public now to help break the truth dam wide open (14:37 Minutes - 4.1 Meg) * source = http://www.infowars.com More MP3 Audio Clips > AJFan on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 5:37pm. Mr. Alten, you need to get some facts straight. The PNAC document "Rebuilding America's Defenses," with the infamous "catalyzing event" quote, was published ONE YEAR (not in the mid 90s) before September 11. Building 7 came down in 6.7 Seconds. Even FEMA (IIRC) said that the twin towers came down in +/-10 seconds. If I'm wrong about any of that, hopefully someone will correct me. painter on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 4:19am. Thanks Steve, but even with Thanks Steve, but even with all your eloquence it's obviously not easy as a guest to politely not get lost in the host's particular side tracks especially when the tone is a bit aggressive, so here are 5 short points of indisputables to fall back on if someone else is filibustered with the usual arguments: HARD INDISPUTABLE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE: 1. Operation Northwoods: Official US military plan to stage terror attacks and kill its own citizens in false flag operations. This will cover the classical "I can't believe our government would actually hurt its own citizens" -argument. Don't talk about any other examples as this is hard proof and involves remotely crashing planes. Harp on about the document so it will stick in people's minds and with luck get a direct admission from the host. 2. Molten metal: Tons of molten metal in the rubble of ALL 3 WTC building collapses was witnessed, videoed, photographed and even had its extreme temperature measured by NASA's orbital thermal imaging camera. The fires in the buildings prior to collapses were by laws of nature not hot enough to melt the steel, and neither the energy of the plane impacts and building collapses could have produced the melting. [www.journalof911studies.org] The molten metal is without any reasonable doubt evidence of another energy source involved on 9/11. 3. Speed of collapses: The physical law of conservation of energy simply does not allow for buildings to fall at free-fall speed to the ground. The resistance of any mass cannot be overcome without affecting the speed of the falling object, it is just not possible. As there were no deceleration this proves without a reasonable doubt that there was no resistance in the steel. Seen together with the external energy source that must have caused the molten metal, the conclusion is inescapable. 4. Symmetry of collapses: For a building to fall symmetrically to the ground, all supporting structures have to give way at the same exact second in time which is physically impossible after localized damage as was on 9/11, see WTC 7 video. Indisputable evidence of a controlled collapse. 5. Dust analysis: Scientific electron microscope imaging and mass spectrometry show the dust to contain metallic spheres and irregular trace elements, proving extreme high temperatures and steel melting agents. As to the old "If they were so clever and could pull off 911, how could they forget to fake WMD's in Iraq to cover up the UN lie?" -- just point out that there was no need as the mission was already accomplished. Their cleverness can anyway not be questioned as they were able to start a war with a country that had nothing to do with either 9/11 or WMD, using ridiculous and we now know false arguments right under the nose of the whole world, just as they had wanted to even before 9/11.. With this kind of arrogance, it can not be surprising that there would be no more explaining and to fake some WMD was probably considered too risky as UN's IAEA was sure to thoroughly test any material. Brinkman on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 6:22am. Someone should contact (not overwhelm) Steve with best talking points and best facts for rebutting false claims. I'm sure he would appreciate knowing there are a lot of people out here who have his back. I say not overwhelm because if we all send him one email, he won't be able to process it all. I'm sure there is someone better qualified than me for the job. Any volunteers? I know he responds to personal emails because I sent one and received a brief personal thank you. Here. meg82159@aol.com Phaedrus on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 11:51am. I tried well over a week ago, maybe I'll try again with that address (not quite sure you should have published it here, but oh well). It's important to realize that in order to do well in these interviews you have to know the material inside and out so that you can respond instinctively. While you always want to have clear notes in front of you, you have to have complete command of the facts and be relaxed and focused, this takes time and intensive training. It's not easy, especially against a practiced antagonist, and not everyone is cut out for it. Some folks around here may think me a nattering nabob of negativity on this issue, but I really want Mr. Alten to succeed as his success is our success.* * As long as our definitions of success are the same, of course. Edit: I just sent him an email, we'll see what happens. Edit2: I just got a reply from him, stay tuned... Take 9/11 truth wherever you go, brothers and sisters, you never know when you will have a chance to help someone see the questions and start down that ol' rabbit hole. LeftWright on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 3:28pm. So much for 'Week of Truth'. So much for 'Week of Truth'. That's the risk of having newcomers come forth to speak. Quite frankly, they are weak on the facts. I noticed this with Ventura who despite reading '16 books' on the subject gets so many basic facts wrong. People should just stick to the physical evidence. That's the easiest way of avoiding the fact quagmire and that includes Mr. Alten. Cornelius on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 1:05pm. It isn't over yet and there will be many more 'Week of Truth' events to come. Your points are well taken and hopefully will reach those who most need to understand them. a response from the author I appreciate all of your comments and will "study up." Please understand, I am not an activist, nor am I trying to present myself as one. I am an author attempting to bring 911 Truth to the mainstream media. While I may not be anywhere near as in command of the information as many of you, I dare say most if not all of you have never appeared on TV or radio before. Sometimes you get 3-5 minutes to get your points across. You can't come out swinging sledgehammers like many of you want me to, or else you sound like a wacko...which is precisely what they want. Nor can you get sidetracked by details that pull you off point. My goal is to keep it SIMPLE and NON-COMBATIVE while expressing certain key points that are factual. For me, the keys are INTELLIGENCE WARNINGS, FRASCA, WARGAMES, PUT ORDERS, and WTC 7. My interview with Mike McConnell was scheduled for 10 minutes. We went nearly a half an hour because I was able to keep things going without sounding insulting or becoming irrational. I refused to allow him to coerce me and pulled him back to certain points, but I also had to quell him at certain points just to keep from being disconnected (10 seconds vs 15 seconds...who cares? It still violates the laws of inertia and would NOT have collapsed). Remember, this guy is as radical as Limbaugh and he already has his mind made up. So I needed to appear rational to his listeners so he can't effectively label me a nutjob. Remember, it's his LISTENERS I want to affect, not him! He's not going to debate Richard Gage. He's all about bulldozing guests. Finally, I have learned that there is no way in heaven or hell I will ever appease everyone involved in this movement. So let's be clear: I didn't write the book for you, I wrote it because I love my country and I hate what these neocon assholes are doing to us. If you at least agree with that, then maybe you can support my efforts. I certainly support yours. --Steve Alten Steve Alten on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 3:44pm. you are not preaching to the choir . . . my dad told me to be more like you in my approach and I took that to heart . . he just finished your book . . . he's 75 . . Steve . . if you haven't read William Pepper's book . . it is excellent! http://www.actofstate.org Thursday March 6, 2008 Steve Alten, author of "The Shell Game", delivers 9/11 Truth to Jim Bohanon's CBS National Radio audience (4 + million) (40 Minutes - 11 Meg) Kevin Barret talks with Steve Alten, author of "The Shell Game", about their respective encounters with neoconmedia, including Steve's run-in with Jim Bohanon http://www.gcnlive.com More Radio > Steve. Thank you for taking the time to join our community to express your thoughts and feelings. I think it's fair to say that almost everyone here agrees with and supports you. I'm sure none of us would be perfect in such a hostile situation and even if we were, we would never be able to please everyone. So for what it's worth, you have my respect and gratitude. And your promise to "study up," on top of your sincerity, is all anyone can ask. There is a wealth of information in this community along with a powerful conviction and dedication to Truth and Justice. Not to mention a spirit of love and integrity and honor. Wishing you great success with your book and your mission/efforts. Phaedrus on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 9:44pm. Thanks Steve... Please see my advice. Jon Gold on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 7:36am. Alten may write good thrillers, but he's not prepared for a practiced grilling. Did you catch that at the very end, after Alten was not longer on air, when McConnell referred to Alten as "whack jobs like that who know how to type"? It's remote that anyone who listens to someone like McConnell -- personally I'd never heard of him before this -- would be promising recruit material for 9/11 truth anyway. Strange how McConnell says he doesn't interview novelists, but is making an exception here because there are 9/11 truth groups promoting the book. Huh? I'd think that, if McConnell is interested in the politics of 9/11 truth, he'd then have on prominent 9/11 truth activists or researchers, not the novelists he disregards. Yet -- and I could be wrong about this -- I get the distinct impression that this is about the only time McConnell has had on a 9/11 truther: articulate, but unsure of his facts and rationale, Steve Alten. Why not a veteran scholar, a David Ray Griffin, a Jim Hoffman, a Steven Jones, a Richard Gage, a Barrie Zwicker, a Paul Zarembka, a Ken Jenkins, a Graeme MacQueen, a Nafeez Ahmed? The answer, of course, is that McConnell knows how to spot those whose grasp of the facts and of argumentation is shaky enough to be slapped down by rapid-fire, rehearsed polemical sophistry. (I was struck, for example, with how Alten dropped the ball on Pearl Harbor. First of all, Pearl Harbor wasn't a false flag attack: It was a real Japanese attack that had been surreptitiously provoked and then allowed to proceed unimpeded. Unfortunately, that whole concept is probably too hard to make properly and convincingly in the context of the brief sound bites of a hyped-up radio show, so it's probably best left unmentioned. Moreover, Alten then lets McConnell get away with saying it's been thoroughly debunked, like that's that. No mention of Robert Stinnett's definitive research, for example.) It's like those Popular Mechanics staffers who debated the then-callow filmmakers of the original Loose Change, but somehow don't care to take on the likes listed above. I wonder if it wasn't a strategic miscalculation for 9/11 truth to be promoting The Shell Game so heavily. Sure, it's fine for genre fiction readers to read it, but it may disserve us to be associated so much with an independent novelist who hasn't done his homework thoroughly and whose agenda is as much this whole thing with "peak oil" and a specific prediction about a future false flag event as with the nature of 9/11 truth. (Of course if Alten false flag prediction proves correct, that'll turn out to have been useful, but it seems very risky.) mcfrandy on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 1:13am. "It's like those Popular "It's like those Popular Mechanics staffers who debated the then-callow filmmakers of the original Loose Change, but somehow don't care to take on the likes listed above." The problem is that the big programs will appeal to the guests' need to sell their production or promote themselves, and they will always assume they will get it right the next time, or that it doesn't really matter. Many activists practically begged the LC guys to have Kevin or Steve or Jim on with them for the Dem Now debate but they wouldn't. To some extent, the person in the spotlight doesn't want to risk losing the spotlight by adding someone with knowledge they don't have. They are looking to their next article in Vanity Fair. And they don't want to ask anything of the host who has invited them to appear. They think they can do it all. But someone needs to reach out to them and help field the opportunities strategically. Besides Bill D. Victronix on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 5:16pm. I think Steve did a fine I think Steve did a fine job, keeping his cool like that. Thanks to his appearance I'm sure there are conservative listeners who will investigate 9/11 more now than they ever would have before. And even if he is a right wing bully, a tip of the hat to the host for even letting Steve on, and for a whole half hour! And I have seen a debunking site where there is a stopwatch going while bldg 7 falls and it does seem to fall slower than many truthers say. If we say "nearly" free fall I think we can still make the point that we need. Jimbo. on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 5:54am. Loose Change Team Supports Steve! Dear LC Supporter, We write to you today to encourage you to participate in the Week of Truth. The goal of this campaign is to propel The Shell Game into the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List. To achieve this, URGE all of your contacts to buy multiple copies of 9/11 truth telling novel - The Shell Game - between April 16 to 22nd, the focused week when the NY Times list will count those sales. Reading the book will be an eye opener for those Americans who have never been exposed to 9-11 truth. Being in the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List will bring 9-11 truth to many more readers but additionally, has far more potential in the form of positive media exposure. An author who finds his/her book in the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List has many perks and opportunities which perpetuate and expand on the success of the book. For example: 1. Top 10 books and authors get premium placement and shelf space in the front of the store. 2. Major merchandise outlets like Wal-Mart and drug chains purchase their inventory directly off the the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List. 3. Mainstream television and radio shows shop for guests from the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List. Top 10 status will generally get the author mainstream television and radio exposure. Steve Alten has pledged to bring 9-11 truth to the audiences of these programs if given the opportunity. Steve Alten will donate $5,000 each week the The Shell Game reaches the top 10 of the NY Times best seller list, to the Feal Good Foundation. Read more about it here: http://www.weekoftruth.org/ So, head to Amazon now to buy a few copies of the book! -The LC Team AJFan on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 6:47am. Listen Steve... ...we all appreciate what you have done for the movement. You are helping to bring the movement to the mainstream. My only qualm is that this week of truth is being pushed so that your book gets sold and you go on tv and talk about 9/11 truth. If you are not fully prepared, if you take every piece of bait they give you, if you stumble on facts or even worse misrepresent them, you make 9/11 truth less plausible in the eyes of the viewing public, which negates the whole point of truth week. This blowhard repeatedly misrepresented the facts and you let him get away with it. Building 7 did not fall in 15 seconds, but instead of calling him on his factual error, you said "what's the difference." To us, who know 15 seconds would still be too fast, we know it doesn't matter. But to all the un-initiated, when you said 15 or 9 seconds (both of which are wrong) is just a matter of semantics, you lost them all. Instead, you should have stuck to your guns, known exactly, to the millisecond, how fast building 7 fell. You should also know exactly how fast the twin towers fell. This is so you don't take their bait, you will be able to steer the conversation in the way you want it to go, at the same time demonstrating you are the expert on the subject and they are completely unaware of the basic facts. That is how you will win with these neo-con shills. Everyone here wants you to succeed Steve, because your success is our success. "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government." -The Declaration of Independence, 1776 KNOWAR on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 1:48pm. It's all a learning process. The difference between real people who are normal human beings, like a NYTimes bestseller author, and people who are mainly interested in their own fame and in destroying the movement, like Jim Fetzer, is that real people make mistakes and then learn and grow and change and communicate. Other people who have taken on the attack dog shows, like Fetzer, don't ever really improve or change, they only increase the nonsense, or replace one type of nonsense with another. We have to be grateful there is a real future here and he is open and communicating. Steve seems like a real person really trying. Remember, the kind of person who is capable of writing a best-selling novel has certain skills that are not about memorizing endless facts, but more about creating stories and growing them. With a cue card, he can have all the most simple facts at his finger-tips and then defer all other questions to the primary researchers. There's nothing wrong with that approach. A person just has to be militant about sticking to the info. And this is a learning process. He's right, the majority of those on here have never done this kind of thing. The other option would be for him to insist on appearing with a primary researcher (Steven Jones, Kevin Ryan, Jim Hoffman, David Griffin, etc). He could do that. If a program says no, then he could rely on a cue card and be militant about sticking to it, while pointing out that he wanted a primary researcher to be on with him, and since they are not, he would refer that question to them. No one expects any author writing fiction to be an engineer and a human-computer. He just has to make sure they know who he is and that relying on the work of scientists, engineers, architects, etc. for his own research for his book does not make him one of those. He simply puts the parts together. The blogger board here is brutal, so Steve A shouldn't assume it represents anyone in particular. as good as it gets.... I think Steve did a good job..... that's about as good as it's going to get without being in the host's presence with the evidence and witnesses.... this clown would argues over Richard Gage or Steven Jones just the same... 1 thing I'm interested in.... Steve, do you think it's possible peak oil is a scam just like 9/11 ? Lindsay Williams has a 1st hand account that peak oil is a scam and I would like to here your counter... StopLying on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 6:07pm. Opinions. That's just one person's opinion. There are other legitimate people who hold alternative opinions. http://www.peakoil.net/ I imagine the truth is somewhere between. I remain open minded. Phaedrus on Fri, 04/18/2008 - 6:25pm.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0029.json.gz/line5
__label__cc	0.534657	0.465343	Home Letters to The Editor PM Ingraham should declare martial law in the inner city of New... PM Ingraham should declare martial law in the inner city of New Providence With an astounding 100 murders in the first 9 months of 2011, The Bahamas, particularly New Providence, has truly become a very dangerous place to live. I have heard politician after politician rant about their ideas on how to break the back of crime during the last political campaign season. But that was all talk. Besides, many of our politicians, who are attorneys, don’t have the will to execute convicted murderers; despite the fact that most Bahamians are calling for the death penalty to be carried out. But instead of listening to the cries of the Bahamian electorate,the Ingraham administration continues to pander to the Privy Council. This unreasonable position by the FNM government will come back to haunt them on election day. I understand that most Parliamentarians are against capital punishment. With all due respect to Prime Minister Ingraham and the Free National Movement, I don’t believe the government can effectively deal with this hideous monster that is presently destroying this nation. I have lost confidence in our government. This thing is way beyond the control of the state. They have allowed it to get this far. Neither am I confident that the Progressive Liberal Party can fix our crime problem, notwithstanding their successful Urban Renewal Programme. I don’t believe that Urban Renewal is enough. I believe that the crime situation in this country is in some way connected to the drug trade. True, quite a few of the murders that were committed this year were domestic disputes. But many of the murders that were committed were drug related. Drug trafficking became a major issue in The Bahamas during the late 70s and well into the 80s. Several of the Family Islands had many drug dealers in the 1980s. Many of these men and women were multimillionaires who were hell-bent on disobeying the laws of the land in order to further enrich themselves. It never dawned on me, though, that drug trafficking would play a major role in the crime dilemma in New Providence. But, apparently this is what is happening today in Nassau. These miscreants aren’t willing to sit down and iron out their differences. They know absolutely nothing about conflict resolution. The powers-that-be closed a blind eye to what was happening in this country in the 1980s. Some Bahamians profited handsomely from the drug trade. We sacrificed our morality and dignity on the altar of greed. We never thought that we would reap the rotten fruit of the illicit drug trade. Rival drug dealers and gangsters are killing each other in the inner city areas of New Providence. It has become so dangerous in places like Bain Town that government workers from the Department of Statistics are afraid to go into these areas to do their job. How did successive governments allowed Nassau to get this bad? I am afraid that very soon drug dealers and gangsters will control certain communities in Nassau. I am also afraid that these shady persons will start targeting Parliamentarians, government prosecutors, police officers and judges. This is already happening in Mexico. Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham should declare martial law. Martial law is the imposition of military rule by military authorities over designated regions on an emergency basis. I believe that the country is in the midst of an emergency. We must stop fooling ourselves. There is widespread mayhem in New Providence. The government should allow the Royal Bahamas Defence Force to take full charge of the inner city of Nassau. The career criminals of Nassau have run amok. They don’t fear the law at all. I read in a prominent Nassau daily that 18 witnesses have been murdered so far for the year. These murderers are now bumping off eye-witnesses. Is it any wonder why law-abiding citizens are now afraid to testify in court? The state has proven time and again that it cannot protect its citizens. I believe that the time has arrived for the government to take radical measures to defeat these violent criminal elements who are wreaking havoc in the capital. Place fully armed officers from the Royal Bahamas Defence Force in the inner city areas of Nassau during the night. Let these armed officers roam the streets of Nassau during the night. The government should also seriously consider building a Defence Force station right in the heart of the crime infested areas. The officers should be allowed to conduct random searches in the homes of known criminals without search warrants. The state should also give the Defence Force authorization to detain these criminals. Let these accused murderers be tried before a military tribunal instead of a civilian court. If found guilty, let the Defence Force execute them immediately by a firing squad. I believe that law enforcement officers know who the criminals are. New Providence is a very small island. If their attorneys protest these radical measures,then they should also be detained. Let us ignore the rhetoric of constitutional rights from these professionals. This is what martial law is all about; the suspension of the constitution. If an attorney is successful in winning his client’s case; and the client goes out and commit another murder; then that attorney should be charged as an accomplice to murder. The government needs to become radical. A strict curfew should also be enforced in the inner city communities by the Defence Force. Too many unscrupulous persons are roaming the streets during the night. Only those who work during the night or those who have an emergency should be allowed to move about. The government should hold accused murderers,their families and their attorneys accountable if a witness is murdered. The state should also hold judges and magistrates responsible if they give bail to repeat offenders who then go out and commit another murder. The government should give serious consideration to building a detention centre on one of the unpopulated cays. Career criminals should be banished there for life without the possibility of parole. Foreign prison officers should be brought in to run this penal colony. First century Rome also had a penal colony; the island of Patmos. Chronic offenders whose parents came here as illegal immigrants should be deported immediately. Prime Minister Ingraham should fire the judges whose rulings are repeatedly quashed by the higher courts. There are too many inept judges in our judicial system. Prime Minister Ingraham also needs to remove the Hon. Tommy Turnquest from the Ministry of National Security. The PM should replace Mr Turnquest as the National Security Minister. The Minister has not done a good job. The PM has shown that he is a tough,no-nonsense leader. The FNM government should have amended the Bail Act by now. In fact, I think the PM should have called for a special session of the House of Assembly in order to deal with this vexing situation. Time is of the essence. Parliament should have reconvened by now. The nation is in the midst of a crisis. I am not advocating for the removal of power from the executive government. I am calling for martial law to be declared in the inner city communities of New Providence. Let the Defence Force go into these communities and establish its presence. The one hundred murders committed in the first nine months of 2011 have proven that the present policies of the FNM government have failed miserably. The PM needs to declare martial law before the crime crisis gets any worse. Kevin Evans Previous articlePM confirms to UN “Non-communicable diseases constitute an epidemic” in the Bahamas Next articleFormer USNORTHCOM Commander James A. Winnefeld Jr., Takes Over as Vice Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff What kind of dam training is that. I dont think the criminals gonna bend over like that and let the cops pose to put on the cuffs. Phuk, no wonder the cops can’t catch no body. When they’re not taking part in this nonsense training they riding round in cold air-conditioning drinking a stitchie. Someone tell the training officer to download Russian police training to get an idea how real cops is deal with crime. D SCOTT BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY.AT LEAST IT WILL MAKE THESE CRIMINAL’S THINK TWICE BEFORE DOING THEIR DEED. i don’t believe at all most of the murder is drug related maybe one or two, gang related yes most, but this temper is rising b/c of no work. people are upset that they can’t put food on the table for they family i live, and hear this everyday just look around you there are nothing for the young men to do but sit on the block take chances trying to make ends meet i have three guys in my family who beg me everyday for work, telling me how bad they want to stop committing crime and work. this FNM has allowed it’s people to perish. i think the wealth of the nation is the safety of the nation. just look at the poor country around us. when atlantis was building you had gangsters from all part of the bahamas working and making piece with there brothers simply b/c they was making money and had hope that there were better things to do at the time and i agree. but now where is the hope? for the poor man over the hill? when all they see is the rich getting richer!!! murder is on the FNM hands for failing the poor and middle class… KEVIN MCKENZIE These murders are due to the DRUG TRADE that is happening NOW.The drug trade is BIGGER today than it was in the 1980s and we must remember that by 1987 according to the AMERICAN STATE DEPARTMENT the flow of drugs through the Bahamas had been reduced to an IRREDUCIBLE LEVEL.The Prime Minister DOES NOT HAVE THE LEGAL AUTHORITY TO FIRE ANY JUDGE.Bahamians must come to the conclusion that HUBERT ALEXANDER INGRAHAM IS A FAILURE!!! Ingaraham has been prime minister for the last 14 years and CRIME,UNEMPLOYMENT AND NATIONAL DEBT HAVE ALL INCREASE.Bahamian ownership of our economy,the middle class,civility and standard of living have all DECREASE UNDER INGRAHAM!!!	cc/2020-05/en_head_0029.json.gz/line12
__label__wiki	0.912331	0.912331	\| October 3rd, 2018 5,293 Views \| NBA “I just want to say I miss you guys,” said Durant to the crowd, after scoring 63 points in the Jamal Crawford/Seattle Pro-Am. “Thank you for the warm welcome. I can’t wait to come back.” Let’s back up a little and go back to 2007, when I vividly remember David Stern saying, “With the first pick of the 2007 NBA draft, the Portland Blazers fucked up and are giving the Seattle SuperSonics a future Hall of Famer and one of the best scorers the league will ever see.” OK, the commish didn’t say those exact words but that’s what he meant when he said Portland was taking Greg Oden with the top pick, leaving Seattle to select 18-year-old Kevin Durant. The good news for the people of Seattle couldn’t have come at a better time since they were still in near riot mode after hearing the Sonics traded Ray Allen for an injured Wally Szcerbiak (damn!), Delonte West (Goddammit!) and the 5th pick (eh!) in the draft, just minutes before Seattle selected KD. From the start, the Jesus-less Sonics was a one-man show and it was headlined by Durant. He scored 18 points in his NBA debut and never looked back with 30 here, a game-winner there, and for the finale, he put up a career-high 42 points and 13 boards against the Warriors. His season average of 20 points per game was seven more than the second leading scorer (Chris Wilcox) on the team, good enough for Rookie of the Year honors and rare enough to be put on a short list with Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James as the only teenagers to ever average 20+ over a season. Two days after KD dropped 42 on his future team, the NBA owners (minus Mark Cuban and Paul Allen) dropped a bomb on Seattle by approving the relocation of the Sonics to Oklahoma City. It was a move that was two years in the making after a group of OKC businessmen — led by “Seattle Supervillain” Clay Bennett, who was booed throughout the last home game in Seattle – bought the franchise back in 2006. For the next few years, angry and basketball-starved fans in Seattle watched the teenager they once cheered for turn into a man among boys, a perennial All-Star and league scoring leader from 2019-2012. Then on August 11th of 2013 — half a decade after his last game as a Sonic — Kevin Durant returned to Seattle, on his own dime (private jet), to play in the Seattle Pro-Am (then known as the Jamal Crawford Pro-Am). Over 3,000 fans packed the Seattle Pacific University gym to welcome the last great Sonic back. They cheered for him the way they used to cheer a Gary Payton to Shawn Kemp alley-oop. They cheered for him as they cheered for the Sonics against the 72-10 Bulls in the NBA Finals. They didn’t care that he missed 36-of-62 shots (you read that correctly). They didn’t care he missed 24-of-32 3-pointers (you read that correctly too). They didn’t care he missed a potential game-winner over Martell Webster in OT. The people in Seattle were just happy to see KD in Seattle and wearing green again. After the game, he signed as many autographs as he could before trying to escape to his SUV, which was hidden behind hundreds of others waiting fans. He signed more autographs, took more pics and then said goodbye with this tweet. I love and miss Seattle…damn — Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) August 12, 2013 But of course, some people still had to have something negative to say. The following day after KD’s return to Seattle, Skip Bayless said on ESPN’s First Take he was “embarrassed” for KD. Stephen A. Smith defended KD, called him a future Hall of Famer and said he will probably never shoot that bad again. On opening night of the following season, Kevin Durant dropped 42 points in a win against the Jazz and put up five 30+ games in the first seven games of the season. A season that included a 54- point performance on 19-of-28 shooting and ended with an MVP award and one of the most emotional MVP speeches ever. Tags: jamal crawford, kevin durant, seattle pro-am, seattle supersonics	cc/2020-05/en_head_0029.json.gz/line13
__label__cc	0.601356	0.398644	JFK at 100: My Dad’s Famous Miami Portrait of the President Portrait of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, taken at a dinner held for Florida Senator George Smathers at the Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach, on March 10, 1962. This is a framed print of the photograph, printed by the photographer, Charles Trainor, photographer for The Miami News. CHARLES TRAINOR ctrainor@miamiherald.com Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article152887744.html#storylink=cpy BY CHARLES TRAINOR JR. ctrainor@MiamiHerald.com In my elementary school’s main office hung a portrait of President John F. Kennedy. My father had taken the photograph while he was covering JFK for The Miami News during the president’s time here in March 1962. I was impressed. But what was more impressive was that same image hung in my childhood home in Hialeah. There was one difference: Ours was signed, “To Charles Trainor, with warm regards, John Kennedy.” There was another bond that united the two prints. On Nov. 22, 1963, I was in Miss Addington’s third-grade class at John G. Dupuis Elementary School in Hialeah. Early that afternoon an announcement was made that the president had been shot and had died while on a trip to Dallas. We all were dismissed from school. We didn’t talk much as we headed home across the school field, and I’m not sure how much we understood that this day would resonate in history. As I entered my house my mother was crying on the couch, my father’s portrait of Kennedy on the wall near the dining-room table, always impressive to guests. My parents were proud to have a connection to the popular, charismatic president — our strong Irish heritage. My mother was born in Dublin, and I still have on my bookshelf a photograph of my father’s grandmother’s grandmother, who came from Ireland to this country through Ellis Island. That afternoon, my father’s photograph of Kennedy was delivered to our doorstep, published on the front page of The Miami News, Miami’s afternoon newspaper. It took up almost the entire page with a simple headline, “The Man.” There was one column of type on the left side of the page written by Bill Baggs, the editor. That day, I told my mom that I was going over to my friend’s house. She said, “No, you will stay home today and pay respect to the late president.” Over the years the portrait has graced the walls of our family’s homes as it was handed down, the strength of the photograph almost creating the presence of another person in the room. Here’s the story of how the photo was taken and came to be autographed by the president: On March 10, 1962, my father was assigned to cover Kennedy at a fundraising event at the Fontainebleau hotel on Miami Beach. Kennedy was sitting at a long dinner table, in formal wear, next to his close friend Florida Sen. George Smathers. That day, my father was trying out an early version of a 300mm 2.8 lens — a monster for its time. I think the lens caught Kennedy’s eye because the president is looking straight down the barrel of it, inquisitively. The setting, his expression, my father’s lonely shot made it look almost as if it were a private portrait sitting, even though it was at a dinner table with scores of people around the president. It just came together in a serendipitously special way. President John F. Kennedy with Senator Smathers Charles L. Trainor The Miami News JFK at 100 Never before seen JFK photos remind Miami of of that last rendezvous with innocence My dad’s Miami portrait of the president Kennedy’s signature on Miami portrait is the real deal Op-Ed: JFK was the original candidate of hope and change In 1988, when The Miami News folded, Pete Cross, a former director of photography at the Miami Herald, which was in the same bayfront building, was wise enough to salvage the lens my father used to take Kennedy’s photograph from the equipment locker room. The lens came in a specially made wooden Miami News case, now a family heirloom. And how did my father get President John F. Kennedy to sign the print? Smathers, who was there with Kennedy that night, helped. Later, when Smathers saw the image, he asked my father for a copy and took it to the White House, where the president signed the mat surrounding the print. The signature has been authenticated. Here’s the sad ending: Only a few prints of this photograph have survived — and my father told me he lost the negative. CHARLES TRAINOR JR. IS A MIAMI HERALD PHOTOGRAPHER. HIS FATHER WAS A MIAMI NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER FROM THE MID-1950S TO 1987. Labels: Charles Trainor, JFK, Miami News, President John F. Kennedy JFK at 100: My Dad’s Famous Miami Portrait of the ...	cc/2020-05/en_head_0029.json.gz/line14
__label__cc	0.659993	0.340007	Carterville Chamber Business Spotlight for Monday, April 1, 2019 is WSIU Public Broadcasting The Chamber Business Spotlight of the Week is WSIU Public Broadcasting. WSIU Public Broadcasting is licensed to the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University and is an integral part of the College of Mass Communication & Media Arts on the Carbondale campus. The WSIU stations reach more than five million people across six states and beyond through six digital public television channels, three public radio stations, a radio information service for individuals who are blind or visually-impaired, a website, and an education and community outreach department. WSIU's mission is to improve the quality of life of the people they serve. The WSIU stations partner with other community organizations to promote positive change and to support the academic and public service missions of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. WSIU's programs and services are partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. While WSIU is known throughout the region as a trusted source for educational television and local news and information, we also support a robust community outreach service which includes community film screenings and discussions, teacher education, K-12 classroom support, and training and professional development for SIU students interested in broadcasting. WSIU turns the spotlight on our region’s most interesting people and places via a suite of locally produced television programming which includes: Illinois Lawmakers, television’s longest running series providing coverage of the Illinois General Assembly; Expressions (local art), WSIU InFocus (local people profiles), River Region Evening Edition (student-produced news program), Illinois Stories (local features from central Illinois), Capitol View (state news and information) as well as documentaries profiling regional people and places. WSIU is a strategic regional partner, working with local organizations and regional agencies to improve the quality of life of the people we serve. Serving as a trusted source for educational television and an authority for local news and information, we aim to fulfill our service mission to inform and connect individuals with resources and information that can positively impact their lives. Thank you for your support and recognition.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0029.json.gz/line17
__label__wiki	0.731538	0.731538	You are here: Tanzania News Antony John Mence - Obituary Jan Tuesday, 20 March 2012 20:27 Antony John Mence. 24th January, 1924-- 7th March, 2012. Ngaserai lies south of Amboseli National Park and west of Mount Kilimanjaro. It is a dusty expanse of an almost barren land. The soil is alkaline from volcanic ash spewed out of the great mountain hundreds of years ago. It is also quite close to the Meerschaum mine. At certain times of the year when there is enough forage, herds of zebra, wildebeest and eland abound here. There is a migratory north/south pattern accentuated by the seasons. In the mid 1960’s an attempt to domesticate some of these animals and to start a breeding nucleus was undertaken by The College of African Wildlife Management under the leadership of Tony Mence who was then the second principal of the College. The captured animals were then to be domesticated on a ranch on the slopes of west Kilimanjaro. I recall when Tony Mence was driving a short-wheel-base Land Rover without doors across these plains at speeds averaging 60 miles per hour. I sat next to him and to his left. The chase involved separating young animals of about two to three months from the main herd and then as the Land Rover drew closer to reach out and grab the zebra or wildebeest by the tail while the Land Rover was slowly brought to a halt. I prided myself in being the leader of a motley crew of trainee wardens, who with each foray managed to grab either a zebra or a wildebeest by the tail! For several days, we continued this exercise with Tony who never said a word or put anyone down for failing or bungling up the exercise. One day we were again with Tony on a chase. The zebra were on his side and he accelerated the Land Rover until it was close enough for him to reach the tail of a three month old zebra foal, grabbed it with one hand, held on while at the same time bringing the Land Rover to a complete stop. Here was a man whose devil-may-care style separated the boys from the men! Tony arrived in Tanganyika on 11th April, 1951. He immediately joined the Ministry of Lands, Forest & Wildlife as a Senior Game Warden. He was stationed in various parts of Tanganyika including Mbeya,Tabora and The Ngorongo Crater. Initially he worked with C.J.P. Ionides, better known as the Snake Man at Liwale south of the vast Selous Game Reserve. Tony was one of few wardens, who unlike his colleagues with military training was a highly qualified zoologist. In 1953 he met Mona and they got married inSingida that year. First daughter, Vibeke was born in Mbeya on 1/09/54. Second daughter, Karen was born inTabora on 27/06/1957. Towards the last quarter of 1960, Howard Hawks an American movie director came to Arusha to film the movie ‘Hatari’ with John Wayne in the lead role. The High-powered field unit had descended on the surprised inhabitants of Arusha like a whirlwind. Impressed by Tony’s ability to ride a wild rhino with the nonchalance of a bronco-busting cowboy, Paramount Film Corporation pestered him with requests for his services. They wanted him to double for one of their highly paid stars, but neither his wife nor the Government shared Paramount’s enthusiasm for the idea! However, Tony provided technical expertise since some of the scenes and ‘shoots’ required the capture of buffalo and rhino using the old and dangerous method of lassoing the animals while chasing them on rugged terrain. In 1960, Tony and his family were living on the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater and his home later became Rhino Lodge. Many of the scenes where John Wayne with his ‘capture’ crew lassoed wild animals were shot in the Ngorongoro Crater and a few at Lake Manyara. While at Hardy Kruger’s Momella Lodge, John Wayne, who loved children often, spent time with Tony’s two daughters, Vibeke and Karen and with Howard Hawk’s son spinning yarns about wild animals. EARLY LIFE , EDUCATION AND CAREER. Tony was born in Birmingham, the eldest child of Harold a surgeon and Ida a teacher whose other children included Margaret and Alan. From 1932 – 37 – he attended West House Prep school, Birmingham and then went on to Denstone College, Staffordshire on a Scholarship from 1937 to 1941. From 1941 – 43 Tony attended The University of Birmingham studying Human Anatomy & Physics. The Second World War, interrupted his studies, and he then joined The Royal Marine Commandos, where he learnt bush craft and survival skills, serving time in Hong Kong and the Pacific between 1945/6. He also served in The Middle East from 1946 to 1947. Tony went back to resume his studies from 1948- 50 at The University of Wales (Bangor) and obtained a Degree in Zoology & Agriculture. From April 11th 1951 to 1962 Tony served in Tanganyika as a Game Warden in the Ministry of Lands, Forestry and Wildlife as a Senior Game Warden. He was stationed in various places including, Mbeya, Tabora and Ngorongoro Crater. In 1961 as a former commissioned officer with the The Royal Marine Commando Unit during the war, he utilized these skills not only in administrative duties but also in wildlife management. Specifically these included field work in wildlife conservation, research, game translocation, capture and control where they posed threats to human life. Tony was also involved in the development and enhancement of natural ecosystems, game reserves, implementation and enforcement of game laws, economicutilisationof wildlife resources, publicity to promote public understanding and awareness of wildlife conservation and the training of all ranks of wildlife personnel. Besides writing a series of instructional radio scripts for the schools’ service of the Tanganyika Broadcasting Corporation, he also wrote the wildlife section of Ngorongoro Crater’s management in between 1960/61. Tony was also the 1961 – Liaison Officer for the Tanganyika Government’s delegate to IUCN/CCTA Symposium at Arusha. The main impact of the conference was the presentation of the 'Arusha Manifesto' signed by Dr. Julius Nyerere and in which he accepted Tanganyika’s trusteeship of its wildlife, pristine areas recognised for protection and the hope that other countries would assist scientifically and financially. Between 1962 and 1963 Tony was first deputy Chief Game Warden and finally acting Chief Game Warden of Tanzania and was based in Dar-es-salaam. During this period, Tony was also on the board of trustees of Tanzania National Parks and an advisor to the Government. He was also on the governing body of The College of African Wildlife Management (CAWM). In 1964 he was offered a post with UNESCO in Ethiopia, but declined preferring to return to the UK. From 1964-66 Tony worked at Edinburgh Zoo in all aspects of care and management of the animals in this 75--acre Zoological park, supervision of the keeping staff, diet, handling and treatment of animals of all species became his direct responsibility. Here, he was also involved in a fair amount of lectures and educational talks. In 1966 Tony succeeded Dr. Hugh Lamprey as the principal of the College of African Wildlife Management at Mweka, Tanzania. At this time, Dr.Hugh Lamprey became the director of the Serengeti Research Institute which co-ordinated various wildlife research projects with Dr. R.M. Laws of The Tsavo Research Institute in Kenya. It was between 1967 and 1969 that I got to know Tony very well and to benefit from his vast lore concerning animal behaviour, administration and leadership qualities in personnel management. Early morning in October of 1967 Tony and I flew in the College Super Cub from Moshi and continued to Arusha, then across the Maasai Plains south to Dodoma. After lunch we refuelled the aircraft and continued in a south-east direction and arrived at Ifakara at about 4.p.m. We landed on an improvised airstrip along a maize Shamba which Dave King, a Canadian lecturer at Mweka had cleared with a 4 X 4 Unimog for us to land. This was the time of the annual cull of elephants, buffalo and hippos south of the Kilombero River and along the western fringes of the Selous Game reserve. It was the policy of the Tanzania government to ‘crop’ a limited number of animals annually which caused great havoc to the sugarcane scheme at Ifakara. In those days, the Selous Game Reserve had an estimated 100,000 elephants. This task was undertaken by the College of African Wildlife Management and its students who were wardens sponsored by their various African countries to train at the College. We spent one month in often inhospitable areas which were hot, humid and infested with Tse-tse flies. At the end of this exercise many of us were suffering from Malaria, tick Typhus, dysentery and even Bilharzia! Tony remained the Principal of Mweka until 1974. He then left to join the IUCN at its headquarters in Morges, Switzerland. He worked at IUCN in Switzerland until 1980 when he was transferred to the UK to establish IUCN's Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, which then became The World Conservation Monitoring Centre on the same site. Tony retired from IUCN in 1983 but continued to undertake various consulting assignments on its behalf until 1990. This is what Tom Gilbert of the U.S. National Parks Service, Tony’s Mweka colleague had to say :- “In a session that I helped organize on approaches that can be used to create environmental awareness and respect for nature, Tony made the important observation that to achieve this goal and ensure acceptance of environmental education programs, keen insight, acquaintance with social, spiritual and psychological attitudesof local people was necessary. We both recognized that there would probably always be too few people working in the field of environmental education, and that it was essential to obtain the understanding and collaboration of teachers. This was the rationale under Tony’s leadership for starting the relationships between Mweka and the Marangu Teacher Training College on Kilimanjaro, and Egerton College in Kenya. Tony also, represented CAWM, and participated in the 2nd World Conference on National Parks held in the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Parks, from September 18-27 of 1972. Here, he made some important observations about development and training of personnel. He said that the Mweka curriculum contained a strong element of ecological understanding as well as exposure to a wide spectrum of practical skills necessary for proper management of wildlife areas and parks.” Tony considered himself very fortunate to have worked and enjoyed a personally rewarding career in natural resource management and the opportunity of passing it all on. He recalls in particular his involvement together with colleagues in the development of new techniques, which are now standard practice, as well as their management application in many forms and in many countries. There are so many game wardens in many African countries, who trained and studied under Tony Mence at Mweka. Many of our present day Game Wardens in Kenya owe a debt of gratitude to Tony for the many things they learned at Mweka. Tony is due be buried in Stanford-in-the-Vale’s village church on March, 26th 2012. There is no better tribute one can pay Tony, who was to many of us a larger-than-life individual, and who had a special place in our hearts; In conclusion I can think of no better and fitting tribute than to quote England’s greatest bard: “His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, ‘This was a man!’ ” Mohamed Ismail Phoenix, Arizona. "My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me. Even if I walk with light, I am not the light; and if I am a taut-stringed lute, I am not the lute-player." 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__label__cc	0.592929	0.407071	Film Review: ‘Skyfall’ by Gumbercules9000 on Nov 8th, 2012 It’s hard to believe that the James Bond series is 50 years old now. Don’t let the age fool you, because with the latest installment of Bond, ‘Skyfall’ might just be the best one yet. Action-packed with giant set pieces, bits of humor, one of the best villains in Bond history, and one hell of an homage to the original Bond should make ‘Skyfall’ and instant classic and fan favorite of the 007 franchise. read comments (0) Check Out the ‘Skyfall’ Trailer!!! 007 is Back!!! by Gumbercules9000 on Jul 31st, 2012 Some interesting and fun marketing campaign for the new James Bond film lately. If you watched the Olympics Opening Ceremony, you would have seen Daniel Craig as 007 escort the Queen of England to the Olympic stadium as they jumped out of a helicopter and parachuted into the stadium. It was hilarious. And if you have seen ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ in IMAX, you would have been treated to a few minutes of ‘Skyfall’. Well, here is the new international trailer which is all sorts of cool. Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem, Ben Whishaw, Helen McCrory and Judi Dench star in the Sam Mendes-directed spy thriller which comes out in theaters on November 9 (my birthday). Dan’s Ten Favorite Movies of the Decade! by Gumbercules9000 on Dec 16th, 2019 Ten years! Ten whole stinkin’ years of wonderful movies to choose from and this list took me forever to settle on! It has been a great decade of movies across the board and narrowing this list to ten was painful. I have to be clear and say that these are MY 10 FAVORITES, not the best, not the most entertaining, not the most groundbreaking. These are Dan Moran’s 10 FAVORITES. Your list may differ and that is awesome because we all have different opinions! Enjoy my list. 4K UHD Review: Alien: Covenant! by Gumbercules9000 on Aug 25th, 2017 Hi everyone, Bryan here…. We live in a time where all of our favorite films and television programs from decades ago are getting sequels, rebooted, and remade. The ALIEN franchise that we have all come to love over the years has had its share of revamps. Luckily, the original filmmaker Ridley Scott, who made ALIEN back in 1979 came back a few years ago and made an early sequel to the franchise with PROMETHEUS. Clearly, Scott isn’t done telling stories in this horrifying universe, and we now have a sequel with ALIEN: COVENANT, which breathes new life into this stale franchise and promises more sequels and even more scares. What we loved about the original ALIEN is certainly present in a lot of COVENANT. Film Review: ALIEN: COVENANT! by Gumbercules9000 on May 17th, 2017 ‘In The Heart of the Sea’ Being Readied For Blu-ray and Digital Release!!! by Red Zeppelbon on Feb 1st, 2016 Hey guys, Jana here, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is prepping their release of ‘In The Heart of the Sea‘ for Blu-ray and DVD on March 8. If you’re more the Digital HD type, then you can have that two weeks earlier on February 23. Bryan Kluger’s Best/Worst of 2015!! Hi everyone, Bryan Here… I can’t believe how fast this year has gone by. 2015 was an interesting year to say the least, most of which was great. Movie-wise, I think 2015 had some excellent films filling its theaters, but of course it had some real stinkers too. Below is my list of the Best and Worst films of 2015. I believe this year I watched over 175 new films, theatrically speaking and it was very difficult to narrow them down from 25. After some strawberry cake covered in Lucky Charms, I finally had a TOP 15, however, these films are in no particular order this year. But when you talk about the Best movies, you have to mention the worst too. My list tends to be a tad bit different from others, but hey, I’m twisted. I highly encourage you to seek out these movies – good or bad and enjoy the rest of your year. Film Review: ‘Spectre’! by Gumbercules9000 on Nov 3rd, 2015 The year 2015 marks the 24th ‘James Bond‘ film in the 007 franchise. It also marks the most expensive Bond film to date, which is also in the top two most expensive films ever made with a budget of over $300 million. Even in addition to that, this new 007 movie, titled ‘Spectre‘ is the longest running Bond film with a runtime of 148 minutes. With the billion dollar success and critical acclaim from ‘Skyfall‘ a couple of years ago, the studio and its executives thought it would be a good idea to go bigger and “better” on everything. That’s not always a good thing, as is the case with ‘Spectre‘, which is bloated and disappointing. Film Review: ‘The Gunman’!! by Gumbercules9000 on Mar 20th, 2015 Janet W., Here… Spicoli, is that you? My what a long way Sean Penn has come. Well-known for his comedic stony surfer dude role in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Penn has also become quite the dramatic actor. As Harvey Milk in Milk and Brad Whitewood Jr. in At Close Range Penn displayed his acting brilliance. Is there a type of role this man cannot do? Well, now I can say I love him as an action star. In The Gunman, Penn (Jim Terrier) roars deadly prowess from his buffed up physique. I was amazed at how hot he looked. I’ve admired his performances before, but Penn shows me a different side in more ways than one. Film Review: ‘Paddington’!! by Gumbercules9000 on Jan 16th, 2015 From the deepest part of Peru, comes an adorable bear that is raised, by his Uncle Pastuzo and Aunt Lucy, on the hospitality and glory of London. Paddington Bear loses his uncle in a horrendous earthquake. Aunt Lucy decides that PB must make the long-dreamed journey to London that she shared with Uncle Pastuzo. Upon his arrival in London, PB encounters The Browns. Reluctantly, Mr. Brown allows PB to stay the night with his family. The search for a guardian/family for PB begins. TV Review: ‘Peaky Blinders’!! by Red Zeppelbon on Oct 7th, 2014 I’m an addict. When I see a new TV series that I fall in love with, I marathon every episode until I reach the end, or a cliffhanger. Both of those conditions were incredibly true for my newest addiction – ‘Peaky Blinders‘. ‘Peaky Blinders‘ falls into one of my favorite topics when it comes to what I’m watching and it’s all about mafia. The show was produced by BBC and aired the first season beginning in September of last year. Then Netflix entered the equation by acquiring exclusive US distribution rights from the Weinstein Company and Endemol. It became available for streaming on September 30, 2014. Look it up, add it to your list and enjoy. It’s absolutely brilliant! Bond. James Bond Sets Film Date for December 6!!! by Red Zeppelbon on Sep 16th, 2014 James Bond lovers, get ready for some good news! Not only is the 24th film in the series beginning filming on December 6. Daniel Craig isn’t only under contract for the 24th film, but the 25th film as well. There is a story arc that will connect the two films in a way that has only been done one time before on any of the Bond films. ‘Casino Royale‘ and ‘Quantum Solace‘ are the other two films that had a direct impact on the next one and is basically set up as a sequel to the first film. This film will also NOT be based on any of the Ian Fleming books, nor any of the other novels that different writers have given the literary world. ‘Barbarella’ As A TV Series?!?! by Red Zeppelbon on Jan 23rd, 2014 Jana B. here, In the world of makeovers they are generally a bad idea if you ask me. However, news of 1968’s Barbarella doesn’t strike me as a bad thing. It could be because there are a few people I really dislike in this world and Jane Fonda is one of them. I’m pretty positive that’s my whole reasoning for being ok with this remake. Can’t stand her, want to hit her in the face with a brick. OK, back to the news! Amazon studios has taken on the pilot with a script by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (‘Skyfall‘, ‘Casino Royale‘). Word is the search for a show-runner is underway in hopes the show goes to series. Here is the Full List of Oscar Winners from the 2013 Academy Awards!!! by Gumbercules9000 on Feb 25th, 2013 Hi, Bryan Here….. I don’t know about you, but I really enjoyed the Oscars last night. I thought McFarlane was great and funny and thought his bits were solid. All of the musical numbers with the exception of the two 007 SONGS and the song from ‘Ted‘ was quite awful and not fun to watch. Although ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild‘ didn’t win, there was some well-deserved victories. We also had out 6th annual live commentary last night, and it was a great success. I want to thank all of you for participating. We look forward to next year. Vintage James Bond Films Might be Headed Back To The Big Screen in 3D!!! Okay, I’m making a rule. Studios, you can no longer take old vintage films and give them a 3D transfer. We don’t want it, and we certainly don’t want to pay overpriced ticket prices to see it again. I doubt anyone will listen to me, but if we all say something, maybe they will stop this madness. Why do I say this? Well, it seems that James Bond, particularly the old Bond films will be re-released in theaters and blu-ray in 3D. Not happy about this. Television Reporter: Is there a specific instance in an airplane emergency when you can recall fear? Jim Lovell: Uh well, I'll tell ya, I remember this one time - I'm in a Banshee at night in combat conditions, so there's no running lights on the carrier. It was the Shrangri-La, and we were in the Sea of Japan and my radar had jammed, and my homing signal was gone... because somebody in Japan was actually using the same frequency. And so it was - it was leading me away from where I was supposed to be. And I'm lookin' down at a big, black ocean, so I flip on my map light, and then suddenly: zap. Everything shorts out right there in my cockpit. All my instruments are gone. My lights are gone. And I can't even tell now what my altitude is. I know I'm running out of fuel, so I'm thinking about ditching in the ocean. And I, I look down there, and then in the darkness there's this uh, there's this green trail. It's like a long carpet that's just laid out right beneath me. And it was the algae, right? It was that phosphorescent stuff that gets churned up in the wake of a big ship. And it was - it was - it was leading me home. You know? If my cockpit lights hadn't shorted out, there's no way I'd ever been able to see that. So uh, you, uh, never know... what... what events are to transpire to get you home. Apollo 13 (1995) The Movie Quotes	cc/2020-05/en_head_0029.json.gz/line30
__label__cc	0.639206	0.360794	Chapel of Unity, Coventry, CIO Constitution of a Charitable Incorporated Organisation whose only voting members are its charity trustees Date of constitution (last amended): January 2019 1. Name The name of the Charitable Incorporated Organisation (“the CIO”) is The Chapel of Unity, Coventry, CIO 2. National location of principal office England 3. Objects The objects of the CIO shall be to use the combined power of the Christian churches to strengthen their life and work among the people of the City of Coventry and the County of Warwickshire. to deepen, widen and intensify the corporate Christian life of the people in the Christian congregations, to encourage the Church in its work of evangelism, to relate the life of Church to every aspect of society to strengthen the co-operation between Christian Churches to support and work towards the complete re-union of all Christian communions. 4. Powers The CIO has power to do anything which is calculated to further its objects or is conducive or incidental to doing so. In particular, the CIO has power to: borrow money and to charge the whole or any part of its property as security for the repayment of the money borrowed. The CIO must comply as appropriate with sections 124 and 125 of the Charities Act 2011, if it wishes to mortgage land; buy, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire any property and to maintain and equip it for use; sell, lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the property belonging to the CIO. In exercising this power, the CIO must comply as appropriate with sections 117 and 119-123 of the Charities Act 2011; employ and remunerate such staff as are necessary for carrying out the work of the CIO. The CIO may employ or remunerate a charity trustee only to the extent that it is permitted to do so by clause 6 (Benefits and payments to charity trustees and connected persons) and provided it complies with the conditions of that clause; deposit or invest funds, employ a professional fund-manager, and arrange for the investments or other property of the CIO to be held in the name of a nominee, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as the charity trustees of a trust are permitted to do by the Trustee Act 2000. 5. Application of income and property The income and property of the CIO must be applied solely towards the promotion of the objects. A charity trustee is entitled to be reimbursed from the property of the CIO or may pay out of such property reasonable expenses properly incurred by him or her when acting on behalf of the CIO. A charity trustee may benefit from trustee indemnity insurance cover purchased at the CIO’s expense in accordance with, and subject to the conditions in, section 189 of the Charities Act 2011. None of the income or property of the CIO may be paid or transferred directly or indirectly by way of dividend, bonus or otherwise by way of profit to any member of the CIO. Nothing in this clause shall prevent a charity trustee or connected person receiving any benefit or payment which is authorised by Clause 6. 6. Benefits and payments to charity trustees and connected persons No charity trustee or connected person may: buy or receive any goods or services from the CIO on terms preferential to those applicable to members of the public; sell goods, services, or any interest in land to the CIO; be employed by, or receive any remuneration from, the CIO; receive any other financial benefit from the CIO; unless the payment or benefit is permitted by sub-clause (2) of this clause or authorised by the court or the prior written consent of the Charity Commission (“the Commission”) has been obtained. In this clause, a “ financial benefit” means a benefit, direct or indirect, which is either money or has a monetary value. Scope and powers permitting trustees’ or connected persons’ benefits A charity trustee or connected person may receive a benefit from the CIO as a beneficiary of the CIO provided that a majority of the charity trustees do not benefit in this way. A charity trustee or connected person may enter into a contract for the supply of services, or of goods that are supplied in connection with the provision of services, to the CIO where that is permitted in accordance with, and subject to the conditions in, sections 185 to 188 of the Charities Act 2011. Subject to sub-clause (3) of this clause a charity trustee or connected person may provide the CIO with goods that are not supplied in connection with services provided to the CIO by the charity trustee or connected person. A charity trustee or connected person may receive interest on money lent to the CIO at a reasonable and proper rate which must be not more than the Bank of England bank rate (also known as the base rate). A charity trustee or connected person may receive rent for premises let by the trustee or connected person to the CIO. The amount of the rent and the other terms of the lease must be reasonable and proper. The charity trustee concerned must withdraw from any meeting at which such a proposal or the rent or other terms of the lease are under discussion. A charity trustee or connected person may take part in the normal trading and fundraising activities of the CIO on the same terms as members of the public. Payment for supply of goods only – controls The CIO and its charity trustees may only rely upon the authority provided by sub-clause (2)(c) of this clause if each of the following conditions is satisfied: The amount or maximum amount of the payment for the goods is set out in a written agreement between the CIO and the charity trustee or connected person supplying the goods (“the supplier”). The amount or maximum amount of the payment for the goods does not exceed what is reasonable in the circumstances for the supply of the goods in question. The other charity trustees are satisfied that it is in the best interests of the CIO to contract with the supplier rather than with someone who is not a charity trustee or connected person. In reaching that decision the charity trustees must balance the advantage of contracting with a charity trustee or connected person against the disadvantages of doing so. The supplier is absent from the part of any meeting at which there is discussion of the proposal to enter into a contract or arrangement with him or her or it with regard to the supply of goods to the CIO. The supplier does not vote on any such matter and is not to be counted when calculating whether a quorum of charity trustees is present at the meeting. The reason for their decision is recorded by the charity trustees in the minute book. A majority of the charity trustees then in office are not in receipt of remuneration or payments authorised by clause 6. In sub-clauses (2) and (3) of this clause: “the CIO” includes any company in which the CIO: holds more than 50% of the shares; or controls more than 50% of the voting rights attached to the shares; or has the right to appoint one or more directors to the board of the company; “connected person” includes any person within the definition set out in clause [30] (Interpretation); 7. Conflicts of interest and conflicts of loyalty A charity trustee must: declare the nature and extent of any interest, direct or indirect, which he or she has in a proposed transaction or arrangement with the CIO or in any transaction or arrangement entered into by the CIO which has not previously been declared; and absent himself or herself from any discussions of the charity trustees in which it is possible that a conflict of interest will arise between his or her duty to act solely in the interests of the CIO and any personal interest (including but not limited to any financial interest). Any charity trustee absenting himself or herself from any discussions in accordance with this clause must not vote or be counted as part of the quorum in any decision of the charity trustees on the matter. 8. Liability of members to contribute to the assets of the CIO if it is wound up If the CIO is wound up, the members of the CIO have no liability to contribute to its assets and no personal responsibility for settling its debts and liabilities. 9. Charity trustees Functions and duties of charity trustees The charity trustees shall manage the affairs of the CIO and may for that purpose exercise all the powers of the CIO. It is the duty of each charity trustee: to exercise his or her powers and to perform his or her functions in his or her capacity as a trustee of the CIO in the way he or she decides in good faith would be most likely to further the purposes of the CIO; and to exercise, in the performance of those functions, such care and skill as is reasonable in the circumstances having regard in particular to: any special knowledge or experience that he or she has or holds himself or herself out as having; and, if he or she acts as a charity trustee of the CIO in the course of a business or profession, to any special knowledge or experience that it is reasonable to expect of a person acting in the course of that kind of business or profession. Eligibility for trusteeship Every charity trustee must be a natural person. No individual may be appointed as a charity trustee of the CIO: if he or she is under the age of 16 years; or if he or she would automatically cease to hold office under the provisions of clause [12(1)(e)]. No one is entitled to act as a charity trustee whether on appointment or on any re-appointment until he or she has expressly acknowledged, in whatever way the charity trustees decide, his or her acceptance of the office of charity trustee. Number of charity trustees There should be: Not less than 6 nor more than 14 nominated trustees. 2 ex officio trustees; and Not more than 6 appointed trustees; There must be at least six charity trustees. If the number falls below this minimum, the remaining trustee or trustees may act only to call a meeting of the charity trustees, or appoint a new charity trustee. The maximum number of charity trustees that can be appointed is as provided in sub-clause (a) of this clause. No trustee appointment may be made in excess of these provisions. First charity trustees The first charity trustees are as follows, and are appointed for the following terms – John Lloyd for 3 years Janet Ward for 2 years Craig Muir for 1 year (10) Appointment of charity trustees The Nominated Trustees shall be:- One person nominated by the Bishop of Coventry One clergy person and one lay person nominated by the Chapter of Coventry Cathedral, the Coventry Cathedral Council or St. Michael’s Committee One clergy person and one lay person nominated by the Coventry Diocesan Synod. One minister and one lay person nominated by the Heart of England Baptist Association. One minister and one lay person nominated by the West Midlands Synod of the United Reformed Church. One minister and one lay person nominated by the Birmingham District Synod of the Methodist Church. One priest and one lay person nominated by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham. One person nominated by the German Speaking Evangelical Lutheran Congregations in the Midlands Any appointment must be made at a meeting held according to the ordinary practice of the appointing body. Each appointment must be for a term of three years. The appointment will be effective from the later of: the date of the vacancy; and the date on which the charity trustees or their secretary are informed of the appointment. A trustee appointed by the appointing body has the same duty under clause 9(1) as the other charity trustees to act in the way he or she decides in good faith would be most likely to further the purposes of the CIO. Ex-officio Trustees The charity trustees shall appoint a Secretary and Treasurer to serve for three years. Such office holders need not be from within the Nominated Trustees but shall automatically (“ex-officio”) be a charity trustee, for as long as he or she holds that office. If unwilling to act as a charity trustee, the office holder may: before accepting appointment as a charity trustee, give notice in writing to the charity trustees of his or her unwillingness to act in that capacity; or after accepting appointment as a charity trustee, resign under the provisions contained in clause [12] (Retirement and removal of charity trustees). The office of ex-officio charity trustee will then remain vacant until the office holder ceases to hold office. Appointed Trustees The charity trustees may appoint up to six additional trustees. These appointments should have regard for the ecumenical breadth of Coventry and Warwickshire and the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO. 11. Information for new charity trustees The charity trustees will make available to each new charity trustee, on or before his or her first appointment: a copy of the current version of this constitution; and a copy of the CIO’s latest Trustees’ Annual Report and statement of accounts. 12. Retirement and removal of charity trustees A charity trustee ceases to hold office if he or she: retires by notifying the CIO in writing (but only if enough charity trustees will remain in office when the notice of resignation takes effect to form a quorum for meetings); is absent without the permission of the charity trustees from all their meetings held within a period of twelve months and the charity trustees may resolve that his or her office be vacated; dies; in the written opinion, given to the CIO, of a registered medical practitioner treating that person, has become physically or mentally incapable of acting as a trustee and may remain so for more than three months; is disqualified from acting as a charity trustee by virtue of sections 178-180 of the Charities Act 2011 (or any statutory re-enactment or modification of that provision). Any person retiring as a charity trustee is eligible for reappointment. 13. Taking of decisions by charity trustees Any decision may be taken either: at a meeting of the charity trustees by resolution in writing or electronic form agreed by a majority of all of the charity trustees, which may comprise either a single document or several documents containing the text of the resolution in like form to which the majority of all of the charity trustees has signified their agreement. Such a resolution shall be effective provided that a copy of the proposed resolution has been sent, at or as near as reasonably practicable to the same time, to all of the charity trustees; and the majority of all of the charity trustees has signified agreement to the resolution in a document or documents which has or have been authenticated by their signature, by a a statement of their identity accompanying the document or documents, or in such other manner as the charity trustees have previously resolved, and delivered to the CIO at its principal office or such other place as the charity trustees may resolve [within 28 days of the circulation date14. Delegation by charity trustees The charity trustees may delegate any of their powers or functions to a committee or committees, and, if they do, they shall determine the terms and conditions on which the delegation is made. The charity trustees may at any time alter those terms and conditions, or revoke the delegation. This power is in addition to the power of delegation in the General Regulations and any other power of delegation available to the charity trustees, but is subject to the following requirements: a committee may consist of two or more persons, but at least one member of each committee must be a charity trustee; the acts and proceedings of any committee must be brought to the attention of the charity trustees as a whole as soon as is reasonably practicable; and the charity trustees shall from time to time review the arrangements which they have made for the delegation of their powers. 15. Meetings of charity trustees Calling meetings There shall be at least one meeting of the charity trustees in each calendar year. Any charity trustee may call a meeting of the charity trustees. Subject to that, the charity trustees shall decide how their meetings are to be called, and what notice is required. Chairing of meetings The charity trustees shall elect three persons to act jointly as Co-chairs. One shall be an Anglican normally not being a member of the Chapter, and two non-Anglican, one of whom shall normally be a Roman Catholic. Subject to the approval of The charity trustees they shall mutually determine the specified period for which each shall be the lead Chairperson. Procedure at meetings No decision shall be taken at a meeting unless a quorum is present at the time when the decision is taken. The quorum is the number nearest to one third of the total number of charity trustees, or such larger number as the charity trustees may decide from time to time. A charity trustee shall not be counted in the quorum present when any decision is made about a matter upon which he or she is not entitled to vote. Questions arising at a meeting shall be decided by a majority of those eligible to vote. In the case of an equality of votes, the person who chairs the meeting shall have a second or casting vote. Participation in meetings by electronic means A meeting may be held by suitable electronic means agreed by the charity trustees in which each participant may communicate with all the other participants. Any charity trustee participating at a meeting by suitable electronic means agreed by the charity trustees in which a participant or participants may communicate with all the other participants shall qualify as being present at the meeting. Meetings held by electronic means must comply with rules for meetings, including chairing and the taking of minutes. 16. Membership of the CIO The members of the CIO shall be its charity trustees for the time being. The only persons eligible to be members of the CIO are its charity trustees. Membership of the CIO cannot be transferred to anyone else. Any member and charity trustee who ceases to be a charity trustee automatically ceases to be a member of the CIO. 17. Clause not included 18. Decisions which must be made by the members of the CIO Any decision to: amend the constitution of the CIO; amalgamate the CIO with, or transfer its undertaking to, one or more other CIOs, in accordance with the Charities Act 2011; or wind up or dissolve the CIO (including transferring its business to any other charity) must be made by a resolution of the members of the CIO (rather than a resolution of the charity trustees). Decisions of the members may be made either: by resolution at a general meeting; or by resolution in writing, in accordance with sub-clause (4) of this clause. Any decision specified in sub-clause (1) of this clause must be made in accordance with the provisions of clause [28] (amendment of constitution), clause [29] (Voluntary winding up or dissolution), or the provisions of the Charities Act 2011, the General Regulations or the Dissolution Regulations as applicable. Those provisions require the resolution to be agreed by a 75% majority of those members voting at a general meeting, or agreed by all members in writing. Except where a resolution in writing must be agreed by all the members, such a resolution may be agreed by a simple majority of all the members who are entitled to vote on it. Such a resolution shall be effective provided that a copy of the proposed resolution has been sent to all the members eligible to vote; and the required majority of members has signified its agreement to the resolution in a document or documents which are received at the principal office within the period of 28 days beginning with the circulation date. The document signifying a member’s agreement must be authenticated by their signature, by a statement of their identity accompanying the document, or in such other manner as the CIO has specified. The resolution in writing may comprise several copies to which one or more members has signified their agreement. Eligibility to vote on the resolution is limited to members who are members of the CIO on the date when the proposal is first circulated. 19. General meetings of members Calling of general meetings of members The charity trustees may designate any of their meetings as a general meeting of the members of the CIO. The purpose of such a meeting is to discharge any business which must by law be discharged by a resolution of the members of the CIO as specified in clause [18] (Decisions which must be made by the members of the CIO). Notice of general meetings of members The minimum period of notice required to hold a general meeting of the members of the CIO is 14 days. Except where a specified period of notice is strictly required by another clause in this constitution, by the Charities Act 2011 or by the General Regulations, a general meeting may be called by shorter notice if it is so agreed by a majority of the members of the CIO. Proof that an envelope containing a notice was properly addressed, prepaid and posted; or that an electronic form of notice was properly addressed and sent, shall be conclusive evidence that the notice was given. Notice shall be deemed to be given 48 hours after it was posted or sent. It is the responsibility of members to inform the Secretary in writing of any change in postal or electronic address. Procedure at general meetings of members The provisions in clause 15 (2)-(4) governing the chairing of meetings, procedure at meetings and participation in meetings by electronic means apply to any general meeting of the members, with all references to trustees to be taken as references to members. 20. Saving provisions Subject to sub-clause (2) of this clause, all decisions of the charity trustees, or of a committee of charity trustees, shall be valid notwithstanding the participation in any vote of a charity trustee: who was disqualified from holding office; who had previously retired or who had been obliged by the constitution to vacate office; who was not entitled to vote on the matter, whether by reason of a conflict of interest or otherwise; if, without the vote of that charity trustee and that charity trustee being counted in the quorum, the decision has been made by a majority of the charity trustees at a quorate meeting. Sub-clause (1) of this clause does not permit a charity trustee to keep any benefit that may be conferred upon him or her by a resolution of the charity trustees or of a committee of charity trustees if, but for sub-clause (1), the resolution would have been void, or if the charity trustee has not complied with clause 7 (Conflicts of interest). 21. Execution of documents The CIO shall execute documents either by signature or by affixing its seal (if it has one) A document is validly executed by signature if it is signed by at least two of the charity trustees. If the CIO has a seal: it must comply with the provisions of the General Regulations; and the seal must only be used by the authority of the charity trustees or of a committee of charity trustees duly authorised by the charity trustees. The charity trustees may determine who shall sign any document to which the seal is affixed and unless otherwise so determined it shall be signed by two charity trustees. 22. Use of electronic communications The CIO will comply with the requirements of the Communications Provisions in the General Regulations and in particular: the requirement to provide within 21 days to any member on request a hard copy of any document or information sent to the member otherwise than in hard copy form; any requirements to provide information to the Commission in a particular form or manner. To the CIO Any member or charity trustee of the CIO may communicate electronically with the CIO to an address specified by the CIO for the purpose, so long as the communication is authenticated in a manner which is satisfactory to the CIO. By the CIO Any member or charity trustee of the CIO, by providing the CIO with his or her email address or similar, is taken to have agreed to receive communications from the CIO in electronic form at that address, unless the member has indicated to the CIO his or her unwillingness to receive such communications in that form. The charity trustees may, subject to compliance with any legal requirements, by means of publication on its website: provide the members with the notice referred to in clause 19(2) (Notice of general meetings); give charity trustees notice of their meetings in accordance with clause 15(1) (Calling meetings); and submit any proposal to the members or charity trustees for decision by written resolution or postal vote in accordance with the CIO’s powers under clause 18 (Members’ decisions), 18(4) (Decisions taken by resolution in writing), or [[the provisions for postal voting] (if you have included this optional provision, please insert the correct clause number here). The charity trustees must – take reasonable steps to ensure that members and charity trustees are promptly notified of the publication of any such notice or proposal; and send any such notice or proposal in hard copy form to any member or charity trustee who has not consented to receive communications in electronic form. 23. Keeping of Registers The CIO must comply with its obligations under the General Regulations in relation to the keeping of, and provision of access to, a combined register of its members and charity trustees. 24. Minutes The charity trustees must keep minutes of all: appointments of officers made by the charity trustees; proceedings at general meetings of the CIO; meetings of the charity trustees and committees of charity trustees including: the names of the charity trustees present at the meeting; the decisions made at the meetings; and where appropriate the reasons for the decisions; decisions made by the charity trustees otherwise than in meetings. 25. Accounting records, accounts, annual reports and returns, register maintenance The charity trustees must comply with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 with regard to the keeping of accounting records, to the preparation and scrutiny of statements of account, and to the preparation of annual reports and returns. The statements of account, reports and returns must be sent to the Charity Commission, regardless of the income of the CIO, within 10 months of the financial year end. The charity trustees must comply with their obligation to inform the Commission within 28 days of any change in the particulars of the CIO entered on the Central Register of Charities. The charity trustees may from time to time make such reasonable and proper rules or by-laws as they may deem necessary or expedient for the proper conduct and management of the CIO, but such rules or bye laws must not be inconsistent with any provision of this constitution. Copies of any such rules or bye laws currently in force must be made available to any member of the CIO on request. If a dispute arises between members of the CIO about the validity or propriety of anything done by the members under this constitution, and the dispute cannot be resolved by agreement, the parties to the dispute must first try in good faith to settle the dispute by mediation before resorting to litigation. 28. Amendment of constitution As provided by sections 224-227 of the Charities Act 2011: This constitution can only be amended: by resolution agreed in writing by all members of the CIO; or by a resolution passed by a 75% majority of those voting at a general meeting of the members of the CIO called in accordance with clause 19 (General meetings of members). Any alteration of clause 3 (Objects), clause [29] (Voluntary winding up or dissolution), this clause, or of any provision where the alteration would provide authorisation for any benefit to be obtained by charity trustees or members of the CIO or persons connected with them, requires the prior written consent of the Charity Commission. No amendment that is inconsistent with the provisions of the Charities Act 2011 or the General Regulations shall be valid. A copy of every resolution amending the constitution, together with a copy of the CIO’s constitution as amended must be sent to the Commission by the end of the period of 15 days beginning with the date of passing of the resolution, and the amendment does not take effect until it has been recorded in the Register of Charities. 29. Voluntary winding up or dissolution As provided by the Dissolution Regulations, the CIO may be dissolved by resolution of its members. Any decision by the members to wind up or dissolve the CIO can only be made: at a general meeting of the members of the CIO called in accordance with clause 19 (General meetings of members), of which not less than 14 days’ notice has been given to those eligible to attend and vote: by a resolution passed by a 75% majority of those voting, or by a resolution passed by decision taken without a vote and without any expression of dissent in response to the question put to the general meeting; or by a resolution agreed in writing by all members of the CIO. Subject to the payment of all the CIO’s debts: Any resolution for the winding up of the CIO, or for the dissolution of the CIO without winding up, may contain a provision directing how any remaining assets of the CIO shall be applied. If the resolution does not contain such a provision, the charity trustees must decide how any remaining assets of the CIO shall be applied. In either case the remaining assets must be applied for charitable purposes the same as or similar to those of the CIO. The CIO must observe the requirements of the Dissolution Regulations in applying to the Commission for the CIO to be removed from the Register of Charities, and in particular: the charity trustees must send with their application to the Commission: a copy of the resolution passed by the members of the CIO; a declaration by the charity trustees that any debts and other liabilities of the CIO have been settled or otherwise provided for in full; and a statement by the charity trustees setting out the way in which any property of the CIO has been or is to be applied prior to its dissolution in accordance with this constitution; the charity trustees must ensure that a copy of the application is sent within seven days to every member and employee of the CIO, and to any charity trustee of the CIO who was not privy to the application. If the CIO is to be wound up or dissolved in any other circumstances, the provisions of the Dissolution Regulations must be followed. 30. Interpretation In this constitution: “connected person” means: a child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, brother or sister of the charity trustee; the spouse or civil partner of the charity trustee or of any person falling within sub-clause (a) above; a person carrying on business in partnership with the charity trustee or with any person falling within sub- clause (a) or (b) above; an institution which is controlled – by the charity trustee or any connected person falling within sub-clause (a), (b), or (c) above; or by two or more persons falling within sub-clause (d)(i), when taken together a body corporate in which – the charity trustee or any connected person falling within sub-clauses (a) to (c) has a substantial interest; or two or more persons falling within sub-clause (e)(i) who, when taken together, have a substantial interest. Section 118 of the Charities Act 2011 apply for the purposes of interpreting the terms used in this constitution. “General Regulations” means the Charitable Incorporated Organisations (General) Regulations 2012. “Dissolution Regulations” means the Charitable Incorporated Organisations (Insolvency and Dissolution) Regulations 2012. The “Communications Provisions” means the Communications Provisions in [Part 10, Chapter 4] of the General Regulations. “charity trustee” means a charity trustee of the CIO. A “poll” means a counted vote or ballot, usually (but not necessarily) in writing.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0029.json.gz/line33
__label__wiki	0.867432	0.867432	Biography – CRONYN, BENJAMIN – Volume X (1871-1880) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography Source: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons CRONYN, BENJAMIN, Church of England clergyman and first bishop of Huron; b. at Kilkenny, Ireland, 11 July 1802, son of Thomas Cronyn, of Kilkenny, and Margaret Barton; d. at London, Ont., 21 Sept. 1871. Benjamin Cronyn was educated at Kilkenny College, and at 15 entered Trinity College in Dublin where he received his ba in 1822, ma in 1825, and, later, dd in 1855. He was divinity prizeman in 1824. In 1825 he was ordained deacon and served as curate at Tunstall, Kirkby Lonsdale, in Lancashire, England, until 1827 when he was ordained priest. He was then curate until 1832 of Kilcommock, Longford, in the diocese of Ardagh, Ireland. In 1832 the archbishop of Dublin wrote to Archdeacon John Strachan* in York (Toronto) inquiring about openings in Canada for Protestant clergymen who “are thinking of emigration from finding themselves destitute thro’ the existing troubles of the Church.” Cronyn and his family were among the many Irish Protestants who decided to emigrate to Upper Canada. They sailed in the summer of 1832 on the Anne of Halifax chartered by a group of friends. Among them were Anne Margaret Hume, widow of the Reverend Dominick Edward Blake of County Wicklow, with her two sons, the Reverend Dominick Edward and William Hume, and her daughters Frances Mary and Wilhelmina, wife of the Reverend Charles Crosbie Brough. Cronyn had married in Ireland Margaret Ann Bickerstaff of Lislea, Longford, in December 1826. Of their seven children, Margaret married Edward Blake, son of William Hume Blake; Verschoyle married Edward’s sister, Sophia; Rebecca married Edward’s brother, Samuel Hume Blake; Benjamin married Mary G. Goodhue, daughter of George Jervis Goodhue. Margaret Ann Cronyn died 29 Oct. 1866, and Benjamin was married again at Dublin, Ireland, on 16 March 1868, to Martha Collins; there were no children from this marriage. Arriving in York, Cronyn met Strachan and Bishop Charles James Stewart* of Quebec, who licensed him to Adelaide. This township was then being settled by many of Cronyn’s Irish friends, and there had apparently been an understanding that Cronyn would minister to them. On their way to Adelaide in November, Cronyn and his family were overtaken by darkness in London. He preached there on the following day, and, so effective was his sermon, he was persuaded to remain. Stewart subsequently authorized the change, appointing Cronyn to London and parts adjacent and Dominick Blake to the Adelaide charge. London at this time was a settlement six years old. The Reverend Benjamin Lundy, a pioneer abolitionist, visited the village in 1832, and told of the recently finished court house, two houses of public worship being built, three hotels, and six general merchant stores; he enumerated its variety of craftsmen, who were necessary in a new community. He estimated that there were about 130 buildings, nearly all frame, in the village. There were two doctors and two lawyers, and one weekly newspaper, the Sun. By this time there were Methodist, Presbyterian, and Church of England congregations in the community, which had a population of about 300. One of Cronyn’s first actions was to move and complete, during the winter of 1832–33, the unfinished church building begun by his predecessor, the Reverend E. J. Boswell. This had been erected on an unsatisfactory site and he located St Paul’s Church (which burned in 1844 but was rebuilt in 1846) where St Paul’s Cathedral now stands. Cronyn held services in London and at various stations in London Township. His son, Verschoyle, wrote that he was a “fearless horseman” and “expert swimmer,” necessary attainments for travelling in his extensive field. Under the terms of the Canada Act of 1791, the British government had power to authorize the erection of rectories in the province endowed with glebe lands. Implementation was delayed until 1836 when Sir John Colborne, acting on an 1832 dispatch from the colonial secretary, Lord Goderich, ordered the preparation of patents setting up 57 rectories (Colborne actually signed only 44 before leaving the colony). Both London and London Township were among the rectories established. Cronyn thus held and received the income from two rectories, the only clergyman in Upper Canada to do so. He gave up the township rectory (now St John’s, Arva) in 1841. In 1838 he was able to augment his income by taking on the duties of chaplain at London: the War Office had deemed it expedient in 1832 to discontinue the appointment of chaplains to the forces at certain Canadian posts and to employ a resident “Clergyman of the Established Church.” (When Archdeacon Alexander Neil Bethune preached in St Paul’s in 1848, the military constituted most of the congregation.) Support from overseas for the church in Upper Canada was vital in these years, and in January 1837 Cronyn accompanied William Bettridge to England to solicit aid. They separated in July when Cronyn went to Ireland to deal with family affairs and to carry on there the campaign for men and money. The population in the western parts of Upper Canada increased rapidly and by 1847 it was clear that the diocese of Toronto should be divided. Legal and financial obstacles stood in the way. Strachan took the lead in overcoming the former, by obtaining an act in 1857 which resolved any doubt as to the right of the Canadian church to meet in synods to elect bishops rather than having appointments made from England. Cronyn took care of finance. With other clergy and laity in the western part of the diocese, he organized an episcopal fund committee which raised the £10,000 endowment stipulated by the crown, and he must be given credit for the success of this campaign. With all barriers removed, the synod of Toronto met on 17 June 1857 to set up the present diocese of Huron (a name chosen and applied by Strachan in May), comprising the 13 counties in the southwestern part of the province. The choice of a bishop precipitated an unseemly, if not scurrilous and libellous, controversy in the pages of the London Free Press and other newspapers of the region (the documents were reprinted in a pamphlet a few days before the election). The names of A. N. Bethune and Cronyn were put forward, and lines were drawn between high and low church. Bethune, the candidate favoured by Strachan, was challenged for his support of Puseyism and Tractarianism and tenets which led “downward to Rome”; Cronyn was identified with “Calvinistic cliqueism.” The theological arguments degenerated into a personal attack on Cronyn, who was accused of neglect of his duties to his parishioners, to prisoners in the jail, and to the troops when he was chaplain. He was also accused of being a speculator in land and “an appropriator to his own use, of the property of his parish.” Cronyn had, it is true, taken on many responsibilities in his early days in London. He ministered to those who had been condemned to death for their part in the events of 1837–38, and the troops of the garrison attended his church while stationed in London. How far he carried out the other duties associated with the work of a chaplain cannot be shown. His land transactions were complicated, profitable, and, according to some, devious. In a letter to the London Free Press the churchwardens of St Paul’s discussed the accusations, and strongly claimed that church welfare rather than speculation was his motive in negotiations over land which later became valuable. On 8 July 1857 the delegates met in St Paul’s Church. There were 42 clergy licensed in the 39 parishes in the new diocese, and two laymen from each parish (with one vote; if they did not agree they would not vote). Bishop Strachan presided over the election, which resulted in 22 of the clergy and 23 of the laity voting for Cronyn, and 20 clergymen and ten laymen for Bethune. Six parishes had not voted, presumably because the two lay delegates could not agree. Thus Cronyn was elected on the first ballot. Many explanations of the result have been given. The clerical vote was greatly influenced by the number of Irish clergy serving in the new diocese. Of the 42 clergy voting, nine were Trinity College, Dublin, men, and at least another six had been born in Ireland or had an Irish background. The low church Irish clergy had more sympathy for Cronyn’s religious views than those of Bethune. Furthermore, the endowment had been raised locally, and the lay contributors also preferred the churchmanship of Cronyn whom they knew and who had led the campaign for funds. Cronyn was consecrated at Lambeth on 28 Oct. 1857 by the archbishop of Canterbury acting under Queen Victoria’s mandate, the last Canadian bishop required to go to England for consecration. He also visited Ireland where he recruited Edward Sullivan, later bishop of Algoma, James Carmichael, later bishop of Montreal, and John Philip DuMoulin, later bishop of Niagara. After his return he was enthroned in St Paul’s Cathedral on 24 March 1858. In his charge delivered to the clergy of the diocese at his first visitation in June 1859, Cronyn told something of his activities as bishop: “Since April, 1858, I have visited eighty-four congregations in the Diocese, and preached 130 sermons; I have confirmed 1,453 candidates, consecrated five churches and two burial grounds, ordained fifteen Deacons and three Priests, and travelled in the discharge of these duties 2,452 miles.” At the same time he made clear his evangelical views. He emphasized the importance of preaching, saying that “Amongst the many means of grace which God has appointed in the Church . . . the preaching of the word stands pre-eminent. The pulpit is the Ministers’ great battle-field.” He condemned “auricular confession and priestly absolution,” “penances and self-inflicted torments,” and “purgatory, with its thousands of years of torment,” stressing instead the need of conversion. The 39 Articles to him were the “ultima ratio in all questions of doctrine,” and “where any of our formularies are expressed in ambiguous language and appear inconsistent with the plain statements of the articles, we are bound to interpret the former by the latter.” His evangelical views soon involved him in a serious difference of opinion with Strachan. In 1858 some graduates of Trinity College in Toronto, a college instituted by the bishop, expressed views concerning the character and doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church which disturbed Cronyn. He concluded that these views were traceable to the teaching they had received. In April 1860 he wrote to Strachan expressing his disapproval of the college “in many things” and declined to nominate the five councillors whom he had the right to name. At the June 1860 synod of Huron one of Cronyn’s own clergy, the Reverend Adam Townley of Paris, proposed a resolution which stated in part: “this Synod respectfully requests the Lord Bishop [Cronyn] to adopt such means as in his wisdom he may see good as shall tend to secure the hearty co-operation of all Churchmen in support of Trinity College, Toronto.” A lay representative asked Cronyn to give his opinion on the motion and he replied that he could not approve of it: “I think it dangerous to the young men educated there, more particularly if they are educated for the ministry.” He also said that he would not for any consideration send a son of his to the institution nor could he see any prospect of effecting a change in the teaching there. In a pastoral letter in July 1860 Cronyn gave his recollection of what he had said at the June synod of that year, and attacked “The Provost’s Catechism” which he claimed was placed in the hands of every student entering Trinity College. The views put forth in the catechism were to him “unsound and un-Protestant” and dangerous in the extreme. This attack launched a lengthy controversy between Cronyn and Provost George Whitaker of Trinity College, which was fully canvassed by the press and in many pamphlets. The Corporation of Trinity College eventually submitted the documents in the dispute to the bishops of the church in British North America, requesting them to declare whether they found any of the doctrines of the provost “unsound or unscriptural, contrary to the teaching of the Church of England, or dangerous in their tendency, or leading to the Church of Rome.” The judgement of the bishops, with Cronyn dissenting, was that several of the points in the provost’s teaching had reference to matters about which the church is silent, but which a theological professor might well discuss. Such statements, however, were private opinions. Cronyn’s distrust of Trinity College, as well as the urgent need for more clergy in his diocese, had suggested to him the desirability of establishing his own college in which young men might be trained for the ministry under his eye. In his charge to the synod in 1862 he admitted that he had entertained the idea for some time. In 1863 there were only 76 clergy in the diocese and more than 50 townships were without the ministrations of a clergyman. The need for a theological college was clear. He had already secured in 1861 the services of Dr Isaac Hellmuth, a man ideally suited for his purposes, to solicit aid in England for the erection of his projected school of theology. In 1862 Hellmuth persuaded the wealthy Reverend Alfred Peache of Downend, Bristol, to contribute £5,000 as an endowment for a divinity chair in the new college, to be called the “Peache chair.” The appointee, the first being Hellmuth himself, was required to “be a Clergyman of the United Church of England and Ireland of strictly Protestant and Evangelical principles and of approved learning ability piety and holiness of life holding and continuing to hold the same as expressed in the Thirty-nine Articles interpreted in their plain and natural sense.” The Colonial and Continental Church Society, with which Hellmuth had been associated, also proved to be a friend to the college from the first. The accent on “Protestant and Evangelical principles” produced financial support in England which almost certainly would not otherwise have come. Cronyn applied to the legislature for a charter and on 5 May 1863 the act to incorporate Huron College received royal assent. The college opened on 2 December. Such was the uncompromising theology of Cronyn that when he received an invitation from the archbishop of Canterbury to attend the first Lambeth Conference in September 1867, he viewed it with suspicion. The conference had developed from a suggestion of the provincial synod of Canada, that a “Pan-Anglican Conference of Bishops” be called to discuss common problems [see James Beaven]. One was the privy council decision of 1865 in the case of Bishop Colenso, which had put the validity of all documents appointing the bishops in self-governing colonies in doubt; another was the effect of the publication in 1860 of the theologically controversial Essays and reviews. Cronyn gave his opinion of the proposed gathering in no uncertain terms in his charge to synod in 1867: “It is evident that his Grace intends that all should understand that the meeting is to be regarded merely as a social gathering. . . . Of course, all shades of opinion, recognised or not recognised in the church, would be represented there, from the almost full-blown Romanism of those who boldly profess to celebrate the mass in our churches, with incense and the idolatrous worship of the consecrated elements, to the feeble, timid and dishonest efforts of incipient innovators, who are endeavoring, bit by bit, to introduce the exploded and condemned ritual of former days, and thus in time to effect the unprotestantizing of our church, by accustoming the people to the ritualism of Rome, and thus undoing the work of the Reformation.” Nor was he alone in his opposition, for the archbishop of York and the dean of Westminster also would not cooperate. The synod nevertheless requested Cronyn to attend the conference, which he did “with much diffidence and hesitation.” He was not unhappy over the proceedings, and on the invitation of the Colonial and Continental Church Society he preached “in the two English Churches” in Paris. He visited the Paris exhibition of that year and was surprised to find that the “circulation of God’s Holy Word, and of religious publications of various kinds” was being extensively carried on. He was not so happy with what he saw at St Alban’s, Holborn, London. He left that church humiliated and grieved, and more than ever convinced of the necessity of guarding against the introduction “even of the smallest things savouring of those superstitious observances which can hardly be distinguished from the ceremonial of the Church of Rome.” While in England, Cronyn interviewed the secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, who told him that the society had decided to reduce its annual grant to the diocese from £1,200 to £800. The reduction meant that assistance to ten missionaries had been withdrawn. In order to make up the deficiency Cronyn suggested at the 1868 synod that a general appeal should be made throughout the diocese. The synod responded to the proposal by launching a “Sustentation Fund” appeal which by 1869 had reached nearly $30,000. Cronyn advocated making the fund sufficiently large to provide “a moderate endowment in the Diocese for all time to come,” as the voluntary system had never been found sufficient to supply the spiritual wants of the people; by 1871 the fund had reached $68,000. Cronyn had again shown his ability for fund raising, as he had in 1854. A measure of Cronyn’s contribution to the diocese is provided by his report to his final synod in 1871. At that time there were 88 active clergymen and one superannuated. During the preceding year he had confirmed 1,371 candidates, preached 65 sermons, delivered 43 addresses to candidates, ordained seven priests and six deacons, consecrated six churches, opened two churches for divine worship, visited 67 congregations in ten counties, and travelled 3,355 miles. Cronyn’s evangelical views, maintained by the early Irish clergy in the diocese and by the many who followed them, were sustained by the teaching at Huron College. They coloured the theology of the diocese of Huron for many years after his death. He must not, however, be judged by his theological views alone. His practical contributions were lasting and incalculable. The number of clergymen in the newly formed diocese had more than doubled by 1871. He had opened no fewer than 101 churches. Parishes in the same period increased in number from 39 to 160. Of the latter 15 were vacant, suggesting a need for perhaps an additional eight clergy. Huron College, the institution which Cronyn had founded on his own initiative, supplied over the years many clergy not only for his own diocese but for the Canadian church at large and the mission field. From Huron College, through the efforts of Hellmuth, grew the present University of Western Ontario, which became non-denominational in 1908. Cronyn was pre-eminent as a judge and recruiter of men. Six of the clergy he ordained during his episcopate (they numbered at least 83) were destined to become bishops: in addition to the three volunteers he brought from Ireland following his consecration he ordained John McLean, Maurice Scollard Baldwin*, and William Cyprian Pinkham. He was also a most indefatigable and successful raiser of funds. Philip Carrington was to say: “The new Diocese of Huron, under its energetic and forceful bishop, became a powerhouse for the whole Canadian Church. He was a great fighter, and a great fisher of men.” James J. Talman [The only collection of Cronyn papers is in the library of Huron College, London, Ontario. It is a small collection of documents and letters dealing with the every-day life and business of four generations of the family. The synod office of the diocese of Huron possesses a Cronyn letter book, covering the period 1858–67, which deals with diocesan matters. The John Strachan papers and letter books at PAO contain material from Cronyn between 1840 and 1865. Cronyn was a prolific pamphleteer, and his addresses to synod, although not always printed, give his views and describe his activities in great detail. j.j.t.] Benjamin Cronyn, The bishop of Huron to the clerical and lay gentlemen composing the Executive Committee of the Synod of the Diocese of Huron (n.p., 1860); [ ], Bishop of Huron’s objections to the theological teaching of Trinity College, as now set forth in the letters of Provost Whitaker . . . (London, C.W., 1862); A charge delivered to the clergy of the Diocese of Huron, in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, Canada West, at his primary visitation, in June, 1859 (Toronto, 1859). The bishop of Huron and Trinity College, Toronto ([London, C.W., 1860]). The bishop of Huron’s objections to the theological teaching of Trinity College, with the provost’s reply (Toronto, 1862). James Bovell, Defence of doctrinal statements; addressed to the right rev. the lord bishop of Toronto, the right rev. the lord bishop of Huron, and the Corporation of Trinity College . . . (Toronto, 1860). The episcopal controversy; being a series of letters written by the respective friends of the Ven. Archdeacon Bethune, D.D., and Dr. Cronyn, rector of London; the two candidates for the bishopric of the western diocese (London, C.W., 1857). The gospel in Canada: and its relation to Huron College . . . (London, C.W., [1865?]). The judgments of the Canadian bishops, on the documents submitted to them by the Corporation of Trinity College, in relation to the theological teaching of the college (Toronto, 1863). [J. T. Lewis], A letter to the right rev. the lord bishop of Huron by the lord bishop of Ontario ([n.p., n.d). [A Presbyter], Strictures on the two letters of Provost Whitaker in answer to charges brought by the lord bishop of Huron against the teaching of Trinity College (London, C.W., 1861). The protest of the minority of the Corporation of Trinity College, against the resolution approving of the theological teaching of that institution (London, C.W., 1864). Adam Townley, A letter to the lord bishop of Huron: in personal vindication; and on the expediency of a new diocesan college (Brantford, C.W., 1862). George Whitaker, Two letters to the lord bishop of Toronto, in reply to charges brought by the lord bishop of Huron against the theological teaching of Trinity College, Toronto (Toronto, 1860). Church of England, Synod of the Diocese of Huron, Minutes, 1858–71 (London, Ont., 1862–71). London Free Press, 8–10 July 1857, 23 Sept. 1871. Upper Canada, House of Assembly, Appendix to journal, 1836, app.106, p.60. R. T. Appleyard, “The origins of Huron College in relation to the religious questions of the period,” unpublished ma thesis, University of Western Ontario, 1937. A. H. Crowfoot, Benjamin Cronyn, first bishop of Huron (London, Ont., 1957). C. H. Mockridge, The bishops of the Church of England in Canada and Newfoundland . . . (Toronto, 1896), 150–62. J. J. Talman, Huron College, 1863–1963 (London, Ont., 1963) J. J. and R. D. Talman, “Western” – 1878–1953 (London, Ont., 1953). Verschoyle Cronyn, “The first bishop of Huron,” London and Middlesex Hist. Soc., Trans., III (1911), 53–62. S. W. Horrall, “The clergy and the election of Bishop Cronyn,” Ont. Hist., LVIII (1966), 205–20. 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Talman, “CRONYN, BENJAMIN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 10, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed January 22, 2020, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cronyn_benjamin_10E.html. Permalink: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/cronyn_benjamin_10E.html Author of Article: James J. Talman Title of Article: CRONYN, BENJAMIN	cc/2020-05/en_head_0029.json.gz/line42
__label__wiki	0.748695	0.748695	Biography – HENEKER, RICHARD WILLIAM – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography HENEKER, RICHARD WILLIAM, businessman and politician; b. 2 May 1823 in Dublin; m. 1856 Elizabeth Tuson in England, and they had three sons; d. 15 Aug. 1912 in Bournemouth, England. Richard William Heneker received his formal education at the University College School in London, England. He apparently studied architecture privately and at age 19 entered the office of Charles Barry, architect of the Houses of Parliament at Westminster (London). He stayed with Barry until the late 1840s, at which time he set off on his own. He exhibited drawings on several occasions at the Royal Academy of Arts and in 1846 he won second prize in a competition for the design of a railway station. By the early 1850s he had been elected an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects and had formed a partnership with Frederick Lawford, a fellow architect. As late as 1854 Heneker and Lawford displayed designs at the Royal Academy. There was nothing to suggest that Heneker would soon embark upon a business career in Canada, nor is there any evidence to explain how an architect came to occupy a powerful role in the British American Land Company, the firm that controlled much of the land in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada. The company had been founded in the 1830s by a group of men which included John Galt. Galt’s son Alexander Tilloch served as commissioner of the land company from 1844 to 1856. Based in Sherbrooke, the commissioner was the leading North American official of the company and, accordingly, one of the most powerful men in the Eastern Townships. By 1855 Galt wanted to devote himself fully to his political career and his personal business interests. He was persuaded to remain with the company for a year; Heneker was appointed assistant commissioner. On Galt’s resignation in 1856 the position of commissioner was open for Heneker, who would serve until 1902. En route to Sherbrooke in 1855, Heneker had visited Lowell, Mass., presumably because he had been informed that lessons might be learned there which could prove useful in his new job. He was particularly struck by the way in which the various companies employing the same source of water-power were able to cooperate with one another. This cooperation, he observed, was made possible by the fact that “many persons hold shares in every one of the companies.” Ultimately, his business prominence in Sherbrooke was based upon his playing significant roles in various firms and it might be argued that he was able to get things done because of these numerous roles. In 1866, for instance, he used his position as commissioner of the land company and as the de facto owner of the major source of water-power in Sherbrooke to bring about the establishment of A. Paton and Company (renamed Paton Manufacturing Company of Sherbrooke in 1868), a woollen mill which would be the city’s most important employer throughout much of the late 19th century [see Andrew Paton]. He served as the firm’s president until 1902. Similarly, he was among those who started the Eastern Townships Bank in 1859. By 1874 Heneker was the bank’s president, using his position to aid the woollen mill when it was in need. In addition, he served from 1892 to 1902 as president of the Sherbrooke Gas and Water Company, which had leased from the land company property bordering on the city’s major waterfalls. Heneker filled so many roles that when he appeared before the royal commission on the relations of labour and capital in 1888 he identified himself as “gentleman or banker, whichever you please. I have a variety of occupations, if I may so term it.” This response did not endear Heneker to his superiors in the British American Land Company. Although he had presided over the reduction of the company’s property in Sherbrooke from 1,200 acres in 1857 to 607 in 1884, the directors in London were concerned by his preference for investing rather than selling. Accordingly, they curbed his ability to develop real estate and ordered him to concentrate on the liquidation of the company’s holdings. Heneker was also involved in every significant activity of a social nature that touched on the English-speaking and Protestant population of the Eastern Townships. When he arrived there anglophones formed the majority in both Sherbrooke and the region which surrounded it, and he did all that he could to maintain the vitality of the English-speaking population. He was particularly active in the field of education through his close link to Bishop’s College, Lennoxville. He joined the college’s board of trustees in 1859, was made vice-chancellor and chairman of the board in 1875, and became chancellor in 1878, a position he would hold until 1900. He also involved himself in education at the provincial level, serving on the Protestant committee of the Council of Public Instruction as an associate (non-voting) member from 1876 to 1881, as a regular member from 1881 to 1900, and as chairman of the committee from 1892 to 1900. He acted in various capacities within the Church of England, particularly as a delegate to diocesan, provincial, and general synods, and he led the drive for the establishment of the Sherbrooke Protestant Hospital, serving as its first president from 1888 to 1902. He was active in various colonization societies which sought to bring English-speaking settlers to the townships. This interest in advancing the concerns of the English-speaking population was also evident in Heneker’s limited political career. Although, campaigning as an independent Conservative, he lost the provincial seat of Sherbrooke to Joseph Gibb Robertson in the election of 1867, he gained a measure of revenge by succeeding Robertson as mayor of Sherbrooke the following year. The mayor was chosen by the city council from among its members and Heneker, who sat on the council from 1867 to 1868 and again from 1876 to 1882, served another term in 1877. On the second occasion his election raised some concerns among French Canadians who remembered that the previous year he had protested that the French-speaking majority did not deserve a majority of seats on the council because they owned only one-quarter of the property in the city. Across nearly 50 years, Heneker committed himself to two goals: the construction of a regional economy under local control and the maintenance of the influence of the English-speaking population. By the time of his departure from Canada in 1902, however, he had little reason to be pleased on either account. He and a small group of local businessmen had tried to pool their resources to establish an economy under their direction. They formed part of a regional bourgeoisie, but like members of this class elsewhere in late-19th-century Canada, they found their ambitions thwarted by the increasing concentration of influence over the economy in the hands of the grande bourgeoisie based in Montreal. Accordingly, Heneker saw the control of the woollen mill pass to Montreal interests dominated by George Stephen* and, although the Eastern Townships Bank remained locally owned until 1912, even in his own time Heneker could see the increased competition of the larger institutions eating into profits. Parallel to the decline of the local economy was the decline of the English-speaking population, which was decidedly in the minority by 1902. Thus, when Heneker retired to England, he was leaving an area that was quite different from the one he had tried to construct in his early decades in Canada. Ronald Rudin Bishop’s Univ. Arch. and Special Coll. (Lennoxville, Que.), Corporation minutes; Trustees’ minutes. CIBC [Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce] Arch. (Toronto), RG 4 (Eastern Townships Bank), board of directors, minutes. Cleyn and Tinker Company Arch. (Huntingdon, Que.), Paton Manufacturing Company papers. NA, MG 24, I54; MG 30, C128, 5. Can., Royal commission on the relations of labour and capital in Canada, Report (5v. in 6, Ottawa, 1889), 4, pt.2. Canadian men and women of the time (Morgan; 1898 and 1912). Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts . . . (8v., London, 1905–6; repr. in 4v., East Ardsley, Eng., 1970). J. I. Little, Nationalism, capitalism, and colonization in nineteenth-century Quebec: the upper St Francis District (Kingston, Ont., 1989); “Watching the frontier disappear: English-speaking reaction to French-Canadian colonization in the Eastern Townships, 1844–90,” JCS, 15 (1980–81), no.4: 93–111. Que., Parl., Sessional papers, 1890–1901, reports of the superintendent of public instruction, 1888–1900. Ronald Rudin, “The Megantic outlaw and his times: ethnic tensions in Quebec in the 1880s,” Canadian Ethnic Studies (Calgary), 18 (1986), no.1: 16–31; “Naissance et déclin d’une élite locale: la Banque des Cantons de l’Est, 1859–1912,” RHAF, 38 (1984–85): 165–79; “The transformation of the Eastern Townships of Richard William Heneker, 1855–1902,” JCS, 19 (1984–85), no.3: 32–49. 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__label__cc	0.659731	0.340269	AWAKENING OUR SPIRIT by Rev. Chris Glaser Kirkridge – Pennsylvania Texts: Psalm 103:1-17b; John 11:32-44 [READING of John 11:32-44, the Raising of Lazarus] I don’t know about you, but the older I get, it’s harder and harder to awaken my spirit. I don’t sleep as well as I used to, waking up to pee or worse, waking up to think about a myriad of things that should wait till morning. I still get up between 6 and 6:30 every day, but there’s a part of me that would like to linger in a horizontal position. And I really need to be horizontal at least briefly after lunch, a power nap to get me through the afternoon. Though I still run, I’m cautious about dancing for fear of twisting a knee. And I think before going down or up our stairs at home, to make sure I have what I need so I don’t have to make that trip again! During an annual physical, the nurse measured my height and told me that I was 5’ 9.” I said that can’t be right, I should be 5’ 11”—or at least 5’ 10 & ¾’s. She measured again, and indeed I was 5’ 9”. Less than a week later I read in the science section of The New York Times that men lose two inches of their height by the age of 60—and I’m 60. Apparently gravity and aging compress the spine, so I can’t reach as high as I used to, and unless I pull my jeans up high or make cuffs, their hem drags underfoot. You can probably guess where that two inches in height has gone—to my waist! My jeans are now two inches larger to accommodate my thickening torso. Even so, I still unbutton the top button to feel comfortable when I sit. During my physicals, I’ve learned not to talk too much about aches and pains in my body, let alone fatigue. The doctor, who is about my age, always gives me a patronizing smile and tells me aches and pains and fatigue come with the territory as we get older. I think I feel pretty good most of the time, but two weeks ago, when my neighbor studying yoga wanted to use me as a guinea pig in practicing his yoga therapy, I managed to fill up his intake interview sheet with a multitude of physical concerns. Now I am not cataloguing these complaints to elicit your sympathy, but to say many of us here are in the same boat. We have aches and pains and fatigue that remind us we are not as young as we used to be, we don’t move or even think as fast, and that mutability and mortality are things that happen to us, not just other people. But spiritually, this can be a very good thing. It forces us to think about life—what it is, what is still possible, how we may yet “carpe diem,” seize the day, before it “carpes” us! Saint Benedict told contemplatives, “Remind yourself each day that you are going to die.” Monks of Eastern religions traditionally watched a corpse decompose to contemplate in their gut their own mutability. In 1994, Sherwin B. Nuland, a Yale doctor, wrote a bestselling book entitled “How We Die” depicting death’s process. In 2008, engineering professor Randy Pausch delivered and wrote “The Last Lecture” saying what wisdom he would want to impart as he coped with pancreatic cancer. My own mother, in the months before she died in 1999, wrote the family a letter, urging us to embrace faith. And of course many of us have seen the movie “The Bucket List” in which characters played by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman devise a list of things they want to do before they “kick the bucket.” My new book deals with this subject matter. “The Final Deadline: What Death Has Taught Me about Life” details what deaths I have experienced taught me, and how even those who have died continue to teach me about life. I’ll see a reporter on the news get all excited reporting on something as if it were brand new, and remember my mom rolling her eyes as if to say “I’ve heard it all before,” like Ecclesiastes declaring “there’s nothing new under the sun”—and say to myself, “Oh, that’s what Mom meant.” Or a young person will ignore my life experience and I’ll realize, “Oh, that’s what Dad felt.” Nothing awakens the spirit like a near death experience, and it doesn’t have to be a brush with your own death. A friend of mine, after attending his first funeral, came out of the church into the sunshine with a refreshed sense of life’s possibilities. Last spring we had a near-death experience with Wade’s youngest brother. A healthy young man, he nonetheless developed a strep infection that went into his organs, first attacking his liver (causing consideration of a liver transplant), then his kidneys (requiring temporary dialysis), and then his heart. For ten days he was in an induced coma in ICU while the infection was identified and treated. His family and friends, coworkers and church, kept vigil—and his recovery struck us as no less than a resurrection! This awakened our spirits to our own vulnerabilities! By contrast, nothing awakens the spirit to our own possibilities like a retreat, vacation, or just plain time off. Vacation is a great balance for vocation. One definition of vocation is quote “an impulse to perform a certain function.” Vacation is defined as freedom from such an impulse, a letting go of our compulsions to do things we have always done, to do things the way we have always done them—thus awakening our spirits to new possibilities. My partner Wade and I spent our vacation this October on a two-week trip to Chile to celebrate my 60th birthday, his 50th birthday, and our 10th anniversary, which all came within that two-week period. Last Sunday’s New York Times listed 41 places one should visit and Santiago, the capital city, which we used as a base, was listed as number one—we felt so ahead of a trend! Wade wanted to observe his milestone birthday out of the country, and in a country that was not overrun with American tourists. We visited several wineries, trekked under the awesome peaks of the Andes, biked through urban parks, explored two homes of the Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, and spent several days at the shore. We stayed part of the time at a bed & breakfast in Santiago run by a gay couple who welcomed us into their extended family, celebrating our birthdays with birthday cakes, pisco sours, and traditional Chilean dinners that they beautifully prepared. But the emotional highlight of the trip for me—the one which brought tears of joy to my eyes—was the rescuing of the miners trapped two months beneath the surface of the earth. Like many of you, I had watched their plight from afar when they were first trapped, and I had hoped against hope that we would be in Chile for their moment of freedom. Their families, wives and lovers had set up camp near the opening of the mine in solidarity, creating a community to welcome them home. Chile mobilized its resources to save the thirty-three, bringing in experts in drilling, in psychology, in health, and in encouragement to see them through their ordeal. Chilean flags flew everywhere in support, reminiscent of the American flags that proliferated after 9/11. I happened to turn on BBC television just minutes after the initial breakthrough of the shaft for the capsule around 8 a.m. one morning, and waited the couple of days with the world until the miners were brought one by one out of the mine. Mario the jokester brought up rocks for officials at the surface, including the Chilean president and his wife. Here are two newspapers from that day, as the miners were coming up one by one. You can see Mario pictured in one, called “Super Mario,” and a huge headline on the other, “The 33 could be free tonight.” Our bed & breakfast was right next to an elementary school, and each time a miner was brought up we could hear the children shout for joy and sing the national anthem. When the last miner was brought out that night, our hosts took us upstairs to their apartment and flung wide their windows overlooking the Santiago rooftops so we could hear the church bells ringing across the city in celebration. As one National Public Radio commentator said the following week, the elation the world shared was akin to the Americans landing on the moon, adding, in that week, we were all Chileans. Over and over again, in my heart, I heard the Psalmist proclaim, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless God’s holy name. and do not forget all God’s benefits— who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the Pit who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good as long as you live so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. The Lord works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed. The steadfast love of Yahweh is from everlasting to everlasting on those who hold God in awe, and God’s [saving justice to our] children’s children… to those who keep God’s covenant. Before I left Chile, I knew I wanted this to be one of the texts for this weekend about “Awakening the Spirit.” I wanted somehow to convey to you the elation of all of us witnessing the miners lives’ being redeemed from “the Pit,” crowned with steadfast love and mercy—the steadfast love of their lovers, wives, families, friends, and all of Chile that lifted them up out of that mine. Though I could remember many of the words of the psalm, it took me a while to hunt down which psalm it was, using an internet concordance. In doing so, I realized how many times the Psalmist talks about the Pit, sometimes asking God to throw enemies into it, sometimes declaring God will cast the wicked there. But often the Psalmist is redeemed from the Pit, that hopeless despair, that “miry bog” in one psalm, that can keep one from rising to the imago dei—the image of God that is reflected in each us, and for Christians, the Christ that may be revealed by each of us. In a way, the miners served for me also as a metaphor for Chile itself, emerging from the Pit of a dictatorship that severely restricted the free movement of the people. When I was in seminary in the 70’s, I remember reading a New York Times article speculating if the CIA were involved with the overthrow of the Socialist President Allende in a coup led by the right-wing General Pinochet, whose rule forbad gatherings, who was suspicious of artists and academics, and during whose reign thousands of dissidents were detained, tortured, or simply “disappeared.” On our bike ride around the city of Santiago on a beautiful, sunny day, with a clear view of the snow-capped Andes, we were blessed with a guide who is an architect, one who could point out how the buildings changed with the end of Pinochet’s absolute rule—there was more experimentation and openness with architectural design, and more public art in the city and its parks. There was attention to energy conservation as well—one ten-story building was built with huge vines that grew up the side facing the sun, whose leaves and flowers provide cooling shade in the hot summer and which lays dormant in the cold winter, allowing the sun to naturally warm the building. After the cold winter of dictatorship, I could hear the psalmist warmly affirming, “The Lord works vindication and justice for all who are oppressed.” I was also aware that our trip coincided with International Coming Out Day, October 11, in which lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people are encouraged to self-identify. We can all testify that a closet in which you must hide your sexual or gender identity, a closet in which you must hide your love and your beloved, is also a Pit—airless, confining, dark, hopeless. And the only thing that can redeem our lives from that pit is God’s steadfast love incarnated in our families and friends, communities and churches, policies and laws. I could not help but imagine how wonderful it would be if, for every person who came out of the Pit of the closet, families would eagerly embrace them, school children would shout with joy, churches would ring their bells, rainbow flags would fly everywhere, the media would positively report it, and the world would rejoice! Just as the miners reported that the sky had never seemed so blue, imagine the refreshed vision of LGBT people, as well as our families and friends and allies, as we leave the closet behind, uplifted by God’s steadfast love. What an awakening of our spirits! What an awakening of God’s Spirit! My reading for the trip were several books by James Baldwin, an iconic gay African-American writer. His novel, Giovanni’s Room, depicted a narrator caught in the pit of his own denial about his sexuality as well as the homophobia of his era. And in the landmark non-fiction book, The Fire Next Time, Baldwin includes a letter written to his nephew in the 1960’s, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The letter is entitled, “My Dungeon Shook.” I was struck by his strong words about those who, through their ignorance, would keep black people in the Pit of segregation and exclusion. He writes, “…it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime. … Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. … Those innocents who believed that your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp of reality.” [REPEAT] I take the word “innocents” to mean the “privileged,” who do not know what it means to be oppressed or marginalized. Wade and I were repeatedly reminded of what it was like not to be legally married on our trip: we had to bring with us our notarized directives for health care, so we would have access to each other and be able to make medical decisions for one another if necessary; we had to deny our relationship on the forms for entering Chile and returning to the U.S., listing ourselves as “single”; we were met with surprise by two hotels because we wanted to share a bed; and, of course, we would never be allowed the public displays of affection we repeatedly witnessed of opposite-gender couples all around Chile. James Baldwin continues advising his nephew, “There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they must accept you. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them. And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people [,these privileged people,] have no other hope. … If the word integration means anything,” Baldwin continues, “this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers [and sisters] to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it.” Steadfast love lifts all of us out of the Pit, whether the Pit of the underprivileged and marginalized or the Pit of the privileged and mainstream. And, as Martin Luther King Jr. preached and practiced, whose birthday we celebrate in the U.S. this weekend, the redemptive love of the underprivileged, of the marginalized, is often the key to our mutual liberation. But it is redemptive because it serves as an intervention, helping those addicted to privilege to, in Baldwin’s words “see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.” This is also the redemptive gay experience, helping people to “see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.” “See how much he loved him.” So said Lazarus’ neighbors when they witnessed how deeply troubled Jesus was to find his friend Lazarus in the Pit of a grave. Perhaps his own impending death made him feel the pain of Lazarus’s death all the more. Jesus’ steadfast love mobilized the people, first to lead him to that Pit, not caring one whit that going to a graveyard would render him impure and unfit to enter the temple. Then he mobilized the people to remove the stone from the tomb, despite objections that it would raise a stink. And after he called Lazarus to “Come out!” he commanded the people to untie the death cloths to completely free Lazarus. Like the faith of the women waiting for the miners, Martha and Mary had faith. They had faith that if Jesus were there, their brother would not have died, and even now, whatever Jesus asked of God would be given them. They knew God’s steadfast love incarnated in Jesus could lift Lazarus up, awakening his spirit. But it required the action, the commitment of Lazarus’s family and neighbors to complete the task—to roll the stone from the tomb, to unbind the paralyzing death cloths. And from that day, the Gospel of John tells us, Jesus’ enemies plotted not only his death but also that of Lazarus. Remember Baldwin’s words, “To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. … People find it very difficult to act on what they know.” You have come to this weekend because you know something. You know deep in your hearts that there is something wrong about the way we have been treated in the church and in the many communities of which we are part. Will we, with Jesus, have the courage to go to the graveyards—the church meetings, the board of education meetings, the city councils, the state legislatures, Congress, as well as our own our family gatherings to call our fellow Christians and citizens and relatives to remove the stones from the closets and release those bound by homophobia and heterosexism? Will we, as Christ in the 21st century, incarnate God’s steadfast love that lifts us up out of our pits, privileged and underprivileged alike, marginalized or mainstream, awakening our spirits and healing our wounds? Or will we join the throngs of Christians and citizens who, over the past forty years, have patronizingly patted LGBT people on the back saying it’s not time yet, be patient, we must first consider the scribes and Pharisees, your time will come. In his letter to his nephew, James Baldwin complained that the hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation was coming a hundred years too soon, because African-Americans were still awaiting being lifted out of the Pit. Think of the miners in Chile. Think of Lazarus in his tomb. Could they have waited forty years? Could they have waited one hundred years? And think of the psalmist, lifted up by the steadfast love of Yahweh. Wouldn’t we want the WHOLE church to be able to sing this song? Wouldn’t we want our WHOLE community and country—gay and straight—to praise God with the Psalmist: Just as healing our wounds is a communal experience, so is awakening our spirits. Healing our wounds and awakening our spirits is also a generational experience. This year marks the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, and we in the United States have a biracial President to show for it, but still inequities among the races. We have just passed the fortieth anniversary of Stonewall, and we have greater access to the ministry, to the military, and to marriage, but our children and our children’s children are still being bullied and taunted and marginalized, and some will not live long enough to see that “it gets better.” The men who have come to Kirkridge over the decades to heal our wounds and awaken our spirits may pass this redemptive gay experience to younger men, to other men, only by becoming more evangelical in our outreach, as well as remaining generous in our scholarships and in our support of Kirkridge and gracious in welcoming new men to this beloved community. Next year I’d like to see us double our attendance, and to do so with a new generation, many of whom face greater challenges embracing their faith than accepting their sexuality. We may become spiritual mentors, but only if we leave this mountain with a determination to spread the gospel that Jesus meets us here each year, lifting us out of our pits and graves and closets, healing our wounds, and awakening our spirits to God’s unconditional, welcoming love embodied in this great group of men.	cc/2020-05/en_head_0029.json.gz/line46

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