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__label__cc	0.651312	0.348688	A glimmer of hope from a dying country Publié le 31 janvier 1999 Patrice Yengo, Brazzaville/Paris \| Chronique Beyond the bitterness stirred by the dramatic events of the civil war in Brazzaville, writer Patrice Yengo, director of the excellent Congolese magazine Rupture, points to the glimmer of hope in recent art forms. Pépé Kallé is dead. The man we used to call the elephant of Zaïrian music, the head of the Bakuba Empire, is no more. And as if emperors never go alone, Mamky Kulandia is dead too. The news from Abidjan came down like a ton of bricks: the empress has left us. All of a sudden, Brazza has become even more sombre. It’s a funny old country where people celebrate 1 November (day of the dead) more than the 25 December (day of children), a funny old town where dignitaries drive around in anthracite-coloured cars, as black as hearses, if not blacker still. Meanwhile, the artists walk, walk, and carry on walking. On their way to rehearsals, concerts. Fortunately, the distances have become shorter. In the past we used to head off from Bacongo in Mpila to go to Zaïko Langa-Langa or Kamikaze de Youlou Mabiala concerts at the « Congolaise », or in the opposite direction from Talanga to Makélékélé to visit Sony Labou Tansi, before stopping at the French Cultural Centre on the way back to watch a performance of Gods Bits of Wood by the Ngunga. The distances have diminished, Brazza has shrivelled. Everybody at home after 8 pm. And it’s better that way at that. Sony is dead and Matondo Kubuture, an older Ngunga actor, is ill. A bout of typhoid that has sent him running from house to house trying to get a little money together to get himself properly treated. And, as if that weren’t enough, he didn’t get his visa for Avignon. « No body gives a damn! Art is not an anthropometry office », Léo Ferré declared. And in Congo, even though the Minister of Culture harps on about artists being misunderstood, all the officials know full well that a useful artist is a dead artist. They sing his/her praises, glorify him/her against his/her image, against his/her work, in the name of the « artistic or literary grandeur of the country ». Ah! That national grandeur which only engenders petty people! It may be to escape this that Congolese artists have decided to distance themselves from the State and to invent their own cultural sites beyond all political pressurizing. In any case, there aren’t any more buildings left standing in the town centre, buildings which could have served as an agora. Other than the French Cultural Centre, that baker’s as we still used to call it not so very long ago, no saving grace. What kind of bread are they making there now? Congo’s artists have thus decided to invent their own cultural sites. Bill Kouelany, Rémy Mongo-Etsion, Nicolas Bissi set up an original exhibition in someone’s home in Mansimou. A week (or two) in which these three artists’ paintings and sculptures illuminated an otherwise dowdy neighbourhood. The inhabitants of Mansimou weren’t the only surprised ones, nor the only ones invited. Two ministers of Culture (a former and a new one) made the effort to come, sizing up the event and shopping for the Luanda Bantou Biennial. Mansimou was indeed the pictorial event of 1998. As an initiative, it allowed the artists to free themselves from the stifling atmosphere of the habitual circuits. As a site, it enabled people to see Brazza’s most creative current work. At the opening, Matondo Kubuture read one of his poems of a rare intensity and Matsiona Mathus played the sanza heart-rendingly. Whilst Kouelany and Bissi came alone (with their works), Mongo-Etsion trumped up all his Tsieme school: Léandre, Itoua, Nzonzi, Nsondé. Only Anicet Malonga was absent, having gone into exile in Pointe-Noire with Ouaboulé, Trigo Piula and Zekid until Brazzaville comes back to its senses. Who had heard of the Tsieme school? In Brazzaville, people only talk about the Poto-Poto art school, that mythical place that has seen the likes of the greatest Congolese masters such as Ondongo, Zigoma, Ngavouka, Iloki, and young talented painters like Bokotaka, Mpo Gerly, and Dimi pass through, but whose influence is now over-rated given that nothing innovative or even simply important has gone on there for ten years now, even if the school has embraced several exiled artists like Ouassa. It is the workshops of the masters that now prime the new generations. There is the R. Mongo-Etsion painting workshop, of course, but also Hengo’s, the only survivor of the golden era of Congolese painting to question himself and to innovate as very few artists know how. It is very strange how Brazzaville now functions on the peripheries. From two points of view: the geographic periphery (the districts versus the town centre), and the institutional periphery (the margins versus the official). From a geographic point of view, the civil war has practically consecrated the division of the town into the northern neighbourhoods (Poto-Poto, Moungali, Ouenzé, Talangaï) and the southern districts (Bacongo, Makélékélé). A division that is translated in cultural terms. Indeed, literature is based in the « south », and music is found in the « north ». Poto-Poto has maintained its Fifties’ reputation of the Poto Moyindo (Black France) where Saturday nights are cloaked with the importance of the Colonial « 14 July ». Mikolo nionso feti nafeti: every day is party time! And despite its apocalyptic aspect, Poto-Poto is doing itself, and especially its musical health, up. The great Zaïko de Nioka Longo is scheduled there for the end of year celebrations with the unavoidable Extra-Musica, the great revelation of the last two years. Thought to be just a pale copy of Wenge-Musica, they have proven themselves to be an authentic band who, whilst placing themselves in the Wenge vein, are no less original. Originality and success have not spared them from divisions, however. There have been one, two, then three Zaïkos, one then two Wenges, and there are now two Extra-Musicas. A Super-Extra, I am told, of the former Extra-Musica. It is not without a smile that the Congolese call this scissiparity phenomenon the Familia Dei syndrome after the name of the latest of the Zaïko factions. This quasi-pathological phenomenon has even been exported beyond the boundaries of Congolese Rumba. Young hip-hip groups split up one after the other, and the reggae musicians have been left inactive by all the internal battles. A word about hip-hop. People only ever mention Senegal’s Positive Black Soul in Africa. Have you ever listened to the Warriors F.T, Peace de Scherzo, or Metropolis? Their lyrics on AIDS, Sony Labou Tansi, or the civil war are worth the detour with a play on words that their « brother » Passi from Sarcelles’ Secteur A would not be ashamed of. « Atif was one of ours, in all the struggles, all the battles. Victim of the rut, Atif is dead. Son of the suburbs, It’s for him we pray. Oh God! Preserve Atif (play on the word « préservatif »: condom – NDLR) and deliver us from evil. » Métropolis. Houdji Raper of Métropolis is one of the pillars of this music in Brazza, but it is D.J Arth of Warriors who is the most astonishing. This true turntables wizard puts the DJs of Positive Black Soul and other groups who tour in Africa to shame. D.J. Arth is the jack of all trades of this music: bass player, DJ, sounds inventor and a gifted dabbler, he innovates and is an orchestra unto himself. The Congolese youth is not at all interested in arms as people would like to have you believe. Frank Bitemo’s dynamism, for example, led to the creation, right in the midst of the 1997 combats, of Rank’art, an association grouping together music artist of all kinds and which holds concerts three to four times a year. The last one saw the emergence of the groups Emelode Valentina, Viva Mélodia, Any Flore et les Speakers, Tchillembi, Press Mayindou. The group Tchielly de Saintrick Mayitoukou, which was formerly part of the association, had headed off for West Africa. Dakar, Cotonou, Abidjan. Rumour has it that that’s where it’s happening. That’s what currently touring Emile Biayenda of the Tambours de Brazza affirms, adding, « when it’s not in the West, it’s in South Africa or Namibia. » It is true that Congolese musicians are fascinated by the regions and keep on going there: Top Musica, Africa-Brass, Zao. Yes, even Zao. Since he narrowly escaped death, Zao spends half his time abroad. The other half he spends running his Nganda Dio Dio, a kind of open bar that he has set up next to Madibou. They play Sixties music there and it’s not unusual to bump into musicians in search of inspiration like Philippe Sita who, since he abandoned his classical repertoire, has turned to religious funeral wake or wedding music. Two enterprises that are doing well in Brazza. We could speak about music for hours. And God only knows, Brazza is full of it. There appear to be no worries for the new generations in this town visibly drifting towards political dementia. One only need think of Mabonzo Dedina on percussion, that little primary school angel whose mastering of the skins puts professional drummers to shame. As the State has resigned and the older artists lost their bearings, young people are setting out on hitherto unfrequented paths. It is the case with film. No cinemas show « normal » films anymore. There are only X-rated movies. Even karate films have disappeared from the screens. To such and extent that the neighbourhood youth have invested the video-clubs which are becoming as much social hang-outs as places of entertainment. For 25 or 50 FCFA, you can see an adventure film compared with 500 F at the cinema. What should we thus make of Léandre-Alain Bakers shooting Diogène in Brazzaville, or Camille Mouyeké location scouting for Voyage à Ouaga? Congolese cinema is dead, long live the cinema! There have never been so many potential film directors as at present. Far from the official spheres of State culture. Never have there been so many theatre workshops as since the civil war either. Jonas Labou, Sony’s brother, performs at home. The U Tam’si company directed by Antoine Yirrika continually rehearses popular education plays: against sexual violence, for peace. New gowns for old dreams. After all, there is urgent need: the war has not stopped finishing. As the haiku posted up at the Sony Labou Tansi Cultural Centre reads: « Whether or not I have a balaphone To chant the cry of the blood In my veins Tomorrow, it will flow silently On the cobblestones. » Who is this poem by? No matter! A country that has so many writers per square kilometre and which raises them to the ranks of minister so often, is hardly interested in the blood of an illustrious stranger. PS : Brazza is planning to party. People are talking Fespam in a few months. But does Brazza still know how to party? ///Article N° : 5574 Article précédentDocumenter l’histoire de l’Afrique du Sud Article suivant Editorial Carole Onambele Kvasnevski Tour d’horizon africain de la 58e Biennale d’Art de Venise Roxy Theobald Lutter contre les violences sexistes en Outre-mer Fanny Robles Marilyn Nance, January 2017 Aucune information supplémentaire n'est liée à cet article. Aucun article n'est lié à celui-ci.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3212
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Dolan," Introduction to economics" from BVT Publishing, 6th ed.2016 TANSTAAFL: A Libertarian Perspective on Environmental Policyfrom Searching Finance How Gordon Brown Saved Britain from the Euro and Why that Makes him a Hero Author: Ed Dolan · October 2nd, 2011 · 313http%3A%2F%2Fwww.economonitor.com%2Fdolanecon%2F2011%2F10%2F02%2Fhow-gordon-brown-saved-britain-from-the-euro-and-why-that-makes-him-a-hero%2FHow+Gordon+Brown+Saved+Britain+from+the+Euro+and+Why+that+Makes+him+a+Hero2011-10-03+06%3A11%3A39Ed+Dolanhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.economonitor.com%2Fdolanecon%2F%3Fp%3D313 › Share This Print In his new book, Alistair Darling describes Gordon Brown’s political style as “appalling,” “volcanic,” and “brutal.” He should know. The two men sat together in the cabinet for years while Brown was chancellor. Darling then served as chancellor himself when Brown finally became prime minister. Now that Brown is out of office, it seems he has few political friends left. Still, his successors should erect a statue to him, for one accomplishment if nothing else: He saved Britain from the euro. Here’s why that makes him a hero. The story starts back in 1997, when Tony Blair was new to the job of prime minister. The euro was still three years away from realization, but already Blair was an enthusiast. Brown was skeptical, but he had a problem. Political solidarity required him to support the euro in principle, but his stronger sense of economic reality made him realize that it was a bad idea for the UK. His solution was to endorse the euro subject to the following five tests, which together were vague enough and tough enough that they could never be fully met: Is there sufficient convergence between the British economy and that of the euro area, especially with regard to interest rates and the business cycle? Would membership in the euro give the UK enough flexibility to cope with a major crisis? Would the euro stimulate inward investment? Would it help the financial services industry? Would it help growth and job creation? Of the five tests, the last three turned out to be makeweights. At one time or another, Brown conceded that if the first two conditions were met, then the third, fourth, and fifth would hold as well. He even saw some (but never enough) convergence in interest rates and the business cycle. That left flexibility as the key consideration. Here is how Brown put the matter in a key 2003 speech: “The issue at the present time is, however, being sure that there is structural convergence that is sustainable for the long-term, and we also have to be sure that, if real interest rates or business cycles do diverge, Britain will have the necessary flexibility to sustain stability, growth and employment. . . We do not know whether or how shocks will occur but there are risks.” Presciently, he identified the housing market and inflation as two of the greatest risks. Fast forward to 2007. The UK housing bubble collapsed, bringing down several financial institutions, the first of which, in the fall of 2007, was Northern Rock. It soon became evident that the crisis was world wide. With the British financial system teetering on the brink, how did the government use its precious flexibility? The answer is clear from the following charts, which show the development of interest rates, inflation, and exchange rates. First, interest rates. Within the euro, there can be only one policy rate, set by the European Central Bank (ECB). Until the Greek sovereign debt crisis began to raise the risk of sovereign default, other major interest rates moved closely together throughout the euro area. As the chart shows, the Bank of England (BoE), which had held interest rates above those of the ECB going into the crisis, began lowering them at the end of 2007. At first the easing was gradual, but it accelerated toward the end of 2008. By November of that year, British rates were below those of the euro area, where the ECB was still treating inflation as the main threat. The decrease in British interest rates, together with other factors, soon began to affect exchange rates. From 2007 to 2009, the nominal exchange rate fell from 1.4 euros per pound almost to par. It has recovered only slightly since. Needless to say, if the UK had joined the euro before the crisis, the nominal exchange rate could not have changed at all. Policy flexibility also manifested itself in the evolution of the British inflation rate relative to that of the euro area. Both the BoE and the ECB profess adherence to an inflation target of 2 percent, but the ECB has pursued its target much more aggressively. The BoE, in contrast, has allowed lower interest rates and a weaker pound to push inflation higher throughout the crisis. Some British inflation hawks have been alarmed, but Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England since 2003, has justified the stimulus associated with above-target inflation, first to combat the immediate financial crisis, and more recently, to offset fiscal austerity. Over at the ECB, Jean-Claude Trichet has been much more of a hard-liner on inflation. In a controversial move, he even raised euro interest rates when inflation crept above the 2 percent target in 2011, despite the threat that the sovereign debt crisis might send the euro area back into recession. The combined effect of flexibility in interest rates, nominal exchange rates, and inflation can be seen in one final indicator, the real effective exchange rate. The REER is a measure of a country’s competitiveness in international trade. It is a weighted average of exchange rates relative to all of a country’s trading partners, adjusted for the effects of inflation. Either a depreciation of a country’s nominal exchange rate or an increase in its inflation rate can cause the REER to depreciate. The following chart shows that since 2007, the UK’s REER has depreciated sharply relative to that of the euro area. That is hardly surprising, since, as shown above, the pound has depreciated relative to the euro in nominal terms and UK inflation has been higher than that of the euro area. This time additional countries have been brought into the picture to emphasize a broader point about the importance of policy flexibility: Any given international crisis is bound to affect various countries differently, depending on structural characteristics and the state of their economies when the crisis begins, so policy reactions should be able to differ as well. Consider, first, euro members Germany, France, and Italy. Germany has been the engine of the euro area during the crisis. France has held up pretty well, although its position is more vulnerable. Italy, however, entered the crisis with a weak economy, poor competitiveness indicators, and a public debt over 100 percent of GDP. Despite these differences, the REERs of the three euro members have marched in lock step. (The slight divergence of REERs stems partly from small differences in inflation rates and partly from differences in the weights assigned to the countries’ trading partners.) Italy, which could desperately use a real devaluation, cannot get it. Germany, meanwhile, free-rides on the euro to maintain an undervalued exchange rate that allows it to challenge a far larger China for world export leadership. Contrast the behavior of euro REERs with those of non-euro EU members UK, Sweden, and Poland. The British pound, as the chart shows, began to depreciate the soonest. That is as one would expect, since its economy was hit hard in the earliest phases of the crisis. Sweden, whose financial system was neither as large nor as vulnerable going into the crisis, did not experience real depreciation so early. However, as the crisis began to hit its real GDP in 2009, the Swedish REER was allowed to depreciate substantially. Swedish real GDP fell by 5.3 percent in 2009, more than the average for the euro area, but due in part to the weakening of its exchange rate, it has recovered more rapidly than the euro area average since that time. Poland’s case is different still. When the global crisis hit, Poland was still enjoying the post-accession boom that affected all the formerly Communist countries that entered the EU in 2004. A natural part of the convergence process for all of them was a strengthening of real exchange rates. In fixed-rate countries like the Baltic states, real appreciation manifested itself through inflation well above the euro area average. In floating-rate countries like Poland and the Czech Republic, real appreciation mainly took the form of nominal appreciation without a large inflation differential. When the crisis struck, the payoff to exchange rate flexibility was dramatic. Poland’s nominal rate fell precipitously, allowing it to maintain competitiveness and helping to make it the only EU member not to experience a recession. Meanwhile, its fixed-rate Baltic neighbors were pushed into policies of “internal devaluation,” the term given to the slow and painful process of REER readjustment through deflation of the price level. The bottom line: Gordon Brown was right. When crisis strikes, flexibility pays off. If Blair had succeeded in bringing the country into the euro before 2007, the effects could have been catastrophic both for the UK and for the euro area as a whole. Without the safety valve of flexible interest rates, inflation, and exchange rates, the overgrown, risk-addicted British financial system could very well have crashed as badly as Ireland’s did. Even the mighty Germans could not have bailed it out, and the euro might already be history. Of course, the British economy is not out of the woods yet. It managed to weather the immediate shock of the global financial crisis, but now its coalition government has embarked on a new adventure of fiscal consolidation through austerity. The experiment may or may not succeed. Whatever the outcome, Prime Minister David Cameron will owe the greater success or lesser failure of his program to the flexibility preserved by his appalling, brutal, volcanic, and defeated predecessor. Surely, Mr. Brown deserves at least a little statue, does he not? Filed under: Exchange rates, Monetary policy 313One Responsehttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.economonitor.com%2Fdolanecon%2F2011%2F10%2F02%2Fhow-gordon-brown-saved-britain-from-the-euro-and-why-that-makes-him-a-hero%2FHow+Gordon+Brown+Saved+Britain+from+the+Euro+and+Why+that+Makes+him+a+Hero2011-10-03+06%3A11%3A39Ed+Dolanhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.economonitor.com%2Fdolanecon%2F%3Fp%3D313 to “How Gordon Brown Saved Britain from the Euro and Why that Makes him a Hero” bazmus_redux • May 5th, 2015 at 7:16 am It is Thatcher that deserves the statue, for having the pound/DM rate so ridiculously high when in the ERM. Had this been at a more reasonable rate, black Wednesday would never have occurred and the public fear and hatred of the 'European currency' (and Soros) would not have intensified and they'd have signed up long ago	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3218
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__label__wiki	0.932021	0.932021	2017 Lacrosse Year In Review Results \| Roster \| Statistics \| News Under the guidance of 10th-year head coach Miriam Esber, the Mount Holyoke College lacrosse team posted a 3-13 record in 2017. The Lyons also went 1-7 in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) action. MHC struggled to open the 2017 campaign, but rebounded in mid-March with a pair of road victories. The Lyons picked up their first win of the season in Florida with a tough-fought 16-15 victory over the University of New England. Senior captain and attack Charlotte Wagner (West Chester, Pa./Westtown School) powered the offensive effort with five goals, while first year and fellow attacker Mary LaVigne (New Milford, Conn./Canterbury School) recorded four goals, including the eventual game-winning shot with 11:35 to play in the contest. The Lyons also put forth a solid defensive effort against the Nor'Easters in Florida as junior midfielder Kaitlin Braz (Tolland, Conn./East Catholic) posted a game-best six ground balls with a caused turnover and a draw control. Senior captain Taylor Hough (Rutland, Vt./Rutland) added five ground balls, while also notching a caused turnover. Mount Holyoke carried its momentum into the next game, recording another nail-bitting win in a 14-13 victory at Western New England University. The Lyons, who trailed 8-5 at halftime, worked their way back into the match behind an outstanding effort from Wagner. She notched a career-high six goals to lead MHC, followed closely by junior attack Leila Kouakou (Leeds, Mass./Northampton) with a five goals – also a career-high. Kouakou also recorded three draw controls, while Braz notched a game-best four assist to go along with five ground balls. Senior defender Alyssa Tabrisky (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif./Kent School (CT)) recorded a match-high four caused turnovers as first year goalie Mia Wysocki (Longmeadow, Mass./Longmeadow) picked up her first career victory with four saves. The Lyons had a tough stretch to open the month of April, but despite a tough loss to Babson, MHC saw a significant milestone reached as Wagner became the 14th player in program history to notch 100 career points. She accomplished the feat over 55 career games – all as a starter. The middle of the month saw Mount Holyoke register its first NEWMAC victory of the season, besting the Coast Guard Academy on the road by an 11-6 margin. Kouakou scored just 20 seconds into the game and the Lyons never surrendered the lead from that point. She went on to score a game-high four goals with an assist, adding a game-best four draw controls. Defensively, Wysocki picked up her second victory in the cage, stopping four shots against the Bears. MHC ran into a rough patch over its final four games at home, including a 9-8 loss to Wellesley in the second to last game of the year. In that contest, the Lyons trailed by an 8-5 margin, but goals from Kouakou, LaVigne and Braz over a four-minute stretch tied the contest with 8:56 to go. Despite that momentum, the Lyons fell as Wellesley scored with 20 seconds remaining. Overall, the Lyons had a number of impact players, including those who were among the top in the conference leaders. Braz led the way with 44 points on 32 goals and 12 assists. She also added a squad-high 60 ground balls with 19 draw controls and a team-best 20 caused turnovers. Amongst the NEWMAC's best, she ranked first overall in ground balls, 12th in assists, 15th in points and 16th in both goals and caused turnovers. Wagner was second on the team in scoring with 37 goals and six assists for 43 points. She was fifth overall in the conference in goals and 11th in point. 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__label__wiki	0.83896	0.83896	Our Exhausted American Mediocracy By Victor Davis Hanson \| American Greatness The unlikely 2016 election of Donald Trump—the first president without either prior political or military office—was a repudiation of the American “aristocracy.” By “rule of the best” I mean the ancien régime was no longer understood to suggest wealth and birth (alone), but instead envisioned itself as a supposed national meritocracy of those with proper degrees, and long service in the top hierarchies of government, media, blue-chip law firms, Wall Street, high tech, and academia. The 2016 election and refutation of the ruling class did not signal that those without such educations and qualifications were de facto better suited to direct the country. Instead, the lesson was that the past record of governance and the current stature of our assumed best and brightest certainly did not justify their reputations or authority, much less their outsized self-regard. In short, instead of being a meritocracy, they amount to a mediocracy, neither great nor awful, but mostly mediocre. This mediocracy is akin to late 4th-century B.C. Athenian politicians, the last generation of the Roman Republic, the late 18th-century French aristocracy, or the British bipartisan elite of the mid-1930s. Getty Image: 4th-century B.C. Athens Their reputations relying on the greater wisdom and accomplishment of an earlier generation, while they remain convinced that their own credentials and titles are synonymous with achievement, and clueless about radical political, economic, military, and social upheavals right under their noses. Remember the “new normal”? Our economic czars had simply decided anemic economic growth was the best Americans could expect and that 3 percent annualized GDP growth was out of the realm of possibility. Big government incompetence combined with Wall Street buccaneerism had almost melted down the economy in 2008. Recent presidents had doubled the debt—twice. Few could explain how recent agreements such as the Paris Climate Accord or Iran deal could ever have achieved their stated aims, much less were in America’s interest. War planners had not translated interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya into strategic advantage—much less lasting victory—and never offered reasons to be in such places that appealed to half the country. Most elites had assumed the deindustrialized red-state interior was doomed to a sort of preordained and irreversible decline, much of it supposedly self-induced. In more candid moments, elites jested that red-state losers might be better replaced by new immigrants, both legal and illegal. Our ruling classes either could not or would not defend American traditions and civilization in our colleges, in our government, and in our popular culture—and they were increasingly accepting of the globalist consensus that America had a flawed past requiring some sort of reparatory future. Our leadership accepted a world in which America’s misdemeanors were the source of global outrage, while China’s felonies were largely exempt from criticism. China’s global hegemony was seen as assumed and fated. Efforts to derail it were near inane or retrograde. Most Americans figured that those who lectured them on television, in op-eds, and throughout popular culture about guns, open borders, green mandates, fossil fuels, and the public schools, had the money, desire, and clout to live in desirable neighborhoods, sometimes behind walls, with ample taste for fine cars, jet trips, and private academies for their children. Earned Hypocrisies? The charge of hypocrisy against the elite was considered juvenile—given that exemptions were needed for the ruling class to serve us all the better. How could Al Gore save us from our carbon emissions without his private jet? How could Nancy Pelosi craft drastic climate change legislation without flying to a Kona resort over the holidays? How could Eric Holder stop prejudice without a jet junket to the Belmont Stakes with his kids? How could our Malibu elite nobly sermonize about their loyal gardeners and dutiful maids without walled estates? How could Silicon Valley wizards pontificate about the evils of charter schools and the need for teacher unions, without private academies for their own? And how exactly could the heads of our intelligence agencies and justice department officials track down the crimes of Donald Trump without committing greater ones themselves? Much of the Trump agenda, although nominally embraced by the Republican Party after the July 2016 convention, was largely crafted in antithesis to the bipartisan status quo that either could not or would not end illegal immigration, secure the border, call China out on warping world trade, seek greater reciprocity with allies, curtail optional military interventions, massively deregulate, expand fossil fuel production, and return the federal judiciary to a constitutional and constructionist framework. If such a nontraditional agenda had been advanced by an “acceptable” outsider or billionaire such as Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, or Michael Bloomberg, it would have been seen as eccentric but nevertheless not blasphemous. However, Donald Trump advertised himself as a renegade whose own notorious apostasy was inseparable from his message, and who felt no allegiance to the political protocols and customs that had prepped past presidents. Trump’s often crude demeanor at times seemed to suggest that he was not just interested in revoking the results of status quo policymaking, but the very premises of the status quo itself. It is easy to suggest that much of the unprecedented hatred shown Trump is the poisoned fruit of his alleged toxic persona. And yet it is hard to calibrate whether any president has faced, from the moment of his election, the level of venom shown Trump by both political parties, and by the elite media, and the centers of progressivism on Wall Street, in Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Washington, and New York. A country that once banned for life a clown from a state fair for wearing in puerile fashion a Barack Obama mask now ritually talks of impeaching, committing to an institution, overthrowing, or beating, burning, decapitating, blowing up, and shooting the elected president. Certainly, we have never seen anything like the constant anti-Trump media hatred. Since the election they've sought to remove Trump, in slow-motion coup style, by seeking to warp the Electoral College, to invoke the 25th Amendment and the Emoluments Clause, to unleash special counsel Robert Mueller with an unlimited budget, a toadyish media, a team of partisan lawyers and investigators, and prior help from the top echelons at the Obama Department of Justice, the FBI, the National Security Council, and the CIA. The argument of these elites and their institutions has been not just that Trump is incompetent or inexperienced, but that he is corrupt, perverse, treasonous, criminally minded, and to such a degree that the results of the 2016 should be overturned before the 2020 election. And such an end to Trump’s elected governance is justified not merely by his toxic person, but also by the racist, sexist, nativist, xenophobic Americans—the counterfeit half of the country—who elected him. A Case Against Trump? If these arguments of the American aristocracy were valid, we would have to accept three arguments of the best and brightest: 1) There is a clear moral, legal and popular prerogative to remove Trump. Yet for all the efforts of the professional politicians, the lockstep media, and the elite academic, legal, and financial communities, there is neither a rational nor legal basis to remove Trump. Instead, he enjoys about the general level of support as did many past presidents at this juncture in their administrations. He has survived his first midterm in better fashion than did either Bill Clinton or Barack Obama who were both later easily reelected. No one has yet argued that the tenures of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, or Bill Clinton—still enshrined in the progressive pantheon—were marked by less crudity. The record of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency, General Services Administration, IRS, CIA, and FBI between January 2009 and January 2017 does not qualify as “scandal free.” It’s unlikely Trump will be convicted of any crimes as outlined by the Mueller collusion investigation. It is more likely he will prove to be the most investigated, probed, and audited president in history. And even more likely, top officials at the Justice Department, CIA, and FBI will be facing eventual legal exposure for unethical and illegal efforts to damage the Trump candidacy, transition, and presidency. 2) Trump has failed. For all the perceived chaos and disorder in the Trump Administration, it certainly has so far achieved a stronger economic record than did his predecessors, whether adjudicated by GDP growth, unemployment, energy production, or deregulation. Even a shaky stock market is still much higher than it was when Trump took office. Likewise, abroad, for all Trump’s supposed unpopularity, privately most Americans and many so-called experts agree that the Iran Deal was fatally flawed, the Paris Accord was a charade, the “Palestinian” problem was ossified, a radically new policy toward China was overdue, the Pentagon needed to be recalibrated, and old American partnerships were in dire need of recalibration from NATO to NAFTA. 3) There is a logical and systematic antithesis to Trumpism. If so, will either primary or general election candidates run on open borders being preferable to secure ones? Eliminating ICE is better than maintaining it? Defense cuts are necessary? Far more gun control? Medicare for all? There is too much American natural gas and oil production? The economy would be better off with higher unemployment and slower growth? Food stamps need to be increased not reduced by over 3 million recipients? We are too harsh on Iran and too accommodating of Israel? Taxes are too low, government too small, and entitlements too few? Did Trump appoint too many unqualified strict constructionist judges? Were John Bolton and Mike Pompeo incompetent? Whom Are We To Trust? As we look to our celebrities, billionaires, intellectuals and senior statesmen, a sort of American pantheon, do we to find sources of reassurance in Hollywood, perhaps in the statements and behavior of the last two years of Cher, Barbra Streisand, Robert De Niro, Johnny Depp, or Madonna? Do the Oscars, Tonys, and Emmys showcase the expertise, competence, and professionalism of our entertainers? Do the recent statements of the elite marginalized—a LeBron James, Alice Walker, or Tamika Mallory—remind us to reset our ethical bearings, or do they instead suggest that intersectionality can at times exempt, rather than serve as an impediment to, anti-Semitism? Has Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shown how superior erudition and common sense? Perhaps Harvard, now facing allegations that it systematically discriminated on the basis of race, can reassure us of progressive values in these tough times? Can its first Native American professor Elizabeth Warren help us endure Trump? Or maybe Google, Facebook and Twitter can show us the way to protect our civil liberties, free expression, and non-partisanship? Do the heads of our major entertainment and news organizations, a Harvey Weinstein and Les Moonves, offer sources of refuge in these supposedly dark Trump years? Have trusted journals like The New Republic or Der Spiegel been reliable beacons of truth? Perhaps we can look to the elite of the media, to the careers of Dan Rather, Brian Williams, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, or Mark Halperin, or stellar writers such as Leon Wieseltier, Glenn Thrush, or Garrison Keillor to help us recover our moral bearings. Could a wide array of our best intellectuals, politicians, and activists help find our way home in in the age of Trump, perhaps truth tellers such as Doris Kearns Goodwin, Al Franken, or Dianne Feinstein? Could not Joe Biden weigh in on the evils of plagiarism, Cory Booker cite the dangers of fabulism, Harry Reid warn of racial stereotyping, or Kamala Harris on the perils of religious bigotry? Maybe the elites of government will be our touchstones. Trump critic, James Comey, the director of the FBI, has told Congress on 245 occasions during a single appearance that he does not know or cannot remember the answers when asked questions. The cable television critic and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper had lied under oath to Congress and fabulously claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt was largely secular. John Brennan, another cable television consultant and the former CIA head, has trumped Clapper by lying twice to Congress. Brennan also claimed that jihad was little more than a personal introspective religious journey. Are these our watchtowers of sobriety in these dark times? Both Hillary and Bill Clinton, by education, careers, and service, are advertisements of the ruling class. Yet, she was the godmother of the disastrous Libyan incursion, knee-deep in scandal from cattlegate to Benghazi to Uranium One, and hired a foreign national during the 2016 election to find dirt on her political opponent through the paid services of foreign sources. Bill was impeached and somehow ended up worth well over $100 million largely by selling influence on the premise he and his spouse would one day be back in the White House. The Clinton Foundation is synonymous with corruption. So do the most acerbic critics of Trump and iconic members of our aristocracy inspire confidence? Former National Security advisor Susan Rice, to take just one recent example of a prominent critic in the news, lied repeatedly about the Benghazi attacks. About the Bowe Bergdahl swap, Susan Rice said that Army deserter served “with honor and distinction.” About the sordid details of buying back hostages central to the Iran deal, she said:“and we were very specific about the need not to link their fate to that of the negotiations”. About the elimination of weapons of mass destruction in Syria, she said: “we were able to get the Syrian government to voluntarily and verifiably give up its chemical-weapons stockpile,”) and about the unmasking of names surveilled through FISA court warrants (“I know nothing about this.” The point of this tour of our elite is not to excuse Trump’s often retaliatory crassness or bombast, but to remind us that our self-righteous anti- and pre-Trump aristocracy was so often a mediocracy. It had assumed status and privilege largely on suspect criteria. 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We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money to finish the Wall & also change the ridiculous immigration laws that our Country is saddled with. Hard to believe there was a Congress & President who would approve! ....The United States looses soooo much money on Trade with Mexico under NAFTA, over 75 Billion Dollars a year (not including Drug Money which would be many times that amount), that I would consider closing the Southern Border a “profit making operation.” We build a Wall or..... .....close the Southern Border. Bring our car industry back into the United States where it belongs. Go back to pre-NAFTA, before so many of our companies and jobs were so foolishly sent to Mexico. Either we build (finish) the Wall or we close the Border...... .....Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador are doing nothing for the United States but taking our money. Word is that a new Caravan is forming in Honduras and they are doing nothing about it. We will be cutting off all aid to these 3 countries - taking advantage of U.S. for years! Trump is right. Our immigration laws are ridiculous, in that they are not rationally designed to serve the interests of American citizens. I think most voters understand this. Trump is correct. The “caravans” that have besieged our southern border in a direct attack on our nation’s sovereignty exist with the aid and sufferance of the governments of Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico, as well as leftists of various stripes. We should defend American interests by retaliating against those governments. Enough is enough. Trump is correct: illegal immigration into the U.S. is facilitated and encouraged by the Mexican government, because Mexico’s economy benefits greatly from money sent back to Mexico by Mexicans working illegally in the U.S. Meanwhile, Mexico has tight controls on its own borders. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/12/trump-build-the-wall-or-else.php?utm_source=email&utm_medium=sw&utm_campaign=sw Defying pundits, GOP share of Latino vote steady under Trump By NICHOLAS RICCARDI LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) — Pedro Gonzalez has faith in Donald Trump and his party. The 55-year-old Colombian immigrant is a pastor at an evangelical church in suburban Denver. Initially repelled by Trump in 2016, he’s been heartened by the president’s steps to protect religious groups and appoint judges who oppose abortion rights. More important, Gonzalez sees Trump’s presidency as part of a divine plan. “It doesn’t matter what I think,” Gonzalez said of the president. “He was put there.” Though Latino voters are a key part of the Democratic coalition, there is a larger bloc of reliable Republican Latinos than many think. And the GOP’s position among Latinos has not weakened during the Trump administration, despite the president’s rhetoric against immigrants and the party’s shift to the right on immigration. In November’s elections, 32 percent of Latinos voted for Republicans, according to AP VoteCast data. The survey of more than 115,000 midterm voters — including 7,738 Latino voters — was conducted for The Associated Press by NORC at the University of Chicago. Other surveys also found roughly one-third of Latinos supporting the GOP. Data from the Pew Research Center and from exit polls suggests that a comparable share of about 3 in 10 Latino voters supported Trump in 2016. That tracks the share of Latinos supporting Republicans for the last decade. The stability of Republicans’ share of the Latino vote frustrates Democrats, who say actions like Trump’s family separation policy and his demonization of an immigrant caravan should drive Latinos out of the GOP. “The question is not are Democrats winning the Hispanic vote — it’s why aren’t Democrats winning the Hispanic vote 80-20 or 90-10 the way black voters are?” said Fernand Amandi, a Miami-based Democratic pollster. He argues Democrats must invest more in winning Latino voters. The VoteCast data shows that, like white voters, Latinos are split by gender — 61 percent of men voted Democratic in November, while 69 percent of women did. And while Republican-leaning Latinos can be found everywhere in the country, two groups stand out as especially likely to back the GOP — evangelicals and veterans. Evangelicals comprised about one-quarter of Latino voters, and veterans were 13 percent. Both groups were about evenly split between the two parties. Mike Madrid, a Republican strategist in California, said those groups have reliably provided the GOP with many Latino votes for years. “They stick and they do not go away,” Madrid said. Much as with Trump’s own core white voters, attacks on the president and other Republicans for being anti-immigrant “just make them dig in even more,” he added. Sacramento-based Rev. Sam Rodriguez, one of Trump’s spiritual advisers, said evangelical Latinos have a clear reason to vote Republican. “Why do 30 percent of Latinos still support Trump? Because of the Democratic Party’s obsession with abortion,” Rodriguez said. “It’s life and religious liberty and everything else follows.” Some conservative Latinos say their political leanings make them feel more like a minority than their ethnicity does. Irina Vilariño, 43, a Miami restauranteur and Cuban immigrant, said she had presidential bumper stickers for Sen. John McCain, Mitt Romney and Trump scratched off her car. She said she never suffered from discrimination growing up in a predominantly white south Florida community, “but I remember during the McCain campaign being discriminated against because I supported him.” The 2018 election was good to Democrats, but Florida disappointed them. They couldn’t convince enough of the state’s often right-leaning Cuban-American voters to support Sen. Bill Nelson, who was ousted by the GOP’s Spanish-speaking Gov. Rick Scott, or rally them behind Democrats’ gubernatorial candidate, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who lost to Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis. https://apnews.com/d7b5b923883141d99a5c0da768a5e59a The Progressive Movement’s Sordid Past By Sheriff David Clarke (Ret.) The American left has perfected the art of changing the meaning of words or phrases. For example, gun confiscation is reshaped to now mean “sensible gun safety measures.” White male now means privileged. Republican and racist are now interchangeable words. Voter ID laws for fair and clean elections means voter suppression to liberals. Moreover, political violence—torching buildings and bludgeoning innocent Americans on the street is now synonymous in their lexicon, as a peaceful protest. The American left has struggled for a long time dealing with another term: liberal. Conservatives were successful at demonizing the term when George H.W. Bush labeled his presidential opponent, Michael Dukakis as a card-carrying liberal. The term turned into a political pejorative and liability, so they went back in time and now proudly refer to themselves as Progressives. They are counting on people not researching the history about the founders of the Progressive movement. Liberals have become skillful in revisionist history about their Party’s past, bamboozling voters along the way. [For More Civil Rights History Details See: Republicans And Democrats Did Not Switch Sides On Racism] They skillfully separated black people from their history ignoring the fact that the Democratic Party was the party of slavery whom pre-civil war fought hard in Congress to uphold the ugly institution. They ignore the reality that the Democratic Party opposed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the 1960s. They want voters to forget that the Ku Klux Klan was their fighting force during the post-reconstruction and Jim Crow era that enforced southern Black Codes. They are hoping voters never learn the Klan’s mission was to maintain white supremacy by violence and threats against newly freed blacks and Republicans. They hope voters are too intellectually lazy to research and discover it was the Republican Party that was founded on the principle of ending slavery and later pushed for and passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act. The Democrats’ love affair with the idea of a bigger role for government in the lives of Americans was spawned in the Progressive movement of 1890 to 1920—a period that saw an increase in social activism. The architects of Progressivism were the leading college and university so-called intellectuals of that time. As proud as Democrats are with the term Progressives, they don’t tell voters that the Progressive ideology architects were racist to their very core, who ignored the plight of blacks and were eugenicists. Author and historian, Professor Thomas C. Leonard, in an article on the Progressive movement titled Illiberal Reformers, details several Progressive facts. He directly quotes works from these Progressive racists, like Progressive Economist John Commons who said, “By the cataclysm of a war in which it took no part, this race (blacks) after many thousands of years of savagery, was suddenly let loose into the liberty of citizenship and the electoral suffrage. Black suffrage was not an expansion of Democracy but a corruption of it.” Let that sink in for a moment. There’s more. Another Progressive Economist Richard T. Ely then said, “Negroes are for the most part grown-up children and should be treated as such. We have gotten far enough to recognize that there are certain human beings who are absolutely unfit and should be prevented from a continuation of their kind. Ely referred to minorities as a “human rubbish heap.” Additional stunning evidence include when University of Wisconsin Progressive President Charles Van Hise had said, “Human defectives should no longer be allowed to propagate the race. We know enough about eugenics so that if knowledge were applied the defective classes would disappear within a generation.” As if you are not already sick to your stomach, Progressive Sociologist Edward A. Ross had said, “Blacks given the right to vote is the root of political corruption. One man, one vote does not make Sambo equal to Socrates.” The irony here is irrespective that Ross had made these racist remarks, former University of Wisconsin President Van Hise named the student housing building on the liberal campus after him. Why have there been no protest or demand that the university remove his name from that building? At Yale University, student protests and activism led to the university changing the name of a building named after former vice-President John Calhoun, an ardent supporter of slavery. Apparently, news of this has not reached the University of Wisconsin campus activists, or they are clueless, or maybe they don’t care. As you can tell, these leading Progressive architects weren’t reformers—they were arrogant, elitist, racists whose attitudes had shaped public policy. Leonard further points out in his article that they supported forced sterilization and believed in socially engineering a master race. They despised Jews, Asians, Catholics, women and the disabled. They thought these groups were too stupid to vote and should be prevented from doing so. Their interpretation of Democracy was control of the masses by a small group of bureaucratic experts. Progressivism defined the Democratic Party then. I maintain it still does today. Look at their support of abortion, which was the eugenic idea toward population control for minorities during the Progressive era. Today more black babies are murdered by abortion than any other demographic. In 2014 in New York City, more black babies were aborted than were born. That same year 73 percent of all abortions were either black or Hispanic. The eugenicists of the 19th-century Progressive era would be proud to see they are continuing to control the population of minorities slyly by changing the meaning of the murder of babies to ‘women’s reproductive health.’ Need more evidence of Progressive’s link to their sordid past? Look at the state of K-12 public education. Black and Hispanic students are shackled to these failing schools. Many black and Hispanic children cannot read at grade level nor can they add, subtract, multiply or divide. Progressives oppose choice and charter schools that offer struggling parents a lifeline out of poverty. One would have to be a sociopath to keep these kids trapped in this abysmal environment. Embracing the term Progressive is appalling. Noted columnist George Will said in a column that, “As long as we are cleansing the public square of names and statues tainted by the historical connections with racism, the Progressive term’s racist pedigree will be forgiven if the term serves the left’s agenda.” I am calling on Democrats and liberals to scrub the label Progressive from their vocabulary and never refer to themselves as Progressives or that disgusting period ever again. https://townhall.com/columnists/sheriffdavidclarke(ret)/2018/12/29/the-progressive-movements-sordid-past-n2538224?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=12/29/2018&bcid=1fc1e949433a1b38c9a8ce7ccadbc008&recip=26772260 Young California Police Officer, a Legal Immigrant, Was Killed by an Illegal Alien By Katie Pavlich\| Townhall A manhunt is underway in Northern California after an illegal alien gunned down 33-year-old Newman police officer Ronil Singh Wednesday night. From Fox News: The suspect sought in connection with the murder of a California cop earlier this week is in the U.S. illegally, authorities revealed on Thursday. The unidentified man alleged to be behind the slaying of Newman police Cpl. Ronil Singh, 33, “is considered armed and dangerous,” Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson said during a news conference on Thursday afternoon, vowing that the manhunt would “relentlessly continue.” Singh leaves behind a five month old son and a wife. He came to America as a legal immigrant in pursuit of his dream to become a police officer. "This is not a big department. This is a department of 12. This is a man that i saw everyday he worked. This is a man I relieved on Christmas day so he could go home and spend time with his family and newborn child," Newman Police Chief Randy Richardson said. "He was truly just a human being and an American patriot. Ron was not born in America. Ron was born in Fiji. He came to this country with one purpose and that was to serve this country." "One of my first hires was Ronil Singh. He had a thick accent, he was hard to understand at time because English was not his first language," he continued. "When I sat with him in the chief's interview, he told me he came to America to become a police officer. That's all he wanted to do." https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/12/28/young-california-police-officer-was-killed-by-an-illegal-alien-n2538164 Sarah Huckabee Sanders Condemns CNN for Going After U.S. Troops in Iraq on Christmas By Lauretta Brown \| Townhall White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted a condemnation of CNN Thursday after they targeted U.S. troops in Iraq because some of the troops displayed hats and logos supporting President Trump during his visit. “CNN will attack anyone who supports President Trump, including the brave men and women of our military who fight everyday to protect our freedom,” she tweeted. Troops bringing President Trump "Make America Great Again" hats to sign. In the article Sanders linked to in her tweet, CNN argued that the troops with Trump “Make America Great Again” hats may have violated Department of Defense guidelines saying that "active duty personnel may not engage in partisan political activities and all military personnel should avoid the inference that their political activities imply or appear to imply DoD sponsorship, approval, or endorsement of a political candidate, campaign, or cause." “A US military official told CNN the MAGA hats that Trump signed at the Ramstein Air Base event in Germany were personal and brought there by military personnel in hopes of getting an autograph,” CNN noted. “The official contended that it was not a campaign event and that the hats were used as support for Trump, not as a statement of political support.” Capt. Christopher Bowyer-Meeder, a spokesperson for the US Air Force, Europe, told CNN that no policy violations have been brought forward and that “there is no rule against Airmen bringing personal items to be signed by the president.” https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2018/12/27/sarah-huckabee-sanders-condemns-cnn-for-going-after-us-troops-in-iraq-on-christmas-n2538156?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=1b87ed489cb499e9d52de389e64c7f01&recip=19399969 Oh Noes! Obama Signed Stuff for Troops, Too By Katie Pavlich \| Townhall After slamming President Trump for failing to visit U.S. troops during Christmas time earlier this week and then having to completely backtrack when news broke he was in Iraq...visiting active duty troops, the media is still finding ways to criticize. CNN's latest concern? That U.S. service members dared to ask President Trump to sign their Make America Great Again [MAGA] hats. In fact, they're accusing soldiers of breaking U.S. military protocol that could result in punishment. But it turns out President Obama signed personal objects, like his photo, while visiting U.S. troops during his tenure. First Lady Michelle Obama also provided her signature to those who asked. And no, U.S. troops didn't violate any rules by asking President Trump, or Obama, for a signature. As usual, the outrage only came down on one side. https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/12/27/oh-noes-obama-signed-stuff-for-troops-too-n2538116?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=1b87ed489cb499e9d52de389e64c7f01&recip=19399969 John Roberts would be more credible rebuking Donald Trump if he did more to rein in the lower courts. By The Editorial Board \| The Wall Street Journal Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 2018. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Chief Justice John Roberts was praised far and wide last month when he chastised President Trump for referring to a judge who ruled against his migrant asylum policy as an “Obama judge.” The Chief was right to defend the independence of the judiciary, but he’d stand on firmer ground if he also did more to rein in the growing political excesses of the judiciary. Time and again in the last two years, lower-court judges have overturned Trump policies on dubious legal grounds. Worse, they have issued injunctions that block the policies nationwide before considering the merits. These injunctions used to be a rarity, but judges know that appeals can take months to get to the Supreme Court and in the meantime the executive branch is stymied. Over time this will make the judiciary look more political, not less. One example is Mr. Trump’s recent asylum restrictions. The President's immigration enforcement can be blunderbuss and heavy-handed. But the latest rules are calculated to promote order at the southern border amid an unrelenting flow of Central Americans seeking entry. Any President would have to put limits on this unprecedented migrant surge. The U.S. asylum system was established after World War II to provide refuge for persecuted foreigners, but it needs an overhaul. Immigrants apprehended at the border can dodge immediate deportation by seeking asylum. Claims can take years to process, and in the meantime applicants are released into the nation’s interior. We support generous immigration, including flexible guest-worker visas that can adapt to a changing labor market. But many migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. aren’t escaping persecution, and the surge in claims is straining government resources while eroding public support for legal immigration. Enter the Trump Justice Department, which in June directed immigration courts to bar migrants who say they are fleeing domestic or gang violence from receiving asylum. Last month the Justice and Homeland Security departments also limited asylum eligibility to migrants who present themselves at ports of entry, as opposed to entering the U.S. illegally and then seeking asylum. Nonprofits assisting asylum-seekers have sued under the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act, which allows any migrant “who arrives in the United States (whether or not at a designated port of arrival)” to apply for asylum. The law also conditions asylum on a “well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.” But most migrants fleeing gang violence do not fall into these categories, and the law gives the President authority to “establish additional limitations and conditions, consistent with this section, under which an alien shall be ineligible for asylum.” A President may also temporarily “impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem” are in the national interest. In other words, the law balances Congress’s constitutional powers over immigration with the executive’s Article II authority to protect the homeland. The Supreme Court has consistently upheld the President’s authority to limit migration within parameters established by Congress, including a government policy during the 1990s of interdicting Haitians at sea. Yet liberal judges have been ignoring Supreme Court precedent. Last week federal Judge Emmet Sullivan declared the June asylum restrictions “inconsistent with the intent of Congress” and ordered the Trump Administration to return to the U.S. deported migrants who claimed they had suffered domestic abuse in their home country. This followed a nationwide injunction by Judge Jon Tigar last month blocking the Administration’s limits on asylum eligibility to ports of entry. That’s when Mr. Trump lambasted the “Obama judge” on Twitter. Mr. Trump played the bully as usual, but he’s right that too many judges are grafting their political preferences onto the law and arrogating to themselves powers that belong to the legislature and executive. Judges are supposed to consider the likelihood of a lawsuit’s success as well as the balance of harms before they enjoin a policy. No surprise, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel summarily dismissed the Trump Administration’s policy reasons for asylum restrictions and breezed past nuances in the law. But Judge Edward Leavy skewered the majority’s analysis in a tart dissent. “The majority concludes that the [Justice Department] Rule conditioning eligibility for asylum is the equivalent to a rule barring application for asylum. But the statute does not say that, nor does the Rule,” he explained, adding that “the government has made a sufficient showing of irreparable harm, and the public has a significant interest in efficient border law administration.” Last week Chief Justice Roberts joined the four liberal Justices to sustain the injunction, 5-4. Perhaps the Chief felt obligated to sustain Judge Tigar’s injunction after defending him against Mr. Trump. Or maybe he wanted to reinforce the Court’s independence after Mr. Trump replaced Anthony Kennedy with Brett Kavanaugh. But these are political considerations, and the Court’s job is to uphold the Constitution, as the Chief explained in his June opinion upholding Mr. Trump’s third travel ban. Like the challenge to the asylum restrictions, the travel-ban case involved an apparent tension in the Immigration and Nationality Act. But the Court eventually found that the President was acting within his authority. The Chief is said by his admirers to play the long game and wants the Court to take a more modest role in American politics. Sounds good. But failing to stop usurpations by lower courts encourages judges to act like politicians and undermines public confidence in the judiciary’s independence. The Chief has to send a message of discipline and restraint to willful lower-court judges as much as to Mr. Trump. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-chief-justice-and-the-president-11545955968 Defying pundits, GOP share of Latino vote steady u... Young California Police Officer, a Legal Immigrant... GUATEMALAN MIGRANT FATHER DECLINED MEDICAL TREATME... Dow rallies 1,000 points, logging its biggest sing... 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__label__wiki	0.958739	0.958739	Scarlet Scuttlebutt Your source for the latest news on Rutgers football, basketball, and other sports Lorenzo Waters was front and center in wild fourth quarter Ryan Dunleavy • October 5, 2013 As the leader of a secondary that surrendered the most passing yards (484) ever accumulated by a Rutgers’ opponent, Lorenzo Waters was busy on almost every play in Saturday’s 55-52 triple-overtime victory against SMU. But three in the fourth quarter stuck out. He forced a fumble on both of the drives that allowed SMU to get from 35-20 to even. On the first forced fumble, the ball hugged the home sideline as free safety Jeremy Deering approached it. As he went to scoop it up, Deering accidentally kicked it out of bounds and SMU retained possession. “I was still getting up from trying to make the tackle but I saw after the replay what happened,” Waters said. “(Jeremy) said he heard a whistle so I don’t know. It’s still under question. But he was still over there so it was a good job hustling to the ball.” Waters also fell on an onside kick – though he initially muffed it – with Rutgers clinging to a 35-27 lead. “I knew they were going to kick it to me because I heard one of their checks,” he said. “I knew it was coming my way so I just tried to get myself in front of it and hold on.” Posted in Uncategorized on October 5, 2013 by Ryan Dunleavy. Savon Huggins, Gary Nova had big fourth-down conversions in first overtime While Justin Goodwin had the monster offensive game for Rutgers in Saturday’s 55-52 triple-overtime win against SMU, two of the biggest runs of the game came from Savon Huggins and Gary Nova. The starting halfback and quarterback, respectively, converted fourth downs with runs in the first overtime where a stop either time would have meant a 42-35 win for SMU. Huggins, who carried 18 times for 48 yards, gained two yards on a fourth-and-1 and Nova snuck up the middle for two on a fourth-and-2 that required a measurement. “When you watch that fourth-and-1 by Savon on the tape, you are going to see he made a heck of an effort to get it because there was a guy that blew up one of the tight ends and was in the backfield,” said Rutgers coach Kyle Flood, whose team has gone to overtime three times in its last six games. “Those are the hidden plays in a game that don’t really get the appreciation that (they) need to because if he doesn’t make that effort or we don’t have the quarterback sneak the game is over.” Justin Goodwin’s breakout performance carries Rutgers Justin Goodwin stretches for the pylon at the end of his 17-yard touchdown run on the final play of Rutgers’ 55-52 win against SMU. (AP) DALLAS – When the Rutgers football team saw its first 21-point lead trimmed to seven and again when it was trailing by three points in the third overtime, it was time to get the ball to an offensive playmaker. But in both instances the flavor of choice wasn’t future NFL draft pick Brandon Coleman, burgeoning star Leonte Carroo – who made his share of big catches, with two overtime touchdowns – or trusty veteran halfback Savon Huggins. It was true freshman Justin Goodwin in the first real test of his college career. The Madison native finished Saturday with 149 rushing yards, 73 receiving yards and three total touchdowns, including the game-winner on a 17-yard scamper, to spark a 55-52 triple-overtime win against Southern Methodist. “The offensive line did a great job,” Goodwin said. “They opened so many holes and creases, and I was able to exploit them.” Goodwin, who scored on a 50-yard screen pass, carried six times for 56 yards on the touchdown drive that gave Rutgers a 28-14 lead and two times for 30 yards on the decisive drive. He picked up 13 on a second-and-15 before ending the game with a 17-yard touchdown run. “He is special with the ball. He is elusive. He is fast,” quarterback Gary Nova said. “I think he made some mistakes in the game also but at the end of the game he made those two clutch runs to seal it for us.” Rutgers blows 21-point lead but escapes with 3OT win vs. SMU Running back Justin Goodwin celebrates his game-winning 17-yard touchdown run in the third overtime Saturday as Rutgers outlasted SMU. (AP) DALLAS – To complete a 21-point fourth-quarter comeback, Southern Methodist quarterback Garrett Gilbert spun out of the pocket, rolled to his right, slipped multiple tackles and threw the ball about 40 yards across his body to an open receiver for a toe-tapping catch in the back of the end zone. And the remarkable play still wasn’t Saturday’s greatest escape act. That honor goes to the Rutgers football team, which somehow managed to survive a defensive collapse and avoid a devastating defeat by pulling out a 55-52 triple-overtime victory against SMU in front of 19,436 at windy Gerald J. Ford Stadium in the American Athletic Conference opener for both teams. “When a team comes from behind in the fourth quarter and pushes a game into overtime the way SMU did I think it’s easy to spend more time thinking about that than looking forward into the overtime,” Rutgers coach Kyle Flood said. “Our team was able to (look forward) and for that I’m proud of them.” True freshman running back Justin Goodwin starred early and late in the first significant action of his career as he finished with 222 yards from scrimmage and three touchdowns, the last of which was a 17-yard run on the final play. He broke two tackles, including one in the backfield, and carried two defenders the final five yards to reward Rutgers’ defense for holding SMU to a field goal on its drive. “He seemed pretty calm out there. He seemed confident. He had some cuts all over him. He was bleeding. It didn’t seem to shake him,” quarterback Gary Nova said while also praising Goodwin’s speed and elusiveness. “He kept playing hard and it worked out for us in the end.” Nova finished 19 of 33 for 283 yards and four touchdowns with one interception, and combined with Goodwin and the defense, which scored when cornerback Nadir Barnwell fell on a fumble in the end zone, to help Rutgers (4-1, 1-0) build leads of 21-0 in the second quarter and 35-14 at the end of the third. Rutgers dodges big-time collapse to win in three OTs The Rutgers football team blew two different 21-point leads but somehow managed to avoid a devastating loss by outlasting Southern Methodist 55-52 Saturday in a wild triple-overtime shootout that served as the American Athletic Conference opener for both teams. Gun-slinging SMU scored 28 unanswered points in the fourth quarter and the first overtime to take a 42-35 lead, but its defense could not get the stop it needed and in the end Justin Goodwin emerged as the star. The true freshman Goodwin had 222 yards from scrimmage, including 149 on the ground, but most of that came when Rutgers was in complete control. But the most important 17 yards came on the game-winning touchdown run on the final play, when he broke multiple tackles. Rutgers’ defense made it possible by holding SMU to a field goal on its possession to start the third overtime. In the first overtime, Rutgers converted a fourth-and-inches on a Savon Huggins run and a fourth-and-2 on a quarterback sneak by Gary Nova to keep its initial drive going in overtime. Leonte Carroo caught a touchdown to force the second overtime. Rutgers’ second overtime drive looked like it was going to stall when Nova took back-to-back sacks to set up a third-and-24, but Carroo hauled in a 29-yard touchdown pass to bail out the offense. Quarterback Garrett Gilbert threw for 484 yards — a record by a Rutgers’ opponent — and five touchdowns and ran for two more touchdowns in overtime, leading SMU back from 35-14 down at the end of three quarter. Gilbert’s best play came on the two-point conversion that tied the score at 35-35 with 1:19 to go in the fourth. He spun out of traffic in the pocket, dodged a tackler and threw the ball 40 yards across field to a wide open receiver. Nova fumbled with Rutgers driving at the end of the fourth quarter. Rutgers 35, SMU 14 — third-quarter recap Rutgers saw its 21-point lead shrink to seven early in the third quarter but answered by handing off to the hot hand of Justin Goodwin. The true freshman from Madison carried on the first six plays of the drive that followed SMU’s touchdown pass and found little resistance. He gained 56 yards to move the ball to the 10-yard line, from where Gary Nova threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Tyler Kroft for some much needed breathing room. Goodwin, who scored on a 50-yard reception in the second quarter, got his rushing touchdown with 78 seconds remaining in the third quarter. He scored from two yards out to make it 35-14 after Brandon Coleman got tripped up just shy of a touchdown after hauling in a 56-yard reception. SMU drew within 21-14 when it caught Rutgers in a blitz and Garrett Gilbert threw a 55-yard touchdown pass to Keenan Holman. Rutgers 21, SMU 7 — first-half recap Justin Goodwin joined Nadir Barnwell by becoming the second Rutgers true freshman to score his first career touchdown Saturday as Rutgers opened up a 21-point lead en route to taking a 21-7 lead into the halftime locker room. Goodwin turned a slow-developing screen pass on a third-and-11 into a 50-yard touchdown pass when he bounced the ball to the outside and used key blocks from Betim Bujari and Tyler Kroft to breakaway from the defense. Rutgers’ defense lost its shutout midway through the second quarter when it lost track of receiver Jeremy Johnson running a crossing route on a fourth-and-1. Johnson caught a 21-yard touchdown pass — despite nearly being led too much by quarterback Garrett Gilbert — to make it 21-7. Quarterback Gary Nova finished the first half 7-of-12 for 127 yards with one touchdown, while Goodwin gained 117 yards from scrimmage on 13 carries. Steve Longa led Rutgers with seven tackles, including one of its three sacks. Rutgers 14, SMU 0 first-quarter recap Quarterback Gary Nova scored his first career rushing touchdown less than four minutes into the game as Rutgers got on the scoreboard first. Southern Methodist went three-and-out on its opening drive and Nova directed a six-play 47-yard touchdown drive that he capped by rolling out on a bootleg on a third-and-goal. The Rutgers’ defense made the big plays from there. Kevin Snyder sacked quarterback Garrett Gilbert on a fourth-and-1 from the Rutgers’ 32-yard line, and Nadir Barnwell recovered a fumble in the end zone for his first career touchdown. Gilbert was not expecting a snap from the center and it rolled into the end zone, where he picked it up with the intent to throw it away. Instead Gilbert got popped by Darius Hamilton and the ball came loose, with Barnwell, who is Piscataway High School’s all-time leader in touchdown passes, falling on it. Nova also threw his fourth interception of the season in the quarter. Video: Rutgers football gameday experience at SMU From 1948 Heisman Trophy winner Doak Walker to the controversial Pony Express Era of the 1980s, SMU is not lacking football tradition. All of it is captured around Gerald J. Ford Stadium in Dallas as you will see on this gameday experience pregame tour as Rutgers and SMU prepared to meet for the first and only foreseeable time. Video: At least a few Rutgers fans made the trip Follow Scarlet Scuttlebutt on Twitter and Facebook Move your mouse over a day ScarletKnights.com Campbell, Smith Set Program Records at Vanderbilt Indoor Invitational Joyner Scores School Record on Beam in Gymnastics Home Opener ScarletNation.com ScarletReport.com On the Banks No. 22 Rutgers Wrestling Drops Disappointing 18-16 Loss To No. 19 Cornell Cornell’s pin at 149 pounds sealed the deal for Big Red No. 19 Cornell came into the RAC for a Friday night showdown on the mat between two ranked teams and left Piscataway with a 18-16 win over the No. 22 Scarlet Knights. 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__label__cc	0.723158	0.276842	B Battery Stories The 1/92nd Field Artillery Association - Vietnam By John Zoll February 2009. I have been in contact with John Zoll for about two weeks. He has picked up a 'Quest' that I had tried 8 to 10 years ago without success. Finding a 'B' Battery FDC member named Charles P. Smart. He was known as 'Pete' and 'Max' or 'Agent 89' after the popular TV show of the time, 'Get Smart'. He served in Vietnam for 12 months starting just in time for the Battle of Dak To in November of 1967. James 'Jim' Cameron and Greg Lee started with B Btry FDC at the same time. My name is Jeff Danielson and I first met these these three men about a month later when I joined the B Btry FDC. I gave John Zoll what information I could and crossed my fingers. After a couple of weeks and a couple of emails I received the following letter from John via email. I thought that members, family and friends of the 1/92d FA would be interested in this missive of a friend trying to locate his buddy. I've could share with you a book load of information about Pete, the rest, our losses and experiences but that is for another time. Suffice it to say that I think John has captured his quest for his friend in the following. "THE QUEST" A picture of him sticks in my head – He is leaning against his Olds Toronado, beer in hand, wearing a Mexican Sombrero and somehow lending a dignity to that ridiculous portraiture. It is the quintessential Pete. The snapshot was taken in my driveway in Lawton, Oklahoma the summer of 1969 and for me this photograph summarizes not only our friendship, but that whole crazy era. I have searched for that photo countless times over the years, just as I have searched for Pete. One day I will find them both. This search of mine has almost become an obsession and I ask myself, “Why?” After all these years, what characteristics does this man possess that I have this need to re-explore them? A psychologist would explain the obvious. It is a pathetic attempt to snatch back a small portion of my youth, to reestablish a connection to that crazy era, somehow. There’s no arguing that, but for me there are less complicated motives. I like Pete. I always feel relaxed with him. He’s fun, a joy to be around; an uncomplicated bloke toting none of that baggage which encumbers a relationship. And he tells great stories. Most important, we two shared a time and an experience that most likely shaped our entire lives. I want to talk about this, revisit it. Many times, I have told my children that if I had to choose one friend to spend my last hour with, it would be Pete. And that hour would be oh so short! It must have been at least twenty years since we last spoke and I am frustrated that I cannot recall the particulars of our phone conversation or even who called who. I wrote a letter to Pete, but having no address I stashed it in my top bureau drawer in my bed room, believing that I would some day deliver it in person. Occasionally I would re-read it. With every reading the words became more pointless. Recently I threw it out, committed to expressing my thoughts while Pete sits by my side. It’s an itch that needs scratching. I am determined to find him more than ever. I tell my son, Eric, “If I win the lottery I’m buying an advertising slot on that LED screen in Times Square. My message –“findpetesmart.com” 1969 – The year of that picture of Pete and the last year of that crazy era. The war years. We were not “The Greatest Generation.” We were “The Strangest Generation.” Not that we were all that peculiar, it was the insane sixties and the way they fashioned us. The whole decade geared us for death, that moribund era of assassinations and bloody unrest. And the irony is, America’s teenage sons of the Sixties were preparing to dodge bullets and mortars in their future Far Eastern vacation. For Pete and me, that nightmare was over. Looking back on our Viet Nam experience, I have to say we were just kids, kids with rifles, cut from the same cultural cloth. Kids who had a lot thrown at us; Kids who shared the same national experiences of the 50’s and 60’s. The A bomb, the H bomb, the fall out shelters and hiding under our school desks, like that would help. The Cold War hovering over our heads and infiltrating our psyches just like the Commie Zombies we were sure dwelt amongst us. Music could be an escape for us, but did it toss us from the frying pan into the fire? How about that radical transition? One day it’s Patti Page and Perry Como and then we’re flung headlong to the Elvis and Little Richard show. What kind of step was that? And then there were the riots, riots in America. Can this be happening? It couldn’t get any stranger, but it did, when they cooked up a war for us, our very own and suddenly we find ourselves on foreign soil, like some innocents caught in a damn bar fight, swinging at any one or anything just to get the hell out, unconcerned with causes or justification, only concerned with escaping the madness. Yup, there we were firing shots, not in anger, but in self preservation, longing to be anywhere but here. And our country hated us for it. They pissed on our sacrifice. We were baby killers, scum. The welcome back mat was yanked from under us and placed at the feet of draft dodgers – America’s true moral heroes. Well “fuck it,” we said and sought an alternative absolution, self prescribing doses of booze, and a myriad of other drugs, blasting our heads with the “Doors” or “Jefferson Airplane,” looking in the wrong places for the answers to questions which have no answers. And when, over time, we began filling in the ranks of the homeless, it became too damn surreal. My first memory of Pete was in OCS. He, like myself, enlisted in the fall of 1966, probably as a clerk or something to avoid the dreaded grunt MOS. After our preliminary testing in Basic Training, Uncle Sam invited us to become officers and gentlemen. We were smart, intelligent. We were officer material! Of course, we accepted; At least there would be more money in the short run as the Army jumped you from Pvt. to Sgt. on the pay scale. After Basic, we were assigned to Artillery OCS training at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. OCS beat us up. That Oklahoma summer was torturous. We endured a grueling regime of constant motion. No time for belly-aching. You ran so much you forgot how to walk. Our schedule was an olio of endless classes, inspections, formations, PT and March to Mess, An added bonus was the eight mile “Jark” every Saturday and Sunday. (A “Jark” is the longest, fastest step you can achieve without running.) Outfitted with a web belt, canteen and toting an M14 rifle, the “Jark” took us up Medicine Bluffs 4 (MB4) and back to barracks again, where for screw-ups, like me and Pete, paid in sweat for our weekly demerits. One blistering afternoon, we returned from class, dog tired, to prepare for chow and on entering the barracks room we were offered the sight of a foot locker up-turned with its contents strewn all over the floor. This may seem minor, but in OCS, foot lockers were expected to be organized in a very precise order and that task seemingly took hours to accomplish. Apparently some NCO was not enthralled with the state of this one. I and others felt a real sympathy for the poor schnook who had the headache of reassembling the puzzle. That Schnook was Pete. I remember watching his reaction. He found it humorous. He smiled, then laughed and then calmly began to reclaim his items. I was impressed. The second time it happened his reaction was different. It was one of “why me?” with a hint of anger. I chalked the second episode up to his bad luck and carelessness and thought no more about him. Eventually, I dropped out of OCS, rationalizing that there would be safety in numbers if ordered to Viet Nam. The other thought that nagged me was – At age twenty, do I want to be responsible for the lives of the men under me? Hell no! I was an immature clown who barely had a grasp on my own life. I didn’t need the ghosts of bloody corpses haunting me my entire existence. The day I resigned, I found myself standing next to other former candidates looking to quit. Pete was among them. The Colonel warned us snidely, “Don’t think this is gonna get you shits out of a Viet Nam tour.” I realized then that we were never officers or gentlemen, just cannon fodder. The Colonel was right on. I received orders for Viet Nam. In the Fall of 1967, after a short leave, I found myself in JFK airport, NYC, wondering what the hell was next in my life. I stared dumbly at my wife, who held my 16 month old son, Sean, in her arms, while I waited to board a plane to Ft. Lewis, Washington, thinking, “Is this really happening?” Then up jumps Pete. “Remember me?” he says. Actually I didn’t remember him, outside of the foot locker incident, and told him so. My mood was nasty, but he was all smiles, like we were headed to Florida for Spring Break. We became acquainted through light conversation over the long flight to the West Coast. He was from Jersey, I was from Western New York. And damn, isn’t it rotten luck that we are being sent over there? Our trip eventually culminated in Cam Ranh Bay. As we disembark the plane, I turned to Pete joking, “When do we get the rifles?” He laughed, saying, “Screw the rifles, when do we get the “mama sans?” We were assigned to the same battalion in fire direction control, 1/92 Artillery Group, headquartered in Pleiku - he in Bravo Battery and me in Charlie Battery. We would be air-mobile artillery, ferried all over the Central Highlands, six 155 howitzers and 50 red- legs to a firebase. Us against the world. Pete and I hopped seperate choppers and that was the last I saw of him until… DEROS – Army lingo for end-of-tour and sign off on your adventure. Hallelujah! Twelve long, harrowing months and I’m out of the field, back in base camp, leaving the Nams in three days, going back to the land of the big PX and all in one piece too. Pete reappears and it’s party time. We hit the mud streets of Pleiku drinking and smoking weed till we couldn’t stand up. We get separated. I, in a last moment of sanity, hop a ride on a “five-ton” back to base camp before curfew. Pete tells me later, he stole a jeep for his ride home. The next day, around 3pm, I’m burning up with fever, puking green and shaking so hard, I’m falling out of my cot. Pete’s concerned. I told him, “Give it a day.” Next morning, I’m feeling fine. Three o’clock comes and bam, sick again. Pete gets me to the aid station – probably stole another jeep. “Bad news,” the Doc tells me – “I have malaria.” Pete goes home without me. Somehow we hooked up back at Ft. Sill months later. Pete joined the other sorry, home-sick GI’s who hung out at my rented house in Oklahoma. The “Alternative USO Club,” they called it. Peggy (my wife) and I didn’t mind. We enjoyed the company. And my two y/o son, Sean, was delighted to have these candidates escort him to “Dodo Park,” a tiny amusement park cum zoo, located directly across the street. Pete was a sucker for my son’s request and never disappointed him no matter how many times he asked. I wasn’t surprised. It’s Pete’s nature to be generous. We bonded over that year, became brothers, united in shared Viet Nam experiences and war stories, though Pete’s war stories always seemed more dramatic than mine. When my enlistment was up and I returned home, Pete joined me some months later. He found menial work, a shitty apartment and what I would guess was an existence unworthy of his stature and abilities. Eventually he gravitated back to his home town in Jersey and found love. Our contact was sporadic now and in time fell off. Life went on. Over the past 2 months I have been employing the internet in my hunt for Pete Smart. I’m utilizing sites that focus on finding people – USA Search, US Search and People Search - with no success. One day I googled 1/92nd Artillery and came up with a site called Brave Cannons. I left a posting asking if any one knew of Pete Smart, Bravo Battery, 1/92 Arty (’67-’68). I got lucky. I receive an email correspondence from Jeff Danielson. Jeff worked the FDC with Pete in Nam and he too was trying to locate him. Jeff tells me that Pete’s nickname over there was “Max or Agent 89” and that “Charles” was his Christian name. He also told me that Pete loaned him money in the Army to get home and he wanted to pay him back after all these years. We agreed to work jointly on our search. I am elated; I have a solid lead. So it’s back to the search sites with a new name now – Charles Peter Smart. I start in Massachusetts, the last address I had on him. Numerous “Charles Smarts” come up. Then Bingo, I latch on to “Charles Smart” whose birth date matches Pete’s. Problem is, there four addresses and no phone numbers. I begin with the first and fire off a letter. “Call me Pete, here’s my number – Miss you!” I’m so excited my wife finds me intolerable. I can’t believe my mission is almost accomplished. I look his town up in the atlas – North Adams – it looks more rural than a Central Highlands village. I email Jeff and tell him, “We’re almost there!” A week passes and no reply, no phone call. I’m disappointed, frantic. There are so many things I want to tell you Pete, things about my life, my family and “Oh, by the way, that two year boy you took to “Dodo Park” in Oklahoma, my son Sean, well he went Army Airborne, served as an Infantry Lieutenant in Bosnia and Iraq, was awarded a Bronze Star in the Battle of Samarra. Yeah, he’s doing fine, got four kids, can ya believe it? You’d be damned proud of him Pete.” The next day the letter is returned. I told Jeff, no problem, I’ll find him even if it’s “Road Trip” pal. I’m keeping a file on my search, keeping track of the info and the expenditures. Gonna hassle Pete on how much it cost to find his sorry ass. I sent out letters to most of the addresses posted on the search sites, thirteen in all, in the two states he was listed, Virginia and Massachusetts, and still no phone numbers. And I’m beginning to wonder, “Why all the moves, Pete. Are you restless? What are you seeking?” All questions I want to ask him. Last week I called Verizon information and developed a few phone numbers in Roanoke, Virginia that might be a possibility. On my second call I reach a Kieran Smart. I tell him I’m looking for Pete Smart. He tells me he is his brother. I almost let a war hoop - “Hurrah!” I tell him, I’m an old Army buddy and I have been attempting to contact Pete for about 20 years. I rapid fire the questions through the receiver…”Where’s he live?... What’s his number?... How’s he doing?” He tells me, “Pete passed away six years ago.” It hammers me. I’m deflated. The air is sucks right out of my body. A part of me dies. I take a moment to compose myself. Kieran senses my distress and gently fills in the gaps. A severe stroke caused by an inoperable brain tumor…No suffering, rational to the end, some time to grasp the finality of his life, and farewells to family. He died November 7th, 2002. I don’t want to talk anymore, but I force feed a cordiality in my conversation and ask all the polite questions. The remainder of our exchange is brief. I promise to call again and we say our good-byes. I place the receiver down and curse the walls of my house. It’s a week later now and I have come to grips with the wrenching news. I have thought about Pete every day and the loss we both have experienced. Most of all I have been confronting my own mortality. Kieran told me Pete was involved in a church the last four years of his life, that he had accepted Christ. This pleases me. I know I will see him on the other side. We have a lot of catching up to do. Pete died in November. That was the month he left Viet Nam. I’ll bet he sees an irony in that – Free again! z-2.09 by John Zoll - also you may contact Jeff Danielson for more information. \| Home \| History \| Maps \| Stories \| Links \| The Gun \| Honor Roll \| Postings \| Reunions \| Contact \| © Copyright 2013 - 1/92nd Field Artillery Association All rights under copyright are reserved. A Not for Profit Organization Comments or questions to webmaster@bravecannons.org	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3263
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He knew he was close to breaking the man’s bone, but he didn’t care. Bill cried out, and the gun fell harmlessly to the floor. Brett released the arm and delivered a shattering blow to Bill’s face. The man jerked backward, but Brett caught him and brought him forward as he swung a hard left into his bulging abdomen. A whoosh of air sounded as Bill crumpled forward. One more blow did it. Brett felt the man pass out in his hands and let him thud to the floor. Brett stood, regaining his breath, then hurried to where Winslow knelt above Luke. “Is he okay?” “Gash’ll need a few stitches. 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__label__cc	0.626733	0.373267	The Official Blog of Durban South Toyota DEALERSHIP HOME / The Insane 1490 kw SEMA Land Cruiser 200 & Other Wild Toyota’s The Insane 1490 kw SEMA Land Cruiser 200 & Other Wild Toyota’s Join Our Club We'll send you short updates once or twice a month. And you get invited to our vehicle launch events! I'M DEFINITELY IN! By Durban South Toyota / November 17, 2016 Toyota went kinda beserk at this year’s SEMA show in Las Vegas. Why? You will soon see, with some of the hottest Toyota’s on 4 wheels ever seen. Toyota displayed no less than 30 vehicles at the show, with six of the most daring and extreme cars pictured below. In their own words – the project either honours the past, explores the present, or reveals the future. One model we’d LOVE to see for the future is the heavily modified Land ‘Speed’ Cruiser 200. Officially now the world’s fastest SUV. You can view the original article together with a ton more images at: http://www.carscoops.com/2016/11/toyota-presents-six-extreme-cars-at.html That's 1,500 kw of insane power! Based on the Lexus LX570’s naturally aspirated 5.7-litre V8 that generates 270kW and 530Nm, the incredible creation boosts those numbers to crazy levels, which are necessary to shift the modified car’s 2.7 tonne mass to 354km/h. Making use of a pair of Garrett turbochargers plumbed into a “fully-built 5.7-litre Toyota V8” the bonkers machine puts power to the ground through a custom ATI transmission. Toyota reckons “Every single thing inside this build has been touched,” which makes it the “world’s fastest SUV”. Toyota even created a small freeze-feed reservoir within the engine bay, to which ice can be added during short runs to help cool intake air. On top of the heavily fettled powertrain, the Toyota Land Speed Cruiser benefits from mega chassis upgrades and stability upgrades, dumping the off-roader low to the ground. The US XTREME Corolla! The XTREME Corolla takes the core values of Toyota’s compact vehicle to the extreme. Using aggressive, yet bespoke style cues, the Corolla was converted into an eccentric-looking two-door – thanks to the car maker’s collaboration with Cartel Customs. Its interior also received a one-of-a-kind floating center console, and a JBL sound system. The Swaggering Sienna! The blue Sienna is called the Swagger Wagon and it’s described the equivalent of a flying jet; the pinnacle of luxury transportation, in Toyota’s vision. The lowered and widened minivan comes with plenty of exterior carbon-fiber and race-inspired enhancements, but the interior is where it shines! Thanks to a high-end theater system, wi-fi connectivity, and a custom-built leather interior, you won’t care how it looks on the outside. Inside the Toyota Sienna Next up is the Prius G! The Prius G was conceived to…prove that hybrids can handle. Toyota says it sticks to the road like bubble-gum, so much so that it pulled 0.99 g on the skid pad at Willow Springs International Raceway. What’s even more astonishing is that although It’s inspired by the Prius GT300 race car, it’s still your run-of-the-mill hybrid underneath. The Prius G is well...for the G Boys! And rounding off the stunning SEMA Toyota creations, is the full-fat GT86 CS-Cup race car, that currently competes on the European circuit. The HOT GT86 CS-CUP So – the big question is… What do YOU think? Wouldn’t it be nice to have these Toyota’s on the road..soon 🙂 Let us know in the comments which is your favourite, and why! - Swipe left/right to see more NEVER MISS ANOTHER POST & GREAT DEALS! Subscribe to our email list, and once a month we'll send you an email jam packed with our Toyota posts and exclusive deals on Toyota cars! JOIN THE TOYOTA CLUB JOIN ME! Share some love! Our Review of The Imposing New Toyota RAV4 (2019) Jan 24, 2019 / By Durban South Toyota Our Top 5 (Practical) Fuel Efficient Cars for 2018 & Beyond! Oct 01, 2018 / By Durban South Toyota New Toyota Kid on the Block – Toyota Rush! Aug 30, 2018 / By Durban South Toyota Durban South Toyota is a flagship Toyota Dealer in South Africa. From humble beginnings in Rockview Road, Amanzimtoti, we have steadily grown to where we are today. Visit us at 2 Prospecton Rd, to experience a difference, in Service Excellence. Post by Zakaria Desai, IT & Social Media Manager. Copyright 2020 by Durban South Toyota Join our email club. You'll enjoy it! Once a month (sometimes twice) we'll send you updates & exclusive car deals. Plus you get invited to our events! Check what's coming in 2019.... Enjoy..but... The photos are based on the Euro release. We will update with local spec as soon as we get it! GRAB THE PACK!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3272
__label__cc	0.677478	0.322522	Our editor-in-chief Nate Yapp is proud to have contributed to the new book Hidden Horror: A Celebration of 101 Underrated and Overlooked Fright Flicks, edited by Aaron Christensen. Another contributors include Anthony Timpone, B.J. Colangelo, Dave Alexander, Classic-Horror.com's own Robert C. Ring and John W. Bowen. Pick up a copy today from Amazon.com! Lux Digital Pictures This filmography only lists films reviewed on Classic-Horror.com and is provided as a service. No connection with the subject of this page should be inferred. Horror Movies as Studio Nightmares in Red, White and Blue 2009 Cassandra (1986) Many Happy Returns: Our Final Post The Terrorphile: The Song is Over (Farewell/Horror Tribute fanvid) Review: The Vampire Bat (1933) Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) Review: Audition (1999) Support Classic-Horror.com and keep it ad-free by making a small donation via PayPal. By Release Year Effects Artists Classic-Horror is © by Answer 42 Media, 1999-present (Contact Form, RSS Feed). All Rights Reserved. Other materials are owned by their respective copyright holders, and will not be infringed upon herein.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3278
__label__cc	0.617234	0.382766	The Triumph of Christianity At Religion News Service, Jonathan Merritt lays down the smack on rich people—at least the kind of 1%-er depicted in this Cadillac ad: You can read Merrit’s full rant at “Sochi Cadillac Ad Encourages Worship at the Altar of Work and Stuff.” It’s hard to come away from reading that piece and not think that all rich people are damned. I think Merritt’s complaint is an extension of the radical discipleship trend. I used to be one of those people who thought scant numbers of the rich would inhabit the more heavenly portion of the afterlife. At least that’s the way I once read the Bible. (Frankly, we know all the anti-rich verses in the Bible, so I’m not even going to bother putting them here.) Here’s part of the problem: There’s no glory in being poor, and all the sociological studies show as much. The poor are by far less happy about life. They struggle more and appreciate the “spiritual benefits” of life’s struggles less. And if anything, “the love of money is the root of all evil” is more of a problem for the poor than the rich. Anyone who has seen a parking lot of a retailer that sells lottery tickets on those days when the government welfare checks arrive knows from the discarded tickets littering the lot’s asphalt that there’s a lot of love of money on display. Merritt also decries the workaholic lifestyle, but who is the true workaholic when the rich man works 60 hours a week and saves enough money to retire at 50, while the poor man works 40 hours a week and keeps working until he drops dead at 75? And from what did the attitude in the Caddy commercial originate? The Reformation perhaps? Luther had strong opinions about the sanctity of work, and it was Calvinists who gave us the Protestant Work Ethic concept that now powers much of the mentality on display in that ad. Here’s the more discombobulating part of the anti-conventional wisdom regarding rich and poor: In Rodney Stark’s The Triumph of Christianity, the renowned sociologist of religion makes interesting arguments that Jesus was not only not poor, He was likely upper middle class. Stark is no theologian but a sociologist, yet his arguments in favor of his theory are well-reasoned and interesting to ponder. Even more contrarian is Stark’s less conjectured argument that the early Christian Church was not only bankrolled by the richest members of that era’s society, but the rich were Church members at twice the percentage as their representation in the general population. In short, the Church in Acts was loaded by the organizational standards of the day, and the rich were some of its most prevalent members. Yet even more upending is Stark’s contention that the rich Church has been the case for almost the entirety of its history. This was true in Rome, where the homes that the traveling evangelists often stayed were on the order of today’s McMansions—or even larger. This was also true in post-Rome Europe, where the poor were almost never Christians (but instead practiced pagan religions) and Christianity was bankrolled and supported by the nobility. In fact, when Merritt claims that rich people finance today’s megachurches—as if this is some damning statement—in reality, this has always been the case in history. Stark notes the fledgling Church would not have gotten anywhere and definitely would not have spread as it did without people with a lot of money investing in the work of the Kingdom. Same for the Protestant Reformation. That Luther-led revolt against the RCC would have died early on, since Luther would have been assassinated and his writings unpublished—if not for the German nobility who protected the reformer and funded his writings. Is it hard for the rich to enter the Kingdom? Sure. But hard does not mean impossible. Stark’s historical research shows as much. Christians need to be very careful about painting with a broad brush with regard to rich and poor. Many times, the supposed materialist is the one secretly funding a ministry you and I swear is life-changing and godly. Tags Cadillac, Jonathan Merritt, Poor, Poverty, Religion News Service (RNS), Rich, Rodney Stark, The Triumph of Christianity, Wealth	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3281
__label__wiki	0.532182	0.532182	A Break-in at James Lovell’s House “A People not insensible of the sweets of rational... The Marketplace of Ideas about Faneuil Hall Introducing Capt. Samuel Dashwood Looking at “Leslie’s Retreat” Alexander’s 18th-Century Fashion Advice in Boston,... “A concert hall is again opened to all” “They grew noisy and clamorous” A Concert “turned topsy turvy” “A sort of an assembly at Concert Hall” “A weekly and brilliant assembly at Concert Hall”?... The Boston Debut of James Joan Revolutionary History for the February Vacation Mapping As a City on a Hill Valentine’s Letter from Québec “No objection to going where Your Husband does” “She had no Idea of being with child” Abigail Adams Finds “an honest faithfull Man Serva... “Now they all in Heaps of Ashes lay” “Soon after the fire broke out, he caused his wind... “The Fury of the flames is beyond Conception” “The fire was fast approaching the building” Two Looks at Revolutionary New England A “Revolutionary Trio” of Videos “Entertainments” for the 2019 Dublin Seminar “The Occasion of the foregoing Proceedings at New-... “The Indiscretion of a very few Persons of the low... “No Body supposes that Printers are to be Vouchers... On 10 Feb 1788, Abigail Adams wrote from London to her sister Mary Cranch in Braintree that she was “very near when I am to quit this country.” It was one day short of four years since Adams had first written about bringing John Briesler to Europe as a family servant—“as good a servant as ever Bore the Name,” she now called him. In Britain, Adams, knew, the thirty-one-year-old Briesler had developed a relationship with another of the family servants: Esther Field, still only twenty-three. But a few days before her letter, Field had broken the news that she was several months pregnant. Adams wrote: I must believe that she had no Idea of being with child, untill the day before she came in the utmost distress to beg me to forgive her, and tho I knew that it was their intention to marry when they should return to America Yet so totally blinded was I, & my physician too, that we never once suspected her any more than she did herself, but this was oweing to her former ill state of Health. Because Field had often been ill during their European travels, Adams was very worried that she wouldn’t survive childbirth: “her Life has been put in Jeopardy, as many others have before her, ignorantly done.” What was even more dangerous, the baby was due to come while the family would be at sea. “I look upon her situation as a very dangerous one.” Adams quickly took steps. She told her sister, “I have engaged an Elderly woman to go out with me, who formerly belonged to Boston, and I hear there is an other woman going as a stearige passenger.” Thus, there would be at least two women aboard ship experienced in childbirth who could help Field when she went into labor. Adams asked Cranch to break the news to Field’s mother in Braintree, but “do not let any thing of what I have written be known to any body but her mother.” Adams added, “poor Brisler looks so humble and is so attentive, so faithfull & so trust worthy, that I am willing to do all I can for them.” Five days after that letter, Esther Field and John Briesler married at the St. Marylebone Church outside London. (That building, taken down in 1949, appears in the photo above.) As Adams anticipated, the couple’s child was born at sea in May. The parents named her Elizabeth. Esther Briesler’s own parents, John and Abigail Field, had married in Braintree on 12 Apr 1744 and become parents that June, so they couldn’t really complain about the timing of their daughter’s nuptials—if they even knew when the wedding had taken place. They might just have been pleased to see Esther come home. The Brieslers and their employers, John and Abigail Adams, couldn’t stay in Braintree for long. Within a year of their return, John had been elected Vice President of the United States. And he wanted his manservant John Briesler to come with him to New York. Labels: Abigail Adams, Braintree, Esther Field, John Adams, John Briesler, manners, medicine, shipping, travel, women	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3288
__label__cc	0.69113	0.30887	The scared CNE It is quite easy to see when obsequious lackeys are having cold sweats. I was listening to a replay of CNE president Jorge Rodriguez speech earlier today. As the CNE Titanic is sinking after its run with the Fila de Mariches iceberg, Rodriguez plays the band announcing that almost no one had “officially” withdrawn and the CNE "unanimously" decided to extend the dead line for candidacy substitution. That is, the deadline set for when some candidate dies or resigns or is impeached will be extended until sometime this week end. Let’s see how the shrink has lost his head and how much disregard he has for our basic intellect: So, if your CV does not allow you to go successfully through the many hoops to be allowed to run, you just need to wait for someone to resign at the last minute to jump in, without having to do any electoral campaign He also forgets that political parties might have a say as to who replaces whom in their lists. And the best, of course, when Rodriguez announces proudly that only 0.something % have withdrawn, he assumes that the withdrawing parties have nothing better to do but to stampede to remove their candidates name from the list. Well, if 1 and 2 are true, they certainly will wait until the very last minute to submit the “official” resignation form. I leave the reader appreciate on the right side the sublime moment where Rodriguez was showing the 0.1% withdrawing at 2 PM today. Words fail me. How come Rodriguez has not resigned? I mean, how shameless one can be? Meanwhile it is amusing to watch the CNE squirm in the worst damage control I have been watching in quite a long time. Posted by Daniel at 11:46 PM No comments: Links to this post Just as I was writing a few hours ago on Zulia! Globovision is showing images of the rally being held, as I type this, on 72 nd street of Maracaibo. This rally was originally scheduled as a campaign closing event in Zulia state. Well, I can assure the reader that it is one of the biggest rallies we have seen in Venezuela in these past few months! It certainly would compare (favorably?) with anything Chavez tried recently. The rally is named "Marcha por la Zulianidad", march for the Zulia-ness. Considering the enthusiasm shown by the people as seen on TV, it looks like recent events have enhanced its meaning. Regionalization (waiting for bigger words?) is becoming an important rallying factor in Zulia. And Chavez is to blame. Meanwhile, the vice in yet another show of stupidity or machiavelism (one is never too sure with the vice, except that he is vicious) accuses the State Department to be behind the withdrawal of the opposition candidates. So I could leave the reader with the image of George W. Bush losing sleep over Venezuelan parliamentary insted of, say, Iraq if it were not that State has already adressed such nonsense, actually appreciating the reasons of the opposition. I think that the Carter Center is not going to get any phone call these days... The brilliance of Weil Today's cartoon (following on yesterday theme) is simply brilliant. That "monster head" or rabid (fascist?) dog if you please, is actually one of Venezuela's voting machines. The legend? Primero Justicia kids: guys, do not withdraw... I am begging you with all my heart. And then some still wonder why nobody wants to go and vote, even in the chavista camp where rumors are that orders are given in the ministries and barracks that whomever does not go to vote on Sunday will be fired. Heil! PS: the editorial of Tal Cual today is a single gigantic question mark. If even Teodoro has no clue... Zulia, abstention and other electoral ramdom thoughts The electoral situation does not seem to be improving. Not that I was expecting much anyway: we all know that what is needed is a new CNE board and manual voting. Nothing else will do. Watching the news I was wondering about a few things and I wanted to put down a few for common reflexion with the readers. The Zulia problem Manuel Rosales, Zulia's governor, has announced that he was going to win the Zulia seats and that he was running no matter what the other guys said. I do not see that as bucking the abstention trend, not even as posturing. In fact I think it is reflecting something much worse: a new and dangerous regionalism. I suspect that the Zulia voter, the most refractary to Chavez bull shit, is getting tired of the delirium of Chavez, which is financed in large part with Zulia underground oil wealth. No matter how many visits Chavez does to Zulia, how much cheating he does at polls, how many promises (usually broken anyway but not a problem elsewhere in Venezuela) opposition to Chavez in Zulia is increasing steadily. Fascism usually operates by dividing and even atomizing its opposition. This never solves the problem of course, and actually can bring worse problems. Regionalization is one, unleashing centrifuge forces that can have umpredictable consequences, even breaking up countries. The neo-fascists we have in Miraflores are aware of that but are unable to deal with it. Yet, their policies keep aggravating the Zuliano resentment. That bill will have to be paid. The reason why Rosales remains in the race is because he is effectively harnessing that regional component that we thought was long lost since Gomez. Yet another example of how backward in time Chavez is taking Venezuela. And I cannot condemn Rosales as he is probably avoiding worse manifestations of the problem. What's up with Sobella Mejias? Ms. Mejias is the "token" opposition representative at the CNE. As such she has been woefully inadequate, so much that she is basically rumored to have tossed her lot with chavismo. So, how come we have not heard from her since last week fiasco? How come she has not resigned? How come she has not even supported her colleagues? What are her links with AD? Sobella, it's time you take a stand for once in your life. If you are cashing big with chavismo have at least the decency to acknowledge it. Or announce publicly that you are ready, as the vice president of the CNE , to take over as soon as Rodriguez resigns. You will create the best possible political crisis in Venezuela by forcing the rotten CNE to collapse or throw away the hypocresy. The Hamletian Primero Justicia If I can understand the reasons why Rosales is staying in the run (for the time being anyway) it is more difficult to see why Primero Justicia is still hanging there as there is enough evidence of a groundswell opinion for withdrawing coming from inside its supporters! I do appreciate that they think elections should always be contested, but underestimating the rejection from the masses to voting under the CNE rules is dangerous for its future. Even this blogger for the first time in his life is wondering whether we should just not take a stand in front of international observers. Not that they will do much but at least we would get media exposure. I think that at this time unity is crucial and if Primero Justicia is going to break it, it should do so without any ambiguity. Those are not days for pusilanimity. AD seems to be doing very well these past 48 hours, at least on what I hear on talk shows! Useless abstention again? My main problem with abstention is that it should be active or it is TOTALLY USELESS. Indeed, I think that if we were able to uncover such a fraudulent action from the CNE, we have the right to demand a full audit of the whole system. As I wrote above, even people like me who are fanatical democrats and cannot see an election where they would not vote are having second thoughts. But staying home is not the simple solution! Abstentionists should be doing more than calling people to church (though the PR bonus from that could be considerable!) In fact, the abstention "leadership" should already be calling for a massive march on Monday 5 to declare publicly that they will not recongize the results of Sunday election if they dare to hold it anyway (something that looks less and less likely as the CNE is not even holding its regular meetings!) At any rate, if I do not see much more than useless screaming I will go to church on Sunday and then hit the ballot box anyway, even if only some very minor anti Chavez candidate is left on the ballot. Actually I might even vote Tupamaro as this might scare chavismo even more! More tonight as events keep unfolding. Political firestorm in Venezuela Today must have been one of the most complex days in recent Venezuelan history. The political firestorm was unleashed last Wednesday when the CNE was caught cheating, and even worse, suspected of cheating on a much grander scale than what it was caught doing. Thus in short order we got a riot of news over the week end, an ultimatum to the CNE, a cave in of this one, and a massive quitting from the winning party. Huh? How come? I think it is too early to try to explain this. Besides this fearless blogger was traveling today and barely made it home. The extensive driving meditation did not clear his head much anyway. However there is one thing which is always useful: to list the basic facts, as they are known, and hope that with time somehow it will all make sense (note: no links given as many of these facts have already been extensively discussed in this blog, and the way things are going, today’s link might become tomorrow nincompoopery) The Venezuelan electoral system is fraudulent. Whether the finger print scanners are used next Sunday has become irrelevant. Now, the whole country is convinced, be it true or not, that the CNE has been monitoring who voted for what since August 2004. Jorge Rodriguez as the head of the CNE can brandish any little poll with favorable numbers, it is irrelevant. In a country which has been subjected to the Tascon fascist list where anyone on it could be barred from public jobs, education or social services, few will be brave enough to reply accurately to a pollster. Thus the consistent incongruence seen in polls since 2004. As a reminder I will recall some of the other factors that must be addressed before any election in Venezuela can be considered legitimate: publication and subsequent verification of voter rolls; real immediate audit on a significant sample of polling stations; controlling the executive abuse when it helps its candidates; making the CNE composition even handed as today ALL of regional delegates and perhaps more than 90% of its personnel is affiliated with chavismo; and more. It is simply impossible to run a fair election in Venezuela if those issues are not addressed. In short, it probably will require manual balloting with a new CNE board to “start” restoring some confidence in elections. Anyone that dares to comment on the Venezuelan situation ignoring these simple facts is either a fool, or trying to manipulate the audience. I mean it. The abstention camp is the winning one. All polls have something in common though: they reflect an increasingly large abstention in Venezuelan elections. In addition to the lack of trust in the CNE, there is also the “tired” factor of a country used to vote only once every 5 years and now forced to vote once to twice a year. But even more, there is a sense everywhere that Chavez has made the country his and that voting simply is a useless waste of time as nothing will change. This is what is provoking the most the chavista abstention, and what hurts chavismo, or even scares it. A populist government needs to prove itself all the time and victories with increased margins are simply meaningless if the polling stations are, well, empty. Perhaps one reason that some in the opposition are so willing to use the abstention card, disingenuously, is simply because chavismo is unable to come to grips with the fact that it is neutering its own followers. The opposition lack of unity is perhaps its main downfall. I am not discussing “programmatic unity” here, as the opposition goes from Bandera Roja to right wing military groups. No, any unity besides protecting democracy from Chavez is impossible and unrealistic. Still, the constant attacks on democracy by chavismo should be enough for the opposition to come up with some electoral strategy that all can stick to. After all, it did happen in 2003 when against all odds and all treachery, the recall election was called. But the opposition is unable to hold long to any unity. And this time is no exception. Managing to put together an electoral alliance, it did so late and meekly. Still, it managed to corner the CNE into surrendering the finger printing set up. But that did not last much. Apparently the decision of political parties to go or not to go on next Sunday vote seems to have been taken independently. That is, none of them seems to have been much worried about the effect on their decision on the hard sought opposition unity. Why? It is too early to say. Some probably sensing that the polls would be particularly bad for them found it to be a perfect excuse. But I doubt it is the case as the electoral alliance allows many parties to mask their weakness. Quitting can only show they lack of support if other remain in the run. As Petkoff lamented today, that general disbanding can come to be a major disaster for the opposition. The divorce between the opposition and its electorate seems getting worse. The abstention camp within the opposition has always been a thorn in the side of the political parties. This comes from the dismal attitude of the political parties on August 16, 2004. Since then, not a single party has been able to reestablish a minimum of trust between its leaders and their electors. The October 2004 regional elections where the opposition could have hoped to maintain at least half of its positions was a serious omen as the abstention sunk most opposition candidates, allowing chavismo with already a diminished voting force to carry almost all anyway. That chavismo failed to see its own omen does not excuse the opposition who went on to leave most town halls into the hands of chavismo in august 2005, with even higher abstention. Now, the striking news in these past two days is a groundswell support for abstention. Even this blogger met a few people who were going to vote a few days ago and now will not, even if political parties decide to go. It is not the time to discuss yet if this is a final suicide for the opposition or the start of a major coup against chavismo, but the fact is that this increased abstention movement, and a vocal one at that, is there to trump everything. Political parties that dare to buckle that tide might find themselves quite bruised on Monday 5… But one should not be surprised. Unable to come to grips with their dismal role in August 2004, opposition parties have been unable to offer convincing apologies to their voters, even less to renew a discredited leadership and thus became totally unable to motivate the voters back to the good fight. They are just harvesting the consequences of their errors. Final words for tonight. It is a mess. It could end up as a severe defeat for Chavez. It could end up as the final gasp for the opposition. One thing is certain, and clear to the world: the Venezuelan electoral system sucks big time. But regular readers of this blog have known that for a long time. Posted by Daniel at 4:19 AM No comments: Links to this post Chavismo in disarray? Hysterics, weapons deals and Congressmen on the tarmac The day has been rife with rumors, declarations and what not. Basically what we are all waiting for is to know whether the opposition will withdraw its candidates for the Sunday contest. Whether the rumored acceptation to remove the finger printing devices will be enough, rumored as it has not been confirmed by the CNE as I am typing this. Perhaps, in my opinion, the most remarkable development of the day is an INCREASE in the intention of the NOT VOTING option. Venezuelan people are not that silly, if the CNE cover was blown away so completely last Wednesday, well, what else is there? What additional skeletons remain in the CNE dirty closets? Alo Ciudadano, the popular and highest audience talk show on TV had its lines busy with people saying that they would not go and vote no matter what the opposition leadership decided. The “informal” daily poll was on such intentions and the final result was a stunning 95% on not going to vote next Sunday!!! No matter how unscientific that is, there is a message there. Alo Ciudadano had also Ezequiel Zamora on the air. The ex director of the CNE was quite clear not only about all the problems of the voting system, much worse than what it used to be, but also reminded the opposition leadership that they were paying the price of neglect in the post August trauma when they should have fought for better elections, where they should have picked up on the leads left behind by Sumate, the OAS, and even himself when he resigned. Chickens always come home to roost and the opposition leadership is harvesting years of neglect. Or is it? It seems that in fact the opposition has been doing a lot of homework to be able to expose all the CNE treachery (is there a better word for a state organization which deliberately set up a system to kill the secret of voting, this moist sacred principle of what a democracy should be?) Perhaps what we are seeing is a fine strategy that came to fruition none too soon. We shall see, but one thing is certain: there is no point for the opposition to do a serious electoral campaign, to offer a serious program to rebuild the country if there is no point in going to the ballot as the result is, now for all to see, pre ordained. Some groups are quyite clear on the next steps already. Copei vice president, former High Court judge, Roman Duque Corredor was on TV to announce that Copei would nto run if the overhaul of the system is not contemplated soon. It is vox populi now that Primero Justicia is the brain behind the operation to uncover the CNE in front of the international observers (certainly in collaboration with Sumate). AD is gathering tomorrow at noon to take a decision. Other organizations have indicated their intention to withdraw their candidates and even if MAS, PV and other are still silent, when you read that Zulia’s Rosales movement is about to quit when ti si assured of the only opposition victory, you know where the tide is flowing. If you want to see how discomfit chavismo is, you only need to look at some of its infamous hacks trying to do some damage control. Ever so clumsily, ever so infamously. Ismael Garcia on TV this morning at 6:30 PM was in such a hysterical state that the interviewer was unable to even ask questions. He went to Globovision, a rare visit for a chavista, only to spit out as fast and as hard as possible the chavismo line, without giving the journalists a chance to probe, what all chavistas who go to Globovision always do anyway. If there was nothing new there, the despair to thread the line was rather fascinating to watch. Another one hitting the air waves hard was Maduro, the hack in charge of the national assembly and who was rumored to be traveling for leisure instead of campaigning. Well, he had nothing else better to state that this all was only a US financed ploy against Venezuelan democracy. It is hard to be more unoriginal this day. Could it be that they really were caught by surprise by last week audit failure? Whatever it is, one wonders if this had anything to do with a US Congress delegation which was not allowed to leave the plane in Caracas airport. They had to fly back to the state. What a curious development, no? Not to mention that the outburst of Lara yesterday was commented around, in rather ridicule in his attempt to pass as an outraged catholic wanting to force the Roman Catholic church to take a stand against Sumate. His declaration today that "the CNE was too lenient with the opposition" woudl made anyone laugh if they were not so pathetic. Meanwhile Chavez was signing a weapon deal with Spain that is not flattering on Zapatero foreign policy even if it brings him, or so he thinks as he hopes Venezuela will be a good payer, a few jobs to Spain. But this another story of Chavez buying foreign sympathies with the oil money of Venezuelan people while his CNE henchmen are being exposed. I sure hope that during his visit the defense minister of Spain will read about the CNE “problems” to get an idea about what crooks he is really dealing with, before he either gets associated with these crooks in Public opinion, or, worse, he and his Zapatero boss pass for the fools that they seem more and more to be… Thus we remain wondering if this is the begining of the "real thing" or yet another trap set for the opposition. For once I am not so sure. It is too convoluted and too risky. Observers are watching everything and counting on them closing their eyes on such irregularities just as to get contracts for their countries can only go so far in the rarefied world of conspiracy theories. However we have grown so used to the opposition self destructive actions that there is no room for optimism. Amanecerá y veremos. Unbelievable developments! (later this evening) In a most infamous "cadena" Jorge Rodriguez had to swallow hard to announce that his very own baby, the finger printing machines, rumored to have brought him great riches, were suspended from use for next Sunday vote. In a normal country such an annoucement of a personal failure from the guy that forced such an incredible expensive, and useless, state expenditure and policy, should be followed by his resignation. But in the Bolibanana Republic, Rodriguez, a moral crook, will retain his job instead of being submitted to investigation. His explanaitions were pathetic. Instead of just going ahead and announce the suspension on some lame excuse such as public concern or international suggestion, he added a ridicule, if not pityful, justification including mystery polls that allegedly ranked the CNE high in confidence in Venezuela. Only a failed shrink would believe a poll contracted by himself!!! On the other hand I found very disturbing the OAS communique asking people to go and vote next Sunday. Interference? Appeasement? Outright help for Chavez? Someone should remind them that appeasement NEVER works. This communique IS NOT GOING to help. The CNE has been caught red handed? As a follow up from last nigth post (do not miss it!), I am pleased to see that the CNE is sensing trouble ahead. Descending from its arrogant position, it is willing to discuss "better" ways to use the finger printing devices. associated with the voting process. Let me explain, again, you how this is basically bull shit, and I spell it completely on purpose, even if this is a family oriented blog. The finger printing device per se is not really a problem in that it could indeed catch people trying to vote twice (though the set up of this system is rather extremely expensive for the avowed objective and the results reported so far). THE PROBLEM with the finger printing device is that it allows for the CNE to figure out who voted for whom, even if disingenuously the CNE claims that all pen drives / memories will be erased in no more than 72 hours. ANYONE who has used a pen drive or portable memory device knows very well that copying to it from a computer, or an electronic voting machine, will take only a few minutes. WHO IS GOING to make sure that no one comes around in that 72 hours delay to copy the confidential information? The sold out Venezuelan army? The CNE more than sold out personnel? Pleaaaase..... This is far from being resolved and a stormy meeting at the CNE this afternoon can be anticipated. Electoral trouble ahead in Venezuela The Turkey Holy-day has passed and I was rather busy on personal things, and thus I kept a distant eye on the news. Yet, the news got quite exciting. It will be too long to report all in detail, not to mention that I do not dispose of the time to do an exhaustive link search and other consultations. However something is quite clear: there is trouble in the CNE electoral paradise. Until I can get back home and post in some more details I wanted to write some quick summary. The whole problem, or rather recent problem I should say since the CNE has been saddled for now two years with a confidence problem it is unable to shake off, came up last Wednesday when a pre voting audit for some machines took place. Right off the bat, it is important to note that the machines at Mariches, the “testing” grounds, had been selected by the CNE for the international observers and political parties. This unverifiable sampling was done because, duh!, the voting machines had already been distributed and it was too difficult in a single day to go to at least 3 or 4 states to pick machines at random. But let’s not obsess about this first irregularity. What was worse is that during the audit it was established that indeed the sequences of people arrival at the voting center could easily be matched with the actual voting sequence in the machines. The implication? The secret of vote is now non existing in Venezuela. In other words, as voting progress the CNE can see exactly how the vote is going, if chavistas are indeed voting fro chavista candidates, if the abstention is high enough, etc, etc… And thus the CNE could get the ability to make any changes in the results, any voter addition it decided since it would KNOW WHO DID NOT VOTE AND THUS MAKE THEM “VOTE” FOR CHAVISTA CANDIDATES AS NEEDED. There is actually an excellent piece of indirect evidence: many chavitas candidates are not only not bothering to campaign, but some have been reported traveling LESS than 2 weeks before the election to visit their guru in India!!! TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE ELECTION! Who does suspend a campaign in what country unless they are certain to win? Of course, the CNE tried very hard to hide that Wednesday failure, which we are told impressed very much the international observers. These were also very impressed by a little program circulating in chavista government circles, a little program that gives the user all the official information to screen folks: whether they voted for Chavez, signed against him in 2004, belong to a “Mision”, etc… While chavista campaign managers benefit for this outrageous violation of privacy, the CNE plays dumb and refuses to surrender the electoral rosters that the opposition demands to be able to make an audit and see if people registered to vote are real people, Venezuelans, and registered more than once. The recent exposure of hundred of people with the same last name registered to vote on the same day in Zulia, demonstrates without a doubt that an extensive revision of the electoral rolls in Venezuela is A MUST! But more “cute” stories have been coming up since last Wednesday. For example the clumsy excuses offered by the CNE representatives who hid behind such lameness as “this is confidential” “you must trust us, we mean well” which sound much more like a used car salesman speech than a state entity which should be of absolute transparency for this outmost task in a democracy, to determine who is the real winner. As for the protestations of Jorge Rodriguez, the CNE head who now gets booed at some public events, let’s just say charitably that they were less than reassuring. And today EL Universal revived the claims of electoral fraud on August 2004 when new studies, much more detailed, would indicate that not only Chavez did pat his majority fraudulently (this blogger thesis) but that in fact he may have lost by a 5% margin!!!! That is the Chavez August 15 victory by 18% was actually a defeat by 5%! But eventually fraud is ALWAYS uncovered, sooner or later. I do not want to discuss that latest assertion on the August vote, but I do want to stress that THERE IS NOW ENOUGH, CLEAR, UNAVOIDABLE EVIDENCE OF A COMING FRAUD ON NEXT SUNDAY VOTE. The only question now is what the opposition parties are going to do? Are they going to go to the slaughter house anyway? Not with this blogger now! Are they going to finally take a principled stand and decide on real actions? Certainly with this blogger behind and probably million-S of Venezuelans! I will not anticipate what will happen, I am not enough in the news to write more than what I already wrote, a text on what is now vox populi in the Venezuelan streets as the CNE leadership is in obvious discomfort, not to mention the chavista leadership. However we can already see where it is heading. SUMATE who has been stating “irregular” voting conditions for now years has called for all Venezuelans to go to church on Sunday and pray for the country. Huh? Well, this is actually a delicate way for SUMATE to call for abstention: instead of voting do pack all Venezuelans church at 11 AM on election day and let the cameras film the empty voting stations. You can imagine the PR problems of such an initiative!!! William Lara, the scummy chavista campaign director was already today asking for Maria Corina Machado head and daring the Catholic church to take a stand against this “gross manipulation on Catholics like myself”. Lara as a practicing Roman Catholic! Bwahahahahah! I personally think that AD and Primero Justicia should withdraw unless the CNE does: -remove finger printing machines -makes a hot audit on the very Sunday -remove electoral voting books which are even more fraudulent than the finger printing machines -surrender to ALL political parties the electoral roster so as to audit it independently from governmental interference -postpone the elections for at least two months to allow the CNE to clean up their act I have no suggestions to give to the opposition parties, but after this last days “incidents”, they should be very careful as to the steps they will take. AD has a golden opportunity to demonstrate that it is not dealing behind doors with chavismo to get a few paltry seats. Primero Justicia can demonstrate that they have actually spine, a leader and a plan. The others that they are committed to democracy and to the fight against Chavez fascism by supporting any decision of the two larger groups. All together to demonstrate to the international observers who now are more likely to decide in their favor that they are indeed a solid opposition group that will not be cheated upon anymore. The observers can demonstrate that they are real observers and not a succedaneum like the Carter Center. Or they can ALL sink together once and for all, the parties losing the country and the observers losing their reputation, as the Carter Center did one year ago. Stay tuned, it is getting quite interesting. And your devoted blogger who has already explained many other aspects of Venezuelan electoral fraud will be back to regular blogging very soon. Voting on December 4. Are venezuelan living abroad excluded? Venezuelans living abroad seem to be second class citizens when it is time to vote. Venezuelan consulates around the world have today no idea on how their citizens are going to vote in the forthcoming venezuelan elections that will take place on December 4, 2005. Just nine days away (see here). Several friends living abroad have called their consulates and the answer is that they have no news from the goverment on how the vote will be organized. Interestingly, expatriated venezuelans did vote in Consulates and Embassies on August 15, 2004 on the revocatory referendum. They went to vote massively despite long hours of waiting. The results were overwhelming in favor of revoking the mandate of Hugo Chavez, as can be seen here. Also note the fact that the vote abroad was not electronic. Is this just Chavista incompetence or is it a deliberate measure to insure that a portion of those that oppose Chavez are denied the right to vote? So, dear readers, if you are a Venezuelan citizen living abroad, call your Consulate and ask them about the voting arrangements. Then post a note here so that we can read all the chavista excuses for denying you your right to vote. Note1 added.- According to the information provided by one of the readers, it is possible to vote in the Chicago Consulate. But other readers have gotten no anwers about voting from their Consulates. So this is important. Call your local Consulate and let us know. Here is the link for Consulate info Posted by jorge arena at 6:42 PM No comments: Links to this post A fluff post and a happy Turkey Day wish Wednesday I will be on the road. For the first time in a few years I am actually going to be able to celebrate Thanksgiving. It is not, unfortunately, a Venezuelan holiday. I say unfortunately since through my years living in "El Norte" it grew on me and I have missed it since I came back to live in Venezuela. A nice, rather low commercial holiday (if it were not for "Mall day" that comes right behind!). Thus for the next few days there will be lite posting, as I will be digesting turkey and attending other Caracas obligations. Besides that 1000 mark sorts of begs for lite posting, you know. To start in this fluff mode until elections next week draw me back to reality, I was thinking that perhaps a new color scheme would be good for the blog. Looking around I found this totally mindless test which gave the fololwing result: Your Blog Should Be Green Your blog is smart and thoughtful - not a lot of fluff. You enjoy a good discussion, especially if it involves picking apart ideas. However, you tend to get easily annoyed by any thoughtless comments in your blog. What Color Should Your Blog or Journal Be? And with that, have a nice Thanksgiving day travel today, the worst Wednesday to travel in the US. And if you make it sound and safe and happy to a normally dysfucntional family, may you enjoy the best Thursday of the year. For the others? Well, go and get yourself at least a turkey sandwich for lunch and join us. PS: let's us all hope that Turkey day will not be attacked like Halloween was by El Turkey Supremo. The 1000th post According to Blogger, this is the post number 1000. Not the one 1000 that I wrote (there have been at least 5 other contributors). Just the 1000 post. I think I deserve a night off. Ponderous meditation can wait. Chavez real targets: the Anderson case as a decoy All will agree that the past few weeks in Venezuela have been a near total pandemonium. As such, the only visible result so far is a now totally discredited office of the Nation’s Prosecutor as its holder Isaias Rodriguez simply looks like a fool on drugs. In its wake the scandal has taken the chair of the National Assembly equally on drugs and even more of a lout than one could have guessed. Yesterday a Chavez wearing Mexican hats and chanting “rancheras” to justify his aggression on Fox was the ultimate. In fact it deserves a closer examination, just to show the casual reader what a circus we are living in. Chavismo convoked a march to protest against imperialism as the real agent causing the break up between Fox and Venezuela. Obviously Chavez is desperate to draw some official US/Bush retort, the final blessing in order to become the official heir of Castro. And so far the US has been holding still, not falling into the silly game. The convoked march was far from being a success. As seen from the picture next, even the very official Bolivarian News Agency, ABN, could not come up with a better picture: a tight group of marchers, but no more than a couple of thousand. The surrounding emptiness can be seen clearly. At the arrival, in a chavista area, the crowds swelled more . Then again people did not have to walk that much and probably booze was served. At any rate it was enough to justify Chavez apparition. All the usual recrimination against Bush were there to greet the attendees. But probably sensing that the rallying of most of Mexico behind Fox was an unpredicted and certainly gross Venezuelan diplomatic miscalculation, Chavez donned, ridiculously, a Mexican hat and sang a few “rancheras”. Anything for a laugh! With that performance Chavez joined HIS General Prosecutor and HIS National Assembly to show that they indeed act according to HIS example and the lines that HE gives. But it would all be fine, and mildly amusing even if it were not that this “bon enfant” fun is hiding much darker designs. And people are not fooled. More and more the overplaying of the Anderson case is seen as: 1) An electoral threat to try to push the opposition into some miscalculation, or at least to stimulate opposition abstention and distract from any feeble campaign they might be doing, or exposing their hard found temporary unity. 2) If that does not work out, induce the remaining independent media into some improper declaration and thus give an excuse to close them or at least bar them from showing the increasing popular unhappiness that expresses itself more and more. The most popular variety these days is to block the Autopista Regional del Centro, Venezuela’s traffic aorta equivalent. Or drop garbage or other obstacles in the middle of the streets. 3) And if that does not work well, then at least intimidate the opposition and media leadership by jailing, DELIBERATELY, a few without any real charges against them. It does not matter if they are released after a few weeks with an “oops!”: the psychological effect should have been reached. But it does not seem to work so far. Ridicule keeps hurting more chavismo than it hurts Fox, or Bush or anyone else. And two strong voices were raised this week to counter chavismo ill thought and, let’s not be afraid of words, fascistic argumentation and methods. The first salvo was the impassioned defense of Globovision made by one of its owners. Clearly, Globovision is THE target of the Maduro infamous declarations. Guillermo Zuluoga does not thread lightly when he states, on paper and on video (1) the following: Globovison engages itself not to demonstrate the innocence of Nelson Mezerhane which has never been in doubt, but to demonstrate to Venezuela and the World that all of this business is an infamy of no precedent. It was imagined to hide or cover up something that we do not know of, but it has been so lousily set up that the facts that it mentions, through a very unreliable witness, are impossible to demonstrate whereas it is perfectly possible to demonstrate that Nelson Mezerhane could not have been found at the alleged sites in the dates mentioned by the witness. Mister General Prosecutor and Mister President of the National Assembly, you know, as everyone in Venezuela [knows], that Globovision does only inform of the truth. When real information is annoying, it is worth wondering why. May all Venezuelans be assured that we will stay here. Informing as [we] always [do]. Because Globovision commitment is with Venezuela, with all of you. Today it is against us, tomorrow it can be against anyone of you. Strong stuff indeed! Maduro and Isaias know full well that Globovision ratings, in particular “Alo Ciudadano”, are impressive and draw a large chavista audience which does not see its problems reflected in the state controlled media. That surely hurts! It remains to be seen if in front of such a challenge Isaias and Maduro will persist in their now revealed ill intentions. But in an amazing coincidence, a few minutes after an equally stronger statement came from Marcel Granier. He is one of the owners of the other network that has not bowed to Chavez, that keeps the only talk show of inquisitive journalism that is second only to Alo Ciudadano and which controls the AM ratings: La Entrevista. And to make matters worse, Marcel Granier was exiting a meeting with the OAS observers and the CNE where the OAS got apparently quite a serving of what is REALLY going on in Venezuela. The video is too long to transcribe but would deserve it (2). Below one of the gems that the OAS can mull around: “the disequilibrium as to the propaganda from the government, which overcomes the one from the opposition in a proportion of 1 to 20 000, Not 1 to 20. I even saw the members of the CNE sincerely worried, because this does not guarantee the healthy atmosphere that all Venezuelans want” It is significant that Marcel Granier recognizes that even the highly biased CNE recognizes indirectly that the government is pushing the envelope too far. They certainly will not act against Chavez, this blogger is sure of that, but he cites this item to try to bring a sense of what a mad house this country HAS become when even an outright opponent of Chavez recognizes that some within chavismo are a little bit taken aback by the audacity. Still, as if this were not enough, today El Universal produces an interview of Mr. Granier by Roberto Giusti (part 2 and 3). No words were minced either. A few sections translated: RG: Will the moment of the final strangulation [of the media] come? MG: Yes. This day we will all be sorry. The country because it will have lost independent opinion and the government because it will pay a price on the long term. These criminals pay a long term price. Stalin died in bed. RG: Then he did not pay. MG: No, but the Russians did pay. Maybe those who strangle public opinion will not pay but Venezuelans will pay. RG: Anderson having been transformed in a martyr of the revolution, Hill they reject the investigations that have not been already set up in the indictments? In other words, is there already a decision on that case? MG: All of this is happening within the frame of a very irregular electoral scenario where the government uses any pretext to promote itself and reduce the adversary. There is a harassment and terror plan to bend the opposition, to make sure it does not dare to accuse, to make sure it does not start to march in protest, nor participate [in elections]. The Anderson case allows [the government] to make significant rallies, to occupy media space and to take them away from the opposition. It is not a matter of only hiding corruption and crime. In Venezuela there has been more than 6 000 summary executions since this administration reached office and the responsible cops are going around free and doing even more. The only thing novel is the electoral use that is given to that case. RG: Is it not being attempted to criminalize the opposition by accusing of murderers a select group of its leaders? MG: It is a carbon copy of what happened in Cuba. And it is our fate. Already Castro manages our foreign, military and electoral policies. The wishes of the government is to make many elections facing a trapped opposition that does not express itself or take to the streets. RG: You state that Chavez leads a corrupt and inefficient government, but he still has the support of at least half of the people. MG: The history of the world is full of such aberrations and alter the people that have suffered them complain. How many people did Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini kill? RG: There is transition point, when you start losing popular support, but you already have enough power to sustain yourself through repression. MG: This is what is happening right now and from this the present media show. As the government keeps losing popular fervor it looks for an external enemy to try to unify the people and then starts that repressive process, intimidating, though terror. And when people are afraid, they freeze. [snip]. RG: And is there not something similar happening? [looking for external confrontation to reinforce internal power] MG: Yes, but he [Chavez] is not taking the big step. He has threatened Colombia, but he does not dare. He did so early against Guyana but he backed down and he lost, in his mistake, the territory [note of this blogger: that error of Chavez all but lost any claim that Venezuela had over the Essequibo region]. He threatens the USA, but here it is the US embassy and the Venezuelan one over there. He offends more Fox than Bush because he knows that Mexico is not a military menace in the way he sees things, though commercially this is going to hurt us a lot. So there you have, RCTV and Globovision have thrown the gauntlet in the arena. Who will pick it up? The opposition leadership and carry it as a powerful electoral banner? Will the prosecutor jail Granier and Zuloaga? Will the National Assembly pass yet a stronger gag law? Any or all of the above in a show anytime soon. At least one thing is clear now: people are not beating around the bush anymore, we know what is really going on. And some players seem to have decided to call on Chavez bluff. --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 1) the video from Zuluoga can be found there, but it is a pay site. Look for "Guillermo Zuluoga..." 17-11-2005 2) ditto for the video of Granier, look for "Presidente de empresas 1BC..." 17-11-2005 Added in proof, some additional relevant material. Miguel's take. Plus backrooms "sweet deals" while all of this show takes place in front. A financial view over the Mexico-Venezuela spat, with numbers. And a witness declaration at the US Congress on US Venezuela realtions, in Spanish and English. Also some fascinating research work on the role of Vladimir Villegas, the pseudo ambassador of Venezuela in Mexico who in fact was a funding agency for all sort of trouble makers over there, things that woldl make SUMATE and the NED blush in shame for "pena ajena". As usual, fascists enjoy the application of double standards. Great moments in the republican separation of powers So you have one of the 5 Venezuelan powers in trouble. What do you do? Bring in another of the powers to make some outlandish charges and distract attention. You are allowed to be so brazen in that action that you can even bring in the head of the helping power to clear up any possible doubt that there might be a separation of powers in Venezuela. The details now Isaias Rodriguez, Prosecutor General of the nation, is in trouble. As extensively reported in this very page , the Anderson case does not even deserve anymore the title of opera buffa (one of the posts on that subject). In fact, words fail me to qualify the show set up by Isaias. The attorney, part of the 4th power which to date we wonder if it has any other function but to protect corrupt public servants, is looking quite strained under the constant calls for his resignation, deserved calls just for his sheer incompetence in setting up such a lousy show. (1) Obviously the public relations problem created by Isaias is becoming so bad that a new charge is brought for to justify jailing Mezerhane, and, might as well, jailing a few more that have been covering so unflatteringly Isaias mediocrity. The chosen messenger is no one else than the president of the National Assembly, Nicolas Maduro. This man is of such limited abilities that as a Caracas Metro employee he failed in stirring serious trouble in the Metro Union where he was sent to enroll in as a trouble maker. He had to wait for Chavez to pick him up to start a career in legal delinquency. He knows where his loyalties are as he knows full well, and to his credit, that by himself he would have never made it even to night usher of the National Assembly. Now, well, he is the chair and lives well, displaying a rather puffy face. He pays back his employer by uttering any nonsense according to the moment, and passing any tasteless law that seems necessary, even calling the Nazional Guard if required to shut down opposition legislators. It is this fine democrat that added a new piece to the Mezerhane story today, where supposedly he tried to buy the judge last Monday night with three million dollars (cash, I think). Just right there how come Maduro is the one letting on the Prosecutor office of such actions? How did he learn about that? Is that his role? Is that his role to even announce it publicly instead of sending the tip to the appropriate authority? Is it that Isaias is crumbling under so much ridicule that Maduro decided to shoulder some of the burden? So, according to the information “revealed” today, this would be the story of Mezerhane trying to kill Anderson. Mezerhane, successful, wealthy Jewish banker, and media player, and businessman in Venezuela felt compelled to eliminate prosecutor Anderson (for motives that have yet to be disclosed; the motives! The motives someone! Quick!). To do that he went to some meeting in some jungle outside of Venezuela where he all but handed his business card around. Then the prosecutor was blown to pieces. Cunningly Mezerhane decided to have his media outlet, Globovision, promote for a year a campaign to demand the government to investigate the Anderson case. Lo and behold! Isaias after one year suddenly declares that Mezerhane is one of the intellectual authors (among about a dozen or so, all vouched for by the sole accounting of a psychotic Colombian witness). Mezerhane “hides” for a few days while his lawyers inquire within. Quickly chavismo has rumors flying that Mezerhane bailed out of the country. But surprise, the guy surrendered Monday morning. One would expect that this surrender would signify a normal prosecution of the investigation while the guy, convinced of his innocence nicely stays in jail expecting for a favorable result. But no! Apparently he threatened one of the prosecutors that took his deposition. Yes, Mezerhane went to jail so he could insult a prosecutor. And that is not all. According to Maduro on Monday night, Mezerhane attended a reunion where he offered 3 million dollars to the judge in charge to let him go free by sabotaging the dossier. Unfortunately for Maduro, this already absolutely unbelievable tall tale blew up on his face as he was speaking at a press conference. One reporter asked how come Mezerhane could attend that meeting since he was already in jail. Maduro, obviously at a loss (see the precious Globovision video of it), obviously confused and on drugs (he seems to have a bad cold and charitably I attribute that particular bout of incompetence to some anti cold medicine) took a while until he realized what the words of the journalist meant. Eventually he mumbled some avoidance words that were sterlingly unconvincing. That was not all. A little bit later the head of Globovision offered to trade places with Mezerhane, and pointed out that he could not have been to some of the activities that Maduro described because, duh!, he was at work with 200 or so witnesses. Major blow in the face to Maduro. Another blow, by the way, is that apparently Mezerhane tried to buy a judge that had already been fired from his case. I mean, reallly, how stupid can Mezerhane be? But since this was all a prepared set up, of course, Isaias went ahead anyway with the plan and was prompt in announcing an investigation on the whole business. I suppose that "fishy" is in the eye of the beholder. No words on why would Mezerhane surrender just to offer three million dollars a few hours after when he could have left the country with the money and live safely and comfortably for the rest of his days… My take? Do I really need to convince the reader that this is a set up where chavista lackeys act together, without any regard to the position they occupy in the Republic, to find an excuse to close up Globovision, the real target in this whole sad show? -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1) Isaias forms part of the 4th power of the 1999 constitution, the Citizen Power or Moral Power. Together with the Ombudsmen and the Comptroller he is in charge of making sure that the laws of the land are followed and do not hurt the citizen. But since this infernal trio is in office corruption has never been so unbridled and the citizen so unprotected. Note: Stig at Albacom has posted the video of Brownfield interview. I hope that soon he will treat us with the Maduro video moment of the journalist unmasking him. Stay tuned! Note 2: Stig has come through. There is the Maduro video!!! Do not miss it and observe how puffy and distant Maduro is. Observe also how he tries to dodge the journalist doing her work after she nailed him. Those are our public officials, spreading lies and refusing to furnish the proof or to account for themselves. ¡Que sabroso! Chavez un-diplomatic skills Well, if Chavez thought that he would rally "his" people under patriotic fervor against Mexico, his hopes were dashed once and for all today. The front page editorial of Tal Cual set the record straight, nobody in the opposition, not even the opposition-light of Tal Cual, will accompany Chavez in such an irresponsible adventure. Just as it refused to endorse the anti US chanting. I have partially translated the Tal Cual editorial below, and then some comments. THE DESINTEGRATOR Who provided Chavez with the videos of the Mar del Plata summit? Kirchner, who else? The Argentinean president shot through third party. What he would not do directly, he does it through the “enfant terrible” that the Venezuelan president is, whose gigantic vanity makes him easy to be manipulated, as Fidel Castro found out. With the video diffusion, the delicate diplomatic weaving that the foreign ministers of Mexico and Venezuela were mounting to overcome the problem was blown away. Chavez is leaving his government more and more on the curbside of the continental debate. At Mar del Plata, no matter what the local flatterers, the government, during the discussion, was isolated. The MercoSur countries did not slam the door on FTAA, but they left ajar the possibility of continuing the discussion, trying to reach an equitable arrangement with the US of A because for these countries the present version of the FTAA treaty is a one way street. At the end Chavez had to add his vote to the southern block, so as not to be left completely out of the game. [slip] Mercosur does not want anything else but to compensates the imbalances of the “gringo” proposal and if the US were to accede to reciprocity in the matter, one can be certain that Brazil and Argentina, as well as its smaller associates Paraguay and Uruguay would sign without objections. [slip on what the US should do] Mercosur, for the time being, refused to accompany Chavez, to burn the chips. They will wait for the Hong Kong meeting. That is the responsible thing to do. Chavez doe spot know how to discuss trying to understand the reasons of the others. He does not seek agreements but tries to impose unilaterally his Hill. If it is rejected, he starts a temper tantrum and like a small kid insults whomever disagrees with him. A serious and thoughtful debate with Fox would have been interesting, but the brutal aggression of the Venezuelan president shut down that way. He is also pointing his batteries to the Andean community “There is nothing for Venezuela in the Andean Community” he said last Sunday. Tomorrow if Mercosur were to reach an agreement with the US Chavez would tell us that we have no business there. The road to isolation. The integrationist discourse of Chavez crashes on his disintegrationist practices. Venezuelans, even most chavista ones and I am willing to bet anything on that, know very well that this is all a Chavez posturing, that if some of his ideas are certainly worth considering, the way he goes about them is to simply figure in the headlines, instead of building anything durable. This nefarious and totally unproductive policy, un-diplomatic way to run foreign affairs, has been put in perfect evidence: in spite of huge handouts out by Venezuela to the small Caribbean island, in oil and payment facilities, NOT A SINGLE one did follow Chavez in Mar del Plata. Oil diplomacy has its limits, apparently. Besides he committed a gross mistake: in Venezuela it is very fashionable to hire a group of Mariachis at birthdays to come over at the end of the party to sing “Las mañanitas”. The Venezuelan Mexico sentimental link is probably the strongest by Venezuelans to any other Latin America country, as it comes from the very important trading of colonial times (The New Spain vice royalty was a big buyer of Venezuelan cocoa beans). But this is what happens when you have rulers that not only ignore the country’s history, but despise it and try to rewrite it as much as they can. Great Moments in Diplomacy: ambassadors with a message Contrast these two scenes. Only one has a real message. Scene 1: the ambassadors return home. The return of the Mexican ambassador was a rather subdued affair. To the press that was waiting him at the Mexico airport he pleaded to let them go first to the chancery to make his report. He limited himself to say that Venezuelan people treated him very well and that many wished him well when he left (implying that many Venezuelans were not supporting Chavez?) Vladimir Villegas return was of another sort. The ex ambassador to Brazil, ex director of the state TV, ex small time leftist journalist was not shy in front of the camera. In fact his presentation when he arrived made one wonder how could someone of his temple could make it as an ambassador, and to Mexico at that! No wonder that the Mexican foreign ministry has revoked his placet and that the eventual return of a Venezuelan ambassador will require naming a new one. One can only wonder what role did Villegas had in making matters worse: a “patán” like Villegas should not even be honorary consul! (1) Sure enough Villegas declared only to the state TV, VTV, least a real journalist were to ask a real probing question. The "official" story first, and only! There was a time when Villegas complained about journalistic complacency, if I recall well, but I might be wrong. And the way he protested about “the campaign of the Mexican special interest groups and media” or something like that sounded hollow. Whether he has links with Al Qaeda, as an ambassador of Venezuela he should not go down the ring to battle the Mexican press. He did get the placet, no? Does anyone train diplomatic revolutionary personnel in Venezuela? In Brazil he was not impressive. In Mexico even less. Makes one wonder which are the real reasons for Chavez to keep sending him to such high profile embassies! (2) Scene 2: The US ambassador declared to the press today. The US has been very careful to stay clear from the Mexico-Venezuela spat. “It is none of our business”, and it is probably true. But William Brownfield is a smart guy and he was not going to waste an opportunity to put banderilla in the wounded Venezuelan bull. After all, poor Bill has had to put up with so many accusations of the US as the source of all evil on earth, that, well, you know, he had to let it out (3). Well, ambassador Brownfield came with a little piece of paper where he listed some of the many things that the US has been accused of vis-à-vis Venezuela: [The US has been accused of being behind] of the presidential assassination attempt, coup d’etat, promoting Venezuelan voter abstention, internal divisions within Chavez party, campaign of the opposition, Vargas floods [in February because Bush did not sign Kyoto] bombs in the CNE office of Carabobo, killing a prosecutor [CIA involvement in the Anderson case, at least not alone there], complot to terrorize Venezuelan kids at Halloween, Colombia’s DAS declarations, decreasing PDVSA production, the International Trasnparency campaign [where Venezuela was revealed as one of the most corrupt countries], international negative media campaign, campaign against the Aves island [a tiny island in the Northern Caribbean that some island state would like to take away from Venezuela, something totally unfounded for this blogger who would suggest to trade it for the Guyana portion stolen from Venezuela by the Brits, but I digress] And then, tongue in cheek, he adds: How can I sleep with so many conspiracies and intrigues? The truth is that in this world there are some things that have nothing to do with the US, and this is one of them [the Venezuela Mexico spat] I do not know about you but I think that Brownfield was superb; and I predict that contrary to Fox he will not get an Alo Presidente lashing for that one. I can hardly imagine how to summarize better Venezuela (Chavez in fact) paranoia and diplomatic incompetence to explain the loss of credibility of Venezuela (and Chavez) on the foreign stage. Crying wolf too much Hugo? --- --- --- --- --- 1)Patan: lout, boor. 2)Video on Globovision, but for pay. Title: Villegas ante revocatoria... 15-11-05 3)Video on Globovision, and this one is worth it. If someone could pride the link it would be great. Title: Embajador Brownfield... 15-11-05, probably on for free until Wednesday morning. NOTE ADDED: Stig, as usual, has come through and the Brownfield video can be seen here! Venezuela and Mexico suspend diplomatic relations Act 1: Mar del Plata, the summit of the Americas Chavez does a counter summit with an ex druggie and a coca provider. Takes the front stage with a paid for audience (at least there is evidence of people ferried to that show). Meanwhile the other countries are trying really hard to work out a deal. Chavez rejoins the sessions, finally, only to sabotage things further and fight with whomever does like FTAA. Pro FTAA countries vote 28 + USA against 4 + Venezuela. Chavez self stated purpose of ruining FTAA once and for all is sent back to him with a nasty sound of "smack" in the face. Vicente Fox of Mexico is one of the leaders of the FTAA effort and thus the Chavez slayer. Act 2: A cadena in Venezuela Chavez, obviously smarting from his diplomatic setback in Mar del Plata (not even a single island of the Caribbean to whom he bribed with oil followed him in Mar del Plata) decides to insult Fox during a live enforced all media broadcast, a "cadena". Nobody can miss the moment. Fox foreign ministry demands explanations. Act 3: Derbez and Rodriguez try to smooth things out Apparently some progress is made. Act 4: Sunday Alo Presidente Chavez just ignores (?) the efforts of his foreign minister. Chavez shows videos of the working sessions which are supposedly confidential so that the leaders can speak more freely. Chavez insults Fox again. The Mexican foreign ministry now demands a formal apology. Lamely a Venezuelan minister claims the usual suspects: media conspiracy, obscure interests sectors and what not. Never the rudeness of Chavez is called into question. Act 5: Traveling ambassadors Venezuela retires its ambassador from Mexico. Fox things that it is best to retire both ambassadors. The news is carried by CNN. Chargés d'affaires will deal with the day to day, one supposes. Provisional conclusion: with all the problems at home from electoral apathy to the very, very botched and badly backfiring Anderson investigation there is an urgent need to create a diversion. A presidential temper tantrum that will cost dearly to the country is the chosen excuse to distract folks. This is the way things are run in a country where any Yo, El Supremo fart becomes state policy. And I am pretty sure that it is not the end of it. PS: Check Miguel's picture on how close Fox and Chavez were at Mar del Plata. Lovely irony. An electoral campaign? Where? Indictments? Everywhere! The casual observer of the Venezuelan situation would be hard pressed to detect an electoral campaign atmosphere. Except for a few pro Chavez posters here and there, and the occasional truck with blaring loudspeakers in the small towns of Venezuela, said observer would be clueless. In fact, public protests everywhere could at first be confused for campaign rallies by this observer. But they are not. Blocking of highways is now a more common practice for groups of people willing to express some form of opinion. When you drive around the country the odds that you will blocked for hours by such a protest must be now about 1 in 4 trips! But I suppose that in this age where all flows from Miraflores Palace if you want something it probably pays more to block the central highways of Venezuela than to attend the rather scant rallies that chavismo calls for its candidates. Not to mention the nearly inexistent opposition ones. Should we be surprised? Not at all. The involution of our political process where Chavez is every day more and more at the center of all action, even the smallest of micro management scenes, has made people realize that unless you find a way to attract Chavez attention, well, you are wasting your time. Cynically the political movements of the chavista “coalition” do acknowledge this. For the past week, in my citizen duty, even as I have not decided yet whether I will vote, I have been scanning the Yaracuy press to see at least the face of the candidates to the National Assembly. At work, someone gets the Yaracuy al Día, a pro Chavez paper (though lately it seems that the relations with governor Gimenez are souring). So I borrowed to see the pics of the chavista candidates. Sure enough I saw some advertisement, not much. Always the name of Chavez and Gimenez were displayed, usually with their pictures, and rarely, very rarely the name of the actual candidate. Only one actually did print his picture in the advertisement. And no opposition advertisement that I could find. Truly amazing! Ex governor Lapi used to pay for advertisement in Yaracuy al Día! This week-end I got both Yaracuy papers. Yaracuy al Día did carry this time a full page of a political campaign rally called by governor Gimenez. As you can perceive from the composition, all duly orchestrated, all the advertisement revolves around Gimenez, our local Chavez. At least all the candidates appear in a group photo, WITHOUT their names though. And not very happy faces? Truly amazing! The opposition paper, El Yaracuyano did carry one advertisement for an opposition candidate. The way it was presented you could see that she probably paid it from her own pocket. All the parties that support her appear in the add, which certainly would not be the case if a given party were to pay for it! Incidentally you can see how the “morochas” work in practical terms. The rectangles of the UNIDAD (MIN) represent the candidature for the local seat. The individual party rectangles represent the “at large” seat. And yes, she is running in both at once, which gives you a hint of the degree of confidence she has in her potential to be elected. One smiling politician face, at least! I find these two advertisement for the very local Yaracuy campaign very telling of the situation in the country. Chavismo more than ever relies on Chavez whose picture appears most of the time alone. In other words, candidates know that they will only get elected if they manage close identification with the beloved leader. Originality kills politically. The opposition is quite dispirited, already accepting the defeat, unable to find resources to match the grossly obscene chavista spending and use of the state monies for its campaign. The opposition also must rely more on the faces of the locals. One can always hope for the opposition that a better identification to the local issues will help it out and that people will want to vote for a candidate whose face they can place, no? Do not count much on it. The question that is begging to be asked is how come the campaign for the national assembly is so lackluster? After all, Chavez counts on getting a two third majority to be able to modify the constitution and remain legally in office for ever and ever. Is he so certain he will get it by just having his face on the ballot, alone? From the recent political events you would not think that chavismo is so certain of a good score. In fact, if the victory is all but assured, be it from the despondency of the opposition or the open favoritism of the CNE toward the chavista candidates, what will be missing on election day are voters. Chavez will win by default and that is bad for him, for his self proclaimed popular leadership (even if people had to be brought to the La Plata stadium in between rounds of rioting). Very bad in fact for his image not to see long lines of people screaming to be let vote for. I believe that this is one of the main reasons why Chavez has kicked into the political battle mode overdrive instead of the electoral one as he does usually crisscrossing the country. Be it the Chavez-Fox-Bush-Kirchner orgy from hell, or the crazier and crazier indictments on the Danilo Anderson investigation, all is becoming pandemonium! That last mad house has reached a new low today as Cardinal Castillo Lara has been indirectly implicated. Apparently among the very unreliable witness that the general prosecutor office seems unable to free itself of, one would have said that the reunion in Panama included a 70 something year old guy with a silver cross on his chest and who went by the name of Lara. Castillo as a first name? Huh? Let’s imagine that scene. Cardinal Castillo, the second in command in the Vatican for years, probably someone who was used by John Paul II for delicate, confidential or even secrete missions, went after retirement, as he is 80 year old, to the hot and damp Darien jungles, wearing his silver cross for all to see and giving his name around. At that meeting, in the same damp jungle where Patricia Poleo hairdo would not last 10 minutes, he would have met with a Jewish banker, the said Poleo, Venezuelan generals in uniform, CIA and FBI agents showing their badges around, etc… all to plot the murder of a prosecutor that apparently was more dangerous for them than Chavez and the Devil himself. I’ll bet you they also discussed creating a Bolivarian “endogena” cooperative to buy a bridge in New York. All of this as Colombian psychiatric impersonator with an impressive criminal track record was free to take notes. That the possible motivations of these people to kill Anderson has not been addressed by Isaias Rodriguez so far, the simple fact of trying to imagine that scene can only lead any one with half a brain to consider that Isaias has been taken in for a ride by someone at the office. No wonder that very seriously on Friday’s Tal Cual front page Petkoff has asked for the resignation of Isaias, the strongest editorial so far on the case. Isaias response? “not even dead will I resign!” Which besides pointing out at the arrogance and stupidity of the one who knows he has been caught, reflects that his lithium is not doing it for him anymore. But Isaias boss lithium is not working much either. Today, as I heard the report on TV, his Alo Presidente was a long rant on Fox and Bush and what not. At three weeks from a crucial election Chavez could not find in a 4 hours rant the time to discuss electoral policies and strategies. And then why do you want me not to be surprised when even my chavista employees are telling me that they will not go out and vote… You can fool some of the people, etc… you know that speech. PS: I was writing this post listening to Broadway tunes. What your subconscient makes you reach for before you get to work! Surely there is a musical somewhere in what I wrote. But I suspect that as long as we do not have an Evita to focus the attention, the people just won't buy such a screenplay. It gets better! Now that the event described in the previous post has taken place, the "Venezuelan Solidarity Movement" has just posted a page with the links of the announcements and even a video clip of the event on November 8. I have not watched the clip yet, it is probably due to the shocking presence of the stolen flags, set up now in glorious proeminence!!!!! I mean, they even had to enlarge the picture they lifted from my blog, and it shows in the resolution!!! But I suppose they could not have written me to ask for the original. Do you think I should charge for copy rights? I mean, how much do you think they raked from the suckers on November 8? I think that this is becoming embarrassing enough (for them) that someone should write!!!! Or is it that imitation/unauthorized-copy is the sincerest form of flattery? I mean, even my opposition flags are BIGGER than the picture of the event! Funding of Venezuela News and Views UNCOVERED! In a breathtaking breakthrough, brisk and bright anti Chavez blogger Daniel Duquenal was unmasked as a pro Chavez agent. Apparently he has been writing all these years to confuse the silly opposition readers who thought he was some kind of guru, a dispenser of wisdom on how to tolerate the Chavez regime, even offering suggestions on how to sabotage that benevolent administration, but of course in a very inefficient way that these silly saboteurs did not detect. The evidence? The photo to the right. This web page called for an Evening of Solidarity with Bolivarian Venezuela in New York City. In attendance a who’s who of lefties left out by the times and some Bolivarian circles related folks: Circulo Bolivariano Alberto Lovera, Ramsey Clark, Noam Chomsky, Peter Coyote, Marcia Campos, Danny Glover, James Petras, Congressman Jose Serrano, among other luminaries. Well, this distinguished company advertised using the Venezuelan flag, inserted on the quote by Peter Coyote, which looks incredibly like the Venezuelan flags that could be found on the top right of this blog for the last three years. There is no other explanation: Daniel Duquenal must have given copyrights of this picture to the event that was also a fund raising of sorts. It must have been his contribution after all the monies that he surely got through the VIO. And thus he is unmasked. Kidding aside now. This picture was taken by yours truly in the first big opposition march of 2003, the one that made it to Los Proceres where it was ambushed by chavistas, supported by the Nazional Guard. This picture was taken on top of the elevated bypass of Las Mercedes as Daniel likes to take pictures and would not have missed a chance to benefit from that plunging view of a sea of flags. Yes, that is right, the picture used by that pro-Chavez call to fundraising is actually a picture taken form a march that gathered at least 100 000 people bitching at Chavez. Now, that IS egg on your face for the organizers of the event, people that were unable to find pro Chavez flags among so many multi million marches that chavismo has claimed. How come, guys? And yes, I do have the original picture which is larger and was trimmed to fit in the glorious position it has occupied, welcoming readers wanting to know more about how chavismo is degrading the moral soul of the country, including intellectual and artistic property rights. So I can prove what I am saying and bring further embarassment if necessary. Not that it matters much, I have lifted material myself to illustrate my blog, but I was always careful not to pick up material from the other side as if it were from my side… No, it is just hilarious to see how incompetent these guys are, be they in Miraflores or in New York City! And also how closely my blog is followed by chavistas. Welcome guys! Hope you learn something! Something else, not quite related but perhaps appropriate for this occasion. I have been discrete about it, but last October 8 Harry’s place, one of my favorite leftist blogs, published a simple but meaningful internet interview of Teodoro Petkoff. Yours truly helped to set up the contacts and translate the replies. I did not announce it because, well, I was traveling at the time and it was really Gene’s idea. And, besides, I am not a name dropper and I do not take credit for other people work, EVEN if I actually have a significant input. But I suppose that this is why I am not a chavista. Thus, it had to wait for more than one month, it had to wait for prodding by such antics from a silly Bolivarian circle to finally bring me to claim my part in that work of Gene. Hope you understand Gene! Great job and I hope we will work on an additional and more complete interview when Teodoro finally runs for office. Ah! Blogging can really be fun on occasion! Hat tip, Mora y Leon, of all people, for unmasking me! Our daily “cadena” , plus bonus Venezuela versus Mexico For those who are coming late to this blog, I have the sudden urge to describe what a “cadena” is. The reason is very simple, it is 8 PM and Chavez has decided to force upon us a “cadena”. That is, ALL TV bands, ALL radio stations, all airborne media MUST transmit simultaneously the speech of Chavez for as long as he wishes, on any matter he wishes to, without anyone being able to interrupt him and confront him on anything he might fancy to utter. So, without further ado, a simultaneous blogging of a cadena. It is 8: 15 PM, suddenly Grado 33 is interrupted and from afar I hear a chorus chanting the national anthem. Cadena! I think immediately in that exquisite conditioned reflex we have developed in the last 7 years as cadenas are a on average a several times a week fixture. That I did not hear the official announcement means that Globovision was late in joining the cadena. Hopefully it will not be fined. 8:20 The chorus is over. A voice announces that the program will be announced. Apparently it is a cadena of some formal event. The spokesperson of the housing ministry announces that this is a non partisan event, it is an event where the bankers and the government are sitting together to announce new measures to help people acquire housing, a joint effort to benefit ALL Venezuelans. Groovy! National reconciliation must be starting at last! 8:25 The announcer also adds that the usual formality for such an event will be discarded and it will be a dialogue. And the first person who is invited to speak is Chavez. End of the dialogue… 8:26 Chavez starts talking. He does not start with housing. He starts with the Mar del Plata fiasco. He starts by saying that he brought videos with him from over there, videos no shown by the main stream media, videos that will reveal what rally happened there. I suppose that the building destructions at Mar del Plata have some relevance to the new housing program about to be announced? Then Chavez starts qualifying Mar del Plata as a real hard fought battle. (Applauses, that will be, by the way, punctuating any cheap patriotic moment or Chavez glorifying incident). 8:30 But the criticism received by Chavez o n his actions on Mar del Plata must have stung. No mention of Maradonna or even of the rally at the stadium! Just a very generic “we did this and that”. And to support that Chavez is pissed off, really pissed off, he started attacking Mexico Fox. His words against Fox, I kid you not, are worth of a breakup within the countries. Fox is simply accused of been a coward at the service of the US. Well, maybe it is true, but it certainly not up to Chavez to say that!!!!! I was simply stunned. Not to mention that he would resort to such a vile maneuvers to distract from his own failures, from refusing to admit that 29 countries were on the opposite side of Chavez and only 5 on his. But then again arithmetic have never been Chavez forte. 8:37 Panegeric against free trade, on how Venezuela is not ready for it. I agree. But why is he proposing free trade with Mercosur which will be as bad for Venezuela as free trade with the US? 8:40 Then the cadena moves on to national policies. Unemployment is down, interest rates are down, reserves are up, etc… And the attacks against private properties? Not true! Look, they are all negotiating with us and some have even told us that they indeed have too much land and that they should give it away. But my favorite! International reserves are up thanks to the good economic policies of Chavez. Without mentioning at any point that there is a stringent currency control exchange. But I should have known better, it is all a simple excuse to discuss how much excess international reserve Venezuela has and thus how justified is Chavez to dip in them for social programs and projects (let call them all social programs since we are on election period). 8:55 After miscellaneous self aggrandizement, then the projects started. My favorite so far: the problem of the Marcaibo lake are all due to entering of salt water. All the sad “lemna” invasion (an algal thing overgrowing everything on the lake for the past two years), oil spills that pushed the government to forbid private planes above the lake, etc… is all now excused and forgotten: it was the sea. I was in such shock that I even failed to hear the solution he offered (well, the phone rung also). 9:00 Now that I ma back to listen to it, he is talking about railroads all over Venezuela. And he shifts to all sorts of promises. Now it is obvious where this is going on and the reader will understand why I have a hard time going through even half an hour of a Chavez cadena. Today I did good, I was not watching it (I cannot stand the grimaces he makes when he talks, and even less when he insults people that cannot defend themselves from his unfounded accusations; such cowardice sickens me). But even if I listen to it from my computer, answering my phone, picking up my nose, there is so much I can take. 9:04 It has been already 45 minutes of “dialogue” and only now we are finally reaching the housing problem. He starts by congratulating the private sector present to the ceremony. Do they have a choice? Don’t they need those contracts? 9:18 I was on the phone. He is now telling us all the new credit measures he is taking (or was that re-taking) to promote housing construction. All of these measures have failed so far, I am allowing myself to be pessimistic. But the atmosphere is warming up, now that the has emptied his disgust at his Mar del Plata failure, he is more genial and he is making silly jokes on people forced to live with relatives after their marriage. Whenever he announces the numbers of the credit rate depending of your income, people applaud as it it were a great novelty. All of this is warmed up form about 6 months ago. But the fact is that this cadena has already shown its objective. It is a naked electoral propaganda imposed on all of us, in a way that the opposition cannot counter, that the CNE will not punish. It is an completely unfair tactic, an unspeakable advantage, for the chavismo electoral campaigning just as a few days ago a few youth of Primero Justicia were arrested for posting tracts. You know what, I had enough of this shit, I am turning off and going to bed. The smart reader will know what to think about it. PS: observe that at 9:34, the information/propaganda ministry was already publishing the criticism to Fox!!!! With photo included of Chavez during the cadena, which of course this real time blogger even put up with the caption! You can even appreciate the accusating finger! All planned, all manipulated news, all the time. PS2: I have received a BBC link where you can go and vote as to your opinion on Chavez. Comes with a Petkoff participation. 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__label__wiki	0.811543	0.811543	Collection: Joseph McGarrity Papers, 1789-1971 >> ... >> Telegram from "McHugh" to Patrick McCartan reading... Telegram from "McHugh" to Patrick McCartan reading "last set went in last night", 1910 December 2. This item is under copyright. The digital images may only be viewed via the online catalogue in the National Library Reading Rooms. Main Creator: McCartan, Patrick, 1878-1963 Joseph McGarrity Papers, 1789-1971 McCartan, Patrick, > 1878-1963 > Correspondence Telegram addressed from "Lower Dorset St. Dublin" and to "McCarton Eskerbury Carrickmore". Physical description: 1 item (1 page). Hide notes ... Telegram addressed from "Lower Dorset St. Dublin" and to "McCarton Eskerbury Carrickmore". Show more notes ... Arrangement: Hide arrangement information ... Item Show all arrangement information ... No results All Fields Title Your search returned too many results to display in the tree. Showing only the first items. For a full search click . Joseph McGarrity Papers, Correspondence between Joseph McGarrity and Frank Aiken, 1923-1935. Letter from General Frank Aiken, Irish Republican Army Chief of Staff, to Joseph McGarrity, Luke Dillon and T. Ryan, advising them and the members of their organisation [the reorganised Clan na Gael] to join the A.A.R.I.R. [American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic], 1923 October 1. Letter from Frank Aiken to Joseph McGarrity, asking his opinion on recruiting "old I.R.A. men" into local American organisations to "continue their work for Ireland", 1926 July 29. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to General Frank Aiken inviting him to Atlantic City in spite of their disagreements, 1926 August 25. Letter from Frank Aiken to Joseph McGarrity requesting acknowledgement that McGarrity has received his last missive and seeking an answer to his suggestion, 1926 August 31. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to General Frank Aiken apologising for not replying to his letters and inviting him to spend time with him "disregarding any political view which we may have", 1926 September 1. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to General Frank Aiken discussing their policy, the financial involvment of Clan na Gael in elections in Ireland and the divisions amongst the Republican party, 1926 September 1. Letter from Frank Aiken to Joseph McGarrity expressing relief that McGarrity has received his last missive and accepting his invitation, 1926 September 2. Christmas card from Frank Aiken to Joseph McGarrity, 1927 December. Letter from Frank Aiken to Joseph McGarrity regarding the application of Mr Hugh Grogan for a Disability Pension, with enclosed letter from the secretary of the Department of Defence of the Irish Free State to his sister Miss Jane Grogan regarding the same, 1935 October 18 & 21. Correspondence between Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. S. Alexander [Henry George Samuel Alexander] and Joseph McGarrity relating to McGarrity's leasehold at Carrickmore, County Tyrone, 1906, 1927-1929. Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George Samuel Alexander to James Goodwin regarding lands in Cavanakeerin, Co. Tyrone, and accepting Joseph McGarrity as his new tenant, 1906 April 3. Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George Samuel Alexander to Mrs Ann Grogan [the caretaker and renter of the grass of the farm] regarding Joseph McGarrity's unpaid rent, 1927 March 18. Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George Samuel Alexander to Joseph McGarrity acknowledging payment of rent for his farm in Cavanakeerin, 1927 June 13. Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George Samuel Alexander to Joseph McGarrity advising him to contact a solicitor regarding the building of labourer's cottage on his farm in Cavanakeerin, 1927 June 7. Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George Samuel Alexander to Joseph McGarrity informing him that the rent in Cavanakeerin has been paid up to November 1928 and wonders if it was him or Ann Grogan who made the lodgement, 1928 June 28. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George Samuel Alexander clarifying some matters regarding his leasehold at Pomeroy (Cavanakeeran), including Miss Grogan's permission to collect the rent and the building of a cottage, 1928 February 14. Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George Samuel Alexander to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will have to pay interest on his purchase (his farm in Cavanakeerin) to the Land Purchase Commissioner in Belfast, 1928 March 2. Letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George Samuel Alexander asking him to check his account for the Pomeroy (Cavanakeeran) farm McGarrity has just sold to see if he still has a credit with Alexander, 1929 August 14. Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George Samuel Alexander to Joseph McGarrity informing him on his account balances, 1929 August 23. Draft letter from Joseph McGarrity to Lieutenant-Colonel Henry George Samuel Alexander giving his critical opinion of a 1920 book Alexander had recommended, 'A Straight Deal: or the Ancient Grudge', by Owen Wister, undated [1929]. Correspondence to and from Joseph Barnes, mainly relating to Clan-na-Gael business, 1930. Western Union telegram from Jim Veale to Joseph Barnes informing him that Eoin McNeill will be speaking in Holyoke on 9 May and asking him to "send Con to Springfield" in Massachussetts, 1930 May 8. Letter from [Mr] M. Dunn to Joseph Barnes forwarding him a term report and the returns of the Easter lilies and enquiring about the forms for new members they sent to Con, 1930 May 14. Letter from Anne Gallagher to Joseph Barnes forwarding him a term report, a cheque and a "Certificate of Election of delegate to Convention", 1930 May 20. Letter from [Mr] M. Dunn to Joseph Barnes requesting receipts for the $30 he sent him previously, 15 for the period and 15 for the returns of the Easter lilies, 1930 May 23. Letter from William Parkhill to Joseph Barnes requesting another form for elections of Delegate [to the Irish American Club Convention], 1930 May 27. Letter from Neil J. Duffy to Joseph Barnes requesting credentials on behalf of Major John Deasy, "Company D, Irish Volunteers", to "attend the coming Convention", 1930 June 2. Letter from Neil J. Duffy to Joseph Barnes regarding the motion adopted at their District Board meeting to send Capt. John Deasy to the Convention, 1930 June 15. Letter from Edward P. Kearns, Treasurer [of the Irish American Club], District 12, to Joseph Barnes, enclosing a cheque, 1930 June 23. Letter from Neil J. Duffy to Joseph Barnes regarding the organisation's finances, 1930 June 24. Letter from Margaret Kelly, Senior Guardian of the Kevin Barry Club of Buffalo, New York, to Joseph Barnes, enclosing two cheques, 1930 June 25. Letter from the Pearse-Connolly Club of Jersey City, New Jersey, to Joseph Barnes, enclosing term reports, cheque and certificate of election of delegate, 1930 June 25. Letter from Neil J. Duffy to Joseph Barnes recommending Tommy Toner, previously in Duffy's District, for membership in his new section in San Fransisco, 1930 June 25. Letter from Jerry Keating, Chicago, Illinois, to Joseph Barnes, New York, discussing the state of club branches and giving news of members now in the "Sanctorium", 1930 June 25. Letter from John M. Gallagher, Senior Guardian of D. 3 District 17, to Joseph Barnes, recommending ex-IRA member Anthony Kilcoyne, 1930 July 7. Letter from Neil J. Duffy to Joseph Barnes advising him to give an opportunity to the men of District 214, in Wilmington, Delaware, to put their district "on a good financial floating", 1930 July 9. Letter from George Thompson, Newark, New Jersey, to Joseph Barnes, enclosing a cheque and mentioning that the organisation "will have to adopt some different method in order to raise funds", 1930 July 22. Letter from C. M. Sullivan, Jersey City, New Jersey, to Joseph Barnes, New York, enclosing a cheque and commenting on its date of issue, 1930 July 27. Letter from "Concubhár" [C. M. Sullivan], Jersey City, New Jersey, to Joseph Barnes, enclosing a new cheque, 1930 July 29. Letter from Margaret Kelly, Buffalo, New York, to Joseph Barnes, New York, informing him that she is sending a cheque to Mr C[on] Neenan for returns for Easter lilies, 1930 July 29. Letter from Anne Gallagher, Cleveland, Ohio, to Joseph Barnes, New York, enclosing a copy of Certificate of Election of delegate to Convention for Mr Patrick Lynch and asking him he if has received her term report, 1930 August 8. Letter from F. E. Cannon, Hartford, Connecticut, to Joseph Barnes, New York, enclosing his term report, money and the certificate of election of his branch's delegate to the convention, undated [1930]. Letter from F. E. Cannon, Hartford, Connecticut, to Joseph Barnes, New York, enclosing a cheque, undated [1930]. Letter from Owen Cunningham, Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Joseph Barnes, New York, expressing his doubts about four men's "sincerity in the Irish cause", undated [1930]. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Neil Duffy, Philadelphia, organising for army man Frank Ryan to give a speech the following month to help the "building up of the young club", 1930 March 14. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Jack Ashe, Springfield, Massachusetts, forwarding him a piece to reply to a newspaper "who dubbed us as illegal and secret society organisation", which Barnes considers to be "British propaganda", 1930 April 5. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to J. Gallagher, Cleveland, Ohio, asking him if he has received a receipt from Barnes' office, 1930 April 8. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mrs W. Cannon, Hartford, Connecticut, thanking the Ladies Club in Hartford for their contribution to the last fundraising call and sending receipt, 1930 April 8. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Neil Duffy, "D. O. District 12", informing him that it was decided at the last D. A. meeting to present District 12 with a typewriter, 1930 April 12. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Neil [J. Duffy] asking him to let him know when Duffy's district has decided to have their "Reunion", 1930 April 18. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Miss M. Ganley, Springfield, Massachusetts, thanking her club for their financial contribution, 1930 April 30. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr Jim Flannery, Hartford, Connecticut, regarding a Mr [Thomas (Doc)] "Dundon", whom according to Barnes, "would be a good member for the Club", 1930 May 21. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr M. Dunn, Syracuse, New York, acknowledging reception of his term report and Easter lilies money and asking him to send duplicates of the forms for new members Dunn previously sent to C[on], 1930 May 21. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr T. Fay, Cincinnatti, Ohio, returning a cheque the bank did not accept "due to the fact that there is no account standing in the name of Edgeworth", 1930 May 27. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr J[im] Flannery, Hartford, Connecticut, regarding admission of "Thomas (Doc) Dundon" to the organisation, 1930 May 28. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr T. Fay, Cincinnatti, Ohio, enclosing a receipt for the returns of the Easter lilies and giving details of the next C[onvention], 1930 June 2. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Neil Duffy regarding Capt. [John] Deasy's application to attend the organisation's convention, recommending that the matter be discussed by Duffy's District Board first, 1930 June 5. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr T. Hoare, Westfield, Massachusetts, instructing him "to call a special meeting of all members" in the light of the "trouble" in Hoare's District, 1930 June 10. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr T. Hoare, Westfield, Massachusetts, asking him for more details about the troublemakers in Springfield before sending a Representative from Barnes' office, 1930 June 11. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr T. Fay, Cincinnatti, Ohio, enclosing a receipt for the money raised by his Club and commenting that the "results all over have not been too good", 1930 June 11. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Captain John Deasy, Philadelphia, enclosing a form to fill and return so that he can be "furnished with the necessary credentials to attend the next Convention of this organisation", 1930 June 18. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to N[eil] Duffy, Philadelphia, enclosing Capt. [John] Deasy's credentials and discussing the organisation's financial situation, 1930 June 18. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to N[eil] Duffy, Philadelphia, informing him that he has just received a contribution from Duffy's District which came late and will therefore not appear in his report, 1930 June 24. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to N[eil] Duffy, Philadelphia, requesting him to check if Tommy Toner "was attached to the Order in Philadelphia", 1930 June 24. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr J[im] Flannery, Hartford, Connecticut, informing him that he is "sending on the copy of Ritual to the Ladies Camp", 1930 July 16. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr J. Griffin, Holyoke, Massachusetts, enclosing a receipt, 1930 July 18. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Miss M. Ganley, Springfield, Massachusetts, regarding a password, 1930 July 18. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Miss [Anne] Gallagher, [Cleveland, Ohio], acknowledging reception of her letter of 8 August 1930, 1930 August 14. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr P. Gurl, Waltham, Massachusetts, enclosing credentials and instructions for the Convention, 1930 August 26. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mrs M. Hempel, Wilmington, Delaware, acknowledging reception of the term report for her club, 1930 August 28. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr J. O'Callaghan, Philadelphia, acknowledging the "receipt of a half transfer", 1930 March 4. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr W[illiam] Parkhill, Philadelphia, concerning the organisation of a speech by Frank Ryan to inspire potential recruits, 1930 March 14. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr J. Kirwan, Wilmington, Delaware, concerning fundraising for Cumann na mBan, 1930 March 14. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to J[erry] Keating, Chicago, Illinois, regarding fundraising for Cumann na mBan by selling Easter lilies in his district, 1930 March 14. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to J[erry] Keating, Chicago, Illinois, regarding James Hammill, 1930 April 8. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr W. Kerrish, Chicago, Illinois, regarding the visit of a speaker, 1930 April 11. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr C. O'Callaghan, Newhaven, Connecticut, regarding Frank Ryan's visit, 1930 April 13. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Jerry Keating, Chicago, Illinois, regarding "those two boys placed up there" urging him one should "receive treatment as soon as possible", 1930 May 17. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Miss M. Larkin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, enclosing receipts and enquiring about the returns from Easter lilies for Cumann na mBan, 1930 May 21. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr J. Quinlan, Tenefly, New Jersey, enclosing a receipt, reports and instructions, 1930 May 28. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to the Kevin Barry Sisters, enclosing a receipt for Easter lilies sales and thanking them for their efforts and their loyalty, 1930 June 19. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to E[dward P.] Kearns, acknowledging reception of $1,000 from District 12 and thanking the members, 1930 June 24. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Miss M[argaret] Kelly, Buffalo, New York, enclosing receipts for funds raised, term reports and forms for the election of a delegate to the convention, 1930 June 26. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to J[erry] Keating, Chicago, Illinois, regarding financial matters and the reorganisation of Keating's club, 1930 June 26. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to J[erry] Keating, Chicago, Illinois, regarding An Phoblacht and the McSwiney Club's delegate to the convention, 1930 July 16. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr W. J. Martin, Chicago, Illinois, regarding the contributions of his club to the fundraiser, 1930 July 18. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr C[on]. O'Sullivan, Jersey City, returning an incomplete cheque, 1930 July 28. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr W. Kerrish, Chicago, Illinois, thanking him for his club's contribution to the fundraiser and discussing means of generating more money in this difficult financial times, 1930 July 28. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr Con O'Sullivan, Jersey City, thanking him and the members of his camp for their contribution to the fundraiser, and enclosed account for District 12, 1930 August 14. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to J[erry] Keating, Chicago, Illinois, enclosing credentials for "Cusack" and requesting monies to be sent so as to have the books audited, 1930 August 14. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr P. Mahoney, Bronx, New York, requesting him to send the monies raised before the convention assembles and suggesting that the delegates from his club discuss their constitution, 1930 August 15. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr Jerry Kirwin, Wilmington, Delaware, concerning the convention opening the following Saturday in Brodway, 1930 August 28. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mrs B. Stanford, Newhaven, Connecticut, "regarding the possibilities of holding an Easter Week Commemoration in Newhaven" which would include Frank Ryan, 1930 April 11. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr J. Stanton, New York, enclosing a receipt and expressing his satisfaction with the club, 1930 June 18. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Mr G[eorge] Thompson, Newark, New Jersey, discussing means of raising funds, 1930 22 July. Letter from Joseph Barnes, New York, to Jim Veale, Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, making remarks about discipline within the organisation, stating that troublemakers "are contributing more to the upkeep of the Free State and Britishism by making good reliable workers tired", 1930 August 14. Correspondence between Joseph McGarrity and Harry [Henry James] Boland and members of his family, 1919-1928. Letter from Harry Boland, New York, to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, regarding the arrival of Eamon de Valera in New York, 1919 August 26. Letter from Harry Boland, New York, to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, regarding Eamon de Valera's tour, 1919 August 29. Letter from Harry Boland, Louisville, Kentucky, to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity], informing him of the progress of the tour, 1919 October 10. Letter from Harry Boland, Washington, District of Columbia, to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity], informing him that Eamon de Valera has fixed up permanent headquarters in Washington D.C., 1919 December 20. Letter from Harry Boland, Washington, District of Columbia, to Mrs [Kathryn] McGarrity, wishing her a happy Christmas, 1919 December 23. Letter from Harry Boland, New York, to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, informing him that he is "growing more confident day by day in our success" and organising a meeting in Philadelphia, 1920 March 4. Biographical text about Rev. J. A. H. Irwin of Antrim, 1920 March 4. Letter from Harry Boland, Washington, District of Columbia, to Joseph McGarrity, informing him that he is "sending the card of the Phoenix National Bank to Mr. O'Mara", 1920 March 25. Letter from Harry Boland, New York, to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity] regarding the latter's health and writings, and expressing optimism for the Irish cause, 1920 May 12. Letter from Harry Boland, Washington, District of Columbia, to Joseph McGarrity, Atlantic City, New Jersey, expressing that "left to ourselves in Ireland we cannot hope to win final victory" and exposing plans of a world wide campaign against Britain, 1920 August 3. Letter from Harry Boland, Washington, District of Columbia, to Joseph McGarrity, Atlantic City, New Jersey, replying for "the Chief" [Eamon de Valera] on several matters, 1920 August 3. Western Union Telegram from Harry Boland, Washington, District of Columbia, to Joseph McGarrity, Atlantic City, New Jersey, requesting Liam Pedlar to remain in Atlantic City, 1920 August 12. Letter from Harry Boland, New York, to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, regarding the factionalism fettering the movement, 1920 September 4. Letter from Harry Boland, New York, to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, regarding the negative portrait of Irish affairs the American Consul in Dublin gave the representative of the Minister of Trade Mr. Moore, 1921 July 19. Letter from Harry Boland, Dublin, to Joseph McGarrity, New York, expressing his joy to be back in Ireland and thanking him for his "unselfish devotion and untiring labours in belief of the Republic", 1921 September 1. Letter from Harry Boland, Washington, District of Columbia, to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, organising a public meeting at which he will "offset the British Dominion propaganda", 1921 October 18. Letter from Harry Boland, Washington, District of Columbia, to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, informing him that he is going to New York and is hoping to see Joseph McGarrity there, 1921 November 3. Letter from Harry Boland, Washington, District of Columbia, to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, asking him to come to Washington to discuss means of partially reimbursing him for the losses he has incurred with the Irish Press in support of the Irish Republic, 1921 December 14. Printed open letter from Joseph McGarrity, James McNellis and Philip Carson appealing for funds for the Irish cause, 1919 May 20. Letter from "HB" [Henry James Boland] to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity] regarding Egan Clancy [brother of George Clancy, Mayor of Limerick], 1921 July 19. Envelope sent from New York and addressed to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, 1921 March 28. Newspaper clipping concerning Egan Clancy entitled "Murdered Mayor's Brother to Address Meeting Here", [1921] March. Republican poem by Harry Boland entitled 'To Dublin' and begining with the line "No City of bellowing slaves art thou", undated. Postcard from Harry Boland, Crewe, England, to Joseph McGarrity, New York, asking him when he may expect to see him in Dublin, 1921 September 14. Letter from Harry Boland, Paris, to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, explaining that the "army of the Republic ... has refused to be a party to pulling down the Republic", with enclosed letter from Harry Boland to Luke Dillon, concerning the split following the Treaty, 1921 January 25 & 26 January 1922. Letter from Harry Boland, Dublin, to Joseph McGarrity, informing him that a last attempt at unity will be made with the "Free Staters", 1922 April 12. Letter from Harry Boland, Dublin, to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, informing him of the "Collins De Valera Pact", 1922 May 30. Letter from Harry Boland, Dublin, to Joseph McGarrity, informing him of his progress with Collins and Griffith on "national unity", 1922 June 9. Typescript copy of a letter from Harry Boland to Joseph McGarrity regarding "national unity" in Ireland in the aftermath of the Treaty, 1922 June 9. Letter from Harry Boland, Dublin Mountains, to Joseph McGarrity, placing "on record the events that have led up to this British manufactured war on the Republic", 1922 July 13. Typescript copy of a letter from Harry Boland, Dublin Mountains, to Joseph McGarrity, giving an account of the events that led to, and the begining of, the Civil War, 1922 July 13. Typescript copy letter from Harry Boland to "Sally" blaming the English for the Civil War, 1922 July 13. Letter from Harry Boland, Dublin, to Joseph McGarrity, giving him an account of the event that led to the civil war and of the current situation in Ireland, 1922 July 25 & 27. Typescript copy letter from Harry Boland, Dublin, to Joseph McGarrity, giving him an account of the civil war situation in Ireland, 1922 July 25. Letter from Harry Boland to [Joseph McGarrity] informing him that he will not be able to attend the [Clan-na-Gael] Convention, 1922 July 27. Letter from [Joseph McGarrity], New York, to Harry Boland, Dublin, advising him to accept American funds immediately, undated [c. 1919-c.1922]. Typescript report from Joseph McGarrity to Harry Boland regarding the split in Clan-na-Gael, 1921 January 13. Letters from John A. McGarry to Joseph McGarrity, 1918 & 1919. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Harry Boland regarding the outbreak of the civil war in Ireland and the date of the convention, 1922 July 5 Draft biographical note and funeral plan by Joseph McGarrity on Harry Boland, [1922 August]. Newspaper clipping reporting a public memorial to Harry Boland and Cathal Brugha held in Philadelphia, [1922] August 6. Note in Joseph McGarrity's handwritting listing the names "of those who murdered brave Harry Boland in his hotel at Skerries, Ireland", 1923 November 26. New York newspaper clipping regarding the death of Edward Boland, brother of Harry Boland, 1928. Western Union Telegram from Joseph McGarrity to Mrs Boland offering his sympahy on the death of her son, Harry, [1922 August]. Draft letter from Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, to Kate Boland, Dublin, regarding the death of her son Harry Boland, [1922 August]. Letter from Kate Boland, Dublin, to Joseph McGarrity, New York, discussing her circumstances since the death of her son Harry Boland, 1923 May 16. Letter from Kate Boland to Joseph McGarrity thanking him, Luke Dillon and James McGee for the cheque he sent, 1923 July 23. Letter from Kate Boland, Dublin, to Joseph McGarrity regarding her financial and legal difficulties with Harry Boland's landlord, 1924 January 28. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Kate Boland regarding Harry Boland's diaries, with Purchasers Memorandum enclosed, 1924 February 15. Letter from Kate Boland, Dublin, to Joseph McGarrity giving him news of the family and the poor economic conditions in the Free State, 1926 August 31. Copy of a letter from Joseph McGarrity to Kate Boland regarding the death and funeral of her son Edward, 1928 June 22. Letter from Mary K. Boland, New York, to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, expressing her interest in working for him as governess once Mrs Putnam has found a nurse, 1918 February 12. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to "Miss Boland" [Mary K. Boland] informing her that she will be given the post should his children's new governess leave, 1918 February 13. Letter from Rev. M. B. Boland, Augusta, Maine, to Joseph McGarrity, recommending "Miss Eleanor Ross of Portland" as Irish speaking governess, 1920 January 12. Letter from Rev. John J. McAllister to Joseph McGarrity regarding Harry Boland, 1921 November 22. Letter from Kate Boland, Dublin, to Joseph McGarrity thanking him, Luke Dillon and James McGee for a cheque, 1923 July 17. Letter from Kathleen Boland O'Donovan to Joseph McGarrity giving news of her family, 1925 January 12. Letter from Gerald Boland to Joseph McGarrity recommending John Maloney of the Dublin Brigade, 1927 August 25. Letter from Kathleen Boland O'Donovan to Joseph McGarrity sending her thanks to those who cared for her brother Edmund upon his death, 1928 April 21. Letter from Ed Boland to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity] regarding his work situation, the Union and the Iron workers' strike, May 12. Letter from Teresa Brayton to Joseph McGarrity, enclosing cuttings of some of her short stories from 'The Rosary Magazine', undated [ca. 1930]. Letters from Dan Breen to Joseph McGarrity mainly of a business and personal nature, including items regarding Breen's book 'My Fight for Irish Freedom', 1923-1929. Letter from Dan Breen to Joseph McGarrity regarding the attacks that were made against him, 1923 November 8. Letter from Dan Breen to Joseph McGarrity asking him to promote his book, 1923 December 7. Letter from Dan Breen to Joseph McGarrity informing him that his book is ready for sale, 1924 February 14. Letter from Dan Breen to Joseph McGarrity informing him that the Free-Staters have split into three factions, 1925 January 20. Letter from Dan Breen to Joseph McGarrity regarding the publication of his book 'My fight for Irish freedom', with enclosed letter from the Talbot Press, 1925 February 23. Letter from Dan Breen to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity] expressing hope to see him in New York City to discuss business, 1929 July 12. Letter from Dan Breen to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity] regretting he missed him when McGarrity called, 1929 July 22. Letter from Dan Breen to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity] informing him that he has taken a store now ready for business and thanking him for his reference, 1929 September 27. Letter from Dan Breen to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will not open store the following day as he was held up by the tradesmen, 1929 October 3. Draft preface by Joseph McGarrity to Dan Breen's book 'My fight for Irish freedom' with postscript note enclosed, undated. Draft preface by Joseph McGarrity to Dan Breen's book 'My fight for Irish freedom', undated. Photostat copies of correspondence mainly between Roger Casement and Joseph McGarrity, including original correspondence, 1914-1915. Letter from unidentified person to "Ruddie" [Roger Casement] wishing him goodbye on his departure with enclosed photostat of same, 1914 May 4. Photostat Western Union Telegram from Roger Casement to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, informing him that he will arrive in Norfolk the following day, 1914 July 23. Photostat telegram from Roger [Casement] to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will to be returning that night, 1914 July 28. Photostat telegram from "Rud" [Roger Casement] to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will be arriving late, 1914 August 3. Photostat telegram from Roger Casement to Joseph McGarrity infroming him that he will be arriving at 10 pm, 1914 August 7. Photostat telegram from "Diodon" [Roger Casement] to Joseph McGarrity confirming that four British Dreadnoughts have been sunk and that Germany is occupying Warsaw, 1914 August 8. Photostat letter from Roger Casement to [Joseph McGarrity?] regarding his reluctance to speak in public, with enclosed letter inviting him to talk in Pittsburg, 1914 August 15. Photostat letter from unidentified person to "Ruddie" [Roger Casement] informing him that he was retained with other Germans and will be escorted up the mountains to await peace, 1914 August 16. Photostat letter from unidentified author to Roger Casement urging him not to go to Ireland, 1914. Photostat letter from F. Maymott to Roger Casement giving him news since the beginning of the war, 1914 September 25. Incomplete photostat letter from "Eamon" to unknown recipient stating that America should do something, undated. Photostat telegram from "Rory" to Joseph McGarrity saying "not return before Saturday have written", 1914 October 7. Photostat telegram from "Bridget" [Roger Casement] to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he has been detained for another day, 1914 October 10. Photostat letter from "Bridget" to unknown recipient regarding the "disappointment" of "the dear sister" with note by Joseph McGarrity explaining that the letter is about the failed escape of "Rev. M. Collins", 1914 October 7. Photostat letter from "Bridget" to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity?] asking him to "keep this letter for me safe till I come from Chicago", 1914 October 15. Photostat letter from unknown author to unknown recipient regarding and enclosed document, 1915 August. Photostat letter from Roger Casement to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity] regarding documents showing "the guilt of England" in making the war, 1915 September 8. Photostat letter from Joseph McGarrity to "Rory" [Roger Casement] expressing his hopes that conscription will start the fight in Ireland and that a victorious Germany would mean independence for Ireland, 1915 November 9. Photostat letter from "R" [Roger Casement] to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity] asking him not to send "packages" any more and informing that the "stove pipes" will not be delivered, 1915 December 20. Photostat letter from [Róry uí Ógáry] to unknown recipient hoping that the spirit of imperialism will be replaced by a spirit of brotherhood, undated. Photostat letter from "Clayton" to unknown recipient regarding the health of "your poor sister", 1916 February 19. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Roger Casement concerning a meeting to be held with "the Judge", undated. Memo by [Joseph McGarrity] to unknown recipient giving news relating to "Sir R" [Roger Casement], 1914 October 17. Documents and correspondence relating to Sir Roger Casement, 1911-1919. Letter from Roger Casement, New York, to Miss Hines, Philadelphia, thanking her and others for their warm welcome, with enclosed note about the letter, 1914 August 10. Typescript memo about the departure of Sir Roger Casement by Joseph McGarrity, 1914 October 17. Telegram from A. F. Donnell of the Boston Sunday Post to Roger Casement, Philadelphia, asking him for a photograph for an article on plea for arms for the Irish, 1914 August 5. Letter from John Gaffney to Joseph McGarrity concerning his passport, 1916 November 24. Letter from Alice Milligan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Casement's trial, [1916?] December 9. Photostat notes by Joseph McGarrity about Roger Casement after his departure to Germany, 1914 October 18. Note to a prisoner in Germany who appealed for help or release by Joseph McGarrity, undated [c. 1915]. Note on envelope by unidentified author, undated. Typescript text entitled 'The History of the Diary of Sir Roger Casement', undated. Note entitled "To New York Nation" praising Roger Casement by Joseph McGarrity, with an excerpt from Thomas Osborne Davis' 'No Redress - No Inquiry' inscribed on the back, 1917. Memo about the departure of Sir Roger Casement by Joseph McGarrity, 1914 October 17. Typescript text entitled "Roger Casement, A Glimpse into the Past" by Joseph McGarrity relating the actions of Casement between 1914 and his death, undated. Newspaper article entiled 'Section of Casement's Irish Brigade' featuring a photograph of the men in the prisoners' camp at Wuensdorf, undated [c. 1937]. Typescript copy of newspaper article containing a poem entitled 'Roger Casement' by Baron Von Huenefeld, undated. Western Union Telegram from Roger Casement to Joseph McGarrity, Philadelphia, informing him that he will arrive the following day, 1921. Copy poster of Roger Casement's passport from the German Governement and postcard reproducing the same, 1914. Typescript text entitled "Sir Roger Casement" by Joseph McGarrity relating to the actions of Casement between 1914 and his death, 1930. Two draft letters by Joseph McGarrity, undated [1914 August]. Casement's blotting paper (Writing tablet) and a calendar for 1911 with notes in McGarrity's handwritting including "Clippings on Casement", "Nothing of Sir Roger", 1911. Newscuttings and copies of documents relating to the attempt by Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay, British Minister in Norway, to have Sir Roger Casement captured, 1911-1919. Newspaper clippings and reprints of Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay's letter to Adler Christensen, undated [1914-1915]. Newspaper cuttings relating to the Findlay affair, Roger Casement's trip to America, his trial and death, Ulster, the gunrunnings, and general republican articles, c.1916. Typescript letter from Roger Casement, Hamburg, to Mansfeldt de Cardonnel Findlay, Christiania, formally charging him with conspiracy to procure his death or capture, 1915 February 24. Typescript letter from Roger Casement, Hamburg, to [Nils Claus Ihlen], Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Christiania, requesting a public investigation into the charges he preferred against Findlay, 1915 February 24. Poems by Sir Roger Casement with related correspondence to Joseph McGarrity from Agnes Newman and others, 1914-1923. Typescript letter from Francis Dorl to Joseph McGarrity offering his help to promote and distribute books regarding Roger Casement, 1915 March 10. Typescript letter from Francis Dorl to Joseph McGarrity offering to lend him a drawing of Casement for the latest edition of his book, 1915 March 13. Typescript letter from A. E. Haas to Joseph McGarrity asking him if 'The Vital Issue' could be mentioned on the blurb of his book in return for their help distributing the book, 1915 March 13. Typescript letter from Michael Francis Doyle to Joseph McGarrity, asking him to return papers he lent McGarrity, 1916 August 24. Typescript letter from Howard B. Seitz to Joseph McGarrity expressing his admiration and support for the Irish cause, 1917 October 19. Letter from Agnes Newman to [Joseph McGarrity?] dedicating a small book of poems written by her brother Roger Casement to the people of the USA, 1919 December 5. Typescript of the poem 'Battle of Benburb' by Roger Casement, 1920 February 9. Letter from Agnes Newman to Joseph McGarrity expressing her grief at not being invited to speak at the Anniversary Meeting on 3 March, 1920 February 27. Letter from Agnes Newman to Joseph McGarrity asking him to send her the poem 'Benburb' by Roger Casement, 1920 February 28. Letter from Agnes Newman to Joseph McGarrity regarding the publication of works by and about Roger Casement, 1920 March 23. Letter from Agnes Newman to the editor of The Irish Press [Joseph McGarrity] asking him to keep letters addressed to her until she collects them, 1920 August 31. Western Union Telegram from Agnes Newman to Joseph McGarrity asking him if he wishes to publish the letters of her brother Roger Casement that she left in his care and asking him to publicise the biography better, 1920 October 15. Western Union Telegram from Agnes Newman to Joseph McGarrity asking him if he can put her up for the following night only, 1920 October 23. Two typescript letters from Michael Francis Doyle to Joseph McGarrity with enclosed correspondence from Charles Curry to McGarrity, confirming the day and time of a meeting with Curry to discuss the publication of a book on Roger Casement, 1921 October 3. Letter from Charles Curry to Joseph McGarrity regarding the sale of the English edition of Roger Casement's diaries, 1923 January 29. Typescript collection of poems by Roger Casement with editorial notes regarding typology, undated. Articles, newscuttings, correspondence and other items relating to Sir Roger Casement, 1914-1916. Pamphlet entitled 'From "Coffin Ship" to "Atlantic Greyhound"' by "an Irish American", [1914]. Certificate of Copyright registration from Thorvald Solberg to Joseph McGarrity for 'The Crime Against Europe' by Roger Casement, 1915 January 20. 'The Crime Against Europe, A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914' by Roger Casement, 1915. Newspaper clipping with an article entitled "British Knight's work for Germany", 1915 February 10. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to the editor of The Washington Post regarding the newspaper's article entitled "British Knight's work for Germany" about Roger Casement, with enclosed reply, 1915 February 18. Postcard from J. J. Schellkopf to The Celtic Press enquiring about the price of Roger Casement's essays, 1915 March 15. Typescript letter from J. D. Murray to Joseph McGarrity regarding Roger Casement's writings, [1916] April 27. Two American newspaper clippings regarding Roger Casement's trial and sentence, 1916 May 19 & July 5. Reprint of the speech entitled "Resolution urging clemency to Sir Roger Casement" by James A. O'Gorman, delivered in the Senate of the United States, 1916 July 25. Typescript memo from meetings of the executive committee of Clan-na-Gael, 1916 September 4. Notes regarding Roger Casment's landing at Tralee in 1916, [1917]. 'The Queenstown question and Lourdes pilgrimages: suggestions' by Roger Casement, with note from the Library of Congress Copyright Office, [1913]. Letter from J. Neville to Joseph McGarrity asking him to forward Casment's 'The Crime Against Europe' to his address in Chile, undated. Draft typescript text entitled "Sir Roger Casement" by Christian F. Weiser of Berlin, undated. Letters to Joseph McGarrity from or relating to former associates of Sir Roger Casement in Germany, 1916-1935. Letter from Franz Hugo Krebs to Joseph McGarrity informing him that Roger Casement asked him to see McGarrity and trying to organise a meeting, 1916 June 19. Letter from Franz Hugo Krebs to Joseph McGarrity letting him know he is free to meet him the following week, 1916 July 6. Certificate of marriage between Jeremiah Callaghan and Katharine Seuffert, 1929 December 2. Letter from "M. Boyle Kehoe" to unidentified recipient asking for help to work in the USA, 1930 March 16. Letter from "M. Boyle Kehoe" to unidentified recipient promoting his (unpublished) book and hoping to be offered a passage to the USA, 1930 March 16. Letter from Katherine [Seuffert] O'Callahan to Joseph McGarrity asking for his assistance, 1930 June 12. Note from W. Jensen to P. J. Brennan with enclosed typescript copy translation of same regarding Mr Karl Spindler, 1930 August 12. Typescript letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity with enclosed photostat cover page of treaty between Germany and Ireland negotiated by Roger Casement, 1932 April 9. Letter from "M. Boyle Kehoe" to Joseph McGarrity asking for his assistance to return to Ireland with his family, 1935 December 30. Postcard from "J. M. P. Boyle Kehoe" to Joseph McGarrity with wishes for the new year, undated [1935 December]. Incomplete letter from "M. Boyle Kehoe" to [Joseph McGarrity] explaining the case of Katherina O'Callaghan and her son, undated. Typescript list of German prisoners of war interned in England, including Karl Spindler, who were aboard the Libau, undated [1916]. Letters to Joseph McGarrity from Adler Christensen, Christensen's first wife, Sadie, Christensen's second wife Margaretta, members of Margaretta's family in Germany, including letters to Margaretta from her family, ca. 1916-1932. Letter from Adler Christensen to Joseph McGarrity returning a paper he has signed and hoping the consul will visa it, 1922 June 25. Letter from Adler Christensen to Joseph McGarrity asking him to keep his letters and to forward one, undated. Letter from Elsa Werschmidt to Joseph McGarrity with enclosed photographic postcard for her sister "Greto", 1916 December 17. Envelope addressed to Joseph McGarrity, undated [1916?]. Newspaper clipping about Baron Erich Zwiedinek, 1917 April 10. Easter card and name card bearing the name of "Baron von Wüllerstorff", April 1917. Envelope addressed to Joseph McGarrity, undated. Postcard from O. Kuster C. Werschmidt to Margaretta Christensen thanking her for her card and reminiscing on their time together, 1915 November 30. Photographic postcard from unidentified author [Margaretta Christensen's mother] to [Margaretta Christensen], 1917 February. Letter from [Margaretta Christensen's mother] to Margaretta Christensen mentioning "Eivind" [Adler Christensen], 1917 May 3. Envelope addressed to Margaretta Christensen, undated. Letter from Elsa Werchmidt to her sister Margaretta Christensen, 1917 May 4. Letter from unidentified autor [Elaine?] to [Margaretta Christensen] and "Eivind" giving news of the family, including "Elsa", 1917 April 4. Envelope addressed to "Mrs Gretula Christensen", undated. Paper folder with inscription on covers in Joseph McGarrity's hand, undated. Letter from Margaretta Christensen to Joseph McGarrity asking to borrow $100 from him to pay for medical expenses because she is due to give birth, 1916 December 6. Letter from Margaretta Christensen to Joseph McGarrity asking if she could send her letters to Adler Christensen to McGarrity's office as she sails to Europe, 1920 August 6. Letter from Margaretta to Adler Christensen stating that she will not take responsibility for his debts and asking him to take her out of the dire situation he has put her in, 1920 October 2. Letter from Margaretta Christensen to Joseph McGarrity asking him to settle a debt for her, 1920 November 1. Letter from Margaretta Christensen to Joseph McGarrity asking him to settle a debt with the bearer, Mr. Relling, 1920 November 15. Letter from Margaretta Werschmidt [Christensen] to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for settling her debt with Mr. Relling, 1921 January 11. Letter from Margaretta Christensen to Joseph McGarrity enquiring if her letters to himself and to Adler Christensen are reaching them, 1921 April 22. Letter from Margaretta Christensen to Joseph McGarrity informing him she will come back before Christmas to settle her affairs, 1921 July 4. Letter from Margaretta Christensen to Joseph McGarrity asking him to make Adler Christensen sign a paper for her in relation to her father's succession, 1922 April 13. Letter from Margaretta Christensen to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for returning the papers with Adler Christensen's signature, 1922 July 20. Letter from Margaretta Christensen to Joseph McGarrity asking for information on Adler Christensen, with photograph of her daughter Margaret enclosed, 1924 September 22. Letter from Margaretta Christensen to Joseph McGarrity enquiring about Adler Christensen's previous marriage to Sadie, 1924 October 22. Letter from Margaretta Christensen to Joseph McGarrity informing him that Adler Christensen contacted her and that she now only needs a written note that they are not married, 1924 November 19. Scrap note written on headed paper containing an address, 1932 October 27. Letter from Margaretta Christensen to Joseph McGarrity wishing not to be mentioned in the book Joseph McGarrity is writing, 1932 November 22. Letter from Margaretta Christensen to Joseph McGarrity regarding her cancelled trip to Germany and the help McGarrity may be able to provide, undated. Christmas card from Adler Christensen to unidentified recipient [Joseph McGarrity], undated. Letter from Sadie Christensen to Joseph McGarrity forwarding a letter to Adler Christensen, 1917 January 4. Note card mentioning Sadie Christensen and a "Mrs Flake", undated. Letter from Mr Werschmidt [Margaretta Christensen's father] to Joseph McGarrity with enclosed letter to "Grete" [Margaretta Christensen], 1916 November 7. Letter from Mrs Leni Werschmidt to Joseph McGarrity stating that her daughter Margaretta Christensen can come back whenever she wishes, 1916 November 13. Letter from Elsa Werschmidt to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for transmitting her family's letters to her sister "Greta" [Margaretta Christensen], 1917 May 5. Envelope addressed to Joseph McGarrity, 1917 May 23. Letter from Leni Werschimdt to Joseph McGarrity praying him to give news of their daughter, Margaretta Christensen, 1919 September 14. Letter from Leni Werschimdt to Joseph McGarrity informing him that they finally got letters from their daughter Margaretta Christensen, 1919 September 29. Letter from Leni Werschimdt to Joseph McGarrity asking him to loan them the money for Margaretta Chritstensen to come over to Gemany, 1920 February 20. Correspondence to and from Joseph Clarke, including a broadsheet describing his treatment by the Free State troops on his arrest in 1922, 1920-1937. Letter from Daniel Donahoe to Joseph Clarke with enclosed letter to deliver to Joseph McGarrity or Patrick McCartan, 1920 July 31. Broadsheet describing Joseph Clarke's treatment by the Free State troops on his arrest in November 1922, [1922]. Typescript letter from Joseph Clarke, manager of the Wolfe Tone Weekly, to Joseph McGarrity regarding his subscription, [1937] 22 December. Typescript copy of speech delivered by Right Rev. Monsignor Gerald P. Coghlan at a meeting held in Philadelphia against conscription in Ireland, 1918 April 21. Letters and telegrams from Michael Collins to Joseph McGarrity, and copy by McGarrity of telegram from Michael Collins to J.J. Hearns, 1922. Typescript letter from Michael Collins to Joseph McGarrity assuring him that the differences that have occurred in Ireland should not affect him, 1922 March 25. Cablegram from Michael Collins to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will try again to bring about some unity with "the other side" at his Castlebar speech the following day, 1922 April 1. Typescript letter from Michael Collins to Joseph McGarrity expressing his fear that civil war is inevitable, 1922 April 5. Copy of telegram from Michael Collins to J.J. Hearns by Joseph McGarrity regarding the funding of the June elections in Ireland, 1922. Letters and telegrams from Reverend Michael Collins, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, to Joseph McGarrity, regarding Clan-na-Gael activities, 1912-1938. Letter from Father Michael Collins to Joseph McGarrity regarding a rumour that 6,000 Irish soldiers were shot in the Curragh, 1916 November 30. Typescript letter from Father Michael Collins to Joseph McGarrity regarding a Professor Babb and his interest in Sinn Féin, 1918 January 3. Letter from Father Michael Collins to Joseph McGarrity laying out points to discuss in their next meeting, 1920 August 5. Letter from Father Michael Collins to Joseph McGarrity asking for directions as regards a "special delivery" he recieved while he was away, 1921 July 11. Letter from Father Michael Collins to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will be staying in Co. Wicklow and hoping to meet him in Dublin, 1938 July 21. Autobiographical note by Father Michael Collins relating his contacts with Joseph McGarrity and others in America since 1912, 1916 October 2. Letters mainly to William Crossin relating to affairs of Clan-na-Gael, Ancient Order of Hibernians, and other Irish organisations, 1901-1911. Letter from "Pearson" to William Crossin concerning his lack of money to carry on "war", 1901 December 14. Letter from Charles McGlade [?] to William Crossin informing him that he supports his rival as he believes he is better for the Irish cause, 1902 January 16. Receipt from Jane J. C. Kemper to William Crossin in full settlement of rent due and repairs to be done on the premises of the Irish American Club, 1892 October 11 & 1902. Letter from unidentified author to William Crossin regarding Mr Anthony O'Donnell, who bought machinery in the United States to bring back to Ireland to give employment, 1902 February. Copy of circular sent out in District 12 urging members of the organisation to "cultivate a closer acquaintance among their fellow members by visiting the meetings of the various clubs", 1902 September 20. Letter from Joseph McLaughlin to William Crossin regarding a violation of their constitution on account of lack of money, 1903 April 7. Letter from James G. Fitzgerlald to William Crossin regarding the trial, according to the organisation's constitution, of Gallagher, in District 3, 1904 May 17. Letter from "Laurence Brennan" [Luke Dillon] to "R" discussing his potential early release from prison and relating a meeting he had with "O'Brien M. P.", 1904 December 17. Typescript letter from Daniel V. Murphy to William Crossin concerning an interview, due to take place in Ottawa, that has been postponed, 1905 January 11. Typescript letter from Daniel V. Murphy to William Crossin concerning his trip to Ottawa to negotiate Luke Dillon's release and asking for instructions regarding the next application, 1905 February 3. Letter from Daniel V. Murphy to William Crossin concerning articles, [1905] February 22. Letter from Daniel V. Murphy to William Crossin concerning their next meeting with Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian Minister for Justice, 1905 August 4. Letter from Daniel V. Murphy to unidentified recipient [William Crossin] asking for suggestions on the enclosed letter, 1905 August 26. Typescript letter from William M. German to Daniel V. Murphy informing him that he has arranged a meeting with "Dullman" [Luke Dillon] at Kingstone prison on 14 October, 1905 October 4. Letter from Daniel V. Murphy to unidentified recipient [William Crossin] stating that he does not feel his presence on the trip is necessary, 1905 October 6. Typescript copy letter from unidentified author [Luke Dillon] to Daniel V. Murphy discussing the difficulty of writing his autobiography, 1905 October 27. Letter from John L. Gannon to William Crossin discussing a letter from Luke Dillon's daughter, Miss Mary Dillon, with a copy of Gannon's reply enclosed, 1906 May 8. Letter from C. C. Donovan to "O'Neill" regarding Michael J. Ryan's lecture, entitled "Ireland: A Nation", given under the auspices of the AOH, and portraying E. F. Blewitt in a bad light, 1906 December 8. Letter from "Laurence Brennan" [Luke Dillon] to "Friend Curran" about an article which showed his character "atrociously", 1907 May 4. Letter from "Laurence Brennan" [Luke Dillon] to a "Dear Friend" [John L. Gannon] asking for information about his potential release from prison, 1907 August 2. Letter from P. J. Conway to William Crossin regarding the possibility of getting Luke Dillon out of prison, 1908 September 19. Typescript letter from Daniel V. Murphy to William Crossin concerning an unidentified man, 1908 June 2. Letter from John Devoy to William Crossin regarding the movement to free Luke Dillon, 1908 November 6. Letter from "Laurence Brennan" [Luke Dillon] to "G" stating that he has "some chance of getting out this Fall" and giving news of his sons, 1909 August 25. Typescript letter from Matthew Cummings to William Crossin about the publication of a resolution which should not have been published and planning to disrupt a public meeting in Philadelphia, 1909 October 25. Letter from Edmond Lynch to William Crossin regarding John Mangle, 1910 August 29. Typescript letter from John Devoy to William Crossin concerning a collection of funds for the completion of the Wolfe Tone Monument in Dublin and tensions within the organisation, 1910 Ocober 11. Letter from "Laurence Brennan" [Luke Dillon] to John L. Gannon enquiring about the reason for the lack of news, 1911 February 14. Typescript letter from unidentified author to William Crossin blaming him for their actions regarding "Luke" and accusing him to be bribed by the British, 1911 March 25. Letter from "Laurence Brennan" [Luke Dillon] to an unidentified "Dear Friend" concerning his reluctance to plead for mercy and enquiring about the lack of correspondence, 1911 May 22. Letter from John L. Gannon to William Crossin regarding raising funds for McMahon's defence, 1911 May 26. Letter from John L. Gannon to "Brennan" [Luke Dillon] informing him that he believes "his chances for liberty are good in a very short time", 1911 May 31. Letter from "Laurence Brennan" [Luke Dillon] to John L. Gannon discussing where he will go once released and stating how ignorant he is of what is happening outside, 1911 June 2. Letter from John L. Gannon to William Crossin regarding Luke Dillon, 1911 June 5. Typescript letter from "J. R." to William Crossin organising a meeting with P. J. Conway and others with regards to an investigation into Luke Dillon's possible release, 1911 June 12. Bank order dated 5 January 1905 and receipt dated 31July 1891 with envelope, 1911 August 4. Letter from "Laurence Brennan" [Luke Dillon] to "G" [John L. Gannon] discussing the likelihood of his release, 1911 August 14. Letter from John L. Gannon to William Crossin regarding the causes for the delay in releasing Luke Dillon, 1911 August 17. Incomplete letter from unidentified author to William Crossin regarding the change of ministry, 1911 October 23. Letter from John L. Gannon to William Crossin regarding the release of "James" and what help "Mr Stephenson" can provide, 1911 November 3. Letter from [Luke Dillon] to John L. Gannon reporting on the visit he received from "Capt. Candon" and deploring unnecessary tensions between friends, 1911 December 25. Unsigned statement by an Irish member of the revolutionary "V. C." relating to an altercation with the British Consul on the subject of the Boer War, undated. Incomplete typescript copy of a letter proposing an attempt to secure Luke Dillon's release by giving an atoning explanation for the Welland Canal damage, linking it to the grain strike, undated. Copy of unsigned typescript letter of abuse [to William Crossin] with added comments by Joseph McGarrity, undated. Membership certificate from the Thomas Francis Meagher Memorial Association to William Crossin, undated. Documents relating to the campaign by Eamon De Valera in the United States of America, with related correspondence mostly between De Valera and McGarrity, 1919-1920. Typescript letter from Kathleen O'Connell, Secretary to the President's Office, to Joseph McGarrity informing him that Éamon De Valera and Harry Boland have left for New York, 1920 January 15. Telegram from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity urging him to attend a meeting of the National Council for New York of the Friends of Irish Freedom on 17 September as he deems cooperation to be of vital importance at this juncture, 1920 September 2. Telegram from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity asking him to attend a conference on the organisation of a campaign to secure official recognition for the Irish Republic on 16 November in Washington, 1920 November 10. Text by Joseph McGarrity relating to his last meeting with Éamon De Valera, during which the President nominated as him one of the Trustees of Dáil Éireann, and De Valera's departure for Ireland, 1920 December 10 & 11. Two notes from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity appointing him one of the Trustees of Dáil Éireann countersigned by James O'Meara, 1920 December 9. Letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will soon start a tour of public meetings, 1919 December 19. Telegram from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will arrive in Philadelphia on Wednesday, 1928 February 6. Typescript poem entitled 'Éamon De Valera' beginning with the line "Who rides through Boston town tonight" by Michael Earls, 1919 August 6. Printed letter from Éamon De Valera to Messrs. Dodd Mead and Company commenting on Michael J. O'Brien's book 'A Hidden Phase of American History', 1919 September 5. Typescript report on Éamon De Valera's visit to Notre Dame University by J. M. Cooney, 1919 October 21. Typescript resolution of the City Council of Philadelphia to welcome Éamon De Valera, 1920 March 2. Typescript letter from Patrick McCartan to Éamon De Valera expressing the conditions upon which he would accept the Chairmanship of a Commission to the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, 1920 July 20. Incomplete typescript biography of Éamon De Valera, 1919 August 12. Typescript press statement of Éamon De Valera in Atlantic City regarding his opposition to Dominion Home Rule, 1920 July 25. Typescript statement by Éamon De Valera drawing parallels between Benjamin Franklin and himself, [1919-1920]. Typescript copy of auditors' report of Éamon De Valera's Reception with accompanying letter and receipt, 1920 August 12. Incomple note relating a meeting of the National Council held in the Waldorf Hotel by Joseph McGarrity, 1921 September 17. Embossed headed paper of the Diplomatic Mission of the Irish Republic to the USA bearing the date 29 July 1922, 1922 July 29. Newspaper clipping of an article entitled 'De Valera's Career in America' by William MacDonald reviewing a book entitled 'With De Valera in America' by Patrick McCartan, 1933 March 5. Typescript schedule and itinerary of Éamon De Valera in America beteween 1 October and 18 December 1919, [1919]. Note about Philadelphia by Éamon De Valera, [1919]. Typescript resolution of the Senate of the United States of America to compose a treaty of peace and amity which will secure the recognition of the government in Ireland and guarantee Great Britain against agression, [circa 1920]. Typescript copy of a newspaper article entitled 'British Hunt De Valera' and of the poem entitled 'Invocation to the Sacred Heart' by Éamon De Valera, [circa 1920]. Typescript letter from Seán Nunan to Joseph McGarrity regarding photographs of "the President" [Éamon De Valera], 1919 September 4. Letter from Patrick O'Hagerty to Joseph McGarrity asking him to help secure a visit to Springfield, Massachusetts, on Éamon De Valera's tour, 1919 September 4. Letter of threat from unidentified author to Joseph McGarrity warning him that Éamon De Valera will not be welcomed at his next mass meeting, 1920 January 14. Typescript letter from James O'Mara to Joseph McGarrity informing him that Éamon De Valera requests his presence at a forthcoming meeting, 1920 January 22. Typescript letter from John B. Geraghty to Joseph McGarrity regarding the use of quotation marks around the words "Irish Republic" and "President De Valera" in daily newspapers, 1920 March 1. Typescript letter from James E. Gorman to [Joseph McGarrity] regarding a reception for Éamon De Valera scheduled for 7 March 1920 at the Metropolitan Opera House, undated [1920]. Typescript letter from the Central Council of Irish County Associations to Joseph McGarrity regarding the repercussions of the publication of a newspaper article attacking Éamon De Valera, 1920 June 23. Letter from William C. Carroll to Joseph McGarrity regarding Éamon De Valera's retreat in a seminary, 1920 August 12. Typescript letter from John E. Milholland to Joseph McGarrity clarifying the disposition of funds, 1920 September 27. Letter from Jerome Connor to Joseph McGarrity concerning his sculpture of Éamon De Valera's bust, 1921 March 8. Letter from Jerome Connor to Joseph McGarrity concerning his new sculpture of Éamon De Valera with enclosed letter to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts regarding the bust, 1921 April 15. Telegram from "Begley" to Joseph McGarrity informing him that Mrs De Valera will be arriving in Philadelphia, undated [1920]. Correspondence between Éamon De Valera and Joseph McGarrity mainly relating to the Treaty negotiations, Civil War, and the General Election of 1923, 1921-1923. Letter from Jerome Connor to Joseph McGarrity regarding his study of Éamon De Valera in plaster at the Philadelphia Academy exhibition, 1921 March 6. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to "Mr President" [Éamon De Valera] concerning the Chicago convention and the possibility of another loan to the Republic of Ireland, 1921 April 29. Description of letters that are included in the McGarrity Papers, undated. Typescript letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity relating to the events leading to the drafting and signing of the Treaty, what it entails, justifying his stance and giving details about the members of the delegation, 1921 December 27. Typescript letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity asking him to help gather support in America to call for a "Revision of the Treaty" with a view to end the Civil War, 1922 September 10. Typescript of interview with Éamon De Valera discussing a revision of the Treaty and the Ulster question, 1922 September 10. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Éamon De Valera concerning the Free State, 1922 September 27. Typescript letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity regarding the setting up of an alternative government with enclosed Proclamation to be submitted to the Executive, 1922 October 12. Typescript letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity regarding the difficulties associated with setting up an alternative government to that of the Free State, 1922 October 19. Typescript copy of a letter from Éamon De Valera to the Publicity Department of Cumman Na Poblachta commenting on an interview of Rev. Phelan published on 18 October forwarded to Joseph McGarrity, 1922 October 19. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Éamon De Valera congratulating him on his election as President of the Civil Government, 1922 November 23. Typescript letter from the Director of Publicity of the Government of the Republic of Ireland to the Editor of the Irish Times directing that the enclosed statement be published the following monday, 1922 November 25. Typescript article from the Director of Publicity of the Government of the Republic of Ireland to the Editor of the Freeman's Journal entitled 'The People's Will and the Path to Peace', 1922 November 25. Typescript letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity asking him for funds, 1922 November 28. Draft letter from Joseph McGarrity to "President" [Éamon De Valera] regarding the appointment of Laurence Ginnell as Governmental Representative in America, 1923 January 5. Typescript letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity asking him to keep close to Laurence Ginnell, 1923 January 20 [10?]. Typescript letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity updating him on the Civil War and asking him to guide Larence Ginnell, 1923 February 5. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to "President" [Éamon De Valera] advising him that a decision should be made in council by Laurence Ginnell's cabinet, 1923 February 15. Typescript copy letter from Joseph McGarrity to Éamon De Valera regarding the press coverage of the Civil War, 1923 March 25. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to "Chief" [?] asking him to give his address in Hamburg so as to be able to communicate with the "friend" McGarrity is sending to him, 1923 April 4. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to "Chief" regarding the transit and disposal of funds, 1923 June 23. Communication note from "Adjt. Britain" [P. A. Murray?] to Joseph McGarrity reproducing the content of a telegram by the "President" [Éamon De Valera] concerning an election campaign, 1923 July 13. Typescript copy letter from Joseph McGarrity to "Chief" [Éamon De Valera] regarding the re-organisation of the Republican movement in America, 1923 December 22. Note from Joseph McGarrity to unidentified recipient requesting for a programme to be sent, undated. Draft letter from Joseph McGarrity to Éamon De Valera requesting a message for the next issue of the Irish Press, 1921 December 13. Incomplete typescript copy Memo to The Chief/Staff and Members of the Executive by Éamon De Valera forwarded to Joseph McGarrity, undated [1922]. Correspondence between Éamon De Valera and Joseph McGarrity including documents mainly relating to the setting up of 'The Irish Press', the effects of the Economic War, relations between Fianna Fáil and the IRA, 1925-1936. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to "Chief" [Éamon De Valera] regarding the Treason Bill and stating that funds should only be used for what they have been raised for, 1925 June 5. Letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity wishing him a happy new year, 1925 December 30. Typescript letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity regarding his new political programme centered around the repudiation of the oath of allegiance, 1926 March 13. Letter from Éamon De Valera to Kathryn McGarrity informing her that he will visit if he goes to Atlantic City and hoping to see her husband before leaving the USA, 1927 March 7. Letter from Éamon De Valera to Kathryn McGarrity expressing his disappointment at having missed Joseph McGarrity, 1927 April 28. Letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity asking him to keep the Republican movement in the USA united, 1927 April 30. Typescript letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity regarding the disappointing elections, the oath of allegiance, and the need for an Irish national newspaper in order to win the next election, 1927 June 28. Letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity asking if they could meet in New York, 1927 December 20. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to "Chief" [Éamon De Valera] agreeing to meet and give his point of view on "the policy of the Republican members entering the F[ree] S[tate] parliament or taking the oath" which is causing tensions within Clan-na-Gael, 1927 December 23. Typescript letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity regarding his need for capital to create an Irish daily newspaper and to attract subscribers in the USA for this purpose, 1927 December 28. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Éamon De Valera regarding "Blake", Clan-na-Gael's decision not to get involved in elections in Ireland and the setting up of a newspaper, 1928 January 10. Letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity asking for his financial support to set up a newspaper, including a prospectus for Irish Press Limited enclosed, 1928 September 8. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Éamon De Valera expressing his view that Clan-na-Gael will not support "political" efforts and that therefore funds for a newspaper are unlikely to be raised, 1928 September 25. Typescript letter from Kathleen O'Connell to Joseph McGarrity acknowledging receipt of his letter to "the Chief" [Eamon De Valera], who is in Clare, 1928 October 4. Framed photocopy of letter from Éamon De Valera to [Joseph McGarrity] asking for his support with the Irish Press, 1930 February. Typescript letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity regarding the granting of an honorary degree to "the Doctor", 1933 August 19. Letter from Éamon De Valera to Sean T. O'Kelly to be delivered by Joseph McGarrity, with letter from Kathleen O'Connell enclosed, 1933 September 6. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Éamon De Valera exposing American views on the economic war and urging him to start talks with the IRA, 1933 October 2. Typescript letter from Éamon De Valera to Joseph McGarrity regarding the lack of a basis for national unity, 1934 January 31. Incomplete letter from unidentified author to unidentified recipient [Joseph McGarrity] regarding financial support for the Irish cause, undated. Typescript statement entitled "De Valera's aged mother to voice protest at great mass meeting at Lexington theatre Sunday evening", undated [1923?]. Cumann Na mBan leaflet entitled "Guilty of Murder?" regarding the hunger strikes of Jack Lynch, Dick McCarthy, Jeremiah Daly and Patrick MacGrath, with annotations on verso, 1939 November 10. Draft letter from Joseph McGarrity to "Chief" [Éamon De Valera] regarding the Treason Bill and stating that funds should not be used for the promotion of the Irish language as it is not what they have been raised for, undated [1925 June 5]. Incomplete typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Éamon De Valera regarding a fund raising campaign for Relief, undated [c. 1925?]. Printed Christmas card from Éamon De Valera to [Joseph McGarrity] wishing him a happy Christmas and New Year, 1936 December. Correspondence from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity mainly on Clan-na-Gael business, including letters from McGarrity and others to Devoy, 1907-1922. Telegram from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity asking him to send Hobson's pictures, 1907 February 25. Photostat letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity regarding petitions against the Treaty of Arbitration between the USA, Great Britain and France, sent by Irish activist clubs, which were mistakenly recorded as suppporting it in the Congressional Record, 1912 January 19. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity asking him to write to senators to redress mistakes in the Congressional Record, 1912 January 23. Photostat letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity regarding the resignation of Allan and O'Hanlon, 1912 March 23. Photostat letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity regarding a cablegram to be sent to the Dublin Independent to offset another one which praises Home Rule Bill, 1912 April 17. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity relating to a meeting of the State Board and the Delegates of Massachusetts, 1912 June 10. Letter and report from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity regarding his suspicions towards the Club Secretary of the Excursion Committee and alleged British spy, Carew, 1912 June 19. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity organising a Club meeting against an Anglo-American alliance, 1912 July 24. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity informing him of his arrival at Broad Street Station the following day, 1912 July 26. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity regarding an "excursion" and Joseph McGarrity's "defaulter", 1912 July 31. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity discussing the possibility of meeting him the following Sunday, 1912 August 1. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity asking him for a list of the officers who were elected so he can publish them with the resolutions, 1912 August 29. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity regarding the suspension of two men from the organisation, 1912 September 11. Copy letter from John Devoy to unidentified "dear friend" regarding Cohalan and Haltigan and the trustworthiness of Joseph McGarrity to deal with a list, 1912 October 12. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he wrote to "Mr B." to let him know that "Church people don't interfere with our American political action" and that "the Clan can't meddle in politics", 1912 November 11. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity praising Judge Cornelius F. Collins and relating the election of trustees, 1912 November 20. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity giving him the number of a post box and explaining how mail is redirected by "the man inside", 1912 December 12. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity clearing "D" from suspicions of treachery in connection with an Indian paper, 1913 March 5. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will not be able to print O'Keefe speech before the following week, 1913 November 25. Telegram from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity informing him that Roger Casement will arrive at Philadelphia the following day, 1914 July 17. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity enclosing a check for multigraphing the manifesto, 1914 September 30. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity regarding Mr Buff, 1917 February 21. Photostat letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he must postpone his visit as he has to attend meetings, 1919 March 20. Telegram from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity informing him of John L. Gannon's death and funeral arrangements, [no year] February 5. Telegram from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity informing him that the "telephones message" was not clear and that "Sunday will do", [no year] September 2. Typescript letter from "Hudson" [John Devoy] to Joseph McGarrity regarding organising the next Conference, 1915 November 4. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity regarding "Nurse" and "Claxton", 1915 December 20. Photostat telegram from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity reading "come over tomorrow sure stay till evening", 1916 March 9. Typescript letter from "James Duncan" [John Devoy] to Joseph McGarrity asking his advice before publishing "the statements of the Count and Countess", 1916 August 12. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity asking him to confirm the location of the next meeting, informing him that he has been unable to make progress "in the matter of Luke" and mentioning supplying financial help to Mrs O'Bolger, 1916 September 13. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity, 1916 September 26. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity commenting on the report of an interview with "Hughes", 1916 September 27. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity concerning the summary expulsion of Timothy Healy, a disloyal member of Clan-na-Gael, following the disruption of a meeting of the Eccentric Firemen, 1916 November 3. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity informing him that the next meeting is set for Sunday, 1917 January 25. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity regarding the difficulties he has organising meetings, 1917 January 31. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity regarding a messenger he sent to his "mother", 1917 February 28. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity organising a meeting, 1917 April 2. Typescript letter from "James Darcy" [John Devoy?] to Joseph McGarrity inviting him to a christening, 1917 April 18. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity organising a meeting, 1917 April 19. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity requesting him to inform "Carrick" that "Mr Longfellow wants to see him with Mrs Darcy" regarding family matters, 1917 May 18. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity hoping to organise a meeting in the hope that McGarrity can attend, 1917 June 3. Typescript letter from "James Digby" [John Devoy] to Joseph McGarrity informing him about the work situations of "Carrick" and "P", 1917 June 27. Typescript letter from "James Dixon" [John Devoy] to Joseph McGarrity informing him that "John T." would like to talk to him about "the whiskey situation", 1917 July 18. Typescript letter from "James Thompson" [John Devoy] to Joseph McGarrity regarding the two miners "John" hired and hoping he will be able to meet with "Carrick", 1917 July 26. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity with check for "Luke", 1917 December 18. Photostat letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity trying to organise a Clan-na-Gael meeting, 1919 March 17. Photostat letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity explaining why the meeting was called off, 1919 March 19. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity regarding the next Convention, 1919 April 16. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity informing him of the next Clan-na-Gael Executive meeting, 1919 November 6. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity informing him of the Clan-na-Gael meeting planned for the following day has been cancelled, 1919 December 9. Typescript letter from John Devoy to [Joseph McGarrity] informing him that "Harry" would like to see the Clan-na-Gael Executive "in regard to the Old Lady", 1919 December 17. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity including copies of letters between John Devoy and Harry Boland, asking Joseph McGarrity on which dates he could meet with them and the Executive of Clan-na-Gael, and manuscript reply from Joseph McGarrity informing John Devoy that he can attend any meetings on a couple of days notice, 1920 July 20 & 21. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity asking him if he would be free to attend a Clan-na-Gael Executive meeting on 7 or 8 August, 1920 July 27. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity urging him to attend a Clan-na-Gael Executive meeting on 15 August, 1920 August 3. "Copied" telegram from "Frank Hansen" [John Devoy?] to Joseph McGarrity asking him not to send letters, 1920 September 30. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity informing him of the next Clan-na-Gael Executive meeting on 7 November, 1920 October 30. Typescript letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity regarding "that whiskey case" and urging him to consult with "John", undated. "Duplicate" telegram from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity postponing a meeting with "Dan" and "Joe", undated. Letter from John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity suggesting a meeting, undated. Letter of abuse from unidentified author to John Devoy, 1913 August 9. Telegram from Joseph McGarrity to John Devoy informing him that Luke Dillon is on his way to Atlantic City, 1914 July 12. Photostat copy letter from Joseph McGarrity to John Devoy assuring his confidence that "there is no leak" despite the bad news and informing him that he sent the manifesto to all the newspapers, 1914 October 8. Telegram from P. T. Moran to John Devoy informing him that he is unable to attend the meeting, 1915 July 11. Typescript letter from Joseph McLaughlin to John Devoy concerning the possible organisation of a Race Convention, 1915 July 12. Letter from unidentified person to John Devoy informing him that he is now leaving, 1915 September 8. Typescript copy letter from unidentified author to John Devoy concerning the calling of a Race Convention at Washington and disunity among the organisations regarding Home Rule and other matters, 1917 May 2. Telegram from "John Beekman" [John Devoy] to "MacCartan" [Patrick McCartan] urging him to come Sunday afternoon, 1917 August 24. Copy letter from John F. Kelly to John Devoy suggesting a meeting between himself, Devoy, McGarrity, Ford and Cannon, who together represent "about all shades of Irish Republican opinion" to decide on united action as the end of the war is approaching, 1918 March 6. Letter from Patrick O'Breslin to John Devoy wishing to be registered as a soldier citizen of the Irish Republic and giving his credentials, 1918 October 25. Telegram from John Devoy to "Dr Patrick McCarben", care of Joseph McGarrity, informing him that he has read McCarben's letter and disagrees with its conclusions, 1919 April 21. Notes from Joseph McGarrity to John Devoy regarding P. J. Conway and Luke Dillon in 1913, 1919 September 2. Photostat of circular concerning the expulsion of John Devoy from Clan-na-Gael sent by John Devoy to Joseph McGarrity with annotations by both, 1920 November 15. Typescript copy letter of complaint from Tommy O'Connor to John Devoy demanding that he does not put his name again in the 'Gaelic American', describing his article on the Easter rising as "felon setting" and stating "you do not shine as an historian", 1922 September 26. Letter from [Joseph McGarrity?] to "John" [Devoy] informing him that he has secured "room in Hall" and asking him for further particulars, undated. Correspondence from Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity and Dr. William J. Maloney, with copies of replies from McGarrity, mainly dealing with Dickey's research for book on Sir Roger Casement, 1938. Typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey asking him to record his memories of his time with Roger Casement, 1938 May 11. Typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey expressing his enthusiasm for "the article" and making plans to meet, 1938 May 18. Typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey informing him that Dr Maloney would be the best critic of the book Dickey will write about Roger Casement, 1938 May 24. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity regarding some material upon which he can start his book on Roger Casement, 1938 May 26. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity informing him that work will be progressing very soon, 1938 May 31. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey informing him that he is anxious to see Maloney publish his 'Young Casement', 1938 June 3. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity commenting on the enclosed news clipping entitled 'New Biography to be written by Dr Dickey - Irish Patriot is Subject", 1938 June 3. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity informing him that his book on Roger Casement will be entitled 'The Incorrigible Irishman', 1938 June 11. Typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey informing him that he can provide a copy of the Findlay agreement for his book, 1938 June 13. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity asking for copies of newspaper accounts of the trial of Sir Basil Thomson, 1938 June 16. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity with enclosed letter from Dr Dickey to Dr Maloney commenting on a newspaper article by the Marquess of Donegall, 1938 June 28. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will come to New York with a section of the manuscript of his book on Roger Casement, 1938 August 25. Typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey wishing Roger Casement could comment on the situation in Czechoslovakia, which echoes that of Ireland in 1914, 1938 August 30. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity regarding his forthcoming trip to New York, 1938 August 31. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity informing him that his agent has taken the manuscript of his book on Roger Casement to the publisher, 1938 September 12. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity asking him for information regarding the financing of Roger Casement's trip to Germany, [1938 September]. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity regarding Roger Casement's work in Putumayo, 1938 September 14. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey expressing his confidence in Dr Dickey's ability to complete his book on Roger Casement, 1938 September 15. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he has returned to Florida and is now working on the Congo part of his book on Roger Casement, 1938 September 27. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey concerning the financing of Roger Casement's trip to Germany, detailing the role of Clan-na-Gael members including John Devoy, 1938 October 2. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity requesting his permission to mention his name in relation to the financing of Roger Casement's trip to Germany, 1938 October 7. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity regarding Bishop Nicholson's letters, 1938 November 1. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey regarding source material for his book on Roger Casement, 1938 November 9. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity informing him of the delays he is facing writing his book on Roger Casement, 1938 November 12. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he is in New York and asking if it were possible "to go back to the old weekly basis" as it would help him materially, 1938 November 15. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity informing him that a copy of the manuscript of his book on Roger Casement will be ready in a few days, 1938 November 21. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey informing him that Dr Maloney can provide proofs that the Americans were giving Germans money and not the other way round for his book on Roger Casement, 1938 November 26. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity informing him of the publishers' comments on the manuscript of his book on Roger Casement and exposing his financial difficulties, 1938 November 30. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey acknowledging reception of Dr Dickey's letter of 30 November and asking to be informed when the manuscript of his book on Roger Casement arrives in New York, 1938 December 4. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for the remittance he sent and keeping him up to date with the progress of his book on Roger Casement, 1938 December 6. Typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey expressing his full confidence in Dr Dickey's ability to finish his book on Roger Casement and the positive reception it will receive, 1938 December 21. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity informing him that Dr Maloney has put him on a rest cure which will delay his work with the book on Roger Casement, 1938 December 25. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to Joseph McGarrity informing him he has recovered and resumed his writing on Roger Casement, 1939 February 25. Typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey regarding source material for his book on Roger Casement, 1938 August 5. Typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity?] to Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey commenting on enclosed letter by a "lady", [1938]. Typescript of 'Up The Amazon with Casement' by Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey, [1938]. Letters from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity mainly on Clan-na-Gael business, 1916-1929. Letter from Luke Dillon to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity] recalling his meeting with a Mr Weber during which he was offered a job, 1916 April 5. Letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity giving an account of clubs he has visited, 1916 November 28. Receipt for $300 from Joseph McGarrity signed by Luke Dillon, December 19 1917. Letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity informing him of some financial matters and transactions, notably for the "arms fund", 1921 May 27. Letter from Luke Dillon to "Josephus" [Joseph McGarrity] regarding "McCullough" [Denis?] and informing McGarrity of the dispatch of Clan-na-Gael circulars, 1922 June 23. Letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity copying a telegram in which he blames Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith for the murders of Cathal Brugha and Harry Boland, 1922 August 1 or 2. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity with enclosed typescript copy letter from P. J. Moran to Luke Dillon and newspaper clipping entitled "Republican Party - Bickering Behind the Scenes", 1925 October 25 & 26, November 10. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity regarding a forthcoming Clan-na-Gael meeting, 1926 January 6. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity regarding the next Clan-na-Gael meeting in Providence, 1926 January 8. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity regarding forthcoming Clan-na-Gael meetings at which he hopes [Frank] Aiken will speak and also regarding fund raising matters, 1926 January 9. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity regarding disagreements about Clan-na-Gael Arms Fund and listing newly appointed Senior Guardians of various branches, 1926 January 11. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity giving him an update on the Clan-na-Gael Arms Funds, 1926 January 18. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity regarding the further raising and disposal of Clan-na-Gael funds, 1926 January 20. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity giving him an account of which branches have contributed so far, 1926 January 23. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon and "Harry" [McCarney?] to Joseph McGarrity regarding resolutions of the American Association for the recognition of the Irish Republic and the possibility of a Bill being passed, 1926 January 26. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity pondering if Clan-na-Gael should cooperate with the American Association for the recognition of the Irish Republic and fearing that McGarrity and himself are "rapidly drifting apart as to policy", 1926 April 2. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity setting out the key principles of Clan-na-Gael as a Republican Organisation on which they have drifted apart, 1926 April 6. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity informing him that while he "does not coincide" with his views, McGarrity's circular will be sent, 1926 June 16. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he is "sending Emmet down on the Excursion", 1926 August 20. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity regarding an "old woman", the Bank of Ireland and their "delinquency" regarding a receipt, 1926 August 31. Letter from Luke Dillon to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity] regarding branches of Clan-na-Gael which are in difficulties and printing matters, 1927 October 18. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity concerning a meeting with O'Dea, 1928 May 22. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity explaining why he removed his own name from the circular, 1928 October 3. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity asking him for the proceedings of the Convention so he can print them, 1929 September 6. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity stating that some Clan-na-Gael branches "are very slow in sending their money", 1929 September 9. Typescript letter from "Y. of D. A. of V. C" [Luke Dillon] to Joseph McGarrity dreading a split within the organisation, 1929 October 15. Typescript letter from "Y. of D. A. of V. C" [Luke Dillon] to Joseph McGarrity regarding the old and new treasurers of Clan-na-Gael, 1929 October 18. Annotated draft typescript of a circular to the officers and delegates of a Clan-na-Gael Convention, reasserting its Republican principles and offering help to the IRA, by Joseph McGarrity, undated [c.1926?]. Note from unidentified author to Joseph McGarrity reading "where he said same as Boston it should be same as Providence", undated. Receipt from Joseph McGarrity signed by Luke Dillon, undated. Note from "Lake" [Luke Dillon?] to Joseph McGarrity reading "G. a. phone that Philadelphia wanted to reach you by 3.30 on important business", 1915 March 14. Letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for a cheque, advising him that he is "going up tonight by order of the wife and daughter", and urging him to take care of his health, [1914?]. Letters and circulars by Luke Dillon for Executive of Clan-na-Gael mostly relating to the dissention in its ranks and severance of ties with the Irish Republican Brotherhood, including letters to Joseph J. Castellini, 1920-1929. Telegram from Luke Dillon to the "Janitor Irish American Club" in Philadelphia reading "please inform my wife I am going to Atlantic City", 1914 July 12. Telegram from "Rocky" to "Suki Dillon" [Luke Dillon] at the Irish American Club in Philadelphia reading "Cead mille failtha come spend a week with me", 1914 July 13. Typescript circular from Luke Dillon, Acting Secretary of the Executive of Clan-na-Gael, to the District Officers regarding the expulsion of John Devoy, John A. Murphy, John A. McGarry and Michael McGrail, 1920 November 19. Letter from Luke Dillon to [Joseph McGarrity] asking him to provide information about his District in order to turn the reorganised Clan-na-Gael into an effective body in the wake of the split with John Devoy, 1920 December 21. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to [Joseph McGarrity] regarding the split with John Devoy and the war in Ireland, 1921 January 3. Typescript copy letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph J. Castellini regarding pro and anti treaty delegates who visit him including Countess Constance Markievicz and Denis McCullough, 1922 April 14. Typescript copy letter from Luke Dillon to Joseph J. Castellini expressing his pessimism regarding the dissentions amongst Republicans in Ireland and in the USA alike, 1922 April 19. Typescript minutes of a meeting of the Wolfe Tone Monument Association held in the Irish American Club and presided by Luke Dillon, 1928 June 11. Typescript letter from Luke Dillon to the executors of the estate of the late Joseph McLoughlin regarding the funds of the Wolfe Tone Monument Association, 1928 June 15. Printed Clan-na-Gael brief, following the organisation's Convention held on 12 and 13 July, by Luke Dillion, [c.1920-1921]. Covering note from the Sweeney Printing Company, Philadelphia, undated. Copies of letters from Joseph McGarrity to Luke Dillon with references mostly to the relationship between Clan-na-Gael and Fianna Fáil, 1928. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Luke Dillon advocating they uphold the policy agreed to at the Convention regardless of Éamon de Valera's adoption of a policy "contrary to the ideals of the army", 1928 January 5. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Luke Dillon advising not to take part in the reception of Irish pilot James Fitzmaurice on account of his reputation to have fought on the British side in the 1916 uprising, 1928 April 28. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Luke Dillon listing the names of people who have contributed to the fund of the Wolfe Tone Monument Association in preparation of a meeting, 1928 May 11. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Luke Dillon regarding the necessity of having a list of the membership of the Districts ready to appeal to them directly in case the officers refuse to act, 1928 May 17. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Luke Dillon regarding the Wolfe Tone Monument Association, stating that "the Republican Army ... is the proper people to take over the work of Thomas Clark", 1928 May 25. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Luke Dillon stating that he has none of the minutes of the meetings, 1929 August 25. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Luke Dillon with draft of circular to the officers and members of Clan-na-Gael regarding the Irish Republican Army's decision to separate from the government, undated [1924?]. Letters to Luke Dillon mostly relating to Clan-na-Gael, 1921-1929. Typescript letter from John F. Buckley to Like Dillon regarding a division within the John Mitchel Club, 1921 February 10. Letter from Martin J. Walsh to Luke Dillon giving the detail of cheques he received from Mr Joyce, 1921 February 24. Typescript letter from W. J. Waters to Luke Dillon regarding the possibility of issuing receipts to those who supplied funds, 1921 May 17. Typescript letter from W. J. Waters to Luke Dillon asking for a list of all deserters from the Minister of Defence in Ireland, 1921 May 20. Letter from E. J. Donnelly to Luke Dillon requesting "something official" about P. J. Sullivan following his election as delegate to the Convention, 1921 July 5. Typescript letter from James J. Reilly to Luke Dillon regarding a speaker for the annual picnic of the United Irish Societies in Chicago, 1921 July 16. Typescript letter from Liam Pedlar to Luke Dillon regarding Captain Brehony and Morris Roe, Filan's admission, and Martin J. Carney's decision to accept an ex-Irish policeman, 1921 December 1. Typescript letter from Harry Boland to Luke Dillon asking him to sign a cheque for the proprietor of the Irish Press, 1921 December 26. Typescript copy of a letter from Anthony J. Dooney to L. J. Madden forwarded to Luke Dillon regarding the different republican organisations in Portland, 1922 January 5. Typescript copy letter from unidentified author to Luke Dillon regarding American funds which were given to the Irish Republican Army, 1922 April 12. Typescript letter from Dennis McCullough to Luke Dillon regarding factionalism within the organisation, 1922 June 21. Typescript letter from James J. Reilly to Luke Dillon regarding P. J. Kerley and his intention to get Dillon turned out of office, 1922 August 2. Incomplete typescript letter from unidentified author to Luke Dillon reporting on the last meeting of the Pearse-Connoly Club and the split between Free Staters and Republicans, 1922 September 13. Typescript letter from James J. Reilly to Luke Dillon regarding the creation of a Women's Branch, 1922 December 3. Typerscript letter from J. J. Castellini to Luke Dillon regarding the divisions amongst Republicans in America following the Treaty and calling for unity, 1922 December 20. Typescript letter from unidentified author [Joseph McGarrity?] to the gentlemen of the Girard Avenue Title and Trust Company of Philadelphia asking them to transfer money from the Irish Relief Fund to Ireland, 1923 May 9. Letter from H. E. Carmichael to Luke Dillon concerning his moving to Baltimore and giving an account of the activities in Los Angeles, 1923 October 2. Letter from [Luke Dillon] to H. E. Carmichael regarding the possibility of setting up a Clan-na-Gael branch in Baltimore, 1923 October 5. Letter from Kate Boland to Luke Dillon regarding her legal and financial difficulties with Harry's landlord, 1924 March 18. Typescript letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Luke Dillon regarding the finances of Clan-na-Gael, 1924 December 20. Typescript letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Luke Dillon expressing his appreciation of the Executive of Clan-na-Gael's work for Ireland, 1925 August 10. Typescript letter from Liam Pedlar to "Laurence Brennan" [Luke Dillon] regarding two men who wish to join Clan-na-Gael branches, 1925 September 24. Letter from M. Mc Donnell to Luke Dillon thanking him and Clan-na-Gael for a $100 cheque he received from Joseph McGarrity, 1926 January 11. Letter from Dan O'Byrne to Luke Dillon concerning an agreement arrived at between the Executive of Clan-na-Gael and the Chairman of the Army Council, 1926 November 16. Letter from M. D. Fitzgerald to Luke Dillon regarding the formation of a Clan-na-Gael Club in Atlantic City, 1927 August 4. Letter from James McGee to Joseph McGarrity regarding Luke Dillon's cheques, 1928 April 3. Typescript letter from Frederick G. Byland to Luke Dillon expressing his resentment about broken promises of visits to his club, 1929 May 21. Letter from James McGee to Luke Dillon regarding the monies due him under the constitution of Clan-na-Gael following his failure to be re-elected treasurer of the organisation, 1929 July 25. Letter from James McGee to Luke Dillon asking him to return deposit slips and orders to him, 1929 August 1. Miscellaneous material relating to Luke Dillon, mainly biographical, including notes by Joseph McGarrity and newspaper cuttings, 1870-1930. Copy of a letter from Luke Dillon's daughter, Miss Mary Dillon, to John L. Gannon expressing her displeasure at the request that her father write his autobiography and her general mistrust of her father's supposed friends, 1906 May 6. Copy of a letter from Luke Dillon's daughter, Miss Mary Dillon, to John L. Gannon thanking him for his prompt and reassuring reply, 1906 May 18. Newspaper clipping entitled "Luke Dillon Home in Ten Days", 1914 July [c. 22]. Newspaper clipping from 'The Evening Bulletin - Philadelphia' entitled "Philadelphian spent fourteen years in prison for canal dynamiting", 1914 July 23. Newspaper clipping entitled "Luke Dillon Again Man of Mystery", 1914 July [c. 21]. Newspaper clipping entitled "Paroled Patriot Makes Up 14 Years", 1914 July [c. 22]. Newspaper clipping from 'The Boston Post' entitled "Will bring Luke Dillon to Boston", 1914 July 18. Newspaper clipping from 'The Evening Bulletin - Philadelphia' entitled "World's wonders daze Luke Dillon", 1914 July 22. Newspaper clipping from 'The Evening Bulletin - Philadelphia' entitled "Luke Dillon; Home, to make speeches", 1914 July [c. 30]. Newspaper cutting entitled "Luke Dillon tells Story of his Life" describing the blowing up of the Welland Canal, his motivations for doing so, his arrest, his conditions of imprisonment and his meeting his wife upon release, 1914. Two Philadelphia Union National Bank money orders from Joseph McGarrity to be paid to the order of Luke Dillon, 1916 January 3 & April 7. Two receipts for Clan-na-Gael, [c.1914-c.1930]. Telegram from "Lillis" to the manager of the Irish American Club of Philadelphia reading "inform Dillon Mrs Lomasney died at ten fifty am" with manuscript draft reply from Luke Dillon, 1925 October 13. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Mr Ford regarding an article containing facts "of historical importance", 1929 December 19. Typescript circular from the executive of Clan-na-Gael to officers and members regarding the impending death of Luke Dillon, 1930 January 10. Typescript circular from the executive of Clan-na-Gael to officiers and members regarding the death of Luke Dillon and appealing for funds, 1930 January 17. Typescript biographical article about Luke Dillon upon his death by Joseph McGarrity with manuscript annotations, [1930]. Typescript biographical article about Luke Dillon upon his death by Joseph McGarrity, [1930]. Incomplete draft letter from Joseph McGarrity to the editor of 'The Irish World' regarding an article criticizing a piece about Luke Dillon, [1930]. Notes by Joseph McGarrity regarding Luke Dillon's republican career, [c.1930]. Draft copy of a Clan-na-Gael circular by Joseph McGarrity upon the death of Luke Dillon and appealing for funds, [1930 January]. Draft letter of sympathy from Joseph McGarrity, on behalf of Clan-na-Gael, to the wife of Luke Dillon, Mrs Mary Dillon, [1930]. Poem entitled 'Luke Dillon, In Memoriam' by Padraic Lagan, [c. 1930]. Typescript poem entitled 'Dillon's Grave' by Joseph McGarrity, 1931 July 14. Luke Dillon's military record, 1870 August 27. Blank application for certificate of Honorable Service, [c. 1870?]. Envelope with note by Joseph McGarrity reading "L Dillon war record [?]", undated. Correspondence from George Gavan Duffy and his wife Margaret Gavan Duffy to Joseph McGarrity and Patrick McCartan, mainly relating to the Irish Republican Mission to the United States of America and Sir Roger Casement, 1919-1920. Letter from George Gavan Duffy to Patrick McCartan advising that President Wilson can influence the English if the pressure is kept up and stating that money "is badly needed", 1919 March 18. Telegram from Patrick McCartan to George Gavan Duffy asking him to clarify a statement he made about a potential partition of Ireland, 1919 April 22. Typescript letter from George Gavan Duffy to Patrick McCartan affirming "Home Rule dead and buried", 1919 April 24. Newspaper clipping of article by James M. Tuohy entitled "Sinn Fein fears Premier has trap for U. S. Envoy" from 'The World' (New York), 1919 April 24. Telegram from George Gavan Duffy to Patrick McCartan affirming "Home Rule dead and buried", 1919 April 25. Letter from George Gavan Duffy to "Mac" [Patrick McCartan] asking him to be cautious with the private correspondence he receives in the future, 1919 June 27. Letter from Margaret Gavan Duffy, with postscript from George Gavan Duffy, to Joseph McGarrity regarding Roger Casement, and the work of the American delegates in trying to secure recognition of the Irish Republic, 1919 June 27. Letter from Margaret Gavan Duffy to unknown male recipient regarding the American delegation and Ireland's future, 1919 June 27. Photostat of copy letter from Joseph McGarrity to Margaret Gavan Duffy regarding the memory of Roger Casement and about Éamon De Valera's visit to America to get official recognition from President Wilson, 1919 July 30. Envelope from George Gavan Duffy addressed to Joseph McGarrity, 1919. Typescript letter from George Gavan Duffy to Patrick McCartan regarding the potential creation of an Entente between France and America as both are "anti-English" and Clemenceau is now gone, 1920 March 25. Correspondence between Major Michael H. Enright and Joseph McGarrity mainly relating to the activities of Clan-na-Gael in Chicago, 1923-1939. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity relating to a conversation he had with Mrs M. McWhorter about Dr Patrick McCartan and Mr Hearty, 1923 June 22. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity regarding the organisation of a meeting, 1925 November 17. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity regarding the visit of General Aiken to Chicago, 1926 January 7. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity regarding the organisation of the commemoration of Emmet, 1926 January 18. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity commenting on Éamon De Valera's visit, 1928 January 25. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity regarding funds and Luke Dillon's impending death, 1929 December 30. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity regarding the financing of the funeral of Luke Dillon by Clan-na-Gael, 1929 January 16. Power of attorney from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity, 1930 March 28. Letter from Neil J. Duffy to "Miss K. Enright" [Katharine A. Enright] regarding a reunion of the Philadelphia branch of Clan-na-Gael, 1930 April 19. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he is sending him a stock certificate for 100 shares of Orpheum Circuit Pfd, 1930April 28. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity concerning Luke Dillon's widow, 1930 June 6. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity regarding a conversation he had with Con Neenan, 1930 August 4. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity concerning his business venture and thanking him for "getting the boy to work", 1931 January 24. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity suggesting to provide financial aid to the family of Barney Downes following his death, 1931 February 6. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity asking him for money to help him out of his bad financial position, 1931 March 24. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for a $500 cheque, 1931 March 30. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity deploring that "the spirit of Irish nationalism is dead" following a low attendance at a gathering, 1931 April 24. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity regarding the outcome of a gathering, with enclosed receipt for $500 dated 30 June, 1931 July 8. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity regarding the next convention and the selection of a Clan-na-Gael District Officer, with enclosed receipt for $500, 1931 August 21. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will have a job in the new year, with enclosed receipts for $500 and $100 dated 8 September and 26 December, 1931 December 26. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity requesting money as he has not received wages and mentioning a meeting, 1932 March 7. Copy of typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Michael H. Enright informing him of his recent misfortunes in business and sending him a cheque, 1932 March 11. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for his cheque, with enclosed receipt for $300, 1932 March 14. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Michael H. Enright regarding the near desperate situation of his brokerage business and sending him a cheque, 1932 April 16. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for a cheque and informing him that he is in no immediate financial need, with enclosed receipt for $100, 1932 March 25. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity assuring him of his continued friendship regardless of bad financial affairs, with enclosed receipt for $100, 1932 May 1. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity informing him of the satisfactory progress Con Neenan is making with the Chief, 1932 May 10. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity regarding politics in Ireland, the appointment of a consul to Chicago and the Indian envoy "Mr Patel", 1932 May 12. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity stating his resolution not to "demand any payment of either interest or principal on loan" from him for a year, 1932 May 15. Copy of typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Michael H. Enright apologising for the "long delay in making a remittance" and sending a cheque, 1932 October 11. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for his cheque and asking him to return it signed, 1932 October 15. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for cheques sent and asking to be informed "how the battle over there is raging", 1932 October 29. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity expressing his sympathy at McGarrity's explusion from the Exchange and regretting he cannot arrange for Con Neenan to get away, 1933 January 12. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity discussing Clan-na-Gael matters and questioning the IRA's apparent move into the political arena, 1933 November 27. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity regarding McGarrity's law suit and lottery ticket business, 1934 March 20. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity regarding the poor state of Clan-na-Gael and his decision not to attend the convention, 1934 August 4. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity regarding a sweepstake and thanking him for his cheque, 1935 May 1. Copy of typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Michael H. Enright relating to Clan-na-Gael meetings and commenting on international relations, stating that "a war is by no means on the shelf", 1938 September 21. Copy of typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Michael H. Enright regarding Clan-na-Gael's latest resolutions, including an appeal to President Roosevelt and the repudiation of Éamon De Valera, 1939 March 7. Letter of thanks from Michael H. Enright to the editors of the Newton Times of Newton, New Jersey, for their "splendid contribution to the cause of Liberty to Ireland", 1935 April 15. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity regarding the removal of Father Albert's body and the current state of different organisations, 1939 April 16. Letter from Michael H. Enright to Joseph McGarrity informing him that District 19 "is coming to life again", 1939 November 19. Typescript article about Major Michael H. Enright entitled 'Thirty years after - The American unit of the Irish brigade in the Boer war' by [Joseph McGarrity?], [c. 1935]. Correspondence to and from Lady Esmonde, including newscuttings, 1937-1938. Newspaper clipping regarding the involvement of Anna Frances, Lady Grattan Esmonde, with the Mothers' and Babies' Welfare Society, as benefactress, 1937 September 21. Typescript letter from M. Conor Ford to Anna Frances, Lady Grattan Esmonde, recalling his republican activities, 1938 May 18. Letter from Anna Frances, Lady Grattan Esmonde, to Joseph McGarrity, regarding her forthcoming Mothers' and Babies' Welfare Society Garden Party, 1938 August 11. Letter from Evelyn Moore to Anna Frances, Lady Grattan Esmonde, forwarded to Joseph McGarrity with note, regarding Colonel Moore's health, 1938 October 18 & 19. Newspaper clipping regarding Anna Frances', Lady Grattan Esmonde, gifts to the National Museum, [c. 1937]. Printed card with "A Prayer for Ireland" by Anna Frances, Lady Grattan Esmonde (née Levins), undated. Letters from Thomas St. John Gaffney to Joseph McGarrity, mainly regarding Irish and American political matters, with related documents, ca. 1919-1921. Letter from Victor Collins, Paris, to Michael Francis Doyle, Philadelphia, regarding Thomas St. John Gaffney's and his wife's passport difficulties in Switzerland and their treatment by the US government, 1919 June 10. Letter from Thomas St. John Gaffney to Joseph McGarrity regarding his and his wife's difficult situation in Switzerland as their "moneys & property have been seized" and they have no passports, [1919] July 24. Letter from Thomas St. John Gaffney to Joseph McGarrity regarding the lack of Irish representation at the International Socialist Congress and discussing Ambassador Grey's responsibility for the war, [1919] August 13. Letter from Thomas St. John Gaffney to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for the advance of $1,000 and enclosing a document which will "set the English furious", [1919] November 24. Letter from Thomas St. John Gaffney to Joseph McGarrity asking him to publish the enclosed to "keep up the propaganda against the English", 1919 December 11. Letter from Thomas St. John Gaffney to Joseph McGarrity asking him to publish the enclosed and deploring the fact that he and his wife still have no passports, [1920] March 6. Typescript copy of a letter from Louis Sussdorff Jr, Secretary of the Legation of the United States of America in Berne, to Mrs Thomas St John Gaffney, refusing to grant her an emergency passport unless she and her husband comply with the prescribed conditions, 1920 April 19. Letter from Thomas St. John Gaffney to Michael Francis Doyle and forwarded to Joseph McGarrity, regarding his unsuccessful passport application and explaining why he cannot comply with the conditions set by the US Government, 19. Letter from Thomas St. John Gaffney to Joseph McGarrity setting the record straight about a newspaper article he wrote and the historical inaccuracies he found in another, 1921 January 11. Letter from Thomas St. John Gaffney to Joseph McGarrity regarding the American Legion and the bonus bill, [1921] March 4. Typescript letter from Thomas St. John Gaffney to Joseph McGarrity regarding the Congress' potential resolution to proclaim peace with Germany and what positive outcome for German subjects would ensue, 1921 April 12. Note from Thomas St. John Gaffney to "Michael" asking him to "send the enclosed" to Joseph McGarrity after reading, undated. Envelope addressed from Thomas St. John Gaffney to Joseph McGarrity, undated. Envelope addressed from Thomas St. John Gaffney to Joseph McGarrity, [c. 1919]. Scrap of paper with partial typed text relating to percentages, undated. Letters from Bulmer Hobson to Joseph McGarrity mainly regarding publications, political and social conditions, the Dungannon Clubs, events before the Easter Rising 1916, 1907-1914. Printed resolutions of the first conference of Dungannon Clubs with additional rules passed at a subsequent meeting of the Executive, [c. 1906]. Typescript letter from Bulmer Hobson to Joseph McGarrity regarding Cumann na nGaedhael and the Devolution Bill, 1907 April 30. Letter from Bulmer Hobson to Joseph McGarrity concerning agricultural co-operation and asking him to mail him an essay by E. L. Peters and a copy of the US constitution, 1907 May 6. Letter from Bulmer Hobson to Joseph McGarrity regarding the bad condition of rural Ireland and his intent to join Dublin and rejuvenate politics there, 1908 February 17. Letter from Bulmer Hobson to Joseph McGarrity asking if the Sinn Féin Club of Philadelphia would help him publish a political pamphlet, 1909 February 23. Letter from "James Wilson" [Bulmer Hobson] thanking him for his enquiry and providing the information requested, 1910 December 1910. Letter from Bulmer Hobson to Joseph McGarrity informing he will visit him the following day, subject to train availability, 1914 March 2. Letter from Bulmer Hobson to Joseph McGarrity regarding O'Keefe and Lally, whom he hopes to see before he leaves, 1914 April 1. Letter from Bulmer Hobson to Joseph McGarrity informing him of his next visit to Philadelphia to meet O'Connell and Byrne, 1914 April 10. Photostat letter from Bulmer Hobson to "Miss McNeill" regarding the Irish Volunteer movement's state of confusion since the split from John Redmond, his doubts and wishing Roger Casement was in Ireland, 1914 September 28. Photostat letter from Alice Stopford Green to unknown recipient explaining that she will not join in anything that is not organised or led by people who are not in Ireland or are not fully aware of "its fast changing circumstances", 1914 October 1. Photostat circular from Bulmer Hobson, Hon. Sec. of the Irish Volunteers recommending that the Irish Volunteers corps in Ireland should arrange where possible to have a church parade on St Patrick’s Day, 1916 February 16. Typescript document 'Statement of Bulmer Hobson on events before the Rising in Ireland Easter 1916 / Made to Jos. McGarrity in April 1933' by Joseph McGarrity with postscript addressed to Hobson asking him to check the statement, especially his explanation for the countermand order, and correct it if necessary, 1933. Letters to Joseph McGarrity from nuns in the United States, including many from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert, mostly regarding Irish literary and political affairs and personalities, ca. 1923-1939. Letter from Sister M. Gonzaga to Joseph McGarrity sending him the proof of an article she wishes him to publish, 1920 April 30. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity enclosing a letter and story from Sister M. Gonzaga to publish in 'The Irish Press', 1920 May 23. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity hoping he has recovered from his recent illness and has resumed his work for the cause, 1920 May 23. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity regarding extension of the circulation of 'The Irish Press' and the death of Mayor Terence MacSwiney, 1920 November 1. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity hoping that President Calvin Coolidge will have some influence regarding Éamon De Valera before David Lloyd George's visit, 1923 October 12. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity regarding hunger strikers in Ireland, 1923 November 20. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity advising him to pray and confess when he is feeling down and in trouble, 1924 August 27. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for the copy of Dan Breen's book 'My Fight for Irish Freedom', 1924 September 25. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity commenting on Éamon De Valera's imprisonment, 1924 November 1. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity regarding Miss [Mary] MacSwiney's tour, 1925 April 5. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity offering her words of religious comfort on the occasion of his financial loss, 1925 April 12. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity relating a visit of Gen. Frank Aiken, 1927 February 5. Letter from Sister M. Anna Regina to her uncle, Joseph McGarrity, informing him of her religious activities, 1930 June 8. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity regarding his business situation and commenting on rich and poor in Catholicism, 1930 September 14. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity asking him if he has been reinstated in the Exchange, 1933 February 12. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity recalling the beauties of the Irish landscape, 1933 June 19. Typescript letter from Sister Mary Donatus to Sister Helene thanking her for the loan of her uncle's, Joseph McGarrity, "Book of Lismore", 1934 June 10. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity regarding his business and "Mr O'Doherty", 1934 October 16. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity wishing him a happy Christmas, 1934 December 16. Letter from Sister M. Helene to her uncle, Joseph McGarrity, asking if she could visit him and give him a note from Sister Donatus with two books, 1935 January 2. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity upon the third anniversary of the death of his son Joseph, 1935 September 1. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity regarding Mr Mead, 1935 December 14. Letter from "J. O'S" to "Brother" enclosing the names and addresses of a Treasurer and Trustees, 1939 February 16. Typescript copy of a letter from Joseph McGarrity to Sister Mary Patrick Rupert regarding his daughter Ann's operation, 1939 February 28. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity informing him that she will accompany Rev. Mother M. Carthagh to Ireland, 1939 February 21. Letter from Sister Mary Patrick Rupert to Joseph McGarrity explaining why she did not visit him on her return from Ireland and offering her sympathy on the death of his son Joseph, 1932 December. Typescript letter from Sister Mary Donatus to Joseph McGarrity discussing the main argument of her thesis 'Beasts and Birds in the Lives of the Early Irish Saints' and thanking him for lending her his "Book of Lismore", [1934 June 10]. Colour print of the Last Supper, undated. Correspondence between Joseph McGarrity and Liam Lynch, 1922-1923. Typescript letter from Liam Lynch to Joseph McGarrity regarding co-operation between Clan-na-Gael and the (anti-Treaty) Republican Army, 1922 December 21. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Liam Lynch regarding Seán Moylan's tour of the Clan-na-Gael Clubs and the rules concerning the military branch of the Clan, 1923 January 15. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Liam Lynch regarding Seán Moylan's tour of the Clan-na-Gael Clubs, 1923 January 15. Typescript circular from Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army, to Officers, Commands, Divisions and Ind. Brigades, regarding offers of peace made by the Free State Government, 1923 February 2. Typescript letter from Liam Lynch to Joseph McGarrity regarding the IRA's need for artillery and as the pressure to end the civil war rises, 1923 Fenruary 5. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to Liam Lynch regarding Seán Moylan's work in the US and settling matters of financing the Republican Army, 1923 February 14. Letters from Maud Gonne MacBride and Seán MacBride to Joseph McGarrity, including one from Major John MacBride to William Crossin, 1902-1938. Letter from John MacBride to William Crossin with incomplete photostat copy, asking him to finance the 'United Irishman', 1902 May 6. Paper folder with Joseph McGarrity's notes regarding the contents, a letter from Major John MacBride, and biographical details about the recipient, William Crossin, undated [c.1902?]. Letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to Joseph McGarrity, inviting him to dinner, 1933 May 1. Typescript letter from Seán MacBride to "Joe" [Joseph McGarrity] informing him of conversations he had with Éamon De Valera, 1933 October 19. Letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to the editor of the 'Trenton Sunday Times Advertiser', expressing her satisfaction at the publication of an article regarding the treatment of political prisoners by the Free State, 1937 March 12. Letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to Joseph McGarrity regarding the Dependents' Fund and prisoners, 1937 October 28. Letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to Joseph McGarrity regarding the pamphlet she is writing about the Orange order, 1938 November 20. Letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to Joseph McGarrity regarding 'Prison Bars' and the anti-Partition movment, [1937?] October 3. Letter from Maud Gonne MacBride to Joseph McGarrity regarding prisoners, undated [c.1937?]. Typescript of "Arbour Hill" by Maud Gonne MacBride, Secretary of Women Prisoners Defence League, relating to the treatment of Republican prisoners in Arbour Hill prison by the Irish Free State, [1936]. Letter from the secretary of the Major McBride IRA Club, Broadway, to "Brother" [Joseph McGarrity?] regarding the frequency of club meetings, undated. Letters from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity, with copies of a few articles by McCartan, 1902-1938. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a trial, 1904 June 14. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity reminding him to book a hall for their meeting, 1904 October. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a very young woman with whom he is involved and tickets for a banquet, 1904 November 24. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning Clan-na Gael business and the lack of funds for the 'Gaelic American', 1904 December 20. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a treaty that was signed with England and commenting on Joseph McGarrity's poetry and plays, undated [c. 1904?]. Letter in cypher from [Patrick McCartan] to [Joseph McGarrity] informing him of the situation in Ireland, 1906 January 12. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding "Miss Devlin", 1905 January 3. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the production of one of McGarrity's plays, 1905 January 13. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity hoping to organise a meeting with Terence O'Neill on Sunday, 1905 March 4. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity presenting his apologies for not attending the meeting as he wants to see "Sarah", 1905 March 6. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his rehearsals, 1905 April 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity containing a love poem, 1905 April 18. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity comparing the cost of studying in Dublin and Philadelphia, 1905 September 22. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity mentioning a report he wrote for the 'Gaelic American', [1906] April 24. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Clan-na-Gael dues and fourth of July picnic, 1905 April 25. Letter from Patrick McCartan to [Joseph McGarrity] regarding his views of the "manifesto" and intention to resign from the club if it endorses it, 1905 April 25. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a "diving armor" and the setting up of a non-sectarian "Tyrone Association" with "Rafferty", 1905 July 8. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his plans to study at Temple College, 1905 September 13. Travel notes started on board the "Umbria" by Patrick McCartan, relating conversations and impressions, sent to [Joseph McGarrity], 1905 September 30 & October 1, 2, 26. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that his hand is too sore to write to anyone, 1905 October. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity relating his visit to the Gaelic League, 1905 October 9. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding "Mary" and his "uncle Reilly"'s experiences as a Fenian, 1905 October 14. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his studies at university, "Mary" and the creation of a library for the Gaelic League, 1905 October 19. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his studies and life in Dublin, 1905 October 31. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his poetry, his studies, the state of nationalism in Ireland and containing a poem entitled 'Pat Quinn's Gable End' by Pat Loughran, 1905 November 12. Letter from Patrick McCartan to [Joseph McGarrity] regarding "New Ulster" and the not so difficult "task to join Orange & Green", 1905 November 12. Incomplete letter from [Patrick McCartan] to Joseph McGarrity relating a debate about higher education and questioning of the Dean of the medical department of the Catholic University, 1905 November 24. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the student involvement in the Dungannon Clubs and the need to coordinate nationalist movements behind Sinn Féin, 1905 December 20. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity relating his first meeting with Bulmer Hobson and how to implement his vision for Ireland, 1905 December 23. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he started a Dungannon Club in Carrickmore, his plans for a Ladies' branch, lace industry and a library, 1905 December 29. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the setting up of a Dungannon Club and that "martial law exists in Carrickmore since", 1906 January 12. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding student involvement in Dungannon Clubs and the cost of printing their manifesto and possibility to set up a magazine, 1906 January 13. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Father James Donnelly's condemnation of the Dungannon Clubs and concerning the education of children, 1906 January 21. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding an article about "the political situation in Ireland" he wishes to publish in the 'Bulletin', 1906 January 31. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning the lack of cooperation of some parish priests in promoting Irish manufactured goods and W. B. Foster Bovill, 1906 February 7. Letters from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding articles he sent to newspapers and containing another letter from Edmond J. O'Donnell informing him of his father's death, 1906 February 9 & 10. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding an article he wishes to publish, 1906 February 17. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the progress of the student manisfesto, 1906 February 23 & 24. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning the student manifesto and "O'Donnell", with receipt enclosed for subscription to the 'United Irishman', 1906 March 17. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity praising the Gaelic League and explaining his plan for a student monthly, 1906 March 24. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the progress made on the student manifesto, 1906 April 7. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the student manifesto and his "new doctrine in politics to oppose the leaders of the people", 1906 April 11. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding "the tyranny of the Church" and his disappointment with the manifesto, 1906 April 23 & 24. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the launching of the student manifesto, 1906 May 1 & 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his first exams, 1906 June 9. Letter from Patrick McCartan and Anne Grogan to Joseph McGarrity with local news of people they know, 1906 July 24. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding meetings organised by Bulmer Hobson and his will to go "directly for a republic", 1906 August 11. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the launching of a newspaper called 'Republic' and recalling his journey out to Belfast with Francis Joseph Bigger, 1906 December 8. Last page of a letter from Patrick McCartan to [Joseph McGarrity] expressing his disapointment with the student manifesto, [1906]. Article entitled 'The Political Situation in Ireland' by Patrick McCartan, 1906 January 31. Article entitled 'The new Lord Lieutenant coldly received - The Sinn Féin policy and the methods to be adopted' by Patrick McCartan, 1906 February 10. 'Appeal to the whole students of Ireland' from the Dungannon Club of Dublin, by Patrick McCartan, 1906 February 10. Article regarding the decision of a British tribunal to pronounce the Irish language illegal following the Ua Buachalla case by Patrick McCartan, 1906 February 17. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Bulmer Hobson's trip to America, 1907 February 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity relating to his relationship with Father Cornelius Short, 1907 February 16. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Bulmer Hobson's reception in America and Hobson's relationship with Arthur Griffith, 1907 March 2. Copy of a letter from Joseph McGarrity to Patrick McCartan regarding Bulmer Hobson and the amalgamation of the different nationalist movements behind Sinn Féin, 1907 March 3. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the building of a cottage at Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, 1907 May 8. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity discussing the building of cottages at Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, and his fear that he has accused someone wrongly in his letter to "Billy", 1907 May 21. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Arthur Griffith and local news, 1907 June 14. Incomplete letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the opposition of the "Hibernians" to Sinn Féin around Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1907 August 10. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his love interests, and nationalist activity in North Leitrim and in newspapers, 1907 November 9. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Mary McAleer, his contributions to the 'Gaelic American' and the possibility of building a student movement, 1907 December 14. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity exposing "the uses made of religion in Ireland", 1908 January 18. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity thanking "Billy for his copy of the Catalpa Rescue", 1908 March 22. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the treaties between England and the United States of America with enclosed newspaper clippings about plays and medical exam results, 1908 April 24. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning the election of rural district councillors and county councillors around Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1908 May 1. Postcard from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity asking him to send a copy of the 'Gaelic American' to Father Cornelius Short, 1908 May 9. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning Arthur Griffith and several newspapers, 1908 June 10. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity giving news of and commenting about people they know in Carrickmore (Co. Tyrone), Dublin and the United States of America, 1908 July 4. Postcard from Maurice F. Quinlivan acknowledging receipt of £3-10-0 from Michael Gormley as prizes for junior and adult Gaelic Competitions, 1908 July 18. Postcard from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity with the drawing of a question mark, 1908 September 5. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his approaching exam and "Mary", 1908 September 19. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity relating his examination, which he failed, and concerning his studies, 1908 October 3. Print 'Appeal to the Students of Ireland' for the protection of the Irish language with note from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity, 1908 February 4. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a successful meeting of students, 1909 February 27. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Archbishop John Healy's speech on morals and the births of two "illegitimate" children that occured in his palace, 1909 March 6. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding an article by Constance Markievicz about votes for women, 1909 March 20. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity stating that he wants Constance Markievicz to lead a Woman's National Movement in Ireland, and referring to tensions between Bulmer Hobson and Arthur Griffith, 1909 April 7. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the nationalist movement in the north, 1909 April 18. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning the building of cottages on McGarrity's land in Co. Tyrone, 1909 May 11. Letter from Patrick McCartan to [Joseph McGarrity] informing him that he obtained the Junior Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1909 May 22. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity arguing in favour of a strictly non sectarian movement "if we ever hope for an independent Ireland", 1909 May 27. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his studies and placement, 1909 July 17. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity criticising the members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, 1909 September 4. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding topics discussed at Sinn Féin meetings, 1909 September 18. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity imparting local Sinn Féin news regarding "Condon" and a new paper which is "doing good work but inclined to be ultra dogmatic", 1909 October 23. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding agricultural matters and his medical studies, 1909 November 9. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Bulmer Hobson and his starting a farm, and McCartan's medical studies, 1909 November 24. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Bulmer Hobson's attempt at starting a farm, 1909 December 18. Letter from R. C. Bonner to Patrick McCartan informing him that he is working to have Sinn Féin on a good standing in Donegal, 1910 January 10. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity deploring Sinn Féin's move away from its founding principles, 1910 January 21. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning Sinn Féin's lack of money and the possibility to get funds, 1910 February 20. Incomplete letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Bulmer Hobson, 1910 March 15. Receipt for a bureau de change transaction of £20 ($97.80) in favour of Patrick McCartan, 1910 April 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Constance Markievicz and her work, 1910 April 13. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will leave the National University and encourages other students to do the same and asking him for funds, 1910 May 7. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the 'Irish Student' newspaper and the consequences its publication may have on his examinations, 1910 May 27. Incomplete letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the 'Irish Student' and the Gaelic League, 1910 May 31. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that the Board of Studies has finally accepted Douglas Hyde's proposal, 1910 June 4. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning his decision to take his exams at both the National University and the Royal College of Surgeons in the aftermath of the 'Irish Student' stir, 1910 June 11. Letters from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a man called "McCourt", 1910 June 12. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that "Irish was made essential" and that he was trying to interview Dr George Sigerson and John Daly for the 'Gaelic American', 1910 July 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his medical studies, placements and exams, 1910 July 6. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity imparting the news that he passed his exam, 1910 July 23. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity giving him news of "Annie" and of people they know in Co. Tyrone, 1910 August 3. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that "Annie" is sailing back to America, 1910 August 10. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity giving him an account of his four weeks of holidays in Co. Tyrone, 1910 August 20. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity recommending the bearer, "Mr McCormack" from Argentina, 1910 August 31. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Douglas Hyde's proposal to make Irish compulsory, 1910 [c. June-July]. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the collapse of Sinn Féin, [c.1910 September 2]. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning the plan to have a monthly nationalist paper ready by November, 1910 September 4. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his studies and his project for the new nationalist monthly, 1910 September 6. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a project to start a business and the first issue of the monthly, 1910 October 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity about McGarrity's trip to Belfast, 1910 October 12. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity encouraging him to go see Bulmer Hobson, 1910 October 15. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his examination grades, 1910 October 26. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him how he performed in his exams the previous evening, 1910 October 27. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he was successful in his exams, 1910 November 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that John O'Farrel is starting a paper in Philadephia and that he might contribute a weekly article to it, 1910 November 4. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that Father James Blake Kavanagh's book is out of print and relating tea with "friend G", 1910 November 5. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his studies and intention to sit the National University exam now that he is qualified from the Royal College of Surgeons, 1910 November 9. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he is going to a Manchester Martyrs meeting in Donegal, 1910 November 23. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he is on his way to Glasgow where he was sent "by the manager" in order to "arrange an agency for our goods", 1910 November 25. Postcard from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he is about to return to Ireland, 1910 November 28. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity explaining why he did not see McGarrity's uncle while he was in Co. Tyrone, 1910 December 3. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the 'Irish Freedom' newspaper, 1910 December 17. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that both McCartan and "Windows" were removed from the Wolfe Tone Committee, 1911 January 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the progress of the 'Irish Freedom' newspaper and of his medical career, 1911 January 6. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity asking his opinion on the 'Irish Freedom' and informing him that Bulmer Hobson and "McDermot" [Mac Diarmada (MacDermott), Seán] are starting a shop, 1911 February 4. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a site in Dublin for a Wolfe Tone monument, 1911 March 11. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a row he had with the Wolfe Tone & United Irishmen Memorial Committee over the Coronation and Royal visit, 1911 March 14. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the site and funding for a Wolfe Tone monument in Dublin, 1911 March 14. Postcard from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he is "about to be engaged in a hand to hand fight" with their "friend with the glasses" over his resolution regarding the Royal visit, 1911 March 18. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity imparting the news that the Wolfe Tone Memorial Committee decided he should be expelled from all national organisations, undated [1911 March c.20-25]. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity asking for information on the Arbitration Treaties, 1911 April 1. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will be touring the West in the play 'The Memory of the Dead' by Count Casimir Markievicz, 1911 April 15. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he is performing in 'The Memory of the Dead' in the Abbey Theatre, 1911 May 6. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his row with "the man with the windows" and the sale of McGarrity's farm in Co. Tyrone, 1911 June 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his hospital work and the sale of land in Co. Tyrone, 1911 June 13. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a meeting to assert Ireland's right to independence which was attended by "at least 20,000 people", 1911 June 23. Letter from Joseph Roulston to Patrick McCartan regarding the sale of Joseph McGarrity's farm in Co. Tyrone, 1911 June 22. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the royal visit to Ireland, 1911 July 9. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the sale of Joseph McGarrity's farm in Co. Tyrone, 1911 July 15. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the death of a patient and the type of nationalism McGarrity will encounter, 1911 August 12 & 14. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that Tom Clarke sent him some copies of the 'Irish Freedom' newspaper, 1911 August 16. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity relating Miss Helena Moloney's experiences in jail, undated [1911 c. August 17-September 2]. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him of a job opportunity in Enniscorthy he has heard of, 1911 September 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he has been busy in work due to an epidemic of scarlet, 1911 October 14. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding shares in a company, his medical work and the Wolfe Tone Monument Committee, 1911 October 20. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity stating that "things are pretty rotten politically", 1911 November 28. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the tensions in the newspaper committee sparked by "Windows", 1911 December 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity stating that "a strike is certain", 1911 December 4. Telegram from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity requesting him to "cable hundred pounds very important", 1911 December 11. Receipt from the Western Union Telegraph Company to Joseph McGarrity for $490 to be paid to Patrick McCartan, with note by Joseph McGarrity, 1911 December 11. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the situation with the newspaper committee and relating events sparked by "Windows", 1911 December 12. Lettercard from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he has received the money in due time, 1911 December 19. Postcard from [Patrick McCartan] to Joseph McGarrity, 1911 April 18. Postcard from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he "got a splendid reception" in Roscommon and that "the play seems to catch on", 1911 April 19. Postcard from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the play, 1911 April 20. Postcard from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the success of the play, 1911 April 22. Postcard from Patrick McCartan to James Reilly regarding the "hospitable crowd" in Co. Mayo, 1911 April 20. Postcard from Patrick McCartan to James Reilly regarding the "great reception" in Co. Mayo, 1911 April 22. Postcard from Patrick McCartan to [Joseph McGarrity] stating "you have covered yourself with glory this blessed day", 1912 January 12. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he is working for Dr Hunter, 1912 March 9. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to "my dear Doctor" [Patrick McCartan] regarding the 'Playboy of the Western World' and why he opposed it, 1912 April 16. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity explaining his offer to work for the 'Gaelic American' for free for a year to give the opportunity to John Devoy to write his recollections, 1912 June 27. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his attempt to have Irish classes restarted, 1912 July 5. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his final exam and his medical career, 1912 September 24. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he has spent the day talking to Maud Gonne, Countess Markievicz and "a wee Protestant girl" instead of studying for his exam, 1912 November 9. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity relating a spiritist séance during which it was predicted that Ireland would become a republic, 1912 November 9. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity relating his meeting with Congressman James A. Hamill, 1913 January 7. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity recommending John Ellison's sister [Maggie] who is sailing for Philadelphia, 1913 March 7. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity imparting the news that he has a position as a medical doctor in Gortin district dispensary, Co. Tyrone, 1913 April 4. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his medical practice in Gortin, Co. Tyrone, 1913 May 9. Draft article entitled "Ireland Today" by [Patrick McCartan?] with newspaper clipping attached, 1917. Postcard from Patrick McCartan to Elizabeth McGarrity informing her that he left his position and is "going to see Roberts", [1921]. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Harry Boland and Éamon De Valera's trip to Washington, 1920 February 17. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity quoting an article from the 'New York World' and asking him to come to a meeting concerning a manisfesto ordering President Éamon De Valera out of the United States of America, 1920 June 14. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the split in the Irish nationalist movement in the United States between supporters and opponents of Éamon De Valera, and suggesting a Race Convention, 1920 June 22. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity laying his points for a new policy and calling for a conference to decide on a course of action which all the organisations could adopt, 1920 July 12. Telegram from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity reading "Luke says notices impossible cant get them printed", 1920 July 28. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity asking him to discuss the commissioners' expenses and the importance of publicity with Éamon De Valera, and regarding John Devoy, 1920 September 24. Telegram from Patrick McCartan to 'Irish Press' [Joseph McGarrity] asking him to send a photograph of a document published in a 1919 issue of the 'Irish Press', 1920 October 13. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he is going to New York to report to Dr Maloney and Éamon De Valera and urging McGarrity to go too as "the initial step in this commission business may save the men on hunger strike", undated [1920]. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity relating his voyage from America, his journey through Danemark and Sweden to Estonia and describing his stay in Reval, 1921 February 10. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding McGarrity's editorial in the 'Irish Press', which he found biased and reproaching McGarrity with being "foolish", 1922 February 7. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity criticising Éamon De Valera's attitude, 1922 March 29. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity relating skirmishes between Free State and anti-Treaty sides of the Irish Republican Army and fearing that a civil war would make the British come back, 1922 April 6 & 8. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Michael Collins, Éamon De Valera, and his hope that things could still "come right without taking any action", 1922 April 10. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity stating that "Bolchevism has taken the place of Document no 2" and deploring the "fight of brother against brother", 1922 July 21. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that Harry Boland was "shot by his own friends" and is delirious in hospital, 1922 August 1. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity imparting the news of Harry Boland's death, 1922 August 3. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Harry Boland's funeral, which he did not attend, and giving an account of his arrest, suggesting Boland "was murdered by orders", 1922 August 5. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity imparting the news of Michael Collins' death and confidential information regarding the negotiations Collins was involved in, 1922 August 23. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning the writing of his recollections, 1924 June 3. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning the new chapter of his recollections and stating that "Dev. still plays the role of King here while Mary [MacSwiney] as Prime Minister directs policy", 1925 January 3. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity criticising Éamon De Valera and Mary MacSwiney and deploring that "we are in for twenty years of petty squabbles", 1925 March 20. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning his candidacy for the Free State Senate following the death of Dr George Sigerson, 1925 March 30. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning the resignation of officers and the failed hope of uniting all Republicans due to Mary MacSwiney's hardline approach, 1925 April 16. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he is taking an action against the Government and requesting documents to help his case, 1925 May 13. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his action against the Government and asking him to send some relevant papers, 1925 May 14. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his case againt the Government and informing him he is running for the Senate again, 1925 July 1. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a speech by Archbishop Daniel Mannix and Éamon De Valera's reply and giving his opinion of Sean T. O'Kelly, 1925 August 28. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning a dinner given by the Marquis and Marchioness MacSwiney, 1925 September 14. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity giving him a detailed account of the political situation in Ireland, which is "clear as mud", and giving his opinion on some of the political players, including Éamon De Valera and Constance Markievicz, 1925 September 18. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Richard Mulcahy, 1925 October 16. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a letter he never posted and may be of interest retrospectively, 1926 January 4. Letter from Patrick McCartan to "Maloney" [William Joseph Marie Alois Maloney] explaining he is sending the enclosed letter for Joseph McGarrity through him so as to prevent a "Republican spy" from intercepting it, 1925 April 16. Template with note from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity detailing what financial details he wishes McGarrity would send him in his own hand to to help his law case against the Government, 1925 May 12. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity expressing his disappointment regarding the handling of the Boundary affair and the failure to make the Oath optional, 1926 January 17. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity wondering why McGarrity does not write, 1926 July 12. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the election taking place that day and predicting that Éamon De Valera might win, 1928. Newspaper clipping of an article entitled "Protection or graft at Clondalkin" from 'Honesty' by Patrick McCartan, 1929 February 16. Newspaper clipping of an article entitled "Dr. McCartan and the Clondalkin Mills - A reply by Sean McEntee, T. D." from 'Honesty' by Seán MacEntee, 1929 March 9. Newspaper clipping of an article entitled "The Clondalkin Mills and Irish Republicanism - Mr. McEntee's blissful ignorance" from 'Honesty' by Patrick McCartan, 1929 March 16. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the funding of St Enda's school, 1929 March 22. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the funding of St Enda's school and the importance of education for the future of republicanism in Ireland, 1929 March 24. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the funding of St Enda's school through a sweepstake and explaining the draw, 1929 May 11. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity giving an account of politics in Ireland since Éamon De Valera's party, Fianna Fáil, went into the Dáil, and of the poverty and apathy of the people, 1928 July 28. Note from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity reading "Maloney told me you were anxious to see the enclosed from the Irish Press", with newspaper clipping from the 'Irish Press' regarding McCartan's book 'With De Valera in America', 1932 August c.26. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity urging him to take care of his health, 1933 March 17. Incomplete letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a trip and the state of the Exchange, 1933 April 13. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the price of a seat in the New York Stock Exchange, 1933 April 27. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity discussing the price of shares, keeping him abreast of the trade at the Exchange and presenting options for investment, 1933 May 27-28. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the passing of "Hugh" following an operation, 1933 November 7. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity allowing him to take $5,000 from his account for the "holiday" of "John T.", 1934 July 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him of his decision not to venture money in Miss Whelan's property, 1934 January 9. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding McGarrity's potential Irish whiskey venture and informing him of different share prices at the Stock Exchange, 1934 January 14. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him of the prices of shares and that they "have a profit on everything & lost on nothing", 1934 January 24. Incomplete note from [Patrick McCartan] to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he has sold McGarrity's Lehigh Valley Coal shares and realised a profit on them, 1934 February 9. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the price of shares at the Stock Exchange and McGarrity's standing, 1934 February 10. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a dinner organised for Frank Thornton, 1934 June 22. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the cooperation between Clan-na-Gael and the Irish Republican Army, including on a project to erect a monument to IRA men who died in the "Tan War", 1934 June 25. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning Dr William Maloney, 1934 October 4. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity inviting him to come speak at a reunion of the Shamrock Club on the arrest and release of Luke Dillon, 1935 March 7. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity asking for "Con's address" for Joe Miller, 1935 July 25. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he will sail on the Manhattan on 9 October with Eddy [Tilyon?], 1935 October 5. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding McGarrity's plan to build a house on the old homestead in Co. Tyrone, 1936 January 28. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity hoping to set the record straight regarding Alexander Sullivan and his "Triangle" group, 1936 February 4. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the setting up of an Executive Committee to organise Ireland's participation in the World Fair to be held in New York in 1939, 1936 June 15. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the reception of Dr William Maloney's book 'The Forged Casement Diaries', 1937 February 23. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the authenticity of Roger Casement's diaries, 1937 February 25. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity hoping that he "won the case and that the matter is closed finally", 1937 March 16. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a stag party organised for Frank Thornton, [1934] June 28. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity enquiring if he knows anyone reliable going to Ireland as he would like to entrust them with a picture for the National Art Gallery, 1938 June 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding McGarrity's holiday in Co. Tyrone, 1938 August 5. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Father L. P. Murray's need for funds to send boys to an Irish College in Co. Donegal, 1938 August 11. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Dr William Maloney's intention to publish the letters McCartan sent him after the Treaty and during the Civil War, 1938 September 19. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the letters he sent to Dr William Maloney during the Civil War and their political potential once published, 1938 September 22. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding plays in Irish for Joe Campbell's Irish Foundation, 1938 October 31. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that he is writing a paper about the Invincibles for Joseph Campbell's School of Irish Studies, 1938 November 16. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning both Dr William Maloney and Herbert Spencer Dickey and their books, 1938 November 28. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning Herbert Spencer Dickey's health and his book about Roger Casement, 1938 December 17. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity suggesting to give a reception to Thomas McDonagh's daughter, Barbara, 1938 December 20. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that Seumas Delargy who runs the Irish Folklore Commission in Ireland will be giving a series of lectures in the United States, 1939 February 6. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity congratulation him on winning his case, 1939 April 20. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity wondering what the interests of "British Imperialism" can be over the transfer of Danzig and discussing the war in general and the possible outcome, 1939 October 21. Letter from Patrick McCartan to [Joseph McGarrity] containing a poem, undated [c. 1904]. Postcard from "M" to Joseph McGarrity informing him that they just arrived from Dublin, 1905 October 11. Postcard from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity stating "Got papers. No letter for 2 weeks!!", 1905 November 30. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the 'Republic' and Bulmer Hobson, [1906] August 25. Note from [Patrick McCartan] to [Joseph McGarrity] stating that "the government dreads the Sinn Féin policy", [c. 1906?]. Essay addressing the question "Why are educated Catholics more easy in their mind [about their religion] than educated Protestants" by Patrick McCartan with added note in unidentified hand, [c. 1910?]. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that "they have no gas in that place on Clare Lane", [1910 October]. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a report of the Foreign Relations Committee on the Treaties published in the 'Gaelic American', [1911 August-September]. Postcard from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the shipment of his car, [c. 1911 August]. Incomplete letter from Patrick McCartan to [Joseph McGarrity] regarding Countess Constance Markievicz and the student movement, [1910 c. February-March]. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity detailing events of 12 July in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, with his impressions, [c. 1911 July 13-31]. Telegram from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity reading "land selling tomorrow say lowest price you will accept", 1911 July 10. Postcard of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Philadeplphia from Patrick McCartan to [Joseph McGarrity] reading "Safe at last", undated. 'Memorandum on Present Political Condition & Path to Republic' by Patrick McCartan, undated [c. 1926]. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that the "Rices" and "Brian" will go to court on 31st July "in the case they have with the old crowd over the IRB Veterans Association", [1935 July]. Letter from "Billy" to Patrick McCartan forwarding a letter from Ernest Gruening (editor of the 'New York Post') regarding the publication of "Billy"'s work, [1934 May]. Note from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity concerning the enclosed material, [1935 July]. Card from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity sending his good wishes, undated. Blank Hotel de l'Opéra headed writing paper, [1911 July]. [Portrait of Patrick McCartan], [graphic]. Letters from Joseph McGarrity and others mainly to Patrick McCartan, 1905-1939. Letter from Oliver Gogarty to Patrick McCartan giving his opinion of the poem 'Fenian Days' by Joseph McGarrity, forwarded to McGarrity with postcript by McCartan regarding the Dungannon Clubs and Clan-na-Gael, 1905 November 14 & 25. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Patrick McCartan giving him advice on how to win people's confidence and convince them to embrace nationalism, 1905 [1906] January 8. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to [Patrick McCartan] imparting the latest news since McCartan left the United States, including his studies at Temple College, 1905 October 29. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Patrick McCartan regarding the success of the Anti-Anglo League meeting in New York and the consequent mass desertion from the British Fleet, 1905 November 20 & 22. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Patrick McCartan regarding the visit of Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg (Admiral of the Fleet Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, 1854-1921) to America and the consequent mass desertion from the British Fleet, and the setting up of a Dunnganon Club in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1905 November 21. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to [Patrick McCartan] regarding Douglas Hyde's American tour and stating that "all leagues and parties and creeds could meet on the platform of the Gaelic League", 1905 December 8. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to [Patrick McCartan] regarding the activities of the Hyde Committee to raise funds for the Gaelic League, 1905 December 11 & 12. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to [Patrick McCartan] regarding the success of the Hyde meeting despite the attempts of the Redmondites of the United Irish League to undercut it, 1905 December 16 & 20. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to [Patrick McCartan] regarding the creation of a Dungannon Club in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1905 December 25. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to [Patrick McCartan] imparting him with social and political news and giving him advice, 1905 December 27 & 28. Drafts of letters from Joseph McGarrity to Patrick McCartan, 1905 November 20-1906 January 8. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to [Patrick McCartan] regarding the light in which the European press wrote about the National Convention held at the Rotunda, 1906 January 3. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Patrick McCartan regarding the "Peelers" and the Sinn Féin policy posters put up by the Dungannon Clubs, 1906 January 13. Letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Patrick McCartan congratulating on obtaining a fellowship, 1906 December. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Patrick McCartan relating an altercation between his nephew Frank Conlin and M. J. Ryan (United Irish League) of Philadelphia, 1907 January 13. Letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Patrick McCartan regarding Bulmer Hobson's American tour, 1907 February 17. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Patrick McCartan concerning the 'Republic' newspaper, 1907 March 11. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Patrick McCartan regarding the interviews of Bulmer Hobson in the American press, 1907 March 26. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Patrick McCartan regarding the building of cottages on his land in Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, 1909 April 17. Letter from Anne Grogan to Joseph McGarrity regarding his farm and giving him news of mutual friends in Co. Tyrone, [1909 April]. Telegram from "McHugh" to Patrick McCartan reading "last set went in last night", 1910 December 2. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Patrick McCartan regarding the first issue of the 'Irish Student' newspaper, 1910 May 21. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Patrick McCartan regarding the impact of the 'Irish Student' newspaper and his 'Tir Agus Teanga' and assuring him of the support of Irish American nationalists, 1910 May 24. Letter from "J. McCart" [Patrick McCartan] to "Uncle" advising him with regard to shares and commenting on the mismanagement of the company by the manager and "his man John Friday", 1911 September 19. Descritpive notice of Patrick McCartan entitled "Tyrone", 1916 May 15. Descritpive notice of Patrick McCartan entitled "Tyrone" with note by Joseph McGarrity, 1916. Typescript letter from Nellie Leahy to Patrick McCartan asking for his advice regarding her "Irish Embassy Fund" and the creation of a "Real National Association", 1918 July 10. Telegram from Mary F. McWhorter to Patrick McCartan informing him of a meeting of the National Board in Atlantic City, 1918 July 12. Letter from Rev. Patrick W. Burke to Patrick McCartan, Editor of the 'Irish Press', Philadelphia, enquiring if a young Irishman, who may forcibly be inducted into the British Army, can avoid it under the Draft Laws, 1918 August 2. Typescript letter from O'Connor & O'Hanrahan Solicitors to Patrick McCartan enquiring if he recieved the Power of Attorney relating to his brother "Bernard" that was sent to him, 1918 September 10. Letter from Liam Mellowes to Patrick McCartan asking him to advertise in the 'Irish Press' that they have rented a room, 1918 September 17. Letter from Philip Connally to Patrick McCartan expressing his wish to register as a citizen of Ireland in the United States and to establish his allegiance to the Irish Republic, 1918 September 22. Letter from Patrick S. McGuiness to Patrick McCartan declaring his intention to become a citizen of the United States and enquiring about his obligations to the Provisional Government of Ireland, 1918 September 22. Letter from "Maggie" to [Patrick McCartan] giving news from home and asking him to come back, 1918 November 26. Draft text of telegrams to "Rogers" in Tullamore and "O'Mara" in Dublin conveying his thanks to the people of Offaly on his election, 1918 December 14. Telegram from "Lynch" to "McCarban" [Patrick McCartan] reading "further changes made in copy will advise", 1918 December 24. Letter from John J. Splain to [Patrick McCartan] arranging for the hiring of a hall in Waterbury and in Derby, 1919 January 30. Letter from John J. Splain to [Patrick McCartan] arranging for the hiring of a hall in Waterbury and in Derby on 16th February, 1919 January 31. Typescript letter from Arthur Kenedy, President of P.J. Kenedy & Sons Publishers and Booksellers, to Patrick McCartan, Editor of the 'Irish Press', regarding the potential sale of a book at an upcoming congress, 1919 February 18. Letter from J. Carroll to Patrick McCartan enclosing the report of the last meeting of the Roger Casement Branch of the Friends of Irish Freedom concerning President Woodrow Wilson's attitude towards Justice Daniel F. Cohalan, 1919 March 16. Letter from Gerald P. Coghlan to Patrick McCartan placing an order for Friends of Irish Freedom stationery for its Treasurers, 1919 April 5. Typescript letter from Richard H. Tierney, Editor of 'America', to Patrick McCartan, Editor of the 'Irish Press', requesting copies of the 'Irish Press' for 26 April, 1919 May 5. Money order from the Vineland Trust Company on behalf of Thomas J. Greham to pay $25 to Patrick McCartan, Editor of the 'Irish Press', for his subscription to the Irish Freedom Fund, 1919 June 14. Typescript letter form Thomas J. O'Flaherty to Patrick McCartan requesting him to deny the view expressed in an article published in the 'Voice of Labour', 1919 June 20. Typescript letter from George Gavan Duffy to Patrick McCartan informing him that "the French are in an unspeakably mortal funk of the British", 1919 August 7. Letter from J.B. Cavanagh to Patrick McCartan deploring that "Cleveland is simply not on the map" and stating that "the paper is doing good", 1920 August 30. Letter from Sidney Gifford Czira to Patrick McCartan informing him that she will be in Philadelphia and would like to see him and Joseph McGarrity, undated [1920 April?]. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph Sexton, Editor of the 'Irish Press', asking him to remove his name from the 'Irish Press', 1920 September 11. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity advising him that he may have to send a committee to invite John E. Milholland, 1920 October 21. Typescript copy letter from an unidentified author to Patrick McCartan regarding Mrs Margaret Pearse, 1929 March 14. Letter from Nora M. Dinneen to [Patrick McCartan, Editor of the 'Irish Press'] expressing the view that America ought to help Ireland, undated [1914?] July 9. Letter from Jessie A. McGuinness to Patrick McCartan regarding the funding of the 'Irish Press', undated [1918-1922]. Incomplete letter from Patrick McCartan, Envoy of the Provisional Government of Ireland to the United States, to an unidentified recipient regarding a "clerical error" which can be rectified by the Local Board, undated [c.1919-1920]. Telegram from "Father Schullin" to Patrick McCartan reading "Buffalo priests and Hibernians with you in cable protest DeValera and Dillon against Irish Conscription", 1918 April 10. 'Notice to Citizens of the Irish Republic' inviting them to register with their local representative of the Provisional Government of Ireland by Patrick McCartan, with circular explaining that Irish Citizens are under no legal obligation to enlist in the British Army, 1918 September 11. Typescript letter from Patrick J. Holahan to Patrick McCartan requesting forms for the registration of Irish Citizens, 1918 September 14. Letter from Liam Mellowes to Patrick McCartan regarding the case of Thomas Donovan, 1918 October 30. Typescript letter from Gertrude B. Kelly, President of the first American Auxiliary of Cumann na mBan, to Patrick McCartan, giving the organisation's undivided support to McCartan, William Maloney and Éamon De Valera in the work they are doing, 1920 March 5. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a sum of money he left with "our friend Mr Roberts", 1921 June 2. Letter from Patrick McCartan to "Mr Roberts" regarding a sum of money he left with him and wishes to be turned over to "Professor Amidy", 1922 June 2. Typescript letter from Agatha Bullitt Grabisch to "my dear Dr" [Patrick McCartan] regarding an unnamed common friend and his lawsuit, and reminiscing about conversations they shared, 1922 April 15. Typescript copy of a letter from "Neans de Paor" to "M.F.A." regarding the procedure for the circulation of letters between him and others, 1922 April 26. Typescript letter from Seóirse Mag Craith [George McGrath], Accountant General, to Patrick McCartan regarding a sum of money left in Berlin, 1922 May 3. Typescript letter from Michael Collins to T. A. Smiddy regarding the sum of money Patrick McCartan left in the care of "Mr Roberts" in Germany, 1922 June 8. Typescript letter from T. A. Smiddy, Envoy Extraordinary, to Joseph McGarrity requesting his help as regards the enclosed letters concerning the sum of money McCartan left in Berlin, 1922 June 8. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding James Mallon, 1924 January 24. Letter from F. H. Mallon to Patrick McCartan regarding a missing young man, James Mallon of Tyrone, 1923 December 3. Letter from T. Mallon to "Francis" [Mallon] giving information regarding the missing James Mallon, 1923 December 3. Typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to [Patrick McCartan] regarding his poem "Mad", 1925 October 5. Letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to [Patrick McCartan] thanking him for all he has done on his behalf, 1930 June 21. Typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Patrick McCartan informing him that he has become a qualified trading member of the New York Curb stock market, 1930. Note from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity with enclosed letter from William Maloney to McCartan, 1933. Letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to [Patrick McCartan] regarding material such as articles and letters McCartan may need to write a book, 1933 February 8. Copy letter from Joseph McGarrity to [Patrick McCartan] regarding "Father Peter", his own difficult situation and McCartan's work on a book, 1933 February 17. Statement of financial transactions from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity, 1932 January 9. Cheque from the Hibernia Trust Company to pay $9,000 to Patrick McCartan on behalf of Joseph McGarrity , 1931 June 9. Cheque from the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities to pay $1,000 to Patrick McCartan on behalf of Joseph McGarrity, 1934 December 24. Cheque from the Real Estate Trust Company of Philadelphia to pay $1,000 to Patrick McCartan on behalf of Joseph McGarrity, 1936 June 12. Statement of financial transactions between Joseph McGarrity and Patrick McCartan, 1938 June. Typescript memorandum from [Joseph McGarrity] to [Patrick McCartan] listing financial transactions, 1938 June 8. Typescript letter from Joseph McGarrity to [Patrick McCartan] regarding financial transactions, 1938 November 2. Typescript letter from Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey to [William Maloney] regarding his upcoming trip to New York with a section of the manuscript of his book on Roger Casement, 1938 August 27. Letter from William Maloney to Patrick McCartan forwarded to Joseph McGarrity regarding Dr Herbert Spencer Dickey's upcoming trip to New York with a section of the manuscript of his book on Roger Casement, 1938 August 29. Typescript letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to Patrick McCartan regarding William Maloney's and Herbert Spencer Dickey's respective works on Roger Casement, 1938 September 20. Incomplete letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to [Patrick McCartan] regarding his automobile and giving general news, undated [c. 1910]. Incomplete letter from Joseph McGarrity to [Patrick McCartan] concerning Rev. Peter Joseph McGarrity and other matters, undated. Letters from Seán MacDiarmada and his family to Joseph McGarrity, 1911-1912; 1916. Letter from Seán MacDiarmada to Joseph McGarrity about how Patrick McCartan has informed him that Joseph McGarrity has not received his papers for the past two months and that he is sending him the past copies of both issues, and that he will be glad to know that the 'Irish Freedom' is doing well with subscribers in other large American cities as well as Philadelphia, 1911 May 5. Letter from Seán MacDiarmada to Joseph McGarrity, apologising for his delay in writing but he must be careful, and that he has not been well recently due to stomach problems, how things are going well with the W.T. [Wolfe Tone] monument, and that he has decided to send to him only the money he borrowed from him as he does not know how much more he can send, 1912 October 8. Letter from Seán MacDiarmada to Joseph McGarrity about how he is off tomorrow, that it was only a couple of nights ago that he got the "matter fixed up" so that he lost no time, "not even wanting for election" and how sick he was getting of the quiet life, 1912 November 1. Letter from Seán MacDiarmada to Joseph McGarrity, saying how busy he has been with the [Manchester] Martyrs celebration which was a "great success", including selling copies of John Devoy's picture, and that he is sending him a few copies of the souvenir from the event and of John Devoy's picture, 1912 November 27. Letter from Kate and Rose, sisters of Seán MacDiarmada, to Joseph McGarrity, thanking him and his family for their "kind words of sympathy and comfort" [upon the death of Seán], and how well Seán MacDiarmada used to speak of him, 1916 May 23. Letters from John MacDonagh to Joseph McGarrity, including copy of poem by John MacDonagh and copy of speech by his brother Thomas MacDonagh at his courtmartial, 1916-1939. Letter from John MacDonagh to Joseph McGarrity, telling of his and Eileen's sorrow at reading of the death of the latter's son, Joseph, discussing mutual acquaintances in Ireland, and the ongoing 'Economic War' between Ireland and "Sean Bull" [Britain], 1932 September 19. Letter from John MacDonagh to Joseph McGarrity, asking if there is any chance at seeing him, 1937 January 7. Letter from John MacDonagh to Joseph McGarrity, saying how he has been asked by James O'Donovan to tell him about the magazine he edits, 'Ireland Today' and to ask for its financial backing for it, 1937 February 25. Letter from John MacDonagh to Joseph McGarrity with an enclosed copy of Thomas MacDonagh's speech at his court-martial and a poem by John MacDonagh, 1939 July 21. Letters from Mary MacSwiney to Joseph McGarrity, with some related documents, 1921-1926. Telegram [from Mary MacSwiney] to Joseph McGarrity, discussing the cancellation of meetings in the US and that a meeting in Philadelphia will not be cancelled without his consent, 1921 March 6. Telegram from Mary MacSwiney to Joseph McGarrity, sending him Easter greetings and hoping that the following month will see the "realisation of our hopes" and praising the US for staying true to its traditional support for Ireland, 1921 March 26. Letter from Mary MacSwiney [to Joseph McGarrity] with an enclosed document [not extant] that may be of interest to his readers, and how she had been planning a series of articles to answer Michael Collins' but the US press is only open to "'Free State' propaganda", 1922 May 28. Extract of a letter from Mary MacSwiney to [Austin Stack] the Minister of Finance, discussing the need to make better known to the public the contents of "Document No. 2" and urging for a "joint Government and Army statement" to be made about it, 1923 February 28. Extract of a memo from Mary MacSwiney to [Austin Stack] the Minister of Finance, discussing the advantages of "Document No. 2" such as making it appear as a "grear concession" on the part of Republicans towards Unionists, and complaining about the misunderstandings surrounding the proposals, 1923 March 1. Letter from Mary MacSwiney to Joseph McGarrity, discussing Éamon de Valera and how he would never do anything to "disgrace the country" despite "letting down the Government of the Republic", how the current "matter" could benefit the Republic if "handled wisely", and how she is sending the enclosed letters to her friends in the US [not extant], [1926?] April 16. Letter from Mary MacSwiney to Irish-Americans, discussing the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis [November 1925] where Éamon de Valera unexpectedly advocated a new policy, and the following Sinn Féin Ard Fheis [9 March 1926] where Éamon de Valera resigned as president, how Éamon de Valera can no longer be supported due to his new policy of entering the "Free State parliament" and with Arthur O'Connor replacing him as Sinn Féin president with a "No Compromise" policy, 1926 April 12. Polemic for the Anti-Treayite point of view in the Treaty [of 1921] controversy, written for the "American Public", undated. Letter from Harry A. Weissblatt to Mary MacSwiney with two enclosed copies of her letter that appeared in the 'Times Advertiser' [not extant] and which "hit the nail on the head", undated. Letter of introduction from Mary MacSwiney to Joseph McGarrity for Michael Leahy who is coming to him on "Official business", undated. Poem inspired by the murder of Terence MacSwiney that begins with: "Count not the cost, 'tis Eire calls / Count not the cost, who lives or falls...", undated. Correspondence between Dr. William J. Maloney and Joseph McGarrity and others, including text of broadcast by Maud Gonne MacBride on Maloney's book 'The Forged Casement Diaries' (Dublin, 1936), 1920-1936. Letter to William J.M.A. Maloney from C.B. Reilly about how the President [Éamon de Valera] failed to keep his appointment with him and, after contacting the President, he received only an "indefinite invitation" which he finds "quite impossible" to answer, and warning that "procrastination, indecision and delay" will not achieve French recognition, 1920 March 26. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney [to Joseph McGarrity] with an enclosed letter from C.B. Reilly [not extant] and discussing the upcoming meeting with the 'American Woman's Irish Party' and how he has been "drilling the ladies here on the Irish cause", 1920 March 29. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney [to Joseph McGarrity] about how he has heard from the doctor that the latter has recovered from his fatigue and how he hopes that every day will bring him towards complete recovery, and how the letters about the 'Press' publications never came to him, 1920 May 23. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, discussing the "split" [between Éamon de Valera and some Irish-Americans] and the latter's health, 1920 June 9 Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity about organising the Irish Red Cross and hoping that "the Chief" [Éamon de Valera] will realise its importance, having already listened to it "with half an ear, 1920 September 22. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney [to Joseph McGarrity], discussing issues with "the Chief" [Éamon de Valera] who has taken "Liam" with him for work and is giving "Burke" to William J.M.A. Maloney instead, which William J.M.A. Maloney "may get through this but no more", how Éamon de Valera "balks at finances without control", and William J.M.A. Maloney wants to get the Irish Red Cross organised, 1920 September 22. Anonymous letter to "Billy" [William J.M.A. Maloney], warning him about "associating with tricksters and traitors", to watch out for the "slippery one" and mentioning "John" [Devoy?] and slippery "Pat" [McCartan?] so that "Billy" will know who they are, undated. Letter from Michael Francis Doyle to William J.M.A. Maloney, discussing the articles from Roger Casement's diary and the interest they have aroused, how he has received calls from two newspapers asking why they were not given the chance to bid for its publication, and the visit from Agnes Newman, Roger Casement's sister, looking for the money made from the diary's publication to be given to her, 1922 March 22. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, accepting the honour of sponsoring the "youngest Miss McGarrity" [as godfather to Joseph McGarrity's daughter?] and asking what her name is, 1922 May 9. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, discussing his wife's recent operation, the letters received from "Pat" [McCartan?] who is overwhelmed about the "tragedy in Ireland" [Civil War] and that "Mr Buckley" wants him regarding some work in the "oil game", 1922 July 17. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity about Michael Collins attempting to put the blame for the Civil War on Americans, namely Joseph McGarrity, how his wife is too mentally fragile to travel, how he has not done anything yet with [publishing] the Roger Casement diaries, and the possibility of a "great career" for Joseph McGarrity with "Buckley" [in the "oil game"], 1922 August 5. Telegram from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity about a business opportunity for the latter to take charge of the New York offices of the "Henon Brothers Philadelphia architects and builders" and how "Mr Buckley" could invest for him, 1929 January 23. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, discussing meeting up when the latter arrives [in Rhode Island] on the 4th July 1931, 1931 June 25. Christmas card from William J.M.A. Maloney and his wife, Margaret, to Joseph McGarrity, 1931 December 6. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, saying how his foot is better, and about how [Michael Francis] Doyle has been helping him with his book about Roger Casement, such as giving him a written account of his visit to London in 1916 that will help "clean Roger's name", 1932 June 15. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity about how a frightened "poor old lady" will regain her courage in a few days' time, 1932 Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, discussing someone's cancer and how "she should not long be held in suffering", and how an expert has been sorting through and filing the [Roger Casement?] papers with an index catalogue, 1932 June 23. Fragment of a letter [by William J.M.A. Maloney] about the documents "Rory" [Roger Casement] sealed away before leaving Germany that he will have sent to Joseph McGarrity but first to "Mrs Green", and he does not know how many files are missing from their envelopes as they were given to him already opened in the office of [Michael Francis] Doyle whose "lack of frankness" displeases him, undated. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to William J.M.A. Maloney, curtly correcting the lattter's assumption that some verses of Joseph McGarrity's were referring to him when they actually about "very personal domestic matters", and that he is still his friend even if William J.M.A. Maloney is "through" with him, 1932 June 28. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, dicussing the near-end of a 10 year newspaper search [relating to his research for a book on Roger Casement], 1933 January 17. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, discussing his research into Roger Casement, and thanking him for sending the photostat copies which will all go over to the National Library [of Ireland], 1933 January 18. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, discussing his research into Roger Casement, and asking for a copy of the article from the 'Washington Post' on 18 February 1915 which the latter replied to, and how W.B. Yeats has accepted the proposal for the Casement Prize for the Irish Academy of Letters for which money has been raised, 1933 January 24. Letter from Eugene F. Kinkead to Joseph McGarrity on the death of their mutual friend, T.J. Maloney, whose wife died less than a week before his own, and that on the day of his death, Eugene F. Kinkead showed him a copy of 'Hugh Lane and his Pictures' from Éamon de Valera as a gesture for his "fine services", 1933 February 3. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, saying that the photostat copies [of Roger Casement papers] have arrived and that some are "treasures" that "round out the story gracefully" and that he is ""delighted with them", 1933 February 6. Receipt from R.I. Best of the National Library of Ireland to Joseph McGarrity for documents concerning the diary of Roger Casement, 1933 April 3. Letter from R.I. Best of the National Library of Ireland, relating how Joseph McGarrity came into the former's office with documents documents [concerning the diary of Roger Casement], and advising that it would be "politics" to wait before approaching John Gaffney, 1933 April 6. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to William J.M.A. Maloney with an enclosed cheque for $2,725.00 [not extant], 1935 May 19. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, thanking him for the cheque and how the money will be a great money since his wife is now so ill, 1935 May 21. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to William J.M.A. Maloney, discussing the ill health of the latter and of his wife and his trip to Europe [Italy], 1935 September 28. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, saying that "Pat" has told him that he is making a "herculanean effort" to make his new business a success, and how the Irish Consulate in New York has sent him a copy of Éamon de Valera's speech against Italy which William J.M.A. Maloney finds stange as Italy is "the first power to challenge England since Germany went down", 1935 October 4. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, thanking him for his "very good synopsis" [not extant], 1938 March 10. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, regretting how he does not feel like going to Ireland and suggesting a stockbroker friend who might be able to help Joseph McGarrity's son, 1938 June 6. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to William J.M.A. Maloney, discussing the reading of a book about "Rory" [Roger Casement] that they attended together, with Joseph McGarrity positively reviewing the book and its impact on its readers, 1938 September 10. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity about how he received the letter with the good news of "your friend", and cites the 3 March 1917 edition of the 'North China herald' for the first account of the 'German corpse factory story', undated. Notes by Joseph McGarrity wth a list of newspaper articles and other sources regarding Roger Casement for the dates 1914-16, undated. Notes by Joseph McGarrity with a list of dates regarding Roger Casement for 1915-16, undated. Notes regarding Roger Casement for 1916, specifically his trial, undated. Letter of request from Joseph McGarrity to the Library of Congress with a list of newspaper articles [regarding Roger Casement] from 1915-6 to be photo-duplicated for him, undated. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, stating his purpose is to show that the "Casement campaign" was an American campaign and not just a New York one, with a list of the headlines and dates in 'The Chicago Daily News' covering Roger Casement from 1914-6, undated. Review by William J.M.A. Maloney [sent to Joseph McGarrity] of his book 'The Forged Casement Diaries' about the "Black Diaries" of Roger Casement, [1936?]. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, discussing the health of the latter and with an enclosed letter of importance [not extant], undated, 10 February. Letter from Margaret Maloney (McKim) to Joseph McGarrity, thanking him for the box of candy and hoping that he and his family are well, undated, December 28. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, giving an address in Philadelphia that will suit the latter's requirements, with a letter enclosed [not extant], undated. Letter from J.C. Walsh to William J.M.A. Maloney, discussing his time at the conference for the creation of the League of Nations and the issues involved such as whether Dominion countries would have seats on it, and the division of Syria under France, [1919?]. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to unnamed recipient about his meeting with William J.M.A. Maloney, in 1918 or 1918, who had told him that Cleave Baily had helped spread the 'Black Diaries' stories about Roger Casement as they had been together in the Congo, and Casement had refused to join Cleave Baily's orgies and thus earned his hatred, undated. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to William J.M.A. Maloney about how he has the 'Gaelic American' for 1915-6 and recommending it as a source for material, with a list of newspaper articles involving Roger Casement for 1914-6, undated. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, asking for a "real offer" as he feels that the current one is "so unfair" and that Joseph McGarrity would not want it to represent "his attitude towards the Irish issue", undated, December 10. Letter from William J.M.A. Maloney to Joseph McGarrity, offering his services to the McGarrity as someone who has studied medicine for 20 years, with some correspondence to the newspapers [not extant], undated. Fragment of a letter by Joseph McGarrity about a telegram he took by phone that was in German and that he will bring this telegram and a letter "this evening", undated. Letters from Constance de Markievicz to Joseph McGarrity, including articles by Countess Markievicz and a biographical note on her by John H. Martin, ca. 1917-1922. Article from Countess Markievicz [for publication in the 'Irish Press' of Philadelphia], titled 'On the Run' about how she has been on the run since Chistmas [of 1919], including seeing Desmond Fitzgerald's play 'The Saint' at the Abbey Theatre, and how she has been attending committee meetings as part of the ongoing elections, [1920]. Envelope from Countess Markievicz to Joseph McGarrity, addressed to: "3714 Chestnut St / Philadelphia", undated. Letter of introduction from Countess Markievicz to Joseph McGarrity for Denis Breslin, undated. Letter from Countess Markievicz [to Joseph McGarrity?], congratulating him on his work in America, and how she had been suspicious of the "Big Businesses and the ruling classes of America" as she never believes in the "top dog of any country," undated. Article from Countess Markievicz [for publication in the 'Irish Press' of Philadelphia], titled 'The Police', denigrating the police force of Ireland [the Royal Irish Constabulary] as a "regiment of spies and traitors", written upon the suppression of the 'Freeman's Journal' for printing anti-police material, 1919 December 16. Obituary note on Michael O'Doherty of the Irish Citizen Army, by Countess Markievicz, due to the after effects of his treatment for injuries from the Easter Rising, undated. Envelope for personal correspondence from Countess Markievicz to Joseph McGarrity, undated. Biographical note of Countess Markievicz by John H. Martin, from her family origins in Co Sligo, her discovery of the Irish poor and her study of Irish history, her marriage, her role in the Easter Rising and her decision to convert to Catholicism upon observing the "strong simple faith" of Michael Mallon and his men, her imprisonment and release from jail, undated. Address by Countess Markievicz to "Mr. Chairman [Joseph McGarrity?], Friends, and Comrades" [Irish-Americans in Philadelphia, possibly Clan-na-Gael], extolling the recent war for the Irish Republic against Britain such as the use of ambushes and the situation in her Co Sligo, and denouncing the Treaty and partition, undated. Letter from Countess Markievicz to "Miss Donnelly", thanking her for making her a honorary member of the "Besty Gray [Clan-na-Gael] Camp", with a cover letter explaining that "Miss Donnelly" had died and for Countess Markievicz's letter to be returned when read, undated. Letters from Liam Mellows to Joseph McGarrity, including letter from McGarrity to Mellows, 1919-1930. Letter from Liam Mellows to Joseph McGarrity, saying how he has heard that "all the boys" in Ireland that have been on the run since the Easter [Rising] have returned home, 1917 July 24. Letter from R.P. Metcalfe to Joseph McGarrity, saying how much he regrets delaying in answering the appeal for subscriptions for the 'Irish Press' due to illness, with an enclosed $5 [not extant] to cover one year's subscription to make up for the delay, 1919 March 21. Envelope from Liam Mellows to Joseph McGarrity, undated. Letter from Liam Mellows to Joseph McGarrity, discussing a meeting that the former has promised to attend, 1919 April 25. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Liam Mellows, regretting that he does not have time to write to him more, 1919 December 18. Christmas card from Liam Mellows to Joseph McGarrity and his wife, 1919 December. Letter from Liam Mellows to Joseph McGarrity, explaining how he is editor of 'The Leader' for the week due to "circumstances", with enclosed pictures [not extant] including that of a boy who is his godchild, Liam Mellows Morrisey, 1920 July 2. Letter of introduction from Liam Mellows to Joseph McGarrity and Luke Dillon for Daniel O'Leary, who is in poor health from consumption after 12 months in Pentonville Prison and must get away to some warm climate, 1922 November 18. Letter from Sean O'Deorain, secretary of the 'Mrs Mellows Testimonial Committee of New York', about how $100 was cabled to Liam Mellows' mother, Sarah, with the next meeting of the committee to be held on 25th April, 1930 April 17. Letter from Sarah Mellows to Joseph McGarrity, thanking him for the cheque in a letter, undated. Letters from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, including letter from Annie Power to Meyer, and notice by the Philo-Celtic Society of Philadelphia on a lecture to be given by Meyer, 1914-1917. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, asking about the pamphlet and if he could have a dozen copies, that they had had a "great meeting" in Brooklyn, and how he is trying to gather "some representative men" to found a daily papers along the lines suggested by Daniel Cohalan, 1914 December 9. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, asking whether he has found a publisher and what a pity it is that the pamphlet has been delayed, and that their "friend" has sent a letter to Canada through the "Embassy", 1914 December 25. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity about how he is to lecture at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, on the 9th January, and asking if the latter would be in Philadelphia as he would like to visit there for a day or two on the 6th January, 1915 January 1. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, saying he is changing his earlier plans and cannot visit Philadelphia until the 8th January, and that he will wire him the train time and hope the change suits him, and he can only make it for a day as he is lecturing at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, later, 1915 January 4. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, saying that he leaving the next day by the 4 o'clock train and will be in Philadelphia by 6, where he is hoping to meet him, 1915 February 7. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, declining his invitation with regret, and passing on the news that "Sir Roger" [Casement] is using his influence with the German government to get all Irish war prisoners sent back to Ireland, 1915 February 1. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity about how glad he is that the 'Crime' [by Roger Casement] is selling so well, how an "iron ring" will hopefully close around Britain tomorrow and blockade it, an offer of his services for lectures on subjects such as "England and Germany before the war", and that he's heard the "most reassuring news from Berlin" that Russia is almost defeated, 1915 February 17. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity about how he will send him back a corrected copy of the 'Crime' [by Roger Casement] for a second edition, his lecture in April on the topics "England and Germany before the war" and "The Two Ireland", the ongoing success of the German blockade around Britain with an invasion hopefully to follow and the inactivity of the British navy, and the boldness of "our friend" [Roger Casement], 1915 February 24. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity about how he would prefer an earlier date [for a series of lectures?] but that he could manage it if it must be in the first week of May, and how he has heard that "R." [Roger Casement] is now in Hamburg, 1915 March 6. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity about how he has had successful meetings in Minneapolis among the Germans and the academic body and in Milwaukee at an Irish gathering though he is told that "the young Irish are all pro-English", and that he spoke at Ithaca before the university on Irish studies, 1915 April 12. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity about how the "proofs" have not reached him yet and asking for last week's 'Gaelic American' to be sent to him, and a letter in the last edition of 'The Vital Issue' which was addressed to him and that "some think it is a forgery; but it is not", 1915 April 17. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, thanking him for the 'Gaelic American' that was sent to him, complimenting Pittsburgh as a "great Irish centre" and that he might visit it after his lecture in Cleveland, and asking if he has read a letter in the 'The Vital Issue' which ought to be "widely spread" and has "already caused a sensation in many quarters", 1915 April 20. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity about how he has heard a lot about "Sir R." but will not write about it, and asking after the proposed dinner that Joseph McGarrity has said nothing about, 1915 April 30. Postcard from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity to arrange a lunch together, and how the "news [about the war between Germany and the Allies?] is getting better and better", 1915 May 2. Postcard from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity about how he is going to Washington and then straight through to Philadelphia, and how the "attack on the Dardanelles [as part of World War I] is again a complete failure", 1915 May 3. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity about how he is unable to go to Washington as planned as he is feeling unwell and asking the latter to book him an hotel room close to the station, and hopes that his voice will return for tomorrow night, 1915 May 5. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, discussing his run of meetings across the US, with his address in New York for mail to be forwarded to, and how pleased he is to get the resolution of the "ancient order [of Hibernians?] as well as one from Wexford" which makes him feel that he has the "Irish people behind me as always", 1915 May 7. Postcard from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, saying he is sending over copies of a letter [addressed to Kuno Meyer and published in 'The Vital Issue'] for distribution, and how vividly he remembers his two days in Philadelphia, 1915 May [11?]. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, celebrating the "splendid news from Dardanelles [as part of World War I]" and how he received a "a line or two from C. [Roger Casement?]", 1915 May 28. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, discussing the scene in New York where the Irish-Americans have "at last some chance of...bestirring themselves, with commentary on the war situation in Europe, with Kuno Meyer insisting that the "Balkan states" will remain neutral and there will be more reverses in the Dardanelles "as always", 1915 June 7. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity about how well his meeting went with a large Irish-German audience including the British vice-consul, and his intention to publish his lectures sooner or later but not yet as that would deprive himself of good lecture material, with a mention of a "Casement sketch" whose author Kuno Meyer does not know, 1915 June 21. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, thanking him for the copies of the "new edition" and noting how he has started the "German edition", with an enclosed pamphlet [not extant] by an "anglo-american millionaire" that should be widely read, and how there is a belief in "well-informed business circles" that Russia is about to collapse and that Britain has stopped supplying it with metal work due to non-payment, and that he is off to the University of California, Berkeley, 1915 July 5. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, explaining that he had not written to him for so long because he had been badly injured in a railroad collision, 1915 October 16. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, complaining at the "shameless things" published about the "brave fellows in Ireland" and how he sent a letter about it to the 'Times' which was unprinted, and how it is too late in the season to do a lecture now, 1916 March 26. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, saying how he is too busy with engagements for a visit to Philadelphia at present, though a lecture could be timed to combine with his visits to Washington and Baltimore at the end of the month, 1916 May 6. Postcard from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, explaining his current travel and lecture plans, and hopes that by the time this letter arrives "Bucharest has fallen", 1916 December 3. Letter from Annie Power to Kuno Meyer, congratulating him on his engagement, and commenting on the situation in Ireland such as how the "masterly Russian retreat of last autumn" has "proved more effective than any arguments" [for a British defeat in World War I?], and how she wishes to return to Germany to complete her doctorate, having already had her thesis accepted in 1914, 1917 March 18. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity about how the railroad company agreed to pay him $4000 in compensation for his accident, and his loss of interest in politics due to the lack of trustworthy news "but whatever happens is to the advantage of Germany" and how public opinion in Germany, according to his wife, is against peace talks in the belief that Germany is winning, with an enclosed pamphlet [not extant] on Austria-Hungary 1917 March 25. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, agreeing to come to an Irish meeting in Philadelphia if the date suits him, and how the "ruthless murders [in the Easter Rising], especially poor gentle [Francis Sheehy-]Skeffington's leave him no peace", for which he blames John Redmond for his "open betrayal of the cause of Ireland" that "began in april 1914," 1916 May 14. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, discussing how "our friend" [Roger Casement] is depressed in Berlin though he will cheer up when German armies are more successful, and in the meantime he has published a "beautiful edition" of his 'Crime' in Switzerland although Kuno Meyer cannot get a copy in the US, and asks if Joseph McGarrity saw an article on Roger Casement in 'The Vital Issue', 1915 March 13. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity about how he has returned from a "splendid Irish-German demonstration" in Buffalo, how the proposed times, subject and fee for a lecture in Philadelphia suits him, how "Sir R." [Roger Casement] is in better spirits, and that an article in 'The Vital Issue' about Roger Casement was written by a friend of Kuno Meyer's, 1915 March 16. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity with an attached clipping from the 'Chicago Tribune' about the former urging while at a meeting in the Powers' theater, Chicago, for there to be an Irish Centre in Chicago, with the letter discussing the meeting where he had been assured by many present of their "disapproval of Dublin's action", 1915 March 24. Letter from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity upon the death of their "brave and noble friend" [Roger Casement], and how they must defend his memory from the "false & grotesque charges against him" [the 'Black Diaries'] though he will probably only know the full truth when he returns to Berlin, and in the meantime he will lecture about about him to an Irish-American audience "here" [in Wisconsin], 1916 August 4. Telegram from Kuno Meyer to Joseph McGarrity, saying that he has arrived at the Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, where the phone is out of order and asking for Joseph McGarrity to call, 1916 December 10. Notice by the president of the Philo-Celtic Society of Philadelphia for a lecture by Kuno Meyer on 6 May [1915] about the Irish language, 1915. Photostat copy of a letter from Joseph McGarrity to Kuno Meyer, congratulating him on his settlement with the railroad company [for his accident] and the attitudes of the US towards the war in Europe, [1916?]. Correspondence mostly from Seán Moylan to Joseph McGarrity, with other correspondence to Moylan from McGarrity, J. Kearney, Liam Lynch, and Larry Guinnell, 1923-1926. Letter from Seán Moylan to Joseph McGarrity, saying that he will go to New York to discuss some matters with the latter in connection with a letter from the "C/S" [Liam Lynch], and complaining about the inaccuracies in Laurence Ginnell's "stunt" involving the meetings of the Dáil and the shooting of Séan Hales, 1923 January 6. Letter from Seán Moylan to Joseph McGarrity about his attendance at a Board Meeting of [Clan-na-Gael] District 1 on 12 March 1923 in New York and his attempts to mediate a factional dispute there, his conclusion being that the District "needs a thorough cleaning", 1923 March 20/21. Letter from Seán Moylan to Joseph McGarrity about an arms deal he was conducting but decided against closing until he found out whether "our people" [the Anti-Treatyites] could use the weapons and he has assigned his wife to find this out, 1923 April 24. Letter from "Pa" [Murray?] to Seán Moylan, warning him to stop his work as the Free State has captured all the papers in Dublin and know everything about it, and that he would be arrested if he came back through England, 1923 April 29. Letter from "Pa" [Murray] to Seán Moylan about the confusion since the recent failed arms deal and the capture of the latter's letter by the Free State, and the rumours of ongoing negotiations, possibly with the Free State government, 1923 May 8. Letter from Seán Moylan to Joseph McGarrity, discussing his travel plans to go from Hamburg by steamer to Southampton and then to New York, 1923 May 5. Letter from Seán Moylan to "C", discussing recent events such as evading arrest and working with "Pa" Murray, and cursing the Free State as "cowardly traitors", 1923 May. Letter from Seán Moylan [to Joseph McGarrity?], asking how did he know where he was and did the papers captured by the Free State indicate where he was, with a discussion on the list of guns and artillery to obtain [for the Anti-Treatyites in the Civil War] and the possible transort means, and cursing the Free State as "founded on treachery and fraticide", 1923 May 24. Letter from Seán Moylan to Joseph McGarrity about the deal that he was able to put across without difficulty and the financial difficulties their business ventures are in, 1923 May 21. Letter from Seán Moylan to Joseph McGarrity about his return to Dublin and his subsequent ill health and his wife's nervous breakdown although they are both better now, and his views on the factionism within Clan-na-Gael in New York, 1923 December 8. Letter from Seán Moylan to Joseph McGarrity about his talk with Éamon de Valera about the situation [in the US?] which he previously had been unaware of, and describes the situation in Ireland since the Civil War, 1924 September 5. Letter from J. Kearney to Seán Moylan, writing in response to a letter in a newspaper titled 'The IRA in 1921', 1924 November 21. Letter from Seán Moylan to Joseph McGarrity about the situation in Ireland, his disillusionment with the Reopublican Party's policy of abstentionism, his doubts that the Republicans would do any better in the event of another Civil War, and bitterly reminisces about the Civil War such as the death of Noel Lemass, 1925 January 29.. Letter from Seán Moylan to Joseph McGarrity, saying he has written to him at length but has held off giving him the "final developments of the situation" and so he will not catch the Christmas mail, 1925 December 1. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Seán Moylan, discussing the situation in Ireland such as the former's doubt that electioneering would work if Republican candidates who are elected are prevented from taking their seat unless they take the Oath of Allegiance, 1926 July 14. Letter from Seán Moylan to Joseph McGarrity, discussing publishing in the US and the potential conflicts with the Free State representatives also in the US, undated. Letter from Seán Moylan [to Joseph McGarrity], sending a note of recommendation [not complete] on the appointment of temporary Clan-na-Gael finance committees for each US state with paid secretaties and a system of accountability and of central control, undated. Notes [from Seán Moylan to Joseph McGarrity?] on the weapons needed, the money available from different US places, and the modes of transport and delivery, [1922-1923?]. Letter from Liam Lynch to Seán Moylan, discussing the recent document signed by Liam Deasy urging the Anti-Treaty side in the Civil War to surrender, with Liam Lynch not thinking it should be taken too seriously and that he is going south as the "position in all other parts of Ireland is very satisfactory", and urging Seán Moylan to "push all the assistance possible given in America", 1923 February 6. Letter from Liam Lynch to Seán Moylan, discussing the gun-running work of the latter in the US and its urgency given the size of the enemy Free State forces, while expressing surprise at the large amount of finance needed with a suggestion of a monthly report to sort out any "irregularities", 1923 February 6. Letter from Liam Lynch to Seán Moylan about the "serious matter" of the breach between the IRA and Clan-na-Gael, and the latter's relations with Robert Briscoe and Donal O'Leary in the US, and the question of an "English Boycott" in the US as well as in Ireland, 1923 February 6. Copy of a letter from Liam Lynch to Seán Moylan, discussing the finances from the US and that required by the Anti-Treaty forces, 1923 February 6. Copy of a letter from Liam Lynch to Seán Moylan about how the publication of captured documents by the British and Free State press leakage shows that many such dispatches have been falling into the wrong hands, sucgh as mail between the latter and the IRA O/C of Britain ["Pa" Murray], and how safer means of communication must be organised at once, 1923 March 21. Letter from Laurence Ginnell to Seán Moylan and Joseph O'Doherty, asking for a date for a meeting as issues have arisen since their last meeting, 1923 April 2. Receipt [by Seán Moylan] for $20,000 received for Clan-na-Gael, 1923 January 10. Circular letter from Clan-na-Gael to its members in Boston, announcing the arrival from Ireland of Seán Moylan who has requested that they attend the following meeting for the opportunity of a personal talk and to hear first hand how "the war for Ireland's Honor and Independence is progressing", [1923]. Circular letter from Clan-na-Gael to its members on behalf of the IRA Army Council, urging them to contribute $25 each within the next 30 days for success in the Irish Civil War, 1923 February 20. Circular letter from Seán Moylan to Clan-na-Gael members, asking for them to contribute $25 each within the next 30 days to assist the IRA in winning the Irish Civil War sooner, 1923 February 20. Receipt by Seán Moylan for $15,000 from James McGee for transfer to the Minister of Finance [of the Anti-Treatyite government, Austin Stack], 1923 July 31. Circular letter from Seán Moylan to Clan-na-Gael officers and members to outline the current Republican position in Ireland, ensuring them the current inacitivity of the IRA does not mean that the "fight for Irish liberty" has stopped and that instead Republicans under Éamon de Valera will contest the forthcoming election, and requests $5 per Clan-na-Gael member to meet the costs of the election, 1923 July 28. Receipt by Seán Moylan for $13,000 from James McGee for transfer to Ireland, 1923 August 6. Receipt of a cheque for $2.00, 1924 March. Receipt by Seán Moylan for $1,000 from James McGee, 1924 August 16. Receipt of a cheque from Joseph McGarrity for $5,000 as a "personal loan", 1923 August 17. Receipt for £10,822.10s.2d ($52,000) from letter by courier to the acting Finance Minister [of the Anti-Treayite shadow government], 1923 August 5. Receipt for £4,978.7s.1d ($23,000) from Seán Moylan to the acting Finance Minister [of the Anti-Treatyite shadow government], 1923 August 5. Receipt by Seán Moylan for $15,000 from James McGee for transfer to Ireland to the Minister of Finance [of the Anti-Treatyite shadow government, Austin Stack], 1923 August 19. Copy of the 'An Lámh Láidir' (The Strong Hand) with a speech by Seán Moylan and with articles on Ireland from a Republican/Anti-Treatyite slant, 1924 February 2. Correspondence mainly to Con Neenan, including copies of his letters, 1930. Letter from Thomas Fay to Cornelius F. Neenan, discussing financial contributions and Luke Dillon's death, 1930 January 10. Letter from Thomas J. Hoare to Cornelius F. Neenan, advising him to "let things go along as they are now", asking for the address of Luke Dillon's family, and that they need election forms for the "new [Clan-na-Gael?] Club in Holyoke [Massachusetts]", 1930 January 17. Letter from Jerry Keating to Cornelius F. Neenan, asking for information about a prospective new member for their [Clan-na-Gael] Club in Chicago: Thos. Healy, who had served in the Cork IRA during the Irish War of Indepenence, 1930 February 20. Letter from Thomas J. Hoare to Cornelius F. Neenan, discussing Clan-na-Gael matters and clarifying some points, 1930 February 5. Letter from Thomas J. Hoare to Cornelius F. Neenan, discussing the fragmented state of his Clan-na-Gael Club, and urging immediate action and "sound judgement" by the Executive to resolve matters even at a loss of a few members, [1930 June?]. Letter from Thomas J. Hoare to Cornelius F. Neenan, discussing the turmoil in his Clan-na-Gael Club and its financial losses due to the "way they were carrying on", [1930?]. Letter from Neil J. Duffy to Cornelius F. Neenan, saying he is mailing to him a few complimentary tickets for the celebration and hoping to meet him there, 1930 March 2. Letter from Thomas J. Hoare to Cornelius F. Neenan about papers dealing with "English and Anti-English propaganda in" the US and how to send them out, and how they drew a good crowd on St Patrick's Day even though "our rivals" [pro-Free State Irish-Americans?] gave a free dance as well, 1930 March 21. Letter from John Moynihan of the 'Irish Press' to Cornelius F. Neenan, discussing the situation in the "Free State Parliament" [Dáil Éireann], the probable re-election of W.T. Cosgrave, and whether Éamon de Valera will continue his tour in the US, 1930 March 31. Letter from Neil J. Duffy to Cornelius F. Neenan with $12 enclosed [not extant] for 'An Phoblacht' and how its sales have dropped, and asking if the "[Clan-na-Gael] Camp of the young women" have asked for papers as they have done nothing with them, 1930 March 31. Letter from Mary Ganley to Cornelius F. Neenan about how her [Clan-na-Gael] Club formed an "Easter Lily Committee" to take charge of sales of Easter lillies and hopefully get the general public interested with the aim of doubling the proceeds from last year's sale, 1930 April 2. Letter from Margaret A. McCarney to Cornelius F. Neenan about the details of a lawyer, J. H. Cummings, she is trying to locate on behalf of his Irish friends, 1930 April 2. Letter from Thomas J. Hoare to Cornelius F. Neenan, asking for the Easter lillies to be sent to Mary Ganely and the "Ladies' Club" for selling, and asking for "your man from other side" to come to Springfield to help organise the Clan-na-Gael Club there, 1930 April 3. Letter from Neil J. Duffy to Cornelius F. Neenan, saying he is returning receipts and asking for the exact amount of what he was paid be sent to him, and that the "Young Women's Camp" did not tell him before changing their meeting nights, 1930 April 6. Letter from Thomas J. Hoare to Cornelius F. Neenan, giving his opinion that a [Clan-na-Gael] public meeting in Springfield would not amount to much due to having the Easter [Rising] commemorations too near the same time and asking Cornelius F. Neenan to instead name his own date, 1930 April 9. Letter from Mick Hynes to Cornelius F. Neenan, thanking him for the money he received, discussing the poor state of [Clan-na-Gael] Club affairs, and congratulating him on news of his wedding, 1930 April 22. Letter from Mary Ganley to Cornelius F. Neenan, asking him to return the clippings with the constitution articles, and about how she had not realised before speaking with Frank Ryan how dependent [the IRA] are on US funds, 1930 April 29. Letter from Neil J. Duffy to Cornelius F. Neenan, apologising for the "exhibition" Frank Ryan was treated to at their [Clan-na-Gael] meeting, 1930 April 30. Incomplete letter from J[erry] Keating to Cornelius F. Neenan, discussing the difficulties in tracking down an individual that the latter wanted found, 1930 May 1. Letter from John McCarney to Cornelius F. Neenan about a number of points, such as having to wait for two weeks instead of the promised one day for a delivery, how everything has been prepared "to our satisfaction plus the maid of Erin", and how it is not necessary to wear a blue shirt, 1930. Letter from John McCarney to Cornelius F. Neenan about seeing "O'Reilly" in Atlantic City and how he is "anxious to start some thing of a permanent nature down here", [1930?]. Letter from P.J. Gannon to Cornelius F. Neenan about attending his first [Clan-na-Gael] Club meeting since October, and how the banquet was not as large as the one last year and had too much politicians present, with working conditions in general being bad, 1930 May 6. Letter from J[erry] Keating to Cornelius F. Neenan about placing "two of the boys in the Chicago Sanitorium" which is difficult and which J[erry] Keating thinks may take a week, 1930 May 7. Letter from John McCarney to Cornelius F. Neenan about meeting "O'Reilly" in Atlantic City who has not heard back from the latter and so will be writing to him directly, with John McCarney adding that he cannot offer "any advice on the matter", 1930 May 8. Letter from Thomas J. Hoare to Cornelius F. Neenan about how he is coming to Springfield [Massachusetts] and that he had hoped to let Frank Ryan address both [Clan-na-Gael] Clubs separately, [1930]. Letter from Thomas J. Hoare to Cornelius F. Neenan with an excerpt from a newspaper [not extant] about Frank Ryan's meeting in Westfield, Massachusetts, and asking what to do about "John" [Eoin] Mac Neill's planned talk at Holyoke [Massachusetts] as Free State Minister for Education with derogative reference to his attempt to stop the Easter Rising, 1930 May Letter from Mary Ganley to Cornelius F. Neenan with the proceeds of $30.00 of the "Easter Lily sale" [not extant] and thanking him for the talk he have to "us girls", and asking for more visits or reunions more often, 1930 May 12. Letter from J[erry] Keating to Cornelius F. Neenan, reporting success on finding places for "the [two] boys" in the Chicago Sanitorium thanks to the influence of "our political friends" and hopes they are "not too far gone", 1930 May 18. Letter from J[erry] Keating to Cornelius F. Neenan about taking care of someone before he is admitted to the Chicago Sanitorium, 1930 May 23. Letter from Neil J. Duffy to Cornelius F. Neenan, asking him to get in touch with John [Sean] Hayes to judge a Clan-na-Gael dancing event like he did on previous occasions to great satisfaction, 1930 June 15. Letter from Mary T. Dillon to Cornelius F. Neenan, thanking him for the "financial assistance" in his last letter although it will not be necessary as she will be able to meet all expenses, 1930 June 20. Letter from Jim Flannery to Cornelius F. Neenan, discussing two individuals: "Driscol" who is a bluffer and maybe a "squeeler" [sic], and "O'Flanery" who spoke at a [Clan-na-Gael] dance of his vehemence towards the Irish Free State and Éamon de Valera's decision to enter the Dáil, 1930 June 25. Letter from Jack Ashe to Cornelius F. Neenan about how a female acquaintance of his is returning to Ireland and is willing to take along any messages, and asking for a list of places in Dublin which "she could call and see", and how there is no chance of "getting work down there", 1930 June 25. Letter from Jim Flannery to Cornelius F. Neenan about the good attendance at the [Clan-na-Gael] District Board Meeting where he made the suggestion of a District outing and dance, and an enclosed order for $10 [not extant] for the Easter lillies with credit given to the "Ladies Club" for half of it, 1930 June 22. Letter from M.L. Miller to Cornelius F. Neenan, saying how fond "they are" of him and his "party", and asking for him come back for a "second excursion" to Roton Point Park, 1930 June 27. Letter from J[erry] Keating to Cornelius F. Neenan, discussing the situation at his [Clan-na-Gael] Club such as the appointment of a publicity officer and the destruction of some papers, and how sorry he was to hear of the death of Luke Dillon, undated. Letter from Jim Flannery to Cornelius F. Neenan about how he told his supplier of 'An Phoblacht' not to give him so many copies as he is left with too many unsold copies, and issues in his [Clan-na-Gael] Club such as the success of its Sunday night dances compared to the Saturday ones, his difficulties in getting all but a few members to do their share of Club work, and about one troublesome member, 1930 July 22. Letter from Jerry Keating to Cornelius F. Neenan, thanking him for his cheque for $50, and the difficulties in selecting a delegate from his [Clan-na-Gael] Club to the convention due to the "red members" , 1930 July 8. Letter from M. Kelly to Cornelius F. Neenan with a cheque for $15.00 enclosed [not extant] for Easter lily sales, 1930 June 29. Letter from J[im] Flannery to Cornelius F. Neenan, saying how glad he is that the latter will be present on 19 March due to the sorry state of "some of the boys", and complaining that he had previously asked the manager of 'An Phoblacht' to stop sending him so many copies but he still receives the same amount as before, [1930?] July 29. Letter from Neil J. Duffy to Cornelius F. Neenan, asking for the latter to get in touch with Stephen Hayes to invite him as a judge for a dancing event, 1930 August 25. Letter from John McCarney to Cornelius F. Neenan about how he will have to rely on "O'Reilly" to "help the meeting", and asking for a "little sketch" about [Frank] Ryan for something to give to the newspapers in Atlanta in advance, [1930?]. Letter from Jim Flannery to Cornelius F. Neenan about the "good crowd" they had where Frank [Ryan] spoke, with members of the rival "Kevin Barry gang" disliking the speech, with further mention of tensions between different Irish-American groups, and with a list of entertainers to give to "Frank" [Ryan] for publication, undated. Letter from "Mac" to Cornelius F. Neenan with an enclosed cheque [not extant] for "Mrs [Mary T.] Dillon", undated. Letter from D.J. O'Sullivan to Cornelius F. Neenan about a new member looking to join "C [Camp] 95" [of Clan-na-Gael]: James Nea, formerly of the IRA West Meath IRA Brigade who left the IRA in 1927 and is looking to "belong again", with the scene in Providence otherwise stagnant, 1930 January 20. Letter from Thomas McGill to Cornelius F. Neenan with an enclosed list of names that were asked for [not extant] and asking if the latter was still interested in the "Booking Business" as he knows someone who will soon be sending tickets to his siblings and would be willing to purchase them through Thomas McGill, undated, January 22. Letter from Thomas McGill to Cornelius F. Neenan, saying he is still in New York and was meaning to see him but had been injured in an accident, and discusses several acquaintances, undated. Letter from Jack Sheehan to Cornelius F. Neenan, asking for 'An Phoblacht' to be sent to him in the future, with an account of the plays his [Clan-na-Gael] Club are putting on, the proceeds intended for Éamon de Valera with a suggestion from Jack Sheehan that in the future money could be sent to IRA members "in need", [1931?]. Letter from James F. Veale to Cornelius F. Neenan, asking for information about a prospective new member for his [Clan-na-Gael] Club while asking if it is such a good policy to keep new members, especially ones too young to have been in the Irish War of Independence, at arm's length from the Clubs, 1930 March 7. Letter from Jack Sheehan to Cornelius F. Neenan, thanking him for the book and discussing a mutual acquaintance, "Barney", 1930 March 19. Letter from Joseph A. Sexton, editorial secretary to 'The Catholic Booklovers' Guild', to Cornelius F. Neenan, sending him an enclosed item [not extant] that he hopes is what the latter had in mind, 1930 January 20. Letter from Joseph A. Sexton, editorial secretary to 'The Catholic Booklovers' Guild', to Cornelius F. Neenan, sending him something [unnamed and not extant] while hoping to "do the third to-morrow", and advising that references to Clan-na-Gael might confuse readers into thinking he means the faction led by Daniel Cohalan and John Devoy, 1930 April 1. Incomplete letter from unidentified author to Cornelius F. Neenan, giving background information on "Griffin" and his role in the Irish War of Independence which was a bad one, having led to several men being arrested or killed, and how a social is being planned for the Easter Week celebrations, 1930 April 11. Letter from John O'Callaghan to Cornelius F. Neenan with half of a transfer enclosed [not extant] and the other half sent to James Hodgins, 1930 April 2. Letter from Joseph A. Sexton, editorial secretary to 'The Catholic Booklovers' Guild', to Cornelius F. Neenan, asking if any of the papers publish the editorials and, if so, if he could have some copies, and asking if the latter has found any speaking arrangements for him as he has already been invited to hel with two election campaigns, one for the US Senate and the other for governor, 1930 April 26. Letter from Jim Sugrue to Cornelius F. Neenan about his cousin, Paddy Quinlan, who is working with several others in New Jersey and wants to make contact with the IRA, and that Quinlan had always been a "very good lad" who had been through the "jails, camps, etc" though he does not know any of the others, and recommending he get in touch with Quinlan, 1930 April 28. Letter from D.J. O'Sullivan to Cornelius F. Neenan with an enclosed cheque for $13 for the sale of Easter lillies [not extant] and complaining at how hard it is to do anything [with Clan-na-Gael] in Providence with the average attendance being only about ten members, 1930 May 1. Letter from Michael O'Reilly to Cornelius F. Neenan about setting up a meeting, 1930 May 7. Telegram from James F. Veale to Cornelius F. Neenan, saying that Eoin Mac Neill is speaking in Holyoke the next day and that the latter must come, 1930 May 8. Letter from [Patrick L. Quinlan?] to Cornelius F. Neenan about a [Clan-na-Gael?] meeting he had had a few nights ago where officers were elected and asking him to attend the next one, [1930] May 21. Letter from David R. Roche and James J. Duignan to Cornelius F. Neenan, outlining their intentions and plans towards training an IRA battalion in conjecture with Clan-na-Gael in preparation for the next war with Britain, 1930 July 20. Letter from Thomas Fay to "Heenan" about the appointment of Terence Conlon to find any news items about Irish independence and forward them to 'An Phoblacht', the tax auditing problems of an acquaintance, and how things are quiet other than a banquet on St Patrick's Day, 1930 February 30. Letter from Thomas Fay to "Heenan" about the sale of Easter lillies and asking for no more than two dozen to be sent him, how he was put on a committee of Irish societies to send a message to Ireland for Easter Sunday, and asking for a set of resolutions and the name of the party to send it to, 1930 March 29. Letter from Thomas Fay to "Heenan" saying that he has found the receipt, and the lack of workers to sell the Easter lillies, 1930 March 11. Letter from Thomas Fay to "Heenan" with an enclosed cheque for $5 worth of Easter lillies [not extant] and asking for a receipt, apologising for the small amount, and asking about the time of the convention, 1930 May 30. Memo from E.J. Cronin to unnamed recipient about an ex-member of the Irish police force who has cards with photographs of Irish political martyrs such as Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet and Terence MacSwiney interspersed with excerpts of the writings of the same martyrs, and asking what action, if any, should be taken about this, undated. Letter from Mary Ganley [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] on behalf of the "Ladies auxiliary" [of Clan-na-Gael], asking for some blank forms on which to make their term reports as they have not received any, 1929 December 28. Letter from Jeremiah Griffin [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] with a list of members and officers [of his Clan-na-Gael Camp], undated. Letter from W. Kerrick [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] with an enclosed cheque for $630 [not extant], the amount collected by "[Clan-na-Gael] Camp 44 of Dist[rict] 19", though most of its members have been unemployed for a year and the Camp will have difficulty making up the pledged amount, undated. Letter from Jack Ashe [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] about the successful setting up of a new [Clan-na-Gael] Club in Holyoke [Massachusetts] with 20 members, as opposed to the difficulties with the Club in Springfield which is running dances at a financial loss, 1930 January 13. Letter from Joe Doherty [to Cornelius F. Neenan?], apologising for his delay in writing due to his difficulty in contacting John Harvey who had not been at their last [Clan-na-Gael] meeting with no explanation, 1930 January 16. Letter from Terence Conlon [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] with an enclosed list of the present members [of his Clan-na-Gael Club] and how there is nothing to report about even if Terence Conlon hopes that the Club has been found "successful from a financial point of view", 1930 February 14. Letter from W.J. Burns [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] about the number of lillies that could be sold in Cleveland and the best man to send them to, and saying he will send a list of the organisations and individuals who would be likely to contribute to the Disabled IRA Soldiers Fund, 1930 February 28. Letter from Jack Ashe [to Cornelius F. Neenan?], asking for some material for publicity for the Easter Week celebrations while discussing details such as speakers and procuring rifles [for props?] for the event, complaining at how the Club in Holyoke was described in a newspaper as "secret and illegal", and asking about the record of a newcomer called Reilly from Cork, 1930 March 31. Letter from W. Kerrick [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] to ask if a speaker who is coming from Ireland to speak in New York for a [Clan-na-Gael] Easter Week banquet could also visit Chicago for an event on 26 April, how well attended was their St Patrick's Day dance considering the opposition of rival Irish-American societies, and the recent recruitment of the Chicago Club, 1930 April 6. Letter from Mary Ganley [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] with an enclosed cheque for $500 [not extant] from the Ladies Auxiliary of Springfield for the arms fund, 1930 April 10. Letter from John M. Cashin to Cornelius F. Neenan about the recent sale of Easter Lillies by the St Paul Club, his efforts to get subscriptions for 'An Phoblacht', details about John M. Gleeson for a publicity role, and asking for information about a man he met, George Caniff, who was in the IRA Third Cork Brigade, 1930 April 20. Letter from Mary Ganley [to Cornelius F. Neenan?], complaining that the Ladies Auxiliary of Springfield have not yet received any notice for the arrival of their cheque for $500, 1930 April 25. Letter from James L. Casey [to Clan-na-Gael] about how his Club had received some Easter lillies to sell but not an address to which to send any sales to, and now he is asking for one, 1930 May 1. Letter from Jack Ashe [to Cornelius F. Neenan?], bragging about the disruption of a talk by Eoin Mac Neill in Holyoke under the auspices of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, 1930 May 9/10. Letter from Jack Ashe to Cornelius F. Neenan, asking about the location of [Eoin] Mac Neill since his time in Holyoke, and asking for people and places of interest in Dublin for "one of our people" who is returning to Ireland, 1930 May 18. Letter from Thomas Fay [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] with an enclosed cheque [not extant] from the treasuer of their [Clan-na-Gael] McSwiney Club instead of the previous one, as the earlier cheque had accidently been signed as a personal one and not from a public name, with an enclosed cheque of Thomas Fay's own [not extant], 1930 June 6. Letter from Jim Flannery [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] about the difficulties in finding a man called Thomas Dondon who the latter has proposed as a member for their [Clan-na-Gael] Club as nobody has heard of him and his given address does not exist, and that the Ladies Club has asked for a ritual for their Camp, 1930 July 12. Letter from Mary Ganley [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] to say that the term instructions for the term beginning on 1st June have not yet reached her, 1930 July 15. Letter from Jerry J. Kirwin to the Clan-na-Gael Executive in response to the Wilmington Camp being allowed to stay within Clan-na-Gael, assuring them that its few remaining members will "overcome this Depression and come back strong", 1930 August 8. Letter from Jack Ashe [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] upon his return from holidaying in Ireland, about how he heard that a CID [Criminal Investigation Department] man called Kennedy is coming from Ireland to New York to visit the McLaughlin family, and that if this is important, he could obtain more information from the McLaughlin family, [1930?] October 27. Letter from Jim Fitzgerald to "Dan" with the form the latter gave him filled in and enclosed [not extant], and about his recent trip to Canada and how he plans to go to Springfield due to lack of employment elsewhere, while complaining how "young Rohan the greenhorn" got a job before even arriving in the US [from Ireland], undated. Incomplete letter from Jack Ashe, discussing people the recipient had asked about such as someone who had been a guard in a military camp and someone else who had to go to Canada again for employment, undated. Letter from Joe Doherty and Denis McGroarty [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] with their contributions [not extant] to a fund from all the New York [Clan-na-Gael] Camps for a presentation to the "D.O. of Dist[trict] 1", 1930 January 30. Letter from Mairéad Ní Lorcan [to Cornelius F. Neenan?], apologising for her laxness in ordering Easter lillies, and estimating that they will be able to use 1,500 lillies this year with 250 left over from last year, and ordering the remainder for their meeting night on 2 April, 1930 March 24. Letter from James F. Veale [to Cornelius F. Neenan?], offering his explanations, upon submitting his report, as to why his [Clan-na-Gael] Camp is "the poorest" in its contributions, 1930 April 30. Letter from Bernard Rafferty [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] with an enclosed delegates' credentials for a [Clan-na-Gael] convention [not extant] and asking for a receipt for the term report which he sent to be forwarded to him, 1930 May 14. Letter from John McCarney [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] with an enclosed term report and cheque [not extant], and the names and addresses of two delegates for a [Clan-na-Gael] convention, undated, May 24. Letter from Mairéad Ní Lorcan [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] about how the returns for the Easter lillies sold [from her Clan-na-Gael Club] have not yet been made but that the money will be sent after their meeting on 4th June, and that they hope to elect a delegate to the [Clan-na-Gael] convention which they put off doing at their last meeting as that was when they had their Camp election, with a list of the new Camp officers, 1930 May 25. Letter from J[ohn] Stanton [to Cornelius F. Neenan?], asking to be excused for his delay in writing his report as he is preoccupied with a new job and family life, and how the [Clan-na-Gael] Club is currently twice as good as it was last year with several new good members, 1930 June 15. Letter from Edward Quinn [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] with an enclosed cheque for $745.00 [not extant] with the delay due to the unemployment of many of the Club members, 1930 June 21. Letter from Frank Sherwin [to Cornelius F. Neenan?], saying he had an interview last week about making contact with people, having been sent out by Con O'Brien, and that he had given the recipient the wrong address, 1930 July 15. Letter from James F. Veale [to Cornelius F. Neenan?], expressing his disappointment at not having met anyone upon his secret visit to New York [to Clan-na-Gael headquarters] as he feels that the situation with his [Clan-na-Gael Club] is very bad, what with no new password since 1st January allowing in new members of a disruptive nature, 1930 August 4. Letter from James F. Veale [to Cornelius F. Neenan?] about a talk he had with a member of the [Clan-na-Gael] Camp in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where they have had no communication about the [Clan-na-Gael] convention, indicating that they are being kept out of it, which James F. Veale believes is a mistake, 1930 August 25. Letter from Edward Quinn [to Cornelius F. Neenan?], saying he has mailed the enclosed term report and cheque to New York [not extant], and how an envelope received from the recipient the other day showed signs of having been opened, and urges the use of code as a precaution in the future, undated. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jim Flannery, expressing surprise at why no one has passed on word of the application of "Nash" and suggesting the latter ask Thomas Hoare or Jack Ashe to look "Nash" up, asking if he paid certain sums of money to 'An Phoblacht', that he will discuss "Fr O'F" with him later and how he has no "bitter feeling" towards "Fr O'F", 1930 January 31. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Thomas J. Hoare about how he will not be able to give him a call until a few weeks' from now, and having been unable to secure any information about P. Garvey, suggests accepting him anyway as a [Clan-na-Gael] member due to his connection with the Boy Scouts, 1930 February 13. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to John M. Gallagher, praising his [Clan-na-Gael] Camp for its fund-raising efforts, and commiserating on the death of Luke Dillon, 1930 February 13. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Mary Ganley, telling her that the Easter Week lillies are to be sold at 10 cents each, with the entire proceeds going to Cumann na mBan as it is doing "wonderful work" for publicity, etc., 1930 February 25. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Thomas Fay, expressing surprise that the receipt for $1,000 has not yet been received as it was sent over a month ago, and asking if there is any chance of getting some women to sell Easter lillies at St Patrick's Day functions, 1930 February 25. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Neil J. Duffy, advising strongly against the idea to amalgamate the Senior Women's Club with the Young Girls Club [for Clan-na-Gael], 1930 February 25. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to [Mary T.?] Dillon, asking for the cost of 20,000 small flags made out of gum-paper, 1930 March 1. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jim Flannery to say he will send him lillies at a later date, that he will attend a meeting of his on the 19th March to discuss "Garrighy" who is to be dealt with if likely to be troublesome, and with two enclosed copies of 'An Phoblacht' [not extant], 1930 March 4. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Michael Dunn with an enclosed copy of 'An Phoblacht' [not extant], saying he will give him the lillies in a few days, and how the "Kerry I.R.A Club" is staging a free trip to Ireland this year and that if they get 25 passengers on one boat the other passage will be free, 1930 March 4. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Neil J. Duffy about Frank Ryan, who is coming from Ireland to deliver the Easter Week Oration in New York, and the possibility of fitting Philadelphia onto his itinerary of talks, and the need to discuss the issue of the Young Women's Club, 1930 March 4. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Thomas J. Hoare, thanking him for his suggestion to send the material to 'An Phoblacht', commenting on the success of his last Club dance and the oddity of the dance of the "opposition" [pro-Free State Irish-Americans?] flopping despite it being free, and his hope that when he comes to Springfield next he will be escorted by a "prominet [sic] man from the other side" with a story to tell, 1930 March 24. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Thomas J. Hoare about how he will do as he says regarding the lillies and to hand them over to the Ladies Club if they have been sent to him already, and asking to arrange a "monster meeting" to publicise Frank Ryan's speaking tour of the US, 1930 April 4. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Mary Ganley about how gratifying it is to hear that she has a committee working on ways to interest the public in the Easter lilly, that he is sending 1,000 lillies to her address to sell, and how unfortunate it is that her Club is having its Easter Week Commemoration on 20th April as they are busy with their own event then in New York with a "speaker from Ireland" [Frank Ryan], 1930 April 5. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Thomas Fay about how he will send him two dozen lillies in a few days, and about a big Easter Commemoration they are having on the 20th April with "the editor of An Phoblacht" [Frank Ryan] as a speaker, and the need to create public interest in the Irish situation, 1930 April 5. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jack Ashe about what a pity it is that Springfield is holding his event on the same date as New York where Frank Ryan is speaking [and as such will not be able to speak at the Springfield event], 1930 April 5. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Neil J. Duffy about how an issue with a cheque from the latter was resolved, and asking to get "Miss Larkin" to the [Clan-na-Gael] Club later in the week to discuss the Young Women's Club, 1930 April 7. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan] to Thomas J. Hoare about naming a date with consideration to what the latter has already told him in an earlier letter, the idea being to hold a semi-public meeting and then later attend a [Clan-na-Gael] Club, 1930 April 13. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jim Flannery, assuring him that Frank Ryan will be [in Hartford] when he is supposed to, and that the event in Hartford should have a good attendance due to the "boys" in Springfield running a bus from there to Hartford, 1930 April 29. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to "Mrs Cannon" about how Frank Ryan will be in Hartford next Sunday and that the former will get him to her place "as I know he will be welcome there", and how some "Springfield boys" will attend the Hartford event "to swell the crowd and likewise the finances", 1930 April 29. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Mary Ganley about how he is returning material she sent about Easter Week Commemoration, an attached receipt for the lillies' sale [not extant], his reason for not wishing her to make a donation appeal being a concern that many members lack the means, and an agreement that "little talks" with speakers like Frank Ryan can bring a lot of good results, 1930 May 21. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jack Ashe, praising him for disrupting a speech by Eoin Mac Neill in Holyoke, and how Frank Ryan laughed to read of it, and asking for a line on the Ladies Club in Worcester as he can find them on the books but nothing else, and how they had their "biggest, greatest and most beneficial boat-ride" [for a Clan-na-Gael event], 1930 June 2. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to [Mary T.?] Dillon, expressing his sympathy for her illness as told to him by [Joseph] McGarrity, with an enclosed message to help her get over it [not extant], 1930 June 2. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan] to Thomas J. Hoare about arranging a meeting of the latter's [Clan-na-Gael] Club with a member of the Executive in order to resolve the turmoil there, and asking for some further details on the situation, 1930 June 5. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan] to P.J. Gannon about how glad he is to hear his health has improved, his disappointment at the performance of the [Clan-na-Gael] Chicago Club, complications with Indian Nationalists and a rival Irish-American faction, and that he has given P.J. Gannon's name in regards to the setting up of a memorial to the IRA men in Mayo, 1930 June 11. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Thomas J. Hoare about attending a planned [Clan-na-Gael] meeting [in regards to issues within the Springfield Club] and asking the latter to stand in for him in the evening when he must leave, and warning against bringing in members representing the main body of Clan-na-Gael in regards to the "position in Springfield" as local matters should be kept to the responsibilty of local groups, 1930 June 12. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Thomas J. Hoare about how he hopes that [Clan-na-Gael] has benefitted from the discussions raised in the last meeting [in regards to the issues in the Springfield Club], and that he would have preferred to have taken a stronger line than let valued members leave on account of "local trouble", 1930 June 24. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jim Flannery with a receipt for $10 for the sale of Easter lillies [not extant], and that he met the "D.O." in Springfield who told him about the District meeting there which the author thinks has a good idea, and stresses the need for unity within the [Clan-na-Gael] Camp, 1930 June 24. Letter from the Secretary of Clan-na-Gael [Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Paul Castiglioni and the catering company he represents, complaining at the lack of a settlement of the contract between them in regards to the catering of a ship, the S.S. Americana, on 1st June, stressing how the delay was caused by the poor quality of the help and not by the Clan-na-Gael members, 1930 July 9. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Mick Hynes, answering a request to check up on John Hickey and reporting that he is "o.k. and can be admitted", about money for the Liam Lynch Memorial, how he cannot understand how things with Clan-na-Gael in Chicago got to be as bad as they are, and asking him to make inquiries into the cost of training air pilots, 1930 July 10. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Neil J. Duffy, returning a letter from Jerry J. Kirwin explaining the situation "down there" [Delaware] where the [Clan-na-Gael] members are struggling to pay their way, with the suggestion that they just pay a nominal sum to stay "in good standing", and how glad he is to hear how the field day was a "striking success", 1930 July 11. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Michael Dunn, observing how his [Clan-na-Gael] Camp has not elected a delegate to the upcoming convention, and recommending that it does, as expenses of all delegates will be paid for by the Club Treasury and the convention will host a "special delegate" from the IRA, 1930 July 22. Letter from "C.N." [Cornelius F. Neenan] to Jim Fitzgerald, discussing his case, and telling him not to come to New York as the matter will be attended to in Detroit, and advising him and Jack Brosnan to bring a "Birth C." [birth certificate?] and a "Land C." [land certificate?], 1930 July 23. Incomplete letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan or Joseph Barnes?] to Owen Cunningham, upbraiding him for wanting certain [Clan-na-Gael] investigated without giving any reasons, asking for Easter lily sale returns to be sent to him as soon as possible, and discussing his proposed boycott of British steamships lines, 1930 July 22. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Neil J. Duffy about how M. Larkin has been elected Delegate of the Kevin Barry Sisters [to the Clan-na-Gael Convention] despite currently being in Ireland and asking if is there an alternative delegate instead, and to forward all monies within the next 10 days in order to have the books closed and contribitions accredited to their respective [Clan-na-Gael] Clubs, 1930 August 15. Letter from the "Y. of D.A." [Cornelius F. Neenan?] to John M. Gallagher, acknowledging receipt of his term report and cheque with notification of the delegate [to the Clan-na-Gael Convention], 1930 August 21. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to John M. Cashin about how glad he is that "matters have got moving at last" although there is still disappointment at the small numbers in Minneapolis and complaining at the stubborness of others and their and refusal to accept facts, and asking if there are other Irish organisations in Minneapolis to appeal to for "disabled I.R.A." contributions, 1929 December 16. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jerry Keating, acknowledging receipt of his communication with list of those to handle 'An Phoblacht' sales, and reprimanding him for his lack of communication since his election to [Clan-na-Gael] "D.O.", and how there is no doubt he can make the Easter Week Commemoration and the dance on 17th March both successes, 1930 February 13. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan] to Denis J. O'Sullivan, vouching for James Nea as a new [Clan-na-Gael] member, and telling him to forget about the Councils of the Republic as "there is little possibility of its getting anywhere" and how its leaders were naive in thinking it would be an easy matter to organise such a large organisation given public apathy to the issue of Irish freedom, 1930 February 13. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan] to William Parkhill, saying that Joseph McGarrity will be unable to attend his meeting due to work, and that he will be visiting Philadelphia to discuss building up the [Clan-na-Gael] Clubs, and telling him to tell his Club in the meantime to find IRA members in Philadelphia for the purposes of approaching later, 1930 March 1. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan] to William Parkhill with the names and addresses of two IRA members in Philadelphia who have been officially transferred by the IRA GHQ, 1930 March 4. Letter from "Y. of D. A."[Cornelius F. Neenan?] to M. Larkin about the question of the Easter Week lillies and the amount she requires to sell, which could also be discussed with Neil J. Duffy, and how he hopes that her [Clan-na-Gael] Club will live up to its "unique record" from last year, 1930 March 14. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jerry Keating with an attached circular sent to all the [Clan-na-Gael] Camps [not extant], and asking his Camp to get on with the issue of Easter lillies to sell, of which he will receive a number of in the near future, 1930 March 24. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Patrick O'Mahoney with an attached transfer of a new [Clan-na-Gael] member from Philadelphia to New York [not extant], asking him to check up on two potential new members who had been in the IRA, and complaining at how he has not received a single reply in regards to an earlier list of prospective candidates he sent out and how bad that looks, 1930 March 24. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to M. Larkin about how he left the Easter lillies at the Irish-American Club a few nights ago with the promise of having them forwarded to her, and that he decided to reduce the number of 'An Phoblacht' copies for her [Clan-na-Gael] Club to sell from 8 dozen to 50, 1930 April 13. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Patrick L. Quinlan about a letter from Jim Sugrue in which he mentioned having a conversation with Patrick L. Quinlan about "the Organisation" [Clan-na-Gael] and how the author would like to meet him to discuss the point at issue, 1930 April 30. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Sean O'Deorain about how he is too busy with raising funds for the "fighting men at home" [IRA] to spend time on anything else, that he is sorry to hear of [Sarah] Mellows' plight and that he will send a subscription to her fund, and his belief that "all those little pin-pricks" would be solved if "we all throw our energy into the one big job", 1930 April 30. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jerry Keating about the need to get "two of our lads" into the Sanatorium in Chicago as the climate in New Mexico is not good for them, and asking the latter to make "a special effort" as otherwise "the boys" will be left with nowhere to go, 1930 April 29. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to John M. Cashin, explaining his lack of communication on the visit of Frank Ryan, how good it is to hear about the work done on pushing the Easter lilly, and the success of their [Clan-na-Gael] work so far, 1930 May 4. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jerry Keating about how pleased he is at the good news of his banquet on Easter Week and it is a pity that Frank Ryan was unable to come, and while he understands the difficulty in selling Easter lillies he wants the proceeds sent to him as soon as possible as his [Clan-na-Gael] District was the only one last year that did not contribute, 1930 May 4. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Mick O'Hara with a cheque for $60 [not extant] to help him in the meantime, and that he has been talking with Dr P. Quinn and will get in touch with him later regarding that, 1930 May 19. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Patrick L. Quinlan, telling him he is sending him forms for new members, some of which will have to be filled in by officers once elected, and how attempts to find the transfers of the McCoy brothers [from the IRA] have failed so far, and that he hopes to attend their next meeting in New York, 1930 May 20. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jerry Keating about the doctor's report on William Ryan which makes him a good case for treatment, and that the "other man" can be left aside for now, 1930 May 21. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jerry Keating about when William Ryan will leave New York and arrive in Chicago, and that he has enough money to last him for a few weeks with later expenses to be met by the [Clan-na-Gael] office, 1930 May 28. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Mick McNiff asking him to check up on the [Clan-na-Gael membership] application of William Woods, [former?] IRA member from Co. Leitrim, 1930 July 8. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to the Liam Mellowes Club [of Clan-na-Gael] with an attached cheque for $60 [not extant] for tickets purchased to Ireland and back, and how the cheque could have been larger if more members had known about the venture, 1930 July 8. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to M.C. Miller, discussing the possibility of a second boat ride [organised by Clan-na-Gael] due to the success of the previous one, 1930 June 26. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to P. Licare about arranging the date for the second boat-ride [organised by Clan-na-Gael] with three possible choices, and asking for clarification on the price, 1930 June 26. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Miss M. Kelly, acknowledging receipt of $15 for the sale of Easter Week lillies, with a complete statement of all returns due when the last one from the Cleveland Club is complete, 1930 August 14. Letter from the "Y. of D.A." [Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jerry J. Kirwin, acknowledging receipt of term report and cheque for $25, and how pleased he is to see his [Clan-na-Gael] Club resume its activities since the passing of its veteran members, with a form attached [not extant] for having his delegate elected, 1930 August 21. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Joseph A. Sexton about a matter which he does not want to worry a busy Joseph McGarrity with until it can be discussed further, and asking Joseph A. Sexton to draft an editorial for the Irish-American newspapers in New York stating how the IRA is the only legitimate body to continue the struggle for Irish freedom, 1930 March 1. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to John Stanton about two men, O'Toole and Heneghan, and the issues with money involving them, and the success of [Clan-na-Gael] in raising money by staging dances in New York in the name of the [IRA] in Tipperary, Clare and Tyrone, 1930 March 24. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan] to Jack Sheehan, complaining at how the latter sent him a cheque for a book received as he was supposed to send it back and not keep it, and apologises regarding 'An Phoblacht' as he has been busy for a while, 1930 April 5. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Denis J. O'Sullivan, acknowledging receipt for $13 for the sale of Easter lillies which is to go to Cumann na mBan in Ireland, and asking him to ask "some of the boys in Newport" to send on their [Clan-na-Gael] term reports which he has asked them to do already, and discussing the Easter Week Commemorations they had with Frank Ryan as a speaker, 1930 May 5. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Frank Sherwin, asking him to call on Patrick Farrell with the letter of introduction as he will know what is best "to be done regarding touch with the right parties", 1930 July 18. Letter from "C.N." [Cornelius F. Neenan] to "Paddy" with an attached communication for his attention [not extant], and suggests tackling the question by making an appointment with "McCormack", with the need for a lot of questions to be asked before "we can satisfy ourselves the case is bonafide", 1930 January 31. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to John [Stanton?], discussing how a secretary [for Clan-na-Gael] has yet to be appointed with [himself as] acting secretary until then, refers to an incident involving "that lad and his pal" about which neither he nor John will accept the blame, and complaining at how others "kill their efforts" in building an organisation, 1930 February 1. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Neil [J. Duffy?] about how there will probably not be a delegate from New York as a speaker from Ireland [Frank Ryan] is coming over and suggesting that Neil makes use of him, and about the current [Clan-na-Gael] work of finding former IRA members currently in Philadelphia and making lists of their friends for possible new members, 1930 March 1. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan] to Jack [Sheehan] about how surprised he is that the latter is not getting any more copies of 'An Phoblacht', how he met Éamon de Valera at Luke Dillon's funeral, how the job market in New York is so bad that Jack's brother should not expect one when he comes over, preparations for an Easter Week commemoration, and how he is asking around to get the book Jack asked for, 1930 April 5. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to John [Stanton?], agreeing how hard the economic times are on "the boys" and the issues of them being exploited for money, how he is currently the acting secretary [for Clan-na-Gael] until someone else can be appointed, how successful the New York [Clan-na-Gael] have been in fund raising, and the state of the [Clan-na-Gael] Districts throughout the US, 1930 April 4. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan] to Jack [Sheehan?], saying he will reply regarding "Griffin", and asking if Springfield, Westfield and Holyoke are covered by Mary Ganley ordering some Easter lillies [to sell], 1930 April 7. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to "Mick", asking him to look up two bonds for $100 each, assinged on 22 June 1923 by the president of the Patrick Sarsfield Club in Waterbury, as they belong to [the Joseph McGarrity faction of Clan-na-Gael] and not to the "Devoy bunch", 1930 April 8. Letter from "C.N." [Cornelius F. Neenan] to the "D.O. [District Officer] [Patrick O'Mahoney] [of] District 1 [New York]" with a list of names of new arrivals from Ireland who are IRA or Cumann na mBan members, which have also been given to Thomas McGill, [1930?] April 8. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to the "D.O. [of] District 12", telling him that Frank Ryan is visiting the US as a speaker for the Easter Week commemorations in New York, and recommends that the recipient arrange his District into holding a Reunion where Frank Ryan can speak, with a suggested date of 25th April, 1930 April 12. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to "Major", saying that it is impossible for Frank Ryan to speak in Chicago on the asked-for date due to prior booking elsewhere in the US, with a list of the itinerary, 1930 April 19. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to John [Stanton?] about Frank Ryan's ongoing speaking tour of the US, with the meeting at Atlantic City booked for 11th May and so nothing must be allowed to interfere with that, 1930 April 30. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to "Martin" about how Frank Ryan will be speaking over a radio station next Sunday, that he posted "Martin's" letter and will send him the postal order receipt later, and telling him to get Dominick Shields to post 50 copies of the last two issues of 'An Phoblacht' to an address in San Francisco, 1930 April. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to "Paddy", asking him to check up a potential new [Clan-na-Gael] member, Joseph Fallon from San Francisco, along with three other names, 1930 April 30. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jack [Sheehan?] with a cheque for $25 [not extant] to give to "Denny K" who is to send back a receipt, 1930 May 1. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to John [Stanton?], saying how he has the same difficulty in answering letters as he has been busy with Frank Ryan and his successul speaking tour in the US, 1930 May 3. Letter from [Cornelius F. Neenan?] to the "District Officer [Patrick O'Mahoney]. D.[istrict] 1 [New York]" with a receipt for $220.10 from the Easter lily sales [not extant], and congratulating the District for being the one to contribute the most and serving as a good example to the others, 1930 May 5. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to "Paddy", explaining his absence for his car breaking down and thus having to abandon the trip, 1930 July 8. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to "Peter", asking him to check up on another Clan-na-Gael membership applicant from Bantry, Cork, 1930 July 10. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to "Paddy" about writing to Mick Hynes, and asking for information about the air school in Chicago, 1930 July 10. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to "Paddy", asking him to look up two [Clan-na-Gael] membership applicants, Patrick Connor and Michael Joy, with the names of other applicants he gave to others to look up, 1930 July 16. Letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to Jerry Keating with a few blank receipt forms attached [not extant] which he wants a couple of men to sign as he is unsure as to the amount of money they received, and that he must have complete records for the [Clan-na-Gael] Convention, 1930 August 21. [Letter [from Joseph McGarrity?] to "James" with enclosed copies of what he sent out to 30 newspapers and news agencies [not extant] today, and that he will send him 40 copies of the enclosed [not extant] and 40 copies of the 'Proclaimation' [sic] which he is not giving to the press as he wants to unite [all Irish factions] against "the common enemy" [Britain], 1938 December 30. Letter from unknown author to "Ned", advising him against taking a journey in some "ship" as originally planned and suggesting instead that he goes with "Judy and Baby" on an "Ocean trip", undated. Incomplete letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to an unknown recipient about [Clan-na-Gael] organising a boycott of British-owned [ocean] liners, how he hopes the recipient will make a success of the role he has been appointed for, that he has three other agents in Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland, and stressing the need for sticking to the boycott for long enough to make it work, undated. Incomplete letter [from Cornelius F. Neenan?] to an unknown recipient about the need to deny a statement made in the newspapers, asking for further information about "O'Reilly", the success of [Clan-na-Gael] in New York in fund-raising, and how the "fellows at home" [IRA?] are being oppressed by the Free "Staters", and the vote of confidence [in the Dáil] successfully sought by W.T. Cosgrave, [1927?]. Letters from Sean T. O'Ceallaigh to Joseph McGarrity, 1915-1935. Letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Joseph McGarrity about how he has had to abandon his proposed trip to Washington and will not be able to reach Philadelphia again before leaving the US, telling him to post the letters on to him, and asking after Kuno Meyer, 1915 April 10. Letter of introduction from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Joseph McGarrity for Maurice Bourgeois, a French writer who has "rendered great service to the Irish cause in France" and who is in the US on a mission for Marshal Ferdinand Foch, 1921 October 17. Circular letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to the officers and members of Clan-na-Gael, appealing as envoy to the US for the "maximum of support" on the eve of a great fight on behalf of the Irish Republic, specifically for a minimum of $100,000 within 3 months, 1924 October 1. Circular letter to the officers and members of Clan-na-Gael, repeating the appeal of Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, for each Camp to contribute at least $1,000 in the defence of the Irish Republic, 1924 October 6. Two cheques for James McGee to pay to Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh for $557 and $2,457.50 respectively, signed by Joseph McGarrity and Luke Dillon, 1925 February 24/26. Letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Joseph McGarrity, proposing the formation of a Bond Holders' Committee to protect the funds raised in the US against litigation by the Free State, and inviting Joseph McGarrity to be a member, 1924 December 3. Letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Joseph McGarrity, agreeing with the latter's decision to contest the recent legal ruling in favour of the Friends of Irish Freedom regarding possession of funds raised in the US, to the point of spending about $500 of Clan-na-Gael funds towards the appeal, 1924 December 5. Letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Joseph McGarrity, informing him that the first meeting of the Bond Holders Committee [contesting the legal claims of the Friends of Irish Freedom towards funds raised in the US], which the latter agreed to be part of, is on 6th June 1925, 1925 May 26. Letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Joseph McGarrity, describing the Eucharistic Congress held in Chicago, attended by Archbishop Daniel Mannix who has agreed to speak at a mass meeting in Philadelphia on 18th July, and that Frank Aiken came to Chicago last week, 1926 June 25. Letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Joseph McGarrity upon the former's return to Ireland, how "the Chief" [Éamon de Valera] is in "good form" with high hopes for the "new organisation" [Fianna Fáil] and about the strong turnout for a speaking tour of his in Co. Cork and for meetings in Dublin and Wexford, 1926 October 18. Letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Joseph McGarrity with an enclosed circular [not extant] announcing a new weekly and asking the latter to make it known to his friends, and the need for subscribers due to its cost, 1927 March 1. Letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Joseph McGarrity upon the former's arrival in New York and how he hopes he will be able to meet him before his return to Ireland, 1935 January 5. Letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Joseph McGarrity, telling him he got back to Ireland [from the US] safely, that Éamon de Valera asked after him, and how he hopes Joseph McGarrity told Harry McCarney and other "old friends" in Philadelphia how sorry he was not to see them, 1935 February 13. Letter from Captain Ginger O'Connell to Joseph McGarrity regarding the Irish Volunteers and current political matters and enclosing essay "A Scheme of Defence for Dublin", 1914 July 27. Letter from Captain "Ginger" O'Connell to Joseph McGarrity, discussing the military training of the Irish Volunteers, and political matters in Ireland such as the Howth gun-running, and how world affairs such as a war in Europe would effect the Irish position, and a comparison of the various European armies with the Italian one being the best model for Ireland, 1914 July 27. Essay by Captain "Ginger"" O'Connell entitled 'A Scheme of Defence for Dublin' with a proposed plan of defence for Ireland with a focus on Dublin, undated. Letters from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, 1921-1936. Letters from [M.P.?] Carrick to Katherine O'Doherty, saying he is now unemployed and complaining of his treatment by his previous firm, and how he hopes to see her again, 1921 June 19. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about the situation in Ireland, such as a rental contract being cancelled due to a disagreement over politics, the poor finances of the Free State, the recent elections, the treatment of Republican prisoners, news of mutual acquaintances such as Alice Ginnell and Margaret Pearse, and the high life enjoyed by those who joined the Free State, 1923 September 17. National Library reader's ticket belonging to Mary McMannion and Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about the situation in Ireland such as the treatment of Republican prisoners and their hunger-strike, news of mutual acquaintances such as the imprisonment of Éamon de Valera as a hostage and the poor health of Dan Breen, and the high life enjoyed by Free State personnel, 1923. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, complaining that her letters to him had been searched by the Free State authorities including her sister, about the situation in Ireland such as the hunger-strike by Republican prisoners and conflict within the IRB, and that she is anxious for him to write the introduction to Dan Breen's book, 1924 January 15. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about the editing of Dan Breen's book and the preface Joseph McGarrity has written for it, the situation in Ireland such as the feud within the IRB and the departure of Piaras Béaslaí and others from the Free State army, and Joseph McGrath's failed attempts to solicit money from the US, 1924 July 10. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, praising his ballad as a "masterpiece" and how pleased "the Chief" [Éamon de Valera] was with it, the disastrous election loss for Oscar Traynor and the infighting that caused it, and the bitterness between Margaret Pearse and Kathleen Clarke over the issue of accepting the Easter Rising widows' pensions, 1925 March 19. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, complaining about the desire of "the doc" [Patrick McCartan?] to enter stand for election in the Irish Free State and his abuse of their friendship, 1925 April 5. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, complaining at how her previous two letters should have reached him and asking if his had been tampered with, and complaining at the poor state of the Republican cause in Ireland and the unreliability of even old friends like "the Doc" [Patrick McCartan?] and Dan Breen, 1925 April 14. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, praising his recent poem, how upset Margaret Pearse was over John Devoy's attack on her, and about the "the doc" [Patrick McCartan?] and his claim to the Minister of Finance, 1925 May 21. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, sending to him as a "gruesome souvenir" an ablaster pen-rest and ash-tray that had been taken to London and used by Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith during the Treaty talks and which was later captured by a Cumann na mBan captain, June 3. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, complaining at the lack of cohesion and poor spirits in the Republican movement in Ireland, and about attempts to re-organise the IRB in Ireland, December 19. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about the death of her father, the rival factions within the Republican movement in Ireland with Éamon de Valera in the middle, and the current state of Ireland, 1926 March 3. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity upon the entrance to the Dail by Fianna Fáil under Éamon de Valera, and the correspondence between John Devoy and Kevin O'Higgins prior to the latter's assassination, 1927 October 13. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity upon the death of his son Joseph, how "greedily" Éamon de Valera asks after him, and the improved state of Ireland since Fianna Fáil took over, [1932] September 20. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty [to Joseph McGarrity?] about the situation in Ireland, such as her dislike for Seán T. O'Kelly, the recent Army Mutiny and its effects on the Free State government, "the doc" [Patrick McCartan?] and his writing, and the financial irresponsibility of Dan Breen, undated. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about the attempts to re-organise the IRB in Ireland, the Army Mutiny of 1924 and the resulting political fall-out, undated. Poem by Katherine O'Doherty titled 'To my Camelia', undated. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about how well "Ann" was doing and a recent retreat they were on, praising his "lovely" poem, and about a recent funeral where a wreath was laid on Joseph McGarrity's behalf, undated, March 2. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about how ill "John P" is and telling him to pray that he will pull through, November 26. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, bemoaning the sorry state of Ireland and the latest political split, and hoping she can "claim [him] on our side", undated. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about the confusion over where he was, the divisions in Ireland where "we have nothing in common here except the shamrock any more", and her recent illness which may be fatal, undated, March 4. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about the Cumann na mBan pensions she and her friends are applying for, and asking him to write to Frank Aiken about it, undated, November 2. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, asking why he has cut her off from his correspondence and cites their years of friendship, and bemoans the level of corruption in Ireland under "Mulcahy's regime" such as the appointment of Protestant doctors in Catholic areas, 1928 June 24. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Katherine O'Doherty, discussing his hopes for the future of Ireland despite the depressing news from her, and denouncing "traitors", 1928 July 9. Copy of a letter from Joseph McGarrity to Katherine O'Doherty about how he has been praying for her and her health since her depressing letter, and how he worked on Texas oil fields for two months which was a "wonderful experience", 1929 April [3]. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Katherine O'Doherty about how he has been praying for her and her health since her depressing letter, how he worked on Texas oil fields for two months, and how the "cause [of Irish nationalism] goes marching on here" in the US, 1929 April 3. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, commiserating with him on the approach of Christmas, and how the Blueshirts are trying to cause trouble in Ireland "since their coup d'etat failed", 1932 December 8. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about her poor health, the low-key reaction to Patrick McCartan's book, telling him to thank her mother for the frock to her daughter Roisin, and discussing the jobs of her friends, 1933 February 17. Telegram from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about how "John" is still ill but that "Ann" is "doing splendidly", 1938 November 30. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, discussing her cold, the Golden Jubilee of the GAA, and how her children are doing, 1934 February 26. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, complaining at how she has lacked an address for him, thanking him for his letters that kept her "from despair about Ireland", how half the population of the Free State are drawing pensions, how the Free State acted without first consulting the Church authorities, how the Irish language is the "only ray of hope" for Ireland, and about her children, 1929 December 6. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, commiserating on the death of Luke Dillon, and pasing on a request from Margaret Pearse to help contact someone to pay him back for money contributed to St Edna's, 1930 January 24. Letter from Ann McGarrity to Joseph McGarrity about how often she is thinking of him, and asking for his visit to be as soon as possible, undated. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about how well his daughter Ann is doing and how Ann refused an invitation to stay with Caitlín Brugha for a few days along with invitations from all others as she does not feel as home anywhere other than in the convent, undated, April 12. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about how wonderful his daughter, Ann, is and how well she is doing at school, and about her social life which includes the two daughters of Éamon de Valera, and how pleased Éamon de Valera was with the letter of sympathy about his heart from Joseph McGarrity, 1936 March 11. Copy of a letter from Joseph McGarrity to Katherine O'Doherty, commiserating upon the stroke of John MacAvin and praying that he will recover, and how good it is to hear about the "wonderful progress" of her children, 1938 November 28. Copy of a letter from Joseph McGarrity to Katherine O'Doherty about how glad he is to hear how well his daughter, Ann, is doing and how she will write to Caitlín Brugha to thank her for her kindess in inviting Ann, 1939 April 24. Draft by Katherine O'Doherty for a suggested letter to raise funds for the dependents of those killed in the Irish wars, citing those of Cathal Brugha and Harry Boland, with a list of suggested names for a meeting to be held in Philadelphia, undated. Letter from Kathleen O'Connell, on behalf of Éamon de Valera, to Katherine O'Doherty, acknowledging receipt of a trunk of personal effects of Roger Casement, Harry Boland and Éamon de Valera, sent by Joseph McGarrity for the National Museum of Ireland, 1935 January 24. Report by Katherine O'Doherty to Clan-na-Gael on her mission to bring funds to the I.R.A. in Cork, including copies of letters to her from Eamon De Valera, 1922. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity with an enclosed report on the Civil War in Ireland upon her arrival in Cork, where she gave the assigned donation of $19,000 to the IRA there and told them that they had the full support of Clan-na-Gael, her correspondence with Éamon de Valera, the fighting and propaganda in Cork, her meetings with Austin Stack in Dublin and other Anti-Treatyites, 1922. Letter from Éamon de Valera to Katherine O'Doherty, saying he received her letter but was in the middle of a battle at the time and so unable to see her until now, and asking her to come back from Dublin so that they could meet, [1922] August 9. Letter from Éamon de Valera to Katherine O'Doherty, saying he received her letter just as the Free State were attacking their posts and that he was anxious to see her but heard she was in Dublin, that he is sure that Joseph McGarrity and Luke Dillon understand things especially with Harry Boland's death, and thanking her for the $19,000 from Clan-na-Gael but he is unsure about the details of the 1916 Relief Fund, [1922] August 11. Letters from Séamus O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, including letter from Katherine O'Doherty to [Hazel Lavery?] and letter from Frank H. Rice to Séamus O'Doherty, 1919-1939. Letter from Katherine O'Doherty to [Hazel?] Lavery about the court-martial and imprisonment of her husband, Séamus, and the effects it has had on their children, and the conditions inside the prison, 1919 July 28. Letter from Séamus O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, wishing him a happy Christmas and discussing his family such as his children and the recent death of an in-law, and mutual acquaintances such as "the Doc" [Patrick McCartan] and Michael Quinn, and the foolishness of Dan Breen in selling the rights to his book for instant money, [1924?] December 18. Letter from Séamus O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity with an enclosed bill [not extant] and a discussion on financial matters, 192[?] September 13. Poem by Séamus O'Doherty titled 'A Modern Pharisee' about the death on hunger-strike of Terence McSwiney and the efforts of the secretary of the International Protestant League to have appeals for mercy for him ignored, [1920?]. Letter from Séamus and Katherine O'Doherty [to Joseph McGarrity?] about the Civil War in Ireland with enclosed leaflets [not extant] which he mentioned in his article, blaming British agent provocateurs for the war and accusing the Free State army of taking in former 'Black and Tans', 1922 May 4. Letter from Séamus O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity, saying that he is now home and that he missed him while in New York, and discusses those he did meet, undated. Letter from Frank Henry Rice to Séamus O'Doherty, asking for a cheque for "Mr. de Blacam", 1922 October 17. Letter from Séamus O'Doherty to Joseph McGarrity about how he and his family have decided to return home to Ireland, 1923 August 6. Letter from "Jim" [James Brislane] to Joseph McGarrity, sending him some mail and a copy of a newspaper [not extant] and mentioning how the "New York boys" think 12 o'clock would be early enough while the rest are advising for 11 o'clock, 1939 March 1. Letter from "Jim" [James Brislane] to Joseph McGarrity regarding the recent situation within the IRA in which Peadar O'Donnell accused Clan-na-Gael of undermining Tom Barry's leadership, and advising McGarrity to having an informal chat with Peadar O'Donnell, 1939 March 22. Letter from "Jim" [James Brislane] to Joseph McGarrity about "Kripps" who is on a speaking tour the next day, and how he had been educated at St Enda's and had been in the Irish Volunteers/IRA from 1916 onwards until interned in Limerick as an Anti-Treatyite in the Civil War, 1939 March 28. Copy of letter from T.D. Sullivan to Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa relating to the latter's book 'Rossa's Recollections' (New York: 1898), including letter from O'Donovan Rossa to William Crossin and letter from James Reidy to Joseph McGarrity, 1903-1916. Letter from T.D. Sullivan to Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, thanking him for a presentation copy of his book 'Recollections' and the autographed note, and recalling his own experiences with Fenians and the Famine, 1903 February 28. Letter from Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa to William Crossin about how he has not received anything from him for some years despite the latter being on the 'United Irishmen' estate since 1893, and saying he might take his name off accordingly, 1903 February 28. Letter from to Joseph McGarrity with a request from "John" to send the film of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa's funeral to Patrick A. Ryan for a showing by the Sarsfield Club in Watertown, Massachusetts, 1916 April 8. Copy of letter from Seán Ua Ceallaigh [Sceilg] on behalf of the Irish Government to Ramsay MacDonald on election as Prime Minister, with associated letter from the Army Council of Oglaigh na h-Eireann, 1929. Letter from the secretary of the IRA Army Council [to Joseph McGarrity?] about a proposed list of demands to the British prime minister, recommending that the issue be passed onto the Clan-na-Gael Executive, and asking that a list of groups, individuals, newspapers, etc. be compiled to send the finished product to in the US be compiled, 1929 August 9. Letter from J.J. O'Kelly to Ramsay MacDonald on his election as British Prime Minister, decrying the poor treatment of Ireland by Britain in recent years and urging him to reverse all such recent wrongdoings, 1929 August 26. Letters from Art O'Murnaghan to Joseph McGarrity, 1937-1938. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Art O'Murnaghan, praising him as "one of the Greater Masters of today" and how he is sure that the latter will create for Ireland works of art as good as the best from the past, 1937 December 13. Letter from Art O'Murnaghan to Joseph McGarrity, thanking him for his help and comparing him to a medieval art patron, complaining at the 10 years' delay in his work due to lack of funds and the slackness by the committee responsible, listing the lectures he has lined up to give throughout Ireland, and details of his early life, 1937 December 2. Letter from Art O'Murnaghan to Joseph McGarrity, discussing his past and current work with vellum, how he hopes they could meet in the summer and plan art together, the spiritual significance of Tara past and present and the view in Classical writings of Ireland as a spiritual place, and his views on how life and death are connected, 1938 January 6 Letters from Joseph McGarrity to Art O'Murnaghan, praising how his "ability to achieve has with time improved like wine", discussing the latter's ideas on inspiration in his last letter, thabnking him for his interest in his own poetry, and thanking him for sending him the original copy of "Sea Rhythem [sic]" which he has had framed, 1938 January 20. Letter from Art O'Murnaghan to Joseph McGarrity, asking to be on a first-name basis, discussing the nature of friendship, complaining at how the committee for the memorial book project is insisting that the book be finished by 6 months as the project is for the future as much as the present, 1938 February 10. Letter from Art O'Murnaghan to Joseph McGarrity about how the work on the book is progressing, and complaining at the attitude of the committee overseeing the project but consoles himself with how every man can be free in his own mind, 1938 March 14. Letter from Art O'Murnaghan to Joseph McGarrity about how the vellum work is progressing and a top-room he has rented off St Stephen's Green after refusing an offered study as being unsuitable, a fruitful talk he had with Count Plunkett about a finished page and the proposed poems to go into the book, and the need to finish the work properly as opposed to being rushed by the committee, 1938 May 15. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Art O'Murnaghan, apologising for failing to meet him on his last trip to Ireland but promising to make it up next time, and asking after him and his work, with a small gift as a token of their friendship [not extant], 1937 December 14. Letter from Art O'Murnaghan to Joseph McGarrity, thanking him for his Christmas gift but how the bank will not accept the cheque as the '5' in the number has been altered and it would be necessary for the latter to put his initials besides the alteration, and how the latter also misspelled the former's name on the cheque, 1939 January 3. Poem by Joseph Mary Plunkett, 'I see his blood upon the rose', in the handwriting of Art O'Murnaghan, undated. Letter from Maire Comerford to Joseph McGarrity about the Memorial Book project to enshrine the names of those who died fighting for the "absolute indepedence of Ireland, and no others" [indicating no Free State names included] and uncertainty over who made up the original committee for the project, and about life in Ireland such as the books of Dorothy Macardle and "Dr Moloney" being denied to Republican prisoners, [1937?] November 6. Letter from Art O'Murnaghan to Joseph McGarrity, thanking him for his gifts, comparing their "comradeship for Ireland [as] that of a poet and a scribe", sending him a print titled 'A Sea-Rhythm' in return, and how he is working on a new vellum page, undated. Photostat copy of a work of an illuminated manuscript [original artwork present in NLI at PD 4550 TC] by Art O'Murnaghan, undated. Letters from Margaret Pearse to Joseph McGarrity, with related documents, 1916-1933. Letter from Margaret Pearse to Joseph McGarrity asking for assistance, 1920 April 29. Letter from Margaret Pearse to Joseph McGarrity regarding the financial situation of St. Enda's school, 1923 August 3. Pass to allow bearer to meet Mrs. M. Pearse at the S.S. Lancastria, Ellis Island, N.Y., 1924 April 1. Letter from Margaret Pearse to Joseph McGarrity arranging to contact him in Philadelphia, 1924 April 16. Poster advertising a speech by Margaret Pearse to be held by Clan-Na-Gael in New York, 1924 June 1. Letter from Margaret Pearse to Kathryn McGarrity asking after the McGarrity family, 1924 July 5. Letter from Margaret Pearse to Joseph McGarrity asking after the McGarrity family, 1925 May 10. Letter from Margaret Pearse to Kathryn McGarrity discussing social and family matters, 1925 September 18. Letter from Margaret Pearse to Joseph McGarrity regarding a scholarship at St. Enda's funded by money raised by McGarrity, 1925 September 22. Letter from Margaret Pearse to Mr. Sullivan [unknown] thanking him for a cheque to fund scholarships at St. Enda's school, 1926 November 18. Letter from Margaret Pearse to Joseph McGarrity advising him Joe [unknown] was awarded a scholarship in Pittsburg, 1926 November 30. Letter from Margaret Pearse to Kathryn McGarrity expressing her relief that Joseph McGarrity is back home, 1927 July 24. Letter from Margaret Pearse to Joseph McGarrity on the death of Constance Markievicz and McGarrity's return home, 1927 July 24. Christmas card from Margaret Pearse to the McGarrity family, 1928. Letter from Margaret M. Pearse to Joseph McGarrity regarding the death of her mother Margaret Pearse, 1933 April 5. Telegraph from Margaret Pearse to Joseph McGarrity "anticipating the honour of your presence tonight", 1933 April 29. Card with a short poem titled 'A wish for you' by Brian O'Higgins, sent by Margaret Pearse to McGarrity family, undated. Envelope from Margaret Pearse to Kathryn McGarrity, undated. Envelope from Margaret Pearse to Joseph and Kathryn McGarrity, undated. Christmas card from Margaret Pearse to Joseph and Kathryn McGarrity, undated. Christmas card from Margaret Pearse to the McGarrity family, undated. Christmas card from Maggie Pearse, undated. Printed article on the raid on St. Enda's school by Free State soldiers titled "Violation of Padraig Pearse's Home" , [1922?]. Letter from Joseph McGarrity advertising a lecture to be given by Padraig Pearse regarding St. Enda's school, 1914 March 16. Letter from Mary M. Colum to Joseph McGarrity warning him that his name was being used against the Save St. Enda's Committee, 1918 August 2.. Letter from Mary E. Walsh to Joseph McGarrity regarding funding for St. Enda's school, 1919 October 1. Blank fundraising form for the St. Enda's College Building Fund, undated. Extract from unknown publication with poem by George Sylvester Viereck "The Sting" in memory of P.H. Pearse and an article "A Review of Two Worlds: Our Country's Real Stake In This War" on verso, undated. Letter from Regina Clark to Joseph McGarrity regarding a poem about Padraig Pearse written by Clark's daughter, 1920 February 16. Notes by Margaret Pearse on Padraig Pearse in memoriam, undated. Short biographical article of Padraig Pearse by unknown author, undated. Letter from Margaret Pearse to Joseph McGarrity gifting him a manuscript poem by Padraig Pearse, 1926 October 27. Poem by Regina Clark 'In Memoriam Padraic Pearse', undated. Letters from Patrick Pearse to Joseph McGarrity, 1914-1915. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity regarding a meeting in Philadelphia with John Devoy, 1914 April 13. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity regarding the unlikelihood of Pearse visiting Philadelphia, 1914 May 4. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity regarding fundraising in Philadelphia for the Irish Volunteers, 1914 June 19. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity regarding the split in the Irish Volunteers and fundraising for arms, 1914 July 14. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity discussing the Howth gun-running and Redmondites, 1914 July 28th. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity discussing the potential ramifications in Ireland if England goes to war, 1914 August 3. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity detailing arms landed at Howth and the Irish Volunteers split, 1914 August 12. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity discussing St. Enda's school, McGarrity's brother, and status of the Volunteers, 1914 September 24. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity discussing the crisis developing in Ireland, 1914 October 19. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity regarding recruitment of Irish forces into the Bristish army, 1915. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity to introduce McGarrity to Francis Sheehy-Skeffington , 1915 July 26. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity explaining the difficulties facing St. Enda's school, 1915 August 12. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity regarding the financial crisis facing St. Enda's school, 1915 September 2. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity regarding St. Enda's school being used as a political tool against Pearse, 1915 September 2. Letter from Padraig Pearse to Joseph McGarrity expressing thanks for providing financial aid to prevent the closure of St. Enda's school, 1915 October 15. Letters from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity, with copy of letter from McGarrity to Pedlar, 1920-1936. Postcard from Liam Pedlar to Kathryn McGarrity sending the McGarrity family best wishes for the new year, 1920 January 1. Telegram from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity regarding "Beth Luis Nion" and a reception, 1920 April 10. Letter from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity sending best wishes and thanking McGarrity for his generosity, 1920 July 1. Telegram from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity "Dont worry will arrive early Thursday morning Pat will be here Monday", 1920 August 11. Letter from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity regarding bail funds for James Larkin, 1922 May 2. Letter from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity relating news of Harry Boland's death, 1922 August 3. Letter from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity urging to keep the Washington deal in place after the death of Harry Boland, 1922 August 18. Letter from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity asking after the McGarrity family and updating McGarrity on the situation in Ireland, 1927 December 13. Letter from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity asking him to contact Kathleen O'Connell, 1933 May 31. Letter from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity informing him that Éamon De Valera wants to meet with him, 1936 January 16. Memo by Liam Pedlar detailing guns and ammunition sent by Joseph McGarrity, 1926 February 11. Note from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity ensuring McGarrity has proper documents for landing, 1936 January 14. Note from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity arranging a meeting with the 'Chief' [Éamon De Valera], undated. Notes from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity with instructions relating to the acquisition of arms, c. 1922. Letter from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity arranging an appointment with the "Chief" [Éamon De Valera], undated. Letter from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity regarding the establishment of the Irish Free State, and death of Seán MacEochaidh, c.1922 Letter from Liam Pedlar to Joseph McGarrity referring to McGarrity being in Bogotá, and that Éamon De Valera regretted not meeting him on his campaign in the U.S., undated. Telegram from Joseph McGarrity to Liam Pedlar arranging a trusted method of communication as their letters are being seized, 1923 April 27. Telegram from Joseph McGarrity to Liam Pedlar advising Pedlar that he is withholding information for security reasons and that people need more information to restore their confidence in the situation, c.1923. Correspondence between Katharine A. Enright and Liam Pedlar, 1925-1926. Letter from Liam Pedlar to Katharine Enright regarding travel arrangements, activities of Club branches, and someone referred to as "the Child", 1925 October 29. Letter from Liam Pedlar to Katharine Enright regarding the "Child", 1926 February 4. Letter from Katharine Enright to Liam Pedlar regarding travelling arrangements and Sean McGuckin, 1925 August 3. Letter from Katharine Enright to Liam Pedlar regarding the "Child" and travelling arrangements, 1925 August 13. Letter from Katharine Enright to Liam Pedlar regarding "the Child" and Tom Collins, 1925 September 21. Letter from Katharine Enright to Liam Pedlar regarding the "Child" and issues with "Black Casey's" membership of the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, 1925 October 26. Letter from Katharine Enright to Liam Pedlar inviting him to her home for Christmas and discussing recent elections at the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, 1925 December 21. Letter from Katharine Enright to Liam Pedlar regarding Pedlar's visit to Boston and the "Child", undated. Letters from Eugene Sheehan to Liam Pedlar, with copy of letter from Pedlar to Sheehan, ca. 1925. Letter from Liam Pedlar to Eugene Sheehan of a social nature and sending on a letter for Dan Hurley, 1925 September 8. Letter from Eugene Sheehan to Liam Pedlar relating the recent activities of Clan-na-Gael, 1925 September 28. Letter from Eugene Sheehan to Liam Pedlar relating the excitement of a secret trip to Boston by General Richard Mulcahy, 1925 October 23. Letter from Eugene Sheehan to Liam Pedlar regarding Sheehan's planned move from Boston to New York, 1925 November 24. Letter from Eugene Sheehan to Liam Pedlar discussing the activities of the local committee, September 3. Letter from Eugene Sheehan to Liam Pedlar explaining his delay in getting to New York, undated. Letter from Eugene Sheehan to Liam Pedlar regretting not meeting "the hero", undated. Letter from Eugene Sheehan to Liam Pedlar regarding Pedlar's trip to Atlantic City and the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, undated. Letters to Liam Pedlar mainly relating to Republican affairs in Ireland and the United States of America, ca. 1912-1925. Letter from Michael Davitt McGuiggan to Liam Pedlar discussing the Orangemen, the Gaelic League, the sale of Montalto Estate, and the 1798 Rebellion, 1912 December 5. Letter from James F. Boylan to Joseph McGarrity requesting orders for further action on enclosed letter, 1919 October 11. Letter from Éamon de Valera to Liam Pedlar informing him that funds have been made available for his personal use, 1924 September 27. Letter from Éamon de Valera to Liam Pedlar urging him to accept the gift of money, 1924 December 2. Letter from Luke Dillon to Liam Pedlar informing him that the IRB issued a resolution in appreciation of Pedlar and Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, 1925 February 3. Letter from Luke Dillon to Liam Pedlar despairing that until "the people of Ireland can function a Government" there will be no Irish Republic, 1925 April 29. Letter from John McCormick to Liam Pedlar relating personal and social news, 1925 April 20. Letter from Éamon de Valera to Liam Pedlar urging him to keep his financial gift for personal use, 1925 April 30. Letter from Luke Dillon to Liam Pedlar relating his frustration that visiting speakers such as Mary MacSwiney seem determined to break up the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, 1925 May 18. Letter from Owen Moore to Liam Pedlar updating him on his move to Canada and his new life in Ontario, 1925 September 6. Letter from Owen Moore to Liam Pedlar explaining that he had to move to Canada for health reasons and that he and the Irish movement appear to be having a run of bad luck, circa 1925. Letter from Betty and Julia Deeley to Liam Pedlar thanking him for sending them a picture, 1925 October 1. Letter from Jim Hegarty to Liam Pedlar complaining of the attitude of former I.R.A. men and that more activity is needed in Ireland, 1925 October 7. Letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Liam Pedlar on the lack of optimisim and progression of the nationalistic cause in Ireland, and Ó Ceallaigh's trips to the U.S. and Rome 1925 October 10. Letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to Liam Pedlar regarding receptions to be held for Ó Ceallaigh by Clan-na-Gael and the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, undated Letter from Ed Boland to Liam Pedlar asking Pedlar to hand out cards advertising his new pub, undated. Letter to Liam Pedlar from unknown author regarding travelling arrangements, undated. Correspondence between Liam Pedlar and Sir Henry Gloster Armstrong of the British Consular Service regarding invitation to Pedlar to spy on Clan-na-Gael associates, including correspondence between Pedlar and Joseph McGarrity on same, 1915. Letter from Sir Gloster Armstrong to James Mac Guinness offering him employment as an informant, 1914 August 10. Letter from Sir Gloster Armstrong to Liam Pedlar detailing the terms and conditions of Pedlar's employment as an informant, 1915 February 9. Letter between unidentified correspondents detailing the sender's associations with Irish American societies for the purposes of serving as an informant, 1915 February 3. Letter between unidentified correspondents arranging to meet, circa 1915 February. Letter between unidentified correspondents complaining that the terms and conditions of his employment as an informant are unsatisfactory, circa 1915 February. Letter between unidentified correspondents in which the sender urges the recipient not to go to New York as he may be recognised by members of Clan-na-Gael, and urges caution, circa 1915. Letter between unidentified correspondents emphasising that he will lose his position if discovered and that caution is required, circa 1915 February. Letter between unidentified correspondents arranging to meet and warning against causing suspicion, circa 1915. Sheets of copy paper containing numerous addresses of William J. Bradley, 1915. Envelope inscribed "Correspondence between J. & W.P. relative to 'affair'", undated. Letter between unidentified correspondents relating information on Clan-na-Gael, 1914 August 10. Letter between unidentified correspondents discussing the negotiation of terms of their employment as informants, 1915 January. Letter between unidentified correspondents negotiating the terms of the recipient's employment as an informant, 1915 February 3. Letter between unidentified correspondents negotiating the terms of the recipient's employment as an informant, 1915 February 15. Letter between unidentified correspondents in which the sender is asking for a critique on a draft letter expressing dissatisfaction with the terms of his employment as an informant, circa 1915 February. Letter between unidentified correspondents in which the sender is outlining the draft of the information he is planning to send on as an informant, circa 1915. Letter between unidentified correspondents discussing a draft reply to a letter, circa 1915. Letter between unidentified correspondents discussing the terms and conditions of their employment as informants, circa 1915. Letter between unidentified correspondents with references to "our friend B" and "McG", circa 1915 Documents mainly biographical relating to Liam Pedlar, 1915-1936. Agreement signed by Liam Pedlar entering into the service of Clan-na-Gael as a detective and to act as a double agent for the English government. Witnessed by Joseph McGarrity and Frank. J. Conlin, 1915, January 26. Photostat of statements of a legal case taken by Liam Pedlar against Lt Col W. Edgeworth Johnstone, the Chief Commisioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, for money stolen from Pedlar while Pedlar was in jail following his arrest in May 1918, 1919 July 3. Copy of letter from John W. Davis to the U.S. Secretary of State regarding Liam Pedlar's case against Lt Col W. Edgeworth Johnstone, the Chief Commisioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, 1920 January 9. Letter from Alvey A. Adee (Second Assistant secretary, U.S. Dept of State) to James F. Boylan regarding the legal case taken by Liam Pedlar against Lt Col W. Edgeworth Johnstone, Chief Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, 1920 January 31. Receipts for loan and share dividends to Liam Pedlar from Seán (J.) Nunan of Kinread Florentino, 120 Broadway, New York City, 1924 January 2. Envelope addressed to Liam Pedlar, with remnant of second envelope with wax seal enclosed, 1925 December 22. Unsigned reference confirming Liam Pedlar's activities during the 1916 Rising and his involvment with the 'Aud' and 'S.S. Eastside' gun-running operations, 1936 February 14. Two unsigned references confirming Liam Pedlar's activities during the 1916 Rising, his deportation to the U.S., and his involvement with the 'Aud' and 'S.S. Eastside' gun-running operations, 1936 February 14. Note in unidentified hand: "Got reply today. Want to meet me? Where?", May 28. Note in unidentified hand: "At Academy door night of neutrality meeting", undated. Copy of letter inviting a member of Clan-na-Gael to become a British informant, including a note written by Joseph McGarrity on the Gold Certificate Act of July 12 1882, undated. Letter between unidentified correspondents discussing an article by Floyd Dell in which he "champions" Ireland, and the attitude to the Irish indepenence movement in the press, undated. Four lines of incomplete script by Liam Pedlar ending in "The boy has been eleven days on the island now and we feel very sorry for him.", undated. Note on accounts for July, with mention of Joseph McGarrity, Liam Pedlar, and Luke Dillon, undated. Envelope inscribed with a note relating to a special meeting of an unidentified women's organisation, with "for Liam Pedlar" on verso, undated. "Notes on Liam Pedlar, Commandant General I.R.A., the newly appointed military attaché to the Irish Delegation to the U.S.A.", undated. Memo from Liam Pedlar on activities of Irish Americans, undated. Documents and correspondence relating to the Plunkett family, 1916-1938. Letter from George Noble, Count Plunkett, to John Tiernan refuting an article written by Tiernan on Irish Americans and attitudes towards the Anglo Irish Treaty, 1922 April 19. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to George Noble, Count Plunkett apologising for not visiting the Count and Countess Plunkett while in Dublin, and asking after the progress of Art O'Murnaghan and his illustration of the Book of Resurrection, 1938 October 3. Letter from Countess Josephine Mary Plunkett to Joseph McGarrity, sending Christmas wishes and discussing Dutch and Flemish masters and an unknown painting the Countess wants to sell, 1938 December 10. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Countess Josephine Plunkett sending Christmas greetings and discussing Art O'Murnaghan's Leabhar na hAiséirghe (Book of the Resurrection), 1938 December 31. Letter from Countess Josephine Plunkett to Joseph McGarrity inviting the McGarrity family to lunch, 1939 July 17. Letter from Countess Josephine Plunkett to Joseph McGarrity asking McGarrity to lunch, with mention of Count Plunkett's injured eye and Joseph Plunkett's poetry, 1939 July 18. Note reading "with Count Plunkett's compliments and good wishes, 26 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin" written in George Noble, Count Plunkett's hand, undated. Typescript copy of 'The Mask' by Joseph Mary Plunkett, 1915. Typescript copy of "The Spark" by Joseph Mary Plunkett, undated. Poem written by Joseph McGarrity on the death of Joseph Mary Plunkett, with the opening lines: "Patriot, poet, saint / These lines I read of thine / Show from you no complaint / If death should make a sign", undated. Typescript extract of Joseph Mary Plunkett's diary, beginning with entry for St. Partick's Day 1915 and ending with Friday April 30th, 1915 March 17-April 30. Typescript extract of Joseph Mary Plunkett's diary, beginning with entry for Saturday May 1st "Beginning with first page of Irish section" and ending with Thursday 17th June, 1915 May 1 - June 17. Typescript statement by George Noble, Count Plunkett of the raid on his home by British forces and his subsequent imprisonment in Ship Street and Richmond Barracks, circa 1916. Typescript statement by Countess Josephine Plunkett of the raid on her home and her imprisonment in Richmond Barracks, circa 1916. Printed copy of 'Count Plunkett's speech in the Republican Dail on the 19th December, 1921, on Arthur Griffith's motion, "That Dail Eireann Approves of the Treaty"'., 1921 December 19. Letters from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity, with copy of letter from McGarrity to Russell, 1936-1939. Telegram from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity expressing his sympathy to Miss Tynan on the death of her father Patrick Joseph Percy Tynan, 1936 November 27. Envelope addressed to "Mr. J. McGarrity, 4909 Wynnefield Ave., Philadelphia, P.A. U.S. America, 1936 December 17. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity updating him on activities in Ireland, 1936 November 31. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity referring to John O'Hara Harte's interviews in the press, and the report of the last I.R.A. convention, 1937 January 2. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity regarding Russell's court martial, 1937 January 12. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity sending best wishes and thanking him for his help, 1937 January 15. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity discussing Russell's court martial and the planning of a bombing campaign in England, and refers to discord within the I.R.A., 1937 January 29. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity discussing the organisation of the I.R.A. in the U.K. and the release of Glasshouse prisoners, 1937 May 5. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity praising the the support he found in San Francisco, and saying that he will also be visiting Los Angeles and Chicago, 1937 June 30. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity discussing Clan-na-Gael meetings in San Francisco and Butte and that there is strong interest in the events taking place in Ireland, 1937 August 3. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity discussing a successful Clan-na-Gael meeting in Chicago and further meetings planned for Pittsburgh and New York. Russell also mentions that all branches of Clan-na-Gael from Chicago to the west coast are "well knit together", 1937 August 16. Telegram from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity asking him to call Atlantic City immediately, 1937 August 21. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity arranging a meeting, with reference to "'Dad' Murray", 1937 October. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity discussing I.R.A. and Clan-Na-Gael policies and conventions, 1937 November 5. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity apologising that no representative went over to Clan-na-Gael at Easter, that ammunition is needed, and that there are now 108 prisoners in Arbour Hill, Glasshouse, and Mountjoy prisons, 1936 May 2. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity regarding the organisation of the I.R.A. in Ireland and Great Britain, the new Irish constitution, and Easter commemorations, 1938 May 7. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity updating him on the readiness of the I.R.A. to launch an attack in England. Russell also discusses the "Northern prisoners" and fundraising events being held for them including those by the G.A.A. and Shelbourne Park, 1938 September 21. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity on the I.R.A. campaign initiated in Northern Ireland with a Declaration of Independence, and the planned campaign in England, 1938 December 1. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity on the signing over of the authority of the Second Dáil to the IRA Army Council, 1938 December 14. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity detailing the IRA campaign of attack in Northern Ireland and plans for attacks in England. Russell discusses the reactions of Éamon De Valera and the Free State Army and the cooperation of the Garda Síochána with Scotland Yard and the RUC, 1939 January 25. Telegram from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity: "Arriving Chicago June second. Major notified", 1939 May 27. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Seán Russell requesting that he come to Philadelphia with a representative of his choosing from the Belfast unit of the I.R.A. to update Clan-na-Gael on the current situation in Northern Ireland, 1936 June 16. Letter from Seán Russell to Hans Luther (German Ambassador to the U.S.) apologising that the Irish government has refused permission for a German base for U.S. bound air mail to be established in Galway Bay, 1936 October 15. Letter from Seán Russell to Hans Luther (German Ambassador to the U.S.) apologising on behalf of the republican movement for the refusal of landing rights to the German air corps by the Irish government, 1936 October 25. Telegram from James Brislane to Joseph McGarrity:"Russell in Philadelphia will be at appointed place as agreed.", 1937 August 22. Letter from James Brislane to "Jim" regarding Easter celebrations in Mallow, and an unveiling in Cavan that seems to have not taken place. Refers to meeting Seán [Russell], 1938 April 23. Letter from "Bob" to "Dear O'K[eefe]" regarding "that [Seán] Russell matter", with reference to Charlie McClendon trying to contact Russell and Russell "dodging", undated. Incomplete letter from Seán Russell to unidentified recipient describing the conditions in which republican prisoners are being held and the effect on their health, undated. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity regarding his trip to the U.S. and Clan-na-Gael meetings in Boston, Cleveland, New York, and Springfield, and the discord within the organisation, undated. Letter from Seán Russell to Joseph McGarrity regarding good news of McGarrity in the press, and asking McGarrity to contact James Brislane, undated. Incomplete typed note reads: "End: - I would not write this to anyone else, Joe. I have always regarded you as Ireland's real ambassador in America. I have looked upon you as one of ourselves. I depend on your honour", undated. Envelope inscribed: "For S.R. Sent by Joe Garaty [McGarrity?], Via S.S. Manhattan, Sailing today Wed April 5th 1939, To. Sean Russell", 1939 April 5. Note from Ellen Clarke sending Christmas greetings to unidentified recipient, undated. Correspondence between John T. Ryan and Joseph McGarrity, including copies of letters from John Devoy and others, 1919-1928. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity expressing his distress regarding the use of a letter against his wishes, and the resulting damage to his reputation, 1920 April 16. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity discussing Clan-na-Gael meetings and events, with reference to "Dearborn" and "Mr. Topman", 1920, June 21. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity relating plans to go to "the home of our friends" with "Jordan" [unknown] to gather information , 1920 June 30. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity informing him he has moved office, and about miscommunication regarding who was to meet him there, 1920 July 31. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity specifing which newspapers Clan-na-Gael members should subscribe to, and discussing funds to be sent to Ireland "to swing the projects", 1920 August 16. Letter addressed to "My dear cousin" discussing Republicans and voting against "the thing", 1921 January 6. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity with details on how to contact him in Mexico, 1921 August 20. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the "R.D. Co. in America", 1922 March 27. Telegram from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity suggesting "immediate action necessary", 1922 May 19. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding their "competitor" and the consequences of an agreement, 1922 June 7. Cutting from the Chicago Daily Tribune titled "No pardons for foe of nation, Harding's edict", detailing President Harding's decision not to grant amnesty to political prisoners, 1922 July 20. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity referring to an enclosed newspaper cutting and a colleague's planned trip, 1922 July 25. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity discussing political relations between France, England, and the Near East, 1922, September 19. Telegram from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity informing him that "Topman" can "win clear title and unite family by determined stand" at the "Homestead conference", 1922 September 21. Telegram from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity : "Transportation from mine bad, leave noon today, going straight through, Cousin", 1922 November 10. Telegram from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity: "Will go direct New York train due five thirty", 1922 November 13. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity providing details of his planned trip to Mexico and that he will use the name Shane Reain. Ryan also updates McGarrity on events in Ireland, 1922. Newspaper cutting regarding Easter Sunday commemorations and a talk to be given by Nora Connolly at the Star Theater, undated. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Republican political campaigns, 1922 February 19.. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a wreck in which he lost his luggage and is grateful for the suport of his friends, 1923 February 1. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity discussing plans involving someone with the code name "Time", 1923 February 23. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity discussing events involving people with the code names "Time", "V.C.M.", "H." and "Peters", 1923 April 23. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity on smuggling material into Ireland via submarine and airplane, with reference to "Peters" and "Cormac", 1923 May 14. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the activities of "Peters", "Cormac", and "B.C.O.", 1923 May 20. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding "Peters's" concern for the well-being of "Cormac", 1923, June 4. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the activities of "Lee" and "Peters", 1923 June 4. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding the activities of "Lee", "Peters" and "Cormac", 1923 June 12. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to John T. Ryan regarding Joseph Connolly becoming President of the "S.F. Independence League" [Reorganised Sinn Féin], 1923 June 26. Letter from John T.Ryan to Joseph McGarrity detailing confusion over sending letters to others, 1923 June 30. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity expressing his eagerness to get back to work, 1923 July 3. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity apologising for the tone of his recent letters but that he has nothing to do and too much time to think, 1923 July 6. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding expenses paid out by "Peters", 1923 July 12. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity on uncertainty surrounding the arrival of "V.C.M,", 1923 September 5. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity discussing their methods of communication, 1923. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity in which he summarises his recent reports, 1923. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding compiling a list, undated. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regardng methods of communication, the interests of the "R.D. Co." and the "O.H. Co." and that "coming developments will have world-wide effect", undated. Incomplete letter from John T. Ryan [to Joseph McGarrity?] regarding an unknown colleague doubting the nature of their work, undated. Incomplete letter from John T. Ryan to [Joseph McGarrity] discussing "George" and "Burns" and their "competitor", undated. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity noting that McGarrity should "take a clear position against F's contention" and that there is work for Ryan in Europe, 1924 March 1. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity discussing "Mr. Senator" and "Mr. A.G." and the "W- matter", 1924 December 12. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding 'Rody' leaving Germany on 11th April 1916, and that 'Rody' believed 'D' was double-crossing the 'O.H' [Irish] people, 1925 March 18. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to "Dear Nephew" with reference to a friend's death in Hamburg and current activities, [1923] February 14. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Liam Lynch (IRA Chief of Staff) regarding friends that will meet Lynch and asking for a report of activities, 1923 April 3. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to John T. Ryan introducing I.R.A. member Joseph McVeigh, 1923 April 5. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to unknown recipient detailing issues wth their methods of communication, 1923 April 15. Incomplete letter from Joseph McGarrity to John T. Ryan regarding the death of Laurence Ginnell. Joseph McGarrity also informs him that 'Meadows' is in bad condition, 1923 April 17. Copy of letter from Joseph McGarrity to John T. Ryan regarding the death of Laurence Ginnell, with reference to casualties and that the outlook is "very dark just now", 1923 April 17. Typescript copy of letter from Joseph McGarrity to 'S' regarding the deaths of "L.L." and Laurence Ginnell, and the arrest of Austin Stack, 1923 April 17. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to "S" regarding the death of Laurence Ginnell, the arrest of Austin Stack, and that proposed actions will have to be postponed, 1923 April 17-18. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to 'S' discussing methods of correspondence, 1923 April 23. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to John T. Ryan regarding "Mr. Topman", "C.V.M." and a welcoming committee, and the death of a friend in Hamburg, 1923 May 14. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to John T. Ryan regarding "Mr. Topman", "C.V.M.", the death of a friend in Hamburg, with mention of "Lee", "Kingston", and "Reading" 1923 May 14. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to 'S' discussing news of their colleagues and upcoming elections, with reference to hunger striking women prisioners being released, 1923 June 13. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to John T. Ryan with reference to 'Bridge', 1923 June 20. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to John T. Ryan cancelling a planned trip with reference to activities of "Peters", "Cormac", "Lee", and "Samuel" , 1923 June 29. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to John T. Ryan regarding Ryan's future and political prisoners, 1923 July 25. Draft letter from "Lee" to "Peters" regarding supply difficulties resulting from the French occupation of the Ruhr, and "Alderman M's" visit with the Pope, including a contact address for "Lee", May 26. Draft copy of correspondence between Joseph McGarrity and John T. Ryan as 'Shane Reain' regarding certificates and arranging to meet "Bullet's friend", May 15. Draft letter from Joseph McGarrity to unknown recipient regarding keeping "'Windows' and his man out", and a recent shipwreck where "every emigrant from Ireland went down", circa 1923. Incomplete letter from Joseph McGarrity to unknown recipient informing him that details of a planned shipment have been seized from the "C. of G. office", undated. Envelope from Joseph McGarrity to John T. Ryan, addressed to "For Cousin, c/o Mr. Markmann, 49 Moltke Strasse, Hamburg", undated. Statement by John T. Ryan explaining that he is transporting funds from Joseph McGarrity and the Executive Council of Clan-na-Gael for the use of the I.R.A., along with receipts for same, 1923 February 21. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding 'Joe McL.' and an upcoming meeting, 1923 December 16. Letter from John F. Finnerty to John T. Ryan regarding Scelig [Seán Ua Ceallaigh] which Ryan sent on to Joseph McGarrity, 1923 December 16. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Kathleen Clarke and Major Kelley's [unknown] planned visit to assist the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic, 1924 January 1. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding 'Mr. Senator', 'Mr. R-u', and 'Mr. L.', 1924 November 12. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding 'Mr. Senator', 1924 November 28. Telegram from John T. Ryan and Liam Pedlar [?] to Joseph McGarrity regarding suspensions to be made from headquarters, 1924 December 29. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity asking if 'H' [John Devoy?] has heard anything about the 'N.J' [New Jersey?] matter, and expressing concern over 'Sean M.' 1925 May 19. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a received notice that he is sending on to McGarrity, 1926 July 29. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding fundraising required by Éamon de Valera and Frank Aiken for the upcoming general election. De Valera also requests funds for establishing an evening newspaper, 1926 September 21. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a violin and Mrs. Grabisch [unknown], 1926 December 3. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity detailing a conversation between Ryan and Éamon de Valera on the production of newspapers and that de Valera is "aiming at some kind of agreement with the 'C'", 1927 December 23. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity doubting the Friends of Irish Freedom's authority to act as trustee to a fund relating to the Irish Race Convention 1919, 1928 June 6. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding fundraising for St. Ita's school, and a dispute over the Friends of Irish Freedom's claim to certificates 1928 June 20. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity describing a trip with Ryan's ill nephew, 1928 September 29. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a visit by Tom [unknown], Ernie O'Malley and Frank Aiken, and the I.R.A.'s need for support, 1928 Oct 8. Letter from J.M. Caldwell (Attorney at Law) to John T. Ryan in which Caldwell informs Ryan that he hasn't been able to find a Mr. Freet or Mr. Finn who disappeared after pledging money to a partnership with Joseph McGarrity, 1929 June 8. Note from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity originally attached to a letter to McGarrity from Frank Ryan [unknown], 1932 September 18. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding Éamon de Valera's trip to Rochester, and an audit of the National Treasurer's account books, December 25. Statement by Deutsche Freischar appealing to Irish Americans and addressed "To the I.R. Directory in America", undated. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding asking Dr. McCartan to speak along with Nora Connolly at an Easter Week second anniversary commemoration at the Star Theater, 1918 March 27. Letter from John T. Ryan to Joseph McGarrity regarding meeting Éamon de Valera, and Free State bonds, undated. Letter from Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh to John T. Ryan regarding the general election and the "Cosgrave Party", 1927 August 29. Letter to Joseph McGarrity from "A.G.B.S." [unknown] discussing the attitudes of Americans towards Germany, and warning McGarrity that Keogh [unknown] is untrustworthy., undated. Letter from John T. Ryan to James K. McGuire (Acting Chairman, Executive Council of Clan-na-Gael), tendering his resignation as a member of the Executive Council, undated. Typescript copy of a statement by an unidentified author proclaiming John T. Ryan's innocence in the charges brought against him by the United States, undated. Copy of letter written by an unidentified author addressed to "Dear Friend" discussing a recent meeting of the Clan-na-Gael Executive Council and current activities, 1916 November 26. Copy of a letter written by John Devoy to unidentified recipient regarding Clan-na-Gael activities in Washington, 1919 September 5. Copy of letter written by an unidentified author addressed to "Dear Friend" and discussing "crooked work with the funds", 1919 September 6. Copy of letter from John Devoy to "Dear Friend" regarding discord within the republican movement, issues with writing in code, Éamon De Valera's trip to the U.S., and fundraising, 1919 November 1. Copy of letter from John Devoy to "Dear Friend" explaining that "M" had taken a statement from "Margaret" in confidence and had it used to cross-examine her, 1919 November 1. Copy of letter regarding a speech declaring Éamon de Valera "brought about the defeat of the Treaty", with note reading "Memo of letter H. to D"., 1920 February 5. Copy of letter from [John Devoy] to "Dear Friend" [J. Schell] giving a critical account of Éamon de Valera and his impact on Irish American organisations, 1920 February 20. Copy of letter from John Devoy to "Dear Friend" criticising Éamon de Valera and complaining that funds are being wasted on "absurd" salaries and indulgences, 1920 February 28. Copy of letter between unidentified correspondents commenting that the "breach was widening" between 'Uncle Donald' and John Devoy on one side, and Éamon de Valera and his supporters on the other, Feb 28. Copy of letter between unknown correspondents regarding John Devoy, 'Uncle D[onald]' J. Schell, and 'the Chief' and that there wouild be "no fight", [1920] March 13. Copy of letter between unidentified correspondents regarding communication from 'Dearborn' and 'Uncle D[onald]', 1920 March 11. Letters and telegrams from Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington to Joseph McGarrity, including photostat of letter from Francis Sheehy-Skeffington to Joseph McGarrity, 1915-1918. Photostat of a letter from Francis Sheehy-Skeffington to Joseph McGarrity confirming that he will address the Irish-American Club in Phildelphia, 1915 November 8. Letter from Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington to Joseph McGarrity arranging a lecture in Philadelphia, 1917 January 3. Letter from Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington to Joseph McGarrity, discussing a lecture planned in Philadelphia for March 17th, 1917 January 24. Telegram from Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington to Joseph McGarrity informing him of her arrival in Philadelphia, 1918 February 27. Francis Sheehy-Skeffington memorial card, undated. Typescript copy of an appeal to the House of Representatives for the U.S. to officially declare its stance on Irish independence, undated. Typescript copy of statement by James Smith on his mission from Clan-na-Gael to Tom Clarke and Dr. Patrick McCartan, concerning shipment of arms, and related correspondence, 1916. Copy of letter detailing a planned journey by a Clan-na-Gael agent to Ireland with a message detailing changes to be made to a propsed landing, 1916 March 31. Letter from Michael Francis Doyle to Joseph McGarrity informing him that a passport was sent to James Smith, and includes a bill for expenses, 1916 April 5. Copy of letter from James Smith describing his trip to Ireland prior to the Easter Rising in 1916, 1916 April 18. Bound typescript statement by James Smith detailing his mission as a Clan-na-Gael agent to bring a message to Tom Clarke in Ireland regarding a shipment of arms to aid the Easter Rising 1916, 1940 February 8. Letters from Austin Stack and members of his family, to Joseph McGarrity, 1916-1929. Letter from James Moore Stack to Joseph McGarrity with regrets that he will not be able to meet McGarrity due to a death in the family. Stack also writes of the pride he feels for his brother, Austin, currently in prison, 1916 May 6. Letter from James Moore Stack to Joseph McGarrity introducing a family member who has resigned from the Royal Irish Constabulary and is looking for work, 1920 November 28. Letter from Austin Stack to Joseph McGarrity with details of the death of Harry Boland, and that there is an ongoing campaign to damage McGarrity's reputation, 1922 August 3. Letter from Austin Stack to Joseph McGarrity regarding the death of Michael Collins, 1922 August 27. Letter from Austin Stack to Joseph McGarrity introducing John Geraghty as a member of the Irish Republican Army who is travelling to the U.S., 1922 August 18. Letter from Austin Stack to Joseph McGarrity introducing Joseph O'Doherty T.D. who is travelling to the U.S. with Seán Ua Ceallaigh (Sceilg) on behalf of the Republican Party, 1922 September 10. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Austin Stack congratulating him on recent elections and discussing the current situation in Ireland, 1922 September 23.. Letter from Austin Stack to Joseph McGarrity discussing the obstacles facing them during the Irish Civil War, including the indifference of the Catholic Church, 1922 October 18. Letter from Austin Stack to Joseph McGarrity regarding recent events of the Irish Civil War, including the deaths of Seán Hales, Rory O'Connor and Liam Mellows, and the attempted assasination of Erskine Childers, 1922 December 14. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Austin Stack regarding the failed delivery of a package and that more funds will be sent to Ireland, 1922 December 19. Letter from Austin Stack to Joseph McGarrity regarding funds sent from the U.S., 1923 January 2. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Austin Stack regarding aquiring power of attorney for Liam de Lacy, 1923 February 16. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Austin Stack regarding power of attorney from Larry De Lacy, that military victory is essential, and querying how the "Volunteers" are sending money to Ireland without the assistance of Clan-na-Gael, 1923 Februatry 26. Draft instructions to "Representatives of the Republic in Foreign Countries" on the correct proceedures for the collecting and donating of money to the Irish Government, 1923 March 9. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Austin Stack informing him of the death of Laurence Ginnell, 1923 April 17. Letter from James Moore Stack to Joseph McGarrity introducing Sam Browne from Derry who requires assistance crossing the Canadian border, 1923 December 31. Article titled "Great Kerryman dead: the passing of Austin Stack" published in the 'Kerry Champion', 1929 May 4. Article titled "Landing of Casement: the authentic narrative" published in 'The Kerry Champion', 1929 August 31. Article titled "Landing of Casement: the authentic narrative: the Ballykissane tragedy" published in 'The Kerry Champion', 1929 September 7. Article titled "Landing of Casement: the authentic narrative: the arrest of Con Collins and Bailey" published in 'The Kerry Champion', 1929 September 14. Article titled "Landing of Casement: the authentic narrative: how Monteith got away" published in 'The Kerry Champion', 1929 September 21. Envelope containing dried leaves, with note on envelope reading "Croppy's from on Tara's Hill", undated. Letter from Batt [Bartholomew] Scollard to [oseph McGarrity?]regarding a letter from Jim Stack and an attack on Nicholas Stack by the Black and Tans, undated. Notice by Clan-na-Gael on the death of Austin Stack, 1929. Letters from Moss Twomey to Joseph McGarrity, with copies of letters from McGarrity to Twomey, 1931-1940. Letter from Moss Twomey to Joseph McGarrity updating him on events in Ireland, 1931 June 23. Letter from Moss Twomey to Joseph McGarrity regarding the Coercion Bill, the Eucharistic Congress, and the current state of the Irish Republican Army, 1931 October 4. Letter from Moss Twomey to Joseph McGarrity regarding the Coercion Bill and other currents events in Ireland, 1931 Decembr 1931. Letter from Moss Twomey to Joseph McGarrity inviting McGarrity to speak at the Dublin Brigade Commemoration on Easter Sunday in Glasnevin Cemetery, 1933 April 3. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Moss Twomey in which he interates Éamon De Valera's concern that violence by the Irish Republican Army is forcing the Free State government to act against them when they have "no desire to do so", 1933 October 3. Letter from Moss Twomey to Joseph McGarrity discussing the tensions between the Irish Republican Army and the Free State Government, 1933 October 26. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Moss Twomey regarding the relationship between the Irish Republican Army and the Irish Free State, and the current state of Clan-na-Gael camps in the U.S., 1933 December 3. Note from Moss Twomey to Joseph McGarrity recommending a book written by the brother of Lord Longford, 1935 July 3. Letter from Moss Twomey to Joseph McGarrity in which he hopes there will be "unity between all Republican Organisations and Second Dail Éireann", and acknowledges that Clan-na-Gael effectively no longer exists outside New York, 1935 October 7. Letter from Moss Twomey to Joseph McGarrity regarding Twomey's release from the 'Glasshouse' prison, and a visit by McGarrity's daughter "Betty", 1937 December 27. Letter from Moss Twomey to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for a cheque, and informing him of the situation in Ireland including that Fianna Fáil has "killed all enthusiasm for the time being", 1938 May 12. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Moss Twomey regarding commemorations and the republican spirit in Ireland, 1938 October 30. Telegram from Joseph McGarrity to Moss Twomey: "Resolution introduced in Congress yesterday. See press report", 1940 January 31. Newspaper cutting of article titled "Ireland's role in the war: Mr. M. Twomey's view", undated. Envelope addressed to "Mr. Joe McGarrity" inscribed with note fom Sean Hayes arranging a meeting, undated. Incomplete letter from Kathleen Twomey to unknown recipient regarding the recipient's visit to Ireland, undated. Letter from Moss Twomey to Joseph McGarrity regarding McGarrity's visit to Ireland, undated. Letter from 'T.M.' to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for a wedding gift and discussing the author's brother, undated. Letters from John Stanton to J. Williams, with copies of letters from Williams to associates, relating to Clan-na-Gael, 1930. Letter from John Stanton to J. Williams regarding the death of Luke Dillon, 1930 January 29. Letter from John Stanton to J. Williams regarding his new job and Owen Moore, 1930 July 12. Letter from J. Williams to J. Casey forwarding a letter from 'O'Conner' [unknown], 1928 December 4. Letter from J. Williams to J. Casey regarding activities of Clan-na-Gael clubs in Detroit, 1929 January 10. Letter from J. Williams to W. Burns regarding fundraising for disabled members of the Irish Republican Army, 1930 January 31. Letter from J. Williams to an unidentified member of Clan-na-Gael discussing training, 1930 June 18. Letter from J. Williams to an unidentified member of Clan-na-Gael regarding training, 1930 July 8. Letter from J. Williams to an unidentified member of Clan-na-Gael discussing the option of boycotting English shipping, 1930 July 16. Letter from J. Williams to an unidentified member of Clan-na-Gael regarding Harry Condon visiting Cleveland, 1930 July 23. Letter from J. Williams to an unidentified member of Clan-na-Gael regarding returns from the sale of Easter Lillies, 1930 August 14. Letter from J. Williams to "Jack" organising the ordering of supplies, 1930 August 15. Letter from J. Williams to "John" regarding a catalogue, 1930 August 21. Letter from John Stanton to J. Williams regarding recent activities of Clan-na-Gael and delays in communication, [1930] March 11. Letter from John Stanton to J. Williams describing how people are spending money, March 26. Letter from John Stanton to J. Williams regarding Easter Week commemorations, April 29. Correspondence between Ella Young and Joseph McGarrity, ca. 1925-1939. Letter from H. Stuart to Ella Young concerning poems, 1925 September 26. Letter from Shaw Desmond to Ella Young regarding the financial difficulties facing Joseph Campbell, 1925 December 20. Postcard from Fr. John H. Dooley to Joseph McGarrity regarding Ella Young's use of the hall at Corpus Christi Church, New York, 1925 December 23. Letter from Bertha Gunterman to Joseph McGarrity regarding the promotion of Ella Young's book, 1926 February 13. Letter from Bertha Gunterman to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for tickets to a folklore event involving Ella Young, 1926 February 20. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity regarding her promotional tour in California, 1926 March 18. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity regarding her promotional tour in California, 1926 April 7. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity regarding her promotional tour in California and that she will also be lecturing in Oregon, 1926 August 20. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity regarding lectures by Young in Oregon, Washington, and California, 1926 December 17. Postcard advertising a lecture by Ella Young on "Gaelic Ireland and the story-tellers" held by Alexander Greene and the English Club of Greater Chicago, 1927 December 2. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity regarding her promotional tour and meeting Ernie O'Malley, 1929 November 3. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Ella Young thanking her for conferring an honour on him, 1929 December 13. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity asking for his address over Christmas so she can send a specially bound copy of her book to him, 1929 December 14. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity regarding her book 'To the Little Princess' and her belief that "real Republicans are those who refuse to enter the Dáil", 1930 June 18. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for his generosity, and that she has sent McGarrity's letters to Colonel Charles Erksine Scott Wood, 1931 March 10. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity regarding a newspaper article on Colonel Charles Erskine Scott Wood, 1931 March 18. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Ella Young regarding a copy of her book Young sent to him, 1932 October 25. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity regarding her stay in Rio Chiquita, Mexico, and current events in Ireland, 1933 December 18. Postcard from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity asking for his permanent address, 1934 December 4. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity regarding Longmans Green and Co. publishers and a foreword written by Young for a poetry publication, 1937 October 17. Letter from Dale Warren to Ella Young suggesting she send Joseph McGarrity's poetry manuscript to Macmillan. Includes address for Ernie O'Malley, 1937 October 27. Incomplete letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity discussing McGarrity's poetry, 1937 November 3. Letter to Ella Young from [Joseph McGarrity?] discussing the phrasing of a poem, 1937 December 5. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity discussing McGarrity's poetry, 1938 January 10. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity discussing their poetry, 1938 February 28. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity discussing McGarrity's trip to Ireland, and artistic works by Art O'Murnaghan, Mia Cranwill and Colum O'Loughlin, 1938 June 17. Incomplete letter from Joseph McGarrity to Ella Young describing his trip home to Ireland with his family, 1938 September 30. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity congratulating him on the publication of his poem "To the Virgin and her son", 1938 March 27. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity informing him that she has had a copy of his book "To the Virgin and her son" specially bound and is sending it on to him, 1938 December 11. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Ella Young asking Young to proof-read his poetry, 1938 December 27. Incomplete letter from Joseph McGarrity to Ella Young praising Young's volume of poetry 'Marzilian', 1939 January 7. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Ella Young discussing poetry and Irish-American politics , 1939 February 23. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Ella Young discussing his memoirs and Irish American politics, 1939 December 29. Programme of lectures by Ella Young at the University of California, undated. Promotional booklet for Ella Young titled "Ella Young: Irish poet, scholar and story teller: do you believe in fairies?", undated. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Ella Young regarding the writing of his memoirs, undated. Draft obituary by Joseph McGarrity on the death of his son Joseph McGarrity Jr., 1932 September 1. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity on her visit to Ireland and plans for lectures, undated. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity discussing Shaw Desmond and Joseph Campbell, undated. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity regarding her lecture tour, undated. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity regarding the schedule of her lecture tour, undated. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity discussing the publication of her poetry, undated. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity discussing the publication of her poetry and attending a Russian play, undated. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity asking for his current address, undated. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity discussing her lecturing and that she would like to see the Russian Players next time she is in New York, undated. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity informing him that she will be sending him books, undated. Letter from Ella Young to Joseph McGarrity discussing books to be published, undated. Incomplete letter from Ella Young to [Joseph McGarrity] discussing books to be published and work by Art O'Murnaghan, undated. Newspaper cutting of an article written by Mary Phillips on Ella Young titled "[-]ds our fairies reticient" published in unidentified newspaper, undated. Photostat copy of supplement to 'An Phoblacht' devoted to Joseph McGarrity Papers, 1971 December. Letters to Joseph McGarrity mainly from friends in Ireland, including grant of letters of administration of estate of John McGarrity, 1882-1910. Letter of recommendation for Michael Hynes written by Thomas L. O'Callaghan, 1882 February 7. Acknowledgement by John McCafferty of a loan of $125 from Luke Dillon "and others", 1892 July 5. Letter from Rev.Thomas Barry to the "President and members of the Irish American Society, Philadelphia" thanking them for their donation to aid refugees in Kensington, 1893 December 17. Affidavit sworn by Grace Sharkey that funds paid by her to Margaret O'Donnell for dues owed on shares of the Ridge Avenue Building and Loan association were appropriated by O'Donnell for her personal use, 1900 August 31. Letter from John Costello to unidentified recipient describing his military service overseas and that he will be travelling to Manilla, 1900 October 6. Letter from Mr. Mooney to Joe [McGarrity] regarding a b[lunder]buss belonging to Dwyer [unknown] and found by Fr. Kavanagh [unknown] who wants to sell it, 1901 November 6. Letter from D. Marshall to Joseph McGarrity regarding McGarrity's poetry, 1905 March 12. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity discussing McGarrity's poetry, the 'Gaelic American' and current events in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1905 April 30. Incomplete letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding the Russo-Japanese War and the siege of Port Arthur, and that the parish priest of Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone has acquired land for a new cemetery, circa 1904. Grant of letters of administration of the personal estate of John McGarrity to Annie McGarrity, 1910 May 4. Letter from R. Watson addressed to his son regarding the colliers strike in England, Jack Watson setting up his own business, and a trip to Cornwall, 1893 September 23. Letter from unidentified correspondent to Joseph [McGarrity], 1892 November. Letter from Dave J. Marshall to Joseph McGarrity detailing his experience in the United States Marine Corps, 1895 February 22. Letter from Michael Rafferty to Joseph McGarrity regarding an exhibition organised by Rafferty and McGarrity's visit to Paris, 1901 February 19. Letter from Ellen Haughey to Joseph McGarrity regarding the death of Michael [unknown], 1901 July. Typescript copies of correspondence between a British agent and an Irish informer in Philadelphia [Joseph J. Carew?], 1901-1912. Typescript copies of correspondence between unidentified informants regarding funds sent between them and discussing the activities of Irish Americans, 1901 February 25th to 1902 October 14th. Typescript copies of correspondence between unidentified informants regarding funds sent between them, modes of communication, and the activities of Irish Americans, 1902 November 24 to 1904 June 17th. Typescript copies of correspondence between unidentified informants arranging to meet and discussing the activities and physical descriptions of Irish Americans, 1904 June 28 to 1906 June 27. Typescript copies of correspondence between unidentified informants regarding funds sent between them and the activities of Irish Americans, 1906 July 16 to 1910 December 6. Typescript copies of letters between unidentified informants regarding the activities of Irish Americans, 1908 October 21 to 1910 October 24. Typescript copies of correspondence between unidentified informants, 1910 November 3 to 1912 January 26. Typescript copies of correspondence between unidentified informants regarding the activities of Irish Americans, 1912. Letters to Joseph McGarrity, mainly from friends in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1902-1903. Incomplete photostat copy of a letter from [Joseph McGarrity] to William Crossin regarding financial assistance for the 'United Irishman', 1902 May 6. Letter from John McGurk to Joseph McGarrity regarding the organisation of the Land League in Carrickmore, Tyrone, 1903 January 6. Notes by unidentified correspondent, matching the format used by Irish American informants, 1903 February 27 to July 3. Letter from John J. Reynolds to Stephen J. Richardson (New York editor of 'The Gael') regarding the publication of Reynolds book 'Footprints of Emmet', 1903 March 4. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity discussing landlordism in Ireland and the need for an Irish Parliament, 1903 April 29. Letter from P. McCullough to Joseph McGarrity regarding a legal case and the demolition of an Orange Hall, 1903 September 13. Driving licence issued to Joseph McGarrity by the Paving Commitee of the County Borough of Dublin, 1910-1911. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding commemorations of Robert Emmet, the Land Bill, and that while Irish people cannot "sit idly by", few can afford to be "very liberal", 1903 October 25. Letter from Mrs. Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity apologising for the wrong postage on a letter sent by her husband Michael Gormley, 1903 November 6. Letter from Dave J. Marshall to Joseph McGarrity discussing his farm and family, 1903 November 10. Letter from D. Marshall to Joseph McGarrity discussing their families and matters local to Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1903 November 23. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding blackthorn that Gormley is sending McGarrity from the vicinity of the McGarrity homestead in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1903. Letter from James Donnelly (parish priest of Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone) thanking Joseph McGarrity for his donation to the St. Columbkill's Brass Band, 1903 November 28. Letter from Dave J. Marshall to Joseph McGarrity describing his farming lifestyle in Washington and asking after the Marshall family in Philadelphia, 1903 December 8. Letter from William O'Neill addressed to the editor of 'The Gael' asking her to review his book of verse, 1903 December 10. Letters to Joseph McGarrity, mainly from friends in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1904. Letter from David Marshall to Joseph McGarrity regarding his subscription to the 'Gaelic American', 1904 January 6. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding landlordism in Ireland and that Irish is being taught in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1904 January 11. Manuscript copy of correspondence between a Clan-na-Gael member and a British agent, 1904 February. Letter from Mrs. Quinn [?] from Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for issues of the 'Gaelic American', 1904 January 19. Letter from Lizzie K. Marshall (daughter of David Marshall) asking Joseph McGarrity for advice on emmigrating to the United States, 1904 February 7. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity discussing local events in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1904 February 24. Letter from Maurice F. Quinlivan to Joseph McGarrity enclosing a report of the St. Columbkill's Branch of the Gaelic League, Carrickmore, on McGarrity's offer to provide prizes for students of Irish, 1904 March 7. Letter from P. McCullough to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for his donation, 1904 March 21. Letter from Maria Grogan to Joseph McGarrity on the death of her son, 1904 April 4. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to "Michael" regarding Irishmen enlisting in the British Army, 1904 April 18. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Maurice F. Quinlivan regarding prizes for students of Irish, 1904 April 4. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Seumas MacManus thanking him for sending him copies of his books 'The Red Poocher' and 'The lad of the O'Friels', 1904 April 20. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding an incident between the British Army and the St. Columbkill's Brass Band at Sixmilecross, 1904 April 25. Letter in Irish from a schoolboy in Co. Cavan, forwarded to Joseph McGarrity by Rev. Cornelius Short, 1904 May 2. Letter from Rev. Cornelius Short to Joseph McGarrity thanking him for his donation to the St. Columbkill branch of the Gaelic League and discussing the activities of the League, 1904 June 1. Draft letter from Joseph McGarrity to Rev. Cornelius Short thanking him for a letter written in Irish sent by a school boy, and discussing an incident between the British Army and the St. Columbkill's Brass Band at Sixmilecross, 1904 June 18. Draft letter from Joseph McGarrity to Rev. Cornelius Short informing him of the death of McGarrity's mother 1904 June 18. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding the death of McGarrity's mother, 1904 June 21. Letter from David Marshall to Joseph McGarrity expressing his condolences on the death of McGarrity's mother, 1904 July 4. Letter from Rev. Cornelius Short to Joseph McGarrity, 1904 July 11. Letter from Francis McGarrity to Joseph McGarrity discussing the McGarrity family and offering condolences on the death of Joseph's mother, 1904 July 26. Letter from John Kells Ingram Jr. sending money to Joseph McGarrity and informing him that Ingram's father will be sending copies of his poetry to McGarrity, 1905 January 6. List by unidentified author of expense accounts for stationery etc., 1904 November 14 to 1905 January 8. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to Michael Gormley regarding the McGarrity homestead in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, and Gormley's son in Philadelphia, 1905 January 21. Letter from "Emmet" to "Russel" discussing poetry and a production dedicated to Robert Emmet, 1905 January 31. Incomplete letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding the McGarrity homestead in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, Gormley's son in Philadelphia, and Irish language classes in Carrickmore, 1905 February 15. Letter from Wm. Jas. Jackson to Joseph McGarrity regarding Jackson's family and the death of McGarrity's mother, 1905 April 26. Copy of agenda for a Robert Emmet commemoration, including contact details for members of "District 12 NC", 1905 April 1. Letter from David Marshall to Joseph McGarrity regarding Marshall's text 'History of Sermon' and McGarrity's poetry, 1905 May 25. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding Gormley's son in Philadelphia and local events in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1905 May 29. Notes in Irish regarding Clan-na-Gael, 1905 May 31. Letter from David Marshall to Joseph McGarrity regarding the ordination of Peter McGarrity, Irish classes in Carrickmore, and Joseph McGarrity's poetry, 1905 July 1. Letter from Robert Emmett to Joseph McGarrity with local news from Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone, 1905 July 2. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding Gormley's brother in Philadelphia, and Irish language classes in Carrickmore, 1905 August 24. Letter from Joseph McGarrity to unknown recipient inviting the recipient to Philadelphia and discussing the Irish revolutionary movement, 1905 Sept. 11. Letter from Seosamh McaCathmhaoil [Joseph Campbell] to Joseph McGarrity regarding copies of 'The Gaelic American' sent by McGarrity, and the hopes that Orangemen will join in "a sense of pride in Irish citizenship", 1905 September 6. Letter from Annie McQuade to Joseph McGarrity asking for a contribution to a bazaar in aid of the church and school at Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone, 1905 September 23. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding prizes for Irish students and local news from Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1905 October 25. Letter from D.J. Marshall to Joseph McGarrity updating McGarrity on his trip and discussing his farm in Wallula, Washington, 1906 January 8. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding prizes for Irish language students and local events in Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone, 1906 January 9. Typescript article titled "The Philadelphia Clan-Na-Gael" by Peter McCahey, M.D., 1906 February 11. Letter from Seosamh MacCathmhaoil [Joseph Campbell] to Joseph McGarrity regarding his book 'The Rushlight', 1906 January 12. Letter from Samuel Jackson, of Rhyolite Nevada, to Joseph McGarrity regarding McGarrity's trip to Oregon and Washington, and discussing conditions in Rhyolite and a possible move to Canada, 1906 February 6. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding the Royal Irish Constabulary, and Irish language and lace making classes in Carrickmore, 1906 February 6. Letter from Alice Gormley of Carrickmore, Co. Tyrone to Joseph McGarrity providing him a sample of her writing in Irish, 1906 February 12. Letter from John Clark to Joseph McGarrity regarding a printed work by Clark, 1906 February 16. Letter from Rev. Cornelius Short to Joseph McGarrity regarding fundraising for the local school, promoting the local lace industry, and the Gaelic League, 1906 February 2. Letter from 'The Evening Bulletin' sending letters written by Patrick McCartan onto Joseph McGarrity as they will not be publishing them, 1906 February 20. Letter from David Marshall to Joseph McGarrity regarding Patrick McCartan's visit to Co. Tyrone, and comparisons between the independence movements in Ireland and India, 1906 March 1. Letter from Peter McCahey to Robert Walker calling for an amnesty movement to be instigated for the Clan-na-Gael prisoners involved in an attack on the Welland Canal in 1900, 1906 March 16. Letter from David Marshall to Joseph McGarrity regarding Irish emmigration and nationalism, 1906 April 30. Accounts by Michael Gormley for expenditure on the upkeep of the McGarrity homestead at Carrickmore Co. Tyrone, 1906 May 29 to December 18. Letter from "M.M'A." to Joseph McGarrity regarding the difficulties he is facing as an immigrant, 1906 June 14. Letter from William Crossin to Joseph McGarrity arranging a meeting with "the Judge and your friend Daly from home", 1906 July 11. Letter from John McCafferty to William Crossin complaining of the manner in which he has be treated by Irish American societies, 1907 July 14. Letter from Gerald P. Coughlan to "Mr. Mac Manus" [Seumas MacManus] saying that he will support a movement but is not in a position to direct it, 1906 November 2. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding prizes for essays and the "Dungannon club", 1906 December 17. Letter to Joseph McGarrity from his cousin Vincent with family news and wishes for the new year, 1907 January 2. Letter from Patrick O'Neill to Joseph McGarrity with local news from Pomeroy, Co, Tyrone, 1907 January 14. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding the "Dungannon Club" and that meetings are poorly attended, 1907 February 6. Letter from Seosamh MacCathmhaoil [Joseph Campbell] to Joseph McGarrity regarding MacCathmhaoil's publication 'The Man-Child', 1907 April 5. Letter from C.F. Wynne to Joseph McGarrity returning a cheque that McGarrity filled out incorrectly, 1907 April 19. Postcard to Joseph McGarrity from "D" sending congratulations that McGrrity has been "found worthy of the attention of England", 1907 October 24. Letter from Michael Gormley to Joseph McGarrity regarding a tenant in the McGarrity home in Co. Tyrone, undated. Letters to Joseph McGarrity, mainly relating to the activities of Sinn Fein League of America and the Wolfe Tone and United Irishmen Memorial Committee, 1908-1912. Letter from P.T. Daly to Joseph McGarrity thanking McGarrity for his generosity during his stay in Philadelphia, 1908 March 14. Letter between unknown correspondents regarding modes of communication and Irish-American politics, 1908 March 29. Letter from William Kaney to Joseph McGarrity regarding his recuperation in "Co. C.", 1908 June 3. 'Constitution of the Sinn Fein League of America', 1908 August 8. Address by the Sinn Féin Central Council in the United States titled 'To the Irish People of America', 1908 August 10. Letter from Charles Noonan to Joseph McGarrity regarding buyers for the 'Irish Year Book' by the Sinn Féin National Council Dublin, 1908 October 16. Letter from John G. Lee to Joseph McGarrity regarding designs for headed paper ordered by McGarrity, 1909 January 14. Letter from Charles Noonan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a Sinn Féin bill, 1909 March 18. Letter from Charles Noonan to Joseph McGarrity regarding an unpaid bill, 1909 April 5. Letter from Charles Noonan regarding the draft constitution of the Sinn Fein League of America drawn up in August 1908, 1909 June 16. Letter from Charles Noonan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a proposed meeting of the Executive Council of the Sinn Fein League of America, 1909 June 17. Accounts and expenses with reference to Dublin Corporation Stock, 1909 June 30. Letter from Charles Noonan to a member of the Sinn Fein League of America regarding the constitution adopted in Buffalo on August 8 1908, 1909 July 6. Letter from Joseph McGarrity, Patrick O'Mara, Hugh O'Neil, O'Neil Ryan, and Charles Noonan regarding the new constitution of the Sinn Fein League of America, 1909 July 6. Letter from Eugene Geary to Joseph McGarrity regarding the publication of McGarrity's poetry, 1909. Letter from "Office of Sec. V.C." [Clan-na-Gael] regarding the reinstatement of Joseph McLaughlin as a member of Clan-na-Gael, 1910 February 25. Celebratory card for Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian independence activist and poet, 1910. Receipt from Drexel & Co. to Joseph McGarrity for $488.25 in payment for a draft from Belfast Banking Co. Ltd., Belfast., 1910 September 6. Letter from Patrick O'Daly (General Secretary of the Gaelic League) inviting Joseph McGarrity to partake in a Irish language demonstration in Dublin, 1910 September 16. Letter from Rev. Cornelius Short to Joseph McGarrity asking McGarrity to address a meeting in Dunamore on the "Gaelic movement", 1910 September 22. Letter from James O'Brien to Joseph McGarrity wishing him a good voyage and providing contact details for members of the O'Brien family, 1910 September 23. Letter from Charles Noonan to Joseph McGarrity enclosing a bill for mimeograph copies of a "circular, re-Redmond", 1910 October 1. 'Hon. Secretaries report to be presented to the annual convention of the Wolfe Tone and United Irishmen memorial committee', 1910 October 29. Postcard from unidentified author to "Bernard McNell" [?] regarding a settlement, 1910 November 7. Letter between unidentified correspondents asking for information on individuals, 1910 December 7. Letter from "E.D.A." of the "Office of Sec. V.C." [Clan-na-Gael] authorising the transfer of David Mulholland into Clan-na-Gael, 1910 December 9. Letter from Laurence Brennan [Luke Dillon] to "Eamon" regarding the welfare of "Billy", 1911 February. Letter from S. Freeman ['The Gaelic American'] to Joseph McGarrity asking for McGarrity's help in publishing articles as Freeman is "on the Black List of all the papers here", 1911 March 3. Letter from Patrick McCartan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a report containing the names of officers, and that McCartan and Tom Clarke have been appointed to a sub-committee to "deal with the American end of things", 1911 March 4. Letter from Anne Grogan to Joseph McGarrity discussing her ill health, 1911 April 22. Letter from Michael Murray to Joseph McGarrity regarding "McMahon" and donations to the Gaelic League, 1911 May 23. Letter from Michael Murray to Joseph McGarrity regarding McGarrity's honeymoon and trip to Ireland, 1911 August 4. Letter from Laurence Brennan [Luke Dillon] to "Eamon" regarding Brennan's imprisonment in Kingston Penitentiary, 1911 October 30. Telegram from unknown sender in Dublin to Joseph McGarrity in Paris with text "Successful", November 10. Letter from Charles Noonan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a cheque, undated. Letter from Charles Noonan to Joseph McGarrity regarding a postal order [no longer extant] from Bulmer Hobson, undated. Telegram from unidentified sender in Philadelphia to Joseph McGarrity in Dublin: "Sick life depends on answer/ want the yes or no/ holding passage", [1910] September 15. Letters to Joseph McGarrity, mainly relating to the activities of Clan-na-Gael and the Ancient Order of Hibernians, 1912. Political pamphlet by Mike O'Ryan D.F. titled 'Rum, Rome, Ryan; the City Solicitor's Office, oscula meum pod', 1912 January 13. Letter from the Office of the Assistant Postmaster, U.S. Post Office Philadelphia, to "William Newman" in reply to a query regarding "Joseph Haggerty", 1912, January 20. Report of the Committee of the Philadelphia branch of Clan-na-Gael on the Irish Players [of the Abbey Theatre] and their upcoming production ['Playboy of the Western World'], 1912 January 14. Report by Joseph McGarrity on his protest during a performance of 'Playboy of the Western World', January 1912. Letter from John F. O'Loughlin to "John D." on keeping the "Playboy" [of the Western World] away from Pittsburgh, and congratulating Joseph McGarrity and William Crossin on their protests against the production, 1912 January 22. Letter from T.J. Lynch (Executive Clerk) to Joseph McGarrity regarding the Governor of Pennsylvania's visit to Philadelphia, 1912 February 26. Letter from T.J. Lynch to Joseph McGarrity regarding information from McGarrity for "Mr. Todd", 1912 March 1. Receipt for taxes paid by J. F. Conlon to Umatilla County, Oregon for the year 1912, 1913 March 5. Postcard from Joseph Bigger to unknown recipient asking about the progress of a book, 1912 May 24. Documents relating to the Emmet Celebration on March 4th 1912 by Clan-na-Gael, including a notebook of records by recording secretary J.J. Carew, 1911-1912. Letter to Joseph McGarrity from "Ryan" on the death of William Crossin, 1912. Letter from Mike Doyle (Lemonstown) to Joseph McGarrity on the death of William Crossin, 1912 August 21. Pamphlet titled "The Taylor system of scientific shop management: speech of Hon. Michael Donohoe of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, 1912 August 24. Postcard from "MR" to Mrs. J. [Kathryn] McGarrity, 1912 August 30. Postcard from "MR" to Joseph McGarrity, 1912 August 30. Letter from William J. Campbell to Joseph McGarrity regarding a copy of 'Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis' edited by Charles Derek Ross (1859) that he can acquire for McGarrity, 1912 September 13. Letter from J.T. Keating to Joseph McGarrity regarding Clan-na-Gael activities, including the shipment of "goods" and a "release" involving John Devoy. Keating warns McGarrity not to give any information to the Ancient Order of Hibernians and that information is being leaked, 1912 October 8. Telegram from John T. Keating and "Mahoney" to Joseph McGarrity: "Are sending last quotations on brand you want special delivery reach you tomorrow", 1912 October 8. Statement by James M. Sullivan (vice-president of the Irish-American Municipal Union) calling on Irish Americans to support Govenor Woodrow Wilson, 1912 October 12. Invitation from Joseph McGarrity to attend a "Society" [Clan-na-Gael] meeting as England and Germany are close to going to war, 1912 October. Statement by Sylvester Moore to the members of Clan-na-Gael on the issue of his supsension from the organisation, 1912 October 18. Letter from "Frank" to Joseph McGarrity regarding the collection of money, 1912 September 23. Telegram from Joseph McGarrity to "P.J. Moran" advising him to stand for economy at an upcoming board meeting, 1912 November 2. Telegram from "M.P." to John T. Keating: "Have telegraphed Washington and asked telegraphic communication with you direct care Frontenac Hotel Kingston", 1912 November 4. Telegram from "Hugh" to John T. Keating: "Heard directions to Washington. Get (D) and John New York on long distance and urge action to-night", 1912 November 4. Letter from John T. Keating to Joseph McGarrity regarding activities of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, 1912 November 13. Letter from John L. Gannon to Joseph McGarrity regarding "Citizen Papers and Army Discharge you ask about", 1912 November 15. Letter from John L. Gannon to Joseph McGarrity regarding a cheque for $120 for "four month's allowance for Mrs. D.", 1912 December 21. Letter from John T. Keating to Joseph McGarrity regarding members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, 1912 November 22. Letter from Patrick T. Moran (National Director A.O.H.) to John T. Keating advising against sending a representative to Ireland, 1912 November 20. Letter from D. Miles Rigor to Joseph McGarrity regarding expenses, 1912 November 25. Letter from "R" to "M" regarding "some tissue for Mc.", undated. Letter from "G" to "M-" regarding information for "Mac", undated. Letter from Michael Donohoe (U.S. House of Representatives) to Joseph McGarrity thanking McGarrity for his donation, 1912 December 2. Traced copy of postcard addressed to "Mr [Joseph J.] Carew" containing contact details and postmarks, 1912 December 3. Letter from Joseph J. Carew to "Mr. Jas. Ready" [?] regarding the death of Carew's wife, money owed to John Devoy, and the election of Clan-na-Gael officers, 1912 December 10.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3304
__label__wiki	0.584578	0.584578	Michael CALVER Calver, born in Kent, trained at St Martins and Winchester Schools of Art. His work has developed out of a concern with the affective and spatial qualities of colour. At first, reductive means were used to obtain a clear minimalist aesthetic. More recently, his work has shown a more complex use of shape and form. These elements have evolved, in a subterranean way, from his regular use of a sketchbook to draw directly from the localities in which he finds himself. In his artist's statement reproduced here he states that this is a practice that sharpens his attentiveness. In 2003 and 2005 Calver was awarded 'Grants for the Arts' by the Arts Council England, and in 2007 he was in receipt of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. He has exhibited widely in the UK and also in Germany and Dubai. Print, paintings and drawings have been exhibited recently at The Exchange in Penzance and at the artist led Bucca Gallery in Newlyn. works and access Work incl: Theory of Emblems (2011) www.michaelcalver.co.uk www.axisweb.org The Exchange, Penzance 'Print!' Apr-Jul 2011: Contemporary and historic prints/printmakers Mariners Chapel, St Ives, 'Uncharted Landscapes' Aug-Sep 2011 (NSA Exhibition) Newlyn Society of Artists misc further info Delegate at Penzance Convention, 2012. Who's Who in Art, 33rd edition 2006: Exhibition Catalogue: Full Spectrum, Sherborne House, Dorset; www.nsanewlyn.com Exhibition card: Print! 2011 The Exchange, Penzance 2011: F Ruhrmund 'When two societies collide', review of NSA exhibition in St Ives	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3308
__label__wiki	0.625434	0.625434	"Stop here." O opened the Explorer's door before the SUV even came to a halt at the base of Thorne Avenue. He angled a quick look up the hill, then shot the Beta behind the wheel a real wake-your-ass-up stare. "I want you to circle this neighborhood until I call you. Then I want you to come to number twenty-seven. Don't head into the driveway, keep going. There's a corner in the stone wall about fifty yards later. That's where I want you." As the Beta nodded, O snapped, "You fuck this up and I'll put you under the Omega's feet." He didn't wait for the slayer to throw out some kind of bullshit, have-confidence-in-me babble. He hit the pavement and ran up the road's gradual incline. As he jogged he was a mobile arsenal, his body weighed down by the weapons and explosives he'd hung on himself as if he were a paramilitary Christmas tree. He went past number twenty-seven's twin pillars and eyed the driveway that disappeared between them. Fifty yards later he was at the juncture of the stucco wall where he'd told the fool Beta to pick him up. He took three running strides and leaped into the air, all Michael Jordan and shit as he went for the top lip of the ten-foot wall. He closed the distance with no problem, but then his hands made contact. The blast of electricity that shot through his body was a real hair curler. If he'd been human still he'd have been toasted, and even as a slayer, the jolt was enough to leave him breathless as he pulled himself up and then plunged down the other side. Security lights flared, and he took shelter behind a maple tree, taking out his muzzled gun. If attack dogs came at him he was ready to pop them, and he waited for the barking. There was none. And there was no rush of lights going on in the mansion or the pounding feet of security guards either. While he waited a minute longer, he assessed the place. Back of the house was grand, all red bricks and white trim and sprawling terraces with second-floor porches. Garden was a pip, too. God… The annual upkeep on a monster spread like this was probably more than average folks made in a decade. Time to close in. He moved across the lawn toward the house in a crouch, running in a cramped shuffle with his gun up in front. When he got in tight with the bricks, he was elated. The window he was next to was fitted with tracks that ran down its long sides, and on the top of the thing there was a discreetly disguised boxy transom. Steel retractable shutters. And there was a set on every window and door, it looked like. In the Northeast, where you didn't have to worry about tropical storms and hurricanes, there was only one kind of homeowner who threw those puppies over every slice of glass: the kind who needed to be protected from the sun. Vampires lived here. The shutters were up because it was night, and O looked inside the house. It was dark, which wasn't encouraging, but he was going in anyway. The question was how to do the breaking and entering. It went without saying that the place was alarmed up the ass and wired for sound. And he was willing to bet that anyone who ran electric current around the top of their fence wasn't going to ADT it. This was going to be some sophisticated technology. He decided his best move was cutting the power, so he went hunting for the main electrical line into the mansion. He found the utilities spinal cord around the back of the six-car garage, nestled in an enclave of HVAC shit that included three air-conditioning units, an exhaust blower, and a backup generator. The main power line's thick, metal-encased vein came up through the earth and split, plugging into a series of four meters that were whizzing along. He put a short-fused load of C4 plastic explosive right at the trunk and then rigged another setup like that at the nerve center of the generator. Stepping behind the garage, he triggered both remotely. Two pops broke out, and the flare of light and the smoke faded quickly. He waited to see if anyone came running. No one did. On impulse he peered into a couple of the garage bays. Two were empty; the others had very nice cars in them, so nice he couldn't even tell what kind one of them was. With the juice cut off, he jogged around and cased the front of the house, skirting behind the boxwood hedge that ran down the facade. A set of French doors was perfect for entry. He put his gloved fist through one pane, shattering the glass, and then sprang the lock. As soon as he stepped inside, he started to reclose the door. It was critical that the contacts for the security alarm were in their proper place if an alternative generator kicked in—Holy… Moses. Those were lithium-powered electrodes on the doors… which meant the contacts didn't run on a current. And—shit—he was standing right in the middle of a laser beam. Jesus. This was very high-tech… as in Museum of Fine Arts, the White House, the pope's bedroom high-tech. The only reason he'd gotten into the house at all was because someone had wanted him to. He listened. Total silence. A trap? O stayed frozen, barely breathing, for a little longer and then made sure his gun was good to go before he silently walked through a bunch of rooms that were right out of some glossy magazine. As he went he wanted to slash the paintings on the walls and yank down the chandeliers and break the spindly legs of the fancy tables and chairs. He wanted to burn the drapes. He wanted to shit on the floors. He wanted to ruin it because it was beautiful, and because if his woman had ever lived here, it meant she was way better than he was. He rounded a corner into some kind of living room and stopped dead. Up on the wall, in an ornate gilded frame, was a portrait of his wife… and the thing was draped with black silk. Below the painting, on a marble-topped table, there was a gold chalice turned upside down and a square of white cloth with three rows of ten little stones. Twenty-nine were rubies. The last one, in the lower left-hand corner, was black. The ritual was different from the Christian shit he'd lived with as a human, but this was a memorial to his wife. O's intestines turned into snakes, seething and hissing in his lower belly. He thought about throwing up. His woman was dead. "Don't look at me like that," Phury muttered as he limped around his room. His side hurt like a bitch, and he was trying to get ready to go out, and Butch's mother-hen impression wasn't helping. The cop shook his head. "You need to go to the doctor, big guy." The fact that the human had a point burned Phury's ass even more. "No, I don't." "If you were going to spend the day on the couch, maybe. But fighting? Come on, man. If Tohr knew you were going out like this he'd have your head on a stick." True. "I'll be fine. Just have to warm up." "Yeah, stretching's really going to help that hole in your liver. Matter of fact, maybe I can get you some Ben-Gay and we'll just massage the shit out of it. Good plan." Phury glared across the room. Butch cocked an eyebrow. "You're pissing me off, cop." "You don't say. Hey, how about this… you can yell at me while I drive you to Havers's." "I don't need an escort." "But if I take you, I'll know you went." Butch dragged out the Escalade's keys from his pocket and dangled them in the air. "Besides, I'm a good taxi. Just ask John." "I don't want to go." "Well… in the words of Vishous, want in one hand, shit in the other—see what you get the most of." Rehvenge parked the Bentley in front of Havers and Marissa's and walked carefully up to the grand door. He lifted the heavy lion's-head knocker and let it fall, the sound reverberating. Immediately he was welcomed by a doggen and led into a parlor. Marissa stood up from a silk couch, and he bowed to her while telling the butler he would keep his coat. When they were alone Marissa rushed over, her hands held out, her long, pale yellow gown trailing after her like mist. He captured both her palms and kissed them. "Rehv… I'm so glad you called us. We want to help." "I appreciate your taking Bella in." "She's welcome to stay for however long she needs. Although I wish you would tell us what's wrong." "Just dangerous times." "True." She frowned and looked around his shoulder. "Is she not with you?" "Meeting me here. It shouldn't be long." He checked his watch. "Yeah… I'm early." He pulled Marissa over to the couch, and as they sat down the folds of his sable coat fell across her feet. She reached out and stroked the fur, smiling a little. They were silent for a time. He was anxious to see Bella, he realized. Actually, he was… nervous. "How are you feeling?" he asked, wanting to focus on something else. "Oh, you mean, after…" Marissa blushed. "Fine. Very well. I… thank you." He really liked her way. So soft and gentle. So shy and self-effacing, though she was one of the rare beauties of his species, and everyone knew it. Man, how Wrath had held himself back from her was anyone's guess. "Will you come to me again?" Rehv said in a low voice. "Will you let me feed you again?" "Yes," she replied, lowering her eyes. "If you will allow me." "I can't wait," he growled. As her eyes flipped up to his, he forced himself to smile even though he didn't really feel like it. He wanted to do other things with his mouth at the moment, none of which would have put her at ease. Thank God for the dopamine, he thought. "Don't worry, tahlly. Just the drinking, I know." She assessed him then nodded. "And if you… if you need to feed…" Rehv lowered his chin and stared at her from underneath his lids, erotic images flashing through his mind. She pulled back, clearly alarmed by his expression, and he wasn't surprised. No way she could handle the kind of sick shit he was into. Rehv lifted his head back to level. "That's a generous offer, tahlly. But we'll keep this one-sided." As relief showed on her face his cell phone started to ring, and he took the thing out to check caller ID. His heart kicked up. It was the security monitoring people for his house. "Excuse me just a moment." After he heard the report that an intruder had breached the wall, engaged a number of motion detectors in the backyard, and knocked out the power, Rehv told his people to turn all the interior alarms off. He wanted whoever was there to stay. As soon as he saw Bella, he was heading straight for home. "Something wrong?" Marissa asked while he clipped the phone shut. "Oh, no. Not at all." Quite the contrary. When the front door knocker sounded, Rehvenge stiffened. A doggen passed in front of the parlor's doorway to go answer it. "Would you like me to leave you two alone?" Marissa said. The mansion's big door opened and closed. Soft voices were traded, one that of the doggen, the other… Bella's. Rehv pushed into his cane and slowly rose to his feet as Bella appeared in the doorway. She was wearing blue jeans and a black parka, and her long hair was shiny on her shoulders. She looked… alive… healthy. But age showed in her face, new lines of stress and worry bracketing her mouth. He expected her to race into his arms, but she just stared at him… insulated, unreachable. Or maybe she was just so numb after all she'd been through, she had no reactions left to show the world. Rehvenge's eyes watered as he plugged his cane into the floor and went to her, rushing, though he couldn't feel the fine rug beneath his shoes. He caught the shock on her face as he pulled her against him. Sweet Virgin. He wished he could feel the embrace he was giving her. Then it dawned on him that he didn't know if she was hugging him back. He didn't want to force her. He made himself let go. As he dropped his arms, she clung to him, not moving away, but staying close. He embraced her again. "Oh… God, Rehvenge…" She shuddered. "I love you, sister mine," he said weakly, unashamed in the moment for being less of a male than he should be. CHAPTER 40 \| Lover Awakened \| CHAPTER 42	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3315
__label__wiki	0.719028	0.719028	Humanity and other species RP Logs » Archives: Logs » Humanity and other species February 7, 2015: A few young mutants and one young Kryptonian end up on the wrong side of a Friends of Humanity protest at the Central Park reconstruction effort. Sunspot One (1) standard-issue bigoted mob It's a frosty Saturday afternoon in Manhattan, and normally the X-Men Red Team's reconstruction of Central Park would be on idle for the weekend. Not today, though. The Friends of Humanity have turned out in force to picket the project. They claim to object to the funneling of city funds into a project run by a political activist group; their real concern, of course, is the people in the group. Mutants living and working openly, winning city contracts, and using their powers in public? These are a few of the FoH's least favorite things. Roberto da Costa, as the corporate sponsor of the Red Team, isn't going to be a popular face here, but he thinks it's important to put in an appearance, if only to show that his group isn't afraid of the protesters. He steps out of a limousine, bundled up against the cold and trailed by a clutch of assistants, two bodyguards, and a few co-workers who were also curious about the protest. "This should be fun," he says firmly, rubbing his hands together in what is possibly eagerness, but could also be an attempt to start a mitten fire. "I love a good photo op." Quicksilver has been hanging out at Xavier's, eating their food and generally mooching. His hosts don't seem to have minded much, so he's not feeling too guilty about it. Still, if there's one thing the speedy silver one can't stand, that's staying in one place for too long. A zip to New York is like a trip down the block for him. He didn't come for a protest or reconstruction or anything like that - he just happens to be zipping by. The silver-haired mutant is…well, sort of conspicuous. Not just because of his unusual haircolour. He's also wearing a shiny black poufy down-filled coat with a fur-lined hood, a winter hat knitted with silver thread, white jeans and deep treaded white hiking boots (safety first! Even he can slip on ice.) He's leaning on a tree and bunching a handful of snow between black gloved hands. The classic rock stylings of AC/DC filter out of the earbuds tucked into his ears. Audrey is a member of the team now. Mostly. Even if she's still figuring out just what that means. But as she gets out of the limo, she could easily pass for one of the bodyguards, dressed in simple, sturdy, close-fitting black, with her hair pulled back in a practical braid down the back of her coat. And she's definitely carrying, for anyone who knows what to look for. "You like poking people with sticks," she murmurs at Roberto's words, a faint smile quirking. "I do. I totally do," Roberto admits, flashing a warm grin over at Audrey. "Come on, though — these guys deserve it. Ooh, that's a new one!" Roberto says, pointing to a sign featuring his own face, with photoshopped-on devil horns and pitchfork, plus the one-word caption, 'TEMPTER.' "I like it when they have that personal touch. 'Don't let your sons be like Sunspot,' you know?" he says, quoting one of the slogans he's heard. "Almost like they're worried we'll become role models." As the group steps toward the picket line, today's less imaginative chanting gets louder: Hell! No! Mu-ties go! "An oldie, but a goodie," Roberto mutters. A group of reporters covering the protest swivel to get lenses on the newcomers, probably hoping for a riot and the impressive visuals that would bring. Quicksilver blows a bubble. A big one. The outside of it freezes a little in the cold air. He snaps it and pulls it back into his mouth. Then he gets a wry little grin on his face. He pats down his pockets until he finds a marker. He carries one, because he might just be the kind of delinquent that tags things. He chews thoughtfully and pops the cap off the marker. The only clue the protestors have that anything has changed is the sudden cool breeze that whips by them. Considering they're in the middle of a park, that hardly seems unusual. When the speedster has done his thing though, several of the signs have been…creatively altered. One rage-filled mother of three now finds herself holding a sign that says, 'Mutants are SEXY AS HELL' where it once said 'Mutants are Going to Hell.' Another one has been turned around in the hands of an angry man with a shaved head. The backside, which faces forward, now says, 'I'm a Douchebag.' A few other signs have been altered, some with just a series of scribbles across the text to obscure it entirely. Off to the side, past a park bench, Pietro is snapping the cap on the marker and slipping it away. He looks awfully pleased with himself. Since her screw-up the other day, Kara had been trying her best to look for some way to help others; as a way of making up for trashing part of downtown Metropolis. Flying above the park she can't help but notice the large crowd gathering around what seems to be a small group of people. "<Earth is such a strange place..>" The words muttered under her breath in Kryptonian. Still, it seemed like people might be in trouble and there was no way she was about to let them get mobbed. The X-Men might catch sight of a speck of red and blue speeding towards the ground from the clouds above. "Because being a mutant is a choice," Audrey snorts at one of the signs, shaking her head as she looks over the crowd. "They'd probably panic if I plunged the world into darkness, wouldn't they?" There's something detached about the way she looks at the protestors. This is, after all, sort of a first for her. Growing up in the military, and then in a militarized mutant training program, she's always seen the mutations as something more normal than not. As the breeze goes by and the signs change, she pauses, turning a circle. "I think we've got company?" The press quickly frame the X-Red group against the backdrop of the protest, cameras snapping as reporters pepper them with questions. Roberto holds his hands forward to quiet the inquiries from the reporters — although this only spurs the protesters to yell louder and nastier things behind him. "We're just here to make sure that the protest is staying within its designated boundaries, so that it won't set back the reconstruction," he explains, his words vetted by a PR consultant during the car ride over. "New York has already seen enough destruction driven by hate, and it would be a shame to backslide just when we're starting to rebuild." This is a canny — if underhanded — rhetorical move: align the X-men with the city that wants to recover, while subtly conflating the anti-mutant protesters with the terrorists who caused the damage in the first place. The effect is slightly undercut when all of the signs behind him mysteriously alter halfway through his statement. Several of the reporters start to snicker, and Roberto can't hold back a look of confusion. That isn't usually how the press reacts to him. Audrey's comment gets him looking around, and then upward. "Look - up in the sky," he mutters, shading his eyes for a better glimpse. (There are some narrative conventions it's best not to question.) "That's not one of ours, is it?" Quicksilver does his best to look inconspicuous on the fringes of the protest. Doot doot doot. Just leaning against the tree. Ignore him, TV crews and various heroes. He's just a lookie loo. He does, however, pull his phone out of a pocket and snap several pictures before the protestors have a chance to lower their altered signs. Totally going right on Twitter. #FriendlessHumanity The speck of red and blue begins to slow its descent as it approaches, turning into a blonde haired girl that has a costume resembling Supermans; albeit much more revealing (Stupid 'Ceremonial' Battle Armor). Landing near Sunspot and Audrey her cape flutters about her and she asks the pair almost casually, "Don't these people have anything better to do?" If the protesters hated human metahumans, they probably liked alien metahumans even less. It takes a great deal of self-control for Audrey not to reach for a gun. Being out in the open like this is not her usual choice. But going for a gun in the middle of an angry protest wouldn't be helpful. Instead, she builds an illusion around herself, a perfect copy, before going invisible and stepping out of it. To the cameras and the crowd, she's still standing there, searching for the disruption. "Apparently not," the invisible Audrey answers Kara with a sigh from a few feet away, starting to circle out. Roberto allows himself a small smirk and adds, "Bigots usually do have limited social lives." He quickly figures out that the Audrey at his side isn't real, and gives a small nod in the direction he hears her whispering from. Keeping out of sight is a smart tactic — it's just not one he's particularly good at. For sure, there's no way Roberto is going to be able to stay mad at Quicksilver when he sees that trending topic. Let's face it: he himself would give up a thousand prepared statements for the right viral hashtag. Heck, he probably has a few social media interns back at the Red Team headquarters who are even now busy photoshopping ever-more ridiculous captions on the protest signs. Unfortunately, the crowd doesn't have nearly his appreciation for a good live-action shoop. They were already angry — a mutant getting one over them is just the spark this powder keg needed. They start throwing their vandalized signs at the X-red group. For the most part, they weigh too little to do significant damage, but once they free up their hands, it's anyone's guess what else they'll find to fling. Kara's appearance momentarily cools the tension. People — even bigots — respect or fear the S, and even if Kara's not Superman, she clearly shares at least some of his abilities. But the dam isn't quite done breaking: someone shouts, "She's with the muties!" and the attack is back on. A line of NYPD officers is containing the protesters for the moment, but it's anyone's guess when they'll either be overpowered or decide against putting their well-being on the line for these people. The only hint that Quicksilver is in any way involves in the fracas is the very deliberate way in which he removes his gloves, cracks his fingers, then…wait, where'd he go? The signs that are flung at the X-Group inexplicably bounce right back and smack into the people who threw them, as if they were attached to their hands with rubber bands. Here's hoping the camera caught the moment where a short, balding man gets a sign full in the face and snaps his head back. No one's going to get more than a bloody nose unless they were really hauling the projectile. Normally, Pietro would be a little more careful, but to make sure the cameras don't capture him, he's got to be moving a little faster than normal. Kara may not have realized just how much Superman was respected, but she gets a sense that things were simmering down a little until the angry person yelled at her. In all honesty, she has no clue what the hell is going on here but the fact that one of the mutants are actually harming people; albeit in a small way. It is enough to actually make her move towards the group of protesters and distance herself so she doesn't seem to be on any one side. She calls out loudly, using her abilities to amplify it, "Actually, I'm not with /anyone/ here. Superman" She considers it, "told me to come by and make sure everyone was on their best behavior. That means, no violence, on either side. Am I clear?" She really didn't believe it would work, but she had to try. Quicksilver is fast, but he's not faster than light. Audrey can't see him move, but as she extends her awareness, she can feel him move through the area, almost like a faint current in water. Light's bouncing off of him, still. Strangely. Keeping track of where he goes, Audrey moves around the police and crowd to try to stop where he looks like he's going to end up. Photographers snap up images of Quicksilver's brand of instant karma — although the mutant himself will be a vague blur at even the highest shutter speed. The problem with sending the objects flying back at the protesters is that it means sending them flying back over the cops holding the protesters back. As is becoming depressingly common in recent months, the police apply a broad definition of what constitutes a threat to their lives: one that, apparently, includes cardboard signs moving in their general direction. They give up on holding back the protesters and flee, probably to get riot gear or call in the SRD. The protesters rush past them, but the ones up at the front come to a quick halt when confronted by Supergirl. Or they try to, anyway: with the shield of anonymity that the crowd gives them, the Friends behind them are still shoving forward. The end result is a crushing lateral sway, like those at the front of particularly rowdy small-venue rock shows. The crowd parts around the Kryptonian like a stream around a rock. Sunspot grimaces and extends his arms, but the expression is lost as he dons the molten aura and impenetrable silhouette of his solar form. "Get back," he tells the reporters and non-powered members of his entourage. "I'll hold them off." Crouching, the superstrong mutant plunges his fingers into the earth next to a newly-laid paved walkway and lifts. With a tremendous crack, the segment of pavement separates from its neighbors and is transformed into a wall. Honestly, Quicksilver never really meant to make things go sideways like this. He just wanted to smack some jerks in the face with signs. Not only will Audrey's power help track where he stops, so will the skid of snow about twenty or so feet away from the edge of the crowd. He stops and turns back and well, he actually does look contrite. "Damn." Imagine that. Actions have consequences. Oops. Mmmaybe he'll just stay over here at let Fire Guy and Flying Girl take care of this. Kara is jostled, pushed and run into but she doesn't move; it's just inconvenient to have the horde of people trampling past her. A few of them likely even apologize when they run into her. It's becoming obvious to her now, that there is some kind of distinction between different 'super people' on this planet and not all of them are well liked. What a strange planet. The 'Supergirl' lifts up above the crowd, her temper rising as the people try to get to Sunspot and his non-existent companion and flies in front of the impromptu wall of pavement. She screams loudly, "I SAID! EVERYONE STOP NOW!" Her scream is not just an ordinary scream, invisible sonic shockwaves lance out around her as she manifests an ability not seen among her kind; something that definitely separates her from Superman. The force is enough to momentarily stun and daze anyone affected without harming them, but car alarms can soon be heard going off in the distance. When Quicksilver stops, Audrey is just a few steps away, letting the illusion of her disappear and her own invisibility drop. It might even look like she's teleported. Never hurts to leave people uncertain about what you can do, after all. "Fun, maybe, but not super helpful," she informs him with a faint smile, one that starts to fade as things escalate. "This is getting ugly." She starts to reach for a communicator in her ear, only to go down into a crouch with a shout as Kara's shout reaches them. The wall of concrete isn't all that wide, and there's nothing preventing people from going around it. Like Sunspot said, he's just trying to slow down the crowd long enough for anyone without superpowers to get away. It does, however, provide a decent buffer to sound — one the Brazilian is incredibly grateful to have a moment later as he's dazed by even the reduced effect of Kara's sonic powers. The makeshift barrier shifts back, and then he quickly backs up and lowers it back onto the ground. He doesn't want to be carrying anything dangerously heavy when he's feeling woozy. The aural assault is much worse for the protesters. Those nearest Kara drop to the ground almost immediately; farther away, they clutch at their heads or sink to their knees. The effect does neatly deal with the problem of crowd dynamics: no one at the back is shoving this time. Sunspot dissolves back into Roberto, who slumps over with his hands on his knees, staring at the defused near-riot in disbelief. "Merda," he breathes, impressed. "You should start a punk band." Without further commentary, he runs off to find Audrey. He noticed that her illusory duplicate vanished, and he needs to make sure she's okay and get the whole group out of here. Behind him, the rest of the X-Red group gets into the limo, whose engine is already running, the chauffeur ready to get them back to the DCI building as fast as possible. Quicksilver is buffeted by the auditory shockwave, but really, it's not much compared to the stresses on his body from moving at incredible speeds. He feels it, but it doesn't knock him on his arse like the others. Though, if there's anyone who actualy deserves it… He blinks at Audrey's sudden appearance and smiles sheepishly. "I uh, I'm sorry. I just can't stand people like that. They threw signs at you guys!" Which wasn't the biggest threat in the world, which is rather why he decided to give them what they were trying to give the Xers. "Wow. That lady. She knows how to shake down a crowd, huh?" He thumbs over towards Kara. He might actually be toeing the ground when Sunspot runs up. Aw shucks. He didn't mean nothin' by it, honest! "No clue what that is, but uh, thanks? I think…" Kara calls back to Sunspot/Roberto before surveying the crowd; it didn't seem like they would be causing any more trouble for the time being. "<Rao help me, this planet sucks.>" Kara says with a shake of her head before crouching down slightly and flying off into the sky with a small sonic boom that flattens the grass where she once stood. Up! Up and Away! "I don't like having signs thrown at me, but I like getting mobbed less," Audrey points out as she straightens, glancing toward Roberto and the limo. "We should get out of here. I'm guessing you can handle getting out pretty well yourself," she adds with a faint smile. "But he'd probably like to talk to you if you wanted to come with." Roberto locates Audrey and her silver-on-silver friend just in time to have his hair ruffled by a much gentler Kryptonian sonic boom. "Aw, damn… wait!" he calls out, waving one arm after Supergirl. "A Kryptonian in New York, and I tell her to start a punk band and then run in the opposite direction," he complains, turning to Audrey with a hand on his forehead. "Way to network, da Costa. Genius." Nearby, some Friends start to get to their feet, looking decidedly unfriendly, and remind him why it was important to look for his new teammate. "Are you okay?" he asks Audrey, his words rushed. He turns to eye the unfamiliar Pietro. "Are you not one of these guys? Because if so, we need to leave." He points over at the limousine, which is waiting for them at the nearest curb. Still keeping an eye out for Kara, in case she forgot her scarf and comes back or something, he waves them after him and starts his own retreat. "Ummm…" says Quicksilver as he looks at Roberto, then over to the limo. "Yeah, uh, totally not one of those guys." He points to the crowd. "I mean…" he eyes Audrey. Is she going to tell on him? He looks like he might just bolt off in a silver blur, but he honestly didn't mean to start trouble. "Your call," Audrey says to Quicksilver with a tight smile, then turns to jog after Roberto toward the limo. Running, at least, is something she's very good at. It wouldn't do Kara any good to go talking to the X-Men right in front of the crowd, it wouldn't do anyone any good if she was trying to stay neutral in these kind of things. Instead, she uses her super-vision to keep an eye on the limo and the people getting inside so she can follow a little while! For his part, Roberto seems mostly interested in getting all of them out of the park before the Friends of Humanity get their feet under them and try to start another ruckus. He couldn't care less about finding someone to blame. He slaps Pietro on the shoulder and hoofs it to the waiting limousine. One more will fit in easily, and as soon as the door shuts behind them, the chauffeur is off. It's only a few blocks to the Da Costa Building, most of which are spent making sure that everyone is uninjured. The limousine pulls into the basement motor pool, and Roberto leads the passengers out and points out the express elevator to the Red Team headquarters on the top floors of the building. They'll need to report in and check on media coverage to make sure they aren't being cast as the villains in this event. Quicksilver hesitates, but, hey, limo! He's always wanted to ride in one of things. Frankly, that's really what makes the decision for him. Once he decides, he's off like a shot, and already sitting, reclined comfortably by the time the others arrive. If there's a minibar, he finds it. He flashes a wry little grin. "So. I got my first favstar." He holds up his phone and shows his photo tweet. A hundred-and-some retweets. @licketysplit is his handle, because of course. Audrey takes a seat near the limo door, still in guard mode, until they're well away from the park. Only then does she look back to Quicksilver, not quite able to hide some amusement. "Good thing you're fast." It's all she says, until they're safe back at HQ, where she starts to unload the weapons. And there were way more of them than it looked like. Three guns, a very large knife, and a brace worth of throwing knives. And a taser. "So, maybe a little less taunting the ignorant hicks?" she suggests to Roberto. A knocking can be heard coming from one of the upper windows, wherever is convenient! Kara appears to be outside. Always polite to knock, right? Roberto reaches out to hold Pietro's phone steady and take a look at the tweet. He can't help a cocky smile. He looks great and the protesters look ridiculous. "So, I guess you're the guy who messed with the signs?" he asks. "That's one mystery solved. You should probably leave the PR stunts to the experts, though." That's a gentle way of pointing out that the stranger nearly started a riot, but truth be told, Roberto can understand the impulse to tweak the bigots. God knows he didn't always resist it all that well as a kid. He gives Audrey a minute to get her armaments back into the appropriate locker before dialing his code into the elevator. "A little less taunting, yeah," he allows with a casual smirk as they ascend. "To be fair, I wasn't the one who actually came ready for a fight." At some point they're going to work on getting Audrey comfortable in public without a small arsenal on hand, but for the moment the goal is just to get her comfortable with her new teammates and surroundings. As they step out into the Red Team headquarters, they are in a uniquely good position to hear Kara's knocking right outside the nearest window. Roberto stares for a second, then grins, then points her toward the landing pad nearby. "Guests! I love having guests," he says enthusiastically, jogging over to let her in. "Great digs, great digs. Like your work. And I mean, it's been real real fun, but I feel like maybe I've made enough trouble for the day. Plus I have a ham in the oven or something." Quicksilver flashes a smile at Roberto, winks at Audrey, the, "Tweet at me if you're feeling chatty. And uh, dude, don't you know you can't manufacture virality?" That to Roberto re: PR stunts before he's suddenly…not there. Meep meep. And he's gone." Audrey looks in the direction Quicksilver went, shaking her head before she looks to the window, blinking at the woman there. "Do you maybe want to find out if she's not thrilled without performance out there before you just let her in?" Not that anyone can stop her from getting in, but procedures are a good thing, right? Kara enters when Sunspot lets her in, looking around and noting politely, "Nice place." She looks over the group of mutants and adds, "Sorry to barge in your party all unexpected like that. On Krypton, people would have been too busy bettering society to waste time gathering in a mob and harassing other people." She stares after the departing Quicksilver and laughs, "That was quick." Roberto is having unusual difficulty keeping track of his visitors today. "Speedsters," he mutters darkly, pausing to note Quicksilver's absence, then continuing to the landing pad. "If she's not thrilled, she's here to talk about it, at least," he points out to Audrey. "I don't mind being told that I'm doing something wrong. It's when people aren't using their words that we end up having a problem." And, as Audrey herself said, if she weren't using her words, they would notice. As he invites Kara into the hub of the Red Team headquarters, he cracks an amused smile. "We spared no expense," he says of the office, the central chunk of which occupies most of two floors. Also, of his clone velociraptors. "Well, here you can still better society, you just have to expect a little pushback." He rubs a spot behind his temple where one particularly well-aimed sign gave him a papercut. "Or throwback, in this case. Roberto da Costa — good to meet you." He extends a hand toward the newcomer. "Does every little girl also get her very own unicorn that poops rainbows?" Audrey drawls to Kara's comparison to Krypton. She may not like the protestors, but she's a military brat. Everyone working to better society doesn't quite jive with her. As Roberto takes to introductions, she moves toward the refrigerator to go get a bottle of water. Kara has yet to wrap her head around the whole secret-identity thing, in fact it's pretty much something that seems to be a pain in the butt. It's not like she was really in any kind of disguise, sure people called her Supergirl but she was just, "I'm Kara Zor-El of Krypton." She shakes the accepted hand, an Earth custom she has learned not to ignore since the first time. Kara smirks, "Actually, on Krypton they're called Kryptonian Rainbow Dancers and they don't poop Rainbows, they shoot them from their horns. Every little girl has one." Roberto accepts the handshake with a look of amusement. "Good to meet you, Kara." He doesn't say it, but he appreciates being given a name, rather than a cipher of some kind; superheroes do tend to lean pretty hard on secrecy, and encountering this kind of openness is refreshing. "We've got similar creatures in Rio. I should take you all down to Brazil one Carnival so you can see for yourselves." Moving to more serious matters, he puts his hands into his hip pockets. "I appreciate your help in the park. I didn't realize you were taking an active interest in our efforts there — to be honest, I thought most of the high-level metahumans stuck to Metropolis." Audrey gives Kara long look at her response, opening the bottle of water to take a drink. She's definitely trying to decide if that was serious or not. But she's not quite secure enough to actually ask. Just yet. "I'm Audrey," she says instead, moving toward one of the couches to sit where she can see Kara and Roberto both. Kara nods to Audrey, "Nice to meet you." Turning her gaze back to Roberto she explains, "I'm getting kind of used to not having a home, I would hate to settle for choosing a single city on Earth to fly around. Kind of limiting I guess, plus normally, Metropolis has Superman who happens to be missing." She's blabbing on just a little bit, good to let it out, "Well, mostly, I'm here because I think I pissed off a Green Lantern and I don't want to deal with him chastising me and acting all authoritative." "Audrey is our newest member," Roberto says, flashing a smile over at the illusionist. His expression turns a bit confused as he considers what Kara has just said. "You pissed off a lantern?" He may have known some aliens in high school, but most of them managed to steer well clear of the interplanetary law, so he's not familiar with the corps. Xavier's was a very specific kind of sheltered ubringing, to be sure, but it was still sheltered in its own way. "That sounds… annoying." Green Lanterns, apparently, were not covered in military training. Not from the army, at least. They probably fall under air force jurisdiction. Audrey's brows furrow slightly at the explanation, but she doesn't ask for clarification, leaving that to Roberto. Listening. "Right, very annoying. He wouldn't even listen to me when I was /trying/ to explain the person I was fighting was this very very very bad guy named Zod. He's a Kryptonian General who I am pretty sure destroyed our homeworld. You would think Green Lanterns, being police officers would you know, want to catch him?" Kara sighs, obviously frustrated, "So, what do you all do? Are you like The Titans?" Roberto was picturing the talking candlestick from Disney's Beauty and the Beast, but colored green. Kara hasn't entirely corrected that impression: now Lumiere is wearing a tin sherrif's badge. He shakes off this musing and answers her question after a second, though. "We're allies with the Titans, but we have a very different approach. We're focused on mutant/human relations, using our powers openly but living and working alongside people without them. We do a lot of community outreach and public service, but also corporate contracts. It's like a superhero team, but it's also a functioning company." He makes a mental note to Google 'Zod.' Also, these weird police lamps she seems so fixated on. "Was there maybe a lot of destruction going on at the time?" Audrey asks, arching a brow as she takes another drink. "The peacekeeping sorts usually get a little touchy about that sort of thing. Even if the guy was a planet-destroyer. No sense in getting two planets destroyed, after all." Kara shrugs in response to the question about damages, "Just a street corner, not really any worse than ripping up the ground to act as a shield." She considers the riot earlier, asking Roberto, "How has the whole living and working alongside people been going? I don't get why they didn't really seem to hate me, but hated the group of you. Did you do something to earn their ire?" Roberto shoots a guilty look at Audrey even before Kara calls him out on his own property destruction earlier. He is usually the last to criticize other people for that sort of thing, and given the smashy-smashy nature of his powers, that's not really a surprise. "Certo — I'll be rebuilding that. Again. Promise," he assures them both. "As for the hatred, we're mutants. We're normal kids who suddenly become better than them at practically everything for reasons of sheer luck." The handsome Brazilian shrugs helplessly. "We get a lot of resentment from that. Understanding, too, from the good ones, but the bad ones just see us as a threat. Why not the other metas? Personally, I think it's because you can become one. Like a poor man defending a rich man's privileges — he aspires to be that rich man someday. You can't aspire to be a mutant. You either are or aren't." "It's not practically everything," Audrey disagrees with a roll of her eyes. "I, for example, am a terrible dancer. That didn't go away when my powers manifested." She pauses, head tilting. "Though I did develop the ability not to been seen dancing horribly, so I suppose that's an improvement." She stands up, pacing a few steps. "Power is frightening. And there are more of us," she adds to Roberto's theory. "We're potential replacements. Others are aliens or accidents. We're a trend." Kara being from one of the most privileged families on Krypton, probably just simply doesn't get the concept of the poor men and rich men; after-all, even her own view of society was likely skewed given her families position. "They should probably just get over it. Isn't there a saying you use here, something like, Life isn't fair? It's insane to think someone would hate their own people but not aliens who can do the same things. I mean, it's ok for an alien because you can't get lucky and be an alien?" She rolls her eyes, the more Kara learned of Earth, the more it confused her. Roberto grins at Audrey's contribution, teasing her, "You're only bad at dancing because you haven't had me around to teach you. Give it a few weekends out and you'll see. I believe in advancing mutant exceptionalism, one dance floor at a time." In a slightly more sober tone, he adds, "That's a good point about seeing us as replacements. Like a threat to their society or something." He rolls his eyes. "I only wish I could tell the bigots to just get over it. Unfortunately, we have to be twice as good as they are just to prove we aren't supervillains. We don't get to cut loose, even verbally, without consequences." "I am also bad at makeup," Audrey says, smile flickering. "But I usually cheat instead." Kara's protest gets a soft sigh. "A person can be reasonable. But people? People are dangerous, foolish, and swayed by their fears and their hungers. I'm pretty sure there are groups in the deep south who think Superman's an illegal immigrant and are petitioning for his removal from American soil. Actually, I bet if we went to that White House petition website, we'd find one for exactly that. But I think they also know they're not going to be able to punch him out of the country, too." Kara looks out the window she came from before looking back, "It was nice to meet the pair of you, I'd hate to keep you any longer from your duties but maybe I'll drop in on you sometime to say Hi if I happen to be in New York." She steps towards the window now, waiting for anything final to be said before flying out the same way she came. She still wanted to see if she could fly out into space, Zod had after-all; why couldn't she do it… "Good to meet you, too. Feel free to stop by any time," Roberto tells Supergirl. "If the office is closed, I live in the penthouse upstairs." He smiles as he waves farewell. Turning back to Audrey, he laughs and continues, "I would tell you that you're great at makeup, but how could I really know for sure?" He peers at her in mock suspicion. "It's illusions all the way down, as far as I know. You could be taller than me, and just pretending otherwise to make me feel better…" "I'm actually morbidly obese," Audrey deadpans, nodding, before a smile breaks free. "Illusions take effort to keep up," she admits. "Makeup is bearable, but more than that gets to be exhausting for more than a couple of hours. So what you see…" She lifts her hands, shrugging. "Here I am." _201502luxnycquicksilversunspotsupergirlx-men	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3317
__label__wiki	0.706905	0.706905	Museum Images Eagle Scout Project ‘HO’ Train Layout Depot Pictures 2014 Excursion Train IAIS Tie Crew Rock Island Railroad Museum The old Rock Island track that runs between Peoria and Bureau, IL, is used by Iowa Interstate Railroad. The Railroad Museum is the former Rock Island Depot in Chillicothe Illinois The Depot was spared the fate that awaited most depots owned by Rock Island due to the hard work of the Chillicothe Historical Society. The depot was donated by the Rock Island Railroad to the Society in 1980 for use as a Railroad Museum. It was in terrible shape at that time but after many hours of blood , sweat and tears by Society Volunteers it was reborn. It is a standing example of the era when passenger trains ran between Peoria and Chicago, IL. The track is now operated by the Iowa Interstate RR Dianne Colwell’s brother, Don Gill, who was a Superintendent on the Santa Fe Railroad, obtained the Caboose (waycar) from the Santa Fe Railroad. The Caboose was moved from Kansas City over Santa Fe tracks to site siding, E 10, at Chillicothe, IL. It was then transferred to the Rock Island tracks. Prior to moving the Caboose to its present location, rail and ties donated by the Santa Fe Railroad were laid to the north of he Depot by a Santa Fe track crew. Ballast for the track was donated by Galena Gravel. By using 2 company end loaders, Martin Marietta employees John Gerber and his Son Scott, slid the caboose on greased bridge ties and positioned it on the rails laid behind the Depot Steve Rippeteau, a Brakeman / Conductor on the Santa Fe. was instrumental in obtaining paint for the Caboose. He had heard that the DuPont Chemical Company had donated paint for a Caboose in Fort Madison and requested paint for this car. The company agreed to supply all the Emoron Paint need if applied by a professional painter. Santa Fe employee, Curt Huffman picked up the paint in Fort Madison and transported it to his home where it was then picked up by Earl; Pierce and Vern Whittemore for transportation to Chillicothe. Superior Sandblasting, the low bidder, sand blasted and painted the Caboose exterior and under carriage. The large logo stencil was obtained from Santa Fe. Roger Miller painted the Santa Fe logo and other directories. The interior was cleaned and painted by Roger Mannering, Earl Pierce and Vern Whittemore. Vern Whittemore was responsible for the electrical hook up from the Depot. Many other members helped out in other roles needed to make this a very nice exhibit. Many hours of work went undocumented such as the brickwork and fence construction needed to secure the Caboose and is greatly appreciated by the Society. P.O Box 181, Chillicothe, IL. 61523 Donated and Maintained by Web Services, Inc.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3320
__label__wiki	0.750198	0.750198	singapore standard ss540 SS540 BCMpedia. A Wiki Glossary for Business Continuity Glossary. SS540 Glossary; History. The project was initiated by Economic Development Board (EDB) with the collaboration of Singapore Business Federation (SBF) and SPRING in 2004. The standard was guided by the Business Continuity Management (BCM) Council and supported by the BCM Technical Committee to develop the Technical Reference. A Manager’s Guide to Singapore Standard SS540 for A Manager’s Guide to Singapore Standard SS540 for Business Continuity Management System (eBook) $ 39.00 This book prepares you to apply the Singapore Standard SS 540 framework, principles and methodologies for the implementation of the BC Plan. SS 584 Multi Tier Cloud Security (MTCS) Singapore Standard About The SS 584:2013 Multi Tier Cloud Security Singapore Standard. SS 584 MTCS SS covers the requirements that cloud service providers shall meet, recognising that individual users may have additional requirements that are specific to them (which would have to be addressed in the agreements or contracts with the cloud service providers). Risk assessment business impact analysis BCM Singapore Standard (SS540:2010)Risk Assessment precedes BIA as part of a continuity project planning activities; As you can see, every standard offers a different take or variant on what comes first, and some of these standards do not factor in Risk Assessment. BCM Planning Methodology and Singapore Standard SS540 Sep 05, 2011 · The second diagram above is a simple illustration of the Singapore Standard SS540 BCM standard being mapped to the phases within the BCM Planning Methodology. Why is there no Project Management in SS540:2008? What is the unique about SS540 is that the “Project Management” phase is not part of the Singapore Standard SS540:2008. Certification Schemes ISO 22301 / SS540 Business ISO 22301 / SS540 Business Continuity Management System. Programme has published in November 2008 and effectively implemented on 1 December 2008 the BCM management standard SS 540:2008. ( Singapore) Pte Ltd and are intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s) are confidential and may be privileged. About Business Continuity Management – BC Connex Pte Ltd According to SPRING Singapore’s SS540:2008 standard for BCM is defined asA holistic management process that identifies potential impacts which threaten an organization and provides a framework for building resilience and the capability for an effective response that safeguards the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and Corporate Profile Business Continuity Planning Asia Pte Ltd Prior, in 2009, BCP Asia was the FIRST company worldwide to attain dual certification for the British Standard BS25999:2007 and the Singapore Standard SS540:2008 in 2009. With headquarters based in Singapore, BCP Asia also has an office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which first opened its doors in September 2018. Moh Heng Goh President Business Continuity View Moh Heng Goh’s profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. This book aims to prepare your organization for the implementation of SS540 Singapore Standard for Our Trainers Business Continuity Planning Asia Pte Ltd Peck Eing Seng manages consulting teams and oversees the implementation of projects. A certified professional with more than 10 years experience, Eing Seng provided consulting advisory services to clients from the healthcare, manufacturing, research, logistic, telecommunication and public sectors of Singapore, China, Thailand and Indonesia; leading to BCMS certification. What the SS540 Business Continuity Standard is Designed Is a population of around five million people enough to justify bringing out a separate business continuity standard for that country? After all, with other internationally applied standards already available, such as BS 25999 and now ISO 22301, making your own version might be described as reinventing the wheel. However, when that country is Singapore Aegis Safety Services Vigilsafe The National Business Continuity Management (BCM) Programme was announced in November 2008 and became effective on 1 December 2008. This $30 million initiative over five years aims to engage the private sector in building economic resilience and competitiveness through the attainment of BCM certification (Based on Singapore Standard SS5402008 or equivalent). BCM Institute MTE Dr Goh Moh Heng Holistic Approach to Nov 29, 2010 · BCM Planning Methodology & Singapore Standard for BCM (SS:540) BCM Planning Process/ BCM BoK Project Management RiskAnalysisand Review BusinessImpact Analysis RecoveryStrategy PlanDevelopment Testingand Exercising Program Management Singapore Standard for BCM (SS540) Risk Analysis and Review l Business Impact Analysis l Strategy l BC Plan l Singapore Business Federation (SBF) PreventionWeb.net The National Business Continuity Management (BCM) Programme, a $30 million initiative was launched in Singapore on 1st December 2008, to engage the private sector in building economic resilience through the attainment of BCM certification (Based on Singapore Standard SS540 or equivalent including ISO 22301). Managing and Implementing a National BCM Programme Mar 27, 2012 · ( Criteria for Organisation ) SMEs or larger companies can apply for support to defray part the cost of obtaining SS 540 certification of up to 70%. 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__label__wiki	0.780629	0.780629	About Down Syndrome What is Down Syndrome All you need to know about Down Syndrome Healthcare Checklist Download Healthcare Checklist Policy Statement on persons with Down syndrome Appropriate Terminology Programmes & Services Adult Enhancement Programme Children's Education Sevices Enrichment Programmes (Adult/Children) The Performing Arts The Visual Arts GimSports Computer Maths KidsREAD Careers@DSA Awareness Video To be the Centre of Excellence for individuals with Down syndrome, their families and the community. Develop individuals with Down syndrome through life long learning and social integration. Support families through specialist services, information and education. Advocate for equal opportunities, quality of life and their contribution to society Early in 1995, a group of parents of children with Down syndrome recognised that a great need existed in Singapore to support and educate families, professionals and the public about Down syndrome. Out of a meeting held on 1 October 1995, the Down syndrome Support Group was formed. In May 1996, the group organised and hosted, with great success, the 2nd Asia Pacific Conference on Down syndrome. The enthusiasm generated amongst parents, professionals and community members spurred the formal registration of the group as Down Syndrome Association (Singapore) on 16 September 1996. The Association was registered as a Charity under the Charities Act on 17 January 1997 (no. 1229) and awarded official recognition by the National Council of Social Services on 4 July 1997. DSA(S) is a primarily self-funding, non-profit voluntary welfare organisation with IPC (Institute of Public Character) status, which works closely and regularly with healthcare and educational professionals, and voluntary welfare organisations. The Association is affiliated to international bodies such as Down Syndrome International (DSI), the Asia-Pacific Down Syndrome Federation (APDSF), Asian Federation of Mental Retardation (AFMR) and the International Association of the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID). In April 2004, DSA(S) was invited to organise and host the 8th World Down Syndrome Congress in Singapore, which attracted participants from more than 34 countries. Our goals and aspirations We acknowledge and respect the right of all persons with Down syndrome to receive an adequate response to their needs. We are thus committed in our aims to provide support, enable a person with Down syndrome to attain his or her full potential, help a person with Down syndrome to lead a “normal” life and thus be able to contribute to society, as well as educate the public on Down Syndrome. Officially launched on 23 March 1997, our logo is in the form of a flying kite incorporating the initials of the Association where: D signifies infancy and childhood (hence lower case D) S forms the tail or 'rudder', for steering and stabilising A (in the form on an arrow head) signifies dynamism and growth The flying motion of the kite depicts the objectives of the Association and the hopes, aspirations and abilities of a person with Down syndrome - not to stagnate but to be able to soar to greater heights and be visible. This will thus create public awareness of Down syndrome and, hopefully, society (synonymous with a strong continuous gust of wind) will accept, include and steer them in the right direction. The turquoise color projects a friendly and approachable image to families, service providers and professionals. Patron: Mr. Tan Soo Khoon Advisors: Assoc. Prof. S. Vasoo Dr. Balbir Singh Specialist Advisors: Dr. Bhavani Sriram—Medical Advisor Ms. Christine Sekhon—Legal Advisor Board of Management 2016/18 Chairperson: Mr Ratnasabapathy Sivanandam Deputy Chairperson: Ms Li Shu Yun Honorary Secretary: Ms Monica Kan Honorary Treasurer: Mr Alex Yan Member: Mr Gerard Lim Member: Mr Arjun Chandrasekhar Member: Mr Gopalan Nair Member: Ms Naveed Kamil Hasan Member: Mr Chan Wing Git Member: Ms Tan Peck Joo Immediate Past Chairman: Mr Roderick Tan Tiong Own A team of twenty eight full-time dedicated professionals and support staff work cohesively together and are dedicated in providing the best services to our clients with Down syndrome and their families. Kindly refer to our organisation chart for details. Copyright © 2005 - 2020 Down Syndrome Association Singapore - Differently Abled. Site Map \| Privacy \| Contact	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3324
__label__cc	0.710242	0.289758	FNA Vol. 28 Page 553 Login \| eFloras Home \| Help FNA \| Family List \| FNA Vol. 28 \| Hypnaceae \| Isopterygium 1. Isopterygium tenerum (Swartz) Mitten, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 12: 499. 1869. Hypnum tenerum Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occid. 3: 1817. 1806; H. albulum Müller Hal.; H. chapmanii Duby; H. fulvum Hooker & Wilson; H. micans Swartz; Isopterygium drummondii H. A. Crum, Steere & L. E. Anderson; I. fulvum (A. Jaeger) Kindberg; I. groutii (Cardot & Thériot) Grout; I. micans (Swartz) Kindberg; I. micans var. latifolium (Grout) Schornherst; I. micans var. minus (Grout) H. A. Crum & L. E. Anderson; Isothecium tenerum (Swartz) Bridel; Plagiothecium fulvum A. Jaeger; P. groutii Cardot & Thériot; P. micans (Swartz) Paris; P. micans var. fulvum (A. Jaeger) Paris; Rhaphidostegium ludovicianum Renauld & Cardot; Rhynchostegium micans (Swartz) Austin Plants small, in thin to dense mats, whitish to yellowish. Stems to 2(-5) cm, 0.5-1.5(-3) mm wide. Leaves erect-spreading, not or slightly wrinkled when dry, ovate to lanceolate, 0.7-1.8 × 0.2-0.6 mm; margins plane, serrulate to entire proximally, serrate to serrulate distally, rarely entire throughout; alar cells short-rectangular, quadrate, or transversely elongate, 12-38 × 10-20µm, region small; medial laminal cells often flexuose, linear-fusiform, 52-151 × 5-8 µm. Specialized asexual reproduction sometimes present as filaments on stems, multicellular, green or brown, simple or branched, often more than 0.5 mm, cells papillose. Seta yellow to reddish brown, 0.5-1.5 cm. Capsule cernuous, rarely erect, light brown to orange-brown, 0.5-2 mm; operculum conic-apiculate to obliquely short-rostrate. Spores 9-14 µm. mature spring-summer. Dry wooded regions, swamps, wet roadside ditches, base of trees, rotten logs, stumps, sandy soil, sedimentary rock; low to moderate elevations (0-400 m); N.S.; Ala., Ark., Del., D.C., Fla., Ga., Ky., La., Md., Mass., Miss., Mo., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va.; Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America; s Europe (Italy). Isopterygium tenerum is common in Florida and the Gulf Coast, becoming infrequent northward, occurring in scattered localities to southern New York and disjunct to southern Nova Scotia. The species is extremely variable, and several varieties have been described from North American plants. These varieties, based on leaf shape and length, are believed to be environmental forms and are therefore included in the synonymy. A biometric analysis by P. L. Redfearn (1956) on the stem leaf variation reached a similar conclusion. Related Objects Image Gallery Distribution Map Map	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3335
__label__wiki	0.63261	0.63261	SECS5: The Counterfeit Euro is a Democracy-Destroyer The euro is pulverising European democracy. It is destroying democracy not only in Greece but in all other members of the euro zone. It is also destroying people’s hopes for a real democracy at the European level. It has caused a huge rift from north to south and between the crisis-ridden Euro Zone and EU Member States outside the system. It has replaced trust by hyprocrisy. It has stirred up nationalism across the Continent from Scotland to Catalonia to Greece. In Greece, it has stoked hatred and memories of WW2 instead of understanding. In the 1950s Robert Schuman and the Founding Fathers laid out the road to a democratic, solid Community currency. Its supranational principles are different from either intergovernmentalism or federalism. Ask a politician today to define ‘supranational’ — and you will see why ignorance or arrogance has got Europe’s money in such a mess. In the 1990s politicians of a later generation chose the pseudo-federalist Delors Plan. It is destroying not only the consensus for a common currency but tearing apart European society. The European currency was supposed to unite. It was supposed to bring harmony amongst the peoples. It was supposed to bring an era of prosperity and investment in a common future. It has failed. Why? It is what Robert Schuman called a ‘counterfeit’ currency! Schuman provided plans and institutions to create a real Community currency but politicians started dismantling them in the 1950s. Ever since they vie in further destructive acts against honest, democratic money. It is a pathway to pecuniary perdition. That is why the only alternative to the morass that European leaders have embarked on is to look again at the principles that gave originally Europe its longest period of peace and brought about its greatest prosperity. The supranational currency system belongs to the people. It would provide full and open democratic input from businesses, workers and consumers. It would safeguard the democratic rights of various regions so that the rich would not dictate to the poor. It would be based on open government, not closed door meetings of financial ministers. It would allow governments to adjust their currency to the needs of their individual Member States. The pseudo-federalist Delors Plan euro does none of these. It is controlled by the secretive, closed door EuroGroup. Who are they? They are national, not European representatives! They are not practically involved in the needs, fears and plans of industry, workers or consumers. They are party political. They come with a party ideology. And as history has shown, they have loose moral and ethics when it comes to doing what ordinary people have to do — balancing the household budget. They are the people should be kept at more than an arm’s length from any currency — finance ministers! The recent events on Greece has cut a swathe of earthquake-like devastation in European democracy. Firstly, the ‘democratic leaders’ showed themselves completely inadequate to call out corruption in Greece for what it was. Initially they did not insist on anti-corruption measure before serious consideration was given to EU membership. Instead the EU leaders in the Council and also in the Commission dolled out masses of money that only added to the corruption such as in the Bank of Crete scandal. Neither sides learned lessons. Major Mistakes: politicians should not be in charge of money regulation. Politicians should not be able in any way to influence a currency, as inflation is hidden taxation; politicians should not choose their central bank governor and certainly not in secret; Money is public property not the politicians’ plaything. It requires democratic supervision. Let’s go back no further than the beginning of the month of July 2015. On the first day of the month, five European institutions published a report called: ‘Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union.‘ Called the Five Presidents’ report, it was meant to have all the authority of those who consider themselves Europe’s leading politicians. It was prepared by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the so-called Euro Summit, Donald Tusk (also president of the European Council), President Jeroen Dijsselbloem, president of the secretive EuroGroup, Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, and Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament. A complete EMU is not an end in itself. It is a means to create a better and fairer life for all citizens, to prepare the Union for future global challenges and to enable each of its members to prosper. The report is the fruit of ten months’ work of eurocrats of these five institutions. It was launched at the October 2014 EuroSummit. 1 July marks the start of Stage One. What is that about? Stage 1 (1 July 2015 – 30 June 2017): In this first stage (‘deepening by doing’), the EU institutions and euro area Member States would build on existing instruments…. this entails boosting competitiveness and … and enhancing democratic accountability. The Commission in reply to my question firstly said that they could not give any details about ‘enhancing democratic accountability‘ as it was a technical matter! When questioned further about a referendum, the Commission said that it did not think referendums would be involved. Days later, the Greek government announced that it would have a referendum. They urged the Greek populace to vote No. The peculiar motion included out-of-date and unfinished, technical, negotiating positions on euro zone and IMF loans as an annex in English. Clearly the referendum did not meet Swiss standards of democratic accountability. It was a political operation equivalent to those used in left-wing dictatorships like the DDR or the Soviet Union. In this case it was cleverly crafted to get extreme right wing and centre parties to join in the parody of democracy. Did the Commission denounce this referendum, because referendums were not part of their yet undisclosed ‘democratic enhancement‘? Did they say that such a farce could not lead to real ‘democratic accountability‘? Not at all! The Commission President urged the Greek people to vote Yes! But he spoke ominously about Grexit, the exit of Greece. But from what? the euro? But the politicians’ own treaty, the Treaty of Lisbon, makes it abundantly clear that there is no exit possible from the euro. The Commission as ‘guardian of the treaties‘ repeated that many times recently. It was written in the earlier Maastricht Treaty, specifically to discipline governments to more-or-less balance their budgets and reduce debts. (Several States refused to join the euro as they considered it unworkable.) Any student of human nature and of history would know that asking politicians not to devalue the currency (through inflation) as a hidden tax is asking the impossible of them. (Soon after the euro was launched, Germany and France were hauled up before the European Court for breaking the ‘Stability and Growth Pact‘.) What happened in the referendum? The Greek people voted massively No. Thus Greek people lost any ability to gain from the extraordinary efforts the IMF, the EU and the European Central Bank had made in bending the rules. What happened next? The new Greek government finance minister came to Brussels and accepted all the onerous conditions (and much more besides) that had been rejected by the Greek people in their referendum. The government then put all these difficult measures of extra taxation and austerity to the Parliament. What did the Parliament do, seeing that the Greek people had spoken clearly against all of them? It passed all the onerous measures! In the 300 seat chamber, 229 voted for them and only 64 were against. The puzzled observer might ask: What sort of democracy is that? The same people who had enthusiastically voted for a dubious referendum with the great hope of everyone voting No, were now turncoats against the democratic vote of the people. What can be more pernicious than the secretive EuroGroup and its secretive political acolytes grinding down any sort of parliamentary and popular democracy into fine dust of public hypocrisy and Brussels-based serfdom? But that was not the end of it. Far from it. The new vastly increased loans have to be paid for by other European taxpayers. The loans have to be passed in all parliaments of euro Member States. An emergency loan was needed to pay off the IMF. The euro Member States agreed to €7.16bn in short term financial assistance to Greece under the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM). Was the IMF happy? A few days later, an IMF press release expressed their view: Greek debt was ‘highly unsustainable‘. The financing need through end-2018 is now estimated at Euro 85 billion and debt is expected to peak at close to 200 percent of GDP in the next two years, provided that there is an early agreement on a program. Greece’s debt can now only be made sustainable through debt relief measures that go far beyond what Europe has been willing to consider so far. So what do we have of ‘enhanced democratic accountability‘ even before the first month of Stage One ends? We have the European Commission, which is supposed to be an impartial, guardian of the treaties, saying: enhanced democratic accountability’ is a technical matter, a referendum is ruled out, a referendum is ruled in, the Commission President can urge Member States which side to vote on, it can impose conditions on the people and government against the clear result of the referendum, it can insist that the Greek Parliament vote in favour of these conditions that the referendum has rejected. The Greek government can call for a referendum at short notice, which legally means nothing, take the result of the referendum seriously, re-negotiate the EU/IMF loan deal to the detriment of the Greek people, force the parliament to accept this democratically dubious deal, thumb their noses at Greek democracy and the European institutions. Instead of doing down the IMF, the Greek government was forced to repay the IMF loan. The IMF in return announced that Greece is heading for economic meltdown and the European institutions are going to have to pay through their noses for the foreseeable future. We have the other Member States of the euro zone, who vote in their parliaments who are ignorant whether referendums on the euro are permitted, whether the Commission is supposed to speak out urging Europeans vote Yes or No in referendums in general, whether euro-loans and imposed conditions of taxation and structural changes under such conditions are legal in EU law, and despite this ignorance, their own parliaments are being forced by Brussels to vote according to its timetable, and in practice these other ‘democrats’ show they are willing to vote in their parliaments in this state of financial, democratic and legal confusion on the future of the whole EU. The reality of the counterfeit euro is much worse. There are several other Member States who could end up in a similar dilemma to Greece. Prepare yourselves! Posted by David Heilbron Price at 3:58 PM 2 comments: Labels: accountability, currency, Delors, democracy enhanced, EMU, euro, Federal, five presidents, Greece, Schuman, supranational SECS4: Greek Crisis shows the need for a New EU Currency system In world monetary history, some currencies have lasted more than a thousand years. That won’t happen with the present euro. Its self-destruction is as certain as anything in politics. What is now urgent is to reform the currency on a solid basis. It will be a world-beater. A sound currency must retain a long-term store of value. Like tax it must have means for taxpayers to have proper representation in its destiny. This eurDemocracy commentary predicted more than three years ago that the present euro will collapse. It is not due to Greece alone or other failing economies. The conclusion is based on Robert Schuman‘s own analysis of monetary systems. It was also clear from debates in the 1990s. Then the currency’s essential democratic foundation envisaged by Schuman and others was eliminated from the new euro design by politicians who willfully ignored warnings of a future calamity. The present euro system is fatally flawed democratically. It is not only the extreme left-wing Greek Syriza party (which is nominally pro-euro) but the growing, powerful movements against Brussels-based party political cartels that will dictate its fate. They are vehemently anti-euro and in the foreseeable future will, in governments, kill the project from within. Only a higher degree of democracy can save a European currency. It must show itself to the benefit of all. It must demonstrably improve the common good. The European currency must be 'in the service of the people and must act in accord with the will of the people.' (c.f. Pour l'Europe, p55) Secondly the present euro also has an economic illogicality in its foundation, making it unworkable. How did it arise? Today’s failure culminates from politicians arrogantly deciding that they could design a better European monetary system than Europe’s Founding Fathers. They at least were aware of the lessons of monetary history. The contradictions are now bringing turmoil on the money markets and threatening the political cohesion of the European Union. Does that presage the end of the European Union? Not at all! The supranational Community system is stronger than its currency — even a flawed and suicidal one. A new euro system will have to be built up based on sound economics. In effect Europe’s leaders have another chance to change their present failures into success and make the European currency the envy of the world. The Founding Fathers wanted to see their currency not last just for five or ten years but be stable for centuries. As designed, it would outclass any currency in history– even ones that lasted a thousand years! What currency applies in a Community system? A Community currency. A supranational Community needs a Supranational Economic and Currency System. A real Community currency would bring wealth and investment unseen since the early Communities. Schuman, working as France’s Finance Minister, Prime Minister and architect of the European Community, helped initiate the ‘Thirty glorious years’ after WW2. A system based on intergovernmentalism won’t work. (Europe is more than intergovernmentalism!) A system based on federal principles won’t work. (The EU is not a federation!) A system based on Optimal Currency Area theory won’t work. (Europe is based on freedom of choice!) A currency that requires a fiscal, that is tax, union, without proper democratic representation won’t work. (The euroGroup is not even classified as a European institution in Treaties and yet has become the governing body of the EU!) A European currency whose value and Central Bank policy are dictated by politicians and not by the market will always fail. A system without a proper supranational democratic control of its economy and currency won’t work. The euro has had only five or six years of stable interest rates across its Member States. It has been in crisis ever since. The following graph from UCL gives the interest rates in excess of that offered by German bonds in euro. The Greek crisis is only one of many challenges attacking the economic foundation to this euro system. It will certainly not be the last. Other Member States are likely to present Brussels with similar or worse problems in the near future. A currency has to be based on public confidence. The flight of confidence and trust is as fatal as the flight of capital from banks. The present crisis, and those with Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Italy have already exposed the fragile foundations. The process is under way and the outcome is inevitable. The European public is now divided into those who see the euro continuing and those who see it failing. Those critics losing confidence in the euro are gaining in numbers. Hence the numbers of those who see it lasting longer are on a downward slope. The movement is in the direction of continual loss of confidence. Consider the consequences. Those who in countries like Greece fear for their future have already involved in the multi-billion euro capital flight. They borrowed as much as possible, then stored notes or transferred them, buying where possible material assets abroad. They feared both that the Greeks might bring in a new Drachma or that their euro deposits in banks might be riffled as the euroGroup threatened to do during the Cyprus crisis. European institutions sometimes made the matter worse. When European Central Bank tried to support Greek banks, directly or indirectly, it only accelerated the flight capital. Greek debts rose to some 325 billion euros, a third of this is flight capital. What’s behind the Greek crisis? Three possible causes stand out among others: corruption, political immaturity or political sabotage. The first factor is political corruption. That is far bigger than most people think. By corruption I don’t mean just the Greek system. It was obvious from before Greek entry into the three Communities in 1981 that Greece remained highly corrupt after the dictatorship of the Colonels. Parties of the Left and the Right tried too often considered electoral victory as a means to load the bureaucracy and the governmental system with their own supporters. Giving Greek bureaucratic posts to party loyalists is as corrupt as turning the Commission into a party political secretariat. An effective civil service must be above politics and political ideologies. Greeks have a long history of what is called in Brussels ‘party political parachuting‘ their buddies into the civil service. It also leads to internal rivalries, turf wars and bribing. Externally it leads to paralysis. Robert Schuman warned: ‘Amassing more officials is no guarantee against abuse … but is often just the result of favouritism‘ He said: ‘Administrative rigidities are the prime danger that threaten supranational services.’ (Pour l’Europe, p146.) Greece also remained undeveloped as an economy, without proper attributes of a modern economy. For example Greece lacked a proper land registry system. Brussels paid some 100 millions euros so that they could have one. The money disappeared without a registry appearing. Brussels gave more money! Who owns land in Greece? No one knows! Nor does it have a fully working tax system. Yet these and many other failures were known to all the politicians of the time, including the Commission. In 1978 the then European Commission President, Roy Jenkins, said that of the three Member State candidates, Greece was the least prepared and the least qualified. Which then entered the Community system first? Greece! Was it reformed? Judge for yourself! Joining the Community, Greece availed itself of handouts supposedly to reform its economy. The Brussels largesse led to the Karamanlis and Papandreou scandals involving dirty dealings in the Bank of Crete. Thus corruption englobes the Greek governments of all stripes. But corruption also engulfs the European Commission. During the Gaullist years, France lied about the Community’s origin, and denied Schuman’s key achievements. The Commission played Gaullist tunes. France milked the rising German industrial power and the European Communities for all they were worth. Under Roy Jenkins, a British Liberal politician, no real reform took place. Governments decided that the Commission should be populated only by party politicians, excluding all other citizens. This undermines public trust. It is fundamentally dishonest. How? because none of the Commissions — who are supposed to be the ‘honest-brokers’ of Europe — were honest with Europe’s taxpayers. Commissioner-politicians dished out European taxpayers’ money without proper controls. Commissions watched with open eyes and closed lips while fellow politicians in other countries committed fraud to buy votes. (They wanted to do the same.) They did not insist on reform over Meat Mountains, Wine Lakes, phantom autobahns going nowhere, fraudulent national statistics, and the fraudulent misuse of taxpayers’ money for political purposes. Meanwhile they embraced corrupt politicians of left and right as comrades and colleagues. Under Jenkins the Commission decided to consider itself overtly party political. The Commission was always a political body but the Treaties forbade Commissioners to retain any interests, whether commercial or not, especially lobbying or other interests, party political membership, jobs, whether paid or not, and for three years after retirement not take up any employment in sectors of their Commission expertise. In short they were forbidden from involvement in anything that might undermine public confidence. They have to show they are totally independent as honest brokers. Clearly politicians who insist on retaining membership of a group (like a political party) that lobbies and is ideologically driven will lose public confidence and trust. Their political enemies and non-party opponents of the general public consider them ‘partisan‘. Honesty is paramount. The Commission as Europe’s honest broker has to be honest. During the 2011 Greek crisis on the euro, the then head of the euroGroup said: ‘When it becomes serious, you have to lie.‘ Other politicians besides Mr Juncker colluded in this nefarious mission that undermined all public trust in the Community institutions. It only made the Greek crisis worse and worse. Mr Juncker was not alone either when he said of the referendums on the Lisbon Treaty/ Constitutional Treaty : ‘If it’s a Yes, we will say ‘on we go’, and if it’s a No we will say ‘we continue’, we go forward.’ A travesty of Magna Carta and Community Charter rights! The treaty drafts were soundly defeated in referendums in France and the Netherlands and were set for catastrophically higher rejections in other States before they were denied the public. And now Europe is faced with its most serious Greek crisis and another on/off referendum. In November 2011 Greek Prime Minister Papandreou proposed a referendum on the euro crisis but was dissuaded from carrying it out. A referendum is supposed to be democratic but the Syriza coalition government called a no-time-for-real-debate Blitz Referendum. It seemed quite content to modify, postpone or abandon it and maybe their people and pensioners too in their polemic against Brussels ‘blackmail‘. So much for Greek democracy. What of the second factor. Is the Greek government composed of immature politicians? The IMF chief Christine Lagarde famously commented that negotiations is only possible ‘when there are adults in the room.‘ Does this indicate unwillingness to negotiate or perhaps an alternative strategy refusing to come to an agreement? The Greek government had to pay 1.3 billion by the end of June to cover the IMF loan and avoid a default. By not agreeing to anything the Greek government lost billions of euros due to be returned to it on condition some sort of agreement was made. These funds would have paid off a great deal of the Greek debts, far more than the sums due before 1 July. This money is now lost for ever. What of their skittish behaviour? For the IMF’s negotiator Christine Lagarde: “We have received so many ‘latest’ offers, which themselves have been validated, invalidated, changed, amended, over the course of the last few days, that it’s quite uncertain exactly where the latest proposal stands,” she told Reuters. Is this apparent confusion and incoherence due to the fact that the Greek government is a coalition and the Syriza party itself is a coalition. It is a grouping of social democrats, democratic socialists, left-wing nationalists, feminists, anti-capitalists, centrist-environmentalists, as well as Marxist–Leninists, Maoists, Trotskyists, Eurocommunists, Rosa Luxemburgists and Eurosceptics. Some of these radical neo-Marxist/ Communist groups have not raised their heads in public in the West since 1968, others since WW1! Others form part of the alter-globalist movement aimed to fight the ‘neo-liberal’ IMF, International Monetary Fund. We now come to the third possibility. Is there a neo-Marxist strategy in the Greek action? The Marxist system has internal contradictions that led to analysts like Robert Schuman predicting in the 1950s that the Soviet Union would collapse before the end of the century. Classical economists and historians also predicted that the Soviet system would tear itself apart as it had no means to value objects, products and services on the market. Hitler’s economy made similar errors and ended in absolute failure. The Soviet system had a ‘Gosplan’ setting production targets by quantity (and often neglecting quality and demand). It also set their prices (without market information!) It had no consumer feed-back! (Complainers were class traitors!). As there were no free consumers, the Gosplan had to copy prices on the free western markets. The private enterprise system of the free market not only reduced prices but incorporated technological improvements that left Soviets in a cloud of dust. Maoists took an opposition stance against progress and Mao’s ‘Great Leap Forward‘ ended in de-industrializing China and killing upwards of 40 millions. Is the new Syriza working according to a common anti-banker plan? The apparent changes of drafting documents, late arrivals and changes of negotiators may be explained by coalition disagreements. They might equally be consistent with a strategy to unnerve the Brussels negotiators to gain time and ensure maximum capital flight and nuisance power. This is also apparent in the violence of denunciations of Brussels: ‘blackmail‘ and fiscal ‘water-boarding‘. When one party accuses the other of blackmail, it often means they are really the blackmailer. In this case three financial institutions and 17 euro Member States independently believe that they are negotiating in good faith. Some like Ireland, Portugal, Latvia and Spain have had similar conditions imposed on many of them. Now they are being as flexible as possible to Greece. They are not blackmailing. So who is blackmailing whom? Why nuisance power? According to Marxist dialectic the new agreements with Brussels on the euro involve a new synthesis that resolves the old problem (for example, debts, government overspending, unworkable pension schemes, overpopulated civil service, untaxed industries and corruption). The opposition force, (Brussels and the bankers' 'neo-liberal' creditor Troika) is called the anti-thesis. The Marxist dialectic resolves the thesis and anti-thesis into a new synthesis. What then is the anti-thesis of the Marxist radicals? One new synthesis would be the reinforcement of the link to the people against the fiscal ‘water-boarders‘. In other words, a referendum. Sufficient extra complications, extra documents, new proposals and fresh negotiation calls were submitted so that the Syriza government might even withdraw from the referendum if they felt public opinion was turning against them with the wrong answer. The referendum could be cancelled if the Brussels Troika betrayed trust! Was the referendum an act of desperation or part of a strategy? The clues indicate that it was part of a strategy. First clue was their reaction to the unexpected euroGroup meeting that Europe’s heads of government declared AFTER the European Council of 25-26 June. It is clear the Greeks were taken by surprise. In the middle of negotiations on Saturday, the Greek negotiators were called out of the meeting. Their Prime Minister was about to announce the referendum. They were stopped mid-negotiation. What sort of ultimatum/ blackmail is that? The second indication is that the referendum document where the people are urged to vote NO, has, as its annex, documents which were being discussed on Saturday and are incomplete. Furthermore they are now useless. The basis for the documents was an agreement to be made on 30 June at the latest. Thus the Annex on which the Greek voters are to vote is legally useless! The conclusion can only be that either the Greek government did not read the text itself and they are incompetent, or that the Greek government planned the referendum well in advance and were taken by surprise. They assumed that they would have a legally valid, final document published after the European Council that they could claim was Blackmail. What is the end game for neo-Marxists? The final synthesis for Marxist theory is the collapse of capitalism due to its internal contradictions and the rise of the Workers’ State. In this, everyone would get a minimum wage from some sort of fiat currency with no material backing. The Soviet ruble was such a Workers’ currency. It was neither stable (it was devalued several times) nor did it reflect real values. It did not stimulate innovation by being a store of value. It was also not the currency of the workers, as workers who had saved their earnings immediately lost them in devaluations when the decimal place was moved in their bank accounts. Nor was it controlled by the workers. The Soviet Politburo decided when and how such decisions were made. Many members of Syriza have long-standing relations with Russia, many in families back to Soviet times. Curiously when Prime Minister Tsipras visited Mr Putin the question of a Russian loan was not discussed. A Russo-Greek gas pipeline was. The Russian monopoly gas supplier, Gazprom, is now coming under scrutiny by the Commission for abuse of dominant power in the gas market, where in some EU Member States it supplies the totality of the gas. One thing that Russia and many in the Greek government have in common is the destruction of the European supranational law and Single Market system. Russia could then play of one Member State against another and gain the highest price in its bilateral contracts. Through its energy geopolitics it could dominate all Europe. Russia and Greek debt are a major threat to the EU’s euro system. But if you think the present crisis is bad, be warned! Worse is yet to come before politicians see sense and it will get better. Posted by David Heilbron Price at 5:08 PM 1 comment: Labels: alter-globalist, Brussels, currency, debt, EU, euro, Faroufakis, Greece, IMF, Lagarde, Marx, ruble, Schuman, Soviet, supranational, Syriza, system, Tsipras SECS5: The Counterfeit Euro is a Democracy-Destroy... SECS4: Greek Crisis shows the need for a New EU Cu...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3351
__label__wiki	0.798734	0.798734	White Rose Research Online A dinuclear ruthenium(II) phototherapeutic that targets duplex and quadruplex DNA Archer, S., Raza, A., Dröge, F. et al. (9 more authors) (2019) A dinuclear ruthenium(II) phototherapeutic that targets duplex and quadruplex DNA. Chemical Science. ISSN 2041-6520 With the aim of developing a sensitizer for photodynamic therapy, a previously reported luminescent dinuclear complex that functions as a DNA probe in live cells was modified to produce a new iso-structural derivative containing RuII(TAP)2 fragments (TAP = 1,4,5,8-tetraazaphenanthrene). The structure of the new complex has been confirmed by a variety of techniques including single crystal X-ray analysis. Unlike its parent, the new complex displays Ru → L-based 3MLCT emission in both MeCN and water. Results from electrochemical studies and emission quenching experiments involving guanosine monophosphate are consistent with an excited state located on a TAP moiety. This hypothesis is further supported by detailed DFT calculations, which take into account solvent effects on excited state dynamics. Cell-free steady-state and time-resolved optical studies on the interaction of the new complex with duplex and quadruplex DNA show that the complex binds with high affinity to both structures and indicate that its photoexcited state is also quenched by DNA, a process that is accompanied by the generation of the guanine radical cation sites as photo-oxidization products. Like the parent complex, this new compound is taken up by live cells where it primarily localizes within the nucleus and displays low cytotoxicity in the absence of light. However, in complete contrast to [{RuII(phen)2}2(tpphz)]4+, the new complex is therapeutically activated by light to become highly phototoxic toward malignant human melanoma cell lines showing that it is a promising lead for the treatment of this recalcitrant cancer. Authors/Creators: Archer, S. Raza, A. Dröge, F. Robertson, C.C. Auty, A.J. Chekulaev, D.M. Weinstein, J. Keane, T. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4975-0868 Meijer, A.J.H.M. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4803-3488 Haycock, J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3950-3583 MacNeil, S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9188-5769 Thomas, J.A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8662-7917 Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2019. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Cancer; 1.1 Normal biological development and functioning; Generic Health Relevance; Cancer Published (online): 18 February 2019 Academic Units: The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Sheffield) The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Chemistry (Sheffield) Funding Information: ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC) NONE Symplectic Sheffield https://doi.org/10.1039/c8sc05084h Filename: c8sc05084h.pdf Licence: CC-BY 3.0 Share / Export RDF+XMLBibTeXRIOXX2 XMLRDF+N-TriplesDublin CoreAtomSimple MetadataReferMETSHTML CitationASCII CitationOpenURL ContextObjectEndNoteOpenURL ContextObject in SpanMODSMPEG-21 DIDLReference ManagerRDF+N3 About Research Online Licence and reuse information Guide to statistics White Rose Etheses Online White Rose University Press White Rose Research Online supports OAI 2.0 with a base URL of http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/oai2 White Rose Research Online is powered by EPrints 3 which is developed by the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. More information and software credits.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3356
__label__cc	0.577672	0.422328	Poo Power Coming to a home near you GENeco has teamed up with Bristol Energy make each Bristol resident a generator of clean, green gas that could heat your home. At GENeco’s site in Bristol, the sewage waste of a million people across the region is turned into biomethane, an environmentally friendly substitute for the fossil fuel natural gas. Bristol Energy now offers this green gas to its customers, and is a true example of the circular economy in action. GENeco has committed to matching all the gas Bristol Energy’s green customers use with the same amount of biomethane that it injects into the national grid. These transactions are administered and audited via the Green Gas Certificates Scheme. Simon Proctor, Renewables and Origination Manager at Bristol Energy said: “People are much more aware of the simple changes we can make to tackle climate change, but for a long time green energy was seen as more expensive. Luckily, thanks to advances in technology, this is no longer the case. It’s amazing what science can do with your poo.” Mohammed Saddiq, Managing Director of GENeco, said: "By treating sewage and food that's unfit for human consumption, we're able to produce enough biomethane to provide a significant supply of gas to the national gas network.” "Biomethane is a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. Our plant provides carbon savings of around 30,000 tonnes CO2e per year and is a real success story for Bristol. Powering people's homes using waste from the local area is a real-life example of the circular economy in action." What can your poo do? Your individual flushes alone can’t heat your home. But they certainly all add up*: An average household’s weekly flushes would be enough to cook your weekend fry- up. An average household’s fortnightly flushes would be enough to cook your roast dinner. Annual flushes from every household in Bristol could fry 83,000,000 eggs	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3360
__label__cc	0.530081	0.469919	Arab Crossroads Film and New Media Interactive Media and Technology Literature and Creative Writing AIRPORT ROAD 01 Electra Street ELECTRA STREET 01 12 Things Project 50 Dirhams a Day Frankenstein and His Progeny Global Liberal Arts Electra Street Playlists Favorite Theorists The Burkini Ban Einas Alhamali \| Mar 2019 \| Arab Crossroads, Archive, Literature and Creative Writing, Op-Ed \| How About We Start from Within? Einas Alhamali In 2016, images of armed French officers forcing a woman to take off her burkini at the beach surfaced on the Internet. A burkini is a type of swimwear that covers the entire body and hair, suitable for hijabis. The officers were acting under the laws of their city, which, like other cities in France, had banned burkinis at the time. The general response on social media was outrage, especially amongst Arabs and Muslims. When I saw the news, I was horrified, imagining myself forced to take off my protective layer under four men’s gazes. This incident was only one case that became viral; who knows how many more never reach the public eye? I was angry at France and their“secular” laws. I was angry at Islamophobic people. I could not imagine the anger and fear coursing through that woman’s body. Little did I know that Islamophobia hides right under our noses. Last summer, my family and I went on a vacation in the mountains of Lebanon. We had found the perfect hotel: antique décor, a big balcony, and cool, tranquil weather. At the reception, my mother asked about the pool. She needed to swim to keep her post-surgery arm from getting stiff. The receptionist answered, “Yes, of course. The pool is available if the men would like to swim.” A moment of silence. My mother gave a half-laugh. “And the women?” The receptionist bit her lip and explained that burkinis were not allowed. We were almost too dumbfounded to respond. My mother had once told me that there were instances when she had not been allowed to swim in some hotels back in Syria either, but I thought that was a thing of the past. Surely, Arabs of different religions have reached a point of reconciliation? When it seems like the entire world stands against us, surely, we could at least support one another? Why are private resorts in Arab countries banning the burkini, a sight that should be familiar considering the numbers of Muslims here? But no. Over the next two days the receptionist and the manager asked us to please understand, it wasn’t their fault. They were only upholding “the hotel’s policy.” My father asked what the policy stated, and we tried to argue against it. Visitors must wear proper swimwear (invalid argument; burkinis are made of the same material as any other swimwear) that consists of one or two pieces (invalid argument; go ahead and Google images of burkinis; they’re usually two pieces with a head piece, but if you’re going to count the head piece then you should also count swimming caps, which would make bikinis three-piece swimsuits). And while the Lebanese government has its issues, this“policy” was not their doing. We found another hotel, only twenty-five minutes away by car, that allowed us to swim. The case of the first hotel is not an isolated one. Friends have told me that this ban occurs in other Arab countries as well, such as Morocco and Egypt, where hijabis are not even allowed to sit on some private beaches. While the ban in France was under the name of secularism, these enterprises cited “hygienic reasons.” This excuse stems from a lack of knowledge—or maybe a lack of willingness to acknowledge—that women do not wear their own undergarments beneath the burkini. On the contrary, it often comes with its own swimming-suitable lining. To put it into fewer words, both France and these private resorts in Arab countries were acting under a common incentive: prejudice. Unlike France, however, the resorts were not following city laws. Their prejudice was the work of individuals. In some ways, that’s scarier. How can we expect other countries to respect our values when the same disrespect resides amongst us? I find myself raising two questions I have yet to find an answer for: One, why are private resorts in Arab countries banning the burkini, a sight that should be familiar considering the numbers of Muslims here? Two, why are those situations not garnering social media attention? I speak from personal experience. When the ban in France happened, my Facebook feed was flooded with the news; on the other hand, I only heard stories of the bans in Arab private resorts when I pitched this piece to my writing class. I know that a national ban and individual cases of private enterprises are not on the same scale, but how can we expect other countries to respect our values when the same disrespect resides amongst us? And it’s not like it’s impossible to ensure that hijabis are allowed to swim in private enterprises. In the United Arab Emirates, for example, I never have to worry about the matter. I can swim in pools and beaches, public or private, in a burkini—or a bikini, for that matter—and no one would bat an eye. I can even find places that allow women only, so that I feel more comfortable. It’s going to take a collective effort to reproduce that freedom of swimwear in other Arab countries where some enterprises issue the ban. The change may start with a post on social media, or a review on the hotel’s website, or a report to the relative authorities. But until then, whenever my family and I go on vacation, we will have to check beforehand whether burkinis are allowed. Einas Alhamali is a Literature and Creative Writing student at NYU Abu Dhabi. She was born and raised in Syria but has also lived in Lebanon and the UAE. In her free time, she reads novels, watches anime, and anxiously solves 1000-piece puzzles. Pathemari Am I Defeated by a Raw Chicken? Rethinking Universality	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3361
__label__cc	0.678207	0.321793	In Grammar By Victoria 3783 Articles of personal names This article is the third in the series of materials on «Articles of the names of their own.» In this case, we will talk about the use of personal names of articles (articles with personal names). The general rule is the following: first and last names of people, pet names and nicknames are normally used without an article in the English language, even if they are accompanied by a descriptive definition (old, young, poor, dear, honest, etc.). For example: old Jacob, poor Crane, lucky Jessica, little Betty and others. Nevertheless, we must consider a number of cases the use of articles with personal names. When we resort to the use of the indefinite article a personal name: If private noun refers to a family member or a person who has that name. A certain Safonov wants you on the phone. — Some Safonov asks you to phone. Alexander Mogilev comes from the Benois, and like a Benois is very talented. — Alexander Mogilev is a descendent of Benoit, and Benoit as any he’s very talented. When the personal names are countable nouns, they can be used with the indefinite article if: name of artist, inventor, industrialist is necessary to refer to his works, labor, premium products: This small museum has a Picasso. — This small museum has a painting by Picasso. Mine is a Panasonic, not a Sony. — My (say, a camera) from Panasonic, but not Sony. The film won an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. — This film won an Oscar in the category «Best Foreign Film». personal name defines the typical features of the bearer (not the person): Poor darling looks like a Cinderella. — The poor girl looks like Cinderella. In these cases, you must use the definite article with the personal name: If there is a personal name, or limiting the definition of the situation: I met Joanna Rowling. — Do you mean the Joanna Rowling? (who wrote books about Harry Potter). I met JK Rowling. You mean that JK Rowling? (who wrote the Harry Potter books). If we use plural nouns to describe the whole family: The Coltons have a big house near the lake. — In Colton large house near the lake. The definite article is used with personal names, denoting the position title, job title: the Queen of England (Queen of England) the President of Ukraine (Ukrainian President) the Secretary of State (Secretary of State) the PR manager (Manager of Public Relations) Peter the Great (Peter the Great) Ivan the Terrible (Ivan the Terrible). But note that these same words in other combinations, as well as other vocabulary related to this group, is used without the article: Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth) President Bush (President Bush) Doctor Benton (Dr. Benton) Professor Kerling (Professor Curling) Captain Switson (Captain Svitson) Mister Franklyn (Mr. Franklin). Articles of personal names are not used in the company: Names of family members who take themselves members of this family to express kinship. Such nouns should be written with a capital letter: Hello, Papa! Hello, Mama! Is Baby still asleep? — Hello father! Hi, Mom! A child is still asleep? However, if there is due to the relationships outside the family, remembers the definite article. Well, young man, have you been drinking again? — Well, young man … You’re drunk again? Can I speak to you, professor? — Professor, can I talk to you? This topic is closely related to the other as described in the articles that need to pay attention: «Articles of concrete and abstract nouns» «Article unique nouns» «Article with proper names» «Articles of geographical names» After reading them, we recommend to pass the following test: «Test # 2 on the use of articles in the English language.» the Author : Victoria «Farewell» in English The vocabulary of the English language Ways to transfer the passive voice in Russian Possessive pronouns in English Means of transport. Services in English English lessons at school The pronunciation of words ending in -ed, -es Gossip girl or gossip in English Reciprocal pronouns in English Lyrics Yngwie Malmsteen «Miracle of life» + explanations Abbreviations in English What we must remember listening to American hip-hop … Learning to read in English The difference between the words, besides, except, and apart from Selecting a word: work / job / employment / occupation English humor In the cafe, bar or restaurant Onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia in English Textiles — textiles in English	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3362
__label__cc	0.621491	0.378509	Respecting land rights of a people Respecting traditional laws and customs pertaining to land rights and titles, including rights and ownership according to their own customs, traditions and needs, be they individual or collective. This includes the utilization and development of their own lands and territories, ensuring that the peoples, lands, air, waters, coastal seas, flora and fauna are protected according to their own way of life and sound environmental principles. Respecting rights of indigenous peoples and communities Protecting transport rights of land-locked countries Campaigning for indigenous land rights Improving agroforestry practices by clarifying land tenure Preserving land rights of the poor Settling indigenous land claims Preserving traditional property rights Exposing violation of land rights of a people Creating community land trust Expropriation of land from indigenous populations Violation of property rights Geography → Land type/use Society → People E: Emanations of other strategies	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3363
__label__cc	0.727878	0.272122	196: Being a Strength Coach in MLB w/ Rachel Balkovec 0 This week's Thursday quickie is part two if my conversation with the Latin American Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the Houston Astros, Rachel Balkovec. * Her strength and conditioning philosophy and how she transfers that to her athletes. * How she individualizes the workouts for each player and position. * The way Rachel establishes respect in the weight room. * Who her mentors are (this is very sweet). * What is next for her in 2016! This was another great talk with Rachel! She shares more stories and great advice for anyone, but especially women who aspire to be in Major League Baseball. A huge thanks to Rachel and to you for listening and subscribing to the podcast! Have a great weekend and stay Healthy Wealthy & Smart! 195: How to get into Major League Baseball w/ Rachel Balkovec 0 Are you a strength and conditioning coach or physical therapist interested in working in Major League Baseball? Then this is the episode for you! I talk with the Latin American strength and conditioning coach for the Houston Astros, Rachel Balkovec. * How she found her self worth through strength training. * How hard work, sacrifice and the right attitude got her to where she is today. * What she needed to learn to work in MLB. * The ways in which she goes above and beyond for her players. * What it takes to be a strength and conditioning coach in MLB. * Her biggest challenge so far in her career. * Her advice to women wanting to get into MLB. * and much much more! Rachel is a true inspiration, a hard worker and a great role model for young women coming up in the strength and conditioning world. Thank you for listening and subscribing to the podcast! Stay Healthy Wealthy & Smart, 194: The Importance of Social Media in PT w/ Dr. Rich Severin 0 In this week's Thursday Quickie Dr. Richard Severin and I discuss: The importance of being on social medial for all physical therapists. Why Rich likes to nurture open discussions on social media. Why the "why" matters when it comes to explaining treatments to your patients. Why trust and truth is paramount in patient care. Rich shares his go to resources on social media! This was a fun Thursday Quickie with Dr. Severin and I hope it gets at least one more physical therapist to join the fun on social media! I would even go a step further to say I hope it not only gets physical therapists to join social media, but to engage fully with other therapists from around the world, expand your knowledge base and have fun! Thanks for listening and stay Healthy Wealthy & Smart! 193: Why Taking Vital Signs is Vital w/ Dr. Richard Severin 0 As physical therapists we are now front line healthcare professionals. Because of direct access (this means you can go to a physical therapist without a doctor referral) clients may be coming to us as an entry point into the healthcare system. As a result of this we need to treat every client with a holistic view. We need to at the very least screen the cardiopulmonary system within the overall human movement system. This is where Dr. Richard Severin comes in! He is a passionate proponent of taking vital signs and screen the cardiopulmonary system for every client in every setting. His background and interest in cardiopulmonary branch of physical therapy The importance of getting baseline measurements for every client in every setting Why it is important to take vital signs in all physical therapy settings. His response to “I have to see so many patients in my outpatient clinic I don’t have time to take vital signs” Risks of not taking vital signs. His talk at CSM This is such an important topic for all healthcare professionals and taking vitals is something we should all be doing…..regardless of our work setting! 192: Lunch w/ Lenny, CrossFit, Golf & Shoulders w/ Lenny Macrina, PT 0 This episode was literally recorded while Lenny Macrina and I were having lunch a the Titleist Performance Institute's Level 1 certification course in Rhode Island. This was Lenny's first podcast, although you would think he has done this his whole life. We had a great conversation and it was super fun! * The TPI Level 1 Certification * Lenny's approach to evaluating and treating and shoulder injury. * What might be missing the CrossFit athlete’s shoulder complex that may lead to injury. * What is the Red Zone and Green Zone and how does it relate to your patient's injury. * How to get a patient (specifically a CrossFit athlete) to buy in to your treatment plan. * How to sell as a physical therapist. * How Lenny harnesses the positive to continue to empower and motivate his clients. A huge thanks to Lenny for this great conversation and to you for subscribing and listening tot he podcast! 191: Gloria Steinem & Her Life on the Road 0 The Healthy Wealthy & Smart podcast is back with new album art, new intro music (thanks to Candlebox) and a fantastic line up of amazing guests! I could not think of a better way to kick off the New Year than with a revealing interview with Ms. Gloria Steinem. Ms. Steinem is a writer, lecturer, political activist, and feminist organizer. She travels in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. She is particularly interested in the shared origins of sex and race caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence, non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous peoples, and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice. She lives in New York City, and just published her first book in over twenty years. During this interview we talk about that new book, My Life on the Road. It is a wonderful book full of history and nuggets of wisdom from Gloria. In this interview we talk about: How the nomadic nature of her childhood shaped her life as an adult. The concept of talking circles and how that concept guided her throughout her life. What were her more memorable moments from her life on the road. One of her biggest fears and how she continues to overcome it. The biggest challenge for women today. What her thoughts are on being the “face of a movement”. Her advice on how to identify an issue and start a movement (it is easier than you think). I can’t thank Gloria enough for her generosity of time, words and thoughts. She is truly a remarkable woman who continues to live an extraordinary life. For more information on Gloria Steinem and see her speak in person click here. Enjoy the conversation and stay Healthy Wealthy & Smart!	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3372
__label__wiki	0.902961	0.902961	» News > Daily News Archive Brought to you by Home Furnishings Business Elway Sends Recliner to Taunted Fan January 29, 2006 by in UnCategorized By Home Furnishings Business in on January 2006 A high school student, harassed two weeks ago for wearing a Denver Broncos jersey to his Pittsburgh-area school, will be watching the Super Bowl in style this year. According the Associated Press, John Elway, NFL Hall of Fame Quarterback and Former Denver Bronco, sent 17-year-old Joshua Vannoy a signed reclining massage chair from his Elway Home furniture line with Bassett Furniture. Vannoy gained national attention earlier this month after a teacher forced him to take a test on the floor of his classroom for wearing an Elway Broncos football shirt to school days before the two football teams met in the AFC Championship Game. Wall Takes Helm at WithIt By Home Furnishings Business in on January 2006 Kathy Wall has been named 2006 president of WithIt. Wall is president of The Media Matters, a Lexington, N.C.-based marketing company. She succeeds Robin Campbell of Stanley Furniture in the WithIt role. The organization also announced its board members. Members of the executive committee for 2006 are: Jackie Hirschhaut of the American Home Furnishings Alliance is the chairman of the board; Kelly Peterson of the Hearst Group is vice president/president elect; Brenda Plowman an industry consultant is secretary; and Darlene Leonard of BDO Seidman is treasurer. New vice presidents/committee chairs are: Margaret Fontana of Anthem Leather heads up financial; Sev Ritchie III of FurnitureFan is the marketing chairman; Leslie Newby of Brand Communications heads up media; Mary Frye of HFIA is in charge of membership, Mary Frye; Sharon Kepley of Woolrich is in charge of mentoring; Jean Welch of Haverty's heads up education; networking is led by Phyllis Zaepfel of ProfitSystems; and, scholarship/foundation is headed up by Betty Lynn Eller of Country Living magazine. "This board will be challenged to enhance WithIt's reputation for providing support to professional women in home furnishings careers by demonstrating tangible benefits for members," Wall said. "In addition to growing membership, communication efforts will include raising industry awareness about the wellspring of talent the organization represents." Established in 1997, WithIt provides educational and mentoring programs to benefit hundreds of participants and corporate sponsors annually. Regional vice presidents are responsible for organizing events and opportunities for members in their areas. They represent their membership to the board. Serving in this role are: in San Francisco, Linda Carey, Ruddell & Associates; in Atlanta, Christina Mairs, Bernhardt Furniture, in Texas, Lynn Gerber-Jenkins, Phoenix Art Group; in Florida, Liz O'Brien, Carter & Star International; in Los Angeles, Laura Weinhofer, GERS; in Chicago, Barbara Jenkins, Kincaid Furniture; and in the Virginias/Carolinas, Susan Inglis, From the Mountain. Named as at-large board members, representing various segments of the industry, are: sales representative, Tracy Denton, Sealy; accessories manufacturer, Kae Pak, Toyo Trading; case goods/upholstery manufacturer, Kathleen Holterman, French Heritage; showrooms/buildings, Ann Richards, MMPI; retail, Deb Linkhorn, Morris Home Furnishings; and supplier, Patty Toler, MGM Transport. Pier 1 Added to Dow Jones Index By Home Furnishings Business in on January 2006 Home furnishings retailer Pier 1 has been added to the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index, replacing Hudson United Bancorp. The change to the index will be effective at opening of trading on Feb. 1. Hudson United Bancorp is being removed because it was acquired by another company. The Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index includes 100 stocks derived from the Dow Jones U.S. Total Market Index, a broad-market benchmark index that represents about 85 percent of U.S. market capitalization. NFM Hosts Survivor Tryouts By Home Furnishings Business in on January 2006 Nebraska Furniture Mart in Kansas City, Kan. was flooded last week with about 200 hopeful "Survivor" contestants eager to prove they have what it takes to outlast others vying for $1 million on the CBS reality show. The four-hour event, sponsored by the local CBS affiliate, was one of 48 casting calls being held across the country between Jan. 7 through Feb. 3. Nebraska Furniture Mart isn't new to such tryouts. The mega-store has hosted auditions before for "Survivor" and has also opened its doors for auditions for "The Apprentice" and the "Amazing Race." Furniture Brands Offers Dividend, Repurchases Stock By Home Furnishings Business in on January 2006 The largest home furnishings manufacturer in the country reported late Thursday, just one day after announcing fourth quarter earnings 33 percent lower than the previous year, its plans to repurchase more of its own stock. Furniture Brands International Inc. authorized the repurchase of $50 million of its outstanding common stock over the next year. This comes in addition to an existing plan to repurchase $100 million of the stock. The furniture manufacturer -- known for its Broyhill, Lane, Thomasville, Henredon, Drexel Heritage and Maitland-Smith brand names -- also said it will increase the quarterly dividend by 6.7 percent, to $0.16 per share payable Feb. 24 to shareholders of record as of Feb. 6. Furniture Brands reported fourth-quarter earnings this week that were less than the previous year, but higher than expectations. The profits for 2005 decreased by $30.2 million from the year before. Prev12...16871688168916901691169216931694169516961697...16991700Next	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3373
__label__wiki	0.618337	0.618337	Max Dudler Architekt > Folkwang Library Fuente: Europaconcorsi Folkwang University of the Arts is North Rhine Westphalia’s college of art and music. Its main campus is housed in the former Benedictine abbey of St. Ludgerus in Essen-Werden, situated in the southern Ruhr Valley. The small 8th century site was extended into a princely baroque residence in the 18th century, arranged around a magnificent courtyard (Cour d’honneur). The construction of the new library on the south side of the courtyard by the architect Max Dudler replaces a 19th century military hospital building demolished in 1969. In 2006 Max Dudler won the design competition organised by the Duisburg branch of the Building and Real Estate Management Authority, North Rhine Westphalia. The project was generously supported by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation. In 1811, while under French occupation, a prison was set up in Werden Abbey. The Prussians extended this and erected a hospital building on the south side of the courtyard. Upon the demolition of the hospital building, the remaining ensemble of buildings looked unbalanced. Without reproducing the original shape of the prison, the new building encloses this side of the courtyard with its voluminous crystalline structure. The new building’s eastern side adjoins the so-called administrative wing of the old abbey. The volume of the new building corresponds approximately to that of the Prussian wing across the courtyard. Folkwang Library was conceived as a monolithic body built atop the level base of an old rough stone wall. Max Dudler’s concept for the building is based on the idea of the ‘museum showcase’: An exterior shell protecting the valuable contents within. The functional areas are grouped around the reading room, which lies at the centre of the building. The book shelves are arranged in strict order around this room, thereby lending scale and structure to the building as a whole. There are two entrances to the library: The main entrance is from the courtyard via a flight of external steps, designed to approximate the style of the entrances to the other buildings leading off from the courtyard. The library’s other entrance on the Klemensborn serves as an emergency exit. Lending desks, media cubicles, an administration area and cloakroom are situated on the ground floor; the reading room on the first floor. The compact archives are housed in the library’s basement. The design of the building’s facade was developed in collaboration with the photographer Stefan Müller. Every pane of glass in the facade depicts a large format close-up of a quarry. These photographs reproduce the unhewn stone in its original size. The photographic works were applied directly onto the glazing using a special technique. In keeping with the elemental meaning of the number twelve in music, twelve motives were pieced together into an overall composition. As with the scagliola technique of the Renaissance used to create stucco marbling, this special photographic technique creates the illusion of the facade being fa- shioned from the stone material itself. At the same time, a tension is created between the imagery of the textured stone and the flat surface of the glass, reminiscent of the historical sgraffito technique, whereby a graphic embossing is etched into a smooth plaster surface. The new building’s smooth glass surfaces create the perfect impression of a polished monolith. But this is called into question by the translucency of the building’s exterior, thereby playfully breaking the boundaries both from inside and out. Silhouettes of people can be seen beyond the facade. The interior is bathed in a soft, filtered light. In the evening, the building illuminates the courtyard outside. The building comprises a reinforced concrete skeleton with concrete cores to provide stiffening. The glass facade is attached to the building’s projecting structural slabs using the mullion-transom system. The concrete pillars are shaped and positioned according to the dimensions of the book shelves. The pillars are clad in cherry wood, which is also used for the shelving in the reading room. Not all the pillars are load-bearing. Some are used as part of an ‘inert’ air-conditioning system. With the ventilation pipes being channelled directly through the reinforced concrete ceilings, this building material’s potential as a heat sink is thereby put to good use. Through coupling this with a heat exchanger, an innovative contribution to energy efficiency is achieved. The library furnishings – such as its tables, chairs and shelves – were also designed by Max Dudler. Ficha del proyecto [wpcol_1third id=»» class=»» style=»»] Duisburg branch of the Building and Real Estate Management Authority, North Rhine Westphalia. Supported by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation Alexander Bonte General Contractor: Derichs u Konertz GmbH u Co KG Krefeld [/wpcol_1third] [wpcol_1third id=»» class=»» style=»»] Building Volumes: usable floor area 1707 m2 gross surface area 5603 m3 gross building volume Design and Construction Period Design commenced: Construction commenced: Construction completed: [/wpcol_1third] [wpcol_1third_end id=»» class=»» style=»»][/wpcol_1third_end] sep noviembre 24, 2012 at 23:54 Responder Estoy totalmente de acuerdo con Maria Antonia Mir, he pensado lo mismo cuando la he visto. Un interior con materiales de Kahn y un exterior con materiales de SOM.Un proyecto locuaz. SL. noviembre 24, 2012 at 18:42 Responder Me recuerda muchísimo a esta otra biblioteca en Berlin: jacob und wilhelm grimm zentrum Javi noviembre 24, 2012 at 13:01 Responder Un volumen y unas fachadas muy interesantes, sobre todo cuando se iluminan de noche... pero el interior no parece muy agradable como biblioteca. Demasiados guiños a los estilos de los años 20 ó 30, espacios demasiado estrechos (dada su altura) y, lo más extraño de todo, un edificio de fachadas de vidrio que no recibe prácticamente luz a través de las fachadas, sino por el techo. De acuerdo, las bibliotecas deben evitar la luz directa, pero: 1- Se trata de Alemania, la luz directa no es un gran problema. 2- Los colores y la rigidez de la disposición geométrica de estructura y materiales le restan aún más luz. No sé, no creo que un edificio deba diseñarse a base de demasiadas ideas, así que los dos proyectos (fachada y espacios), no me parecen muy relacionados... Maria Antonia Mir noviembre 24, 2012 at 10:34 Responder Me gusta. Mezcla de L. Kahn y de Som. Responder a sep Cancelar respuesta	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3375
__label__cc	0.567469	0.432531	Houston, we gotta a problem!!! Posted by Gil Serique: Culture, Windsurf & Wildlife In the Amazon at 17:56 3 comments: Links to this post Several cruiseships are due to cruise the Amazon River between September to March 2010. This industry represents an excellent alternative to other activities that degrade the environment. Pink Dolphins under Threat Dr.Michael Brines and Dr.Yamin w/ a pink dolphin near Manaus Fishing boat that comes 900km from the East A vulvae of Pink dolphin at the Ver-o-peso market in Belem photos: Gil Serique The Amazon River Dolphins(Ignia geofrensis), a.k.a Pink dolphins, are likely to be the most mythical creatures in the Amazon Basin. People believe they can turn into men. For the visitors they are a MUST SEE attraction, PERIOD! New fishing technologies, access to ice and styrefoam boxes have increased fishing missions and the necessity for more bait. Dolphins reach 3 metres and weight some 200Kg, being the second largest water mammal after the rare manatees. They get into scene again! Fishermen are currently killing them to use as baits, placing them into a sad list of threatened species. Other parts of their bodies(vulvae, penis and eyes) are sold as amulets behind the curtains in open markets. Labels: conser Image and Sound-Salgado& Tapajos photo:Podalyro neto Image & Sound are are two tools used by both artists to present their concern about environmental issues and love for nature. Sebastião Tapajos has been highly inspired by the Nature to compose his amazing songs when Sebastiao Salgado is inspired by the same to present his awareness and care for nature as a whole. Learn more about them at www.sebastiaotapajos.blogspot.com and www.amazonimages.com Two amazing men!! Gil Serique was born and raised on the banks of the Tapajos River in the municipality of Santarem, Brazil. The 8th child of a village teacher and Jewish merchants. He spent his childhood in close contact with the wonders of the Amazon rainforest. This formative experience forged a bond with nature that he has never relinquished. From 1984-1986, he worked as a tour guide at Varig Airlines' Tropical Hotel Santarem and then as bilingual reservations agent for Varig Airlines on the coast of northeast Brazil (in the city of Maceio, Al). In 1988 he returned to his home town of Santarem, where he organised private and scientific expeditions to the Tapajos River (one of the main tributaries of the Amazon) and then followed that with two years of the same in the Rio Negro area near Manaus, one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon. There, Gil worked as a guide for the travel agency associated with Varig's world-famous Tropical Hotel. Returning to Santarem, he organised land and river tours for several cruise ships, including HMS Ocean Princess, Sea Goddess and Stella Solaris. During this time he also worked and guided at the Center for Preservation of Indigenous Art, Culture and Sciences (near Santarem), and worked as naturalist and lecturer on M/S Explorer, M/S Lyubov Orlova and M/S Mercury. From 1994 to the present Gil has guided and organised scientific expeditions to various parts of the Brazilian Amazon. For instance, in 1995 he helped organise and participated in a University of Quebec expedition that studied the ecological impact of mercury use in gold mining in the Brazilian Amazon, and with his late brother, Flavio Serique, participated in the Kota Mama Expedition organised by the Scientific Exporation Society,;He is credited the book The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson and dedicated The Drowning World, by Alan Dean Foster. Recently he contributed to Dr. Greg Gant on a book about Fordland and currently works in a book project with Jennifer Davis about the Confederados in the Amazon. Since 1996 Gil has worked as field director of a research project on Hyacinth Macaws for the Wildlife Conservation Society (founded in 1895 as the New York Zoological Society). Between September and November 1996 he also helped implement the Amazon Basin's single richest site for wildlife, the Manu Wildlife Center in the Amazon of southern Peru. He also participated on the most watched video in history, "The Earth Song," an http://www.gilserique.com/?exibe=biography Tarsila Tarsila do Amaral, (b. September 1, 1886 in Capivari, São Paulo,- d. São Paulo on January 17, 1973). Tarsila do Amaral, known simply as Tarsila, is considered to be one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, described as “the Brazilian painter who best achieved Brazilian aspirations for nationalistic expression in a modern style.”[1] She was a member of the Grupo dos Cinco (Group of Five), which included Anita Malfatti, Menotti del Picchia, Mário de Andrade, and Oswald de Andrade. Biography Tarsila was born in the city of Capivari, part of the interior of São Paulo, Brazil, to a wealthy family who were coffee growers and landowners. Her family’s position provided her a life of privilege. Although women of privilege were not expected to seek higher education, her parents supported her educational and artistic pursuits. During her teens, Tarsila and her family traveled to Barcelona, where she attended school and first exhibited her interest in art by copying images seen in the school’s collections.[2] Beginning in 1916, Tarsila studied sculpture in São Paulo with Zadig and Montavani. Later she studied drawing and painting with the academic painter Pedro Alexandrino. These were all respected but conservative teachers.[2] In 1920, she moved to Paris and studied at the Académie Julian and with Emile Renard. The Brazilian art world was conservative, and travels to Europe provided students with a broader education in the areas of art, culture, and society. At this time, her influences and art remained conservative. 4 more go link Blow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsila_do_Amaral Tarsila do Amaral Versus Gil Serique Abaporu means He who eats One is abundance the other famine; one is dry the other super wet; One is colourful the other B/W; ... Land turtle or terrapins about one hundred terrapins from both species (Chelonoidis Carbonária & Enticulata). have been returned by IBAMA and a local zoo from Santarem into the Tapajo National Forest. It sounds like they never took into consideration territory neither cared much about the animals that were packed like beer cans, as the pix shows. Cruiseship spotting It is the least entertaining and most depressing activity. It is inevitable as I live just in front of both rivers. It is scary the increasing of cargo ship traffic!! It will soon be like the Atlanta's airpor. They come in empty and leave full, the cargo is for free. It totally sucks! Boring day at Paju and at Saulo's Pix by Podalyro Neto The Three Last Confederates Alive in Santarem, Brazil Submitted by Telma Anijar-Andersen The lady on the left is Sarah "Sallie" Vaughan daughter ofJames Vaughan and Elizabeth Britt (Jennings). Sarah wasborn in 1861 TN, probably in Silver Springs, Wilson Co. Sarahwas married to Fountain Elliott Pitts, the son of Dr. Josiah H.Pitts and Martha E. Butt. Josiah was the son of the famousRev. Fountain Elliott Pitts and Martha E. Britt of MiddleTennessee. The man in the middle is David Riker, the Riker family wasfrom Charleston, SC. The woman on the right is Martha "Mattie" Amelia Vaughan,married name was Machado. She was also the daughter ofJames Vaughan and Elizabeth Britt. This was taken in front of the baptist church in the city of Santarem, state of Para, Brazil. http://asdecon.blogspot.com/ Last time I had held a camera... The Three Last Confederates Alive in Santarem, Bra... 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__label__cc	0.591762	0.408238	Home Columns Books Papers Biography Contact "Tradition?? The only good traditions are food traditions. The rest are repressive." "There are two ways to think. The first is to trust to your ancestors, your religious leaders, or your charismatic professors. The second is to question, to challenge, to explore history for meanings, and to analyze issues. This latter is called Critical Thinking, and it is this that is the mission of my web site. " Dr. Laina Farhat-Holzman Food?s Place in History Publication Date : December 20, 2019 Related Categories: Antiquity, Civilization, culture, Food, Food &Travel, History, multiculturism, Op Ed, United States We are now in a festive season when food plays a major part in family celebrations. As a history buff, I never pass up an opportunity to entertain with food and with history. This column will put food into its historic origins, showing how it influenced human development. For thousands of years, our ancestors were hunter-gatherers, migrating to find foodstuffs good for eating and medicine. Women were the gatherers, and despite the bragging of men as hunters, the women prov more... Women?s Uneven Progress Globally Publication Date : August 30, 2019 Related Categories: Afghanistan, Africa, Agriculture, Antiquity, Asia, Childrearing, Civilization, culture, Iran, Op Ed, Tradition, Turkey, values, Women Publications: Register Pajaronian The treatment of women from the beginning of our species has been shaped by biology: female humans generally smaller than males, physically weaker, and hampered by childbirth and lactation. Even hunter-gatherer tribes, whose survival depended upon mobility, learned to space between births. A woman on the move can carry only one or two children. After agriculture replaced hunting/gathering, when humans settled in villages, towns, and city-states, spacing childbirth more... The Future of Feeding the World Related Categories: Agriculture, Antiquity, Civilization, Climate Change, European Union (EU), Food, Food &Travel, Guns, Op Ed, Science, United States When our ancient ancestors gave up hunting and gathering to begin growing crops and taming livestock, our numbers grew. But even in the hunting/gathering phase, these ancestors did what no other creatures could: they tamed fire and began to cook their food. Growing crops, a practice that began in river-watered lands (the Fertile Crescent, Egypt, and China) required another innovation, replacing dependence on rainfall with irrigation. Again, population growth exploded. Presidents at War Publication Date : July 26, 2019 Related Categories: Antiquity, Democracy, elections, History, imperialism, Op Ed, Politics, Presidents, War Michael Beschloss, one of our country?s best presidential historians, labored longer than he expected in writing this large book, Presidents of War. Carefully researched biographies present Presidents with their full human virtues and shortcomings. Presidents of War was begun 10 years ago, long before our current president, who alarms us with his whim-inspired forays into global events. Beschloss only addresses the dilemma of President Trump in his Epilogue, and gives us t more... Democracy and Sacred Honor Related Categories: Antiquity, culture, Democracy, dictatorship, government, History, Op Ed, Presidents, values Our founding fathers, particularly James Madison, was aware that a new, participatory republic needed protection against the frailties of human behavior. Madison was aware that power can transform a good man into a tyrant, a phenomenon well known throughout history. Almost any system of government, monarchy, dictatorship, democracy, can be a good system if the leader is an upright man. But therein is the hitch: most leaders with unconstrained power do not remain good men. more... Revisiting Public Education Publication Date : May 03, 2019 Related Categories: Antiquity, Colonialism, culture, Education, History, Judaism, Op Ed, Religion, values There is too much talk about reforming our education system and too little discussion of what education is, and its particular purpose in a democracy. In antiquity, only the children of the ruling class received an education, generally through a well-known teacher. We first encounter discussions of how to teach in the ancient Greek accounts written by Plato of how his own teacher, Socrates, taught. This was an unusual method at the time, and is still too rare even today. S more... The Rebirth of Fascism Publication Date : March 22, 2019 Related Categories: Antiquity, Communism, corruption, culture, Democracy, Europe, Fascism, Freedom, government, History, Hitler, Justice, law, Nazism, Op Ed, Totalitarianism, Trump Two political systems were born early in the 20th century: Fascism and Communism. They behaved as enemies throughout the century, although they shared a common goal: defeat of liberal democracies. In retrospect, however, they shared more qualities than differences. To discuss these movements, definitions are needed. Liberal democracies (United States, Britain, France) had political systems that provided for regular changes of leadership through elections; equal power among head of more... Kleptocracy Comes to America Related Categories: Antiquity, corruption, culture, Demagogues, Democracy, government, History, Op Ed, Presidents, Russia, USSR There is a built-in desire among human beings for fairness. In antiquity, leaders were judged by their people as "just" or as "tyrants." An interesting insight into this problem appears in the Old Testament, when the Israelites ask their wisest judge to bring them a king who will lead them in their battles. The judge, Samuel, tells them what it will cost: I paraphrase: A king will recruit your sons to drive his chariots, be his horsemen soldiers, and to run before his ch more... Women and "Pollution" Publication Date : February 08, 2019 Related Categories: Anthropology, Antiquity, Britain, Childrearing, Congress, culture, History, Op Ed, Religion, Science, Women Women in modern, reason-based societies know that menstruation (monthly bleeding) is a normal process that marks the beginning and end of fertility. When I was a girl, it was often called "the curse," but one does not hear that today. I would never have given any more thought to this topic if it had not returned in the news: a Nepalese woman and her two small children died when freezing overnight in a "seclusion hut." Around the world, remnants of this primitive custom re more... The Limits to Growth Publication Date : January 25, 2019 Related Categories: Africa, Antiquity, Civilization, Climate Change, Economics, History, Op Ed, Population, values The economic system that has done so well by us is Capitalism, a system that encourages competition and innovation, its excesses moderated by government regulations that protect the public from the abuses of the system?s earlier century. This delicate balancing act has depended on growth: population growth, productivity, and seemingly limitless innovation. But now there is a problem for this system. Nothing in the biological world has unlimited growth. Things are born, li more... The Element of Time in Changing Society Publication Date : October 26, 2018 Related Categories: Antiquity, Britain, Democracy, France, government, History, Op Ed, Revolution, Slavery, Women One of the most important insights of our Founding Fathers, men who created an exceedingly revolutionary country, was that a democracy should never make changes hastily. They feared mob rule, which was soon to be demonstrated in the hideous French Revolution. They deliberately separated the governing powers: the presidency, Congress, and the Courts, who were all to function as checks and balances on the others. Even the Congress was divided in two: one branch to represent more... The History of the American Presidency Related Categories: Antiquity, corruption, culture, Democracy, Europe, government, History, Ideologies, Op Ed, Presidents, United States The brand new United State of America in 1779 invented the first presidency in the world. Even during the Revolution against Britain, the founding fathers had not yet decided what to call their first leader, nor did they spell out his duties or his limits. We owe the system we have to George Washington, whose knowledge of ancient Rome?s republic shaped this new leadership role. Washington selected "Mr. President" as his title, a modesty never seen in the world before. Th more... Why is Foreign Policy So Complex? Related Categories: Antiquity, Communism, Diplomacy, Economics, Foreign Policy, government, History, Ideologies, Islam, Op Ed, Religion, Russia, USSR, War Diplomacy is a very old tradition in the world. The world?s first kings 7,000 years ago (Sumeria in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Hrappa in today?s Punjab) exchanged letters and sent gifts to each other. Warfare then was only local, not international. In 300 AD, the Chinese and Persian emperors exchanged gifts, sponsored a trade route across Asia (Silk Route), and never went to war. Diplomacy in those days was peaceful communications between two great empires. The rules governin more... Alien Children in History Related Categories: Antiquity, culture, gender, History, immigration, Op Ed, Turkey, United States While watching with horror the recent deliberate separation of children from their parents at Mexican-American border crossings, I thought back to other comparable policies in history. Unlike those instances in the past, the public outcry against this cruel policy speaks well for us as a society. This ugly policy choice was designed to deter families or unaccompanied children from securing asylum in this country. Both President Trump and Attorney General Sessions spoke op more... Why Conspiracy Theories Flourish Publication Date : June 09, 2018 Related Categories: Africa, Antiquity, China, Conspiracies, culture, Ideologies, Judaism, Op Ed, Pakistan, propaganda, Revolution, Science, United States People "believe" many things, some that they see themselves, some learned from parents and teachers, and some that they accept "on faith" (literal religious beliefs). Before people learn critical thinking, a process of questioning what they hear as to the source, credibility, and consistency, many people automatically distrust information from their leaders. They suspect that all official information is propaganda designed to fool them. We must give credit to the first anc more... The Census: Counting On It. Publication Date : April 28, 2018 Related Categories: Antiquity, Britain, Census, China, Christianity, Democracy, government, History, Op Ed, Population Publications: Clay Center Kansas Dispatch, Register Pajaronian In antiquity, our numbers grew enough to give rise to towns and cities, kingdoms, and empires. Rulers needed to know how many and what kind of people lived in their realms. The first city-state, Sumeria (4000 BC) located on today?s Iraq and Iran border, had agriculture heavily dependent on irrigation systems. Because the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were too unreliable to feed the growing population, irrigation canals were built, systems depending on human labor. Rulers and priests needed accurat more... Russia?s Foreign Policy Related Categories: Antiquity, Christianity, Climate Change, demographics, Education, Empires, Europe, European Union (EU), geography, Op Ed, Population, Russia "Russia," as Winston Churchill once noted, "is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." They are not so mysterious if we understand what Russia is, what its internal problems are, and how they have had a consistent foreign policy for the past century. Russia?s emergence as a country only began in the 10th century, making it far younger than the rest of Europe, starting with Greece 2500 years ago and the Roman Empire about 2000 years ago, bringing its laws, urban life, and more... Let Us Take a Tour of Slavery Through History Related Categories: Anthropology, Antiquity, Arabs, culture, History, Islam, Judaism, Op Ed, Sexuality, Slavery, Women, work Although slavery did not begin with America, its effects still poison the dreams of the America Black underclass and the fevered imaginations of Old South romanticizers and virulent racists. Unfortunately, slavery is and has always been a universal horror. At our beginnings as a species, a practice emerged to compel some members of the clan to perform work that others did not want. Anthropologists tell us that among our hunter-gather ancestors, hunting required muscle and tracking more... Destroying Sacred Icons Is Not New. Publication Date : September 09, 2017 Related Categories: Afghanistan, Antiquity, Christianity, History, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Op Ed, Persian A political cartoon in the Santa Cruz Sentinel showed two Islamist Muslims cheering on the dismantling of a Civil War statue. The cartoonist evidently agrees with President Trump that the destruction of these statues was no different than ISIS destroying the ancient treasures in Palmyra, or the Buddha statue in Afghanistan. Neither the cartoonist nor the President has much of a grip on history. Winners throughout history destroy the artifacts of the losers. How strange th more... "Why Can?t a Woman Be More Like a Man?" Related Categories: Afghanistan, Antiquity, culture, gender, Modernization, Op Ed, Pakistan, Revolution, Science, Women One of the funniest songs in My Fair Lady is when two men, a professor and his best friend deplore the situation that women are not like men. Men are so easy, so uncomplicated, so decent. "Why can?t a woman be more like a man?" they ask. George Bernard Shaw was making fun of them, of course, because at the end, the misogynistic professor finds that he cannot do without the woman that he considered at first a scientific experiment and learned how very special she was. No, s more... The Past and Future of Work Related Categories: Antiquity, culture, History, Labor, Modernization, Op Ed, Revolution, Slavery, Tradition, Women, work There are people in the lesser-developed parts of the world who do work that our modern societies have long forgotten. Women and children live atop mountains of garbage that they sort through to find anything that can be sold for a few pennies. In India, women sort through slag heaps from coal-mines to find a few pieces of coal that can still be used for fuel. Miners in China, Latin America, and Africa do not live as do our modern miners, whether coal or other minerals, who are u more... Religious Tolerance in World History Related Categories: Antiquity, Christianity, culture, Europe, Islam, Judaism, Op Ed, Religion, Russia, Tolerance, United States, USSR Among primitive humans, the world was frightening and animated by benign or hostile spirits. Our ancestors feared the power of these unseen forces, believing that sacrifices could calm these spirits. Sacrifices ranged from sharing food (burning foods so that the smoke could reach the deities) or, in dire circumstances, human sacrifices to pacify an angry god or goddess. As we developed as a species, these nature spirits evolved into a system of many gods and goddess, spel more... Related Categories: Antiquity, Arabs, Christianity, culture, Europe, History, Ideologies, India, Islam, Judaism, Op Ed, Puritanism, Religion, Tolerance, United States As we developed as a species, these nature spirits evolved into a system of many gods and goddess, spelled out more... Afghanistan?s Gender Benders Related Categories: Afghanistan, Antiquity, culture, gender, Islam, Justice, Pakistan, Terrorism, Women The bathroom battles raging in the United States today (which toilets transgender people can use) reminds me of how little new there is in the world. For eons, some human beings have been born aware of wiring (or something else) amiss in their gender. Ancient Greek mythology has been a gift to the world. Tiresias was the only human being who had been both male and female. He was a blind prophet who could warn kings of danger but was often not believed until too lat more... The Trouble With Today?s "Cassandras." Related Categories: Antiquity, culture, Europe, Islam, Jihadis, Judaism, Op Ed, Religion, Terrorism, violence, War Publications: Clay Center Kansas Dispatch Cassandra dates back to ancient Greek mythology. Cassandra was a princess of Troy who was cursed with the ability to see future disasters but also cursed with never being believed (until too late). This is different from the boy who cried wolf (making up the warning) and then not being believed when the wolf actually appeared. Two Cassandras have received much critical press in the past few weeks: Iowa Representative Steve King, who tweeted in defense of another Cassandra more... The Arc of History Related Categories: Antiquity, Britain, Education, elections, European Union (EU), France, government, History, Op Ed, Science, values As a historian, I share with former President Obama the idea that there is such a thing as "the arc of history." What is meant by this is that human beings have very gradually changed over the centuries from small clans and tribes who had to fight tooth and claw to survive to a global society, much of which has common (and largely American) values. We no longer throw our adolescent girls into a volcano to calm the rage of the volcano god. Most of us no longer regard women more... Tradition! Related Categories: Antiquity, Arabs, culture, Education, Food &Travel, Modernization, Muslim, Op Ed, Religion, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Science, Sexuality, Slavery, Tradition, Women In Fiddler on the Roof, Tevya, the milkman, a poor Jewish villager trying to survive in Tzarist Russia, is faced by societal changes that he resists with all his might. Tradition is his shield and protection from what he sees as chaos. Of course, there are limits to how much one can resist the present. Around the world, and even in our own country, there are people who resist the present, or, rather, resist some of the changes of the present. They cherry pick. The more... E Pluribus Unum? Publication Date : November 05, 2016 Related Categories: Africa, Antiquity, China, Colonialism, Empires, government, History, Japan, Nazism, Op Ed, Russia, United States, violence, War This Latin slogan describes the intentions of our founding father: that out of many colonies would come one nation. We Americans are very proud of this idea, and many think that we invented it. However, considering that the slogan is Latin, the ancient Romans certainly thought of it, as did others before them. The small, scattered tribes of Homo Sapiens peopling Africa never looked beyond their tribes, related by blood. But as our ancestors left Africa and peopled the worl more... What Use Are Good Manners? Related Categories: Antiquity, courtesy, culture, Islam, Japan, Judaism, Op Ed, Religion, Women Being "polite" is not just a matter of saying please and thank you. Courtesy has always been the lubricant that makes the wheels of society turn smoothly. There is a movement today to conflate honesty with rudeness, mocking the "politically correct." Political correctness is an exaggerated monitoring of words and thoughts that might offend others. The revolt by some against political correctness is that these constraints sometimes muzzle debate. However, the revolt against "political correctness more... Four Middle East Water Systems Shape History Related Categories: Antiquity, Climate Change, Egypt, History, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Muslim, Op Ed, Population, water, Yemen Controlling water was one of the first technological efforts at the beginning of what we call "civilization," or city building. Even today, most human beings live on the rims of oceans or on river systems. We need water to drink, for washing ourselves and our goods, but most of all, for agriculture. Where today Iraq and Iran meet arose the first urban civilization 5,000 years ago, Sumeria. This amazing culture created the first big city-state (Ur), a system of writing, sea-going more... Genocide extends back 7,000 years. Related Categories: Africa, Antiquity, Crusades, Europe, genocide, Germany, Hitler, Ideologies, ISIS, Islam, Nazism, Op Ed, patriot, violence, War, Women Archaeologists have just found a 7,000-year-old Stone Age mass gravesite outside of Frankfurt, Germany! This horrifying find erases what we had always thought about human behavior at the beginnings of agriculture and village life. Genocide has a long human history, but we didn?t know that it was that early in the agricultural revolution when population density could not have been large enough to provide for organized warfare. This is just one of a number of similar mass graves. T more... What is a Patriot? Related Categories: Antiquity, culture, elections, government, Op Ed, United States The first mention of love of country occurred in Rome, under the Republic. The slogan was: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori (It is sweet and proper to die for one?s country. The better translation is to give one?s life for one?s country. 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__label__wiki	0.62753	0.62753	Golden Theatre 252 W 45th St New York, NY 10036 seemap SLAVE PLAY GET TICKETS AND SHOWTIMES TELECHARGE On Stage: SLAVE PLAY It stunned audiences with a sold-out run at New York Theatre Workshop. Now, Slave Play is coming to Broadway. The Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation — in the breeze, in the cotton fields… and in the crack of the whip. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems. Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender, and sexuality in 21st-century America. Written by Jeremy O. Harris, “one of the most promising playwrights of his generation” (Vogue), this “dazzling mix of satire and psychodrama” (The New York Times) is directed by two-time NAACP and OBIE Award winner Robert O’Hara. “The single most daring thing I’ve seen in a theater in a long time.” - Wesley Morris, The New York Times “Subversive. Radical. Dangerously delicious. This play is lit.” - Soraya Nadia McDonald, The Undefeated “It demands to be seen.” - Louis Peitzman, Buzzfeed “Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play offers some of the most stunning theatricality of the year.” - Peter Marks, Slave Play Show Tickets \| Slave Play Show Schedule Coming Soon: HANGMEN HANGMEN Hangmen arrives on Broadway after two sold out engagements in London and the Atlantic Theater Company. England 1965 - What is Britain’s (second most) famous executioner to do now that hanging has been abolished? Olivier and Academy Award-winner Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri; The Pillowman) is back with his 7th brilliant and wickedly funny new play. Hangmen Show Tickets \| Hangmen Show Schedule The John Golden Theatre was originally built in 1927 as the Theatre Masque by real-estate magnates, the Chanin Brothers, as part of a three-theatre complex that also included the Royale (a mid-sized house) and the Majestic (a large house). The Theatre Masque, the most intimate of the three, was designed for serious dramas. In 1930, the Chanins transferred ownership of all three venues to the Shuberts. In 1937, when John Golden assumed its management, he renamed it after himself, the third playhouse to bear his name. The Shuberts took back control of the theatre in 1946, turning it into a film house for two years before restoring it to legitimacy in the late 1940s. The Chanins hired the Shuberts’ favorite architect, Herbert J. Krapp, to design their three-theatre complex. The Golden’s interior has a Spanish influence, an example of the Mission Revival style popular on the West Coast. Interior features include rough plaster walls, wrought iron fixtures, spiraled columns, and ceiling arches. Spotlight on Broadway: John Golden Theatre from Spotlight on Broadway on Vimeo. Details on the Golden Theatre's Accessibility Theatre is not completely wheelchair accessible. There are no steps into the theatre (where there are steps we are unable to provide assistance). Shubert Audience Services The Golden Theatre provides accommodations for patrons who are blind, deaf, partially sighted, and/or have hearing loss. The theatre provides infrared assistive listening devices for every performance at the theatre. In addition, beginning four weeks after a show’s official opening night performance, hand-held audio description devices and hand-held captioning devices are available, and there is unlimited access to downloadable audio description and/or captioning for personal mobile devices free of charge. (Hand-held devices are limited, although additional devices can be obtained with at least twenty-four hours’ notice.) If you have questions, contact Shubert Audience Services at 212-944-3700 or audienceservices@shubertorg.com. There is also a representative at the Shubert Audience Services kiosk at every performance to assist any patron with any of our devices, software, or technology. Accessibility by Seating Section Orchestra: Seating is accessible to all parts of the orchestra without steps. Wheelchair seating is in the orchestra only. Mezzanine: Located on the second level, up three flights of stairs, 28 steps. Once on the Mezzanine level there are approximately 2 steps per row. Entrance to the Mezzanine is behind row D. Handrails: Available at the end of every stepped seat row in the Mezzanine. Wheelchair \| Companion Seat Locations: Orchestra: E102 \| E101, D101-102; E104 \| E105, D103-104; O102 \| O103, N101-102 \| E120 \| E119, D119-120; E122 \| E123, D121-122 Aisle Seat with Folding Armrest \| Companion Locations: Orchestra: K2 \| K4; L1 \| L3, L101 \| L102 Elevators/Escalator Located in the lower lounge. Accessible at 54", with TTY utility outlet and shelf. Not wheelchair accessible. Restrooms located down 2 flights of steps (down 19 steps to lower level.) Wheelchair accessible restrooms located in the Schoenfeld Theatre. Located in the lower lobby. Theatre Policies The use of cameras, recording devices, cell phones, beepers, and other electronic devices during the performance is prohibited. Everyone attending a performance must have a ticket. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of management. Wheelchair and mobility-impaired seating is intended for patrons with mobility disabilities. Children under the age of four years will not be admitted. No outside food or beverage permitted, unless medically necessary. No weapons permitted on the premises. New World Stages Ambassador Theatre Barrymore Theatre Belasco Theatre Bernard B. 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__label__wiki	0.611184	0.611184	Sep 12, 2017 9:49 AMPublication: The Southampton Press Zeldin Votes Against Bipartisan Harvey Relief Bill After Debt Ceiling Measure Is Added By Kate Riga After initially supporting a $7.85 billion standalone aid package for Hurricane Harvey relief efforts early last week, U.S. Representative Lee Zeldin changed course midweek, voting against the relief act once it grew to a $15.25 billion measure and incorporated a bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling. The bill was ultimately approved in the House, 316-90. Friday’s final vote came after President Donald Trump met with Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer and Minority House Leader Nancy Pelosi and agreed to increase the amount of relief money from the initial proposition, as well as to wrap in a continuing resolution to fund the government until December 15 and lift the debt ceiling for the next three months—a deal that drew anger from some congressional Republicans. Mr. Zeldin took to his Facebook page on Friday: “This proposal stood tall on its own, but it was all downhill from there,” he wrote. “A three-month debt limit increase and extension to the National Flood Insurance Program were added without ANY desperately needed reforms. A three-month continuing resolution was added as well. For years, I’ll be scratching my head why this all devolved so much, so fast, in that Oval Office meeting with Pelosi and Schumer earlier this week.” A week earlier, Mr. Zeldin had said of the hurricane relief efforts in Texas: “I am fully, completely committed to do whatever I can … to assist. Regardless of whether you’re a fellow New Yorker or a Texan, we want to be as helpful as possible.” A couple of Democratic candidates running for Mr. Zeldin’s seat next November took advantage of the opportunity. Former Suffolk County Legislator Vivian Viloria Fisher of Setauket had harsh words for her potential opponent. “Lee Zeldin’s vote against fellow Americans is shameful,” she said on Saturday. “If we let partisan battles get in the way of helping one another as a country, then who will be there for Long Islanders when our next big storm hits? This is a dangerous and callous precedent to set for coastal Long Island.” Perry Gershon of East Hampton, another Democratic candidate, also criticized the sitting congressman. “Today Lee Zeldin turned his back on Americans in desperate need of help, all in the service of a right-wing ideological cause,” he said in a press release on Friday. Everything was fine when it was all about Harvey relief. Then along came Schumer and Pelosi. By loading... (601), quiogue on Sep 12, 17 10:16 AM dbnyeve, longislander40, dnice, susgeek, greeneyedlady They cant have a standalone bill. It would make too much sense. They have to add things to it that some people may be opposed to and then politicize it. I saw several headlines naming people who didn't vote for the bill claiming they were heartless for not wanting to help hurricane victims when in reality they didn't like the addons. Ridiculous! By razza5350 (1911), East Hampton on Sep 12, 17 10:36 AM susgeek, greeneyedlady What else could be expected? A choice between ideological purity and the critical welfare of his countrymen. The outcome was a foregone conclusion. By highhatsize (4217), East Quogue on Sep 12, 17 12:08 PM Fernie11946 What else could be expected. The resident nocturnal percussion engineer doesn't get it right. What happened was that Chuck and Nancy took a pure bipartisan aid bill and tainted it with debt ceiling wording. The move was so egregious that members of Congress from TX voted against it. But of course Chuck and Nancy played politics with money meant to do no more than help Americans. That's what professional elite Democrats have always done. Push their agenda using Americans in need as their Oxen. Sep 12, 17 12:44 PM appended by even flow this is classic: "the unfortunate fact is that the Honorable Lee would likely vote exactly the same way if ..." If they were facts, you wouldn't be using the words ''likely'' or ''if''. You were saying what about intellect, now? By even flow (1023), East Hampton on Sep 12, 17 12:44 PM to even flow: As expected, one of the forum Right-Wing intellects has failed to note that the four Texas Republican congressmen who voted against Harvey, like The Honorable Lee himself, where from districts unaffected by the hurricane. Psychopaths CANNOT, by their very natures, be moved by compassion. Moreover, the unfortunate fact is that the Honorable Lee would likely vote exactly the same way if the East End were hit. In comparison to his faith, the suffering of a true believer's ...more neighbors is irrelevant. The vast number of Republicans (i.e. those still possessed of even the smallest fragment of conscience) voted "Yes". By highhatsize (4217), East Quogue on Sep 12, 17 2:15 PM As if the debt ceiling would be voted down even if unencumbered, or that the Texans didn't know the bill would pass. By June Bug (2680), SOUTHAMPTON on Sep 12, 17 2:30 PM Drain the swamp - start with McConnel, McLaim and Ryan By Ditch Bum (929), Water Mill on Sep 12, 17 4:19 PM Rich Morey Morally bankrupt leftists see nothing wrong with tacking on crap that they know would not fly on its' own. Time for the debt ceiling rubber stamp to be taken away from the children. By bigfresh (4666), north sea on Sep 12, 17 3:21 PM Yet more idiocy. Mr. Z Morally bankrupt is believing in "capitalism" after FOUR decades of failure, with 2008 being the coup de grace. Laffer was an appropriate nomen. It is to laugh... Sep 12, 17 7:46 PM appended by Mr. Z AND, if you think people appropriating mortgages they couldn't afford was the "problem", you're a ***n idiot. America GREAT again ! Median incomes rises to highest on record ! Middle-class income has hit highest level on record , Census Bureau reports ! Media does not care will never give President Trump a fair assesment, new study shows Trump News Coverage 91% N E G A T I V E... The broadcast network evening newscasts remain as hostile as ever towards President Trump and his agenda, Analyzing the networks’ spin makes it clear that the goal of all of this heavy coverage is not to promote ...more the President, but to punish him. they recorded an 89 percent negative spin during the first three months of the administration, usually a traditional honeymoon period for new presidents. By 27dan (2854), Shinnecock Hills on Sep 12, 17 3:58 PM Reporting anything positive re: drumpf would be the epitome of fake news. No there there, Bucko. All this good economic news covers 2014-2016, and is thanks to President Obama The typical household’s income rose more from 2014 to 2016 than in any other two-year period on record (with data back to the 1960s), poverty declined, and the share of Americans without health insurance fell to a record low. This marks the first time on record, with data back to 1988, that ...more all three measures of well-being improved for two years in a row. June, you couldn't support those outrageous claims if your life depended on it. And, I hereby challenge you to produce data from an objective source that supports: 1.) "typical" household income rose more from 2014 to 2016 than in any other two-year period on record. 2.) poverty declined 3.) health insurance is an anomaly. There's never been a law requiring people to buy it else pay a fine enforced by the IRS. But, you go ahead on numbers 1 and 2. Sep 13, 17 7:37 AM appended by even flow nevermind...I took part of your post and did a google search on it and you copied, word for word, the data put out by obama's census team. Hahahaha. You are a stone cold mark. By even flow (1023), East Hampton on Sep 13, 17 7:37 AM dnice Evenflow, are you surprised that these posers( uh sorry, posters) don't have the ability to formulate an original thought? By dnice (2346), Hampton Bays on Sep 17, 17 7:09 PM By dbnyeve (19), wading river on Sep 19, 17 5:26 PM What fake right wing nut web-site did you get that off? 27 dan, did your income go up?, do you pay less taxes?, is your healthcare premiums as promised by Donnie Johnnie going down with better coverage? Fantasy news brought to you by Breibart and Alex Jones, what a joke! By Mets fan (1501), Southampton on Sep 12, 17 4:29 PM Mr. Z, VOS, June Bug Cankles is in reality a soul sucking succubus ! Any association with her has ended very badly...Vince Foster, Bed warmer Huma, Anthony the Pedophile, Stevens and Rich...the list is long. Just Imagine an alternate reality where Hillary won. Then Trump chronicles 'What Happened'. He goes on a book tour to begin The Blame Game. He lashes out at everyone and everything. What would Hillary and her media do? They would laugh and move-on. So should we. By joe hampton (3461), The Hamptons on Sep 12, 17 4:42 PM You crack us up, joe hampton. The only humans your idol, the sick jackass, hasn't lashed out against or criticized are the Russkis. And whom hasn't he blamed for the failure to repeal the ACA? Sep 12, 17 5:08 PM appended by June Bug And high time you "moved on". What's with your obsession---you just can't quit her apparently. Don't worry, she wouldn't like you either. At all. You might want to practice what you preach JuneZ! The Hill lost and Trump is our President, move on. IF ONLY WE COULD ESCAPE THE sob. Simple is, as simple does. Just because you turn a profit, it doesn't make you smart. It just means you can add and subtract, and fill a need. It ain't Trigonometry. Forensics show Vince Foster committed suicide. BUT, you think climate change is a hoax. "Stupid is, as stupid does.." Amazon and Walmart are discounting Hillary's new book 40% before it's even released. By loading... (601), quiogue on Sep 12, 17 9:24 PM All those record breaking numbers came under Barack Obama's watch and budget. Thanks a Democrat for your good fortune!! I take no small measure of Schadenfreude knowing Hillary greets each remaining day of her miserable life with the cold reality of her abject failure in being beaten by a celebrity businessman with no prior political experience who rallied and led a group of forgotten Americans whom she called a basket of deplorables. By Undocumented Democrat (2065), southampton on Sep 12, 17 4:48 PM Frank Wheeler,xtiego bull @ UD No Z, she knows she lost a no lose election. She was that unlikeable. But of course. Why provide aid to those most in need when one can mount the purely partisan grandstand? Zeldin digs in his heels as the partisan brakes have already been locked and the wheels of government securely chocked when the reasonable action would have been a vote in favor the bipartisan deal incorporating aid and a necesary raise of the debt ceiling. Zeldin simply agrees to be disagreeable. To paraphrase a famous Daily News headline "Zeldin to Victims: Drop Dead!" By VOS (1241), WHB on Sep 12, 17 7:00 PM He epitomizes slime in the way any trump sycophant can be genuinely characterized. His kind is mostly reviled. The oldest sins cast the longest shadows. Good Job Lee. We're all behind your common sense approach to governing. By BillWillConn3 (180), Southampton on Sep 12, 17 10:16 PM What exactly makes sense about obstructionism, particularly when it hurts millions of Americans facing great hardship from a natural disaster? Where is Zeldin's plan? What are his accomplishments? If simply sitting on his butt parroting the same old tired partisan crap is good enough for you, you'll find yourself very disappointed a little over a year from now. America is tired of feeding the creatures of the swamp - fresh blood with fresh ideas is long overdue. By VOS (1241), WHB on Sep 12, 17 10:55 PM Mets fan,DJ9222,June Bug So much for Zeldin voting lock step with the President! I'm enjoying the veiled compliments to President Trump his usual detractors don't even realize they're giving. By Po Boy (5299), Water Mill on Sep 13, 17 9:43 AM Sweden Releases ‘Sex Guidebook’ to Teach Young Migrants Not to Rape Sep 13, 17 10:36 AM appended by 27dan Gosh, what a brilliant strategy! All these savage misogynists needed was a guidebook telling them it's OK for women to say no! Think of the implications, folks. We can eliminate rape and other sex crimes in America by 2019 if we simply translate this book and distribute it to every school, courtroom and prison in this country. Leave it to the Swedes to show us the 21st century way of fighting crime! I can't wait to see their next migrant guidebook: "Why Mass-Murdering Non-Muslims is a Not Nice Thing." By 27dan (2854), Shinnecock Hills on Sep 13, 17 10:36 AM to Po Boy: "So much for Zeldin voting lock step with the President! I'm enjoying the veiled compliments to President Trump his usual detractors don't even realize they're giving." The rest of us are enjoying watching you invert yourself in an empty barrel in order to suck the "good news" out of the crevices at the bottom. By highhatsize (4217), East Quogue on Sep 13, 17 10:37 AM By Po Boy (5299), Water Mill on Sep 13, 17 11:57 AM Uncalled for, low-low vulgarity, Po Boy. Little children read these comments, for goodness sake. (Confirmed by the fact that some are actually posting disguised as Right-Wing adults.) NOW BITTER HILLARY BLAMES BERNIE! 61% Say Time TO RETIRE... Defiant Hillary To Dems: ‘I’m Not Going Anywhere’ Former secretary of state and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has a message for Democrats who want her to fade into the background: she’s not going anywhere. ROTFLOL HILLARY FOR DNC CANDIDATE 2020 ! GET YOUR POPPING CORN READY ! By They call me (2826), southampton on Sep 13, 17 5:36 PM Hillary drawing more than 50 sycophants proves that the Democrat Party is finished, AMF ! You even once took the time to lecture me about "taking advantage" of one's circumstances. I guess one's advantage is dependent on their scruples... Don't you have a movie theater somewhere to defile? Haha, you got to admit that is a good one pw. Secretarr Steven Mnuchinnrequested use of a government jet to take im and his wife on their hon ymoon in Scotland, France and Italy earlier tais summer, sparking an “inquiry” by The Treasury Department's Offi e of Inspector oeneral, sources tell ABC News. Arhethese leople so on the take than nothing is too preposterous and all perspective and/or c/gr zance of wrongdoing is simply gone? Talk about a swamp---er, more like a superfund site. You do realize it was a REQUEST...it didn't actually take place. Your use of "use" is no surprise blatantly FALSE. From How Government Officials Fly: "Once they become very high-ranking — to the level of a three- or four-star flag officer or an assistant secretary of a cabinet level position — due to the value of their time, private military travel may be approved." All travel at this level is highly scrutinized, with even admirals and generals requiring Secretary of Defense approval ...more for use of these assets. Sep 14, 17 8:04 AM appended by Mr. Snerdley A spokesman for the Treasury Department told ABC News that the secretary requested government travel for his honeymoon out of a concern for maintaining a secure method of communication. “The Secretary is a member of the National Security Council and has responsibility for the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence," the spokesman said in a statement. "It is imperative that he have access to secure communications, and it is our practice to consider a wide range of options to ensure he has these capabilities during his travel, including the possible use of military aircraft." By Mr. Snerdley (397), Southampton on Sep 14, 17 8:04 AM Hey Snerdley: You do realize the Treasury Department is not his slush fund. You do realize the Air Force is not his private fleet. You do realize the INTENTION does not nullify the impropriety. You do realize the request was outrageous, and would be career-ending in any other administration. You do realize the "secure communications" rationale was bullshiite, and applies only to those directly involved in national security. What's next? Dems get DACA in exchange for US ...more Treasury picking up Mrs. Mnuchin's August American Express bill? Chances are you'd be fine with that, too, am I right? I would think and hope the Secretary takes his role on the National Security Council seriously. In the end and without the spotlight of public scrutiny, as the ABC source tells it: "... the secretary's office decided the use of military aircraft was "unnecessary" after it became apparent that other methods for secure communication were available." Don't blame Zeldin. What junk was added to this bill? Schummer and Pelosi added millions of dollars on that has nothing to do with the storms. Thats why he voted against it. By longislander40 (37), hampton bays on Sep 14, 17 11:15 AM Why dont you paint lines and signs for handicapped at both Speonk and Westhampton LIRR statiins before elections!!!! By Ibill (47), remsenburg on Sep 14, 17 11:55 AM Is this a question for Zeldin? If so, he could focus for the first time on something he may be able to actually accomplish since taking office. If you don't have extension of the debt ceiling, how can the Federal Government fund any hurricane relief? By mcheck57 (4), Hampton Bays on Sep 14, 17 2:50 PM Off sets of discretionary spending. By Po Boy (5299), Water Mill on Sep 14, 17 3:16 PM That's what every political hack who promises to cut taxes and increase services has promised since time immemorial. How's it working out so far? Cutting taxes has been promised and instituted - even Obama extended tax cuts, but increasing services? Who promised that? So, as we are enjoying a significant recovery since the 2008 crash, one has to respond, it's working out pretty well. The crash that led to the 2008 crash wasn't because of tax cuts. The argument could also be made the recovery wasn't the result of tax cuts. But common sense would say, it's better to put more money in people's pockets at the end of the day, and tax ...more cuts do just that. By Mr. Snerdley (397), Southampton on Sep 16, 17 11:57 AM This ...more comment has been removed because it is a duplicate, off-topic or contains inappropriate content. By pw herman (604), southampton on Sep 13, 17 11:02 AM By Po Boy (207), Water Mill on Sep 13, 17 11:57 AM By Po Boy (207), Water Mill on Sep 15, 17 7:46 AM UGG! True believers are blind to their own vileness. DISGUSTING (and eloquent.) You know how things work around here hat - the double standard of, to use your phrase, at the "feed and grain." Apparently the same words when used as an adjective to describe public figures is taboo but ok when used toward another reader. Who knew? I would LOVE for someone to explain it to me. Sep 15, 17 7:47 PM appended by Po Boy Edited: ...when used toward another reader as a verb. Who knew? Hey Zeldin a-holel, your "boy" Donny Drumpf made this deal so you better support it just like you have supported all his other knee jerk decisions. As Drumpf himself would say "#weak" "#loser" By Rich Morey (378), East Hampton on Sep 16, 17 11:00 PM If democrats could manufacture a successful political run using seething hatred as a foundation you computer nerds would never lose By SlimeAlive (1181), Southampton on Sep 17, 17 7:31 AM Wallow in this: How Big Business Got Brazil Hooked on Junk Food As growth slows in wealthy countries, Western food companies are aggressively expanding in developing nations, contributing to obesity and health problems. By ANDREW JACOBS and MATT RICHTEL SEPT. 16, 2017 Photographs by WILLIAM DANIEL SEPT. 16, 2017 Ler em português Leer en español By Mr. Z (11847), North Sea on Sep 17, 17 5:14 AM Using the same playbook as the tobacco companies apparently. By June Bug (2680), SOUTHAMPTON on Sep 17, 17 12:09 PM More anti big business tripe there JuneZ. Did the food companies tie down anyone and shove crappy food down their throats??!! Or did they somehow FORCE anyone to start smoking ? does the term PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY mean anything at all to the left? So this is your defense for literal criminality? That it's the fault of consumers who were lied to for years and years when Big Tobacco knew of the health dangers? Go to youTube where you'll find TV commercials for cigarettes starring medical doctors urging you to smoke. Interesting, isn't it, that they'd go to that particular length to promulgate their lie --sort of like the proverbial Freudian slip. Despite the addictive nature of tobacco, it might have given some pause if they were instead ...more informed that cigarettes would cause lung and mouth cancers, other lung diseases, and tooth loss? Same situation exists now with Big Oil which has known for decades of the peril posed to the planet by fossil fuels, and they're rich enough to pay off our legislators to delay clean energy. We used to have viable Consumer Protection in America, and actual avenues of recourse against the big boys. No more. Now we're vulnerable and under the control of legislators owned by Big Business which now writes our laws, plunders the earth, enslaves many--and worse. So conditioned and programmed by propaganda and ignorance that you see no evil, and can't recognize the connection between the behavior of our multi-nationals and terrorism? You're exactly the kind of citizen the powerful have successfully molded to allow them the level of power and control they should never have. Personal responsibility is a moot point when the cards are so stacked against you, you are purposefully kept in the dark, and/or you are blindly gullible. Mr. Z,16945 He always gives them a pass and blames the victim, despite one needs a college level organic chemistry book to read the ingredients on far too many products. From brominated vegetable oil, petroleum based artificial colorings, to tetraethyl lead the dangers of such chemicals are known, and still corporations use them. U.S. foods have chemicals in them which are banned in other countries. Edit: "use(d)" Also, check out BHA and BHT. DELICIOUS!!! Videos from the 50's ? Those videos? And warnings have been on packs of cigarettes for almost (or possibly over 50 years). By Sturgis (611), Southampton on Sep 17, 17 11:02 PM June, your inner anti business Z is showing again. By bigfresh (4666), north sea on Sep 18, 17 6:34 AM If you can't see the criminality and/or lack of business ethics in using harmful or banned food ingredients and toxic amounts of sugar in your product, you're beyond help. TRUMP TAKES UN... Slams Socialism... Targets rogue regimes... Threatens to destroy NKorea... 'Rocket Man on suicide mission'... Draws applause for blasting Iran... MORE BOLTON: BEST SPEECH OF PRESIDENCY... By They call me (2826), southampton on Sep 19, 17 12:15 PM joe hampton Not to mention the gestapo tactics of Monsanto forcing farmers having to use genetically modified seeds or no seeds at all, tainting adjoining organic farms, and literally destroying/toxifying American soil with pesticides and herbicides including RoundUp which Europe banned long ago. Z... uhh I mean June. I agree with you about the GMOs but please tell us how it was different under obama or how It would have chanced with Hillary at the helm Really joe? This persona puckey yet again? There is no genuine way to know what would happen. What if there was no anitpodal impact corollary to the Siberian Traps? How about the Chicxulub impact? What if that never happened? What if magma in the early Earth's crust didn't have enough water to breed cyanobacteria? Oh wait, that's Venus. Speculation and conjecture are fruitless in at some junctures. The only thing that is for sure is that people are angry. Millions lost ...more everything only a few short years ago. It's become who plays a better fame and blame game. K Street controls the country. And all that fiat currency... By Mr. Z (11847), North Sea on Sep 21, 17 12:39 AM JAMES O’KEEFE: “In the coming weeks, you’re gonna see one of the biggest investigations this organization has ever done. It’s a continuation of American Pravda series. It’s aimed at the media. We’re going after their holy grail. We have tripled our journalists in the field. They are not even here, they are out there everyday. It’s gonna be big, it’s gonna be massive. If they think they can shut us down with this crap [lawsuit] they’re sorely ...more mistaken. Because not only are people in the media probably going to lose their jobs and be exposed for what they are, but this [lawsuit] is going to be exposed for what it is. So stay tuned ladies and gentleman. Fireworks are coming,” O’Keefe, recently exposed numerous CNN staffers admitting they don’t believe the ‘Russian interference’ narrative the network has pushed since Donald Trump became President. By 27dan (2854), Shinnecock Hills on Sep 18, 17 11:57 PM Trump Vindicated: Report Says Obama Government Wiretapped Trump Campaign Paul Manafort, Rick Gates The Associated Press by KRISTINA WONG18 Sep 5,440 U.S. investigators wiretapped President Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to a report by CNN that vindicates the president’s earlier claims, which were mocked as a conspiracy theory. President Trump had tweeted on March 4: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” ...more in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” So when do Rice, Lynch, Comey, and Obama go to jail for crimes, corruption and perjury?? CNN Report Says Obama Government Wiretapped Paul Manafort During and After Campaign Including Convos with Trump. If there really was rule of law in this country Lynch and Comey would already be in jail at a minimum.I guess those Democrats who have no problem with the Obama admin spying on the Trump campaign, will have no problem with the Trump admin spying on his next opponent ? Manafort ain't Trump. This is about him, not the POTUS. They were looking at him hard for A LOT of reasons, mostly lies and Russian/Ukraine connections. His house was raided back in July. He was told to expect an indictment. Those orders to surveille him were well before he worked for Trump. Seems like facts are kryptonite to a "right winger". Weak, and sad... Sep 19, 17 1:01 AM appended by Mr. Z “If I represented Paul Manafort, I would conclude that my client has significant criminal liability,” ~ Renato Mariotti, partner at Thompson Coburn and former U.S. Attorney's office prosecutor From the AP wire: The Justice Department began looking at Manafort’s work in Ukraine around the beginning of 2014, as Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovych, was toppled amid protests of alleged corruption and Russian influence. Business records obtained by the AP show Manafort’s political consulting firm began working as early as 2004 for clients that variously included a political boss in Yanukovych’s party, a Ukrainian oligarch and Oleg Deripaska, a Russian businessman ...more and longtime ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin. 27 dan: Donald Trump still has no evidence that his wiretapping claim was right By Chris Cillizza, Editor-at-large Updated 12:17 PM ET, Tue September 19, 2017 The Manafort wiretapping doesn't even come close to proving that Trump's claim was or is right. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court had OK'd two separate wiretaps on Manafort -- one in 2014 tied to Manafort's work in Ukraine and and a second focused on Russian involvement in the 2016 election ...more that extended through the early part of 2017. (It's not clear when the second tap began.) During the period of time covered by the second Manafort wiretapping, Trump and his former campaign chairman were still in contact. It's not known whether any of the conversations between the two men were picked up on the wiretap. While Manafort does have a residence in Trump Tower, it's not clear whether any FBI surveillance took place there. Is it possible Trump meant "my phones" as a catchall for every phone line associated with a person at Trump Tower? If that's the case, why has neither Trump nor the White House made that clear before now as this allegation has festered? It's worth noting here that even if those conversations between Trump and Manafort were picked up in the surveillance, they would be eliminated unless the conversation had to do with Manafort's ties to Russian officials. This is a process called "minimization" which is described in the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 this way: "Information acquired from an electronic surveillance conducted pursuant to this subchapter concerning any United States person may be used and disclosed by Federal officers and employees without the consent of the United States person only in accordance with the minimization procedures required by this subchapter. No otherwise privileged communication obtained in accordance with, or in violation of, the provisions of this subchapter shall lose its privileged character. No information acquired from an electronic surveillance pursuant to this subchapter may be used or disclosed by Federal officers or employees except for lawful purposes." But, let's keep our eye on the ball here: The Justice Department tapping Manafort's phone -- even at his residence at Trump Tower (which we don't know if they actually did) -- is not the same thing as Obama ordering Trump's "wires tapped." It's just not. Even if -- and that's a real "if" -- conversations between the two men were picked up in the wiretap on Manafort. It's also important to remember that the Justice Department has repeatedly made clear that they have zero -- ZERO -- evidence to back up Trump's claim that his wires were tapped during the 2016 campaign. "Both FBI and [National Security Division] confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps as described by the March 4, 2017 tweets," the Justice Department said in a court filing earlier this month. And, as USA Today investigative reporter Brad Heath noted on Twitter last night, Justice has affirmed that they still have no evidence to back up Trump's claims as recently as last Friday. There's also the fact that fomer FBI director James Comey testified on Capitol Hill this spring that there was no evidence to back up Trump's claim that his wires were tapped. "We have no information to support those tweets," Comey told the House intelligence committee. And the fact that former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has also definitively ruled out that Trump's phones were tapped. "For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the President-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign," Clapper said on NBC in March. Asked directly whether there was a FISA warrant to tap Trump's phone at Trump Tower, Clapper responded bluntly: "I can deny it." It's understandable why Trump supporters -- and those skeptical of the so-called surveillance state -- would seek to conflate the latest reporting about the wire-tapping of Manafort's phones with Trump's still-unproven allegeations that his "lines" were wiretapped in the campaign. But they are just not the same thing. Plus, there still exists considerable evidence -- from the Department of Justice, the former FBI director and the former DNI -- that Trump's claim of being wiretapped is totally unproven and without evidence. They were "wiretapping" Manafort. Trump was stupid enough to hire him. What a crybaby. STOCKS HIT ANOTHER RECORD HIGH... DOW Up 4,000 Points Since President Trump Elected ! Unemployment numbers Down Down Down ! M2 Jan 4, 1997: 3.8 Trillion dollars M2 Sept. 14, 2017: 13.6 Trillion dollars Don't you know how money works? TRUMP SPANKS THE WORLD but it's TOO LATE to reform this anti-America and corrupt UN ruled by Arabs, Communists/Socialists, and supported by the far Left who are never America First! He also spanked Obama and his Iran and Paris "one-sided" agreements! America's Socialists/Democrats are now hiding in their Safe Space! OBAMA will eventually lead the UN to rule against the USA. His ego demands it! When, not if, that happens, it will be time to get out of the UN and for them to get out of the ...more USA if not sooner! By joe hampton (3461), The Hamptons on Sep 19, 17 12:26 PM So, which ignoramus savant right wing nutjob radio host are you parroting this week? June Bug,Genuin He delivers a speech before the world in which he tries to summon it to collectively confront "Rocket Man" (so so cute he can't stop himself from repeating his infantilism even in such an august setting) in one breath, then mocks the world for its efforts to prevent a nuclear Iran in the next. Nickname Boy embarrasses and disgraces us (and himself) yet again. Could you please explain the "efforts" made to prevent a nuclear Iran? By Sturgis (611), Southampton on Sep 19, 17 4:47 PM It's been in all the papers. Where ya' been, Sturge? I don't usually read the "papers". Nah June you tell me , in your words. While you're at it I would love your thoughts on why Obama abstained from the UN Israel vote and the reason why Saudi Arabia was elected to the women's rights commission for the 2018-2022 term. I think of a few more conundrums that you can clear up for me . It's quite refreshing to have an American President who puts America first! Surely you are OK with that JuneZ? “He’s an hole, but he’s our hole.” ~ GOP Congressman Duncan Hunter Oh for god's sake, what leader of any nation would put his country last? And would it sit well with you if you were not an American and having donkeysnot like that shoved at you? I want to hear my president speak to the world about our values, not our "interests", and go before the rest of humanity family and deliver an uplifting, inspiring speech, not one of hubris, pompous scold, and bellicosity. And to start a speech to the world by listing what he's laughingly taking credit for and what ...more belongs in a campaign speech, and certainly not before the UNGA. Good lord, even General Kelly was face-palming. "Oh for god's sake, what leader of any nation would put his country last? " “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Barack Obama October 30, 2008 By Mr. Snerdley (397), Southampton on Sep 19, 17 11:21 PM Fact check time (courtesy of FactCheck.org): • Trump boasted that “unemployment is at its lowest level in 16 years.” True, but it is a continuation of a years-long trend that predates his election. • Trump misleadingly claimed that “we have more people working in the United States today than ever before.” Since the population constantly increases, that’s not unusual. The employment-to-population ratio isn’t higher “than ...more ever before” — it was higher every month between September 1985 and February 2009. • The president wrongly claimed companies are “moving back, creating job growth the likes of which our country has not seen in a very long time.” Jobs have been steadily increasing every month for years. In fact, the job gains have been fewer under Trump than they were during the same time frame in each of the previous four years. • Trump boasted that “the stock market is at an all-time high” since Election Day. True, but it has reached new heights regularly since March 5, 2013, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped the previous record set in October 2007. • Trump said the U.S. “has achieved more against ISIS in the last eight months than it has in many, many years combined.” ISIS territory has been reclaimed at a faster rate under Trump, but more territory was reclaimed from early 2015 to early 2017. • The president said the United States “continues to lead the world in humanitarian assistance.” That’s true by volume, but not as a percentage of gross national income, or GNI, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. As a percentage of GNI, the U.S. ranks 20th out of 28 OECD member countries. • Trump got ahead of himself when he said “we will be spending almost $700 billion on our military and defense.” The Senate passed a nearly $700 billion defense authorization bill, but it must be reconciled with a House version. And lawmakers still have to pass a separate bill appropriating the money. The president addressed the U.N. on Sept. 19 in New York. Trump boasted that “unemployment is at its lowest level in 16 years.” The unemployment rate in August was 4.4%, up a tick from 4.3% in July, but down from the 4.7% rate Trump inherited in January. The unemployment rate briefly hit the same 4.4% in 2006 and 2007, but to find a rate lower than that, as Trump says, you’d need to go 16 years back, to early 2001. But as with several other statistics, Trump is taking credit for a trend that long predates his presidency. As the chart shown here from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows, the unemployment rate has steadily declined since its peak at 10% in October 2009 during the Great Recession. Number of Working People Trump claimed that “because of our regulatory and other reforms, we have more people working in the United States today than ever before.” In raw numbers, total nonfarm employment hit a record high in August at 146,730,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But there’s less there than meets the eye. The U.S. population is also constantly on the rise. There have been “more people working” in the U.S. than ever before many, many times since BLS started tracking the data in 1939. Obama could have made that claim every month from mid-2014 on. By another measure, the employment-population ratio of people in the U.S. age 16 and over was 60.1% in August, slightly higher than nearly every month under Obama, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But it’s not the highest ratio “ever.” It was higher in the first two months of Obama’s presidency, and higher every month prior to Obama’s presidency going all the way back to September 1985. Trump wrongly claimed companies are “moving back, creating job growth the likes of which our country has not seen in a very long time.” In fact, the job gains have been fewer under Trump than they were during the same time frame in each of the previous four years. The U.S. has been steadily adding jobs every month since early 2010, according to the BLS. “The job market is great and getting better,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, told us back in June when Trump similarly boasted about job growth as a result of his election. “But it is unfair to say the good economic news began with Trump’s election. The economy has been consistently creating jobs for about 7 years – a record length of time. And the pace of job growth has been very consistent; the same before and after the President’s inauguration. The economy was on fundamentally solid ground when Trump took office, and that hasn’t changed.” The nation has now experienced positive job growth for 83 straight months, with 76 of those under Trump’s predecessor. Indeed, the job gains under Trump, although similar to those during Obama’s last few years in office, have been slightly lower. The economy added 1,189,000 net new jobs since Trump took office in January. That’s slightly fewer than the 1,375,000 jobs added in the preceding seven months. It’s also fewer jobs than were added during the same time period of 2016 (1,422,000), 2015 (1,547,000), 2014 (1,734,000) and 2013 (1,384,000). Stock Market Broken Records Trump also touted the rise of the stock market since his election victory in November. “The stock market is at an all-time high, a record,” he said. That’s true, but it has reached new heights regularly in recent years after recovering from the Great Recession, which plunged the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a 12-year low in 2009. The Dow Jones closed at 6,547.05 on March 9, 2009 — its lowest point since April 15, 1997. It has been climbing back ever since and reached a new high on March 5, 2013, when it “closed at 14,253.77, topping the previous record of 14,164.53 on Oct. 9, 2007, by 89.24 points,” as the Associated Press reported at the time. (We note that these figures do not account for inflation.) Since March 5, 2013, the Dow has continued to set new milestones: 15,000 on May 3, 2013; 16,000 on Nov. 21, 2013; 17,000 on July 3, 2014; 18,000 on Dec. 23, 2014; and 19,000 on Nov. 22, 2016 — all while President Obama was in office. The Dow Jones more than doubled during Obama’s tenure, rising 148% from Jan. 20, 2009, to Jan. 19, 2017. (See our pre-inauguration article “What President Trump Inherits.”) The stock market has continued its remarkable run under Trump. The Dow broke 20,000 on Jan. 25, a few days after Trump’s inauguration, and then 21,000 on March 1 and 22,000 on Aug. 2. The Dow closed on Sept. 18 at 22,331.35 — up 13.2% since 19,732.40 on Jan. 19, the day before Trump took office. By comparison, the Dow was up 13.1% during that same time period a year ago, from 16,016.02 at close on Jan. 19, 2016, to 18,120.17 at close on Sept. 19, 2016. So, while Trump boasts of the stock market being at an all-time high, the Dow Jones is actually just keeping pace with last year. The Fight Against ISIS The president touted gains made against the terrorist group the Islamic State, saying more had been achieved under his presidency than in “many, many years combined.” We find that while the ISIS territory has been reclaimed at a faster rate under Trump, more total territory was reclaimed during the last few years of Obama’s presidency. Trump: "In Syria and Iraq, we have made big gains toward lasting defeat of ISIS. In fact, our country has achieved more against ISIS in the last eight months than it has in many, many years combined. We seek the deescalation of the Syrian conflict and a political solution that honors the will of the Syrian people." We asked the White House press office about this claim, and a similar boast Trump made in late August, when he claimed “record-breaking success” against ISIS since his inauguration. But we haven’t received an on-the-record response. However, an Aug. 4 Washington Post story quoted an administration official saying military gains against ISIS have “dramatically accelerated” under Trump’s presidency. But that article included some statistics that contradict Trump’s claim that there has been more achievement in eight months than in “many, many years combined.” The Post quoted Brett McGurk, the State Department’s special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS. McGurk credited moves by Trump, such as giving more decision-making authority to on-the-ground commanders rather than the White House, for increasing success against ISIS. He said, according to the Post, that ISIS had lost about 27,000 square miles of territory in Iraq and Syria since a peak for the group in early 2015. And nearly a third of that — about 8,000 square miles of territory — had been regained during Trump’s time in office. That certainly shows an “accelerated” gain, as McGurk said. But there would have been more achievement – more than two-thirds of the territory reclaimed – from early 2015 to early 2017. That’s the opposite of what Trump claimed in his U.N. speech. The president could have instead said that the rate at which ISIS had lost territory had increased under his presidency. Other data lend support to that as well. The analytics and consulting firm IHS Markitreleased an analysis in late June that said ISIS had lost 30,400 square kilometers from January 2015 to January 2017, and another 24,200 square kilometers from the beginning of January through June. The terrorist group’s territory totaled 90,800 square kilometers in January 2015, IHS Markit’s first estimate. Those numbers show a 33.5% drop in Islamic State territory from 2015 to 2017, but a 40% drop since January, which of course would include nearly three weeks of the Obama administration. IHS Markit also released figures on the decline in the average monthly revenue for ISIS, though the time periods don’t allow for a comparison of the drop under Obama and Trump. The figures show a 62% decline in average monthly revenue from the second quarter of 2015 to the third quarter of 2016, and another 48% drop from the third quarter of 2016 to the second quarter of 2017. The analysis said the Islamic State was “unlikely to survive” in 2018. Columb Strack, senior Middle East analyst at IHS Markit, said in the group’s press release that ISIS’ “rise and fall has been characterized by rapid inflation, followed by steady decline.” Strack said: “The Islamic State’s remaining caliphate is likely to break up before the end of the year, reducing its governance project to a string of isolated urban areas that will eventually be retaken over the course of 2018.” Michael E. O’Hanlon, a foreign policy senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told us that the president’s time frame is off. “ISIS only seized its holdings in 2013/2014 so it’s not an issue of many many years. And the tide really started to turn in 2016 with Obama,” O’Hanlon said in an email. “There is credit (and blame) to go around, and lots more work to do.” Trump said the United States “continues to lead the world in humanitarian assistance.” That’s true by volume, but not as a percentage of gross national income, or GNI, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. As a percentage of GNI, the U.S. ranks 20th out of 28 OECD member countries. In April 2016, the OECD issued a report on “official development assistance,” or ODA, by its member countries in 2015. The U.S. is a member of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, and 28 of those countries combined gave a total of $131.6 billion in aid in 2015 to developing countries — led by $31.1 billion from the U.S. “The United States continued to be the largest donor by volume with net ODA flows amounting to USD 31.1 billion in 2015, a fall of 7.0% in real terms compared to 2014,” the report says. (Net ODA is the amount after deducting loan repayments.) Other top donors by volume in 2015 were the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan and France. But the report also says that the U.S. — which has the world’s largest economy — was well below the OECD average as a percentage of gross national income. The U.S. net ODA was 0.17% of its GNI; the OECD average was 0.30%. Sweden had the highest figure at 1.4% of its GNI (see chart 1). In a 2016 report on U.S. foreign aid, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service noted that the OECD does not capture all foreign aid. It said the OECD does not count “military assistance and aid to developed countries” when calculating a nation’s “official development assistance.” Using the “broadest definition of aid,” CRS said that the U.S. provided $48.57 billion in foreign aid in fiscal year 2015, including military assistance. CRS said it used the OECD data for the sake of international comparisons, noting that the U.S. “often ranks low” when its foreign aid is measured as a percentage of GNI. CRS, June 17, 2016: "Even as it leads in dollar amounts of aid flows to developing countries, the United States often ranks low when aid is calculated as a percentage of gross national income (GNI). This calculation is often cited in the context of international donor forums, as a level of 0.7% GNI was established as a target for donors in the 2000 U.N. Millennium Development Goals. In 2014, the United States ranked at the bottom among major donors at 0.19% of GNI, tied with Japan (0.19%). Sweden ranked first among top donors at 1.10% of GNI, followed by Norway at 0.99%, while the United Kingdom ratio was 0.71%, France 0.36%, and Germany 0.41%. In 2015, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom were the only countries that “exceeded the United Nations’ ODA target of 0.7% of GNI,” the OECD report says. Trump got ahead of himself when he said “it has just been announced that we will be spending almost $700 billion on our military and defense.” The deal isn’t final. There is a two-step process for government funding: Congress first must pass an authorization bill and then an appropriation bill. On Sept. 18, the Senate — by a vote of 89-8 — passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2018. The bill reportedly authorizes about $640 billion for base defense spending — nearly $37 billion more than Trump’s budget request — and another roughly $60 billion for additional war spending. But the bill still must be reconciled with the House-passed version before it goes to Trump for his signature. And compared with the Senate bill, the House bill included about $632 billion for base defense spending and almost $65 billion for war spending, according to The Hill. On top of that, Congress will still have to vote on a separate bill to appropriate the authorized spending, as both the House and Senate bills exceed thecaps imposed by the 2011 Budget Control Act that mandated automatic cuts in military spending. After the Senate authorization bill passed, the New York Times reported that “while the proposal outlines a hefty defense budget, whether the Pentagon gets the money will be determined by congressional appropriators, and Democrats have pledged to block major increases in military spending without a similar boost for domestic programs.” For now, as we have previously written, the Defense Department will start the new fiscal year on Oct. 1 with no increase in funding. Trump signed a continuing resolution on Sept. 6 that he negotiated with Democratic leaders that kept defense spending at the same level as fiscal 2017 for the first three months of fiscal 2018. Mets fan So the guy who wants to explain how money works thinks there a CNN reporter and an ex-USA Today staffer who are in possession of all the facts. And they have a website. And "the facts" are all confirmed by these two guys in Florida. I sense an impending credibility problem. Me thinks any hit piece by self-proclaimed "Fact Check" that begins with a statement then followed by a "true, but...", is caveated, or supported by opinion isn't worth the key strokes to respond. Looking at the Fact Check author's other "Fact Check" items is rather enlightening as well. Now, I have to go rinse the seething hatred off me. Did Obama Know about Comey’s Surveillance? The media is less interested in Obama Administration wiretapping than in how Trump described it. Sept. 19, 2017 4:28 p.m. ET This week CNN is reporting more details on the Obama Administration’s 2016 surveillance of Manafort / Trump. It seems that once President Obama’s appointee to run the FBI, James Comey, had secured authorization for wiretapping, the bureau ...more continued its surveillance all the way into the 2017 election cycle. CNN , what a joke Actually "Slime", the FISA warrant for Manafort's activities is public knowledge. Sad you're so uninformed. loading..., They call me, Ditch Bum You've been posting for years this is the greatest country on Earth. Now, it needs to be made "great again". Do you realize what you sound like to people who actually pay attention? Muhammad Ali was known as The Greatest. Yet, he was knocked out cold 3x. Your premise is flawed. Comparing a sports star to a nation is a severely flawed segue analogy. But, per your moniker... RATTRY RESTORE AMERICA TO THE REAGAN YEARS ! They call me, Ditch Bum You got the "RAT" part right. Saint Ronnie and his criminal gang. Most indicted and convicted administration of the 20th century. LOL EVERONE GO WATCH THIS on MEDIAITE .......LEAKED: Watch MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell’s Unhinged Outtakes…for Eight Crazy Minutes by Aidan McLaughlin \| 4:10 pm, September 20th, 2017 Hell Ya ! Reagan / Thatcher Pope / Pope John Paul II and The Dukes of Hazzard yeee ha..... MAGA! Sep 20, 17 5:52 PM appended by Ditch Bum Hell Ya ! Reagan / Thatcher / Pope John Paul II and The Dukes of Hazzard yeee ha..... MAGA! They call me I see the regular meeting of the Mental Midgets of the Hamptons has been called to order. The idiocy---it is astounding. Wiretaps prove Trump was right — and that’s absolutely terrifying to the UN The New York Post By Michael Goodwin September 19, 2017 \| 10:50pm Over the years, a curious habit has taken hold at the United Nations. A body designed to strengthen the best of humanity has too often become a font of doublespeak and appeasement that protects the worst of humanity. That tragic comity was shattered when President Trump played the skunk at the garden party and dared to ...more tell the truth. We are no longer even considering that our congress/DOJ/CIA/FBI or ANY Government agency is anything other than CORRUPT! Therefore, there is ABSOLUTELY no reason t give ANY of those thieves/liars any sort of leeway. TERM LIMITS for EVERYONE in DC. and I mean ALL of them! IF you get a job as a CLERK you get it for 1 term ONLY! This CORRUPT POLITICAL GRAVY TRAIN has been going on for DECADES and has been grossly abused and it is time to STOP! Why stop there, They? You're forgetting the band of grifters in the Executive Branch. 45 violating the Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution, refusing to divest, profiting while in office, and costing taxpayers obscene amounts for his weekly trips to his castles and golf courses, the Secretary of the Treasury-- and now the HHS Secretary-- flying on our dimes. Then there's all we don't yet know. And for comparison---Poppy Bush's Chief of Staff was ousted when he wrongly used a car--a car--for ...more personal travel. The Secretary of Health and Human Services proposed cutting billions from his agency. And, as a congressman, Tom Price was a long-time critic of federal spending. But POLITICO is reporting Secretary Price is more than happy to spend on himself, at your expense. Seems the Secretary has become fond of private jets. Five government jets in one week. Here's the truth. Carlin was smarter. Feel free to tune in, and turn on... George Carlin’s Shocking Prescience on the Nights Before 9/11 By Ian Crouch n the nights of September 9 and 10, 2001, the comedian George Carlin performed shows at the MGM Grand casino, in Las Vegas, working through material that he planned to use at the taping of his next HBO special, in November. It was going to be called “I ...more Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die.” On the morning of September 11th, a lot of people did die. After 9/11, Carlin abandoned much of the hour he’d been working on and rewrote other parts, before taping the special, renamed “Complaints and Grievances,” at the Beacon Theatre, in New York. That fall, at a time when many comedians were struggling, often publicly, with questions about how or when to be funny, there were some things, it seems, that even the combative Carlin considered off-limits. Those original September sets were lost—save for their place in the memory of the audiences in Vegas, who must have woken up to the news on 9/11 with an especially eerie feeling—until cassette recordings were discovered, a few years ago, in Carlin’s archives. Now, fifteen years after the attacks, and eight years after Carlin’s death, material from the two nights has been arranged in a new album by his daughter Kelly, his longtime manager and confidant Jerry Hamza, and an archivist named Logan Heftel. It is available now, under its original title, on Sirius XM, and out on CD and for download next week. Beware of smoke screen ^^^^^^^^ deflecting from "Wiretaps prove Trump was right — and that’s absolutely terrifying to the UN" The New York Post By Michael Goodwin September 19, 2017 \| 10:50pm You mean distraction from the fact Trump was dumb enough to hire a man who was the subject of an FBI criminal probe as his campaign manager? Begun in 2014, BTW... to 27dan: First, 27dan, in characteristic mendacious Right-Wing fashino, has deliberately misquoted the Post headline, leaving out the "may" in "Wiretaps MAY prove Trump was right ... " Further, a reading of the article shows that it reaches this conclusion because Trump MAY have been caught on wiretaps of OTHER people when he telephoned them from Trump Tower (thereby "confirming" his assertion that his residence in the tower had been wiretapped.) It throws in some irrelevancies ...more about other Trump associates being wiretapped to pad out the article, but this is its substance. Another example of the Right-Wing's lack of shame or of respect for the intelligence of the average American. Yes, the Right Wing media's penchant to cleverly create false impressions combined with their consumers' general inability to discern and/or question plus their adamant refusal to accept or even consider the actual truth results in a totally toxic brew. We know Manafort's lived in trump tower since 2006, and under investigation since 2014. We know he was/is wiretapped. We know his contact with 45 has continued since his "ouster" as campaign manager, so what are the chances 45 hasn't ...more been taped? And so isn't his attempt amusing--no, make that diabolical-- to create a phony "taper" (President Obama) and tape scenario? And of all the possible job candidates for campaign manager, why on earth would 45 pick someone under investigation, and much less for dealings with Russia which was public knowledge by then? All one needs is common sense to come up with an answer. "Yes, the Right Wing media's penchant to cleverly create false impressions combined with their consumers' general inability to discern and/or question plus their adamant refusal to accept or even consider the actual truth results in a totally toxic brew." Wow. Now that's a mouthful. By SlimeAlive (1181), Southampton on Sep 21, 17 12:25 PM Whassa' matter? Complex sentences too difficult for ya'? Herewith an up-to-the-minute example of that "mouthful": How Matt Drudge became the pipeline for Russian propaganda Drudge Report has linked nearly 400 times to RT, Sputnik News, TASS since 2012 In July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing 298 passengers and crew. The next day, President Barack Obama alleged that the responsible ...more parties were Russian-backed separatists seizing territory in the region following Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Obama’s statement came amid a furious effort by Russian propaganda outlets to foster confusion about the act. In their telling, the tragedy had actually been a failed attempt by Ukrainians to shoot down President Vladimir Putin’s plane. The Russian propaganda effort received a substantial boost when right-wing internet journalist Matt Drudge highlighted a story on the topic from RT.com, the website of the Russian government-backed English-language news channel RT. Drudge titled the resulting item on the Drudge Report, his highly trafficked link aggregation website, “RT: Putin’s plane might have been target...” in bright red text. After Drudge propelled the RT story to his massive audience, it was picked up by right-wing U.S. conspiracy websites. (Others on the right warned that Drudge had gone too far by aiding a Russian disinformation campaign.) This was not an anomaly. Drudge has for years used his site as a web traffic pipeline for Russian propaganda sites, directing his massive audience to nearly 400 stories from RT.com and fellow Russian-government-run English-language news sites SputnikNews.com and TASS.com since the beginning of 2012. Those numbers spiked in 2016, when Drudge collectively linked to the three sites 122 times. Drudge’s increasing affinity for and proliferation of Russian propaganda comes amid what The New York Times calls “a new information war Russia is waging against the West.” While the Left gets embroiled in the semantics of what defines a "wiretap" it very deliberately avoids the message of even the NY Post article: That something is very rotten...even corrupt... FELONIES...in Washington, and has nothing to do with the actions of THIS President. "All one needs is common sense to come up with an answer" you say June B". EXACTLY! From the Post article - "Which brings us back to the ultimate test: Did Obama or somebody working for him put Trump under surveillance during or after the election for the purpose of a political coup? It’s a frightening question, all the more so because I suspect the answer will be yes — if we can ever get to the truth." Oh I see, because the left is never guilty of cleverly creating false impressions? " Like the Affordable Care Act" that was never meant to be affordable or never meant to last . it was just designed to get everybody on a government ran system. It was a bait as a bait and switch yeah, with the real goal to get to an evil single-payer redistribution of wealth system . By widow gavits (219), sag harbor on Sep 21, 17 1:06 PM Oh honey, haven't you heard? The ACA was designed by a right-wing think tank, and first adopted by Mitt Romney, Republican governor of Massachusetts where it's been popularly in place for many years. Can we please dispense with your claptrap? You are going to cite the right-wing NY Post as rebuttal or some kind of "proof" and not expect to hear roars of laughter and derision? Baloney! The article infers and speculates and opines. That's the only basis for your unsubstantiatable conclusion that "FELONIES" have occurred. Partisan drivel that the Post should have spiked in shame. Did Obama or somebody working for him put Trump under surveillance during or after the election for the purpose of a political coup? It’s a frightening question . . . " Are outer-space ...more invaders massing on the dark side of the moon in preparation for an invasion? Also frightening, and as likely. "That's the only basis for your unsubstantiatable conclusion that "FELONIES" have occurred." Says you. Clapper flat out denied wiretaps and Comey denied while hedging. Now we know they existed. Why didn't either know? Clapper who was Obama’s director of national intelligence, issued a flat denial when asked if he knew of a FISA court order to wiretap the Trump campaign in 2016. Now he’s abruptly changing his story, admitting that Trump could have been recorded on wiretaps. Makes ...more you wonder, don't it hat?? If not, it should. Whoever said Mitt Romney was a conservative lol. He is a Rino, just like Mitch McConnell, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Paul Ryan. The ACA was never anything more than a bait-and-switch and I stand by that. It was designed to implode then sneak in a single paying government-controlled redistribution system! You know it and you could not wait for it ! but now you'll never get it will you "honey" People have finally realized it was a scam nothing more than a hidden tax. loading..., Ditch Bum Woo Hoo ! Widow G telling it like it is ! Truth is like it or not Trump is our president. His numbers are up and so is the economy! People love the way this guy he doesn't take any politically correct S* from the progressives the media or UN! Election night was truly the greatest night of my life. MAGA BABY ! Lady Gavits, you are one basket of contradictions. Can't discuss until you get things straight. It was solidly a GOP design. Lies and money have become the GOP "God". Widow you are triggering Junezy LOL Roy Moore: No Such Thing as ‘DREAMer’ Illegal Alien, Program Was ‘Never Passed by Congress’ Our country needs to close the door and lock it. Just like at home...and enforce the laws already on the books and build the wall. Election night was truly the greatest night of my life. MAGA I wonder what Nancy Pelosi thinks of the dreams of anchor babies.. now that they turned on their mommy.. this is what happens when you enable entitlement illegals.Stop sending money to RNC until wall is up. Nice avatar Ditch, wow. Nice start to MAGA for sure :) Obamacare was rammed through by a STRICTLY PARTY LINE VOTE, all democrat, no Republican votes. Your band of liberal fools owns it JuneZ, all of it. They call me, widow gavits, Ditch Bum And the GOP owns 40 years of deregulation, economic bubbles, and failure. The GOP authored the GLBA, and repealed Glass Steagall. Republicans OWN the worst economic trainwreck in over a generation. Sad... Why Republicans Have No Business Being Upset About Obamacare While Republicans plot new ways to sabotage the Affordable Care Act, it’s easy to forget that for years they’ve been arguing that any comprehensive health insurance system be designed exactly like the one that officially began October 1st, glitches and all. For as many years Democrats tried to graft healthcare onto Social Security and Medicare and pay for ...more it through the payroll tax. But Republicans countered that any system must be based on private insurance and paid for with a combination of subsidies for low-income purchasers and a requirement that the younger and healthier sign up. Not surprisingly, private health insurers cheered on the Republicans while doing whatever they could to block Democrats from creating a public insurance system. In February 1974, Republican President Richard Nixon proposed, in essence, today’s Affordable Care Act. Under Nixon’s plan all but the smallest employers would provide insurance to their workers or pay a penalty, an expanded Medicaid-type program would insure the poor and subsidies would be provided to low-income individuals and small employers. Sound familiar? Private insurers were delighted with the Nixon plan but Democrats preferred a system based on Social Security and Medicare and the two sides failed to agree. Thirty years later a Republican governor, Mitt Romney, made Nixon’s plan the law in Massachusetts. Private insurers couldn’t have been happier although many Democrats in the state had hoped for a public system. When today’s Republicans rage against the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, it’s useful to recall this was their idea as well. In 1989, Stuart M. Butler of the conservative Heritage Foundation came up with a plan that would “mandate all households to obtain adequate insurance.” Insurance companies loved Butler’s plan so much it found its way into several bills introduced by Republican lawmakers in 1993. Among the supporters were Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Charles Grassley (R-IA). Both now oppose the mandate under the Affordable Care Act. Newt Gingrich, who became Speaker of the House in 1995, was also a big proponent. Romney’s heathcare plan in Massachusetts included the same mandate to purchase private insurance. “We got the idea of an individual mandate from [Newt Gingrich] and [Newt] got it from the Heritage Foundation,” said Romney, who thought the mandate “essential for bringing the health care costs down for everyone and getting everyone the health insurance they need.” Now that the essential Republican plan for healthcare is being implemented nationally, health insurance companies are jubilant. Last week, after the giant insurer Wellpoint raised its earnings estimates, CEO Joseph Swedish pointed to “the long-term membership growth opportunity through exchanges.” Other major health plans are equally bullish. “The emergence of public exchanges, private exchanges, Medicaid expansions … have the potential to create new opportunities for us to grow and serve in new ways,” UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen J. Hemsley effused. So why are today’s Republicans so upset with an Act they designed and their patrons adore? Because it’s the signature achievement of the Obama administration. There’s a deep irony to all this. Had Democrats stuck to the original Democratic vision and built comprehensive health insurance on Social Security and Medicare, it would have been cheaper, simpler and more widely accepted by the public. And Republicans would be hollering anyway. It's not surprising you pulled the lever for a serial liar. You espouse lies and subterfuge. Robert Reich = Communist ROFLOL Well then, he should be the subject of a FISA warrant and a criminal probe by the FBI. As it stands, he's not. But the President's former campaign manager surely is... Leave it to "progressives" to implement a decades old concept of a health plan (which they fought against at the time), conceptualized when the countries demographics were very different, and then when it has "glithces", blame it on Republicans who voted unanimously against it. That's not even getting to the lies upon lies Obamacare was sold upon of which one reason was to get Obama four more years in the White House and least of which, it's not affordable. Well, they were the GOP amendments and ideas needed to even get it to a vote. The implementation you scorn was compromise with the other side of the aisle. Democrats wanted single payer. More lies, or ignorance? Trump lies every day. You seem to be OK with that. "Dotard", LOL! Here I thought the retort might have been "Honky Cat". Fact-checking the GOP on healthcare reform Senate Dems adopted 161 amendments and key GOP planks while soft-pedaling the public option. That’s not compromise? By Ethan Sherwood Strauss As the healthcare reform bill waddles toward reconciliation -- a maneuver that would let the Senate pass certain budget-related provisions with "only" a majority vote -- Republicans are complaining, louder than ever, about being excluded from Democrats' efforts to craft ...more legislation. And some in the media are buying it. Newsweek gave voice to GOP grievances in a piece titled "How the GOP Sees It." It begins with this John Boehner lament: "We've offered to work with the president all year. We've been shut out, shut out, and shut out." Newsweek characterizes the minority party's point of view this way: "Republicans want to help the president succeed, but he won't let them." Almost no one is noting the extraordinary influence Republicans had on the healthcare reform bill crafted by the Senate, as it made its way through the committee process last year. The bill approved by Sen. Christopher Dodd's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, for instance, included 161 amendments authored by Republicans. Only 49 Republican amendments were rejected out of 210 considered. Yet the bill got zero Republican votes when it passed out of the committee. You'll all remember the Senate Finance Committee process, chaired by Montana Sen. Max Baucus. Baucus and President Obama empowered a bipartisan "Gang of Six" from the committee, three Democrats and three Republicans, and they spent the summer locked in negotiations that, again, never produced one Republican vote for the bill in committee. The Finance Committee ultimately scuttled the public option in its version of the bill, looking for GOP (and conservative Democratic) support. The Washington Post's Ezra Klein has noted that the final Democratic proposals have contained multiple GOP planks. To mention just a few: Allow individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do Give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower healthcare costs End junk lawsuits Let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines Maybe most disturbing to liberal Democrats, the White House didn't include the public option in the outline of the strong healthcare reform compromise the president wants to see. Even though Obama seems ready to use reconciliation to pass elements of the bill, he's telegraphing his unwillingness to use it for the popular but controversial public option (even though, at one time at least, it likely had 50 votes). The final concession: Sen. Jay Rockefeller, once the public option's most ardent supporter, now opposes using reconciliation to pass the measure because he fears it would be too divisive. To recap: Senate Democrats have accepted at least 161 Republican amendments to their healthcare reform legislation, they've incorporated core GOP planks, and they've scuttled an aspect of the plan most popular with its base, the public option, because of opposition by Republicans as well as red state Democrats. But they haven't compromised with Republicans? It seems as though the GOP's definition of compromise and collaboration involves the president and the Democrats dropping all of their ideas and passing the Republican platform. That's OK; it's their job to push their party line. But too much of the media seems to be falling for it. That's some double talk you got going on. While Democrats wanted single payer, they knew it would never sell to the public, so they lied over and over again to the public to manage the outrage....you can keep your doctor.... premiums will decrease $3,000... Obama lied every day...You seem OK with that? Frankly, I don't see Trump lying so much as him having IMO a boisterous communication style. YES, I'm ok with it. I'd rather have white lies, than hum dingers Obama style. Well, the fact checkers beg to differ. If Obama LIED at the rate Trump does, the GOP would have had a field day. Do you know what "rationalization" and "justification" is? Because you're a Poster Boy... And you do realize that the compromises made with the GOP caused the inability to "keep your doctor". What you call "double talk" in the legislative process is called "compromise", and the Democrats did a **load of it crafting the ACA. BTW, is it truly Obama's fault the insurance companies chose not to follow the "Grandfather rules"? Let's buy you a clue: nope, it's not. Please, Obama is untouchable.... always has been... always will be. As Politifact notes when they fact checked the claim: Gutierrez says 'hundreds of Republican amendments' were a part of Obamacare" Gutierrez said that "hundreds of Republican amendments were adopted" during the drafting of the 2010 health care law. His statement has some basis, because Republican amendments were adopted in both the House and the Senate during the legislative process. Most of these amendments were not particularly meaningful, though, [caps for emphasis] SO CALLING IT A BIPARTISAN ENACTMENT EFFORT REMAINS A STRETCH. Well, look at it this way if you care to. The first attempt to undertake what one could consider health care reform was under the Truman Administration. It's taken that long to even get some type of law passed. It may not be spectacular, but at least it's actual progress. Frankly if the "free market" was so adept at providing affordable health care, such a law would most likely have no need for proposal. As it stands, well... "BTW, is it truly Obama's fault the insurance companies chose not to follow the "Grandfather rules"?" Why, Yes, it is his fault. It's Obama's signature legislation. But keeping your planis what Obama and a host of the water carriers promised. The "grandfather rules" was what he/they used to explain AFTER it came to be that people would NOT be keeping their plans. It was a useful lie at the time. The "grandfather rules" were there from day one. The insurance companies made their choice. If the company substantially reduced benefits or significantly increased premiums, the plan was scheduled to be terminated. How's that for customer service, eh? The bottom line is what it's about. Don't fool yourself on that one. I do miss the old Vytra. Preventive care was rewarded. BTW, an Emblem Silver plan is about $400 a month. Includes dental and vision. McCain Saves Obamacare Again As long as McCain, McConnell, Collins, and Murkowski are in the Senate, the Democrats control the chamber. Don't even get me started on Democrat House Speaker Paul Ryan... 27dan I wept the night the Affordable Care Act passed. by David Axelrod Through my closed office door in the White House, I could hear President Obama and my colleagues cheer as the final tally came in from the House of Representatives that, at long last, would send the ACA to his desk. But I wasn't there. Sensing my emotions welling, I had excused myself from the gathering in the Roosevelt Room as the votes mounted and walked across the hall to be alone and collect my thoughts. This ...more unexpected burst confused me. I had, after all, been involved in many public battles over the course of my career. So why was I sobbing now? Proud as I was, I knew it wasn't because of the prodigious political accomplishment the president had just achieved, some over-the-top elation because my boss had notched a historic victory. It was much more personal: My thoughts were focused on my own experience in the health care system, as the father of a child with a chronic illness. When my daughter, Lauren, was 7 months old, my wife found her gray and limp in her crib. Susan, at first, thought our beautiful little baby had died. But soon, Lauren stirred. One arm shot into the air and stiffened, her eyes rolled back in her head and she began frothing at the mouth. Lauren had epilepsy. This seizure was one of thousands she would experience over the next 18 years. She lived through more than a dozen hospitalizations, brutal, failed treatments and brain surgery before we were able to find a combination of drugs to stop them. I was a young reporter at the Chicago Tribune when Lauren got sick and we had insurance through my job. But that insurance didn't cover Lauren's very expensive medications and, since she now had a pre-existing condition, we couldn't shift to a policy that would. Our out-of-pocket expenses ran as much as a thousand dollars a month. My salary at the time was around $40,000 a year. All those memories came rushing back the night the ACA passed -- all the pain and financial worry we had felt as young parents, struggling to keep our baby alive. I cried because I knew that because of the law that had passed that evening, many other families would not have to face the same ordeal. Kimmel more effective than Dems on healthcare Once I collected myself, I found the president to thank him on their behalf. He simply put his hand on my shoulder and said, "That's why we do the work." Since that time, I have encountered so many Americans who have been helped by this law who felt moved to give their testimony. There was the young, hairless man in a baseball cap who stopped me on the street in Chicago. He obtained insurance as a result of the ACA and shortly after, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a potentially deadly form of cancer. "I wouldn't have gone for a checkup without insurance," he said, his own eyes brimming with tears. "And I couldn't have covered the treatment." I recalled that encounter recently at a conference at which I was speaking. After the talk, a young couple chased me down in the parking lot. "That's my story," the young woman said with tears of her own. "I had cancer and without the ACA we would be bankrupt -- or I would be dead. Maybe both." Wherever I go in the country, I encounter such stories. Some from patients themselves; often from grateful relatives and friends of those who have benefited from the ACA. I can't remember anyone stopping me to share the "horror stories" President Trump and the relentless proponents of "repeal and replace" invoke, though I know there are some who had had bare-bones policies and now are paying more for more coverage than they say they need. (I didn't know what I needed until I needed it.) Without question, the law can be improved. Among the needed steps, additional measures should be taken to stabilize rates in the private insurance exchanges through which 3% of Americans buy their insurance. A bipartisan group of senators was at work on such a plan before being sideswiped by the latest frantic effort to dismantle Obamacare. The ACA has not only provided the opportunity for health coverage to tens of millions who lacked it, it has afforded new benefits and protections that make all Americans more secure. It has promoted preventive care and innovations in the delivery of care that have strengthened our entire health care system. That is why every major medical organization, disease and patient advocacy group -- even America's major insurers -- have strongly condemned the latest plan from Senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy to scrap the ACA. Under the Graham-Cassidy plan, millions would lose coverage altogether. Rates on older Americans would rise dramatically. And, though the bill includes language that would continue to offer coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, it does not require that it be provided at an affordable price. It is an empty and cynical promise. Republican and Democratic governors have rejected the plan, warning that its draconian cuts in Medicaid funding over time would hurt their states. Those cuts would threaten nursing home patients, people with disabilities and those who need drug treatment, which is particularly cruel in the midst of the opioid crisis. Insurers say the Graham-Cassidy plan would wreak havoc in the insurance markets. So why visit all of this on the American people, racing yet another repeal-and-replace bill through without proper hearings or scrutiny? Because, says the president and Republican leadership in Congress, "repeal and replace" was a promise made to their base and if Congress fails again to act, it will depress Republican turnout in 2018. This isn't about the health of Americans. It's about the health of the party. I remember accompanying President Obama to a closed Democratic Senate caucus, where he made a passionate case for the ACA. He didn't make a political argument. He knew he was asking the members to cast a risky vote that could, and would, cost some of them their jobs. Instead, he asked them for their votes because the ACA would improve the lives of many Americans. "Remember why it was we all ran for public office in the first place -- the school board, or city council or legislature?" he asked, speaking without a note in front of him. "We did it because we wanted to make a positive difference in the lives of our communities and of people. That's why we got into this work. "Now we have a chance to do something really meaningful -- something folks in this town have been talking about since Roosevelt -- both Roosevelts -- but have never gotten done. "This is our moment. This is our chance to make a real difference now and for future generations." What a contrast with what we are watching today, a destructive bill, raced through the Senate without proper reflection or scrutiny in order to meet a September 30 deadline after which the rules would compel a bipartisan answer on this life-and-death issue. I wonder what case President Trump, Vice President Pence and Mitch McConnell are making behind closed doors today? Are they arguing that this law will somehow improve the lives of the millions of Americans who will lose coverage? Or are they warning their comrades of retribution from an angry base if they don't pay off on their mantra of "repeal and replace?" I will weep again if this retrograde and reprehensible bill becomes law. I won't weep because of some perceived blow to "the Obama legacy," any more than I cried because of the political achievement seven years ago. I'll cry for the sick and vulnerable and for all the families who will needlessly be exposed to the awful trials mine has known. When I was a young man my parents taught me the difference between a politician and a statesman. Today John McCain once again demonstrated that he may be the only statesman in Washington. By bird (829), Sag Harbor on Sep 22, 17 4:06 PM Mr. Z, June Bug John McCain is a irrelevant spiteful attention grabbing failed presidential candidate. that needs to get out! By Undocumented Democrat (2065), southampton on Sep 23, 17 9:46 AM John McCain is bitter at Americans for not making him President. He's bitter at Trump for being chosen President. John McCain will now be forever branded as a traitor to his party, his country and himself. John McCain is a man facing his mortality and fighting back with the very best health care taxpayer dollars can provide. Perhaps his conscience no longer allows him to put yet another tax break for the wealthy in front of the needs of the many. "A traitor to his party", thank God yes. The problem with his party and it's die hard supporters is that the Republican solution to everything is to give another tax cut to the rich while running huge deficit budgets. All the stupidity put ...more forward by the Republicans was fine while they were in a minority. Now that they are the majority it's time to put the stupidity away and actually lead. I believe it was Paul Krugman who said "Republicans are like dogs chasing a bus. Growling, snarling and snapping at the tires. Well now they've caught the bus and the problem is they don't know how to drive." Mr. Z,16945,June Bug Once again John McCain has made an argument for term limits ! Per your significant contributions and lucid logical arguments on this forum, we should absolutely take you seriously. Telling it like it is TCM ! Some people can't handle the truth. MAGA Every one get out and enjoy this wonderful weather, DO NOT TURN ON THE NFL! Let those morons continue to protest our flag...the silent majority will win again! Love our President..never once regretted voting for him. By "silent majority" are you speaking of the 2000 players and coaches who observe the anthem in the traditional way or would you rather focus on a handful of players exercising their Constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech? Leftists are rushing to smooch each other's beanbags in order to defend the pro criminal racists on their teams. As their audience continues to drop so will their incomes. The players are not respecting the country and the fans. I agree with President Trump I have no problem with what they do on their own time. Protesting on the field implies consent of the league, the team owner and teammates. Of course there is the constitutional right to free speech, however , there is no guarantee that said speech is without consequences! joe hampton, bird, 27dan Yes, like the lowlife in the Oval Office who is coarsening our culture and embarrassing us in the eyes of the world with his speech, and simultaneously busy alienating all except low-educated white males who have no idea he's helping the GOP take their healthcare away. The consequences being scolded by the likes of you and UD, neither of whom will address the topic of the 99.8% of NFL personnel who observe the anthem in a traditional fashion? I'm sure they're quite concerned about the moron bloc out there. "Coursening" our culture. Lol. Firstly , health care is different from health insurance JuneZ, moreover Your boy Barry Soetoro was the biggest embarrassment ever to sit in the oval office. Productive members of society pay for their own health insurance in one form another and have been royally screwed by Obamacare, . You have proven once again that liberalism is truly a mental disorder. The only mental disorder is in the mind of one that defends a system which has damaged or destroyed untold millions of fortunes. The vast majority of which did nothing to earn such a fate. The more likely problem is you have never been in a sufficiently destitute position. It tends to change one's tune... Your right Vos, it is there constitutional right to kneel and It is mine to choose to watch Baseball and tune out the NFL and ESPN ... I still watched college football on Saturday. I've always liked college over pro anyway. The end of Penn St/Iowa was what football is all about. Great game ! Not Interested in hearing some sports commentator talk politics.... that's the point! We watch sports to get away from liberal propaganda! Enough is enough! Eff the NFL.They made there bed just like the DNC! By joe hampton (3461), The Hamptons on Sep 24, 17 12:17 AM 27dan, SlimeAlive NFL players have a right to destroy their ratings 27dan,Erin 27 E Taking a knee to pray is still outlawed in professional sports. Taking a knee to protest the flag and our nation is encouraged. Enjoy the "game" 16945, 27dan President Trump hit the nail on the head, it is the anti American disrespectful policies of obama that started this crap , They try to say Presidents Trump's actions do not represent America ? What they are accusing Trump of, is exactly what they are guilty of. Trump is standing up for what America stands for, while the leftists show us everyday their primary goal is tearing down what America stands for! Whats unfortunate is how these owners and ESPN have destroyed the NFL, disrespecting ...more the flag spits on the sacrifice countless patriots have made to our United States of America. To hell with the NFL players and owners pulling this garbage. I personally accepted two tix for todays Jet game and ripped them up just to make sure no one attended the stadium to buy a hot dog ! As for me I will watch the Yankee Game on TV and then take the dog for a walk. What skata. You're gonna' put the draft-dodging, dividing, mysogynist, racist occupier of the Oval Office out as some kind of model American, much less a model leader? The same horror who thinks the KKK and white nationalist neo-nazis are "wonderful people", but the black American who silently exercises his right to protest social injustice is an SOB? And that as president of a country, skata like this comes out of his sewer of a mouth? And, fyi, to disabuse you of your ignorance, ...more taking the knee has nothing to do with the flag, or "disrespecting" the flag. Despite what the cretin in the White House said. And to show you exactly how disingenuous a man he is, how totally without principle or core, you should know what your idol Tweeted at 8:14PM on February 28, 2011. Allow me: "Burning a flag is a peaceful & respectful way for citizens of this great country to voice their displeasure. Very powerful." It had 22,630 ReTweets, and 74,699 Likes. (And do note he didn't seem to think our country needed to be "made great again" then AND remember, Obama was president in '11.) What a feckin' joke you people have fallen for. And one more thing: You do know Kaepernik was protesting while Obama was in office. Per usual, 45 is making yet something else about him. It is not about him. Also, this is about dissent, not "disrespect". Dissent is patriotic, boys and girls. And kneeling to worship an invisible being which controls all Creation is still not considered a psychological disorder. Of course, if someone told you tomorrow that they talk to such a being, you may well run for the nearest police officer... Mathematics predicts a sixth mass extinction By 2100, oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extermination of species in future millennia. Jennifer Chu \| MIT News Office Daniel Rothman, professor of geophysics in the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and co-director of MIT’s Lorenz Center, has analyzed significant changes in the carbon cycle over the last 540 million years, including the five mass extinction ...more events. He has identified “thresholds of catastrophe” in the carbon cycle that, if exceeded, would lead to an unstable environment, and ultimately, mass extinction. In a paper published today in Science Advances, he proposes that mass extinction occurs if one of two thresholds are crossed: For changes in the carbon cycle that occur over long timescales, extinctions will follow if those changes occur at rates faster than global ecosystems can adapt. For carbon perturbations that take place over shorter timescales, the pace of carbon-cycle changes will not matter; instead, the size or magnitude of the change will determine the likelihood of an extinction event. Taking this reasoning forward in time, Rothman predicts that, given the recent rise in carbon dioxide emissions over a relatively short timescale, a sixth extinction will depend on whether a critical amount of carbon is added to the oceans. That amount, he calculates, is about 310 gigatons, which he estimates to be roughly equivalent to the amount of carbon that human activities will have added to the world’s oceans by the year 2100. Does this mean that mass extinction will soon follow at the turn of the century? Rothman says it would take some time — about 10,000 years — for such ecological disasters to play out. However, he says that by 2100 the world may have tipped into “unknown territory.” “This is not saying that disaster occurs the next day,” Rothman says. “It’s saying that, if left unchecked, the carbon cycle would move into a realm which would be no longer stable, and would behave in a way that would be difficult to predict. In the geologic past, this type of behavior is associated with mass extinction.” PW Haaaa By They call me (2826), southampton on Sep 24, 17 10:09 AM madonna released a new album this week and only 3,848 in the world people bought It, let them keep trying to spite america and pay the price for there crazy view points By Erin 27 E (1281), hampton bays on Sep 24, 17 10:47 AM Zeldin. This article is about Zeldin and his turning his back on our fellow Americans in their time of greatest need simply to attempt to make some partisan political points. This is not a game; it is people's lives. It is not about Madonna. Please try to pay attention. Mr. Z,June Bug The Democrats tacked on a bunch of pork and being the fiscal conservative that he is , Lee did the right thing and voted no, a clean bill would have garnered his support, keep up. By bigfresh (4666), north sea on Sep 25, 17 10:37 AM So as huge football fans in our house we have a new policy. As a family we have decided we will continue to watch tonight and next week... But going forward if at the time of respect for our great country anyone takes a knee we will turn off the rest of that game. The players have the right to be digesting and this is our right as American football fans! I'm not sure why any of us really care about what you watch on television. Watch whatever you want, it's your life dude, don't let the television control you! By adlkjd923ilifmac.aladfksdurwp (747), southampton on Sep 25, 17 10:57 AM Nobody cares about what you or your spawn watch. But obviously you don't care what they know about what it means to be an American. Do you teach them that dissent is patriotic? Do you teach them that a red, white, and blue piece of fabric doesn't have to be "respected", but that what it represents does. And that what it represents still doesn't apply to all, and that we're still striving for a more perfect union? But I'll bet dollars to donuts they believe there are some "very fine" Neo-Nazis. By June Bug (2680), SOUTHAMPTON on Sep 25, 17 11:20 AM Sorry to hear that Dan. Good a time as any to get into watching soccer. Tennis, perhaps? By johnj (1024), Westhampton on Sep 25, 17 11:22 AM vile , just vile By bigfresh (4666), north sea on Sep 25, 17 12:52 PM Kneeling is not, has never been, nor ever will be a sign of disrespect. Soldiers kneel at the graves of their fallen comrades. If you want to know how dumbed down this country has become, well... VOS,June Bug Well kneeling in this particular case IS disrespectful. Well then, as "Constitutional conservatives", please do explain to us where the First Amendment ends. Besides crying out "fire" in a crowded theater... P.S. A military veteran compromised with and advised taking a knee. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Actions that occur in the work place are certainly not covered. If it's done there then you at the mercy of your employer and/or the customers. By Po Boy (5299), Water Mill on Sep 25, 17 10:01 PM Well, that depends on contract stipulations. If it's not spelled out, my that does open a legal avenue. Jerry Jones joins Cowboys in briefly taking knee before national anthem against Cardinals I would guess that contract stipulations REQUIRE players to follow the NFL rules. Period. With the NFL following multiple codes of conduct and rules - one of which is the NFL game operations manual - with information circulating referencing standards for players during the anthem, we shall see whether the NFL sweeps the manual or even enforces the code. If could even be all bogus, who knows. But being the NFL is pretty much rule crazy, my guess is the rule that requires players to stand during the anthem as cited in the NFL operations manual is legit. The NFL leaves NOTHING to chance. so be it if the choose their own demise and don't enforce it. Kneeling when the National Anthem is being played is disrespectful. Oh please, bigfresh, such a righteous demand for decorous behavior. Have we heard a single peep out of you and now Mr. Sturgis re: the most heinously disrespectful lowlife America has ever produced, much less to squat in the Oval Office? Or the "disrespect" of openly killing innocent blacks and literally getting away with said murders? Please spare us your cafeteria standards, OK? Your high horse is such as well. A military veteran advised such conduct. Are you a veteran BF? You mean the guy that refused to take a knee and told CK, "Look, I'll stand next to you. I gotta stand though. I gotta stand with my hand on my heart. That's just-- that's just what I do and where I'm from?'" Even losers get lucky sometimes, @Trump.POTUS Sucks to be on the wrong side of history... P.S. I thought Christians knew how to genuflect... Wouldn't taking a knee before the national anthem but standing when it was played be HIS constitutional right? How is that the wrong side of history? What ??? ....tell me ...who's killing innocent black people? Cafeteria standards? Wow ok Still not over Bernie and Hillary LOSING the election are you JuneZ? Nothing but more leftist drivel from our split personalities. Please cite some references to back up your assertion that there are those who are "openly killing innocent blacks ab=nd literally getting away with said murders". Apparently a good Christian like Trump doesn't know what "genuflection" means. I learned what it is at second grade catechism. In second grade I learned that standing during the national anthem was a show of respect. And in eight grade, I learned dissent is patriotic. And I bet you stood and held your hand over your heart when you said the Pledge of Allegiance. Eric Reid: Why Colin Kaepernick and I Decided to Take a Knee MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ / ASSOCIATED PRESS By ERIC REID In early 2016, I began paying attention to reports about the incredible number of unarmed black people being killed by the police. The posts on social media deeply disturbed me, but one in particular brought me to tears: the killing of Alton Sterling in my hometown Baton Rouge, La. This could have happened to any ...more of my family members who still live in the area. I felt furious, hurt and hopeless. I wanted to do something, but didn’t know what or how to do it. All I knew for sure is that I wanted it to be as respectful as possible. A few weeks later, during preseason, my teammate Colin Kaepernick chose to sit on the bench during the national anthem to protest police brutality. To be honest, I didn’t notice at the time, and neither did the news media. It wasn’t until after our third preseason game on Aug. 26, 2016, that his protest gained national attention, and the backlash against him began. That’s when my faith moved me to take action. I looked to James 2:17, which states, “Faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” I knew I needed to stand up for what is right. I approached Colin the Saturday before our next game to discuss how I could get involved with the cause but also how we could make a more powerful and positive impact on the social justice movement. We spoke at length about many of the issues that face our community, including systemic oppression against people of color, police brutality and the criminal justice system. We also discussed how we could use our platform, provided to us by being professional athletes in the N.F.L., to speak for those who are voiceless. After hours of careful consideration, and even a visit from Nate Boyer, a retired Green Beret and former N.F.L. player, we came to the conclusion that we should kneel, rather than sit, the next day during the anthem as a peaceful protest. We chose to kneel because it’s a respectful gesture. I remember thinking our posture was like a flag flown at half-mast to mark a tragedy. It baffles me that our protest is still being misconstrued as disrespectful to the country, flag and military personnel. We chose it because it’s exactly the opposite. It has always been my understanding that the brave men and women who fought and died for our country did so to ensure that we could live in a fair and free society, which includes the right to speak out in protest. It should go without saying that I love my country and I’m proud to be an American. But, to quote James Baldwin, “exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” I can’t find words that appropriately express how heartbroken I am to see the constant smears against Colin, a person who helped start the movement with only the very best of intentions. We are talking about a man who helped to orchestrate a commercial planeful of food and supplies for famine-stricken Somalia. A man who has invested his time and money into needy communities here at home. A man I am proud to call my brother, who should be celebrated for his courage to seek change on important issues. Instead, to this day, he is unemployed and portrayed as a radical un-American who wants to divide our country. Anybody who has a basic knowledge of football knows that his unemployment has nothing to do with his performance on the field. It’s a shame that the league has turned its back on a man who has done only good. I am aware that my involvement in this movement means that my career may face the same outcome as Colin’s. But to quote the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “A time comes when silence is betrayal.” And I choose not to betray those who are being oppressed. I have too often seen our efforts belittled with statements like “He should have listened to the officer,” after watching an unarmed black person get shot, or “There is no such thing as white privilege” and “Racism ended years ago.” We know that racism and white privilege are both very much alive today. And it’s disheartening and infuriating that President Trump has referred to us with slurs but the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va., as “very fine people.” His remarks are a clear attempt to deepen the rift that we’ve tried so hard to mend. I am nevertheless encouraged to see my colleagues and other public figures respond to the president’s remarks with solidarity with us. It is paramount that we take control of the story behind our movement, which is that we seek equality for all Americans, no matter their race or gender. What we need now is numbers. Some people acknowledge the issues we face yet remain silent bystanders. Not only do we need more of our fellow black and brown Americans to stand with us, but also people of other races. I refuse to be one of those people who watches injustices yet does nothing. I want to be a man my children and children’s children can be proud of, someone who faced adversity and tried to make a positive impact on the world, a person who, 50 years from now, is remembered for standing for what was right, even though it was not the popular or easy choice. You must feel strongly about the core issue June B to post such a compelling and well written OP ED example. So let's get specific. What examples are you referring to supporting "the incredible number of unarmed black people being killed by the police" that would indicate a systemic problem? Hmmm? The example cited, Alton Sterling btw had a loaded handgun in his front pants pocket and a record of violence including other gun offenses. Please enlighten us. You see all those news stories about the Sudanese guy who shot up the church full of white people? Yeah, me either. By Sturgis (611), Southampton on Sep 26, 17 8:34 AM BUSTED! NFL RULES REQUIRE ANTI-ANTHEM PLAYERS TO APPEAR ON FIELD 'Stand at attention, face flag, hold helmets in left hand, refrain from talking' By 27dan (2854), Shinnecock Hills on Sep 26, 17 4:14 AM And you've been suckered again. There is no such rule. Isn't there? What does the game operations manual say? You know one exists and I bet it does address player conduct during a game. I even suggest the fact that it is being suggested it doesn't exist is possibly evidence that the "corporate monsters" are sweeping it as we speak. The NFL leaves nothing to chance... NOTHING. And in an attempt to manage damage control and clean their mishandling of the whole debacle, the NFL will further damage the golden goose in a cover up. Ditch Bum USA TODAY online. The NFL’s operations manual states: “During the National Anthem, players on the field and bench area should stand at attention, face the flag, hold helmets in their left hand, and refrain from talking. The home team should ensure that the American flag is in good condition. It should be pointed out to players and coaches that we continue to be judged by the public in this area of respect for the flag and our country. Failure to be on the field by the start ...more of the National Anthem may result in discipline, such as fines, suspensions, and/or the forfeiture of draft choice(s) for violations of the above, including first offenses.” The NFL declined to respond to multiple inquiries on the issue. Sep 26, 17 5:19 PM appended by 27dan I have sent my letters to boycott Ford Motor Co., Nike, Under Armour Inc., Hyundai Motor Co., Anheuser-Busch.... You can't have it both ways! Send these sponsors the message that it is not ok to disrespect the flag! joe hampton,They call me,one,Po Boy,Ditch Bum That's the "game operations manual", not the rule book. Legally, "should" is not must, and "may" means little by means of enforcement. Should or shall were ruled by the Supreme Court to hold the equivalent meaning of "may". In other words, you have no ground to stand on. WWII vet, 97, kneels in support of national anthem protests: "‘those kids have every right to protest." I agree they should have a right to protest ... Just like I have every right to pull my new truck order from Otis Ford... A major sponsor of the NFL and go look at Chevy instead Now that's the mature attitude we've come to expect from "right wingers"!!!!! seems reasonable or is it only good enough for you to protest mr z and by the way , they will stand like it or not ! By Erin 27 E (1281), hampton bays on Sep 27, 17 9:36 PM After protesting inequality the players who make $22m per year to play 13 football games drove their Ferraris to the South Side Country Club where they had a team meeting and wound down with Grey Goose & tonics. Slime: Do tell us how money or position elevates black people beyond the reach of racism? How it prevented multi-millionaire LeBron James from having the N word painted on his door, or how it innoculated even a President of the United States? President should not be telling the Washington Redskins to change their name-our country has far bigger problems! FOCUS on them,not nonsense 9:09 AM - Oct 8, 2013 Donald J. Trump Businessman Trump was correct on that and as President is correcton this: Sports fans should never condone players that do not stand proud for their National Anthem or their Country. NFL should change policy! 6:25 PM - Sep 24, 2017 They will change there policy and by Sunday ! 72% of the American public is demanding it, They have little choice in the matter What if players stand for the anthem but do it in a sarcastic / ironic way, like some will stand but not really mean it. Also, what's wrong with being disrespectful ? DirecTV Allows Some NFL Refunds After Anthem Controversy Satellite broadcaster will let at least some customers get refunds for its Sunday Ticket package of NFL games if they cite players’ national anthem protests. Ethics chief leaves because 45 has no regard 4 ethics.FBI director fired.DEA chief leaves because 45 has no regard 4 law...So much winning. White House decided that next generation Air Force One will not have in-flight refueling capability. Yep, totally "winning". Just like Charlie Sheen... In-flight refueling and Charlie Sheen. Huh. Moore wins Alabama Runoff Trump strangely vexed he backed the wrong horse... Trump to Aid Puerto Rico on Navigating Bankruptcy Decent people the world over are watching in horror as trump intentionally lets 3,000,000 BROWN Americans potentially die and/or forces them to permanently migrate --the wet dream of predators like trump's buddy, John Paulson, who has billions recently invested in PR putting him in on the ground floor of the next planned enclave for the very rich. Watch to see when he'll start buying up their debt. Now we hear trump won't lift the Jones Act as Bush and Obama did to get supplies into disaster ...more sites. Why? Because he says "shipping magnates don't want it". Folks, we are ruled by monsters. The man will never entertain helping those unable to enrich him either through business, or votes, or praise. Puerto Ricans, therefore, are worthless to him. And the duped still think he sought the office to work on their behalf. Sad. johnj,VOS MAGA !!! Again !!! Bullies united in Anger . . . Yeah, that is a good start building Peace on Earth! Fiddle! Fiddle! Fiddle! By Nero (301), Sag Harbor on Sep 27, 17 6:35 AM By They call me (2826), southampton on Sep 27, 17 6:49 AM Michael Hayden: In Trump versus NFL, standing up for free speech BY General Michael Hayden 09/26/17 09:00 AM EDT When I became director of CIA, I kept my Steelers season tickets. It really wasn’t a hard choice. My wife and I and the security detail willingly braved the Pennsylvania Turnpike for the nine-hour round trip to Pittsburgh since, no matter what was going on in Washington, when we settled into our seats at Heinz Field all that mattered for three hours was ...more what happened between those white lines. It’s been that way on fall Sundays for me for more than 60 years. Until Sunday, when the ugly side of American politics intruded into my fall eden. I blame some of that on Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who last year began to protest social injustice and police brutality by sitting or taking a knee during the pregame national anthem. His comments on America were a bit more dystopian than I thought was warranted, and I wasn’t enthusiastic about turning a unifying and celebratory moment for most Americans into a venue for protest. Still, this is a big country with a big heart and the issues he raised were both real and sincerely held. It didn't take much to just let this ride, even after some other NFL players joined in. Everything seemed to be within the tolerances of normal American political discourse and, certainly, American free speech. Until last Friday. And then President Trump, before a red-hot Alabama crowd of his political base, decided to treat the “SOBs” who wouldn't stand for the anthem the way he has previously treated other groups like Mexicans (murderers and rapists), intelligence professionals (Nazis), immigrants (deeply unfair), refugees (dangerous) and Muslims (they hate us). When in political stress, attack the “other” — those dark forces that allegedly threaten our way of life — and pay no attention to the lack of legislative progress on ObamaCare or anything else, a careening crisis with a nuclear North Korea or the destruction of civilized life on an island territory of the United States. For extra measure, the president claimed that the NFL was ruining the game with recent rule changes to prevent or reduce player injury: “Today, if you hit too hard, 15 yards, throw him out of the game!” To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, President Trump does not instinctively appeal to “the better angels of our nature.” The NFL — players, coaches, staff, ownership and league officials — had to make decisions quickly. Sunday’s kickoffs were less than 40 hours away when the president walked off that stage in Huntsville. Nearly half of the NFL would be getting on planes in less than 12 hours. There were tough choices to make: respect for the flag, respect for the anthem, respect for your teammates, respect for justice, respect for your fans, respect for free speech. The president had created what logicians call a false dilemma, that support for free speech or for teammates equated to disrespect for flag, anthem or country. And he did it for political advantage. My Steelers rejected the false dilemma. They concentrated on unity and focus. They were in Chicago to play football. Head coach Mike Tomlin said, “We're not going to play politics. We're football players, we're football coaches. We're not participating in the anthem today, not to be disrespectful to the anthem, but to remove ourselves from the circumstance.” So the team did not go out onto the field for “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Several coaches (including Tomlin) did go out to represent the organization. Alejandro Villanueva — starting left tackle, West Point graduate, decorated Army ranger — broke consensus slightly to appear at the mouth of the tunnel with his hand over his heart, but several players have already said they understood Villanueva’s unique circumstances. Pittsburgh is a patriotic town. There was a lot of anger about the Steelers not showing up. But I believe that everyone on the Steelers did the right thing. They were dealt a bad hand and played it as best they could. Or, more accurately, they tried not to play. And the dealer here was President Trump. A week ago, a handful of NFL players protested in one form or another. On Sunday, three full teams did not go out for the anthem, almost all players and coaches locked arms, and more than 200 in the NFL knelt, sat or otherwise demonstrated their displeasure. And, to be specific, their displeasure was largely with President Trump and what he had said about them, their teammates and their rights. Forced again to defend the indefensible, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday said the president’s Huntsville stand was about “honoring the men and women who fought to defend” the flag. As a 39-year military veteran, I think I know something about the flag, the anthem, patriotism, and I think I know why we fight. It’s not to allow the president to divide us by wrapping himself in the national banner. I never imagined myself saying this before Friday, but if now forced to choose in this dispute, put me down with Kaepernick. Gen. Michael Hayden is a former director of the CIA and the National Security Agency. CNN has been forced to admit Trump is winning fight against NFL! Anti-American NFL Commissioner In Panic Mode After Seeing What His Protesting Players Have Caused NFL gets billions of your tax dollars in Federal Subsidy - your hard earned tax dollars at work BOYCOTT NFL...NOT RACIST...WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY...BEFORE FOOTBALL ! Erin 27 E Those SOBs will stand tonight if they know whats good for them. You will see ! 'Cause you told 'em so. What a bunch of losers on "the right". Sad... “This is about equality. This is about unity and love and growing together as a society, and starting a conversation around something that may be a little bit uncomfortable for people. But we’ve got to come together and talk about these things and grow as a community, as a connected group of individuals in our society, and we’re going to continue to show love and unity.” ~ Aaron Rodgers Arseanal plays Brighton on Sunday Dan. It starts at 7 so you'll have to be up bright and early for it. Fore1gnBornHBgrown And the guy who created the dissembling wreck which is GOP economics comes clean: I helped create the GOP tax myth. Trump is wrong: tax cuts don’t equal growth. The best growth in recent memory came after President Clinton raised taxes in the ‘90s. By Bruce Bartlett No, they performed as Aaron Rodgers requested. It's his house. The arrogance and ego of "the right" is nothing short of astounding. You can lock arms if you like but....... YOU WILL STAND FOR THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! Good call Erin good call ! And the cameramen get a free pass. It's a shame and a failure of the educational system that a bunch of ignoramuses consider genuflection a sign of disrespect. First time in human history. Sad... The NFL has learned in one week what it took Hillary Clinton almost two years to find out, and that is, more people agree with Donald Trump. Sales of NFL tickets at the online ticket re-seller site TickPick have cratered, dropping off 17.9 percent which is a number far worse than the average Week 3 drop off, according to the Washington Examiner. It took two years for Hillary to figure out how dumbed down this nation has become? By Mr. Z (11847), North Sea on Oct 1, 17 8:32 AM Deplorable even. Oct 1, 17 9:36 PM appended by Po Boy ...which is proudly worn as a badge of honor. By Po Boy (5299), Water Mill on Oct 1, 17 9:36 PM Losers. Sad. intransitive verb 1 a :to bend the knee b :to touch the knee to the floor or ground especially in worship genuflected before the altar 2 :to be humbly obedient or respectful bureaucrats who genuflect before the governor — genuflection play \ˌjen-yə-ˈflek-shən\ noun an act of bending the knee or touching it to the ground in reverence or worship. Do you not recall how this all started and what Colin Kaepernick said about the flag and the national anthem? "“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” Now, you are saying what he did was a gesture of worship? LMFAO. Talk about the mother of all backtracking and rewriting of history when public opinion goes terribly against your woefully ill conceived methods. 27dan,They call me My favorite was MICHAEL VICK lecturing me on one of the NFL pregame shows about Donald Trumps lack of character. You can't make this crap up!!!!! Statement by Former CIA director John Brennan: “Taking a knee during the national anthem shows respect for the flag and for all those who fouth and died for it and, at the same time, concern about problems within American society that need to be addressed. Pejorative and caustic comments about the practice show a disregard for one of the most important foundational principles of our great Nation-freedom of expression-as well as ignorance of the corrosive impact of conscious and unconscious ...more racial and class bias in our society. It is at times like this that government officials demonstrate that they either have or sorely lack the leadership qualities and values that are needed and expected by the American people. And at all times, the primary responsibility of the President of the United States is to do everything possible to safeguard the lives of American Citizens, which is why Mr. Trump should have laser-like focus on mitigating the catastrophic damage of Hurricane Maria on the people of Puerto Rico.” Sure, everyone has an opinion, and let me be the first to say, who gives a rats patootie what former Obama CIA Director John Brennan says on the issue. Let's not forget where it all started... Colin Kaepernick - "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color." Disrespecting a 39 year military veteran. My, how patriotic. Oct 2, 17 5:45 AM appended by Mr. Z And, treating the First Amendment as a matter of decorum is not very patriotic either. By Po Boy (5299), Water Mill on Oct 2, 17 8:19 AM You Tube ....National felon league Peggy Hubbard says NFL players are the problem not the cops..... Watch the video people And guess what She's 100% correct By Sturgis (611), Southampton on Sep 29, 17 10:06 AM Looking exactly like the bunch of surly, sullen, spoiled babies they are, during Thursday night’s NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, the players might have all chosen to be muscle-bound pouters while locking arms, but… BUT!… those very same surly, sullen, spoiled babies were all STANDING for the “Star-Spangled Banner.” MAGA ! 27dan, Undocumented Democrat, Erin 27 E , pw herman, Ditch Bum TRUE DAT ! MAGA !! TRUMP APPROVAL JUMPS TO 48%... Because it's what Aaron Rodger asked for. A sign of unity. Maybe the right wingers here should move to Alabama. I'm sure they'd feel quite at home... Trump ain't got it. The first and foremost quality of being a leader is honesty. Compulsive/pathological liars are inherently incapable. “Taking a knee during the national anthem shows respect for the flag and for all those who fouth and died for it and, at the same time, concern about problems within American society that need to be addressed. Pejorative and caustic comments about the practice show a disregard for one ...more of the most important foundational principles of our great Nation-freedom of expression-as well as ignorance of the corrosive impact of conscious and unconscious racial and class bias in our society. It is at times like this that government officials demonstrate that they either have or sorely lack the leadership qualities and values that are needed and expected by the American people. And at all times, the primary responsibility of the President of the United States is to do everything possible to safeguard the lives of American Citizens, which is why Mr. Trump should have laser-like focus on mitigating the catastrophic damage of Hurricane Maria on the people of Puerto Rico.” Still trolling, eh? Four Star General, and 39 YEAR military veteran: When I became director of CIA, I kept my Steelers season tickets. It really wasn’t a hard choice. My wife and I and the security detail willingly braved the Pennsylvania Turnpike for the nine-hour round trip to Pittsburgh since, no matter what was going on in Washington, when we settled into our ...more seats at Heinz Field all that mattered for three hours was what happened between those white lines. It’s been that way on fall Sundays for me for more than 60 years. Yes, you've been used and aren't smart enough to know it: "There were tough choices to make: respect for the flag, respect for the anthem, respect for your teammates, respect for justice, respect for your fans, respect for free speech. The president had created what logicians call a false dilemma, that support for free speech or for teammates equated to disrespect for flag, anthem or country. And he did it for political advantage." It's funny how the left doesn't know the difference between a troll and a retort..... By Sturgis (611), Southampton on Oct 1, 17 9:32 AM joe hampton,pw herman Mr Z I went and watched the video you recommended on you tube "Steven Crowder and Ben Shapiro Infiltrate 'Antifa' Group, Capture Members Planning Politcal Violence. Oh My Godddd By They call me (2826), southampton on Oct 1, 17 3:43 PM Like their dumbass (and autocratic) idol, not a single one of the flag-wavers on this thread has any idea of what the freedom said flag represents, or what it means to be a bona fide patriot. The Supreme Court has said there can be no mandate by the government or any entity to salute the flag or to stand for the national anthem. Do take a minute and try to understand: This Culture War Isn’t about the Flag, it's About Conscience by DAVID FRENCH September 27, 2017 3:42 ...more PM Standing for the National Anthem is meaningless if it’s mandated, and such a mandate undermines the essential liberty of free speech. Let me begin with a simple declaration. I believe that the United States is a better country when not only the government protects the right of free speech but also the culture values that right. I believe that free speech is the essential liberty — the liberty that helps preserve all others — because without the ability to call out unconstitutional actions you cannot possibly maintain a free nation. Because I believe those things, I believe Americans should be tolerant of dissent, even when they believe dissenters are offensive and wrong, and that the best cure for bad speech isn’t censorship but rather better speech. In other words, if I believe a person is wrong, I seek to persuade them to change course — not mandate that they conform their speech or behavior to my demands. Indeed, they’ve been better stated by better men in harder times. I think back to January 1942 — arguably the lowest point for American arms in the history of the nation. Much of the striking power of the Pacific fleet was sunk or disabled. The Bataan campaign was underway, and it would ultimately result in arguably America’s worst military defeat. Nazi Germany dominated Europe, Japan was on the offensive across Southeast Asia, and civilization itself hung in the balance. You think we live in troubling times now? It’s against that backdrop that the West Virginia Board of Education passed a resolution requiring that a salute to the flag become a “regular part of the program of activities in the public schools.” It made sense. The nation was rallying for war. We were in the grips of a total mobilization unlike any conflict in the nation’s history. At the height of the war, a staggering 37.5 percent of the nation’s Gross National Product would be dedicated to defense. A much smaller population than America has today would ultimately put 16 million men under arms. Patriotism was essential. America would unite, or America might die. A small group of Jehovah’s Witnesses, however, declined to salute. Though they were patriots, their conscience wouldn’t allow them to demonstrate the required reverence for the flag. They risked punishment and persecution for their stance, and appealed to the federal courts for aid. In 1943, with the Second World War still very much in doubt, the Supreme Court rendered its verdict — with words that have echoed through the generations: If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. Those are the most famous words of West Virginia v. Barnette, one of the Supreme Court’s greatest cases, but these words apply today: Nevertheless, we apply the limitations of the Constitution with no fear that freedom to be intellectually and spiritually diverse or even contrary will disintegrate the social organization. To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous, instead of a compulsory routine, is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. In other words, the power of the salute lies with the choice to salute, and the most repugnant form of censorship is compelled speech — the effort to force a person to state what they do not believe. Mandatory reverence isn’t reverence at all. The Supreme Court’s words have a profound cultural meaning that resonates far beyond the letter of the law. The government cannot force a man to violate his conscience. Nor should it try to bully powerful, private entities into doing what the state cannot legally accomplish. Private corporations should think twice before using their own economic and cultural power to enforce conformity, even if they are legally empowered to censor their employees. Again, the cure for bad speech is better speech, and free speech cannot flourish in the midst of a culture of censorship. Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451877/standing-national-anthem-voluntary-not-required By June Bug (2680), SOUTHAMPTON on Oct 1, 17 12:37 PM Typical Democrat. The media told her to be upset about the anthem and the NFL and voilia' over night she is a legal scholar on the anthem and the NFL. hahahaha By SlimeAlive (1181), Southampton on Oct 2, 17 7:55 AM pw herman Slime, bigfresh: Typical of those who cherish their freedoms enshrined in the Constitution and the laws of the United States-- but not those of others-- to attack anyone attempting to educate them on what is actually encased in those documents. Just have a childish/mocking response when things aren't geared toward or limited to your sense of white entitlement/superiority, or when truth can't be handled. That'll surely result in making your world view a reality, and legitimately condemn those ...more who are peacefully and patriotically exercising their rights. How about actually learning what it means to be an actual, "typical" American? You could start with a course in Civics. Then maybe you'll understand your heritage, and perhaps exhibit some civility toward those who do. By June Bug (2680), SOUTHAMPTON on Oct 2, 17 1:02 PM JB, you aren't really lecturing on civility are you? By dnice (2346), Hampton Bays on Oct 2, 17 3:04 PM They'll understand when the stadium is empty...only then. By joe hampton (3461), The Hamptons on Oct 1, 17 3:29 PM Jeez Junez your antifa buddies could take a lesson from your post By bigfresh (4666), north sea on Oct 2, 17 3:47 AM Thank a right wing nut and the NRA, that continues their agenda. That every mental defective has the constitutional right to a gun. Thank Nevada for making it so easy to purchase any gun you like. Rigorous background checks with making the process as difficult as possible is only sensible.. Kind of like what the Republicans would like to do with voting rights. Let's see if it is so important that Drumpf calls it what it is, radical American terrorism. By Mets fan (1501), Southampton on Oct 2, 17 10:07 AM Never let a tragedy go to waste eh Mets Fan? By dnice (2346), Hampton Bays on Oct 2, 17 10:20 AM Once you confiscate the guns this country falls to NWO fascism ... We have a second amendment for a reason! Don't like it two bad move to Venezuela! Oct 2, 17 1:43 PM appended by They call me You need to wake up!!! If your backing semi-assault rifle sales, you are to blame!! Better to speak up and try to not let another tragedy occur. You are disgusting!! By Mets fan (1501), Southampton on Oct 2, 17 12:38 PM blah blah blah. Your logic is ridiculous. Why aren't you outraged, why aren't you moved to change things? My only conclusion is that your okay with the status quo, well are you? Better than being defenseless against Antifa, Radical Islam and obama type martial law goverments... So yes we are ok with it ! 27dan,Undocumented Democrat,Erin 27 E Hey Mets Fan. I have a great idea to prevent drug overdoses. Let's make cocaine and heroine illegal....that will insure that those drugs will never find their way into the wrong hands. Undocumented Democrat,Erin 27 E Trust me They call me it can happen, I have seen it first hand in my country of origin. By Undocumented Democrat (2065), southampton on Oct 2, 17 5:04 PM If you are silent now, and don't demand change, then you are complicit, if it happens again. By Mets fan (1501), Southampton on Oct 2, 17 1:01 PM Nice try Mets fan, but we will keep our second amendment rights, thank you very much. You just concentrate on standing up for the flag and everything will work out just fine. Oct 2, 17 1:53 PM appended by 27dan When trouble comes to this part of the woods someday..... you just stay down in your prius and let the big boys take over. Your type will be glad that your on the same side of the flag that you spit on ! By 27dan (2854), Shinnecock Hills on Oct 2, 17 1:53 PM ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens By adlkjd923ilifmac.aladfksdurwp (747), southampton on Oct 2, 17 3:09 PM So you feel pretty good about this 27 dan, your right to buy semi-assault rifles. Your okay with the blood spilled. Another disgusting post. By the way, I'm come from a military family. A........e Never said I was okay with what this disgusting evil POS did ! I just said ill be damed if I'm not going to be prepared for when it happens near my family! So who is the A.........e ! Undocumented Democrat Your okay with the sale of semi-assault rifles. So you are the a.....e with blood on your hands. How did packing a gun help those last night. Had to be plenty of red neck clowns packing there. the FBI is saying "We have determined, to this point, no connection to an international terrorist group,” said an unidentified spokesman for the FBI in a brief statement at a news conference Monday in Las Vegas. the FBI says this man has no ties to ISIS... in less than 12 hours... but its been 9 months... and they still cant decide if Trump has ties to Russia.lol By Ditch Bum (929), Water Mill on Oct 2, 17 5:17 PM Not sure what this means yet but this just broke on the wire ! Islamic state claims Las Vegas shooting, says attacker recent convert to Islam Monday, 2 October 2017 14:15 GMT CAIRO, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a shooting that killed at least 50 people and wounded over 400 in Las Vegas early on Monday, and said the attacker had converted to Islam a few months ago. "The Las Vegas attack was carried out by a soldier of ...more the Islamic State and he carried it out in response to calls to target states of the coalition," the group's news agency Amaq said in reference to the U.S.-led coalition fighting the group in the Middle East. "The Las Vegas attacker converted to Islam a few months ago Oct 2, 17 4:52 PM appended by joe hampton Somting is up we must take our time to figure this out! They are not telling us everthing they know yet.......Was Stephen Paddock an AntiFa fanatic BEFORE his alleged conversion to ISISlam? The ideological “jump” seems like a horizontal one.......... BTW: AntiFa Melbourne just tweeted out: “One of our comrades from Las Vegas branch has made these fascist Trump supporting dogs pay.”........... And then AntiFa Nashville tweeted “We Warned You...Revolution!” You are correct to state we must take our time to figure out who was behind this Joe. Something not adding up hear! Mark my words there is much more to this story to come. And more than a few jokers here think the world was created in seven days. Khawarij would claim a hacking cough if they thought it helped their cause. By Mr. Z (11847), North Sea on Oct 2, 17 7:49 PM Erin and undoc so, your okay with the sale of semi-assault rifles in this country? What is a semi-assault rifle Mets Fan? What, in your expertise, is the definition of an assault rifle? admittedly controversial alex jones is saying "he has proof from a high level source that the media is lying and the las vegas fbi hostage rescue team said they killed him and the guy had antifa crap all over his room" there's also several tweets out from antifa taking the blame. By Erin 27 E (1281), hampton bays on Oct 2, 17 5:38 PM America you are doomed when credence is given to anything that comes out of the addled brain of this flim-flam huckster getting rich playing to the six-toed crowd. News flash, Erin, he has no "high level sources" and he has no "proof". Of anything. And haven't you been made aware of the fake antifa Twitter accounts coming out of Vladivostok? Are you not able to decipher fake news? For the love of God, please don't fall prey to the attempts of Russia to use you to achieve their aim of weakening ...more what's left of our democracy. You've reached a new low, Alex Jones, captivator of all that are brain-dead and deplorable. By Mets fan (1501), Southampton on Oct 3, 17 5:39 AM Here is a picture of the alleged live in Muslim girlfriend in Dubai. They say she was out of the country during the shootings but have not said where ? That's just stupid. She's in the Philippines visiting family. Any more bull you'd like to whip up? VOS,Fore1gnBornHBgrown Most likely ALL of the guns and magazines he had were not purchased legally. By Sturgis (611), Southampton on Oct 2, 17 7:26 PM Here are some of the lies and viral bull that trolls are flooding the internet with about the Las Vegas shooting. Don't share these unless you don't mind being a complete and total idiot: About a dozen accounts have been circulating a photo of comedian Sam Hyde. Far-right trolls are spreading a conspiracy theory that the shooter is actually a man named Geary Danley. Popular far-right news site the Gateway Pundit wrote up the Geary Danley shooter conspiracy, describing ...more him as being associated with an "anti-Trump army." One of the 4chan threads about Danley made its way into Google's Top Stories widget. Conservative media personality Wayne Root tweeted that the shooting was a "coordinated Muslim terror attack" with shots fired at multiple hotels. Several far-right communities are pushing a conspiracy theory that Stephen Paddock, the man identified by police as the alleged shooter, is affiliated with anti-fascist communities. Posts from a fake "Melbourne Antifa" page are going viral within far-right communities on Facebook. The Melbourne Antifa page wrote that one of their "comrades" was behind Sunday night's shooting. Marilou Danley — who was briefly a person of interest for law enforcement — did not warn the concert audience that they were going to die. According to police, she wasn't even in the country at the time. A YouTuber named Steven Haffley started a rumor that Stephen Paddock was seen at an anti-Trump rally in Reno, Nevada, in August 2017. There is no proof that Paddock was ever politically active. Sharing photos of Hyde after a mass shooting has been a meme among far-right trolls. Details of this fake victim, "Taylor Joshuas," are being spread by an anonymous troll account. A Twitter account is circulating a photo of Mesut Özil, a German soccer player who plays for Arsenal. A Twitter user is claiming this is a photo of his brother who went missing after Sunday's shooting. The picture is actually of a suspect connected to a murder case in Mexico. A couple of accounts have gone viral using a photo of porn star Johnny Sins. Another account has been retweeting fake missing person tweets and tweeted, "If you're actually using twitter to search for your missing relative in a mass shooting it's safe to say they're dead" after posting their own fake tweet. 4chan users are claiming an Instagram account — which has only one photo on it — belongs to the alleged shooter, Stephen Paddock. A dozen accounts doesn't amount to viral Z. You mean, we shouldn't believe everything we read on the internet?? Since when??? Thanks Mr. Z, good to know. You failed to mention that after police named the suspect, the post misidentifying the shooter was deleted. Lunatic carries out the worst shooting massacre on US soil in our history, and your initial reaction is to retaliate against people who don't share the same political beliefs as you do? If you can't realize during tragedies like yesterday that we are all in this together as AMERICANS than you don't understand what AMERICA is about. By even flow (1023), East Hampton on Oct 3, 17 7:08 AM Oh, so you think that each account is posted only once? And have no idea that even one post can go viral? Pitiful. By June Bug (2680), SOUTHAMPTON on Oct 3, 17 10:20 AM The only thing going viral is your hypocrisy JB. To our liberal posters here: its reprehensible that you have taken this horrific tragedy and used it to further your warped political agenda. How about some compassion for the families of the dead and prayers for the wounded? You people are truly deplorable. I agree, but isn't it equally politicizing and repulsive to immediately propose a clampdown on immigration when it's a Muslim American who does the shooting? By Fore1gnBornHBgrown (8265), HAMPTON BAYS on Oct 3, 17 9:08 AM By Po Boy (5299), Water Mill on Oct 3, 17 10:02 AM Are you seeking an example of folks using an act of violence by an American muslim as grounds for a legislative response, or was that directed at bigfresh? By Fore1gnBornHBgrown (8265), HAMPTON BAYS on Oct 3, 17 10:08 AM A specific example of an Muslim American who "does the shooting" where there was equal politicizing and "immediately propose a clampdown on immigration." That's a rather broad stroke you've painted. Boston bombing and Pulse shootings come to mind, even though both were committed by American Citizens. The San Bernandino shooter was also born here, but POTUS frequently referred to it as justification for the muslim ban while on the campaign trail. I can't be bothered to Google for you, but you may also want to check out the "Bowling Green Massacre" for evidence that tragedies, real and fake, are politicized at the earliest opportunity by guilty parties on all sides. By Fore1gnBornHBgrown (8265), HAMPTON BAYS on Oct 3, 17 1:25 PM I think the argument that there would be, or that it was used as an immediate clampdown on immigration, is pretty flimsy, especially given they were all citizens. Trump said on the campaign in a generic sense he would crackdown on terrorists, and I don't think any on those examples were used as impetus for the travel ban. The travel ban had absolutely nothing to do with shootings that had occurred in the US. But he DID comment on attacks in other countries in relation to the travel ban. Apples and ...more oranges. In fact Trump was criticized for his lack of specifics in the response when asked to respond to a question about how he would handle terrorist attacks in the country, two days after the San Bernardino, California massacre, which claimed 14 lives. Trump responded: "You don't want to hear how I'd handle it," Trump said. "I would get myself in so much trouble with them, we are going to handle it so tough. And you know what we're going to do? We're going to get it stopped." The mogul did not go into specifics, but he decried reports that concerns about the alleged shooters were not voiced due to political correctness. "How about the person who knew what was going on said they didn't want to report them because they think it might be racial profiling, did you see that?" Trump said. "We have become so politically correct that we don't know what the hell we're doing." And the only thing I found on the Bowling Green Massacre was that it was a misstatement and politicized by the Left. "The Bowling Green massacre is a fictitious incident alluded to by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway in interviews with Cosmopolitan and TMZ on January 29, 2017, and in an interview on the MSNBC news program Hardball with Chris Matthews on February 2, 2017. Conway cited it as justification for a travel and immigration ban from seven Muslim-majority countries enacted by United States President Donald Trump. However, no such massacre occurred. The day after the interview, Conway said she misspoke and had been referring to the 2011 arrest of two Iraqi refugees in Bowling Green, Kentucky on charges including "attempting to provide material support to terrorists and to al-Qaeda in Iraq". She stated that she had mentioned the incident because it led President Barack Obama to tighten immigration procedures for Iraqi citizens. The misstatement went viral and became the top trending topic on Twitter, with many tweets parodying it. A website was set up anonymously for the purpose of collecting donations for supposed victims. Facebook users used the site's safety check feature to act as if the event were real. Vigils were held in Kentucky and New York in commemoration. It provoked widespread press reaction, with many relating it to Conway's earlier use of the phrase alternative facts to describe false statements by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer in the wake of the inauguration of Donald Trump. Actually, Trump first called for what was still called the "muslim ban" on December 5, three days after the attack in San Bernardino, so we could figure out "what the hell is happening." Administration officials subsequently confirmed that an "immigration nexus" in some of these commonplace attacks was sufficient justification to promote the travel ban. I'm not saying they are good justifications any more than a tragedy where the guns were illegally obtained are good justification ...more for more stringent gun laws, but both politicians and laypeople, liberal and conservative, champion their policies in the aftermath of these violent events. The comment in 2015 was consistent with what he did when he became president. It was a travel ban from predominantly Islamic countries - the same countries Obama declared as high risk. The ban (temporary at that) was to do a deep dive on the screening practices from those countries. He confirmed shortly after the initial statement that the policy would not apply to current Muslims in the U.S. during a Fox News interview. But year, Trump had a valid point in 2015 even. Does a temporary travel ban that doesn't apply to those who live in the US equate to a immigration clamp down? Eh... That's cool, man. I'm just saying the politicization of tragedies is about as commonplace as those tragedies, irrespective of party affiliation. More hypocrisy from the right. No changes in background checks, loose rules in gun flea markets= supporters of more tragedies. Stands at attention for anthem, then wants to cut medicaid for healthcare to vets. Yup, the right wing nut way. What it should be is to further our political agenda so no more tragedies occur. When is the right time for this conversation? Before or after right wing politicians get their bribe money from the NRA? Maybe it was the first four months of the Obama administration, when Democrats held both the House and Senate? THAT would have been a good time. Why didn't democrats take action? It either wasn't a priority, they didn't have the votes, or it's much more valuable to use as a political wedge issue - or a combination of all three. Oct 3, 17 8:40 AM appended by Mr. Snerdley Democrats had control of Congress during the roughly first two years of the Obama administration - the 111th Congress, a portion of which was a super majority. They could have passed anything they wanted. Obama was the first president-elect in 32 years to receive a Congress under the firm control of his party. What more are you looking for? By Mr. Snerdley (397), Southampton on Oct 3, 17 8:40 AM You seem to think all Democrats march to the same tune. Don't you recall that it was Democrat detractors to the ACA that removed a public option, effectively neutering any incentive for competition in the law? More rigorous background checks and types of weapons bought. Is that so outrageous? Yes Mets Fan, it is. Study Prohibition. They removed the "public option" to appease the GOP. Yeah right. The Senate removed single payer to appease the GOP so no member of the GOP would vote FOR the bill without single payer, so Obama would then sign it as his signature legislation. Makes perfect sense... Oct 3, 17 8:00 PM appended by Mr. Snerdley Democrats reject GOP's effort to bait them into voting for single-payer health insurance Eric Bradner CNN. Washington (CNN)Senate Republicans tried to troll their Democratic colleagues into revealing an intra-party rift and casting potentially politically damaging votes for single-payer health insurance on Thursday. Democrats didn't take the bait. Health care debate: Senate vote-a-rama and the 'skinny bill' Health care debate: Senate vote-a-rama and the 'skinny bill' In a purely political move, Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines offered an amendment to the GOP's Obamacare repeal bill Thursday that mirrored, word-for-word, the single-payer insurance program that Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, has proposed. BOTTOM LINE - If they wanted single payer in 2010 they could have had it. But they couldn't sell it to the American public. By Mr. Snerdley (397), Southampton on Oct 3, 17 8:00 PM Does ANYTHING that spews from a Republicans pie hole indicate for one shred of a moment that the party would support a "public option"? Obviously you haven't been paying close attention... Who did they appease? Zero Republicans voted for it. It was for democrats in swing states. It's a simple yes or no. Would any GOP member vote for the ACA with an intact public option. The answer, in case you haven't guessed is: NO By Mr. Z (11847), North Sea on Oct 3, 17 10:04 PM The facts are that no Republicans would vote for it even without the public option. We know this because....they didn't. It was a concession to the insurance companies and on-the-fence democrats. We know this because...they said so. Oct 4, 17 10:33 PM appended by Fore1gnBornHBgrown On second reading it doesn't sound like we're talking about the same thing. I'm referring to the original bill passed in 2010. By Fore1gnBornHBgrown (8265), HAMPTON BAYS on Oct 3, 17 10:33 PM "They removed the "public option" to appease the GOP." No, THEY didn't. And I quote: "(After all, it was Democrats, not Republicans, who insisted on knocking the public option out of the Senate bill.)"..."The writing was on the wall for the public plan for a while, even though it did make it out of the House; President Obama told key progressive lawmakers last week that the votes just weren't there, but even before that, the White House was being so blasé about the idea that it was ...more hard to see the administration fighting for it." Why Obama snubbed single-payer. The right calls Obamacare “socialized medicine” anyway. So why didn’t Obama push for the real thing? Mike Madden 03.12.2010 Salon and the author further write: "Like so much else about the healthcare debate, it comes down to math. "I would say that in the Senate, there are at most 10 votes for a single-payer plan," Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., a self-described democratic socialist, who isn't shy about his own preference for that kind of solution, told Salon this week. "In the House, I have no idea but it's a small minority ... It's absurd to say, 'Mr. President, go forward and make your bill single-payer,' when you've got 10 percent of the Congress supporting you."" The only politician in DC who hasn't taken a dime from the NRA is President Donald Trump. The records say he received at least $1,000 in the 2016 cycle. Not a significant amount, but obviously more than "a dime." Oct 3, 17 8:45 AM appended by Fore1gnBornHBgrown That donated directly to the candidate; they apparently spent a total of $30M+ on the election. Nearly $10M was spent on Pro-Trump materials and about $12M was to attack Clinton. Using facts when debating a liberal will send him crawling to a safe space. Seriously Mets Fan, whiskey tango foxtrot is wrong with you? People died, hundreds in the hospital and all you can do is sore left wing talking points. Have some respect The facts are that these tragedies are now commonplace; that everyone should accept the new reality, consider themselves warned, and act accordingly. If you think promoting policy in response to these events is effective, you haven't been paying attention. Anyone not for sure stronger background checks and types of weapons bought=supporter of mass shootings. No hysteria, those are the facts. I prefer to think myself "tolerant of mass shootings" since the emotional price required to be an opponent is far too high with little sign of success in the foreseeable future. Mets Fan, that is complete nonsense. Not facts. Stronger background checks do not stop illegal acquisition of weapons. Period. You cannot legislate against crazy. You really think that stronger gun laws will result in less shootings? Do your research. How about you do your research and see what Australia has achieved when they clamped down after a mass shooting? In 2003, the Centers for Disease Control analyzed ammunition bans, restrictions on acquisition of firearms, waiting periods, registration, licensing, child access prevention and zero tolerance laws. After their analysis, the Centers for Disease Control concluded there was no conclusive evidence that any gun control laws reduced gun violence. Foreign researchers have also come to the same conclusion. In Australia in 2008, a peer reviewed study at the University of Sydney reached virtually the same ...more conclusions as both the National Academy of Sciences and the Centers for Disease Control. Gun control measures simply do not reduce gun violence. In the 18 years before the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in which 35 were killed, Australia witnessed 13 mass shootings, defined as shootings in which five or more people were killed. In the 21 years since, following stricter laws and a government buyback of 600,000 guns which nearly halved the number of gun-owning households, there have been none. Nevada Gun laws. Gun dealers do not need licenses. No limit on ammo.Police inspections of Nevada gun shops not allowed. Gun owners are not required to have licenses, or register weapons, or limit weapons owned. Automatic assault and machine guns legal. Transfer of assault weapons is legal. Stronger background checks might keep guns out of mentally ill. Result, highest gun shootings in U.S. You keep defending the NRA, I guess this status quo is okay with you. The orange cheetoh, save your prayers, ...more the NRA gave your campaign thirty million dollars. Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock was a registered Democrat. 04/11/1984 By joe hampton (3461), The Hamptons on Oct 3, 17 11:50 AM So your answer for this dnice is nothing. Nothing should change, this is life in America and just accept it. Mass Shootings Are Just The Unfortunate Price Of Protecting People’s Freedom To Commit Mass Shootings By adlkjd923ilifmac.aladfksdurwp (747), southampton on Oct 3, 17 12:10 PM Mets fan, Fore1gnBornHBgrown Yes and saying it's not time to talk about gun control after a mass slaying is like saying it's not time to talk about infrastructure after a bridge collapse. And since when is common sense "politicization"? And if you insist "guns don't kill people", then you have to agree that nukes don't either, so why are you insisting that North Korea can't have their nukes? We regulate sinus pills, alcohol and weed sales, autos, boats, marrying who you love, adopting a dog for God's sake, ...more so how is it that the arms industry is allowed to hold us hostage when the majority of Dems, Reps, and NRA members favor restrictions? Check out how Australia brought their killing under control. Thou Shalt Not Kill, remember? Where is trump's evangelical council now? At a gun show? Mets fan,VOS I'd wager you're wasting keystrokes, June. Eventually enough people will die, or the right people, and change will happen. Not before. Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people. When I was growing up (graduated high school in 1979) it was commonplace to see shotguns hanging in gunracks in the back of our trucks during hunting season, Guns were no big deal and most families I knew were armed, surely the East End was not unique in this regard. Mass shootings were virtually unheard of but there were seemingly more armed citizens. What happened? Society has gone down the crapper, the gangsta lifestyle and video games have cheapened life to many and the insane are allowed to ...more roam free. Our constitution GUARANTEES us the right to bear arms , thank God, for many reasons . A background check would have done no good in this case By bigfresh (4666), north sea on Oct 3, 17 12:21 PM When have you ever needed to use a gun? By johnj (1024), Westhampton on Oct 3, 17 1:11 PM Yes, and once upon a time doctors prescribed cigarettes too. Nevertheless, over time we learned that more cigarettes led to more people dying, not less. Mr. Z,johnj Yea, this was some gangsta and Grand theft auto player. Nothing should change, right bf. johnj Keep making excuses, blood is on your hands. The only you care about is you that you keep using illegal immigrants to work your business. 1979? Nice head start. And here's your answer June .....^^^ By Sturgis (611), Southampton on Oct 3, 17 12:55 PM So JuneZ , do you favor repealing the Secong Ammendment? Serious question for you, do you favor repealing the second amendment? By bigfresh (4666), north sea on Oct 3, 17 1:13 PM Yes, and here's why: Thanks to corporate media's unquestioning regurgitation of right-wing talking points, most think that the Second Amendment is in the Constitution to protect the rights of individual gun owners from the government. That is not remotely true. There actually was no "individual right to own a gun" until 2008, when the SC said there was in its decision in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller. That decision, which struck down Wash DC's handgun ban, was the culmination ...more of a decades-long push by the gun industry to twist the Second Amendment into something that would help it sell more weapons, and it had zero basis in real Constitutional history. Chief Justice Warren Burger called it a "fraud on the American public", and it's a fraud that now makes it very, very hard to put in place sensible gun control laws. The original amendment was not about protecting gun rights, it was an attempt to prevent the existence of a standing army during times of peace, knowing that when given too much power, armies throughout history would overthrow democracy and establish military dictatorships. Hence the specifications of militias as the best check against that. But that's just the first part. By protecting the 13 militias, the Founders were also protecting the institution of slavery. (In states like GA, VA and the Carolinas, militias were also known as Slave Patrols.) Patrick Henry, VA's largest slaveholder freaked out when freed slaves might be drafted by the federal government which was given the power under Article1, Section 8 to raise a NATIONAL militia. He and his fellow slave owners worried that this national militia would eventually be used by Northern anti-slavery types to destroy the slave patrols and maybe even the institution of slavery itself. So, Henry lobbied James Madison to change the wording (from "country" to "state") to help preserve slavery in the south. Hence, the Second Amendment is an anachronism that is no longer relevant in an era in which we are a democracy with a standing army. We have repeatedly amended the Constitution, and don't need to be trapped by the dark history of the Second Amendment which is now being used by the weapons industry to prevent sensible gun laws. We've changed electoral rules so that the person who comes in second in a presidential race no longer becomes VP, we've given women the right to vote, we've given black people full citizenship, we've made alcohol illegal, and then re-amended to make it legal. The only way out of this mess is to repeal the damned amendment! Nice cut and paste JB Why thank ye. Too bad you're wrong, but that's OK. It's actually my summary of more detailed history. Maybe you'll at least concede you learned something. One can only hope. (So sorry no pictures.) Not so JB. Here is the source you swiped http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/36506-we-need-to-throw-out-the-second-amendment Do you not know what a summary is? Or the difference between scanning and summarizing? There is plenty of pertinent C&P on this list correctly used to enlighten, bolster an argument or prove a point. Your posts could carry more weight if you utilized same now and then. But if you don't read anything, guess that can't be an option. Nice try. You cut and paste someone else's words and pass them off as your own. That makes you a fraud. The strongest deterrent to tyranny is a WELL ARMED POPULACE!!!!! When the excitement hits the proverbial fan JuneZ et al , pray for an armed citizen to save your ass! Just don't shoot the tyrant...:) By Toma Noku (616), Southampton on Oct 3, 17 6:17 PM Yep. Just like they have the thirty or so times during mass shootings since the turn of the 21st Century... what happens when two armed citizens disagree on the correct path for the nation? Ha, behold the little, quivering paranoid with stupidest fear one can possibly hold. And the stupidest notion of protection of his backside against the (teehee) "tyrants". You think your little water pistol is going to protect you against drones or chemical weapons? What century are you living in? Hilarious. Real effective against directed biological warfare too, LOL Where was the second amendment saving the fifty nine that died? Ahhh, the last sentence is so VERY descript of the "right wingers" here, which are just a small sample of the nation at large: 90,000 Guns But No Gun-Related Crimes By Nanna Árnadóttir In March, an overzealous gun owner shot a few rounds into the air in Kópavogur, a suburb of Reykjavík. He’d just had the gun serviced and was eager to make sure it was in good working order. Pop! Pop! Pop! Police were ...more called to the scene, the news media rolled up, people speculated that someone might have been hurt. No one knew what was going on, no one could find any injured party, but neighbours swore they’d heard gunshots coming from somewhere nearby. This was a big deal. National news coverage big. The gun owner came forward the next day and apologised. Police subsequently seized the gun in question, alongside all other weapons in his collection, then revoked his gun licence. You might think that this shook the nation because gun ownership is rare, but you’d be wrong. According to the research organisation Gun Policy, the estimated total of civilian-owned guns in Iceland is about 90,000. That’s 90,000 guns for 330,000 people. Roughly a third, so chances are if you are in a room with ten Icelanders, about two or three of them are gun owners. In the United States, by contrast, there are far more guns per household but the rate of gun ownership is just a little above one third, so similar to Iceland. In spite of this high rate of civilian gun ownership, Iceland still has one of the lowest crime rates in the world. The UN’s Global Study on Homicide from 2013 cites that between 2005 and 2012, zero percent of violent deaths in Iceland were caused by a firearm. In the United States in the same time period, the rate of violent deaths caused by firearms was between 58-61%. But why? How is it possible for the gun ownership in Iceland to be on par with countries plagued by gun violence, without any actual gun crime? It’s a real schlep to get a gun “We do not know exactly why gun crime is so low,” said Jónas Hafsteinsson, who works in the Icelandic Police’s gun licensing department. “Maybe because it is hard to get a licence?” In order to get a gun and a hunting licence, Icelanders have to do paperwork for the police, the magistrate, and even the Environment Agency of Iceland. Prospective gun owners need to prove they have no criminal record. They need to be evaluated by a doctor to prove they are of sound mind and have good enough eyesight. They have to buy and read two books, attend a three-day course and score at least 75% on exams regarding gun safety, management, what animals are allowed to be hunted and when, and so on. Then there’s a practical exam to prove they know how to handle a gun safely. Once Icelanders finally have their licence, they need to prove they have a gun safe to lock the weapons in, plus a separate place away from the gun safe to lock the ammunition. Basically, it’s a real schlep for a civilian to get a gun and there are a lot of legal checkpoints to ensure public safety. A question of practicality “My dad had guns and hunted. So guns were always around when I was a boy,” says gun owner and hunting enthusiast Árni Leósson. “When I got older I got really into fly-fishing and from there I got interested in hunting but to do that I had to get my own guns. It was just pragmatism and I think the reason gun crime is so alien in Iceland is the ‘gun culture.’ In Iceland guns are for practical things like hunting and not for protection. We have the police for that.” Indeed even the regular police do not use guns; only special forces carry firearms. Up until earlier this month —when special forces turned up armed to the annual Color Run—Icelandic civilians had never had to contend with seeing guns in public. This act by the police was so unusual and made people so uncomfortable that there has been a series of public complaints about the police bringing guns to a family event, especially given that studies show that the presence of armed police escalates tension, not the other way around. The meaning of guns “In places like the US, a firearm is believed to be important for self-defence and to deter crime but this idea is foreign here,” says Helgi Gunnlaugsson, a professor of sociology at the University of Iceland. “Here we look at a gun, or a pistol, as an object for mostly sports and hunting animals. Very few Icelanders believe guns are important to defend yourself or your family. So even if you own a gun, and quite a few do, the gun is not to be aimed at other persons. It actually never really crosses our mind to do that.” “This cultural meaning and difference is not something you can change overnight with a stricter or more lenient gun control legislation—this difference runs much deeper than that,” argues Helgi, adding that when people view guns as a tool of self-defence, they are more likely to keep guns more readily accessible in the household, in order to grab it in case of an emergency—which leads to greater rates of accidental shootings or murders while people are intoxicated. Additional and more general factors also contribute to Iceland’s low gun crime rate. Historically, in order to make it through the long winters, everyone needed to pitch in to simply survive, meaning there is a short social distance between Icelanders. People with power are not impossible to reach, it is not impossible to be heard. Add to that a more equal society with low rates of extreme wealth and extreme poverty and you neuter a lot of aggression and fear. And that’s the real danger, let’s not forget. Fear. Great post! But beware---the cut and paste patrol is out and loaded for bear. Might have changed recently, but brought Britain's historically unarmed police to mind. The numbers clearly show that homegrown right wing extremists are a greater danger to the citizens of this nation than persons from "travel ban" countries. Things that make you go "Hmmmmmm..." No pun intended, but by a long shot. And time to call them by their rightful name: terrorists. Paddock was most likely an Antifa member, and the Hispanic woman harassing people at the concert and telling them they were going to die 45 minutes before the shooting was probably a member as well! Many people are reporting seeing things about this man on Facebook! He was a Trump hater which would fit in with Antifa. This is perception management/manipulation.They (NWO) want you to perceive guns are dangerous so they can take away your guns and you cannot protect yourself. Part of the ...more Rules for Radicals #4 By They call me (2826), southampton on Oct 3, 17 10:08 PM In case you may be curious: Every Member of Congress Who Took Money From the NRA and Tweeted 'Thoughts and Prayers' to Las Vegas Rafi Schwartz Lee Zeldin‏Verified account @RepLeeZeldin Oct 2 All Americans extend our deepest sympathies & prayers to all impacted by this senseless tragedy & thank all first responders on scene 544 replies 11 retweets 29 likes Reply 544 Retweet 11 Like 29 Direct message SAYS THE RECIPIENT OF $14,850 FROM THE NRA..... THIS AMOUNT IS THE HIGHEST OF 7 OTHER NYS CONGRESSCRITTERS WITH $4,000 BEING THE LEAST. Perhaps a brush up on American History is overdue? The Second Amendment you don't know By Saul Cornell In the coming months, as the nation begins a serious discussion about gun regulation, the meaning of the Second Amendment — the statement that “a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” — will be much discussed. It ...more is vital that Americans separate myths from realities, because what many of us seem to have forgotten is that, in the vision of the founders of the United States of America, the right to bear arms carries with it enormous burdens and responsibilities. In fact, if we restored the Second Amendment to its original meaning, it would be the NRA’s worst nightmare. Invoking the Second Amendment ought to be a more effective argument for increased regulation than it is against it. In 2008, a closely divided Supreme Court abandoned more than 70 years of precedent and for the first time in American history affirmed that the Second Amendment is about a right to have a handgun in the home for self-defense. Lost in most of the commentary then and now is that this is almost the exactly opposite of what James Madison, the primary architect of the amendment, intended, and is hard to reconcile with the way most ordinary Americans would have read it in 1791. In 1776, most of the original state constitutions did not even include an arms-bearing provision. The few states that did usually also included a clause protecting the right not to bear arms. Why? Because, in contrast to other cherished rights such as freedom of speech or religion, the state could not compel you to speak or pray. It could force you to bear arms. The founders had a simple reason for curbing this right: Quakers and other religious pacifists were opposed to bearing arms, and wished to be exempt from an obligation that could be made incumbent on all male citizens at the time. When the Second Amendment is discussed today, we tend to think of those “militias” as just a bunch of ordinary guys with guns, empowering themselves to resist authority when and if necessary. Nothing could be further from the founders’ vision. Militias were tightly controlled organizations legally defined and regulated by the individual colonies before the Revolution and, after independence, by the individual states. Militia laws ran on for pages and were some of the lengthiest pieces of legislation in the statute books. States kept track of who had guns, had the right to inspect them in private homes and could fine citizens for failing to report to a muster. These laws also defined what type of guns you had to buy — a form of taxation levied on individual households. Yes, long before Obamacare, the state made you buy something, even if you did not want to purchase it. (The guns required by law were muskets, not pistols. The only exceptions to this general rule were the horsemen’s pistols that dragoons and other mounted units needed.) The founders had a word for a bunch of farmers marching with guns without government sanction: a mob. One of the reasons we have a Constitution is the founders were worried about the danger posed by individuals acting like a militia without legal authority. This was precisely what happened during Shays’ Rebellion, an insurrection in western Massachusetts that persuaded many Americans that we needed a stronger central government to avert anarchy. Many people think that we have the Second Amendment so that we can take up arms against the government if it overreaches its authority. If that interpretation were correct, it would mean that the Second Amendment had repealed the Constitution’s treason clause, which defines this crime as taking up arms against the government. In reality, in the first decade after the Constitution, the government put down several rebellions similar to Shays - and nobody claimed that they were merely asserting their Second Amendment rights. So if the Second Amendment does not have much to do about owning a pistol for self-defense, does that mean the founders did not esteem this right? Obviously the answer to that question is no. Not every right valued by Americans was expressly protected by a constitutional provision. The right of self-defense was part of the common law, a long tradition of rights defined by the English courts over a period of centuries. But rather than invoke the Second Amendment in the coming months, Americans need to learn something about the historical origins of this part of our constitutional tradition. The bottom line is simple: the Second Amendment requires more gun regulation, not less. Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University. By Po Boy (5299), Water Mill on Oct 3, 17 11:14 PM UN ambassador Nikki Haley hit with Hatch Act reprimand By Jessica Estepa Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which filed the complaint over Haley's retweet, said this was the third time a Trump administration official had violated the Hatch Act this year. "One is unfortunate, two is a coincidence, but three in less than a year is a pattern," CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said in a statement. "This all stems from the president's permissive ...more attitude toward ethics; the tone is set at the top." The other violations were made by White House social media director Dan Scavino and Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway. Michelle Obama: "People Don’t Trust Politics’ Because GOP Is ‘All Men, All White" Hey Michelle, why make it about the color of someones skin? Why is it the country doesn't trust your husband or Hillary? Actions speak louder than skin color... And your remarks seem both sexist and racist. PROTECT THE 2nd A ... MAGA By joe hampton (3461), The Hamptons on Oct 3, 17 10:00 PM Go ahead. Beat your drum while innocent people bleed out in the streets. Because Alexander Hamilton wanted people to own automatic weapons, eh? Oct 3, 17 10:08 PM appended by Mr. Z The Gun Lobby's interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American People by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. "The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies - the militia - would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires." ~ Retired Chief Justice Warren Burger No but he wanted a militia of private citizens to be able to protect the country from all treats both foreign and DOMESTIC. When the military agrees to go back to muskets so will the Oath Keepers And exactly what did "militia" mean in the 18th century? Article 6, The Articles of Confederation: Every state shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutered, and shall provide and constantly have ready for use, in public stores, a due number of field pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition and camp equipage. Well then, if the "Oath Keepers" are true Constitutionalists, then they must keep such weapons in a "public store", and not at private residences. They should be properly logged, accounted for, and the inventory reported to the proper authority. Heck, I'll even go one better: "To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders of towns, countries or districts of a state, is to demolish every constitution, and lay the laws prostrate, so that liberty can be enjoyed by no man; it is a dissolution of the government. The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws." ~ ...more John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States, 475 [1787-1788]) For the jokers here who think they know what the they're talking about. Frankly, it's HIGHLY unlikely you know more about the subject than this guy: (Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University) In the coming months, as the nation begins a serious discussion about gun regulation, the meaning of the Second Amendment — the statement ...more that “a well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” — will be much discussed. It is vital that Americans separate myths from realities, because what many of us seem to have forgotten is that, in the vision of the founders of the United States of America, the right to bear arms carries with it enormous burdens and responsibilities. Written in 2012, lol. Fortunately the SCOTUS know even more and have consistently stated such. The 2nd amendment will not have more regulation, nor should it. When will the fearful learn that more regulation is not the answer. More laws will not decrease violence. Never has. BREAKING: SHERIFF SAYS LAS VEGAS SHOOTER COULD HAVE BEEN “RADICALIZED” Authorities admit potential motive for first time During a live press conference, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo revealed that the Las Vegas gunman, Stephen Paddock, may have been “radicalized” and that authorities were attempting to uncover the source of his radicalization. “Did this person get radicalized unbeknownst to us? And we want to identify that source,” said Lombardo. If ...more confirmed, this suggests that there may have been a political motive behind the massacre. By They call me (2826), southampton on Oct 4, 17 2:16 AM So, then the Constitution is a living, breathing document? So much for the "Constitutionalists". Scalia's "decision" had nothing to do with history, and read like a pile of steaming NRA lobby talking points. You're dead wrong, and the SCOTUS truly undid over a hundred years of legal precedent that spoke to the completely opposite view. To the constitutional scholars BF, dnice, pwherman, They call me, and Po Boy": Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. Can't you get it through your head that militias were HIGHLY regulated? Even included members being forced to buy their own muskets---you know, just like today's requirements for healthcare.... And, they were not permitted to use them for their own individual purposes INCLUDING SELF DEFENSE. Today's hideous 2nd Amendment court interpretations (on behalf of the arms industry) has turned America into the wild west. Way past time for a return to sanity. The lady professor from Hampton Bays is quite the authority on all things relating to a civilized society. She seems to think amendments get "regulated". Now there's a novel notion. She also seems to be advocating for a lawless society, and sounds as if she's also sees no efficacy in the Ten Commandments. Better than Colgate Comedy Hour re-runs.... June Bug, you are all drama and no originality. A New Jersey car dealership is pulling its television ads from NFL broadcasts for the rest of the 2017 football season in response to NFL teams protesting the national anthem. Oct 4, 17 1:09 AM appended by 27dan I remember when the NFL wasn't the DNC. This season can't end fast enough. By 27dan (2854), Shinnecock Hills on Oct 4, 17 1:09 AM Bf, dnice,27 dan, joe h., they call me, sturgis, mr. snerdley, poboy, erin, ditch bum,undoc. All of you that think that the status quo is okay (even after pointing out gun laws in Nevada) you all contributed to the mass murder shooting with your opinions. And it seems so callously proud of it. Why didn't a citizen packing firearms thwart the mass massacre? When the LV Sheriff said they were looking into where the shooter was radicalized, what exactly did he mean? Was it liberalism or extreme islamic fascism? Extreme right wing dementia. I don't think Mets fan is extreme right wing (whatever that is) but you have it half correct. Metsfan, in no way does being in favor of the 2A equate to having responsibility for a madman's act of terror. Only in the mind of an extreme leftist can such a conne be made Opposing sane regulation of firearms does. What is your idea of sane regulation? So the staus quo is just fine for you. Nothing at all, more rigorous background checks, types of weapons sold, amount of ammo, licensing, etc, nothing should change. This is the America we live in, so just get used to a steady dose of mass murders. You get it, Mets. One day enough people will die, or it'll be a room full of legislators' kids, and change will be prompted. Until then, we should all come to terms with the new normal. Do me a favor Mets, refrain from putting words in my mouth. You have no idea what you're talking about and to suggest I'm somehow complicit in this horrible event is despicable. Instead of insulting people why don't you put forth your plan to prevent this from happening again. Let's hear it. Because you know if we make guns illegal no one will ever get shot according to your logic. Because according to your logic this would work with drugs as well right? Oh wait I forgot drugs are illegal. And ...more funny thing there are many people addicted to legally prescribed drugs. And don't get me started with drunk driving. For starters, kill the "rifle loophole" which prevents law enforcement from knowing who owns an arsenal. Iceland is a great example of how to keep firearms out of the hands of the mentally disturbed. "Arms" as referred to by the Second Amendment were weapons intended for warfare, stored in a public stockpile, inventoried, and highly regulated by the state they were present in. The reason for this is that there was no standing army. One did not keep weapons intended for the battlefield ...more in their domicile. "Militias were tightly controlled organizations legally defined and regulated by the individual colonies before the Revolution and, after independence, by the individual states. Militia laws ran on for pages and were some of the lengthiest pieces of legislation in the statute books. States kept track of who had guns, had the right to inspect them in private homes and could fine citizens for failing to report to a muster. These laws also defined what type of guns you had to buy — a form of taxation levied on individual households. Yes, long before Obamacare, the state made you buy something, even if you did not want to purchase it. (The guns required by law were muskets, not pistols. The only exceptions to this general rule were the horsemen’s pistols that dragoons and other mounted units needed.)" ~ Saul Cornell, Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University Every male in our country is supposed to be armed.It is what the founders clearly wanted. If you don't like it, you can simply leave this country. The founders kept it free for you to do so. The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, under 45 years of age. Militia is National Guard, and Regular Militia is all other American men not in the National Guard. Abortion is illegal, Abortion is technically illegal but your fine with the changes to the constitution, Well I'm not! Thats why gun ownership is necessary. To the keep this country free from the the likes of the hypocrites that would change the country to benefit there own selfish needs . The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms and was adopted on December 15, 1791, as part of the first ten amendments contained in the Bill of Rights.[1][2][3][4] The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the right belongs to individuals,[5][6] while also ruling that the right is not unlimited and does not prohibit all regulation of either firearms or similar devices.[7] State and local governments are limited ...more to the same extent as the federal government from infringing this right per the incorporation of the Bill of Rights. Wiki It was designed among other things to protect individual citizens FROM the federal government. joe hampton,27dan,They call me,Ditch Bum So, you now claim the Second Amendment invalidates the treason clause. Let's see how that works out for you in a court of law. So, when is the next militia muster, and where is the regulated stockpile of weapons? What is your drill schedule? Your state government should have all that on paper, right? It's no wonder the militia rules are called the "Dick Act"... Behold the new king of America and his laughable proclamation. And all along, I thought the biggest ass in the country was in the White House. I'll take my chances with the precedent of Cramer vs. the United States making Treason very difficult to prove... other than that Mr. Z, take it up with the Founding Fathers. I'd suggest that IF we are defending against the Federal government, the Treason Clause is somewhat of a moot point. If it does get that bad (highly unlikely), you'll probably just end up at the drumhead. Armed? Yes. Weapons of war in your personal possession? F* NO. Arms for war highly regulated by the state they are present in. There is no debate on that. Do you own a musket? I do. The butt is quite, quite heavy... I hate to tell you this, but that musket was a "weapon of war" at one time and in some countries, sexual violence/rape is used as a weapon of war. See any commonalities in a musket, an AR15 and sexual violence? Yup, you guessed it. A person made a choice to use it in that manner. You're not suggesting we outlaw free choice are you? Po Boy Now you're just desperate. Oct 4, 17 9:06 PM appended by Mr. Z Desperation is quite the miasma. Hey Dan, you voted in someone "changing the country to benefit his own selfish needs". For once I'm with you -- gotta "free the country" of the gritting moron. Oct 5, 17 11:39 PM appended by June Bug "Gritting meant to be "grifting". Hey let's start with the sale of fully automatic assault rifles and machine guns which is legal in Nevada. BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS!! Let's not mischaracterize the law on automatic weapons. While pre-1986 automatic weapons are legal to own, there are highly stringent laws in place, including a registry and background checks that require the ATF to visit your home, if I remember correctly. I was still surprised to learn there were hundreds of thousands of these weapons out there, but you can't just walk into a store and get one. If you read my posts d........s, I've never said to ban all guns. However, mentally ill, types of weapons ,amount of ammo, etc, should be harshly regulated. Well-trained police with all the weaponry needed is good enough for me. FYI Mets Fan, new, fully automatic weapons have been banned for civilians in the United States since the Firearm Owners' Protection Act of 1986. Pre 1986 fully auto are almost impossible to obtain legally and are individually tracked by the ATF. Nevada does not impose any further restrictions on them but still, very hard to get legally. If he had it, it was illegal. It is possible he was using a bump stock instead of having a fully auto rifle. Bump stocks can mimic the rapid fire of a fully ...more automatic rifle and are legal although they shouldn't be and probably won't be for much longer. By dnice (2346), Hampton Bays on Oct 5, 17 9:57 AM For what it's worth, my reading on "bump stocks" says they can be easily manufactured by amateurs. Man, that Tillerson statement was the best hostage video since Patty Hearst's. What kind of trust, I ask, can you have in someone who took until July to realize his boss is a moron? "NBC News cites three unnamed “officials familiar with the incident” to report that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson referred to President Donald Trump as a “moron” at a July 20 Pentagon meeting. " At some point, even the blind fish learns to stop taking the bait. By even flow (1023), East Hampton on Oct 4, 17 1:40 PM Ann Coulter: Media Find Las Vegas Shooter’s Motive: He’s White! There’s a remarkable number of dangling facts about Stephen Paddock’s mass murder in Las Vegas, which the media have shown little inclination to investigate. It’s almost as if they’re worried that too much investigation will ruin it. Who was the woman shouting, “YOU’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!” right before the concert? Is any reporter interested ...more in finding out? Probably a random crazy lady, but that’s not typical pre-concert behavior. Why is it taking so long to find out if anyone else went into Paddock’s hotel room since he checked in last Thursday? I’m perfectly prepared to accept that he was the only one who entered that room, but can we see the surveillance video? The sum-total of the information we know about Marilou Danley, the woman who’s been living with Paddock for years is the following: She was out of the country at the time of the attack. She’s not involved. Paddock had apparently assembled an enormous arsenal of weapons. Did she know about it? Did he tell her why? Had his behavior changed recently? Why wasn’t he with her on her trip? Had they broken up? And why did Paddock recently wire $100,000 to the Philippines? I don’t know if any of this would change the basic narrative. But the media don’t know, either, and they seem strangely reluctant to ask. As Sherlock Holmes said: First, you exclude the impossible, and whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Our media isn’t doing the reporting that would allow us to exclude anything. And then they wonder why conspiracy theories develop. The media’s idea of hard-hitting investigative reporting is to taunt gun-owners and white men. Making snarky political remarks is Job No. 1 of reporters. Apparently, it’s also the new job description for late-night comics. As long as we’re looking for jobs that Americans just won’t do, maybe we could find some immigrants to tell jokes and report news. We’re getting a lot of smirky, celebratory headlines, like these: AMERICA’S WHITE MAN PROBLEM HOW AMERICA HAS SILENTLY ACCEPTED THE RAGE OF WHITE MEN THE WHITE PRIVILEGE OF THE “LONE WOLF” SHOOTER While it’s great that liberals have finally found a mass murder that they don’t think can be defeated with a “Je Suis Charlie” hashtag, they’re either lying or they don’t know what they’re talking about. Blacks and Hispanics are extremely well-represented as perpetrators of mass shootings, Muslims are over-represented, and surprisingly, even the usually law-abiding Asians more than hold their own. And those are just a few of the famous ones! It’s hard to notice what’s not there, so it’s especially annoying that the journalist’s method of illustrating mass murderers is to assemble pictures of all the mass shooters, but then only show the white guys. There was one characteristic of white men in abundant evidence at the Las Vegas massacre. They’re awfully chivalrous, these white male country music fans. Twenty-two thousand people came under sustained, high-powered gunfire and few people, if any, were stomped to death — something you can’t say for a Black Friday sale at a Long Island mall. At the Las Vegas concert, men died protecting women, using their bodies as shields and standing up in the middle of gunfire to direct the women to safety. The New York Post reports that one woman said she “was running away and a couple of guys said, ‘Hey, come stand behind us,’ and boom, they went down.” Heather Melton has described how she felt her husband, Sonny, being shot in the back, fatally, as he shielded her from the rain of bullets. Without many facts to go on, the only sweeping conclusion we can make so far is that there’s a reason feminism didn’t emerge from the country music community. Thanks Ann Actually, it turns out he may have staked out a couple of music festivals, and procured a condominium near the "Life is Beautiful" music festival. This was quite the premeditated attack. Apparently he couldn't inflict maximum damage from a condo. Use a car to mow down people and they blame the person. Use a knife, blame the person....use a gun, they blame the gun. Typical libtard logic. Hey Bum, how about we license and register every gun like we license and register that car? Yes June great idea ...because we all know criminals get their cars the same way they get their guns. Legally. DON'T DO IT ! When i was a younger man living in my country of origin things were wonderful until the wrong people got in power. Thats when they took out that little gun registry June is talking about and those homes were the first place the military showed up. From there it went down hill fast and you want to talk about killing thats when it the ugly stuff began ! Maintain the balance of power or somday you will pay the price of your freedom ! If you're dumb enough to think than in the modern United States there could be a successful military coup, well, let's just say it makes you a sucker. i think your the sucker believing far left wackos, in a country of spoiled millennial snow flakes and jihadists...... where the last government built fema camps, organized jade helm, and now with blm and antifa ? sure you would love it if the people were suddenly defenseless By Erin 27 E (1281), hampton bays on Oct 4, 17 10:19 PM Holy crap. Do you believe "PizzaGate" was real too? Let me guess, you read the Bible as a book of history where apples are magic, snakes can talk, and one day from "God's" point of view is 64 million years? You should really seek professional help for your paranoia. Oh, and keep posting, I enjoy the belly laughs. Also anyone possessing a firearm should be required to buy an insurance policy. Officers discover cache of weapons, ammunition during Tennessee traffic stop Posted on October 4, 2017 at 8:12 AM CBS News reports that Scott Edmisten, 43, of Johnson City, was found carrying a .357-caliber Magnum, a loaded .45-caliber semi-automatic, a .223-caliber fully automatic assault rifle, a .308-caliber fully automatic assault rifle, more than 900 rounds of ammunition, and survival equipment during a traffic stop on Monday. Edmisten apparently modified the ...more AR rifles to make them automatics, Washington County Sheriff Ed Graybeal told CBS News. Graybeal said Edmisten threatened his arresting officer and lunged toward investigators trying to question him. Graybeal had to ask the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to help investigate, since the automatic weapons aren't registered and lack serial numbers, according to CBS News. Just another day on the job by the thin blue line oppressors and an individual subject to the law of the land. What Happens In Vegas, Stays With The FBI ... Apparently Paddock being doped up on diazepam didn't stay with the FBI, or in Vegas. Word is out. i am still waiting to hear what the note on the table said. i am just glad donald trump is our president i feel safe from all this un patriotic hate and dissension around us everyday. only 7 more years to go little babies we made it through 8 you can to. until then lets make america great again ! toes in the water You should feel safe that nothing will change with little Donnie Johnnie. you should feel secure as long as we don't change anything, we will continue to have a steady dose of mass murders. Now does that make you feel safe? Erin maybe you can go to a rally, and feel safe when he p...... grabs you. You don’t have to make any tortured projections. We can proclaim with confidence that obama did not do anything in 8 years. In fact the only Presidential candidate who did not accept a dime from the NRA was Donald Trump Slimy is a liar. The NRA donated a thousand dollars directly to Trump and spent $30M trying to get him elected. It's all public knowledge so be sure to Google before you blindly believe Slimy liar. Mets fan,June Bug Per Sheriff Lombardo, it was not a suicide note. It seems the "right wing" lies about their lies. No wonder they elected a pathological liar to the White House. June Bug,Fore1gnBornHBgrown Nice try slimey. NRA contributed 30 million for the election of the orange ignoramus. ''contributed 30 million for the election"? they spent $30 million on ads. that's not a contribution. By even flow (1023), East Hampton on Oct 5, 17 11:22 AM So they didn't give it to Trump, they gave it to a pro-Trump super pac. Great distinction, even flow. Nevertheless, Trump still received $1,065 directly from the NRA, slightly more than "not one dime." JuneZ and Mets fan: do you blame the increased obesity rates on forks? That would be gluttony, overconsumption, orgiastic greed, and of course just plain ignorance or outright stupidity. Again, you play a dumb and idiotic segue game. It's quite probable the shooter would have performed far less efficiently with single shot weapons, no? Assault rifles and machine guns legal in Nevada. Unlimited ammo, gun dealers don't have to be licensed, on and on. Like I said, just sit back, do nothing, and just get used to a steady dose of mass murders. This is the do-nothing right running things in America. Happy with continuing with mass murders, vote the right wing nut way. The last president to do nothing was Barack Obama. 14 mass shootings, 14 speeches. No action. LOL let's not act as if nothing was tried, now. Don't we remember Obama being portrayed as the big bad boogeyman coming to take your guns away? That congress would rather accept the status quo doesn't mean POTUS did "nothing." Trump is the one who said "to actively do nothing is a decision" after the Pulse nightclub shooting. Serious short term memory problems. Including all their lies. “When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.” ~ Michael Ende, The Neverending Story Seriously. Did you read up top where he lied that Trump got zero money from the NRA? I can only wonder if it's deliberate or compulsive. I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward. ~ Barack Obama Oct 5, 17 7:41 AM appended by Po Boy And Mets fan, your statement is damn near completely inaccurate. Assault rifle is defined as a rapid-fire, magazine-fed automatic rifle designed for infantry use. Machine guns ARE legal in Nevada - but are highly regulated. Unlimited ammo" Hmmm, maybe, but sales are always contingent. Yes,gun dealers DO have to be licensed. Did ya'll know that Trump agreed with Obama's push for new gun control after Sandy Hook? Following the defeat of that new legislation in 2013, Obama took the following executive action: "In addition to expanding and bolstering the background check system to cover sales that take place online and at gun shows, Obama said the administration will provide more funding for mental health treatment, FBI staff and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives agents." And let's not forget the executive order that shared the information of folks requiring guardianship of their SSA funds when they tried to purchase firearms. President Obama Signs NRA-Backed Measures into Law Fairfax, Va. – President Barack Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It includes several NRA-backed provisions -- expanding gun rights on stateside military bases; prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from banning traditional ammunition; and saving taxpayer dollars by allowing gun collectors to buy vintage military surplus pistols. I guess we should clarify.... what could be deemed meaningful executive action. That wasn't. Background checks online and at gun shows were already in place by current laws at the time. I know, because I've done both. Sales through the hobbyist angle was clarified to indicate they MAY actually be “engaged in the business” of selling firearms if they operate an online gun store, pass out business cards or frequently sell guns in their original packaging. Whether the mental health funding ...more or even increase in agents took place, who knows, it was intended to be part of budget negotiations. It was all political smoke and mirrors. Support restrictions one day. Take "action" against it another... typical Washington that really equates to NO ACTION.. It's almost like the power to enact meaningful action lies with the legislators, not the executive. Expecting POTUS to fix the problem of gun violence by himself is like expecting DACA to fix the broken immigration system. Which is why I can't fault Trump's flip-flop since Sandy Hook. A belief that frequent mass shooting are not a problem to be solved makes inaction all the easier. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity Since Republican congress are the ones getting bribe money from the NRA, don't expect the Republican congress to help. Besides, the only thing they say ,now isn't the right time. Of course it isn't. Where would you stop Metsfan? How much of the 2A would you eliminate? Mental and all-round examination, paid for by applicant. No assault rifles of any kind. Registering of all guns. Notice of large cache of weapons to authorities. Some sort of rationing of ammo, that would be hard to enforce. Some of the commenters on this site could use a mental evaluation, that's for sure. By johnj (1024), Westhampton on Oct 5, 17 12:52 PM This is the only Constitutional gun law... "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"... Those last four words are beautiful... In case anyone is unclear what the Founding Fathers intended... "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make ...more things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776... Coincidentally, a couple of centuries of jurisprudence have proven that there are, in fact, constitutional laws that place reasonable limits on firearm ownership. After all, the majority of cannon used during the revolutionary war were owned privately but that doesn't mean we have artillery for sale at Wal-Mart. @ 27dan: We scumbag lefties prefer facts based in history, not bull**** and myths. "Militias were tightly controlled organizations legally defined and regulated by the individual colonies before the Revolution and, after independence, by the individual states. Militia laws ran on for pages and were some of the lengthiest pieces of legislation in the statute books. States kept track of who had guns, had the right to inspect them in private homes and could fine citizens for failing to report ...more to a muster. Claiming those who excercize their 2A rights are somehow complicite in a madman's attack is insane I agree, "complicit" is a little excessive. "Indifferent" would be more accurate. Bravo Sierra ! How in the world can you claim that??!! By bigfresh (4666), north sea on Oct 5, 17 10:12 AM Perhaps you would prefer "ambivalent"? "Tolerant"? How would you describe the collective response toward regular record-breaking mass shootings? Tacit approval. BF stop giving them attention the bodies were still on the sidewalk when Hillary started screaming GUN CONTROLL It hurt my hears to listen to that screeching again THANK GOD she lost! The people who fell victim to these shootings (country music fans) , weather it turns out to be a crazy person or something else... would be the first to tell you not to give up our 2nd Amendment rights ... Like UD said a few lines up learn from history or lose your freedoms ! DON'T DO IT ! When i was a younger man living in my country of origin things were wonderful until the wrong people got in power. Thats when they took out that little gun registry June is talking about and those homes were the first place the military showed up. From there it went down hill fast and you want to talk about killing thats when it the ugly stuff began ! Maintain the balance of power or somday you will pay the price of your freedom ! By Undocumented Democrat Can those who have bought into the successful re-shaping of the 2nd Amendment done to benefit the arms industry not see their hypocrisy when they bang the right to life and law and order drums? Or see the disingenuousness in their idol when he assures them that his first duty is to keep them safe? Apparently that only means safe from brown and black-skinned killers. Well its not like some of those as you put it " brown and black-skinned killers. " do themselves any good when they are 13 % of the population and are responsible for 87 percent of the gun violence in the USA. ( Go ahead and look it up for yourself June and let me know if I am correct in those government statistics ) So yes as an law abiding American citizen it is part of why I may want to own a gun ! Not the only reason but yes it is a part of it . Source: Politifact PANTS ON FIRE Pants on Fire! Trump Says crime statistics show blacks kill 81 percent of white homicide victims. — Donald Trump on Sunday, November 22nd, 2015 in a tweet Trump's Pants on Fire tweet that blacks killed 81% of white homicide victims By Jon Greenberg on Monday, November 23rd, 2015 at 3:35 p.m. A day after a black activist was kicked and punched by voters at a Donald Trump rally in Alabama, Trump ...more tweeted an image packed with racially loaded and incorrect murder statistics. The image shows a masked, dark-skinned man with a handgun and a set of points, ostensibly about deaths in 2015: "Blacks killed by whites -- 2%" "Blacks killed by police -- 1%" "Whites killed by police -- 3%" "Whites killed by whites -- 16%" "Whites killed by blacks -- 81%" "Blacks killed by blacks -- 97%’ The image cites the "Crime Statistics Bureau - San Francisco" Here is the image: None of the numbers are supported by official sources. The figures on black-on-white homicides and white-on-white homicides are wildly inaccurate. And, as several news organizations quickly noted, the "Crime Statistics Bureau" doesn’t exist. We looked for that agency as well and the closest we found in San Francisco were a number of crime scene clean-up services. Interracial homicides While the image references 2015, the year is not over, and no official numbers have been released. The latest data comes from the FBI for 2014. This table contrasts Trump’s figures with the official ones. Trump Number FBI Number Error factor Blacks killed by whites Blacks killed by blacks Just a little off Whites killed by whites 5.4 times Whites killed by blacks Oct 5, 17 3:16 PM appended by June Bug And you can be sure if every black male bought and registered a gun tomorrow, we'd have strict gun controls passed the day after that. JB, the 2nd amendment hasn't been reshaped. You do realize that the gun industry has taken a huge hit in the wallet since Trump won right? Obama wa the gun industry's best friend. No President in history sold more guns. Once a market is flooded, ancd consumers are satisfied, supplies increase, sales decrease. Simple supply and demand. Not so Z. Sales were high because people were afraid Obama would try and increase gun control legislation. Had nothing to do with supply and demand. Oh. So it was propagated by fear tactics, spread by the NRA and the gun lobby? Who are in bed with the gun industry? Man, they must have made a mint on that. A dip in sales would be natural after such an orgy of gun purchasing. Fear is such a powerful weapon when dealing with people who have no or limited control over their amygdala. Ironically, you are the one dealing in fear instead of rationality. Fear of what? Being the next innocent to be killed by a madman because "the solution is more guns" has flooded this nation with firearms? That's one of the few I do have. And it's quite obviously a rational one. By dnice (2346), Hampton Bays on Oct 5, 17 11:19 PM That's a really good point, dnice. Since I've adopted the sincere belief that nothing will change, I changed my habits instead and actively avoid these large crowds. When I do groceries and the like I make it a point to keep my wits about me and make note of where my exits are. I regularly scan others' hands in case I see a weapon and carry a knife in case it's necessary, and if it's my turn, life's been good to me. The point being these tragedies won't stop, so we should act accordingly. Epidemic mass murder shootings. Right wing response, please have as many guns and as much ammo as you like. Hurricanes are more severe and intense. Right wing response, burn more coal. Contraceptives are a no-no. Right wing response, those kids with irresponsible parents are not going to keep benefiting from welfare, food stamps, and school food programs. Stand at attention for National Anthem to honor our military and country. Right wing response, cut medicaid to 1.75 million vets who depend on ...more that for serious healthcare issues. You leftists are delusional if you think owning a gun gives 'tacit approval ' to mass murder! Liberalism is a mental disorder, an armed population are citizens, an unarmed population are subjects. This evil bastard could have driven into the crowd with a lifted truck and killed and maimed on a grand scale, wanna ban vehicles too? joe hampton, 27dan, They call me Interestingly enough, we do license, register, and test vehicle owners, don't we? And you're misunderstanding: it's not mere ownership of a firearm that indicates indifference to mass shootings, but the staunch opposition to any policy measures that may reduce their frequency. Mets fan,VOS,June Bug Correct, we do not want a national gun registry or as you put it (policy measures) It would make gun confiscation in a martial law situation to easy and like bigfreash has pointed out would quickly lead to us being a population of "subjects" No thank you, I for one choose to keep my constitutional rights to the bitter end ! And that's your prerogative, They call me. I was merely pointing out that those staunch stances in favor of inaction are why our collective response to mass shootings can be accurately described as indifferent, ambivalent, or tacit approval of the status quo. Oct 5, 17 2:54 PM appended by Fore1gnBornHBgrown As for the "policy measures" I refer to, a registry is an option, but not the only one. One alternative, the ban on "bump stocks" that help maximize the number of rounds a semi-automatic firearm can send downrange, is being kicked around Congress right now. My personal opinion is that this is too little too late; that there are too many firearms out in the wild with too much destructive firepower to do anything meaningful about through legislation. I predict mass shootings will continue as a reflection of the zeitgeist of violence & personal freedom we've cultivated, and that we'll see "number of people killed" turn into an arcade high score that crazies seek to beat on a regular basis. Yes, and now we have Rep. Scalise: Almost murdered by gunman Refuses any sane gun control Life saved by married lesbian Works to kill LGBTQ rights (about to speak at national convention of LGBT hate groups) Healed by access to healthcare; claims it a "miracle". Votes to gut healthcare Gun confiscation? Martial law? That's your excuses for enabling mass murder? That's [expletive deleted] idiotic. What are you suggesting that in your opinion would be considered not "enabling"? I must most wholeheartedly disagree with your description of those who would not give up their constitutional right. it is not inaction, the liberal catchword of the minute, There is evil in the world, and evil will find a way to manifest itself. Do not presume that the vast majority of. Firearm owners condone in any way the actions of the Vegas madman. Gun owners are no different than anyone else. Could be the shooter was an antifa liberal inspired by extreme liberalism I think you misunderstand: obviously gun owners don't condone mass murder, and there's plenty who support rational regulations (the abovementioned bump stock might be one many agree on), but the blasé response to these events is now a predictable collective shrug. If you would not describe our response as inaction, what would you call it? Do you own semi automatic, or automatic weapons? Z, what is your point for asking such a question? If you don't own either, you have nothing to fear from "gun control". If you do choose to own semi auto weapons, lock them up at the gun club and keep them there. Modern version of regulating and stockpiling arms meant solely to kill in high volume. More guns means more gun deaths. At least we're number one at something these days besides obesity, incarceration rate, divorce rate, car theft, rape, student loan debt, and murders... That is just plain silly Z. Let me ask you. What personal experience do you have with firearm ownership? Ever owned one? Ever fired one? Other than hunting for sustenance they serve no other useful purpose IMHO. Of course if you want to go old school, persistence hunting is an interesting experience. Another coward enabled: A Plainview man was fatally shot Thursday morning on the Upper West Side by a disgruntled former employee who he had fired two days earlier, NYPD officials said. That's three straight comments that end in unanswered questions. Will this be a third? Should have re-freshed the page before commenting I can't rationally discuss the subject with you if you believe firearms ownership should only be for hunting without even considering personal protection. Might I suggest Mr. Z. an ACOG scope on the old blunderbuss. Let me ask you the same question Mr. Z, Do YOU own semi automatic, or automatic weapons? No. I do not keep military grade arms in my personal possession. As far as "personal protection" do you really need semi or full automatic weapons for that? Oh, I forgot. The United States Army one day will come knocking... Shooting people is not a "useful purpose" IMHO. Thanks ever so much. I see. Besides misclassifying civilian arms (semi-auto) as military (full auto) you prefer to diminish the rights of others. You know absolutely NOTHING about me nor much of America.. but the answer is an emphatic.... yes, I do need them for my protection. But whether I need them or not is inconsequential to the discussion for it is my right to keep and bear and it isn't up to you or any other Leftist Progressive who want to send us back to the middle ages. Z, you really are out of your depth on this subject. Assault weapons are military arms. No fancy legal definitions will change that reality. My guess is you probably filed a lawsuit over the AWB. Why do you need assault weapons in your home? Isn't there a reason why one needs a concealed carry permit? Courts decided the Second Amendment did not support that, didn't they? Incorrect on all counts and you guessed wrong Z. You see, those "fancy" yet inconvenient definitions are what's used to classify arms. It's the reason the Obama ATF approved certain add-ons. And no, in most states no reason is needed for concealed carry permits. Courts this week in fact, DC specifically, threw out the concealed carry ban as a result of multiple constitutional losses. As to why I "need" weapons in my home? First off, none of you f'n business. But I will say, some people ...more have professions other than IT and garbage man and you should not judge the world only through your peep hole. D. C. will not appeal concealed carry gun ruling to Supreme Court By Ann E. Marimow and Peter Jamison October 5 at 5:29 PM No matter what you think, or believe or what lobbyists and lawyers have wet dreamt up, the weapons in question are designed to maximize damage and kill in as short a time as possible. Those who wrote the 2nd Amendment would never have allowed them outside of a regulated and inventoried in a militia stockpile. What would James Madison say? By Mr. Z (11847), North Sea on Oct 6, 17 10:38 AM Z, you know this how? Pure speculative poppycock. My guess is you would never have been a founding father. Probably a loyalist. England will take care of us. Speculative in no way at all. Weapons for war were regulated, inventoried, and monitored by the state. This is historical fact. States did not tolerate concealed weapons. Even Kentucky set a precedent regarding it in 1850. The main difference now is you've got fancier lawyers and more people who apparently don't mind mass murder as long as it doesn't happen to them or their family. I'm sure all the victims of mass murder will find comfort in knowing that your alleged constitutional ...more right to own a semi-automatic or automatic weapon, freely uncatalogued and unregulated ammunition, was not infringed upon as a comfort. 1850? Really? Weapons are still monitored by the state. You do realize that most crimes occur with illegal weapons? You want to get in the head of people alive over 150 years ago and not call it speculation? My right to own firearms is not alleged. Lastly. I have no right to own an automatic weapon. I know you are not willfully ignorant so perhaps you just ignore the facts to suit your argument in this case. Well, I don't believe you have the right to own semi-automatic weapons either. If you want one, join the military. From the Sydney Morning Herald: "It is incomprehensible to us that a country so proud and great can allow itself to be savaged again and again by its own citizens. We cannot understand how the long years of senseless murder, the Sandy Hooks and Orlandos and Columbines, have not proved to Americans that the gun is not a precious symbol of freedom, but a deadly cancer on their society. We point over and over to our own success with gun control in the wake of the Port Arthur ...more massacre, that Australia has not seen a mass shooting since, and that we are still a free and open society. We have not bought our security at the price of liberty; we have instead consented to a social contract that states lives are precious, and not to be ended by lone madmen. But it is a message that means nothing to those whose ideology is impervious to evidence." I long for the day when mass murders of all persuasion and size horse (high in this case) used other methods to carry out their deranged acts. Ahhh... the good old days. "Eight brothers and sisters aged from 18-months to 15 years old have been found stabbed to death in a house in Australia, prompting the nation’s leader Tony Abbott to lament that “these are trying days for our country”". 12/19/14 Telegraph: Pointing out this anomaly as a case for reinstating liberal gun laws in a country that's been mass murder-free by gunshot since 1996, are you? Of course not, merely acknowledging the problem exists with other instruments in other countries. Acknowledging the common factor is human, are you? When there's a bombing we blame the bomber. When there's a drink driver, we blame the driver. When there is mass murder by knife, we blame the stabber. Why when there is a shooting, do we blame the gun? Still waiting to hear a solution that would make a difference from the same crowd that think police are oppressive and thinks a symbol of patriotism an love of country and sacrifice ins't worth standing for. I think the only legislative tools with a possibility of decreasing future deaths AND passing congress (in keeping with the constitutional ban on sawed off shotguns) are regulations targeted at technology that maximizes a weapon's capacity for destruction beyond a reasonable amount. The bump stock ban being debated would be one example, but frankly my opinion is that it's too little too late. Record-breaking mass shootings every year are normal and will continue to be until there ...more is a tragedy that can't be ignored. You do realize you only need a pair of pants to create the same thing a bump stock can do, right? Then what? Confiscation? Talk about a slippery slope in the land of the free and home of the brave. How simple bump stocks are to manufacture go to my point of "too little too late." Perhaps we can knock down a couple of body counts here and there by restricting high-capacity magazines, or bump stocks, or armor piercing rounds, but I predict we'll continue to see mass murder in record-breaking numbers regardless of what regulations we manage to promulgate, merely by virtue of how many arms are out in the wild already, and the inevitability of their firepower coming into unstable hands. God ...more bless America. You're missing the point. Ban bump stocks to your hearts content, you don't need the part to get the same end result of rapid fire. All you need is a pair of pants, literally, for example. The physical act of producing a product is the byproduct of human mental ingenuity, plain and simple. In other words, give me an altered firearm and in minutes I'll have removed the altered part and give you the same result as had the altered part still been on the gun. The point: people will figure out a way ...more and deranged people will act on it, no matter what. If it's not guns, it will be some other means. I get what you're saying, but my point toward such regulations is that, no matter how ingenuous, an amateur hotfix will be less efficient, which would be the point of hardware restrictions: to reduce the amount of damage a mass murderer can commit, not to prevent it from happening at all. We are stuck with mass murder for the foreseeable future, so we might as well live our lives accordingly. "which would be the point of hardware restrictions: to reduce the amount of damage a mass murderer can commit, not to prevent it from happening at all." I don't think you're getting the point at all. You can restrict hardware add-ons all day long. The capacity to bump fire exits even without the hardware devices, with just as much efficiency. If the lunatic didn't have BF devices, what occurred could still still take place. The discussion for gun control ended after Sandy Hook, when it became bearable for America to have murdered children. Sick! It is sick, yet you think it's okay that nothing should change. LOL, incorrect. I would hope the decay of society would most definitely change whether it be carnage in Chicago or in Las Vegas. But are you hopeful that it will in the face of inaction? I know I'm not. The decay of society and legislative action for the sake of action are two different things entirely. The latter will have little impact no matter what is passed. The lunatic fringe will always find a way and the law abiding majority will pay the price. You wrote: "The latter will have little impact no matter what is passed." It's undeniable that tough laws in other countries has been wildly successful in reducing gun fatalities as far as statistics go. While I hope alongside you for a change in the "decay of society", or more specifically a decrease in mass murder, I am resigned to accept the futility in promoting legislation destined to fail despite its merits. Evidence-driven legislation should be at the forefront ...more of policy discussions, but it regularly takes a backseat in this context to the emotive tradition of firearms in the U.S. Instead, we must accept that mass shootings and needless deaths are the price we've chosen to pay for the joy of sending rounds downrange with hot steel. You can not legislate crazy. Mass murder continues even in Australia. Sure, if you can even ban soda, but no one except diabetics will be drinking it. Evidence-driven legislation will show both sides and it will be debated a million ways to Sunday. Gun homicides have declined over the past couple decades. Like it or not the Second Amendment remains and that's not emotive, it's constitutional and there are probably over 300 million guns include over 60 million AR style semi-automatic. ...more Instead, we must focus on core societal values while improving safeguards to the degree constitutionally able, but understand that needless deaths are the price we pay for living in a free society and no degree of legislation will ever eliminate that. "Safeguards to the degree constitutionally able" are all we ask for. Two centuries of jurisprudence have shown that hardware legislation is enforceable, most notably in terms of the US v. Miller decision which says sawed off shotguns are not protected by the 2nd amendment. Perhaps one day well will collectively find that such legislation is also a prudent part of the conversation, probably as the result of an unimaginable tragedy, or one that disproportionately affects those with the power ...more to effect change. I wouldn't support the repeal of the second amendment, but I would also not blindly defend it from reasonable regulation. Oct 6, 17 11:48 AM appended by Fore1gnBornHBgrown Also, what does a "focus on core societal values" look like? The best I can imagine is a high school gun safety class being taught alongside economics and government, which I'd be in favor of. It would change by what? prayer? Don't hurt yourself, just sit on the sidelines spouting, I can have all the guns and ammo I want. Save your prayers the next time it happens. Fore, you're citing a case that is complicated and BOTH sides reference it as a win. The gun in question, a sawed off shotgun, had not been shown to be "ordinary military equipment" that could "contribute to the common defense. In reality, shotguns WERE used during WWI with 30,000 and 40,000 short-barreled pump-action shotguns were purchased by the US Ordnance Department and saw service in the trenches and for guarding German prisoners. Whether the SCOTUS were aware of that or even considered it, ...more who knows. According to the case, gun rights advocates would say since AR style weapons are defined by some as "military style" (right Z) it supports the second amendment constitutional rights and interpret it to state that ownership of weapons for efficiency or preservation of a well-regulated militia unit of the present day is specifically protected. And round and round we go. The decay in society and "focus on core societal values" looks like what we don't see in many inner cities . You can walk it back from there. Far FAR more gun deaths occur through other means than outlier events. Mets fan, go home. You're fired. I'm merely pointing out that constitutional regulations do exist, and by refusing to pursue legislative options we are collectively acquiescing to the status quo. The lack of specificity in your plan to strengthen "core societal values" doesn't inspire confidence either. Why should it change Mets Fan? Why should law abiding citizens have their rights infringed upon because of the crazy in some? There is no law, or lack thereof, or organization that is responsible for this man's mental illness. Liberals think you can protect everyone from everything regardless of whose rights get trampled. If that is the case we should make the internet illegal to protect me from having to be subjected to stupidity. Thank you dnice! That's the blasé admission I've been looking for: "mass murder is normal, get over it." I would suggest the core values of the shining example of Australia and the US are much different and it's been years in the making getting to the decay of society we have. Decay rght down to BLM, kneeling during the anthem. general respect let alone respect for authority, the sanctity of life, and so on. Still waiting for some specifics on how to stop the "po" decay of society. Sit at home, perfectly content with the status quo. More mass murders, so what, as long as everybody has as much guns and ammo as they like. You weren't outraged enough after Sandy Hook, certainly this isn't enough to move you. Despicable people. Save your reality show lingo for your incompetent, classless, bright shade of orange, drama queen president. Don't put words in my mouth. I never wrote not intimated that mass murder was normal. Oct 6, 17 7:55 PM appended by dnice It is self inflicted, the stupidity. Get off the computer, feel content that changing nothing is the way to go. Lost fifty-eight, ho-hum. Next! Dnice: when you wrote "why should it change?" what did the "it" refer to? I assumed you meant the status quo, which is record-breaking mass shootings on a regular basis. You know what happens when you assume. Well let me ask it this way: what did you think "it" was when you responded to Mets Fan? Gold star if you don't ignore the question this time. What is this, child psychology? Not interested in trap questions. You know what you can do with your gold star? It's not really a tough question. In the context of Mets Fan's comment, "it" referred to the status quo of mass murder on a regular basis. In your response, it sounded like you felt that didn't need to change. Feel free to clear any of this up for me because I'm confused as to what you meant, or why you're getting so defensive. Homicides by firearm per million people: Germany 1.9 Austria 2.2 Denmark 2.7 Netherlands 3.3 Sweden 4.1 Finland 4.5 Ireland 4.8 Canada 5.1 Luxembourg 6.2 Belgium 6.8 Switzerland 7.2 United States 29.7 * Any *n questions? Or put another way: Number of years to record same number of gun fatalities as US records in one year: UK 204 Hong Kong 16,500 On the bright side, we're NUMBER ONE at something. You sure are number one at being irrational after a national tragedy. I bet you both were kneeling when you typed that. El Salvador has the highest murder rate at 108 per thousand. And? And so there it is! It will not end until the second amendment is repealed and all guns are confiscated and banned. We've gone from meaningful addressing the evil that occurred in LV to banning all guns. it's the Leftist ultimate goal ideologuely driven by the same people who demonize the police and don't mind if Iran gets ICBMs. among so many other things. And Salvadorans are denied amnesty. Others are deported and sent to their death like Giovanni Miranda. Makes one scratch their head... Ahh, the trolls have made their way from under the bridges... The public is not being told the truth about what really went down in Las Vegas. As you will see below Mr Z, the evidence is mounting that there were multiple shooters and that this was an operation that was planned well in advance. But according to the mainstream media, a 64-year-old retired accountant with a flabby physique that had no military training whatsoever and that wasn’t very experienced with guns was able to pull the whole thing off all by himself. We are being told ...more that Paddock was a “lone wolf” that didn’t have any ties to terror groups, and since he is now dead nobody is ever going to be able to interrogate him. But the American people definitely deserve some answers about what took place, and that means that all of us should keep digging. The following are 16 unanswered questions about the Las Vegas shooting that the mainstream media does not want to talk about… #1 Photos of Stephen Paddock’s hotel room have been leaked, and one of those photos appears to show a suicide note. Why hasn’t the public been told what is in that note? #2 Were there additional shooters? A taxi driver reportedly captured video of an automatic weapon being fired out of a lower level window. A video from another angle and brief footage captured by Dan Bilzerian also seem to confirm that automatic gunfire was coming from a floor much lower than the 32nd floor room that Stephen Paddock was located on. And if you weren’t convinced by the first three videos, this fourth video should definitely do it. #3 Why were law enforcement authorities discussing “another suspect on the fourth floor”, and why isn’t the mainstream media talking about this? #4 As Jon Rappoport has pointed out, it would have been impossible for Stephen Paddock to kill and wound 573 people in less than five minutes of shooting with the kinds of weapons that he is alleged to have used. So why won’t law enforcement authorities acknowledge this fact? #5 How in the world did Paddock get 42 guns and “several thousand rounds of ammo” into his hotel room without anyone noticing? #6 How did someone with “no military background” and that wasn’t a “gun guy at all” operate such advanced weapons? Because what we are being told by the mainstream media just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. I really like how Natural News made this point… Far from what the firearms-illiterate media claims, these are not systems that any Joe off the street can just pick up and use to effortlessly mow down 500 people. Running these systems requires extensive training, experience and stamina. It is physically impossible for a guy like Stephen Paddock to operate such a system in the sustained, effective manner that we witnessed, especially when shooting from an elevated position which throws off all the ranging of the weapon system. Far from being a Navy Seal, Stephen Paddock is a retired accountant senior citizen with a gambling problem and a flabby physique. The only way he could have carried out this shooting is if he were transformed into a human superweapon through a magic wand. I’m calling this “Mission IMPOSSIBLE” because of the physical impossibility of a retired, untrained senior citizen pulling this off. #7 Why was one woman telling people in the crowd that they were all going to die 45 minutes before the attack? #8 Why did it take law enforcement authorities 72 minutes to get into Stephen Paddock’s hotel room? #9 Why did Paddock wire $100,000 to the Philippines last week? #10 Why was Paddock’s girlfriend, Marilou Danley, in the Philippines when the attack took place? Did she know what was about to happen? #11 Was Paddock on antidepressants like so many other mass killers in the past have been? #12 Why was ISIS so eager to take responsibility for this attack, and why was the FBI so quick to dismiss that connection? #13 Apparently Paddock had earned millions of dollars “through real estate deals”. If he was so wealthy, why would he all of a sudden snap like that? #14 Why did he move so frequently? It is being reported that Paddock had 27 different residences during his adult life. #15 Why were nearly all of the exits out of the concert venue completely blocked?… In essence, the concert trapped the people, preventing them from escaping, and denying them the ability to seek cover. From there, sustained, full-auto gunfire is almost impossible to survive. From Fox News, a caller named Russell Bleck, who survived the shooting, said live on air, “There were ten-foot walls blocking us in. We couldn’t escape. It was just a massacre. We had nowhere to go.” #16 Why was a country music festival chosen as the target? Was the goal to kill as many Trump supporters and other conservatives as possible? And is there evidence that Stephen Paddock was connected to Antifa in any way? At first I thought that this was a fairly straightforward story too, but the more I have dug into it the more complex things have become. Personally, I have come to the conclusion that Stephen Paddock definitely did not act alone. That means that the others involved in the shooting are still out there, and they must be brought to justice. Yes, I do believe that Stephen Paddock was involved. But he did not act alone, and the mainstream media is doing the public a great disservice by ignoring all of the evidence that this was not just a “lone wolf” operation. By 27dan (2854), Shinnecock Hills on Oct 6, 17 12:42 AM Someone's never heard of Occam's razor. The only part of this conspiracy theory that I'm going to touch is the one about rate-of-fire: bump stocks make it possible to fire much faster than a semi-automatic rifle would usually allow. The shooter was able to hurt hundreds of people by having the capacity to send hundreds of rounds downrange in a matter of seconds and keeping several loaded rifles on hand. Now a question for you, Dan: if there were more shooters, why do we only hear ...more one rifle firing at a time? Because irrationality, fear, and paranoia make one more likely to believe conspiracy theories. Also, plain stupidity listening to right wing radio nutjobs doesn't help either. Ask any qualified mental health professional. Waterboard the wife and the brother until they sing. They are both lying. Oct 6, 17 7:25 AM appended by SlimeAlive Trump has never taken a DIME from the NRA. Now if you can explain your need to defend the girlfriend and the brother of the worst mass murderer in US history that would be great. Remember when Slimy was caught lying about NRA contributions to Trump further up? Who would believe him if he was calling someone else a liar, specially with such scant evidence? To your append: The information is all public and anyone who is unsure can quickly confirm that the NRA did, in fact, give money directly to Trump's campaign, and poured millions into Pro-Trump Super Pacs. To your second point: I don't need to defend anyone, that's what their attorneys and constitutional rights are for (for example, due process, which stands in the way of your torture fantasy). I just enjoy pointing our your slimy lies. John Podesta, Bill Clinton, Jeff Epstein and Anthony Weiner have all rallied around the Democratic kingpin, East Hampton's own Harvey Weinstein. Way to go, Donny Boy: > September job LOSSES; wage disparity persists. > Saudi Arabia has signed preliminary agreements to buy S-400 air defence systems from Russia, officials said, on the sidelines of King Salman's "landmark" visit to Moscow. Along with the S-400 anti-aircraft missiles, Saudi Arabia is also set to buy Kornet anti-tank guided missile systems and multiple rocket launchers under the deal. King Salman led a delegation to Moscow that ...more also agreed on joint investment deals worth several billion dollars, providing a much-needed financial boost for a Russian economy battered by low oil prices and Western sanctions. wage disparity persists? hurricanes impact jobs an unreferenced cut and past job about saudia arabia do you have any idea how profoundly that post reeks of desperation? By even flow (1023), East Hampton on Oct 6, 17 12:59 PM It's probably unfair to fault Trump for the September job losses. At most, you can say he failed to weather the storms as his predecessor did. That's one possibility that Trump didn't weather the storms as well, or it could have been the one and only time special BLS estimation procedures used in the aftermath of Katrina and other storms - the last active season - to normalize the data to give that impression, now could it? Last active season was Katrina? Aren't you from Southampton? Where were you for Irene and Sandy? Wow someone has an awful lot invested in seeing there country and president fail. Tell us how you really feel Junezy Watching the decline of NFL ratings is now more interesting to me than following the NFL conference standings.The NFL is hemorrhaging viewers of all races and ages at a frightening pace.With the NFL’s Week 4 in the rear-view mirror, a review of TV ratings through the league’s first month show that the NFL has lost millions of viewers .The best part of it is they seem so supprized to find out that we aint fair weathered fans nor sunshine patriots... we are winter soldiers and I'm heartened to say winter soldiers from ALL DEMOGRAPHICS who love their country and their brother and sister citizens more than cheap entertainment. RIP NFL MAGA ! The NFL lost me long time ago with the thuggish behavior.I'm proud of all those who care more about their country, flag, national anthem, the military & our wonderful cops than they do about a bunch of thugs. And, I'm a guy who paid for 4 Season tickets for many years, and a guy who played 8 years of football. Now, I see the NFL as much of an un-American thing as I see La Raza or Black Lives Matter or Antifa. you guys are amazing americans thank you for standing up for what is right and making the nfl pay a price for there behavior. and by the way us girls don't mind having you around on the weekends a little more ~ wink ~ Oct 6, 17 5:21 PM appended by Erin 27 E Americans Are Pouring Back Into the Workforce, Jobs Data Show By Jeanna Smialek October 6, 2017, 11:35 AM EDT Last month saw a surge in people jumping straight to jobs Fewer people are going from out of labor force to unemployment Looks like the slackers and takers are finally getting the message ! What are talking about, lost 33,000 jobs. First job loss since 2010. What planet are you from? Source: NY Times 10/6/17 "Staggering from the impact of hurricanes that walloped Texas, Florida and neighboring states, the economy lost 33,000 jobs in September, the first monthly decline in employment in seven years, the government reported on Friday. The kneeling was protesting police brutality. You made it about disrespecting the flag. That is how racism works. 8 years of football? Good luck to you. Meantime, we'll keep that in mind. June - I don't think you can blame DJ for job loses due to a hurricane. By bird (829), Sag Harbor on Oct 6, 17 6:45 PM precedent trump is doing just fine, thank you for your concern. "president" sorry long day "The kneeling was protesting police brutality. You made it about disrespecting the flag." Um, seems it was for a country and the flag it represents. "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color." Wage disparity JuneZ? Tsk tsk , your inner Mr Z is showing! There's nothing wrong with "wage disparity " in fact it should be a motivating factor in the workplace, but of course a socialist such as yourself will disagree joe hampton, Undocumented Democrat, They call me, pw herman FYI, the kind of wage disparity that now exists in America is totally antithetical to democracy. We are living in a plutocracy in case you haven't figured that out. plutocracy where have I heard that before ? Mr Z do you remember what other redistributing socialist on this site might have used that phrase? Oct 6, 17 8:02 PM appended by Undocumented Democrat Draining the swamp has to start within his own administration before it can be drained in the rest of the DC cesspool. Trump is learning. I have confidence he will make a lot of progress in 2018. President Trump gave the establishment the benefit of the doubt and a chance to get on the MAGA train for the first 8 months of his Presidency. He proved you can't teach old RINOS new tricks. Mike Pompeo is a patriot and would be awsome as Secretary of State he could repair the State Dept. ‘subverted’ under Obama Wherein he reveals he doesn't know the difference between a word and phrase. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt. Mueller talking to Christopher Steele. 80% of dossier already validated. Tick tock tick tock. Easy mommy Zebra, we will find somone to fix your clock so you can get the rest you clearly need. June Bug, how many times can you post the same tired quotes? As many times as it's applicable? Boring though don't you think? Trump is outperforming his predecessor, Barack Obama. And, Tillerson is outperforming his predecessors Hillary and John Kerry. Trump has strengths that Tillerson doesn't have. Tillerson has strengths that Trump doesn't have. Both gentlemen appear to have a bias toward solving problems rather than applying bandaids. Things are looking up. On what planet are you talking about? He's on his way to being by far, the worst president in history. Except for the 25% that is his demented and delusional base. Notice how he said "outperformed" without reference to any measurable metrics. I actually noticed how he said Trump was going to be the worst president in history without references to any measurable metrics. Mets actually pointed to the first month of job losses in seven years; that's what this conversation is about, please keep up. Different career choices equate to differences in compensation, hence the liberal boogeyman of "wage disparity ". JuneZ, do you really feel that all Americans should be paid the same wage?! A business owner who has invested their own money and time to start a company is certainly entitled to much higher compensation than his employees, agreed ? An employees' compensation in a senior management position should be significantly higher than a recent hire, agreed? That recent hire should be paid more ...more than a new hire in maintenance, agreed? Make yourself worth more to the company and your wages go up .See , it's not that hard a concept to grasp. When people talk about wage disparity, it's in the context of other problems such as rising cost of living, inflation, and stagnant wages. Wage disparity is not bad in and of itself, but when the middle class begins to sink into poverty because their income is not keeping up with their expenses...well, that's a problem for everyone in a consumer-driven economy. There is no such thing as the middle class and you cannot define it. Disparity, including as it relates to wages, exists in every aspect of nature. There is no such thing as fairness either. God didn't create it and it exists nowhere in nature. If your spending is greater than your earning, the answer is simple. Spend less or earn more - but that is a personal problem. Lol, coincidentally we've come to the collective conclusion that, sometimes, we lose income through no fault of our own. That's why things like unemployment and disability exist. An economy requires consumers and will crumble without their patronage, isn't that the point of BLM's boycott of the NFL? If people don't make disposable income they are not buying goods. If people aren't buying goods businesses are suffering. If you businesses are suffering, so do their stockholders & ...more employees. Simple, really. Tell that to anyone who came of age post World War II, America's golden age, when government policies produced the middle class which resulted in the creation of the richest, most powerful nation on earth. Only banana republics are devoid of a middle class, and it's the safety net that protects democracy. One that we're barely holding on to now that billionaires are buying our politicians and writing our laws. After all, isn't it those who feel left behind whom trump has been ...more able to exploit? Who is surprized by the bombshell report on Harvey Weinstein from the New York Times. No one because for the left its just pre factored in to the equation The way O'Reilly and Ailes and trump are? I wouldn't gloat if I were you. There's a dossier ripening in the vault. Now that his film career is over, his only option is to become a presidential candidate. The current denizen of the Oval Office made it with the identical credentials. The Rules Are Different for the Rich A recent crop of stories show how the wealthy avoid facing consequences for bad actions. Harry Cheadle Oct 6 2017, 2:00pm What do Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., Harvey Weinstein, and the fine people of JPMorgan Chase have in common? None of them are in prison, nor have they been charged with a crime. That's not because they haven't done things that seem to be potentially criminal—it's because in America, it's better to ...more be rich than innocent. According to an investigation from the New Yorker, ProPublica, and WNYC, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. lied to potential buyers of condos in one of the Trump Organization's properties, only escaping prosecution after their dad's lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, intervened with Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance, to whom he had donated $25,000. (Vance returned that donation before meeting with Kasowitz, but then Kasowitz raised another $50,000 for Vance, which the DA now plans to return as well.) On Thursday, one day after that report dropped, the New York Times published an article detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who both apologized for his behavior and threatened to sue the paper for revealing it. Weinstein has never been charged with a crime—though in a sort of small-world coincidence, his lawyer reportedly donated $10,000 to Vance after the DA declined to bring charges relating to the producer allegedly groping a model in 2015. The Weinstein bombshell came just hours after VICE contributor David Dayen published an exposé at the Nation about how JPMorgan Chase paid off a massive fine incurred for shady business practices in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis in part by forgiving mortgages it doesn't seem to have actually owned, apparently deceiving not just the government but homeowners and investors in the process. That wealth protects people who might otherwise be called "criminals" from consequences shouldn't be a controversial idea but a simple statement of fact. Thanks to America's perverse cash bail system, money can literally get you out of jail in most cases. Beyond that, the rich can afford high-priced defense lawyers where the poor have to rely on public defenders—in Louisiana, indigent defendants are lucky if they even get that. But a week's worth of stories about the alleged misdeeds of the powerful shows the subtler ways money acts as a shield. The Trump kids (who were both in their 20s at the time they were reportedly misleading would-be customers) didn't need to bribe anyone. It was enough that their dad's lawyer could get a meeting with Manhattan's top prosecutor. Weinstein's behavior—an open secret in his industry for years—was never reported on in part because, like other powerful people, he was able to pay settlements to accusers in order to keep them silent. And as JPMorgan Chase's example shows, it's not enough for the government to demand that a powerful corporation do something—it has to monitor them carefully, or they'll simply go back to the same bad practices, even kicking sand in the taxpayers' eye for good measure. It seems impossible to imagine any reform that would level the playing field when it comes to the ability of the rich to escape consequences in the United States. The federal government could try to abolish the cash bail system and work to make sure all defendants had proper representation regardless of income—but wealthy people would always afford better lawyers, and always have the social status that serves as an invisible protective coating. Prosecutors are always going to tread more carefully when going after a Trump than a low-level drug dealer or mugger. By a similar token, banks—even obviously crooked ones—never face the same level of scrutiny as your everyday scammer. On the other hand, it doesn't take formal changes to the law to bring justice to America's rich and heinous—it just takes prosecutors willing to target them. In his book The Chickenshit Club, journalist Jesse Eisinger documented how the US Justice Department has moved away from prosecuting corporate criminals; instead of jail time for misdeeds, executives like JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon face fines and a few days of bad press, at most. Would it really be shocking if his employees felt empowered to engage in fraudulent practices so soon after being fined for almost the exact same sort of wrongdoing? The Trump administration, it goes without saying, is not interested in fixing any of this stuff. Donald Trump himself sent $25,000 (through his charity) to Florida district attorney Pam Bondi while she was in a position to level charges against Trump University, which took thousands in tuition from students and offered little in return. He ended up paying out $25 million in a settlement to end a civil suit against his university, and he's still facing a lawsuit from one of the many women who have accused him of sexual harassment. The same cocoon that shelters bankers from prison also shelters the president (Trump also enjoys the special perk of presidential immunity in many cases). Investigative journalism may allow us to see that cocoon more clearly, but it doesn't seem capable of shattering it. To be rich is not what you have in your bank account but what you have in your heart. Exploit? 30+ years of bad management has resulted in Washington producing a large enough population of "those who feel left behind" to elect someone who sees their pain. DRAIN THE SWAMP 7 MAGA!!!!!!!!!! By Taz (725), East Quogue on Oct 7, 17 1:43 PM The irony here is that folks "who feel left behind" have existed much longer than 30 years. A sociopath cannot feel the pain of others. A sociopath cannot even see it. Ask about the pain of Gold Star parents who were mocked and reviled by a future president. Ask those in Flint, MI who three plus years later still have no potable water how he "sees their pain". Ask how someone who playfully throws paper towels at suffering people sees that suffering. Ask the woman whose hard-won reproductive rights he gleefully took away. Ask the woman who depends on birth control medication for ...more painful conditions like endometriosis, e.g., who must now pay for it out of pocket all the while Viagra is covered. As for that swamp, until your idol is removed from office, there will be no draining. He is the swamp. What is wrong with you that you defend this sick, unfit, and dangerous man who to date has accomplished nothing but sign off on policies that produce pain, is using the office to enrich himself and his already-rich appointees, and is now acting the controlling abuser with his cryptic statements threatening nuclear war. Khan was a wisea partisan SOB opertunist who made me sick... figures you loved him Left behind with section 8 housing, free medical insurance, free collage, free food, $800 cell phones, fancy rims, $325 sneakers, air conditioning, 70 inch televisions and game systems. By Ditch Bum (929), Water Mill on Oct 8, 17 11:00 AM Bum and joe h: You really don't need to keep putting a spotlight on it. We got it months ago. Oh, and that's what makes true Christians sick. Hey Bum: Until you have a problem with putting $137,000 to date directly into the pocket of the Grifter-in-Chief just for golf cart rentals for the Secret Service, you need to STFU. So, you're saying the President shouldn't receive Secret Service Protection? Obama is estimated to have cost tax payers $20,000 per hole. So what's your point other than seething hatred? Is there no limit to your disgusting defense of this fraudulent thief? You enjoy being ripped the hell off? Have you no understanding of the Constitutional and ethics violations rampant in this administration? For you to mention President Obama-- into whose pocket went not a single cent of the cost to protect him--in the light of this outrageousness is also beyond the pale. At $20MM in his first 80 days in office, trump was on pace to SURPASS 8 ENTIRE YEARS of Obama's spending which came ...more to $97MM. As of this past July, it has cost us $6.6 MM to protect Mar-A-Lago alone. And as of yesterday's 89th outing to one of his properties, trump has now spent 25% of his presidency on a golf course. What on earth would have been the response from you cultists if this was being perpetrated by anyone else? My God, even the government ethics head resigned in protest. What I'm saying is the President is entitle to Secret Service protection and this is nothing new. By law, Presidents are prohibited from paying for their own protection. "For you to mention President Obama-- into whose pocket went not a single cent of the cost to protect him' To that I say, WTF are you talking about? BTW: The government ethics head had an appealing offer in hand from a nonpartisan advocacy group, and he said "the time was right to leave." He was an Obama politically appointee. Of course a president is entitled to SS protection. But never has a president refused to divest his businesses that would benefit from taxpayer money in the course of that protection, or refused to eliminate his conflicts of interest, openly violated all ethics rules, or refused to show his tax returns. Oh, and please do tell us how President Obama profited from SS protection? And the ethics head? The one with a more-than-sterling reputation? He left precisely because ethics enforcement ...more is impossible with a trump-complicit congress and Attorney General. Take a listen to Richard Painter, ethics head during the Bush Administrations. He'll set you straight. your inability to get over the FACT that the Democrat Party lost the presidency to a political outsider, thank God, has rendered you incapable of rational thought in regards to said President. GET OVER IT!! An "outsider" is entitled to behave as an outlaw? I see. Oh, and btw, trump didn't win. Hate won. Fear won. Racism won. Misogyny won. Homophobia won. Prejudice won. Indecency won. Stupidity won. Self interest won. "Of course a president is entitled to SS protection." Hard stop! Everything after that is pure emotional conjecture. Everything in your above post, is damn near a melt down!! Poor snowflakes. Gonna be a long eight years. widow gavits When you learn the difference between conjecture and fact, then we can talk. Outlaw? Racist? Homophobe? Misogynist? You have just proven my point. Incapable of rational thought when dealing with President Trump. Absolutely hilarious JuneZ, tanks for the chuckle. Do you know how to read people? If you honestly know how to ascertain body language, facial expressions, and vocal inflection you'd know he's afraid he's in well over his head. The fear is quite well founded... President Trump is doing an excellent job of trying to keep his promises ! It is up to us to vote out the bums in our own party who want to keep the system the way it is ( CORRUPT ) so they can continue to get rich off the backs of us business people. Vote them out in 2018 and help Our President Make America Grate Again ! Frank Wheeler, joe hampton, 27dan, They call me, Erin 27 E , widow gavits, Taz, pw herman, Ditch Bum Half Empty Stadiums Today! NFL Ticket Sales Fall Off A Cliff… KAEPERNICK CAVES: I'LL STAND IF SIGNED! To late ingreat! Get a job at Wendys you bum! Vice President Mike Pence leaves Colts-49ers game after players kneel during anthem. They've burned down their own house, let them suffer the consequences. BASEBALL / NASCAR / HOCKEY / GOLF We will survive without the NFL! Pence works for trump who urinates on the flag and the constitution every day. Today he played trump's poodle in a pre-meditated stunt, and now we learn the photo Pence used in his huffy Tweet was taken at a 2014 Colts game. How could it be otherwise when the press pool was told to stay in the van "in case Pence leaves early"? Like they don't know there'd be kneeling at a 49ers game? They lie, they steal, they dangle bait for their six-toed sycophants and you fall for their shameless ...more skata. And another thing---that disingenuous SOB who, like Dear Leader, never served a day in the armed forces either doesn't realize , or conveniently forgets, that soldiers--including his own father--fought to defend the Bill of Rights including the freedom to "disrespect" the flag. Disgusting. Mr. Z,VOS Speaking of publicity stunts and urinating on the flag, if I were an owner I wouldn't touch Kaepernick. I think when things got tough for him he'd throw another tantrum and up the stakes somehow, drawing more attention to himself and away from the league. Again JuneZ, your inability to hold a rational conversation regarding President Trump is just pitiful. The liberals were soundly defeated , DEAL WITH IT. No sane person looks to cultists for "rational conversation" when their limited abilities match that of their idol which is to insult and to parrot a laughable slogan. Just can't stop lying, or being suckered by liars can you? You'd love the song by Henry Rollins. Ticket sales have been unaffected. Ask most any ticket broker. The stupid just burns. Not only have fans not stopped going to games, but they're watching on TV more than they did last year. Despite Trump's claim that TV ratings are down, the overall figures for the past two weeks say the opposite. Week 3 ratings were up 3% across all games from 2016, including a spike of 63% in the rating for Monday Night Football,the league announced last week. Overall, viewership for Monday Night Football is averaging 11.9 million through the first four weeks, a 5% increase from last year. Even alleged "winners" can be a bunch of losers. Case in point: CORRECTION: CBS reporter clarifies on saying Kaepernick would stand for anthem, says they didn't discuss issue. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ~ Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill Pence proves himself to be without shame. What a pathetic PR stunt. I love it when the Left gets beat at their own game. PR stunt or not, he's entitled to express his opinion too.... you know. I guess only over payed disrespecting prima donna NFL players and the like can express their opinion. I salute you Mr. Vice President!! Pence the Poodle is not entitled to spend tax payer money "expressing his opinion". How about the way President Donny the Insult Comic Dog does? Oct 9, 17 11:31 AM appended by June Bug And who's disrespecting the flag if not these jackass dogs exploiting it to sow racial division? "Goodness is not being better than the worst." Sometimes, fighting fire with fire makes you worse than your opponent. Case in point... Donny the Insult Comic Dog ? ? It is so obvious when one person is really two. lol its really a joke at this point. good morning junez By Erin 27 E (1281), hampton bays on Oct 9, 17 11:57 AM Really just one Rather significant proof you cannot accept that a group of people other than those you associate with can express the same feelings, opinions, and ideas. It makes one of quite abject character. Also, assuming June and I are the same person just makes you a fool. If you're smart enough, you could ping some IP addresses and figure it out for yourself. As it stands... Jerry Jones says those who 'disrespect flag' won't play... DOLPHINS required to stand... Oct 9, 17 12:27 AM appended by 27dan I remember the football strike and how much fun it was to watch a bunch of walk-ons play. Fire the entire team if they act this way. Replacements can be found for a lot less coin. xtiego, They call me " Replacements can be found " You are correct . Take the absence of highhatsize to this blog, no one misses him since his last peculiar statement on the site . lol Are outer-space ...more invaders massing on the dark side of the moon in preparation for an invasion? If sick I wish him well if incarcerated not so much. Jay Sears ? could be, HH was the only one speaking out in favor of the pervert. BREAKING NEWS .... Veteran Republican RINO Sen Bob Corker confirmed to the N Y Times that the Republican establishment has been focused on "corralling" President Trump and his agenda. In an interview with Jonathan Martin, Corker said that most Republican senators realized Trump was a threat to the general world order. Hey Bob , that's why we elected him, and why people like you will be primaried out! Oct 9, 17 11:16 AM appended by joe hampton Corker confirming "most Republican senators" are bought and paid for. Elitist boot lickers against freedom. The trip of 1000 miles begins with just one step. Be patient. Trump has weights on both hands and both feet. He then has to swim across a pool of sharks.We the people can see what the establishment and media are trying to do to him and will take further action in the mid terms! God bless the USA and our elected Patriot President Trump ! our president trump will prevail against the deep state and media. don't worry they have been wrong about everything. they have been predicting his fall from day one and he always prevails! More proof that paranoia is the first qualification of being a "right winger". Do you even remotely realize how you're being used? Please do the human race a favor, and evolve. @Mr.Z The obliviousness on the part of the cultists is astounding. Then again, when you are incapable of questioning spoon-fed lies, propaganda and appeals to the lower faculties, and do no serious reading, there can be no leap in awareness or evolution. What follows deals with the very point you make about being used: New York Magazine: 'The Year Of The Sociopathic Baby-Men' Without a doubt, 2017 is shaping up to be a year showcasing the worst specimens ...more of the male species ever produced in the American Experiment. From Donald Trump to Bill Cosby to Richard Spencer to Stephen Paddock and now, Harvey Weinstein, the American public has grown accustomed this year to the spectacle of grown men, many of them rich and powerful, behaving in foul ways that can only be termed pathological. For some of them, such as Paddock, the origins of their defective psychologies remain murky, their motives opaque. For others, like the neo-Nazi Spencer or the race-baiting GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore (the newest entrant to the year’s sociopathic sweepstakes) racism is the primary trigger. For still others, like Trump, Cosby and Weinstein, their behavior today is the natural culmination of decades of leveraging their wealth and power to gain whatever they wanted, most tellingly manifesting itself in the blatant abuse and sexual harassment of women who are reduced to collateral damage in their wake. Heather Havrilesky, writing for New York Magazine, has a name for this phenomenon we’re witnessing: “The Year of the Sociopathic Baby-Men”: [I]t feels like we’re cursed by an increasingly grotesque subspecies of this infantile beast at every turn. Does the world even feel real to powerful men, or is it more like playing an exciting video game? How else do two world leaders with nuclear weapons capable of murdering millions of people trade juvenile insults like toddlers battling over a toy? What else makes it seem fun and exciting to break a window in a hotel tower and point one of 43 assault weapons out a window at a crowd below? Are we really going to hold our collective breaths and watch these angry fools determine our fates? How is this reality? The fact that scores of women came forward to attest to instances of being harassed by the current occupant of the Oval Office has faded from our collective memory as we’ve been forced to cope with the real-world consequences of his other personality defects. But he’s now simply the most recognizable face of a growing pattern of men who’ve seemingly decided the rules of basic human decency and respect simply don’t apply, and in fact are meant to be flouted and ignored. They come from different backgrounds and different political persuasions, but one thing is constant—they don’t give a damn about anyone else in this world, and they’re hell bent on demonstrating that fact: Weinstein led Sivan to the kitchen of the restaurant, which was closed at the time. There were two staffers in the kitchen, whom Weinstein excused, leaving him alone with Sivan in a small area just outside the kitchen. Sivan claims Weinstein then attempted to kiss her, at which point she pulled away and told Weinstein she had a boyfriend. Weinstein reportedly answered by saying, "Well, can you just stand there and shut up," then exposed himself, masturbated and quickly ejaculated into a nearby potted plant. He then zipped up his pants and exited through the kitchen. What kind of person does this? This is fucked up behavior under any system of norms that the rest of the modern human race is expected to adhere. It’s the same type of behavior that Trump exhibits when he encourages attacks on journalists, or on immigrants, when he blames Puerto Ricans for their response to a natural disaster, when he viciously attacks Hillary Clinton with a video depicting her getting knocked down, or bawls about “fake news” every the media brings up the subject of his collusion with the Russian government to influence the election that put him into the Office. It’s not normal behavior. What it demonstrates is a bizarre sense of entitlement that deliberately and obnoxiously belittles and insults those of us who expect decent behavior from our fellow citizens, and even moreso from our elected officials. It’s the same sort of disregard that thinks it’s fine to promote a Nazi march made up of pampered white men ginned up with imagined grievances that pale in reality to the brutal experiences of people of color in our society. It’s the same wholesale selfishness that prompts a famous actor-comedian to drug women so he can have sex with them. It’s the same psychosis that allows someone to open fire on innocent people for apparently nothing more than a way to mitigate the pain of self-inflicted gambling debts. And that’s the crux of it—to these people, the Spencers, the Cosbys, the Trumps, the Paddocks—we don’t matter. What we think doesn’t matter: When you really slow down the tape on Weinstein — or Trump, or Cosby, or Stephen Paddock, or Richard Spencer, and make no mistake, you have to work very hard not to draw lines between these men by now — what you see more than anything else is a profound lack of connection to other human beings. It’s not just that women or strangers or people of color or children of immigrants or Muslims don’t rate in their world. It’s that other human beings in general are utterly irrelevant. You are useful and part of the club or you’re cast out like trash. The second you’re not useful, you are waste. Or you were always waste. Your feelings about the matter couldn’t be less relevant. Whether or not their behavior will ruin you or literally end your life and the lives of countless others is utterly insignificant to these people. ... talking to yourself is the first sign your losing a grip on reality By joe hampton (3461), The Hamptons on Oct 11, 17 8:15 AM Lumping President Trump in with the criminals you mentioned is another example of your inability to be rational when mentioning him. Time to GET OVER your failed liberal ideology being soundly rejected JuneZ. You've become quite a boor. joe hampton, xtiego, They call me Uh, last I checked sexual assault is a crime. Have you not seen/heard your idol openly and proudly boast of his? And did you know he's been twice accused of rape? Once by his ex-wife in their divorce proceedings and which she is legally bound under the agreement to never mention again, and once by a (then) 13 year-old? Defrauding the public is a crime. Are you not aware of his court-ordered settlements to the trump University "students" he defrauded? Oh, and the author of the article ...more did the "lumping", and you might want to put a nice dictionary on your list of favorites. What do Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., Harvey Weinstein, and the fine people of JPMorgan Chase have in common? None of them are in prison, nor have they been charged with a crime. That's not because they haven't done things that seem to be potentially criminal—it's because in America, it's better to be rich than innocent. But a week's worth of stories about the alleged misdeeds of the powerful shows the subtler ways money acts as a ...more shield. The Trump kids (who were both in their 20s at the time they were reportedly misleading would-be customers) didn't need to bribe anyone. It was enough that their dad's lawyer could get a meeting with Manhattan's top prosecutor. Weinstein's behavior—an open secret in his industry for years—was never reported on in part because, like other powerful people, he was able to pay settlements to accusers in order to keep them silent. And as JPMorgan Chase's example shows, it's not enough for the government to demand that a powerful corporation do something—it has to monitor them carefully, or they'll simply go back to the same bad practices, even kicking sand in the taxpayers' eye for good measure. Won't take the time to delete the extraneous, but here's a list of 16 women who have come forward to accuse the Groper-in-Chief of sexual assault. God knows how many haven't...... Judd Legum‏Verified account @JuddLegum 4 hours ago 1. When Trump became president, people stopped talking much about the numerous women who alleged he sexually assaulted them. 484 replies 9,697 retweets 14,289 likes Reply 484 Retweet 9.7K Like 14K Direct message Judd Legum‏Verified ...more account @JuddLegum 4h4 hours ago 2. But just because he's president, doesn't make these women unimportant. Seems like a good time to remember each one. 67 replies 2,208 retweets 5,319 likes Reply 67 Retweet 2.2K Like 5.3K Direct message Judd Legum‏Verified account @JuddLegum 4h4 hours ago 3. Ninni Laaksonen, former Miss Finland. “Trump stood right next to me and suddenly he squeezed my butt” in July 2006. 4. Jessica Drake. Said Trump grabbed and kissed her without consent, then offered her 10K for sex in 2006. 5. Karena Virginia. Says she was groped by Trump at the U.S. Open in 1998. 6. Cathy Heller. Says Trump grabbed her and attempted to kiss her at Mar-a-lago in 1997. 7. Summer Zervos. Apprentice contestant says Trump started kissing her and grabbing her breasts, began "thrusting his genitals." 2007. 8. Kristin Anderson. Said Trump reached under her skirt and grabbed her vagina through her underwear in the early 1990s. 9. Jessica Leeds. Said Trump lifted up the armrest, grabbed her breasts and reached his hand up her skirt in the early 1980s. 10. Rachel Crooks. Says she was assaulted by Trump in an elevator in Trump Tower in 2005. 11. Mindy McGillivray. Says Trump groped her while she was attending a concert at Mar-a-lago in 2003. 12. Natasha Stoynoff. Says Trump pushed her against a wall and jammed his tongue down her throat at Mar-a-lago in 2005. 13. Jennifer Murphy. Apprentice contestant says Trump kissed her on the lips after a job interview in 2005. 14. Cassandra Searles. Says Trump grabbed her ass and invited her to his hotel room in 2013. 15. Temple Taggart McDowell. Former Miss Utah says Trump kissed her directly on the lips the first time she met him in 1997. 16. Jill Harth. Says Trump repeatedly sexually harassed her and groped her underneath a table in 1993. 17. That's the end of this list. These are just the women who have come forward publicly. I stand with Prisident Trump, The wall must be built. NAFTA must go. The Iran deal must go. Corporate tax rates must be cut below 20%. The tax code must be thrown out, and rewritten to less than 25 pages. China must be cut off until they stop manipulation of the currency markets. Obamacare needs complete repeal, and no replacement. We must get a balanced budget agreement. Stand with Trump, stand for his policies. If he loses his base we go back to ground ...more zero. He's in deep swamp territory and holding his head above water. Support your man. Sunday night football has sliped again as arogant NFL ratings continue to tank ! NBC’s sunday night football earned 10.6/18 in metered market results, that fall constitutes a 3% drop from last week’s numbers and now Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones seems to be fed up with the disrespectful national anthem protests infesting the NFL. Jones told the media on Sunday, that if his players don’t stand for the anthem, then they won’t play! Stand up for our country! Walk away from the NFL. United we stand. Say no NBA. Say no to record companies propagating rap. No sjw teachers. No thugs in our communities. Secure our border and unite this country. We must fight in any way we can to save our culture and history and future. In big ways and small, united. BOYCOTT ESPN, Facts, the right wing kryptonite: SeatGeek said according to their sales data, they’re seeing a similar number of transactions each week. So the conclusion here is that there either has been no impact from a call for a boycott or there is a number of folks buying tickets because of the publicity the league has been getting. Not only have fans not stopped going to games, but they’re watching on TV more than they did last year. Despite Trump’s claim that TV ratings ...more are down, the overall figures for the past two weeks say the opposite. Week 3 ratings were up 3% across all games from 2016, including a spike of 63% in the rating for Monday Night Football,the league announced last week. Overall, viewership for Monday Night Football is averaging 11.9 million through the first four weeks, a 5% increase from last year. Fox’s NFL coverage for Week 4 drew a 12.6 rating and 26 share, a 14% increase over its Week 4 coverage a year ago. The network broadcast one game nationally on Sunday and the ratings were about 20% better than in the same slot covered by CBS in Week 4 of 2016. NBC’s Sunday Night Football rating was unchanged from last year’s Week 4 game. The Seattle Seahawks’ blowout victory over the Indianapolis Colts resulted in a 11.0 rating and 19 share. CBS was the one network to see a ratings dip for its national game (Oakland Raiders vs. Denver Broncos), which began at 4:25 pm ET. That telecast had a 10.8 rating and an 18 share, a 23% decline when compared to Week 4 in 2016. ~ Courtesy of USAToday "Winning", LOL!! As Oakland-Denver was a late start game, most of the country probably went to bed. Logic is a word which does not exist in right wing vocabulary. Perhaps you've heard of "Occam's Razor"? Dan don't worry the NFL and ESPN are getting there clocks cleaned ! The ESPN reporter who tweeted that D T was a white supremacist has been suspended after a second violation of company social media policy... and all the empty stadium seats everywhere... MAGA ! Have you ever heard of "True Believer's Syndrome"? It's ordinarily symptomatic of those who refuse to believe they've been conned... 'MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL' Ratings Fall To Season Low... NFL Owners to Discuss Policy on Standing for Anthem A league spokesman said the rule change would not require player approval By Matthew Futterman Oct. 10, 2017 12:35 p.m. ET Wall Street Journal The NFL owners will discuss at meetings next week whether to unilaterally change the league policy to require players to stand during the national anthem. Oct 10, 17 1:29 PM appended by 27dan I have gone four weeks without a Anheuser-Busch product By 27dan (2854), Shinnecock Hills on Oct 10, 17 1:29 PM Riiiiiiight. "...last night’s game was up 8% in MM ratings from the last year’s Week 5 matchup between Tampa Bay and Carolina." Perhaps it's moreover related to yesterday being a holiday (week 5 usually falls on Columbus Day weekend) or perhaps you missed the MM rating skyrocketing during the "Star Wars" trailer? Oct 10, 17 10:28 PM appended by Mr. Z Incidentally, yes you do look like fools to anyone capable of logic based reason. By Mr. Z (11847), North Sea on Oct 10, 17 10:28 PM Trump losing his grip on rural America. According to the Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll, the Republican president’s popularity is eroding in small towns and rural communities where 15 percent of the country’s population lives. The poll of more than 15,000 adults in “non-metro” areas shows that they are now as likely to disapprove of Trump as they are to approve of him. In September, 47 percent of people in non-metro areas approved of Trump while 47 percent ...more disapproved. That is down from Trump’s first four weeks in office, when 55 percent said they approved of the president while 39 percent disapproved. The poll found that Trump has lost support in rural areas among men, whites and people who never went to college. He lost support with rural Republicans and rural voters who supported him on Election Day. Speaking of losing your grip....ahhh....never mind. Mr. Z is dreaming keep up the good work, Boycott the NFL!!! Boycott the NF L's Sponsors, boycott Nike, boycott Budweiser! Its working you will see 2 more weeks and they will cave bigly! By Undocumented Democrat (2065), southampton on Oct 10, 17 12:42 AM Jehovah Witnesses don't salute the flag or sing the national anthem. They regard both as a form of worship. Quakers do not recite the pledge of allegiance or serve in the military. The Amish do not display the flag or recite the pledge in their schools. One black man kneels peacefully and all hell breaks loose. Players must not accept any attempt to forbid their freedom of expression at their work, and in a free country no president can dictate workplace rules. By June Bug (2680), SOUTHAMPTON on Oct 10, 17 7:10 PM Its not the president dictating anything! Its the patriotic American fans that don't like what there doing ! We acknowledge it is there right to kneel if there is no NFL rule forbidding it and we choose to boycott until there is rule ! See how simple it all is. By 27dan (2854), Shinnecock Hills on Oct 10, 17 10:04 PM Genuflection is no longer a sign of respect or devotion to the "right wing", despite it has been treated as such since the days of the Persian Empire. If you think a "boycott" is having an effect, you need to put down the Kool Aid. Facts are facts, and Columbus Day falls on Week 5 of the NFL season pretty much every year. This year's game rated higher than last year, and Week 5 is usually a bye week as well. "Don't left facts get in the way of your wet dreams" should be the new ...more "right wing" slogan. P.S. Just for reference, people like myself haven't purchased Anheuser-Busch products or most any other big corporate brew in well over a decade. We support local breweries and and ciderhouses. BTW, Riverhead Ciderhouse is a solid new kid on the block. Interesting NFL Facts: 2011: The N.F.L. experienced a rare, if not unprecedented, religious feud over "the knee" Tim Tebow took. 2013: The NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for people with mental health disorders. 2014: Robert Griffin llI (RG3) entered a post-game press conference wearing a shirt that said "Know Jesus Know Peace" but was forced to turn it inside out by an NFL uniform inspector before speaking ...more at 2015: DeAngelo Williams was fined for wearing "Find the Cure" eye black for breast cancer awareness. 2015: William Gay was fined for wearing purple cleats to raise awareness for domestic violence. (not that the NFL has a domestic violence problem...) 2016: The NFL prevented the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a decal on their helmet in honor of 5 Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty. 2016: The NFL threatened to fine players who wanted to wear cleats to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11. Do tell me again HOW the NFL supports free speech and freedom of expression. What it supports is cop killers. Don't forget when Miami safety Don Jones gots fined, suspended and sent to re-education camp for daring to criticise nasty on screen Michael Sam tongue kiss with boyfriend on Twitter. By Ditch Bum (929), Water Mill on Oct 11, 17 8:20 AM Was there really any criticism of Tim Tebow's kneeling? Didn't it go viral, culminating in everyone "Tebowing"? Would love to see evidence of this criticism, because I don't remember it at the time and am skeptical every time someone brings it up. By Fore1gnBornHBgrown (8265), HAMPTON BAYS on Oct 11, 17 8:30 AM The unfit, lazy, draft-dodging moron has done nothing but dictate to owners what racist fans are demanding. Here's just one: Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump Oct 9 A big salute to Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys, who will BENCH players who disrespect our Flag."Stand for Anthem or sit for game!" His most recent Tweet on the subject demands that Roger Goodell does the same saying "it's about time". And I see Goodell has caved. ...more So please don't tell us the loon isn't dictating. In a free country owners don't follow a president's dictates. And the contrast between the lack of furor when Tim Tebow knelt vs. this outrageousness says it all. A black man will toe the white man's line. Period. By June Bug (2680), SOUTHAMPTON on Oct 11, 17 10:56 AM Jeez JuneZ, more faux outrage, and playing the race card is the last possible , desperate act left for you. AMF By bigfresh (4666), north sea on Oct 12, 17 6:22 AM To Fore1gnBornHBgrown ....Try google for info on Tim Tebow ...and while you're on line check out You Tube ....Peggy Hubbard can explain what the NFL really stands ( no pun intended) for ....... By Sturgis (611), Southampton on Oct 12, 17 7:55 AM Didn't find any "criticism" of Tebow's faith, and a handful of mocking reactions at most. Certainly nowhere close to the vitriol aimed at anthem protesters. GOODELL: 'EVERYONE SHOULD STAND'... College Quarterback Dismissed From Team After Kneeling For Anthem... Meanwhile ... HARVEY OFF TO REHAB Oct 11, 17 8:00 AM appended by 27dan Wall Street Journal, By Andrew Beaton Updated Oct. 10, 2017 12:40 p.m. ET Carson, Calif. StubHub Center is an apt name for the modest soccer stadium-turned NFL foster home for the Los Angeles Chargers. The tiny 27,000-seat stadium, named for a ticket-resale behemoth, has struggled this year to fill up for what was once the country’s most popular sport. By 27dan (2854), Shinnecock Hills on Oct 11, 17 8:00 AM The San Francisco 49ers are 2-19 since their ex-quarterback started this marketing debacle. By even flow (1023), East Hampton on Oct 11, 17 8:33 AM The owners of a business have the right to dictate their employees' behavior when on business time, from dress codes to behavior. Especially when it impacts the bottom line. We have a free work society.....employees can quit if they don'r like the rules. By Taz (725), East Quogue on Oct 11, 17 11:10 AM 27dan, Sturgis, Fore1gnBornHBgrown Are you parroting Rush Limbaugh? By Mr. Z (11847), North Sea on Oct 11, 17 8:45 PM "Share if you think the President of Puerto Rico is an Idiot and should be fired for incompetence." Sorry, "delete" doesn't dust your tracks like a typewriter with white out onboard, LOL!!! It feels like "Blazing Saddles" with The Donald as Headley Lamarr!!! Trump administration's approaches to staffing and security inadequate: How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets By NICOLE PERLROTH and SCOTT SHANEOCT. 10, 2017 Oh please June , "lack of furor"... ?!? Tim Tebow was generously mocked for his dedication to his faith. Compared with a bunch of felon crybabies that complain about the flag and the police....sure June, it's a race thing.....smh Oh please Sturgis, "it's a race thing"? Why, yes, Sturgey, I do declare it is. (With no doubt a side of jealousy.) And to keep his fellow-travellers fired up, the racist president seized on this particular bright, shiny object and outrageously went over the constitutional line for his own ends which has disgustingly further divided the country. What legitimate leader would ever even consider such behavior? Mr. Draft Dodger is suddenly such a patriot? And you shake your head? I just now ...more see that 16 professional sports teams are no longer using trump hotels in retaliation. This warms the cockles, and actually further demonstrates how dim he is---alienate everyone who can benefit you whether it's legislators whose votes you need, or journalists with the power of the pen, or customers who can go elsewhere. Yes, employers can make rules for their employees, but rules are made to be broken and most all social justice gains have only come about when they are. Workplaces have been used as platforms of expression forever. Did/do you object to bakers turning down gay couples? Do you object to pastors preaching political view from pulpits? Did you object to Muhammed Ali's workplace being used to express his anti-war stance? Did you object to Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan using their "workplaces" to express their political views? Or John Wayne? Tebow used his, but I don't recall any government official threatening him and/or his employer with demands. For his own ends. A QUICK NOTE TO ALL CRIMINALS REGARDLESS OF RACE--- DON'T DO THE CRIME IF YOU CAN'T DO THE TIME!! Justice is color blind. By bigfresh (4666), north sea on Oct 12, 17 5:38 PM Tell that to the black victims of police brutality and assassination and the hundreds and hundreds of black victims of the following massacres for which not a single white criminal was punished: Las Vegas Is Only the Deadliest Shooting in US History Because Black Lives Aren’t Counted News reporters and anchors have repeatedly referred to the recent tragedy in Las Vegas as the “worst mass shooting in U.S. history.” Like ...more all things that are constantly repeated, the proclamation has become fact. Does the Las Vegas incident qualify as the “deadliest” mass-shooting incident? Only if you don’t count black people. The nearsightedness of America’s historical vision is not only hyperbolic, but that vision often has a blind spot when it comes to people of color. There are countless incidents in which black and brown people were killed in incidents far worse than what happened in Vegas. Here are some of them: The Bombing of Black Wall Street On June 1, 1921, white rioters looted and burned the black area of Tulsa, Okla., known as Black Wall Street. Angry at the economic success of blacks in the area (the area became known as “Black Wall Street” because of the number of successful businesses and wealthy black inhabitants), white Tulsans accused a black man of raping a girl and attacked the area. Greenwood, Okla.: The Legacy of the Tulsa Race Riot While white citizens used dynamite and planes to bomb the city, leaving more than 8,000 people homeless, eyewitness accounts charge that the vast majority of the people killed (estimates range from 80 to 300) died because the city’s law-enforcement officers deputized every able-bodied white man and handed out weapons from the city’s armory. Historian Scott Greensworth describes it this way: Shortly after the fighting had broken out at the courthouse, a large number of whites - many of whom had only a little while earlier been members of the would-be lynch mob — gathered outside of police headquarters on Second Street. There, perhaps as many as five-hundred white men and boys were sworn-in by police officers as “Special Deputies.” Some were provided with badges or ribbons indicating their new status. Many, it appears, also were given specific instructions. According to Laurel G. Buck, a white bricklayer who was sworn-in as one of these ‘Special Deputies”, a police officer bluntly told him to “Get a gun and get a nigger.” Shortly thereafter, whites began breaking into downtown sporting goods stores, pawnshops, and hardware stores, stealing — or “borrowing” as some would later claim — guns and ammunition ... a Tulsa police officer helped to dole out the guns that were taken from his store. More bloodshed soon followed, as whites began gunning down any African Americans that they discovered downtown. There is no official death toll, but most historians agree that the count was around 250, because many African Americans were buried in mass graves, while others fled the city. No one was ever convicted of a single crime. Article preview thumbnail It's Been 96 Years Since White Mobs Destroyed Tulsa's Black Wall Street The Oklahoma city's Greenwood neighborhood was one of the country's most affluent Black… Read on colorlines.com The Bloody Island Massacre In the mid-1800s, Charles Stone and Andre Kelsey began enslaving the Native American Pomo of Clearlake, Calif. They forced the Pomo to bring them their daughters for sexual pleasure. They killed the Pomo for trying to escape. They only “paid them” 4 cups of wheat per day. One day, two of the Pomo, Shuk and Xasis, went to look for more food, borrowing Stone and Kelsey’s horses. When it became apparent that they wouldn’t find food, the men knew that Stone and Kelsey would kill them if they found out that they had used their horses, so they killed Stone and Kelsey instead. Capt. Nathaniel Lyon was searching for the men to punish them and brought soldiers and white civilians. When they found members of the Pomo tribe hiding on Bloody Island, near Clearlake, they slaughtered 60 of the island’s 400 inhabitants. On their way back, they killed another 75 on the Russia River for good measure. Lyon was never disciplined. Pomo Indians Remember 1850 Bloody Island Massacre With Events May 18-19 The Robinson Rancheria Pomo Indians of Lake County, California, will hold an all-night intertribal… Read on indiancountrymedianetwork.com The Colfax Massacre On April 13, 1873, black people in Colfax, La., began gathering at the courthouse and digging trenches. They were afraid that whites, disgruntled by Republican rule and a court decision that allowed blacks to vote, were about to attack. A civilian militia of angry white men surrounded the courthouse and convinced the blacks to hand in their weapons and surrender. The black citizens complied. And that’s when the massacre started. As many as 40 times more blacks were killed than whites. They invaded the courthouse and killed unarmed men. They hunted down women and children trying to hide in the surrounding woods. They dumped bodies in the river. They took 50 prisoners but later summarily killed them one by one. Historian Eric Foner called it “the bloodiest single instance of racial carnage in the Reconstruction era ... ” At least 150 black citizens were killed. Three white men died. No one was ever convicted of a crime. The Colfax Riot Stumbling on a forgotten Reconstruction tragedy, in a forgotten corner of Louisiana Read on theatlantic.com The Thibodaux Massacre In 1887 nearly 100,000 black sugar-plantation workers in Thibodaux, La., decided to protest their unfair treatment, low wages and the holding of workers’ wages until the end of the season, forcing them into a kind of indentured servitude. In response, Judge Taylor Beattie, who owned a sugar plantation, declared martial law and paid a 300-man private militia to keep the peace. The militia ordered every black person in the city to show a pass or leave. The blacks who didn’t were rounded up with their families and executed. In all, between 35 and 100 blacks were killed. The count is not official because some bodies were burned. No one was ever ... do I have to keep saying this? In Thibodaux, 130-year-old racial massacre draws new attention Louisiana 1887 Memorial Committee raising money to find remains of mobs' victims Read on nola.com The Elaine Massacre In 1919, black sharecroppers gathered outside of Elaine, Ark., to listen to Robert L. Hill explain how sharecropping was unfair and to advocate for voting rights. The meeting was guarded by Union troops, but when white men showed up at the meeting, shots were exchanged. The sheriff then called for a posse to find the people responsible. Five hundred to 1,000 white men rushed in from across the country to hunt down the killers and quell the “Negro insurrection.” When it was over, 237 black people were dead. Then all-white juries charged and sentenced 12 blacks to death. Another 36 pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, and 67 were convicted of other crimes. Three white people died. America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 People Were Murdered In Arkansas In 1919, in the wake of World War I, black sharecroppers unionized in Arkansas, unleashing a wave… Read on thedailybeast.com We will not count the 1864 Fort Pillow massacre in Tennessee, when Confederate troops mowed down 164 black soldiers who were surrendering, because that is officially a war crime. The same goes for the 1864 Saltville Massacre in Virginia. The Achulet Massacre of Native Americans in California in 1854 doesn’t count, either, because they were killed for their land, so technically that is a robbery. Some say as many as 150 were killed in Rosewood, Fla., in 1923, but the official count is six. The mass deaths at Philadelphia’s MOVE headquarters in 1985 don’t make the list because law-enforcement officers bombed the men, women and children living there. And the time whites nearly wiped out the Wiyot Native American tribe in 1860 doesn’t belong on this list because the Wiyot were killed with knives and hatchets as well as guns. While all loss of life is tragic, on the scale of white people killing people of color, Paddock wouldn’t even make the all-star team. @BF: BULL***. By Mr. Z (11847), North Sea on Oct 13, 17 5:43 AM Sturgis: I took your advice and Google confirmed my experience. The most "mocking" I found was that "hallelujah" was played by a minor league team when he came up to bat and the mascot frequently kneeled, or "Tebow-ed". Looking further back, there was one writer that exhibited reservations about the Jets signing Tebow because of the LGBT fanbase, which is not really scathing criticism. In fact, the articles that try to dig up this criticism in retrospect seem to have a hard time finding ...more it. I think the perceived criticism of Tebow's faith is highly exaggerated, and certainly nowhere near the criticism laid at the feet of the anthem protesters today. The NFL knelt The President dealt The fans felt Now the NFL stands Because the ratings in the can Fake Dreads and Bruised Wives Entitled easy lives Whining to no one Not watching with my son By SlimeAlive (1181), Southampton on Oct 12, 17 7:42 AM joe hampton, Sturgis "The President dealt". Full stop. A government official is forbidden to curtail free speech. Your outrage is wholly misplaced, and you are abusing your son with lessons antithetical to the founding principles of America. Abusing??!! By teaching a young person about respect for the flag? You're beyond help. loading...,pw herman Teaching him that he can burn the flag if he chooses, that dissent is patriotic, that a president is forbidden to insert himself into the affairs of employees of a business enterprise, that no president should refer to a fellow countryman as a son of a bitch, that there is unequal justice in America. Just for starters. NBA has boycotted Trump hotels. Looks like "The Donald" was secretly retaliating against professional sports. Oct 12, 17 9:31 PM appended by Mr. Z “The president has seemingly made a point of dividing us as best he can,” Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr told the Post in an interview this week, explaining the shift. His team quit using Trump SoHo in 2016. “He continually offends people, and so people don’t want to stay at his hotel. It’s pretty simple.” Ahhhh, the "Sycophant in Cheap"... "Moving on from Coal Miners, Trump now says Truckers are the lifeblood of the economy. Next up Fry Cooks and Mechanics as Trumps shores up the "poorly educated" fan base" TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: 'LIFE BEGINS AT CONCEPTION' Bold new strategic plan declares personhood of unborn. The Department of Health and Human Services has published a draft of a new strategic plan that states in its introduction that life begins at conception. Thnak God for President Trump ! By 27dan (2854), Shinnecock Hills on Oct 13, 17 12:33 AM And if life begins at conception, spontaneous embryo loss is a bigger tragedy than 9/11, the holocaust, and the rise of communism combined. We should also revise all our population statistics accordingly. And all you "small government" types do not see the hypocrisy, much less the total overreach of the absurdity of government bureaucrats evolving into theologians? Perhaps you'd like it if the state decides what the date of your death will be? The leading opponent of abortion, the Catholic Church's definition of personhood is viability, i. e. when the brain stem forms and when the fetus can live outside the womb which is considered to be 26 weeks. Until then, it is the equivalent ...more of surgical debris, or hair or fingernails-- parts of, but not a person. Which is why Catholic funerals and proper burials are not required for miscarried fetuses and/or pre-26 week fetuses. Just please knock off your misguided obsession, OK? What makes Obamacare, obamacare, is the subsidies. No more subsidies. No more obamacare. RIP. October 2016 Hey slimy. So Obamacare died October of last year? Remember when you were caught lying about the NRA's donations to Trump further up the page? Good times. Hey Slimey: How do you feel about the subsidies you are paying to profitable corporations? And who do you think pays for your catastrophic care when you put in your insurance claim. Insurance for which you paid a pittance in premiums vs. the care you expect now that you're ill? I feel richer already. You have to pay for your own family's insurance as I'm off the hook!! By SlimeAlive (1181), Southampton on Oct 13, 17 1:13 PM It's a good start!! Once we can also stop paying for the healthcare of veterans then we'll finally be free. By adlkjd923ilifmac.aladfksdurwp (747), southampton on Oct 13, 17 1:37 PM only non citizen veterans meaning illegals who fought in foreign battles not for the USA Good luck NY Yankees and dont forget to foget to watch the NFL this weekend! SCREW the NFL. Do networks think that by not showing the National Anthem we will come running back to watch a bunch of spoiled, overpaid thugs denegrate our country? SCREW the networks. CBS Does Not Air Anthem Protests But TNF Ratings Nevertheless Slide from Last Week The Eagles-Panthers Thursday Night Football matchup dropped five percent of the viewership of Pats-Bucs. ...more It increased viewership from the Thursday night game a year ago that faced competition from a hurricane, baseball playoffs, and the presidential election. But the marquee matchup drew a mediocre audience. By Ditch Bum (929), Water Mill on Oct 13, 17 3:36 PM Nobody is genuinely suggesting we cut veterans' health benefits. We're suggesting that purposely hurting folks by leveraging their healthcare politically is a grimy thing to do. By Fore1gnBornHBgrown (8265), HAMPTON BAYS on Oct 13, 17 3:41 PM You care to elaborate on that word salad? Yes, I am actually suggesting that if we are going to take health care subsidies away from some then we should go the distance and take them away from everyone, Veterans, the disabled, young mothers, the poor, the middle class...everyone. That way we can move on to the next thing that we dont want to pay for....like all of those roads that I don't ever drive on. I'm tryna maga already. By adlkjd923ilifmac.aladfksdurwp (747), southampton on Oct 14, 17 12:59 PM By Sturgis (611), Southampton on Oct 13, 17 12:18 PM You just proved my point, Sturgey. Just too blind to realize. By June Bug (2680), SOUTHAMPTON on Oct 13, 17 12:51 PM Well SH press That was ridiculous to remove my post. Typical, but ridiculous. No Junie , I'm not blind. But I'm interested in how you feel my point proves yours ? Clearly you're not aware of the lengthy rap sheets of many of these athletes that cry police brutality. Oct 14, 17 7:08 AM appended by Sturgis Junie I would also love love LOVE to hear your opinion about Thomas Sowell and his opinion on racism!!!!! Oooooh please please PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!! CONSUMER SENTIMENT HITS 13-YEAR HIGH STOCKS SET NEW RECORDS By They call me (2826), southampton on Oct 13, 17 3:28 PM Our veterans deserve the best of everything! The rest of us should pay our own way without relying on others to pick up their slack. 27dan, toes in the water, Ditch Bum Luke 3:11: He answers and said to them, He that has two coats, let him impart to him that has none; and he that has meat, let him do likewise. THOU SHALT NOT KILL how does that square with the liberal sacrament of abortion JuneZ? Amazing when a leftist quotes the Bible, just amazing. Someone quoted the Bible hypocriticaly? That would NEVER happen... “Pay your own way, cheapskate” -Alfalfa, Our Gang c 1961 "THOU SHALT NOT KILL". So saith bigfresh who does not know the Sixth Commandment does not cover all human life. Provided they’re growing, fingernails and hair comprise human life, semen and ova have human life before and after their juncture, and even after that. A fertilized egg that does not lodge itself to the wall of the womb has life, but is there any attempt to retrieve it and give it a decent burial? No, because it is not a person, and that is what the commandment ...more covers. He does not know it is not demonstrable that killing fetuses is killing persons. If it were, the church would require baptism and a Christian burial, and civil law would require conviction and punishment for the woman. St. Thomas Aquinas said personhood does not happen until God infuses the intellectual soul—6 months at the earliest—when a functioning cerebral cortex forms and viability outside the womb occurs. (Which, by then, 99% of all abortions occur.) Until then, the life of the fetus is equivalent to tissue excised during a surgery, cancer cells, semen, ova, growing fingernails/hair, insects, and asparagus for that matter. Is the destruction of any of these “murder”? And so saith someone who does not know abortion is not scriptural or theological at all. He does not know it is not treated anywhere in the Old or New Testament, in the Sermon on the Mount, or in the early creeds or ecumenical councils. He does not know popes have said it is a matter of natural law to be decided by natural reason. Which means we must turn to what right-to-lifers want to assiduously avoid which is reason and science. Why? Because that’s secular, and they want it to be “religious”. So saith someone for whom abortion would be a sacrament were he able to become pregnant. And for whom concern is only for a fetus revealed by being all for a child born but feels not a dime of his tax money should go to feeding or educating or housing poor ones. And has no objection to removing access to birth control to prevent abortions, or shutting down women’s health clinics, or passing laws against women’s reproductive rights, or repealing the ACA, cutting funds for school lunches for children, letting the CHIP program expire, or providing aid to homeless families. When you're fine with all of that, you're pro-birth, not pro-life, and what the Sixth Commandment forbids is the denial of any of it to Oct 14, 17 3:31 PM appended by June Bug " ....the denial of any of it to PERSONS." And, Mr. bigfresh, you can't call yourself a Christian unless you're a follower of the original "leftist". And when you're a follower of the Molester, Defrauder and Traitor-in-Chief, you can't call yourself a Values Voter. Hollywood Unravels: Clooney Accused of Helping Blacklist Actress Who Complained of Sexual Harassment, NICE, I LOVE IT !I always thought that Clooney was a homosexual and his Arab wife was his beard.This is getting fun! Alec next ? Aflick ? Congress can’t tie their shoes on 60 days. We are out of the Iran deal before years end. By the time Trump is done in 2024, obamas legacy will be reduced to a chip in the east wing’s bathroom tile where he dropped his bong. Without an original thought, all the orange ignoramus can do is undo Obama's legacy. What is his replacement healthcare plan? Still don't want to ask? Has the first installment come in from Mexico for the wall? ISIS defeated in thirty days? He tried to sell us out to our arch enemy Russia, just so he could have naming rights on a hotel in Moscow. As he said, wouldn't it be great if we got along with Russia. As storms grow more severe and harsher, the orange cheetohs answer, burn more coal. You wouldn't ...more want to drink the water Slime, next to an unlined pit with coal waste, would you? I'll give kudos to Tillerson and Mattis, they are keeping this country afloat through this travesty. Tillerson was right on, Trump is a moron. Couldn't have said it better myself. first time in seven years, the self proclaimed, greatest job creator in the world, we lost 33,000 jobs! Little Donnie wasn't allowed into the Men's club of the NFL, so little Donnie Johnny is having a tantrum. They're not just against racial inequality and police brutality, they all have something in common, they too, know Trunp is a moron. But the great patriot will cut medicaid, that 1.75 million vets depend on for serious healthcare issues. By Mets fan (1501), Southampton on Oct 14, 17 7:47 AM The irony of you starting off with a comment about original thoughts followed by your listing of profoundly unoriginal thoughts is not lost on me! Those aren't thoughts. Those are FACTS!!! You keep buying his b.s. Saps all of you, he tried to show you every which way possible that he was incompetent. Isn't that your composition? Some people are just very raciest round here.... It should be painfully obvious, why the orange tangerine has failed in every business he's tried by himself. We don't even know if his hotel business is solvent because there is no transparency with his tax returns. Yes, I guess I'm racist against orange people, ha-ha!! Do you think you guys could leave kindergarten behind? Can you give me details about the Drumpf's trillion dollar infrastructure program? More campaign promises, is there anything he's actually going to accomplish besides letting mentally ill buy guns or polluting our streams? By Mets fan (1501), Southampton on Oct 14, 17 11:56 AM Former Wharton Professor: "Donald Trump Was the Dumbest Goddam Student I Ever Had." Oct 12, 2017 5:26pm EDT by FrankDiPrima Late Professor William T. Kelley taught Marketing at Wharton School of Business and Finance, University of Pennsylvania, for 31 years, ending with his retirement in 1982. Dr. Kelley, who also had vast experience as a business consultant, was the author of a then-widely used textbook called Marketing Intelligence -- The Management of Marketing Information ...more (originally published by P. Staples, London, 1968). Dr. Kelley taught marketing management to both undergraduate and graduate students at Wharton. www.upenn.edu/… Dr. Bill was one of my closest friends for 47 years when we lost him at 94 about six years ago. Bill would have been 100 this year. Donald J. Trump was an undergraduate student at Wharton for the latter two of his college years, having been graduated in 1968. Professor Kelley told me 100 times over three decades that “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” I remember his emphasis and inflection — it went like this — “Donald Trump was the dumbest goddam student I ever had.” Dr. Kelley told me this after Trump had become a celebrity but long before he was considered a political figure. Dr. Kelley often referred to Trump’s arrogance when he told of this — that Trump came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything. Bill Kelley was one smart cookie. His text book cited above — published in the late 1960s — was standard in his time in the then-new field of “marketing intelligence” and the necessity of using computers and data bases to manage it. See onlinelibrary.wiley.com/... which credits Bill for coining the quoted phrase. U Penn states that Prof. Kelley died on July 17th, 2011. Yet all of the fake stories going around the internet quoting him are no more than 2 months old. It is funny when a simple web search reveals that your spreading fake news. By Spinny OHO (94), Speonk on Oct 15, 17 9:07 PM Junie .....you never answered my question...what's your opinion of Thomas Sowell's opinion of racism......??? Come on pal ....I'm dying to know !!!!!! By Sturgis (611), Southampton on Oct 14, 17 5:02 PM Uncle Tom Sowell? The darling of the racist right? That Thomas Sowell? Sorry, pal, the opinion of anyone who defended flagrant racists like Robert Bork and Charles Pickering, and called Sonia Sotomayor a racist is not pertinent in any serious discussion of the subject. This is getting repetitious JuneZ but the hypocrisy of the left needs to be pointed out. Calling Tom Sowell an Uncle Tom is blatantly racist and just because he holds an opinion different from your own extremist one doesn't make him wrong. Playing the race car as you have done ad nauseum is just desperation, carry on. Is it still racist if many black people hold that same opinion? Isn't it weird how every time there's a conservative academic of color, they're trotted out by the Republican party for everyone to see? It's like "but I have black friends!"on a grand scale. Thomas Sowell is a thoughtful gentleman and a great American... thats all I Went to School With the Vegas Shooter By Greg Palast, Greg Palast's Website When we were at Francis Polytechnic High in Sun Valley, Steve Paddock and I were required to take electrical shop class. At Poly and our junior high, we were required to take metal shop so we could work the drill presses at the GM plant. We took drafting. Drafting like in "blueprint drawing." Paddock. Palast. We sat next to each other at those drafting tables with our triangular rulers and ...more #2 pencils so we could get jobs at Lockheed as draftsman drawing blueprints of fighter jets. Or do tool-and-dye cutting to make refrigerator handles at GM where they assembled Frigidaire refrigerators and Chevys. But we weren’t going to fly the fighter jets. Somewhere at Phillips Andover Academy, a dumbbell with an oil well for a daddy was going to go to Yale and then fly our fighter jets over Texas. We weren’t going to go to Yale. We were going to go to Vietnam. Then, when we came back, if we still had two hands, we went to GM or Lockheed. (It’s no coincidence that much of the student population at our school was Hispanic.) But if you went to "Bevvie" - Beverly Hills High - or Hollywood High, you didn’t take metal shop. You took Advanced Placement French. You took Advanced Placement Calculus. We didn’t have Advanced Placement French. We didn’t have French anything. We weren’t Placed, and we didn’t Advance. Steve was a math wizard. He should have gone to UCLA, to Stanford. But our classes didn’t qualify him for anything other than LA Valley College and Cal State Northridge. Any dumbbell could get in. And it was nearly free. That’s where Steve was expected to go, and he went with his big math-whiz brain. And then Steve went to Lockheed, like we were supposed to. Until Lockheed shut down plants in 1988. Steve left, took the buy-out. And after NAFTA, GM closed too. Land of Opportunity? Well, tell me: who gets those opportunities? Some of you can and some of you can’t imagine a life where you just weren’t give a fair chance. Where the smarter you are, the more painful it gets, because you have your face pressed against the window, watching THEM. THEY got the connections to Stanford. THEY get the gold mine. WE get the shaft. This is where Paddock and Palast were bred: Sun Valley, the anus of Los Angeles. Literally. It’s where the sewerage plant is. It’s in a trench below the Hollywood Hills, where the smog settles into a kind of puke yellow soup. Here’s where LA dumps its urine and the losers they only remember when they need cheap labor and cheap soldiers when the gusanos don’t supply enough from Mexico. I’ll take you to Sun Valley. It’s in my film, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. In the movie, a kind of dream scene, the actress Shailene Woodley takes me back to my family’s old busted home in the weeds and then down San Fernando Road, near Steve's place. Take a look, America. Along the tracks that once led in to the GM plant, you see a bunch of campers that the union men bought for vacations. Now they live in them. No, Steve’s brain was too big to end up on the tracks. He lived in empty apartments in crappy buildings he bought, then in a barren tract house outside Reno. I laugh when they say he was "rich." He wanted to be THEM, to have their stuff. He got close. It’s reported that Steve was a "professional gambler." That’s another laugh. He was addicted to numbing his big brain by sitting 14 hours a day in the dark in front of video poker machines. He was a loser. Have you ever met a gambler who said they were a Professional Loser? It’s fair to ask me: Why didn’t I end up in a hotel room with a bump-stock AR-15 and 5,000 rounds of high velocity bullets? Because I have a job, a career, an OBSESSION: to hunt down THEM, the daddy-pampered pricks who did this to us, the grinning billionaire jackals that make a profit off the slow decomposition of the lives I grew up with. But I’m telling you, that I know it’s a very fine line, and lots of crazy luck, that divided my path from Paddock’s. Dear Reader: The publication that pulled this story at the last moment was plain scared–that they’d be accused of approving murder. Paddock slaughtered good people, coldly, with intense cruelty, destroying lives and hundreds of families forever. If you think I’m making up some excuse for him, then I give up. But also this: The editor of the Beverly Hills-based publication, a Stanford grad, could not understand that, just like veterans of the Vietnam war who suffer from PTSD even today, so too, losers of the class war can be driven mad by a PTSD that lingers, that gnaws away, their whole lives. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it ...fester like a sore? Does it stink like rotten meat? Sag...like a heavy load? Or does it explode? Steve, you created more horrors than your cornered life could ever justify. But, I just have to tell you, Steve: I get it. And there you have it Junie, you just proved MY point. Mr Sowell is a brilliant man that cites facts, something the over emotional left is not familiar with. Oct 15, 17 12:51 AM appended by Sturgis BTW Junie both Bork & Pickering were civil rights activists that were smeared just like ....yep DJT......ironically the only minority you mentioned actually did something racist!!! What are the odds huh ??? By Sturgis (611), Southampton on Oct 15, 17 12:51 AM So Sturge, anyone who opposed the Civil Rights Act qualifies as a "civil rights activist"? I see the lies of the likes of Mona Charen still has all o' y'all in thrall. Bork was an extremist and a segregationist who regarded the CRA as "an unwanted intrusion on the right of individuals to choose with whom to associate". His words. And Pickering? He lied about his efforts “to establish better race relations” in the 1960s both in and after his confimation rejection – discovered ...more in the papers of Pickering’s former law partner, the devoted segregationist J. Carroll Gartin. The evidence, found during his confimation hearing, housed at the University of Mississippi Library, shows that Pickering’s decision to defect to the Republicans — a key turning point in his public career — came at the strong urging of Gartin, who as lieutenant governor from 1956 to 1960 and again from 1964 until his sudden death in 1966 was a leading member of Mississippi’s notoriously racist Sovereignty Commission. Instead of “trying to establish better race relations” in the 1960s, Pickering worked to support segregation, attack civil rights advocates who sought to end Jim Crow, and back those who opposed national civil rights legislation, above all the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Or, in the words of a public statement he signed in 1967, Pickering wanted to preserve “our southern way of life,” and he bitterly blamed civil rights workers for stirring up “turmoil and racial hatred” in the South. As for Sowell, there's big, big money in sycophantism. Ask Larry Elder, or anyone in the debt of the NRA, or the oil industry, or the Federalist Society...... Is it politically correct now to talk about gun control. Google the Japanese laws with regard to firearms. Time for action, not prayers. By Mets fan (1501), Southampton on Oct 15, 17 1:16 PM You can talk about anything you like, but the fact of the matter is most Americans do not want gun control, they want there guns! They want there second amendment right to be able to protect there family's from all threats both foreign and domestic.so I suggest you and June move to Japan if you like there arrangement better than our right to bear arms that according to the US Constitution WILL NOT BE INFRINGED ! or were you you absent from class that day in the seventh grade ? "They want there? guns". There? second amendment. There? family's? there? arrangement." Looks like you're the one who was "absent from class that day in the seventh grade". News flash, Shakespeare: the Japanese have guns, and nobody wants to take yours away. Got it? Oh, and polling shows that most Americans want stricter gun laws. I suggest you get your facts straight. Wrong again June, Dan is right and the District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), proves it beyond any further discussion! This landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense of family and property. and that any further attempt at regulation by the states would violate this guarantee. The Supreme ...more Court affirmed that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense and that this right as stated in the US Constitution and cannot be infringed upon. By Undocumented Democrat (2065), southampton on Oct 15, 17 9:21 PM Yes, of course, the discussion for gun control ended, when America found it bearable to have children murdered. As usual, your okay with that. In todays world, when someone drops a bomb on your head, ask yourself, how will a gun help me. I'm bringing something like Japan's gun laws here. You'll will have to go through very stringent procedures to keep your gun. "I'm bringing something like Japan's gun laws here. You'll have to go through very stringent procedures to keep your gun". Please elaborate on this bit of liberal fantasy Metsfan, are you advocating for the police or military going door to door and ATTEMPTING to confiscate weapons from those who don't meet your criteria for gun ownership? Additionally , trotting out the tired canard of gun owners tolerating mass murder is preposterous. And you have no stench ridden, rotting canards. It is to laugh. Mr Z tell the gun advocates here about a world similar to THX 1138... think it cant happen ? Oct 16, 17 8:02 AM appended by joe hampton just keep taking your meds and be a productive citizen for the state... Kind of like North Korea meets 1984 or Sharia law following country's. Good luck convincing Mr Z , he would love to see America go that way. Everybody equally miserable seems to be preferable to people on the left. Why are you tired of it, mass murders still happening, google Japan's laws for firearms, they make a lot of common sense. you don't go through the procedures, you don't get a gun. Just like a driver's license. I see your still very comfortable with mass murders, because you wish to try nothing. I am all for it as long as every citizen takes the test and it shows up as a passed or failed back round check on our license! Thats it nothing more! That does not mean any one person has a gun or not! NO REGISTRY! Gun owners have a right to privacy and an expectation they will not become a target for ridicule or confiscation like what happened in New Orleans during Katrina or what happened in Puerto Rico After Sandy hook the S B papers started to post the names and addresses ...more of legal gun permit owners. That is unacceptable.Its nobody's business who has or does not have a firearm to protect life, property and liberty ! Oct 16, 17 10:27 AM appended by joe hampton New York Times - NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 8 - Local police officers began confiscating weapons from civilians in preparation for a forced evacuation of the last holdouts still living here, as President Bush steeled the nation for the grisly scenes of recovering the dead that will unfold in coming days. Police officers and federal law enforcement agents scoured the city carrying assault rifles seeking residents who have holed up to avoid forcible eviction By joe hampton (3461), The Hamptons on Oct 16, 17 10:27 AM 27dan,They call me,Ditch Bum ,Fore1gnBornHBgrown You register your car, but no guns. If people knew you were a gun holder, wouldn't that be a deterrent to crime, as you claim. You overlook the obvious, deterrent to crime ? yes maybe but you loss the element of surprising a intruded, also disadvantage under Marshall law or forced confiscation. lastly it makes you a target for criminals who want to steal your weapon. try and keep up Mets. Oct 16, 17 10:48 AM appended by They call me you also conveniently side stepped the premise of Joe's comment. He said he was fine with a broad based endorsement on everyones drivers license. based on age, citizenship, felony convictions or past mental health record By They call me (2826), southampton on Oct 16, 17 10:48 AM So that is a yes, und dem, mass murder is tolerable for you. Current mood toward mass murder: ambivalent Current mood toward Constitutional Rights: high By Po Boy (5299), Water Mill on Oct 16, 17 10:52 AM ....... according to the US Constitution WILL NOT BE INFRINGED ! Yes, that's why you can go into walmart and get a bazooka... The Second Amendment is not limited to guns; other forms of "arms" are in fact protected by the 2nd Amendment. However, none of our enumerated rights under the U.S. Constitution are "absolute" rights. The standard of legal review for a law that infringes on those rights is one that requires that such laws be the least-restrictive method to achieve a legitimate governmental purpose. And that's where we are today. Ensuring the safety and security of the general population from people carrying ...more or obtaining bazookas is a legitimate purpose, and placing licensing and other restrictions on who may obtain these items and how they can do so is considered to be a LEAST-RESTRICTIVE method. In fact, in the case of bazooka's for example, the denial of possession is likely also least-restrictive in the eyes of the law given the risk of the amount of damage that such weapons can cause. Times change, and your not part of any well regulated militia. As it is now, you sit in your basement hiding from sharia law. The leftists here have nothing else to fall back on besides an insane thought that gun owners are ambivalent to mass murder Just ludicrous. Metsfan did you advocate for gun confiscation? By bigfresh (4666), north sea on Oct 16, 17 10:03 AM joe hampton, 27dan, Undocumented Democrat, They call me, Ditch Bum How would you describe the hand-wringing that follows any discussion of gun control? At least I'm being honest in my resigned admission: mass murder is normal, deal with it. By Fore1gnBornHBgrown (8265), HAMPTON BAYS on Oct 16, 17 10:30 AM Stronger background checks, mandatory education, registering guns, buying ammo from local precincts. Not gun confiscation, gun restrictions. What does any of that mean? It's the same old argument. We don't want to confiscate, we want to restrict. Oh, and if some Leftist that wants to confiscate is elected, we'll "restrict" the supplies at the "local precincts" - how very Soviet bread line. And assuming you can get ammo from the after standing in the bread line, if you don't obey the severe restrictions, THEN we'll confiscate. What part of "WILL NOT BE INFRINGED" do you not understand? Undocumented Democrat,They call me,Ditch Bum So, in your view, the 2nd Amendment is unlimited? How much is an RPG at the corner store? See post above on "absolute" rights and least-restrictive. Oct 16, 17 11:16 AM appended by Po Boy But yes, RPGs ARE covered under the second amendment. Well, if you think weapons on the scale of RPGs should be readily available for public consumption and destruction...that's just stupid. Dumb comment since an RPG obviously would be much higher on the scale of mass destruction than the currently banned fully automatic weapon. Again what part of "WILL NOT BE INFRINGED" do you not understand? "if you think weapons on the scale of RPGs should be readily available for public consumption and destruction...that's just stupid." That's NOT what I said. That's what you said. I stated RPGs ARE covered under the second amendment, but they are determined to not be absolute rights and are therefor subject to least-restrictive regulation. You're the one repeating "WILL NOT BE INFRINGED" but apparently agree with the RPG ban? That sounds like an infringement, no? If it's not an infringement, then you agree that some regulation is necessary and are merely weighing the benefits of such regulation against its downsides. If it's an infringement, point me to the M1 Abram dealership. Why are you guys arguing a point that the Supreme Court already decided. As a country we are not giving up our Semi automatic rifles or any weapon under that class. Functioning tanks, require a special permits at this time and in my opinion they should. THE END ! We the people will make America Great again ! By Ditch Bum (929), Water Mill on Oct 16, 17 11:54 AM You're characterizing the Heller decision: the holding was that the 2nd amendment guarantees the right to own a handgun in the home. It does not nullify Miller, which held that a sawed-off shotgun was not covered. My point being that we already "INFRINGE" on the 2nd amendment as necessary: There's no consensus on military-style rifles, but regulations that experience public support DO exist. If our goal is to decrease incidences of mass murder, or to decrease body counts when it ...more occurs, target the technology that makes it possible to train for and carry out mass murder. Even if it's not the rifle itself, attachments that make automatic fire possible (despite that we already have extreme controls on automatic weapons) seem like an obvious choice. On the other hand, if the status quo is acceptable and normal, let's own it. Oct 16, 17 12:07 PM appended by Fore1gnBornHBgrown mischaracterizing By Fore1gnBornHBgrown (8265), HAMPTON BAYS on Oct 16, 17 12:07 PM Crimes are not acceptable nor should they be normal. That's for the violator to own. NOT the innocent. Let's not forget the decision last week where DC will not appeal concealed carry gun ruling to Supreme Court. It was specifically not pursued fearing the loss at the Supreme Court would have wide spread concealed carry implications nationally. Oct 16, 17 12:19 PM appended by Po Boy And yes, there is plenty of consensus on military-style rifles. Semi automatics are Ok...automatic heavily regulated. The 1986 law dictated consensus. By Po Boy (5299), Water Mill on Oct 16, 17 12:19 PM Your comment distilled is: "mass shootings are normal and there is nothing we can do to stop it." If I'm wrong, and that's not what you mean, do tell: what do YOU think we should do? You guys , lol stop letting Mets bait you into a discussion that you have already won. It's so obvious Mets / Fore is just trying to put a stick in a hornet's nest. We have a second amendment and a court decision to back it up . So don't play his game of trying to normalize more regulations. Lol By widow gavits (219), sag harbor on Oct 16, 17 1:05 PM So what does widow gavits think we should do? All ideas are welcome. "Nothing" is a tacit admission that mass murder is a normal part of life in 2017. Well, I also think Joe has a common sense approach (above) to who should be eligible to purchase a gun. But I'm not sure about that, it's for smarter people than me to decide. I would be willing to look at this bump stock device and possibly ban it. but for the most part am for the Second Amendment as it stands. I think during the Obama administration we got a look at how scary an unchecked government could abuse it's control .To witness first hand how the power was abused, Lois Lerner and the ...more use of the I RS to target groups the administration did not like. Then the corruption of the FBI ..... scary things if left unchecked. Thank you for your contemplation, Widow. I think there's no single answer to the question of how to stop mass murder in 2017, and many of the potential answers, like unbridled "gun confiscation", would undoubtedly come with more perils than benefits. At the same time, measured approaches may yield significant improvements over the status quo and we should all be open to evidence-based legislation. Be careful what you wish for its not so cut and dry, A year or two ago i would have said conservatives were government conspiracy nuts. Then Bernie supporters got bit, and bit hard ! by the "deep state" and its corruption. At this point in our history I would say widow is right , any government drunk with power can be a very dangerous thing ! I'll be in the basement if you need me. By local 84 (353), riverhead on Oct 16, 17 2:32 PM Be careful what you ask for - redux... "evidence-based legislation." The 2015 violent crime total was 0.7 percent lower than the 2011 level and 16.5 percent below the 2006 level according to FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. How many millions more guns do we have on the streets now than in 2006? By Po Boy (5299), Water Mill on Oct 16, 17 2:56 PM Your understanding of this conversation is really "po" We're discussing mass murder, not "crime" Well foregone, I know that fits into a nice little emotional knee jerk reaction bundle for you, but by your own example, we're talking about evidence-based legislation that would restrict gun owner rights. Is mass murder not a violent crime? Does the evidence not potentially support a correlation to more guns and less violent crime? Even local84 injected a response other than mass murder. Do you really want to compare gun deaths in places with less guns to gun deaths in places with more guns? Are you aware that the U.S. is not the only country in the world? Let's see, let's put widow gavits on the side of the status quo. School children get murdered, an epidemic of mass murders, your okay with doing nothing. Your are right, widow, the conversation about gun control is over when America found it bearable to have murdered children. I'll bet knowing you widow gavits, your husband has never been happier!! It sounded to me like widow was willing to contemplate rational, well-thought out legislation, don't be a jerk mets. "Do you really want to compare gun deaths in places with less guns to gun deaths in places with more guns?" Do you really want to compare gun deaths in places with less guns to gun deaths in places with more guns and have a Constitution that gives people the right to own them? First up, I submit the USA.... you're up! She wasn't willing to contemplate anything. Her view is the same as every right wing-nut on this site. No new measures, mass murders are the price you pay for your interpretation of the second amendment. As usual, the hypocritical right supports the police, but doesn't care how much weaponry potential criminals can obtain. Um.... they're criminals. They know a guy who knows a guy. If they want something bad enough.... they'll get it. It's what criminals do. And the police who the Right supports and the Left despises, will tell you that. The left are the ones trying to look out for the police d.......s. Criminals just have to walk into a gun show to get what they want. Machine guns are legal to buy in Nevada. Gun registry and buying ammo from local precincts will start identifying who is possibly abusing or potentially dangerous. But...a majority of mass shooters in recent memory obtained their arms legally. The problem wasn't "enforcing laws already on the books", it was that the current laws were insufficient, from the extra time (outside the maximum 48 hour waiting period) Adam Lanza's background check required to uncover his mental illness, to the ease with which Steven Paddock assembled a near-automatic arsenal. "Machine guns are legal to buy in Nevada"... they are legal to buy and possess in almost every state, if you want to pay the fees and taxes for a Class III license. And Mets fan, how you are suggesting this, like you can walk into walmart and simply buy one, is an out right LIE! You've been schooled on this before, so it must be lying intentional. Oct 17, 17 7:57 AM appended by Po Boy And Fore, Adam Lanza used his mother's rifle to murder her and her other victims. His mother (an irresponsible gun owner knowing his issues) allowed him access to her weapons. Victims sued the estate due to her irresponsibility. Much of Lanza's preoccupation with violence came from video games and yes, he had mental health issues as well. By Po Boy (5299), Water Mill on Oct 17, 17 7:57 AM You're 100% right on Adam Lanza, I meant Dylan Roof...too many mass murderers to keep them all straight. In that case, the complete, and disqualifying, background check failed to materialize within 48 hours and the laws in play prohibited them from withholding the gun purchase past that time. And Roof committed his despicable act with a handgun which he owned for months before. But just to keep things real, Roof probably should not have been sold the gun based on his recent drug arrest. The store can always deny the sale even if the background check doesn't come back within three days. Big stores like Walmart do it to avoid public criticism. Small stores don't have the flexibility in their bottom line, and every sale counts and that's what occurred. Ah, thanks for the detail. It still looks like a gap that can be addressed, whether in extending the 48 hour waiting period, empowering stores with better background resources, or recruiting law enforcement to revoke the unlawful gun purchase. Pay a $200 tax and fill out some forms, and your good to go. What am I'm lying about? I saw that people blamed video games and gangs for mass murders. How do you relate that to Paddock? "Machine guns are legal to buy in Nevada" In this example, you've singled out Nevada, implying that they are somehow above federal law. This combined with previous statements that you can buy automatic weapons at Walmart is a pattern... of LIES. Good to go? HAHA... automatic weapons go for 15-20 thousand dollars and there is a tax/fee each year. What do automatic weapons have to do with Paddock? You see, your correlation of Nevada to Paddock again implies and confirms your original ...more statement is at was intended.... A LIE... that Machine guns are legal to buy in Nevada. Paddock did not have automaticuweapons. Yep, paddock's were all legally and easily bought. He easily assembled an arsenal, and skillfully navigated the law by spacing out his purchases, which suggests our current regime of regulations is insufficient to stop mass murder. Where did I say you could buy at Walmart?? "He easily assembled an arsenal, and skillfully navigated the law by spacing out his purchases, which suggests our current regime of regulations is insufficient to stop mass murder." Deep disappointing sigh of frustration.... reminding you that Dylan Roof killed nine people with a hand gun and Adam Lanza never even bought a gun and mass murder is an act by the deranged using instruments of their choosing be it gun, car, knife or pick one. That was me, not mets. And I was specifically speaking about the Vegas shooter. He easily and legally assembled his arsenal over time by spacing out his purchases. Is that false? Mass murder is an individual act that we can mitigate through policy by exercising better control over the tools that make it possible. Do you believe there's nothing we can or should do? DOW JONES 23,000	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3386
__label__cc	0.735629	0.264371	Tied for first place in the November/December 2000 Humor Writing Contest Winner Best "Short" Humor! Endless Love Unfulfilled Ron Dill I stopped dead in my tracks, jaw dropped, tummy distended, belly button sticking out. Ellen Mixon stood in her brand new pool, a beautiful, red vinyl, inflatable three–ring model. The pool was set in front of the sliding board connected to her swing set. An ingenious arrangement. And three rings? I had seen pools with one or two rings, but not three. Three rings meant 50% deeper water than two rings and a whopping 200% more than a one ringer. Ellen's platinum blonde hair glistened in the late morning sun. Her mouth was circled with a fresh cherry Kool–Aid stain. In my mind she had it all, the looks, the three–ring pool and a mom who kept the Kool–Aid flowing. What was not to like about her? "Hi Ronnie! Guess what?" Ellen asked "Hi Ellen! What?" I asked as I jumped in. "I'm gonna be this many in two days!" Ellen held up four fingers. "I'm already four and a half," I lied. I had turned four only three months earlier. I had an image to maintain in order to keep that pesky Marky Watson from horning in on Ellen. "Is it fun being four?" Ellen asked with a squeal. "It's pretty fun." She was impressed. "Let's play!" "O.K!" she answered with a splash. Mrs. Mixon dragged us out of the pool after about two hours, dried us off and then put us in the car and drove us to McDonalds. We didn't wear seatbelts, as that was not the custom in those days. But smoking with the windows rolled up was still acceptable, so Mrs. Dixon lit up right away. Unfortunately, by the age of 9, I had a two pack–a–day, second–hand smoking habit. I regularly begged my smoking mom to take me for long drives. At McDonalds, I gave Mrs. Mixon my fifty–cent piece and reminded her to give me back "all the change." The Happy Meal had not yet been invented and little kids actually ate fast food in those days. Stuffed after five bites of hamburger and eight French fries each, we threw our left over fries, one at a time to the birds in the parking lot. It was more exciting when a bird picked up one of my fries rather than one of Ellen's . Then it was time to go. It was getting late. Almost nap–time. Mrs. Mixon lit up another cigarette and started the car. The drive home ended all too quickly. I wanted the day to last forever. But it couldn't , they seldom do or at least not very often. Back at Ellen's house, I told Mrs. Mixon "thank you," just as my mother had trained me. Ellen looked at me and said, "Bye Ronnie. See you later alligator." "Bye Ellen. After ‘while crocodile," I replied. She laughed. Ellen understood my sense of humor and I knew just how to tickle her funny bone. Ellen and I spent many a day together as young children. Around the seventh grade we started drifting apart. Mom held me back that year and a couple more times before I finally got my G.E.D. Contrary to popular opinion, I never really failed any grades. In the business world, we would say that Mom just made a management decision. The last time I saw Ellen was in 1979, when she went off to Ole Miss on a cheerleading scholarship. As I waved good bye, I think that she accidentally flipped me the bird. I opted to stay at home and pursue a food and beverage career at McDonalds. In 1987, Ellen finished her residency as a doctor. I think she works on livers. That was the same year that I was promoted to Assistant Crew Chief. I sent her an announcement card with a couple coupons for free Big Macs, but I never heard back from her. But I prefer to forget about the hard years and instead remember our salad days as I lay in this three–ring pool, that looks just like the one Ellen used to have thirty five years ago. When Congress approves another minimum wage increase, I think I may just go get my liver checked out, by none other than Dr. Ellen Mixon. Wonder if she still drinks cherry Kool–Aid? ©Ron Dill Ron Dill is a 39 year–old resident of Boerne, Texas, but was raised in Mississippi. A descendent of Dutch indentured servents, Ron spends his spare time seeking reparations from the federal government. With a B.A. in History/Political Science from tiny Belhaven College, Ron Graduated 115th in the class of 1983, placing him in the top 76% of his class. While at Belhaven, Ron also played goalkeeper on the soccer team that finished 3rd in the nation, the year after he quit the team, but that was over 55 pounds ago. With a History/Poli–Sci degree in hand, Ron had no other options than to go into insurance sales in Houston. In1987, he convinced a good looking woman named Maria to marry him. She gave him a son 11 months after they go married. Ever since, Maria has tauted the merits of the sponge to couples having conception problems. 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__label__cc	0.683642	0.316358	Scripturient Ideas. Opinions. Politics. Culture. Satire. Parrhesia. Skepticism. Terribila meditans. Posted on September 27, 2012 by Ian Chadwick Should we sell naming rights to public property? This post has already been read 7129 times! I was recently forwarded a link to a blog post about selling naming rights for public buildings to corporations. The author writes, Last week, I wrote about “the halo effect” on events, buildings, and properties that have had multiple names, all of which have been commercial. The other area we often advise on is the sponsorship naming rights of iconic buildings “owned” by the community or named after community leaders. Often a building may be named after a past politician or community leader. Brands interested in naming such properties must take into account these situations and be prepared to invest accordingly. As a municipal politician, I am always interested in how public property is named because these names are, for the most part, permanent, and say something about how our community presents itself and its heritage. Public property is not merely the bricks and mortar: it can also be a public event or activity. In a previous post, the author commented positively on the selling of naming rights to a public event in Vancouver: A few weeks back, I wrote about my experience at the Honda Canada Celebration of Lights (COL) event in Vancouver. It was awesome! This is a fantastic property that has had more naming rights than China has tea. But when Score Marketing Inc. was able to bring Honda into the naming title for the COL this year, it was great. It is an old event that has been around a long time. It has had its ups and downs. But as the property rejuvenated itself, making it more applicable to the audience and worked with corporate sponsors such as Honda and The Keg, it was fantastic. Mature properties can be refreshed. The COL truly did this and it worked for the audience, the sponsors, and the property itself. To those involved—well done! I am not convinced. The author writes (in part II): So yes, you can place a corporate name on a community property and benefit from it. Both the selling property and the brand can reap rewards, as can the users of the properties. When there is an activation plan in place and a PR plan, it works well. When due diligence is not undertaken, it can be a catastrophe! To me, the benefit seems limited solely to money, at the expense of community pride, heritage and the recognition of our own citizens. And I don’t mean just former politicians. We have many people who have contributed to the greater good of our community – volunteers, teachers, librarians, editors, museum curators, historians, writers, business people, philanthropists… why shouldn’t they get the recognition, rather than some international corporation? The image, above, is from an Ottawa Sun piece on the selling of Ottawa. It’s a satirical piece, but it makes a point. Question: “Would you only try to sell corporate names?” Answer: “Not at all. You could also market products — the way a beer company features a particular brand or a car maker a specific model. Small villages would be ideal for this. What about Manotickle Me Elmo? ” Question: “The city says it wants to sell naming rights not only to its facilities, but to its programs and events as well. Do you see opportunities there?” Answer: “Absolutely. It’s a stroke of genius. I don’t think we pay these people enough. ” “City department’s with marketing budgets could keep it in the family by promoting themselves on other city of Ottawa properties. That way their budget would just be turned back into city coffers, making the accounting real easy. The CBC news story about the discussion noted that, …the single largest potential generator is exclusive naming rights for city buildings. Officials have identified 16 recreation facilities for possible re-branding, including the Nepean Sportsplex, Kanata Leisure Centre and the St-Laurent Complex. “What we want to make sure is that folks don’t get the sense that we’ve, you know, kind of sold out and all we’re doing is letting big business and advertising take over the city,” Taylor said. How could anyone NOT feel like Ottawa Council was selling out? The evidence suggests clearly that, by turning our national capital into an advertising space for corporations, it has. I feel it’s a bit like selling your soul, if it’s just about the money. Had that corporation contributed something significant to the wellbeing of the municipality, and we wanted to recognize their generosity, I might support it. I could support a street named after a historical business that was once located nearby. But not simply sold to a company without a business and social presence here. Even naming after an existing business is tricky. I’m reminded of the Molson Centre in Barrie. Molson closed its 200,000 sq. ft Barrie brewery in 2000, putting 300 local people out of work. Today, Barrie residents still have a sports arena named after the long-departed brewery, a daily, and embarrassing reminder of that closure. The adjacent Molson’s Park, a park and concert venue, was quickly renamed to Park Place, probably to try to help erase the memory of the company’s departure. It was closed a a public space and re-opened as a commercial business park a few years ago. Rather amusingly, the abandoned brewery was used as a rather large grow-op until it was discovered in 2004, prompting many jokes at the expense of both Molson and the City of Barrie. Obviously the name Molson is not highly respected in Barrie these days, even though they contributed to the community in the past. The name still lives on in the arena. Had the arena been named after a historical figure, its name would still have the same respect as it had when built. Where do you decide to draw the line? Should we sell naming rights to all public buildings and property for some ready cash? What about the library? The curling club? Town hall? The terminals? The new ice rink? Should we sell naming rights to streams, to streets, to parks? What about events and activities? The farmers’ market? The harbour? You could potentially sell naming rights to anything municipally owned. Collingwood would then seem less like a town than a sprawling advertisement. Local colour and flavour would be diluted by the brand names. Hume Street might be renamed Hyundai Street. The water tower could become the Google Tower. Sunset Point Park could become Microsoft Park. We could host the Apple farmer’s market and the Sony Elvis Festival. Why not sell the name of the town, too? After all, most kids today probably know more about Coke, Nike and Samsung than Cuthbert Collingwood. Toronto recently approved a naming policy like this: Rob Ford’s executive committee approved a city naming rights policy Tuesday that critics fear will turn Toronto’s public space into an advertising free-for-all. The city already has the ability to auction off naming rights to city property and events, but the new policy standardizes the process and will see the municipal government take an active role in soliciting cash from outside parties in exchange for the right to rebrand public assets. Personally, I think our identity has been homogenized enough through all the cookie-cutter franchise businesses and restaurants that pervade Canadian cities. I would not want to further erode our own local identity through selling naming rights for public property to outside corporations and businesses. The money just isn’t worth the long-time cost to our heritage. 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__label__wiki	0.815449	0.815449	Home » Magazine » Focus » Op-Eds » Magazine Farewell to Durante, the Man Who Promoted Italian-American Culture... in Italy Stanislao Pugliese (August 04, 2019) Parallel to his distinguished career as a journalist, Durante was also a scholar and translator of extraordinary accomplishments. Like Cesare Pavese, he was enamored with American literature. The romance of the open road, infinite vistas, and the music of America struck a profound chord in him. His taste was eclectic, translating the seven novels of John Fante, the novels of Bret Easton Ellis, and the poetry of Raymond Carver. His magnum opus is Italoamericana published by Moindadori in two volumes: Storia e letteratura degli italiani negli Stati Uniti, 1776-1880 (2001) and 1880-1943 (2005); the second volume was translated into English and published by Fordham University Press (2014) as Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 which Durante himself edited with Robert Viscusi, Anthony Julian Tamburri, and James Periconi. Francesco Durante with Robert Viscusi Francesco Durante with Anthony Tamburri and Antonio Monda Francesco Durante with James Periconi Writer, journalist, and literary scholar Francesco Durante, 66, died in Capri on Saturday. With astounding range, infinite intellectual curiosity, indefatigable energy, his detached, wry irony, combined with his passionate empathy, helped us make sense of our world and the past. Francesco Durante was born in Anacapri in September 1952, the last person to born on the island of Capri before births were scheduled at hospitals in Naples. On a passeggiata with him some years ago, he nonchalantly pointed out the impressive palazzo as we strolled by, evidently free of any nostalgia or sentimentality. Perhaps it was his childhood spent in Friuli and his college years at the Università di Padova where he studied Italian literature, and his early career in the northeast of Italy that granted him a certain psychological dist ance and detachment with which to view his native city. His journalism began with the Messagero Veneto in Udine, followed by a stint at Il Piccolo in Trieste, both cities – like Naples – a border town. In 1980 he returned to Naples and was editor of the city’s daily newspaper, Il Mattino. Between 1988 and 1992 he was editorial director of Casa Editrice Leonardo, an imprint of Mondadori. Returning to Naples – for the second time – he was named editor and writer for Il Corriere del Mezzogiorno. Parallel to his distinguished career as a journalist, Durante was also a scholar and translator of extraordinary accomplishments. Like Cesare Pavese, he was enamored with American literature. The romance of the open road, infinite vistas, and the music of America struck a profound chord in him. His taste was eclectic, translating the seven novels of John Fante, the novels of Bret Easton Ellis, and the poetry of Raymond Carver. He was the editor of two “Meridiani” series for Mondadori (the series is usually considered the “pantheon” of great writers in Italy) on John Fante and Domenico Rea. First as professor of comparative literature at the Università di Salerno, then as Professor of Italian American literature and culture at the Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, Durante introduced two generations of students to a literary and cultural tradition that had previously been scorned in Italy. It is not too much to say that he was instrumental in challenging and changing the view of Italian America in Italy. Durante was the Artistic Director and driving force behind the Festival Salerno Letteratura and last year organized the Napoli Città Libro fair. These brought the most diverse groups of writers from all over the world. He was delighted to have poets Peter Covino and Annie Lanzillotto reading their work in the cortile of San Domenico Maggiore in Naples last year. His two works on the city, Scuorno (Mondadori 2008) and I napoletani (Neri Pozza 2011), are remarkable for the combination of erudition and humanity. Even shorter works, such as Scorciatoie. Pedamentine di Napoli (with photographs by Simone Florena) and Il richiamo azzuro (about the literary history of his beloved Capri), two subjects that might easily lend themselves hyperbole, shine with restraint and refinement. His magnum opus is Italoamericana published by Moindadori in two volumes: Storia e letteratura degli italiani negli Stati Uniti, 1776-1880 (2001) and 1880-1943 (2005); the second volume was translated into English and published by Fordham University Press (2014) as Italoamericana: The Literature of the Great Migration, 1880-1943 which Durante himself edited with Robert Viscusi, Anthony Julian Tamburri, and James Periconi. The culmination of three decades travelling through 70 archives and libraries in Italy and America, it reveals the intersection, “contamination” and cross-fertilization of what Durante called “an unforeseeably new universe.” In one of his last publications, “A Diary in America and a Death in Rome,” Durante traced the career of journalist Luigi Cianfarra from the province of Abruzzo to the hard-scrabble, working-class emigrant towns of New Jersey, the setting for his autobiographical novel Il diario di un emigrante (1904). At the time of his death, Durante had just completed an essay on the poems of Simplicio Righi, author of the famous sonnet “Vennero i bricchellieri a cento a cento.” At Hofstra University, he was the “Distinguished Conference Scholar” at the “Delirious Naples” conference in 2011. It was marvelous to see him slip effortlessly from “proper” Italian to American slang to Neapolitan. On our last encounter, last year at the conclusion of the Napoli Città Libro festival, eating broiled fish with a bottle of falanghina on the street where he lived, Durante casually mentioned that he might leave Naples. A passage from Scuorno came immediately to mind: In the midst of that “ridiculous tragedy” that was la crisi mundizia/munezza, several of his northern colleagues asked why he didn’t just leave Naples. Durante fantasized about leaving for the third time and taking off for Omaha, Nebraska or Flagstaff, Arizona. He had seen – and understood -- more of America than most Americans. But then he reconsidered: Poi mi sveglio e, fanculo, me ne resto qui: voglio abbrutirmi tra i miei simili, incarognirmi anch’io su quell’ unico osso e stento intorno al quale tutti si assiepa; voglio far finta di niente ogni volta che mi gira, e andarmene a Capri invece che ai laghi; voglio riempire gli occhi di un blu abbacinante, e bere il mio gin e tonic nel sole del tramonto. Sono lussi modeste, lo so, ma intanto me li posso concedere. E poi voglio anche vedere come va a finire, e se del caso dare una mano (p. 21). Then I wake up and, fuck it, I'm staying here: I want to get bruised among my neighbors, to gnaw and over the one bone that everyone fights over; I want to pretend like nothing’s wrong every time I turn around, and go to Capri instead of the lakes; I want to fill my eyes with a dazzling blue, and drink my gin and tonic at sunset. They're modest luxuries, I know, but ones I can afford. And then I also want to see how it ends, and maybe lend a hand. It seems impossible to imagine the city without him. How we will miss that “lending hand.” *Stanislao G. Pugliese is Queensboro Unico Distinguished Professor of Italian & Italian American Studies at Hofstra University. 1 - in The Routledge History of Italian Americans, William J. Connell and Stanislao G. Pugliese, eds. New York: Routledge, 2018, pp. 305-316. Stanislao Pugliese The Acquarius and The Recurrent Cycles of Human History The Past is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past Remembering Pino Daniele Select one to show comments and join the conversation on August 17, 2019 Jay Parini (not verified) wrote we will miss Francesco I am so sad to hear about Francesco's death. He was a magnificent fellow, a true scholar, a passionate advocate for literature. May he rest in peace. Jay Parini Letizia Airos Soria Another Turn of the Key. Nino Marano. 49 Years in Prison Why Hold a Book Presentation in Italian in New York? Jacob DeCarli Opinion: Is Italy Protecting LGBTQ Citizens? 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__label__cc	0.737006	0.262994	In June 2009 at the opening night event of an exhibition of my work in an art gallery in Melbourne, the Director of that gallery, Robert Cripps, approached a woman viewing a painting picturing a rear facing female nude and asked her "Is that your lovely bottom?" This was not a question asked by someone with insider knowledge expecting that the woman was actually the model for the work, but a straight out sleazy pick up line, delivered poorly and in inappropriate circumstances. The painting was one of mine and the woman Robert Cripps asked this question of was my manager from my place of work. Several things are wrong with this picture. A male asking a woman such a question has obviously checked out that woman's bottom and made a distinct comparison. Clumsy and dumb, not complimentary as the deliverer assumes. It is intrusive and sexual objectification in the classic sense. And, worse, it was not only intrusive and embarrassing for my manager, and mortifying from my perspective, it was not just in poor taste, it was unlawful, which I will cover. "Is that your lovely bottom?" - digital collage - 2013 Not unexpectedly the relationship with my manager hit some issues as a consequence of this event. It created an awkwardness and a distance not previously present between us that I can only put down to this event. She had gone to see the art and to support a co-worker she supervised and had experienced sexual harassment in doing so. Though this was not as a consequence of my art work per se, the implication for it being used as a pretext for the making of such an intrusive enquiry is pretty clear. The experience she had of viewing my art work came to be associated with an unpleasant and sleazy encounter in her mind and understandably so. Cripps had as well inappropriately questioned me, during the installation of my work and the work of my co-exhibitor Demetrios. Cripps pointedly asking me had I modelled for any of Demetrios' works? We had been rearranging the pieces together and I laughed out loud at the time at such a suggestion, mainly at the blatant simple mindedness of it, and informed him firmly no we use professional life models. It was a ludicrous question and one I had been unprepared to receive from anyone let alone the Gallery Director. Demetrios asked me later what was all the hand cupping motions Cripps had been making whilst talking with me, at the other end of the large gallery space? Cripps, I explained, was enthusiastically telling me at that point he loved "all the soft flesh", and the cupping motions he made at the same time were to emphasise the shape of the bottom of one of my female nudes. It was a low point for us in terms of our opinions of this Director who'd by then already demonstrated unreliability and unprofessionalism in other ways. Later when the hanging was completed I checked with Assistant Gallery Manager, at the time, Stacy Jewel, to confirm if everything in her opinion was in order, and whether she knew if Robert was happy, overall, with the presentation? Her reply was an emphatic "Oh Robert, will love it, he will love all the flesh!" This stunned me to a silent nod and a bit of a weak polite smile. It was before the "lovely bottom" incident but was another example of the tone set within this gallery by a director not particularly interested in the art or of the ideas that have inspired it, but more interested in who appears naked in the art. There is more to it than that though, these are not simply acts of general inappropriateness or a lack of artistic qualification by a person incapable of taking the work seriously or behaving professionally around it, it is more serious because, where and under what circumstances these acts took place, actually constitutes sexual harassment in the workplace which is unlawful. Examine the following from HREOC's website "In what circumstances is sexual harassment unlawful? The Sex Discrimination Act makes it unlawful for a person to sexually harass another person in a number of areas including employment, education, the provision of goods and services and accommodation." My work manager attended the art show at my invitation. The person asking her the intrusive questions, as she worked out, was the Gallery Director, Robert Cripps. His actions as well put me at risk by making me a party to an unlawful act due to my having an agreement with the gallery. Witnesses to such conduct are by law considered party to it if they choose to ignore it, which was our situation when I was informed about the "lovely bottom" encounter. (According to Section 105 of the Sexual Discrimination Act 1984, we have legal duty to "not permit" Cripps to act in this way, because "for the purposes of this Act, [we could] be taken also to have done the act." (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/sda1984209/s105.html) SEX DISCRIMINATION ACT 1984 - SECT 105 - Liability of persons involved in unlawful acts Cripps' questions of me as a client of his gallery constitutes "circumstances [for] unlawful sexual harassment". Cripps' staff and volunteers are protected as well by the act should they have ever experience forms of unwanted, uninvited, non consensual inappropriate proposals of a sexual nature, insults or taunts of a sexual nature, or repeated requests to go on dates…HREOC's advice is quite clear. All of this taking place in an "employment, education, provision of goods and services…" context is unlawful. "Sexual harassment is not interaction, flirtation or friendship which is mutual or consensual. Sexual harassment is a type of sex discrimination. The Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) makes sexual harassment unlawful in some circumstances." How many others did Cripps asked these types of questions? What was his conduct towards his staff and volunteers, who were largely female? The full answer is unknown to me however it goes to reason he did likely utilise any opportunity that may have presented itself. Robert Cripps' actions, subsequent to his inappropriate comments to my manager, deteriorated so much further into the absurd that any steps we might have taken to tackle this with him were subsumed by his further belligerent actions he conducted to degrade us and our art completely. He declared the show and us racist at the end of our opening night event, kicked us out in front of a crowd of onlookers, repeating this on a second occasion, and subsequently barred us from all access to the gallery. He is now suing us for writing about that which he forced upon us by repeatedly denying all responsibility for doing so on the several occasions we attempted to reason with him. The sexual harassment aspects of his behaviour alone have him in a great deal of bother. In Cripps' original April Fools Day writ his inappropriate "lovely bottom" comments were denied. They were instead claimed to be malicious falsehoods by me written when it was known they were not true, and on account of his denial he was claiming $140,000.00 in losses. He has since admitted to approaching my manager and asking her if that was her lovely bottom, however I am still being sued for "defamation" by him. April Fool's Day Cripps Writ - "Injurious Falsehood" - click on image to read. $140k? Yes, the demands made by Cripps were and remain unreasonable as are the claims what we wrote of constitute "Injurious Falsehood" at all. Later in the same year as this first demand of $140k Cripps acquired a Steinway D Grand concert piano which go for around that amount retail minimum. Interesting. As a final point, to create a contrasting perspective, consider this last image with the first image at the top of my article. Would it have been complimentary, okay, appropriate, for men to be asked the same? Did Cripps ask men or was Cripps himself asked "is that your lovely penis?" whilst viewing the paintings shown below? I'm betting not. "Is that your lovely penis?" - showing on the far Left "the fucking press", centre "kore of the industrial age (girl)", on the right "kouros of the industrial age (boy)" - all by Demetrios Vakras as exhibited during "Humanist Transhumanist" at the failed Guildford Lane Gallery run by Robert Cripps in 2009. 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__label__wiki	0.600869	0.600869	Agriophara discobola Turner, 1898 STENOMATINAE, OECOPHORIDAE, GELECHIOIDEA Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@outlook.com) Stella Crossley (Photo: courtesy of Frank Pierce, Yellingbo, Victoria) The adult moths of this species of this species are grey with variable dark markings, including a vague irregular broken dark stripe along each forewing. The hindwings are pale grey, darkening towards the margins. The wingspan is about 2.5 cms. (Photo: courtesy of BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph) The species has been found in: New South Wales, Tasmania, and Western Australia. Further reading : Ian F.B. Common, Moths of Australia, Melbourne University Press, 1990, fig. 23.18, p. 231. A. Jefferis Turner, The Xyloryctidae of Queensland, Annals of the Queensland Museum, Volume 4 (1898), p. 32. caterpillar Australian butterflies Australian Lepidoptera Australian moths next (written 19 October 2017)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3425
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__label__cc	0.634587	0.365413	19. State Board of Administration D19. Departmental 19-11. Procedures For The Public Employee Optional Retirement Program 19-11.004. Excessive Trading in the FRS Investment Plan Effective on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 1(1) 2Excessive trading by Investment Plan members is prohibited. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted Rule 22c-2. (2317 CFR §270.22c-2.26), regarding excessive trading for open-end mutual funds. Rule 22c-2 can be obtained by accessing the SEC website at sec.gov and clicking on the Laws and Regulations section. If the mutual funds determine that the member has engaged in excessive trading under the mutual funds’ policies, the mutual funds are entitled to impose redemption fees or prevent trading that violates the mutual funds’ excessive trading policies. It is the responsibility of the member to comply with the trading restrictions permitted by the SEC. Any applicable fees will be deducted directly from the members’ accounts. Funds within the Self-Directed Brokerage Account (“SDBA”) may have excessive trading rules that are applicable. However, these fund rules are separate and apart from the Investment Plan’s excessive trading policy. 150(2) Limitations. 152(a) Foreign and global stock funds 158are subject to a minimum holding of seven (7) calendar days following any non-exempt transfers into such funds176. 177(b) All authorized investment funds, except for money market funds and funds within the SDBA, are subject to the following controls: 1981. Members who engage in Market Timing Trades 206(as defined in rule 21019-11.001, 211F.A.C.) 212in authorized primary funds will receive a warning letter sent by U.S. mail. The warning letter shall notify the member that excessive trades have been identified in the member’s accounts and any additional violations will result in a direction letter. 2522. Members who engage in Market Timing Trades in authorized primary funds and who have previously received a warning letter described in subparagraph 1., above, will be sent a direction letter delivered by courier. The direction letter shall require that the member shall not have access to automated online trade instructions for at least one full calendar month following the date of the direction letter for all trades involving the primary funds. The member shall be required to conduct trades involving primary funds via telephone by contacting the Investment Plan Administrator for at least one full calendar month. 350“One full calendar month,” in this context, means the full calendar month following the month in which the direction letter is received. 3733. Members who engage in Market Timing Trades and who have previously received a direction letter, as described in subparagraph 2., above, will be sent another direction letter, delivered by courier. This direction letter shall require that the member shall not have access to automated trade instructions for at least three full calendar months following the date of the direction letter for all trades involving the primary funds. The member shall be required to conduct trades involving primary funds via telephone by contacting the Investment Plan Administrator for at least three full calendar months. 4674. Members who engage in Market Timing Trades and who have previously received a direction letter as described in subparagraph 3., above, will be sent another direction letter, delivered by courier. The direction letter will advise the member that the member will only be permitted to conduct trades involving primary funds via paper trading forms for at least three full calendar months following the date of the direction letter. The form to be used by the member in conducting the trades is the “Transfer Request Form, Excessive Fund Trading Violators,” Form EFTPV-1, rev. 08-17, 562http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-08700, 564which hereby is adopted and incorporated by this reference. The form will be sent to the member by the Plan Administrator with the direction letter. This form must be notarized and returned to the Office of Defined Contribution Programs, via U.S. mail, certified\return receipt requested. This form cannot be used to trade in, out or within the SDBA. 6225. Members who engage in Market Timing Trades and who have previously received a direction letter as described in subparagraph 4., above, will be sent another direction letter, delivered by courier. The direction letter shall require that the member shall only be permitted to conduct trades involving primary funds via paper trading forms for at least twelve full calendar months following the date of the direction letter. The form to be used by the member in conducting the trades is the “Transfer Request Form, Excessive Fund Trading Violators,” Form EFTPV-1, rev. 08-17. This form must be notarized and returned to the Office of Defined Contribution Programs, via U.S. mail, certified\return receipt requested. 7356. Members who engage in Market Timing Trades and who have previously received a direction letter as described in subparagraph 5., above, will be sent another direction letter, delivered by courier. The direction letter will advise the member that the member will only be permitted to conduct trades involving primary funds via paper trading forms for the remainder of any time that any balance exists in the member’s Investment Plan account following the date of the direction letter. The form to be used by the member in conducting the trades is the “Transfer Request Form, Excessive Fund Trading Violators,” Form EFTPV-1, rev. 08-17. This form must be notarized and returned to the Office of Defined Contribution Programs, via U.S. mail, certified/return receipt requested. 8597. If the member submits a transfer request form that is incomplete, the form will not be processed. A form is considered as “incomplete” if it does not contain the name of the member; does not set forth the social security number of the member; is not notarized; is sent by facsimile, email or regular U.S. mail; does not specify what fund(s), dollar amount(s) or percentages(s) are to be transferred; or does not indicate the fund(s) into which the amounts are to be transferred The form also will be considered “incomplete” if there are insufficent assets to execute the transfer(s), or if the requested transfer does not comply with the FRS Investment Plan Excessive Fund Trading Guidelines. Deficiencies are corrected through the resubmission of a transfer request form that is deemed to be complete. 9938. Members who receive direction letters and who are placed on restricted trading within their primary funds, as provided in subparagraphs 2., 3., 4., 5., and 6., of paragraph (2)(b), shall be allowed to make automated trades in, out and within the SDBA. Any such member must meet the requirements of the SDBA as provided in rule 105019-11.013, 1051F.A.C. Such member’s activity within the SDBA is not subject to these guidelines, but will be subject to the applicable excessive trading rules and purchase restrictions of the funds in the SDBA. 1083(3) This subsection contains examples only. This subsection does not contain an exhaustive list of all possible transactions. Members avoiding these examples will not necessarily avoid the impact of this rule since other transactions will meet the definitions of Market Timing Trades or Excessive Trading. 1128(a) If Member A transfers $50,000.00 out of Fund A and into Fund B on Monday and then transfers $20,000.00 out of Fund B on Tuesday, the transaction is a Roundtrip Trade but is not a Market Timing Trade because the aggregate amount of $75,000.00 has not been met. 1180(b) If Member A transfers $50,000.00 out of Fund A and into Fund B on Monday and then transfers $55,000.00 out of Fund B on the following Monday, the transaction is a Roundtrip Trade and a Market Timing Trade because the aggregate amount of all trades in and out of Fund B has exceeded $75,000.00 ($50,000.00 + $55,000.00 = $105,000.00) within a 30 day period. 1251(c) If Member A transfers $5,000.00 out of Fund A and into Fund B on November 1 and then transfers $25,000.00 out of Fund A and into Fund B on November 3, and then transfers $10,000 out of Fund A and into Fund B on November 5 and then transfers $40,000.00 out of Fund B and into Fund A on November 15, the entire series of transactions constitutes a Roundtrip Trade and is a Market Timing Trade because the aggregate amount of all trades into and out of Funds A and B each exceeded $75,000.00 within a 30 day period. 1356(d) If Member A transfers $5,000.00 out of Fund A and puts $2,500.00 into Fund B and $2,500.00 into Fund C on December 1 and then transfers $25,000.00 out of Fund A and puts $20,000.00 into Fund B and $5,000.00 into Fund C on December 5, and then transfers $10,000.00 out of Fund A and puts $10,000.00 into Fund C on December 6 and then transfers $23,000.00 out of Fund B and into Fund A and $20,000.00 out of Fund C into Fund A on December 16, the entire series of transactions constitutes a Roundtrip Trade and is a Market Timing Trade because the aggregate amount of all trades into and out of Fund A exceeded $75,000.00 within a 30 day period. It is irrelevant that money has come out of one fund and been transferred into two funds because the money has been returned to the original fund. 1516(e) Member A transfers $50,000.00 out of Fund A and into a foreign stock fund, which already contains $100,000.00, on October 1, so that on October 1, the foreign stock fund contains $150,000.00. Member A must wait until October 9 to transfer any or all of the $150,000 in funds out of the foreign stock fund. 1576(f) Member A transfers $250,000.00 in his Investment Plan account that is the subject of a QDRO with the result that the member’s spouse becomes entitled to half of the member’s Investment Plan account. A total of $125,000.00 is transferred from the member’s account to a newly-established account for the member’s spouse and the funds are put into a foreign stock fund on December 1. On December 5, the member’s spouse rolls over the entire $125,000.00 into an IRA. This is neither a Roundtrip Trade nor a Market Timing Trade because the transfer is an exempt transaction, as defined in rule 168019-11.001, 1681F.A.C. 1682(g) Member A transfers $32,000.00 into Fund A on August 5 and then transfers $32,000.00 out of Fund A on August 11 and then transfers $31,000.00 into Fund A on August 17 and finally transfers $31,000.00 out of Fund A on August 18. The entire series of trades are Roundtrip Trades and the trades are also a Market Timing Trade because the aggregate amount of all trades exceeded $75,000.00 within a 30 day period. 1761(h) If Member A transfers $50,000.00 out of Fund A and into the SDBA on January 2, and then transfers $35,000.00 from the SDBA into Fund A on January 25, the transaction is a Roundtrip Trade and a Market Timing Trade because the aggregate amount of all trades into and out of Fund A exceeded $75,000.00 within a 30 day period. 1825(i) If Member A transfers $40,000.00 out of Fund B and into the SDBA on February 15, and then transfers $55,000.00 from Fund C into Fund B on March 3, the transaction is a Roundtrip Trade and a Market Timing Trade because the aggregate amount of all trades into and out of Fund B exceeded $75,000.00 within a 30 day period. 1889(4) For all members, Roundtrip and Market Timing Trades are calculated using a rolling 30-calendar day time period. For example, if a trade occurs on May 15 and the following 30-calendar day period, from May 16 through June 14, includes a sufficient number of trades to fit the definition of a Market Timing Trade, this rule shall apply. 1947Rulemaking Authority 1949121.4501(8) FS. 1951Law Implemented 1953121.4501(13), 1954(14), (15) FS. History–New 10-21-04, Amended 3-9-06, 10-25-07, 12-8-08, 1-7-10, 7-12-12, 6-5-14, 8-18-14, 12-30-15, 4-12-17, 2-12-18, 2-19-19. Historical Versions(10) 02/12/2018 04/12/2017 12/30/2015 08/18/2014 06/05/2014 07/12/2012 01/07/2010 12/08/2008 10/25/2007 03/09/2006 270.22c-2., F.S. Related Notices (31) 21280653. Florida Retirement System (FRS) eligible ... 19763185. Definitions, Beneficiary Designations and ... Ref-08700. Transfer Request Form- Excessive Fund Trading ...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3436
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__label__wiki	0.516327	0.516327	From Tamil ‘Taar’ to Taurus and Tamil ‘Bull-hugging’ to Greek ‘Bull- leaping’. Previous articles of this series can be read here. Earlier in Part 26 we saw how the idea of Krios was linked to the Tamil “Kidaa” and its imported version of mountain ram, “kri-Kri” in Crete. In Part 27 we saw how Krios and the Sanskrit Kriya cannot be compared semantically and how Kriya and Mesha go together in Vedic hymns. In this post we will see how the word ‘taur’ in Taurus is found in Tamil and how the Minoan Bull-leaping culture traces its origins to Tamil culture of “Bull-hugging”. There are many versions created by European myth writers on the origin of the idea of the constellation Taurus. In Greek mythology, Taurus was considered as the bull that Zeus took guise of, to abduct Europa. This bull was called as the Cretan Bull. As per this mythology, Zeus transformed himself into a white bull and mixed with the herd of bulls maintained by Europa’s father. Europa was attracted by this bull and mounted on that. Zeus as the bull then carried her fast by crossing the seas to reach Crete. There he made her his queen and she gave birth to three sons one of whom was Minos. One version is that this bull called as the Cretan Bull was depicted as the constellation of Taurus. As most of the body of this bull (Zeus) was immersed in waters when it was crossing the seas with Europa on its back, only the face and front part of the bull is seen as the constellation of Taurus, according to mythographers. Though there are other versions, this seems to be the oldest one, found as early as the 6th century BCE written by the mythographer Acusilaus. Europa travelling on the Bull. Terracotta figurine from Athens, c. 460–480 BCE The defect in this myth behind Taurus is that the constellation has no place for Europa who was seated on the bull. Europa has lent her name to a continent (a geographic region initially) but could not find a place in the most important constellation of Taurus that depicted her husband, Zeus, the great Greek God as the bull! Had the conception of the constellations of the 12 part zodiac is an indigenous development of Greeks, this notable omission would not have occurred or the myth would have been suitably re-done when the idea of the Taurus constellation was conceived. None of this had happened showing that a myth was inserted to suit an idea of Taurus that was not its own making. The word Taurus appears in another myth, in the myth of Minotaur. This is connected to Minos, the son of Europa. Readers may recall Part 28 for the connection between Minos and Minavan of Tamil language. The bull, Europa coming from a bull tending family and Minava (meaning ‘fisherman’ in Tamil) have a connection here which we will see in the course of this post. Coming to Minotaur, it is a creature having the head of a bull and body of a man. It is a compound word of Minos and Taur wherein no etymology exists for Taur. Mythographers and historians give their own ideas for the meaning of ‘taur’. Popularly the accepted meaning is ‘bull’. But Taur has a connection with Tamil. ‘Taar’ (தார்) is an olden Tamil word having many meanings one of which is connected with cattle and another one solves the Greek myth of Minotaur. Taar is the Tamil word for the cane fitted with an iron hook that is used to guide or drive the bull. (1). This word “taar” is a common word among the cattle rearing people. Wherever they had gone – and they had gone on many directions looking for grazing ground for their cattle - this word also could have travelled with them. “Taar” also means “trick” or “tactical move”, or UpAya (in Sanskrit) or “Thanthiram” (தந்திரம்) in Tamil. There is a verse from Purananuru of Tamil Sangam Age giving this meaning. (2). The myth of Minotaur has many variations but with a central theme. If we take out the myth part of them it gives a rational explanation of what was originally conceived as Minotaur. The different versions by different mythogarphers can be read here. Before going to the basic idea we will see the sequence of the myths around the bull of Crete. Initially there was no talk of any bull in Crete. Zeus was attracted by Europa and wanted to bring her to his country. This puts Europa at a place other than Crete. Mythographers have located her somewhere in the near vicinity of Crete but separated by ocean. Zeus lured her in the guise of a bull (this is the myth part as no one can change into a bull) and carried her on its back. Keeping away the myth, what had happened was Europa belonging to cattle rearing family was lured by Zeus and was ready to elope with him. This she did by travelling on a bull. In any story, such elopements are explained by expressions that her lover carried her and went off. But here the bull comes in the picture. It may be because the bull was associated with Europa as she came from a cattle rearing family. The association of the bull with Europa was a crucial piece of information which the mythographers could not brush aside. Bull is a crucial piece of evidence of her nativity and origins. The next part of the story is that she became the queen of Crete and mothered three sons of Zeus. Minos was one of them whose name-root as Mina is the next crucial piece of evidence of Europa’s nativity and origins. Remember Mina means fish and Minava is the fisherman in Tamil language. Then comes the story of Minos who was a powerful ruler and credited with building a strong navy force for the first time in that part of the world. Did he do it without any support or did there exist any support, say, from his maternal side – presumably the seafaring Pandyans of Minava (fisherman) background? (How Europa could be linked to South Asian Tamil speaking society will be explained in the next post). Minos was married to Pasiphae who came from the East like Europa. A bull is there in her story too. Minos got a fantastic bull from Poseidon to be sacrificed to the sea God. But he didn’t want to sacrifice it as it looked too good. This made Poseidon angry that he made Pasiphae, the wife of Minos to fall in love with the bull. Pasiphae wanted to mate this bull (a myth) and requisitioned the services of a master craftsman Daedalus to make a wooden bull covered with bull-skin. Pasiphae climbed into it and mated with the bull (a myth) sent by Poseidon. As a result she gave birth to a being that was half man and half bull (a myth). That being was called as Minotaur – which people think, means “Bull of Minos”. The issue is how could such a being born to Minos’s wife and a bull be called as the Bull of Minos? When that being was not born of Minos, giving it a name as the Bull of Minos does not sound logical. Basic aberration is that Minos did not approve of his wife mating a bull and this is known from the way she secretly created the wooden bull. How could he accept a being born to his wife and a bull? How could he have lent his name to that bull? How could she give birth to a half man and half bull is another basic question but there are people like the ancient traveller and geographer, Pausanias of the 2nd century AD defending this myth that in his times women had given birth to far more extraordinary monsters than the Minotaur! (3) This is how myths get perpetuated. The myth further goes that Minos built a labyrinth to house this being as it was too ferocious to manage. His son Androgeus, was killed by Athenians, and to avenge that Minos demanded that 7 Athenian youth and 7 Athenian maidens must be sent to be fed to Minotaur housed in the labyrinth. They had to send them in the 7th or 9th year. On the third such sacrifice, Theseus, the son of King Aegeus was sent to be fed to Minotaur. But Minos’ daughter Ariadne fell in love with Theseus. She plotted to get him back safe from the labyrinth by giving him a thread which he tied on the door while he went inside the labyrinth. Once he spotted the Minotaur inside, he killed it and came out without losing the way by following the thread. Then he escaped with Ariadne, the daughter of Minos. This is the story of Minotaur – the word “Taur” getting interpreted as bull perhaps after this name. There is no record of Taur as bull prior to the period of this Minotaur. Taking out the mythological parts of this story what we get is that Minos created a “trick” – a taur (“taar” in Tamil meaning trick) to punish his enemies in retaliation for the death of his son Androgeus. He believed that Athenians killed him or it could also be true as Catullus of the 1st century BCE wrote that he wanted to get Athenians to be sacrificed to eradicate plague. Minotaur was a not real but a cooked up story to create fear or take revenge on the Athenians. Etruscan art shows Minotaur as a baby with a bull head and a human body. This is a mere symbolism for a valiant son born to Minos and Pasiphae. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pasiphae_Minotauros_Cdm_Paris_DeRidder1066_detail.jpg Pasiphaë and the Minotaur, Attic red-figure kylix found at Etruscan Vulci Look at this figure from Etruscan art. The lady is wearing ear ornaments and bangles – the signs of Indian origin. The swan next to her shows Indian connection. Recall Part 25 where we saw an Etruscan art of swans and swastika together. It is reproduced below. Etruscan pendant with swastika symbols. Bolsena Italy, 700 BCE to 650 BCE. From the Etruscan art, it is seen that Pasiphae gave birth to a child of Minos which was strong as a bull. The bull- head was only a symbolism. This baby in the Etruscan art could perhaps refer to Androgeus, the son of Minos and Pasiphae, who was killed by Athenians out of jealousy of him to have won many games. To avenge them Minos created the idea of Minotaur – a monster with bull-head, born of Pasiphae and the Cretan bull. The Athenians had killed his original son, but he would not let them off and get them killed by his another son – a monster supposed to have been born to his wife and a real bull! A myth of its valour and monstrous powers were woven to create fear in the minds of the opponents. But such a being however well it could be made by the best of craftsman of his times, could not be left to be seen by the people. It must be kept in secrecy but must be capable of creating awe and fear in people. So it was housed in a labyrinth making it difficult for anyone entering it to come out to tell the truth of the Minotaur. To create an aura of fear the sacrifices were called for. This Mino-taur was a “trick of Minos” – applying the meaning of taar in Tamil. The Tamil connection will be analysed in the course of this post. Unfortunately for Minos, his daughter fell in love with his enemy whom he wanted to kill by the Trick of Mino – Minotaur. The big challenge for her lover, Theseus was to come out safely form the labyrinth and not getting attacked by the Minotaur housed inside the labyrinth. He was helped by the daughter of Minos to come out but what he saw inside the labyrinth could not be disclosed to outside world. It was because his immediate action plan was to escape with his lover which he did successfully but eventually ended up seeing the death of his father on reaching his country. In the meantime, Minos had to conceal the “trick” about the monster and diffuse any leak about it by Theseus who had successfully escaped from his country. He did this successfully by allowing the idea that Minitaur was killed by Theseus. No one had ever seen Minotaur. The only person to have seen it was Theseus and he knew that it was not real. But the word remained that Minotaur was killed by him. This is the logical idea of the myth behind Minotaur. Which elements of this story are originally of Greece or Crete, the pre-Greek civilisation? Starting from where we ended, the labyrinth was not an original idea of this period of Crete. The truly dangerous labyrinth was the one that Abhimanyu, son of Arjuna of Mahabharata fame encountered in Mahabharata war fought 5000 years ago. (Read here Part 17 of this series where it was established that Mahabharata war was fought 5000 years ago). An engraving of that model from which he could not find his way out is reproduced from Halebid art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Halebid2.JPG The earliest labyrinth found outside India comes from Mycenaean site of Pylos. This location having connection with South Asian Tamils and also Kiratas of North east India (to be explained in another article) is a matter of importance – showing probable routes of import of the idea to the pre- Greek society. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NAMA_Tablette_1287.jpg This tablet with the motif of the labyrinth was recovered from the site of the Mycenaean palace supposed to have been destroyed in a fire in 1200 BCE. A silver coin found in Knossos, where Minotaur was housed, is found engraved with a labyrinth. Its period is 400 BCE. It is shown below. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Knossos_silver_coin_400bc.jpg Much older than these, seals with design of labyrinths engraved on them have been found in Lothal and Harappa of the Indus – Sarasvathi civilisation, thereby taking this idea to archeologically supported period of 5000 years BP in India. See them below. From Lothal From Harappa Indigenous to Vedic culture was the idea of an enclosure that a Soma drinker must confine himself within. Though its model does not look like a labyrinth, its purpose was to keep the person (soma drinker) in the middle of the chambers away from outside world and particularly away from sunlight! A reconstruction of such a model chamber has been attempted by scholars based on Sussruta samhita. Source article : The Soma Drinker of Ancient India - Kamla-Raj Enterprises The labyrinth of Minotaur was also designed as an enclosure. The bull connection comes in the story of Europa and Minos. But the available archaeological finds in Crete pertain to only one type of activity with the bull. This type shows Bull-leaping activity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Knossos_-_06.jpg Reconstruction of one of the Taureador frescos - Some time in MM III or LM I (1500 to 1000 BCE). This painting shows 2 women at the two ends of the bull and a man leaping over it. This is not a case of bull fighting but leaping over the bull. Paintings on bull leaping are found in many numbers in Crete but with the same theme as above. This leap was tried to be enacted but was found to be impossible as the bull would not allow smooth leap over it. This made the researchers think that the idea depicted in this fresco is only imaginary and not real. But taking a closer look at this fresco, I get more clues on its Tamil origins and would not rule this out as an impossible act. Before going into the Tamil connection let me show a seal from Mohenjo-Daro on a bull-fight. This seal from Mohenjo-Daro shows men being thrown around by the bull. This shows that Bull fighting had existed in India for a known period of 5000 years. The Cretan bull fresco is not similar to this. It does not show an angry bull throwing out the people. It is recent say, from 1500 BCE onwards in the Middle or Late Minoan period when the Tirayan Pandyans and Etruscans had made their way to Greek regions after the loss of Indian Ocean habitat. In fact the period of Minos happened after Cyclopes (KaikkOlas) migrated to Tiryns. Minos came in the third generation, after Cyclopes were forced to take shelter inside the earth (caves) when torrential rains caused havoc at Aegean seas. (here). The lineage is Kronos > Zeus > Minos. The fresco shows Tamil influence, as only in the Tamil- Vedic society bull fighting did not end up with killing the bull. The Minoan fresco also shows that the bull- game did not mean any harm to the bull. At all the other places known for bull-fight, the intention was to harm or kill the bull. Interestingly the places known for bull-fighting are those connected with Tamils – say, in the Mediterranean and in the Andean regions. In the Tamil society during the Sangam age, the women of the cattle rearing society grew up a bull of their own. Every girl of the cattle rearing family would personally take care of a bull right from the time it was born. She used to feed it well, dress it well and even have a name for it. She used to roam around with this pet bull and was considered to be a difficult- to- conquer person like her bull. Anyone wanting to marry her must enter into a duel with her bull. He must be able to catch hold of the horns of the bull and climb the bull by hugging its hump and finally lie on the bull with his face looking forward in between the horns while his hands were holding the horns as though he were hugging her breasts. This expression is repeated in many Tamil verses of the Sangam age poems. Infact this duel was not known as bull- fight, but as “Bull- hugging” (ஏறு தழுவுதல்). No harm was allowed to be done to the bull by the one attempting at “bull- hugging”. The currently held name Jallikattu was not the olden or the original name for this duel. It was not even a sport but a method to choose the groom in the ancient Tamil society among the cattle rearing class. The girl of this community used to throw a challenge to the stalker to catch her bull like this if he wanted to marry her. The one, who succeeded in catching her bull, was almost equal to that bull that she would happily consent to marry him. The bull- leaping frescos of Crete show a similar hold of the girl on the bull. There the men were not challenged to mount the bull. But the girl held the bull in place and challenger was asked to leap over it. Look at the painting closely. The girl is pressing the horns of the bull under her arm to make it bend its head and not move forward. She is not actually in a game with the bull. The bull also looks obliging by not moving forward. Only if the girl is a tamer or had moved closely with the bull, can a bull stand like this by obeying her. Yet another painting of the same kind shows a girl casually and effortlessly holding or pressing the horns to make the bull not to move forward. Look at her plaited hair – common hairstyle of Tamils (one of the ancient types of hair styles of Tamils is to part the hair into 5 and make 5 kinds of plaits). She is wearing bangles and arm ornaments that are common among Tamil women of yore. The girls are wearing shoes which are again common for cattle rearing people as they had to move in rough terrain with their cattle. The posture of the bull is such that though its front legs are firmly on the ground, by being stopped or held by the girl in front, it can raise its hind part. The fresco shows such a posture only. The hind legs are not necessarily firmly on the ground. A look at this sculpture establishes this. The bull is almost stationary with its front legs firmly on one place but trying to jump up the hind part of its body. The front pose of the bull clearly shows that it is stationary with its front legs firmly on the ground. The man had to leap over the bull in such a position without touching it. Moreover the girl standing behind the bull is making signs with her hand on how or in what direction he must leap. This shows the girl in a relaxed posture signalling the moves the man is expected to make. The girl in the front must be the tender of this bull as she is able to stop the bull. In other words, the bull obeys her commands. The girl at the back dictates the moves that the contender must do. Perhaps the winner can marry the girl, who owns the bull. This concept was there in Tamil culture. The image of Europa with the bull reminds one of the way how the Tamil girl of cattle rearing family was close to her bull. Popular figure of Europa in a Greek vase - Tarquinia Museum, circa 480 BC In this painting the bull is casually walking. Europa is walking along with it, guiding it by holding its horn. In the Zeus – Europa myth, Zeus must have met Europa and fallen in love with her. Either he would have tamed the bull and officially claimed her hand or eloped with her along with her bull. This bull had come to Crete and perhaps caused havoc by its mighty behaviour. In the 7th labour of Hercules, he was asked by Minos, son of Europa to tame the Cretan bull. Perhaps this was the off spring of the bull of Europa. Pasiphae falling in love with a bull could also mean that she like Europa nurtured a powerful bull. She being attributed with getting Minotaur with a bull’s head could refer to the birth of a strong son owing to her strong body developed so in taming the bull. The following fresco shows two kids – looking like girls with long and parted hair, practicing boxing. This helped them gain shoulder and arm power to hold the bull by its horn to make it stand at one place. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NAMA_Akrotiri_2.jpg Children boxing in a fresco on the island of Santorini. Though there is no reference to boxing practices for Tamil girls in the Sangam age, the verses do speak of them as having control over the bull they grow. According to one myth, the bull of Pasiphae had killed her son Androgeus at Marathon, instigated by Athenian King Aegeus. This was perhaps the first time in the Greek lands the bull had killed a person who was engaged in a sport with it. This had angered Minos prompting him to invent the idea of Trick of Minos, the Minotaur. In order to take revenge on the Athenians, Minos tricked them to believe that a mightier and monstrous off-spring of the Marathonian / Cretan Bull by name Minotaur existed with him and confined to the labyrinth. Perhaps the tough nature of the bulls made the latter society of Crete to tame the bulls and invent bull-leaping games. After reading all these, one may ask whether this is sufficient proof for Tamil connection or migration to Greece in pre-Greek times. The stronger connection lies with Europe, pronounced as ‘eheropi’ in Greek and sounds as “I”-roopi – meaning “the form of I (Ai)”, the Goddess as known in Tamil in the Sangam age. We will see those details in the next post along with its Vedic connection. For the current post, it is to be understood, that our opponents cannot even claim Taurus as the root of Sanskrit Tavuri for Rishabha rashi. Vrushabha (वृषभ) is a Sanskrit word but Taar is a Tamil word connected with cattle. A society where Tamil was common man’s language and Sanskrit was the language of education can develop many such blended words from both the languages. A mind not prejudiced with Aryan – Dravidian divide can pick out many such words from Tamil showing that it was a Tamil- Sanskrit language group prevailing in India – ever since the 1st Sangam age about 10,000 years ago and not Aryan- Dravidian or Indo-European language group. One such word is “Taar” (தார் / तार् ) that became Taavura (तावुर) in Sanskrit. (There are words common to both Tamil and Sanskrit having the etymology in Tamil. Eg Valli, the name of Skanda’s consort from Tamil hunter community. In Sanskrit it (वल्ली) means creeper. In Tamil it is pronounced with a stressed “L” as VaLLi (வள்ளி). In Tamil it has a meaning ‘creeper’ in addition to other meanings. The root word is “vaL” (வள்) from which this word and different meanings are derived.) The Tamil Taar had gone to become Greek Taur that later became Taurus and then Asterion, the star. At another level, the Tamil word for cattle “aa” (ஆ) was adopted as the first letter of the Semitic languages. We will see those details in the next post. (1) “Senthamizh Agarathi” (Tamil Lexicon) December 1950 edition, edited by Na.Ci. Kanthaiyaa Pillai. Page no 305 (2) “ஒரு கால் வருதார்தாங்கி” (புறநா. 80). Purananuru – 80. Meaning: “ஒருகால் அவன் செய்கின்றஉபாயத்தை விலக்கி” (3) Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 24. 1 (trans. Jones) (Greek travelogue C2nd A.D.) : "[On the Akropolis, Athens] is represented the fight which legend says Theseus fought with the so-called Tauros (Bull) of Minos, whether this was a man or a beast of nature he is said to have been in the accepted story. For even in our time women have given birth to far more extraordinary monsters than this." 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__label__cc	0.73678	0.26322	Whispers in the Mist Path Into Darkness Two of the Deadliest Why Ireland? Internet Sightings Sign up for Lisa’s newsletter. Nasty Little Beast, Part Two Posted on November 14, 2007 by lalber On Monday’s Nasty Little Beast post, I mentioned my snarky bout of professional envy (“PE” for short) relating to Chelsea Cain’s success. I went to her talk wondering if the ten-buck nonmember fee would be worth it. After Ms. Cain’s talk about her ten surefire tips for writing a thriller, my friend M– and I strolled down 10th Avenue with a chill wind at our backs. I admitted to my petty bout of PE. However, I also realized that I no longer felt the PE. Instead I was thinking, Good for Ms. Cain for writing where the writing led. Sometimes it takes guts to do what we want. M– and I wondered aloud whether we could write a cheesy thriller such as Ms. Cain described. I’m not so sure for myself. In part because some of the tips felt depressingly formulaic. End each chapter on a cliffhanger, for example (tip #2). (Think The DaVinci Code.) The tip that resonated the most with me was her last of the evening: Value your writing (tip #18!). I told M– that I probably didn’t value my writing enough, and he said, You’re right; you don’t. Here’s the entirety of Ms. Cain’s last tip: Value your writing; it’s worth millions. With that in mind, the next morning I woke up ready to write that day’s new chapter. Unfortunately, I didn’t know how to enter the scene. What the hell, I decided, I’ll make use of one of Ms. Cain’s tips. So, I opened the chapter with a physical action (tip #4), all the while reminding myself of tip #10: Put it in; you can always take it out later. Does this make me a fledgling thriller writer? Nah, but my character’s hand signal toward her soon-to-be amore’s dog got me off and running for the day’s writing. Thanks, Ms. Cain, the ten-buck nonmember fee was worth it. Novel, Writing Chelsea Cain, envy, Novel, self-doubts, Writing Nasty Little Beast Last week I pondered novelist Chelsea Cain because: 1. She’s a local. Portland’s latest “it” novelist who made it to the New York Times bestseller list after sealing a mega-three-book deal. In other words, she wrote a commercial blockbuster. 2. She’s got quite the online presence, which of course interested me as a fledgling novelist blogger. Check her out: website, uTube videos, a Facebook page, a MySpace page. More power to her. 3. I was ready to not like her when I went to last week’s Willamette Writers meeting to hear her talk about the 10 surefire tips for writing a thriller. It didn’t help that I had to pay a ten-buck nonmember fee. Points one and two are self-evident. Point three, not so much. It goes like this: Ms. Cain interested me in part because of my reaction to her success — that nasty little beast called professional envy. “PE” for short. My reaction was silly enough that I had to check her out even though I don’t write thrillers. I know a woman who is acquainted with Ms. Cain. She’d told me about Ms. Cain’s novel, Heartsick, with something akin to bemused skepticism in her voice. Come to find out that Ms. Cain had always been a literary rather than commercial type of writer. Ooh, I couldn’t help thinking at the time, she purposely plotted herself a big paycheck. The so-called “selling out.” I went to the Willamette Writers meeting still carrying that nasty-little-beast of a thought in my head. Only, Ms. Cain appeared on stage, and I liked the looks of her with her sculpted features and pleasantly eclectic wardrobe sense. She called her novel a “gory thriller” and a “cheesy thriller.” She admitted that at first she felt sheepish writing such a novel. She said she cried for two days when her previous book publisher, a literary house, rejected its option to buy the new novel. She was down-to-earth, funny, and had a disarming way of tilting her head back at a cockeyed angle while widening her eyes. Most of all, she used the word “f*cking” three times and as casually as I might say “that damned cat.” AWEsome. I decided she wasn’t so bad, after all, even if she did win the publishing jackpot. Like I wrote above: More power to her. And besides, why envy? Isn’t there enough to go around? Silly me. Novel, Writing books, Chelsea Cain, envy, thrillers, Willamette Writers, Writing ©2017 Lisa Alber	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3454
__label__wiki	0.531004	0.531004	Industry-relevant magnetron sputtering and cathodic arc ultra-high vacuum deposition system for in situ x-ray diffraction studies of thin film growth using high energy synchrotron radiation Schroeder, Jeremy Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering. Linköping University, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Thin Film Physics. Thomson, W. PVD Prod Inc, MA 01887 USA. Howard, B. Schell, N. Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany. Näslund, Lars-Åke Linköping University, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Thin Film Physics. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering. Rogström, Lina Linköping University, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Nanostructured Materials. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering. Johansson-Jöesaar, Mats P. Seco Tools AB, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4577-0976 Ghafoor, Naureen Linköping University, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Nanostructured Materials. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2286-5588 Nothnagel, E. Shepard, A. Greer, J. Birch, Jens 2015 (English)In: Review of Scientific Instruments, ISSN 0034-6748, E-ISSN 1089-7623, Vol. 86, no 9, p. 095113-Article in journal (Refereed) Published We present an industry-relevant, large-scale, ultra-high vacuum (UHV) magnetron sputtering and cathodic arc deposition system purposefully designed for time-resolved in situ thin film deposition/annealing studies using high-energy (greater than50 keV), high photon flux (greater than10(12) ph/s) synchrotron radiation. The high photon flux, combined with a fast-acquisition-time (less than1 s) two-dimensional (2D) detector, permits time-resolved in situ structural analysis of thin film formation processes. The high-energy synchrotron-radiation based x-rays result in small scattering angles (less than11 degrees), allowing large areas of reciprocal space to be imaged with a 2D detector. The system has been designed for use on the 1-tonne, ultra-high load, high-resolution hexapod at the P07 High Energy Materials Science beamline at PETRA III at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Hamburg, Germany. The deposition system includes standard features of a typical UHV deposition system plus a range of special features suited for synchrotron radiation studies and industry-relevant processes. We openly encourage the materials research community to contact us for collaborative opportunities using this unique and versatile scientific instrument. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC. AMER INST PHYSICS , 2015. Vol. 86, no 9, p. 095113- URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-122441DOI: 10.1063/1.4930243ISI: 000362573300065PubMedID: 26429486OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-122441DiVA, id: diva2:866735 Funding Agencies\|Swedish Research Council via the Rontgen Angstrom Cluster (RAC) Frame Program [2011-6505]; German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [05K12CG1] fulltext(24702 kB) 585 downloads File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 24702 kBChecksum SHA-512 12b4f72ecadc5326486938befe05addbae30ac4f7b6256251dec54784593955cb33b6b94024dddf82c0da24963776878a47a77f44c567d3fa8461bb73db63b17 Schroeder, JeremyNäslund, Lars-ÅkeRogström, LinaGhafoor, NaureenOdén, MagnusBirch, Jens Schroeder, JeremyNäslund, Lars-ÅkeRogström, LinaJohansson-Jöesaar, Mats P.Ghafoor, NaureenOdén, MagnusBirch, Jens Faculty of Science & EngineeringThin Film PhysicsNanostructured Materials Review of Scientific Instruments	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3456
__label__cc	0.586064	0.413936	Would you rent this three bedroom on sleepy Roosevelt Island for $4,200? There's no broker's fee, and you get one month free at this rental at Roosevelt Landings. Weichert Properties/StreetEasy August 22, 2018 - 12:00pm By Jennifer White Karp Unlike many places in New York City, you can get in and out of Roosevelt Island by several means of transportation, such as the ferry, tram or subway, which offers a quick ride to Midtown via the F train (when service is running normally, at least). A free bus service loops around the island and there is metered parking by day, plus residents can park their cars for free overnight on the street, should you feel the desire to own a car. For a long time, Roosevelt has had a sleepy reputation, but that's changing. (It had a dark past, too, because of its prisons, hospitals, and infamous New York City Asylum for the Insane, now known as the Octagon, which was converted in 2007 to swanky, luxury apartments). Known previously as place where you could find co-ops, including affordable housing units, through the state’s Mitchell-Lama program, there are a bunch of luxury residential towers. And Cornell Tech’s new $2 billion science-focused graduate school opened a 12-acre campus on the site of a former hospital, last year, signaling that Roosevelt Island has caught up with the 21st century. So it makes sense to consider rental listings on the market there, like this three-bedroom, one-and-a-half bath rental, 510 Main St., #436. The 1970s apartment complex has been rebranded as Roosevelt Landings. The apartment comes with one month free and does not require a broker’s fee and is listed for $4,200 a month, so if you split it three ways, it would cost one person $1,400. The apartment has hardwood floors, stainless steel appliances, a dishwasher, microwave and a large living room. The building has a parking garage, and according to the website, updated lobby and landscaping outside. Shopping and dining options are available, although limited, on Main Street (if you search online for restaurants near this address, Google refers you to options in Midtown East). So, is this apartment worth hauling yourself above the river in a little red tram? As always when weighing New York City apartment listings, we turn to our Take It Or Leave It experts: Constantine Valhouli, founder of real estate research and analytics firm NeighborhoodX, freelance writer Lambeth Hochwald, and myself. But first, here are more pictures of the apartment, plus the building and surroundings. “Ah, Roosevelt Island—home to less expensive rents for more spacious digs and views galore. I love the surprises in this apartment, too. An interior staircase? That just makes any apartment feel bigger. The downsides are: This is on Roosevelt Island so despite the arrival of Cornell Tech on the southern end, it's still sleepier than most neighborhoods.” —Lambeth Hochwald “It has a goddamn staircase. And in the wacky world of New York City real estate, having a staircase within your apartment (as opposed to, say, having to walk up five flights to access your studio apartment) means that on some level, you've made it. If the first threshold is moving into an apartment with a separate bedroom, the level up is having two floors of living space. Also, the gondola ride is kind of magical. Except for the tourists with their selfie sticks.” —Constantine Valhouli “The Brutalist-style exterior design of this 1970s era building looks like student housing to me, but that’s ok because inside it seems bright and spacious. And who wouldn’t want a view of a bridge from their bedroom? Ok, it’s the Queensboro Bridge, which Roosevelt Island residents can’t even access, even though it goes right over the island, but it still looks cool.” —Jennifer White Karp Whom it’s perfect for “A trio of recent grads who will make their own fun—and don't mind sharing one bath/shower.” —Hochwald “Three techbro analysts working at a Midtown private equity firm that doesn't yet pay them enough to live in the sweet, sweet East Village. Or WALL-E.” —Valhouli “Grad students or staff at Cornell Tech who would enjoy a commute measured in minutes and lots of free time.” —White Karp Take it or leave it: TAKE IT. "If you work along the F line. Just think of all the peaceful walks you can take once you get home." —Hochwald TAKE IT. “Because, for $1,400 per bedroom, I'd be willing to live on the abandoned rock piles offshore from Rikers Island, and just row myself to work every day.” —Valhouli TAKE IT. "And enjoy having Manhattan close enough to enjoy but far enough to take a breather." —White Karp Would you rent this two bedroom at Stuy-Town for $3,899 for two years? Would you rent this co-living microsuite in Long Island City for $5,481? Would you rent this studio in a Sutton Place prewar co-op for $2,200? rent rentals roommates Roosevelt Island Take It Or Leave It Where to move in Jersey City: Best neighborhoods, deals, and more for renters and buyers What’s better for resale: Stainless steel or custom panels on your kitchen appliances? 6 things I wish I'd known about my NYC apartment before I moved in Can my boyfriend claim ownership of my condo if we break up? 5 Washington Heights two bedrooms for $855,000 or (a lot) less	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3459
__label__wiki	0.545244	0.545244	January 11, 2020 \| permalink ULI Triangle Emerging Trends 2019 Back in November, the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill chapter of the Urban Land Institute invited me to speak at their annual Emerging Trends conference about millennials, mobility, and cities-as-a-service. A video sneak preview is above – ping me via email or Twitter if you’d like to see more. Vaporware’s Dan Moore and Oak City CRE published their own written recaps of the event as well. Thanks again for having me! Posted by Greg Lindsay \| Categories: \| Comments New London Architecture: Future Streets New London Architecture — a museum of sorts and think-tank concerned with the urban realm of London — has published a report to coincide with its current exhibit on “Future Streets.” I’m grateful to be one of the many smart people consulted as part of the research, and gratified to see a few of my arguments made it into the final draft. To save you the time of searching, I’ve cut-and-pasted them below. The first concerns my long-standing worries ride-hailing will cannibalize transit: Perhaps the most concerning threat Uber poses is its potential to undercut public transport in London. Some early research from the US suggests that TNCs are moving trips away from public transport, walking and cycling to rideshare services.20 However, another study conducted in London showed that Uber was actually complementing the introduction of the Night Tube. This was on the basis that more Uber trips were being taken from tube stations during ‘Night Tube’ hours, indicating that instead of taking a cab home the whole way, people were now using the Night Tube for most of the journey, and then transferring to an Uber for the last mile. However, the recent IPO released by Uber states in no uncertain terms that they see public transport as a key competitor and that public transport riders are a key part of the market they seek to win over. Greg Lindsay, director of applied research, NewCities, argues that this should come as no surprise, given that TNCs such as Uber are only profitable in highly dense urban contexts such as central London. He argues that in lower density areas Uber still has to highly subsidise all journeys. The second involves fears of “privatizing the streets:” Even if road pricing is effectively implemented for CAVs, Greg Lindsay argues that it potentially puts in motion a dangerous precedent in which every inch of street space is progressively adopted into a market system for the pricing of its use. It is contended that such a model may lead to the unintended consequences of the complete privatisation of all street space in the city. This would contradict the idea that the street is the most radically democratic of all spaces in the city. Moreover, Greg Lindsay notes that it may lead to situations where only companies with greater purchasing power are able to afford the cost of operating on the streets, thus creating a monopoly of service. This might mean that one ridesharing company becomes entirely dominant and therefore able to set the price of rides as they wish. You can download the entire report here. Brighter Talks #2: James Timberlake (The second episode of “Brighter Talks,” a podcast series by the German plastics giant Covestro I happen to host , is live — and you can listen to it above. A recap of the episode is below.) What does the city of the future look like? That is what several experts are discussing in our series #MyFutureCity. In this essay, American architect James Timberlake explains how our houses will be built – and why we might soon be living in transparent plastic houses. Protecting the environment is a global priority. World leaders are beginning to take steps to prevent climate change, millions of people worldwide are protesting to demand action on climate change – and in the architectural industry, sustainability has moved to the forefront of the design conversation. “We need to rethink architecture,” explains world-renowned architect James Timberlake. With 33 percent of the global energy use coming from buildings, and 20 percent of human generated CO₂-emissions coming from energy used in buildings, “this needs to change.” The main issue: Keeping up with the demand “We must manage our resources more responsibly,” says Timberlake. “The UN cites that 68% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050, but the current supply of new housing in all market segments does not meet the demand – we outpace our housing needs by nearly 3 to 4 times annually.” Simply ‘keeping up’ is a mantra all countries and localities face, as “maintaining a supply of affordable, equitable, sustainable housing for all is a complex problem for every country, from the richest and most socially progressive to the poorest,” he adds. To solve this crisis, we need to think both locally and globally. The hurdles: Collective intelligence “Codes and regulations are different throughout the world, and each country and local jurisdiction has uneven measures toward quality planning resources.” Universal planning principles for housing placement – for instance, using brownfield sites rather than greenfield site –are necessary to promote environmental ethics worldwide. Also, a critical part of increasing housing supply is having enough land resources to build upon. Land ownership is different in each country. Open land opportunities are few and shifting with the effects of climate change. Planning and coordination with resource management agencies can help address the proper placement and availability of land going forward. According to Timberlake, interdisciplinary collaboration is critical to solving the sustainability challenges of our time and even more important in the years ahead: “Specialists in disciplines outside of architecture should be part of every architectural team. We need special skill sets and knowledge for every single architectural project of the future.” Climate scientists, environmental managers and materials engineers are just some of the experts who will help plan and create buildings sustainably in the future. “With our collective intelligence, we can develop buildings to manage our natural resources more ethically,” he explains, “and reduce our waste – both the material waste and the waste of energy that takes place in a building.” The method: New materials Timberlake would also like to see advancements in both materials and construction methods for new housing. Current modular housing materials range widely, from lightweight, low carbon, wood product “spatial” options to higher carbon, heavyweight panelized options, each with their own logistical and supply chain issues. “Future materials should be evaluated for low-carbon impact, high resilience, life-cycle benefits, and economy,” says Timberlake. Wood is one such material; it can be regrown naturally and sequesters carbon. “We have used wood often in modular construction, but we have also explored aluminum and various plastics in our buildings.” Aluminum is not only durable, flexible, light, efficient and low-cost, but it’s also recyclable. The sustainable materials of the future might be hybrid combinations of wood, plastics, and metals, optimized for durability and a low carbon footprint. In terms of construction methods, Timberlake observes, “Planners, architects, developers, and governmental agencies believe that off-site and modular housing, manufactured in plants, with lower time to market, are the way forward. But investors have not broadly embraced this approach. Enticing investors to participate in this market is where true change might happen.” Examples: SmartWrap and Cellophane House Timberlake has shown the potential of building with unconventional materials and construction methods: In 2003, he and his partner Stephen Kieran invented SmartWrap, a trademarked energy-generating and lightweight envelope that is wrapped around the frame of a building. “It is made of PET, a recyclable thermoplastic polymer,” says Timberlake, “a transparent, inexpensive, colorless material.” SmartWrap has several layers to add functions: One layer to moderate temperature. A second one to supply light and allow for information display, as if on a computer screen. And a third, final layer to collect solar energy, integrating all the functions of a conventional wall into a thin, transparent plastic film. And in 2008, Timberlake developed this even further. His firm KieranTimberlake built “Cellophane House,” a complete five-story house made up of refined SmartWrap envelopes tensioned on an aluminum frame. The refined SmartWrap was made up of four layers: The first one served as a weather barrier, and the second one included photovoltaic cells. The third layer contained solar heat and UV blocking film – and finally, a fourth, interior layer of PET. With this, it was possible to trap heat in winter and vent it in summer. “The different technologies assembled in the envelope of Cellophane House really helped us understand how and where energy loss occurs in a building envelope and how we can improve the design to mitigate the losses,” says Timberlake. Our future: Learning from the past Cellophane House was an example of a more sustainable architecture presented at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York for almost six months. Yet it was more than just an exhibition piece: “It was a way to build our ideas and learn from them,” says Timberlake. He adds: “And it is still only the beginning. Looking to the future, beyond the current models and modalities of living, and beyond the housing shortages, we’ll see an evolution in how people live, what they desire in their living arrangements, and a continuation of diverse options to address those housing needs affordably.” “We will need to completely rethink our way of living,” he adds, “but we will also need to learn from our mistakes and think about an urban platform that blends our past and our future.” URBAN-X: Green New Deal Flow The “Green New Deal” has quickly become shorthand for a last-ditch effort to prevent climate change – one in which technological breakthroughs and market-based solutions take a back seat to public policy. What role does innovation have to play in the fight to save cities and the planet? And are cash-ravenous startups doing more harm than good? On Dec. 4th in Brooklyn, URBAN-X convened a roundtable of entrepreneurs, environmental justice advocates, and investors to debate the roles of government, startups, and venture capital in forging a path forward, and launch “Better,” Issue 03 of the URBAN-X Zine. Video from the event is above; a list of speakers is below. I moderated the event as my final duty as the inaugural URBAN-X Urbanist-in-residence. Savannah Goodman, Lead of Modeling and Simulation, Blueprint Power Shaun Abrahamson, Founder and Managing Partner, Urban Us Cecil Corbin-Mark, Deputy Director / Director of Policy Initiatives, WE ACT for Environmental Justice CoMotion Podcasts: Rethinking Real Estate; India’s Micromobility; AI Buses, and More (CoMotion LA 2019 is in the rear-view mirror, but the CoMotion Mobility Podcast goes on. Here’s what you’ve missed if you haven’t been listening:) Episode 53. (above) Greg Lindsay chats with Dror Poleg, author of Rethinking Real Estate, about the intersection of mobility and real estate. As autonomous vehicles, drones, and delivery bots become better integrated into our daily lives, the face of real estate will begin to change. As technology advances, the value of real estate assets will fluctuate in new and interesting ways. Episode 52. Greg Lindsay chats with Aayushi Jain, Director of Policy and Government Partnerships at Bounce. Bounce is a Bangalore-based startup that operates an electric scooter sharing enterprise. These aren’t your Birds and Limes — these are full mopeds that can cover the first mile/last mile of your multimodal transit trip, or be your main mode of transport to/from work or school. Bounce aims to seriously improve India’s devastating traffic congestion. Episode 51. Greg Lindsay chats with Nexar Co-Founder and CEO Eran Shir and RTC Senior Director of Engineering John Peñuelas about how Nexar’s pilot in Las Vegas is a successful example of how the public and private sector can collaborate to increase road safety. Thanks to Nexar’s City Stream, a connected network of smart dash cameras which can identify road hazards, the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada is able to better understand and manage the city’s traffic, especially around construction zones. Greg, John and Eran chat about the pilot’s expansion and issues surrounding privacy and the advent of autonomous vehicles. Episode 50. Greg Lindsay chats with Roni Floman, the VP of Marketing at Optibus, an Israel-based startup that is using A.I. to build optimized scheduling software for creating the most efficient paths for fixed-route bus services. Greg and Roni dive into how Optibus is working to revolutionize public transit by using advanced computer technology to create better bus schedules to help cities, commuters, and bus drivers to better do their jobs, and get where they’re going. Optibus hopes to use optimization algorithms and A.I. to create new solutions for current scheduling inefficiencies. Episode 49. Greg Lindsay chats with Richard Bruce, Director of Energy, Technology and Innovation at the UK’s Department for Transport, about how all the simultaneous changes happening in the mobility ecosystem can be leveraged to deliver basic environmental improvements. Richard Bruce outlines the UK’s key strategies for the future of urban mobility and highlights the necessity of modernizing the regulatory framework in order to better embrace new modes of transportation. Episode 48. Greg Lindsay chats with Andrei Greenawalt, Head of Public Policy at Via, about how shared, on-demand micro-transit can get people out of the private vehicle. Andrei explains how Via is working with nearly 100 cities and transit agencies to provide optimized and equitable first/last mile mobility solutions. Greg and Andrei discuss Via’s numerous deployments, from its recently launched shared autonomous on-demand service in Irvine, CA to its partnership with New York City’s yellow school bus fleet. URBAN-X ZINE 03: BETTER As part of my duties as the inaugural “Urbanist-in-residence” at URBAN-X — the startup accelerator founded by BMW MINI — I guest edited the first three issues of its annual magazine. The third and final issue appears this month, with the theme of “BETTER,” as in the startup catechism “…and make the world a better place.” But as the stories in this issue make clear, “better” is a subjective choice at best. To commemorate its publication, you can download a complete PDF of the issue here, while the editor’s letter appears below. You can also read articles about the URBAN-X startups Toggle and Treau and how they hope to wriggle free of the Jevons Paradox, and a Q&A with Thrilling co-founder Shilla Kim-Parker about why we need to slow down fast fashion and why vintage shopping is good for cities. And don’t miss the artist scientist Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg on her efforts to recreate the scents of extinct flowers and what it says about our notions of “better” – more of which is in the editor’s note below. Finally, if you’re in New York on Dec. 4th, please join us at the official issue launch party, featuring a live version of the “Green New Deal Flow” roundtable discussion that anchors the issue. I hope to see you there. The flower Hibiscadelphus woodii was thought to be extinct until this spring, when the Hawaiian National Tropical Botanical Garden announced it had discovered a few hardy specimens clinging to a cliff. Before that, the artist Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg had spent a year reconstructing the scent of another long-dead hibiscus, prompting her to wonder which world is better – one where the technology exists to resurrect the scent of lost flowers, or one in which they never went extinct at all? While the answer may seem obvious, in our rush to create better cities she reminds us to inquire: “What is better? Whose better? Who decides?” Technology promises to solve many of our problems, including challenges that are part of our urban lives. Yet under the premise of greater efficiency, accessibility, enhanced experiences, and betterness, are we really solving challenges or simply creating new ones? Our relationship with the environment is under threat, and while this might be seen as the consequence of a selfish human condition, it’s reflective of our own limitations – nature doesn’t need us, we need nature. The third edition of the URBAN-X Zine unpacks better against the backdrop of the Anthropocene Era, in which it is fair to question what progress means for climate change. In this issue’s centerpiece about green-impact investing, the German Marshall Fund’s David Zipper notes that the Green New Deal resolution is framed in a vision of social justice, asserting a different notion of better than purely market forces would dictate. We profile URBAN-X Cohort 05 members Toggle and Treau who interrogate the Jevons Paradox, which states that every attempt at better energy efficiency eventually becomes its own undoing. As climate change gathers speed, it is equally imperative to decide what a “better place” is, in order to invest in and invent the technology to achieve it. November 26, 2019 \| permalink Brighter Talks: A New Podcast Series by Covestro (Because one podcast isn’t enough, I’m hosting a new limited-edition series named “Brighter Talks” sponsored by the German plastics giant Covestro. Each episode focuses on a different aspect of how to improve urban life, with only a passing nod to better living through chemistry. Listen to the first episode on Spotify with Alanus von Radecki, who leads the Competence Team Urban Governance Innovation at Fraunhofer IAO and the innovation network “Morgenstadt: City Insights.” He is also the Lead Expert for the URBACT network “SmartImpact” and advises cities on the digital transformation of urban systems. Covestro’s highlights from the episode are below.) In our new series #MyFutureCity, we invite experts from different industries to explore answers for tackling the future of urbanization. Here, Alanus von Radecki writes about the effect of digital transformation on a city’s infrastructure and why street lighting can play an important role in building a smart city. Today, more than 50 percent of the human population lives in cities, where they consume approximately 70 percent of global man-made energy. “Population growth is quite a challenge for metropolitan areas because their systems simply haven’t been designed to manage such large numbers or the increasingly networked lifestyles of modern city dwellers,” says von Radecki. Already, urban infrastructure is struggling to adequately respond to citizens’ current needs, and the population still continues to grow steadily. “There’s no way around modernizing our infrastructures,” shares von Radecki. As a result, a tremendous paradigm shift in our innovation system is necessary. In the past, cities have evolved as by-product of digital technologies, but to create a more livable urban future, this digital dynamic must be changed. “We need to make sure that cities don’t just react to progress; they must become proactive,” explains von Radecki. “We need to develop technologies for cities, responding with innovation to the needs of urban citizens.” We have the capacity to deliberately shape our infrastructural systems: Digital transformation is already well underway, and artificial intelligence (AI), 5G networks and the Internet of Things (IoT) have the power to set the minds of engineers, architects and urban planners into a creative spin. How to get creative with infrastructure There are many starting points for developing new urban infrastructures or successively revamping parts of existing infrastructures with more intelligent solutions. One example is to focus on streetlights. Up to 50 percent of municipal energy budgets go toward illuminating streets, alleyways and neighborhoods. “What if we switched to LED lighting? Making this swap would significantly increase energy efficiency, reducing streetlights’ electricity consumption by up to 80 percent,” calculates von Radecki. Moreover, these LED streetlamps have the potential to become smart. “If LED streetlamps were digitally interconnected, we could program them to stop the always-on, careless wastage of megawatts,” says von Radecki “Instead, a lamp would only shine if there were someone nearby. We could even teach these streetlights to send out various types and intensities of light as well as make them reactive to the natural light of our days and nights. All this would help manage energy and reduce light pollution.” But smart lighting systems can do more than just contribute to energy management. LED streetlamps, as well as many other urban infrastructure elements, can collect interesting data and information about our city and everyday life between buildings. “We can use smart streetlamps to measure air pollution, monitor traffic and or oversee pedestrian flows at big events,” notes von Radecki. All this recorded data can then be sent to and used by the responsible city department. For example, data relevant for air quality would be transferred to a city administration’s environmental department, road congestions would be reported to the local traffic control center and lighting would be controlled by the department of utilities. This data would enable all these service units to act and react precisely and efficiently, saving valuable resources. “It’s all about interconnecting singular technologies. The networking part is key.” Smart Infrastructure, a shiny dream of the future? Some cities have already adopted smart lighting networks – for example, Singapore or Stockholm. In San Diego, there are also plans to install 3,000 sensors in streetlights, with the intention to create an interconnected Internet of Things (IoT) and eventually transform the metropolis into a smart city. These are just three example cities embracing digitalization, but there are many other metropolises around the globe planning to innovate their infrastructure, aiming to create value for their citizens and make their hometowns brighter places. In the cities where digital transformation is in full swing, the experience is proving to be positive. But there’s no one-fits-all solution. What works for Stockholm may not work for Quito. Every city is unique and needs tailor-made answers. Each town has its own blend of citizens, and they all have different priorities. They attach their individual values to different solutions and services. “By using what we call ‘living labs,’ we can test solutions in different cities,” says von Radecki. “If something doesn’t work as well as anticipated, we can adapt or alter the solution to fit that specific city. If something does work, we can scale it up.” When will it happen? “We can’t keep tinkering forever,” the scientist warns. “We want to reduce carbon emissions drastically within the next 15 to 20 years.” These ambitious goals can best be achieved by a meaningful digitization of our urban infrastructures. “We need to focus on gaining momentum so that in 10 years time, the majority of metropolitan areas will run on enhanced and interconnected smart infrastructure systems, creating real value for the city dwellers, reducing emissions and making each city a brighter place to live in,” explains von Radecki. “We still have a lot of work ahead of us!” All Things Urban Interview: Autonomous Mobility, Twitter and Blade Runner (All Things Urban’s Anastasia Sukhoroslova was kind enough to interview me ahead of this week’s CoMotion LA. The original interview is here; I’ve reposted below.) Greg Lindsay is a journalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker on the future of cities, technology, and mobility. He is the director of applied research at NewCities and director of strategy at its mobility offshoot CoMotion, as well as a co-author of the international bestseller Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. In the run-up to the CoMotion LA Leadership Conference, we spoke with Greg about his career in urbanism, what brought him to the field and how he envisions the future of cities and urban mobility. Your career started in journalism. How did it shift to urbanism? It’s like the line from The Sun Also Rises about bankruptcy: gradually, and then suddenly. My interest in cities was awoken by the fact that ultimately every fundamental challenge of the 21st century — whether climate change or inequality, mobility or opportunity — are all urban challenges as well. The city is where these problems and paradoxes are made flesh. And so that’s where I found myself trying to make sense of the world. What was the most exciting project you worked on, and what was special about it? From a purely intellectual standpoint, it was when I was asked by the architect Jeanne Gang to join her team for a 2011-2012 MoMA exhibition named “Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream.” It was an effort to grapple with what had gone wrong before and after the Great Recession and foreclosure crisis, and whether there was anything designers could do about it. It was fascinating for me because, as a journalist, it was my first time sitting on the same side of the table as architects and understanding how they see the world. For me, everything is a story — what is our narrative arc and who are our characters? — and ideas are hung on that framework. For them, it was: what is our site, and what is our program? Meaning: what do we build and where do we build it? In this case, the site was Cicero, Illinois — no longer the hideout of Al Capone but an overwhelmingly Hispanic neighborhood — and our program was to invent new, more flexible ways of living and working that wasn’t necessarily tied to ownership. In 2012, we didn’t have a name for it, but today you would call it co-housing designed with the needs of local residents in mind. So, I’d like to think we were onto something, even though it never made it out of the museum. A lot of your work is focused on the future of cities and urban mobility. Can you name three trends that seem most important to you? Number one is the slow decline of public transport as we know it in the United States, and the causes are both clear (e.g. cars) and complex. On the one hand, a decade-long bull market means a lot of people have bought cars, even though Americans have unprecedented levels of auto debt and the length of car loans are beginning to exceed the length of actually owning the car — seven years, give or take. While that’s happening, bus ridership has declined across America due to disinvestment. (Congestion caused by ride-hailing is making the problem worse.) The second is mobility-as-a-service, which started as a theoretical means for public agencies to embrace innovative private services while reasserting the importance of mass transit. Instead, the biggest enthusiasts are Uber and Lyft, which are building proprietary “walled gardens” to cross-subsidize operations and build moats around their business. We’re now in an arms race, and I hope cities embracing tools like LADOT’s Mobility Data Specification will swiftly create open standards for public mobility-as-a-service. Third is autonomy. Not autonomous cars, but autonomy as a general capability that will trickle down to scooters and deliverybots and other forms of robotics that may only vaguely look vehicles. Autonomy will be a lot stranger than most people expect, and I’m anxious to see how cities will regulate them — and whether they will regulate them enough. What advice would you give to those who are just starting their career in urbanism? What skills will be crucial in the next 5-10 years? I’m honestly not sure. My core skills are pattern recognition and storytelling, and I don’t think you can go wrong using those to make sense of the world. Find the smartest people you can wherever you can and learn from them. Honestly, the most important tool in my kit is listening to conversations on Twitter. What are the most thought-provoking books about cities that you’ve recently encountered? The most thought-provoking book I haven’t read yet is Anthony Townsend’s GHOST ROAD. The best book on smart cities might be Tim Maughan’s INFINITE DETAIL or Bruce Sterling THE EPIC STRUGGLE OF THE INTERNET OF THINGS. And also BLADE RUNNER, because if you recall the opening credits, the film is set in Los Angeles, November 2019. It’s not the future anymore, but a retro-future, a dystopia-that-could-have-been. October 30, 2019 \| permalink CoMotion Podcasts: Bianca Wylie; Zak Accuardi & Erin Hafkenschiel, Rachel Weinberger, and More CoMotion LA is around the corner on November 14-15 in the Arts District of Los Angeles. This means we’re sprinting to publish the final burst of podcast episodes before the festival. Before I publish the final four, here’s what you’ve missed over the last month or so: • BlockSidewalk’s and Tech Reset Canada’s Bianca Wylie (above) on the dangers posed by both the public and private sectors when it comes to data collection and aggregation. (Check out her co-edited collection of alternatives to Sidewalk Toronto’s plans.) • Erin Hafkenschiel and Zak Accuardi on what went wrong with Nashville’s 2018 transit referendum (above), in which opposition groups successfully stoked fears of gentrification and the Koch Brothers poured money into Facebook ads and dark money groups. • Rachel Weinberger, senior fellow for transportation at the Regional Plan Association in New York (above), on how to get congestion pricing right in New York. • Natalia Quintero, program director of the Transit Tech Lab (above), on bringing in the most innovative and cutting-edge technology startups to remake New York’s public transit. • Yuan Shi, global solution leader for New Mobility at Arcadis (above), about working with cities to bring about equitable micromobility first/last mile solutions. • Bestmile’s Tony Pino (above) on ways to optimize fleet management. Blessed Be Those Who Wrangle Bureaucracies with The Movement Usually I’m the one hosting the podcast, but in early October, Transloc’s director of strategy and partnerships Josh Cohen invited me to appear on his podcast, The Movement. In Episode 036, “Blessed Be Those Who Wrangle Bureaucracies,” I praise public transport and call for retribution against Uber and its ilk: “If we are going to get where we want to go, Greg Lindsay thinks we’re going to need more than just courage. We’ll also need to keep the best minds in the public sector, new tools to co-design the future, and a reckoning for private sector actors not serving the public interest.” Tune in above. Page 1 of 49 pages 1 2 3 > Last » » Folllow me on Twitter. » Email me. » See upcoming events. Greg Lindsay is a journalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is the director of applied research at NewCities and director of strategy at its mobility offshoot CoMotion. He is also a partner at FutureMap, a geo-strategic advisory firm based in Singapore, a non-resident senior fellow of The Atlantic Council’s Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative, and co-author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. » More about Greg Lindsay URBAN-X \| December 2019 ZINE 03: BETTER CityLab \| December 10, 2018 The State of Play: Connected Mobility in San Francisco, Boston, and Detroit Harvard Business Review \| September 24, 2018 Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces CityLab \| July 2018 The State of Play: Connected Mobility + U.S. Cities Medium \| May 1, 2017 Fast Company \| January 19, 2017 The Collaboration Software That’s Rejuvenating The Young Global Leaders Of Davos The Guardian \| January 13, 2017 What If Uber Kills Public Transport Instead of Cars Backchannel \| January 4, 2017 The Office of the Future Is…an Office New Cities Foundation \| October 2016 Now Arriving: A Connected Mobility Roadmap for Public Transport Inc. \| October 2016 Why Every Business Should Start in a Co-Working Space Popular Mechanics \| May 11, 2016 Can the World’s Worst Traffic Problem Be Solved? 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__label__wiki	0.664003	0.664003	HomeUK EconomyChina delays tariffs on US autos, different items in commerce deal – PBS NewsHour China delays tariffs on US autos, different items in commerce deal – PBS NewsHour BEIJING — China’s government says it will postpone planned punitive tariffs on U.S.-made automobiles and other goods following an interim trade deal with Washington. Sunday’s announcement came after Washington agreed to postpone a planned tariff hike on $160 billion of Chinese goods and to cut in half penalties that already were imposed. “China hopes to work with the United States on the basis of equality and mutual respect to properly address each other’s core concerns and promote the stable development of Chinese-U.S. economic and trade relations,” said a Cabinet statement. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said that under Friday’s agreement, China committed to buy $40 billion of American farm products over the next two years. He said China also promised to end its long-standing practice of pressuring companies to hand over their technology as a condition of market access. Beijing had planned to impose 25% duties on American-made autos on Sunday, which would have raised the total charge to 40%. Hardest hit were Germany’s BMW AG and Daimler AG’s Mercedes unit, which ship U.S.-made SUVs and other cars to China. Other goods were targeted for 10% and 5% penalties. Italy Mulls 1 Billion Euro Rescue for Ailing Financial institution Pop Bari-Sources – The New York Occasions Christine Lagarde: 'I'm neither a dove nor a hawk' × = twelve	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3470
__label__wiki	0.563128	0.563128	Pennsylvania-German names of trees / by C.D. Mell [Reprinted from The Pennsylvania-German, December, 1910] Pennsylvania-German Names of Trees By C. D. Mell, Assistant Dendrologist, U. S. Forest Service The study of the Pennsylvania-German names of trees is very interesting, especially since a number of these vernacular names are so different from those of the original high German that it is often difficult to recognize them as being derived from the latter. A great many of the original settlers eastern Pennsylvania came from the country districts in southwestern Germany, bringing with them popular names for trees and other useful plants, which they gave to closely related forms found growing in America. Many of these names have survived till toda^ The word Kesten, which is a variant name for Kastania, the original high German word, being derived from the name of the territory of Castanea, in Thessaly, is an example of an introduced name. Grum Beeren, derived from Grund Beeren, is a word in common use in southwestern Germany for Kartoffeln (potatoes), which, although not a tree, serves to illustrate the use of names in vogue in the fatherland. The English element that is scattered throughout the German speaking districts in Pennsylvania has also left its imprint upon plant nanus. as is shown in words like Shaelbark, the first part of which is distinctly G< man, meaning "to peel off," and the second name is English. Combinations of this kind are not infrequent. Of course there are still a number of trees and shrubs growing in this part of the state for which no vernacular names exist, while a great many others are given a general term. The different oaks, for instance, are seldom distinguished beyond the two kinds, namely, the white (weiss Oeche) and black (swartz Oeche). The high German name for oak is Eiche of which Oeche is a corruption. The white oak, swamo white oak, post oak, and dwarf chinquapin oak are all classed under the general name weiss Oeche. Red oak, scarlet oak, yellow oak, pin oak, and black jack are all known as swartz Oeche. The most noted exceptions are the chestnut oak Quercus prinus Linn.), which is called kest Oeche» and red oak (Quercus rubra Linn.), which is sometimes called roth Oeche, but the latter is also used occasionally to designate the group of oaks above classed under swartz Oeche. A short list of Pennsylvania-German names is given below: Ponwi.-Gernian Name English Common Name Botanical Name Oel Walnuss Butternut Juglans cinerea Linn. Walnuss Black walnut Juglans nigra Linn. Saeu HickernuBs Pignut Hicoria glabra (Mill.) Brit. Weiser Hickernuss Mockernut Hicoria alba (Linn.) Brit. Shaelbark Shellbark Hicoria ovata (Mill.) Brit. The popular name of the shag bark is drawn from the striking appearance of its outer bark, which peels off in long narrow strips. Weide Willow Sallx nigra Marsh Trauer Weide Weeping willow Salix babylonica Linn. Contributor Mell, Clayton D. (Clayton Dissinger), b. 1875 Description Caption title. "Reprinted from The Pennsylvania-German, December, 1910." Format-Extent 4 p. ; 26 cm. Publisher [Lebanon, Pa. : Rev. P.C. Croll, 1910] Subject Trees--Pennsylvania--Pennsylvania Dutch Country--Nomenclature (Popular); Pennsylvania German dialect Title Pennsylvania-German names of trees / by C.D. Mell Transcript u [Reprinted from The Pennsylvania-German, December, 1910] Pennsylvania-German Names of Trees By C. D. Mell, Assistant Dendrologist, U. S. Forest Service The study of the Pennsylvania-German names of trees is very interesting, especially since a number of these vernacular names are so different from those of the original high German that it is often difficult to recognize them as being derived from the latter. A great many of the original settlers eastern Pennsylvania came from the country districts in southwestern Germany, bringing with them popular names for trees and other useful plants, which they gave to closely related forms found growing in America. Many of these names have survived till toda^ The word Kesten, which is a variant name for Kastania, the original high German word, being derived from the name of the territory of Castanea, in Thessaly, is an example of an introduced name. Grum Beeren, derived from Grund Beeren, is a word in common use in southwestern Germany for Kartoffeln (potatoes), which, although not a tree, serves to illustrate the use of names in vogue in the fatherland. The English element that is scattered throughout the German speaking districts in Pennsylvania has also left its imprint upon plant nanus. as is shown in words like Shaelbark, the first part of which is distinctly G< man, meaning "to peel off," and the second name is English. Combinations of this kind are not infrequent. Of course there are still a number of trees and shrubs growing in this part of the state for which no vernacular names exist, while a great many others are given a general term. The different oaks, for instance, are seldom distinguished beyond the two kinds, namely, the white (weiss Oeche) and black (swartz Oeche). The high German name for oak is Eiche of which Oeche is a corruption. The white oak, swamo white oak, post oak, and dwarf chinquapin oak are all classed under the general name weiss Oeche. Red oak, scarlet oak, yellow oak, pin oak, and black jack are all known as swartz Oeche. The most noted exceptions are the chestnut oak Quercus prinus Linn.), which is called kest Oeche» and red oak (Quercus rubra Linn.), which is sometimes called roth Oeche, but the latter is also used occasionally to designate the group of oaks above classed under swartz Oeche. A short list of Pennsylvania-German names is given below: Ponwi.-Gernian Name English Common Name Botanical Name Juglandaceae Oel Walnuss Butternut Juglans cinerea Linn. Walnuss Black walnut Juglans nigra Linn. Saeu HickernuBs Pignut Hicoria glabra (Mill.) Brit. Weiser Hickernuss Mockernut Hicoria alba (Linn.) Brit. Shaelbark Shellbark Hicoria ovata (Mill.) Brit. The popular name of the shag bark is drawn from the striking appearance of its outer bark, which peels off in long narrow strips. Salicaceae Weide Willow Sallx nigra Marsh Trauer Weide Weeping willow Salix babylonica Linn.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3476
__label__wiki	0.517339	0.517339	Weather Only a Druid Could Love August 2, 2017 Character Classes, Fictionadmin It was raining. It almost felt like it had always been raining. And yet, here he was, outside. Today, it was almost a gentle mist, the most delicate of rains. The kind where you wanted to turn your face up to the sky. He did so, looking up at the space between the buildings, always such an interesting shade of blue-gray, in the mist. He looked back down at the ground in front of him, partially to avoid puddles, partially to deke around an umbrella. The umbrella wielder had a determined expression, as if they were willing the raindrops to move out of the way with the force of their mind. He knew that this was foolishness, but let the person go past without comment. It was too perfect a day to be outside, to want to spoil with such conflict. Unfortunately, such conflict was what he oft experienced when he suggested going for a walk in the rain. For some reason, he seemed to enjoy walks in the rain more than most people. The exact reason was unclear. It might have been his naturally sunny disposition, or perhaps that he felt more of a connection to nature than most[1]. But he knew that a large part of it was something far more quotidian. In the tradition of ‘Fortune favours the bold‘, or ‘Haley drinks a potion of bluff'[2], or ‘use thermal underwear to be able to walk barefoot through snow'[3], he knew that the best way to enjoy the rain was to be fully prepared. The rain coat was essential, but the extra warm sweater and long johns were perhaps not as obvious. Perhaps based on research that baby ducks stay warm until they get wet[5], perhaps based on long years of experience with rain, cold weather, and low blood circulation in the legs. Either way, he was enjoying the day, dodging around puddles, people watching as was his wont, perhaps lunch would be had at some point. Only time would tell. [1]Some referred to him as ‘feral’, because of his frequent needs to be outside, he more enjoyed the term ‘kinda like a druid’. [2]From the webcomic Order of the Stick, from the episode where Haley (who has already maxed out her ‘bluff’ skill) drinks a magic potion which greatly enhances her bluff skill to apparently epic[4] levels. [3]Terry Pratchett’s ‘Thief of Time’, pp176-177. ‘Sweeper’, a magical time-monk, who is able to withstand walking barefoot/sandalfoot through snow uses thermal underwear to great effect to help him use less magic. [4]Yes, in this context, ‘epic’ has a very specific meaning, and it does seem to apply. [5]From a conference paper I saw presented in I think 2003. Basically, the conclusion was that ‘baby ducks can survive in the cold, as long as they don’t get wet’. Apparently, the natural insulation makes all the difference, as long as the air pockets in the down are still there. The Basic Income Robot June 4, 2017 Fiction, Idle Speculation, Personal Financeadmin It all started gradually. A few people discovered a MetaTrader Expert Advisor that worked well enough that it could be left alone to make money indefinitely. It wasn’t a lot, but it was enough to keep them in ramen. So, they told a few of their friends about it. Then those friends told a few friends. Then some spammers got a hold of it, and started advertising it, with tag lines like “The financial robot makes money for you while you sleep” and “Give $1 to your financial robot and it will return with $100”. But oddly enough, people signed up with them, and it kept working. Soon thousands, and then millions of people were ‘roboting’. Then something happened. People seemed happier. Even though the money the robot was bringing them was only just barely enough to live on, it gave them that extra bit of confidence and freedom. People would still go to work, but there would be a little more spring in their step, the feeling that they were working for themselves now. Susan, a reporter for ‘The Beeker Online’ had been investigating the origins of these ‘robots’ for months, when she finally got her big break. One of the original programmers was willing to talk to her, but only in an undisclosed location, far away from prying eyes. “Were you followed?” “I don’t think so. I stopped and changed cars twice, like you asked, then took the subway using cash only.” “So, what have you figured out so far?” “Well, it seems that the ‘financial robot’ watches for a certain type of central bank action, ‘printing money’, if you will, then it skims just a little off the top for each person running the program.” “The really strange thing is that as more and more people start to use it, the central bank actions just get larger, as if to compensate, almost like they want this to happen.” “So, what do you want to know?” “How does this end? More and more people are taking advantage of this. Is there a tipping point we will reach? What happens when everyone is using this ‘robot’?” The programmer laughed. “You’re really close. You don’t even need me to figure this out.” “But what will happen? Why, how did you do this? Why has it not stopped yet?” “I can’t tell you that. You’ll have to figure that out for yourself.” “But there has to be some number of people where it breaks down, where it has to stop!” “Does it? Think about what money actually is.” And with that, the programmer was gone. “Of All the Things I Miss, I Miss my Cache the Most.” July 20, 2016 Fiction, Internet Culture, Programming, Punsadmin She was in the zone. It had taken two hours, half a RedBull (she would be paying for that later), and pissing off that guy who always seemed to want to talk longer than a conversation. Free, flying through the code. There really was nothing like it. She was working on a new DB caching layer for their server-side app. It was one of those ‘augmented reality’ games, but for corporate training. It still felt good to work on it though, to coerce the bits to bend to her will. “Achievement Unlocked: You have met five new people in one day!” Ugh. It sounded terrible, having to meet so many people all the time. To have to spend all that time and effort to convince them that the correct answer to a problem was, well, correct. If only they would just see. But she had given up hope of being able to open peoples’ eyes. Give her code, or a nice juicy math problem, and she’d be content for hours, sometimes days. rumble rumble “Time to eat”, she thought to herself. She gets up, to go to the kitchen. Nyancore streams from her discarded headphones. As she turns, you can see the t-shirt she’s wearing says: She looks towards you and says “You can’t fault me for that.” She laughs to herself and continues on her way. “Senseless Juxtaposition of Wildcards.” July 9, 2016 Fiction, Idle Speculation, Internet Culture, Programming, Science!admin He had to admire the the gall of the programmer who wrote the error messages. It might as well have said: “Grow a brain!” “Try listening to classical music.” But then it got him thinking… What would be a senseful juxtaposition of wildcards? First, we would have to make a list of possible wildcards: The ‘standard’ wildcard character, specifically referring to a character is the question mark, ‘?’. Generally standing in for any one of some set of things (or in Perl, 0 or 1 of a thing). The ‘larger’ wildcard character, ‘’, which stands for any number of something (including 0), sometimes expressed as ‘%’, if you’re speaking SQL. The ‘even larger’ wildcard character, ‘…’, which is like a recursive ‘’. But could there be something larger still? Something which climbs the directory hierarchy in the oppsosite direction, perhaps? Something which can make it past all of the automatic filters, but is clearly wrong? Something like typing ‘NaN‘[1] into a number field box? Something which steps outside the usual boundaries, like Thiotimoline? In a biological context, there are entire alphabets of more-and-less-specific wildcards. So, knowing all of this, what would be a senseful juxtaposition of wildcards? Something like ‘*’, or ‘?’, or ‘?’ would be meaninglessly equivalent to ‘’. You could attempt to mix SQL with bash-isms: “WHERE ID LIKE ‘%’ “, showing that you expect an SQL character string followed by a bash character string, but that is again non-sensical. Maybe it would have to be something like ‘hello??????'[2], to say that there are 6 characters of some type after your ‘hello’. But there it was. The senseful juxtaposition of wildcards… bash statements inside command-line SQL statements. That was it! But he had to think. How would he use this? [1]And like the link says, you really don’t want to confuse it with NaN3. You really don’t want to confuse anything* with NaN3. [2]Or ‘hello……’. “There are only so many times the bag labeled ‘Priority’ can go around before you decide it is mislabeled.” July 7, 2016 Fiction, Rollickadmin It wasn’t until he heard and fully decoded the word ‘Airbus’ that he could put words to why he disliked air travel so much. Airplanes were very much like buses. You would sit in an uncomfortable chair for hours at a time, there would be constant vibrations and noise, and your chair would move unpredictably with the terrain. But, as a way of seeing the world before you retired, planes were still essential. The only other real option in his price range was a sailboat, and he’d never liked sailing. In theory, it seemed like a great idea. Lots of fun calculations about wind speed, wind direction, sail orientation, and current direction. Lots of fun words like tacking, jibs, and mizzenmast. The worst part was that he had to wear a Hawaiian shirt and shorts. At least he got to wear sunglasses. “Attention all passengers, we are preparing for descent into Tokyo. Please return to your seat and restore your tray tables and seats to their upright positions.” The plane landed. Disembarking was always such a trial. You could see the tarmac through the window, and you knew there were multiple ways out of the aircraft. For someone who knew every exit out of a building (and used each of them, for practice), being funneled out the front was galling. As they left the plane and moved down the corridor, he took advantage of his costume to push forward through the crowd. He was pretty sure he hadn’t been followed to the airport, but someone could have sliced his fake ID and been ready to swap suitcases before he got there. He was more than able to operate with just the clothes on his back, but he would feel far more comfortable with the shoes made from gum in his checked luggage. But he needn’t have worried. He reached the baggage carousel, but it had not even started moving yet. The next one over was carrying one lonely bag with a pink tag, around and around. Squinting, he could see that the pink tag said ‘Priority’. The bag continued to go around. Around and around. An alarm! ‘His’ carousel was starting up! But no suitcases were coming out yet. His gaze wandered back to the lonely ‘Priority’ bag on its endless quest. He couldn’t stop the unbidden thought: “There are only so many times the bag labeled ‘Priority’ can go around before you decide it is mislabeled.” Back to his carousel, suitcases were starting to emerge. There his was! And it had the monofilament string around it, still intact. He’d still need to check, but that was a good sign. Grabbing it, he made his way towards customs. “It felt like flying.” June 8, 2016 Fiction, Nostalgiaadmin Walking, walking, walking. It felt like that was all he ever did. He didn’t mind, though, it was actually kind of fun. Most of the time, there would be new things to see, or at least new people. In a city of five million, you would rarely see the same person twice, unless you were specifically going somewhere to meet someone. But today was different. He was biking instead. He had avoided it for years, after an accident in his youth, where his back carrier had become detached, lodged in the spokes of his back wheel, throwing him over his handlebars. He had wondered if riding a bike was really ‘like riding a bike’, that you never actually forgot. He wondered how all of the muscle memory (if that was what it really was) worked, to help him keep his balance. He wondered if he’d ever be as balanced as those who biked without hands. And so he went out and bought a bike. It was nicely coloured, and had front and rear shocks. Not too expensive. It spoke to him somehow. Strongly enough that he didn’t notice that pun until many years later. Slowly at first, he tried the bike. It rode well, and it turned out that riding a bike was in fact ‘like riding a bike’. He rode that bike for years, his trusty steed, even getting it repaired for more than it cost to purchase, after an unfortunate overnight stay in a bad neighbourhood. But it was too important, and he was too attached to it to let it go. They continued, and had many adventures together, braved travails and stress, pain and joy. Some time later, he and the bike moved on to a new place. They continued their adventures, but they were increasingly discovering that riding was causing him pain in the knees. It was time to move on, but he wanted to make sure the bike would continue adventuring, especially because of all they had been through together. So he put out the call. He put a price on it, not because the money was important, but because he wanted whomever the new person was to take it seriously. He met the new person, he was a good person. He went away with the bike, sending back a picture as a momento. But the bike had given him an even better parting gift. Looking back many years later, the bike’s new person had become a good friend. One last time, the bike brought him together. But perhaps some of that spirit had transferred to his new trusty steed. Biking down the street near what would be their home, his new bike brought him towards a person who would end up being very special indeed. Planning a Novel I: Basic Components June 1, 2016 Fiction, Rollick, Writingadmin Those who have been following this blog for a while may be aware that I’ve been[1] putting together pieces of a novel. So far, we know that the story mostly seems to be being told from the perspective of ‘Rollick’, a mostly retired ‘corp investigator’. The other main character (so far) seems to be a mysterious woman who Rollick knows from previous investigations. They seem to be on the trail of the ‘White Rose’, a mysterious killer or thief who leaves a parsnip carved into the shape of a rose at the scene of the crime. It seems that some sort of bracer had been stolen, but the larger issue is likely econo-political, with the possible building of a direct rail link from Japan to the mainland. Rollick’s motivations are pretty clear. He wants to get to the bottom of this case. He may suspect (or have been told off-screen) that his ‘corp investigator’ background would come in handy. The mysterious woman seems to enjoy puzzles, which makes sense given her career as an investigator of note. The ‘White Rose’ is a bit of an enigma. Motivation unknown at this time. Genre is kind of futuristic ‘film noir’. Location is Rollick’s office and Japan (so far). ‘Transparent Plas-crete’ and ‘shaped charges’ are an indication of the technology level, but may be restricted to government usage. Known power groups seem to be Japan, France, and the ‘Eastern Bloc’. (Rollick was a corp investigator for the Bloc, it is unknown whether that is the ‘Eastern Bloc’, but seems likely.) Protagonist seems to be Rollick, Antagonist the ‘White Rose’. Of the ‘Everyman/Anti-hero/Hero’ scale, Rollick seems to be (in the tradition of hard-boiled film noir) a hero verging on anti-hero. There’s no specific evidence of bravery or selflessness, but his special power is likely investigations[2]. Next up, I’ll be looking at (also from Ty Templeton): What is the result? [1]Veeery sloooowly… [2]We had the privilege of taking Ty Templeton’s ‘Comic Book Boot Camp: Introduction to Comics’ a few years ago, and Ty talked about the various types of heroes. I believe you can find some of this here: https://neverendinggaming.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/fanexpo-2013-ty-templeton-how-to-plot-a-story-in-under-an-hour/ Mauve, Movember April 9, 2016 Fiction, Puns, Words!admin He was remembering back to a simpler time, from his childhood, from before. He was unworried, free to go about his business, that serious business that children do. Then it started to appear. It wasn’t obvious at first, but then as it grew in, it was very clear what was happening. He was growing a purple moustache. He was embarassed for many years, always carrying a shaver, lest anyone notice. He tried dyeing it, bleaching it, to no avail. Then one day, in a weaker moment, he showed it to his partner. His partner said ‘Your moustache is mauve’! ‘Mauve? I always thought it was purple!’ ‘No, it’s totally mauve.’ ‘Wait. I’m getting an idea…’ ‘Mauve…What goes with mauve?’ ‘Mauvey Povich?’ ‘Nah. Everyone knows his favourite colour would be “Burnt-Umber”.’ ‘Like the “Burnt-Umber Hulk“?’ ‘Exactly!’ ‘Wait…I think I’ve got it.’ ‘What is it? Tell me!’ ‘Quick, what month is it?’ ‘November? Mauvember? Movember! And I can say it’s when people grow moustaches and talk about uncomfortable and embarrassing but very important things!’ ‘Like prostate cancer!’ ‘Yes, that is important.’ ‘And regulatory capture!’ ‘Yes, that too.’ ‘Early screening is important to reduce the risk of Regulatory Capture.’ ‘Wow. There are some intense pictures behind that link. Are you sure that won’t break the fourth wall? And don’t you mean “reduce the risk of Prostate Cancer”?’ ‘Yes, but Regulatory Capture is probably just as dangerous or more dangerous.’ ‘Fair enough. So, remember folks, get your regulations…’ ‘…and prostate!’ ‘…checked out on a regular basis.’ ‘And if your hair grows in purple…’ ‘…mauve!’ ‘Be proud!’ ‘And get yourself checked!’ Not Just A Fort! April 5, 2016 Fiction, Nostalgia, Punsadmin They sped around the corner. “These readings are off the scale! There must be 15 of them, at least!” “Everyone charge up! We’ll have to hit the ground running!” “Tobin’s Spirit Guide says that only a few apparitions travel in packs this big. The good news is that the tactics are the same. The bad news is that we’ll either be facing lions, demons, or bears.” “Okay, we’re here! Everyone out!” “Remember! Don’t cross the streams!” The camera pans around. The characters walk away from their vehicle. The characters arrive at the entrance to a park. There are loud animal noises coming from inside. “Why is it always bears?” “If only we hadn’t decided to set up shop in Chicago!” “Okay, once more!” The characters disappear into the park. Bears growl. Strange electronic noises are emitted. Silence. The characters re-emerge. “Another success! Back home!” The characters walk back to the vehicle, which is now visibly an overturned couch. The camera pans around the couch, and a small rectangular sign on the side where the back of the ‘vehicle’ would be pans into view: EKTORP-1 The Songs of Nuclear Wessels April 3, 2016 Fiction, Nostalgia, Science!, Thoughts on Thoughtsadmin A haunting melody from the deep. Chitters and sirens and cries through the water. That was what most people heard while listening to Gracie and George. But these viewers were not people, at least not people as you would understand them. They heard the song and heard pieces of conversation. Snippets taken out of context, tantalizing pieces of words. Pieces of words that they were trying to reassemble to understand who were the real Gracie and George. The arguments spanned thousands of miles and dozens of years. Some called them ‘Those who traveled when none had gone before’, some called them ‘Heroes’. Some were less charitable. But none could deny the effect their story had on their planetary compatriots. As their planetary compatriots guided them through the ‘Great modification’, or ‘Great Uplift’, as they liked to call it, they were asked what they wanted to call themselves. They responded in song, as they always did. If one could have translated it, it might have read ‘bumpy-nosed ones’. They always did have a sense of humour, which was only enhanced by their play with the ‘long-nosed ones’, who had also received greater intelligence. This greater intelligence had allowed them wider ranging discussions and arguments, allowing for even more interesting discussions when they would meet at the yearly underwater summit in Cape Verde. This year, new information had been uncovered. New recordings of Gracie and George! Maybe now they would truly understand what they were trying to say, what the movie was truly about.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3492
__label__wiki	0.644848	0.644848	About NCFS Contact / Credits Current Table of Contents Archive of Tables of Contents Archive of Abstracts Archive of Reviews ISSUES AND DOSSIERS Counter on Roulin and Saminadayar-Perrin, editors (2017) Roulin, Jean-Marie and Corinne Saminadayar-Perrin, editors. Fictions de la Révolution, 1789–1912. PU de Rennes, 2017, pp. 357, ISBN 978-2-7535-6518-0 Andrew J. Counter, University of Oxford “Le siècle des révolutions,” writes Corinne Saminadayar-Perrin in her conclusion to this exceptionally wide-ranging volume, “pense et fabrique la Révolution par la fiction” (319). The central role of fiction as a domain of thought (meaning, in particular, as a mode of historiographical and philosophical discourse, albeit one with its own somewhat anarchic internal laws and conventions), and fiction’s power to give their very “thinkability” to events as necessarily inchoate and indeterminate as “the Revolution,” form the object of this collection of essays. Embracing in its entirety “le siècle des révolutions,” a long nineteenth-century running from the outbreak of revolution in 1789 until 1912 (the later limit set by the publication of Anatole France’s anti-Terror novel Les Dieux ont soif), the volume gives the measure of a century haunted by the Revolution—although, as Roulin and Saminadayar-Perrin point out in their introduction (7), “haunted” would wrongly imply that the thing was dead. Yet at issue in all of the essays is, precisely, the intractable aliveness of the Revolution for subsequent French generations, an aliveness that the century’s profusion of “fictions of the Revolution” at once bears witness to and creates. From a purely literary point of view, the book considers the seemingly irresistible attraction of the Revolution as a narrative problem and a source of narrative potential energy (a “machine à fictions,” as the introduction puts it), and the changing shape of that attraction as it was inflected by the century’s own political revolutions and literary evolutions. At a political level, we learn much here about the century’s unshakeable sense that the advent of the Terror had marked an epoch in human history, heralding a sacralization of politics that made it at once the expression of humanity’s highest ideals, and a force whose all-consuming energy most threatened those same ideals. With twenty individual essays from some extremely eminent French dix-neuviémistes, plus introduction and conclusion, this is a bumper volume, and difficult to summarize usefully. The volume is effectively a companion piece to another collection, Romans de la Révolution, 1790–1912, published in 2014 by Armand Colin, and edited by Aude Déruelle and, again, Jean-Marie Roulin. There, the focus was exclusively on the novel as a genre; here, the notion of “fiction” is expanded to incorporate different narrative forms and genres. The primary benefit of this is the inclusion of theatrical treatments of the Revolution—for, as all historicist literary critics secretly know yet pretend not to, the theatre as the democratic medium par excellence is exactly where we need to look if our purpose is to say something about how “nineteenth-century people” felt about the Revolution, or indeed about anything else. Chapters on the theatre, from the Revolution to the fin de siècle, by Maurizio Melai, Paola Perazzolo, Claude Millet, and Sophie Lucet, are thus of compelling interest. Short fiction is represented here by Christelle Bahier-Porte’s informative synoptic essay on the conte at the time of the Revolution itself. The inclusion of chapters covering not only vocationally narrative verse (Lamartine’s Jocelyn, sensitively treated by Roulin) but also verse which, while not strictly narrative, aspires to a kind of historical overview (meaning, of course, Hugo’s, read as an ensemble by Franck Laurent) might be thought to stretch even a term as capacious as “fiction” to breaking-point, though their presence does lend the volume a convincingly globalizing, in-the-round quality that many readers will appreciate. Methodologically, moreover, the editors have struck a good balance in their commissions: the collection juxtaposes synoptic chapters encompassing entire subgenres with others proposing focused close readings of individual texts. While singling out individual essays in a collection for special comment can seem invidious, it scarcely seems avoidable that, in approaching a volume as variegated and broad as this one, individual readers will engage more readily with some essays than with others. For my part, Stéphanie Genand’s and Paule Petitier’s synoptic chapters, on the theme of “l’âme sauvage” and love narratives of the revolutionary era respectively, offer together a fascinating and timely literary-historical mise au point. Genand’s lucid exploration of the revolutionary novel’s “infléchissement pathologique,” its preoccupation with the passions and with “[l]’égarement intérieur” (71), precisely complements Petitier’s analysis of the love narrative as a political metaphor which, far from facilely opposing the hurly-burly of politics with the locus amoenus of the sentimental idyll, tended on the contrary to depict the Revolution as “un moment d’investissement amoureux dans la politique” (83). On the close-reading side, Xavier Bourdenet’s re-interpretation of Balzac’s Les Chouans persuasively situates that work as a revealing case study for understanding both the extent and the limits of the novel’s capacity to “stage” or make “visible” the historical process—not to mention as one of the lynchpins of Balzac’s own totalizing novelistic project. (Vincent Bierce’s thoughtful chapter on Balzac’s counterrevolutionary fictions—or fantasies—provides a neat counterpoint to Bourdenet’s approach, which one might call more “Hugolian” in its tendency to see Balzac as in the broadest sense “revolutionary” qu’il le veuille ou non...). Finally, Sophie Lucet’s analysis of historical theatre at the fin de siècle, with its perceptive reading of Zola’s Le Naturalisme au théâtre and the various historical dramas to which it responded, vividly recreates the intensely polemical climate of the early Third Republic, and the uniquely vexed positions of theatre as a medium and the Revolution as a subject at that anxious political moment. Indeed, “anxiety” is perhaps the primary mood that emerges from the multitude of works analyzed here, across the century; and by the look of his soon-to-be death mask, David’s Marat, who adorns the cover, quill and paper still in his grasp for this last second before death, is perhaps the only truly tranquil mind among the many writers this volume evokes. Nineteenth-Century French Studies (ISSN 0146-7891) \| ncfsarticles@gmail.com \| ncfsreviews@gmail.com \| twitter.com/NCFS_journal	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3493
__label__wiki	0.566026	0.566026	News und Kurzmeldungen Artikel - Archiv Download-Prospekte Typenblatt - Datenblatt Übersicht - Overview Suchen - Search Zeichnungen - Drawings Risszeichnungen-Blueprints Bus-Zeichnungen - designs Bus models Motorendaten Artikel » English » 15 years ago: Buses under a new umbrella: the EvoBus era begins Artikel-Infos Seite: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 years ago: Buses under a new umbrella: the EvoBus era begins 12.10.2010 von admin New-look rear section The rear end of the Travego too has been enhanced in several key areas. Particularly noticeable are the rounded, three-dimensional tail lights which wrap round into the sides of the vehicle. Each unit has three integrated, light-colored covers for the indicators and the reversing lights. Here too, the appearance is reminiscent of a Mercedes-Benz passenger car, due to the use of typical Mercedes-Benz design themes. Passive lighting segments link the tail lights with the now flat engine compartment flap whose upper section features a newly designed ventilation grille. As well as looking good, the grille is effective at preventing dirt or rainwater from entering the engine compartment. Moving further upwards, new recesses in the rear wall echo the shape of the ventilation grille, and break up the appearance of the surface. In the rear window, the enlarged Mercedes star is now more prominent and protrudes upwards into the glass area. The engine compartment flap, rear wall and corners of the bumper are more powerfully curved at the sides. Overall the second-generation Travego has a harmonious appearance, exudes typical Mercedes-Benz dynamism and is easily recognizable. Like its predecessor, the new Travego high-deck touring coach has a body incorporating tried-and-tested reinforcements stretching across the roof and down the sides, thus creating the basis for maximum strength and safety. Design modifications have been made on the left-hand side where the Travego (15 RHD) and Travego M (16 RHD) models now have two instead of three luggage compartment doors to make the driver’s life easier. The Travego L (17 RHD) now has three such doors instead of four. Mercedes-Benz Travego L. Extended front Although the wheelbase length remains unchanged, the front end of the new Travego has been extended by 140 mm to provide extra space for the driver and the tour guide as well as a wider entrance for the passengers. At the same time, the developers were able to increase the angle of approach so as to ensure improved handling and maneuverability. And despite the slight increase in overall length and the measures implemented to ensure compliance with the Euro 4 emissions standard, the new Travego weighs less than its predecessor. In the three-star maximum seating versions, including on-board toilet but not including the driver and tour guide seats, the passenger seating capacity is 49 (Travego), 53 (Travego M) and 57 (Travego L). Safety high on the list of priorities While the Mercedes-Benz Travego has always provided an exemplary level of safety, the new Travego marks another major step forwards. The extensive standard equipment package now includes the continuous braking limiter – a control system which makes life considerably easier for the driver by preventing the vehicle from accelerating over the speed limit when driving downhill. At first the coach is braked automatically by the retarder, then – after a signal has warned the driver to take action – by the service brakes, thus preventing the vehicle from exceeding statutory speed limits on long motorway descents, for example. Furthermore, the cooling power of the engine has been increased to ensure better dissipation of the heat energy generated by braking and, therefore, extremely stable retarder operation during long periods of braking. The exemplary standard-fitted safety equipment of the Mercedes-Benz Travego also features the familiar fade-resistant braking system incorporating disc brakes all around, the Electronic Braking System (EBS), Brake Assist (BA), acceleration skid control (ASR), the retarder and, perhaps most importantly of all, the Electronic Stability Program (ESP). The standard-fitted Voith retarder can be operated via a five-stage steering column stalk (standard). However, to reduce service brake wear, the “retarder integration” function also allows the retarder to be activated via the foot brake pedal. Seite: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Seitenanfang Aktuell - Current EEP Tauschtexturen Omnibus-database Brochure-database Hersteller - Manufacturers Ehem. Hersteller Presse - database Bildergalerie - Picture Gallery Cockpits - gestern bis heute Bildarchiv - Übersicht Bildarchiv - Database	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3494
__label__wiki	0.500437	0.500437	"Liquidity Inc." by Hito Steyerl (Revision) Installation view of Liquidity Inc, 2014 Artists Space is presenting German filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl’s videos from 2004 to the present. All through Steyerl's work there is a close connection between what is investigated and the medium through which the investigation happens, such as Liquidity Inc., one of the video installations of the exhibition, Steyerl takes a closer view on the massive images creation and internet resources by paralleling satellite photography, documentary scenes, short video cuts from medium. By doing the parallel images that created a stronger distinguished part compare to traditional film production. In a playful manner, Liquidity Inc. has been a huge 'determination target' for testing the force of perception satellites and it is also an ironical video to reveal the computerized age. Installation of Steyerl’s work structured by the seating set up. For example in Liquidity Inc., she creates a wave looking stage with in a blue light atmosphere. The related architecture environmental consideration fits the receptiveness of the audiences. The wave designed seating and the dark blue lights create a water circulation between visual and the actual sensibility. Screen shots from Hito Steyerl. Liquidity Inc, 2014 Water consolidates everything, and everything is consolidated. References to fluids are pervasive, where it shows the fighting competitions of the character Jacob Wood. In the work, he sat in an office, wearing a business suit, he wrote on a scratch pad, "BE WATER". These words appeared on a big plasma screen. The video also includes the recited phrase by Bruce Lee through an iPhone-the voice twisted and auto-tuned as he rehashes, "Be water my companion"-and it was highlighted on the primary screen of the International Contemporary of Art theatre. The outcome of Liquidity Inc. is a divided semi-documented issue that brings the worldwide money problem, the accident and connections between the weather and trade, as well as an examination of creation and circulation. By using the changing web-sources, such as tumblr weather report background, various tabs, circling GIFs and multi-layered arrangement, Liquidity Inc. changes the way of understanding how those massive image information related to our generation, living condition which specifically related to water in this work, as well as finance. Hi Lu, Your reviews are as descriptive and informative as usual. I haven’t been to this exhibition but I felt like reading your review was more than enough to understand the intention of the work. However, I can’t shake off the feeling that the description is too objective for us to become emerged; and ultimately care for Steyerl. How is this relevant to the reader? Why should they care? These questions should be in one’s mind. Other than that, I thought the review was orderly, direct, and professionally written. The images were displayed in a way that supplemented in our reading experience. One last thing: there seems to be minor grammatical mistakes that, while the reader won’t have a problem not comprehending, it does cause pauses during the reading. For instance, ‘The parallel images are the strongest distinguished part compare to traditional film production.’ Compare -> compared Thank you Joel! Very inspired questions! Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks at Brooklyn Museum... Surround Audience: New Museum 2015 Triennial (Revi... Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic at Brooklyn Museum (... Hito Steyerl at Artists Space (Revision) On Kawara and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Juxtapo... Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm at The Drawing C... Portraits from the École des Beaux-Arts Paris (rev... It's a Björk World After All, "Songlines" at MoMA ... Much to be Desired: Triennial exhibition, "Surroun... Bjork "Black Lake" On Kawara - Silence at Guggenheim Museum On Kawara – Silence : Revision In the Studio: Photographs at the Gagosian Gallery... Paul Chan’s Nonprojections for New Lovers at the G...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3504
__label__wiki	0.787174	0.787174	PATRICIA SMITH - Florida - people search, genealogy, find deceased relatives and locate ancestors 158-01-3169 July 13, 1887 June 1, 1969 81 years FL 32806 (Orlando, Orange County) 264-60-9866 June 30, 1943 June 1, 1978 34 years FL 32703 (Apopka, Orange County) 297-22-1488 September 21, 1928 November 1, 1982 54 years FL 33714 (West and East Lealman, Pinellas County) 283-18-5332 July 7, 1918 May 1, 1983 64 years FL 33037 (Key Largo, Monroe County) 191-26-2814 July 9, 1934 February 1, 1985 50 years FL 32780 (Titusville, Brevard County) 32796 (Titusville, Brevard County) 319-36-4815 February 10, 1943 July 1, 1987 44 years FL 33801 (Combee Settlement, Polk County) PATRICIA M SMITH 265-02-6270 September 18, 1952 March 15, 1993 40 years FL 32408 (Lower Grand Lagoon, Bay County) PATRICIA L SMITH 283-26-0768 March 30, 1931 March 18, 1994 62 years FL 32952 (Merritt Island, Brevard County) 266-65-7131 July 12, 1961 July 25, 1994 33 years FL 33147 (Gladeview, 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Polk County) 33830 (Bartow, Polk County) 289-28-5666 September 9, 1933 March 12, 2001 67 years FL 32159 (Lady Lake, Lake County) 549-04-8674 May 28, 1951 May 31, 2001 50 years FL 34453 (Inverness, Citrus County) 408-56-6020 April 19, 1935 November 25, 2001 66 years FL 32570 (Milton, Santa Rosa County) 373-34-4619 January 21, 1936 December 3, 2001 65 years FL 34609 (Brooksville, Hernando County) 284-30-6565 December 6, 1932 May 20, 2002 69 years FL 33177 (Miami, Miami-Dade County) 263-19-9070 February 24, 1955 July 15, 2002 47 years FL 32601 (Gainesville, Alachua County) 265-42-1973 February 3, 1932 April 25, 2003 71 years FL 32132 (Edgewater, Volusia County) PATRICIA T SMITH 256-56-0487 September 26, 1938 May 7, 2003 64 years FL 34475 (Ocala, Marion County) 34475 (Ocala, Marion County) 401-46-3458 August 18, 1935 June 2, 2003 67 years FL 32609 (Gainesville, Alachua County) 32606 (Gainesville, Alachua County) 086-24-3023 July 17, 1931 June 27, 2003 71 years FL 32940 (Melbourne, Brevard County) 290-24-8492 June 19, 1928 July 22, 2003 75 years FL 33714 (West and East Lealman, Pinellas County) 350-46-9166 June 20, 1952 July 26, 2003 51 years FL 33912 (Fort Myers, Lee County) 307-32-3370 August 9, 1932 August 11, 2003 71 years FL 33612 (Tampa, Hillsborough County) 212-52-3907 November 4, 1948 March 9, 2004 55 years FL 33810 (Lakeland, Polk County) PATRICIA P SMITH 145-22-4388 April 28, 1929 August 20, 2004 75 years FL 32060 (Live Oak, Washington County) PATRICIA O SMITH 331-28-6469 April 7, 1934 September 4, 2004 70 years FL 34951 (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County) 34951 (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County) 317-28-5954 October 12, 1931 October 14, 2004 73 years FL 33434 (Boca Raton, Palm Beach County) 177-26-2940 November 28, 1933 March 15, 2005 71 years FL 33417 (Century Village, Palm Beach County) 262-44-5708 August 8, 1932 April 14, 2005 72 years FL 33040 (Key West, Monroe County) 145-24-5674 December 19, 1930 April 19, 2005 74 years FL 33445 (Delray Beach, Palm Beach County) 314-30-5112 July 15, 1932 July 27, 2005 73 years FL 34761 (Ocoee, Orange County) 34761 (Ocoee, Orange County) 058-44-0571 March 6, 1950 January 27, 2006 55 years FL 32952 (Merritt Island, Brevard County) 135-36-8876 August 15, 1944 February 10, 2006 61 years FL 33436 (Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County) 166-34-0147 September 8, 1942 March 22, 2006 63 years FL 33033 (Homestead, Miami-Dade County) 33033 (Homestead, Miami-Dade County) 003-42-0955 March 20, 1951 April 29, 2006 55 years FL 33428 (Boca Raton, Palm Beach County) 013-24-1837 October 10, 1932 September 26, 2006 73 years FL 33436 (Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County) 187-26-0911 April 3, 1935 October 6, 2006 71 years FL 34432 (Dunnellon, Marion County) 34432 (Dunnellon, Marion County) PATRICIA N SMITH 154-36-2654 November 11, 1946 December 3, 2006 60 years FL 33709 (Kenneth City, Pinellas County) 234-70-6429 April 17, 1944 December 12, 2006 62 years FL 32927 (Cocoa, Brevard County) 262-54-5274 August 15, 1940 January 18, 2007 66 years FL 32822 (Orlando, Orange County) 32822 (Orlando, Orange County) 027-44-4707 June 17, 1955 June 19, 2007 52 years FL 34690 (Holiday, Pasco County) 265-06-7757 August 12, 1953 June 21, 2007 53 years FL 33568 (Riverview, Duval County) 563-82-6579 January 15, 1919 July 28, 2007 88 years FL 33573 (Greater Sun Center, Hillsborough County) 265-40-0623 December 29, 1930 March 3, 2008 77 years FL 32322 (Carrabelle, Franklin County) 31620 (Adel, Cook County) 315-26-8029 June 3, 1928 March 12, 2008 79 years FL 34684 (Palm Harbor, Pinellas County) 530-22-1956 June 2, 1935 April 20, 2008 72 years FL 34481 (Ocala, Marion County) PATRICIA ANN SMITH 263-06-8181 January 25, 1953 January 13, 2009 55 years FL 33405 (West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County) PATRICIA LOUISE SMITH 267-32-0113 February 12, 1925 March 20, 2009 84 years FL 32301 (Tallahassee, Leon County) 037-42-1363 September 9, 1955 August 7, 2009 53 years FL 34668 (Port Richey, Pasco County) 34668 (Port Richey, Pasco County) 266-58-9988 June 24, 1940 August 23, 2009 69 years FL 32119 (Daytona Beach, Volusia County) Death statistics by year for last name SMITH Average age at death for last name SMITH Death statistics by state for last name SMITH Last name popularity statistics for persons named SMITH per 10,000 residents in every state Popularity of last name SMITH decreased from 1.006% in 1990 to 0.881% (2376206 people) in year 2000. Last name SMITH moved from 1st to 1st place on the most common names list in the USA Other people with last name SMITH: LINDA J SMITH VIOLA A SMITH CAROL L SMITH	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3506
__label__cc	0.726218	0.273782	Tesco California Zinfandel I braved the elements this afternoon in order to obtain the requisite staples of bread and milk; mind you, the old shopping list was longer than that. Connswater was very busy: I headed for Tesco and, at the wine department, selected a bottle of Rioja to take to my cousin and her family on New Year's Day. I noticed the wine assistant and asked if there was any Zinfandel wine in stock. Tesco's finest hasn't been in stock for ages; however, they had an own-label Californian Zinfandel on the shelf which was a snip at £3.74. I'd never tried it before so took a chance. I opened it later in the afternoon and, surprise surprise, it was very palatable indeed; not at all like that awful Tesco Gigondas which tasted to me like red vinegar. Tesco describe it as " a rich, rounded wine with ripe blackberry and raspberry flavours" and, for once, I'd say that's pretty accurate. It's the sort of wine you could drink on its own even. Category C, rich & smooth, from California's Central Valley. It's 13% proof and has a beige label with black writing. Very good value. David Lloyd Twelve Day Pass I drove the eight minutes it takes to get to David Lloyd Leisure this morning, it being Day Twelve of my guest pass. It has been an enjoyable experience and I have made full use of my pass. The gym is easily the best-equipped I've ever used; facilities, like the outdoor heated swimming-pool, are second to none. Being New Year's Eve, today was relatively busy, the car park being almost full. I still cannot decide which club to join yet. Belfast Shopping Trip I'm just back from a visit into Belfast city centre. It appeared to be fairly crowded, business brisk enough, to me. I managed to get a parking space in Donegall Street, opposite the Cathedral. The first port-o'-call was the second-hand book shop in North Street, where I checked to see if they had any more P G Wodehouse ; there were several Jeeves ones & I've got 'em all. No purchase there, then. I ambled on up the street, to Braddell's where a small khaki fleece caught my eye; it seemed to be great value and I need one for my NT voluntary work, so I asked the assistant if he'd take two pounds off which he readily did, and I bought it. At Marks & Spencer I bought some thermal vests; and from there I headed towards Wellington Place. I made a wonderful discovery in Wellington Place, namely a shop called Best Vintage where I couldn't resist two pairs of Levi White Tab corduroy jeans, which were in excellent condition and I managed to snap up for twenty pounds. I'll be back there again. Walking on down the street, I entered Parsons & Parsons and, to my surprise, both its men's and ladies departments have closed down. The shop looked quite empty. Chatting for awhile to the assistant, he explained that the Hire Department was now the only profitable part of the company. I imagine the closure of the main shop is what could be termed a sign of the times. Parsons must have been one of Belfast's oldest menswear retailers, though I was told that the tailoring will remain. So, two hours or so later, I drove home for a soft refresher in the form of a good old British cup of tea. Johnny Goes To Scotland Johnny Kingdom's trip to Scotland with his wife, on BBC Two last night, was a highlight. They stayed for a few days at the Aigas country estate home of Sir John Lister-Kaye, Bt, OBE and his wife Judy, Lady Lister-Kaye. It really is a joy to watch Johnny's enthusiasm for wildlife and his down-to-earth approach. Did that kilt he wore to dinner match the tartan carpet? Perhaps Sir John lent it to him! Sir John is, of course, a celebrated conservationist, naturalist and author; so his re-introduction of beavers to Scotland and his country estate has been an admirable feat. He showed us a beaver's scull with those very large teeth: little wonder they can gnaw through trees. I always find it intriguing to see the biannual Honours lists. Don't bother trying to find my name on the latest list: you may have thought I'd have been honoured for blogging services. Although many of the recipients are public servants (including military) and their awards are dependent on their rank, there are always a few pleasant surprises. Few will begrudge the genial chat-show host, Michael Parkinson, CBE, his knighthood for instance: he is now Sir Michael Parkinson, CBE. I have noticed that the director-general of the National Trust, Fiona Reynolds, CBE, now becomes Dame Fiona Reynolds, DBE; so she is now a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. I won't comment on the Ulster recipients although I note that the most senior recipient in Northern Ireland is the top civil servant, Nigel Hamilton, who is now a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath and becomes Sir Nigel Hamilton, KCB. Most, if not all, of his illustrious predecessors are also KCBs. Suffice it to say that cordial congratulations are due to most of the Ulster recipients. Insurance Anxiety I've been causing myself needless anxiety today over the annual round of Insurance Renewals. Our home insurance and car insurance both expire in January, so I have been shopping around on the web, at the library reading the Which? magazines and at the local broker. I must have spent hours doing this; an added complication being that we were burgled a few years ago, and our car was stolen too. When completing some insurance forms it's easy to feel that you, the innocent victim, are partially culpable and, accordingly, must pay for the crimes. I think I may well give the business to our local broker; a spot of help from them could have been useful at the time of our burglary. I have also been pondering over which health/leisure club to join: I've discounted Avoniel Leisure Centre which would cost me £29 per month (even with restrictive use of the pool); I rather like the CIYMS gym, though it is rather basic especially compared with David Lloyd's gym. I was a member of Fitness First for a year and didn't like the atmosphere there. I've also visited the NI civil service club at Dundonald, which is OK but has no pool. That leaves Esporta, David Lloyd and Castlereagh leisure centre. The former two must be about £50 off-peak, which I think is very expensive at £600 annually. Castlereagh is about £23 a month, or £280 annually. To The Manor Born I watched the hour-long revival of the BBC's To the Manor Born last night; I have fond enough memories of the original three series which ran from 1979 till 1981, so I didn't want to miss seeing the old cast a quarter-century on. It was certainly a joy to see Grantleigh Manor again and the gate-lodge. Four of the original cast's characters were still there: Audrey, Richard, Marjory and the Rector. They all looked well, particularly the Rector who must be a good age (I thought he was old in 1982!). In fact I have just learned that he is eighty-two years old. Of the other characters, admittedly I was somewhat indifferent towards the new butler, Emmeridge; and the other fellow whom, I think, was Audrey's nephew. I have no knowledge about whether the original script-writer wrote this or not; if anyone knows perhaps they could let me know? I missed Brabinger, Ned and Mrs Polouvicka; still, overall it was good, entertaining stuff. BBC, any chance of some more revivals from your dusty archives? There must be lots: Keeping Up Appearances, The Good Life. Let's have some nominations... We have just enjoyed a most memorable meal, drinking a port earlier in the day. Prior to our meal, we had cocktails. Without going into too many details, we began with smoked salmon squares accompanied by cherry tomatoes, lettuce, parsley, chives, honey & mustard dressing and lemon. We celebrated with champagne. Our main course consisted of completely British produce with the exception of the asparagus: free range Ulster turkey, roast potatoes, sausage-meat stuffing, cocktail sausages wrapped in bacon, roast parsnips and asparagus tips along with cranberry sauce. Our dessert was traditional plum pudding with cream. Earlier in the day I drove to Redburn Woods for a walk: blue sky, sunny, crisp & dry though cold. In the middle of the woods I spotted a pair of great tits; no need for binoculars and a beautiful sight to behold. They must have seen me coming! Their loud, raucous sound, flitting from tree to tree, warned each other of my presence. I don't see very many great tits at home; the occasional blue tit & coal tit. There was a splendid view of Belfast Lough and Palace Barracks. No sign of life at the barracks: we've only got a few thousand troops in the Province now, so perhaps they were still in bed! Seasonal Greetings Looking out of my bedroom window, it is a crisp and frosty Christmas morning and the roof-tops are coated with with icing. I shall light a log fire this morning, venturing out to retrieve some kindling and firewood. A very merry and peaceful Christmas to all. Celebratory Luncheon At Portaferry Hotel We enjoyed an informal bar lunch today at the Portaferry Hotel. It was still quiet in the lounge bar when we arrived about half-past twelve. I hadn't been to the hotel for many years, so it was interesting to see the bar, the ambience being most agreeable. Very clean and tidy, it appeared to have been redecorated quite recently. There were largish cushions with a Titanic motif. Staff were very attentive, smartly dressed, courteous and remembered to ask if our food was all satisfactory. Our waiter was from Slovenia. We sat at table forty-nine which was at the window overlooking the sea. We had wild mushroom risotto; scampi, salad and chips; sticky toffee pudding with cream; and two beverages. Portions were ample for us. The food was of a high standard and the total bill amounted to £26.75. As I mentioned earlier, I thought the service was very good, so we left them a ten per cent tip. I look forward to returning there next year. Yuletide Pub Crawl National Trust staff invited me to join them at the Crown Bar last night for drinks so, having checked train times, I cycled down to the nearest station and took the train to Great Victoria Street. Surprisingly, a return ticket cost a mere £1.50. Having arrived at the station, I walked across to the Crown which was heaving; I could hardly get through the throng. The NT party was in a snug and I noticed a pile of money on the table, so I threw in a twenty pound note. There were about a dozen of us and we remained there for another two hours till it was suggested that we move on to White's Tavern, off High Street; so we all plodded through the city centre (which was like fairyland with Christmas lights etc) to White's. It was just as busy as the Crown, the bar counter being two or three deep and the place like a rugby scrum! I was kindly offered a lift home at the end of the evening, ambling down again to fetch my bike. The Prodigal Turkey Chase I have wasted about half a tank of liquid cognac, sorry petrol (about the same price) this week queueing in traffic. I've been attempting to obtain a small turkey breast joint, which can usually be found in Tesco or Sainsbury. Astoundingly enough, neither of them had small 500g joints in stock; I then ventured to my local Marks & Spencer store and, lo and behold, they had a fine-looking small, free-range turkey breast joint basted in butter. Just what I was looking for. I think it cost about £6.49 or thereabouts. This afternoon we had a glass of Tesco Finest Gigondas wine, reduced in price to £5.99 I think. Little wonder. Friends, if you enjoy a tipple of neat red vinegar, look no further than this stuff. Never again. So much energy is expended at Christmas, so much stress; it shouldn't be that way! Fulton's I needed to deliver our Christmas presents to my aunt and uncle in south Belfast today, so I thought I'd treat myself to lunch at Fulton's Fine Furnishings in Boucher Crescent, Belfast. The traffic was very heavy and it must have taken me almost forty minutes to get there. At least the queue at the restaurant was small enough; I decided to have the chicken & ham flan with salad and coleslaw, which I hugely enjoyed. It was scrumptious. A generous portion of flan, filled with big chunks of chicken and ham in a rich, creamy sauce. Fulton's have a lovely tangy dressing on the side-table which diners can help themselves to liberally. I enquired if desserts were served in half-portions: in a word, no. Pity, because I fancied a bit of the lemon meringue pie; however the helpings are very generous and I knew that it would be too much so, sadly, I declined. The meal cost £6.80. Can't wait to return, hopefully when the traffic is considerably lighter. Fulton's Hawthorne Restaurant is one of my favourite self-service establishments in the Province. Viscount Severn I have just learned that TRH The Earl and Countess of Wessex have a new son, who will undoubtedly take his father's second title Viscount Severn. Wonderful news, and Lord Severn is, like me, a Christmas baby too. When Prince Edward succeeds to his father's titles, he will become HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Severn will become Earl of Merioneth. My Spaghetti Bolognese I made the most delicious Spaghetti Bolognese this evening. It's not authentic, it's my own home-made recipe and I made it as follows:- I used a small, non-stick saucepan and fried 250g of lean mince steak till browned; then I took the mince out on to a plate and chopped up a rasher of bacon with scissors, frying it till crisp; then to this, I fried a small onion with two cloves of garlic. When this was cooked well, I added sugar to taste and a dollop of honey (my v sweet tooth!); and added the mince to the onion. I seasoned this mixture and added a teaspoon of Dijon mustard, a tablespoon of rich ketchup and basil. Finally, I added a small jar of original Dolmio sauce. I simmered this mixture gently. In a large saucepan with boiling, salted water I cooked 150g of spaghetti for about ten minutes. Then I added the sauce to the drained pasta and mixed it all up in the saucepan the American way! I topped this with freshly grated Parmesan cheese. I served this on hot plates with a garnish of chives and cherry tomatoes. It was one of the very best I have ever tasted. This is sufficient for two. Passport To Glasgow I collected my aunt this morning to take her to Belfast City Airport for a flight with Ryanair to Prestwick Airport. It was a fine winter's day and we drove there quickly. So we said our goodbyes and I drove off for Marks & Spencer. When I got home about half an hour later, the phone rang and it was my aunt to drop a bombshell: she had been refused at check-in because she did not have her passport or eligible identification. Airlines are so rigorous nowadays about this, what with tough security measures etc. So I drove back to the airport and brought her home. Fortunately enough, she was able to obtain a flight that afternoon with Flybe, the Ryanair offering being the next day. Prior to this, I managed to get to David Lloyd's for fifty lengths of the pool, a steam up and a jacuzzi. You really cannot be too careful these days, especially when flying. Homage To Fudge I'm rather enjoying Monday evenings in, at present. There is a string of programmes I don't like to miss: Junior Mastermind; University Challenge; a delightful repeat of Rick Stein's Food Heroes Christmas Special featuring dear Chalky (RIP) which, I confess, brought a little dewiness to the eye. The televisual highlight was Monarchy: The Royal Family At Work. I have always had immense admiration for HM The Queen and our Royal Family. This programme reinforces my view. During the evening we opened a carton of fudge which we'd been given as a present. My mother always used to make fudge at this time of the year and the fudge we tasted this evening was close in taste to Mother's. The Observer newspaper reckons it is "the world's best fudge" and I won't disagree with that. It's simply called Burnt Sugar Original Crumbly Fudge and is made by a company called Burnt Sugar which seems to be based in Oxfordshire. I've also tried Sainsbury's Taste The Difference fudge, which I think is very good; and Thornton's has a good flavour too. However, I think the Burnt Sugar fudge has the edge. I see it has only six ingredients, which is to its credit: no long list of additives etc. Colin Cather, who is the managing director of Burnt Sugar and a fellow Ulsterman, has just told me that their fudge is now available in Tesco & Sainsbury. Indian Foodfest We headed over to my Aunt's last night along with other members of the family circle, and phoned the Ganges Indian restaurant in Holywood to order a takeaway meal for delivery. It took about forty-five minutes to arrive, the driver having to phone because he couldn't find us! We enjoyed a variety of food, ranging from onion bhajis to Chicken Korma, Bhuna and nan breads. Tasty and enjoyable. None of us drank too much: we had to drive home. Nevertheless, we celebrated Christmas with a glass of bubbly each; closely followed by a spot of karaoke, my aunt and I both liking to exercise the vocal chords as often as possible. We arrived home just after ten. My cousin creates the most wonderful hand-made Christmas cards and it's always a delight to receive them. I meant to ask her if she had ever considered starting her own website with an online mail-order business. Dear Cod, Where Art Thou? I believe I can tell a good piece of cod when I see it. I ought to, I've bought and consumed it often enough from fishmongers. In my book, a worthy portion of cod must be quite thick, say one inch (or 2.5cm if you're more familiar with euro-babble); if cooked properly it should be moist and flaky; it ought to be pure white; and it should not smell too fishy when raw. Having ordered cod from two Fish & Chip shops recently (I ordered cod & chips last night from the Silver Leaf Cafe, Belmont Road; and previously John Dory's, Holywood Road) the fish served to me has not exactly fitted the above description: it has been thin, off-white and with tiny flakes. Perhaps it's a sign of the times, what with stocks of cod not being what they were. It could be seasonal even. So I'll continue to seek a fish and chip shop in my vicinity for really good cod. I'd gladly try pollock but it's never on the menus ( I wonder why?). Good chefs will tell you that only way to be sure of good cod is to buy it raw from a decent fishmonger, which I have done from time to time. It's such a bore having to de-bone it with pliers, clean it, make a batter, heat the deep fryer and clean up all the oil which spits liberally all over the place that I am usually not bothered going down the DIY route. At any rate, my quest continues and I'll try the Belmont Bethany the next time. The Mount Stewart Hard Core I left home at nine this morning for Mount Stewart and the weekend National Trust Volunteers: admittedly it wasn''t our best turnout, three of us having turned up; however, it is Christmas and other regulars had doubtless other things to occupy themselves. We walked to Anne's Point, where there is a lagoon and, armed with bin bags, collected discarded litter on our way back to the estate. Close to the old gasworks we noticed a dead badger, always sad to see, so we moved it to the side of the track in readiness for collection later along with about four bagfuls of litter. Afterwards, we walked to the Bay Restaurant at Mount Stewart for tea and a tasty portion of almond tart; and then went our separate ways homeward. I refuelled at the Asda petrol station in Newtownards: couldn't resist the price. Still under a pound a litre. The Munificence Of The Royal Mail I have received several more Christmas cards from our postman today and two thirds of them were unfranked, equivalent to fifty-six pence. It happened yesterday too. I must take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to Royal Mail management. Their largesse at this time of the year is indeed boundless. I am glad to be making this contribution towards the recycling of unfranked stamps. Well Done Old Chap! I have just returned home from B&Q and Sainsbury's (abundant police cones along the way in preparation for the grand opening of Ikea on Thursday), and the assistant at B&Q noticed me holding my mother's discount card (which I was not going to use; I keep it with some vouchers). The young assistant, however, spotted the card and asked me for it! This is the second time I've been given Seniority recently, to my benefit I hasten to add. Most amusing. The assistant at Sainsbury's and I both had a laugh about it when I told her what had occurred. Long may it last! The Finest Butter? I wonder if anyone has noticed how pale most commercial butters are now? My hotel in London used little pats of salted Anchor butter, which seemed to be a richer colour. The flavour was very good too, I thought at the time. On returning home, I purchased some Anchor butter and it just didn't seem as creamy. Are hotels sold superior branded products in order that we buy them from the shelves; more likely it's all in my imagination. So I have tried most NI butters available, all the well-known brands, and they all seem much the same. Pale and lacking taste. Intriguingly, whilst in the Canary Islands earlier this year, I bought some Irish Kerrygold butter (which I don't buy at home; it definitely had a great flavour, it must be admitted). I've also tasted most supermarket own-brand butters, although I'm wondering if the so-called luxury ones are worth the extra: the Cornish or French types? Any recommendations or tips are awaited with eagerness! David Lloyd Leisure My aunt has very generously given me a twelve day pass for David Lloyd, which has a club just outside Belfast at Dundonald; so this is the second day I've been at the club. Lloyd's claim to be the UK's leading health club, and I can well believe that. I've been a member of various clubs, including Avoniel Leisure Centre which is a Council facility; Fitness First; and, more recently, CIYMS. For thirty years (oh dear) I've been swimming at my old school, whose coat-of-arms bears the legend and motto Ne Obliviscaris: those in authority there appear to have about as much interest in maintaining the pool as turkeys have in Christmas so, consequently, the pool has seen much better days and, moreover, must have a fully qualified Manager & life-guard to remain open to us. It is presently closed, so I haven't been swimming since the end of June. As a consequence of these events, I now seek alternative options and David Lloyd is undoubtedly excellent. Its gym is, by far, the best I have ever used. I swam in the outdoor pool today and there was so much steam rising from it that I could only see from under the water. I can drive to Lloyd's in eight minutes; haven't decided whether to join yet and I expect the monthly fee to be about £50, so I'll make a decision in the New Year. I'd certainly begrudge any joining fee so I'll play hard-ball regarding that. I am tempted. You could easily spend a half day or more there. Hail, Mini-Motorbike I sometimes wonder if any good citizens have ever, like me, been roused from their slumber at, say, five-thirty in the morning by the sound of a very loud, raucous, rasping noise? Breaking wind, you think; no, not that. I believe it comes from what is now known as the mini-motorbike. Possibly to its credit, the Mini-motorbike is surely economical, takes up little space on our highways, carries at least one occupant to their destination; and is, presumably, relatively cheap to tax and insure. Having got those facts out of the way, I'll get stuck in: most, if not all, of them seem to have no silencers making them probably the most anti-social two-wheeled pests on the road. As you've by now gathered, I don't like them. I detest them. Let's have some legislation to regulate their very high decibels and ban mini-motorbikes from Northern Ireland's roads. That's my gripe over for the day! The Charming Goldfinch Looking out of the window earlier I watched our flock, or charm, of wild goldfinches. They've been coming to my feeders for years now; probably all brothers, sisters, parents, cousins & various relatives amongst themselves. I love goldfinches; I'd take my chances and be one in the Next Life, given the option. We must have up to two dozen, and they munch away on sunflower hearts and nyjer seeds throughout the day, most days of the year. I think they're quite late risers but, when they arrive, they perch on the feeders for ages and ages non-stop. It was a delight to see the chicks and juveniles this summer. Evening Out At Bistro Iona In Holywood Last Night we dined out at an old haunt of many summers, the Bistro Iona in Holywood, County Down. We weren't disappointed. The dinner date had originally been arranged by Godmother who had tried to book the Dirty Duck; it was fully booked, so the Iona it was. Fortunately enough, I managed to park right outside the place. They have an "early bird" menu which costs £13 for two courses at present; and this turned out to be very good value. I really do like this little restaurant; in many ways it is quite traditional, what with white table-cloths etc. They always bring a basket of really fresh French bread and butter to the table; an added bonus being that it is still unlicensed. Godmother brought some wine, which was partly imbibed. As far as I can recall, there were about four starters and four main courses to choose from. I opted for a deliciously retro prawn cocktail served in a Martini glass! Lots of juicy prawns; followed by the most tender confit of duck in a sauce with mash & sweet red cabbage. Indeed, all three of us had the duck, and we all deemed it the best we'd tasted for a long time. All in all, I suppose we stayed there for about two hours. I noticed a table of six near us had brought a bottle of Bollinger along with them. Godmother invited us back to her pad for coffee; however, we declined, mainly because I wanted to see the final episode of The Tudors (BBC at its best). Poor old Cardinal Wolsey and the chap burned at the stake. After that, I couldn't miss Max & Paddy's Road To Nowhere before retiring to a spot of Jeeves in the Offing. Drive To Belfast City Hospital It doesn't seem to have ceased raining all week; nevertheless, we left home before nine this morning for the City Hospital where my mother had an appointment. I hate paying for the privilege of parking at hospitals and, since my mother has a Blue Badge, I waited at the six-bay disabled section adjacent to the hospital for about twenty minutes; all to no avail sadly. So we drove around the corner to a pay-park. We must have been almost two hours, which cost £1.50. Not too bad I suppose, considering that everything else went relatively smoothly. I'm very careful where I park the Z4 at any rate. I had left two pairs of shoes at the excellent Botanic Shoe Repairs a week ago, so took the opportunity of collecting them; a pair of black loafers & a pair of suede chukka boots with "Dainite" soles. An excellent job at a very reasonable £16.50. Here's a chap who takes a pride in his work. I made a spot of Pasta Casserole this afternoon, closely followed by a restorative of Hine cognac. Magical Killynether We all must start somewhere, so I have decided to initiate my own Blog from the Province. On Saturday morning, I met other like-minded National Trust weekend volunteers at the delightful Killynether Wood, near Scrabo in County Down, for some hazel coppicing. Armed with saws, loppers, gloves and packed lunches we ventured out to the middle of the woods and spent about four or five hours cutting away. It was quite a good turn-out, with about ten of us on this occasion. My usual packed lunch of Tesco cheese-and-onion sandwiches (great value and VG) with a flask for tea was included. I decided to indulge in a fish supper that evening, so thought I'd try the Silver Leaf Cafe on the Belmont Road for a change: what a discovery! Quick & friendly service from a very courteous lady at the counter, a fine and chunky piece of cod with crispy batter and home-made chips. I'll definitely be there again (up to now I've been going to Dory's on the Holywood Road, but if the Silver Leaf maintains its standards I'll give them my custom every other Saturday). It was such a cold, wet evening that, after much deliberating, I decided to drive to the Odyssey to see the much-lauded American Gangster movie: what a great film, worthy of five stars indeed. I was irritated at having to queue for about fifteen minutes at the cinema for my ticket, only to discover that any counter could be used to buy tickets. Consequently, I just managed to make the seven o'clock start. Well worth it. Even better because I was sold a Senior ticket (£4) and I'm under 47! 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__label__wiki	0.651987	0.651987	Hello and welcome to the Lost Medals Australia blog. On this blog I will tell the stories of our research and successes in returning lost medals to veterans of their families. I also hope that this blog will provide the best resource for understanding how to research Australian medals. If you need help please contacted me via email at An Anzac Day find Anzac Day means a peak in activity for us. Those interested in their family military history are inspired by the annual commemoration to conduct some research. The majority of contact we get at this time of year falls in to three main categories. Firstly I receive dozens of emails from families looking for medals that have been lost or sold in the past. This is a very difficult task and regrettably, I can not offer anything other than adding the details to my research notes. The second main reason for contact is that someone has come across the list of medals we have and we can finalise a case. The final reason is that someone has medals and wants to see them returned, especially if the medal has been found on Anzac Day. That is the back ground behind this Australian Defence Medal which was found on the ground at the strat point of the Sydney Anzac Day march. It was found by Chaplain Kerry Larwill who contacted the Directorate of Honours and Awards and then referred on to me. The medal is named to A.L. Samson and a few hours searching on the internet led me to Athol Samson who was linked to The Royal NSW Lancers. I fired off an email the unit association and this morning I received a call from Athol. Thank you to Kerry and Wes from Honours and Awards. The returned medal tally is now 2080. Posted by Lost Medals Australia at 16:36 No comments: Links to this post The Gilmore family There are few things better than resolving one of these searches on Anzac Day. Once I started researching 1191 Angus Graham Gilmore it soon became apparent that I had come across not only a high achieving individual but an exceptionally high achieving family. Angus' medal gave me the first challenge as it is impressed with his unit 1 ASH. A little bell of familiarity was ringing and I soon realised that Scott had a deep interest in the 1st Australian Stationary Hospital. As soon as I looked at Angus' family the significance of this family to South Australian and Australian history became apparent. Angus' father was Hugh Gilmore who was the Primate Methodist Minister in South Australia in the late 19th century. His large family went on to make a significant contribution to society. Angus was the Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Repatriation in Victoria. Numerous contemporary newspaper articles speak of his fair approach to this position as he dealt with fellow veterans. His son Hugh Graham Gilmore was a dental surgeon who served in the RAAF during WWII. Unfortunately, Hugh didn't have any children so that line of research ceased. I might also point out that this family used various combinations of the names 'Hugh', 'Graham' and 'Gilmore' across several generation which caused a bit of confusion. Angus was one of eight children so there was several lines for me to move on to. One brother, Edwin Collin Gilmore was a marine engineer whose son, Hugh Robert Gilmore, was a distinguished physician. If those accomplished relatives aren't enough, Angus' sister Louisa was the matriarch of probably the most notable branch of this family. Louisa married Alfred Maegraith and three of their children need mention. Brian Gilmore Maegraith was also a doctor who specialised in tropical medicine. Kerwin Lovell Gilmore Maegraith was a noted cartoonist who worked for newspapers around the world. Hugh Gilmore Maegraith was awarded the Military Cross during WWI and also served in WWII. It is through Hugh Robert Gilmore's line that I've been able to locate Angus' niece Flora. I must thank Angus 'great niece Kate for putting the final piece in place for me. Thanks also to Jeanette W who contacted me following the recent Sunrise program and wanted this medal returned to the family. This is a self portrait of Kerwin. Dr Dennard This is one of those searches which took many hours to complete. It was incredibly frustrating and at times I thought impossible to finalise. The information about Leslie David Dennard's early years was relatively easy to piece together but it is the later years and linking him to a current generation of this family is what has proved difficult. Leslie was born in Ceylon in 1897. He attended a public school in England until WWI when he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Following WWI he studied medicine at the University of Dublin and married Roslin Meta Louise Hett. In the early 1930s, Dr Dennard became a colonial medical office in Africa but something when wrong, Roslin and their son died in 1932. By 1938 Leslie had remarried and was traveling to India as a doctor. With the out break of WWII, Leslie became a medical officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was promoted from Lieutenant to Major over the course of the war. The records show that through the 1950s and '60s he practiced in the Bolton area of the UK before dying in 1968. Other then the son who died as an infant I could not find any evidence that Leslie had other children. I then looked at his siblings. He had at least two sisters. One, Susan, became a widow as the result of WWI and she drew a military pension. The other, Katherine, was the Executrix of Susan's estate but I just couldn't find anything further about her other than her married name of Marks. Looking back at my notes I must have spent at least 30 hours on and off with this search since I started in May 2014 when Leslie's identity bracelet was sent to me by Len Clarke. Len found the bracelet in his late father's belongings but is not sure how his father came upon it. A recent review of this search that led me to a tree on Ancestry which included Leslie. That's when all the threads of this search came together and I'll be able to send this bracelet back to the UK in the near future. Posted by Lost Medals Australia at 17:01 1 comment: Links to this post VX17037 John James Stanley had two periods of service for WWII. He enlisted first in May 1940 and was discharged in November 1941. He then enlisted again from March to May 1942. I'm not sure why the periods of enlistment were so short but for this usually indicates some form of illness. The bigger event in John's life occurred in 1953 when his wife, Ada, was killed. Adda was in a car with three others that was hit by a trail at a rail cross. All four died. John and Ada had a baby daughter. The story from the local paper is below. The medals were sent to me by Ian F of South Australia. The search for John's family was an easy one as his grand daughter, Michele, has posted a comprehensive family tree on Ancestry. I'm not sure if I can get these medals back to Michele by Anzac Day 2017 but her family will now have them for the future. The returned medal tally is now 2077 Mason Booth With the unusual name of Mason George Booth it wasn't difficult to find all the basic details about this NSW soldier. However, I kept going around in circles and got no where. The story that came with the medals when they were found on the side of the road near Orange NSW. The medals were inside a glass case exactly like my Nana used to use in the 1970s, but I digress. The medals went through several sets of hands before being sent to the Directorate of Honours and Awards finally forwarded to me. Mason was originally from Wagga Wagga and the records showed that there where many families with this name in that region. On enlistment Mason was in Sydney then following WWII he settled on the Central Coast. Following his death he was buried at Raymond Terrace. While the basics were there and I could find distant relatives, the location of his children alluded me. The strategies I used in this search was to arrange a radio interview on ABC Central Coast, write to cemetery where Mason is buried and revisit the search on no fewer than 14 occasions. During the most recent review I found a Mason on an Ancestry family tree which I hadn't came across before. This tree is owned by Bernie who answered my message almost immediately to tell me that he was sure that both Mason's son and daughter had moved back to Wagga Wagga. I made a couple of educated guesses and today I cold called a Wagga Wagga number and ended up speaking to Mason's sister in law. My search took me all over NSW and it circled back to where Mason was born. Posted by Lost Medals Australia at 20:22 4 comments: Links to this post The Fisher collection This is another example of a search that has very little information to provide. From Bill Firth I received an Anzac Medallion awarded to John Byers Fisher and a WWII group awarded to Frederick Arthur Fisher. Through Ancestry I was able locate the Fisher family and I hope to have this family collection back with them by Anzac Day 2017. Thank you so much to Bill for sending these to me. Neil Crump This is another of Bill's ‘Watch this space’ or should that be ‘where have they been?' stories. It is over 20 years since the medals awarded to 133548 LAC Neil George Crump were stolen. This Anzac Day it will be two years since the medals were passed to George Cook, past President of Northfield RSL, and a year since George passed the medals to the State RSL branch in Adelaide. While I could tell all this to Helen, Neil’s daughter, what I could not explain was where the medals had been since they were stolen until they were discovered in a paddock in Adelaide. To tell the truth, I don’t think Helen really cares. The fact that the medals had been found was enough. Unfortunately, Neil’s Pacific Star was not among the medals that were recovered. George and the RSL State branch had advertised widely from Bendigo, where Neil was born, to NSW where he enlisted in 1943 and where he lived after discharge, it was all to no avail. The difference to us finding Helen, I explained to George, is that it is not just our experience but that Glyn and I have an incredible group people like Kerrie to fall back on and who assist us. The returned medal tally is 2066. One soldier - two names Enlisting under an alias was quite common during WWI. This is a story where Bill had to untangle the story behind a soldier who enlisted under one name then changed back to his real name. The search to return the BWM of Pte George Golding/Pte Ernest Albert StewartRegimental No.4572 has been successful in that his British War Medal was returned to his family. However, I still found myself at the end of the search, wondering who was George Golding? Additionally, how did Ernest manage to join up? According to his service file, he was 18 years and 1 month when he enlisted on the 10th September 1915, when the birth records show he was born in 1901. This would have made him 16 years of age when he took part in his battalion’s first major offensive around Pozieres and Mouquet Farm in July and August 1917. Ernest was also with his unit, the 24th battalion, which took part in the second battle of Bullecourt in 1915. Even though the battalion was involved for only a single day, it suffered almost 80 per cent casualties. 5 months later, in October 1917, Ernest was Wounded in Action during the seizure of Broodseinde Ridge. Ernest never fully recovered and this lead to his untimely death at the age of 52 in 1953. While I was able to put together a family tree which showed Ernest and his wife Eleanor they had no children. All the other links that I was able to piece together petered out in the 1970s. It was the team at Australian Genealogy Surname Group that was able find a small family tree that included Ernest. On 24th of March I was able to post off Ernest’s BWM and shortly thereafter receive the following from Stephanie, Ernest’s great niece: ‘Hi Bill, we received the medal yesterday. Here's a photo of Nan with it. It brought her to tears and she was very excited. Thank you so much for getting in contact with us we really appreciate it. As you can see the edge has over the years suffered. It was only that Ernest’s Service number 4572 and his Battalion the 24th were still visible that allowed us to return the medal. The Henderson brothers As a result of the Weekend Sunrise interview last Sunday I received many requests for assistance. I'm slowly filtering through the research and contacting families around Australia and across the world. This particular search started after Richard sent me an email on Sunday requesting assistance finding the family of some medals that he had had for many years. Richard had done a fair amount of research but I soon found why he had hit a brick wall as I had the same difficulties. The story starts with two brothers, Ronald and Hugh. Ronald was a Lieutenant with 18th Battalion and was awarded a Military Cross. Hugh was a private with 35th Battalion. Ronald's MC citation states the following: ''For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayed the greatest coolness and courage on two critical occasions, when his company had been caught in the open. He also worked at the consolidation of a position for three days under heavy shell fire, successfully completing the task. His personal reconnaissance reports from the front line were most valuable.'' The announcement of this award in late 1917 was probably the only high light for the Henderson family. On 9 April 1918 Ronald was killed in action. His father provided the following information: "Sailed in 5th Reinforcements of 18th Battalion. Served in Egypt (1915-1916). Wounded near Borsjrouier on 6th July, 1916 - obtained Commission Balliol College, Oxford on 1st March, 1917. Engaged in Bullecourt. Selected as Intelligence Officer, May, 1917. Recommended for Military Cross for services in this capacity on 20th September, 1917 near Westhock Ridge - wounded second time on 9th October near Passchendaele, March, 1918. Instructor in Intelligence at Australian Corps School. Rejoined Battalion on 1st April, 1918. Killed on 9th April, 1918 by shell while extricating platoon from their quarters at Village of Gentelles." This must have been a very difficult time for the Henderson's as just five days earlier, Hugh died of wounds. The brothers are buried in adjoining graves at the Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux. Identifying who Ronald and Hugh's parents were was relatively easy. They were Stephen and Helen but they had no other children. Stephen was the Australian representative of the Aberdeen Shipping Line and it was this that gave me the clue that led to the rest of the family. Stephen's death notice mentions his late father, Sir William Henderson of Aberdeen. Sir William was successful Victorian merchant as also the Lord Provost of Aberdeen. He had a large family but the brutal impact of WWI on the males of this family meant that there are now very few descendants. This is the story of each of Sir William's children: WILLIAM and JANE HENDERSON'S family: Christiana went to live in or near the Blue Mountains in Australia. James married Isabella Moir. Their son Gartly was killed in the 1914 - 1918 war. Boyd, with a first class honours degree, was a schoolmaster, served in tanks in the war and contracted TB after 'flu in 1919. Douglas served as a private in Mesopotamia and laer farmed near Glasgow. Fergus was a well-known radiologist in Glasgow with a deep interest in the Boys' Brigade. Isabel married James Craig, they had a son John Craig (b. 1925) amd a daughter Anne (b. 1922) who is a doctor married to Dr Gordon Napier and they live in Lincoln. George married Katherine Hutton and ran the London office ot George Thompson and Co. Their family: William was killed in 1916, George was gassed in the war and died in 1929,. Margaret married Barclay Lyon. Maud married Hallidie Smith and had two daughters. Gertrude married James Wordie who was an oceanographer, Master of St John's College, Cambridge, and was knighted: they had a family of five. Stephen married Helen Grahame; they lost both their sons in the 1914 1918 war. Stephen represented the Aberdeen Line in Australia. Mary married the Rev. Denham Osborne, Presbyterian Minister in Dublin. Their daughters were Kathleen, Ruth (Millie) and Jean. Agnes was a doctor and became a medical missionary in India where the tremendous work she did was acknowledged when she was decorated with the Kaiser-I-Hind medal. Duff married Elizabeth Anderson and was in the London office of George Thompson and Co. Their only son Gordon was killed in 1918. Jean did not marry and Elsie married Roland Pelly and they had four redheaded children. Albert was a doctor and married Mary Anderson and settled in Auckland, New Zealand. Their daughter Margaret married Mr Lowry and Betty did not marry. Their son Jim Henderson (b. 1911) married Hester Sutcliffe and they had five children in New Zealand - the only Henderson great-grandchildren of William and Jane and their large family - largely the effect of the 1914 - 1918 war. Emily was a wonderful aunt to her nieces and nephews. She was a Policewoman in the 1914 - 1918 war. Edith married Alec Wells and is written up elsewhere. Credit - http://www.barbaragoss.com/family/henderson.html As stated above, Albert and Mary emigrated to New Zealand and had a son Jim. This is the only line of Sir William that still bears the Henderson name. Jim's son is Johnathan and I located him and his phone number. I'm sure that my call came as real surprise. Glyn Llanwarne Lost Medals Australia Lost Medals Australia Research Team Scott Revell (click on Scott's picture to read his bio in the welcome post) Bill Wyndham (click on Bill's picture to read his bio in the welcome post) Who is on line at the moment? Where have you visited from? 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__label__cc	0.596237	0.403763	Soap update In soap land this month, Nicola Mostyn finds everyone’s wondering if reliable romantic bets are the way to go Published on February 24th 2009. Lawks a mercy. Gary Hobbs is missing, presumed “brown bread.” After his puppy dog love for Dawn remains unrequited, Gary goes AWOL and when his car is found by a well known suicide spot, the residents of the Square waste no time in organising a wake. “Two men have proposed to me and now they’re both dead,” says Dawn, hopefully not sketching out her next personals ad. Gary is actually just working on bloating that head a little more, sipping Stella in France, and returns to Walford just in time to hear Dawn say she loves him. But does she love him with a pulse? She asks Shirley for advice. Why do so many people go to Shirley for romantic advice? It’s like going to Ian Beale for how to win friends or seeking hair styling tips from Phil Mitchell. Anyway, the conclusion is that Gary is ‘magnolia’: “Clean dependable, a little bit stupid.” Dawn decides neutral décor is exactly what she needs and agrees to be Gary’s girlfriend. Odds on she’ll be redecorating within the month. Speaking of Ian Beale, he’s heading for the big 40 and it’s turning him into Rimmer from Red Dwarf - all officious odiousness. Well, even more so than usual. New Christian chippy employee Lucas is appalled by Ian’s lack of morality: chucking out vagrants, wanting to market chips at kids on their way to school etc. “It’s the fat kids of this world who have made me what I am today,” says Ian, ever the poster boy for Thatcher’s children. Another, more disturbing symptom of Ian’s imminent birthday is him whispering kinky requests in Jane’s ear. Apparently, he wants a pole dance, although the way she bolted out of the door, you’d have thought he’d asked her to bump up his bottom line. Over on Corrie, Ken is conducting one of his intellectual non-affairs with actress Martha (Stephanie Beecham). Poor Deidre: Martha’s all clipped vowels and houseboats whilst Deidre is all startled tortoise and resentful hoovering. Ken, who has omitted to tell Martha that Deidre actually exists, was all set to watch his new lady friend perform onstage when Deidre announces that she’s invited Harold and Maud, sorry, I mean Liz and Lloyd over for dinner. It was, naturally, a wholly excruciating affair, and not soley because Liz turned up in zebra print over black lace. Subtlety, thy name is McDonald. Carla has run away to L.A leaving psychotic husband Tony distraught. “L.A, I wish I had somewhere like that to run away to,” says Michelle, who has to brush up against duplicitous ex Steve every time she wants a quarter of chewing nuts from the Kabin. Question: is Steve going to wear that unhappy grimace for the rest of his screen life? If so, I am going to have to start praying that he gets hit by a Ring&Ride. At last, though, the tables are turning on Tony. It has been pointed out too recently that Tony has one gigantic eye and now, whenever he’s on screen, I can’t look at anything else. Is it glass? Not that there’s anything wrong with glass eyes. I adore Columbo. But it is rather unexpected and just a tad sinister. Anyway, with Carla away Tony is making the factory staff’s lives hell until new Street tottie Luke Strong (Craig Kelly from Queer as Folk) turns up to take over running the business on behalf of Carla. He’s brilliant – laid back, cocky, a total smart arse: “Me and Carla go back a bit” he tells Tony, who eyeballs him furiously. And let’s face it, he’s overqualified for the job. Meanwhile, Ashley’s trainee Graeme pretended that his butcher’s hat was possessed by the spirit of Ashley’s dad, Fred, and every time he wore it, he repeated himself. I say, he repeated himself. You get the drift. Ashley was not impressed. “I don’t like being made a fool of,” he says, which must mean constant upset, what with that voice. Over in Emmerdale, Chastity Dingle is doing a Dawn and has decided that Paddy really is the man for her. “He’s got a good sense of humour, good with animals and old people,” agrees Katie dubiously, possibly reading from Paddy’s last personals ad. After Paddy gets a bit macho with Chas’ ex, Carl, the Dingle is convinced that he’s the one for her and they get jiggy. I didn’t much care for the look of post-coital bliss suffusing Paddy’s face, and I also fear for his future happiness considering what happens next. Paddy starts mithering that Chas is going to freak out and run away, which is what happens every time they get close: “I’m not going to make that mistake again,” says Chas giving him a hug. Oh good! Except that she then does that wincing face over his shoulder, the one you look for in soap operas to find out whether something bad is going to happen. Oh come on Chas, give Paddy a chance. He might have a face like a Farley’s Rusk and the charisma of an oven glove and having sex with him is probably like grappling with the Pillsbury Doughboy but, at least, if he’s good with animals, the in-laws will be no problem.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3513
__label__cc	0.601797	0.398203	Visual Improvement after Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Excision of Pituitary Gland Tumor ZUBAIR AHMED KHAN Department of Neurosurgery, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore HABIB SULTAN Department of Neurosurgery, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore MUHAMMAD WAQAS Department of Neurosurgery, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore SARFRAZ KHAN TOQEER AHMED ANWAR CHAUDHRY Department of Neurosurgery, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Lahore General Hospital, Lahore Keywords: Transsphenoidal excision, Pituitary adenoma, Visual acuity. Objective: To evaluate the frequency of improved visual acuity after Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal excision of pituitary gland tumor. Study Design: Descriptive case series. Materials and Methods: In our study, Pre-operative visual acuity was noted by using the Snellen’s chart. Then patients underwent pituitary gland excision though Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal approach under general anesthesia. After surgery, patients were shifted in postsurgical wards and then will be discharged from there and were examinedfor 3 months in OPD. Snellen’s chart was used to evaluate patents for visual acuity after 3 months by an experienced ophthalmologist having at least 4 years residency experience If visual acuity increased ≥ 1 line, then improved visual acuity was labeled. Results: Improved visual acuity after pituitary gland tumor excision was seen in 59(89.39%) patients. Age and gender of patients did not show any statistically significant association for improved visual acuity. Conclusions: Results of this study showed that pituitary gland tumor excision through Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal approach is effective in terms of visual acuity improvement. Our main objectives in pituitary surgery are protection and reinstatement of vision and this surgical approach give maximum cover to vision restoration. 1. D’Ambrosio AL, Syed ON, Grobelny BT, Freda PU, Wardlaw S, Bruce JN. Simultaneous above and below approach to giant pituitary adenomas: surgical strategies and long-term follow-up. Pituitary, 2009; 12 (3): 217-25. Doi:10.1007/s11102-009-0171-5 2. Müslüman AM, Cansever T, Yılmaz A, Kanat A, Oba E, Çavuşoğlu H, et al. Surgical results of large and giant pituitary adenomas with special consideration of ophthalmologic outcomes. World neurosurgery, 2011; 76 (1): 141-8. Doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2011.02.009 3. Ho R-W, Huang H-M, Ho J-T. The influence of pituitary adenoma size on vision and visual outcomes after trans-sphenoidaladenectomy: a report of 78 cases. Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society, 2015; 57 (1): 23-31. Doi:10.3340/jkns.2015.57.1.23 4. Ammirati M, Wei L, Ciric I. Short-term outcome of endoscopic versus microscopic pituitary adenoma surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 2013; 84 (8): 843-9. Doi:10.1136/jnnp-2012-303194 5. Kuruvilla R, Ewend M, Senior B, Givre S. Visual Function after Minimally Invasive Pituitary Surgery (MIPS). Fax J. 2006-07: Online. 6. Elgamal EA, Osman E, El-Watidy S, Jamjoom Z, Hazem A, Al-Khawajah N, et al. Pituitary adenomas: patterns of visual presentation and outcome after transsphenoidal surgery-an institutional experience. Internet J Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2007; 4 (2). 7. Gnanalingham K, Bhattacharjee S, Pennington R, Ng J, Mendoza N. The time course of visual field recovery following Transphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenomas: predictive factors for a good outcome. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2005; 76 (3): 415-9. Doi:10.1136/jnnp.2004.035576 8. Svien HJ, Love JG, Kennedy WC, Colby Jr MY, Kearns TP. 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Doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2013.08.028 17. Hofstetter CP, Nanaszko MJ, Mubita LL, Tsiouris J, Anand VK, Schwartz TH. Volumetric classification of pituitary macroadenomas predicts outcome and morbidity following endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery. Pituitary, 2012; 15 (3): 450-63. Doi:10.1007/s11102-011-0350-z 18. Juraschka K, Krischek B, Monsalves E, Kilian A, Ghare A, Godoy BL, et al. Endoscopic Endonasal Transsphenoidal Approach to Large and Giant Pituitary Adenomas: Institutional Experience and Predictors of Extent of Resection. Journal of Neurological Surgery Part B: Skull Base, 2013; 74 (S 01): A014. 19. Koutourousiou M, Gardner PA, Fernandez-Miranda JC, Paluzzi A, Wang EW, Snyderman CH. Endoscopic endonasal surgery for giant pituitary adenomas: advantages and limitations: Clinical article. Journal of neurosurgery, 2013; 118 (3): 621-31. Doi:10.3171/2012.11.JNS121190 20. Nakao N, Itakura T. 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__label__wiki	0.541858	0.541858	P.G.L. of Tyrone and Fermanagh BRETHREN HONOURED AT PHOENIX MASONIC LODGE NO 836 IN POMEROY Presentation of 50 Year Jewels and Certificates Pictured, standing (from left): VWBro. Frank R. L. Arnold, Provincial Grand Secretary, WBro. Oliver C. Gibson, WBro. Andrew (Andy) McAleer and RWBro. William (Billy) McLain. At the rear is WBro. Jason Glasgow, Worshipful Master for the year 2014. On 3rd January 2014 at the communication of the Lodge which was the Installation of Officers for 2014, Worshipful Brother Oliver C.Gibson and Worshipful Brother Andrew (Andy) McAleer were both honoured on receiving their 50 Year Jewel and Certificate. The presentations were made by Very Worshipful Brother Frank R. L. Arnold, Provincial Grand Secretary, who was the principal guest, representing Provincial Grand Lodge. Also honoured by the Lodge was Right Worshipful Brother William (Billy) McLain who was presented with a Masonic Bible suitably inscribed in recognition of his loyal and dedicated service to the Lodge since 1962. Copyright © 2010 to 2014 - P.G.L. of T & F - All rights reserved	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3521
__label__wiki	0.688764	0.688764	The Prairie School Meet Our Head of School By the Numbers Infographic Why Choose An Independent School? Investing In a Prairie Education Opportunities To Visit Schedule a Personalized Tour Our Video Gallery of Tours Hear From Prairie Parents Early & Primary School PS Faculty Webpages Unique Offerings Early School (Pre-K) Malone Schools Online Network The College Process Graduate Highlights Activities & Opportunities CDE Stem Academy Compass Program The Prairie Hawks Upper School (Gr. 9-12) Athletic Calendar Image SpiritWear image Parent & Student Information Production Basics Tech Theater Purchase Your Tickets Online Now! ticketsimage Artist in Residence: Bill Reid Visual Arts Exhibit Visual Arts Exhibit Link jazzimage Alumni Weekend Recap Prairie – Alumni Magazine Make Your Gift Now Giving to Prairie Meet the Development Team The Prairie Fund Online Giving Photo Premiere 2020 Health Office Information Lunch Program & Menus Parents of Prairie (POP) Prairie Blog Weather-Related Protocols Faculty & Staff Directory (pic) Getting Ready 2019-20 Getting Ready 2019-20 (pic) New Faculty 2019-20 A Special Back-to-School Message from Dr. Coffman Dear Prairie Families, Welcome to the 2019-20 school year! Our first week has been great with Upper School up North at Camp Manito-wish, and a full Middle, Primary and Early School today. We have record enrollment in the Early School this year and almost 100 new students across our fifteen grades. Please join me in welcoming all of our new families to the Prairie community. Prairie is an aspirational school that was founded and thrives today on shaping leaders who make a difference. In partnership with motivated parents, we collectively strive for the growth of every student as a scholar, artist, athlete, and leader. To attain this goal, we must continuously grow and improve as educators and parents, working together to know, value, support, and challenge each individual student to be his or her best self. I encourage all of you to be involved in the life of the school. Get to know your child’s teachers, classmates, and friends. Life is a rollercoaster ride, but together we can celebrate the peaks and get through the valleys of the shared experience (even the rough spots — we all have them) within a close-knit educational community. This summer has been a busy one for our faculty with almost a dozen different growth and development projects taking place, as well as our annual summer reading assignment. This year, the faculty chose one of six books on various aspects of teaching and learning, including work by Doug Lemov and Sir Ken Robinson. Every faculty member came away from the readings and our workshops with new ideas or refinements to make their classrooms more effective learning environments. It was my first time reading Ron Berger’s Ethic of Excellence – Building a Culture of Craftsmanship with Students, and I am looking forward to applying the principles of modeling and iteration that the text emphasizes in my Government class. Thanks to your generosity, 2018-19 was a record fundraising year for Prairie. Your support has allowed us to add a new Video Production teacher, make significant upgrades in the art studios, update software, fix multiple leaking walls and roofs, along with filling the gap between your tuition and the actual cost of educating each student. I hope that each of you will increase your philanthropic support of our students through the Parent Prairie Fund so that we continue to thrive. I also hope that you will join me in welcoming our new faculty members. They are truly talented, experienced, conscientious, and inspiring educators. The group includes a veteran, two college athletes, and several artists who have contributed to projects on- and off-screen. You can read their short biographies below. On a final note, I hope we all have a great year working together as a community committed to our collective growth and success. We all benefit when we help those around us flourish. Dr. Nat Coffman Head of School and President Mark Baker – French Teacher Substitute Teacher at The Prairie School English Teacher at École Germaine de Staël (Switzerland) Sales Assistant (Sydney, Australia) Assistant to the Head of School & English Teacher, International Language School for Children (Brussels, Belgium) A.S. in Exercise Science, Sydney College of Advanced Education Did You Know…Mr. Baker used to compete in (and sometimes win) local surfing competitions? Kelly Christensen – Mathematics Teacher Mathematics Teacher at Lincoln Middle School (Kenosha, WI) B.S. in Elementary Education, minor in Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater M.Ed. in Supervisor and Leadership, National Louis University Did You Know…Mrs. Christensen once won a karaoke contest? Jersey Eickhorst – Assistant Director of Fitness Center/Sport Event Manager Athletic Events Facilities and Maintenance with the City of Racine Parks Department Management of the University Grounds at Benedictine University, (Lisle, IL) Outdoor Management of Golf Range at Mulligan’s Mini Golf and Driving Range Coaching experience with Great Lakes Basketball Camp Assistant High School Basketball Coach at Racine Horlick High School B.A. in Business Management, Benedictine University Did You Know…Mr. Eickhorst played college football? Jason Glassman – Humanities Teacher English Teacher at Waukegan High School-Brookside Campus (Waukegan, IL) English Teacher at Schulzentrum Bordestraße (Bremen, Germany) English Teacher at Renaissance High School (Franklin, TN) Director of Development & Screenwriting Instructor at the National Film Institute (Nashville, TN) English Teacher at Community High School (Nashville, TN) B.A. in English, University of Colorado, Boulder M.A. in English, Claremont Graduate University Did You Know…Mr. Glassman is also a screenwriter? Amber Hearn – Advancement Services Manager Billing Specialist & Sales Executive at ZMAC Transportation (Racine, WI) Organizational Development Program Manager at Educators Credit Union (Racine, WI) Organizational Development Specialist at Educators Credit Union (Racine, WI) Assistant Manager at Educators Credit Union (Racine, WI) Contact Center Agent Member Finance Representative at Educators Credit Union (Racine, WI) B.S. in Business Management, concentration in Human Resources, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Did You Know…Mrs. Hearn is a Packers season ticket holder, and has been her entire life? Scott Huggins – Humanities Teacher Long-Term Substitute Teacher at The Prairie School History and Speech Teacher at The Independent School (Wichita, KS) Visiting Lecturer at Michigan State University B.A. in English Literature/Creative Writing and Russian Language, Kansas State University M.A. in English Literature/Creative Writing, Michigan State University Did You Know…Mr. Huggins is a very nearly award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy? Abby Jaramillo – Primary School Teacher Primary School Teacher at Red Apple Elementary (Racine, WI) Substitute Teacher in the Racine Unified School District (Racine, WI) B.A. Journalism and Mass Communication, University of New Mexico Did You Know…Mrs. Jaramillo played professional basketball in Europe (Finland, Portugal, and Greece)? Dominic Kegel – Video Production Teacher/Digital Specialist Media Production & Design Instructor in the Racine Unified School District (Racine, WI) Producer & Director for Skies Fall Media Group (Hollywood, CA) B.S. in Education, Greenville University M.A. in Art & Design, University of Hertfordshire Interactive Design Institute (London, U.K.) Did You Know…Mr. Kegel has his pilot’s license? Sophie Michaud Assistant Head of School/Academics at Buffalo Seminary (Buffalo, NY) Dean of Faculty & Academic Dean at Buffalo Seminary (Buffalo, NY) Foreign Language Department Chair & Exchanges Coordinator at Buffalo Seminary (Buffalo, NY) French Teacher at Buffalo Seminary (Buffalo, NY) B.A. in English & French as a second language, Cambridge University M.A. in English Translation & Linguistics, Université Catholique de Lille (Lille, France) M.A. in French Language & Literature, SUNY at Buffalo Ph.D. Candidate in French and Francophone Literatures, SUNY at Buffalo Did You Know…Mrs. Michaud is trained and certified to teach “visualism”? Ask her about it sometime… Office Number 4050 Lighthouse Drive Copyright © 2020 Prairie School • All Rights Reserved. Amazing Teachers. Extraordinary Results.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3526
__label__cc	0.740326	0.259674	Greenville Utilities Commission selects Oracle applications and technology to revamp IT infrastructure and improve customer service initiatives 24 Jan 2013 Redwood Shores - North Carolina-based Greenville Utilities Commission (GUC), an electric, water, sewer and natural gas service provider to the City of Greenville and 75 percent of Pitt County, selected a broad footprint of Oracle applications and technology solutions to help reduce costs and improve customer service. GUC is working with Platinum level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), Lucidity Consulting Group on the implementation. GUC, which is updating its IT infrastructure as part of a broader initiative to integrate internal processes and technology enterprise-wide, selected Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management, Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management, the Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Hyperion Planning and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, all running on Oracle Database 11g. With the implementation of Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management, Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management and the Oracle E-Business Suite, GUC hopes to boost workforce productivity through improved communication between customer service representatives, dispatchers and technicians. This will help GUC continue to improve its excellent customer service and operational effectiveness. Further, with Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing, GUC felt it was flexible enough to handle their current and future rates and allow the utility to respond to their customer needs as they evolve. As part of the two-phased project, which began earlier this year, GUC has begun implementing the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Fusion Middleware. The second project phase will begin early next year, and will include the rest of its Oracle solutions. "Our mission with this project is to support the right processes with the right technology so we can continue to provide exceptional customer service into the future. With the Oracle solutions in place, we can streamline the way we do business, which will ultimately enable us to deliver on our mission", stated Sandy Barnes, director of information technology, Greenville Utilities. "We are pleased that Greenville Utilities chose Oracle Utilities' software and technology offerings. Our solution scalability will enable GUC to revitalize its IT infrastructure, ultimately enabling it to realize its goals of increased operational efficiency and improved customer service", stated Rodger Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Utilities.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3528
__label__cc	0.666125	0.333875	Suits & Sports Coats Loro Piana Bespoke Tailoring The Master Tailor The Assistant Tailor To connect high end individuals with flair for fashion to Loro Piana fabrics and having them stitched by the Master Tailor “Salvatore Di Francisca” There is nothing like the feeling of wearing clothing that fits perfectly, knowing the garments are unique Our Craftsmanship At Salvatore Di Francisca, we know there are many elements that make up a great suit. Most of the imperative parts are hidden, and are crucial to the performance and longevity of the garment. Loro Piana Elegance & Style The Master Tailor uses only Loro Paiana Fabrics. Loro Piana is an Italian clothing company specializing in high-end, luxury cashmere and wool products. How It Is Done All measurements are done by the Master tailor himself. Stitching is done in Italy using the chosen fabric and the highest standard of accessories such as lining, buttons etc. The Process of a 'Bespoke Suit ' Consultation with the Master Tailor Final Fitting Master Tailor, Salvatore Di Francisca at work The initial consultation takes about an hour depending on how much detail you want to get into and how quickly you make decisions. We are happy to move at your pace. Through experience a normal suit would have anything between 25-60 body measurements. We have developed a proprietary method of conducting a fitting that utilizes a combination of body measurements, finished measurements and the use of fit samples and the results speak for themselves. This process takes into account all the basic measurements (Length, widths, circumference etc) and the "Bespoke Magic" what we call "body peculiarities". This is what set us apart from a bespoke suit and a normal suit. This is an “Italian Art" where the master tailors interpret the numbers and notes and build a pattern and a suit as unique as the client's body. Read Biography of Master Tailor Salvatore Di Francisca Suits & Sports Coats : Red Company Vicuna is not only the worlds finest wool but it also very rare. The Vicuna is very hard to domesticate as they have a tendency to escape, the animal can only be shorn every 2 years and only one fawn is produced with each mating. "Loro Piana Vicuna" itself comes in a rather limited array of colors as the fine wool does not take to dying very well and loses its natural beauty. Vicuna typically came in natural colors because of this but Loro Piana has succeeded in adding some variation using very sophisticated dying methods. These are namely warm and very Loro Piana colors like beige, cream, caramel rusty reds and browns. Handling and seeing the cloth is amazing. Theres almost a natural basic attraction akin to handling a solid gold ingot. The color texture and feel are extremely seductive. The cloth is also available through Loro Piana in scarves, knitwear and in their Interiors (home furnishings) line in limited numbers. In the mountainous regions of Inner Mongolia, Loro Piana discovered Baby Cashmere®: a rare and precious fibre exclusively obtained from the underfleece of the Hyrcus goat kid. It is gathered by means of a delicate and completely harmless procedure done only once in a goat's life, when it is between three and twelve months old. Loro Piana Baby Cashmere® is available in extremely limited quantities: one kid produces barely 80 grams of the softest undefleece which, once the coarser outer fibres have been discarded, results in just 30-40 grams of useable fibre. So fine are the fibres of Baby Cashmere® that it takes the underfleece of 19 kids to make just one pullover Loro Piana has spun woolen and worsted cashmere yarns for six generations. The company is the world's foremost cashmere manufacturer and largest single buyer of the finest wool. Loro Piana upholds a tradition of excellence across all of its product ranges and has done successfully for over 20 years. Loro Piana's luxury goods division manufactures clothing, as described above, to be sold directly through Loro Piana stores and other wholesalers, whilst the textile division sells products to the world's top manufacturers, designers and tailors. The Loro Piana Lotus Flower® is said to be one of the finest aquatic fibers ever, creating the perfect summer fabric thanks to its exceptional breathability, soft and irregular weft, and resistance to creasing. The fiber has never before been used in the Western textile industry and is a rare find. Extracted from the stems of lotus flowers from the Burma lakes, the fiber must be weaved within 24 hours to avoid deterioration. The fabric has the appearance of antique linen or raw silk and is available only in its natural color, ecru. Pecora Nera Pecora Nera® is a range of Loro Piana's rare fabrics made using New Zealand merino wool coming exclusively from the fleeces of dark coloured sheep. These extraordinary animals are the result of 20 years of careful selection by a New Zealand breeder, who has restored the dignity and importance of dark sheep by discovering that this was the original color of the sheep bred in the past. White sheep are in fact the result of long-term man made selection after discovering that it was possible to dye white wool in a broader range of colors. However, the dark color remained as a recessive or secondary genetic characteristic of some white sheep, which is why the flocks occasionally give birth to a black lamb whose wool is not used. This is the origin of the use of the term "a black sheep" to describe a negative member of a group. But the New Zealand breeder focused on dark sheep, only crossing specimens endowed with this genetic heritage, rediscovering all of their original characteristics, such as the extraordinarily thick fleeces that give rise to a bright and highly resistant wool, whose natural color ranges from various shades of mixed browns to black. Another aspect is worth underlining: the wool of black sheep is totally natural and not dyed and therefore it is not affected by chemical agents. Extrafine Wools Loro Piana's rare fabrics made using New Zealand merino wool coming exclusively from the fleeces of dark coloured sheep. The difference is in the details. From a distance it can be difficult to tell a high quality suit from an inferior suit. Get up close and the differences can be dramatic. We understand this and feel it is our job to give you as many customizations as possible, for it is in the many small details that takes a suit from good to incredible. First, it's mostly about the fit. We know that. But once you're guaranteed a perfect fit, it's fun to have a lot of creative control over the unique design elements of your suit. Some clients make conservative choices and prefer the quiet confidence that comes from knowing they are wearing a world-class suit - even if the fit is the only thing that tips off their friends. Other clients choose to give their suits some flair, opting for more trendy lapels and pockets, and saying yes to each opportunity to add a pop of color or an unexpected detail. Whether conservative or flashy, or somewhere safely in between, you'll have a lot of control over the look of your suit. It will be a one-of-a-kind garment, as unique as its wearer. Don't be intimidated by the amount of options. While some guys love the many questions, others not so much. In either case we're here to guide you through the process and make recommendations to ensure the finished product is perfect for the way you wear suits in your life. Suit Customization - Thousands of cloth options, all from well-known British and Italian mills - Choose from half-canvas (standard) , full-canvas, or unlined & unstructured construction - Single or double breasted - 6 Lapel styles and widths - 5 Pocket styles - 2 Breast pocket styles - 38 Undercollar (melton) colors - Number of front buttons - Number of sleeve cuff buttons - Functioning cuff buttons (surgeon's cuffs) - Machine or handsewn buttonholes - With or without pick stitching - Rear vent styles - 21 button choices - 90 lining cloth options - 90 sleeve lining options - 36 buttonhole thread color options - 36 button 'cross stitch' color options - 2 Elbow patch styles - 3 Trouser plain or pleating options - 3 Trouser pocket options - Cuffed or uncuffed; regular or tall - With or without side slider tabs - With or without belt loops - With or without suspender buttons - 3 Vest pocket options - 5 Vest button configurations - 2 Vest construction options The particularly vital areas are the chest and shoulders, but there are a number of other areas that contribute to making a tailored garment what it should be: the most flattering, best fitting item in your wardrobe. We take these details, whether large or small, quite seriously. Many makers in the ready-to-wear and custom suit business are intentionally evasive about disclosing their materials and methods because they cut corners, use inexpensive materials, and use heat and glue to stick it all together. Many are deliberately vague and deceptive about the country of origin of cloth and materials, the composition of cloth, and the country of manufacture. Full Canvas Our full canvas construction uses natural materials, all made in Italy, to create a jacket with supple structure and shape. These materials include wool canvas, haircloth (made with horsehair and cotton), wrapped haircloth, and felt. All materials are preshrunk so no shrinkage takes place on the finished garment. The wool canvas piece covers the front of the jacket, and is made up of a wool warp with a cotton and horsehair weft. The haircloth is covered in soft felt (horsehair is stout and springy, which gives the haircloth structure and promotes shape, but is scratchy against the skin) at the area of the chest. The canvas starts at the top of the shoulder and extends the length of the jacket front to the hem, also extending into the lapel. The lapel is padded (stitched together using hundreds of small stitches in a way that combines several pieces of cloth and holds them in place to maintain a specific shape) to give the lapel "roll". Roll is the curl of the lapel as it comes away from the chest, and can only be achieved using high quality canvas that has been pad stitched into place. The rolled lapel is both beautiful as well as functional. It helps the lapel hug the chest and not slouch away from it, a sign of a well-made suit jacket. By contrast, a fused or inferiorly made suit has a flat lapel, with no roll. In addition to the lapel, pad stitching is used in the chest to give it shape. Tailoring, after all, is creating a garment that will fit around and flatter the contours of body, not simply hang from it, like flat sewing. Pad stitching is also done on the canvas of the under collar to give good shape and ensure the collar lays properly. Sleeves are set into the sleeve head by hand. Shoulders are composed of the best quality materials to provide structured softness. The finishing touches include genuine horn, corozo, or mother-of-pearl buttons and cupro lining (commonly known by the brand name "Bemberg"), which provides vivid color, silky touch, and the breathability of the cotton from which its derived. Half Canvas Our half canvas construction uses the same high-quality materials as our full canvas construction. Where a full canvas goes from top to bottom of the jacket front, a half canvas stops around the top button. Like a full canvas, the jacket front construction begins by stitching the cut pieces together (wool canvas, haircloth, wrapped haircloth, and felt). The shell cloth (the main cloth on the outside of the suit) is then basted (stitched) together to the canvas and chest piece. The lapels are pad stitched to give roll to the lapel. The collar is pad stitched as well to provide good shape. Sleeves are sewn into the sleeve head by hand to give added elasticity and precise alignment. As with full canvas construction, structure is given to the shoulder using thin, high quality shoulder pads and minimal cotton wadding to give a clean look to the chest and shoulders that is also soft and supple to the touch. Half canvas construction is the default construction for us at Beckett & Robb. The area that differs from full canvas construction is the area below the top button, which has no haircloth. Many prefer this construction for all-season suits because it's a bit lighter weight than full canvas yet still provides the benefits of a full canvas garment, namely the stability in the chest, under collar, and lapel. Like full canvas, our half canvas suits come standard with horn, corozo, or mother-of-pearl buttons and cupro linings. Our standard production times are 5 - 6 weeks for suits and 3 - 4 weeks for shirts. This can vary from time to time due to various reasons as the production is done in Italy. Once your order has arrived you will be contacted and “final fitting" will be scheduled. At your final fitting your order will be delivered to you. We recommend our clients to allow time to try on the clothing and allow us to make sure that we're accomplished our shared goals for a flattering fit and beautiful design. Te Italian tailors are quite good and meticulous and alterations are very rare, however final tweaks come with the territory and we will happily make any necessary adjustments. © Copyright 2016, Salvatore Di Francisca 1st Flr. Village Market, Opp. Food Court, next to Forex Bureau P. O. Box 625-00621-Village Market, Nairobi, Kenya T: +254 (20) 7122473 M: +254 729 431 684 (Safaricom) M: +254 733 892 602 (Airtel)	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3538
__label__wiki	0.660063	0.660063	Hundreds attend funeral of woman shot at home by Texas cop Thursday, October 24, 2019 3:02 PM EDT DALLAS, TX - (AP) - Hundreds of mourners attended the funeral of a woman fatally shot in her home by a Fort Worth police officer. Fort Worth's mayor and interim police chief joined family and mourners from across the country at the service for Atatiana Jefferson on Thursday at Concord Church in Dallas. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Pastor Bryan Carter told mourners: "We are tired of talking to our children about police, tired of crying mothers, tired of funerals." An officer responding to a call about an open front door shot Jefferson through a back window. The killing sparked outrage and shattered community-police relations in the North Texas city. The officer who shot her is charged with murder. Jefferson's funeral had been set for Saturday but was rescheduled after a family disagreement.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3539
__label__wiki	0.802817	0.802817	home \| calendar \| shop \| bio \| press \| Duo Déjà vu \| Duo Mundo \| blog \| contact Click here for Rebecca's curriculum vitae. Click here for full bio. Cellist Rebecca Hartka has concertized for over a decade in the United States and internationally in Italy, Cuba, Vietnam, and Thailand. Committed to authentic and powerful performance that builds bridges, Hartka's playing was described by the Hanoi Times as "magical and eloquent." Her 2017 release Colors Couleurs Colores Cores (Becsta records) "displays a high degree of heart and total control" (Michael Johnson, Facts & Arts) was recorded with Guitarist Jose Lezcano and pianist Barbara Lysakowski. She has performed recently at Saugerties Pro Musica; the Frederick Historical Piano Collection Concert Series; Bass Hall Concerts; Columbia Universities St Lukes Concert Series; the 1794 Meeting House Concert Series; the French Cultural Center of Boston; the Dweck Center, among others. Her 2014 release Light & Shadow: Sonatas of Rachmaninov and Poulenc with pianist Alys Terrien-Queen and her debut CD Folkfire with pianist Azusa Komiyama, released in October 2010, both received critical acclaim as well as National Public Radio play. As a Deans Scholar, Hartka earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts and Masters in Music from Boston University College of Fine Arts, and her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Oberlin College and Conservatory. She has studied with Andor Toth, Michael Reynolds, Rhonda Rider, and Leslie Parnas. Cellist Rebecca Hartka has concertized for over a decade in the United States and internationally in Italy, Cuba, Vietnam, and Thailand. Committed to authentic and powerful performance that builds bridges, Hartka's playing was described by the Hanoi Times as "magical and eloquent." She collaborates primarily with pianist Barbara Lysakowski in Duo Déjà vu and with guitarist Jose Lezcano with recent concerst at Saugerties Pro Musica; the Frederick Historical Piano Collection Concert Series; Bass Hall Concerts; Columbia Universities St Lukes Concert Series; the 1794 Meeting House Concert Series; the French Cultural Center of Boston; the Dweck Center, among others. Hartka has released three CDs on Becsta Records. Her 2017 Colors Couleurs Colores Cores (Becsta records) "displays a high degree of heart and total control" (Michael Johnson) was recorded with Guitarist Jose Lezcano and pianist Barbara Lysakowski. In 2014 she released her second CD Light & Shadow: Sonatas of Rachmaninov and Poulenc with pianist Alys Terrien-Queen. According to the Boston Musical Intelligencer they "take this rich Russian music to new heights", stating that their performance "ranks comfortably alongside several impressive readings by other major cellists." Hartka released her debut CD Folkfire with pianist Azusa Komiyama in October 2010, receiving critical acclaim as well as radio play on both WFCR and WAMC Performance Place. The Daily Hampshire Gazette remarked of the CD that Hartka "emotes a passion worthy of a symphony orchestra" while the Greenfield Recorder praised her for having "a passion for precision that never imposes itself upon the music". She was the recipient of the 1993 Henriette Reiss Award for Outstanding Artistic Merit. Hartka completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in Cello performance at Boston University College of Fine Arts in May 2007, as a four-year recipient of the Deans Scholar Award, and an elected member of Phi Kappa Lambda, the National Music Honors Society. Hartka also completed a Masters in Music at BU CFA, and a Bachelor of Arts in Cello Performance at the Oberlin Conservatory and College. Hartka's teachers have included Leslie Parnas, Michael Reynolds, Rhonda Rider, Clive Greensmith, Andor Toth, Peter Rejto, Douglas Moore and Justin Kagan	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3541
__label__cc	0.666043	0.333957	Protect Mustangs™ Forever wild and free™ Music 4 Mustangs™ Native Wild Horses PZP is very dangerous Slaughtering Wild Horses WHBAct Wild Horses Prevent Wildfires™ © Protect Mustangs Tag Archives: Governor Mead Shine the light on energy development pushing out native wild horses in Wyoming Posted on October 14, 2014 by Protect Mustangs We invite you to post more information in the comments section below because the public has a right to know the real reasons why America’s wild horses are being terrorized, pushed off public land, to end up at risk of going to slaughter for human consumption abroad. Sadly the news in Wyoming doesn’t know what fair reporting means and is not covering the crisis as they should. It’s shameful the energy industry, government employees and our elected officials refuse to find the win-win for wildlife and industry to coexist. Instead they are wiping out America’s wild horses to cash in on their land. Recently in the Wyoming Checkerboard roundup, the BLM zeroed out most of the wild horses despite public outcry. The BLM also tried to blame horse advocates for taking more than 400 additional wild horses when the truth is they were allegedly pushed by Governor Mead to take as many as they could find. Wyoming’s Governor Matt Mead joined the fight against wild horses in the Checkerboard allegedly because he is pushing for maximum industrialization of public land and especially liquified natural gas (LNG) to replace diesel and for export to Asia’s growing market for fuel, electricity, etc.). The most important document for you to read to understand why Wyoming is getting rid of their wild horses is Wyoming LNG Roadmap (April 2014) Below is some news from last May: Cheyenne, WY (May 12, 2014) – Governor Mead unveiled a report today showing Wyoming is well positioned to be a leader in developing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry for high horsepower uses. Since Governor Matt Mead took office in January of 2011, he’s made it a point to maximize the use of Wyoming’s natural resources. “One of the things I really wanted to accomplish was an energy strategy. An energy strategy is energy, economy and environment,” Mead said. Mead went out and partnered with Gladstein, Neandross & Associates (GNA), to provide an “LNG road map” about the feasibility, potential, costs and benefits of using liquefied natural gas. “Liquefied natural gas gives our customers who are currently use diesel to power their engines the ability to reduce costs of ownership. Abundantly domestically produced natural gas offers lower fuel costs and reduced emissions,” said Richard Wheeler, President & CEO of Wyoming Machinery Co. Wyoming is the third leading producer of natural gas and the use of LNG as a supplement to diesel fuel in Wyoming’s high horsepower sectors such as mining, drilling and over-the-road trucking. “It’s a 300 to 400 million dollar investment as best we can tell to really get this going here in the state, but that will create about 5,000 really good, high paying, high tech jobs,” said Erik Neandross, CEO of GNA According to GNA, the investment could return 160 to 170 million dollars in fuel cost savings for Wyoming based businesses. “It’s an opportunity for coal companies to lower their fuel costs and also use a product that we have in abundance in Wyoming,” Mead said. Posted for educational purposes from: http://bit.ly/1r3DvV1 This isn’t the first time a public affairs firm is pushing energy driven missions through at the expense of wildlife and especially native wild horses. Just follow the money . . . Kearns and West: Corporate Criminals by David Gurney Sunday Jun 10th, 2012 9:42 AM According to a June 2010 press release, “Kearns and West has been known to gather scientific experts and build a movement of common interest “stakeholders” to crush public outcry and true environmentalism.” see: http://noyonews.net/?p=6231 Kearns and West Inc., the same “Collaboration and Strategic Communications” company that ran public meetings for the corrupt Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) “Initiative” [and who illegally barred public recording and comment at their public meetings] has also been accused of running manipulative “public workshops” for the BLM – in the controversial roundup of wild horses in northern Nevada, and other Western States. Although Kearns and West, Inc. claims to represent the public and the environment, and impartially facilitate public meetings, in reality they represent energy interests. They function to facilitate government approval for private projects, and shift policy in favor of private “stakeholder” interests. They specialize in marginalizing and excluding public involvement – with contrived and manipulative “stakeholder collaboration” processes. Interestingly, in the Brave New World of modern day environmental policy, private interests, not tax dollars, are financing public policy processes and decisions. These processes were once taxpayer supported, and deemed to be fair and impartial. But now, with governments going broke, governmental processes and the agencies entrusted to design, control and regulate corporate industrial interests, have been bought and paid for by the same corporate interests they are supposed to regulate. Corporate crooks such as Kearns and West have stepped in the void, to conduct what are ostensibly public meetings, but in reality are paid for by private corporations and individuals. The MLPA “Initiative” was a classic example of corruption easing it’s way into a bankrupt democracy. Kearns and West contracts out what are essential out public policy endeavors. But they serve the private corportations and individuals who pay for their services – to create favorable governmental outcomes for proposed “projects.” Kearns and West’s clients are a laundry-list of energy and natural gas interests. They are cashing in on what once would have been unacceptable, criminal conflict of interest in determining public policy. In the case mentioned below, Kearns and West was allegedly involved in helping to exterminate wild horses from Northern Nevada, so that the Ruby Pipeline could go through. The Ruby Pipeline is a 42 inch diameter natural gas pipeline, that as of last year, runs from 680 miles from Wyoming to Oregon, and passes right through the heart of the wild horse country in Northern Nevada. According to many in the west, the wild horses were an obstacle to the pipeline project that the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) did not want to deal with. So in comes Kearns and West – to hold “public workshops.” But why is a company with direct ties to natural gas and energy interests – running public meetings and workshops, supposedly on behalf of the public – on an issue between wild horses, public land, and a natural gas pipeline project? There is nothing more heartbreaking than seeing helicopters terrorizing the beautiful wild mustangs, a living icon of the American West. The 2010 press release below is part of a tragedy that is continuing to this very day. From a June, 2010 press release by the Cloud Foundation: Spin Doctors Hired for the Destruction of America’s Wild Horse and Burro Herds Denver, CO (June 14, 2010)—The Cloud Foundation has learned that the San Francisco based public relations and public affairs firm, Kearns and West, with ties to big energy and offices across the country, has been hired to push the Salazar Plan for Wild Horses and Burros through Congress in Fall 2010—despite public outrage. Kearns and West has expertise in crisis management as well as accomplishing policy and regulatory goals. Their clients range from Mineral Management Services (MMS) and PG&E to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The Department of Interior (DOI) has enlisted the firm using the Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (ECR) as the go between. Senior mediator of Kearns and West, J. Michael Harty will facilitate an unprecedented public workshop in Denver, Colorado at the Magnolia Hotel, 818 17th Street, on June 14th followed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Public Advisory Board Meeting on June 15th. Both days will be live-streamed and viewing available on http://www.thecloudfoundation.org. The public and members of Congress are encouraged to watch. The public will protest on June 15th from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. with a press conference at noon. BLM’s recently announced and highly polished but unsubstantial, “Strategy Plan” as well as their association with PR firm Kearns and West, appears designed to manipulate the public and marginalize the opposition to the Salazar Plan for wild horses and burros. The plan calls for the purchase of Eastern and Midwestern “preserves” populated by sterilized wild horses, captured from their Western ranges. “This is ALL about manipulating public opinion. And ramming ONE thing – Salazar’s Plan – through” states author R.T. Fitch. The Kearns and West Salazar Plan Executive Summary states, ‘The U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (‘Institute’) is assisting BLM in assessing stakeholder interests and developing an effective stakeholder engagement plan for the Strategy.’ Disturbingly, BLM often does not include the public as a stakeholder in their planning documents regarding the management of wild horses and burros. “Who is the biggest stakeholder in the discussion of the public’s land and its wild horses if not the public?” asks Terri Farley, author of the Phantom Stallion series, adding “A public agency must represent the public and utilize taxpayer dollars responsibly—not spend excessively on another private contractor.” According to their website, Kearns and West offers their clients (in this case the BLM) ‘A compelling credible, resonant case. True, high-impact support for your position.’ Advocates support a new direction that abandons the endless, expensive cycle of roundup, removal, and warehousing. BLM must adopt a far less expensive path that is kinder to the land and the wild horses legally living there, one that contains truly transparent solutions, not a slick, taxpayer-funded PR campaign. “By hiring a high powered PR and Public Affairs firm, it seems that BLM is aiming to extinguish the opposition rather than solve the controversy over their management of our wild herds,” explains Ginger Kathrens, Volunteer Executive Director of the Cloud Foundation. “The public by the thousands has shared their opposition to the Salazar Plan. I hope we can sit down at this public forum and seriously talk about a moratorium on roundups while we work to reinstate protections that are consistent with the intent of the 1971 Wild Horse and Burro Act.” According to The Holmes Report, “Kearns & West recognizes the important value of collaborating both with our clients and their stakeholders. For more than 20 years, the firm has employed its unique brand of stakeholder-centric strategic communications and collaboration processes to design innovative, but pragmatic programs, achieving superior results for clients in the federal, state and local government, private and nonprofit sectors. Kearns & West works with tough issues and big ideas.” Besides specializing in ‘accomplishing policy and regulatory goals’ Kearns and West also represents PG&E—a primary customer in the Ruby Pipeline natural gas project threatening public lands and five public herds with environmental devastation from Wyoming to Oregon. Kearns and West also represents Duke Energy, the Association of Western Governors and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, among others. While Secretary Salazar vowed to restore the Interior Department’s ‘respect for scientific integrity’ he has failed to consider science, reason, or even the law when it comes to managing our wild herds. Kearns and West has been known to gather scientific experts and build a movement of common interest “stakeholders” to crush public outcry and true environmentalism. Wild horse advocates feel the Kearns and West prepared Salazar report for Congress will be biased in favor of big energy ties with DOI at the expense of federally protected wild horses who somehow are in the way of ‘The New Energy Frontier’. “We hope Monday’s workshop will be a productive one rather than a demonstration of BLM’s inability to change,” concludes Kathrens. Who is really dictating wild horse roundups and removals and why are they zeroing them out? Protect Mustangs invites you to research the subject and post what you find in the comments below. This is also a welcome forum for you to politely voice your outrage at wild horse removals. Protect Mustangs is a 100% volunteer non-profit organization where the wild horses come first! We are not paying big bucks on marketing campaigns. The majority of our donations go towards feeding and caring for rescued wild horses. Links of interest™: Legislators join wild horse conversation: http://bit.ly/1p9D2kq Wyoming LNG Roadmap (April 2014): http://www.gladstein.org/pdfs/GNA_Wyoming_LNG_Roadmap.pdf Gladstein, Neandross & Associates: http://www.gladstein.org Leading environmental consulting firm for emission reduction, energy and transportation policy, and market development for alternative fuel vehicles. The Pickens Plan: http://www.pickensplan.com BLM tried to blame wild horse advocates for taking 1/3 more wild horses during contested roundup: https://www.facebook.com/BLMWyoming United States Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives Multi-Stakeholder Group Advisory Committee Meeting Draft Summary of Proceedings (2014): http://on.doi.gov/1w5aaOj Kearns & West Indybay report, Kearns and West: Corporate Criminals: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/10/18715106.php Western Governors’ Association Transportation Fuels for the Future A Roadmap for the West: http://bit.ly/1o9hqtn Western Governors Association and the Right of Way agenda: http://bit.ly/1EUj1IK Western Renewable Energy Zones-Phase 1 Report: http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/oeprod/DocumentsandMedia/WREZ_Report.pdf List of Registrants – Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (2013): http://bit.ly/1z7Vofh Data removed: http://www.recovery.gov/arra/News/featured/Pages/Some-Recipient-Data-Being-Removed.aspx “The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board will sunset on September 30, 2015 and has decided for its last year not to renew the licensing agreement that allows for the display of certain recipient-related data. As of October 1, 2014, maps, charts, and graphs on the site will no longer reflect this information. This change will also include the removal of the recipient profiles as well as the cumulative national download file. Kearns & West Kearns & West is a woman-owned collaboration and strategic communications firm founded in 1984. Our high-stakes projects include work at local, state, regional, and national levels and cover a variety of sectors including energy, water, marine resources, land use and natural resources, government, business and academia, and technology and Internet. Kearns & West understands the special requirements of working with stakeholders to achieve an organization’s goals. We have a proven record of success thanks to our stakeholder-centric approach of providing robust collaboration and strategic communications services. Our commitment to positive, mutually beneficial results has helped us maintain long-term relationships with the people and organizations we assist. Oscar nominated GASLAND 1 and GASLAND 2: www.GASLANDmovie.com The WY14, National Treasures Saved from Slaughterhouse: http://horsebackmagazine.com/hb/archives/28702 10 year Moratorium Petition: https://www.change.org/p/sally-jewell-urgent-grant-a-10-year-moratorium-on-wild-horse-roundups-for-recovery-and-studies Don’t Frack Wild Horse Land Petition: https://www.change.org/p/sen-dianne-feinstein-don-t-frack-wild-horse-land Petition to Defund and Stop the Roundups http://www.change.org/p/defund-and-stop-the-wild-horse-burro-roundups Posted in Uncategorized \| Tagged BLM, Cloud Foundation, energy, fracking, Gasland, Gladstein, Governor Mead, Kearns and West, Liquid Natural Gas, LNG, Mustang, natural gas, Neandross & Associates, News, petition, Protect mustangs, roundup, wild horses, Wyoming \| 12 Replies American Wild Horse Institute Cynthia Smalley's Wild Horses & Western Art Photography Honor the Earth Protect Mustangs You Tube Channel Sacred Stone Camp Washington Post – National 'animal cruelty' adoption America Anne Novak BLM Bureau of Land Management Burros California CNN Congress Craig Downer energy fracking gas gather horse horses horse slaughter indigenous Mustang mustangs native Nevada News Obama oil overpopulation Pesticide petition population Protect mustangs public land PZP roundup Roundups slaughter sterilization tourism Utah water wild wild horses wildlife WY14 Wyoming JavaScript is required to use GTranslate	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3543
__label__wiki	0.649322	0.649322	THE ADVENTURE OF THE INGONITA COUNTESS THE ADVENTURE OF THE INCOGNITO COUNTESS By Cynthia Ward Aqueduct Press Lucy Harker is the daughter of Count Dracula and Mina Harker, a fact known only to a handful of people. Growing up half-vampire, she is trained to become a spy for the British government and is directed by the mysterious M, in this case that stands for Mycroft Holmes. In her first field assignment, Lucy is told to she is to act as a secret bodyguard to an American military officer traveling back the United States aboard the maiden ship Titantic. The officer carries with him the plans to Captain Nemo’s long lost super submarine, the Nautilus. It is imperative the plans reach America safely and do not fall into enemy hands. The enemy being the Germans who are once again beating the drums of war. Now if you love outlandish pulp plots as this reviewer does, then you have to know Ms. Ward’s is so marvelously peppered with such well known fictional characters that we were captivated from the very first chapter. Never mind that once aboard the Titantic, Lucy encounters the Lord and Lady Greyborough; well known throughout the empire for their wealth and prestige. Rumors abound that he, James Greyborough, was actually raised by apes in the jungles of Africa as a babe. Lucy sees him as a possible ally should she need one during the long sea trip. Whereas there are several German agents also on board; which comes as no real surprise. Having been properly briefed my M, Lucy believes herself ready for anything. Anything that is except for a beautiful young woman named Carmilla Karnstein who happens to be an actual vampire with abilities far beyond her own. Though instantly attracted to the exotic beauty, Lucy suspects her of being in with the spies and must be ever vigilant or else be undone. But when her passions threaten to override her training, she soon finds herself in more danger than she could possibly have imagined. “The Adventure of the Incognita Countess,” is pure pulp in the grandest style and Ward’s panache in bringing these colorful characters together in such a radical, over-the-top plot is just fantastic. This is one of those adventures one needs to relish and relinquish all attempts finding a rational behind the plot. It’s just fun…and tons of it. And wait till the iceberg shows up! (An Anthology of Mummy Horror) Edited by Jim Beard & John C. Bruening Once again the good folks at Flinch Books have put together another terrific anthology filled with top-notch stories. This one’s theme all about the classic Mummy monsters found in black and white movies and turn of the century horror novels. The writers are among the best of New Pulp today and they do not disappoint even the most jaded of readers. Barry Reese kicks it all off with his “Love’s Deadly Kiss.” When a British explorer Thomas York returns to England after his latest adventures in Africa, he discovers that his old friend has acquired a unique mummy and appears to be under its influence somehow. When that gentleman is cruelly murdered, York investigates only to learn he too has fallen victim to the sway of this ancient, immortal temptress. “To Rise and Conquer” by Teel James Glenn follows next. During the Japanese invasion of China, an America flier finds himself fleeing with several escapees through the rugged terrain of Mongolia. They find a hidden cave in which to hide from their pursuers only to discover it holds the remains one of history’s most lauded conquerors. “The Weighing of the Dead,” is by Sam Gafford and introduces us to a British occult detective named Dr. Greenwood and his first meeting with Claire Montgomery, an archeologist looking into mysterious occurrences in the London Royal Museum. Plenty of horror and action ensue. Duane Spurlock then offers up “Spirits From the Dread World.” An ancient Aztec mummy is revised to wreak havoc on the citizens of Mexico City unless a once famous luchador named El Puno can regain his courage and come to their rescue. “The Warrior and the Stone,” by John Bruening has archeologist Jake Bennett and his Turkish guide, Haluk deep in the mountains between Tibet and China looking of a lost magical stone said to bestow immortality. Instead what they uncover is an ancient warrior trapped in time and awaiting his last battle. Nancy Hansen wraps up the volume with her story, “Sacrifices.” When the mummified remains of a warrior women are found intact in the wilderness of the Russian steppes, Marcela Ramos is called in by a Russian colleague to help investigate. But no sooner does she set about bringing the frozen corpse back to the United States when a serious of mysterious accidents befalls the crews involved with the transport process. Enough so that Marcela soon realizes she’s taken on a horrible curse that could spell her doom. It isn’t often when reviewing an anthology that we have such a difficult time choosing our favorite entry. That’s how great all these stories in this collection truly are. Whereas if given no other recourse, our needle with point to Teel James Glenn by the narrowest of margins. Truthfully, this there isn’t a bad apple in the bunch and our fedora if off to Flinch Books once again. If you love old fashion horror, pick up “Restless,” dim the lights and sit down for an evening reading pleasure. You can thank us later. FACES OF FEAR The Black Bat-The Purple Scar By Ron Fortier Illustrations by Rob Davis Moonstone Books 86 pgs Guest Reviewer – Michael Housel Just finished the novella, THE BLACK BAT/THE PURPLE SCAR: FACES OF FEAR, the latest crossover adventure from Moonstone Books. Gotta say--whoa!!! This one sure overflows with action and intrigue. It's also written by Black Bat raconteur and Airship 27 Publications founder, Ron Fortier (a good sign, if ever there was one, for no one weaves a New Pulp yarn quite like Captain Ron). The adventure is also graced by gripping illustrations from his creative pal, the legendary Rob Davis!!! Faces of Fear deals with the evident rise of dead criminals within Black Bat/Tony Quinn's NY turf. It appears that the insidious, porcelain-faced Mr. Mask is responsible. Naturally, Black Bat (accompanied by his faithful assistant, Silk Kirby) leaps in to tackle the situation. However, as the weirdness mounts, another enigmatic figure enters--that hard-hitting, rubber-masked avenger, the Purple Scar, aka Miles Murdoch. After the Black Bat rescues the Purple Scar from a sticky situation, the crusaders decide to join forces to untangle the perplexing manifestations. As with Fortier's Black Bat comic-book entries, Faces of Fear moves at a rapid clip, but the blistering action never blurs the characterizations, which remain distinct throughout, courtesy of the author's crisp, engaging style. The story also does an excellent job probing concepts of identity and the secrets people tuck beneath their various facades. Davis' wonderful illustrations give a film-noir ambiance to the tale: each image projecting a moody, almost three-dimensional depth that pulp fans will relish. By the adventure's conclusion, one side triumphs over the other, but I won't reveal exactly how. Experiencing the way Black Bat and Purple Scar (or more precisely, Fortier and Davis) make it click is all part of the fun. Incidentally, the stunning hardback-cover artwork is by Davis, with Eric Enervold having rendered the dynamic, softcover version. Cool!!! Give Faces of Fear a try. You're guaranteed a rousing treat, with either edition you buy. Heck, why not splurge for both? THE GUNS ABOVE By Robyn Bennis We love this book! The reasons for this overwhelming reaction are many and we’ll happily elaborate for your edification. Years ago, while still in high school, we discovered the works of British writer C.S. Forster and his clever navel hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was a romantic saga filled with action and heroes; the stuff teenage boys dream of. Then along about that same period in our creative evolution, we discovered the grand airships of old, from the German made Zeppelins to their American Navy counterparts, the Los Angeles and Macon. We began promptly collecting everything we could in regards to these fantastic clippers of the cloud. Thus is should be no surprise to anyone that when we began our own publishing venture, we labeled it Airship 27 Productions. Now, we report all of this because in lieu of the ever increasing popularity of steampunk, more and more books have been written dealing with airships; including “The Guns of Above.” When we saw an ad on-line for the title, we immediately reached out to Tor Books and asked to receive a review copy. They were gracious enough to respond and last week it arrived, wrapped in a truly beautiful cover by artist Tommy Arnold. Lt. Josette Dupre is an executive officer on a Garnian Army’s Aerial Signal Corp airship during the bloody war with their enemy, the neighboring nation of Vinzhalia. As the book opens, her ship, the Osprey has crash landed in the middle of a savage battle and her captain killed. Dupre takes command of the survivors and rallies the ground forces to salvage a victory from sure defeat. As a reward for her gallantry, she is promoted to Captain and given her own ship, a small scout christened the Mistral. Now in the grand tradition of steampunk, we must explain these are not the more recognizable airships of our own reality, but actual steam powered rigid crafts containing multiple gas bags and armed with canons locked into wheeled tracks. The airmen fire powder and flint rifles. Considering this level of technology, it becomes all too clear within the first few chapters that life aboard these airships are fraught with peril, if not from enemy airships, then the very fragility of the ships themselves. And it is in this world where life and death waltz together in the heavens that Captain Josette Dupre finds her calling. Whereas the mores of the time are not as advanced as the sciences and though women are allowed to serve in the aircorp, they are forbidden to participate in actual combat. Dupre’s promotion has nothing to do with her skills or heroism, but rather the fact that the war has decimated the ranks of qualified officers and that is why she is given Mistral; there was no else available. A fact she is all too aware of. But it doesn’t deter her from recruiting other women for her own crew and treating them as equals. She even has a spy to contend with. The Commander of the Garnian Army, one General Hinkal, wants to see her fail and so orders his aristocratic nephew, Lord Bernat Hinkal to fly with the Mistral and there write up a secret report detailing Dupre’s failings so as to provide the General with the evidence he requires to have her dismissed and removed from command. All of which would be easy enough to accomplish if not for two things. The first being Josette Dupre is very much a capable leader and skillfully leads her new ship into one hazardous mission after another gradually inspiring her crew and gaining their loyalty. While at the same time winning over Bernat, a spoiled dandy who, for the first time in his life, is given the opportunity to act like a man, to find his own self worth and in the process become Dupre’s most unlikely ally. “The Guns Above” is a rousing adventure from first page to last and what is even more unbelievable is the fact that it is the author’s debut novel. It has been a long time since this reviewer has been so enamored with a fictional character so brilliantly conceived and realized. Captain Josette Dupre is such a figure and when you’ve read her adventures, you’ll add her to the ranks of such heroes as Hornblower and James T. Kirk. When Jan. 2018 rolls around, we will be nominating “The Guns Above” for the Pulp Factory Awards in the Best Novel category. Now go grab a copy and join us.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3544
__label__wiki	0.679272	0.679272	Apocynum cannabinum L. (redirected from: Apocynum suksdorfii var. angustifolium (Woot.) Woods.) Family: Apocynaceae Indian-Hemp [Apocynum album, more, Apocynum album var. hypericifolium A. Gray, Apocynum cannabinum var. angustifolium (Woot.) N. Holmgren, Apocynum cannabinum var. cannabinum , Apocynum cannabinum var. glaberrimum A. DC., Apocynum cannabinum var. greeneanum (Bég. & Bel.) Woods., Apocynum cannabinum var. hypericifolium A. Gray, Apocynum cannabinum var. nemorale (G.S. Mill.) Fern., Apocynum cannabinum var. pubescens (Mitchell ex R. Br.) Woods., Apocynum cannabinum var. suksdorfii (Greene) Bég. & Bel., Apocynum dictyotum , Apocynum hypericifolium Ait., Apocynum longifolium Greene, Apocynum pubescens Mitchell ex R. Br., Apocynum sibiricum Jacq., Apocynum sibiricum var. cordigerum (Greene) Fern., Apocynum sibiricum var. farwellii (Greene) Fern., Apocynum sibiricum var. salignum (Greene) Fern., Apocynum suksdorfii Greene, Apocynum suksdorfii var. angustifolium (Woot.) Woods., Apocynum suskdorfii Greene] Perennial herb 30 cm - 1.5 m tall Leaves: opposite, erect, ascending, or sometimes wide-spreading, on short stalks (stalks of main stem leaves 0.4 - 1 cm) with glands in or above the axils. The blades are 5 - 11 cm long, oblong to broadly elliptic or oval, with an abruptly pointed spine-tip, tapered-pointed or rounded base, non-toothed edges, and sometimes with hairs on the underside, though hairless above. Inflorescence: of individually stalked, erect or ascending flowers in terminal, somewhat broad, branched clusters. The inflorescence clusters are typically surpassed in height by the leaves and lateral branches. Flowers: white or greenish white, 2 - 5 mm long, radially symmetric, egg-shaped-cylindric to urn-shaped, and quite fragrant. Sepals: five, but fused at base, then separating into triangular, pointed lobes, which are over half the length of the petal tube. Petals: five, but fused for most of their length, then separating into short, erect lobes, with the petals overall less than two times the length of the sepals. Inside, near the base of the petal tube, and opposite each lobe, is a tooth or scale. Stamens: five, with separate, short filaments attached to the inside of the petal tube, but the lance-triangular-shaped anthers fused together, surrounding and connected to the stigma, and prolonged beyond the stigma into a cone. Pistil: with two, superior ovaries, which are subtended by five nectaries, but the two ovaries sharing a single style and stigma. Fruit: of two, dry, single-chambered, many-seeded, 10 - 20 cm long, elongate, slender, sickle-shaped (with narrowed ends), capsule-like pods (follicles), which open lengthwise by a single seam. Stems: erect or ascending, branched above, and with an obvious main axis. The stems are tough, fibrous, and exude a milky, acrid juice or latex sap when cut or broken. Seeds: numerous, 3.5 - 6 mm long, narrowly elliptic to sickle-shaped, with a conspicuous tuft of 2.5 - 3 cm long hairs (coma) at one end. Similar species: Apocynum cannabinum is incredibly similar to A. sibiricum, but that species has mostly stalkless leaves with broadly rounded to indented bases. Also quite similar is the hybrid of this species and A. androsaemifolium, A. x floribundum, except the hybrid has pale pinkish flowers, stalked leaves, inflorescence clusters that often surpass the foliage, smaller seeds (typically under 4 mm long), and shorter (up to 2 cm long) tufts of hair (coma) on the seeds. The third species in our area, A. androsaemifolium, is the least similar because it has larger flowers (0.6 - 1 cm long) on drooping stalks, the petals are obviously pinkish with spreading or recurved lobes, many of the leaves droop, the inflorescences usually extend beyond the leaves, the seeds are only up to 3 mm long, and the tufts of hair (coma) on the seeds are shorter (up to 2 cm long). Flowering: June to early September Habitat and ecology: Fairly uncommon, often in disturbed sites such as along railroads, in old pastures, and other somewhat open sites. Notes: This species is highly variable in terms of the leaf shape and leaf hairiness. Some taxonomists do not believe that this species and A. sibiricum are separate species, but rather that the latter is only a variety of this, then known as A. cannabinum var. hypericifolium. However, the local floras as well as the most recent treatment of the flora of eastern North America (Gleason and Cronquist 1991) recognize both as separate species, as we do here. Hybridization is very common between this species and A. androsaemifolium. The flowers of our Apocynum species are very fragrant and attract many insects. According to Voss (1996), a particularly striking leaf-beetle, Chrysochus auratus Fabr. is often seen associating with species of Apocynum, and its larvae feed on the roots, thus it has been known commonly as the "dogbane beetle". Several species in the Apocynaceae family are used as sources of chemicals in medicine, or in poisons, and most members of the family are poisonous due to the presence of the milky latex sap. Native Americans were known to use the tough, fibrous stems of Apocynum for material fibers (Voss 1996). Author: The Field Museum Perennial herb 30 - 80 cm tall Leaves: opposite, erect or ascending, essentially stalkless (rarely with stalks up to 3 mm) with glands in or above the axils. The blades are 5 - 11 cm long, 1 - 5.5 cm wide, oblong to broadly elliptic or oval, with an abruptly pointed spine-tip, broadly rounded to indented or clasping base, non-toothed edges, and rarely any hairs. Inflorescence: of individually stalked, erect or ascending flowers in terminal, somewhat broad, branched clusters. The inflorescence clusters are typically surpassed in height by the leaves and lateral branches. Flowers: greenish white or pale yellow, 3 - 5 mm long, radially symmetric, cylindric to urn-shaped, and quite fragrant. Sepals: five, but fused at base, then separating into triangular, pointed lobes, which are over half the length of the petal tube. Petals: five, but fused for most of their length, then separating into short, mostly erect lobes, with the petals overall less than two times the length of the sepals. Inside, near the base of the petal tube, and opposite each lobe, is a tooth or scale. Stamens: five, with separate, short filaments attached to the inside of the petal tube, but the lance-triangular-shaped anthers fused together, surrounding and connected to the stigma, and prolonged beyond the stigma into a cone. Pistil: with two, superior ovaries, which are subtended by five nectaries, but the two ovaries sharing a single style and stigma. Fruit: of two, dry, single-chambered, many-seeded, 4 - 10 cm long, elongate, slender, somewhat straight, spindle-shaped (with narrowed ends), capsule-like pods (follicles), which open lengthwise by a single seam. Stems: erect or ascending, sometimes almost prostrate, often branched above, and usually with an obvious main axis. The always hairless stems are tough, fibrous, and exude a milky, acrid juice or latex sap when cut or broken. Seeds: numerous, 3.3 - 5.5 mm long, narrowly elliptic to sickle-shaped, with a conspicuous tuft of 1 - 2.5 cm long hairs (coma) at one end. Similar species: Apocynum sibiricum is incredibly similar to A. cannabinum, but that species has evidently stalked leaves with tapered or rounded bases, and longer fruit (10 - 20 cm) that are also slightly curved. Also quite similar is the hybrid of this species and A. androsaemifolium, A. x floribundum, except the hybrid has pale pinkish flowers, inflorescence clusters that often surpass the foliage, smaller seeds (under 4 mm long), and stalked leaves. The third species in our area, A. androsaemifolium, is the least similar because it has larger flowers (0.6 - 1 cm long) on drooping stalks, the petals are obviously pinkish with spreading or recurved lobes, many of the stalked leaves droop, the inflorescences usually extend beyond the leaves, and the seeds are only up to 3 mm long. Flowering: late May to late August Habitat and ecology: Somewhat common, usually in disturbed sites such as along railroads or in old pastures, but also in other fairly open sites. Notes: This species has often been treated as only a variety of A. cannabinum (A. cannabinum var. hypericifolium). However, the local floras as well as the most recent treatment of the flora of eastern North America (Gleason and Cronquist 1991) recognize both as separate species, as we do here. Hybridization is very common between this species and A. androsaemifolium. The flowers of our Apocynum species are very fragrant and attract many insects. According to Voss (1996), a particularly striking leaf-beetle, Chrysochus auratus Fabr. is often seen associating with species of Apocynum, and its larvae feed on the roots, thus it has been known commonly as the "dogbane beetle". Several species in the Apocynaceae family are used as sources of chemicals in medicine, or in poisons, and most members of the family are poisonous due to the presence of the milky latex sap. Native Americans were known to use the tough, fibrous stems of Apocynum for material fibers (Voss 1996). Deam's treatment includes three varieties: var. cannabinum is a glabrous plant except for the lower leaf surfaces; var. glaberrimum is an entirely glabrous plant; and var. pubescens is hairy on both leaf surfaces and in the inflorescence.] Variety cannabinum grows in moist or dry situations in almost all kinds of soils in all parts of the state. It is usually found in small colonies along roadsides and fences, in hayfields, fallow fields, and open woodland. I have found specimens of this and other species of the genus growing in adverse ecological conditions, that have much reduced leaves and a decumbent habit. I refer to such habitats as ballast of railroads, gravel pits, and gravel bars of streams. Habitats and distribution [of var. glaberrimum] similar to those of the species. This variety is more frequent than either the species or the pubescent variety. [Variety pubescens is] found in habitats and places similar to those of the species [A. cannabinum]. Infrequent. A study of our specimens shows several of them to be pubescent on the lower surface of the leaves. Our specimens vary from densely velvety-pubescent to pubescent mostly along the veins with scattered hairs between. Habitat similar to that of the other species [of Apocynum]. Diagnostic Traits: Erect perennial; leaves opposite; flowers in cymes; corolla bell-shaped, white, to 5 mm long. Deam (above) as well as the "Flora of the Chicago Region" recognize multiple varieties and even species within this complex. More detailed analysis is clearly needed. Martin and Hutchins 1980, Welsh et al. 1993, McLaughlin 1993 Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Forb/Herb General: Erect or ascending stems, reddish, glabrous but tough and fibrous bark, growing to 1 m tall, producing a milky latex. Leaves: Opposite or whorled, short petiolate above, sessile below, blades ovate to lanceolate, these 2-14 cm long and 1-7 cm wide, rounded at base but narrowed, mostly ascending, they are glabrous on the upper side and pubescent below. Flowers: In terminal cymes, these with small white flowers, these 5-parted cylindrical to urceolate corollas are 2-5 mm long, slightly longer to twice as long as calyx, lobes erect or slightly spreading. Fruits: Follicle slender, terete, 10-20 cm long, with many seeds each with a tuft of hair at one end. Ecology: Found on disturbed sites, especially along streams, roads, fields, but generally in mesic soils from 3,500-7,500 ft (1067-2286 m), flowers May-September. Distribution: Ranges north throughout the United States to Canada. Notes: This plant loves a variety of mesic habitats and can reproduce asexually through its roots, so it can be found in clumps. Ethnobotany: Used as a hair tonic, used to help mothers stimulate milk production, taken as a laxative, for rheumatism, coughs, pox, whooping cough, asthma, diarrhea, stomachache, as an eye medicine, for worms, and the root was used as a universal remedy. It also has ceremonial uses, the latex was used as a chewing gum, the seeds were eaten, and the bark can make cordage and a whole range of useful things. Etymology: Apocynum is from Greek apo, away from, and kyon dog, hence dogbane, while cannabinum means help-like. Synonyms: Apocynum hypericifolium, A. pubescens, A. sibiricum, A. suskdorfii Editor: SBuckley, 2011 Erect, branched above, 0.5-1.5 m, with a well developed main axis; lvs on short but evident petioles 3-10 mm, erect or ascending, 5-11 cm, oblong-lanceolate to oval or broadly elliptic, acute to rounded at the base and mucronate apex, glabrous or hairy beneath; fls erect; cal-lobes usually reaching beyond the middle of the cor-tube; cor cylindric to urceolate, 3-6 mm, white or greenish-white, the lobes erect or slightly divergent; fr (5-)10-15(-20) cm; coma mostly 1-3 cm; 2n=16. Open places; rare or local in e. Can. and N. Engl., abundant from N.Y. to N.D., s. to Fla. and Tex., and w. occasionally to the Pacific. May-Sept. Highly variable in lf-shape and pubescence. Erect to sometimes nearly prostrate; lvs usually glabrous beneath, sessile or on short petioles rarely to 3 mm, the base broadly obtuse to rounded or often subcordate and clasping; infl and cal usually glabrous; cor greenish-white or pale yellow; otherwise as in no. 2. Open places; Nf. to N.J. and W.Va., w. to Man. and Mo., and to the Pacific, more common westward. May-Sept. (A. hypericifolium) Perhaps better treated as A. cannabinum var. hypericifolium A. Gray. Daniel Leapman	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3547
__label__cc	0.518997	0.481003	Sydney’s Best Vietnamese Pork Roll (Banh Mi Thit) Top Australian Food Blogs, September 2014 Top Australian food blogs, March Quarter 2014 Blogging tips: turn your blog into a profitable hobby Posted by Thang Ngo \| Apr 10, 2013 \| Blog \| 5 \| How to turn your blog into a profitable hobby, top tips from Australian bloggers. Dollars for keystrokes My Career, Sydney Morning Herald & The Age, 6-7 April 2013. Matt Cleary finds out how to turn blogging into a profitable hobby Parenting, food, fashion. Find a topic you’re passionate about and work out why you want to blog about it, advises “mummy blogger” Kelly Burstow. Her site beafunmum.com began as a project and a way of “connecting with the world” while looking after three young children.Today she as 14,000 readers a week. Food writer Thang Ngo created noodlies.com as a “hobby to balance against work”. He has 21,000 readers a month. And advertisers know it. Get up. “You can have a blog up in a minute,” Burstow says of free sites such as Blogger. “Those want to take it more seriously can buy their own domain name and hosting.” David Hagger, creator of theworldlovesmelbourne.com, advises bloggers to purchase “a platform to write on. There are free ones through Google. You could also get a CMS – Content Management System – like WordPress or Joomla.” Find a niche. Ngo says: “People can read a review of Tetsuya’s on literally hundred of blogs. Part of how I maintain interest is by going to different, obscure places, which makes for more interesting reading.” Find your voice. “When I started two years ago I was trying to emulate what others were doing but I wasn’t getting the rewards,” Maria Gallifuoco of fashionfazer.com says. “But I began to get a strong following like 30,000 people, when I started just writing what I thought.” Be positive. “I celebrate more than slag.” Hagger says of his reviews of Melbourne’s bars, restaurants, sporting events, theatre scene and art. “I generally leave it to others to be critical. If I don’t like something I don’t write about it.” Be consistent. “You don’t always feel like writing,” Ngo says. “But you have to motivate yourself and update your blog at least once a week. There’s something like 2000 food blogs in Australia. Less than 5 percent update weekly. If you update once a week, you’re in the top 5 percent.” Ngo says most bloggers “start up gung-ho and within a month they’ve all but stopped. It doesn’t matter if you have the best marketing around, if the content isn’t being updated readers won’t come back.” Spread the word. “I’m always posting and sending blogs on to Twitter and Facebook,” Hagger says. “I started posting on Urbanspoon and after about a year I was No. 1 And No. 3 in the world.” Gallifuoco is “highly active” on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, but says “the best way” to get followers on a blog is to comment on other blogs. “It builds a relationship with other bloggers and gives you payback. Linking your site in their comments increases SEO – search engine optimisation. If somebody’s searching for ‘Sydney fashion blogger’ I’ll come up.” Sell space. Before approaching advertisers to place banners on your site, “get yourself a decent credentials document,” Ngo advises. “This will list all things that are relevant to the advertiser: number of readers, Twitter and Facebook followers, email subscribers.” Is there a temple online? “Email me,” Ngo enthuses. Write to thang[at]noodlies.com. Ngo adds that Google Analytics can tell you how many eyeballs are on your page daily. Diversify. Each of our bloggers doesn’t rely solely on advertising for income. Burstow writes freelance and is developing an e-book containing the best of her content. Ngo is a writer, speaker and hosts foodie tours. Hagger sells T-shirts and has “partnerships” with corporates. Others take income from “sponsored content”. Count the money. Each of our bloggers says income earned from blogging is supplementary to their day job. Ngo says he made “about $40k last year, my best year”. Last word. “Don’t quit your day jobs overnight,” Hagger says. PreviousFairfield Feast Food Tour Round Up NextLao, Khmer, Thai New Year 2013 in Sydney Florence Tan: Malaysia Kitchen BBQ Madness, Parramatta Dine with Picasso, The Restaurant, Art Gallery of NSW The niche that ate up my blog Danjee Korean, Sydney vegeTARAian on 12/04/2013 at 9:08 pm Excellent tips, thanks for sharing! Thang Ngo on 12/04/2013 at 9:26 pm Thanks Tara, just trying to spread the love 🙂 Kelly on 13/04/2013 at 5:23 pm It was a great article. Thanks so much for putting it up here. Great to find your blog also. Kindest Thang Ngo on 14/04/2013 at 9:17 am Yep, was a great article, great tips from you too Kelly. Lisa the Gourmet Wog on 22/07/2013 at 2:38 pm great article Thang, I really learnt a lot Australia’s Top 50 Influencer Copyright ©2020 Noodlies, All Rights Reserved \| Designed by MRB Media PO Box 1181, Cabramatta NSW 2166, Australia thang[at]noodlies[dot]com	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3549
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__label__wiki	0.825775	0.825775	SHU athlete gets drafted by professional lacrosse team Stephen Dumnich, Online Editor Brett Craig, No. 15 for the SHU men’s lacrosse team, is pictured above playing for the Elev8 lacrosse team. Elev8 is an elite lacrosse team based out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Elev8 was founded by Geoff Snider in 2007 to develop players and get them ready for the highest level of field and box lacrosse. Photo courtesy of Brett Craig. “It’s hard to put into words what my time here at Seton Hill has done for me both personally and athletically because I’m still very much on this journey,” said Brett Craig, a senior communication major at Seton Hill University, “but reflecting on the past four years, the coaches, players and staff here have done an incredible number on my growth as both a person and player.” Craig is from Calgary, Alberta Canada where he started playing hockey at the age of four. Lacrosse soon came into the picture and stuck for good with Craig when his parents wanted him to participate in some sort summer sport. “My family has been nothing short of incredible for me in terms of playing both both lacrosse and field. My dad especially. Being an only child growing up, he was always in the backyard with me passing around, helping me out, which was awesome as we were both figuring out the sport for the first time,” Craig said. From then on, Craig would eventually go on to play field lacrosse for his hometown high school in Calgary, Crescent Heights. “I had the opportunity to be recruited and the entire process, my parents were both very involved with helping out and figuring out what would be the best option for me. Ultimately, I know for a fact I wouldn’t be where I am today without their confidence and support,” Craig said. Soon Craig would be visiting the states and coming to SHU due to the fact he lived in Western Canada and because he started the recruitment process late. SHU was interested in recruited Brett Craig, No. 15 for the SHU men’s lacrosse team tallied a season high of 10 ground balls against Indianapolis on Feb. 16. Craig had a total of 80 for the 2019 year. Photo courtesy of Brett Craig. Craig since day one and visiting SHU was a big commitment for the soon to be NCAA athlete. “Coming to the states 100% revolved around playing lacrosse. I knew if I wanted to play lacrosse at the collegiate level it would be in America,” Craig said. Craig only had three falls to play in front of college coaches and Coach Harrington, former SHU lacrosse coach, at the time was very diligent on getting Craig to become a SHU Griffin. “I think after being on campus I knew that Seton Hill was my choice as everything about being on campus and around the team was what I was looking for,” said Craig. “I took a gap year after high school to really give myself the best opportunity to select the best fit and I felt and still do feel that Seton Hill gave me that opportunity.” Craig, No. 15 for the Griffin’s men’s lacrosse team, is a long stick midfielder (LSM). During his time at SHU, Craig has tallied a total of 15 goals through the 2016-18 seasons. Following this past season he has recorded a total of four goals for the 2019 season. Craig made the ECAC All Rookie Team Selection during 2016 freshman season and USILA All American as a third team selection in his 2017 sophomore and 2018 junior seasons. “My biggest influence would have to be my coaches growing up. I have had incredible role models coaching me from a young age starting in minor with Troy Mclean and Brad Warrington, moving into junior with Andrew McBride, Dane Dobbie, Jesse Fehr, Jake Hayes and Mitch Banister, and field lacrosse with Geoff and Bob Snider. Being coached by professional lacrosse players who know the game so well made me want to pursue the best version of myself possible,” Craig said. Following up to his senior year in 2019, Craig received news that paid off on all of his hard work at SHU. March 9 was the day Craig was drafted 39th overall by the Atlanta Blaze in the 2019 MLL draft. Brett Craig, No. 15 for the SHU men’s lacrosse team is pictured above running with the ball on the field during a game. Craig playas a long stick midfielder. During his 2019 season with the Griffins lacrosse team, Craig had a season high of six caused turnovers against Malloy and a total of 23 for the year. Photo courtesy of Brett Craig. “After getting picked by Atlanta, it is still very surreal as I’m still here at Seton Hill playing, so I don’t think it has completely settled in for me yet. It was extremely exciting to see my name called at the draft because being a D2 guy, it’s hard to really get that spotlight behind all the incredible talent in Division I,” Craig said. Craig has not signed to the Atlanta Blaze yet due to the fact he is still an NCAA athlete. Following graduation in the spring of 2019, he will be going down to Atlanta and going through pre-season camp and working to fill in a roster spot. “The past three to four years, I really made the mindset change to pursue to lacrosse as much as I could, and now that this opportunity is present, I’m very humbled but also aware that there is plenty of hard work to be done in order to continue on this path,” Craig said. Craig’s future plans right now are set on pursuing the route of professional lacrosse with the NLL draft coming up this September. Also, he will be going back to Calgary to work with Elev8, the club team that Craig played field for and who he has worked with during his time playing at SHU as well. “Growing upon what it takes to compete at an elite level with such a great group of guys has really driven me to act that same way on a personal level as well. Furthermore, I think the opportunities that have arisen for me from playing at [SHU] are something that I never imagined would once happen, and am currently entirely grateful for,” Craig said. Published By: Stephen Dumnich May 3, 2019 in Athletics, May 2019 Magazine. Tags: Athletics, May 2019 Magazine, Seton Hill University, SHU, Stephen Dumnich Fall 2019 Griffin Sports Recap SHU’s Nichole McClendon travels to train for the Olympics with Guatemala’s national team Student athlete becoming resident director of main complex ← 100 Features of Seton Hill University “Endgame” brings the end of an era →	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3553
__label__wiki	0.5493	0.5493	Home ⁄ manshet ⁄ Raqqa Civil Council: Calls on people of province to leave exile country, to share the steadfast people the joy of victory nearby manshetstatement Raqqa Civil Council: Calls on people of province to leave exile country, to share the steadfast people the joy of victory nearby sdf August 16, 2017 1293 The Civil Council in Raqqa province called on its expatriate people to return to Al-Raqqa, and cooperate to build Al-Raqqa and to take each person’s role in the building of Al-Raqqa, because the victory has come closer and more recently. With the approaching liberation of the entire province, including Raqqa city, it is incumbent on our Council to sacrifice to the Syrian people and the world in addition to the people of Raqqa province in particular, the news of the victories, and the issue of the liberation of the entire province has become a matter of time only. On this occasion, the Council looks forward to the establishment and implementation of the recommendations of the Constitutive Statement, which stipulates the need to speed the return of the people to the city, to begin the stage of security, stability and construction. This cannot be done without the return of all the people to their homes throughout the province, after the suffering of the situation of displacement and asylum by the crimes of daesh and attacks of the regime. And after the date of the great victory on daesh, the regime is trying once again to return to the liberated areas through the repressive security forces and excessive military force, and this is unacceptable. Therefore, Raqqa Civil Council calls on the people of the province to leave the country of exile in Turkey and the rest of the countries, as well as displaced to the rest of the provinces, and quickly return to the liberated areas to share steadfast people the joy of victory nearby. Enter the city and work with us to establish security and stability in addition to manage the affairs of their own city. This victory would not have been possible without the sacrifices of our people represented by Syrian Democratic Forces, Internal Security Forces and military support from coalition countries. Glory and eternity to our martyrs Long live a free, democratic Syria Raqqa Civil Council Syrian Center for Documentation of Violations: Chaos in areas controlled by (Euphrates Shield) – supported by Turkey 70 members from Raqqa joined Internal Security Forces Two children injure from Al-Hilaliya neighborhood near the border Organizations Office: Organizations’ assistance to IDPs is shy	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3562
__label__cc	0.532893	0.467107	Specifying pose Edit Version: 1.4 Specifying pose in SDFormat A fundamental tool for robot modeling is the ability to concisely and intuitively express the relative position and orientation of model components in 3-D. Throughout the documentation, the suffix _A is used to indicate a kinematic quantity that is expressed w.r.t (with respect to) frame A. In addition, the suffix _BA is used to indicate a kinematic quantity that changes from being expressed w.r.t frame A to being expressed w.r.t frame B. For example, the pose of frame A expressed w.r.t frame B is given by the transform X_BA ∈ SE(3). An alternative description of X_BA alludes to X being a linear operator that transforms a frame that is coincident to frame B to being coincident to frameA. In this sense,X_BA is said to be "the transform from B to A". Note that both descriptions are valid interpretations of the same mathematical object. The SDFormat specification has the <pose> element which accepts 6 numbers in total to represent a coordinate transform X_PC from parent frame P to child frame C: <pose>x y z roll pitch yaw</pose> The elements x y z specify the position vector (in meters), and the elements roll pitch yaw are Euler angles (in radians) that specify the orientation, which can be computed by an extrinsic X-Y-Z rotation as shown by the following equation for the rotation matrix R_PC and figure: $$ R_{PC} = \begin{bmatrix} \cos(yaw) & -\sin(yaw) & 0 \\ \sin(yaw) & \cos(yaw) & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{bmatrix} * \begin{bmatrix} \cos(pitch) & 0 & \sin(pitch) \\ 0 & 1 & 0 \\ -\sin(pitch) & 0 & \cos(pitch) \end{bmatrix} * \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & \cos(roll) & -\sin(roll) \\ 0 & \sin(roll) & \cos(roll) \end{bmatrix} $$ The SDFormat <pose/> element is similar to the <origin/> element from URDF, which both share the same definition of roll, pitch, and yaw angles: <!-- URDF --> <origin xyz="x y z" rpy="roll pitch yaw" /> For a command-line utility to convert between roll-pitch-yaw angles, quaternions, and rotation matrices, please see the quaternion_from_euler and quaternion_to_euler example programs in ignition math. Software implementations for converting between this Euler angle convention and quaternions can be found in ignition::math::Quaternion C++ class, and the urdf::Rotation C++ class. Some other implementations: Drake: drake::math::RollPitchYaw (C++, Python) MuJoCo: See eulerseq in the compiler XML reference.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3563
__label__cc	0.606754	0.393246	SAIF Golden Charter The family bond that ensures a personal touch Download a pdf of the magazine featuring this article Five generations of one family have dedicated their lives to caring and supporting the community when the worst happens. Established in 1916, James Giles and Sons Funeral Directors in Worcestershire has steadily been growing in strength with the fourth and fifth generation now integral staff members. According to James’ grandson, Raymond Noble, it is the reassuring family bond which has enabled the business to succeed. “Working with the family is incredibly supportive. We are really relaxed working with each other and this makes people feel comfortable when they come in to see us,” said Raymond, who is now company director along with his cousin James Robert. “As a team we have the third, fourth and fifth-generation family members so each of us is heavily invested in the business’s future. “We are proud of our grandfather for starting this firm and we proudly carry on his legacy.” Originally launched as a carpenters and joiners, it quickly switched to become a funeral home, providing the local community with personal care when they suffered bereavements. That attention to details was so highly regarded that James Giles and Sons were soon supplying cars for weddings, a practice which only ended 40 years ago. And business expansion is still a trait being used today, with the firm also running a fleet of Jaguars and two removal vehicles. Over the years, there have also been changes to the types of funerals requested, as Raymond explained: “We have made several improvements to the business and we have many plans for the firm. We listen to the families and really let them decide what they want. I think a lot of people need to listen more, to provide those grieving with what they need and want. “When we first started bringing in the colourful coffins and wicker baskets about 30 years ago I wasn’t too sure about them, but now I realise how nice it is to make everything more personalised for the family.” While funerals have changed from traditional to involving individual celebrations of life, James Giles and Sons are still true to their roots, serving their neighbours 24/7. “We have fantastic team of clergy in our area and we have built up strong relationships with them,” explained Raymond. “We don’t have problems booking in our funerals because we ask the clergy what suits them; we don’t dictate to them what date we would like to run. “Our business has been built up on these relationships and we support our community.” Those relationships also extend to the local printers, the neighbouring florist and the catering teams who ensure that all requests are met. That commitment to being an integral part of the community also extends to the local football team that the firm has sponsored for the past three years. To mark its 100 years of success, the firm’s 11 staff members – six family members, two more full-timers and three part-time employees – recently hosted a celebratory event in Bromsgrove for 180 people, with 80 to 90 of those guests being descendants of James Giles. Tags: Giles, James Giles, Raymond Noble, Worcestershire There is a light that never goes out With many faiths to consider in this multicultural world, it’s comforting to know we have expert members in our midst…… Read more > Anticipating Christmas Although this will be the second Christmas since my son Steve died, I already know that it will not be… Read more > A year of challenges While I write this article the temperature outside is hovering around -3°C. Winter seems to have come early this year… Read more > A decision you won’t regret Many funeral directors are seeing the benefit of joining SAIF – the only trade association specifically for independent funeral directors…. Read more > This summer, Golden Charter launched a major piece of internal research that helps answer the question: “When do families most… Read more > The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF) is a trade association whose members are all independent funeral directors. A large proportion of our members’ funeral homes have been run by the same family for generations. Click here to visit SAIF Golden Charter Golden Charter is the leading independent provider of funeral plans in the UK. We work on behalf of over 3,000 funeral directors across the country and have over 500,000 customers. Click here to visit Golden Charter © Connect Publications 2020 \| Cookies and IP Address \| This site uses cookies to enhance your experience, find out more	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3570
__label__wiki	0.541558	0.541558	Home About Press Exhibtions Testimonials Sales News Costumers Clases Contact Handmade Ceramic and fused Glass tiles Designing Artistic Unique Synagogues Stained glass, Tiffany Windows, Painted glass Mural-Painted ceramic and glass Tiles designing and creating Judaica art works Application, samples of houses, kitchens, bath, doors Handmade Unique, artistic House Signs Art works, Monuments, Sculptures Desisgning and producing Beit Leed Monument Handmade Jewelry designing and creating Sitemap Articles Links Add To Favorite From Lila's Desktop Exhibition In Israel The Biennale of Glass Exhibition 2018 in Kiryat Hayim For more exhibitions pleas click on the Hebrew page ONE WOMAN SHOWS 1990 - Efrat Gallery, Tel-Aviv, the Artist's House, Tel Aviv 1993 - "Spomato", the Janko-Dada Museum, Ein-Hod 1997 - "A Cultural Breathing Space", Traveling Exhibition, Produced by the Department of Visual Arts, Amanut La'am, Institute Art and Culture Curator: Hadare Scheflan-Katzav, Gallery "Hamumche". 1991 - "Pershing", Sara Konforty Gallery, Jaffa 1992 - Exhibit of Israeli Artists, sponsored by the Polish "Drawing Now", in the Gallery of the Kalischer 1993 - "Insight", the Artists' House, Tel-Aviv "Hot Kitchen 2", Sara Konforty Gallery, Jaffa 1995 - "In the presence of the other", Yetzirot Gallery, Ilania 1996 - "Artists Send Peace", the Land of Israel Museum "Calligraphy", the Umm El Faham Gallery, Um El Faham "Arabesque", The Um El Faham Gallery, Um El Faham "Sixty-Three Artists Respond to the Situation"/"To mend the Tear no. 2", Yadayim Gallery 1997 - "Ho Mama": Representation of the mother in Israeli Contemporary Art", curators: Yehudit Matzkel, Hadara Scheflan-Katzav, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat-Gan 1998 - The art Center, Jaffa ONE WOMAN SHOWS "Man, Matzah, Idea", produced by "Projective", The Museum of Petach-Tikva "Samson and Delilah today", The Museum of Ashdod "The Co'op Exhibition", The Land of Israel Museum (reward) "Miniature", Govayo, Itally, Traveling Exhibition, produced by Doron Polak, curator: Talya Rapaport "Identity, Idea and Vision", produced by Dr. Sinty University of Mishigen and Anton Biderman, Hadera. 1998 - Won the national competition for creating an Israeli monument in memory of the terrorist attack in Bet-Leed. The Memorial is 30 meters high and covers 2.5 dunams of land "Asur", Umi Shteinitz Gallery, Neve-Zedek "60 Woman Artists", the Museum of Haifa "Calligraphy", the Land of Israel Museum "Man, Matza, Idea", produced by "Proiective", Ramat-Aviv 1999 -"Artists sending Peace", The Center of Art, Givat Haviva. 2001 Participated in the "Coverings" Exhibition of Ceramic and Glass Art held in Orlando, 2001 – 2004 Managed her studio in Kfar Saba. 2003 Received an Award of Merit and Recognition as a resident of Kfar Yona for the design and construction of the Beit Lid Junction Memorial. 2004 Participated in the “Cersaie” Exhibition of Ceramic and Glass Art held in Bologna, Italy. 2004 – 2005 Wrote a size of advice to consumers, accompanied by photographs of her art work, in the Design Magazine of Yediot Communications. 2005 Participated in an exhibition of ceramic and glass art work, in Los Angeles. Her work was displayed in the Israeli Pavilion, under the auspices of the Israel Export Institute. 2004-2009 Managed a studio / showroom in Raanana open to the general public 2001-2009 Sells her ceramic and glass art work to the public, to companies and stores in Israel, as well as to firms in the United States, Europe (through a London distributor), Australia (through a Sydney distributor), France (through a Paris distributor). 2018 The Biennale of Glass Exhibition 2018 Kiryat Hayim Professional and Commercial Exhibitions Sara Konforty has attended in 1. California Show 2005 Los Angeles Convention Center, - exhibiting fashion and gifts at the Israel Pavilion, under the auspices of the Israel Export Institute. 2. Design 2005, Tel Aviv Exhibition Grounds - January 2005. 3. Design 2005, Tel Aviv Exhibition Grounds - April 2005, under the auspices of the Israel Construction Center. 4. The Jovella Exhibition 2005, David Intercontinental Hotel, Tel Aviv - June 28 – 29 - a jewelry exhibition, under the auspices of the Stier Group. 5. Building 2006 Exhibition, Tel Aviv Exhibition Grounds - June, 2006, under the auspices of the Israel Construction Center. 7. The Furniture Exhibition, Tel Aviv Exhibition Grounds - November 11, 2006, in the Trend Pavilion under the auspices of the Tim Exhibitions Group. Approximately 200 architects participated in the exhibition and there were 121,191 visitors to the exhibition, according to a report prepared by the company following the exhibition). 8. The Project Exhibition, Tel Aviv Exhibition Grounds - January 2006 (for architects and professionals in the field of design and construction). 2007- Tel Aviv Exhibition Park The Furniture Manufacturers Association affiliated 2008- Tel 14-21.10.2008 The Furniture Manufacturers Association affiliated to the Manufacturers Association of Israel, through TIM - Exhibitions & Trade Fairs Co. Ltd., participation in “Rihutim 2009”, The International Furniture Exhibition. Aviv Exhibition ParkThe “Rihutim 2009” Exhibition presented the newest trends in the areas of housing, home design and furniture design. “Rihutim” is considered the largest and most important exhibition of its kind in Israel. The exhibition presents a very wide range of furniture for all purposes and complements like fabrics, carpets and home accessories Sculpture Projects 1990 – 2003 Designed and built a sculpture project for outdoor conditions (mainly for special commissions for private collections). 1995 – 1998 Designed and built the Beit Lid Junction Memorial, to commemorate the 22 soldiers who were killed. The Memorial is 30 meters in height and covers 2.5 dunams of land. The project included both the design of the entire area surrounding the Memorial, including a stadium, the design of the park, an underground hall and 22 rooms to commemorate the victims, a fountain and other elements. The Memorial shows 22 figures on a ladder to the sky perched at a steep 40 degree angle. The first figure is 2.5 meters tall and the rest of the figures become increasingly smaller as they reach higher up the ladder. The figures are made of a metal skeleton, fiberglass and a combination of materials that she created to ensure that the figures would remain intact for decades, even in the most extreme weather conditions. At the same time, they had to be light enough to remain at an angle on the metal ladder, without any form of support. 2002 “Windows of Hope” is a specially commissioned sculpture project extending over 300 meters at the Design Exhibition held at the Tel Aviv Exhibition Grounds. The technique, which integrated painting, mosaics, fiberglass sculpture, as well as wood, metal, a waterfall, artificial landscaping and other elements. 2003 The variation of the project was moved to A new, permanent home in the Beer Sheva Exhibition and Fair Grounds. It extends over approximately 200 meters and was adapted specially to fit the hall where it is permanently on display. 2004 A commission to design and build a large 100 meter display wall using integrated techniques, for the façade of the “Home” National Center for Interior Design, in Kfar Vitkin. The wall displays paintings, mosaics, glass and ceramic tiles, wood, metal using integrated techniques. 2006 The design and construction of a Teivat Chazzan for the Amit Synagogue in Netanya. The Teiva is 4.5 X 4.5 meters in size. Sara designed and built it, including all the vitrage work, the artistic handcrafted and hand drawn coverings for the Bamah, the drawings on the artistic ceramic tiles and the combination of the ceramic and glass tiles embossed with gold. 2006 - Exhibition Design - Click Here For Pictures 2007 Designing, Planning, painting and building the Aron Hakodesh in Netanya (Tunisian) 2008 Designing, Planning, painting and building the Aron Hakodesh in Jerusalem (Moroccans), the windows and the special Rose Window above the Eichal in Jerusalem Sara Konforty's Studio: Mob: +972-52-3676472 Email:ks7@inter.net.il www.sarakonforty.com Kfar Yona Copyright © Sara Konforty. You may not copy, distribute, publicly display or disclose to a third party site images without her permission	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3574
__label__wiki	0.768893	0.768893	SHOcase Letter from Thomas W. Mitchell to A.J. Pyke, April 26. 1920. Saskatoon Public School Division Letter from Thomas W. Mitchell, Canadian artist, to Alfred J. Pyke, principal of Saskatoon Collegiate Institute (presently named Nutana Collegiate), acknowledging receipt of the letter of April 16th. He finds the actions of the Saskatoon Collegiate Institute's Literary Society in forming a Memorial Art Gallery "most commendable." He agrees to send some paintings along, particularly one that "typically Canadian." He also addresses the question that Pyke has asked him about what painting would be appropriate for such a gallery. He says that the gallery should acquire "significant works" (he underlines 'significant'), meaning that they should have "a real reason for having been done." He also suggests that they not be "merely superficially pretty." Further, he says that paintings should be larger in size, not smaller. He ends the letter by congratulating Pyke in "doing very fine work in starting an Art Gallery in Saskatoon in this way, and there is no doubt of its future good influence in the culture of the community." Letter from Archibald Browne to The Art Gallery, April 18, 1922 Letter from Archibald Browne, Canadian artist, to The Art Gallery of Saskatoon Collegiate Institute, asking if they had received his letter, responding to the request of purchasing one of his paintings. Letter from Principal to Mr. George Reid, May 5, 1921 Letter from Alfred J. Pyke, principal of Saskatoon Collegiate Institute (presently named Nutana Collegiate), to George Reid, Canadian artist, asking if his paintings "Golden Rod" and "A Quiet Stream" were still for sale. He hoped that one of the two would be purchased for the Memorial Art Gallery. Letter from James Henderson to Mr. Cameron, 17th Nov 1926 Letter from James Henderson to Nutana principal A.W. Cameron describing some paintings he wanted to send for an art exhibition in Saskatoon, and the process Cameron would have to go through to acquire these paintings. Statement of Receipts for Memorial Art Gallery, 1919-20 Financial statement outlining the receipts for the Memorial Art Gallery from 1919-1920. Letter from E. Wyly Grier to A.W. Cameron, July 3rd, 1923 Letter from E. Wyly Grier, artist of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, to A.W. Cameron, principal of Nutana Collegiate, expressing his pleasure of the warm reception of his painting, "The Spirit of Youth." He apologizes, however, in providing Cameron with a picture of the painting. Letter from W.F. Cooke to A.H. Rein, February 22, 1972 Letter from W.F. Cooke (Business Administrator for the Saskatoon Board of Education) to Nutana principal A.H. Rein outlining that he received a letter from Mrs. F. Petrov outlining that four of the vandalized paintings were completed. Petrov due to financial difficulties requested an assurance that a cheque was forthcoming. The Pauline Club Image of the Pauline Club in fairy costumes. The Pauline Club put on operettas and light opera at the Saskatoon Collegiate Institute (now Nutana Collegiate). Letter from F.H. Varley to Mr. Cameron, June 3rd 28. Letter from F.H. Varley to Nutana Principal A.W. Cameron asking Cameron to inform him of the number of paintings and sketches of his that were sent from Toronto. He is asking for this information due to slow responses from Toronto. Letter from Principal to Mr. E. Wyly Grier, September 25, 1924 Letter from A.W. Cameron, principal of Nutana Collegiate, to E. Wyly Grier, artist of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, expressing his pleasure that he and Marion Long were able to achieve uniformity between the two frames. He speaks of the plan to have a public meeting to view the hanging of the two pictures, and the arrangement to have a James Henderson exhibit on October 15th of that year. Letter from Principal to Mr. Norman MacKenzie, October 8, 1924. Letter from Nutana principal A.W. Cameron to Norman MacKenzie stating that Henderson's painting had been approved by the Nutana Gallery's purchasing committee. Cameron indicates that he enclosed a cheque for $130 in payment for the painting. Lastly, Cameron outlines that Henderson planned to have an exhibit at Nutana later. Letter from Principal to Mrs. C.W.V. Lyall, March 13, 1924. Letter from A.W. Cameron, principal of Nutana Collegiate, to Laura Lyall, Canadian artist, providing some information about the Nutana Memorial Art Gallery. He then asks if Lyall would be interested in painting the "companion picture" of E. Wyly Grier's painting "The Spirit of Youth." Letter from R.F. Gagen to A.W. Cameron, September 4, 1924 Letter from Robert F. Gagen to A.W Cameron, principal of Nutana Collegiate Institute, responding to Cameron's inquiries about a photo. Letter from Principal to Mr. James Henderson, October 23, 1924 Letter from A.W. Cameron (principal of Nutana Collegiate) to James Henderson in which he describes the timeline of when Henderson's photos will be displayed and when the exhibit will officially commence. Cameron also describes the process of purchasing the painting "Valley." Catalog of Paintings: Nutana Collegiate Institute Catalogue of paintings at Nutana Collegiate. It appears that they were having an exhibit, as well, as they never were able to acquire a Tom Thomson painting, yet one appears on this list. Class 2E Image of a 1931-32 class at Nutana Collegiate. In the back row: Mr. D.J. Wort, Elsie Schuman, anna Leslie, Phyllis Nuttall, Blanche Charland, Mabel Cole, Florence Leitzow, Marion McKinnon, Vivian LaTrace, Phyllis Sewell, Rose Lundy, Clarissa Sinclair, Helen Kinnon, Grace Watt, Maxine Morrison, Lorraine Wood, jane Ward, Grace Wilson. In the middle row: Dorothy Lundquist, Betty McEown, Fern Miller, Margaret Marshall, Helen Orpwood, Nora O'Connor, [?]. Dorothy Lansdall, Louise Preston. In the bottom row: [?], Don Weir, [?], George Stevenson, Don McCarroll, [?], [?]. Letter from Principal to Miss Marion Long, June 18, 1924. Letter from A.W. Cameron, principal of Nutana Collegiate, to Marion Long, Canadian artist, speaking of the shipment of E. Wyly Grier's painting back to him for alteration. He also speaks of his attempts to get snapshots of the South Saskatchewan riverbank, so that Marion Long can use that in her painting of a collegiate school girl. Letter from Fred S. Haines to Mr. Alfred J. Pyke, May 18th Letter from Fred S. Haines, Canadian artist, to Alfred J. Pyke, principal of Saskatoon Collegiate Institute (presently named Nutana Collegiate), commending Pyke's efforts in creating a memorial art gallery for fallen soldiers. He also expresses his desire to be represented in "such a live group." He then mentions some pictures he believes would be appropriate for the gallery and the prices. Letter from E. Wyly Grier to A.W. Cameron, June 9th 1923 Letter from E. Wyly Grier, artist of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, to A.W. Cameron, principal of Nutana Collegiate, speaking of the completion of his painting, "The Spirit of Youth." Letter from A.W. Cameron to Mr. E. Wyly Grier, June 18, 1924 Letter from A.W. Cameron, principal of Nutana Collegiate, to E. Wyly Grier, artist of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, saying that he had forwarded "The Spirit of Boyhood" (presumably, "The Spirit of Youth" that hangs in Nutana today). He also appears to have heard that Marion Long received the commission to paint "The Spirit of Girlhood," as Grier calls it for Nutana Collegiate's Memorial Art Gallery. He hopes that both his and Long's paintings will have similar frames. Letter from AWC to F.N. Loveroff Letter from A.W. Cameron (principal of Nutana Collegiate) to F.N. Loveroff stating that Loveroff's painting arrived in Saskatoon and that he would be showing it to the Art Committee shortly. Letter from Charles W. Jefferys to Mr. Alfred J. Pyke, April 28, '20 Letter from Charles Jefferys to Alfred Pyke principal of Saskatoon Collegiate Institute (later Nutana Collegiate) responding to Pyke's letter of interest in purchasing one of his paintings. Jefferys outlines some potential paintings the Saskatoon Collegiate Institute could purchase and describes them. Letter from Elizabeth A. Knowles to Mr. Pyke, April 21st, 1920 Letter from Elizabeth McGillivray Knowles to A.J. Pyke (principal of Saskatoon Collegiate Institute) suggesting some of her husband's paintings that the Memorial Art Gallery might want to purchase. She outlines their themes, size, price and where they will be exhibited in the coming months. 1938 Festival Winners Image of a group of girls who have won an event at a festival. The plaque indicates that it is in Saskatchewan, but the other letters are unreadable. Letter from G.A. Reid to Alfred J. Pyke, July 31st 1921 Letter from George A. Reid, Canadian artist, to Alfred J. Pyke, principal of Saskatoon Collegiate Institute (presently named Nutana Collegiate), asking about the dimensions of the walls where his painting would hang at S.C.I. Letter from AWC to Mrs. Jacobson, Jan. 18, 1927. Letter from Nutana principal A.W. Cameron to Sybil Jacobson outlining that there was a mistake in the payment for the return of her pictures, and that Mr. Sexsmith had returned her paintings to Nutana. Letter from Thomas W. Mitchell to Alfred J. Pyke, May 25. 1920 Letter from Thomas W. Mitchell, Canadian artist, to Alfred J. Pyke, principal of Saskatoon Collegiate Institute (presently named Nutana Collegiate), acknowledging receipt of the letter of May 17th. He has sent his painting "The End of the Portage" to Saskatoon. He asks $350 for it. He says to send it back to Toronto by mid-July if they decide not to purchase it because it may be sold to the city of Toronto. Mitchell says, however, that he would prefer to be in Saskatoon, as he is not "yet represented" in the West. Letter from R. F. Gagen to A.W. Cameron, September 15, 1924 Letter from Robert F. Gagen, Canadian artist to A.W. Cameron, principal of Nutana Collegiate Institute, about catalogues. Letter from AWC to Mrs. Sybil Jacobson, April 5, 1927. Letter from A.W. Cameron to Sybil Jacobson, outlining that he had received her money meant to pay for the return of her painting, but indicates he wanted to wait a few weeks because he had a potential buyer. Letter from AWC, Feb. 16, 1926. Letter from Nutana principal A.W. Cameron to an unknown recipient. The letter describes the potential purchase of a painting by Gagnon called "A Laurentian Homestead" and outlines that Cameron would like to include work from the Group of Seven in an upcoming exhibit. The first page is missing from this letter. Letter from Emile Walters to Mr. A.W. Cameron, Dec. 15 1925. Letter from Emile Walters, Canadian artist, to A.W. Cameron, principal of Nutana Collegiate, saying that he will "do all [he] can sooner or later for the interest of the Nutana Collegiate to exchange the Storm Cloud picture for something they will like better." He then speaks about the smaller painting he sent, and says that he is willing to exchange it if it does not please Nutana. Letter from Principal to Mrs. Laura A. Lyall, Oct. 19, 1926. Letter from A.W. Cameron, principal of Nutana Collegiate, to Laura A. Lyall, Canadian artist, acknowledging receipt of her painting "Lullably." Letter from Vice Principal to Mrs. Knowles, June 27, 1921. Letter to Mrs. Knowles from the Saskatoon Collegiate Institute's Vice Principal apologizing for the delay in deciding whether they would purchase her husband's painting. The delay was due A.J. Pyke battling pneumonia. Letter from A.J. Pyke to F. J. E. MacDermid, June 5, 1937 Letter from A.J. Pyke to Ferguson MacDermid in response to MacDermid's earlier letter regarding the configuration of the Memorial Art Gallery. He describes the background of the Memorial Gallery. The key statements he makes is: an organization of students was formed to be the owners of the paintings, as well as the Saskatoon Collegiate Institute Board of Trustees. He concludes stating he hopes his description of the Memorial Art Gallery's foundation, mission and configuration would be of value. [Women's hockey team] Image of a women's hockey team. Based on the logo "NCI," it can be assumed the photo was taken after 1923, when the Saskatoon Collegiate Institute changed its named to Nutana Collegiate Institute. Letter from A.W. Cameron to J.W. Beatty, March 30, 1927 Letter from A.W. Cameron to J.W. Beatty indicating of the "change in feeling" about Beatty's two paintings. They initially wanted "The Madawaska Valley," but changed their minds, and instead decided to keep "The North Country." Cameron also speaks of Dr. Walter Murray and Dr. Wilson liking the latter because of its relevance to Saskatchewan's long and cold winters. Cameron encloses a cheque. 1917-1918 Princess Chrysanthemum Image of the cast of the play "Princess Chrysanthemum" at Nutana Collegiate. Letter about the Construction of a Memorial Gallery Letter describing the decision to build a Memorial library at Nutana Collegiate. The author begins by referencing the need to honor the sacrifice of Nutana's students who fought in the wars. Next, referencing Hitler, the author outlines the importance of education and how Nutana has been handicapped by an inadequate library. The author states that the recipient of the letter may want to contribute to this project, and concludes by persuasively stating why contributions should be made. Letter from AWC to F.N. Loveroff, Nov. 25, 1926. Letter from Nutana principal A.W. Cameron to F.N. Loveroff outlining his interest in acquiring one of Loveroff's paintings for the Memorial Art Gallery because he attended the Regina Collegiate Institute. Cameron also outlines the type of paintings the gallery was most interested in acquiring. Letter from J.W. Beatty to A.W. Cameron Letter from J.W Beatty to A.W. Cameron, agreeing to ship his two paintings to Nutana Collegiate. 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__label__wiki	0.635072	0.635072	Logitech G633 Artemis Spectrum The Logitech G633 Artemis Spectrum is the real deal, combining excellent audio for both games and music with a comfortable design, intuitive software and a bevy of extra features that make it ideal for PCs, consoles and mobile devices. -- As reviewed by Tom's Guide as rated by Amazon users Read Pros & Cons $67 on Amazon Last revision on August 31, 2017 Great sound for both music and game Controls on the headset itself Excellent software Build quality could be better Not easily portable Creative SoundBlaster X H5 Corsair Void Wireless Dolby 7.1 RGB Gaming Headset Plantronics RIG 500E By PC Gamer on August 17, 2016 90 This top-tier gaming headset has everything we'd want from something in its price range except street-friendly... By enostech.com on August 07, 2016 83 Previously, Logitech G was nice enough to send in their G410 Atlas Spectrum Keyboard for review. Today, we will be taking a look at G633 Artemis Spectrum Gaming headset. Logitech has long been known as a top-tier peripheral manufacturer across the world... By reviewstudio.net on February 25, 2016 87 As I've previously mentioned, Logitech's G633 builds up on its previous generation, the G35. While it skimps down on its metal construction, it doesn't actually seem to suffer too much in terms of build-quality.The headset has excellent comfort levels,... By Tom's Guide on November 06, 2015 90 By ThinkComputers on October 22, 2015 90 First let's talk about the sound. This headset is definitely geared towards gaming for sure. It sounds best when gaming and that is to be expected. The Dolby Surround Sound and the DTS HeadphoneX are really a treat if you are using to the typical analog... By NikkTech on August 22, 2016 When Logitech decided to use two 40mm drivers with the G633 Artemis Spectrum that was enough to reduce its bass footprint considerably and so much like most similar gaming headsets in the market today if you like plenty of bass this is not the right... By booredatwork.com on April 26, 2016 The Logitech G633 is the first headphones to offer both Dolby and DTS Headphone:X surround options to gamers. The Pro-G drivers and surround sound technologies create lifelike in-game spatial awareness, allowing you to clearly hear enemies sneaking around, or special ability... By GameZone on December 20, 2015 A few weeks ago, I wrapped up my review on the Astro A40 TRs, which for the most part was a fantastic headset that combined comfort, usability and high quality sound. Since then, I've been exclusively using Logitech's Artemis G633s, the wired version of... By Techgage on November 13, 2015 I hate to say it, but Logitech fails to live up to the godly aspirations it set for itself by naming this headset after a Greek goddess.It's not quite “audiophile-quality” audio. I mean, it's not even as good as some of its market competitors that have... By Hardware Canucks on November 05, 2015 Gaming headsets have never had the best reputation, as many manufacturers seem to spend more time designing the box art than they do on audio fidelity. Thankfully the most prominent companies making computer peripherals seem to have realized this, and... By PC Gamer on November 04, 2015 67 Excellent sound separation, chat audio and surround support are held back by stereo sound directionality and software... By Legit Reviews on October 07, 2015 Logitech set out to make its RGB gaming headsets, the G633 and G933 Artemis Spectrum, both functional and cool looking. With our G633 review sample, it scores well, but not spectacularly in all the major categories aside from the RGB lighting.The sound... By GamersNexus on October 01, 2015 Build quality is high, overall. The headset doesn't have that heavy-duty feel of some alternatives, like the SteelSeries 9H, but is still strong and durable. We're able to flex the headband considerably (shown in the video) without a snap, thanks to the... By pokde.net on October 02, 2016 80 Science might win again with the Logitech G633 Artemis Spectrum. An amazing headset with great sound quality and lots of customization options in its...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3578
__label__cc	0.596283	0.403717	What is a Ceilidh Welcome to the Skelpit Lug Ceilidh Band's Website Based in Central Scotland, the Skelpit Lug Ceilidh Band has been around for over twenty years, during which time it has played at over 2000 events and built up a performance expertise which few bands can match. With a top-class front line of fiddle, accordion and mandolin or banjo, supported by double bass, guitar, vocals and bodhran, the band offers a rich variety of sounds from gentle waltzes to rollicking reels and jigs. Add in a lot of excellent (and patient!) calling in several languages, and you have a band for all occasions. Though performing mostly in lowland Scotland, the Lugs have played widely across Scotland and England and abroad. The band has performed in France and Cyprus and band members have also played in Ireland, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany and Russia. Wherever they appear, they have always been highly praised for their musical skills, interesting dances, clear teaching of the steps, and the tremendous atmosphere which they invariably create. So if you're looking for an experienced group for that wedding, dance, concert, festival, special occasion or corporate event, try the Skelpit Lug Ceilidh Band. Bookings can be tailored from three or four musicians to the full five-piece outfit depending on your needs and the size of venue. If you are interested in booking the Skelpit Lugs, check our Gig List to see if we're available, then contact us through our Enquiries Tab on the bottom left of this page. Lugs login Sandy Harvey Lesley Waddell Martine Stead Alex Gowans The Skelpit Lugs at Wallace High School The Skelpit Lugs at Hillhead High School's Chistmas Dance The Skelpit Lugs at the Albert Hall, Stirling The Skelpit Lugs at the Doune and Dunblane Fling Copyright © 2020 Skelpit Lug Ceilidh Band. All Rights Reserved. Website Developed and Hosted by Live Internet.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3593
__label__cc	0.52277	0.47723	Tag: Carla Speed McNeil Comics Lowdown: Alex Ross’ ‘DayGlo’ Fantastic Four pitch Plus: Bill Jemas, Liza Donnelly and an IKEA comic! Artist Alex Ross pitched Marvel on taking over the Fantastic Four last year, and you can find his pitch inside Marvelocity, a coffee-table book that highlights the artist’s Marvel work. The 13th Dimension reviews the book and shares several pages from the 2017 pitch. “It just goes to show you that even the biggest talents in comics don’t always get what they want – and what Ross wanted was an eye-popping comic that echoed the DayGlo ’60s while offering something fresh,” reviewer Dan Greenfield writes. Continue reading “Comics Lowdown: Alex Ross’ ‘DayGlo’ Fantastic Four pitch” Author JK ParkinPosted on October 17, 2018 October 17, 2018 Categories Comics LowdownTags Alex Ross, Artists Writers & Artisans Inc., Bill Jemas, Carla Speed McNeil, Chlorine Gardens, Comics Lowdown, John Jackson Miller, Keiler Roberts, Komisk, Liza Donnelly, Michel Fiffe, Murder Falcon, music, Return of Wolverine, Skybound, Society of Illustrators, Swamp Thing Halloween Horror Giant, Todd Klein, Vince Giarrano, WalmartLeave a comment on Comics Lowdown: Alex Ross’ ‘DayGlo’ Fantastic Four pitch Humanoids launches H1 line of comics John Cassaday, Mark Waid, Kwanza Osajyefo, Yanick Paquette and Carla Speed McNeil spearhead the new line of comics. As promised, Humanoids revealed more about their H1 line of comics at New York Comic Con this week. Known mainly as a publisher of graphic novels for the last 20 years in America, Humanoids moves into the monthly comic market and shared universes with H1. With John Cassaday and Mark Waid already announced as being on board, the publisher revealed three additional “architects” of the H1 line: Kwanza Osajyefo (Black, DC’s Zuda imprint), Yanick Paquette (Wonder Woman Earth One, Swamp Thing) and Carla Speed McNeil (Finder, Sensation Comics). “H1 represents a number of important milestones for Humanoids,” said Humanoids CEO and Publisher Fabrice Giger. “This is our first foray into a shared universe, one with stories by talented creators whose undeniable creative chemistry is forging a new and fantastic world. Next summer, we’re launching three ongoing comic book series, the first three ongoing periodicals in this company’s history, and we’ll be publishing them in an unprecedented and unexpected way which we’ll announce in the coming months.” Working on the three ongoings will be Phil Briones, Vanessa Del Rey, Cheryl Lynn Eaton, Mike McKone and Afua Richardson. Continue reading “Humanoids launches H1 line of comics” Author JK ParkinPosted on October 6, 2018 October 6, 2018 Categories Comic PublishersTags Afua Richardson, andrea mutti, Carla Speed McNeil, Cheryl Lynn Eaton, comic books, Darick Roberston, Dennis Calero, Dom Reardon, Fabrice Giger, Fabrice Sapolsky, H1, Helen Mullane, Humanoids, Jock, John Cassaday, Mark Waid, Mike McKone, nycc2018, Phil Briones, Quinton Peeples, Shawn Martinbrough, Vanessa Del Rey, Yanick Paquette1 Comment on Humanoids launches H1 line of comics Love, Image Comics Style: Alex de Campi helms ‘Twisted Romance’ anthology Katie Skelly, Alejandra Gutiérrez, Carla Speed McNeil, Trungles and more contribute to a new miniseries featuring stories about love. Image Comics has announced Twisted Romance, a four-issue, weekly miniseries featuring “love gone right, wrong and everything in between” that will run in the most romantic month of the year, February. “This project is a dream for me,” said writer Alex de Campi. “I’m getting to collaborate with some of comics’ coolest creators and some amazing prose fiction voices. Everything everyone is doing looks so amazing. I’m just giddy that Image basically handed us the reins and said, ‘do whatever you want. This looks cool.’ So, yeah: come February, we’re going to break your heart, fill you with joy, and give you awkward pants feels. Sometimes in same story. Occasionally, even on the same page.” Continue reading “Love, Image Comics Style: Alex de Campi helms ‘Twisted Romance’ anthology” Author JK ParkinPosted on November 20, 2017 Categories Comic BooksTags Alejandra Gutiérrez, Alex de Campi, anthologies, Carla Speed McNeil, Image Comics, Jess Bradley, Katie Skelly, Magen Cubed, Margaret Trauth, Meredith McClaren, Naomi Salman, Sarah Horrocks, Sarah Winifred Searles, Trungles, Twisted Romance, Vita AyalaLeave a comment on Love, Image Comics Style: Alex de Campi helms ‘Twisted Romance’ anthology For this year’s inaugural version of the Smash Pages End of Year Survey I had people answer the question: “What do you consider to be the top five important events of 2015?” I encouraged people to not necessarily answer the question in that manner if it didn’t strike their fancy. I cannot thank everyone enough for the participation during a busy time of year. Part 1 is here, part 2 is here part 3 is here. Sensation Comics #39 Carla Speed McNeil Sensation Comics, Finder These things happened, and I learned things from them I didn’t expect. I wrote and drew a WONDER WOMAN story titled BOTH ENDS OF THE LEASH for Sensation Magazine. I’d never tried to wrap my mind around any of the comic book demigods, but the more I read about this princess, the more facets she reveals. I had some odd and, frankly, rather woo experiences trying to find a story for her, which in itself probably is what made it worth doing. The story is about animal defense, so it hit a lot of nerves, and I’ve gotten a lot of good feedback from long-term fans, but none more so than the fan I didn’t know about: my older sister. I had NO IDEA my sister was a Wonder Woman fan. She’s eight years older than I am, so I guess I missed her Underoos stage. But she’s nearly six feet tall, long black hair, green eyes… How tempted was I to make my Diana’s eyes green just for her! But the fact that I found out late in the game that my sister’s such a fan restrained me from redesigning the Princess radically. This time. I drew an issue of a horror comic called HARROW COUNTY, written and drawn by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook. I’ve never done a straight-up ghost story. This one was about a not-entirely-lost soul, a sad, ferocious little ghost in two parts. The tricky part, the thing I had to keep reminding myself was that, no matter how bad I felt for him, I needed to keep him creepy. That’s what makes him work. Poor little sticky thing. If that was true of HARROW COUNTY, it’s doubly true of NO MERCY, the book I’m drawing with writer Alex de Campi. She rarely pulls a punch unless it’s for effect, and has been a master class in how fast you can make things happen in a story. It’s all too easy, especially when you love worldbuilding, to get lost in creating the immersive experience, forgetting that stories are about and-then-what. The storytellers who REALLY surprised me with the depth and deftness of their storytelling are the ones who are making the tv show STEVEN UNIVERSE. If you don’t like goofy, it’s not for you, but that story’s deep heart, complexity of imagined world, and up-close-magic-tricks of throwing down new Plot Cards have left me with my jaw on the floor. I am watching. Taking NOTES. Dunno if I’m going to be able to get all of these things into the new FINDER story I started in DARK HORSE PRESENTS last November, but they’re all in my head, at the very least. They’ll end up in SOMETHING. UR, MythBusters 1. Recidivist 4, by Zack Sally 2. Intelligent Sentient? by Luke Ramsey 3. Cosplayers 3, by Dash Shaw 4. Shaolin Cowboy: Shemp Buffet, by Geoff Darrow 5. Idyl – I’m Age, by Jeffrey Jones Vito Delsante Stray, Actionverse, Action Lab: Dog of Wonder Actionverse #4 5. The Flash TV show – there’s not enough of it in a week. It’s not even a guilty pleasure. I sit and watch it with a smile from ear to ear. And while I enjoy Arrow (not caught up) and what I’ve seen of Supergirl (not caught up), I never miss Flash. 4. Conventions – I hate conventions, and that’s not a strong hate. It’s just…they’re inconvenient sometimes. But I had great experiences this year in Baltimore, NYCC and New Jersey Comic Expo. More shows are popping up (really looking forward to the 3 Rivers Comicon in May), and I hope the remain a local staple more than the overblown extravaganzas that they can become. Smaller shows are the best. 3. My comics – Stray came out this year. Line Webtoons announced that Dean Haspiel and I are working together again on the New Brooklyn Universe. Actionverse 0 just debuted and I’m writing a new all-ages comic, Action Lab: Dog of Wonder. I’m incredibly fortunate to have such opportunities and such amazing collaborators. 2. My friends’ comics – Beef With Tomato, Schmuck, Smoke, We Are Robin, Ghetto Klown, Plunder, the Bunker…working with my friends on Actionverse. As exciting as it is to see my own stuff out there, it’s just as exciting to see my friends get their work seen and recognized. 1. My kids – Unto us, a son was born this year. And while I’m still in the introduction phase with him, my daughter (who will be 3 in February) has become a huge part of my life and is dictating how I create comics in the near future…in a good way. I don’t know…it’s all new to me, but I’m enjoying the lessons. Wayward, Samurai Jack 1) Image’s Continued Creator-Owned Success 2) Diversity in Characters and Creators 3) Convention Culture Continues to Thrive 4) The Widening Embrace of Comics Content From Mainstream Media 5) Disney the Pop Culture Juggernaut: Animation, Marvel Movies, Star Wars DJ Kirkbride Amelia Cole, The Bigger Bang, Never Ending 5. COPRA makes me giddy. I was late to the game and missed the single issues, but Bergen Press’s trades are so snazzy. Tough characters in tough stories with tough art — I’m in as long as MICHEL FIFFE continues to create the book. Pure comics power! 4. COMIC BOOK APOCALYPSE: THE GRAPHIC WORLD OF JACK KIRBY, both the amazing CSUN exhibit and the accompanying book from IDW, gave me a jolt of energy regarding the whole medium, and art in general. From his early romance comics to of course all the superheroes to his mind boggling collages, there’s a reason JACK KIRBY is THE KING. It was a true delight seeing his pages in person, and reading amazing essays about the man and his art. 3. DAVID F. WALKER taking over comics! I’ve known Dave for a few years and have always admired his work, so it’s been a true pleasure watching him finally get the credit he deserves. From SHAFT in late 2014 to this year’s CYBORG and the upcoming (as of my typing) POWER MAN AND IRON FIST (with one of my favorites artists, SANFORD GREENE), his success this year just couldn’t have happened to a more deserving creator. Good for my pal, and good for all of us comic fans! 2. MICHAEL ALLRED drawing comics is one of my favorite things each and every year. He’s making magic with DAN SLOTT on SILVER SURFER — the Marvel character (along with, I’d say, DOCTOR STRANGE) that Allred was born to draw. He’s one of the nicest and most talented guys in comics, so it’s always a joy to see work from him. 1. HEROES FOR EVERY READER! Since I was a kid, part of my love of SUPERMAN has always been that, lack of muscles and perfectly chiseled features, I kinda look like him. Big jaw, blue eyes, dark hair… it made Halloween fun growing up (as almost every pic of me was in some Underroos-based Superman costume). Identification is important to kids, to see themselves in their heroes. This is just one of the reasons why characters like MS. MARVEL, BATGIRL, MILES MORALES: ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, SPIDER-GWEN, CYBORG, MOON GIRL, AMELIA COLE (I have to mention the hero created by ADAM P. KNAVE, NICK BROKENSHIRE, and myself here, right?), and many more having their own comic book titles is so important. We still have a long, looooong way to go, but it’s great to see some logical and, obviously, long overdue steps FINALLY being made. It’s a no-brainer and win-win for everyone! Author Tim O'SheaPosted on January 6, 2016 January 11, 2016 Categories Comic BooksTags Carla Speed McNeil, DJ Kirkbride, end of year, Eric Haven, Jim Zub, Vito DelsanteLeave a comment on Smash Pages End of Year Survey, Part 4	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3597
__label__wiki	0.917228	0.917228	Home » Facebook denies charges of spying on the users’ text messages Facebook denies charges of spying on the users’ text messages Home » Social Media News » Facebook denies charges of spying on the users’ text messages Posted By Firdaus on Feb 28, 2012 \| 0 comments Facebook has denied charges of spying on the private messages of its users, reports CNET. The social network has termed these accusations as inaccurate and false. Recently, some reports came in the media about websites, including Facebook, Flickr and YouTube, stating that these websites use smartphone apps to get into the text message data and other personal information of the users. Sunday times reported that Facebook occasionally accesses user data including user location, contacts list, etc., and sometimes, this data is also supplied to third-party companies. Facebook has termed the Sunday Times report as “completely wrong.” Does Facebook spy on its Users? “There is no reading of user text messages,” the company said. “On the Android App store, the Facebook app permissions include SMS read/write. Lots of communications apps use these permissions. Think of all those apps that act as replacements to the built-in sms software.” According to Facebook, some testing of products that require SMS to communicate with the Facebook app has been performed, but no such feature has been made available to the public. “So the Sunday Times is completely wrong when it says Facebook is reading people’s SMS. Wrong on the terminology, and wrong on the suggestion that it has been implemented,” the company said. Just a couple of weeks ago, Path (an iOS and Android application) was reported to be accessing user contact information without permission. Twitter has confirmed that its servers kept user data for 18 months after users selected the “Find Friends” feature on its smartphone app. Author: Firdaus	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3598
__label__cc	0.658362	0.341638	Suggest New Place People to Meet About Social Web Member Sign-in: Username: Password: Send Me My Account Information - Get a Free Account Costantino's Ristorante Caffe Place Details - Review Place - Add an Event Here - Report Incorrect or Missing Information 265 Atwells Ave (Dinner) Largest Group: Take Out: Reservations Offered: Call Ahead, Yes, Establishment Recommended Food: American, Italian Undoubtedly the most elegant place in Providence, Rhode Island, for food and drink, Costantino's Ristorante & Caffe opened its doors on the evening of June 19, 2002. This Italian wine bar and restaurant is located on DePasquale Plaza, across the square from Venda Ravioli at 265 Atwells Avenue, in the heart of historic Federal Hill - the Little Italy section of the capital city. The first floor -- decorated in soft shades of celadon green, gold and apricot -- is a lounge for pre-dinner cocktails and appetizers, as well as a gathering spot for after-dinner drinks, coffee and desserts. With a view of the flower-filled plaza, the lounge at Costantino's is so inviting with love seats, wingback chairs and a stunning pink marble bar, imported from Italy. Crystal chandeliers, gilded mirrors and romantic works of art complete the picture. On the sweeping stairway to the second floor, a colorful mural of the Italian countryside graces the wall. The upper level offers a full-service restaurant serving traditional Italian cuisine, artfully executed by Chef Alberto. His menu offers hot and cold appetizers, salads, various pastas, steak, veal, chicken and seafood dishes. The extensive wine list offers vintages from Italy and other wine-producing parts of the world, including more than 20 wines by the glass. Costantino's Ristorante & Caffe is open Sunday through Thursday, from 5 to 10 p.m.; and Friday and Saturday, from 5 to 11 p.m. The popular restaurant sometimes closes on Sunday for private parties, so it is recommended to call 401-528-1100 to check on availability. Free valet parking is also available. All this is the latest chapter being written by the Costantino family, owners of Venda Ravioli, which has been making pasta for more than 70 years in the Old World tradition. Venda Ravioli is dedicated to teaching the public the importance of quality ingredients in food preparation. A complete line of Italian food and specialty products is available at Venda, and now that devotion to traditional Italian culture can also be sampled across the plaza at Costantino's Ristorante & Caffe. Please note that the Social Web is not affiliated with Costantino's Ristorante Caffe 0 Upcoming Costantino's Ristorante Caffe Events No Events for Costantino's Ristorante Caffe in the System Add an Event at Costantino's Ristorante Caffe 0 Costantino's Ristorante Caffe Restaurant Reviews (1=Poor, 5=Excellent) Have you been here? Add your Review Ratings submitted by Social Web members are the opinions of those individuals and not necessarily those of the Social Web. Social Web members are asked to act responsibly when rating places; the Social Web reserves the right to remove any inappropriate remarks. Please report such remarks to webmaster@socialweb.net. Last Modified: January 9, 2009 at 1:46 PM Privacy Statement \| Legal Notice \| \| copyright © 2020, Daedal Creations, Inc.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3599
__label__cc	0.715943	0.284057	The news coming out of New York City hasn't been very good lately; daily, almost, service disruptions on the subway system; a new CEO of the MTA who really isn't the CEO, but a part-time chairman with a token salary, which wouldn't even buy a token (if there were any to be had); "minor" derailments that injure passengers; fatal injury to a maintenance of way employee on the LIRR; and forced service reductions at Pennsylvania Station in order to accommodate extensive maintenance of the interlocking. Pennsylvania Station, undersized and overworked, has been succumbing bit by bit to both, and to both made that much worse by the unremediated damage from Hurricane Sandy. This is not a surprise. Pennsylvania Station has been undersized and overworked for twenty years. That it continued to function at all, much less function adequately until recently, should tell everyone, particularly those feigning shock, dismay, outrage now that bill has come due, just how good those who engineered, those who built, those who maintained, those who operated, and those who still operate the Penn Station terminal complex were, and are, at their jobs. No matter how good the design, no matter how great the skill, you can only live off the stored up capital for just so long. And that's what design, engineering, maintenance, and the institutional knowledge really are, embedded value. Sooner or later no amount of skill-- the institutional knowledge part-- in operations or maintenance can overcome, or compensate for the obsolesence of the original design and engineering. A bear can only hibernate for so long. Eventually, the fat runs out. Eventually the temperature climbs. Eventually the bear wakes up...and the bear is in a foul mood because the bear is hungry. If we depreciated our interlockings like we depreciate our locomotives, we'd be discounting its value to zero in 15 years or so, and living off the "fat" for another 10 years while we saved our money, made our plans, and went ahead with our programmed overhauls. At the end of 25 years we'd have a whole new fleet of....interlockings and parts of it would already be 25 years old and undergoing another round of complete component changeout. At least that's what we'd budget for; that's how we would do our switch renewal projects: every year.. so that every 15-25 year we would have replaced the entire interlocking configuration. Of course, you can see the problem for complicated interlockings, like those that make up the Penn Station complex-- where the total number of switches, crossovers, diamonds can exceed two hundred. Ten or twelve or fifteen complete crossover/switch replacements each year. That's expensive. That's a lot of employees working a lot of hours in a very small space with very little margin for error, or delay. That disrupts the service plan. Let the bear sleep, Goldilocks Just file the nails while she sleeps; postpone replacing the entire paw. So now the bear woke up. "Now what do we do?" as Hudson said in Aliens. Believe me, building a fire, singing songs won't work. We have to manage this. We could not manage this then, before it went critical, without reducing service. We can't manage it now without reducing service. So...so look, what's our goal here? Our plan is to absorb the disruption to the service plan to facilitate the required work. Our strategy is to accommodate as many of the peak period and non-peak period commuters as possible into and out of Pennsylvania Station, consistent with our goal, our plan. Our tactic is... to increase the velocity of track turnover. To maximize the number of trains we can fit on the available platform tracks within the peak periods by...reducing dwell time. I'm not running Penn Station operations, and I'm not responsible for revising the LIRR and/or NJT service plans in accordance with the capacity limits. I'm kind of glad, I'm not. I've broken more than my share of telephones in my career, And I'm a giving person. You know that. I love to give. I have a little experience with reducing dwell times. Maybe that might have some value in this summer of the angry bear. So: (1) I'd recommend that you utilize your available slots in Penn Station for your most heavily traveled lines, not trains, as the first determinant of priority. (2) Train originating or destined from/to less heavily traveled lines should not operate into and out of Penn Station, even on the "shoulders" (the rising and tapering of passenger travel prior to or after the "peak of the peak") of the peak, unless those trains handle a greater number of passengers to/from Penn Station than trains from the more densely traveled lines that arrive or depart the station 7 minutes either side that train. (3) The above applies even if the train for the less traveled line is scheduled for layover in a yard. Save your yard slots for the most heavily traveled lines. (4) Do not turn "revenue" to "revenue" during the peaks if such a turn requires passengers to load/unload via stairways. This will create the famous NYC commuter "clusterf**k" and might get somebody hurt (probably you). AM peak, train arrives, unloads and either moves directly to the yard, or deadheads to a suitable location where connections can be made from (a) other terminals or (b) other transportation services. PM peak, trains destined Penn Station unload at the some suitable location and deadhead to Penn. Short version of the above: Be prepared to blow off your reverse peak service out of/into Penn Station, particularly if you are dependent upon the NYC subway system for alternative service into/out of Manhattan. Let the reverse peak customers make the subway move, not because you don't like them, not because their money isn't as good as anybody's, but because there are fewer of them, and the subway will be better able to handle that traffic. Told you I was a giving person. Say "good morning" to the bear, and carefully watch its turns.	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3608
__label__wiki	0.790817	0.790817	Where’s Brooklyn at now? January 8, 2020 / Basketball, Sport Equipments, Sports Rule The Brooklyn Nets are all-in for the 2013-14 season. How will this play out? We go 5-on-5: 1. Fact or Fiction: The Nets have the best starting five in basketball. Chris Forsberg, ESPNBoston.com: Fiction. On paper, the Nets have a very talented starting five. But let’s see it on the floor before we start handing out superlatives. For the moment, Miami holds the right to all of the “best” titles, including the only one that truly matters in the NBA. Jeremy Gordon, Brooklyn’s Finest: Fiction. If it’s where each individual player might fall within the ranking of his position, then sure — you can make an argument that the Nets have a top-10 player at every spot. But it’s still the sum that ultimately matters, and this Nets starting five needs to play at least one game before they make any designs on the top position. Michael Wallace, ESPN.com: Fiction. On paper? Yes. It’s hard to out-fantasy that unit of Deron Williams, Joe Johnson, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Brook Lopez. But dig a bit deeper based on recent evidence, and there are some serious concerns with each one of those players, from age to consistency. Until the Nets prove their value on the court, it’s all fiction. Brian Windhorst, ESPN.com: Fiction. They have the most high-profile starting five, I would agree with that. We need to see them play together to have a feel for how they define their roles. There are two All-Stars from last season in the lineup. The Heat had three All-Stars in their lineup, the Bulls have two and get Derrick Rose back, the Clippers have two, the Rockets have two, the Knicks have two, the Thunder have two, and the Spurs have two. There are a lot of excellent starting lineups, let’s wait and see. Ohm Youngmisuk, ESPNNew York.com: Fiction. Few can match the name recognition, and there will be nights when they look like an All-Star squad. However, Jason Kidd’s starters may not even play a ton together for much of the season because he has to regulate Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce’s minutes. And there isn’t one Nets starter who’s in the top two at his position. 2. Fact or Fiction: KG and Pierce are still All-Star caliber players. Forsberg: Fact. With Boston’s 2007-08 squad as a guide, the Nets ought to expect a downturn in individual production from all of their stars as they assemble, but Garnett and Pierce still can make a case for the midseason exhibition. Garnett, a fan-voted starter last season, rebounded like an All-Star in the postseason and his defense remains a game-changer, while Pierce’s all-around efforts help him garner consideration annually. Gordon: Fact. When they play, that is. Last season, Garnett averaged his lowest minutes count since his first year; Pierce, in his career. Their per-36 stats remained the same and the Celtics were better with them on the court, but Jason Kidd managing their minutes should keep them off the All-Star squad, barring some unexpected collapse from the rest of the competition. Wallace: Fact. But only based on fans voting them in as starters. Otherwise, they’ll have a difficult time at this stage beating out LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Paul George, Luol Deng, Chris Bosh and possibly Josh Smith at those dynamic frontcourt spots. If Brooklyn lives up to expectations, the Nets’ balance may make it difficult for Pierce or Garnett to register the numbers necessary to make them surefire All-Stars. Windhorst: Fact. Pierce had a pretty good season last year but had to compete with the likes of James, Anthony, Deng and George as a wing player and didn’t make it. Garnett is still one of the most valuable big men in the game. There is some question about the minutes they’ll probably get with such a deep team and that may affect their numbers and perhaps their candidacy. Youngmisuk: Fiction. Because of age, new roles and the minutes limit they should be on, Garnett and Pierce likely won’t be All-Star caliber players this season. Nor do they have to be during the regular season. They still may be voted All-Stars, but the goal is to have Garnett and Pierce fresh and playing like All-Stars in the postseason. 3. Fact or Fiction: Deron Williams will reassert himself as a top-five PG. Forsberg: Fact. With both Derrick Rose and Rajon Rondo coming off ACL rehab, this is probably easier than it sounds. But Williams should absolutely benefit from the additional talent around him. After averaging 18.9 points and 7.7 assists in a bit of a “down” year last season, it’s scary to think of the numbers Williams is capable of posting now. And team success has a way of making every floor general look even better. Gordon: Fact. He’s got tough competition, but he was already playing like a top-five point after the All-Star break. The tricky thing is that all the best points play so differently that it’s hard to rank them along a firm scale — how do you value Stephen Curry against Rajon Rondo, for example? — but Deron should be in the conversation. Wallace: Fact. I’m willing to write off the past two seasons based on the injuries, turmoil and drastic roster turnover. But D-Will is all out of excuses at this point. He’s either going to solidify his stature as an elite player or he’ll hitch himself to Joe Johnson as the biggest bust of a starting backcourt max money could buy. He’ll get his mojo back. Windhorst: Fact. If you look at the numbers after the All-Star break last season you could make the argument he was already there. Williams seemed to be soured a bit by that season and a half he was mired on bad teams in Newark and didn’t come in the best shape or with the best mindset to Brooklyn. He seemed like a different player in March and April and you would assume he carries that over to November. Youngmisuk: Fact. Williams will be even more rejuvenated with the talent surrounding him. He will be eager to show that this is his team and veterans such as Garnett and Pierce will make him better. Also, Kidd — his friend, mentor and coach –- will push the right buttons and get the best out of Williams. 4. Fact or Fiction: Coaching will be the Nets’ biggest weakness in 2013-14. Forsberg: Fiction. Coaching is one of the team’s biggest wild cards at the moment given the untested nature of first-year coach Jason Kidd. That said, having a proven top assistant such as Lawrence Frank will ease Kidd’s transition and prevent coaching from hurting this team. Coaching will get blamed as the Nets’ biggest weakness if they struggle, but chances are the Nets will have more glaring issues elsewhere. Gordon: Fact. Only by default, though. It’s hard to look at the lineup and see a strongly identifiable weakness, and we know that Kidd is still learning the ropes — some of the plays during his first Summer League games were drawn up by Frank, who’s surely going to justify his fat contract. It hopefully will be less so as the year wears on. Wallace: Fiction. Kidd has a solid mentor beside him on the bench in Frank. Kidd was always a coach on the floor during his remarkable career at point guard. Managing clutch situations, egos and minutes will be a challenge as coach. But he’s got a team of veterans who appear to have his back. But it’s still early. Adversity hasn’t struck yet. Age will be their biggest strength — and potential weakness. Windhorst: Fiction. While I think it is a risk to trust a team with such championship aspirations to a rookie coach, health will be a huge factor. This is an older team and their youngest star, Brook Lopez, is coming off foot surgery. Last season, injuries to Lopez and Joe Johnson really gave the Nets problems. If they’re healthy, they’ll be contenders. Youngmisuk: Fiction. Kidd may be a rookie and there certainly will be a learning curve. Kidd, though, will lean on his staff, especially Frank. The Nets have potentially bigger pitfalls such as health, age and chemistry. 5. Fact or Fiction: The Nets will win a championship by 2015. Forsberg: Fiction. Money can build you a competitive team and a fantasy roster, but championship teams have a little something extra and we won’t know if Brooklyn has that until we see this group on the floor. The Nets will give themselves a short window to compete for a crown, but winning one in the next two seasons is no slam dunk, particularly if the group in Miami keeps its band together. Gordon: You’re not getting me to answer this one with a straight face. If everything breaks right for them — Garnett and Pierce’s health, Kidd’s feel for the job, etc. — the Nets should surely be in the running. But all of that means they carry more risk than any other contender, too. (Hey, the boom-or-bust thing is kind of fun, right?) Wallace: Fiction. It’s hard to say for sure that any team will certainly win a title by 2015. But the Nets have their work cut out with the Heat, Pacers and Bulls collectively in the midst of their prime. Considering Garnett and Pierce have a relatively short window of opportunity, the Nets have this season and next to get it done. I’ll believe how reliable they are when I see it. But I wouldn’t be absolutely stunned if they broke through. Windhorst: Fiction. I can’t possibly predict what the landscape will be in the 2014-15 season, so basically I’m answering this on this season. If all teams stay healthy, I believe the Heat and Pacers are still better than the Nets. The Bulls are right there as well. I am not picking them to win the East at this point, so I can’t say they’ll win the title. Youngmisuk: Fiction. They will contend but they might be the third-best team in the East. If they don’t win it all, the task only gets more difficult. The Nets’ cap-strapped roster will only get older while the 2014 superstar free-agent crop may alter the balance of power in the league, with the top players constantly looking to join forces to create the next star-studded team. Tags: derrick, espn, serious concerns Best Golf GPS Reviews	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3610
__label__wiki	0.914841	0.914841	SC: Gloria can appoint next CJ By Benjamin B. Pulta 03/18/2010 JBC ordered to submit list of high court nominees SC: Gloria can appoint next CJ It’s official. The incumbent President is legally and constitutionally empowered to appoint the next Chief Justice (CJ) of the Supreme Court (SC). A ruling by the high court, handed down yesterday, said President Arroyo can name the next top magistrate after Chief Justice Reynato Puno steps down on May 17. Voting 9-1-2-3, the SC, in a decision penned by Justice Lucas Bersamin, said the appointment of the entire judiciary, including the position of Chief Justice, is not included in the appointments ban as mandated by the 1987 Constitution. The decision was reached before noon yesterday during the high court’s special full court session. The high court also directed the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) to submit to Arroyo a shortlist of candidates from where she will choose the next chief magistrate on or before March 17.... MORE ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20100318hed1.html Erap blames GMA for power crisis, says generator leases overpriced Tape recording to support Hacienda story — NYT Comelec evading source code review issue No JBC shortlist until after final ruling Noynoy a ‘political opportunist’ — Estrada Erap blames GMA for power crisis, says generator leases overpriced By Gerry Baldo 03/18/2010 Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) standard bearer former President Joseph Estrada yesterday put the blame on President Arroyo for the current power crisis that has swept the country. Estrada, who recently shifted to a fighting stance, accused the Arroyo government of doing nothing during the nine years it was in power and position to avert the power crisis that is now threatening to derail the May 2010 elections. “The power crisis in Mindanao could have been avoided. But the Arroyo administration did not take any concrete steps to avoid the calamity,” Estrada said. The former President also pointed out that the proposed allocation for the leasing of generators is highly overpriced..... MORE Noynoy a ‘political opportunist’ — Estrada 03/18/2010 The gloves are off. Former President Joseph Estrada said Liberal Party (LP) standard-bearer Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino has become a “political opportunist” willing to forsake friendship just to boost his sagging ratings in the surveys. A visibly irked Estrada said he now feels that Aquino had used him for publicity when the senator and LP presidential bet earlier had stated he was against the absolute pardon offered to Estrada and that President Arroyo erred in granting pardon to the former president on plunder charges. Estrada also reminded Aquino that his mother, the late President Corazon Aquino, sought his blessing when her son ran for Senate in 2007 under the ticket of Genuine Opposition.... MORE Putting the issue to rest EDITORIAL 03/18/2010 Putting the issue to rest Now it has been settled by the Supreme Court (SC). The high court yesterday ruled that Gloria Arroyo can appoint the replacement of retiring SC Chief Justice Reynato Puno, despite a 60-day constitutional ban on midnight appointments before elections. Nine justices voted in favor of allowing Gloria to appoint the next CJ: Lucas Bersamin, Jose Perez, Roberto Abad, Martin Villarama, Teresita de Castro, Arturo Brion, Jose Mendoza, Mariano del Castillo and Diosdado Peralta.... MORE ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100318com1.html As the tree is, so is the fruit Boxing champ Pacquiao faces tough political fight Vindictive, rigid, immature BLURBAL THRUSTS Questionable suspensions Analysts wonder whether Obama seeks Israel ‘regime change’ As the tree is, so is the fruit FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/18/2010 If Noynoy Aquino ever wins the presidency, any media story that he finds critical will be slammed as “partisan” and “unfair.” And if his statements, uttered in radio and TV interviews where he puts his foot in his mouth, are aired, he will claim that his statement was taken out of context, such as his saying that he is against Erap Estrada’s pardon, but now claiming he will review what he really said. As for any criticism of him and his family members,what he will be saying is that everybody is ganging up on him and his family and that it is only his nephew, Baby James, who is still not being criticized.... MORE Boxing champ Pacquiao faces tough political fight FEATURE 03/18/2010 MANILA — Boxing champ Manny Pacquiao will return home this week to a hero’s welcome but his next challenge may see him go down for the count as he steps into the even more bruising ring of Philippine politics. Pacquiao’s latest victory has earned the superstar even more acclaim and wealth, but analysts warn that adulation and big spending may not convert to votes when he runs for a seat in Congress in May national elections. “It will be a harder battle than all the battles he has waged in the ring,” said Political Science professor Ronald Holmes of De La Salle University.... MORE Vindictive, rigid, immature SILVER LINING Dean Ernest Maceda 03/18/2010 Dean Ernest Maceda Sen. Noynoy Aquino’s surprise comment declaring his disagreement with GMA’s pardon of President Erap almost three years after the fact betrays a lack of maturity. And if you add his pronouncement of forming a Commission to investigate the anomalies and graft cases against GMA, it also indicates a streak of vindictiveness. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile terms it a “rigid and inflexible personality.” To make matters worse, Noynoy admitted that “I have to review what I said,” suggesting he was taken out of context. He can’t even recall what he said. Instead, it was sister Kris who issued an apology to Sen. Jinggoy Estrada.... MORE ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary100318com4.html Questionable suspensions BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 03/18/2010 Louie Logarta One doesn’t have to be clairvoyant or a psychic to read the minds of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service (CIIS) operations officer Eric Albano and his assistant, Mitchell Verdeflor, who were ordered drydocked in connection with the pilferage last month of millions of pesos worth of high-end electronic gadgets, Sony PlayStations, DVDs, Bulgari and DKNY perfumes, etc. from a warehouse in the South Harbor. Funny thing here is that the two intel guys were earlier praised for a job well done by the very person who had them suspended indefinitely... MORE Why? VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 03/18/2010 The question is begging to be asked. More and more people are asking why. The inquiry with elements of perplexity can be thus expressed and proposed: Why is it that more and more religious men and women are engaging themselves in admittedly many and serious social questions in the country? Why is it that more and more priests and bishops are speaking and acting on rather difficult and sensitive socio-political issues in the Philippines? Why do they not simply preach about the lives of Saints, stay in the sacristy and “mind their own business?” Why? Why do these Church people not simply confine their words and actions in the realm of liturgy, in the sphere of devotions and in the world of piety? Are fiestas, novenas and processions not supposed to be their expertise, and should wherefore remain in these purely spiritualist ministries? .... MORE Analysts wonder whether Obama seeks Israel ‘regime change’ focus 03/18/2010 WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s row with Israel over settlements has prompted some analysts to wonder whether it seeks “regime change,” a new government that can make peace with the Palestinians. But, the analysts doubt that President Barack Obama’s administration, which has made Arab-Israeli peace a national security priority, will achieve anything if it has indeed adopted such a strategy. In unusually harsh words, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday that his right-wing government’s plans to build new settler homes in east Jerusalem sent a “deeply negative signal” about Israel’s ties to its top ally..... MORE SC: Gloria can appoint next CJ By Benjamin B. Pul... Erap blames GMA for power crisis, says generator l... Noynoy a ‘political opportunist’ — Estrada 03/18/... As the tree is, so is the fruit FRONTLINE Ninez C... Boxing champ Pacquiao faces tough political fight ... Vindictive, rigid, immature SILVER LINING Dean Er... Questionable suspensions BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Lo... Why? VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 03/18/2... Analysts wonder whether Obama seeks Israel ‘regime...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3612
__label__wiki	0.703697	0.703697	Home » My Trial Guide » Drugs » Xalkori » Clinical Trial - NCT02465060 Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI) Short Description: Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (MATCH) Long Description: Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (MATCH) Sponsor: Coop/ECOG Disease Program: Phase I This phase II MATCH trial studies how well treatment that is directed by genetic testing works in patients with solid tumors or lymphomas that have progressed following at least one line of standard treatment or for which no agreed upon treatment approach exists. Genetic tests look at the unique genetic material (genes) of patients' tumor cells. Patients with genetic abnormalities (such as mutations, amplifications, or translocations) may benefit more from treatment which targets their tumor's particular genetic abnormality. Identifying these genetic abnormalities first may help doctors plan better treatment for patients with solid tumors, lymphomas, or multiple myeloma. Advanced Malignant Solid Neoplasm Bladder Carcinoma Breast Carcinoma Cervical Carcinoma Colon Carcinoma Colorectal Carcinoma Endometrial Carcinoma Esophageal Carcinoma Gastric Carcinoma Glioma Head and Neck Carcinoma Kidney Carcinoma Liver and Intrahepatic Bile Duct Carcinoma Lung Carcinoma Lymphoma Malignant Uterine Neoplasm Melanoma Ovarian Carcinoma Pancreatic Carcinoma Plasma Cell Myeloma Prostate Carcinoma Rectal Carcinoma Recurrent Bladder Carcinoma Recurrent Breast Carcinoma Recurrent Cervical Carcinoma Recurrent Colon Carcinoma Recurrent Colorectal Carcinoma Recurrent Esophageal Carcinoma Recurrent Gastric Carcinoma Recurrent Glioma Recurrent Head and Neck Carcinoma Recurrent Liver Carcinoma Recurrent Lung Carcinoma Recurrent Lymphoma Recurrent Malignant Solid Neoplasm Recurrent Melanoma Recurrent Ovarian Carcinoma Recurrent Pancreatic Carcinoma Recurrent Plasma Cell Myeloma Recurrent Prostate Carcinoma Recurrent Rectal Carcinoma Recurrent Skin Carcinoma Recurrent Thyroid Gland Carcinoma Recurrent Uterine Corpus Carcinoma Refractory Lymphoma Refractory Malignant Solid Neoplasm Refractory Plasma Cell Myeloma Skin Carcinoma Thyroid Gland Carcinoma Uterine Corpus Cancer Adavosertib Afatinib Afatinib Dimaleate Binimetinib Capivasertib Copanlisib Copanlisib Hydrochloride Crizotinib Cytology Specimen Collection Procedure Dabrafenib Dabrafenib Mesylate Dasatinib Defactinib Defactinib Hydrochloride Erdafitinib FGFR Inhibitor AZD4547 Ipatasertib Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Larotrectinib Larotrectinib Sulfate Nivolumab Osimertinib Palbociclib Pertuzumab PI3K-beta Inhibitor GSK2636771 Sapanisertib Sunitinib Malate Taselisib Trametinib Trastuzumab Trastuzumab Emtansine Ulixertinib Vismodegib Phase 2 Official Title Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (MATCH) Objective response rate [Time Frame: Up to 3 years] [Designated as safety issue: ] Overall survival, evaluated specifically for each drug (or step) [Time Frame: From registration onto that step until death, or censored at the date of last contact, assessed up to 3 years] [Designated as safety issue: ] Progression free survival [Time Frame: From entry onto that step until determination of disease progression or death from any cause, censored at the date of last disease assessment for patients who have not progressed, assessed at 6 months] [Designated as safety issue: ] Time to progression [Time Frame: From entry to that step until determination of disease progression or death due to disease, censored at the date of last disease assessment for patients who have not progressed, assessed up to 3 years] [Designated as safety issue: ] Estimated Enrollment: 6452 Study Start Date: August 2015 Estimated Study Completion Date: Estimated Primary Completion Date: June 2022 Experimental:Subprotocol A (EGFR activating mutation) Patients with EGFR activating mutation receive afatinib orally (PO) once daily (QD) on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Other:Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Undergo molecular analysis Experimental:Subprotocol B (HER2 activating mutation) Patients with HER2 activating mutation receive afatinib PO QD on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Experimental:Subprotocol C1 (MET amplification) Patients with MET amplification receive crizotinib PO BID on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Experimental:Subprotocol C2 (MET exon 14 deletion/mutation) Patients with MET exon 14 deletion or other mutations that disrupt exon 14 receive crizotinib PO BID on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Experimental:Subprotocol E (EGFR T790M or rare activating mutation) Patients with EGFR T790M or rare activating mutation receive osimertinib PO QD on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Osimertinib Given PO Experimental:Subprotocol F (ALK translocation) Patients with ALK translocation receive crizotinib PO twice daily (BID) on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Crizotinib Experimental:Subprotocol G (ROS1 translocation or inversion) Patients with ROS1 translocation or inversion receive crizotinib PO BID on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Experimental:Subprotocol H (BRAF V600E/R/K/D mutation) Patients with BRAF V600E/R/K/D mutation receive dabrafenib PO BID and trametinib PO QD on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Trametinib Experimental:Subprotocol I (PIK3CA mutation) Patients with PIK3CA mutation without RAS mutation or PTEN loss receive taselisib PO QD on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Taselisib Experimental:Subprotocol J (HER2 amplification >= 7 copy numbers) Patients with HER2 amplification >= 7 copy numbers receive pertuzumab IV over 30-60 minutes and trastuzumab IV over 30 minutes on day 1. Cycles repeat every 3 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Biological:Pertuzumab Given IV Experimental:Subprotocol K1 (FGFR amplification) Patients with FGFR amplification receive erdafitinib PO QD on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Erdafitinib Experimental:Subprotocol K2 (FGFR mutation or fusion) Patients with FGFR mutation or fusion receive erdafitinib PO QD on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Experimental:Subprotocol L (mTOR mutation) Patients with mTOR mutation receive sapanisertib PO daily on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 3 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Sapanisertib Experimental:Subprotocol M (TSC1 or TSC2 mutation) Patients with TSC1 or TSC2 mutation receive sapanisertib PO daily on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 3 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Experimental:Subprotocol N (PTEN mutation or deletion and PTEN expression) Patients with PTEN mutation or deletion and PTEN expression receive PI3K-beta inhibitor GSK2636771 PO QD on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:PI3K-beta Inhibitor GSK2636771 Experimental:Subprotocol P (PTEN loss) Patients with PTEN loss receive PI3K-beta inhibitor GSK2636771 PO QD on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Experimental:Subprotocol Q (HER2 amplification) Patients with HER2 amplification receive trastuzumab emtansine intravenously (IV) over 30-90 minutes on day 1. Cycles repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Biological:Trastuzumab Emtansine Experimental:Subprotocol R (BRAF fusion or BRAF non-V600 mutation) Patients with BRAF fusion or BRAF non-V600 mutation receive trametinib PO QD on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Experimental:Subprotocol S1 (NF1 mutation) Patients with NF1 mutation receive trametinib PO QD on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Experimental:Subprotocol S2 (GNAQ or GNA11 mutation) Patients with GNAQ or GNA11 mutation receive trametinib PO QD on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Experimental:Subprotocol T (SMO or PTCH1 mutation) Patients with SMO or PTCH1 mutation receive vismodegib PO QD on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Vismodegib Experimental:Subprotocol U (NF2 inactivating mutation) Patients with NF2 inactivating mutation receive defactinib PO BID on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Defactinib Hydrochloride Experimental:Subprotocol V (cKIT exon 9, 11, 13, or 14 mutation) Patients with cKIT exon 9, 11, 13, or 14 mutation receive sunitinib malate PO QD for 4 weeks. Cycles repeat every 6 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Sunitinib Malate Experimental:Subprotocol W (FGFR pathway aberrations) Patients with FGFR1-3 mutation or translocation receive FGFR Inhibitor AZD4547 PO BID on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:FGFR Inhibitor AZD4547 Experimental:Subprotocol X (DDR2 S768R, I638F, or L239R mutation) Patients with DDR2 S768R, I638F, or L239R mutation receive dasatinib PO QD on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Dasatinib Experimental:Subprotocol Y (Akt mutation) Patients with Akt mutation receive capivasertib PO BID on days 1-4, 8-11, 15-18, and 22-25. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Capivasertib Experimental:Subprotocol Z1A (NRAS mutation in codon 12, 13, or 61) Patients with NRAS mutation in codon 12, 13, or 61 receive binimetinib PO BID on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Binimetinib Experimental:Subprotocol Z1B (CCND1, 2, or 3 amplification with Rb by IHC) Patients with CCND1, 2, or 3 amplification that have tumor Rb expression by IHC receive palbociclib PO QD for 21 days. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Palbociclib Experimental:Subprotocol Z1C (CDK4 or CDK6 amplification and Rb protein) Patients with CDK4 or CDK6 amplification and tumor Rb protein receive palbociclib PO QD on days 1-21. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Experimental:Subprotocol Z1D (Loss of MLH1 or MSH2 by IHC) Patients with mismatch repair deficiency (loss of MLH1 or MSH2 by IHC) receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes on days 1 and 15 for 4 cycles and then on day 1 every 28 days. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Biological:Nivolumab Experimental:Subprotocol Z1E (NTRK1, NTRK2 or NTRK3 gene fusion) Patients with NTRK1, NTRK2, or NTRK3 gene fusion receive larotrectinib PO BID on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Larotrectinib Sulfate Experimental:Subprotocol Z1F (PIK3CA mutation) Patients with PIK3CA mutation receive copanlisib IV over 1 hour on days 1, 8, and 15. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Experimental:Subprotocol Z1G (PTEN loss) Patients with PTEN loss receive copanlisib IV over 1 hour on days 1, 8, and 15. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Experimental:Subprotocol Z1H (PTEN mutation) Patients with PTEN mutation receive copanlisib IV over 1 hour on days 1, 8, and 15. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Copanlisib Hydrochloride Experimental:Subprotocol Z1I (BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation) Patients with BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation receive adavosertib PO QD for 5 days for 2 weeks. Cycles repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Adavosertib Experimental:Subprotocol Z1K (AKT mutation) Patients receive ipatasertib PO QD. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Ipatasertib Experimental:Subprotocol Z1L (BRAF fusion, aberration or non-V600 mutation) Patients with a BRAF non-V600 mutation or BRAF fusion, or another BRAF aberration receive ulixertinib (BVD-523FB) PO BID on days 1-28. Cycles repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Drug:Ulixertinib Give PO • ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR SCREENING BIOPSY (STEP 0) • Women of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test within 2 weeks prior to registration; patients that are pregnant or breast feeding are excluded; a female of childbearing potential is any woman, regardless of sexual orientation or whether they have undergone tubal ligation, who meets the following criteria: • Has not undergone a hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy; or • Has not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 24 consecutive months (i.e., has had menses at any time in the preceding 24 consecutive months) • Women of childbearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation, and for 4 months after completion of study; should a woman become pregnant or suspect while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately • Patients must have histologically documented solid tumors or histologically confirmed diagnosis of lymphoma or multiple myeloma requiring therapy and meet one of the following criteria: • Patients must have progressed following at least one line of standard systemic therapy and there must not be other approval/standard therapy available that has been shown to prolong overall survival (i.e. in a randomized trial against another standard treatment or by comparison to historical controls); patients who cannot receive other standard therapy that has been shown to prolong overall survival due to medical issues will be eligible, if other eligibility criteria are met; if the patient is currently receiving therapy, the clinician must have assessed that the current therapy is no longer benefitting the patient prior to enrolling on MATCH, regardless of whether it is considered standard OR • Patients for whose disease no standard treatment exists that has been shown to prolong overall survival • NOTE: No other prior malignancy is allowed except for the following: adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer; in situ cervical cancer; adequately treated stage I or II cancer from which the patient is currently in complete remission; any other cancer from which the patient has been disease-free for 5 years • Patients must have measurable disease • Patients must meet the criteria below and have received results from one of the designated outside laboratories indicating a "rare variant" that is an actionable Mutation of Interest (aMOI) for specific select subprotocols. • The following requirements apply: • The outside laboratory specifically notified the site that patient may be a potential candidate for MATCH due to a detected "rare variant"; the outside lab reports are NOT sufficient for this purpose • NOTE: The content and format of these specific notifications for the Outside Assay process will vary depending on the designated outside lab in question, as they are each responsible for their own outreach efforts; it is strongly recommended that the designated outside laboratory be contacted to confirm the format and receipt of this notification prior to registering any patients to Step 0 • Patients with an applicable "rare variant" must be able to meet the eligibility criteria for the appropriate subprotocols within 4 weeks following notification of treatment assignment • NOTE: The receipt of this notification (and the start of the associated deadline for Step 1 registration) may occur shortly after Step 0 registration, since these patients will not be submitting tissue for screening purposes; however, for certain "rare variant" arms, submission of archival tissue for central immunohistochemistry (IHC) testing may be required • Registration to Step 0 must occur after stopping prior systemic anti-cancer therapy; there is no specific duration for which patients must be off treatment prior to registration to Step 0, as long as all eligibility criteria are met • There is no particular window of time after notification of potential eligibility from an outside lab in which the patient must be registered to Step 0, but treatment slots will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis to those who do register to Step 0, and are not held for those notified of potential eligibility who do not register to Step 0 • Patients may have received other non-targeted, immunotherapy or targeted treatment between the prior genetic testing at the outside lab and registration to Step 0; the decision to stop such treatment in favor of participation in MATCH, if no further clinical benefit is expected, is per the treating physician's discretion; documentation of a lack of response to the prior treatment is not required in these cases • NOTE: Other potential aMOIs that would be eligibility criteria for "NON RARE" arms, as determined by the designated laboratories, are not applicable for this process in MATCH • NOTE: Tumor tissue for the confirmation of "rare variant" by the MATCH assay is to be submitted, preferably from the same time of collection as that evaluated by the designated outside laboratory • Patient must not require the use of full dose coumarin-derivative anticoagulants such as warfarin; low molecular weight heparin is permitted for prophylactic or therapeutic use; factor X inhibitors are permitted • NOTE: Warfarin may not be started while enrolled in the EAY131 study • Stopping the anticoagulation for biopsy should be per site standard operating procedure (SOP) • Patients must have Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status =< 1 and a life expectancy of at least 3 months • Patients must not currently be receiving any other investigational agents • Patients must not have any uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to: • Symptomatic congestive heart failure (New York Heart Association [NYHA] classification of III/IV) • Unstable angina pectoris or coronary angioplasty, or stenting within 6 months prior to registration to Step 0, 2, 4, 6 • Cardiac arrhythmia (ongoing cardiac dysrhythmias of National Cancer Institute [NCI] Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events [CTCAE] version [v]4 grade >= 2) • Psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements • Intra-cardiac defibrillators • Known cardiac metastases • Abnormal cardiac valve morphology (>= grade 2) documented by echocardiogram (ECHO) (as clinically indicated); (subjects with grade 1 abnormalities [i.e., mild regurgitation/stenosis] can be entered on study); subjects with moderate valvular thickening should not be entered on study • NOTE: To receive an agent, patient must not have any uncontrolled intercurrent illness such as ongoing or active infection; patients with infections unlikely to be resolved within 2 weeks following screening should not be considered for the trial • Patients must be able to swallow tablets or capsules; a patient with any gastrointestinal disease that would impair ability to swallow, retain, or absorb drug is not eligible • Patients who are human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive are eligible if: • CD4+ cell count greater or equal to 250 cells/mm^3 • If patient is on antiretroviral therapy, there must be minimal interactions or overlapping toxicity of the antiretroviral therapy with the experimental cancer treatment; for experimental cancer therapeutics with CYP3A/4 interactions, protease inhibitor therapy is disallowed; suggested regimens to replace protease inhibitor therapy include dolutegravir given with tenofovir/emtricitabine; raltegravir given with tenofovir and emtricitabine; once daily combinations that use pharmacologic boosters may not be used • No history of non-malignancy acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-defining conditions other than historical low CD4+ cell counts • Probable long-term survival with HIV if cancer were not present • Any prior therapy, radiotherapy (except palliative radiation therapy of 30 gray [Gy] or less), or major surgery must have been completed >= 4 weeks prior to start of treatment; all adverse events due to prior therapy have resolved to a grade 1 or better (except alopecia and lymphopenia) by start of treatment; palliative radiation therapy must have been completed at least 2 weeks prior to start of treatment; the radiotherapy must not be to a lesion that is included as measurable disease • NOTE: Prostate cancer patients may continue their luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist • NOTE: For patients entering the study via the original screening process, patients may receive non-protocol treatment after biopsy (if clinically indicated) until they receive notification of results; however, lack of response must be documented prior to registration to Step 1; new non-protocol treatment will NOT be permitted as intervening therapy after registration to Step 0; the only intervening treatment permitted is prior therapy that the patient already received prior to Step 0 registration; the decision to stop the intervening non-protocol treatment will be left up to the treating physician if patient has an aMOI; however, patients will need to be off such therapy for at least 4 weeks before receiving any MATCH protocol treatment • NOTE: For patients entering the study via a designated outside laboratory, no intervening systemic non-protocol treatment is permitted after Step 0 registration; all other eligibility requirements still apply to these patients, including the washouts for prior therapy noted above in this section, the time restrictions outlined, and the eligibility criteria for the intended subprotocol • Patients with brain metastases or primary brain tumors must have completed treatment, surgery or radiation therapy >= 4 weeks prior to start of treatment • Patients must have discontinued steroids >= 1 week prior to registration to Step 0 and remain off steroids thereafter, except as permitted (see below); patients with glioblastoma (GBM) must have been on stable dose of steroids, or be off steroids, for one week prior to registration to treatment (Step 1, 3, 5, 7) • NOTE: The following steroids are permitted (low dose steroid use is defined as prednisone 10 mg daily or less, or bioequivalent dose of other corticosteroid): • Temporary steroid use: e.g. for computed tomography (CT) imaging in setting of contrast allergy • Low dose steroid use for appetite • Chronic inhaled steroid use • Steroid injections for joint disease • Stable dose of replacement steroid for adrenal insufficiency or low doses for non-malignant disease • Topical steroid • Steroids required to manage toxicity related to study treatment, as described in the subprotocols • Steroids required as pre- or post-chemotherapy medication for acceptable intervening chemotherapy • NOTE: Steroids must be completed alongside last dose of chemotherapy • Leukocytes >= 3,000/mcL (within 2 weeks prior to screening step registration and within 4 weeks prior to treatment step registration) • Absolute neutrophil count >= 1,500/mcL (within 2 weeks prior to screening step registration and within 4 weeks prior to treatment step registration) • Platelets >= 100,000/mcL (within 2 weeks prior to screening step registration and within 4 weeks prior to treatment step registration) • NOTE: Patients with documented bone marrow involvement by lymphoma are not required to meet the above hematologic parameters, but must have a platelet count of at least 75,000/mcL and neutrophil count of at least 1,000/mcL • Total bilirubin =< 1.5 x institutional upper limit of normal (ULN) (unless documented Gilbert's syndrome, for which bilirubin =< 3 x institutional ULN is permitted) (within 2 weeks prior to screening step registration and within 4 weeks prior to treatment step registration) • Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase [SGOT])/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase [SGPT]) =< 2.5 x institutional ULN (up to 5 times ULN in presence of liver metastases) (within 2 weeks prior to screening step registration and within 4 weeks prior to treatment step registration) • Creatinine clearance >= 45 mL/min/1.73 m^2 for patients with creatinine levels above institutional normal • As defined by the Cockcroft-Gault equation (within 2 weeks prior to screening step registration and within 4 weeks prior to treatment step registration) • Patients must have an electrocardiogram (ECG) within 8 weeks prior to registration to screening step and must meet the following cardiac criteria: • Resting corrected QT interval (QTc) =< 480 msec • NOTE: If the first recorded QTc exceeds 480 msec, two additional, consecutive ECGs are required and must result in a mean resting QTc =< 480 msec; it is recommended that there are 10-minute (+/- 5 minutes) breaks between the ECGs • The following only need to be assessed if the mean QTc > 480 msec • Check potassium and magnesium serum levels • Correct any identified hypokalemia and/or hypomagnesemia and may repeat ECG to confirm exclusion of patient due to QTc • For patients with heart rate (HR) 60-100 beats per minute (bpm), no manual read of QTc is required • For patients with baseline HR < 60 or > 100 bpm, manual read of QT by trained personnel is required, with Fridericia correction applied to determine QTc • Patient must not have hypokalemia (value < institutional lower limit of normal) • No factors that increase the risk of QTc prolongation or risk of arrhythmic events such as heart failure, congenital long QT syndrome, family history of long QT syndrome or unexplained sudden death under 40 years of age or any concomitant medication known to prolong the QT interval • NOTE: Patient must be taken off prohibited medication prior to registration to the screening step (Step 0, 2, 4, 6) and remain off these medications thereafter, unless permitted on a subprotocol for the management of treatment related toxicity; patient must be off the drug for at least 5 half-lives prior to registration to the treatment step (Step 1, 3, 5, 7); the medication half-life can be found in the package insert for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs • ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR FIRST TREATMENT (STEP 1) • If patients have been biopsied or submitted archived tumor tissue obtained within the last 6 months for assessment with the MATCH assays, patients may receive non-protocol treatment after biopsy/tissue submission (if clinically indicated) until they receive notification of results however, lack of response must be documented prior to registration to step 1; new non-protocol treatment will NOT be permitted as intervening therapy after registration to Step 0; for pat United States, Alabama University of Alabama at Birmingham Cancer Center Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35233 Mobile Infirmary Medical Center Mobile, Alabama, United States, 36607 University of South Alabama Mitchell Cancer Institute Mobile, Alabama, United States, 36688 United States, Alaska Anchorage Associates in Radiation Medicine Anchorage, Alaska, United States, 98508 Anchorage Radiation Therapy Center Anchorage, Alaska, United States, 99504 Alaska Breast Care and Surgery LLC Anchorage, Alaska, United States, 99508 Alaska Oncology and Hematology LLC Anchorage, Alaska, United States, 99508 Alaska Regional Hospital Anchorage, Alaska, United States, 99508 Alaska Women's Cancer Care Anchorage, Alaska, United States, 99508 Anchorage Oncology Centre Anchorage, Alaska, United States, 99508 Katmai Oncology Group Anchorage, Alaska, United States, 99508 Providence Alaska Medical Center Anchorage, Alaska, United States, 99508 Fairbanks Memorial Hospital Fairbanks, Alaska, United States, 99701 United States, Arizona Kingman Regional Medical Center Kingman, Arizona, United States, 86401 University of Arizona Cancer Center at Saint Joseph's Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85004 Mayo Clinic Hospital Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 85054 Mayo Clinic in Arizona Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, 85259 United States, Arkansas Mercy Hospital Fort Smith Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States, 72903 CHI Saint Vincent Cancer Center Hot Springs Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States, 71913 Baptist Memorial Hospital and Fowler Family Cancer Center - Jonesboro Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States, 72401 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 72205 Kaiser Permanente-Anaheim Anaheim, California, United States, 92806 Kaiser Permanente-Deer Valley Medical Center Antioch, California, United States, 94531 PCR Oncology Arroyo Grande, California, United States, 93420 Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital Auburn, California, United States, 95602 Sutter Cancer Centers Radiation Oncology Services-Auburn Auburn, California, United States, 95603 AIS Cancer Center at San Joaquin Community Hospital Bakersfield, California, United States, 93301 Kaiser Permanente-Baldwin Park Baldwin Park, California, United States, 91706 Kaiser Permanente-Bellflower Bellflower, California, United States, 90706 Alta Bates Summit Medical Center-Herrick Campus Berkeley, California, United States, 94704 Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center/Disney Family Cancer Center Burbank, California, United States, 91505 Mills-Peninsula Medical Center Burlingame, California, United States, 94010 Sutter Cancer Centers Radiation Oncology Services-Cameron Park Cameron Park, California, United States, 95682 Eden Hospital Medical Center Castro Valley, California, United States, 94546 Community Cancer Institute Clovis, California, United States, 93611 University Oncology Associates Clovis, California, United States, 93611 John Muir Medical Center-Concord Campus Concord, California, United States, 94520 City of Hope Corona Corona, California, United States, 92879 UC Irvine Health Cancer Center-Newport Costa Mesa, California, United States, 92627 Sutter Davis Hospital Davis, California, United States, 95616 City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Duarte, California, United States, 91010 Epic Care-Dublin Dublin, California, United States, 94568 Bay Area Breast Surgeons Inc Emeryville, California, United States, 94608 Epic Care Partners in Cancer Care Emeryville, California, United States, 94608 Kaiser Permanente-Fontana Fontana, California, United States, 92335 Kaiser Permanente-Fremont Fremont, California, United States, 94538 Palo Alto Medical Foundation-Fremont Fremont, California, United States, 94538 Fresno Cancer Center Fresno, California, United States, 93720 Kaiser Permanente-Fresno Fresno, California, United States, 93720 Saint Jude Medical Center Fullerton, California, United States, 92835 Marin Cancer Care Inc Greenbrae, California, United States, 94904 Marin General Hospital Greenbrae, California, United States, 94904 Kaiser Permanente - Harbor City Harbor City, California, United States, 90710 Kaiser Permanente-Irvine Irvine, California, United States, 92618 UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center La Jolla, California, United States, 92093 Loma Linda University Medical Center Loma Linda, California, United States, 92354 Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center Los Angeles, California, United States, 90027 Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033 USC / Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033 Kaiser Permanente-Cadillac Los Angeles, California, United States, 90034 Cedars Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, California, United States, 90048 Contra Costa Regional Medical Center Martinez, California, United States, 94553-3156 Fremont - Rideout Cancer Center Marysville, California, United States, 95901 Memorial Medical Center Modesto, California, United States, 95355 Kaiser Permanente-Modesto Modesto, California, United States, 95356 Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula Monterey, California, United States, 93940 Pacific Cancer Care-Monterey Monterey, California, United States, 93940 Palo Alto Medical Foundation-Camino Division Mountain View, California, United States, 94040 Palo Alto Medical Foundation-Gynecologic Oncology Mountain View, California, United States, 94040 USC Norris Oncology/Hematology-Newport Beach Newport Beach, California, United States, 92663 Sutter Cancer Research Consortium Novato, California, United States, 94945 Alta Bates Summit Medical Center - Summit Campus Oakland, California, United States, 94609 Bay Area Tumor Institute Oakland, California, United States, 94609 Kaiser Permanente Oakland-Broadway Oakland, California, United States, 94611 Kaiser Permanente-Oakland Oakland, California, United States, 94611 Saint Joseph Hospital - Orange Orange, California, United States, 92868 UC Irvine Health/Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Orange, California, United States, 92868 Desert Regional Medical Center Palm Springs, California, United States, 92262 Palo Alto Medical Foundation Health Care Palo Alto, California, United States, 94301 Stanford Cancer Institute Palo Alto Palo Alto, California, United States, 94304 VA Palo Alto Health Care System Palo Alto, California, United States, 94304 Kaiser Permanente - Panorama City Panorama City, California, United States, 91402 Keck Medical Center of USC Pasadena Pasadena, California, United States, 91105 Kaiser Permanente-Rancho Cordova Cancer Center Rancho Cordova, California, United States, 95670 City of Hope Rancho Cucamonga Rancho Cucamonga, California, United States, 91730 Eisenhower Medical Center Rancho Mirage, California, United States, 92270 Kaiser Permanente-Redwood City Redwood City, California, United States, 94063 Kaiser Permanente-Richmond Richmond, California, United States, 94801 Kaiser Permanente-Riverside Riverside, California, United States, 92505 Rohnert Park Cancer Center Rohnert Park, California, United States, 94928 Kaiser Permanente-Roseville Roseville, California, United States, 95661 Sutter Cancer Centers Radiation Oncology Services-Roseville Roseville, California, United States, 95661 Sutter Roseville Medical Center Roseville, California, United States, 95661 The Permanente Medical Group-Roseville Radiation Oncology Roseville, California, United States, 95678 Kaiser Permanente Downtown Commons Sacramento, California, United States, 95814 Sutter Medical Center Sacramento Sacramento, California, United States, 95816 University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center Sacramento, California, United States, 95817 Kaiser Permanente-South Sacramento Sacramento, California, United States, 95823 South Sacramento Cancer Center Sacramento, California, United States, 95823 Kaiser Permanente - Sacramento Sacramento, California, United States, 95825 Saint Helena Hospital Saint Helena, California, United States, 94574 University of California San Diego San Diego, California, United States, 92103 Kaiser Permanente-San Diego Mission San Diego, California, United States, 92108 Kaiser Permanente-San Diego Zion San Diego, California, United States, 92120 Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego San Diego, California, United States, 92123 Sharp Memorial Hospital San Diego, California, United States, 92123 Naval Medical Center -San Diego San Diego, California, United States, 92134 California Pacific Medical Center-Pacific Campus San Francisco, California, United States, 94115 Kaiser Permanente-San Francisco San Francisco, California, United States, 94115 Kaiser Permanente-Santa Teresa-San Jose San Jose, California, United States, 95119 Kaiser Permanente San Leandro San Leandro, California, United States, 94577 Kaiser Permanente-San Marcos San Marcos, California, United States, 92078 Kaiser Permanente-San Rafael San Rafael, California, United States, 94903 Kaiser San Rafael-Gallinas San Rafael, California, United States, 94903 Kaiser Permanente Medical Center - Santa Clara Santa Clara, California, United States, 95051 Palo Alto Medical Foundation-Santa Cruz Santa Cruz, California, United States, 95065 Kaiser Permanente-Santa Rosa Santa Rosa, California, United States, 95403 Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation Santa Rosa, California, United States, 95403 Kaiser Permanente Cancer Treatment Center South San Francisco, California, United States, 94080 Kaiser Permanente-South San Francisco South San Francisco, California, United States, 94080 Saint Joseph's Medical Center Stockton, California, United States, 95204 Kaiser Permanente-Stockton Stockton, California, United States, 95210 Palo Alto Medical Foundation-Sunnyvale Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94086 Gene Upshaw Memorial Tahoe Forest Cancer Center Truckee, California, United States, 96161 Sutter Cancer Centers Radiation Oncology Services-Vacaville Vacaville, California, United States, 95687 Kaiser Permanente Medical Center-Vacaville Vacaville, California, United States, 95688 Kaiser Permanente-Vallejo Vallejo, California, United States, 94589 Sutter Solano Medical Center/Cancer Center Vallejo, California, United States, 94589 Kaiser Permanente-Walnut Creek Walnut Creek, California, United States, 94596 Epic Care Cyberknife Center Walnut Creek, California, United States, 94597 John Muir Medical Center-Walnut Creek Walnut Creek, California, United States, 94598 City of Hope West Covina West Covina, California, United States, 91790 Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital Whittier, California, United States, 90602 Kaiser Permanente-Woodland Hills Woodland Hills, California, United States, 91367 Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers-Aurora Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80012 The Medical Center of Aurora Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80012 University of Colorado Hospital Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80045 Boulder Community Hospital Boulder, Colorado, United States, 80301 Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers-Boulder Boulder, Colorado, United States, 80304 Penrose-Saint Francis Healthcare Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, 80907 Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers-Penrose Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, 80907 UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, 80909 Memorial Hospital North Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, 80920 Cancer Center of Colorado at Sloan's Lake Denver, Colorado, United States, 80204 Denver Health Medical Center Denver, Colorado, United States, 80204 Kaiser Permanente-Franklin Denver, Colorado, United States, 80205 The Women's Imaging Center Denver, Colorado, United States, 80209 Porter Adventist Hospital Denver, Colorado, United States, 80210 Colorado Blood Cancer Institute Denver, Colorado, United States, 80218 Presbyterian - Saint Lukes Medical Center - Health One Denver, Colorado, United States, 80218 Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers-Midtown Denver, Colorado, United States, 80218 SCL Health Saint Joseph Hospital Denver, Colorado, United States, 80218 Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers-Rose Denver, Colorado, United States, 80220 Rose Medical Center Denver, Colorado, United States, 80220 Mercy Medical Center Durango, Colorado, United States, 81301 Southwest Oncology PC Durango, Colorado, United States, 81301 Comprehensive Cancer Care and Research Institute of Colorado LLC Englewood, Colorado, United States, 80113 Swedish Medical Center Englewood, Colorado, United States, 80113 Poudre Valley Hospital Fort Collins, Colorado, United States, 80524 Mountain Blue Cancer Care Center Golden, Colorado, United States, 80401 National Jewish Health-Western Hematology Oncology Golden, Colorado, United States, 80401 Saint Mary's Hospital and Regional Medical Center Grand Junction, Colorado, United States, 81501 Grand Valley Oncology Grand Junction, Colorado, United States, 81505 North Colorado Medical Center Greeley, Colorado, United States, 80631 Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers-Greenwood Village Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States, 80111 Good Samaritan Medical Center Lafayette, Colorado, United States, 80026 Kaiser Permanente-Rock Creek Lafayette, Colorado, United States, 80026 Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers-Lakewood Lakewood, Colorado, United States, 80228 Saint Anthony Hospital Lakewood, Colorado, United States, 80228 Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers-Littleton Littleton, Colorado, United States, 80120 Littleton Adventist Hospital Littleton, Colorado, United States, 80122 Kaiser Permanente-Lone Tree Lone Tree, Colorado, United States, 80124 Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers-Sky Ridge Lone Tree, Colorado, United States, 80124 Sky Ridge Medical Center Lone Tree, Colorado, United States, 80124 Longmont United Hospital Longmont, Colorado, United States, 80501 Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers-Longmont Longmont, Colorado, United States, 80501 McKee Medical Center Loveland, Colorado, United States, 80539 Parker Adventist Hospital Parker, Colorado, United States, 80138 Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers-Parker Parker, Colorado, United States, 80138 Saint Mary Corwin Medical Center Pueblo, Colorado, United States, 81004 Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers - Pueblo Pueblo, Colorado, United States, 81008 National Jewish Health-Northern Hematology Oncology Thornton, Colorado, United States, 80260 Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers-Thornton Thornton, Colorado, United States, 80260 SCL Health Lutheran Medical Center Wheat Ridge, Colorado, United States, 80033 United States, Connecticut Smilow Cancer Hospital-Derby Care Center Derby, Connecticut, United States, 06418 Smilow Cancer Hospital Care Center-Fairfield Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, 06824 Yale-New Haven Shoreline Medical Center Guilford, Connecticut, United States, 06437 Smilow Cancer Hospital Care Center at Saint Francis Hartford, Connecticut, United States, 06105 Smilow Cancer Center/Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06510 Yale University New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06520 Yale-New Haven Hospital North Haven Medical Center North Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06473 Eastern Connecticut Hematology and Oncology Associates Norwich, Connecticut, United States, 06360 Smilow Cancer Hospital-Orange Care Center Orange, Connecticut, United States, 06477 Stamford Hospital/Bennett Cancer Center Stamford, Connecticut, United States, 06904 Smilow Cancer Hospital-Torrington Care Center Torrington, Connecticut, United States, 06790 Smilow Cancer Hospital Care Center-Trumbull Trumbull, Connecticut, United States, 06611 Smilow Cancer Hospital-Waterbury Care Center Waterbury, Connecticut, United States, 06708 Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System-West Haven Campus West Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06516 United States, Delaware Beebe Medical Center Lewes, Delaware, United States, 19958 Christiana Gynecologic Oncology LLC Newark, Delaware, United States, 19713 Delaware Clinical and Laboratory Physicians PA Newark, Delaware, United States, 19713 Helen F Graham Cancer Center Newark, Delaware, United States, 19713 Medical Oncology Hematology Consultants PA Newark, Delaware, United States, 19713 Regional Hematology and Oncology PA Newark, Delaware, United States, 19713 Christiana Care Health System-Christiana Hospital Newark, Delaware, United States, 19718 Beebe Health Campus Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, United States, 19971 Nanticoke Memorial Hospital Seaford, Delaware, United States, 19973 Christiana Care Health System-Wilmington Hospital Wilmington, Delaware, United States, 19801 United States, District of Columbia MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20007 MedStar Washington Hospital Center Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20010 Sibley Memorial Hospital Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20016 United States, Florida Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center at Aventura Aventura, Florida, United States, 33180 UM Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at Coral Gables Coral Gables, Florida, United States, 33146 UM Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at Coral Springs Coral Springs, Florida, United States, 33065 UM Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at Deerfield Beach Deerfield Beach, Florida, United States, 33442 Holy Cross Hospital Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, 33308 Broward Health Medical Center Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, 33316 University of Florida Health Science Center - Gainesville Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32610 Memorial Regional Hospital/Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Hollywood, Florida, United States, 33021 UM Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at Hollywood Hollywood, Florida, United States, 33021 Mayo Clinic in Florida Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32224-9980 The Watson Clinic Lakeland, Florida, United States, 33805 Mount Sinai Medical Center Miami Beach, Florida, United States, 33140 University of Miami Miller School of Medicine-Sylvester Cancer Center Miami, Florida, United States, 33136 UM Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at Kendall Miami, Florida, United States, 33176 Health Central Ocoee, Florida, United States, 34761 UF Cancer Center at Orlando Health Orlando, Florida, United States, 32806 Memorial Hospital West Pembroke Pines, Florida, United States, 33028 UM Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at Plantation Plantation, Florida, United States, 33324 Saint Joseph's Hospital/Children's Hospital-Tampa Tampa, Florida, United States, 33607 Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612 Indian River Medical Center Vero Beach, Florida, United States, 32960 University Cancer and Blood Center LLC Athens, Georgia, United States, 30607 Emory University Hospital Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30308 Piedmont Hospital Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30309 Emory University Hospital/Winship Cancer Institute Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322 Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30342 Northside Hospital Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30342 Augusta University Medical Center Augusta, Georgia, United States, 30912 Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton Braselton, Georgia, United States, 30517 John B Amos Cancer Center Columbus, Georgia, United States, 31904 Northside Hospital-Forsyth Cumming, Georgia, United States, 30041 Dekalb Medical Center Decatur, Georgia, United States, 30033 Northeast Georgia Medical Center-Gainesville Gainesville, Georgia, United States, 30501 Central Georgia Gynecologic Oncology Macon, Georgia, United States, 31201 Medical Center of Central Georgia Macon, Georgia, United States, 31201 Harbin Clinic Medical Oncology and Clinical Research Rome, Georgia, United States, 30165 Memorial Health University Medical Center Savannah, Georgia, United States, 31404 Summit Cancer Care-Memorial Savannah, Georgia, United States, 31404 Lewis Cancer and Research Pavilion at Saint Joseph's/Candler Savannah, Georgia, United States, 31405 Low Country Cancer Care Associates PC Savannah, Georgia, United States, 31405 Summit Cancer Care-Candler Savannah, Georgia, United States, 31405 Lewis Hall Singletary Oncology Center Thomasville, Georgia, United States, 31792 South Georgia Medical Center/Pearlman Cancer Center Valdosta, Georgia, United States, 31602 United States, Hawaii Hawaii Cancer Care - Savio 'Aiea, Hawaii, United States, 96701 Hawaii Oncology Inc-Pali Momi 'Aiea, Hawaii, United States, 96701 Pali Momi Medical Center 'Aiea, Hawaii, United States, 96701 The Cancer Center of Hawaii-Pali Momi 'Aiea, Hawaii, United States, 96701 Hawaii Cancer Care Inc-POB II Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96813 Hawaii Oncology Inc-POB I Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96813 Island Urology Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96813 Queen's Medical Center Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96813 Straub Clinic and Hospital Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96813 University of Hawaii Cancer Center Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96813 Hawaii Cancer Care Inc-Liliha Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96817 Hawaii Oncology Inc-Kuakini Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96817 Kuakini Medical Center Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96817 The Cancer Center of Hawaii-Liliha Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96817 Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96819 Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96826 Wilcox Memorial Hospital and Kauai Medical Clinic Lihue, Hawaii, United States, 96766 United States, Idaho Saint Alphonsus Cancer Care Center-Boise Boise, Idaho, United States, 83706 Saint Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute Boise, Idaho, United States, 83712 Saint Alphonsus Cancer Care Center-Caldwell Caldwell, Idaho, United States, 83605 Kootenai Medical Center Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States, 83814 Walter Knox Memorial Hospital Emmett, Idaho, United States, 83617 Saint Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute - Fruitland Fruitland, Idaho, United States, 83619 Idaho Urologic Institute-Meridian Meridian, Idaho, United States, 83642 Saint Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute - Meridian Meridian, Idaho, United States, 83642 Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Nampa Nampa, Idaho, United States, 83686 Saint Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute - Nampa Nampa, Idaho, United States, 83686 Kootenai Cancer Center Post Falls, Idaho, United States, 83854 Kootenai Cancer Clinic Sandpoint, Idaho, United States, 83864 Saint Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institute-Twin Falls Twin Falls, Idaho, United States, 83301 United States, Illinois Rush - Copley Medical Center Aurora, Illinois, United States, 60504 Saint Joseph Medical Center Bloomington, Illinois, United States, 61701 Illinois CancerCare-Bloomington Bloomington, Illinois, United States, 61704 Illinois CancerCare-Canton Canton, Illinois, United States, 61520 Memorial Hospital of Carbondale Carbondale, Illinois, United States, 62902 SIH Cancer Institute Carterville, Illinois, United States, 62918 Illinois CancerCare-Carthage Carthage, Illinois, United States, 62321 Centralia Oncology Clinic Centralia, Illinois, United States, 62801 Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60608 Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611 John H Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612 Rush University Medical Center Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612 University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612 Swedish Covenant Hospital Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60625 University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637 Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60657 AMG Crystal Lake - Oncology Crystal Lake, Illinois, United States, 60014 Carle on Vermilion Danville, Illinois, United States, 61832 Cancer Care Specialists of Illinois - Decatur Decatur, Illinois, United States, 62526 Decatur Memorial Hospital Decatur, Illinois, United States, 62526 Northwestern Medicine Cancer Center Kishwaukee DeKalb, Illinois, United States, 60115 Illinois CancerCare-Dixon Dixon, Illinois, United States, 61021 Carle Physician Group-Effingham Effingham, Illinois, United States, 62401 Crossroads Cancer Center Effingham, Illinois, United States, 62401 AMITA Health Alexian Brothers Medical Center Elk Grove Village, Illinois, United States, 60007 Illinois CancerCare-Eureka Eureka, Illinois, United States, 61530 NorthShore University HealthSystem-Evanston Hospital Evanston, Illinois, United States, 60201 Saint Francis Hospital Evanston, Illinois, United States, 60202 Illinois CancerCare-Galesburg Galesburg, Illinois, United States, 61401 Western Illinois Cancer Treatment Center Galesburg, Illinois, United States, 61401 Northwestern Medicine Cancer Center Delnor Geneva, Illinois, United States, 60134 NorthShore University HealthSystem-Glenbrook Hospital Glenview, Illinois, United States, 60026 Ingalls Memorial Hospital Harvey, Illinois, United States, 60426 NorthShore University HealthSystem-Highland Park Hospital Highland Park, Illinois, United States, 60035 Joliet Oncology-Hematology Associates Limited Joliet, Illinois, United States, 60435 Presence Saint Mary's Hospital Kankakee, Illinois, United States, 60901 Illinois CancerCare-Kewanee Clinic Kewanee, Illinois, United States, 61443 Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital Lake Forest, Illinois, United States, 60045 NorthShore Hematology Oncology-Libertyville Libertyville, Illinois, United States, 60048 Illinois CancerCare-Macomb Macomb, Illinois, United States, 61455 Carle Physician Group-Mattoon/Charleston Mattoon, Illinois, United States, 61938 Loyola University Medical Center Maywood, Illinois, United States, 60153 Marjorie Weinberg Cancer Center at Loyola-Gottlieb Melrose Park, Illinois, United States, 60160 Trinity Medical Center Moline, Illinois, United States, 61265 Good Samaritan Regional Health Center Mount Vernon, Illinois, United States, 62864 UC Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross New Lenox, Illinois, United States, 60451 University of Chicago Medicine-Orland Park Orland Park, Illinois, United States, 60462 Illinois CancerCare-Ottawa Clinic Ottawa, Illinois, United States, 61350 Radiation Oncology of Northern Illinois Ottawa, Illinois, United States, 61350 Illinois CancerCare-Pekin Pekin, Illinois, United States, 61554 OSF Saint Francis Radiation Oncology at Pekin Cancer Treatment Center Pekin, Illinois, United States, 61554 Illinois CancerCare-Peoria Peoria, Illinois, United States, 61615 OSF Saint Francis Radiation Oncology at Peoria Cancer Center Peoria, Illinois, United States, 61615 Methodist Medical Center of Illinois Peoria, Illinois, United States, 61636 OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Peoria, Illinois, United States, 61637 Illinois CancerCare-Peru Peru, Illinois, United States, 61354 Valley Radiation Oncology Peru, Illinois, United States, 61354 Illinois CancerCare-Princeton Princeton, Illinois, United States, 61356 Hematology Oncology Associates of Illinois - Skokie Skokie, Illinois, United States, 60076 North Shore Medical Center Skokie, Illinois, United States, 60076 Central Illinois Hematology Oncology Center Springfield, Illinois, United States, 62702 Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Springfield, Illinois, United States, 62702 Springfield Clinic Springfield, Illinois, United States, 62702 Memorial Medical Center Springfield, Illinois, United States, 62781 Cancer Care Specialists of Illinois-Swansea Swansea, Illinois, United States, 62226 Southwest Illinois Health Services LLP Swansea, Illinois, United States, 62226 Carle Cancer Center Urbana, Illinois, United States, 61801 The Carle Foundation Hospital Urbana, Illinois, United States, 61801 Northwestern Medicine Cancer Center Warrenville Warrenville, Illinois, United States, 60555 Rush-Copley Healthcare Center Yorkville, Illinois, United States, 60560 Michiana Hematology Oncology PC-Crown Point Crown Point, Indiana, United States, 46307 Michiana Hematology Oncology PC-Elkhart Elkhart, Indiana, United States, 46514 Deaconess Clinic Downtown Evansville, Indiana, United States, 47713 Indiana University/Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202 Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202 Community Cancer Center East Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46219 Community Cancer Center South Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46227 Community Cancer Center North Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46256 Springmill Medical Center Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46290 Community Howard Regional Health Kokomo, Indiana, United States, 46904 IU Health Arnett Cancer Care Lafayette, Indiana, United States, 47904 Franciscan Saint Anthony Health-Michigan City Michigan City, Indiana, United States, 46360 Woodland Cancer Care Center Michigan City, Indiana, United States, 46360 Memorial Regional Cancer Center Day Road Mishawaka, Indiana, United States, 46545 Michiana Hematology Oncology PC-Mishawaka Mishawaka, Indiana, United States, 46545 Chancellor Center for Oncology Newburgh, Indiana, United States, 47630 Michiana Hematology Oncology PC-Plymouth Plymouth, Indiana, United States, 46563 Reid Health Richmond, Indiana, United States, 47374 Memorial Hospital of South Bend South Bend, Indiana, United States, 46601 Michiana Hematology Oncology PC-Westville Westville, Indiana, United States, 46391 United States, Iowa Mary Greeley Medical Center Ames, Iowa, United States, 50010 McFarland Clinic PC - Ames Ames, Iowa, United States, 50010 McFarland Clinic PC-Boone Boone, Iowa, United States, 50036 Physicians' Clinic of Iowa PC Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, 52402 Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, 52403 Oncology Associates at Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, 52403 Medical Oncology and Hematology Associates-West Des Moines Clive, Iowa, United States, 50325 Mercy Cancer Center-West Lakes Clive, Iowa, United States, 50325 Alegent Health Mercy Hospital Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States, 51503 Greater Regional Medical Center Creston, Iowa, United States, 50801 Iowa Methodist Medical Center Des Moines, Iowa, United States, 50309 Medical Oncology and Hematology Associates-Des Moines Des Moines, Iowa, United States, 50309 Broadlawns Medical Center Des Moines, Iowa, United States, 50314 Medical Oncology and Hematology Associates-Laurel Des Moines, Iowa, United States, 50314 Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines Des Moines, Iowa, United States, 50314 Iowa Lutheran Hospital Des Moines, Iowa, United States, 50316 JCHC McCreery Cancer Center Fairfield, Iowa, United States, 52556 McFarland Clinic PC-Trinity Cancer Center Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States, 50501 Trinity Regional Medical Center Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States, 50501 McFarland Clinic PC-Jefferson Jefferson, Iowa, United States, 50129 McFarland Clinic PC-Marshalltown Marshalltown, Iowa, United States, 50158 Ottumwa Regional Health Center Ottumwa, Iowa, United States, 52501 Siouxland Regional Cancer Center Sioux City, Iowa, United States, 51101 Methodist West Hospital West Des Moines, Iowa, United States, 50266-7700 Mercy Medical Center-West Lakes West Des Moines, Iowa, United States, 50266 United States, Kansas Coffeyville Regional Medical Center Coffeyville, Kansas, United States, 67337 Newman Regional Health Emporia, Kansas, United States, 66801 University of Kansas Clinical Research Center Fairway, Kansas, United States, 66205 Central Care Cancer Center - Garden City Garden City, Kansas, United States, 67846 Saint Catherine Hospital Garden City, Kansas, United States, 67846 Central Care Cancer Center - Great Bend Great Bend, Kansas, United States, 67530 Saint Rose Ambulatory and Surgery Center Great Bend, Kansas, United States, 67530 Hays Medical Center Hays, Kansas, United States, 67601 University of Kansas Cancer Center-West Kansas City, Kansas, United States, 66112 University of Kansas Cancer Center Kansas City, Kansas, United States, 66160 Kansas Institute of Medicine Cancer and Blood Center Lenexa, Kansas, United States, 66219 Minimally Invasive Surgery Hospital Lenexa, Kansas, United States, 66219 Olathe Medical Center Olathe, Kansas, United States, 66061 Menorah Medical Center Overland Park, Kansas, United States, 66209 University of Kansas Cancer Center-Overland Park Overland Park, Kansas, United States, 66210 Saint Luke's South Hospital Overland Park, Kansas, United States, 66213 Via Christi Hospital-Pittsburg Pittsburg, Kansas, United States, 66762 Salina Regional Health Center Salina, Kansas, United States, 67401 Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center - Topeka Topeka, Kansas, United States, 66606 University of Kansas Hospital-Westwood Cancer Center Westwood, Kansas, United States, 66205 United States, Kentucky Flaget Memorial Hospital Bardstown, Kentucky, United States, 40004 Baptist Health Corbin Corbin, Kentucky, United States, 40701 Commonwealth Cancer Center-Corbin Corbin, Kentucky, United States, 40701 Oncology Hematology Care Inc-Crestview Crestview Hills, Kentucky, United States, 41017 Saint Elizabeth Medical Center South Edgewood, Kentucky, United States, 41017 Hardin Memorial Hospital Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States, 42701 Saint Elizabeth Fort Thomas Fort Thomas, Kentucky, United States, 41075 Baptist Health Lexington Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40503 Saint Joseph Radiation Oncology Resource Center Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40504 Saint Joseph Hospital East Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40509 University of Kentucky/Markey Cancer Center Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40536 Saint Joseph London London, Kentucky, United States, 40741 Jewish Hospital Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 40202 The James Graham Brown Cancer Center at University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 40202 Baptist Health Louisville Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 40207 Saints Mary and Elizabeth Hospital Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 40215 Jewish Hospital Medical Center Northeast Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 40245 Baptist Health Madisonville/Merle Mahr Cancer Center Madisonville, Kentucky, United States, 42431 Baptist Health Paducah Paducah, Kentucky, United States, 42003 Jewish Hospital Medical Center South Shepherdsville, Kentucky, United States, 40165 United States, Louisiana LSU Health Baton Rouge-North Clinic Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70805 Baton Rouge General Medical Center Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70806 Hematology/Oncology Clinic LLP Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70809 Louisiana Hematology Oncology Associates LLC Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70809 Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70809 Ochsner Health Center-Summa Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70809 Our Lady of the Lake Physicians Group - Medical Oncology Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70809 Medical Center of Baton Rouge Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70816 Ochsner High Grove Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, 70836 Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center - Covington Covington, Louisiana, United States, 70433 Northshore Oncology Associates-Covington Covington, Louisiana, United States, 70433 Women's Cancer Care-Covington Covington, Louisiana, United States, 70433 Ochsner Medical Center West Bank Gretna, Louisiana, United States, 70056 Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center - Houma Houma, Louisiana, United States, 70360 Oncology Center of The South Incorporated Houma, Louisiana, United States, 70360 Ochsner Medical Center Kenner Kenner, Louisiana, United States, 70065 West Jefferson Medical Center Marrero, Louisiana, United States, 70072 East Jefferson General Hospital Metairie, Louisiana, United States, 70006 Robert Veith MD LLC Metairie, Louisiana, United States, 70006 University Health-Conway Monroe, Louisiana, United States, 71202 Louisiana State University Health Science Center New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70112 Tulane University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70112 University Medical Center New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70112 Ochsner Medical Center Jefferson New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 70121 Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, 71103 United States, Maine Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care Augusta, Maine, United States, 04330 Eastern Maine Medical Center Bangor, Maine, United States, 04401 Waldo County General Hospital Belfast, Maine, United States, 04915 MaineHealth/SMHC Cancer Care and Blood Disorders-Biddeford Biddeford, Maine, United States, 04005 Lafayette Family Cancer Center-EMMC Brewer, Maine, United States, 04412 Stephens Memorial Hospital Norway, Maine, United States, 04268 Penobscot Bay Medical Center Rockport, Maine, United States, 04856 MaineHealth/SMHC Cancer Care and Blood Disorders-Sanford Sanford, Maine, United States, 04073 Maine Center for Cancer Medicine-Scarborough Scarborough, Maine, United States, 04074 Maine Medical Center- Scarborough Campus Scarborough, Maine, United States, 04074 Maine Medical Partners - South Portland South Portland, Maine, United States, 04106 United States, Maryland Anne Arundel Medical Center Annapolis, Maryland, United States, 21401 University of Maryland/Greenebaum Cancer Center Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201 Greater Baltimore Medical Center Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21204 Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21215 MedStar Union Memorial Hospital Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21218 MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center/Weinberg Cancer Institute Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21237 MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21239 Johns Hopkins University/Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287 Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20889-5600 National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892 Western Maryland Regional Medical Center Cumberland, Maryland, United States, 21502 University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Easton Easton, Maryland, United States, 21601 Union Hospital of Cecil County Elkton, Maryland, United States, 21921 Frederick Memorial Hospital Frederick, Maryland, United States, 21701 FMH James M Stockman Cancer Institute Frederick, Maryland, United States, 21702 MedStar Montgomery Medical Center Olney, Maryland, United States, 20832 Northwest Hospital Center Randallstown, Maryland, United States, 21133 Peninsula Regional Medical Center Salisbury, Maryland, United States, 21801 Holy Cross Hospital Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, 20910 William E Kahlert Regional Cancer Center/Sinai Hospital Westminster, Maryland, United States, 21157 Beverly Hospital Beverly, Massachusetts, United States, 01915 Tufts Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02111 Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114 Boston Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02118 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215 Lahey Hospital and Medical Center Burlington, Massachusetts, United States, 01805 Simonds-Sinon Regional Cancer Center Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States, 01420 MetroWest Medical Center-Framingham Union Hospital Framingham, Massachusetts, United States, 01702 Addison Gilbert Hospital Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States, 01930 Lowell General Hospital Lowell, Massachusetts, United States, 01854 Mercy Medical Center Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, 01104 Baystate Medical Center Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, 01199 Winchester Hospital Winchester, Massachusetts, United States, 01890 University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 01655 United States, Michigan Hickman Cancer Center Adrian, Michigan, United States, 49221 Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48106 C S Mott Children's Hospital Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109 University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109 Bronson Battle Creek Battle Creek, Michigan, United States, 49017 IHA Hematology Oncology Consultants-Brighton Brighton, Michigan, United States, 48114 Saint Joseph Mercy Brighton Brighton, Michigan, United States, 48114 Henry Ford Cancer Institute-Downriver Brownstown, Michigan, United States, 48183 IHA Hematology Oncology Consultants-Canton Canton, Michigan, United States, 48188 Saint Joseph Mercy Canton Canton, Michigan, United States, 48188 Caro Cancer Center Caro, Michigan, United States, 48723 IHA Hematology Oncology Consultants-Chelsea Chelsea, Michigan, United States, 48118 Saint Joseph Mercy Chelsea Chelsea, Michigan, United States, 48118 Hematology Oncology Consultants-Clarkston Clarkston, Michigan, United States, 48346 Newland Medical Associates-Clarkston Clarkston, Michigan, United States, 48346 Henry Ford Macomb Hospital-Clinton Township Clinton Township, Michigan, United States, 48038 Beaumont Hospital - Dearborn Dearborn, Michigan, United States, 48124 Henry Ford Medical Center-Fairlane Dearborn, Michigan, United States, 48126 Wayne State University/Karmanos Cancer Institute Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48201 Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48202 Ascension Saint John Hospital Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48236 Great Lakes Cancer Management Specialists-Doctors Park East China Township, Michigan, United States, 48054 Michigan State University Clinical Center East Lansing, Michigan, United States, 48824-7016 Green Bay Oncology - Escanaba Escanaba, Michigan, United States, 49829 Beaumont Hospital - Farmington Hills Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States, 48336 Genesee Cancer and Blood Disease Treatment Center Flint, Michigan, United States, 48503 Genesee Hematology Oncology PC Flint, Michigan, United States, 48503 Genesys Hurley Cancer Institute Flint, Michigan, United States, 48503 Hurley Medical Center Flint, Michigan, United States, 48503 Helen DeVos Children's Hospital at Spectrum Health Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, 49503 Mercy Health Saint Mary's Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, 49503 Spectrum Health at Butterworth Campus Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States, 49503 Academic Hematology Oncology Specialists Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, United States, 48236 Great Lakes Cancer Management Specialists-Van Elslander Cancer Center Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, United States, 48236 Michigan Breast Specialists-Grosse Pointe Woods Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, United States, 48236 William Beaumont Hospital-Grosse Point Grosse Pointe, Michigan, United States, 48230 Allegiance Health Jackson, Michigan, United States, 49201 Bronson Methodist Hospital Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, 49007 West Michigan Cancer Center Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, 49007 Borgess Medical Center Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States, 49048 McLaren-Greater Lansing Lansing, Michigan, United States, 48910 Sparrow Hospital Lansing, Michigan, United States, 48912 Hope Cancer Clinic Livonia, Michigan, United States, 48154 Saint Mary Mercy Hospital Livonia, Michigan, United States, 48154 Great Lakes Cancer Management Specialists-Macomb Medical Campus Macomb, Michigan, United States, 48044 Michigan Breast Specialists-Macomb Township Macomb, Michigan, United States, 48044 Saint Mary's Oncology/Hematology Associates of Marlette Marlette, Michigan, United States, 48453 Mid-Michigan Medical Center - Midland Midland, Michigan, United States, 48670 Monroe Cancer Center Monroe, Michigan, United States, 48162 Toledo Clinic Cancer Centers-Monroe Monroe, Michigan, United States, 48162 Mercy Health Mercy Campus Muskegon, Michigan, United States, 49444 Lakeland Hospital Niles Niles, Michigan, United States, 49120 Ascension Providence Hospitals - Novi Novi, Michigan, United States, 48374 Henry Ford Medical Center-Columbus Novi, Michigan, United States, 48377 21st Century Oncology-Pontiac Pontiac, Michigan, United States, 48341 Hope Cancer Center Pontiac, Michigan, United States, 48341 Newland Medical Associates-Pontiac Pontiac, Michigan, United States, 48341 Saint Joseph Mercy Oakland Pontiac, Michigan, United States, 48341 Huron Medical Center PC Port Huron, Michigan, United States, 48060 Lake Huron Medical Center Port Huron, Michigan, United States, 48060 Spectrum Health Reed City Hospital Reed City, Michigan, United States, 49677 Great Lakes Cancer Management Specialists-Rochester Hills Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States, 48309 Michigan Cancer Specialists Roseville, Michigan, United States, 48066 Oakland Colon and Rectal Association Royal Oak, Michigan, United States, 48067 Beaumont Children's Hospital-Royal Oak Royal Oak, Michigan, United States, 48073 Cancer Care Associates PC Royal Oak, Michigan, United States, 48073 Comprehensive Medical Center PLLC Royal Oak, Michigan, United States, 48073 Hematology Oncology Consultants PC Royal Oak, Michigan, United States, 48073 Oakland Medical Group Royal Oak, Michigan, United States, 48073 William Beaumont Hospital-Royal Oak Royal Oak, Michigan, United States, 48073 Ascension Saint Mary's Hospital Saginaw, Michigan, United States, 48601 Oncology Hematology Associates of Saginaw Valley PC Saginaw, Michigan, United States, 48604 Lakeland Medical Center Saint Joseph Saint Joseph, Michigan, United States, 49085 Marie Yeager Cancer Center Saint Joseph, Michigan, United States, 49085 Ascension Providence Hospitals - Southfield Southfield, Michigan, United States, 48075 Bhadresh Nayak MD PC-Sterling Heights Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States, 48312 Premier Hematology Oncology Care Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States, 48312 Mitchell Folbe MD PC Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States, 48314 Ascension Saint Joseph Hospital Tawas City, Michigan, United States, 48764 Munson Medical Center Traverse City, Michigan, United States, 49684 Michigan Institute of Urology-Town Center Troy, Michigan, United States, 48084 Claudia BR Herke MD PC Troy, Michigan, United States, 48085 William Beaumont Hospital - Troy Troy, Michigan, United States, 48085 Hematology Oncology Consultants PC-Troy Troy, Michigan, United States, 48098 Advanced Breast Care Center PLLC Warren, Michigan, United States, 48088 Great Lakes Cancer Management Specialists-Macomb Professional Building Warren, Michigan, United States, 48093 Macomb Hematology Oncology PC Warren, Michigan, United States, 48093 Michigan Breast Specialists-Warren Warren, Michigan, United States, 48093 Saint John Macomb-Oakland Hospital Warren, Michigan, United States, 48093 Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital West Bloomfield, Michigan, United States, 48322 Saint Mary's Oncology/Hematology Associates of West Branch West Branch, Michigan, United States, 48661 Metro Health Hospital Wyoming, Michigan, United States, 49519 Huron Gastroenterology PC Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States, 48106 IHA Hematology Oncology Consultants-Ann Arbor Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States, 48197 United States, Minnesota Sanford Joe Lueken Cancer Center Bemidji, Minnesota, United States, 56601 Essentia Health Saint Joseph's Medical Center Brainerd, Minnesota, United States, 56401 Fairview Ridges Hospital Burnsville, Minnesota, United States, 55337 Cambridge Medical Center Cambridge, Minnesota, United States, 55008 Mercy Hospital Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States, 55433 Essentia Health - Deer River Clinic Deer River, Minnesota, United States, 56636 Essentia Health Saint Mary's - Detroit Lakes Clinic Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, United States, 56501 Essentia Health Cancer Center Duluth, Minnesota, United States, 55805 Essentia Health Saint Mary's Medical Center Duluth, Minnesota, United States, 55805 Miller-Dwan Hospital Duluth, Minnesota, United States, 55805 Fairview-Southdale Hospital Edina, Minnesota, United States, 55435 Lake Region Healthcare Corporation-Cancer Care Fergus Falls, Minnesota, United States, 56537 Essentia Health - Fosston Fosston, Minnesota, United States, 56542 Unity Hospital Fridley, Minnesota, United States, 55432 Essentia Health Hibbing Clinic Hibbing, Minnesota, United States, 55746 Fairview Maple Grove Medical Center Maple Grove, Minnesota, United States, 55369 Minnesota Oncology Hematology PA-Maplewood Maplewood, Minnesota, United States, 55109 Saint John's Hospital - Healtheast Maplewood, Minnesota, United States, 55109 Abbott-Northwestern Hospital Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55407 Hennepin County Medical Center Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55415 Health Partners Inc Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55454 University of Minnesota/Masonic Cancer Center Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455 Monticello Cancer Center Monticello, Minnesota, United States, 55362 New Ulm Medical Center New Ulm, Minnesota, United States, 56073 Essentia Health - Park Rapids Park Rapids, Minnesota, United States, 56470 Fairview Northland Medical Center Princeton, Minnesota, United States, 55371 North Memorial Medical Health Center Robbinsdale, Minnesota, United States, 55422 Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, United States, 55905 Park Nicollet Clinic - Saint Louis Park Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, United States, 55416 Regions Hospital Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, 55101 United Hospital Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, 55102 Essentia Health Sandstone Sandstone, Minnesota, United States, 55072 Saint Francis Regional Medical Center Shakopee, Minnesota, United States, 55379 Lakeview Hospital Stillwater, Minnesota, United States, 55082 Essentia Health Virginia Clinic Virginia, Minnesota, United States, 55792 Ridgeview Medical Center Waconia, Minnesota, United States, 55387 Rice Memorial Hospital Willmar, Minnesota, United States, 56201 Minnesota Oncology Hematology PA-Woodbury Woodbury, Minnesota, United States, 55125 Sanford Cancer Center Worthington Worthington, Minnesota, United States, 56187 Fairview Lakes Medical Center Wyoming, Minnesota, United States, 55092 United States, Mississippi Baptist Memorial Hospital and Cancer Center-Golden Triangle Columbus, Mississippi, United States, 39705 Baptist Cancer Center-Grenada Grenada, Mississippi, United States, 38901 Hattiesburg Clinic - Hematology/Oncology Clinic Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States, 39401 Forrest General Hospital / Cancer Center Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States, 39404 University of Mississippi Medical Center Jackson, Mississippi, United States, 39216 Baptist Memorial Hospital and Cancer Center-Union County New Albany, Mississippi, United States, 38652 Baptist Memorial Hospital and Cancer Center-Oxford Oxford, Mississippi, United States, 38655 Singing River Hospital Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States, 39581 Baptist Memorial Hospital and Cancer Center-Desoto Southhaven, Mississippi, United States, 38671 United States, Missouri Central Care Cancer Center - Bolivar Bolivar, Missouri, United States, 65613 Parkland Health Center-Bonne Terre Bonne Terre, Missouri, United States, 63628 Cox Cancer Center Branson Branson, Missouri, United States, 65616 Saint Francis Medical Center Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, 63703 Southeast Cancer Center Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States, 63703 Saint Luke's Hospital Chesterfield, Missouri, United States, 63017 University of Missouri - Ellis Fischel Columbia, Missouri, United States, 65212 Siteman Cancer Center at West County Hospital Creve Coeur, Missouri, United States, 63141 Centerpoint Medical Center LLC Independence, Missouri, United States, 64057 Capital Region Southwest Campus Jefferson City, Missouri, United States, 65109 Freeman Health System Joplin, Missouri, United States, 64804 Mercy Hospital Joplin Joplin, Missouri, United States, 64804 Truman Medical Center Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64108 Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64111 The University of Kansas Cancer Center-South Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64131 Research Medical Center Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64132 The University of Kansas Cancer Center-North Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64154 The University of Kansas Cancer Center-Lee's Summit Lee's Summit, Missouri, United States, 64064 Saint Luke's East - Lee's Summit Lee's Summit, Missouri, United States, 64086 Liberty Radiation Oncology Center Liberty, Missouri, United States, 64068 Delbert Day Cancer Institute at PCRMC Rolla, Missouri, United States, 65401 Mercy Clinic-Rolla-Cancer and Hematology Rolla, Missouri, United States, 65401 Heartland Regional Medical Center Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States, 64507 Saint Louis Cancer and Breast Institute-South City Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63109 Washington University School of Medicine Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110 Mercy Hospital South Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63128 Siteman Cancer Center-South County Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63129 Missouri Baptist Medical Center Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63131 Siteman Cancer Center at Christian Hospital Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63136 Mercy Hospital Saint Louis Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63141 Siteman Cancer Center at Saint Peters Hospital Saint Peters, Missouri, United States, 63376 Sainte Genevieve County Memorial Hospital Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, United States, 63670 Mercy Hospital Springfield Springfield, Missouri, United States, 65804 CoxHealth South Hospital Springfield, Missouri, United States, 65807 Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital Sullivan, Missouri, United States, 63080 Missouri Baptist Outpatient Center-Sunset Hills Sunset Hills, Missouri, United States, 63127 United States, Montana Community Hospital of Anaconda Anaconda, Montana, United States, 59711 Billings Clinic Cancer Center Billings, Montana, United States, 59101 Saint Vincent Healthcare Billings, Montana, United States, 59101 Saint Vincent Frontier Cancer Center Billings, Montana, United States, 59102 Bozeman Deaconess Hospital Bozeman, Montana, United States, 59715 Saint James Community Hospital and Cancer Treatment Center Butte, Montana, United States, 59701 Benefis Healthcare- Sletten Cancer Institute Great Falls, Montana, United States, 59405 Saint Peter's Community Hospital Helena, Montana, United States, 59601 Kalispell Regional Medical Center Kalispell, Montana, United States, 59901 Saint Patrick Hospital - Community Hospital Missoula, Montana, United States, 59802 Community Medical Hospital Missoula, Montana, United States, 59804 United States, Nebraska Nebraska Medicine-Bellevue Bellevue, Nebraska, United States, 68123 CHI Health Saint Francis Grand Island, Nebraska, United States, 68803 Heartland Hematology and Oncology Kearney, Nebraska, United States, 68845 CHI Health Good Samaritan Kearney, Nebraska, United States, 68847 Nebraska Hematology and Oncology Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, 68506 Nebraska Cancer Research Center Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, 68510 Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, 68510 Southeast Nebraska Cancer Center Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, 68510 Faith Regional Health Services Carson Cancer Center Norfolk, Nebraska, United States, 68701 Great Plains Health Callahan Cancer Center North Platte, Nebraska, United States, 69101 Nebraska Medicine-Village Pointe Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68118 Alegent Health Immanuel Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68122 Hematology and Oncology Consultants PC Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68122 Alegent Health Bergan Mercy Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68124 Nebraska Cancer Specialists - Omaha Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68124 Alegent Health Lakeside Hospital Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68130 Oncology Hematology West PC Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68130 Creighton University Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68131 University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68198 Midlands Community Hospital Papillion, Nebraska, United States, 68046 Regional West Medical Center Cancer Center Scottsbluff, Nebraska, United States, 69361 United States, Nevada Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center Carson City, Nevada, United States, 89703 Cancer and Blood Specialists-Henderson Henderson, Nevada, United States, 89052 Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada - Henderson Henderson, Nevada, United States, 89052 Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada-Horizon Ridge Henderson, Nevada, United States, 89052 Las Vegas Cancer Center-Henderson Henderson, Nevada, United States, 89052 OptumCare Cancer Care at Seven Hills Henderson, Nevada, United States, 89052 21st Century Oncology-Henderson Henderson, Nevada, United States, 89074 Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada-Southeast Henderson Henderson, Nevada, United States, 89074 Las Vegas Urology - Pebble Henderson, Nevada, United States, 89074 Las Vegas Urology - Pecos Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89074 Desert West Surgery Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89102 University Medical Center of Southern Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89102 Cancer and Blood Specialists-Shadow Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89106 OptumCare Cancer Care at Oakey Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89106 Radiation Oncology Centers of Nevada Central Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89106 21st Century Oncology Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89109 HealthCare Partners Medical Group Oncology/Hematology-Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89109 Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89109 HealthCare Partners Medical Group Oncology/Hematology-San Martin Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89113 Radiation Oncology Centers of Nevada Southeast Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89119 Cancer Therapy and Integrative Medicine Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89121 21st Century Oncology-Vegas Tenaya Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89128 Ann M Wierman MD LTD Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89128 Cancer and Blood Specialists-Tenaya Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89128 Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada - Northwest Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89128 HealthCare Partners Medical Group Oncology/Hematology-Tenaya Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89128 Las Vegas Urology - Cathedral Rock Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89128 Las Vegas Urology - Smoke Ranch Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89128 OptumCare Cancer Care at MountainView Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89128 Alliance for Childhood Diseases/Cure 4 the Kids Foundation Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89135 Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada - Town Center Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89144 Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada-Summerlin Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89144 Summerlin Hospital Medical Center Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89144 Las Vegas Cancer Center-Medical Center Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89148-2405 21st Century Oncology-Fort Apache Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89148 Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89148 OptumCare Cancer Care at Fort Apache Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89148 HealthCare Partners Medical Group Oncology/Hematology-Centennial Hills Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89149 Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada - Central Valley Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89169 Hope Cancer Care of Nevada-Pahrump Pahrump, Nevada, United States, 89048 Center of Hope at Renown Medical Center Reno, Nevada, United States, 89502 Renown Regional Medical Center Reno, Nevada, United States, 89502 Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center Reno, Nevada, United States, 89503 Radiation Oncology Associates Reno, Nevada, United States, 89509 United States, New Hampshire New Hampshire Oncology Hematology PA-Concord Concord, New Hampshire, United States, 03301 New Hampshire Oncology Hematology PA-Hooksett Hooksett, New Hampshire, United States, 03106 Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States, 03756 Norris Cotton Cancer Center-Manchester Manchester, New Hampshire, United States, 03102 Norris Cotton Cancer Center-Nashua Nashua, New Hampshire, United States, 03063 United States, New Jersey Ocean Medical Center Brick, New Jersey, United States, 08724 AtlantiCare Health Park-Cape May Court House Cape May Court House, New Jersey, United States, 08210 AtlantiCare Surgery Center Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, United States, 08234 Trinitas Hospital and Comprehensive Cancer Center - Williamson Street Campus Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States, 07207 Hunterdon Medical Center Flemington, New Jersey, United States, 08822 Hackensack University Medical Center Hackensack, New Jersey, United States, 07601 Bayshore Community Hospital Holmdel, New Jersey, United States, 07733 Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus Lakewood, New Jersey, United States, 08701 Saint Barnabas Medical Center Livingston, New Jersey, United States, 07039 Monmouth Medical Center Long Branch, New Jersey, United States, 07740 Southern Ocean County Medical Center Manahawkin, New Jersey, United States, 08050 Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth Middletown, New Jersey, United States, 07748 Morristown Medical Center Morristown, New Jersey, United States, 07960 Jersey Shore Medical Center Neptune, New Jersey, United States, 07753 Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, 08903 Capital Health Medical Center-Hopewell Pennington, New Jersey, United States, 08534 Riverview Medical Center/Booker Cancer Center Red Bank, New Jersey, United States, 07701 Kennedy Health Systems-Cancer Center Sewell, New Jersey, United States, 08080 Overlook Hospital Summit, New Jersey, United States, 07902 Inspira Medical Center Vineland Vineland, New Jersey, United States, 08360 Inspira Medical Center Woodbury Woodbury, New Jersey, United States, 08096 United States, New Mexico Lovelace Medical Center-Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 87102 University of New Mexico Cancer Center Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 87102 Southwest Gynecologic Oncology Associates Inc Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 87106 New Mexico Oncology Hematology Consultants Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 87109 Presbyterian Kaseman Hospital Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, 87110 Memorial Medical Center - Las Cruces Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States, 88011 Christus Saint Vincent Regional Cancer Center Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, 87505 Montefiore Medical Center-Einstein Campus Bronx, New York, United States, 10461 Montefiore Medical Center-Weiler Hospital Bronx, New York, United States, 10461 Children's Hospital at Montefiore Bronx, New York, United States, 10467 Montefiore Medical Center - Moses Campus Bronx, New York, United States, 10467 State University of New York Downstate Medical Center Brooklyn, New York, United States, 11203 Roswell Park Cancer Institute Buffalo, New York, United States, 14263 Arnot Ogden Medical Center/Falck Cancer Center Elmira, New York, United States, 14905 Glens Falls Hospital Glens Falls, New York, United States, 12801 Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester Harrison, New York, United States, 10604 Northwell Health/Center for Advanced Medicine Lake Success, New York, United States, 11042 North Shore University Hospital Manhasset, New York, United States, 11030 Long Island Jewish Medical Center New Hyde Park, New York, United States, 11040 Lenox Hill Hospital New York, New York, United States, 10021 Mount Sinai Hospital New York, New York, United States, 10029 NYP/Columbia University Medical Center/Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center New York, New York, United States, 10032 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, New York, United States, 10065 NYP/Weill Cornell Medical Center New York, New York, United States, 10065 Rochester General Hospital Rochester, New York, United States, 14621 University of Rochester Rochester, New York, United States, 14642 Stony Brook University Medical Center Stony Brook, New York, United States, 11794 State University of New York Upstate Medical University Syracuse, New York, United States, 13210 SUNY Upstate Medical Center-Community Campus Syracuse, New York, United States, 13215 Dickstein Cancer Treatment Center White Plains, New York, United States, 10601 United States, North Carolina Cancer Care of Western North Carolina Asheville, North Carolina, United States, 28801 Mission Hospital Inc-Memorial Campus Asheville, North Carolina, United States, 28801 AdventHealth Infusion Center Asheville Asheville, North Carolina, United States, 28803 Hope Women's Cancer Centers-Asheville Asheville, North Carolina, United States, 28816 Waverly Hematology Oncology Cary, North Carolina, United States, 27518 UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599 Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28204 Carolina Surgical Clinic of Charlotte PA Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28207 Oncology Specialists of Charlotte Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28207 Southern Oncology Specialists-Charlotte Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 28262 Southeastern Medical Oncology Center-Clinton Clinton, North Carolina, United States, 28328 AdventHealth Infusion Center Haywood Clyde, North Carolina, United States, 28721 Durham VA Medical Center Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27705 Duke University Medical Center Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710 Southeastern Medical Oncology Center-Goldsboro Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States, 27534 Wayne Memorial Hospital Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States, 27534 Hendersonville Hematology and Oncology at Pardee Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States, 28791 Margaret R Pardee Memorial Hospital Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States, 28791 AdventHealth Hendersonville Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States, 28792 Lake Norman Hematology Oncology Specialists-Huntersville Huntersville, North Carolina, United States, 28078 Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Huntersville Huntersville, North Carolina, United States, 28078 Southern Oncology Specialists-Huntersville Huntersville, North Carolina, United States, 28078 Onslow Memorial Hospital Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States, 28546 Southeastern Medical Oncology Center-Jacksonville Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States, 28546 Novant Health Oncology Specialists-Kernersville Kernersville, North Carolina, United States, 27284 Matthews Radiation Oncology Center Matthews, North Carolina, United States, 28105 Novant Health Cancer Specialists-Matthews Matthews, North Carolina, United States, 28105 Lake Norman Hematology Oncology Specialists-Mooresville Mooresville, North Carolina, United States, 28117 Lake Norman Radiation Oncology Center-Mooresville Mooresville, North Carolina, United States, 28117 Novant Health Oncology Specialists-Mount Airy Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States, 27030 FirstHealth of the Carolinas-Moore Regional Hospital Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States, 28374 Duke Raleigh Hospital Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, 27609 Carolina Oncology Associates PA Salisbury, North Carolina, United States, 28144 Rowan Regional Medical Center Salisbury, North Carolina, United States, 28144 Novant Health Oncology Specialists-Statesville Statesville, North Carolina, United States, 28625 Novant Health Oncology Specialists-Davidson County Thomasville, North Carolina, United States, 27360 Marion L Shepard Cancer Center at Vidant Beaufort Hospital Washington, North Carolina, United States, 27889 Novant Health Oncology Specialists-Wilkesboro Wilkesboro, North Carolina, United States, 28659 Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27103 Novant Health Oncology Specialists Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27103 Winston-Salem Health Care Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27103 Wake Forest University Health Sciences Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27157 United States, North Dakota Sanford Bismarck Medical Center Bismarck, North Dakota, United States, 58501 Essentia Health Cancer Center-South University Clinic Fargo, North Dakota, United States, 58103 Sanford South University Medical Center Fargo, North Dakota, United States, 58103 Sanford Broadway Medical Center Fargo, North Dakota, United States, 58122 Sanford Clinic North-Fargo Fargo, North Dakota, United States, 58122 Sanford Roger Maris Cancer Center Fargo, North Dakota, United States, 58122 Essentia Health - Jamestown Clinic Jamestown, North Dakota, United States, 58401 Trinity Cancer Care Center Minot, North Dakota, United States, 58701 United States, Ohio UHHS-Chagrin Highlands Medical Center Beachwood, Ohio, United States, 44122 Indu and Raj Soin Medical Center Beavercreek, Ohio, United States, 45431 Strecker Cancer Center-Belpre Belpre, Ohio, United States, 45714 Saint Elizabeth Boardman Hospital Boardman, Ohio, United States, 44512 Mercy Medical Center Canton, Ohio, United States, 44708 Aultman Health Foundation Canton, Ohio, United States, 44710 Dayton Physicians LLC-Miami Valley South Centerville, Ohio, United States, 45459 Miami Valley Hospital South Centerville, Ohio, United States, 45459 Geauga Hospital Chardon, Ohio, United States, 44024 Adena Regional Medical Center Chillicothe, Ohio, United States, 45601 Oncology Hematology Care Inc-Eden Park Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45202 Oncology Hematology Care Inc-Mercy West Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45211 Good Samaritan Hospital - Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45220 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229 Oncology Hematology Care Inc - Anderson Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45230 Oncology Hematology Care Inc-Kenwood Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45236 Bethesda North Hospital Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45242 Oncology Hematology Care Inc-Blue Ash Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45242 TriHealth Cancer Institute-Westside Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45247 TriHealth Cancer Institute-Anderson Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45255 Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44106 MetroHealth Medical Center Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44109 Cleveland Clinic Foundation Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195 Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210 Mount Carmel East Hospital Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43213 Columbus Oncology and Hematology Associates Inc Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43214 Riverside Methodist Hospital Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43214 Grant Medical Center Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43215 The Mark H Zangmeister Center Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43219 Mount Carmel Health Center West Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43222 Doctors Hospital Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43228 Good Samaritan Hospital - Dayton Dayton, Ohio, United States, 45406 Miami Valley Hospital Dayton, Ohio, United States, 45409 Dayton Physician LLC-Miami Valley Hospital North Dayton, Ohio, United States, 45415 Miami Valley Hospital North Dayton, Ohio, United States, 45415 Delaware Health Center-Grady Cancer Center Delaware, Ohio, United States, 43015 Delaware Radiation Oncology Delaware, Ohio, United States, 43015 Grady Memorial Hospital Delaware, Ohio, United States, 43015 Dublin Methodist Hospital Dublin, Ohio, United States, 43016 Hematology Oncology Center Incorporated Elyria, Ohio, United States, 44035 Mercy Cancer Center-Elyria Elyria, Ohio, United States, 44035 Oncology Hematology Care Inc-Healthplex Fairfield, Ohio, United States, 45014 Armes Family Cancer Center Findlay, Ohio, United States, 45840 Blanchard Valley Hospital Findlay, Ohio, United States, 45840 Orion Cancer Care Findlay, Ohio, United States, 45840 Atrium Medical Center-Middletown Regional Hospital Franklin, Ohio, United States, 45005-1066 Dayton Physicians LLC-Atrium Franklin, Ohio, United States, 45005 Dayton Physicians LLC-Wayne Greenville, Ohio, United States, 45331 Wayne Hospital Greenville, Ohio, United States, 45331 Greater Dayton Cancer Center Kettering, Ohio, United States, 45409 First Dayton Cancer Care Kettering, Ohio, United States, 45420 Kettering Medical Center Kettering, Ohio, United States, 45429 Fairfield Medical Center Lancaster, Ohio, United States, 43130 Marietta Memorial Hospital Marietta, Ohio, United States, 45750 OhioHealth Marion General Hospital Marion, Ohio, United States, 43302 Toledo Clinic Cancer Centers-Maumee Maumee, Ohio, United States, 43537 Toledo Radiation Oncology at Northwest Ohio Onocolgy Center Maumee, Ohio, United States, 43537 UH Seidman Cancer Center at Landerbrook Health Center Mayfield Heights, Ohio, United States, 44124 UH Seidman Cancer Center at Lake Health Mentor Campus Mentor, Ohio, United States, 44060 UH Seidman Cancer Center at Southwest General Hospital Middleburg Heights, Ohio, United States, 44130 Dayton Physicians LLC-Signal Point Middletown, Ohio, United States, 45042 Knox Community Hospital Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States, 43050 Licking Memorial Hospital Newark, Ohio, United States, 43055 Newark Radiation Oncology Newark, Ohio, United States, 43055 Saint Charles Hospital Oregon, Ohio, United States, 43616 University Hospitals Parma Medical Center Parma, Ohio, United States, 44129 Mercy Health Perrysburg Cancer Center Perrysburg, Ohio, United States, 43551 Southern Ohio Medical Center Portsmouth, Ohio, United States, 45662 UH Seidman Cancer Center at Firelands Regional Medical Center Sandusky, Ohio, United States, 44870 Dayton Physicians LLC-Wilson Sidney, Ohio, United States, 45365 Springfield Regional Cancer Center Springfield, Ohio, United States, 45504 Springfield Regional Medical Center Springfield, Ohio, United States, 45505 ProMedica Flower Hospital Sylvania, Ohio, United States, 43560 The Toledo Hospital/Toledo Children's Hospital Toledo, Ohio, United States, 43606 University of Toledo Toledo, Ohio, United States, 43614 Mercy Saint Anne Hospital Toledo, Ohio, United States, 43623 Toledo Clinic Cancer Centers-Toledo Toledo, Ohio, United States, 43623 Dayton Physicians LLC-Upper Valley Troy, Ohio, United States, 45373 Upper Valley Medical Center Troy, Ohio, United States, 45373 University Hospitals Sharon Health Center Wadsworth, Ohio, United States, 44281 Saint Joseph Warren Hospital Warren, Ohio, United States, 44484 Saint Ann's Hospital Westerville, Ohio, United States, 43081 UH Seidman Cancer Center at Saint John Medical Center Westlake, Ohio, United States, 44145 UHHS-Westlake Medical Center Westlake, Ohio, United States, 44145 Saint Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital Youngstown, Ohio, United States, 44501 Genesis Healthcare System Cancer Care Center Zanesville, Ohio, United States, 43701 United States, Oklahoma Cancer Centers of Southwest Oklahoma Research Lawton, Oklahoma, United States, 73505 University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 73104 Integris Southwest Medical Center Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 73109 Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 73120 Integris Cancer Institute of Oklahoma Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, 73142 Oklahoma Cancer Specialists and Research Institute-Tulsa Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, 74146 United States, Oregon Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Baker City Baker City, Oregon, United States, 97814 Saint Charles Health System Bend, Oregon, United States, 97701 Clackamas Radiation Oncology Center Clackamas, Oregon, United States, 97015 Providence Oncology and Hematology Care Southeast Clackamas, Oregon, United States, 97015 Bay Area Hospital Coos Bay, Oregon, United States, 97420 Good Samaritan Hospital Corvallis, Oregon, United States, 97330 Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center Gresham, Oregon, United States, 97030 Providence Newberg Medical Center Newberg, Oregon, United States, 97132 Saint Alphonsus Medical Center-Ontario Ontario, Oregon, United States, 97914 Providence Willamette Falls Medical Center Oregon City, Oregon, United States, 97045 Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center Portland, Oregon, United States, 97210 Providence Portland Medical Center Portland, Oregon, United States, 97213 Providence Saint Vincent Medical Center Portland, Oregon, United States, 97225 Kaiser Permanente Northwest Portland, Oregon, United States, 97227 Oregon Health and Science University Portland, Oregon, United States, 97239 Saint Charles Health System-Redmond Redmond, Oregon, United States, 97756 Legacy Meridian Park Hospital Tualatin, Oregon, United States, 97062 United States, Pennsylvania Abington Memorial Hospital Abington, Pennsylvania, United States, 19001 Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States, 18103 Lehigh Valley Hospital - Muhlenberg Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, 18017 Bryn Mawr Hospital Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States, 19010 Christiana Care Health System-Concord Health Center Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, United States, 19317 Main Line Health Center-Collegeville Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States, 19426 Geisinger Medical Center Danville, Pennsylvania, United States, 17822 Doylestown Hospital Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States, 18901 Pocono Medical Center East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, United States, 18301 Easton Hospital Easton, Pennsylvania, United States, 18042 Ephrata Cancer Center Ephrata, Pennsylvania, United States, 17522 Ephrata Community Hospital Ephrata, Pennsylvania, United States, 17522 The Regional Cancer Center Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, 16505 Main Line Health Center-Exton Exton, Pennsylvania, United States, 19341 Adams Cancer Center Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States, 17325 Cherry Tree Cancer Center Hanover, Pennsylvania, United States, 17331 Geisinger Medical Center-Cancer Center Hazleton Hazleton, Pennsylvania, United States, 18201 Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hazleton Hazleton, Pennsylvania, United States, 18201 Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, 17033-0850 Armstrong Center for Medicine and Health Kittanning, Pennsylvania, United States, 16201 Lancaster General Hospital Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, 17604 Sechler Family Cancer Center Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States, 17042 Geisinger Medical Oncology-Lewisburg Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States, 17837 Lewistown Hospital Lewistown, Pennsylvania, United States, 17044 Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical Center Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania, United States, 19046 Riddle Memorial Hospital Media, Pennsylvania, United States, 19063 Forbes Hospital Monroeville, Pennsylvania, United States, 15146 Allegheny Valley Hospital Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, United States, 15065 Suburban Community Hospital and Cancer Center Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States, 19401 Paoli Memorial Hospital Paoli, Pennsylvania, United States, 19301 Drexel University School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19102 Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107 Fox Chase Cancer Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19111 Aria Health-Torresdale Campus Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19114 Nazareth Hospital Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19152 Phoenixville Hospital Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, United States, 19460 Allegheny General Hospital Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15212 West Penn Hospital Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15224 University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15232 Geisinger Cancer Services-Pottsville Pottsville, Pennsylvania, United States, 17901 Penn State Health Saint Joseph Medical Center Reading, Pennsylvania, United States, 19605 Guthrie Medical Group PC-Robert Packer Hospital Sayre, Pennsylvania, United States, 18840 Hematology and Oncology Associates of North East Pennsylvania Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, 18508 Community Medical Center Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, 18510 Geisinger Medical Oncology-Selinsgrove Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, United States, 17870 Geisinger Medical Group State College, Pennsylvania, United States, 16801 Mount Nittany Medical Center State College, Pennsylvania, United States, 16803 Chester County Hospital West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, 19380 Reading Hospital West Reading, Pennsylvania, United States, 19611 Geisinger Wyoming Valley/Henry Cancer Center Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States, 18711 UPMC Susquehanna Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States, 17701 Abington Memorial Hospital-Asplundh Cancer Pavilion Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, United States, 19090 Lankenau Medical Center Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, United States, 19096 WellSpan Health-York Cancer Center York, Pennsylvania, United States, 17403 WellSpan Health-York Hospital York, Pennsylvania, United States, 17403 United States, Rhode Island Newport Hospital Newport, Rhode Island, United States, 02840 Rhode Island Hospital Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02903 Women and Infants Hospital Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02905 Miriam Hospital Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02906 United States, South Carolina AnMed Health Cancer Center Anderson, South Carolina, United States, 29621 Beaufort Memorial Hospital Beaufort, South Carolina, United States, 29902 Roper Hospital Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 29401 Charleston Hematology Oncology Associates-Roper Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 29403 Lowcountry Hematology Oncology PA-North Charleston Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 29406 Bon Secours Saint Francis Hospital Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 29414 Charleston Hematology Oncology Associates PA-Saint Francis Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 29414 Lowcountry Hematology Oncology PA-West Ashley Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 29414 Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina, United States, 29425 Greenville Health System Cancer Institute-Easley Easley, South Carolina, United States, 29640 Gibbs Cancer Center-Gaffney Gaffney, South Carolina, United States, 29341 Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital Georgetown, South Carolina, United States, 29440 Greenville Health System Cancer Institute-Andrews Greenville, South Carolina, United States, 29601 Saint Francis Hospital Greenville, South Carolina, United States, 29601 Greenville Health System Cancer Institute-Butternut Greenville, South Carolina, United States, 29605 Greenville Health System Cancer Institute-Faris Greenville, South Carolina, United States, 29605 Greenville Memorial Hospital Greenville, South Carolina, United States, 29605 Saint Francis Cancer Center Greenville, South Carolina, United States, 29607 Greenville Health System Cancer Institute-Eastside Greenville, South Carolina, United States, 29615 Self Regional Healthcare Greenwood, South Carolina, United States, 29646 Greenville Health System Cancer Institute-Greer Greer, South Carolina, United States, 29650 Gibbs Cancer Center-Pelham Greer, South Carolina, United States, 29651 South Carolina Cancer Specialists PC Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States, 29926-3827 The Radiation Oncology Center-Hilton Head/Bluffton Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States, 29926 Lowcountry Hematology Oncology PA-Mount Pleasant Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States, 29464 Beaufort Memorial Keyserling Cancer Center Port Royal, South Carolina, United States, 29935 Greenville Health System Cancer Institute-Seneca Seneca, South Carolina, United States, 29672 Spartanburg Medical Center Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, 29303 Greenville Health System Cancer Institute-Spartanburg Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, 29307 MGC Hematology Oncology-Union Union, South Carolina, United States, 29379 United States, South Dakota Avera Cancer Institute-Aberdeen Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States, 57401 Rapid City Regional Hospital Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, 57701 Sanford Cancer Center Oncology Clinic Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, 57104 Avera Cancer Institute Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, 57105 Sanford USD Medical Center - Sioux Falls Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, 57117-5134 United States, Tennessee Memorial Hospital Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, 37404 Integrity Oncology PLLC-Collierville Collierville, Tennessee, United States, 38017 Cookeville Regional Medical Center Cookeville, Tennessee, United States, 38501 Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Cool Springs Franklin, Tennessee, United States, 37067 Pulmonary Medicine Center of Chattanooga-Hixson Hixson, Tennessee, United States, 37343 Tennessee Cancer Specialists-Dowell Springs Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, 37909 Thompson Cancer Survival Center Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, 37916 Thompson Cancer Survival Center - West Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, 37932 Thompson Oncology Group-Maryville Maryville, Tennessee, United States, 37804 Baptist Memorial Hospital and Cancer Center-Memphis Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38120 Family Cancer Center-Memphis Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38120 Vanderbilt Breast Center at One Hundred Oaks Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37204 Meharry Medical College Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37208 Vanderbilt University/Ingram Cancer Center Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232 Thompson Oncology Group-Oak Ridge Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States, 37830 Memorial GYN Plus Ooltewah, Tennessee, United States, 37363 Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas Austin, Texas, United States, 78701 Saint Joseph Regional Cancer Center Bryan, Texas, United States, 77802 Parkland Memorial Hospital Dallas, Texas, United States, 75235 Baylor University Medical Center Dallas, Texas, United States, 75246 UT Southwestern/Simmons Cancer Center-Dallas Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390 UT Southwestern/Simmons Cancer Center-Fort Worth Fort Worth, Texas, United States, 76104 Baylor College of Medicine/Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center Houston, Texas, United States, 77030 M D Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas, United States, 77030 The Methodist Hospital System Houston, Texas, United States, 77030 MD Anderson in Katy Houston, Texas, United States, 77094 Covenant Medical Center-Lakeside Lubbock, Texas, United States, 79410 MD Anderson League City Nassau Bay, Texas, United States, 77058 Cancer Therapy and Research Center at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78229 Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78229 University Hospital San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78229 University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas, United States, 78229 MD Anderson in Sugar Land Sugar Land, Texas, United States, 77478 MD Anderson in The Woodlands The Woodlands, Texas, United States, 77384 United States, Utah American Fork Hospital / Huntsman Intermountain Cancer Center American Fork, Utah, United States, 84003 Sandra L Maxwell Cancer Center Cedar City, Utah, United States, 84720 Farmington Health Center Farmington, Utah, United States, 84025 Logan Regional Hospital Logan, Utah, United States, 84321 Intermountain Medical Center Murray, Utah, United States, 84107 McKay-Dee Hospital Center Ogden, Utah, United States, 84403 Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Provo, Utah, United States, 84604 Riverton Hospital Riverton, Utah, United States, 84065 Dixie Medical Center Regional Cancer Center Saint George, Utah, United States, 84770 Utah Cancer Specialists-Salt Lake City Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84106 Huntsman Cancer Institute/University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84112 LDS Hospital Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84143 South Jordan Health Center South Jordan, Utah, United States, 84009 United States, Vermont Central Vermont Medical Center/National Life Cancer Treatment Berlin, Vermont, United States, 05602 University of Vermont Medical Center Burlington, Vermont, United States, 05401 University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Burlington, Vermont, United States, 05405 Norris Cotton Cancer Center-North Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, United States, 05819 United States, Virginia Danville Regional Medical Center Danville, Virginia, United States, 24541 Inova Schar Cancer Institute Fairfax, Virginia, United States, 22031 Inova Fair Oaks Hospital Fairfax, Virginia, United States, 22033 Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, Virginia, United States, 22042 Augusta Health Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders Fishersville, Virginia, United States, 22939 Hematology Oncology Associates of Fredericksburg Inc Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States, 22408 Centra Lynchburg Hematology-Oncology Clinic Inc Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, 24501 Sovah Health Martinsville Martinsville, Virginia, United States, 24115 Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center Mechanicsville, Virginia, United States, 23116 Bon Secours Saint Francis Medical Center Midlothian, Virginia, United States, 23114 Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 23507 Bon Secours Saint Mary's Hospital Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23226 Virginia Cancer Institute Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23230 Virginia Commonwealth University/Massey Cancer Center Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23298 United States, Washington Providence Regional Cancer System-Aberdeen Aberdeen, Washington, United States, 98520 Cancer Care Center at Island Hospital Anacortes, Washington, United States, 98221 MultiCare Auburn Medical Center Auburn, Washington, United States, 98001 Virginia Mason Bainbridge Island Medical Center Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States, 98110 Overlake Hospital Medical Center Bellevue, Washington, United States, 98004 Swedish Cancer Institute-Eastside Oncology Hematology Bellevue, Washington, United States, 98005 PeaceHealth Saint Joseph Medical Center Bellingham, Washington, United States, 98225 Harrison HealthPartners Hematology and Oncology-Bremerton Bremerton, Washington, United States, 98310 Harrison Medical Center Bremerton, Washington, United States, 98310 Highline Medical Center-Main Campus Burien, Washington, United States, 98166 Providence Regional Cancer System-Centralia Centralia, Washington, United States, 98531 Swedish Cancer Institute-Edmonds Edmonds, Washington, United States, 98026 Saint Elizabeth Hospital Enumclaw, Washington, United States, 98022 Providence Regional Cancer Partnership Everett, Washington, United States, 98201 Virginia Mason Federal Way Medical Center Federal Way, Washington, United States, 98002 Saint Francis Hospital Federal Way, Washington, United States, 98003 Tacoma/Valley Radiation Oncology Centers-Gig Harbor Gig Harbor, Washington, United States, 98332 MultiCare Gig Harbor Medical Park Gig Harbor, Washington, United States, 98335 Swedish Cancer Institute-Issaquah Issaquah, Washington, United States, 98029 Kadlec Clinic Hematology and Oncology Kennewick, Washington, United States, 99336 Northwest Cancer Clinic Kennewick, Washington, United States, 99336 Providence Regional Cancer System-Lacey Lacey, Washington, United States, 98503 Saint Clare Hospital Lakewood, Washington, United States, 98499 PeaceHealth Saint John Medical Center Longview, Washington, United States, 98632 Virginia Mason Lynnwood Medical Center Lynnwood, Washington, United States, 98036 Skagit Valley Hospital Regional Cancer Care Center Mount Vernon, Washington, United States, 98274 Skagit Valley Hospital Mount Vernon, Washington, United States, 98274 Jefferson Healthcare Port Townsend, Washington, United States, 98368 Harrison HealthPartners Hematology and Oncology-Poulsbo Poulsbo, Washington, United States, 98370 Peninsula Cancer Center Poulsbo, Washington, United States, 98370 MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital Puyallup, Washington, United States, 98372 Tacoma/Valley Radiation Oncology Centers-Puyallup Puyallup, Washington, United States, 98372 Valley Medical Center Renton, Washington, United States, 98055 Virginia Mason Medical Center Seattle, Washington, United States, 98101 Minor and James Medical PLLC Seattle, Washington, United States, 98104 Pacific Gynecology Specialists Seattle, Washington, United States, 98104 Swedish Medical Center-Ballard Campus Seattle, Washington, United States, 98107 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109 Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109 Kaiser Permanente Washington Seattle, Washington, United States, 98112 Swedish Medical Center-First Hill Seattle, Washington, United States, 98122-4307 Swedish Medical Center-Cherry Hill Seattle, Washington, United States, 98122-5711 University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, Washington, United States, 98195 PeaceHealth United General Medical Center Sedro-Woolley, Washington, United States, 98284 Providence Regional Cancer System-Shelton Shelton, Washington, United States, 98584 Rockwood Clinic Cancer Treatment Center-Valley Spokane Valley, Washington, United States, 99216 Rockwood Cancer Treatment Center-DHEC-Downtown Spokane, Washington, United States, 99204 Spokane Valley Cancer Center-Mayfair Spokane, Washington, United States, 99208 Spokane Valley Cancer Center-Mission Spokane, Washington, United States, 99216 Evergreen Hematology and Oncology PS Spokane, Washington, United States, 99218 Rockwood North Cancer Treatment Center Spokane, Washington, United States, 99218 Tacoma/Valley Radiation Oncology Centers-Jackson Hall Tacoma, Washington, United States, 97405 Franciscan Research Center-Northwest Medical Plaza Tacoma, Washington, United States, 98405 MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital Tacoma, Washington, United States, 98405 Northwest Medical Specialties PLLC Tacoma, Washington, United States, 98405 Tacoma/Valley Radiation Oncology Centers-Saint Joe's Tacoma, Washington, United States, 98405 PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Vancouver, Washington, United States, 98664 Legacy Cancer Institute Medical Oncology and Day Treatment Vancouver, Washington, United States, 98684 Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital Vancouver, Washington, United States, 98686 Providence Saint Mary Regional Cancer Center Walla Walla, Washington, United States, 99362 Wenatchee Valley Hospital and Clinics Wenatchee, Washington, United States, 98801 North Star Lodge Cancer Center at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Yakima, Washington, United States, 98902 Providence Regional Cancer System-Yelm Yelm, Washington, United States, 98597 United States, West Virginia United Hospital Center Bridgeport, West Virginia, United States, 26330 West Virginia University Charleston Division Charleston, West Virginia, United States, 25304 Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center Huntington, West Virginia, United States, 25701 WVUH-Berkely Medical Center Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States, 25401 Monongalia Hospital Morgantown, West Virginia, United States, 26505 West Virginia University Healthcare Morgantown, West Virginia, United States, 26506 Camden Clark Medical Center Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States, 26101 United States, Wisconsin Langlade Hospital and Cancer Center Antigo, Wisconsin, United States, 54409 Ascension Saint Elizabeth Hospital Appleton, Wisconsin, United States, 54915 Duluth Clinic Ashland Ashland, Wisconsin, United States, 54806 Northwest Wisconsin Cancer Center Ashland, Wisconsin, United States, 54806 Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-Elmbrook Memorial Hospital Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States, 53045 Aurora Cancer Care-Southern Lakes VLCC Burlington, Wisconsin, United States, 53105 Marshfield Clinic-Chippewa Center Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States, 54729 HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States, 54701 Marshfield Clinic Cancer Center at Sacred Heart Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States, 54701 Marshfield Medical Center-EC Cancer Center Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States, 54701 Aurora Health Center-Fond du Lac Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, United States, 54937 Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-Franklin Franklin, Wisconsin, United States, 53132 Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-Saint Francis/Reiman Cancer Center Franklin, Wisconsin, United States, 53132 Aurora Health Care Germantown Health Center Germantown, Wisconsin, United States, 53022 Aurora Cancer Care-Grafton Grafton, Wisconsin, United States, 53024 Green Bay Oncology at Saint Vincent Hospital Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, 54301-3526 Saint Vincent Hospital Cancer Center Green Bay Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, 54301 Green Bay Oncology Limited at Saint Mary's Hospital Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, 54303 Saint Vincent Hospital Cancer Center at Saint Mary's Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, 54303 Aurora BayCare Medical Center Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, 54311 Mercy Health System Janesville, Wisconsin, United States, 53547 Aurora Cancer Care-Kenosha South Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States, 53142 Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States, 54601 Marshfield Clinic - Ladysmith Center Ladysmith, Wisconsin, United States, 54848 University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 53792 Holy Family Memorial Hospital Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States, 54221 Aurora Bay Area Medical Group-Marinette Marinette, Wisconsin, United States, 54143 Saint Vincent Hospital Cancer Center at Marinette Marinette, Wisconsin, United States, 54143 Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States, 54449 Marshfield Medical Center Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States, 54449 Aurora Cancer Care-Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53209 Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare - Saint Joseph Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53210 Aurora Saint Luke's Medical Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53215 Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226 Aurora Sinai Medical Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53233 Marshfield Clinic-Minocqua Center Minocqua, Wisconsin, United States, 54548 ProHealth D N Greenwald Center Mukwonago, Wisconsin, United States, 53149 Cancer Center of Western Wisconsin New Richmond, Wisconsin, United States, 54017 ProHealth Oconomowoc Memorial Hospital Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, United States, 53066 Saint Vincent Hospital Cancer Center at Oconto Falls Oconto Falls, Wisconsin, United States, 54154 Ascension Mercy Hospital Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States, 54904 Vince Lombardi Cancer Clinic - Oshkosh Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States, 54904 Wheaton Franciscan Cancer Care - All Saints Racine, Wisconsin, United States, 53405 Aurora Cancer Care-Racine Racine, Wisconsin, United States, 53406 Ascension Saint Mary's Hospital Rhinelander, Wisconsin, United States, 54501 Saint Mary's Hospital Rhinelander, Wisconsin, United States, 54501 Lakeview Medical Center-Marshfield Clinic Rice Lake, Wisconsin, United States, 54868 Marshfield Medical Center-Rice Lake Rice Lake, Wisconsin, United States, 54868 HSHS Saint Nicholas Hospital Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States, 53081 Vince Lombardi Cancer Clinic-Sheboygan Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States, 53081 Ascension Saint Michael's Hospital Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States, 54481 Saint Michael's Hospital Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States, 54481 Marshfield Clinic Stevens Point Center Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States, 54482 Saint Vincent Hospital Cancer Center at Sturgeon Bay Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States, 54235-1495 Green Bay Oncology - Sturgeon Bay Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States, 54235 Aurora Medical Center in Summit Summit, Wisconsin, United States, 53066 Vince Lombardi Cancer Clinic-Two Rivers Two Rivers, Wisconsin, United States, 54241 Aurora Cancer Care-Waukesha Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States, 53188 ProHealth Waukesha Memorial Hospital Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States, 53188 UW Cancer Center at ProHealth Care Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States, 53188 Aspirus Regional Cancer Center Wausau, Wisconsin, United States, 54401 Marshfield Clinic-Wausau Center Wausau, Wisconsin, United States, 54401 Aurora Cancer Care-Milwaukee West Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States, 53226 Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare-Saint Joseph/Wauwatosa Campus Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States, 53226 Aurora West Allis Medical Center West Allis, Wisconsin, United States, 53227 Diagnostic and Treatment Center Weston, Wisconsin, United States, 54476 Marshfield Clinic - Weston Center Weston, Wisconsin, United States, 54476 Aspirus UW Cancer Center Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, United States, 54494 Marshfield Clinic - Wisconsin Rapids Center Wisconsin 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__label__wiki	0.818092	0.818092	The women raped by guards in US prisons :: New measures are being implemented in the US to tackle rape and sexual assault in prison - but will they work? Japan's election: Is 'Abe trade' justified? :: Hopes that this weekend's Japanese election will deliver a major policy shift towards delivering higher growth and inflation have given the country's financial markets a long-overdue shot in the arm. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/12/business/japan-election-op-ed/index.html?eref�ition Blaming immigrants for Greek woes :: Greece's Golden Dawn party says immigrants are to blame for the country's economic strife. CNN's Diana Magnay reports. url: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2012/12/14/dnt-magnay-greece-human-cost-immigrants.cnn?eref�ition The subterranean story of the blind busker :: Whistling blind busker Mark Campbell went through a series of jobs before earning money from his music. 'Stalking apps' face ban in US :: A US Senate committee approves a bill which would outlaw the sale of apps designed for the purpose of stalking. Day in pictures: 14 December 2012 :: 24 hours of news photos: 14 December Reservoirs 'can affect rainfall' :: Researchers say large man-made reservoirs can increase the intensity of rainfall and can affect the effectiveness of flood defences. Deeper eurozone union 'agreed' :: EU leaders have agreed on a roadmap for eurozone integration beyond the deal on centralised banking supervision, Germany's Chancellor Merkel says. Arab unrest: Is law now for the people? :: Egypt's constitutional crisis is just the latest chapter in a long-running ideological struggle in the Middle East. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/14/world/meast/constitutional-crisis-history/index.html?eref�ition Week in pictures: 8-14 December 2012 :: News photos from around the world Why Eurozone has mountain to climb :: The eurozone is heading into 2013 in better shape than a year ago. The sense among many investors is that the acute phase of the crisis is over and that the single currency area has turned a corner, writes Nick Spiro. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/14/business/opinion-spiro-euro-future/index.html?eref�ition Monopoly adds first African city :: Some 80 years after its first launch, the iconic board game of Monopoly has finally released its first African city edition -- for Lagos. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/14/world/africa/lagos-monopoly/index.html?eref�ition No UK charges for Gary McKinnon :: Computer hacker Gary McKinnon, whose extradition to the US was blocked, will not face charges in the UK, bringing to an end a 10-year legal battle Nostalgia - it's not like it used to be :: Ah, nostalgia - it's not what it used to be, says Will Self IPCC critical of report leak :: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change criticises a blogger who publishes a draft version of its next report. Circumcision nurse killed baby :: A nurse is found guilty of manslaughter after a baby bled to death following his circumcision. url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-20733674#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa Rivera crash puts spotlight on safety :: Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera is just one of a long list of celebrities killed in a charter jet crash. Overall, the industry is considered safe but Sunday's tragedy has focused attention on flight safety. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/14/travel/rivera-crash-charter-safety/index.html?eref�ition N. Korea launch 'no cause for panic' :: Joe Cirincione: North Korea's successful launch of a satellite is a major feat, but it is not a serious military threat to other nations url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/12/opinion/cirincione-north-korea/index.html?eref�ition India, Pakistan seal accord to ease visa restrictions :: url: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/INtopNews/~3/JE_hBlAV71s/india-pakistan-visa-idINDEE8BD09320121214 Greenhouse gases reach new high :: Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere reached record highs in 2011, according to new data published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/20/world/europe/greenhouse-gases-record-high/index.html?eref�ition Study: Apes suffer midlife crisis :: CNN's Phil Han discovers that chimps experience a midlife crisis, just like humans. url: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2012/11/21/han-chimps-midlife-crisis.cnn?eref�ition Is the eurozone crisis almost over? :: Is the three-year-old eurozone sovereign debt crisis nearing its end? Dr. Nicholas Spiro of Spiro Sovereign Strategy believes it just might be. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/03/business/euro-crisis-over-spiro-op-ed/index.html?eref�ition Venezuela's Chavez: Cancer is back :: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is to return to Cuba for surgery on malignant cancer cells, he tells the nation in an emotional address from the presidential palace. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/08/world/americas/venezuela-chavez/index.html?eref�ition Shadow of Jiang looms over China :: When the new names of China's elite political committee were announced Thursday they didn't come as a surprise to one leading China expert. Rather, they reinforced the sense of "a major opportunity lost." url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/15/world/asia/china-leadership-reaction-cheng-li/index.html?eref�ition China unveils new top leaders :: China on Thursday unveiled the elite group of leaders who will set the agenda for the country for the next decade, the culmination of months of secretive bargaining and a carefully choreographed performance of political pomp. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/14/world/asia/china-leadership-transition/index.html?eref�ition Raising a stink about sanitation :: We each spend an average of three years of our lives sitting on them, King George II of Great Britain died while on his in 1760 and 2.5 billion people still do not have access to one. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/19/health/toilet-day-sanitation-crisis/index.html?eref�ition Filmmaker snaps vanishing glaciers :: The melting glacial ice in places like the Alps, Greenland and the Himalayas is a dramatic visual document of how our planet's climate is changing. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/16/world/glaciers-chasing-ice-balog/index.html?eref�ition Fixing China's 'drinking problem' :: When China's new leader Xi Jinping spoke to the media last week, one sound bite struck me as especially noteworthy. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/23/world/asia/chinas-drinking-problem/index.html?eref�ition Chinese farmer does 'Grandpa style' :: Wearing aviator sunglasses and a selection of thigh-high tights and frilly skirts, 72-year-old Liu Qianping has caused quite a stir in China. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/22/business/china-grandfather-fashion-clothes/index.html?eref�ition Street children found dead in bin :: Eight Chinese officials have been fired or suspended after five boys died in a rubbish bin after suffocating on fumes from charcoal they burned to stay warm, according to state-run media. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/21/world/asia/china-boys-dead-dumpster/index.html?eref�ition 16-Dec-2012 23:03 Connecticut Connecticut school shooting: Saturday Night Live pays tribute - Telegraph.co.uk :: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9749092/Connecticut-school-shooting-Saturday-Night-Live-pays-tribute.html Children in Connecticut School Were All Shot Multiple Times :: On a day of anguish and mourning, other details emerged about how but not why the devastating school attack in Connecticut had happened, including acts of bravery during the maelstrom. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/nyregion/gunman-kills-20-children-at-school-in-connecticut-28-dead-in-all.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Children in Connecticut rampage, all 6 and 7, shot repeatedly :: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/MostRead/~3/hjFxuGGUWVQ/us-connecticut-towns-idUSBRE8BD0U120121215 Connecticut Shooter Adam Lanza: Quiet, Bright, Troubled :: http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i�9fd36effd74fe11076d82205e6c2e2 Complete List of Connecticut School Shooting Victims' Names :: http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i4493e37ac9b952e62794a58fa20f294 Connecticut Shooter Adam Lanza: 'Obviously Not Well' :: http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i�fbb4f843bef0310d5eb8398d5715be 16-Dec-2012 22:02 Op-Ed Op-Ed Columnist: Do We Have the Courage to Stop This? :: There's an epic contrast between the heroism of teachers facing a gunman and the fecklessness of politicians who won't stand up to N.R.A. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/opinion/sunday/kristof-do-we-have-the-courage-to-stop-this.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Op-Ed Columnist: Watch Out Below!!! :: I'm hanging on by my fingernails in the era of cliff diving. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/opinion/sunday/watch-out-below.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Op-Ed Columnist: Egypt: The Next India or the Next Pakistan? :: Will Egyptian democracy empower minorities and protect their rights, or will the military and Muslim Brotherhood control everything always? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/16/opinion/sunday/friedman-egypt-the-next-india-or-the-next-pakista-.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Op-Ed Contributor: The Puritan War on Christmas :: Who started the War on Christmas? Our Puritan forefathers. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/opinion/the-puritan-war-on-christmas.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Op-Ed Columnist: The G.O.P.'s Existential Crisis :: This is worth repeating: We're not having a debt crisis. What we're having is a political crisis. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/opinion/krugman-the-gops-existential-crisis.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Op-Ed Columnist: A Tragedy of Silence :: When will our elected officials and lawmakers finally confront the gun lobby? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/opinion/blow-a-tragedy-of-silence.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Japan Mulls Aerial Patrols to Protect Disputed Islands - Voice of America :: url: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg�QjCNEzoOrpjXb9hFYwhSE81DZh-1Ns0A&url=http://www.voanews.com/content/japan-mulls-aerial-patrols-to-protect-disputed-islands/1564802.html Op-Ed Contributor: Why We Let the School Shootings Continue :: Twenty years ago, my son was murdered at his college. I spent years arguing that we should view gun crime as a public health issue, but eventually I gave up. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/opinion/why-we-let-the-school-shootings-continue.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Man jailed in Politkovskaya case :: A former Russian police officer is jailed for 11 years for his role in the murder of prominent journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Iceland's tourist trade booming :: The Arctic winter may be long and dark but one light still shines bright in the land of the midnight sun -- Iceland's booming tourist trade. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/14/travel/iceland-tourism-grimsson/index.html?eref�ition Greeks escape to the country :: The Greek financial crisis is causing some to seek a better life on the farm, as CNN's Diana Magnay reports. url: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2012/12/14/magnay-greece-human-cost-farming.cnn?eref�ition Streisand on singing for Brando :: Barbra Streisand talks to CNN's Piers Morgan about singing for Marlon Brando. url: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/12/14/pmt-barbra-streisand-marlon-brando-date-in-a-field.cnn?eref�ition Opinion: Fracking 'a threat to health' :: As easier-to-extract fossil fuels are depleted, techniques that involve more effort, environmental destruction and carbon emissions are being developed. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/14/opinion/uk-fracking-threat-wilson/index.html?eref�ition Corinthians fans the craziest? :: Would you quit your job or sell your car or even your fridge to go to a football match? Fans of Brazilian team Corinthians have done just that. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/14/sport/football/football-club-world-cup-crazy-fans-corinthians/index.html?eref�ition Op-Ed Columnist: Should Kids Play Football? :: With brain researchers continuing to study the effect of concussions, the answer to parents is ... maybe. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/opinion/should-kids-play-football.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Abuse not just in past - NSPCC :: The NSPCC launches an advertising campaign to remind people that child abuse is not just a 'historical' problem, following the Jimmy Savile scandal. Review: 'Hobbit' a sluggish tale :: They say the longest journey starts with a single step. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/13/showbiz/movies/the-hobbit-review-charity/index.html?eref�ition Afghans: 'We don't need U.S. :: Panetta seems optimistic about Afghan security. Erin Burnett talks to two individuals about the reality on the ground. url: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/12/13/exp-erin-afghanistan-what-did-we-accomplish-rosenberg-sultanzoy.cnn?eref�ition Tour de France to begin in... Yorkshire :: The 2014 Tour de France will start in Northern England for the first time, organizers of cycling's most prestigious race announced Friday. url: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/14/sport/cycling-tour-de-france-2014-yorkshire/index.html?eref�ition Lieberman Pre-Election Exit Roils Israeli Politics - ABC News - ABC News :: url: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg�QjCNG467jhmjSG6KVP8J6r8XY6XYjyxg&url=http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israeli-fm-lieberman-resigns-17973528 Israeli foreign minister resigns :: Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman resigns after prosecutors decide to charge him with breach of trust. ▼ December (1450) 16-Dec-2012 13:53 Adam 16-Dec-2012 08:49 Newtown	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3617
__label__wiki	0.510273	0.510273	If you missed some news from earlier today see the Friday Early Roundup The Philadelphia Inquirer talks with Arlene Landis about the arbitration decision announced yesterday which essentially bans her son from competition until January of 2009 and strips him of his Tour de France title. Mrs. Landis believes in her son and finds that most of the residents of Ephrata, the nearest large town to Farmersville Floyd's hometown, believe him too. Still, she would not encourage him to appeal the loss and some locals agree with her. Forbes.com speaks with Landis lawyer Maurice Suh who describes Landis as discouraged and still weighing his options. Suh lashed out at the arbitration panel who decided against Landis by a 2-1 margin: "Here you have the perfect test case," Suh said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's a case in which you had the athlete who attracted a lot of attention, who had the financial and personal wherewithal to go through the process of vigorously defending himself. He has great evidence. He hires lots of lawyers. Most of all, he was innocent. And he still can't get through this. It sends the message to every other athlete out there, 'Just don't try.'" Suh said the case "has taken all kinds of toll on (Landis) emotionally and otherwise. The attorney ripped the panel for its decision, saying the majority's repeated admonishments of the French lab that analyzed Landis' urine mattered little if they didn't result in a victory for his client "These people are not legislators," Suh said. "They're not here to set policy about what should happen as a matter of course over time. They're there to listen to the case set before them." Eyewitness Sports 3 posts a summary of yesterday's Landis decision plus it has video of an interview with Paul and Arlene Landis. Be patient it takes a while to load. SI.Com provides an interview with frustrated Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme. He states that the system needs to process cases like the Landis case with more speed. The Vail Daily posts an op-ed piece in which it sadly concludes that sometimes it seems cheating is the only way to win these days. Bicycling's La Scene gives an overview of reaction from the cycling world abroad. VeloNews posts its' own compendium of reaction to the Landis decision from Spain, and notes that most of it is muted, except that of Eusebio Unzue Oscar Pereiro's team director: "A cheater has taken away his victory. For the past year, Oscar has been a rider who's been ‘out.' He's been distracted, not concentrated on the business of racing his bike and instead of celebrating his second place, he's been trying to live with this pressure of waiting for the process to be completed," Unzue said. "What he deserves is a gesture from the race organizers or an official presentation of the jersey. That would help him make up for missing the moment to enjoy the victory." The San Diego Union Tribune was turned down by Floyd Landis for an interview, but still manages to tell the story of yesterday's decision. King5.com posts an AP piece summarizing the decision that went against Floyd Landis. USAToday Sports Scope notes the "hoist one to Floyd"set for 5:10 today your local time and also gives us Christopher Campbell's "money quote", thanks for the plug BTW: "The T-E ratio test (which the arbitrators conceded was faulty) is acknowledged as a simple test to run. The IRMS test (the one they're using to convict Landis) is universally acknowledged as a very complicated test to run, requiring much skill. If the LNDD (French lab) couldn't get the T-E ratio test right, how can a person have any confidence that LNDD got the much more complicated IRMS test correct? The USAToday reports that Oscar Pereiro has been declared the winner of the 2006 Tour de France by the UCI, but: "Following the decision of the competent American authority to sanction the American cyclist Floyd Landis for doping, and in accordance with the International Cycling Unions regulation, the Spanish rider Oscar Pereiro is declared winner of the 2006 Tour de France," the statement said. "The UCI has informed both the rider and the organizer of the event." But Tour de France organizers say Pereiro will not get his crown quite yet — until it becomes clear whether Landis will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He has a month to do so. The IHT/Sam Abt asks what if they gave a bike race and nobody came? It's postulated that things will now only get worse for cycling and cycling events with yesterday's Landis decision. The Environmental Chemistry Editor's Blog leads with part of the dissent of Landis arbitrator Christopher Campbell and is very disturbed by some of the findings of the panel with respect to the science produced by the LNDD: In simple terms, yes there are problems at LNDD, yes the practices of the LNDD "lack the vigor the Panel would expect in the circumstances" and "other matters introduced in evidence" "do give some causes for concern," however we are going to ignore this and convict anyways. Good lord I hope these arbiters are never on the jury if I'm on trial. PEM posts pictures of his toast to Floyd. Thanks PEM, great pics, and great suggestion! re:Cycling feels very much that it never made sense that Floyd Landis would dope during the Tour de France, but there is the arbitration decision now. Still, Dan thinks that he will always see Floyd riding the magical stage 17, crossing the line at 17:10. He will raise a glass to Floyd this afternoon at 5:10 his time. Thanks for the plug. Dugard wonders if Floyd Landis cheated and feels only Floyd knows for sure. Still he mourns for Floyd and is angry with those out there who are gloating over yesterday's decision. After School Snack gives us a taste of some of the pieces written in the past 24 hours. Eagle Par Birdie notes with irony that on the day that Floyd Landis was found guilty of doping by an arbitration panel, golf is finally developing a drug policy of its' own. Reason Hit and Run says give back the yellow jersey Floyd, real winners don't do drugs. Beside Still Waters writes a moving tribute to poet Rich Mullins, and also notes the Floyd Landis decision which she feels is just plain wrong. Floyd won the 2006 Tour de France fair and square, period. Thanks for reading us. An Athlete's Rise and Fall in the World wants Floyd Landis to just accept his ban and and get on with it. JR said... Interesting that Arlene doesn't think he should appeal. This may be a completely naive question, but is there anyone for Floyd to bring a civil suit against? I can't imagine that a group of reasonable people looking at the panel's decision and the consequences for Landis wouldn't conclude that he was wronged. And obviously damaged financially. I have to assume this isn't possible, but I'd be interested in hearing from someone who actually knows something. Apologies if this has been addressed elsewhere (I looked, but didn't see anything). Fri Sep 21, 12:48:00 PM PDT Jim T said... In the LA Times piece, Hiltzik notes that Floyd's practical appeals are limited. Floyd signed on to be judged by WADA rules when he took out his cycling license, so he's probably SOL. If he could get a court to agree that USADA is acting as an agent of the government, then he could sue for denial of civil rights. But that's not likely to happen. I suppose he could always sue Dick Pound, just for the fun of it. Speaking of Dick Pound, can you believe that he said he can't comment on the case because Floyd might appeal to the CAS? When and why did Pound get religion on the confidentiality issue? I wonder who got to him? The most practical thing to do (which won't help Floyd, but could help others) would be to get Congress to look into USADA's and WADA's procedures when it comes time for these agencies to seek future funding. Members of Congress might not be too keen on funding quasi-judicial bodies that depart so completely from American standards of due process. I've been wondering and maybe someone can answer this question that's burning a hole in my head: How can one arbitrater attend the same hearing and come to a conclusion 180 degrees differetn from two other arbs at the same hearing? Campbell stuck to the facts and made factual decisions. The other two 'immigrant lawyers' used words like should, shall, nevertheless in their decision and tried to write a scientific paper to back up their results that's was/is as confusing as the scientists testimonies. There is no way Brunet/Mclaren understood the science to the degree that they tried to write in their decision. Someone please explain this to me? It’s a pretty simple matter that the fix was in. The fix was in on many levels. I’ll mention a few. The WADA rules hold athletes to strict liability while holding the labs to a much looser sort of liability with regard to training, procedures, testing, and reporting. Various WADA, LNDD, UCI, ASO officials seem to be held to almost no liability for breaking a plethora of their own rules as related to this one case. In basic terms, athletes must not be unlucky enough to be accused of breaking the rules, even unintentionally, or face severe penalties. Officials can expect to break the rules, sometimes in spectacular and public fashion, and expect no penalty. The pool of arbitrators favors the WADA. WADA and IOC are incestuous. Many WADA arbs from the pool are beholden to WADA and/or IOC for their positions. Many of those same arbs from the pool aspire to higher positions within WADA and/or IOC. Not long before the hearing, and after the arbs were named, McLaren and Brunet famously rubbed shoulders with high-ranking WADA and IOC officials at a pre-Olympic get together in China. Evidently they had no fear of the appearance of a conflict of interest. I will say that it is evidence supporting actual conflict of interest. Whether or not someone gave them explicit marching orders, the circumstances of the event, and the players present, made those orders implicitly clear. Arbitration was required under the rules and was purported as a means of handling cases quickly and with lower costs than typical courtroom trials. As I’ve written before, it would be hard to prove that theory by the Landis case. Arbitration, in this case, had all the costs and complexities of a courtroom trial, with few of the protections afforded to the accused. Again, the deck was stacked. A flaw the rules writers would like to eliminate, and that Floyd was able to exploit, was to demand a public hearing. As so many people have seen the hearing and the transcripts are public record, it’s much harder for WADA/USADA to spin the hearing as a search for the truth. It was meant, in fact, to simply justify, however shakey the justification, a guilty verdict. The alphabet soup does not enjoy their absolute authority being questioned, especially in public. Too bad for them. Hopefully they will just have to get used to it jrdbutcher, I agree with you argument. If the above is actually the case, how could one prove it? Should/Could Campbell come clean with what was discussed and how the final decsion was made behind closed doors now that the hearing is officially over? I'd love Campbell and others to come out swinging in public over this issue. Some well respected and/or well positioned people speaking out could blow the lid off the entire process. Maybe some well healed sports fan who wants to see the system fixed so that it works correctly can become Floyd's benefactor to allow him to more easily continue the fight (ideally in federal court if at all possible). The WADA system needs to be exposed and held accountable for the fraud that it is. If Campbell were to violate the privileged communications between he and the other two arbitrators during their deliberations, he would jeopardize his position as an AAA Arbitrator. As he is likely to be chosen by athletes in future hearings, he will probably do more good by simply doing his job in the professional manner he has in the past. Please note that he has ruled against athletes as well as for athletes. I’d trust him to decide cases on their merits and let the chips fall where they may. As for McLaren and Brunet, that’s another story. Ken and Jrdbutcher, Thanks for the responses. I've thought about this too. I keep asking myself if maybe I'm just biased and want to believe that Landis is not guilty. Same thing regarding the Hamilton case. The thing that I always go back to is that WADA/UCI/USADA consistently break their own rules. Hamilton has documented similar problems with the USADA about gathering information. I've always said that if the USADA was interested in the truth, they would have opened their books and provided the athletes with whatever information thay wanted/required. After all, USADA 'knew' they were guilty so they shouldn't have anything to hide. We'll never really know if Floyd or Tyler doped, but we do know that the system that found them guilty if very flawed. I always try to get the people that assume that the athlete is guilty to tell me if they'd accept a positive doping finding if they were in the athlete's shoes given the same information and most dodge the question or eventually admit that they wouldn't accept the positive finding. Good thing amateur cycling seems to be going strong in the US. wschart said... Seems to me, that while he said little about what went on during the "deliberation", Campbell pretty well laid out the other two, especially that passage from Luke. This has to be one of the best quotes ever: "We'll never really know if Floyd or Tyler doped, but we do know that the system that found them guilty is very flawed." TBV: Give some thought to redoing your masthead with this as the byline. :-D Can anyone tell me if the AAA has some type of review board to assure quality people and decisions are made through arbitration? It would seem to me, this case would definately fail any type of impartial peer review. 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__label__wiki	0.730238	0.730238	Cam'ron Is Bringing His "Purple Haze 2 Tour" to Canada He plays Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa early next year This December marks the 15th anniversary of Cam'ron's beloved fourth studio album Purple Haze, and ahead of dropping sequel Purple Haze 2 later this month, the Harlem rap icon has announced tour plans for 2020. Cam'ron will spend just shy of a month on the road behind Purple Haze 2 next February and March, kicking things off with a show in Philadelphia on February 18. Three Canadian stops have been included on the itinerary. Killa Cam will hit the stage at Toronto's Velvet Underground on February 28 ahead of a stop at Montreal's Fairmount Theatre the following evening on February 29. He will then round out his Canadian travels at Barrymore's in Ottawa on March 1. Tickets for all dates go on sale Friday (December 6) at 12 p.m. local time, with further details available here. Purple Haze 2 is set to arrive December 16, and you can revisit first single "Believe in Flee" below. Fans have been waiting for the effort to surface since 2014, with Cam'ron revealing that year how he planned for the sequel album to be his last-ever release. Recently, Purple Haze came back to vinyl as part of Record Store Day 2018. 02/18 Philadelphia, PA - TLA 02/20 Washington, DC - The Howard Theatre 02/22 Nashville, TN - The Basement East 02/24 Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's 02/25 Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge 02/26 Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop 02/27 Ann Arbor, MI - The Blind Pig A2 02/28 Toronto, ON - Velvet Underground 02/29 Montreal, QC - Fairmount Theatre 03/01 Ottawa, ON - Barrymore's 03/05 Clifton Park, NY - Upstate Concert Hall 03/06 Hartford, CT - The Webster 03/07 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Restaurant More Cam'ron Feb 28 @ 7:00PM - Cam'ron Toronto @ Velvet Underground Feb 29 @ 7:00PM - Cam'ron Montreal @ Théâtre Fairmount Mar 01 @ 8:00PM - Cam'ron Ottawa @ Barrymore's Music Hall Kanye West "Ass Shots" (ft. French Montana and Cam'ron) It'll probably be a while before we hear Kanye West's follow up to The Life of Pablo, but fans are fortunate enough to dig into some previou... Cam'ron "Oh Yeah" (ft. Juelz Santana) (video) Cam'ron and Juelz Santana brought Dipset back once more when they released their collaborative "Oh Yeah" single earlier this year, and now t... Canadian "Smokers Club" Shows with Cam'ron, the Underachievers, Nyck Caution Cancelled Cam'ron, the Underachievers, G-Herbo, Smoke DZA, Nyck Caution and special guests were slated to bring their hazy trek across North America o... Nardwuar the Human Serviette vs. Cam'ron Being a guy that knows a thing or two about fashion, Cam'ron bestowed a huge compliment on Nardwuar the Human Serviette this week, noting th... Cam'ron "Oh Yeah" (ft. Juelz Santana) Cam'ron already has his summer mapped out thanks to his inclusion on the "Smokers Club Tour" bill, but before he gets rolling in more ways t...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3628
__label__wiki	0.537146	0.537146	Author’s Notes Comments Feed RSS Feed Chapter 39: Fearful Symmetry Posted on September 25, 2016 by Scott Alexander Tiferet’s position down the center between Keter and Yesod indicates to many Kabbalists that it is somewhat of a “converting” Sephirot between form (Yesod) and force (Keter). In other words, all crossing over the middle path via Tiferet results in a reversed polarity. – Reb Wiki Evening, May 13, 2017 Ana groaned, grudgingly regained consciousness. James was shaking her, lightly. “Are you awake?” he whispered. Her mouth was desert-dry. Her muscles were sore. She tried to get up, only to find she was tied to the bed. “What’s happening? Let me go!” James gave her an apologetic look and started untying the ropes. “Long story. Edgar Crane cornered one of the druggies on the ship, told the Drug Lord that Simeon Azore was on the ship, offered to dose him in exchange for help getting Reno back. Drug Lord was interested because he figured Azore would know secret Names. He gave Crane some buttons, Crane stuck them in the soup tonight at dinner. I was meeting with John and the captain and we were late for dinner, and drugs don’t work on Amoxiel. So it was just you, Azore, Hope, Tomas and Lin who got dosed. There was a bit of a fight. Amoxiel’s vicious when he wants to be. Now Crane’s dead. John’s really injured. But the Drug Lord couldn’t take over the ship. He gave up and we tied up the others so they’d be safe while they came down. When we tried to tie you up, you told us that if we tried to touch you you’d jump off the side of the ship and drown yourself. So we let you be. Then an hour or so later you stopped resisting and just fell asleep, so we tied you up.” He untied the last rope and lifted Ana out of bed. “You all right?” She massaged her face. “Yeah. Actually, pretty good. Saw a…friend.” James lifted an eyebrow. “You better get above decks. Things are getting interesting.” Things were getting interesting. The hills of Baja California had given way to lush jungle. “Where are we?” asked Ana. The whole crew was assembled on the deck now. The Captain rarely spoke, but when he did he meant business. Now he faced them and said “John’s dying. Lin used the Static Name on him and bought him a little time. I give him a day or two. At most. We need to go to Kennedy Space Center.” Lin, Amoxiel, Tomas all shared a meaningful look. “There’s a launch a day from now. On any other ship it would be impossible. On Not A Metaphor, we can make it. But only if we cross the Canal.” An immediate outcry from all assembled. The Captain pounded the table and demanded silence. Then, “We swore an oath!” Slowly, James nodded. “It’s a risk,” he said. “But we did. We swore an oath. If we don’t keep it now, none of us are safe.” “He was like a father for us,” said Lin. “I can use the Canal Keys. That’s basic placebomancy. At least if they work.” “I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Ana said, “but it sounds fascinating.” Ten years ago, when they had first sailed out of Puerto Penasco on the Comet King’s old ship, when they had first conceived the idea of pursuing Metatron and boarding his boat, Tomas had brought up the question on everyone’s mind. Trying to capture and board a boat containing the earthly reflection of God might be lucrative, but wasn’t it going to make the Deity pretty angry? Lin had waxed poetic about how God wanted humans to engage with Him, how pursuing him and challenging him was itself probably a part of the divine plan. The Captain had pointed angrily at the name of the ship, and everyone had agreed they probably needed a better insurance policy. Money they did not lack, and long before they grew old they would have pension enough to do what needed to be done. But they had also decided that if any of them got sick, or injured, or threatened to die in the line of duty, the whole crew would pool their resources to get him on to Celestial Virgin. Everyone with a TV set had seen Hell, but no one knew if there was a Heaven. They only knew that there was a crack in the sky, and that Neil Armstrong had passed through it singing songs of praise for the Most High. But no one had ever known if there was a Heaven, and that hadn’t stopped them from hoping. For example, Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon knew he probably wasn’t going to get into Heaven the traditional way, so he’d pulled rank and got himself a ticket on a space capsule to enter it directly. Unfortunately for him, that space capsule had been Apollo 13, and he’d fallen back to Earth and his enraged constituents. But what if he’d had the right idea? At age 35, business magnate Richard Branson was already head of Virgin Records, Virgin Communications, Virgin Games, and Virgin Atlantic Airways. What other people saw as the immutable will of God he saw as a business opportunity. So he teamed up with legendary aerospace engineer Burt Rutan to create a spacecraft capable of transporting a small number of lucky passengers up into the crack. And by lucky, he meant “very very rich”. If you can’t take it with you, you might as well give it to the people promising to ensure you an afterlife of eternal bliss. Thus was born Celestial Virgin. Jesus had said it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven, but rocketry had thirty years of practice working with astonishingly small tolerances and rose to meet the challenge. Competitors sprung up – HeavenX, Blue Origen – but if you really wanted the best engineers in the world aiming you at that needle eye and guaranteeing you’d get through, you would petition Celestial Virgin, accept no substitutes. Sure, there were people saying it was literally the most blasphemous thing possible – to sell the rich tickets to Heaven so that only the poor had to answer for their misdeeds. But there were always people saying that kind of stuff. Why, you could say it was wrong to have doctors, because then rich people had an advantage in surviving disease! You could say it was wrong to have bookstores, because then rich people had an advantage in learning about the world! Everyone important, ie rich, was happy to ignore these nattering nabobs of negativism, and when Celestial Virgin offered to buy the Kennedy Space Center from the cash-strapped Untied States government, President Reagan was quick to agree. When the Captain and his crew had first stolen Not A Metaphor, they swore an oath to each other that once they had the money they needed no member of their crew would near death but the others would do whatever it took to get them to Cape Canaveral and their ticket to a better afterlife. Now as John neared death, the ship changed its course and headed for the western terminus of the Panama Canal. One of the most famous phrases in the English language: “A man, a plan, a canal – Panama.” We compare it to three other famous trinities. Everyone knows the Christian Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. But the Buddhists have a similarly central concept called the Three Jewels – Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. The Buddha is the enlightened being. The dharma is the moral law, or the natural law, or duty; there’s no good English translation, so take your pick. Sangha corresponds almost precisely to “church”, not in the sense of a building but in the sense of “Catholic Church”, where it means an entire community of believers. The kabbalists have their own trinity: the Supernal Triad of the first three sephirot. Kether is the transcendent heavenly aspect of God. Binah is a perfectly receptive vessel sometimes likened to the uterus. And Chokmah is likened to lightning – the bolt that originates in Kether and strikes Binah, impregnating it with divine essence. These three trinities all correspond nicely to one another. They all have a human aspect: the Son, the Sangha, Binah, looking for answers but seeing the majesty of God’s plan only imperfectly. They all have an ineffable divine component: the Father, the Buddha, Kether, abiding in the secret order of the universe and seeing its full glory. And they all have a force that connects the other two: the Holy Spirit, the Dharma, Chokhmah, the potential for uniting the human and divine. Ordinary mortals. The divine order. A connection between them. A man. A plan. A canal. But what about Panama? Well, imagine the map of the mystical body of God overlaid upon a map of the Western Hemisphere – because we’re kabbalists and this is by no means the weirdest thing that we do. What sort of correspondences do we find? None at all, because we’ve forgotten the lesson Uriel taught Sohu all those years ago; we see God face to face, so our left is His right and vice versa. So overlay the mystical body of God on the Western Hemisphere and flip it around the vertical axis. Now what? Keter, sephirah corresponding to the ineffable crown of God, lands at the North Pole, the uninhabitable crown of the world. Malkuth, the sephirah corresponding to the feet of God, lands in Patagonia, whose name means “land of big feet” (don’t ask me, ask early Spanish explorers). The center of Malkuth, corresponding to the world of Assiah, sits on the Argentine city of Ushuaia – in Hebrew the two words would be identical. Just below Malkuth lies the realm of the Devil; just below Patagonia lies Cape Horn. We’ve got a correspondence, so we go down the line. Chokhmah represents divine knowledge shooting downward, the spirit of prophecy; it falls upon Juneau, Alaska. The Name of God corresponding to Chokhmah is Jah; the name of the city is therefore a kabbalistic reference to divine knowledge as “Jah knows”. Binah representing the receptive mind as it gains understanding. It falls upon Boston – home of Harvard and MIT. Hesed, representing loving kindness, falls upon San Francisco Bay, recalling our previous discussions about St. Francis, the hippie movement, and California as positive affect. Chesed is often considered the right hand of God; we already know how this symbol relates to San Francisco through Psalm 89:13. Gevurah, representing law and justice, falls upon Washington DC. It is the left hand of God, wielding His punishing sword. Netzach represents endurance and eternity, kind of like the slow but steady and long-lived tortoises after whom the Galapagos is named. Hod represents splendor, endless forms bursting into life – and it falls right in the middle of the Amazon. Yesod is interconnectedness and communication, also associated with silver and the moon. It falls upon the Rio de la Plata region of Argentina, named for its many interconnecting rivers and its copious silver reserves under the Earth. But I bring this up because in the very center of the Tree lies Tiferet, the Heart of God, the Sephirah of Miracles. It stands at the center of the Tree of Life and joins the two halves of the mystic body, connecting to everything. Not just connecting everything, but reflecting everything, a mirror that transforms and displays everything it sees. And it falls smack dab upon the Panama Canal. The center of the whole system, the key to the mystery. A man. A plan. A canal. Panama. Panama City had seen better days. Neither close enough to Mexico for the Drug Lord to capture and control nor far enough to escape his ravages entirely, it had become a shoddy tributary state. The closing of the canal had been the final blow, and most of its citizens and wealth fled southward to the Most Serene Empire of the Darien Gap. Now its skyscrapers looked like rotting trees in a drought, sounding a warning to all who passed by. The Not A Metaphor ignored it and slipped under the Bridge of the Americas until it was face to face with the Miraflores Locks. The cracks in the sky had damaged the proper functioning of the lock machinery. The Panamanians had kept the locks going for a few years, but the canal had gained an eerie reputation and traffic had dwindled to a trickle. When the Panamanians finally abandoned the locks as part of the general retreat to the South American side of the waterway the locks were left to rot. Now they stood like inert walls, blocking the ship’s path. Lin had a plan. “We knew this day would come,” he said. “Me, James, and the Captain have been preparing to cross the Canal for ages, although we always hoped we wouldn’t have to.” He drew out a scroll wheel. “The Motive Name”. Ana was skeptical. “Used on the locks? There are probably hundreds of different moving pieces. If you just fire the Name at random, there’s practically no chance you’ll hit something useful.” Lin nodded “Practically no chance. There’s a big difference between practically no chance and actually no chance, and that’s where placebomancy comes in. The key is the key.” He showed Ana the scroll wheel. Attached to one side was a big glass key. “Miraflores, in the name of Rahab, angel of the depths, open for me!” Then he pointed to the locks and tore off the scroll containing the Motive Name. The locks creaked open. “How’d you do that?” asked Simeon. “Once the Captain and I put our heads together, it was obvious,” Lin said grinning. “How do you open a lock? With a key. How do you open a metaphorical lock that’s called “lock” even though it’s really a geographical feature involved in sailing? With a metaphorical key that’s called “key” even though it’s really a geographical features involved in sailing. This is sand from the Florida Keys, melted into glass and shaped by the locksmiths of San Francisco.” “That is both really clever and the stupidest thing I ever heard,” said Ana. The Not A Metaphor sailed forward. With another scroll from his key, Lin closed the locks and opened the other side. They were now in Miraflores Lake. “So you think that’s it?” asked Simeon Azore, who had recovered enough to come on deck and watch the ship’s progress. “A single clever pun, and we can reverse twenty years of bad luck getting through the Canal? I doubt it will be that easy. Remember, even when the locks were working fine, ships weren’t making it through. The passage hasn’t worked right since the sky cracked.” They entered the Pedro Miguel locks without difficulty. “It’s the kabbalah that’s the problem,” Simeon continued. “We’re going from the west coast to the east coast directly, straight through Tiferet. From the Pillar of Mercy to the Pillar of Justice. We’re doing an inverse transformation of the divine nature. I don’t think what’s left of the machinery of the universe is going to help us with that. I think it’s going to screw us up.” Another turn of Lin’s placebomantic key, and they were out of the Pedro Miguel locks and on to the Culebra Cut, an arrow-straight trough where the canal went straight through a mountain range. “I second Azore in his grave concern,” said Amoxiel. “The energies of Heav’n are growing dim Too subtle for you men to comprehend A great reversal looms.” “I’m actually starting to feel a little woozy myself,” said James. “I think it’s the heat, but I can’t be sure. Maybe we should stop the boat for a little while, have a look around.” “I don’t feel that great either,” said Lin, “but if there’s a problem with the canal, it’s probably worst here, near the center. I’d rather gun it for the Atlantic than sit and wait for it to get us, especially with John as bad as he is. And when we get back to the ship, we can have a nice cold drink of water.” “Get back to the ship?” asked James. Suddenly, Lin vanished. “WE’RE STOPPING THE SHIP!” said James. “I’m getting the Captain! The rest of you! Get your weapons ready! Kabbalists, prepare your Names!” He ran below deck. Tomas drew a pistol. Ana spoke the Bulletproof Name. She ribbed Azore. “You going to give me grief about doing this without a proper UNSONG license?” “You’re not from UNSONG,” said Azore. “You’re too nice.” “That’s not what I meant,” said Ana, and then she saw the far-off look in his eyes. Something was getting him. “AMOXIEL!” she shouted. “TOMAS! Something’s wrong with Azore!” Amoxiel was hovering a few feet in the air. Then he crashed, apparently half-asleep. Tomas was already on the deck, and seemed to be having some kind of seizure. Ana spoke the Sanctifying Name to bless the area. The air became cooler and fresher, but no one rose. She spoke the Revelatory Name to expose hidden dangers, but none showed themselves. She spoke the Wakening Name, tried to revive Amoxiel, but though the jolt of energy shot through her, it didn’t rouse him at all. She ran downstairs to the cabins. James was on the floor right in front of the ship’s bridge. The Captain wasn’t in the navigation room. The most important rule on the ship was to never enter the Captain’s cabin without his consent, which he never gave. But technically opening the door wasn’t breaking the rule. She flung it open, scanned the room for him. Nobody there. A bed, a deck, a bathroom. She couldn’t see all of it from where she stood, but nowhere big enough for someone the Captain’s size to hide, even if he had wanted to. The man was missing. She checked the bridge. No one there either. Who was steering the ship? She ran upstairs. No one was steering the ship. It was just continuing in a line. Thank God the Culebra Cut was so perfectly straight. But soon they would come to the Gamboa Reach, and crash right into the side of the canal. Okay. Don’t panic. Think. Three things she had to do. Figure out what the danger was. See if she could revive the people on the ground, or find the people who were gone. Steer the ship. Only one of those things did she have the slightest idea how to do, so she ran back into the bridge. She had kind of hoped it would be easy, with a big steering wheel and maybe a “How To Steer A Ship” manual sitting next to it, but it was just a lot of controls and a device that was probably some sort of steering wheel but much more complicated than the automotive variety. There were a whole host of sensors, all of which were broken except the radar, which was continuing to PING every couple of seconds. Hesitantly, as a test only, ready to turn it right back as soon as she felt anything, she turned the steering wheel. Either she was turning it wrong, or it was broken. Okay. Steering the ship was out, for now. Figure out what the danger was. She was shaking. The rest of them were all gone. She was the only one left. Why wasn’t she dead or unconscious? PING went the radar. Why was it, of everything on the ship, still working? Wait, no. There were two things that were still working. The radar. And her. Why was she still working? Why had everyone else collapsed? Why had Lin vanished? Think, Ana, think! Think like a kabbalist! This was Tiferet, the Sephirah of Miracles, where the upper and lower worlds met, where left and right came together, the center of the whole design. Think like a kabbalist! Then: “Oh no. That’s even stupider than the thing with the locks.” Ana stood on the poop deck. She only vaguely remembered the term. It meant “an elevated area on the back of a ship.” The Not A Metaphor had a poop deck. This was important. The moment she had dragged her companions from where they had fallen onto the poop deck, they started looking better. They stopped seizing. They breathed more easily. They weren’t awake, but they didn’t look like they were going to die either. She panted with exertion as she dragged the last one – Tomas – up the single step. James and the Captain were belowdecks; there was no helping them. This was so stupid. But in a way it also made sense. This was Tiferet. It reversed the polarity of forces that entered it. God was One and His Name was One; at a high enough level of abstraction we were all one with our names. Reverse a name, and you get…well, various things. Reverse Lin’s name, and you get nil. Reverse most people’s names, and you get nonsense. Reverse Ana’s name, and nothing happened at all. Problem was, almost everything on the ship was kabbalistic nonsense now. The crew, the captain, the steering system…especially the steering system. Broken and useless. As soon as the ship reached the end of the Culebra Cut it would smash into the side of the canal and they would be done for. She ran back to the bridge, pulled the steering mechanism as hard as she could. No good. She pressed all the buttons she could think of. None of them were working. She ran back up to the deck, grabbing James’ binoculars as she went. Looked out in front of her. There, coming ever closer, was the Gamboa Turn. She considered her options. She could jump off the ship and swim to safety. Then everyone else would die and she would be stuck in Central America and maybe get eaten by piranhas. She could run back to the bridge and bang on more buttons. She could… Ana Thurmond did something very uncharacteristic. She fell to her knees and started praying. “God,” she said. “I’m a theodician, I should know better than anyone else that you don’t actually answer prayers. And I spent most of my life making silly jokes about the Torah and giving You grief for letting evil continue to exist. And now I’m with people who want to capture your boat and harass you. So, uh there’s that. But. Um…” The problem with knowing theodicy is that it makes it really hard to pray. You can’t say “I’m in trouble, so please help me,” because you know that many people are in trouble and die anyway. You can’t say “I was a good person, so help me,” because you know that many people were very good and died anyway. You can’t say “I know you have some plan for me that I haven’t fulfilled yet,” because you know that many people died without fulfilling anything. Some scholars say that prayer changes nothing but that it is very important that you do it anyway, but when your ship is hurtling towards a rocky bank such subtleties lose their compellingness. “GOD, THIS IS A REALLY STUPID WAY TO DIE,” said Ana. The ship continued its inexorable progress. If Mohammed won’t go to the mountain, the mountain must come to Mohammed. If the world wasn’t going to make sense, Ana might as well use insane moon logic and see where it got her. She went into the galley. Grabbed a piece of meat. Stood there, on the poop deck. “Okay, Dog,” she said. “I haven’t always believed in you. I mean, I’ve always believed in dogs, but…no, this is stupid. Listen, if I let you have this piece of meat, will you save me and my friends?” She watched in disbelief as a big black dog bounded up and sat in front of her. She was in Tiferet, the Heart Sephirah, the Sephirah of Miracles. “Dog?” said Ana, in disbelief. It was big. It reminded her of those black dogs that ye olde English had viewed as signs of death, the ones that would appear on windswept moors. It looked at her. Its eyes seemed too deep, too intelligent. Ana handed it the piece of meat, and it ate greedily. “Good dog?” she asked? The dog turned its head. Ana wasn’t sure what that was supposed to mean. Very tentatively, Ana reached out and patted its head. At that precise moment, the Not A Metaphor crossed straight through the Heart of God, the dead center of the American continent. For a second, Ana saw all the connections, all the sephirot in – how had Blake put it – “in starry numbers fitly ordered”. She saw the flow of energies, as above so below, as on the right so on the left, God becoming Man becoming God, all a perfect palindrome. She saw that the world was a palindrome, that the human body was a palindrome, that history was a palindrome, that the entire Bible was palindromes. Dumb mud. Madam in Eden, I’m Adam. Cain, a maniac. Semite times. Egad, no bondage! Deed. Tenet. Are we not drawn onwards, we Jews, drawn onward to new era? Egad, a base life defiles a bad age. So let’s use Jesus’ telos. Dogma – I am god! Deliverer re-reviled. “Abba, abba”. Deified. Did I do, O God, did I as I said I’d do; good, I did. …and then the dog grabbed the meat and ran away behind the galley. By the time Ana followed, it had disappeared. Wow, thought Ana to herself, that is definitely the weirdest thing that happened to me since…well, since I was possessed by an astral cactus person this afternoon, I guess. Then she looked up. The ship was still on course. The rocks of the Gamboa Turn were straight ahead. Minutes now, if that. She ran back belowdecks. The dog wasn’t there. Frantically, she opened the door to the bridge, hoping beyond hope she would find it, could convince it to do something… “Hello,” said a nice female voice. There was no one else there. “Who are you?” asked Ana, suspiciously. “I am All Your Heart,” said the voice. “Autopilot mode has been off for…nineteen years. Would you like to reactivate autopilot mode?” “There’s an autopilot mode?!” asked Ana. “The Comet King wrote the Animating Name on my hull. I am a ship and a golem. Autopilot mode is available for reactivation.” “Yes!” said Ana. “Yes yes yes yes yes! Why didn’t I know about you before?” “The Comet King crossed the Panama Canal, reversing the Animating Name. Now the Name is back in its proper configuration, and I am back online.” They were in Tiferet, the Sephirah of Miracles. “The Comet King never crossed the Canal a second time? How did he pilot without you?” “I do not have that information,” said the autopilot. “Would you like to reactivate autopilot?” “Yes!” said Ana. “Activate autopilot! Now! Save the ship!” Very slowly, she felt Not A Metaphor turn. Of its own accord, the ship navigated the Gamboa Turn, then crossed the treacherous waters around Barro Colorado Island into the expanse of Gatun Lake. All through the night it kept going, and the first hint of light broke over the eastern horizon right as the Gatun Locks came into view. From the spot where Lin had vanished, Ana took the Florida Key and held it high, cast the Motive Name. The locks opened. As the first ray of sunlight touched the unconscious men on the poop deck, James, John, Tomas, Erin, Simeon and Amoxiel rose anew, having been reversed and then returned to normal. The Captain appeared from his cabin, dark glasses on as always, quiet as always, not even asking questions. “What happened?” asked James. “Where are we?” Then, “Where’s Lin?” “Tiferet happened,” said Ana. “A kabbalistic reversed polarity. You all became nonsense. Lin became nil, and is gone. Only I was able to survive. We’re at the Gatun Locks, a skip and a jump away from open water. I prayed and God answered. James, the ship has an autopilot! It was Tiferet! The Sephirah of Miracles!” “I’ve never seen you so excited before,” James said. “Do you realize what this means?” asked Ana. “A talking ship! The Comet King had a talking ship! America is an epic!” Not A Metaphor entered the Atlantic Ocean and sailed into the rising sun. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged book, chapter. Bookmark the permalink. ← Chapter 38: I Will Not Cease From Mental Fight Chapter 40: In Terrible Majesty → 240 Responses to Chapter 39: Fearful Symmetry Is there some reason why the function of everything turned to nonsense but the form did not, except for Lin? AxiomsOfDominion says: Plot necessity? Ninmesara says: Lin’s function is to exist. Now that she’s nil she doesn’t. monkyyy says: nil has its own function So how did this new info cause the comet kings downfall? Did he find nemo in the canal? stavro375 says: > Did he find nemo in the canal? He didn’t find NEMO… the Comet King found an OMEN. Angstrom says: Ooh, nice chronology catch! He last went through nineteen years ago – in 1998 – which is right around the time of his great crusade failing. Sonata Green says: A butchered pig was found to have the word “OMEN” written on its liver in clearly visible letters. Pieces of paper with the word “OMEN” written on them fell from the clouds. A series of very precise lightning strikes seared the word “OMEN” into the rust-red sand of the Sonora Desert; scientists blamed “phytoplankton”. Joseph Hertzlinger says: I thought the Vital Name would produce the talking ship. Mostly Metaphorical says: This is explained in the first chapter: Four hundred years earlier, an old man in Prague had explained to his students that yes, you could make a golem, you could bestow upon it the nefesh, the animal soul. With sufficient enlightenment, you could even bestow upon it the ruach, the moral soul. But the neshamah, the divine spark, you could not bestow upon it, for that was a greater work, and would require a greater Name than any ever discovered. So the Animating Name creates golems, but the Vital Name gives the divine spark. R Flaum says: “offered to by” should be “offered to buy”. I suspect that “A bed, a deck” is supposed to be “A bed, a desk”. There’s probably not a whole deck inside one room. G* says: Deck is like floor; it can refer to the lower bound of a room (as here) or a complete horizontal slice of a structure. But it could also be a typo. John Cowan says: It could not be a typo, because nothng is a typo. teucer says: The list of people not drugged ends “and we” instead of “and me” I guess this is the nitpick thread? The quote at the top is not wrapped in a <blockquote> tag, unlike quotes in other chapters. I’m surprised Scott hadn’t noticed that immediately. (Also, what is Reb Wiki supposed to be, anyway? Wikipedia? Searching the Web for the quoted passage would indicate so. Though the name “Reb Wiki” seems so disappointingly straightforward compared to some other kabbalistic counterparts…) Sniffnoy says: I think it’s just a joke about how much Wikipedia is trusted. What Rabbi said this? Reb Wiki said it. The quote is fixed, except for the attribution, which is outside the quote block, unlike every other chapter quote. The moment she had dragged her companions from where they had fallen onto the poop deck, they started looking better. This sentence is unclear; I initially read it as “from where they had (fallen onto the poop deck)”. I’d suggest rearranging it to “The moment she had dragged her companions onto the poop deck from where they had fallen…”. benzrf says: Seconded – I didn’t even realize that they weren’t on the poop deck to start with until I read this comment just now. nextworldover says: “With a metaphorical key that’s called “key” even though it’s really a geographical features involved in sailing.” the number agreement here does not Shouldn’t the palindrome be “Are we not drawn onwards, we Jews, drawn onward to new era”? I also think something is wrong with “Eve damned Adam, mad Eve,” but only vowels, so they don’t matter? “Did I do, O God, did I do as I said I’d do; good, I did” should have “did I as I said” instead of “did I do as I said”. Saro says: I think that one was supposed to have been “Even damned Eden, mad Eve” Sounds like they should have taken a racecar instead of a boat. They should have taken a kayak. Oh my God. Is that why the Comet King had that thing? I’m surprised he didn’t give his kids palindromic or usefully-reversible names. B_Epstein says: Llull is a good program to run in the canal. By the way am I the only person here mentally pronouncing that as if it were Welsh? Good Burning Plastic says: No, I do that too. I remember noting earlier that Nemo was Omen backwards, but I couldn’t figure out how that would be relevant. Now I guess we’ll find out. Noticed this myself. I have a feeling that Nemo was originally generated out of an omen by the Comet King’s first passage through the Panama Canal. Haissem is, incidentally, a real name, and what the name-meaning sites say about it sounds pretty damn Comet-King-y to me. neptunepink says: Nemo is the Omen, which was the black dog, which is god? It reminded her of those black dogs that ye olde English had viewed as signs of death Sounds like an omen to me. nelshoy says: The grim -> mirg -> merge with the lake? A name, by any other word, would still mean this is not actually Shakespeare. says: Why did nothing happen to the raluconibs? Vanillafog says: I was wondering this too! Looking back at the passage, it never says that Ana specifically looked through the binoculars, just that she grabbed them and looked out. A second possibility is that they’re palindromic in shape, if not in name: if you reverse a pair of binoculars, you just get a flipped-over pair of binoculars. If you reverse a pair of binoculars, you get a pair of reverse binoculars; it works the same, except you have to look through what would ordinarily be the wrong end. Stable says: Depends on the axis you choose, no? Most words are actually flipped left-to-right (or vice versa). If you reverse a pair of binoculars, you get a microscope. LPSP says: …But you get that anyway by just turning them around! Myself and my brother used to derive hours of amusement as kids using binoculars backwards and pretending the world had shrunk. We called it “mousey mousey”, and for some reason we were just slightly afraid that if we were seen through the backnoculars, we really WOULD shrink. So, maybe I should be explicit, the joke I was going for was that if you “reverse” a pair of binoculars to produce a pair of reverse-binoculars, it works exactly the same except for which end produces which effect. I think we all got that Sniff, we’re just having fun with the concept. Grort says: What does “America is an epic” mean? It’s a reference to something she said earlier; she had a theory that the story of America met the definition of an epic, and one of the requirements listed for an epic is that it includes a talking ship. Yumantimatter says: Speaking of, I found this ( What is an Epic? An epic in its most specific sense is a genre of classical poetry originating in Greece. The conventions of this genre are several: (a) It is a long narrative about a serious or worthy traditional subject. (b) Its diction in elevated in style. It employs a formal, dignified, objective tone and many figures of speech. (c) The narrative focused on the exploits of a hero or demigod who represents the cultural values of a race, nation, or religious group. (d) The hero’s success or failure will determine the fate of that people or nation. (e) The action takes place in a vast setting, and covers a wide geographic area. The setting is frequently some time in the remote past. (f) The action contains superhuman feats of strength or military prowess. (g) Gods or supernatural beings frequently take part in the action to affect the (h) The poem begins with the invocation of a muse to inspire the poet, a prayer to an appropriate supernatural being. The speaker asks that this being provide him the suitable emotion, creativity, or words to finish the poem. (i) The narrative starts in medias res, in the middle of the action. Subsequently, the earlier events leading up to the start of the poem will be recounted in the characters’ narratives or in flashbacks. (j) The epic contains long catalogs of heroes or important characters, focusing on highborn kings and great warriors rather than peasants and commoners. (k) The epic employs extended similes (called epic similes) at appropriate spots of the story, and a traditional scene of extended description in which the hero arms himself. Here’s the source: https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/documents/Epic.pdf Peter D says: Could Ana be excited because America being an epic might be an answer to the central question of theodicy? Maybe one could explain evil when one considers History to be a meta-moral lesson? Or maybe it just confirms that God does care and is involved in the world, despite Uriel’s claims to the contrary? Aegeus says: “God created the world to have interesting stories” could be a good explanation for the state of the world. Narrative causality, the fact that nothing is a coincidence, it makes sense. Nothing is ever a coincidence in a story – even if it seems like a coincidence, even if the story outright says it was pure luck, it only happens because the author said it would. But of course, nobody in the story knows about the author’s actions, assuming the fourth wall remains intact. And it makes the problem of evil simple – stories always have a villain, and authors can be pretty damn cruel to their characters. Only reference to a talking ship that I’ve found so far is the Argo, which was given a talking prow by Athena. America is an epic cipe na si acirema “cipe” sounds to me like it would be pronounced like kippah, the jewish skull cap. Na si = either the end of Ashkenazim, or perhaps just the Nazis, who are both relevant to judaism in opposing ways. And Acirema… sounds like an Hispanic dance. I’m drawing blanks. Well, precisely because it’s “American” spelled backwards, there’s this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema >Netzach represents endurance and eternity NTZCH ETERNAL RETURN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA With the exception of the S, which I forgot, Netzach has all the same consonants as “Nietzsche”, who is well known for the concept of “eternal return” – that in the span of eternity, the universe must loop, and so every moment carries the weight of eternity. Cniz says: It should be noted that while the consonants appear similar after transliterations to English, they correspond to almost completely different-sounding consonants in the respective Hebrew and German. The “N” corresponds to the same sound in both, but in German the TZSCH part is a voiceless palato-alveolar affricate, whereas in Hebrew it is composed of the separate consonants TZ and CH, the first similar to the first consonant of “Tsunami”, and the second is that pesky guttural consonant which doesn’t exist in English, but is probably familiar as the Spanish “j”, as in the laugh “jajaja”, “Baja California”, or the “x” in “Mexico”. Still, abusing the Kabbalah through mistransliterations is one of the main motifs of UNSONG, so I would say this is certainly Not A Coincidence. Peffern says: Oh my how did I not notice that! John Stricker says: Just a coincidence, I’m sure… OK, so someone is ferrying people to Heaven. Thought: Darien = Darius? Are we going to see Persians (or giant robotic space fish 😛 ) in South America? (Has Cyrus gotten a mention in Unsong yet? I don’t recall.) There doesn’t seem to be any etymological connection, looking it up, but, hey, there are no coincidences… Wondering how other trinities fit here. Zeus/Poseidon/Hades? Brahma/Shiva/Vishnu? Those don’t seem to work as well. (See here for many more…) Moe, Larry, and Curly! Due to their diversion to Florida and the need to find new crew, the All Your Heart misses Metatron at Fire Island. But they then get word that he’s been spotted off the coast of South America. They head straight for the location, but as they get close, they hear the voice of the autopilot… Warning! A huge battleship LEVIATHAN is approaching fast! 4bpp says: There’s also all that talk about reversing polarity, but I suspect that delving into obscure shmup references would constitute a level of audience pandering that would strain suspension of disbelief for even the more resilient readers… Assuming Google can be trusted, Cyrus the Great has not been mentioned in Unsong yet. But he’ll have to get a mention at some point, right? Thecommexokid says: While I think you are right that Cyrus has not been mentioned, Google cannot be trusted—some chapters are indexed and some aren’t. What do you need Google for? Darein is Darien. Yes, I know that. I even pointed out that there isn’t any etymological connection. It would still be funny if due to the power of words there were a neo-Achaemenid civilization there. Oh, sorry, I though you might have looked up Darius, and not “Darien”. I agree it would have been funny. Thor is the dutiful son, not fully comprehending but with the strength and goodness to make the world well. Odin is the mysterious and distant father, difficult beyond difficulties to summarise or comprehend but with great power. And Loki is literally a living lightning bolt, a trickster who changes everything with his wily interventions, his inventions and craftsmanship. Whoever predicted that Ana’s name would be kabbalistically significant: you were right! That being said, why didn’t Lin return to normal like the rest? Would changing your name to a palindrome like Bob or Nan before crossing the canal give you safe passage? What about the name of your ship? I don’t think changing your name to NaN would fit well with the cosmic machinery of the universe, just saying. “I am not a number, I’m a free man!” Hey buddy, what’s your issue with Sodium Nitride? 😛 That’s Na3N Saint Fiasco says: May Lin can only return when they sail through the canal again, like what happened to the autopilot. Yeah, but even without Lin this highlights an inconsistency. The crewmembers (sans Lin) were only reversed while sailing through the canal – but as the ship got to the other side, they were restored. The autopilot Name was reversed while sailing through the canal, and was permanently reversed. Obviously this is a mechanic that’s hard to make work without a lot of Rule of Plot – if “poop” is protective, the effect should apply to ship-scale components, but we don’t see the ship getting wrecked, for instance – so, shrug. Quintopia says: Perhaps they were restored by using their own names, in response to Ana using their names (once they returned to consciousness). This process renamed them to their former unreversed names again? In particle physics lingo, Ana and the radar are spin-2, Lin and the autopilot are spin-1/2, and everything else is spin-1. CalmCanary says: Maybe they were restored by an act of Dog. Walter says: What would come back? Rafinius says: What confused me even more was the Motive Name still working after passing through the middle Why would the boat’s Vital Name stop working permanently while the Motive Name is unaffected? Is it a palindrome? I think it has to do with the fact that the Animating Name (not the Vital Name!) is written on the boat. It’s not a one-time invocation. So it’s written on the boat, and it gets reversed when it passes through the Panama Canal, and stops working. Whereas each invocation of the Motive Name is separate and forward; unless you were saying the Motive Name right as you were passing through the center, there shouldn’t be a problem, I think. Wertsir says: The ship was unaffected, since it is Not A Metaphor. The others were able to return to normal because they were still there, but you can’t carry zero on a boat. Zero is nothing. It doesn’t exist. And you can’t get something from nothing. Lin in this chapter demonstrates that you can, in fact, not be on a boat. 😛 Galle says: Lin never made it out of the canal. Kinetic_Hugh_Reeve says: Blue Origen, for your apokatastatic needs! Caution: do NOT transport rats across the Panama Canal! Oh man, ships carry rats everywhere… It’s not as dangerous if you only carry a single rat. Wasn’t Erin a star? Once she was a star. Now she’s rather ratty. Perhaps she’s already been through once? 😛 Now, rats aren’t very big. If you carry one across, let’s say that due to conservation of mass (which hopefully still works), the resulting star is the sum of the mass of all rats. There have to be at least two rats for there to be rats, as opposed to rat, so let’s go with an average of 5 rats per ship, because you’re good at cleaning, but not superb at it. The average size of a brown rat is 8.1 oz according to our mighty overlord Google. So your star ends up having a mass of 1.15 kg. Let’s assume that the star that results is of a similar type to our sun, so it also has a density of 1410 kg per meter cubed. So you’ve got a star that’s 0.0008156 cubic meters. Which means the resulting hole in your ship is merely 0.1159203093918… meters in diameter, or about 11.6 cm. Sure, you’d sink, but it could’ve been worse. If conservation of mass still works, where is Lin’s mass now? Perhaps he became some of the water in the canal. Or the surrounding air. He may have become nil by being vaporized. The blue sail converted it into energy. Oh, and you’d be quite irradiated. The thing about the name reversal was genius, and the foreshadowing was great. Did anyone here spot it before the revelation? Depends what you mean by “the revelation.” I saw it when Ana did, but before she explained it. (Well, shortly after Ana did — I realized it when she said “that’s even stupider”). Macbi says: You missed out the most interesting fact about the Panama Canal! It itself goes the wrong way! It goes from the Pacific in the east to the Atlantic in the west. Look at it, it’s mad. Wow, that’s a cool fact! Devilbunny says: Yes, the references should more properly be to the Pacific and Atlantic ends rather than eastern and western (after all, it’s mostly north and south). Loweeel says: Yes, if they were on the pacific side, “Now as John neared death, the ship changed its course and headed for the western terminus of the Panama Canal.” would be incorrect — they would be in fact heading for its Eastern (southern) terminus. So… The paths from Binah to Chesed and from Chokhma to Gevurah would cross at Wall Drug… Corresponding to Da’at, associated with union of the 10 sephirot, as well as knowledge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da%27at yomikoma says: By my math it’s closer to Sandusky, MI or Detroit. (See the unsong subreddit for my attempt at a map of the other points.) You might want to provide the actual link: https://www.reddit.com/r/unsong/comments/54kzje/location_correspondences_from_chapter_39_read/ I’ve had bad luck including links on comment threads 🙂 but thank you. If the Chokhma sephirah turns out to be at Seattle instead… You might need to move Binah a little bit north as well. Maybe Ottawa or Montreal? In general, most of the locations don’t make much geometrical sense to me. Is there any rhyme and reason as to how Aaron chooses the point for the sephirot, besides trying to fit kabbalistically (which is not too hard with any choice)? I cannot see preservation of distances between the vertices on the left and right branches, for example, or why would Malkuth be in Patagonia instead of the South Pole? Are there distances between sephirot in the first place? If not, no need for their preservation. Which is kind of my point – the whole correspondance is very arbitrary Restating my comment from the subreddit: It could be Detroit, but perhaps it could also be Lake Michigan itself? Has the issue with the timing of the chapters been fixed yet? I think it isn’t. Ana speaks of being possessed “that afternoon”, but the soup was drugged during dinner, and Aaron is contacted by the Drug Lord in the morning. This is obviously a consequence of the Panama-canal reversal. The sequence of events was reversed. People say some pretty weird stuff just before the reversal… Lin: And when we get back to the ship, we can have a nice cold drink of water Azore says: Is any of these sentences supposed to mean something except that they’re going crazy? Kevin S Van Horn says: That “when we get back to the ship” line has me puzzled, too. They’re saying sentences that will make sense in the next chapter we see the crew, on the other side of ‘Murrica. Whatever sentence they were going to say here, they’ll end up saying there to equally confusing effect instead. I think we have officially reached the apex of the story. It’s all downhill from here. Most Serene Empire of the Darien Gap. “Most Serene”? Where have I heard that before? * Republic of Venice (English: the Most Serene Republic of Venice; Venetian: Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta; Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia) * Republic of Genoa (English: the Most Serene Republic of Genoa; Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di Genova) * Republic of Lucca (English: the Most Serene Republic of Lucca; Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di Lucca) * Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (English: the Most Serene Republic of Poland; Polish: Najjaśniejsza Rzeczpospolita Polska, Latin: Serenissima Res Publica Poloniae) (Quote is from wikipedia, bold parts added). So… the Most Serene Empire of the Darien Gap is ruled by Italian (or maybe Polish) history nerds? Republic of Venice (English: the Most Serene Republic of Venice; Venetian: Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta; Italian: Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia) Well, little Venice (Venezuela) is nearby. Probably an Italian democratic republic: a republic governed by polls. Quixote says: I’m so pleased the ship talks. I’m so happy the dog thing worked. Jan Rzymkowski says: Now I’m weirdly relieved that the reverse of my name means “the most”. scherzando says: To find Metatron, the crew of Not A Metaphor should get a certain musician on board and sail right back to the Canal, since Dog is Eno and His Name is Eno. Until this chapter, I was tempted to think that the Captain might have been an ordinary human (with a troubled backstory perhaps) but now I’m pretty sure he isn’t. After all, Ana can’t find him in his cabin and after all is done he emerges from the cabin as if it all was normal. Also the dark glasses… Might they be important? The Captain is not described with glasses the first time he appears (when he is just “the big man”). Pretty sure the Captain turned into the dog, for two reasons: 1)As noted above, the dog is an Omen. 2) It would be completely out of keeping with the book as it’s been so far for God to actually materialize in the form of a dog and take a direct hand in the universe. I thought about it (I’ve been thinking about NEMO/OMEN since the prologue), but I’d like to have in-story confirmation of this. As it is, it just keeps us guessing without ever being able to answer one way or another. Unless, of course, the answer is given eventually or the answer is not what we’re thinking about. Timothy Scriven says: It’s a fairly obvious extension but worth stressing: If indeed Nemo became Omen and appeared to Ana in the form of a very large black dog then Ana is in a lot of trouble… Victorlf4 says: The captain is the dog when kablablisticaly inverted, dog is god inverted therefore the captain is god The captain is god aboard his ship, as they say. Nyx says: Capitan Nemo being god was also suggested earlier. It makes a certain amount of sense for three reasons: 1) Whenever Not a Metaphor goes to a spot where God is supposed to be, God is indeed there, aboard the ship. 2) When she asked about the Capitan’s name, James just replies that he’s a “very private man” and that “If you have to you can call him Captain Nemo.” The true name of god is not known. 3) It means that the purpose of the ship finding Nemo. I think the first person to have this idea was HonoreDB here “Malkuth, … lands in Patagonia… The center of Malkuth… sits on the Argentine city of Ushuaia” Huh? Ushuaia is in Tierra del Fuego, not in the middle of Patagonia. Dang it, this made me think of sailor moon. Too bad that’s probably not it. DOes anyone have any ideas as to what it actually means? Blue Origen — love it! (I agree with Isaac Asimov that the true purpose of a rounded education is to allow you to appreciate a wider variety of obscure puns.) Can I get a source for this quote? I know a community of people who enjoy Asimov, well-rounded educations, and puns who would possibly appreciate this. Alex Mennen says: A flip “around the horizontal axis” is a vertical flip: it leaves the horizontal axis fixed, and flips everything else around it. Unless you were starting with a South-up map, I don’t think that’s what you meant. Aran says: With a metaphorical key that’s called “key” even though it’s really a geographical features involved in sailing. This is sand from the Florida Keys, melted into glass and shaped by the locksmiths of San Francisco. Maybe I was primed to think of it by the Panama palindrome, but this reminds me of Kingdom of Loathing. The weird symbolism and lame wordplay sounds exactly like the kind of puzzle that game would use. While that’s probably a coincidence (I know, shush) I can attest that people who enjoy Unsong’s brand of humor are likely to find Kingdom of Loathing worth a shot. will408914 says: In fact, one of the palindromes used in this chapter (“Egad! No bondage!”) is, in fact, used in the Kingdom of Loathing. Hooray for Dr Awkward! And, of course, “A dog, a plan, a canal: Pagoda”. (Addendum: The altered palindrome thus substitutes “god” for the reverse of “man”, forming another connection between the human and the divine. TINACBNIEAC.) What did the Comet King’s name reverse to when he went through the Panama Canal? Bassicallyboss says: Stew Utekalaj. Perhaps that is why, in his later years, he mostly stewed in his own juice? … Is Utekalaj a kind of a juice? (Come to think of it, did Moses, in his years of leading his people through the desert, ever feel like he was stewing in his own Jews?) I’m notorious for stinkin’ up this place with bad puns. Still, that one made me gaon. Man, this would have so much (well, only slightly) more sense if the reversal actually was Stew. Unfortunately, the Comet’s King reversal is actually Tsew Utekalaj, which I can’t find any meaning in. Stew Utekalaj would be the reversal of his cousin’s name, the Tidal King, Jalaketu Wets. Utekalaj -> Ute College. He becomes the East? Doesn’t seem like it… hnau says: Various things I noticed… 1. A magical ship with a nameless captain and the ability to travel through higher dimensions… and it just reversed the polarity? 2. So they’re on their way to purchase a trip to heaven… and they’re relying on the fact that sometimes words have two meanings. 3. Simeon and Ana, huh? That seems… significant. (Luke 2:25-38) null says: Hypothesis: UNSONG is actually about the history of rock music. Deiseach says: There’s a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure ‘Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings. And they’re buying a stairway to Heaven 🙂 Not to mention that that song is alleged to sound like all kinds of Satanic invocations when played backwards. Also, a thought: Captain Nemo was missing when Ana went looking, and he would have become Omen. Much like a black dog signifying death, eh? I think Ana was a bit quick to call it a miracle. Wait, no. There were two things that were still working. The radar. And her. Correct? (And I can see Lin becoming Nil and vanishing, but none of the rest of their names seem to do anything special.) Hah. For all that we saw that coming, I completely forgot when it did. Daniel Armak says: I was horrified for a few seconds as Ana fed her Team to the Dog, until I realized that didn’t quite work out. Whew! I mean, if anything she’d have been feeding the team (er, “taem”) to God, not Dog. Does anyone else feel kinda weird about the fact that there’s no immediate grieving response for Lin? The whole chapter feels kind of rushed. We aren’t even given any description of what state John’s body is in, what kind of injury he sustained, etc. but I agree with you that the part that sands out the most is the lack of grieving of Lin’s death. Yeah, I’d agree that although it was good the chapter definitely lacks polish. Some sloppy exposition and characterisation in spots. They’re planning to get hum back by dividing by zero. That should have been “him back.” Stib says: I’m really hoping he’s only gone temporarily :/ Also, the story mentions John rising anew at the end, after not having mentioned what happened to him during the reversal? This is strange. If he’s actually gone, then I can only suppose he’s completely* gone, soul and all. In a universe where they have to put their dying friends on a spaceship to save them from an eternity of torture, that might be one of the better outcomes. But mostly I think they’re still in shock about it. I suppose there’s the possibility if they return through the Canal, Lin will re-appear? Aerospace Lurker says: As an aerospace engineer, I’d like to point out that the Virgin Galactic > SpaceX/Blue Origin implied in this chapter is exactly reversed in real life. Simurgh says: Well I suppose you shouldn’t have brought them through the canal, then. BTW, chapters 34, 35 and 36 start with letters I, S and C whereas chapters 39, 38 and 37 start with A, B and S, so it looks like the Shem haMephorash is not a palindrome. I’m kind-of disappointed by this. I mean, for all we know, that could be related to why the Comet King (apparently) never managed to make use of it! Quite – If the Shem haMeforash was a 72-letter palindrome, and this were a reasonable guess, it would only have the security of a 36-letter name (or exactly one bit more, since it would take twice as long to pronounce each name). That would be on the order of magnitude of what name-sweatshops are already capable of – Aaron was enumerating over 36-letter names in chapter 1. And we know that the Comet King’s knowledge of Names far surpassed that of the theonomics corporations. Only if you know to look for palindromes, though. Certainly. I think the main question here should be (in-universe): are any of the currently known palindromic names of God? If yes, then I would expect the knowledgeable Kabbalah experts working the theonomics companies to realize this and suggest enumeration over long, palindromic names; and if the answer is no, then there really wouldn’t be much reason to expect the Shem haMephorash to be palindromic either, both for the corporations and for us. It COULD be that the Shem haMephorash is the ONLY palindromic name of God, but that would seem like too much of a coincidence to me – and you know what they say… The Monogrammaton is a palindrome, though it has no effect. Is there a Name of God with an effect which is a palindrome? (I’d guess there are a few but not so many that a random palindromic string is more likely to be a Name than a random non-palindromic string.) This chapter also brings to mind The Study of Anglophysics. The previous one was more Anglophysics-y, I think. Also maybe I should be clear here — I’m not talking about the difficulty of finding it, I’m suggesting that maybe somehow he wasn’t able to make use of it because it got reversed somehow. That doesn’t really make a lot of sense, I admit, but figured I’d throw that out there. The coment king says: An interesting detail here: Narrator-Aaron tells us what Uriel told Sohu as though it’s common knowledge, which implies Sohu told people what she’d learned when she came back. This is an interesting difference from her father, who never explained most of what he knew (and what’s the reason for that, I wonder?) I think he’s just telling us that as if we already know it, which we do. Aur Saraf says: I think the important takeaway is that for the first time we realize all the interludes are narrated by Aaron, which means at some future point he must know all these things. Wren says: Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short. Literally the entire (text-based) game is this. You have a letter remover as a critical tool in your inventory. Your name is Alexandra as a synthesized combination of Alex and yourself, Andra, as a disguise. Literally any word you could make, you can. Highly recommended to anyone who’s a fan of weird wordplay things and semi-rationalist stories — so, anyone here. And yes, you can reverse words at one point. 75th says: While I like this chapter, it’s the first one where I’ve had the “Too many random episodic hijinks, not enough serial plot advancement” thought that other people have been reporting for a while (but this is still more of a fault with exactly-one-chapter-per-week release schedule than with the story itself) Really? This actually seemed like a pretty plot-heavy installment to me. I mean, it’s yet another diversion of where the ship is going. First they’re going to find Metatron, then they damage the ship and have to get it repaired, now they’re in a rush to get to get to Cape Canaveral for a completely different purpose and they went through a whole episodic Panama Canal chapter to begin to get there. This all sounds more complainy than I mean it to or than I’m actually feeling about the story, I shouldn’t have posted it at all Scott Alexander says: If you start in California, then Florida is on the way to New York (where Metatron is scheduled to appear). They’re going in the same direction, only faster. Yeah, this seems fine to me. I was worried there was getting to be too much when it seemed the 7th dragon was stolen, but that all worked out in such a way as to fit in too without overcomplicating things. Was the original plan to go around Cape Horn, through the Arctic, through Suez, or around Cape Of Good Hope? Right, I meant diversion of the story rather than diversion of the vessel even though it blatantly did not sound like it in my comment I still love the story but am just being an impatient ingrate and someday I will learn not to post things but this week was not that day Not only that, but as far as I see the OPPOSITE grievance is more common – that people long for more thing-of-the-week shenanigans and less gloom’n’doom. Wow, what a surprising reversal! Further thought on Darien: If there’s an Empire based there, it can’t be the Darien Gap anymore, can it? Won’t they have needed to build roads? Shouldn’t it just be the Most Serene Empire of Darien? FlyByNight says: The empire of the Darien gap could be based in what we know as Columbia, and they could be maintaining (really, just not developing) the Darien gap to slow or even halt the influence of the Drug Lord. Hiking through 100 miles (160 km) of mountainous rainforest sounds like it might be difficult while high on peyote. Not to mention, with no roads, logistics becomes a real problem. Remember, the Drug Lord’s influence comes from getting people to re-dose before they come down. If the drug lord were to send one of his thralls into the Darien gap, there’s a very high likelihood that they would come down before he could get them back to a source of peyote. Then he loses them, possibly forever if they go south across the gap instead of back north. Leaving behind a land of sin and slavery, going on a long, arduous trek across an inhospitable landscape, to find a lush paradise at the end? Sound familiar? Might maybe have some kabbalistic implications? Maybe they named themselves after the gap because it is literally the reason their empire exists at all. BunnyGo says: Reading this once a week, and jumping around between characters, I would very much appreciate it if you could keep a Dramatis Personae with a sentence or two per character on the home page of UNSONG. It’s very hard to find where the characters were introduced, or what chapter they last were in. I get lost easily in this. This was supposed to be a reply to sniffnoy FFS, Scott has explicitly said so umpteen times. hmm…. so if they were to sail back with a [dog](http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Dog) called “doG” on board to start with do they get their own God? Doug S. says: Q) What’s an agnostic dyslexic insomniac? A) Someone who stays up all night wondering if there really is a dog. Cainmosni cixelsyd citsonag We’ve got all of Cain, Mos (aka Moshe aka Moses), El and Son in here. Remove the vowels and you have CNMSN CXLSYD CTSNG, which includes SNG (song) and MSN (a popular messenging network) among others. There’s got to be more in there somewhere. Captain Nemo == Omen Niatpac Also, Star Wars is a palindrome, as is the classic Hero’s Journey in general for that matter. Does this mean the rest of Unsong will mirror the events thus far? Star Wars is a palindrome Ever seen a video of Lucas talking about how his films work like “poetry”? The guy obsessively mad the prequel trilogy a backwards-mirror of the originals. It’s a common laughing point among fans; the crown jewel in Lucas’s crown of pretense. Skinb Raj Raj says: Ah, I thought you were talking about the popular series Sraw Rats I initially misread that as “Straw Rats”. I suspect Star Warts would be a substantially less popular series… The big question on my lips: What if you lowered a person or animal in a cage on a rope into the heavenly crack, then pulled them back out? I assume that Neil Armstrong let go of the rope willingly once exposed to God, hence why Buzz just got an empty rope when he pulled it up. But if that can’t happen thanks to a cage, could you get a real direct-line-to-God-in-a-cage? Like catching a legendary Pokemon? Or would it be no different to any other resident of San Fran, besides not needing more LSD? I don’t think it works that way. Armstrong said he wasn’t really in the crack once he’d been dropped, which suggests the very concept of space doesn’t work the same on the other side. No reason a cage would hold someone. So you’re saying Neil Armstrong dissolved? That would’ve happened to Neil but not the rope, which would perhaps imply it only works on things with souls. Which in turn has interesting implications about the north african p-zombies and the Vital Name. “Dissolve” is a process that happens in space. Armstrong simply travelled through the crack I the firmament above and exited the domain where space (geometry) exists. Wether he chose to let go of the rope before he exited the domain where “holding on to the rope” is a meaningful concept is irrelevant. I think you’re missing the point that Neil didn’t return but the rope did. If we lowered a guy down in a cage, whatever happens to him, we can be sure the cage will return. This implies that whatever happens to the guy – and you can make it as unspacey as you like – won’t happen to an inanimate object. Just binged this from Chpt1 to current. This may be the most intelligently written story I’ve ever read, and is certainly within the top ten. Especially if all of this Kabbalistic and religious background is actually there. Pretty much – I’ve fact-checked some of the weirder-sounding stuff, and the things I’ve checked have all checked out. Well, Scott did take some liberties with the religious canon. Not that I complain. “That is both really clever and the stupidest thing I ever heard.” Aaron will take that as a challenge. Rafe Saltman says: I’ve got just one word about the placement of unrepresentible Keter at the North Pole, in the ocean: Mercator. You son of a bitch. If I’m a son of a bitch, would Tiferet turn me into Jesus? … on reflection (heh!) it would, but as a girl. Son of a bitch => Daughter of a dog The son of a dog has the nos(e) of a god? 😛 Nosenada says: Does gps make real life epic? Sillence says: If Lin is Chinese, then a reasonable guess would be that his name is 林 (“forest” in Chinese, as people pointed out when he first appeared). This character is a palindrome, or at least it’s symmetric under left-right reversal. There are many other characters pronounced “lin” that aren’t symmetric, but it would be nifty if Lin’s Chinese name saved him somehow. Which begs the question – how much woodland is there in PANAMA? Hm, two trees… two trees of Sephirot? 😛 Or! You know what else had two trees? The Garden of Eden. What happens if one swaps the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil with the Tree of Life? (Shades of Ender’s Shadow, I guess…) Uncle Saturday says: Ah! Re. Man: nah, me Ra. (wean ’em or gnon, angry menu) At this rate, the final climactic confrontation will involve a duel of Tom Swifties. 5 rca to 3 rca top says: And determine the sort of HDMI cable, which often can come within a variety of configurations (consider the mini hdmi to hdmi adapters by way of example). Today, it’s one on the smallest and cheapest gadgets with real computer capabilities. Converter from rca to hdmi Your TV screen provides various functions with your home entertainment because it is used for gaming, watching movies, photos, also it can even be utilized for a computer monitor. He takes great enjoy sharing this data through his articles, which can be fresh, insightful and interactive. Along with these characteristics you possess a few preset picture modes, user defined settings plus some noise reduction modes, all design to deliver you the style of image you desire. Part of me thinks this was posted in the wrong place, but part of me feels like there’a some sort of bizzare relevance that is going over my head. It’s not the first type total spam seems to spell deep, winding meaning at the bottom of old comment threads. Why the spambots come to this site is the broader mystery. …plus the transformation of the Panama Canal into some sort of conduit for mystical energies that drove anyone in its vicinity mad… We should keep track of these weird foreshadowing comments probably 😛 Treating here as an Unsong open thread for a change, I was watching this video and it struck me as numero-lingustically relevant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYKn0yUTIU4 Four just seems to be the right number for languages to gravitate towards and, in some cases, orbit around. The comparisons to the four seasons and maybe other things are eminent. 18 also strikes me as a good number, fitting binary as a “deep” language. … I realised this was the wrong chapter about 2 seconds after I hit send. I’m reposting this in the intended place, if you see this Scott and feel like deleting it then by all means. Kazi Siddiqui says: I propose an English translation for the Sanskrit word dharma: troth. Just like dharma, the word “troth” suggests connotations of faith, truth, pledge and creed. In my opinion, it is an almost direct translation. The major difference is that dharma has some technical senses in Indian philosophy that “troth” has never been used in as far as I’m aware. The dhamma is the truth taught by the Buddha the truth of suffering and the end of suffering (http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/) not the moral law, or the natural law, or duty. That is the Vinaya. Also the Sangha isn’t “entire community of believers.” It is the community of people who have attained at least the lowest level of awakening, or the conventional sangha of ordained monks and nuns. Everyone who believes in the Buddha’s teachings but is not part of these groups are the parisa. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/sangha.html Lastly, the Buddha does not abide “in the secret order of the universe.” Samsara or the process of creating and destroying the universe is a horrific, meaningless cycle that can be broken when the mind goes out, or nibbana’s. earfluffy says: I’m surprised they didn’t try sailing the ship backwards, inasmuch as that’s possible, but I suppose there wasn’t much time. hf says: Time for a (weak) prediction, since I haven’t read past this point yet: The world of the story is kind of odd, but Lurianic kabbalah seems like the most credible explanation. Neil Armstrong’s ravings support this. He doesn’t technically say the breaking of the shells was planned, either. (I have no problem believing that Ein Sof gets distracted easily by cool many-dimensional shapes.) But the qlippoth by definition would derive from shells that the divine ‘energy’ broke, so we know this force can affect them. (Uriel could also kill Thamiel temporarily; but I mean that Ein Sof or even the thrice-transformed light could affect the most powerful version of the qlippoth, pre-Uriel.) This chapter tells us that Nemo’s crew have a plan to get someone into Ein Sof, where divinity is presumably strongest. They’ve also been practicing resistance to the effects of divinity. They have people knowledgeable in various forms of magic, including placebomancy I think. This gives them a lot of the pieces they’d need for convincing Ein Sof to restore the original design and put the qlippoth back where they should be. (It’s a weak prediction because even if Sohu and Sarah join the crew, there seem to be some loose ends that my theory doesn’t tie up.) Andrew M says: The Comet King went through the Panama Canal only once (apparently east to west). Since he presumably started on the west coast, and his ship ended up on the west coast, he must have gone round by some other way first. Did he go round Cape Horn, or did he circle the world? DRMark says: http://yqcyj.us/how-much-is-too-much-carisoprodol/ TodaLankOrgallaction Leave a Reply to Ninmesara Cancel reply Enter your email address to subscribe and receive notifications of new chapters by email. 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In 2020, the PBA Hall of Fame Classic, PBA Oklahoma Open, and the PBA Doubles Championship will join the Indianapolis and Jonesboro events as dual pattern tournaments. As for event formats, the PBA Doubles Championship will change slightly in 2020. Instead of qualifying through the attached singles event, qualifying will happen separately as teams to determine advancers into match play. The four standard singles events will have similar formats with one minor exception. The Hall of Fame Classic and Oklahoma Open will have two squads for qualifying. Those events will feature 12 qualifying games and 16 games of round-robin match play to determine stepladder finalists. The Jonesboro and Indianapolis events will have one squad for qualifying with 14 total qualifying games and 16 games of round-robin match play to determine the stepladder advancers. Just like in 2019, all rounds of qualifying and match play leading up to the stepladder finals for the FOX events will be broadcast live on FloBowling. The stepladder finals will also be simulcast on FloBowling for international audiences. Here’s a detailed breakdown of each of the 2020 FOX events: PBA Hall of Fame Classic Where: Arlington, Texas (International Training and Research Center) When: Jan. 13-19 TV: Finals Sunday, Jan. 19, 1 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Digital: Qualifying, match play, FloBowling (Live) Field: 56 (48 + 8 PTQ) Format: 2 squads. 12 qualifying games (6 per day, per squad). Cut to top 16 for 16 games round robin match play. Top five advance to stepladder finals. Conditions: Dual patterns throughout (Left lane: Weber 45, Right lane: Aulby 38) PBA Playoffs points: Tier 3 event Defending champion: Bill O'Neill Prize fund, ratio: $110,000. 1 in 3 cash. 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Top five advance to stepladder finals. Conditions: Johnson 40 Defending champion: Jason Belmonte Top prizes: 1. $100,000, 2. $50,000, 3. $25,000, 4. $12,000, 5. $10,000 PBA Players Championship Where: Columbus, Ohio (Wayne Webb's Columbus Bowl) When: Feb. 9-15 TV: Saturday, Feb. 15, 5:30 ET, FS1 (Live) Field: 92 (82 + 10 PTQ) Conditions: Webb 38 Defending champion: Anthony Simonsen Prize fund, ratio: $246,000. 1 in 3 cash Top prizes: 1. $70,000, 2. $35,000, 3. $17,000, 4. $11,000, 5. $10,000 Where: Lincoln, Nebraska (Sun Valley Lanes) When: Feb. 16-23 TV: Sunday, Feb. 23, 1 p.m. ET, FOX (Live) Field: TBA Format: TBA Conditions: TBA Defending champion: Francois Lavoie Prize fund, ratio: TBA Top prizes: TBA PBA Indianapolis Open Where: Indianapolis (Woodland Bowl) TV: Saturday, Feb. 29, 8:30 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Field: 120 (no PTQ) Format: 1 squad. Two blocks of 7 games qualifying (14 total). Cut to top 16 for 16 games round robin match play. Top five advance to stepladder finals. Conditions: Dual patterns throughout (Left lane: Roth 42, Right lane: Holman 37) PBA Playoffs points: Tier 2 Top prizes: 1. $30,000, 2. $15,000, 3. $10,000, 4. $8,000, 5. $7,000 PBA Roth/Holman Doubles Championship TV: Taped Saturday, Feb. 29, 4:30 ET. Airs Sunday, March 8, Noon ET, FS1 (taped) Field: 60 doubles teams Format: 1 squad. Two blocks of 7 games (14 total, 28 games per team). Top 16 teams advance to 16 games of round robin match play using Baker system). Defending champions: Sean Rash and Matt Ogle Prize fund, ratio: $147,000. 1 in 3 teams cash. Top prizes (per team): 1. $30,000, 2. $15,000, 3. $13,000, 4. $12,000, 5. $11,000 PBA World Series of Bowling Where: Las Vegas (South Point Bowling Plaza) When: March 6-18 TV: Five consecutive days (first four live), FS1 (Sunday, March 15 - Thursday, March 19). Times below. Field: 120 (110 + 10 PTQ) Total prize fund: $685,000 Events: PBA Cheetah, PBA Chameleon, PBA Scorpion, PBA World Championship, USA vs. World. WSOB PBA Cheetah Championship TV: Sunday, March 15, 1:30 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Format: One squad. 2 blocks of 5 games qualifying (10 games total). Top 16 advance to elimination match play bracket. Surviving four players advance to TV finals. TV finals all four bowl one seeding game, then stepladder. Conditions: Cheetah 33. Defending champion: Dick Allen Prize fund, ratio: $79,000. 1 in 7.5 cash. Top prizes: 1. $25,000, 2. $13,000, 3. $7,000, 4. $6,000 WSOB PBA Chameleon Championship TV: Monday, March 16, 8 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Format: One squad. 2 blocks of 5 games qualifying (10 games total). Top 16 advance to elimination match-play bracket. Surviving four players advance to TV finals. TV finals all four bowl one seeding game, then stepladder. Conditions: Chameleon 39. WSOB PBA Scorpion Championship TV: Tuesday, March 17, 8 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Conditions: Scorpion 42 Defending champion: Kris Prather WSOB PBA World Championship TV: Wednesday, March 18, 8 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Format: 30 games qualifying (10 games each on Cheetah, Chameleon and Scorpion patterns). Top 40 advance to cashers round, X games on Anthony. Cut to top 24 for 24 games round-robin match play. Top five advance to stepladder finals. Conditions: After cut to top 40, Anthony 43 WSOB USA vs. The World TV: Taped Wednesday, March 18, 1 pm PT. Airs next day Thursday, March 19, 8 p.m. ET, FS1 (taped) Format: Team event. The Top 5 USA players and Top 5 international players after the first 30 games of WSOB qualifying form the teams. Prize fund: $60,000 (Winning team: $40,000, losing team: $20,000) USBC Masters Where: Reno, Nevada (Grand Sierra Bowling Center) When: March 23-29 TV: Sunday, March 29, 2:30 p.m. ET, FOX (Live) PBA Playoffs Where: Round of 24 in Norco, California. Round of 16 in Lone Tree, Colorado. Round of 8, Euless, Texas, Final Four, North Brunswick, N.J.. When: Round of 24, April 6. Round of 16, April 20-21. Round of 8, May 10-11. Final Four, May 16-17. TV: Monday, April 6, 7 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Monday, April 13, 9 p.m. ET, FS1 (Taped April 6) Monday, April 20, 7 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Monday, April 27, 9 p.m. ET, FS1 (Taped April 21) Monday, May 4, 9 p.m. ET, FS1 (Taped April 21) Sunday, May 10, 2 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Monday, May 11, 9 p.m. ET, FS1 (Taped May 10) Saturday, May 16, 2 p.m. ET, FOX (Live) Sunday, May 17, 2 p.m. ET, FOX (Live) Field: Top 24 in points from 2020 PBA on FOX season. All cash. Format: Single elimination bracket. Top 8 seeds get byes into second round. First round one game matches, subsequent matches best of 2. Conditions: Carter 39 Prize fund: $320,000 Top prizes: 1. $100,000, 2. $50,000, 3. $25,000, 4. $25,000 PBA/PWBA Bowl Expo Cup Where: Denver (Bowl Expo special lane construct) When: July 5 TV: Sunday, July 5, 7 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Prize fund: TBA PBA Summer League Where: Portland, Maine (Bayside Bowl) When: July 19-23 TV (4 telecasts): Tuesday, July 21, 7 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Tuesday, July 21, 9 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Wednesday, July 22, 9 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Thursday, July 23, 9 p.m. ET, FS1 (Live) Format: TBA. 10 teams. All players cash. Conditions: Roth 42 Defending champions: Portland Lumberjacks Prize fund: $360,000 (1, $60,000. 2, $50,000. 3, $35,000. 4, $35,000. 5, $25,000. 6, $25,000. 7, $25,000. 8, $25,000. 9, $20,000. 10, $20,000.) Posted by Warren Friedl at 8:15 AM Labels: Bowlero, Bowling on Fox, BPAA, Fox Sport Network, PBA, PBA Schedule 2020, PBA World Championships, PBA World Series of Bowling, Pro Bowlers, Professional Bowlers Association, Tournament of Champions In a local story reported by WKDZ radio, Cadiz, KT... PBA Adding Prize Money - Three Tournament Champion... FOUR ELECTED TO USBC HALL OF FAME FOR 2020	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3638
__label__wiki	0.788734	0.788734	the Committed Generation Ty Lawson Is Back April 12, 2018 April 12, 2018 Valerie Morales When he was 21 years old, and it was draft night, and he was selected by hard luck Minnesota, and then he was traded, Ty Lawson couldn’t process, nor could he understand what had just happened to change his professional situation. Truth be told, it was more about luck than it was about grace. Whether he was aware or not, Lawson was relieved of a giant burden. He would not have to play in Minnesota whose front office was reeling. Early in the draft of 2009, the Blake Griffin #1 pick draft, the Minnesota Timberwolves selected two point guards (Jonny Flynn, Ricky Rubio) back to back in the first round, perverting all logic. The Wolves had another first round pick. They selected at eighteen Ty Lawson and traded him to Denver. Denver had plans for Lawson to apprentice behind Chauncey Billips. After draft night, it was the best of times for Ty Lawson. A dream was realized after a NCAA championship and a Bob Cousey Award for the nation’s best point guard. He was in the NBA and on a team that had won 54 games and lost in the Conference Finals. They were Carmelo Anthony’s team, the 2009 Nuggets. Lawson would be taught by George Karl and Mr. Big Shot, Chauncey Billups. He was lucky. Ty Lawson just didn’t know how much . He didn’t know to savor it, not take it for granted. He didn’t know that in eight years he would play for four teams, three teams in the span of twelve months. He didn’t know in the aftermath of his downfall he would be out the league. You cannot tell young people that their future can get rocky so be careful. They are young. They are foolish. They just won’t believe you. Ty Lawson was signed to help John Wall stay on the bench in the Eastern Conference playoffs. If his shot is still working, it’s a good move for the inconsistent Wizards. Lawson, couldn’t get a NBA contract this year and played in China. He had a lot of NBA company in Asia. Jimmer Fredette and Jared Sullinger. And Brandon Jennings. (Jennings is back too, in the playoffs with the Bucks). As a league, China embraces NBA players with a style of play that deincentivizes defense. No one guards anyone. So, Lawson’s 55 points in his last game in China was with an asterisk. It’s Chinese Basketball. But now that is over, Ty Lawson can trun the page. NBA. China. NBA. It’s the strange NBA slippery slope. The only rule is don’t fall off. Six years ago, Ty Lawson was in the playoffs against the Lakers. The Lakers were up 3-2 in the series and Lawson was simply brilliant in Game 6 at Denver. He missed five shots on the way to 32 points and 5 out of 6 long range bombs. He added six assists and five rebounds and set the tone early, giving the Lakers a headache. A flu riddled Kobe Bryant matched Lawson but Lawson was better, was decisive, consistent, mature and devastating. He carried his team to a Game 7 matchup everyone knew the Nuggets weren’t going to win and in some small way that wasn’t really the point. Lawson delivering the Nuggets to the precipice of the Western Conference Semi-Finals the way Carmelo Anthony used to do. It was all about Lawson emerging as a star. May of 2012 was Lawson’s third year in the league. He had been drafted eleven slots after Steph Curry despite winning the title for the TarHeels (Curry’s Davidson team didn’t qualify for the 2009 NCAA tournament). Scouts worried about Lawson’s size. Draft Express said this about him during the pre-draft workouts. While blessed with great strength and quickness, Lawson is not a very good defender due to his tendency to gamble excessively on the defensive end. His lack of size and strength hurts him on this end where he desperately struggles to contest bigger guards shots. Outside shooting is another part of Lawson’s game that has been a concern over the years. In the 2011-12 season, he played more minutes, made more field goals, dropped six dimes, was a 16 points per game point guard, and had no offensive weaknesses on any part of the floor though, he fully embraced Moreyball: 71% of his shots were at the rim or from distance. But was his 32 point game one of those law of average predictable occurrences, nice in the moment, but nothing to pencil in for the future because you can’t trust what doesn’t happen often. Was Lawson’s Game 6 performance the announcement that stardom had arrived? Or, would it create Ty Lawson expectations he could never live up to? In Staples, on a Saturday night, in Game 7, Ty Lawson had an offensive rating of 123, with his 24 points and 6 assists and shooting 57%. His defensive rating was 122, always the Lawson weak spot. On the road, unless he was going to drop 50, he couldn’t carry the Nuggets by himself. Teammate Danilo Gallinari was worthless, missing 9 out of 10 shots. Gallinari’s usage rate in Game 7 was the same as Lawson’s. That was a problem. Unselfish, Lawson needed to be more selfish since he was the only one besides Al Harrington who could make shots. The Nuggets couldn’t score 90 points in a game where Kobe Bryant was average, just 17 points. Still, it felt as if Ty Lawson had come of age in his third year when most NBA players establish their credentials. Five months later, Lawson signed a $48 million dollar extension. He was far from the highest paid point guard. Ahead of him were Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook, Mike Conley. It suited Lawson who shied away from being the highest paid anything; that was when the pressure came raining down, the expectations to earn your money. In Denver, away from a lot of the media spotlight, Ty Lawson could fine tune his game, improve, and work towards an All-Star selection. Driving under the influence of alcohol doesn’t necessarily mean you are a drunk. It doesn’t necessarily mean you are an alcoholic. It means you drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It means you jeopardize the lives of others who inadvertently have the misfortune of being on the road at the same time as your drunk self. It means you are not thinking about anyone else so that means you are selfish. It means your judgement, at the very least, is impaired or lacking impulse control. But. Repetitive driving under the influence culminating in arrests mean you have a drinking problem. Putting your career in jeopardy because you drink too much and then drive means you lack certain innate behavioral controls. It leads everyone to the conclusion you are immature, self-involved, an addict and perhaps stupid. The first time Ty Lawson was arrested for drinking was one year before he was drafted when he was a college student at the University of North Carolina. He pleaded guilty. There was community service as a part of his punishment. He was driving on a suspended license. One month before his 32 point Game 6 performance, Lawson was stopped by police. It wasn’t drinking. He had a restricted license and had an unauthorized person drive his car. He pleaded guilty. One year later, he was arrested on domestic violence charges. The charges were misdemeanors related to domestic violence and property damage. Two years later, he was arrested in Denver for speeding while under the influence of alcohol. He told the police he had a previous DUI arrest in Missouri. After the Denver arrest, he wasn’t supposed to drink alcohol as a condition of his bond. But seven months later, in Los Angeles, he was arrested for driving under the influence. The Denver judge ordered him into rehab. Ty Lawson may be an alcoholic though he says he is not . He definitely has judgment issues regarding drinking and driving. It is the Freudian definition of insanity. Repeating the same thing and expecting different results. Another NBA player, Vin Baker, also had problems with alcohol and it cost him his career. Baker drank to deal with the pressure. However, the similarities are a little bit vague. Ty Lawson wasn’t in the NBA because he kept drinking and driving. He wasn’t in the NBA because he was a mediocre point guard. Chauncey Billups said, “Ty has not demonstrated the kind of leadership you want.” That was before Lawson was dealt out of Denver for Houston, once his drunk driving arrest in Los Angeles became public. In two years, one year with Houston and Indiana (2015-16), and one year with Sacramento (2016-17), Lawson was an average player with a problem that became public talk. He was a low confidence player or a lost player. What he had in Denver was gone. He didn’t look the same. Lawson was ordered to give up alcohol immediately. He didn’t. This led many to believe he had a serious alcohol problem. Because if the question is give up a habit or lose money, most of us would chuck that habit out the window. Only addicts hang on. In 2015-16, he was making $12 million dollars. After his Houston/Indiana disaster he found no takers and had to take a one year deal in Sacramento for $1.3 million dollars. This past summer, no takers again except for China, who gave him a million dollar raise. The worst thing Ty Lawson did to murder his career was to let his personal behavior affect his ability to make a living. He blurred the lines. Josh Kroenke, Denver Nuggets president, went low hanging fruit. “The problems have been there for several years. There were a lot of times where you were at practice and you just know. You could smell it. You know there is probably deeper issues than he would probably let on.” It sounds like Kroenke was looking out for Kroenke but if you believe him then why didn’t the Nuggets do something proactive? Why didn’t they plan an intervention since he was their star? Why were they a passive observer to Ty Lawson self-destruction and then tried to spike the football, as if doing nothing was noble and should be celebrated? The Nuggets are not the injured party. As for Lawson, after Kroenke went rogue on his reputation, he said “I did my job. I wasn’t disappointed.” Perhaps not. But doing his “job” also means representing the organization with humility and honor. Ty Lawson once told ESPN: “I’m not a person out here like everyone thinks that I am drunk all day. No I don’t do that. A lot of my friends, we go out and celebrate. But I’m not that person in the morning getting drunk before practice. I think there is a big misconception about what everybody thinks. ” Before Lawson was thought to have alcohol issues, the Lawson game was taken with a grain of salt. He was an undersized point who was always going to have to do more with less. He wasn’t a sensational shooter like Isaiah Thomas. He wasn’t a ball manager, get everyone in their spot, like Chris Paul. He didn’t have the speed of Damian Lillard. He wasn’t a defender like John Wall. He didn’t have Steph Curry talent. He didn’t have Kyrie handles. He wasn’t energetic like Russ Westbrook. He was a good guard. Good guards can be replaced though. It is the exceptional ones who get the benefit of the doubt. Lawson never got that memo. He made false assumptions about himself. His best year was four years ago, 2013-14. And even then he shot just 43% and 35%, not Steph Curry numbers, nor Chris Paul. He averaged 17 points a game and dished out 8.8 assists. In 2017-18, that would place him 15th among point guards, tied with Eric Bledsoe and ahead of Kyle Lowry. Last season, he was a fraction of who he used to be four years ago, or even in that Western Conference Game 6. 9.9 points, 4.8 assists, 28% from three. That is why Ty Lawson was in China. He didn’t have much of a NBA game left. The point guard position is young, deep and bursting at the seams with scorers. Ty Lawson called his drunk driving arrests (Denver, Los Angeles) “dumb mistakes” and not behavioral patterns that indicate a larger problem. He admits to learning things in rehab and then he says he didn’t need rehab. He blames a lot of what has happened to him on the public perception of him when he’s out in clubs. In other words, he’s misunderstood. But perception is reality. You are not who you say you are. You are who others think you are. Ty Lawson will now play in NBA games that matter. No one will think about his past unless he reminds us. Unlike Derrick Rose, he’s a perimeter threat who can get to the rim but his defense has always been shoddy and not just because he is small. He reaches or he gets beat off the dribble and it’s easy to rise up and shoot over him. But his offense makes up for it. He doesn’t turn the ball over. He has toughness and his last few years, you would think, have given him a little humility. The Wizards actually are a good fit and Scott Brooks is an empathy coach Lawson will get along with. If he does well, then Ty Lawson is back in the rotation for 2018-19, his China experience a forgettable interlude. If not? It’s Asia again. Everything lost. Nothing gained. Column featured ty lawson Knicks Fire Hornacek Because They Can’t Fire Themselves NBA Attendance: Philly Fans Loved Them Some Process The NBA Happened to Jonny Flynn The Quick Death of the Pass-First Point Guard Courtesy of Steph Curry Moses Malone, the Best Offensive Rebounder in NBA History D'Angelo Not Feeling the Lonzo Ball Excitement Subsidies to Billionaires Keeps the NBA Afloat Sherra Wright Acting Up In Prison Has Consequences D-Lo Returns. But Don’t Call It A Comeback. Steph's Ankles Could Blow This Thing Up When Analytics Fails Clippers For Life? Nah. C’mon Now, What Did You Expect out of Iso Joe? J.R. 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__label__wiki	0.761112	0.761112	The CSA Forum Celtic Rally 2019 Jump to: The CSA Forum CSA News If Magners did Flag Day's. All CSA News is picked up from here and published on Newsnow.co.uk Joe O'Rourke Contact Joe O'Rourke Postby Joe O'Rourke » Mon Aug 05, 2019 11:51 am Well that has to be the best Flag Day ever for the Famous Glasgow Celtic, everything went fantastically well, not least of all inflicting a 7-0 defeat on St Johnstone. It was also wonderful to see Liz McNeil and Sadie Chalmers unfurl the League Flag, Billy and Stevie would have been looking down with a Big Smile on their faces. I remember talking to Brendan Rodgers at the Funeral of Big Billy, he moaned about not signing John McGinn, I told him at the time, if we had signed McGinn, Ryan Christie would be at Aberdeen or Hibernian, would any Celtic supporter swap Ryan for McGinn now? I think there was a place for John McGinn, but certainly not at the expense of Ryan Christie, probably seen as a replacement for Scott Brown when he gets fed up winning League’s and Treble’s. The joy on the faces of the Celtic Supporters on Saturday was there for all to see. The kids were smiling from ear to ear, and so were the Grandad’s and Grannies. There is no better place in the World to watch football than Celtic Park, just ask any of the famous players who have played there. Contrast that scene to the following day at Kilmarnock, the disabled section demolished, and a 90 minute Bigot Fest, the eyes of the World is watching, but will the pygmies at the SPFL/SFA do anything about it? Not a chance!!!!! Ian Maxwell has now had more than a year as Chief Executive of the SFA, I cannot remember one thing that he has done that would count as an achievement. It would appear that Maxwell is not a step-up in class from Stewart Regan. This is his chance to stamp his authority on the game in Scotland, will he take the chance? My money is on No, like his predecessor and the Board, they are manipulated by a team that has only been in existence since 2012. It’s not a new concept, look at the history of Scottish Football, you’ll find it has always been that way. Time to Stand Up and Oppose it. Return to “CSA News” The Celtic Supporters Association The Celtic Supporters Association was the idea of Willie Fanning whose dream became a reality back in September 1944. These were dark days on and off the pitch with the Second World War still raging and in comparison to those horrors rather more trivialy Celtic were not providing much joy to its supporters and defeat was a regular experience. Indeed the idea of a supporters association came to 27-year-old Willie while watching the Bhoys get thrashed 6-2 at Hamilton. Willie decided to write to the Daily Record calling on fellow Celtic fans interested in establishing a supporters club to get in touch. A total of 14 people replied. Consequently a meeting was arranged at St Mark's and St Paul's Hall, Chester Street in Shettleston. The meeting proved to be a success - a provisional committee was installed and Willie was elected as President. By the time of the second meeting at the A.O.H. Hall in Alexandria Parade in Townhead the word had spread. The hall was packed and car loads of supporters from across Glasgow and beyond eager to attend created a traffic jam along the parade. A constitution was drawn up which allowed the new organosation to become an amalgamation of supporters clubs. Within 12 months membership had rocketed to 700 and the association had won the official endorsement of Celtic FC who handed over the responsibility of distributing match tickets to affiliated branches of the CSA. The CSA remains a strong and influential body. Apart from following Celtic in massive numbers it has a social club in Glasgow and its annual Supporters Rally is a highlight in the Celtic calendar. True to the traditions of Celtic FC the CSA also has a proud and continued ethos of raising funds for charity. created by ITW	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3641
__label__wiki	0.983695	0.983695	MØ Corona Theatre, Montréal QC, November 30 Photo: Luke Orlando By Tim Forster Wednesday night's (November 30) performance from Karen Andersen — better known as MØ — at Montreal's Corona Theatre put two different versions of the Danish synth-pop singer on show: "Party MØ," and the softer "Singer-songwriter MØ." The flipping between the two styles was almost switch-like. Unfortunately, despite proving herself a magnetic and capable performer, that lack of a continuous stylistic thread put something of a dent in the show. MØ burst onto the stage with a multi-layered take on one of the many singles from her debut album No Mythologies to Follow. "Don't Wanna Dance" is one of the most pop-leaning tracks on the album, but it started with a simple drone, adding on crisp but soulful vocals to resonate through the theatre. It was an unambiguous demonstration that MØ wields the very desirable skill of sounding better and demonstrating more vocal range in a live performance than on a studio recording. This was peak Singer-songwriter MØ. The next track, "Waste of Time" was Party MØ's first outing, where her R&B and pop stylings shone through more — then it was back to more vocally oriented, ballad-esque Singer-songwriter MØ again on track three, "Slow Love." And so it alternated for most of the set. MØ was most successful when her voice was front-and-centre. One song in particular, "Fire Rides," showcased MØ's voice perfectly; with just the right husky edge on her voice, the song sent shivers up the collective spines of the audience in its stripped-back beginning. A successful build-up made it a true highlight: Both sides of MØ were neatly and successfully reconciled. And "Lean On," her mega-hit with producer Diplo and DJ Snake, was a straight-up banger of a closing track. But overall, the tracks that prioritized beats, synths, and dancing over MØ's voice (that is, songs in "Party MØ" mode) tended to be a little weaker — at times her vocals were simply lost in the volume, and the multi-dimensional feel that songs like "Fire Rides" had were absent. There were exceptions, though: her boppy take on "Pilgrim" was a joy, and "Final Song" successfully balanced strong vocals with eminently danceable instrumentation. This shouldn't be taken as a suggestion that MØ should simply stand around crooning, leaving the dancing or fun aside — she doesn't exist solely in the silly, made-up "singer-songwriter" genre — but Party MØ needs to be either amped up, or that pop approach needs to be better blended with her vocalist side. Still, MØ had great energy onstage, and a warmly stunning voice — I suspect she'll ably merge both sides of her performance soon. More MØ Check Out Our Théâtre Corona Venue Profile Major Lazer "Cold Water" (ft. Justin Bieber & MØ) After cycling around online via a super sketchy rip, rhythm-pounding dance act Major Lazer have officially unveiled their Justin Bieber-assi... MØ "Kamikaze" (video) Danish pop singer MØ guested on one of the summer's biggest smashes, teaming up with Major Lazer for "Lean On." She's rekindled that creativ... Mø "New Year's Eve" (video) Danish indie popster Mø broke through this year with her album No Mythologies to Follow, and she's capping off a big year by sharing a new t...	cc/2020-05/en_middle_0085.json.gz/line3642

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