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A talk between three women in the music business, about the secret of failure, hypnotherapy, social media identities, struggles, stigmas, and acceptance for an unpredictable situation.
08.03.2021 Text by S(GBA)
I am Steve (German by Accident). I fell into a hole, shortly after the pandemic shut down the world (my world back in March 2020). I used to live in Mexico City, had a home in a beautiful big Finca with artists around me, dinners, meeting international travelers for a Mezcal, and had Tacos every day. My career was starting off well, after the first few months of freelancing and opening a solo business. I just started to find my flow in life I’ve had grown and built for my young self. A life I always dreamt about. But since March 2020, day after day it faded away, it went further and further away from me, and I didn’t want to let go. All my money, all my energy, all my love, and what was left at that time went into holding onto the threads of my old life. About 7 months later I found myself lost in the darkest corners of my mind. My exhaustion turned into a depression, also called burnout. Who am I? Do people like what I do? How can I show them now who I am and what I am capable of?
I built something for myself, had to let it go and struggled with the demons of the past for about 12 months until I was able to surrender. And then fell. Even deeper. Where did my vision go? Is this normal? Can I have my energy back, please? I started to be so deeply in conflict with the voices in my head that I turned to social media, trying to win the lottery and cracking the code. At the end it had cracked mine and no one won the lottery. It made me socially anxious, cut open all my wounds and brought me insomnia, crying in the evening and just really unhealthy eating habits. I wasn’t looking into the mirror anymore but into pictures and actions of other people to reflect myself, and it made it all worse. Traps everywhere, what can I say, what can’t I say. The pure existential, physical angst around me on that huge sofa in front of the TV, day in day out. The pandemic ate me up.
That is when I stopped using social media completely for about 3 weeks, put my cell phone, my emails, my whole life on flight mode. And it became silent. I awoke and found my way back out. I began to build a new direction and a new vision.
Right before that pause, I stumbled upon TechnoMentalHealth, an Instagram account by the artist, Cera Khin, who I knew from booking her for a club in Mexico City. She was the first person that picked up my struggles so I wanted to talk to her. Following Cera since her early career, how she developed her own craft and style I have a lot of respect for the fact that she grew herself a fan base, an independent life, a strong mind and a career in this business and now made the step forward to talk about mental health. I find it brave. And I find it helpful. Florence is a woman I share a friendship with for a long time. We used to be colleagues at the same company and became very close friends. Her journey and strong will to build her life always has and still is a big influence for me. As she changed her career path while I was starting off my career in Mexico City we followed up on each other’s lives on a daily basis and discussed different topics frequently over the past 5 years: psychology and the status quo of our work, as well as love and relationship. Meanwhile, Florence became a full-time mental health coach for creatives and artists. So it was evident to bring her to the table when it comes to the topic of mental health and coaching. After we had the call for this interview, I wanted to meet Cera in person again. We went for a coffee and had a deep conversation, about how we manipulate our minds to stay unhappy. Cera gave me a few ideas on how to do the same with positive thoughts, ideas, and visions to teach our minds to become therapeutic tools instead of a tormenting ghost. I use those tips every day. Florence keeps providing me with books, articles and lets me see her tools to stay focussed and to keep myself healthy and on track which makes me reflect differently.
C: Are you in Mexico City now, Sophie?
S: No, I’m back in Germany.
C: What about you Florence?
F: I am based in Berlin for more than 10 years now, electronic music brought me to the city. I have been working for various Techno and House DJs, labels and festivals, mainly in public relations and artist management for almost 8 years until it didn’t make any sense to me anymore, for many different reasons. One of them was a bit of my own personal story forcing me to take a break and to reduce my work commitments. I was into personal growth for a long time. It started in 2016 when I was getting highly interested in mental health, especially in the music and entertainment industry as I’ve seen many artists struggling with all sorts of challenges, as well as the people working within the industry for artists. So during this break, I thought: “Okay. Well, what can I do besides doing public relations?” I originally have studied Sociology and Psychology, so that’s why I thought doing a one-year training in systemic coaching and getting into personal development and growth could be the intellectual challenge that I was needing at that time. I already had the idea of offering to counsel for the music industry when I started the training because mental health was about to become a big topic at that time. I only knew very few people offering this kind of support in Berlin. If you look for instance to the U.S., especially Hollywood – all actors or big music pop stars have their coaches.
C: Exactly, it’s part of the culture there. Now they all have coaches. It’s really popping, in the states especially.
S: How do you get into that topic or since when do you talk about this stuff openly, Cera?
C: Actually, it was just by myself. I never met anyone in real life in this field, you are the first person Florence. F: Wow. Okay.
C: Basically it’s been really hard throughout my career. I also suffered from depression in the past. I have lived in Berlin for seven years. The first years have been quite challenging to get comfortable with. I wasn’t a DJ at that time. The weather, the culture, with everything. it’s so different from where I grew up. I was totally out of my comfort zone! I was also depressed during that period but the problem at that time was that I couldn’t find a therapist or at least it was quite complicated. I struggled a lot and then I started to put all my pain into music and that helped me the most, being unable to find someone to really help me in different ways. It sounds like a cliché but that’s how it all started. My pain was my savior and I just put all my focus in music and then I started touring and DJing around the world! I’m so proud! I am also a person that works out a lot. Technogym! (laughs) I have a healthy lifestyle, I even stopped doing drugs a few years ago, I did my best to feel better and it really helped my mental health. I basically did everything to stay mentally balanced.
F: Oh wow, you started this Instagram account Technomentalhealth” this year?
C: I created the “Technomentalhealth” Instagram four months ago. I was like “Wow, my own experience this year has been hard, and I see people really struggling, especially with Covid and how the world is changing. What keeps me actually going as an artist, as well as a human being?” It had to be something that is helping me and other people as well. I feel that a lot of people are experiencing the same thing at the moment, as you said Florence. Especially in the music scene, it is already hard, it is not part of our culture still, it is not part of the broader society. As a taboo topic before the pandemic, no one wanted to talk about mental health properly, mostly just forget about the problems and party them away, that’s it. But they don’t really resolve the main issue.
F: Yes, I think maybe it is a German or European culture issue that there is a big stigma around admitting that you are not doing well. The electronic music industry is also an independently operating industry. Only a few people are employed and feel financially safe enough to take a sick leave or to open up about their well-being, showing their weakness. The majority are self-employed artists, creative professionals, or agents. Almost everyone in this field is self-employed and admitting that you are not doing fine is a tricky thing because the competition is so high in this business. At least that’s what I witnessed before Corona started one year ago, and now the pandemic changes basically everything. We are facing totally different challenges on so many levels. I mean all turned upside down now.
C: The pandemic made people actually more aware that we need to go back to the roots of the problem, not cover the problem. It is hard to show weakness. Nowadays, not many people show vulnerability, because the culture taught us through generations that it is a sign of weakness but actually, it’s not. It is even brave to show it and takes more strength to show it than hide it. I guess, people are afraid of competition and that makes us feel that we have to always be at our best and create this fake perfect lifestyle online. And now with the pandemic, structures are breaking. And it’s about time to talk about real shit! That was my main endeavor to start a mental health Instagram page. One day I woke up and said to myself “I need to do something!”. It was just my gut feeling telling me. I have always been interested in psychology, reading books about it, researching almost every single day, watching every single documentary about the latest research in Neuroscience… So there is already a foundation of knowledge once I started getting deeper into it. Out of personal interest and own experiences, trying to find solutions for my personal situation that I felt like sharing with others. I am aware that I won’t change the world but at least make people more aware and let them know, they are not alone with the struggles. We are all struggling.
F: I think in order to normalize the stigma, awareness, and a certain level of understanding of the human mind and its thought-patterns are the best preconditions to raise the awareness about what is going on in oneself and in others, but then as well normalize the conversation about it. I think this is the only way to create safe spaces, to open up to others.
S: The fact that not many governments really support creative mental health, electronic music culture even, in a really heavy time with sentences like “Your industry is not coming back soon, or, the event industry is the last thing we will open again” is further down the line a sign, that the people working in this field should really stick together and make moves forward together.
F: Yes. I think the government is unfair on different levels. For instance, some politicians in the UK, but also here in Germany simply say “Maybe you just have to get another job.” This feels like a slap into your face – they don’t realize that people are putting their lives, many years into building up those careers. This is what they are set for and has been their solo business basically, but an unpredictable situation has taken it away. Just to say “Go find another job!” is too one-dimensional. A big part of their identity is based on their career. Being financially let down by the government is already a big burden. Now you can add the impact on your mental wellbeing and the circumstances, that it is almost impossible to find psychological support, even when you are willing to pay for it by yourself.
S: In the beginning we talked about coaching and mental stability being meanwhile part of the entertainment, music culture in America. I doubt that many professionals are focussed on the same discipline here. What means “normal peoples struggles” if you can even distinguish that really but I believe as an artist and creative you need different motors to run. You need different connections to work within you, connecting with your emotions in order to create your art, it needs time to create and to distribute the created. So it seems to me that creativity as a job is still not taken seriously by the system. Understood that a different setting for creativity is necessary. All the ad’s designs for our daily world wide web digest for example, the packaging of the products we buy, or consume is all based on art and creative minds having to think about that and creating is a serious job by a lot of people and goes into many different areas of all our lives. And it is not that creatives don’t have other skills than being creative. You have to be creative on your business model, on your financials, your time management, your administration. Another stigma, people think we are doing art all day long.
„I think in order to normalize the stigma, awareness and a certain level of understanding of the human mind and its thought-patterns are the best preconditions to raise the awareness for what’s going on in oneself and in others, but also to normalize the conversation about it.“ – Florence Jimenez Otto
C: It’s weird to really minimize your position and I felt it myself being a DJ. Now I feel my job is shameful. I played a few parties last summer and they were legal parties allowed by the government, with masks, social distance etc… I had to keep these offline to avoid problems even though it was all legal. Most of us are really struggling and some can’t even pay their rent. It’s not easy to find another job after doing all your best and investing all your energy to become an artist. It’s not just uneasy, the reality is that there aren’t even jobs available.
F: That’s the next thing.
S: What job do I do?
C: I tried to apply for some jobs but there are not available ones. It is already quite a struggle to handle the situation plus it is actually not that easy to find the right therapist to help you go through all these changes… I remember about four years ago I wanted to do therapy and I applied and had to wait for seven months to get an appointment. So basically if you have depression you really have to lose your shit until you get an appointment. So it’s like “Ok, I have to wait seven months, I need to find solutions by myself, right? And then you see everyone going deep into negativity. People have been really negative this year which is also understandable. You can see it even online with the news, Facebook, Twitter etc. … it’s been really hard to wake up every single day in this ocean of negativity … I then realized that I needed something to hold on and have some hope at least. Every post I do on “Technomentalhealth” is a form of therapy for others and even for myself.
F: I mean, it’s funny that we basically teach what we had to learn the most. I have a question for you Cera. Starting the Instagram account and I’ve seen that you also did a training becoming a therapist. Is this a new purpose for you? Or is it the turning point for your career?
C: It is a new purpose. I mean, of course my DJ career is still there, especially with covid it is all on hold, but it’s there, you know. For me this year especially, I couldn’t focus much on the music, it’s not full time as before. I was traveling every weekend before Covid but it’s a different dynamic now. So I needed to find a new purpose, it’s essential and therapeutic. I can’t focus on just one thing. I’m always curious to invest in different topics and matters. Especially when you know that you can’t travel and can’t play music and do your main job and passion. I didn’t want to complain about it and get depressed. So finding a new thing to do is kind of my way to get away from depression. But of course this didn’t start just this year. It’s my whole life experience because I’ve also been through different, difficult stages in my life. I grew up in Tunisia. I went through the revolution and the Arab spring in 2011 which was a traumatic experience. It’s already hard there and then moving to Berlin, so it’s not something that you do in one day. You need a whole life experience to become a coach or, to be involved in psychology or hypnotherapy. You need to go through your own struggles to be able to understand the struggles of others and help them. It costs you time, all your time. This year was more about really going for it and the feeling to share it with the world.
I think the pandemic made people actually more aware that we need to go back to the roots of the problem, not cover the problem. – Cera Khin
S: How is the feedback so far? What things do you see and do you see any similarities, some patterns? Is there something that you can already say in that short time? It’s quite a big account already, for four months of work, to be fair.
C: Actually really good and I had a really good response. I had so many messages of people saying, finally someone speaking up! You know in the techno scene and the electronic music scene in general people usually don’t speak up about sensitive subjects, and lots of people are relating with the posts that I do on “Technomentalhealth”, because I try to explain and give some tips. For example, What is self-awareness? How do you fight negative thoughts? How to recognize, if you are a people pleaser? What is true self care? … Lots of people contacted me and told me they’ve been doing therapy at the moment and my page has been helping them in the meantime with the therapy that they are doing because they recognize a lot of themselves that they weren’t aware of. They can see their patterns more clearly so it’s really good for self awareness.
S: And do you want to talk a bit about what has changed for you? From the perspective of the whole presence that you can show, you as an artist, is there some identity change? Do you think: “Maybe I should change this, or change that?” You wouldn’t have changed it because of the pandemic or do you sometimes think “what if?” or “I should have done this or I shouldn’t have done this?” I’m really happy about it, and I’m happy to hear from so many people it’s been helping!
C: I don’t use much of the word “if that didn’t happen I would …” because I know it doesn’t serve much and it makes you stuck sometimes and drown in self-doubt. I think this year’s lesson is about acceptance. The biggest thing and challenge is to accept the pandemic. It is about accepting that the situation has changed. I hear people saying “when things go back to normal” but things are not really going back to normal, let’s be honest. This is the new normal now. Usually most of us feel scared or keep so many taboos because we’re afraid to speak up the truth. And for me, that’s what my point is, to accept and learn how to cope with the new situation and find new ways of living. Every change is difficult I admit and that is ok. It is human to fear change but at some point we need to accept the situation and move forward.
F: How do you cope with the situation?
C: How do I cope? You mean in everyday life? How do I go? I exercise a lot. I try to eat as healthy as possible. I meditate a lot. I read books a lot. I make music when I feel inspired. I try to talk to close friends and my family when I can. I try my best, to have the most stable lifestyle. I know it’s already hard sometimes for people to wake up even from bed. I just try my best every single day and now share the things that work for my mental health with other people.
S: Let’s dive in Hypnotherapy. You have a video on your page talking about your certificate in Hypnotherapy. Do you want to explain the word a little bit and then also how you got the certificate and what you learned from it?
C: With hypnotherapy, it has been a long time. I have always been fascinated by the human mind. We are not aware of our subconscious mind, what actually separates the conscious from the subconscious mind is the analytical mind and when you help people get beyond their analytical mind, you enter the operating system where you can begin to reprogramming and rewire the brain of a person. I’m gonna try to give you a quick example: since you were young, let’s say from 0-7 years, through your family or the society where you grew up, or your culture, you’ve been conditioned with certain aspects. Some people might also experience some trauma in their childhood. Trauma can be abuse, war, death or it can come through the lack of feeling seen, heard, and understood by caregivers. Then they grew up with the belief, which generally would be, that they are not worthy. They feel not worthy, not accepted as they are and this belief is embedded in their system even though they are adults now because it’s programmed in their subconscious mind. It’s really hard to change it and people are having issues and struggles in their adult life especially in their relationships because they actually don’t know how to feel worthy.
“You need to go through your own struggles to be able to understand the struggles of others and help them. It costs you time, all your time. This year was more about really going for it and the feeling to share it with the world.” Cera Khin
S: A question to both of you. Would you say that social media is some sort of the source of the problem or can become a source of the problem? For anyone and younger people and younger artists that might see you and say: “Oh Wow. She’s such a famous person and also so big on social media.” Would you say that’s some sort of feeling to be part of it and to kind of build your identity based on that idea to be famous and accepted? The root of the problem can be actually “scrolled away”.
F: Well, I think social media is shaping the perception of ourselves and of others, what is assumed to be likable. It’s a massive and complex topic, especially social media consumption in an unconscious way, which I guess most of us do. There are certain studies about social media consumption, for instance, if you consume social media in a more passive way, when you just scroll down through your news feed, but not posting things by yourself. Apparently, these people are more prone to have depressive symptoms, in contrast to people that engage with others through comments and post content by themselves. Being clear about why you are checking your account is the first step towards awareness. Relaxed entertainment? Boredom? Information consumption? Craving connection? Voicing an opinion? Seeking attention? I think to build up a brand but also to send out certain vibes – the vibes that you would like to attract, social media is a great format. You can use it for whatever you want. You, Cera and Sophie, you both have your outlets and create your own brand with Technomentalhealth and NSNS so I think for this purpose, it’s a good platform.
S: From my experience, I still think that being on the market, you constantly look to the right and to the left. For me, it is really hard to keep my line and to keep on track because you see so many other people doing so many things. Some are more engaged than others and you question yourself a lot. “Am I doing the right thing”? It is this ‘Wow-Effect’ and speaking about the unconscious I think we are trained to be hooked with a ‘WOW’. It is more fun, more exciting, more emotionally uplifting. But then it stops so fast and you wonder “Wait a minute, I had such good energy just a few minutes ago, and now it’s down again, something is wrong with me… loops. I definitely struggle sometimes to stay focused on what I actually want to do. Then you have to always align with the reality of social media, which is a very fast-moving, constantly changing, mass of information that you can’t really keep up with and you have to kind of jump on a wave or on a boat sometimes. That’s how I feel about it. And it also draws my attention so much on Instagram, constantly, because you look and you watch and you kind of get sucked into it every single time. You just open the app because it plays something or it has a quote that’s customized to you, you start sharing it in the Stories, with your friends, you scroll, loops again… So sometimes I wonder how to really deal with it in order to stay sane, because if I would just look to the right and to the left and do what everybody else does, then I basically would also lose my essence and myself, no?
C: I don’t use much of the word “if that didn’t happen I would …” because I know it doesn’t serve much and it makes you stuck sometimes and drown in self-doubt.
C: I think you have to learn to use social media. Filter that consciously and set boundaries with yourself about how you use social media. Boundaries are so important for your well being. For example, if there’s an account that is annoying you and it’s triggering you to make you feel bad or doesn’t make you feel good, you have to unfollow it or in certains cases, block it. There’s so much unnecessary information that doesn’t serve you and doesn’t participate in your growth, you can always unfollow. So basically it’s up to you, to choose the right people for you to follow and the right platform that you can get inspired from, because there’s lots of negative aspects of course. I learned lots of things, because I decided to choose those platforms that inspire me and people or the other platforms that do not inspire me or participate in my growth, I just unfollow them. That’s how boundaries work to protect you, it is very simple.
F: Being conscious of “Why am I opening up Instagram now?”, I think that needs to be clear, because these apps are designed to keep you hooked, they’re operating with our psychological needs as a human being. So you have to beat the algorithm, you have to beat artificial intelligence. You need to know yourself better than technology knows you. It is not easy, because for many it is a habit, just opening up and thinking “okay what’s going on?” Maybe I am missing a social interaction. Well, I want to know what other people are doing, right? Did I get a like? Great, now I feel good because I got attention and so on, it’s feeding our human needs on so many different levels.
S: When you look into social media and how they are designed…I just figured that our interaction these days through covid has created a new system in a second world on these “things”. So much business now and how people make money. When you look at YouTube, when you look at Google, when you look at Instagram and Facebook. These massive platforms create a massive amount of income for people which kind of drives people as well to those platforms, making them more addictive and irreplaceable. You mix influence with business on a whole new level in arts and culture. For example, when brands ask you to share some products on your Instagram page, for example, because it’s such a lucrative and easy way also to get engagement obviously because you’ve built your fan base on there, I wonder what does this do to your artistic identity, good and bad. One day it starts with 1.000€ then two, then all of a sudden four. What does this do to our value system towards money and selling yourself for a living by not sitting in an office. Isn’t it the same spending 2-3h actively looking down on the phone and the rest of the day posing in front of the camera and all day long thinking about content? Instagram is your dåesk plus collects all the data. I mean all these super model accounts are based on that business model to implement the app more into our lives. So to me culture feels kind of trapped in this capitalism. I am really excited to see how arts will develop once the pandemic is over. How we consume it, what we expect from it, what people have created. I can’t wait, for real. Social Media I think becomes a manual for a silenced generation. How do you beat the algorithm? The algorithm is done by computer and the human mind is basically trapped in the algorithm which is the subconscious of the internet. The algorithm and AI, how do you beat your problems as a human and how does a computer as a tool beat the unconscious of the system? I use social media in a certain way but the more you are forced to use it the more you are forced to unconsciously give away your data, your human behaviour and your moments.
C: I like that metaphor that you said that the algorithm is the subconscious of the internet.
S: I question if at some point everyone will want their own, customized explanation instead of finding a common solution? So I feel the older you get and work also in this cultural landscape, the more social responsibility you also should have in order to keep people informed about the reality of things. Because sometimes the internet reality gets lost in that unconscious as much as our reality gets lost in our unconscious. So I think mental health is probably the most important topic that’s going to pop up, hopefully now, because I think a lot of people struggle with it more than we can imagine.
Being financially let down by the government is already a big burden. Now you can add the impact on your mental wellbeing and the circumstances, that it is almost impossible to find psychological support, even when you are willing to pay for it by yourself.
C: I totally agree with you and that’s why it’s really important to raise awareness for everything you do, and to practice self awareness. I think that’s already a tool, to be aware of things. Even your thoughts on how you consume social media, the food you eat, the people you meet or simply your life. I think it’s really important that you can establish yourself, to know what’s the limit for you, so that you don’t let it affect your mental health.
S: What are the topics that you Florence for example work with right now? With your clients in general in your work? Do you have something that suits a general problem through the pandemic or maybe also outside of culture. I mean culture is so broad, it’s not just about DJ’s, it’s photographers, videographers, people that run magazines, people that are managing artists, directors, theatre actors, opera singers… So it’s this huge field of different people and different stories. Is there one topic that you would say is an average problem at the moment, looking at your palette of clients? A topic that shines through, that’s kind of really important to talk about?
F: That’s a difficult question. I think one of the common issues is to follow your artistic vision, whether you are an artist, musician, editor, graphic designer or actor. Yeah I would say staying true to your artistic vision and being able to make a living, with or without your art and craft. Finding the right mindset so you don’t have the feeling of selling yourself out to markets, jobs or agencies where you can make money. Being authentic but also being clear and committed to what you want in life. Having clarity about Why? you are doing the things that you are doing. What’s the motivation behind them? Clarity about your priorities and compromises. For instance, what’s your relationship between your art and the money you are generating with it. Is your fee also a source of recognition? How do you feel about your art (and yourself) when inquiries for commissioned projects are not coming in as you have expected? When you completely rely on making money with art, it also holds the danger of overidentifying with it, which can cause high pressures of being “successful”. It can have a negative impact on your creativity. Whereas you could also have a side job, related to your art, well said to your craft. For example, many illustrators do illustration as their art but they’re also working as graphic designers. This is a scenario in which you get paid for your craft and at the end of the month, you know you can pay your bills. With this kind of comfort, you might even find more freedom to pursue your artistic vision. That’s one thing that I see quite often, to find the balance between the two of these scenarios.
C: I think that’s the biggest struggle right? That’s the biggest thing to find the balance between being yourself, doing your art and also it is money, and you have to pay your rent and you have to pay your bills and pay your taxes and not lose your soul.
F: When you have been making a high standard living with your art and then you realize that trends in culture are changing, people are not that interested in you anymore, you have to remain flexible. When your identity is tied up to success, status and an image or brand that you represent, and then your status quo is changing, you are forced to step back on different levels, it is a transition process inside yourself. And now we have the pandemic, this is an even more special situation.
C: This is my vision, you know, but for me any art is like life itself. You have ups and downs. You can never have it always exponential. You know, it won’t be all the time going UP to the hill, sometimes it’s going down. That’s emotional intelligence. It is up to you how to deal with the situation when you run down on the hill, that’s how it goes all your life, it just doesn’t stop. It’s an endless loop. It’s up & down. F: Being flexible is a superpower.
C: Exactly and I think that’s the case not just for DJ’s, for painters, it is for everyone. Every answer is for everyone. You can have a family, you can have kids and one day you’re fired from your job and then you have to find another job etc etc …. At the end we need to be flexible and we need to learn how to cope with any hard situation we encounter in healthy ways. Even though you established Plan A, Plan B, but maybe you have to find Plan C in some situations, and I think that’s the key to success because you will never be successful your whole life or perhaps you can but this doesn’t really matter. What’s important is to have the right tools but tools to keep you going. It’s all basically tools for self-help, tools to establish the right mindset to face any kind of situation.
S: When you see yourself as a solo business not just an artist, learning that confidence and knowledge that you are an entity that is valid in the system understanding, that something that you’ve built might not be on that level anymore because the market has changed BUT remind yourself that you can reach it again, leads back to the point you mentioned Cera, acceptance. I think most of us fail once, and in that failure lies the energy and the basis for a new beginning. C: What if the secret to success is failure?
S: But I mean that’s actually a good question. Is that even failure when you’re right now not making the money that you were making before because of the situation?
C: And when you say it’s failure because you believe this is only happening to me, then it is failure for you, individually. I see failure as a way to learn and to be better another day. I don’t think it is the end of the world. Sometimes failure can be actually even more rewarding than being successful. Maybe I’m being too optimistic, but it’s a way to learn lessons for the next try.
F: No, it always has a big opportunity to learn things. And I think if you always have been successful and think you never failed, then also something is wrong in that thinking.
C: I don’t think anyone in this world is free of failure. This is a big part of humanity, we can’t be perfect. We are humans. mistakes are human.
F: I think that within the word failure and also within the word perfection is already some sort of judgment because you could also say “things didn’t work out”.
C: It is a big label to say failure, because it is subjective. Maybe it’s not a failure. What is failure for me might not be a failure for you. Of course, if you want to say the word failure, you think it wasn’t successful and you say ok I failed and next time I am going to do it better, then I learned from that. That is the different approach to that problem. But again to talk about the global pandemic I don’t think it is a failure, it is just life. There is something happening to the whole world, to the earth, to the planet earth, it is not failure, it is just destiny we have to live through in 2020/21. I don’t know for how long. I’m not controlling this (laughs). It’s been challenging. People are losing their jobs, people are dying, there’s so many weird changes (and happenings) but at the same time it’s up to us, human beings, to learn how to cope with the new situation. Let’s do it all together and be kind to each other!
F: I think it’s actually a good chance to change things because the pandemic makes it more obvious what hasn’t been working out before on different levels, also outside of the music industry. The industry was already on a point which was not healthy anymore in many perspectives. Now it’s crashing and it is tough, it’s really heartbreaking. Nevertheless, crises are always opportunities for change.
S: Speaking about chances, maybe to give it a round finish I want to ask, what do you both individually, have planned for the future? For this specific topic? I mean you on one side with Techno Mental Health and you Florence on the counseling work. In a positive way, what do you hope for the future? And where do you want to bring your works?
C: Of course, I can’t wait for the music to go back, to go back to my job and my passion. I can’t wait to see people in the scene being more compassionate, more kind, more tolerant and understanding. Everyone is struggling with mental health at the moment and people really have to be kinder to one another. Especially in the electronic music scene, because I’ve seen lots of harsh things. So I hope people just understand, and don’t blame others and don’t judge others. I just feel like that and because everyone is struggling at the moment, don’t judge people for how they have become successful or how people are struggling; you can’t really judge people because everyone has a past, everyone has a story and you never really know what is behind it. So that’s why I hope there will be more tolerance. That the scene will consider more the minorities, celebrate the differences and be more caring.
You know, at the end we are all humans, we all have our history here. We all have our personal problems. For me, for everyone, not just the artists, the ecosystem we live and work in, the clubs, the promoters, the ravers everyone! More diversity and inclusion please!
F: I wish basically for the same, that there will be more compassion and interdependence. Asking for help should not be a sign of weakness anymore. For me personally, I was also thinking about doing a training in hypnotherapy. I have experienced it by myself and I have found it quite powerful.
S: I tried it as well with the hypnotherapy and it’s very very powerful. You awake something within you that you probably don’t really communicate with under normal circumstances because you’re constantly stuck in your negative emotions. All these triggers and all these reactions as everything became a reaction these days. Type laughing in your phone and it pops up a smiley instead of the word to express a reaction. You lose touch with that reaction in reality but might just avoid to trigger a real feeling, because you have a smiley to express it, or a quote, or a modern word, “dope”. Let’s allow ourselves to be dreamers and go for the dreams with respect and esteem for your neighbours dreams.
C: Exactly! Have you ever asked yourself once “Why am I attracting the same people in my life? or “Why do I keep having the same patterns in my relationships or my work life?” With hypnotherapy it helps you to understand and recognize that pattern. It basically gives you another pair of glasses, and a different view, a new lens! And when you have those new pairs of glasses then you say “Okay shit actually I was sleepwalking all this time, I can see clearly now!”.
S: Nice. We did a lot of work today, friends! Thank you for this really refreshing talk and perspectives. That was like opening a window to get some fresh air. | <urn:uuid:6b7dd8d8-1a52-4afc-bb39-0db889a38840> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 40,052 |
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University of Stirling v University and College Union EATS/0001/11
A failure by an employer to comply with its collective consultation obligations under section 188 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (“TULRCA”) exposes it to the risk of a protective award in an Employment Tribunal.
Section 195 of TULRCA confirms that for the purposes of collective consultation, “dismissed as redundant” means dismissal for a reason (or a number of reasons all of which are) not related to the individual concerned. There is a statutory presumption that a dismissed employee was “dismissed as redundant” unless the employer proves to the contrary.
In this case, the Scottish EAT considered whether the expiry of a fixed-term contract constituted a “redundancy” under the broader definition in section 195 of TULRCA.
Upholding the employer’s appeal against the earlier finding of an Employment Tribunal, the EAT held that the employees who were dismissed on expiry of their fixed-term contracts did not fall within the definition of redundancy in TULRCA in this case. The reason for their dismissal was one "relating to them as individuals" and not redundancy, as the reason for the non-renewal of their contracts was simply their termination of employment in the normal course. It did not relate to a wider business decision.
The result was that those employees did not count in the calculation of the number of employees the employer was “proposing to dismiss as redundant” in the relevant 90 day period under section 188 of TULRCA.
The EAT's decision in this case confirms that the expiry of a fixed-term contract will not always count as a “redundancy” for the purposes of collective consultation. While this is helpful for employers it should be kept in mind that such dismissals may count, however, if the reason behind the dismissal is the same as that behind other redundancies. | <urn:uuid:bb57288f-cd15-461c-a56a-6c2d431b64c5> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,900 |
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If history is the story of human civilization, then historians must be the storytellers of this rich and intricate narrative.
Like any other artisan, the historian uses raw materials to build his handicraft---ancient symbols on a cave wall, delicate rolls of papyri, embellished texts locked away in a monastery, yellowed newspapers, and any other bit of written evidence of mankind's past. The art of creating history takes many decades---perhaps centuries---to produce. First, the historian must rid herself of all personal bias (which proves near impossible). Second, all of the evidence that isn't lost to natural disasters or war must be gathered. Third, the evidence must be stitched together in seamless strokes. And fourth, any mistakes in the fabric must be meticulously cut out. It is a long and difficult process.
Concerning the War in Iraq, the raw materials of this historical event are still being gathered. The pattern for the fabric is under construction and it will be many years before a final product can be produced. And so, the current situation in Iraq may seem bleak, but the ultimate outcome is still being decided.
Recent articles in the Washington Post and Newsweek have made me realize that hope remains in Iraq. (And I'm always a sucker for hope.) So even though I think we've entangled ourselves in a horribly messy war, I am still hopeful that the final outcome will be a success---a democratic and stable Iraq.
But who knows? For now, I will sit back and wait as history continues to be recorded. Trying to analyze the "goodness" or "badness" of the war is a futile effort without knowing all of the consequences it brings. It's like trying to write a movie review when all you've seen is the first fifteen minutes. Or summarizing a book when all you've read are a smattering of pages in the first three chapters.
Honestly, did anyone really think that the assassination of an Austrian archduke would lead to World War I, which consequently led to World War II, which then brought on the Cold War and Vietnam? Just to think...the life and death of Franz Ferdinand II would shift world history and consequently effect the lives of billions! Curse that Serbian assassin!
Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully, the War in Iraq will not bring such awful consequences. And hopefully, our progeny will not look back at this war and say "If only they knew what we know now." | <urn:uuid:aa54db3d-a45f-49d5-a16d-611a1a53012f> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,392 |
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The poem quoted above: “The Second Coming” by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1919) is probably one of the most adapted and quoted poems in world literature, and in politics and culture, to describe moments of anxiety, uncertainty and a seeming “slouching towards” chaos and anarchy in any community.
The joint EU-UN Spotlight Initiative, on Monday called on the media to intensify advocacy through reportage of violence against women and girls to end the menace in the country.
Mr Tokunbo Abiru, APC’s candidate for the Lagos East bye-election, has said that quality representation at the National Assembly is an antidote to diverse national development and security challenges.
General Motors announced today that it is abandoning Donald Trump’s effort to take away California’s ability to set fuel efficiency standards. The company, along with Fiat Chrysler and Toyota, previously backed Trump’s efforts to roll back fuel efficiency standards.
The Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, says the 2021 Appropriation Bill currently before the house will be passed before Dec. 31.
The Elder and major Stakeholders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday affirmed the belief that it is the turn of the South East to produce President of Nigeria in 2023.
There were speculations on Monday, alleging that the businessman and philanthropist is engaged to a prospective 7th wife, after a lady, identified as Sara shared photos of herself posing in Ned Nwoko’s mansion.
The Executive Director, Nigerian Export Promotion Council, NEPC, Barrister Segun Awolowo has on Tuesday decried how a lot of Made-in-Nigeria products were rejected in the global market as a result of inadequate packaging and labeling.
Former Heads of State Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar yesterday pledged support for the North Central Peoples Forum for peace and development of the region.
The Edo State Police Command has arrested 48 suspected armed robbers and cult members in the last two weeks.
Former South Africa World Cup defender Anele Ngcongca, who died Monday in a car accident near Durban aged just 33, has been hailed by his former coach, Pitso Mosimane, as an “unsung hero”. | <urn:uuid:8d186e0f-e422-4938-8843-7446403ec178> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,221 |
Revista médica de Chile
versión impresa ISSN 0034-9887
HERNANDEZ C, Jorge; GONZALEZ B, Sergio; ALVAREZ L, Manuel y LISBOA B, Carmen. Pulmonary and gastric sarcoidosis: Report of one case. Rev. méd. Chile [online]. 2009, vol.137, n.7, pp. 923-927. ISSN 0034-9887. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0034-98872009000700010.
We report a 66 year-old woman with a history of pulmonary sarcoidosis, diagnosed with a lung biopsy in 1993 and treated with prednisone for 2 years. She presented at our institution in 1999 with a stage IV disease and important functional and clinical impairment. A bronchial biopsy disclosed non caseating granulomas. Tuberculosis was intensively studied and persistently negative. Due to frequent nausea and vomiting an endoscopic gastric biopsy was performed which revealed non caseating granulomas involving the gastric mucosa. There was no evidence of Helicobacter pylori and stains for fungi and acid-fast bacilli were negative. Treatment with prednisone relieved digestive symptoms, although a control biopsy of the gastric mucosa revealed persistence of non caseating granulomas. Both lung stage IV and gastric sarcoidosis are uncommon forms of the disease.
Palabras llave : Granuloma, giant cell; Sarcoidosis, gastric; Sarcoidosis, pulmonary. | <urn:uuid:f3a66c77-e829-480c-ac27-5b409ab044a4> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,265 |
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The Ideal Patient
In my posting on July 30th mention was made of an "ideal patient". What do you think is the physician-view of such an ideal patient? Well, as physicians, though we would like to think of caring for an ideal patient, we have to face the reality that this would rarely happen. You see, the ideal patient would be one who, first of all, bears many of the views and goals of the physician. As physicians, we really can't believe that we will be so lucky. Then, physicians generally yearn for illnesses which they can easily diagnose and readily treat to an outcome which is optimal for the patient. That usually means that the patient has real physical symptoms, one acute disease-- not confusing multiple new diseases at the same time and, finally, clear cut physical findings and lab tests. The illness, hopefully, would have standard treatment which is virtually universally satisfactory and the risks of treatment being minimal, if at all. The patient should be alert, in good spirits (not too sick), have confidence in the physician, readily competent to make decisions, thoroughly interested in learning about the illness and its treatment and willing to take time to listen carefully to the explanation by the physician and the options of further diagnostic tests and treatment. And when it comes to treatment, the ideal patient will make the effort to follow the physican's prescription directions and remain fully complient. The patient will also carefully monitor their reaction to the medication and promptly report to the physician any side-effects or complications. The ideal patient will also have the ideal family. Such a family will support the patient but also show confidence in the physician and support the physician.
As I mentioned at the outset of this posting, this all may be just wishful thinking on the part of the physician. It is unlikely that all these features would appear in the one patient. However, if the doctor had repeatedly such ideal patients, caring for them might be a boring experience. The wonderful "goose-bump" experience of a physician suddenly finding that he/she has made an emotional/spiritual connection with a patient would no longer occur. The wonderful challenge of the difficult diagnosis and the emotional uplifting for the physician who has made the diagnosis that was missed by others, even specialists, would be missing. The splendid realization of a cure, finally occuring after a course of many ups and downs, would be a rarity if all cures occurred easily and on schedule. Finally, if the physician had all ideal patients, the challenge of the difficult patient, the difficult family and the challenge of managing the patient and family if the cure doesn't come will be absent.
It is the job of a physician to make the diagnosis when the illness is not easily identified, to make the patient's treatment satisfactory when that isn't easy or simple and finally to meet the criteria and be that ideal doctor to every patient who turns out not to be the ideal patient imagined by the physician. ..Maurice. | <urn:uuid:448c47a4-5dd3-4fe7-9eb4-1ac3578596bb> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,077 |
The 21st century is marked by the rise of life and work environments complexity.
To face this complexity, soft skills such as creative and critical thinking, creativity, curiosity, interdisciplinary and experiential learning cabapilities and communication have become increasingly necessary to resolve managerial and innovative issues (Ibarra, 2015*). Consequently, today, these learning and innovation skills have become critical in student’s education as is clearly illustrated in the P21’s Framework for 21st Century Learning.
The educational setting of our MBI program is to focus on soft skills mobilization in the process of innovation management in order to:
- Exploit critical thinking to define precisely the difficulties to overcome
- Enhance communication to improve transversal collaborations
- Develop curiosity and creativity to generate unexpected ideas and solutions
- Favor inter-personal exchanges to promote circulation and exploitation of new ideas
*Ibarra, H. (2015). The authenticity paradox. Harvard Business Review, 93(1/2), 53-59.
Framework for 21st century learning**
**Graphic adapted from P21’s. (2009): P21’s Framework for 21st Century Learning. 2009 Partnership for 21st Century Learning (P21’s). was developed with input from teachers, education experts, and business leaders to define and illustrate the skills and knowledge students need to succeed in work, life and citizenship, as well as the support systems necessary for 21st century learning outcomes. www.p21.org.
The program’s overall objective is to provide knowledge, methods, tools and capabilities to participants as innovative managers in organizations operating within uncertainty in complex and rapidly changing markets and technologies. To augment the development of soft skills, our MBI program places students in the shoes of managers through Project-based learning (PBL). These projects reflect the uncertainty, the complexity and the rapidly changing market conditions, technologies, and new skills requirements which affect today’s organizations.
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- Identify and generate new ideas and opportunities as well as develop innovation
- Integrate theories and practices to strengthen the innovation capabilities of their organization
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2004-01-25 - The Trinity
The Great Truth: "God the Triunity"
The Triunity in the Old Testament
The Truth is Revealed in Names in the Old Testament.
"In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis
1:1) This name "Elohim" is a plural noun. As we noted last time, Plural,
in English, means two or more. In the Hebrew, we have three terms referring
to the grammatical number: singular,meaning one; dual, equaling two; plural,
meaning three or more. Therefore "Elohim" is a plural noun meaning three
Moses used this name, "Elohim," 500 times in the Pentateuch.
(Stringfellow, Alan B., ed., Through the Bible in One Year, Vol. 3, Great
Truths of the Bible, p. 19. Copyright © 1981) 7
"And God (Elohim) said, Let us make man in our image, after our likenessso
God (Elohim) created man in His own image, in the image of God created He
them"(Genesis 1:26-27). "This is another use of the plural noun, indicating
the Trinity at work in the creation of manyet indicating one God in
the phrase, "in His own Image." The Godhead is a Trinity in Unity." (Ibid.)
"The man is become as one of us" (Genesis 3:22). Notice the name of the One
who spoke, "The Lord God said."
Here the name "Lord" is used (English
form). In theHebrew, the name is "Yahweh." "Yahweh is the personal name of
God because it means"Redeemer" and was used only after the fall of man. "Yahweh"
always relates in a redemptiveway to man." (Ibid.) Here again, note the use
The Scriptures State the Trinity.
The Holy Spirit is stated in Genesis 1:2: "Now the earth was formless and
empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was
hovering over the waters."Also in Isaiah 11:1-2 you will find the Holy Spirit
named. "A shoot will come upfrom the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch
will bear fruit. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him the Spirit
of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit
The Son, Jesus Christ, is stated in Psalm 2:7: "I will proclaim the decree
of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my Son; today I have become your Father."
Again in Verse12: "Kiss the Son, lest he be angry and you be destroyed in
The Trinity is revealed in Genesis 18:1-2 and Isaiah 48:16: "The LORD appeared
toAbraham near the great trees of Mamre, while he was sitting at the entrance
to his tent in the heat of the day. Abraham looked up and saw three men standing
nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet
them and bowed low to the ground."
" "Come near me and listen to this:
"From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret; at the time it
happens, I am there." And now the Sovereign LORD has sent me, with his Spirit."
To be continued
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Illinois is a governor's signature away from becoming the 15th state to allow gay marriages.
The Illinois Senate followed the House in approving same-sex marriage on Tuesday.
Gov. Pat Quinn, who was present for the vote, is expected to sign it into law.
Debate lasted more than two hours, and the final roll call was met with hearty cheers. Supporters' speeches echoed themes of equality and civil rights with mentions of Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. and Matthew Shepard, a gay college student whose 1998 death sparked hate crime bills.
The bill passed the House 61-54, barely obtaining the 60 votes needed for passage.
"At the end of the day, all we're talking about is treating every family in the state of Illinois with the same equality and justice under the law as others," bill sponsor Rep. Greg Harris said.
House Speaker Mike Madigan appeared to the one who tipped the scales. Madigan quoted Pope Francis in explaining his support of the bill.
"Who am I to judge that they should be illegal? Who is the government to judge that they should be illegal, and for me, that's the reason to support this bill," Madigan said.
Rep. Thomas Morrison urged a no vote during the debate to "protect the institution of marriage" and "strengthen and protect real marriage." Rep. Jeanne Ives called it "the worst bill in the country."
The vote comes after supporters of gay marriage rallied at the state capitol to encourage House leaders to approve the measure after a disappointing spring session.
The measure initially failed to pass the Illinois House when the regular session ended in May. It was approved by the state's Senate on Valentine's Day, but a lack of votes kept it stalled in the House. The bill has been supported by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Quinn, Sen. Mark Kirk and President Barack Obama who exhorted legislators during a Chicago visit to approve the measure.
Obama, who once served in the Illinois state Senate, released a statement saying he was "overjoyed for all the committed couples in Illinois."
The president commended members of the Legislature for approaching the issue in an "open and fair way." He says the nation's journey is not complete until gay men and women are treated equally under the law.
The Illinois Catholic Conference issued a statement saying they are "deeply disappointed" with the decision.
"We remain concerned about the very real threats to religious liberty that are at stake with the passage of this bill," the statement read.
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What if I said that voting accomplishes nothing?
No, not on some electoral college basis – I mean nothing, literally. Your vote might as well be trashed. It simply has no precedent for forming laws. With all that crazy talk, you might be wondering why I’m bringing this up.
Because Massachusetts House leaders plan on ignoring votes.
You see, back in November we had an election. And while obviously Hillary Clinton swept the state, the real race was Question 4 – Legalize Recreational Sale of Marijuana. Once the results were tallied, the measure won 53.6% – 46.4%.
I won’t plunge into the details of the bill because they’re unimportant. The bottom line is we voted for a 12% marijuana tax with local control over the location of pot shops. Simple.
Of coarse – not simple enough for the lawmakers who’ll work round-the-clock dismantling it.
We had a vote – but they have the say.
The first draft of the new law attached to this bill included raising the pot tax from an already high 12% to 28% (YES! 28%!) tax. In addition, the dumb voters (us, apparently) can’t be trusted to veto pot shops in our own neighborhoods. Which is why – that power will now belong to local officials, instead.
This is why people don’t vote.
US election turnout rates are abysmal compared to other countries. This is why people seldom become invested in political races or outcomes – they simply don’t have a say.
At a pivotal point in American history, we should be making democracy more inclusive to young people and everyone foreign to our democratic system. We should be opening up our gates to new people with new ideas who’re excited!
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Peter Saunders recently retired as an independent social policy researcher whose work has focused on welfare reform, social mobility, income inequality and poverty. He holds the honorary titles of Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Independent Studies, Professorial Research Fellow at Civitas, and Professor Emeritus of the University of Sussex.
He spent 25 years as lecturer, reader and professor at Sussex, where he taught sociology and urban studies. In this time, he also held visiting academic posts at Brown, Bremen, Melbourne, Canterbury and the Australian National universities. In 1999 he left academe and moved to Australia to become Research Manager at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, and in 2001 he became Social Research Director at the Centre for Independent Studies where he remained until 2008, when he returned to Britain.
His publications include Social Theory and the Urban Question (1981/1986), A Nation of Home Owners (1990), Privatisation and Popular Capitalism (1994), Capitalism: A Social Audit (1995), Australia's Welfare Habit (2004), Social Mobility Myths (2010) and The Rise of the Equalities Industry (2011). He is also co-author of two student text books, An Introduction to British Politics (now in its third edition) and The Survey Methods Workbook (2004), and in 2009 he self-published a novel, The Versailles Memorandum. His academic books have been translated into German, Italian, Korean, Romanian, Portugese, Turkish and Mandarin.
He has written extensively for newspapers in Australia and Britain and has appeared regularly on radio and TV discussing his work. In 2008, the Sydney Morning Herald described him as, "The most prominent liberal intellectual in Australia." In 2010, Max Hastings described him in the Daily Mail as "that rare beast - a sensible sociologist." The Guardian attacked him in 2010 as "an ideas wrecker" (a badge he wears with pride).
Educated at Selhurst Grammar School, Croydon; University of Kent, Canterbury; Chelsea College, London.
Nationality: Dual British and Australian citizenship
2008-2013: Freelance consultancy and independent author, based in England
2001-2008: Social Research Director, Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney, Australia
1999-2000: Research Manager, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne, Australia
1988-1999: Professor of Sociology, University of Sussex (Professor Emeritus from 2002)
1984-1988: Reader in Sociology and Urban Studies, University of Sussex
1976-1984: Lecturer in Sociology, University of Sussex, England
1973-1976: Research Officer, Dept of Sociology, University of Essex, England
VISITING ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1996: Visiting Professor, Dept of Sociology, Brown University, USA
1992: Visiting Fellow, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology/Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
1992: Visiting Professor, ZWE (Arbeit und Region), Universitaet Bremen, Germany
1982: Visiting Lecturer, Dept of Sociology, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
1982: Visiting Research Fellow, Urban Research Unit, Australian National University
1981: Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of Environmental Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia
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1971-73: Chelsea College, University of London: Ph.D in Sociology 1975
1968-71: University of Kent, Canterbury, Upper second class BA (Hons) in Sociology 1971
2010: Professorial Fellow, Civitas
2008: Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Independent Studies
2002: Elected as Member of Mont Pelerin Society
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If your heart rate is 60 beats per minute, which is the low end of normal, it will beat 31,563,000 times in one year. That’s not including ventricular tachycardia, atrial fibrillation, or leap years. I calculated this after I conked out on the basketball court and learned that I was going to need open heart surgery. Aortic aneurysms are part of our genetic inheritance. My brother already had his aorta and valve repaired. Then our mother died of a dissected aorta. I could see the writing on the wall. It’s just a matter of time, they said, so get ahead of it sooner rather than later, while you’re young and healthy.
Sixty bpm is one beat per second. In that second, the left and right ventricles contract; the left sends blood through the arterial system into smaller and smaller vessels, releasing oxygen and feeding the cells; the right sends used blood through the lungs, to load up on oxygen. The blood in the body itself returns via veins to the superior and inferior vena cavae and on to the right atrium, then to the right ventricle and out to the lungs; at the capillary level, red blood cells release oxygen and take up carbon dioxide; refreshed, the blood then returns via the pulmonary veins to the left atrium, where it pulses down to the left ventricle to start another cycle. All in one second. The body holds about five liters of blood, and pumps all of it every minute or so. This is called the cardiac output.
Most of this was discovered by William Harvey, who detailed his findings in 1628. “The movement of the blood is constantly in a circle,” he wrote. Before Harvey, many thought that blood was used up each day, and manufactured anew from food. But if you drain a corpse and collect its 10 or so pounds of blood, that idea becomes untenable. After numerous dissections, Harvey figured that the heart ejects two ounces of blood per beat, a fair estimate of what today is called the stroke volume. Heart rate times stroke volume equals cardiac output. The heart pumps, on average, three times the body’s weight every hour. Each day, we consume maybe 500 liters of oxygen.
Harvey didn’t have a decent microscope, and couldn’t explain how the blood transited from right heart to left. That was left to Malpighi, who in 1661 discovered the capillaries, where gas exchange takes place. This was a beautiful discovery that eventually led to an understanding of osmosis and the partial pressure of gases. It took another 100 years to figure out that the blood carried hemoglobin, which carries oxygen, and that cell metabolism was, like rust, a form of combustion. The heart has left and right halves because we have lungs, and all creatures with lungs have such two-sided hearts. Pulmonary circulation, and systemic circulation. Hemoglobin molecules have an iron core, which is why our blood is red. Octopus blood is copper-based, and is blue.
The day before my surgery they took pictures of my coronary arteries in the cath lab. The images were so cool I asked the tech how long I’d have to go to school to have her job. She said two years. I returned to college with the Dacron aorta and a St. Jude metal valve, to study interventional cardiology. I watched open heart surgeries. I studied anatomy, pharmacology, physiology. I learned that, in 1929, a German doctor named Forssman inserted a urinary catheter into his arm and snaked it up and into his right atrium, proving that direct access to the heart’s interior was possible. This was the beginning of cardiac catheterization, and that’s where I wanted to be. I took a lab job in a New England hospital. I scrubbed in on numerous cases, opening clogged arteries with stents and balloons. I learned a lot about heart disease and specialized equipment, and saw patients so badly off that even God couldn’t save them.
The coronaries, valves and chambers make up the plumbing aspect of the heart. Blood pretty much follows the same rules as household water flow, except that blood vessels can expand and contract, which is how blood pressure is controlled. The four heart valves aren’t controlled by muscles, but by pressure gradients in the chambers.
The heart has an electrical side as well. Hearts are driven by the constant passing of various ions in and out of a specialized bit of tissue called the sinoatrial node, located in the upper right atrium. The ions are sodium, calcium and potassium. Ion behavior in the SA node creates small spikes of electrical current that travel down the heart’s conduction pathway. This current causes individual strands of heart muscle fiber, called myocytes, to shrink almost in unison, causing the ventricles to contract. The proper name for this study is electrophysiology, or EP. It’s beautifully complicated, and I soon quit the plumbing side and went across the hall to EP.
Around 1900, Willem Einthoven, a physiology professor in Leiden, developed a very clever rig that became the first accurate meter. (The first “meter” was a piece of muscle tissue placed on a patient’s chest; it twitched with each contraction of the heart.) Electrodes on the patient generated tiny voltages from the heart, leaking to the surface. These deflected a thin wire in a magnetic field, and the shadow of the moving wire was captured on scrolling photographic paper. I laughed when I read the history of this machine, at its cleverness. This was the birth of the ECG, or electrocardiograph. Einthoven got the Nobel Prize for this work in 1924.
Once they put the sticky electrodes on your chest and plug you into the machine, the test itself takes only six or eight seconds. Then some graph paper exits the machine, and the QRS squiggles define the electrical activity of a few beats. There are no words on the paper, just millivolts on the vertical axis, and milliseconds on the horizontal. But there’s a lot of information there. I spent a lot of time studying the pink strips, trying to diagnose what was going on with the patients’ hearts. Their names were always blacked out. Sometimes, I’d see a guy whose ECG ended in a flatline, and I realized I was “seeing” the last six seconds of his life.
The EP lab is where they install pacemakers, defibrillators, and loop recorders. It’s where they go in with specialized catheters to map arrhythmias and burn heart tissue to remedy atrial fibrillation. There are fewer deaths there than in the plumbing rooms across the hall. But that’s not why I went there. It was exciting in angioplasty, especially when a STEMI came in and the shit hit the fan. I didn’t mind the gore. I liked inflating the balloon and watching the artery expand on the screen. There was a lot to learn there.
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Bird Flu has infected four new patients in addition to the three bird flu cases previously announced by the Chinese government. The New York Times reports all four are critically ill and suffering from the new bird flu strain designated H7N9. The H7N9 strain of bird flu has no vaccine.
A new strain of bird flu virus has killed at least two in China, say government authorities. The new bird flu strain is communicable to humans, but the Chinese government waited 20 days before announcing the first fatalities. A Chinese woman also infected with bird flu remains hospitalized.
Similar symptoms reportedly afflicted all three. It's unclear when the bird flu diagnosis was made, but the H7N9 strain has not been seen previously in humans and Chinese officials say they don't know how the virus was contracted.
According to China's health commission, the new strain isn't easily transmitted and it's unclear how the two men were infected, but the delay in reporting the bird flu deaths fueled speculation of a cover-up. The only symptoms mentioned by Chinese officials were a high fever and cough.
The H7N9 strain of avian influenza is new and China has been tightlipped so far, but the most significant unknown is the flu's infection vector. Eighty-eight people shared contact with the infected men and none have developed flu symptoms so far. Nonetheless, without knowing how the flu virus is transmitted, containing it becomes problematic.
The new strain apparently has the same symptoms as regular bird flu, which is more or less the same as conventional influenza. In addition to a high fever and coughing, symptoms include throat soreness, muscle aches, vomiting and diarrhea. In some cases, a mild eye infection is the virus' only visible symptom.
According to the Mayo Clinic, you should see a doctor immediately if you develop a fever, cough or body aches and have recently traveled to a region where bird flu cases have been recorded.
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Making keto ice cream in a bag is super easy and kind of fun to do. With all of the keto ice cream recipes added to the low carb meal planner, there are three methods mentioned for making the keto ice cream recipes including: (1) an ice cream maker, (2) ice cream in a bag, and (3) frozen ice cream.
An ice cream maker will come with its own set of instructions. So, no further explanation is needed for the ice cream maker. Then, since the frozen ice cream method is my personally preferred method, the keto ice cream recipes in the low carb meal planner and the keto ice cream book explains the frozen ice cream method. So, this page is simply to demonstrate how to make ice cream in a bag. Therefore, if you have access to the low carb meal planner or decided to purchase the keto ice cream book, you can use this ice cream in a bag method to make most of the keto ice cream recipes as well.
You will likely already have all of the supplies needed to make ice cream in a bag. So, let’s get started making this simple vanilla keto ice cream recipe.
- Measuring Cups
- 1 Small Resealable Plastic Bag
- 1 Larger Resealable Plastic Bag
- 1/4 c. Course Salt (Regular Salt Works Too)
- 3 c. Ice
Step 1 (Shown Below):
Mix the ice cream and place it in the small resealable plastic bag. Remove the excess air from the bag while you are sealing the bag. Set the ice cream mixture aside.
Step 2 (Shown Below):
Place the 3 cups of ice and the 1/4 cup of salt in the larger resealable bag.
Step 3 (Shown Below):
Put the small bag of ice cream inside the bag of salted ice. Remove the extra air from the larger bag as you are sealing the bag. Now shake the bag until the ice cream hardens. The ice cream may be ready to eat sooner than you think!
Step 4 (Shown Below):
Remove the small bag of ice cream from the bag of salted ice. Serve the keto ice cream and enjoy!
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- Fast and ready to eat in minutes
- Convenient to make with supplies you have.
- Inexpensive with no equipment required.
- Almost nothing to clean up afterwards.
- Less environmentally friendly with the potential for excess waste unless you wash and reuse the plastic bags.
- Salty ice cream is yummy. However, the ice cream in a bag of salted ice may contribute a bit of unexpected salt (sodium) to the taste of the keto ice cream recipe.
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We are very happy to open our practice based on the direct primary care model, and serve our patients in a caring, timely and efficient manner. It has been our pleasure to work with you since January 2015! (Please see our town hall meeting video for information on our practice, or watch the videos below.)
Once you are accepted as our direct primary care patient, we will have an initial appointment with you to discuss your health situation, establish your payment method and generally get to know you. After becoming our patient, we think you’ll find it very useful to be able to call us, and one of us will always answer if we’re not already with a patient, text us and email us. Short-term appointments will be an option for you.
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What is direct primary care?
The direct primary care model is a growing model of care that acknowledges that what we do should not be dictated by an insurance company but should be based on the trust relationship that a physician and family can build.
Because we spend less time dealing with the rules of insurers and more time with you, our patients can expect prompter appointments, more time for visits, and addressing your health in a way that is right for you rather than for your insurer.
Is this considered concierge medicine?
This article on the difference between concierge medicine and direct primary care has a great answer to this question. In essence, the most important characteristic of DPC practices is that insurance claims are not filed for medical visits. Direct primary care’s definition, therefore, is any primary care practice model that is directly reimbursed by the consumer for both access and primary medical care, and which does not accept or bill third party payers.
How are immunizations covered?
We will file insurance for childhood immunizations.
Why are you doing this?
Our goal is to offer a practice that serves our patients and community in an affordable personal partnership towards better health. Basically, we want to practice the medicine we’ve always wanted to practice!
Why don’t you accept health insurance?
We do not believe that insurance is needed in the primary care office. We use the analogy of insuring your car for when it gets totaled, but not for routine oil changes and new tires. We believe that third-party payers have driven medical care in America and it is our belief that for primary care, this is not best. Without the added complexity of coding, documentation, prior authorizations and co-pays, primary care can be delivered much more efficiently, and we aim to do just that!
Do I need some type of insurance still?
Yes, even within the direct primary care model, we do think every person needs a high-deductible catastrophic insurance plan that covers hospitalization and prolonged severe illness.
What’s wrong with our current healthcare system?
Primary care in America is in trouble. The typical primary care doctor has 2,300 patients. It is estimated that to truly care for 2,300 patients, the typical doctor would have to work 20 hours per day [reference]. Insurance for the average family of four costs over $16,000 annually and is increasing much faster than the average pay raise [reference].
Will you be partnering with a hospital in the event that hospitalization becomes necessary? user-added question
We do not currently have admitting privileges at a hospital. We have had a longstanding good working relationship with Mercy in Rogers and plan on continuing to maintain a friendly relationship with them. If you are admitted to the hospital we will work closely with the doctors and specialists providing care for you if the need arises.
My employer requires proof of medical coverage and won’t allow me to opt out. Do you have plans in place to satisfy those requirements, and/or avoid the Affordable Care Act penalties for being uninsured? Or is catastrophic coverage sufficient for those purposes? user-added question
Our model is not insurance and will not meet the criteria for the Affordable Care Act. A catastrophic plan might. If you need help finding a qualified insurance broker who can help you ensure that your coverage is adequate, please let us know.
Can you pay the monthly fee from a Health Savings Account (HSA)? user-added question
Yes and No. You can not take the monthly fee directly from your HSA, but when you are seen in our office a reciept can be given with a date of service and a diagnosis, and with the standard office charge posted. Then this amount can be deducted from a HSA. Currently this issue has been placed before the IRS to change the rules that a DPC fee can be directly taken from an HSA.
Do you offer direct primary care for businesses?
Yes! Please see this page.
What exactly does “always on call” mean? Will patients still be sent to the ER (huge bill) on holidays/weekends if care is needed? user-added question
What we mean when we say always on call is that you will always be able to reach a doctor. You can talk with us about what is happening and we can help you determine if the emergency room is really the right place. Sometimes, it is. Often times, it is not. If it is not the right place, we will help you figure out the best plan. Because we do not have to worry about the confines of insurance reimbursement, we can provide care whether you are in the office or not. Because we will have substantially fewer patients, we will know who you are and feel comfortable that the plan that we are creating is best for you.
If I need lab, is that extra? If so, can I have that done at an independant lab facility that would be approved under my insurance? user-added question
Labs with your annual physical are free. If you have a more comprehensive insurance plan, we can order a lab at the facility of your choosing. If you do not have a more comprehensive insurance plan, you can review our lab prices below. (effective 1/5/2015, with pricing based on having labs done at Quest, and subject to changes in their pricing.)
|Liver Enzymes (HFP)||$3.00|
|TESTOST (Free & Total)||$35.00|
(This list only includes commonly done labs and does not include all the labs that we have access to. If you have questions about other labs, please let us know and we can give you specific pricing before the lab is drawn.)
Also, are there different plans for someone who visits the doctor twice a year vs. someone who has a chronic illness like diabetes that requires more frequent visits? user-added question
We do not offer a different plan based on your number of visits because the fee for service model that currently exists is one of the reasons why it is so hard to see your doctor regularly. If a doctor’s office only gets paid when you actually come in, it becomes that office’s goal to primarily address health concerns with visits, even if this is not the best option, whereas it may become the patient’s goal to not come in due to financial or time constraints, even if that is the best option. Our currently monthly model allows for you and for us to address your health concerns in the way that most makes sense rather than forcing us into interactions that your insurer requires in order for them to consider it “healthcare.”
How does this affect people on Medicare? Will the doctors be allowed to take our medical records with them from Mercy? user-added question
We can see Medicare patients, but our monthly fee cannot be paid by Medicare. We can order labs and imaging as well as make specialist referrals, all of which can be paid by Medicare. | <urn:uuid:066489e8-59e9-4fb7-b2ff-d1a74c81ab99> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 7,535 |
Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
A form of German light opera, typically with spoken dialogue, popular especially in the late 18th century.
- ‘A Singspiel is a stage work, frequently a comedy, in which musical numbers alternate with long stretches of spoken dialogue.’
- ‘The Thirty Years' War inhibited development of the Singspiel and gave additional scope to Italian works from across the Alps.’
- ‘We laugh, but we also remember that real human issues - hopeless despair, jealousy, revenge, and forgiveness - arise in this Singspiel.’
- ‘The German Singspiel, English ballad opera, French opéra comique, and Spanish zarzuela tended to use spoken dialogue rather than recitative between the songs.’
- ‘Appropriately they will soon present Mozart's last Singspiel, which is said to provide for that magic on a good day.’
From German singen sing + Spiel play.
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, discover surprising and intriguing language facts from around the globe.
The definitions of ‘buddy’ and ‘bro’ in the OED have recently been revised. We explore their history and increase in popularity. | <urn:uuid:059e84a2-0423-4846-919f-8e8ea9df7c45> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,239 |
Ace Academy: Black Flight will pin you to your seat as you experience First World War dogfighting like never before. You will fly with real squadrons, over actual historical locations, as you ascend the ranks to become a World War One Ace.
Test your abilities as you go head to head with top German Jastas in Fokker and Albatross fighters. Discover the major battles and theatres that made First World War one of the most gruelling wars ever fought! Join the ranks of Black Flight, explore the world of 100 years ago, and earn your place in history.
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EU to launch free trade negotiations with Japan
EU trade ministers agreed on Thursday to start negotiations to create a free-trade area with Japan, overcoming resistance from European carmakers who fear a deal might damage their industry. “We have a deal,” said an EU official close to the negotiations. An accord between Europe and Japan would bring together two trading partners responsible for a third of global economic output and could create 400,000 jobs in Europe alone. France and Italy have been worried about the impact on their carmakers.
Obama, Romney to meet at White House
President Barack Obama will host his former political rival Mitt Romney for a private lunch at the White House on Thursday, their first meeting since the election. Obama promised in his victory speech earlier this month to engage with Romney following their bitter campaign and consider the Republican’s ideas. “In the weeks ahead, I also look forward to sitting down with Gov Romney to talk about where we can work together to move this country forward,” Obama said at the time. Obama aides said they reached out to Romney’s team shortly before Thanksgiving to start working on a date for the meeting. The two men will meet in the White House’s private dining room, with no press coverage expected.
Mitsubishi Heavy, Hitachi to join power businesses
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Hitachi are to combine their thermal power businesses to compete against overseas rivals Siemens and General Electric, which are winning deals even in the Japanese firms’ backyard. The deal, in which Mitsubishi Heavy will take 65% in a new company, also revives Hitachi’s efforts to absorb some of its local rival’s infrastructure business to give it the scale to expand beyond a stagnant home market. The announcement comes more than a year after the two firms called off talks to merge their infrastructure businesses. Talks to combine the thermal power businesses began late this summer. The new company, with Hitachi taking the remaining 35%, will bring together the two firms’ gas turbine and other fossil-fuel power generation equipment businesses, and will be completed by January 2014.
First Chinese co abandons ailing B-share market
A marine firm delisted from China’s ailing B-share market on Thursday, the first company to ever do so, in a step that regulators hope could lead to the winding down of a once-vibrant market that is now an illiquid and speculative backwater. China International Marine Containers (Group) (CIMC), | <urn:uuid:e259cb5f-9158-442d-8837-dc6877d94557> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,507 |
Wasting food makes no sense
July 11, 2019
How can perfectly good food be for sale one minute and then the next be headed to the dump? In France this would be illegal. They were the first country to require supermarkets to donate edible unsold food to charities and food banks, or to compost it.
According to the Second Harvest report, “The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste”, 58 per cent of all food produced in Canada, an estimated 35.5 million tons costing approximately $49 billion, is lost or wasted, and about a third of that could be rescued.
Loblaw Companies Limited has an innovative solution. They have teamed up with the Toronto tech firm Flashfood.
This e-commerce solution allows local grocery stores to post pictures of perishable items to the Flashfood App that sells them at deep discounts – up to 50 per cent off. These items include meat, produce, baked goods and dairy products.
The understanding is that food items should be consumed within a day or so.
Purchase these groceries right from your smartphone and your order will be ready and waiting at a special fridge at the store.
What a brilliant idea. The retailer converts the cost of throwing the food away to revenue from that sale.
The consumer has access to food savings. Great for people on a fixed income, students saving to pay off student loans, or for anyone wanting to divert their savings to other needs.
The environment wins because less wasted food ends up in landfills which in turn means lower harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
The initiative started last summer and by the end of this summer Loblaw Companies Limited anticipates 250 of their outlets will be offering this service.
Capitalism is at its best when a need can be solved with some innovative thinking that makes economic sense.
In this case, a need for more affordable food plus less waste was solved. A good example of a “win-win”. | <urn:uuid:aacfbef6-6964-464d-ae30-b61fa040b38b> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,879 |
|Sloth. Or me? Image taken from https://gifts.worldwildlife.org|
Recently, a friend of mine (well, I suppose officially she is a friend of D's but I am nicking her because she is the only person I know who gets as overexcited as me at the prospect of a Space NK discount code) tentatively suggested going to a class at the local fitness centre, on the strict proviso that we stand at the back. The class in question was Clubbercise, which is basically just prancing around in the semi dark with disco lights and glow sticks. It is waaaay more fun than doggedly stomping away on a treadmill. And, subsequently, we have tried Aqua Aerobics (which I also love although have to spend most of the class attempting to stop my boobs making a break for freedom) and Kick Fit (great stress reliever).
I won't go so far as to say that I am a gym bunny, but I do find classes to be quite motivating and it is lovely to have someone to go with. I have gone so far as to sign up for a monthly membership (the rolling kind which can be cancelled at any point - I know myself and the limits to my enthusiasm pretty well). I'm very unfit at the moment, but I hope a few weeks of regular attendance will see a marked improvement. Now that the weather is becoming distinctly more spring like, I'm hoping to get my walking boots on and if I could get up a hill without sounding like The Little Engine That Could, I would count that as a major achievement. | <urn:uuid:0d5fffa2-a114-43ef-a8c7-8595e748752f> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,436 |
The historical record shows quite clearly that states, or those acting on behalf of the state, have been responsible for the vast majority of large-scale terrorist acts against civilians. If we pause to think about it for a moment, it seems natural that this would be the case. The ruling class in any nation, be it a monarchy, democracy or dictatorship, are naturally in opposition to the people over whom they rule because the ruling class enjoy privileges that the people do not. Indeed, the ruling class only enjoy these privileges because of this manufactured divide, that is to say, the 'haves' have because the 'have nots' 'have not'.
While the division between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' in terms of wealth and privilege is clear to most, many people still fail to realise that the very existence of a corrupt wealthy elite presumes the existence of two very different definitions and applications of morality and even the law.
Citizens live their lives by a moral code and expect their leaders to hold to the same standards, both in their own lives and in their dealings on the international stage as the representatives of the people. But this basic sense of morality or conscience adhered to by the people is, more often than not, an impediment to the selfish objectives of the elite. Basically, in our modern world, the elite would not be the elite if they held to the same moral code as a majority of the population. This is another reason why the civilian population are viewed as a threat to the established order and why the elite must not only lie to the population about their true intentions, but must also attempt to corrupt the general understanding of 'morality' (and reality) so that it more closely resembles the deviant world view of the elite.
This assessment of our modern social and political structures may be unsavory to many, but a quick look around the world today, or a brief glance over the past few thousands years, shows that sadly, it is the truth.
This imbalance often leads to corruption (of many kinds) among the ruling elite and it is hard to find examples where the people have not suffered as a result. When this corruption is taken to extremes (as has often been the case) some form of popular revolt is inevitable. When such insurrections have occurred, the established order have responded by attacking the civilians that pose a threat to their ascendancy. History is littered with examples of this. Since terrorism is most often defined today as an attack on a civilian population, it is reasonable then to state that it is the state that has historically had both the motive and opportunity to carry out most major terrorist acts.
State actors, however, have been careful to recognise that subversive movements very often represent the voice of the 'silent majority' of ordinary people and, as a result, can quickly garner wide-spread popular support. If an entire nation were to erupt against the elite, the game would be over. At the same time, the state cannot simply destroy such movements by 'decapitating' the leadership, because that would risk making popular heroes of the slain and perpetuate among the population the anti-establishment ideals for which the insurgents stood. This is particularly true in nations that are nominally democracies and whose leaders wish to maintain the 'democratic' facade both domestically and internationally.
The aim of state-sponsored counter-rebellion or 'counter-insurgency' is to subvert the rebels and the ideals for which they stand (most often social justice and equality, land rights etc.) and successfully portray the rebels and their ideology to the wider population (and world) as self-interested, fundamentally lawless, and immoral miscreants who must be dealt with severely. In pursuit of this aim, otherwise benign ideological divisions that exist within most populations can be stirred up and exacerbated in an effort to split the grass-roots support for any rebellion and align a significant percentage of the population with the state and against the rebels. If successful in this effort, the terroristic state policies that provoked the rebels to form in the first place can be increased and spun as lawful defence against the 'terrorism' of the rebels. Winning the public information battle - defining the nature of and reasons for the conflict - is therefore a key element in deciding the outcome. With the resources of the state on its side however, the ruling class or state usually have a distinct advantage in this respect.
British Imperial Adventures
The situation is slightly different in the case of empire building. In the pursuit of empire, an invading force finds it difficult to successfully convince the host population that they are anything other than an invading force, and provoking divisions requires more drastic methods than mere propaganda. In the cases where an invading force manages to portray its motives as benevolent, like spreading 'freedom' (or more recently 'freedom and democracy') the charade is quickly exposed when the effects of 'pacification' are implemented. Eventually, the remit of a colonizing army cannot but provoke the ire of the local population and turn them against the invaders. This results in the formation of a local resistance movement made up of and/or supported by the local civilian population. To deal with this type of insurgency, the invader must not only attempt to convince the local population that the insurgents are unworthy of popular support, but also convince the public 'back home' of the charitable nature of expropriating someone else's country. The first is difficult due to the fact that the population to be colonized is more likely to unite against an obviously foreign invader and less likely to succumb to efforts to divide them along existing ideological, political or social lines. Having said that, the advantage in the case of colonization is that the local social elite (if it exists) can often be bought off with promises of the retention or upgrading of their positions post-colonization. As regards the public back home; media co-operation, including the broadcast of disinformation and outright lies, not to mention patriotism and the stimulation of dormant (or not-so-dormant) racist inclinations, can usually be relied on to ensure that the public will rationalize away even the worst military excesses on foreign soil.
The official version of the effect and legacy of the British Empire as recorded in most history books paints a picture of philanthropy writ large across the globe. The reality of the methods used by the British to establish and maintain their 'overseas holdings' however are a lesson in true terrorism. Given that the origins of the British Empire stretch back at least 500 years, hard data about these methods is scarce for most of that time. Some details however are available. We can, for example, dispel the popular myth of the 1845 'Irish potato famine' when somewhere between 1 and 2 million Irish civilians died and a further 2 million were forced to emigrate to survive. History records that this mass extermination was caused by a multi-year blight on the potato crop, rendering the harvest inedible. As a result, we are told, millions died of starvation. Little space however is given to an explanation of the context or the historical background.
Ireland's 'Potato Famine'
A new plan was thus developed to subjugate the Irish by law, the most significant of which were the 'Tithing' and later 'Penal laws' which prevented any Irish person from: owning or leasing land, voting, holding political office, living in a town or within five miles of a town or obtaining an education or entering a profession. At the same time, English landlords (mostly absentees) had been given vast tracts of Irish land which they used to graze cattle and grow profitable crops (not potatoes) which were exported for the English market and to feed British troops on imperial adventures in more distant lands, such as those fighting the 'First Anglo-Afghan war'. The native Irish were therefore forced to grow the only crop available to them, potatoes, on any small patch of unfavourable soil they could find. As a result, between 1728 and the devastating hunger of 1845-50, there were 28 artificial famines in Ireland that cost the lives of half a million Irish. Throughout this period, Ireland had produced enough food to feed her native population twice over, but almost all of it was being exported, under force of arms, by the English. In her book, 'The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849' British historian and biographer Cecil Woodham-Smith quotes an English government official at the time:
"The barges leave Clonmel once a week for this place, with the export supplies under convoy which, last Tuesday, consisted of 2 guns, 50 cavalry and 80 infantry escorting them on the banks of the Suir as far as Carrick." On one day at the height of the 'famine' there steamed from Cork harbor alone: 147 bales of bacon, 120 casks and 135 barrels of pork, 5 casks of hams, 149 casks of miscellaneous provisions, 1,996 sacks and 950 barrels of oats; 300 bags of flour; 300 head of cattle; 239 sheep; 9,398 firkins of butter and 542 boxes of eggs.Nicolas Cummins, an English 'Justice of the Peace' (a type of magistrate), at the time gave this account of what he saw:
"I entered some of the hovels...and the scenes, which presented themselves, were such as no tongue or pen can convey the slightest idea of. In the first, six famished and ghastly skeletons, to all appearance dead, were huddled in a corner on some filthy straw, their sole covering what seemed a ragged horsecloth, their wretched legs hanging about, naked above the knees. I approached with horror, and found by a low moaning that they were alive - they were in fever, four children, a woman and what had once been a man... in a few minutes I was surrounded by at least 200 of such phantoms, such frightful spectres as not words can describe."In the 1856 Sessional Papers of the English House of Commons, Vol, 29 part 5, page 243 we read:
"The actual starving people lived upon the carcasses of diseased cattle, upon dogs, and dead horses, but principally on the herbs of the field, nettle tops, wild mustard and watercress's, and even in some place dead bodies were found with grass in their mouths."In March 1846, as leader of the 'liberal' Whig opposition party (that would be Tony Blair's ideological forebear) and a few months before he would be elected British Prime Minister, Lord John Russell had this to say on the matter:
"We have made it [Ireland] the most degraded and most miserable country in the world... all the world is crying shame upon us; but we are equally callous to our ignominy and to the results of our misgovernments."
Irish journalist and solicitor John Mitchel appears to have perceived the British aim in provoking a 'famine' when he wrote in his book The History of Ireland: "A landless, hungry pauper cannot afford to think of the honour of his country, and cares nothing about the national flag." As to the much-debated question of whether the effective genocide committed against a quarter of the Irish population was the indirect result of a policy of British greed or a conscious political/military effort to deal once and for all with the 'Irish question', we need only look to the words that appear in a 1601 letter from Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir Arthur Chichester to Lord Burghley, Queen Elizabeth's chief adviser:
"I have often said, and written, it is Famine which must consume them (the Irish); our swords and other endeavours work not that speedy effect which is expected, for their overthrow."Any potential dissent among the English public over the inhuman treatment of the Irish had long since been contained by way of racist government propaganda campaigns. The popular English humorous magazine Punch published the following portrait of the Irish in 1862:
"A creature manifestly between the gorilla and the negro is to be met with in some of he lowest districts in London and Liverpool by adventurous explorers. It comes form Ireland, whence it has contrived to migrate; it belongs in fact to a tribe of Irish savages: the lowest species of Irish Yahoo. When conversing with its kind it talks a sort of gibberish. It is, moreover a climbing animal, and may sometimes be seen ascending a ladder laden with a hod of bricks. The Irish Yahoo generally confines itself within the limits of its own colony, except when it goes out of them to get its living. Sometimes however, it sallies forth instates of excitement, and attacked civilized human beings that have provoked its fury."India and the British Raj
Around the same time as the Irish were being subjected to a British terror campaign, a similar story was unfolding in 'British' India.
From its creation in 1757 until its final dissolution in 1858, the British 'East India company' (a group of London merchants from the ruling class and acting on behalf of the Queen) plundered the resources (including the population) of the Indian continent in the name of Queen and country (and personal profit). Trading mainly in cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre and tea, and having introduced illegal opium into China, the Company generated massive income and came to rule large swathes of India, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions on behalf of the British crown. By May 1857, the endemic racism with which Indian recruits (called 'Sepoys) in the East India Company's army were being treated by their British masters had reached breaking point. Rebellions broke out across the country under the leadership of Indian leaders and were suppressed with enthusiastic brutality by regular British forces. After the siege of Delhi for example, a letter published in the Bombay Telegraph, and reproduced in the British press, testified to the scale and nature of massacres by the British:
".... All the city's people found within the walls of the city of Delhi when our troops entered were bayoneted on the spot, and the number was considerable, as you may suppose, when I tell you that in some houses forty and fifty people were hiding. These were not mutineers but residents of the city, who trusted to our well-known mild rule for pardon. I am glad to say they were disappointed."Another brief letter from General Montgomery to Captain Hodson, exposes how the British military high command approved of the cold blooded massacre of Delhites:
"All honour to you for catching the king and slaying his sons. I hope you will bag many more!"As both a Cavalry leader and intelligence officer, Hodson was instrumental in forcing the capitulation of Delhi and personally captured the last Mughal Emperor of India, Bahadur Shah Zafar, along with his sons who were camped just outside Delhi at the tomb of a former Mughal emperor. Having demanded and obtained the surrender of Zafar, his three sons were mounted on a bullock-cart by Hodson and driven towards the city. As they approached the city gate, Hodson ordered the three princes to get off the cart and to strip naked. He then shot them dead before stripping them of their signet rings, turquoise arm-bands and bejewelled swords. Their bodies were thrown in front of a police-station, and left there to be seen by all.
Edward Vibart, a 19-year-old officer, recorded his experience of the retribution for the rebellion meted out to the inhabitants of the city:
"It was literally murder... I have seen many bloody and awful sights lately but such a one as I witnessed yesterday I pray I never see again. The women were all spared but their screams on seeing their husbands and sons butchered, were most painful... Heaven knows I feel no pity, but when some old grey bearded man is brought and shot before your very eyes, hard must be that man's heart I think who can look on with indifference..."Apart from the wholesale slaughter of Indian men, women and children, some rebels were 'blown from canon', a process where people were tied to the muzzle of a canon and blown to pieces.
The scale and savagery of the punishments by the British were considered as largely appropriate and justified by the British people back home, who had been shocked by a barrage of press reports about atrocities carried out against Europeans and Christians by Indians. The problem however was that most of the press reports about Indian atrocities were false and had been deliberately spread by the British government and military command in order to justify the repression of the rebellious Indians.
British newspapers printed various 'eyewitness' accounts of the rape of English women and girls that were later found to be, in general, false. One such account published by The Times, regarding an incident where 48 English girls as young as 10 had been raped by Indian rebels in Delhi, was criticised as false propaganda by Karl Marx who pointed out that the story was written by a clergyman in Bangalore, far from the events of the rebellion. In addition, the British public had for many years been subjected to incessant racist propaganda that played a major part in the effective spread and maintenance of the British Empire. The Indian rebellion was, for the British public, just one more example of the ingratitude of the 'barbarous wretches' that the British were benevolently attempting to civilize.
As an example of the effectiveness of the British elite's efforts to inculcate their own morality into the minds of the British population, it is instructive to consider the words of famous English author Charles Dickens, who said at the time:
"I wish I were Commander in Chief over there [India]! I would address that Oriental character which must be powerfully spoken to, in something like the following placard, which should be vigorously translated into all native dialects, 'I, The Inimitable, holding this office of mine, and firmly believing that I hold it by the permission of Heaven and not by the appointment of Satan, have the honor to inform you Hindoo gentry that it is my intention, with all possible avoidance of unnecessary cruelty and with all merciful swiftness of execution, to exterminate the Race from the face of the earth, which disfigured the earth with the late abominable atrocities.'"As a result of the Indian rebellion of 1858, the term 'sepoy' or 'sepoyism', formerly the name given to Indian recruits to the British army, became a derogatory term among the British and was used often to refer to nationalists and nationalist movements around the empire, especially in Ireland. The total number of Indians killed by the British during the rebellion is hard to come by, but low estimates suggest at least 'many hundreds of thousands' died. High estimates go into the millions, with many millions more displaced. No more than 2,000 British troops lost their lives.
With the rebellion crushed, the British government decided that a change of guard, if only in name, might be a good way to stave off any further national uprisings in India. The East India Company was therefore nationalized under the 'Government of India Act 1858' and the British Crown assumed direct administration of the country in the form of the 'British Raj'. Freedom and a land of their own was still a long way off for Indians however, and within a few years, the shadow of death would once again be cast across the subcontinent.
In 1876, a drought destroyed much of the crops of the Deccan plateau. Periodic droughts in India had long been common place, but after 100 years of land appropriation by the British for the purpose of growing trees for lumber and the replacement of chickpeas for cotton (which was far more profitable) droughts in India spelled disaster for the population. The British had also abolished the traditional system of household and village grain reserves leaving the Indian population entirely dependent on the British government for handouts in times of food scarcity.
As was the case with droughts before and after, in 1876 there was in fact a net surplus of rice and wheat in the country, but the Viceroy, Lord Lytton, insisted that nothing should prevent its export to England. Indeed, all through the autumn of 1876, as the crops withered and people starved, Lytton was absorbed in preparations for the festivities that would surround the upcoming proclamation of Queen Victoria as 'Empress of India'. The celebration included a week-long feast for 68,000 officials and was at the time the most colossal and expensive meal in world history. An English journalist later estimated that 100,000 of the new Queen-Empress's subjects starved to death in Madras and Mysore in the course of her crowning ceremony.
In 1877 and 1878, at the height of the famine, British grain merchants exported a record 320,000 tonnes of wheat. As the peasants began to starve, officials were ordered to "discourage relief works in every possible way." The Anti-Charitable Contributions Act of 1877 prohibited, "at the pain of imprisonment, private relief donations that potentially interfered with the market fixing of grain prices." The only relief permitted in most districts was hard labour, from which anyone in an advanced state of starvation was turned away. In the labour camps, the workers were given less food than inmates of Nazi concentration camps. In 1877, monthly mortality in the camps equated to an annual death rate of 94 per cent.
As millions died, the imperial government launched "a militarised campaign to collect the tax arrears accumulated during the drought." The money, which ruined those who might otherwise have survived, was used by the British elite to fund their war in Afghanistan. Somewhere in the region of 7 million Indians starved to death as a result of the British manufactured 'famine' of 1876. Another false famine was provoked by the British in 1900 causing the deaths of 1 million, and again at the height of the Second World War, 'famine' struck the Bengal region killing 3 million while the British stockpiled and exported Indian food. In response to an urgent request by the Secretary of State for India Leo Amery and Field Marshall Wavell to release food stocks for India, Winston Churchill responded with a telegram asking, "if food is so scarce, why hasn't Gandhi died yet?"
General Rawlinson, the military commander in chief in India in 1920 commented:
"You may say what you like about not holding India by the sword, but you have held it by the sword for 100 years and when you give up the sword you will be turned out. You must keep the sword ready to hand and in case of trouble or rebellion use it relentlessly. Montagu calls it terrorism, so it is and in dealing with natives of all classes you have to use terrorism whether you like it or not."[emphasis mine]This is but a small window on the terrorism employed by the British elite in their centuries-long efforts to deal with popular insurgency in Ireland and India. There are many other examples from the 18th and 19th centuries from many other areas of the British Empire that could be drawn on to underline the point, but as I noted, hard data is scarce, and it is to the 20th century and the 'Troubles' of Northern Ireland that we must look for detailed evidence of state terrorism against a civilian population.
Northern Ireland's 'Troubles'
As already mentioned, British rule in Ireland goes back some 800 years. Throughout those years, successive waves of English and Scottish planters had been settled on Irish land with many concentrated in the Northern province of Ulster. The 'natural' discrimination the Irish experienced at the hands of the English simply for being 'not English' was bad enough, but in the aftermath of the Reformation and the Church of England's break with Rome, the Irish people's Catholic faith was to significantly worsen their plight. In the late 1700s, a group of particularly zealous protestant ministers had established themselves in the Northern province of Ulster and set about inflaming local anti-Catholic sentiment with claims that the English government was planning on selling out its loyal English subjects in Ireland to 'Papacy'. Irish Catholic farms were attacked and burned and thousands were murdered by Protestant militia groups like the 'peep-o-day boys', so named because they would attack in the early hours. These groups were later incorporated into the sectarian, quasi-Masonic protestant 'Orange Order' that would play such a destructive role in Northern Ireland in the latter part of the 20th century.
After a heroic national uprising in 1916 and a protracted guerilla war against the English led by Michael Collins, partial independence was granted to Ireland in the 1920 'Government of Ireland Act'. Under strong lobbying and threats from Protestant zealots in the North of the country (who called themselves 'loyalists') the terms of the agreement stipulated that 6 counties of the province of Ulster (out of a total of 9 in that province and 32 in total in Ireland) would remain part of the United Kingdom. A border was duly gerrymandered in order to ensure that the loyal protestant subjects would be in the majority and, in this way, the 'statelet' of Northern Ireland was created. The Catholics who lived within the confines of the new 'statelet' and aspired to a unification of Ireland were called 'Republicans'.
A parliament (Stormont) was established in the newly formed Northern Ireland with a House of Commons and a Senate as well as a police force (The Royal Ulster Constabulary - RUC) made up almost entirely of Protestants. For the next 50 years, with the full support of the British elite, protestant citizens of Northern Ireland enjoyed rights that were systematically denied to the Catholic population. The influence of the sectarian quasi-Masonic 'Orange Order' in the governance of Northern Ireland was far-reaching. All of the six prime ministers of Northern Ireland were members of the Order, as were all but three cabinet ministers until 1969. Three of the ministers later left the Order, one because his daughter married a Catholic, one to become Minister of Community Relations in 1970, with the third expelled for attending a Catholic religious ceremony. Of the 95 Stormont MPs who did not become cabinet ministers, 87 were Orangemen. Every unionist senator, with one exception, between 1921 and 1969 was an Orangeman. One of these senators, James Gyle, was suspended from the Order for seven years for visiting nationalist MP Joe Devlin on his deathbed.
Inspired by the African-American 'Civil Rights Movement' in the US, by 1968 Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland had begun to publicly demand equal rights, including access to public housing, abolition of employment discrimination and improvements in education and community facilities in Catholic areas. The 'Civil Rights Association' organised a march in the city of Derry on October 5th of that year. The march was banned by the Minister for Home Affairs but it proceeded anyway. In full view of television cameras, the protestant police force, the RUC, attacked the marchers and clubbed men women and children to the ground. When the student group 'The People's Democracy' began a three day march for civil rights on January 1st 1969 from Belfast to Derry, marchers were continually harassed by loyalists along the route. When the marchers neared Derry on January 4th, they were ambushed by loyalists and members of the police force carrying clubs studded with nails, iron bars, bottles and chains.
When the battered remains of the march reached Derry, fighting broke out between the RUC and Catholic youths. The following night, January 5th, an RUC force invaded the residential Bogside area of Derry breaking windows in homes and beating anyone unfortunate enough to be outside. The Bogside residents resorted to erecting barricades, and on the gable end of a house in St Columb's street, the famous 'you are now entering free Derry' mural was painted. The Catholic community of Northern Ireland quickly realised that it would have to protect itself. In April that year, during another RUC incursion, Bogside resident Samuel Devenny was badly beaten with batons by RUC members when they broke into his home. His teenage daughters were also beaten in the attack. Deveny later died from his injuries.
The civil rights movement decided to reduce the scale of its activities in an effort to calm the situation, but the decision by incoming Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark to allow the yearly summer Orange Order parades (deliberately routed through Catholic areas to assert protestant supremacy) to go ahead proved too much for the Catholic community to bear. Serious rioting broke out in Belfast, Derry and elsewhere when the RUC killed two Catholics involved in protesting at an Orange Order march. When fighting broke out between the sectarian protestant group 'the Apprentice Boys' (who had staged a parade close to the Bogside area) and Catholic youths, the RUC responded with a full scale invasion of the Bogside. The battle lasted 48 hours during which the RUC sprayed the entire area of 50 streets with CS gas causing serious respiratory problems for residents. Residents responded by throwing petrol bombs and stones. Realising they had lost control of the situation, the Loyalist government of Northern Ireland appealed to the British government and for the first time in almost 50 years, British soldiers were deployed on the streets of Ulster.
During this time the IRA was criticised for its failure to protect the Irish Catholic population of Northern Ireland. The reality however is that the organisation was not in a position to do so. In 1960, after a low level campaign against the RUC, the IRA leadership had decided to abandon armed struggle in favour of political action. Now, with the increasing severity of attacks on Catholics, several senior members took the decision to reassert military action to protect their community and bring down the sectarian Northern Irish government.
The Catholic community initially welcomed the appearance of British troops on their streets as a buffer against loyalist and RUC violence. Loyalist and RUC attacks continued however, and as the IRA stepped up its campaign of attacks on the RUC, a new Conservative government under Edward Heath in June 1970 gave orders that any further rioting by Catholics should be put down with 'maximum force' by British troops. In July, when troops raided a house in the Falls Road in Belfast, a riot broke out and was responded to with the invasion of the area by 3000 British soldiers, armored vehicles and helicopters and the imposition of a curfew. From the 3rd to the 5th July, an area covering 50 streets was sealed off and troops looted and wrecked many houses.taken on a tour of the wrecked area by the army. The British elite had made clear to the Irish population the precise role that the British army would play.
As British army and RUC abuses against the Catholic population continued, the IRA's ranks swelled. In a desperate attempt to contain the situation and reassert loyalist supremacy, Prime Minister Chichester Clark opted to introduce internment. In dawn raids on the 9th August 1971, RUC Special Branch (closely allied with and controlled by British MI5) launched 'Operation Demetrius' along with the British army. In the first day, 342 people, few of whom were actual members of the IRA, were arrested. When British troops entered the Ballymurphy area of Belfast on the morning of the 11th, they shot six civilians:
Four more were shot on the 11th August:
Frank Quinn, 19 years old, shot dead by a British army sniper as he went to the aid of Father Hugh Mullan. Hugh Mullan, 38 years old, a Catholic priest, shot dead by a sniper while going to the aid of a wounded man. Joan Connolly, 50 years old, shot several times in the head and body as went to the aid of a wounded boy. Such were the extent of her injuries, her husband had trouble identifying her body. Daniel Teggart 44 years old, shot dead as he ran past an army base. Noel Phillips, 20 years old, shot as he stood opposite the army base. Joseph Murphy, 41 years old, shot dead as he stood opposite the army base.
In any other developed society at the time, such state brutality would have been widely condemned by the international community. But in Northern Ireland, any Catholic shot by the British army or RUC was automatically labelled a 'suspected terrorist' and, more often than not, accused of carrying a gun or shooting at soldiers. According to former SAS soldier Paul Bruce, it was common practice for British soldiers stationed overseas to steal and hide some ammunition that they would keep to use against the "paddies" on their tours of duty in Northern Ireland.
Edward Doherty, 28 years old, shot dead while walking along Whiterock Road. John Laverty 20 years old and Joseph Corr 43 years old, were shot at separate points at the top of the Whiterock Road. John was shot twice, once in the back and once in the back of the leg. Mr Corr was shot multiple times and died of his injuries on the 27th of August. John McKerr 49 years old, was shot while standing outside the local church. He died of his injuries on August 20th. Paddy McCarthy 44 years old, was confronted by a group of soldiers as he attempted to evacuate children from the area. One solider put an empty gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. As a result, Paddy suffered a heart-attack and died shortly thereafter.
Over the four and a half years of internment, almost 2,000 people were arrested and imprisoned without charge or trial. 95% were Irish Catholics and many were subjected to torture or 'in-depth interrogation techniques'. The result of internment, which was perceived as an attack on the whole Irish Catholic community, was a further swelling of the ranks of the IRA.
When 20,000 Catholics engaged in a peaceful march in Derry on Sunday 30th January 1972, British paratroopers opened fire on the marchers and shot 42 unarmed civilians. 14 died, including six children. Two months later, much to the chagrin of the Unionists, the Northern Ireland Stormont Parliament was suspended and a year later abolished completely as direct rule from London was imposed.
'Bloody Sunday', as the day came to be known, was perhaps the defining moment that ensured that Northern Ireland's 'troubles' would continue for another 25 years. The problem however is that it is inconceivable that, as the official report into the massacre claims, the troops 'lost control'. Soldiers, particularly 'elite' soldiers like members of the British paratroop regiment and the SAS, carry out orders to the letter because they are trained to do so. They are actively trained to not think or act on their own initiative. They receive their orders from their superior officers, who in turn receive orders from 'civil servants' and other elite policy makers in the British government. The only conclusion therefore is that the Bloody Sunday massacre was part of a deliberate plan by British authorities to ensure that the war in Northern Ireland would not only continue, but escalate. But for what purpose?
In his book, The Kitson Experiment, Roger Faligot states:
"With a vast experience of colonial wars in Africa and Asia, [Kitson] drew up plans to crush, control, channel and abort social movements that the authorities considered dangerous potentials for social upheaval. For the first time, methods that have been used against the Malayans, the Kenyan nationalists, the Algerian fighters, or the Vietcong were to be adopted on a broad scale in Western Europe. British General Frank Kitson, was offered Ireland as a testing-ground for his theories. Control of populations, psychological warfare; the use of special units and the overall expansion of intelligence services; the development of a new technology providing for containment, if not destruction, of any expression of civil disobedience of political, trade union, nationalist, feminist, or ecological opposition, including urban guerrilla warfare, constitute the diverse elements of these theories.Brigadier Frank Kitson arrived in Northern Ireland in 1970 when rebellion was already underway. In December 1971, in the Lisburn British army barracks (10 miles south of Belfast) officers in charge of the 'security forces' in Northern Ireland considered their options. The plan put forward was to launch a policy of isolating the IRA within the nationalist community along with direct repression of the organisation within the framework of direct rule from London and a programme of housing and employment reforms and equal opportunities for both Catholic and Protestant communities. Kitson, who was stationed in the barracks, was not impressed and declared that the situation had developed to the point that other methods would be necessary.
Only Ireland has so far offered a field for total experiment, where all the special warfare techniques are fully utilized. [...] Ireland had the unhappy privilege of serving as a military laboratory, with her people as the guinea pigs. Because they speak English, are white and an integral part of Europe, the Irish people provide a model internal enemy. Their history and culture distinguish them from mainland Britain and Europe, and it is because of this that they are allowed to die in silence: they are both a distant, enemy - strangers - and yet our own shadows. An unprecedented opportunity is thus present for experimenting with the techniques of political-military control of all peoples."
He set about trying to implement the fruits of his research on 'special warfare' that he had fine-tuned in places like Kenya and Cyprus. The heart of Kitson's theory of how to destroy a popular resistance movement included: covert operations, torture, provocations, manipulation of fake dissident resistance groups which act to discredit the genuine liberation forces; psychological operations (perception management) and to articulate all these around two interconnected objectives: the reconquest of the population and the isolation and subsequent destruction of the resistance. Specifically he set in motion plans to spark off a split within the ranks of the IRA; initiate a fake peace movement; ensure selective arrests of IRA members rather than mass internment; set up 'pseudo-gangs' (mainly using the SAS and other special units) that would involve themselves in infiltration of the IRA and loyalist militant groups and also carry out indiscriminate assassinations to terrorise the population. According to Kitson, to win the psychological war, it became of utmost necessity that responsibility for the paramilitary measures used by state forces should rest with their enemy, or at least that public opinion should be convinced of this.
While Kitson's suggestions may, at the time, have seemed a little far-fetched to the British military command, there is a wealth of evidence to suggest that, within a few years, his ideas were fully implemented in Northern Ireland and that his theories reached not only the top circles of the British army and political establishment, but would also be taken up by research centers, think tanks and lobbies within NATO and the USA and later used to manufacture and sustain the global 'war on terrorism'.
But first, some examples from Northern Ireland:
In his book The Nemisis File, former SAS trooper Paul Bruce recounts his experience on covert duty in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s. Attached to the same regiment and barracks as Frank Kitson, he was tasked with assassinating captured alleged IRA members. Bruce and other members of his regiment would rendezvous with other SAS members for the prisoner hand-over and would then drive the suspects to remote areas and, using a pistol with a silencer, shoot them at point blank range before dumping their bodies in previously prepared pits. After completing several of these gruesome operations, Bruce and his team of assassins were informed by superiors that their job description had changed:
"The brass wanted to encourage a no-holds-barred real sectarian war between the Catholics and Protestants so that the army can stand back and see the two sides tear each other apart. They reckon that within a matter of weeks both sides will want a truce and then the politicians can put the place back together." [Emphasis mine]Bruce and his comrades job would be to "make sure the war starts between the two side and keeps going." He was told that his team "will be going into Catholic areas of Belfast at night shooting at anyone we see on the streets. The idea is to kill Catholics, to provoke [the IRA] into a backlash against Protestants."
Bruce states that he wasn't happy about this:
"we were told that the victims we were executing were known IRA killers [...] now we were being ordered to go out on the streets and kill totally innocent people, just young men we happened to come across."Despite his misgivings, Bruce and his comrades followed orders. He states:
"Two days later we cleaned and oiled our SMGs and loaded our magazine ready for our first 'milk run', the name we would always give to these operations. We drove to the Falls road area and we had only turned off the main road for a few minutes when we saw a bloke walking towards us on the pavement on our near side. I noticed Don sit up. As we drove slowly past the man, Don raised his SMG, put the barrel to the open window and gave him a short burst or about five or six rounds, firing when only a few feet from him. I saw the man collapse to the ground in a heap. I looked back. He hadn't moved."Bruce goes on to detail several more drive-by shootings of innocent people that he participated in over a 12 month period. He was part of just one of many such four or two-man SAS death squads that operated in Northern Ireland throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s.
The SAS had already been used in the service of Empire in Cyprus, Yemen and Malaya and had developed a reputation among resistance groups as cold-blooded assassins. Their presence in Northern Ireland however was a closely guarded secret, for obvious reasons. The IRA however, had quickly become aware of their presence in the 'restive province'. IRA Chief-of-Staff at the time, Sean Mac Stiofan recalls in his memoirs:
"We had received intelligence reports as early as May 1971 that the notorious British SAS was operating under-cover in Belfast. During the summer and autumn of 1972, plain-clothes squads were clearly established as being involved in shootings or killings in Ballymurphy, Andersonstown, Leeson Street, New Lodge and the Falls Road. Their cars were often given away by the speed with which they were passed through British checkpoints. At the end of August, vigilantes were on duty in Greencastle, a Catholic area in north Belfast where several shooting attacks had recently been made on people from cars. During the night they stopped a car with three men in it and took one of them out. The others drove off, firing a shot as they went. The detained man had an army-issue automatic pistol in a shoulder holster. Asked to identify himself, he said he was Peter Holmes and was a member of the SAS stationed at Palace Barracks. He was disarmed and sat down at the side of the road until a British military patrol arrived and the vigilantes handed him over."The claims of Bruce and Mac Stiofan were corroborated when, on 23 October 1972, a 31 year-old British man, David Seaman, called journalists to an impromptu press conference in Dublin. Seaman revealed that, until that day, he had been a member of the Special Air Service (SAS), which, he asserted, had been active in Northern Ireland since the beginning of 1971. Seaman stated that the SAS had been engaged in random bombings in order to destroy IRA credibility. He stated that he did not wish to be part of it any longer and was ready to 'tell everything' about the SAS activities. He stated that he would return to Northern Ireland to collect some data and return. Two months later, his body was found in a ditch in County Armagh.
In 1972 alone, 125 civilians were killed in what have been recorded as 'sectarian murders'. More than 90% of the victims were Catholics. In some cases the bodies were found to have been mutilated, which is entirely in keeping with Kitson's theory of state counter-insurgency strategy that calls for 'indiscriminate assassinations to terrorise the population.' Throughout the 70s, 80s and early 90s, indiscriminate killings were almost a daily occurrence in Northern Ireland. On occasion, veritable massacres took place.
For example, on 5 January 1976 near the village of Kingsmill in South County Armagh, ten Protestant men on their way to work were taken from a minibus and shot dead by a group calling itself the 'South Armagh Republican Action Force'. This group had apparently sprung up from nowhere and was not known to be attached to any official brigade of the IRA. As mysteriously as it had appeared, it then disappeared. The murders were assumed to be in retaliation for the killing of six Catholics the night before when, at about 6pm, three masked men broke into a Catholic house in Whitecross and shot three brothers. Neighbours claimed that there had been two military checkpoints - one at either end of the road - around the time that the attack took place.
At about 6:20pm the same night, three masked men entered another Catholic-owned house in Ballydougan, about twenty miles away. Sixteen family members were in the house at the time. Joseph O'Dowd and his nephews Barry and Declan O'Dowd were shot dead. All three were members of the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party. The RUC concluded that the weapon used was a 9mm submachine gun, although a member of the family claimed that a pistol with a silencer was also used.
The British elite's use of 'pseudo-gangs' in Northern Ireland fell into three categories:
1) Special Units of the British Army such as the SAS, the Force Research Unit (FRU), the Military Reconnaissance Force (MRF) and '14 Intelligence Company'. In an article in the Sunday Times in 1977, David Blundy described 12 separate incidents involving such groups, one of which involved troops from these special groups carrying out bombing attacks that would later be attributed to the IRA. These groups were also involved in recruiting local Irish Catholics (often petty criminals) who would be coerced, in one way or another, to work for the British as infiltrators or simple 'patsies'. It goes without saying that such individuals were supremely expendable as far as the British were concerned.
2) The second type of 'Pseudo-gang' used by the British were the Protestant loyalist paramilitary groups, the ideological descendants of the previously-mentioned 'peep-o-day boys'. Such groups included the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) and the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). Many official investigations in recent years have detailed the reality of widespread collusion between these groups and the protestant police force and British military and intelligence groups. They were seen as natural allies by the British in the fight against the IRA and the Catholic population, and very often as tools to be manipulated in service of the major British goal of continuing the conflict regardless of the negative consequences for either of the local communities. In one case in 1981, the Intelligence Officer of the Derry Brigade of the UDA was exposed as being a British Military Intelligence Officer who supplied the names of local Catholics for a hit-list.
3) The third type of pseudo-gang used by the British elite in Northern Ireland were loyalist Protestant groups made up of local criminals, created and controlled from the very beginning by the British. One notable instance of this tactic was the Irish Freedom Fighters (IFF) who, after carrying out several attacks against Catholics, simply vanished after being accused by the IRA of being a totally British-inspired gang.
Clearly these British tactics benefited neither the Irish Catholics nor the Loyalist Protestants. Indeed, there is evidence that the Loyalist groups quickly became aware of the efforts by the British to foment a 'sectarian war' and then stand back and reap the benefits. On numerous occasions throughout 'the Troubles', Loyalist paramilitary groups warned their community that the SAS were operating under the guise of already existing loyalist groups. In 1974, a group called the Ulster Citizen Army (UCA) sent a communiqué to the press stating that:
"The Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) operate under the control of the SAS. Numerous sectarian killings have been perpetrated by the SAS using the name of the UFF. Consequently, the UCA threatens to launch retaliatory actions against British interests if this state of things does not cease."UDA leaders Tommy Herron and Ernie Elliott, who were responsible for forming the abovementioned UCA as a faction within the UDA, had in 1972 taken steps to open up lines of communication with the IRA leadership. Within a few months, both men were assassinated by a group that bore all the hallmarks of a British pseudo-gang. UVF leader Jim Hanna was known to be in direct contact with two British Military Intelligence officers. When Hanna made contact with Cathal Goulding and other official IRA leaders in 1973, he was assassinated. Within a few weeks the UVF issued a statement that Hanna 'had been murdered by the British army'. The message was clear, with the British attempting to project the conflict as an 'inter-community war', anyone, Loyalist or Republican, who distorted that image was quickly eliminated.
The motivation for the existence of Republican and Loyalist paramilitary groups was rooted in the protection and well-being of their communities. Despite how they (especially the IRA) were cast by the British elite, their numbers were made up of the ordinary, generally working-class, people (as has been the case with most resistance movements) from which they drew their support. There was in fact much to unite the Protestant and Catholic working class in 1970s, 80s and 90s Northern Ireland, if only the political and religious division could be put aside. After all, religious and political beliefs do not put food on the table. While the Catholics were clearly discriminated against, both communities suffered from the negligence of the elite in terms of housing, jobs and infrastructure, and it was clear that there would be no winners in the case of a full-scale sectarian conflict. On the other hand, the British government and the ruling elite in Northern Ireland had everything to gain from 'civil war' or at least the appearance of it (today we see a stark parallel in the alleged 'civil war' in Iraq).The last thing the British government wanted to see was a politically and socially aware and unified working class emerge in a major part of its 'United Kingdom'. At the same time, the existing divisions in Northern Ireland were crucial to maintaining the testing ground for British troops against 'urban guerilla warfare'. For their part, the jobs of the vast majority of the Protestant politicians and ruling colonial elite in Northern Ireland were entirely dependent on the continuation of the conflict. If there were no 'Troubles' the politicians would have to go out and get real jobs.
This casting of the war as 'sectarian' was therefore essential and indeed formed part of the official policy of 'Criminalisation' and then 'Ulsterisation' of the conflict, strategies outlined in an unpublished 1975 British strategy paper titled 'The Way Ahead'. 'Criminalisation' was an effort to deny any recognition of the political motivation and nature of the conflict or the suggestion that it was a grass-roots struggle for liberation from British colonialism (which it was). The goal of 'Ulsterisation' was to create the impression among the wider British and world public that the struggle in Northern Ireland was an internal 'sectarian conflict' with the British playing the role of the frustrated 'peace-keepers'. It was also deemed by British policy-makers that British troops should eventually be removed because, in terms of British public opinion, the negative political impact from the death of a British soldier was greater than that from the death of a local Northern Irish Protestant policeman. After all, and to the great irritation of the Northern Ireland loyalists, the British public generally viewed both communities as 'Irish', and the English public had long-since been thoroughly programmed by the English elite to view the Irish (and all other colonial subjects) as something of a sub-species.
The propaganda war then has always been a major front in the battle between popular resistance groups and the elite. In their war against the Irish rebels during the First World War, the British disseminated a fake oath of allegiance to Sinn Fein, the political group associated with the IRA. The same fake oath was later re-published by the British army in various papers in 1970s Northern Ireland. The 'oath' that was supposedly taken by all Catholics was stated:
"These Protestant robbers and brutes, these unbelievers of our faith, will be driven like the swine they are into the sea, by fire, the knife or by poison cup until we of the Catholic faith and avowed supporters of all Sinn Fein action and principles, clear these heretics from our land [...] At any cost we must work and seek, using any method of deception to gain our ends towards the destruction of all Protestants and the advancement of the priesthood and the Catholic faith until the Pope is complete ruler of the whole world. We must strike at every opportunity, using all our methods of causing ill-feeling within the Protestant ranks and in their business. The employment of any means will be blessed by His Holiness the Pope. So shall we of the Roman Catholic Church and Faith destroy, with smiles of thanksgiving to our Holy Father the Pope, those who shall not join us and accept our beliefs."With just a few changes, the above could today be published as one of the many diatribes that are alleged to issue from the PR department of so-called 'Muslim terrorist organisations' like 'al-Qaeda'.
The incestuous relationship that we see today between the mainstream media and the intelligence community has a long history. In Northern Ireland the media was indispensable to the British in 'catapulting the propaganda' far and wide and, as such, the owners and editors of the major British media outlets can reasonably be stated to have blood on their hands. In an article carried in The Guardian on December 18th 1981 entitled 'How the Secret Service shaped the news', Richard Fletcher stated:
"For over 30 years the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS - forerunner of MI6) ran a world-wide network of news agencies which, at their peak, had some 250 employees and for 15 years acted as sole agents for Reuters in the Middle East."In his book Internment!, Belfast journalist John McGuffin gives an example of British army propaganda spread by the media:
"It became definite policy for most [British] newspapers that 'our army' could do no wrong. On August 19th 1971, the Daily Mail, for example, carried the headline: 'Army Shoots Deaf-mute Carrying Gun'. The inquest into the murder of Eamonn McDivitt by British troops showed that at no time had he a gun and that the soldiers, who gave evidence anonymously, contradicted one another. The Mail however made no apology or retraction. Everyone shot dead by the soldiers must, by necessity, have been a gunman or a mad bomber. And if that fails to convince, he or she must have been shot by the IRA or in a 'cross-fire'. John Chartres of the London Times even invented a new category: thus Danny O'Hagan of the New Lodge Road, shot by the army on 31 July 1970, was an 'assistant petrol bomber'. As Eamonn McCann of the Dublin-based Sunday World pointedly asked, 'What do "assistant petrol bombers" do? Hold coats?'"Torture was, of course, a staple part of British rule in Northern Ireland. Thousands of Catholics were brutalised on suspicion of being members of the IRA under a policy of torture that was sanctioned at the highest levels within the British establishment. Torture also played a role in 'turning' captured IRA members into agents of British intelligence. In a 2004 article for the UK Guardian, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams explained some of the techniques used by the British:
There was also the bizarre story written by Joe Gorrod and Denzil Sullivan and published on the front page of the UK Daily Mirror: 'Red Assassin shot dead in Ulster'. Readers were informed that "soldiers in a patrol which stalked and killed a terrorist sniper identified him as a Czechoslovakian. He carried a Russian-made AK-47 rifle, one of the most deadly every produced and the one most favored by assassins." The British army finally admitted that it was a fantasy they had concocted and passed to the media. On 23 August 1972, the second item on the ITN evening TV News was a story about three little girls aged eight who had been used by the 'unscrupulous IRA' to push a pram containing a huge bomb towards a military post at the back of the Royal Victoria hospital in Belfast. The "chivalrous soldiers were shocked and refused to fire, even at the risk of their own lives", British viewers were told. It was later admitted by the British Army Press Office that the entire story was false. ITN News however, failed to inform the British public of this fact.
"Some were stripped naked, they were beaten with batons and fists on the testicles and kidneys and kicked between the legs. Radiators and electric fires were placed under them as they were stretched over benches. Arms were twisted, fingers were twisted, ribs were pummelled, objects were shoved up the anus, they were burned with matches and treated to games of Russian roulette. Some of them were taken up in helicopters and flung out, thinking that they were high in the sky when they were only five or six feet off the ground. All the time they were hooded, handcuffed and subjected to a high-pitched unrelenting noise. During this process some of them were photographed in the nude.False Flags
For some time we were photographed in the company of young, noisy, exuberant squaddies. I'm sure we were not a pretty sight. I'm also sure that they were grinning as much as the soldiers in the photographs we have all seen recently [from Iraq]. Our photos were never published, but somewhere, in some regimental museum or in the top of somebody's wardrobe or in the bottom of a drawer, there are photographs of me and my friends and our captors."
During the 'long war' the IRA was accused of indiscriminate bombings in England that killed many civilians. In November 1974, bombs exploded in two Birmingham pubs; 21 people were killed and 160 injured. The blasts were blamed on the IRA although they denied responsibility and claimed that their policy was never to attack non-military targets without sufficient warning to avoid civilian casualties. In terms of the propaganda war, it seems obvious that it would be entirely counter-productive for any resistance movement to cause large civilian casualties and thereby diminish public support for their cause. On the other hand, Kitson's counter-insurgency strategy calls precisely for the 'discrediting of the resistance movement in the eyes of the public by any means.' In the case of the Birmingham pub bombings, the evidence points clearly to a British covert operation for two reasons: 1) many of the 21 killed were Irish people living in England. 2) A few days later Kenneth Littlejohn, who had been exposed two years earlier as playing a part in bombings carried out by British agents in Dublin, was arrested by British police.
Reaction in Britain to the bombings was so fierce, with anger and hysteria sweeping the country, that British police framed six Irish Catholics, who had been living in the area since the 1960s, for the bombings. Known as 'The Birmingham Six', the men would spend 16 years in prison before being released and found not guilty. In the aftermath of the bombings, the first in a series of new anti-terrorist legislation called 'The Prevention of Terrorism Act' (PTA) was quickly passed through the British parliament and the IRA was officially banned. The PTA gave British police sweeping powers to clamp down on political dissent in general and to detain, photograph and fingerprint suspects without a warrant. The fact that the provisions of the PTA would be built upon by the British elite to formulate and pass the broader 'Terrorism Act' of 2000 and the draconian 'Prevention of Terrorism Act' of 2005, which directly target British citizens, is strong evidence for Roger Faligot's claim that the British war against the IRA and the Catholics of Northern Ireland was used as a testing ground for later population control and suppression of dissent in Britain and Europe.
In December 1971, a month before Bloody Sunday, an explosion ripped apart McGurk's Bar, a Catholic pub in Belfast, killing 15 people and wounding 17 more. The Army and police claimed to have found evidence that the bomb that caused the blast had gone off inside the bar. Given that McGurk's was a Catholic bar, this implied that it must have been an IRA device that went off 'accidentally'. Forensic evidence later proved that the bomb had clearly been placed outside the pub and that the loyalist pseudo-gang, the protestant paramilitary force UVF, which was controlled by British intelligence, was responsible.
On the 8th November 1987, a bomb exploded in the town of Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, during a ceremony commemorating those who died in the First World War. Eleven people, mostly civilians, were killed. The bombing was blamed on the IRA although they denied any involvement. The rather predictable result was national and international condemnation of the group. When we consider the result of the attack - a serious blow to the moral and public standing of the IRA - the finger of guilt must be pointed squarely at Kitson and his theories of how to win the propaganda war against an armed resistance group.
Prisoners of Conscience and Hunger Strikes
During a meeting with the British government in 1972 to discuss a possible truce, members of the IRA delegation negotiated what effectively amounted to 'prisoner of war' status or 'Special Category Status' (SCS) for IRA prisoners in jails in Northern Ireland. This meant prisoners did not have to wear prison uniforms or do prison work, were housed within their paramilitary factions, and were allowed visits and food parcels. In 1976 however, the new Labour Secretary of State, Merlyn Rees, announced the phasing out of SCS. Anyone convicted of a 'terrorist-related offence' after March 1976 would be treated as an ordinary criminal and would have to wear a prison uniform, do prison work and serve their sentence in the new Maze Prison, in what became known as the 'H-Blocks'.
By late 1976, the new cellular prison accommodation was ready to receive its first prisoners. The first prisoner sentenced under the new policy was IRA volunteer Kieran Nugent. When he arrived at the Maze Prison and was ordered to wear a prison uniform he refused saying he was not a criminal but a political prisoner. He was locked in his cell where he wrapped himself in the blanket that was on the bed rather than remain naked. By 1978 nearly 300 Republican prisoners were refusing to wear prison uniforms in what became known as the 'blanket protest'. Prisoners began a campaign of non-obedience to prison guards and were beaten in response. They had five demands which were based on their belief that they were political prisoners:
On 27 October 1980, several of the prisoners began a hunger strike. Two months later, in a war of nerves between the IRA leadership and the British government, and with one of the prisoners, Sean McKenna, lapsing in and out of a coma and on the brink of death, the government appeared to concede the essence of the prisoners' five demands with a thirty-page document detailing a proposed settlement. With the document in transit to Belfast, the decision was taken to save McKenna's life and end the strike after 53 days on 18 December. In January 1981 it became clear that the agreement would not be honored by the British. On February 4th, the prisoners issued a statement saying that the British government had failed to resolve the crisis and declared their intention of "hunger striking once more". The second hunger strike began on 1 March, when Bobby Sands, the IRA's former Officer Commanding (OC) in the prison, began to refuse food. Unlike the first strike, the prisoners joined one at a time and at staggered intervals, which they believed would arouse maximum public support and exert maximum pressure on then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.
The right not to wear a prison uniform; The right not to do prison work; The right of free association with other prisoners The right to one visit, one letter and one parcel per week; Full restoration of remission lost through the protest.
Five days into the hunger strike, Frank Maguire, a Republican Member of the British Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone died, resulting in a by-election. Hunger striker Bobby Sands stood as an Anti H-Block candidate against Ulster Unionist Party candidate Harry West. Following a high-profile campaign, the election took place on 9th April, and Sands was elected to the British House of Commons with 30,492 votes to West's 29,046.
Sands' election victory raised hopes that a settlement could be negotiated, but Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher refused to give concessions to the hunger strikers stating that, "we are not prepared to consider special category status for certain groups of people serving sentences for crime. Crime is crime is crime, it is not political".
The world's media descended on Belfast, and several intermediaries visited Sands in an attempt to negotiate an end to the hunger strike, including Síle de Valera, granddaughter of the first President of liberated Ireland, Pope John Paul II's personal envoy John Magee, and European Commission of Human Rights officials. With Sands close to death, the government's position remained unchanged, with Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Humphrey Atkins stating: "If Mr. Sands persisted in his wish to commit suicide, that was his choice. The Government would not force medical treatment upon him" On 5 May, Sands died in the prison hospital on the sixty-sixth day of his hunger strike as an elected member of the British House of Commons.
In the two weeks following Sands' death, three more hunger strikers died. Francis Hughes died on 12 May, resulting in further rioting in nationalist areas of Northern Ireland, in particular Derry and Belfast. Following the deaths of Raymond McCreesh and Patsy O'Hara on 21st May, The Catholic Church's Primate of All Ireland, Tomás Ó Fiaich, criticised the British government's handling of the hunger strike. Despite this, Margaret Thatcher refused to negotiate a settlement, stating: "Faced with the failure of their discredited cause, the men of violence have chosen in recent months to play what may well be their last card".
On 31st July the hunger strike began to break, when the mother of Paddy Quinn insisted on medical intervention to save his life. The following day Kevin Lynch died, followed by Kieran Doherty on 2nd August, Thomas McElwee on 8th August and Michael Devine on 20th August. On 6th September the family of Laurence McKeown became the fourth family to intervene and asked for medical treatment to save his life, and theologian Cathal Daly issued a statement calling on republican prisoners to end the hunger strike. A week later James Prior replaced Humphrey Atkins as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and met with prisoners in an attempt to end the strike. Liam McCloskey ended his strike on 26th September after his family said they would ask for medical intervention if he became unconscious, and it became clear that the families of the remaining hunger strikers would also intervene to save their lives. The strike was called off on 3rd October.
The remaining prisoners published a statement in which they explained their position:
"There were several reasons given by our comrades for going on hunger-strike. One was because we had no choice, no other means of securing a principled solution to the four-year protest. Another, and of fundamental importance, was to advance the Irish people's right to liberty. We believe that the age-old struggle for Irish self-determination and freedom has been immeasurably advanced by this hunger-strike and therefore we claim a massive political victory. The hunger-strikers, by their selflessness, have politicised a very substantial section of the Irish nation and exposed the shallow, unprincipled nature of the Irish partitionist bloc. Lastly, we reaffirm our commitment to the achievement of the five demands, by whatever means we believe necessary and expedient. We rule nothing out. Under no circumstances are we going to devalue the memory of our dead comrades by submitting ourselves to a dehumanising and degrading regime."As Roger Faligot asked in his book, The Kitson Experiment: "Are these the words of criminals?"
As the long war dragged on into the 1990s, the effects of Kitson's counter-insurgency strategy began to take their toll on the IRA. With the British government's 'pseudo-gangs', infiltrators and informers, it had become increasingly difficult for the IRA to keep track of the activities of its volunteers or indeed, who precisely its volunteers were. This is the fate that befalls any resistance organisation that engages in a protracted, multi-decade resistance movement against a major government. There is simply no way to prevent state forces from ultimately infiltrating the movement, sowing suspicion and discord, and disrupting operations.
In 2002, the Scottish newspaper The Sunday Herald published a series of articles containing the accounts of former and active British military and intelligence personnel who claimed that they had been working within the IRA for years as double agents. Almost all of the claims centered around the allegation that the British government had knowingly allowed them to carry out bombing and shooting attacks on British military personnel and infrastructure in Northern Ireland. One of the more interesting allegations was that one of these agents had, on behalf of British intelligence, introduced the idea of the 'proxy suicide bomb' to the IRA, whereby a member of the public would be forced to drive a vehicle carrying a bomb to a target. This technique was used on only two occasions in Northern Ireland by individuals claiming to represent the IRA before it was banned by the IRA army council. If true, then we must conclude that, in the 1980s, 10 years before the first 'Palestinian suicide bombing', British military intelligence pioneered the tactic of the 'suicide bomb' in Northern Ireland. More than that, there is overwhelming evidence, only a part of which has been presented here, for the claim that, from an historical perspective, 'terrorism' is not a weapon wielded by some wild-eyed religious or political fanatic, but rather a carefully developed strategy, employed by the elite and implemented by state actors to ensure that the will of the masses of humanity is never truly exercised.
The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire, John Newsinger, Bookmarks 2000
The Kitson Experiment: Britain's Military Strategy in Ireland, Roger Faligot, Brandon 1983
Internment!, John McGuffin
The Nemesis File, Paul Bruce, John Blake Publishing 1996
British Counter-Insurgency, John Newsinger, Palgrave 2002
Eyewitness to Irish History Peter Berresford Ellis, John Wiley & Sons 2004
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Good nose. Sugar cane character, but not sweet. Hint of varnish. Cherry cola note. Scarlet Ibis meets Richland Rum. Palate is somewhat harsh, slightly bitter. Short finish. This is designed for mixed drinks, where it shines, but can also be sipped neat. Looking forward to trying again.
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Flat 15 is a nice, simple blog that offers short and snappy guides on things to consider when designing your home. One of its strengths is that it regularly runs “top five lists” - articles that provide you with a starting point on proven design and fashion while also giving you a lot of ideas in one place.
The Inspired Room is managed by Melissa Michaels, an author that specialises in making homes comfortable and “homey.” Michaels uses the blog to promote her decorating and homemaking books, but you’ll also find a wealth of information, guides and simple tips to help inspire your own home design projects. Usefully, Michaels also provides shopping links for most of her furniture “discoveries,” so that, once you have been inspired, you know exactly where to go to shop.
Avestyles is a blog with a bit of everything. You’ll find some useful home design tips, tricks and discoveries, but equally you’ll get plenty of fashion tips, back-to-school ideas for the kids, and lifehacks. The blog also features beautiful photography and images, perhaps because the author is also heavily involved with Pinterest as an official ambassador of the social media site.
The coolest feature that you’ll find in The Rhapsody blog is the profiles section. There you’ll find in-depth features looking at the successful projects that professional designers have worked on, along with their insights into the project. With plenty of accompanying images, it’s easy to get inspired from these projects, and then come away from the blog with a real understanding on what you need to do in your home next.
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A Beach Cottage is an intensely-focused blog on one single approach to home decor. If you’re looking to create a beach cottage aesthetic, with breezy interiors and plenty of white to match the yellow sand outdoors (whether real, or that’s just the impression you’re looking to create), then this is the blog for you. Each new post focuses on something small you can do with your room to create that Beach Cottage effect, so it’s worth checking back frequently to get a comprehensive idea of what to do with your own room.
My Scandinavian Home is another perfect example of a hyper-focused blog. This one is entirely dedicated to creating that visual impact of a rustic Scandinavian home in your own place, no matter where you are. You’ll see plenty of gorgeous photos of fireplaces, woodwork, and country living in this blog. The author also goes heavy on the linking, so you’ll know where to go shopping once inspired by this blog.
Don’t let the Italian language barrier stop you, this is one interior design blog you should still add to your list as you go through your own home design projects. Why? Because the photography is so interesting and vivid that you’re surely going to be inspired by what you see. And if your Italian is a little rusty, Google Translate will have you up to speed on the best design tips in no time.
This is an award-winning interiors blog, and it won’t take long to realise why; it offers a sense of creativity in the posts that many other interior design blogs lack. In other words, the author has a knack for coming up with tips and tricks that you just wouldn’t think of otherwise, to help fill out the small details in your own projects that can make all the difference. Accompanied with plenty of photography, this blog is an incredibly useful and practical guide.
Design Hunter is a simple, clean blog that is quite enamoured with design. Basically, anything that has caught the author’s eye is worth a blog post here. What helps the blog really stand out from the others is the quality of photography, and the expert eye that the author has for the classic, beautiful look, and her understanding on how that effect is created.
Created and maintained by a duo of designers from Sydney, The Stylephiles is a blog that focuses on sharing information that comes from a position of expertise. Where other interior design blogs are written by admirers, this one comes straight from the minds of the trend setters. The blog posts themselves are quite snappy and to the point, but help to give you an insight into how professional interior designers think and approach their craft.
Architectural Digest is a blog with far greater resources than most other interior design blogs. Why is this important? Because the most compelling feature of this blog is, easily, the celebrity spotlights, which features celebrities sharing photos and talking about their homes and their own design techniques. So, if you’ve ever been interested in how celebrities go about buying and decorating homes, here’s the number one spot for you to visit.
The reason to come to this blog is the author behind it. Nicole Gibbons is a celebrity in her own right in her home country in America. She’s on television, is a designer in her own right, and the blog firmly places her as an influencer in interior design. The blog itself is light on information, being more interested in inspiring than guiding, but you’ll get a lot of ideas from the high quality photographs and information bites nonetheless.
Many interior design blogs are one-person bands, which is fine, but it means you’ll need to go to a lot of them to get a decent range of insights that you’ll want in developing your own projects. Coco Kelley, meanwhile, prides itself on being the work of collaboration, and aims to be a one-stop shop which will give you multiple perspectives, from all over the world, by itself.
The “country lifestyle” is in vogue at the moment, with many people looking for advice on how to transform their homes into a slice of life right out of the country. Country Living is the blog to go to to make that happen. It’s very heavy on the “top tips” list, too, which makes for no-frills, practical tips and tricks to make achieve that nostalgic rural aesthetic.
Homes to Love is a really useful blog that’s less a source of information in its own right, and more a collection of features drawn from some of the most popular home design magazines out there. The blog is maintained by publisher, Bauer Media, and contains content from Belle, Real Living, Homes + and Australian House and Garden.
Jackie Brown’s blog has very little text - it’s not designed to provide advice, guides, or information on how to achieve home decorating goals. Rather, it’s an inspirational portfolio of Jackie’s work. A designer for commercial clients, Jackie has a deep understanding of what is chic and cool, and her blog shows off the best examples of both.
Sarah Ellison is a well-known name in Australia’s interior design circuit. She’s the style editor of Real Living magazine. Her personal website and blog is designed to act as a portfolio of her best work, with plenty of really creative photography to show off utopic, lifestyle living. You won’t find too much advice on how to design your own spaces here (after all, you should be buying Real Living for that), but the photos will surely inspire and delight.
Queensland in Australia has a culture entirely of its own, and that flows through to home design, too. Queensland Homes is a popular magazine dedicated to the good work in interior design that goes on in the state, and the accompanying website offers attractive photography and feature articles to help inspire you and then achieve the “Queensland look” in your own home.
Maintained by the Coco Republic team, field notes provides readers with standout examples of exceptional interior spaces from around the world. The content itself is a combination of informative articles on current popular trends, as well as articles that highlight individuals doing exceptional work in interior design. The photography is designed to emulate the effect of “quick snaps”, but offer plenty of detail in showing you exactly how to achieve the stunning interiors yourself.
This is a full lifestyle blog, providing insights on the author’s thoughts on food, life, living, and the interior designs that she finds most interesting. What is most appealing about this blog is how down to earth it all is; there’s no pretentiousness about any of the blog posts, it’s just personal thoughts straight from someone who really enjoys writing about lifestyle. There’s also plenty of tips on how to best use garage sales and other such alternative outlets to find distinctive additions for the home.
Stylizimo is a blog run by an artist with a real passion for interior design. It’s minimalist in design and tone, but has fostered a strong community over the years of people who come for the excellent photography, as well as insights into lifestyle and home decorating design. The author covers off every possible room you might have in your home, too, so you’ll be able to get inspiration from end to end in your own renovation projects.
Unfortunately this blog doesn’t seem to be updated any longer, with the most recent post dated back in 2015. Nevertheless, it’s worth checking out, because the content that’s on there is quite timeless, and offers an specific area of focus that many people find appealing. The Oceanic islands are known for their laid-back, tropical cultures and design, and it’s an aesthetic that many people would love to recreate in their own homes. With this blog, there are practical tips and tricks to achieving that.
Oracle Fox is one of the most visually attractive interior design blogs that you’ll come across. It’s minimalist on the text, allowing the photography to do the talking, and the photography is incredible stuff. Maintained by one of the best-known names in fashion blogging, Amanda Shadforth, the interiors on display through this blog are, as you could guess, heavily inspired on what is most fashionable in interior design at the moment. So, if you’re looking to create something distinctive and cool, this is the place to go.
Home Bunch aims to offer readers practical insights into home decorating projects that are realistic and stylish. Where many other blogs focus entirely on the most aspirational of designs, which look better in photos than the typical pundit might be capable of achieving, this blog is really there for anyone, providing useful photos for designs that the typical person would be able to achieve, regardless of skill level.
Home Stratosphere is a bit of a DIY pundit’s best friend. There’s plenty of articles that feature gorgeous homes and environments, sure, and these are inspirational to look at, but the real meat of the blog is in its DIY guides and top ten lists, which will give you a wide range of ideas in how to solve your own home decorating challenges. The blog is aimed at the everyman, so regardless of your skill level in DIY and interior design, you should be able to come away from this blog with a practical understanding of what you need to do next at home.
What makes Decorpad so interesting is that it is entirely community-driven. Users from around the world share photos of home interiors that they’ve done themselves (or seen while out and about), and the blog maintains a popular forum in which people share advice with one another. The community is a friendly one, and happy to help people of all skill levels, which makes this site a useful, practical resource for anyone that is about to undertake a design project of their own.
As the name suggests, Elle Decor is a blog that accompanies the Elle Decor Magazine, and pulls a lot of its content from that trusted, long-running magazine. The blog offers plenty of renovator’s advice and design tips, and then the resources that the magazine has available to it means that it is also able to offer plenty of celebrity information and interviews.
Vogue is one of the most recognisable names in fashion and lifestyle, and its interiors blog - Vogue Living - is up to the same standard. The pull that this blog has is incredible - one recent feature is “inside Barack Obama’s new home,” for example, and the website has some of the best writers and experts in the world providing it with content. If you’re interested in interior design you absolutely should be checking back on this blog regularly.
Professional global designer and author, Vincente Wolf, uses his blog to reflect on his day-to-day activities and thoughts on his work. You won’t get too much by way of insights into interior design through this blog, but as the author of four books on the subject, Vincente is one of the most credentialed experts on the topic in the world, and so, fans of the design industry will find this resource compelling in its content nonetheless.
House Beautiful is a well-staffed publication that uses its online presence to provide people with interesting examples of celebrity properties, news, and top lists to help guide people in designing their own spaces. The content of the site is designed to offer something for everyone, regardless of their experience in home designing, and as you’d expect for a professional publication, the quality of the photos is exceptional, making them inspirational in their own right.
Summer Thornton is an experienced interior designer that has been featured in most of the major industry publications at one time or another. Where many other designers use their websites as purely visual portfolios, Thornton also takes the opportunity to provide readers with some advice and guides, which she then highlights using work from her projects. This makes her blog a useful insight into the mind of one of the world’s top designers.
MyHouseIdea is a blog that scours the Internet for stunning examples of interior design and architecture, and then provides them to readers as a way of inspiring their own home decorating projects. Each blog post offers a brief introduction to the space - where it comes from, who designed it - and then provides a gallery of photos that really show off why that space is special.
Louise Roche is a freelance stylist and photographer that uses her blog to show off her projects and her thinking in the the work behind them. For readers looking for in-depth insight, this blog is notable in that it does go quite in depth into the design process, and uses photography to really emphasise the way that Roche goes about her work. It’s also fascinating to learn the background behind some of the designs that she puts into people’s homes.
For people looking for in-depth insight into how to achieve their home design goals, Inside Out is a good choice. Focused around helping people achieve their DIY goals, this blog offers in-depth information from experts that help to explain new concepts and trends, and then guide readers through projects step-by-step. There’s also information in the blog on how to achieve just about any kind of “look” that you might be interested in, right through to practical tips to dog proof your garden, or make it look like you have more space in a home than you actually do.
Designed to complement the est magazine, this blog is light on information, but big on showing off creative ideas to inspire your own projects. Each article offers a gallery of photos that show off the unique qualities of a space, as well as highlighting some of the furniture that makes those pieces centre to the experience of the space.
The blog for an Australian designer, HER creative collects together some particularly stand-out architecture and interior designs, and then offers stunning photography to really show off the quality of the space. Designed to be more inspirational than informative, by keeping an eye on this blog, you’ll develop a greater understanding of what is in vogue in Australian design at the moment, and what are some of the most creative ideas being implemented at the moment by the true visionaries.
Contributed to by designers from all around the world, Yellow Trace aims to be a resource that shows off the best commercial and residential designs in the world. Each entry is accompanied with a brief description of the space, and plenty of photographs. The only rule seems to be that these spaces need to be truly inspiring and distinctive, and most of the articles are accompanied with the architectural floor plan, which might help you when it comes time to do your own designs, too.
Design Milk is worth a visit because it has a specific focus that it does really well; this blog is all about the new and trend-setting designs. In addition to the photography, which shows in detail the qualities of the spaces being highlighted, the blog provides some useful explainers explaining why the spaces are noteworthy.
The Home Journal is focused on providing practical advice on how to think about home renovations and decor. Each entry into the blog is supplemented with an in-depth explainer about how the room was designed, and the principles of interior design that help to make the room so spectacular. There are also plenty of in-depth DIY guides that offer step-by-step walkthroughs for people looking to start working on their own projects.
Home Polish is a business that provides customers with comprehensive home design advice online. It also maintains a blog that features celebrity information, photo galleries of top home designs, and in-depth design guides that show potential customers the kind of expertise that the business offers. Even if you’re not interested in using the service, however, the blog itself is both inspirational, and in-depth enough to help you with your own projects.
Justina Blakeney is a multi-ethnic designer that has won acclaim for her unique, modern, and alternative approach to interior design. She is also an author, having published the popular book The New Bohemians. She uses her blog to provide in-depth information and how-to guides to accompany stunning photos of her work. The information she offers through her blog also extends to social media guides and other lifestyle topics that would be of interest to your typical interior designer.
Cococozy is a sales platform; it sells fabrics, pillows, and other home decorating products to designers looking for something chic for their homes. In addition to that, the website functions as a blog with plenty of inspirational photos and guides to help home decorators of all skillsets.
The work of an interior decorator and photographer, Avenue Lifestyle is not just about the beautiful, inspirational photography. The author, Holly Marder, also understands that many of her readers will be people looking to work on their own homes or spaces, and look to blogs like hers for advice and guides as well. Avenue Lifestyle offers plenty of very in-depth analysis on how to approach interior design.
Grey and Scout is a comprehensive blog that covers lifestyle topics as varied as kids, travel, recipes and home. Perhaps the best section of the website overall is the home tours section, which is filled with gorgeous photography that highlight a wide range of approaches that people take when designing their homes. Each entry also offers some commentary on the best design features of these buildings, to help get you thinking about what might work for your own space.
Designed as a blog to inspire people looking to renovate their home on a budget, Hunted Interior is a simple blog that provides practical advice and photography to show people how they can achieve a lot without spending a great deal of money on it. There is a focus on clean elegance in the designs that the blog highlights, which will fit in with the overwhelming majority of Australian living spaces.
Maintained by a woman from San Francisco, SFGirlByBay is a blog focused on the kind of hip, bohemian lifestyle favoured by so many in the San Francisco area. A diverse blog, SFGirlByBay offers advice around fashion and food, as well as art and home design. Because individuality is so important to the hipster aesthetic, the real strength of the blog is the way it shows how to hunt out and find distinctive pieces for your own home.
One of the most visually spectacular blogs you’ll see, Eye Swoon’s focus is on highlighting distinctive or unique things that you might want in your own home. A highly collaborative blog, it invites input from people all around the world, asking them to list things that they have added to their own homes, and the reasons why. The eclectic nature of a lot of the blog’s contributors have helped make the blog vibrant, distinctive, and interesting.
An Australian-based designer business, inadesignerhome brings together talent, both established and emerging, to help Australians design and execute modern and distinctive home spaces. It uses its blog to showcase the work of designers from all around the world, and often features interviews with them about their projects. Because the variety of designers that the game showcases is so distinctive, inadesignerhome is a good way to get a feel for design trends from around the world.
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In and Out Decor is an essential design inspiration resource curated by Brazilian Olivia Vianna. Each post on the blog offers a gallery of photos, which highlight some of the interior trends that are most in vogue at the moment all around the world. Use this stunning source of ideas and inspiration to feed your interior design dreams.
The Interiors Addict is the passion project from one of Australia’s most credentialed journalists, Jen Bishop, that then became her full-time job. What sets this website apart from the others is that it is being managed from an enthusiast, rather than an interior design expert. As a result, the content is highly accessible to readers of all experience levels, and is the best entry point into interior design for someone just starting out.
Design Addicts is a lifestyle blog that draws content and inspiration from all around the world. Aggregated onto other websites due to the quality of the content, Design Addicts specialises in finding truly distinctive examples of luxury architecture and interior design, and then publishing beautiful photos of these spaces in an inspirational and engaging manner.
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Britain formally colonised Van Diemen’s Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists moved in to the aboriginal hunting grounds. There was conflict, there was violence. But, governments and gentlemen succeeded in burying the real story of the Vandemonian War for nearly two centuries.
The Vandemonian War had many sides and shades, but it was fundamentally a war between the British colony of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) and those Tribespeople who lived in political and social contradiction to that colony.
In The Vandemonian War acclaimed history author Nick Brodie now exposes the largely untold story of how the British truly occupied Van Diemen’s Land deploying regimental soldiers and special forces, armed convicts and mercenaries. In the 1820s and 1830s the British deliberately pushed the Tribespeople out, driving them to the edge of existence. Far from localised fights between farmers and hunters of popular memory, this was a war of sweeping campaigns and brutal tactics, waged by military and paramilitary forces subject to a Lieutenant Governor who was also Colonel Commanding. The British won the Vandemonian War and then discretely and purposefully concealed it.
Historians failed to see through the myths and lies – until now. It is no exaggeration to say that the Tribespeople of Van Diemen’s Land were extirpated from the island. Whole societies were deliberately obliterated. The Vandemonian War was one of the darkest stains on a former empire which arrogantly claimed perpetual sunshine. This is the story of that fight, redrawn from neglected handwriting nearly two centuries old.
About the Author
Nick Brodie is a professional history nerd. He has a doctorate in late medieval vagrancy, worked as a field archaeologist, taught at university for a decade, and now writes a growing suite of acclaimed popular histories. Nick loves mysteries, lateral thinking, and books that are erudite and accessible. Covering the broad sweep of Australian history in 1787: The Lost Chapters of Australia’s Beginnings and Kin: A Real People’s History of Our Nation and The Vandemonian War, Nick brings fresh angles to old tales.
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A nice outfit, especially an elegant cocktail party outfit, deserves a good-looking wallet. In fact, wearing the wrong type of wallet can easily ruin your entire outfit. A very safe and good choice, which usually goes well with most elegant outfits, is to wear a silver clutch handbag. It's something that is so versatile that you can rarely go wrong with cocktail party outfits. To show you how to style it, I've put together some really good silver clutch wallet outfit ideas for you. Now let's dive in.
Black maxi chiffon fit and flare dress with silver clutch wallet
You'll see a list of gorgeous outfits, most of which can be worn as cocktail party outfits. To start this list, I'll show you an elegant and natural cocktail party outfit. To shape this look, you can wear a black sleeveless fit and a flared chiffon maxi dress. Pair it with a silver clutch handbag and a pair of silver open-toe heels to complete the look neatly.
Sky blue longline coat with white cocktail dress and silver clutch wallet
In order to look elegant and refreshing at the same time, we try to apply the cheerful combination of sky blue and white to your outfit. To shape this look, you can wear a white, semi-transparent, form-fitting midi dress with a sky blue longline wool coat. Combine them with a pair of white, pointed toe heels and a silver handbag to complete the outfit with elegance.
Pale pink fit and flare pleated mini dress with black and silver clutch wallet
To achieve this sleek and ladylike look, you can wear a pale pink sleeveless mini-fit and flare pleated dress with a silver metal belt. For the shoes you can wear a pair of light pink straps with pointed toes. Add a black and silver clutch handbag to the mix for a feminine and elegant look.
Black mini dress with open toes and silver metallic clutch wallet
To look stylish and airy, you can wear a black mini shift dress with long slit sleeves. Combine the dress with a few long and subtle gold necklaces. Wear a pair of black heels with open toes for the shoes. Wear a metallic silver clutch to complete the look with a shiny touch.
Black long-sleeved mini dress with chiffon fit and flap with silver clutch wallet
To shape this sleek and slim cocktail outfit, you can simply wear a black chiffon mini long sleeve fit and a flared dress as the center of your look. Pair it with a pair of open toe heels with black ankle straps to look sleek and elegant. Wear a silver clutch handbag to look more feminine and elegant.
Black leather maxi dress with silver sequin clutch
For those of you who don't like these super chic or sexy cocktail dresses, you can wear a stylish one like this leather dress. In detail, the dress is a black sleeveless fit and a flared leather maxi dress. Combine the dress with a pair of gray, pointed toe heels and a silver sequin clutch wallet to complete the stylish and beautiful look.
Sleeveless maxi chiffon dress with teal belt and clutch wallet
To look refreshing and ladylike, it's a good idea to wear a teal blue dress. In this case, a blue-green sleeveless chiffon maxi dress with a white belt is chosen. Combine the beautiful dress with a pair of silver high heels with open toes. Complete the attractive look with a silver clutch handbag.
Silver mini wrap dress with matching quilted leather clutch wallet
This is a very attractive and shiny all-silver outfit that is surprisingly easy to take off. To shape this outfit, wear a sleeveless, form-fitting wrap dress made of silver metallic with a pair of silver ankle straps with open toes. Now add a silver quilted leather clutch bag to look absolutely awesome.
Yellow cardigan with half sleeves and shirt and tie
This is a super cool and chic looking business casual outfit that will really make you stand out from the crowd in the office. To achieve this look, you can wear a light gray shirt with a gray tie and a yellow cardigan with half sleeves to form some nice layers. Combine them with a light yellow pencil skirt and bare sandals. Wear a silver clutch to complete the look.
Camel blazer with blue mom jeans & silver bag
To achieve this stylish business casual outfit, you can wear a black t-shirt with a camel blazer as the top. Combine them with blue mom jeans and black leather shoes. Add a silver metallic clutch to the mix to complete the outfit in style.
Black mini dress with cap sleeves and a silver wallet
To get this simple and clean black and silver outfit that you can wear to work as well as to semi-formal events, you can start with the black mini dress with cap sleeves. Combine it with black leggings and black heels. Wear a large silver metallic clutch handbag to look sleek and elegant.
Black and white, floor-length, flowing dress with zebra print and clutch bag
This is a very unique and beautiful cocktail party outfit. Instead of wearing a typical mini cocktail dress, wear this sleeveless dress with black and white zebra print and flare floor length dress to look absolutely amazing. Combine it with black open toe heels and a silver clutch to elegantly complete the look.
A shoulder yellow sweater with jeans and a silver clutch wallet
To look casual and understatedly sexy, you can wear a yellow sweater with a relaxed fit. Pair it with gray skinny jeans and black ballet flats. Finally, add a silver clutch wallet to look feminine and elegant.
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Facebook like's are working on some pages of my site but not others. I can't show an example on the live site as I have taken the functionality down, however working directly on the developers like button page:
I have tried putting both in the linter:
Both show some required items missing, but as I'm not trying to provide opengraph information I think these can be ignored? Oddly though, the like button for the http://www.rscpp.co.uk/counselling.html page does work when done through the linter (which is done through an iFrame rather than the code that the facebook like button creator gives you).
I can't see that there is any 301 redirect, SSL or so on issue with the http://www.rscpp.co.uk/counselling.html that may cause any problem.
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Maruti: Maruti Suzuki has made its name very fast in India. The country’s well-known car manufacturer, Maruti Suzuki, has sold its cars quite well in the past. Along with this, people’s confidence in Maruti Suzuki has also increased. In such a situation, Maruti Suzuki has started focusing its attention on the segment of hatchback cars for the time being.
maruti suzuki launched dhansu car
It is being told that Maruti Suzuki is turning people towards hatchback cars instead of SUVs, so that this will also increase the sales of the company. It is worth noting that Maruti Suzuki has sold more than 38 percent of hatchback cars in the total sales of last year. At the same time, sales of SUV cars have been at number two with 40 percent sales. On the other hand, Maruti Suzuki has recently introduced its new car.
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The company gave this information
It is being told that this car of Suzuki will be launched in CNG model. Also, its price will also be in the budget of the common man. The name of this new car of Maruti Suzuki is Maruti Suzuki Alto K10, which can prove to be a great car in its segment.
Let us tell you that the Maruti Suzuki Alto K10 will have a 1 liter engine of the Salaries car. At the same time, its mileage will be close to 35 km, which will make it the highest mileage car in its segment. At the same time, if we talk about its petrol variant, then it will get mileage from an average of 24 km. At the same time, there will be a slight increase in the mileage of this car with the AGS technology. Also, its price will also be less than that of CNG.
how much is this car worth
It is being told that the CNG variant of Alto 10 will cost Rs 1 lakh more than its petrol variant. In such a situation, where the starting price of its petrol variant is Rs 3.99 lakh. At the same time, the price of its top model can go around 6 lakhs. Let us tell you that currently there are four variants from the company in this segment.
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Add a homey, rustic touch to your living room with the Progressive Furniture Millie Blanket Ladder. This ladder is a perfect place to hang and display blankets, quilts, towels, and more. The ladder is made from thick wood with round legs and rungs. The wood has a hand-carved look and comes in a variety of color options to best match your décor.
About Progressive Furniture
Established in 1985 in Hickory, North Carolina by several investors who had a vision to shape a successful furniture company, Progressive Furniture has thrived ever since. They began manufacturing and distributing occasional tables and naturally started creating bedroom furniture. By 2001, Progressive furniture had become a major force in U.S. furniture manufacturing covering the likes of several markets including: occasional tables, bedroom furniture, entertainment centers, and dining room furniture. Around that same time, Progressive Furniture was acquired by Sauder Woodworking and became a part of the Sauder family of companies. Together, they soon became the 7th largest furniture manufacturing company in the world. Today, Sauder and Progressive operate facilities in Ohio, North Carolina, California, Mexico, and China, including additional partnerships with factories in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Hong Kong. Progressive remains at the top of the industry and has been a trusted manufacturer for over 25 years.
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Review the basic components of low-slope commercial roofing systems and identify how they can affect the thermal efficiency, moisture resistance, and resilience of the overall building.
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Describe tapered roof insulation systems and how they can be used to manage storm water runoff and reduce the potential for roof leaks.
Explain how a roof serves as a working platform during and after construction, and identify strategies to minimize long-term damage to the roof.
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Jim Hoff is an experienced executive and consultant in the building materials industry. Jim currently serves as President of TEGNOS Research, Inc. a consulting organization dedicated to expanding understanding of the building envelope. Since the founding of TEGNOS, Dr. Hoff has provided a wide variety of strategic and technical consulting services to dozens of governmental, non-profit and corporate organizations, and recent clients have included the U.S. Department of Energy, the U. S. EPA, building material trade associations, building materials manufacturers, building envelope designers and private equity firms.
In addition to his industry research and consulting activity, Dr. Hoff also serves as the instructor for the successful "Commercial Roofing Boot Camp" course co-sponsored by Building Envelope Magazine. Jim has published numerous papers addressing a variety of technical and business topics germane to the building envelope industry and is a frequent speaker at building envelope, sustainability, and energy efficiency conferences.
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Made a resolution to start eating salads but hate the tedious part of cutting those veggies?
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Laurie Leigh wrote a genius blog article on the Hazards of Working at Home which I recommend any stay at home artist to read up on.
I'd also like to add a couple of my own:
1. Talk to family members and gently make them understand that just because it looks like fun, doesn't mean it doesn't need to get done. Painting is still work and as much as you want to chat about their day/make them food because their own hands were clearly not working/come watch this thing on tv, it can wait until you're done or at a stopping point.
2. Routinely treat yourself to galleries, museums, botanical gardens, beach and even the mall outside of your local one for inspiration. You'll feel better for the new air and the beautiful surroundings.
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Forging is a huge, important part of the manufacturing industry. Several various domains depend heavily on metal forging. Forging is a process of melting metal to transform it into the desired geometric shape. In contrast to forging, casting is the process where the metal is converted into the liquid state while the forging process maintains the solid state of metal. Forging can be used to achieve durability, reliability and add sturdiness to the entire set up. It also reacts better under heat and a wider range of materials can be used to make machine parts such as flanges, bearings, gears, couplings, clutches, robotics etc. Forging is used in parts that are mainly used as attachments as the process increases the strength of the machinery that is being the manufacturer. Forging has evolved through the years and the magnitude of its usage has increased in a humungous manner. There are four major types of forging that is being employed on a regular basis:
1. Open Die Forging
2. Impression Die Forging
3. Cold Forging
4. Rolled Ring Forging.
In this article, we will be discussing the process of ring forging. In a nutshell, Roll forging is carried out by making a hole in a large piece of metal which is round in shape. On punching this hole, it makes a donut shape. The metal is then rolled and pressurized to achieve a thin ring. The diameter of this ring can be altered in diameter based on the requirement. Cylinder section or circular rings can be manufactured using roll forging for aerospace applications, machinery tools, pipes, pressure vessels and so on. Here are several steps that are used to carry out the process of ring forging:
1. Preparation of Stock: The round piece of metal is pierced in order to get a donut-shaped metal. It is the workpiece which will be worked upon in the next few steps. This metal is the raw material required to get the desired shape. In the next few steps, the metal is hammered using forging die until the end result is achieved.
2. Upsetting: Upsetting is the process used to achieve structural stability and integrity along with directional grain flow. After the upsetting is done, the piercing takes place.
3. Ring Forging: The metal is then placed in an idler roll. It applies pressure continuously along with the drive roll and the axial rolls.
The process is then completed. Ring forging provides versatile end products that can be used by industries coming from any domain such as aerospace, automobile, product manufacture etc. To get more insights on forgings, you can catch hold of a forged rings manufacturer. A forged rings manufacturer is never out of business and such is the importance of ring forgings. They use materials such as steel, alloy steels, carbon, aluminum, copper, titanium and so on. The possibilities are endless and the process is not very expensive either. Good maintenance and technical skill are all that’s required for a successful roll forging process. | <urn:uuid:9e386bdf-eb18-47eb-9904-67e28d05da1b> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,946 |
SUNNYVALE – A woman whose body was found in the water along the San Francisco Bay Trail in Sunnyvale on Thursday has been identified as a Google employee, the tech company confirmed.
Chuchu Ma, 23, of Mountain View, was found dead in the water near the trail last week, according to the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety, CBS San Francisco reported.
"Chuchu was an excellent software engineer in our developer product team," Google officials said in a statement. "We are devastated to learn of her passing, and our deepest condolences are with her family and friends."
According to her LinkedIn profile, Ma started working for Google in July 2016 and was a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.
Ma's body was found Thursday morning by a passing bicyclist on the trail, according to Department of Public Safety Capt. Shawn Ahearn.
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There are countless occasions in life that just call for a steaming hot cup of cocoa… coming in from your last run on the slopes, a brisk final lap around the ice rink, or just sitting cozily with friends and family by the fire. And while that old dry-mix envelope suffices in a pinch, there are few things that warm the soul like good, rich, decadent home-made hot chocolate. Our easy method here uses a few quality ingredients and the magic of the slow cooker to make a delightful drink that’s worlds above the cocoa packet.
There’s definitely no skim milk here. We use whole milk and heavy cream to give it a silky, velvety quality and both chopped semi-sweet chocolate AND cocoa powder for a depth of flavor that will cure pretty much any chocolate craving. It’s just sweet enough, but it tastes so creamy and indulgent that it feels like a complete dessert in and of itself.
And, it takes so little effort! All you have to do is dump some ingredients in the slow cooker and come back every once in a while to stir it. In the name of some absolutely amazing chocolatey liquid, I’m sure we can all handle that.
The slow cooker makes easy work of this recipe, but it’s also a perfect use for when you want to have a big batch available for friends and family. (Think Christmas morning or New Year’s party!) You can make this ahead, set it to ‘keep warm,’ forget about it, and let your guests serve themselves right from the slow cooker when they’re so inclined. And how cute would a little hot chocolate toppings bar be? With whipped cream and mini marshmallows and chocolate sprinkles and chocolate sauce… Yum!
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Do you ever notice how you go round to trends you first discovered years ago?
I vividly remember buying my first lipstick from Miss Selfridge and feeling so cool and grownup. It was bright purple, I thought I was so out there as most of my friends weren’t into experimenting with makeup like that.
This NYX lipstick and liner gave me flashbacks to that time and I just couldn’t resist revisiting it as a look! I love that lip liners and lipsticks are designed to go together now and there’s no second guessing whether one will be a good match.
It made for the perfect 90’s grunge style look !
Purple has been my favourite colour forever really and features in lots of things through my life, including my hair!
However it’s a challenge sometimes to keep the gorgeous colour vibrant that my stylist creates at the salon. I have tried lots of different hair colours over the years and currently I’m loving these I💜Revolution Rainbow Shots and Tones to keep my colour looking good! The shots are a shampoo and conditioner which you apply after washing your hair as usual. They are great for keeping your colour topped up without adding lots of build up. The tones are more of a semipermanent colour with much more pigment and are a really good conditioning treatment.
Perfect if you heat style with straighteners, curlers and hairdryers- let’s face it who doesn’t?!
I also recommend Colour Psycho in Wild Purple for keeping things bright and fresh! My hair is bleached underneath to make the colour nice and bright too.
My last little foray into purple themed products is the one and only Frizz Ease by John Frieda. I just want to say now it’s a happy coincidence that the packaging is purple! As well as being coloured, my hair is really thick and coarse and prone to dreaded frizz whenever it’s humid. So I use a small army of products to keep my hair looking it’s best. I’ve always been a fan of Frizz Ease serum but I recently discovered the Leave in Conditioner.
I’ve recently started swimming and that’s a recipe for disaster with coloured hair but I’ve found using the leave-in-conditioner great for keeping my hair smooth and in check.
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US sets China solar dumping margins
Updated: 2014-07-28 11:36
By Amy He in New York (China Daily USA)
Analysts said the US Commerce Department's rule that set preliminary dumping margins on imported solar products from China will most likely further slow down solar imports from the country.
The US Commerce Department ruled on July 25 that solar products from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan are being sold too cheaply in the US, and told US Customs to require cash deposits for the products from Chinese companies upon import.
The department said that certain solar products from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan have been sold in the US at dumping margins between 26.33 percent to 58.87 percent, and 27.59 to 44.18 percent, respectively.
US Customers and Border Protection will require cash deposits ranging from 10.74 percent to 165.04 percent for photovoltaic products coming from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.
This will most likely further slow down solar imports from China, which already has been happening since the Commerce department's last decision on countervailing duties in June, analysts said.
The Commerce department determined last month that the Chinese government gave unfair subsidies to solar product manufacturers, and it imposed new tariffs of up to 35.21 percent on imports.
"We already saw a slowdown in shipment into the US from Chinese producers, and part of that is that they were waiting to see what the final duties would be, so they can plan accordingly and price accordingly," said Michael Barker, senior analyst at NPD Solarbuzz.
"One of the major issues with these investigations is that until it's finalized, it creates a lot of uncertainty in terms of what the final charges will be. So it makes it hard to ship products when you don't actually know how you need to adjust your pricing to account for these types of things," he said.
Shayle Kann, senior vice-president of research at GTM Research, said that the decision limits the options of Chinese suppliers. "From the perspective of China, this [decision] solidifies that more than changes it in any huge way, because the prevailing countervailing margins were already high enough that it was prohibitive for a lot of manufacturers to ship into the US under those margins," he said.
The countervailing and anti-dumping decisions came after the US arm of Germany-based solar manufacturer SolarWorld AG claimed in a petition that Chinese mainland manufacturers were avoiding duties by taking the production of cells used in solar panels to Taiwan, and flooding the US market with cheap goods, harming competitiveness for US companies.
China's Ministry of Commerce has reiterated its calls for the US to handle solar trade disputes fairly, and work with China to maintain a free, open and just trade environment, according to Xinhua News Agency.
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Suprise and Shock I am going to write a post!! :-P
It's been a long week, both with work and with Jasper.
He's having a grumpy week which hey he's entitled to as we all are, but do you notice that our children are always in a bad mood when we least want them to be lol
I always try to make sure that we end the night in a "happy place" and say goodby at daycare in a "happy place" the age old thing don't fall asleep on an argument!
Tonight I am actually leaving Jasper at home with a friend so that I can go out for dinner with another adult who is also leaving her children at home (with their Dad).
This will be the first time since New Years Eve that I am going out without Jasper . . . .that's one resolution I am not keeping too as I was supposed to be aiming for one adult outing a mth oooppps.
Jasper is enjoying Daycare as always though I have noticed this week that they haven't been moving him up to the preschool room, I am not sure wether that's because they are having a terrible time with staff illness or wether there is another reason.
He isn't 3 until June which is when he is supposed to move up to the "big" room but he has already started going up some days, or even half days etc as most of his friends are older and are up there. Also they have moved a large amount of the younger children into his room which means there aren't too many left in there that he can talk to as his speaking and comprehension is advanced for his age.
I am worried that he is going to start going backwards . . .which I am sure is a silly thing to worry about and it probably means that I need to start reading some child development books!!
But really people should I be worried that he might not be getting challenged enough?
My update hmmmm my new contract role is going okay, it's been a mth now and I atleast have completed all the training and have access to everything etc.
It is just an adjustment period and meeting some people to chat to at work to help pass the days quicker!
Easter is around the corner and I am looking forward to some days in the country at Mum and Dad's, fresh air and some chilling! Plus of course Easter fun with the family :-))
Jasper and I are making cupcakes with an Easter suprise this weekend . . .then we are going to make some rockyroad when we get to Mums!!
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The NUZZ PROWLING WOLF Blogsite posted the following review of the Urban Dogs' latest album Bonefield...
Archived below though!
Sunday, 12 August 2012
URBAN DOGS - Bonefield (A Review)
It's taken three years for Charlie Harper (UK Subs) and Knox's (The Vibrators) side project band the Urban Dogs acoustic album to hit the streets, and now it's here, has it been worth the wait? Too right it has, Bonefield is a real pedigree album that sees amongst its eleven tracks the mongrel punk rock of Tomorrows Girls return to it's acoustic roots. This is an album of the old, new, borrowed and the blues, all nicely packaged, with an eight page booklet of photos, liner notes by Charlie, and a great cover painted by Knox. For a “bare bones production” it's got a lot meat to it, thanks in part to Knox's beautiful 'electric' guitar licks'n'riffs that litter the album.
Individually Charlie and Knox have been knocking out their punk rock blues for over four decades now, and they still sound fresh, exciting and full of life, taking on the old blues classics Charlie used to busk in the 60's like Move It On Over, Hobos Lullaby, and Cocaine, which feature some great harmonica playing by The Harper, their sleazy sublime spin thru of Summertime, really is a treat. The stripped to the bone anti war statements of Warhead and War Baby, make them sound even more vital and relevant than they did in the eighties. Classics both of em! A big ya! to the rewired and wild acoustic feral ho-down that is New Barbarians.
Dragnet is just a great song no matter what. There are a couple of newies; Knox's autobiographical narrative Swampdog Blues and their Dylan like protest number Not In My Name. From start to finish Bonefield is a real gem of an album that doesn't disappoint, and could surprise a few people along the way. Old punk classics are taken to a different dimension and given new depths, and the old blues classics are given a punk twist.
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- 25 Mar
7 Reasons Your Prospects Decide to Run Away From You
Hundreds or even thousands of things that you think every day are wrong. The same is true for your prospects.
This revelation is the basis of Daniel Kahneman’s research. And he won a Nobel Prize for it. In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow he uncovers the systematic ways that you make mistakes in your thinking.
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Lot 44: KAY SELIG 1950'S VINTAGE PARTY DRESS
March 30, 2012
West Swanzey, NH, USALive Auction
Description: 1950s Kay Selig rhinestone studded tulle party dress.
Condition Report: VG condition.
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Our popular Choral Weekend Workshop was held at Christ’s College in the centre of Cambridge, on Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September 2019. The Choral Workshop, led by Simon and Heather, is a wonderful opportunity for us to learn some lovely new songs and shorter pieces, to develop vocal technique, to sing in the beautiful Chapel of Christ’s College and socialise.
Saturday, 31st August
Morning – Arrive from 10.00 am, singing sessions and coffee.
Lunch – Chance to explore Cambridge (lunch not included).
Afternoon – Singing session.
Evening – Pre-dinner drinks in the College garden (weather permitting), three-course dinner with wine and staying overnight at Christ’s College.
Sunday, 1st September
Morning – Full breakfast followed by singing in Christ’s College Chapel.
Lunch – Buffet at the College – departure after lunch.
Cost includes: tuition, music, accommodation, tea and coffee breaks, Saturday pre-dinner drink, Saturday dinner with wine, Sunday breakfast and buffet lunch.
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National day of action on higher education: CAPA
The Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA) is joining forces with the National Union of Students (NUS) and the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) for a National Day of Action on Tuesday 20 August to champion the cause of publicly-funded and properly-funded higher education.
“Higher Education hasn’t been the hot topic in the media or amongst the major parties this election campaign, but it should be,” said Meghan Hopper, President of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations.
“As we prepare to launch our Go to the Polls for Postgrads campaign blitz in the final fortnight of the election campaign on campuses across Australia, the National Day of Action is an opportunity for postgraduate students to rally together with their undergraduate and staff comrades and put higher education on the national radar,” Ms Hopper said.
“Postgraduates are rightly concerned about what the future of our education looks like after September 7.”
“We’ve had cuts of $2.3bn to higher education earlier this year from the Labor Government, $0.9bn to research late last year, while the Coalition has committed to more of the same – plus the reversal of the Student Services and Amenities Fee in the event that they take control of the Senate,” Ms Hopper said.
“As we have already seen through data released by Universities Australia, the impact of these cuts is highest on postgraduate students – full fee postgraduate student numbers could drop by up to 30 per cent in the next four years,” said Ms Hopper.
“We’re now in an environment where you need a postgraduate degree to qualify for any number of careers, but only the most wealthy can afford it.”
Jeannie Rea, President of the National Tertiary Education Union, said the Labor Government’s so-called $2.3 billion ‘efficiency dividend’ in April was already leading to staff job losses, course cuts, more crowded classes, and less help for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
“This cannot go on. Properly funded universities and properly supported students are essential for a smart future for Australia,” said Ms Rea.
Jade Tyrrell, President of the National Union of Students, said “Students in universities and TAFEs across the country feel sidelined and are devastated by the cuts announced earlier this year.
“Funding for higher education has now become an election issue, and we need our politicians to fight harder and find the funds for a desperately needed increase. Without an injection of more funds, the quality of our education will suffer and we are concerned the solution to make up the shortfall will be more student debt, particularly if the Coalition wins government,” said Ms Tyrrell.
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South Korea’s Moon Jae-in and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un have startled the world by issuing their Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula, including a plan to at long last go beyond the 1953 armistice and formally end the Korean War.
But while the declaration mentions “unification,” that doesn’t make the prospect imminent. For context, let’s explore the experience of another divided nation that came together unexpectedly: Germany, where East and West Germany united as the communist bloc crumbled with the Cold War’s end.
In 1989, East Germany lost its biggest backer. That has not happened to North Korea.
As communist regimes began to crumble throughout Eastern Europe in 1989, East German citizens in droves sought to leave for the West. They started by visiting neighboring Hungary, a Warsaw Pact member to which they could travel freely, in hopes of making their way to Austria and freedom. In September, when Hungary opened the border with Austria, East Germans began leaving for the West at a rapid pace.
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev decided not to use military force to prop up the crumbling Eastern European regimes that had been part of the Soviet bloc. As Gorbachev’s spokesman quipped at the time, Moscow was no longer guided by the Brezhnev Doctrine that led the Soviets to intervene in Czechoslovakia in 1968, but was following the Sinatra Doctrine: Every country could do it their way.
With no help from Moscow, East Germany was increasingly helpless. When the East German government itself opened the border to West Berlin in November, thanks to accidental remarks by an East German Communist Party spokesman, it faced a rapidly deteriorating political situation.
Like the former East Germany, North Korea has been preventing defections — or escapes — through force. For years, the world has known that North Koreans have been suffering famine and starvation. In his meeting with Moon on April 26, Kim himself commented that he felt “embarrassed about the poor transit infrastructure” in his own country. Sanctions have surely hurt the North Korean economy.
But while standing in South Korea, Kim did not act like someone who faced an immediate crisis. Unlike the East Germans, he has both nuclear weapons and a patron, China, that does not appear to be abandoning him. He knows that China will not stand by and let North Korea be absorbed into the South on the latter’s terms.
The United States was committed to seeing a united Germany within NATO. It is hard to tell whether it is as committed to the alliance with South Korea today.
The United States was the major backer of West Germany — and eager to help West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl ensure that a unified Germany remained firmly in NATO. George H.W. Bush was president at the time, and as historian Hal Brands has recently written, was committed to a strategy of primacy. The United States sought not only to remain the world’s superpower with no peer competitor, but also to dominate every region of the globe, with no competing regional powers.
As the Soviet bloc unraveled in 1989, Bush had one goal firmly at the forefront: ensuring that the collapse of communist regimes did not lead Europeans to doubt that they still needed NATO. After all, NATO was the vehicle by which the United States dominated European security affairs. Without NATO, the United States might become a bystander in Europe.
For someone of Bush’s generation, the two world wars had taught a clear lesson. After 1918, the United States withdrew from Europe, a move that ended in disaster. After 1945, the United States remained deeply engaged with Europe, a policy that was a huge success.
Thus, if Germany unified, Bush wanted the country fully in NATO. This required extraordinarily deft diplomacy. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President François Mitterrand opposed unification, because they feared a more powerful Germany. Gorbachev not only opposed unification, but he opposed East Germany’s becoming part of NATO. After all, East Germany had been the Soviet Union’s big prize after World War II, a prize that had cost tens of millions of Soviet lives. Domestically, Gorbachev was challenged over this issue. Even within West Germany, some political leaders were willing to forgo NATO membership (or, at least, bringing East German territory within NATO) to get unification. But Bush held firm on NATO membership and ensured that Kohl did so as well, enabling the United States to continue its leadership role in Europe.
The Russians were not particularly happy with the result, and their distaste for how German unification proceeded remains part of Russia’s grievance against the West today. But in 1989 the Soviet Union was weakening — unlike a rising China today.
Unlike West Germany then, South Korea today does not seem to have its superpower ally’s unwavering support. President Trump has vacillated about U.S. relations with its allies in Asia. Just last month, he threatened to withdraw the U.S. military from the Korean Peninsula if he could not get his way on issues such as trade. That will make the South Koreans less sure they can count on the United States during any negotiations than Kohl was in 1990.
But each country’s supporting great power has to be involved as negotiations move forward.
And yet the two Koreas’ respective great-power backers will have to be involved as things unfold. Moon and Kim announced that they are planning quadrilateral meetings among the two Koreas, the United States and China, all of which must be involved to bring a formal end to the Korean War.
Similarly, the two Germanys could not accomplish unification by themselves. Four countries had administrative rights in Germany after World War II: the United States, Britain, France and the U.S.S.R. All were included as part of the “2+4” unification negotiations to ensure that everyone eventually got on the same page.
The role China and the United States will play as the Korean situation unfolds is similarly critical.
In 1989-1990, events moved faster than anyone imagined possible, even Kohl and Bush. Few could have believed when the Berlin Wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989, that Germany would be unified less than a year later. Having seen Kim develop his nuclear program and stand as an equal to his South Korean counterpart, it is hard to imagine he would simply give up the game as the East Germans (and their Soviet ally) did in 1990.
And that is perhaps the last lesson. We understood unification in 1990 as East Germany being absorbed into the West. It is unlikely Kim (or Xi Jinping) will see unification in similar terms today.
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If there's one question I've been asked most this month, it has definitely been "should we decorate for Christmas while our house is on the market?" My answer is a resounding, "Yes, but..."
Add a Few Holiday Touches
The less-is-more mantra of home staging may tempt you to forgo holiday cheer this year. But a few subtle touches like a pinecone centerpiece, an evergreen wreath or a pot of cider simmering on the stove can create a warm and festive feeling in your home.
Complement Your Palette
Before you start untangling your tinsel, make sure your holiday collection matches your current decor. If your living room has a clean, all-white color scheme, skip the clashing red garland and opt for a white tree, white candles and silver glass ornaments. If you've got an earthy color scheme, accent with rich tones like cranberries, forest greens and gold.
Accentuate Positive Features
Too many trimmings may distract buyers, but the right accessories can draw attention to your home's best features. Try hanging a few tasteful ornaments from your mantel to highlight an elegant fireplace, or dangling mistletoe in an arched doorway.
Go Light on Lights
Leave the giant inflatable snowman in storage this year. One man's "merry" is another man's "tacky," so tone down any garish light displays while your home is on the market. (No, your neighbors didn't pay me to say that.) Instead, use simple string lighting to play up your home's architecture or draw attention to the gorgeous fir tree in your front yard.
"The Weather Outside is Frightful, But the Fire is so Delightful"
Chilly weather presents the perfect opportunity to create an inviting environment for potential homebuyers. Buyers will be grateful for a place to escape from the cold, so before showings, turn the thermostat up a couple of degrees to make it extra toasty, or light a fire in the fireplace for an extra homey touch. Just remember, when you encourage buyers to spend more time in your home, you also give them more time to admire its best features.
Share Some Christmas Cheer
Finally, serving food and drinks is another great way to get buyers to stick around and check out your home. Leave out a plate of Christmas baking and some hot chocolate.
And, of course, an experienced Realtor® will help give you advice as you prep for the sale of your home.
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August 13, 2013
Three-year-old Clinton twins Jaydyn D. Draughon and Jaudyn S. Draughon recently attended the 38th Annual Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio and placed first in the Most Alike Males contest, ages 3-4.
The event, held Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 3-4 in the only city in the world named after twins, hosted 1,999 sets of multiples, including twins, triplets and quads from around the world. This year’s event was the largest known annual gathering of twins and other mutiples in the world, as documented in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The Twins Day Festival features 64 different contests.
Last year (2012) Jaydyn and Jaudyn competed in the Most Alike Males, ages 1-2, and placed second.
The festival also included a kickoff “Double Take” parade, games, a food court, children’s rides and games, arts and crafts, business booths, live entertainment, food, a twins talent show and a giant fireworks display. Planning has already begun for next year’s festival, scheduled Aug. 2-3, 2014.
Twinsburg is located between Akron and Cleveland on Ravenna Road, and was named in honor of Aaron and Moses Wilcox, early settlers from Killingsworth, Conn. The town’s name was changed from Millsville to Twinsburg in 1817 at the request of the twins, who donated six acres of land that is now the town square. They also donated $20 to start the first school. The Wilcox twins were so identical that only their closest friends could tell them apart. They married sisters, held property in common, were stricken with the same ailment and died the same day. They are buried in the same grave in Twinsburg’s Locust Grove Cemetery.
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All computers come with different complications. However, some computer companies might try harder to fix the problems than other companies. As an owner of a Dell laptop, I have encountered a few problems with my computer, but have managed to fix it all by myself, without the need to call the company and ask for help or complain about my problems on the Internet.
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Growing up in the punk scene in Calgary, we noticed something - there was lots of amazing creativity, kids making their own stuff, and looking awesome doing it! BUT, there was nowhere to get the things you need to put together that perfectly bad-ass get-up! Punk, psychobilly, and rockabilly stuff has always been either hard to find, or expensive as hell. And that's not what we're about! We wanted stuff that was affordable, different, and fun!
That's where we came from! Established in 1995, you'll find stuff in our store that we like, and that we hope you like, too! If it makes us roll our eyes, you won't find it here. Looking for a neon mustache ring? This probably isn't the place for you. Don't get me wrong, we love a little handlebar gloriousness, but would rather see it walking down the street, than on our fridge, bandaid, or drinking straw! But if you want bad-ass pinups, killer skulls, Bettie Page, Betty Boop, or Frankenstein? You hit the jackpot!
We have loads of killer kitschy vintage! From glam movie star rhinestone jewelry from the 1940s, to bodacious valley girl eye-popping 1980s bling, there's bound to be something for you!
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Because no one likes it when someone shows up in class, or at a show, wearing the same thing as them, all of our items are either one of a kind, or produced in very limited quantities. If you like being an original, this is the shop for you! If you like it, get it! It may not be there next time, so don't miss out!
Hit us up on Facebook and Twitter, for top secret deals and coupon codes! We post secret sales, and loyalty deals on our promo pages that you won't find anywhere else! It's also the front line for new stuff - you'll find it there first! The links are at the bottom of the page.
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There is an overwhelming amount of educational resources available online, but unless a person is interested in your specific topic, they will miss important information. Have you ever wondered who fills the brochure holders at your local clinic? Take it upon yourself to do this and find the best local, state or national resources. Then get them in the hands of your community members.
- Get connected to the resources.
- Subscribe to relevant newsletters and blogs.
- Sign up for email notifications.
- Follow social media pages that share educational materials.
- Reach out to your state department of health, or your regional Tribal Epi Center to see what is offered for free.
- Before you share the resource, make sure it is from a reliable source.
- Share the resource – this could mean printing and distributing an article or brochure, ordering and displaying free materials, or sharing a post on social media to your followers.
- Monitor supplies so you can restock when items have all been taken.
- SD QuitLine promotion
- SDDOH Division of Health and Medical Services Educational Materials Catalog
- CDC Feature Articles
- UCSF Tobacco Center Faculty Blog
- Truth Initiative Newsletter
- Talk to your state department of health or Tribal Epi Center on data sources they have specific to your tribe/population
- American Indian Cancer Foundation (AICAF) has many educational resources customized for Native people, like “E-Cigarettes Are Not Our Tradition“
- If you don’t find exactly what you’re looking for, make your own! Do your research to gather all the information and summarize it into a handout. Make sure you cite your sources.
- Keep in mind—less is more when it comes to words and it’s good practice to write at a 3rd grade reading level, so keep it simple!
Čaŋlí Coalition Example
The Čaŋlí Coalition makes a quarterly handout to partners that serve a large population in our area.
We use local/state/regional resources on relevant and timely topics and adapt them to fit our culture and community. Our partners then help us get them distributed. Head Start helps us reach families with young children by putting them in every student’s backpack. WIC gives them out during client visits to reach low-income women.
Our handouts are also given out at our Tribal Food Distribution Program and the state Department of Social Services to reach populations with the greatest health disparities. Several examples are available in the Toolkit Library.
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Topic: Exhale (08/15/13)
TITLE: When God Breathed
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The inert form lay still on the ground. It had a peculiar earthen gray cast. Potentially it was the first human. It was still an “it” as in, “It is a body.” As of yet no personhood was attached to the created form. No one had ever seen a form like this before. Though a perfectly crafted form of a man, the form was nothing more than just that. It needed something else before it could be a person.
What did God have in mind anyway? He could have simply spoken man into existence like He did the other creatures. But He didn’t. He gave man His personal touch. The Bible says He formed him. Our Lord as Creator shaped the first man with His fingers. This lifeless form on the ground was the perfect specimen of manhood. Perfect, except that God was not yet finished.
Was there a profound hush as the angels breathlessly looked on, wondering what the marvelous Creator was up to now? Did the animals, newly minted by the power of God’s Word, subdue their gamboling antics long enough to satisfy a degree of curiosity as they sensed something very unusual was about to take place?
The Bible says that God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life: and man became a living being.” (Ge.2:7, NKJV) When God exhaled life Adam inhaled life. As his deflated lungs received their first gaseous oxygen a variety of things began to happen. His ashen gray color gave way to a healthy skin tone glow as his physical systems kicked into gear. At that moment he became Adam, a living being, a breathing creature, a person. What a difference that one breath made! Can we even remotely appreciate the full extent of what happened when God exhaled and Adam inhaled? (Being so fearfully and wonderfully made should bring us to our knees in praise and adoration. See Ps.139:14.)
Adam opened his eyes and became a self conscious person. His hard drive began operating all his built in programs. His senses began collecting information and processing it. He had no memory as a reference to what he saw when he first opened his eyes. But he had become a person made alive by the breath of God. He was a complete and completed creature ready to go just as God designed Him with no need of eons of time for further adjustments. That is what happened when God exhaled on the sixth day of creation.
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In factories, fields, and mines around the world, 85 million children toil in hazardous conditions that directly jeopardize their health and safety. By its nature, this type of work puts their physical and mental development at risk on a daily basis. It deprives them of the childhoods, their potential, and their dignity.
In the mining sector, small-scale artisanal mining is an inherently dangerous profession for the men and women who choose to take up a pick and dig for minerals to make a living. But, for children the risks are even greater, including increased vulnerability to serious injury, death, early drug use, and sexual exploitation.
One of the greatest challenges to addressing child labor in mining is the complex web of reasons why children mine and the inextricable link to poverty. Causes vary by community, and even by family, and are often not due to one specific factor.
This complexity necessitates an integrated approach in order to make sustainable, lasting gains for children and communities that grow up around the mines.
Pact has been working with governments, local partners, and the private sector to address child labor in mining for more than 10 years, studying the issues that contribute to child mining and designing and delivering integrated programs that address the multiple, interwoven factors.
Unregulated mines can be magnets for child labor if nothing is done. A lack of local educational opportunities, weak child protection policies or insufficient enforcement, insufficient or a lack of social protection programs, absence of economic diversity, traders’ ignorance and willingness to buy from children, and historic cultural perspectives are all factors that contribute to child labor, among others.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Katanga tin mines, Madagascar’s stone quarries and gold mines, and the coal and gold mines of Boyacá and Antioquia in Colombia, our efforts intentionally span the education, governance, livelihoods, health, and natural resource sectors to create a mosaic of activities designed to increase the impact and sustainability of the programs through push and pull methods.
We’ve seen progress in Congo, Colombia, and Madagascar, providing support for our strategy of well integrated interventions.
In May, Pact released a report, Children Out of Mining, that details the progress and remaining challenges from a two-year multifaceted project that aimed to address the various economic and socio-cultural issues that lead to child labor in mining in Katanga. After two years, we saw an 89 percent reduction in child labor at project mine sites – from 1,051 kids at baseline to 115 kids at endline – with 23 sites strictly enforcing bans on child labor.
Since starting in Colombia, our Somos Tesoro program—We are Treasure, in Spanish—has provided education or vocational services for 2,103 children engaged in or at high risk of entering child labor and livelihoods support for 2,049 households through employment and economic strengthening services. We also support 82 mining units in formalization, health and safety, and child protection efforts.
While these gains are important to acknowledge and celebrate, we know there is still a lot of work to be done. Deep-rooted economic realities and socio-cultural issues cannot be overcome in a short period of time. They take sustained efforts and cooperation and partnerships among actors from across development – from local government and civil society to multinational bodies like the United Nations, World Bank, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the World Economic Forum, among others. Improving educational opportunities, social protection systems and policies, and knowledge of the dangers of child labor to children and communities will not prevail without addressing local economic diversification in mining-predominant areas.
We know what works. It is scalable and replicable across different types of mines – tin, tantalum, cobalt, cooper, gold, and more – and geographies. Combating child labor in mining demands an integrated approach to ensure the millions of kids as young as five are able to take back their childhood and look toward a brighter future. | <urn:uuid:0d4826e7-28e9-4bac-8a53-03f0340e15f9> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 4,306 |
Set your oven to 450°F; oven racks at the bottom.
Start with thawed pork rib strip(s). Use a large roasting pan. Separate into smaller pieces. Prepare the barbecue sauce: keto ketchup, mustard, horseradish, a couple garlic cloves and ½ onion all finely chopped. Thin the sauce with a few tablespoons of ghee (it will be thinner than what is shown in the pictures. Clean and halve the carrots, split the broccoli and divide a ½ inch-thick onion slab in two. Coat the vegetables in ghee. Try to keep the onion slabs intact
Put the pork ribs in the preheated oven for 15 minutes by themselves. Remove from the oven, spread all of the sauce on the ribs and add the vegetables. Return to the oven. Reduce the temperature to 275°F for two hours.
At the one hour mark, turn the vegetables and baste everything with whatever juices are in the pan.
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Laboratory Technician cover letters should be designed to address the specific concerns of a prospective employer.
Before you write your cover letter, put yourself in the employer’s shoes, and you will know that most employers are subconsciously thinking:
• Who the candidate is?
• His/her work and reputation?
• Which qualifications and skills s/he possess?
• Why I should read this cover letter?
• Why I shouldn’t just discard your letter?
Sounds negative? Not one bit! In
fact, knowing that this is what a prospective employer is thinking of is the best thing ever!
Imagine knowing exactly what kind of cover letter will make him happy.
You need to eliminate the I don’t know from the equation. That is all.
If you are a first-timer, it pays to keep these things in mind, since you are treading unfamiliar ground.
Your cover letter depicts who you are and what you can do for the employer. But technically, you cannot make it seem as if you are the focus.
The focus has to be the employer – what you can do for them.
But, as an entry level applicant, you have neither experience nor kind words from a previous employer to back you up. You are on your own – but can still make the best of the situation.
The following cover letter sample for a laboratory technician (who has no experience) position will be your savior:
Laboratory Technician Cover Letter No Experience
September 15, 2019
Mr. Ian Ferret
Manager of Human Resources
Providence Health and Services
230-231 Burkitt Road
Nolensville, TN 19273
Dear Mr. Ferret:
I am writing to apply for a lab technician position at Providence Health Services, an opportunity that is exceptionally well-aligned with my qualifications.
Please take a moment to skim through the qualifications:
• Familiar with analysis and safety standards used in laboratories, including ASTM and UOP.
• Comprehensive knowledge of setting up, adjusting and operating laboratory equipment.
• Skilled in performing basic and analytic tests from well-defined standards and procedures.
As an energetic individual who has a fresh view of scientific methodologies and processes, I deem myself as someone Providence Health Services can benefit from immensely. With high energy levels and a sound ability to work within environments that are conducive to OSHA-designated permissible exposure limits, you will find me adaptable and eager to learn.
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Hillsboro Mayor Jerry Willey is back in town after a whirlwind trip to the nation's capital to remind Oregon's congressional delegation of key issues in the state's fifth-largest city.
The trip was born out of another trek to Capitol Hill last year for a League of Cities conference, where Willey said he realized the city needed to do a better job of establishing relationships with Oregon's delegation in Washington, D.C.
"We're committed to keeping our representatives up to speed with what's going on in Hillsboro," Willey said. The trip is part of that broader effort to have a "stronger agenda" and present the city's message directly to elected officials.
Willey brought legislative counsel Pat Ribellia and management analyst Andrew Bartlett to Washington, D.C. with him. They left Tuesday and returned Wednesday evening.
The city's federal lobbying firm, McBee Strategic Consulting, arranged the meetings with the officials, Willey said.
City staff discussed legislative priorities at a council work session last month. Willey said transportation projects, such as his request to have a more extensive look at a westside corridor to alleviate congestion, were one point of emphasis on the brief trip.
He termed the short meetings "productive. They gave brief updates on the Brookwood/Helvetia Interchange project, as well as efforts to obtain transportation funds to widen U.S. 26.
The city's current and long-term water supply was also a centerpiece of the trip, he said. Willey stressed the importance of Henry Hagg Lake's water supply to the city and region.
Willey said he had no updated information on the cost of raising and fixing Scoggins Dam, the United States Bureau of Reclamation-owned facility that serves Hillsboro, Beaverton, Forest Grove, the Tualatin Valley Irrigation District and Clean Water Services.
He said the city's 50-year plan is still tied to that water source, and stressed it's important to business and residential growth plans.
"Water is a critical factor to that," he said, "We were just refreshing them on that."
Willey said most of the delegation was well aware of the issues facing Hillsboro, but said it's helpful to remind them. He noted that Rep. Suzanne Bonamici in particular was well-versed in the major projects.
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RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
ANNOUNCES 10TH ANNIVERSARY POSTER DESIGN CONTEST
• Winners announced
(PROVIDENCE, RI, March 2, 2006.) The
Rhode Island International Film Festival™
needs a new visual image that can be used on a poster
and related collateral material to celebrate its
10th Anniversary Year. The Festival, is calling
on local students and artists for help in developing
a creative and attractive design that will visually
describe Rhode Island's award-winning film festival.
The Rhode Island International Film Festival™,
(RIIFF) will take place August 8-13, 2006. In its brief
lifespan, the Festival has become a leading juried competition
showcase for international independent filmmakers and
their work. It was recently cited by TravelSmart
Magazine as one of the Top 12 Film Festivals
in the United States.
In 2002, RIIFF was notified by the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences that it had elected to recognize
the Rhode Island International Film Festival as a qualifying
festival for the Short Films category for the Annual
Academy Awards. With more than 2,000 film festivals
worldwide, only 47 have this recognition. RIIFF is also
the only film festival in the United States to have
an affiliation with the Grammy Awards.
The winning designer will win two all-access VIP passes
to this year's festival, receive international exposure
of their work, and portfolio samples.
1. Display the Rhode Island International
2. Highlight the Festival’s 10th Anniversary.
3. Needs to illustrate that it is about film/movies.
4. Should be "eye catching" and informative.
It is essentially a marketing tool in addition to being
The Festival is looking for a simple graphic design
that says, "Film."
Please submit a legal size example of your poster idea
by June 1st (postmark date) to:
RI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL POSTER CONTEST
Attn: Design Committee
Providence, RI 02903
The Rhode Island International Film Festival
is generously supported by WJAR TV 10, UPN28, The
City of Providence, the Providence Tourism Council,
Clear Channel Communications, The Providence Phoenix,
Rule Broadcasting Systems, Jessie’s on Atwell’s
Avenue, Motif Magazine, the State House Inn, Amtrak,
Delta Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and individual
contributions. The tenth annual Rhode Island
International Film Festival will take place
August 8-13, 2006. For more information, write RIIFF,
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On the Haskell subreddit, /u/IronGremlin recently posted a really good checklist for becoming proficient at Haskell. If you’re struggling to go from zero to writing things like basic web servers or applications, give it a look!
However, the list is just that: a list of what concepts to learn. You might be wondering where or how to learn them; in some spots it’s a bit vague about what you should be doing. So here’s my recommendation about what resources and exercises to use for each step. May it help you on your path to proficiency.
- Learn to read function definition syntax, sans any extensions
- Learn to write and use basic ADTs to represent simple structures
- Learn to read a function type signature
Read chapters 1-4 and chapter 8 of Learn You a Haskell for this.
As a specific exercise, try implementing a binary search tree with some simple operations: search, insertion, and deletion. Don’t worry about balancing the tree.
One thing I’d add to the things you’ll want to know here is to get comfortable with both sum types and pattern matching; you’ll be using them a lot.
- Learn to write recursive functions instead of loops
- Learn how to use higher order functions on list to do most of what you can do in step #4
Chapters 5 and 6 of Learn You a Haskell.
For the addendum of why using higher order functions isn’t always the right choice, try implementing a function that takes in a list of numbers and returns the shortest prefix of the list that sums up to ≥ 1000. Once with normal recursion, once with folds.
- Learn do notation and do some stuff in IO to make actual programs
Ah, the pit of monads. You’ll want Chapters 8 and 12 of Learn You a Haskell. However, you probably won’t feel totally comfortable even after those.
There are a billion monad tutorials on the internet, but the ones I recommend are Dan Piponi’s You could have invented monads and my own monad tutorial.
- Learn Functor and Applicative
Chapters 11 and 12 of Learn You a Haskell.
This is another place where you might get confused for a while. Learn You a Haskell can get you started here, but I’m not sure it does a good job of explaining why these things exist and what they’re useful for.
Unfortunately I don’t know of any good resources that explain that simply, so you’ll need to learn by doing. One exercise you can do here is to learn how to use
optparse-applicative. Stop here and implement a simple CLI application that you’re interested in. Ponder the type signature for
liftA2, and compare it to what a Functor gives you.
- Understand that steps 6 and 7 are all anyone actually means when they talk about learning to use monads
- Understand, again, that all a monad is is something that implements (>>=) and return, and follows the laws
This part is on you. Spend some time reflecting on what you’ve learned so far.
- Use a bunch of stuff that has a monad instance in IO and get irritated about it.
Specifically, try doing error handling by pattern-matching Maybes inside some IO block. For instance, you could write something that parses JSON (using
aeson) and does stuff with it.
Even more concretely, write a bunch of functions with types like
a -> Maybe b,
a -> IO (Maybe b),
a -> IO b etc. and try building a working executable out of them.
- Learn about typeclasses
Chapters 3 and 8 of Learn You a Haskell.
In addition to the typeclasses mentioned in the list, you should also study the Eq and Ord typeclasses. Try manually implementing instances of Eq and Ord for:
Your own datatypes. If you need a datatype to play with, try this one:
Maybe a. That is, you should be able to write a generic instance for Maybe.
The list also mentions learning about
minimal. For typeclasses where the class has a lot of methods, but some of them can be derived from others, the
MINIMAL compiler directive tells users which methods they actually need to define for instances of said typeclass. For instance, Eq lets you define either
(/=); the other one can be derived by negating the other.
- Write your own monad instance for a type that combines the effects of State and Either
Think back to step 10. The point here is to alleviate the pain you felt then by creating a type that has both functions to retrieve/set the current state and one to short circuit, without needing to write the boilerplate you needed then.
Remember, all you need to do is define two functions for your type,
- Learn about newtypes
Chapter 11 of Learn You a Haskell.
- Learn about the ‘safe constructor’ paradigm
Haskell Wiki, “Smart constructors”. Ignore the section on compile-time checking; it’s not relevant at this point and isn’t what most Haskellers would think of when they hear “safe constructors.”
- Understand what a ‘partial function’ is
Not a large enough concept to require dedicated reading; Google is your friend here.
Once you understand what a partial function is and why you don’t want to use them, take a look at the
safe package for a solution.
- Learn about module imports/exports
Chapter 7 of Learn You a Haskell.
Once you’re up and running with a build system in step 17, come back to this and play with it some more. Create some empty modules and a file hierarchy and make sure you’ve got things down.
- Learn either stack or cabal
Build tools for Haskell that help you manage your project and project dependencies.
I personally recommend Stack when starting out, but either one is fine. They both have guides on getting started, so learn one and stick with it.
- Learn how to use monad transformers so that you never have to do step #12 again
A Gentle Introduction to Monad Transformers and the Haskell Wiki’s entry on monad transformers are both pretty good here. Gentle Introduction in particular does a good job of motivating why monad transformers exist, although if you’ve already done step 12 you should already start to see why.
As an exercise, try implementing
- Learn to use
lensto access and manipulate record types inside a collection
I think the best resource on the very very basics of lenses is, oddly enough, the tutorial on an F# lens library. The syntax is slightly different, but it does a good job of motivating the abstraction as well as showing that lenses are not magic.1 You can implement them yourself by (surprise surprise) composing functions together.
Past the basics it gets a little murkier. The canonical text is Chris Penner’s Optics by Example, but right now that’s massive overkill. Try working through the exercises in my lens exercises post; up through the section on Folds and Traversals should be plenty.
- Learn when and why to use bytestring, string, and text
Alexis King’s Opinionated guide to Haskell in 2018.
Once you need to start using and manipulating strings in your own programs, I recommend my own
- Write a parser using Parsec, Megaparsec, or Attoparsec
megaparsec is your best bet here, as it’s optimized for better error messages, compared to attoparsec.
parsec shouldn’t be used for real code, as megaparsec is better in pretty much every dimension.
If you’re not sure on a project, why not try implementing your own JSON or XML parser?
- Write a simple web server, CLI, or GUI app using the skills above.
To save you some time, here are some libraries you’re likely to need:
scottyfor setting up a webserver
optparse-applicativefor parsing command-line options
postgresql-simplefor persistent data
gi-gtk-declarativeif you’re interested in writing a GUI app
There’s no cookie-cutter solution to any of these, and you’ll have to learn to plug together bits and bobs yourself.
Good luck on your Haskell journey! Remember as you go along that it’s normal to get stuck on some steps; wrapping your head around the functor-applicative-monad trio and monad transformers seems to be a big hump for people. Ask questions if you feel like you’re running in place. Put things down and give it time to sink in. Presumably it’s not mission critical that you write production Haskell next week. I personally put down Haskell for a long time before coming back and having it click, and I know many others in the community had a similar trajectory. So take it at your own pace, and once again good luck!
Found this useful? Still have questions? Talk to me!
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- A cheatsheet to JSON handling with Aeson
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↥1 For basic things at least. Once you start getting into profunctor encodings, things get a little hairier.
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A non-surgical nosejob or rhinoplasty is when injectable fillers are used to build up certain areas of the nose, most commonly the upper bridge of the nose to smooth out a small hump in the nose. It is not for narrowing or reshaping parts of the nose, such as the button nose you describe. A button nose is due to the cartilages that make up the tip of the nose being too wide. That can only be narrowed by actual tip rhinoplasty surgery.
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I am not a big fan of using fillers solely for the purpose of imrpoving the appearance of the nose. It is nice for a small contour deficiency in either a post-rhinoplasty patients or someone who is not a great candidate for a rhinoplasty.
Without seeing a photo, I can't tell if your "button nose" could be improved by a non-surgical rhinoplasty procedure.
Feel free to email your photo, along with a description, and I'll be happy to share my thoughts with you. If you would like to have your nasal bridge raised, a non-surgical nose job may be an excellent option for you. In my practice, I prefer Silikon-1000 for permanent results.
I hope this helps you.
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A non-surgical nose job (fillers in the nose) is a a B-grade procedure, period. I would not recommend it for reshaping the nasal tip. If you have concerns bout the appearance of your nose, see an experienced Rhinoplasty Surgeon.
Non-surgical Rhinoplasty Can Change Nasal Shape
The use of fillers to change the nasal shape is being offered as an alternative to surgery. An important consideration is that injecting a filler will make your nose bigger. Generally, tip concerns revolve around making the tip smaller. If your only concern is the tip, I would recommend consulting a board-certified facial plastic or general plastic surgeon. Generally, there is an option that has very little recovery and the result is permanent.
The injection of fillers can primarily change the bridge of the nose, and the tip. If restylane or juvederm are used, it willlast for about 6 to nine months. Radiesse lasts about 18 months. For a more detailed answer, please post a pic.
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I am a list keeper. One of my unintentionally longest lists is “lessons I’ve only had to learn once”. I hate adding to this list as it usually implies something has gone terribly wrong. But I’ll admit it is better than adding to its evil step-list, “lessons I never learn”.
My amazing cousin Lauren to the rescue!
I made the decision to stray from the flock of “snow birds” and spend much of my winter in Colorado. I knew I’d be unable to use my outdoor sink in my T@G during this time, so I planned to winterize her. “Planned” is the key-word here. Allow me to save you the trouble of learning this first hand: Winterize your RV before it freezes, not after.
Winterizing your T@G is actually incredibly simple. There is not much plumbing to worry about. As usual, I’ve documented my (mis)adventures in this video, and added a few of my own personal tips.
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So, how did you spend your 4th of July? We spent ours at Lubbock, Texas’ 4th on Broadway Concert in the Park. This free concert is held at Mackenzie park every year, and is part of the “largest free festival in Texas.” I bet most bloggers get their 4th of July post put up before the 13th or the 14 of the month, but I am still a little slow at this. I am really motivated to get it done today so that I can post about this “really” neat grape seminar that I went to this past weekend.
Now remember, this is a free concert, so lots of people stake out their seats early. Here is our group after I arrived in tow with four of our children and Grancy and Dandy (Cliff’s parents.)
But Cliff and most of the other children had been at the park since early morning. Hauled in sand bags and equipment needed for the stage setup, then they had practice with the rest of the Lubbock Youth Symphony Orchestra (LYSO), … then after lunch sometime they stacked out our seats and started saving them for us. They were pretty hot and tired and red, by the time I showed up. … Thanks for the seat though, kids.
They did have 5 gallons of ice water, ice chest of other drinks, and umbrellas. So, then I showed up with dinner. Notice all the “green” in the packground of all these photos so far.
Now here are a couple of shots that show how the park really did start to fill up. There were 70,000 to 80,000 people at the concert last year. I never did hear how many were there this year.
It was really a pretty day. Needed those umbrellas for the sun.
Then the rain clouds came. Not that we, as farmers, would ever wish away the rain (unless it was right before grape harvest… hmmm, OK, maybe we are often pretty wishful when it comes to what we want in terms of the weather. But God controls that, so we have to learn to trust and be content. It was at this point that Cliff and some of the children had to run backstage to cover all the stands and equipement with black plastic, so they wouldn’t get rained on.
So, at least with sunshine or rain, the children had fun with the umbrellas. So, now what we were all waiting for — the music!
First the color guard and the national anthem. Then some more great music including Kenny Maines, The Cactus Kids, The Lubbock Texas Rhythm Machine. Then LYSO! (They were really the headliners weren’t they? Is that a parent talking, or what?)
LYSO played music including a piece from the Lord of the Rings.
Then David Gaschen showed up to help them out a little. Wow, could that guy sing! He was really, really good.
Then Richie McDonald showed up to help a little. He was really, really great, also. But then we have been blessed to get to hear him sing in the past. We still enjoy it every time!
Then some more patriotic music from LYSO choreographed to go with the fireworks extravaganza. It was beautiful as ever!
It was a fun, entertaining, and encouraging evening. Even with all it’s problems, I am truly thankful for the blessed country that I live in, and plan to help work on its shortcomings. | <urn:uuid:4884b2b9-b879-4494-8764-2bb1f2829bfd> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,025 |
QOCS – Qualified One-way Costs Shifting – was a key element of the Jackson reforms of 2013. Seven years on, technical issues as to its scope continue to reach the Court of Appeal. Last week the court had a second look at Ho v Adelekun, this time considering the question of set off within the QOCS rules.
By any measure the outcome of yesterday’s election was a significant point in the UK’s politics. The returning of the Conservative government with a chunky majority means, first and foremost, that the UK will leave the EU in a little over six weeks, on 31 January 2020. In advance of a new Queen’s Speech, likely to be next week, are there already indications of what policies to expect from the new administration in the area of civil justice?
Welcome back to the blog and good bye – temporarily – to MPs as the first set of post-Brexit party conferences kicks off. The last day before a recess often sees notable Departmental activity and yesterday the Ministry of Justice published both a statement and a consultation entitled ‘Transforming our justice system’. This is an important development because the paper reinforces the Government’s commitments to:
- moving civil disputes online (building from the Briggs review)
- introducing more widespread ADR techniques
- using case officers (not judges) to triage claims, and
- extending fixed recoverable costs beyond the limited field of lower value personal injury claims.
The MoJ paper says very directly that the Government is “keen to extend the fixed recoverable costs regime to as many civil cases as possible” and that the senior judiciary will work up options for consultation.
What the paper does not do is ask specific questions about the detail of any of these measures. Those will surely follow relatively quickly given that the five week consultation period here, which ends on 27 October, is unusually brief.
I would expect costs proposals would be sponsored by the Civil Justice Council and they could possibly emerge before the year end. Engagement about the structure and procedures for the online civil court is likely to take a little longer, but the MoJ’s material should be taken as strong confirmation that this project will be taken forward in the medium term.
Even if there are no questions on civil justice issues to respond to just yet, the consultation paper and joint statement are essential reading and serve as a clear outline of measures that should follow later in 2016/17.
About the Author
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In what Bentley calls a “test race” to prepare for their return to mainstream racing next year, the all-new Continental GT3 finished a remarkable fourth place at Gulf 12 Hours of Abu Dhabi.
Team M-Sport was amazingly solid after the first six hours of the race and finished third. They held on to the same position in the second half until the final two hours of the race when they went up against the more experienced and established Ferrari 458 GT3 of Kessel Racing. Damage sustained on the underfloor of the Continental GT3 forced the team to cruise to the finish line.
“In running an all-new car for the first time, our main goal today was to finish the race and be consistent. We’ve achieved this, and then to finish fourth in a race with such established competition is extremely encouraging. We leave Abu Dhabi with confidence that we will have a reliable and competitive package for 2014, when the hard work really starts,” said Bentley’s Director of Motorsport, Brian Gush.
The highlight is the durability and reliability, in the first outing, of the all new Continental GT3 racecar for 12 straight hours. As impressive also is the teamwork and total performance of the three new Bentley Boys that each drove four hour-long stints in the desert heat of Gulf 12 Hours of Abu Dhabi. British racers Guy Smith, Steven Kane and Andy Meyrick gushed about the car’s performance in its very first race.
“Today has been amazing. All three of us found that we could really push the car to the limit, and when we realised we were on for a good result it encouraged us to really test its abilities. It’s given us a lot to look forward to in the Blancpain series next year,” said Guy Smith
The team pushed the new car to the absolute limit in preparation for 2014. The task now is to analyze the copious amounts of data collected during the race and use it to develop the car in preparation for a full season of racing in the 2014 Blancpain Endurance Series, beginning at Monza on 12th April. | <urn:uuid:afaf1a7d-7ecb-47fa-b4c8-13d39931db6e> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,988 |
Village North; 8 minute walk to ski lifts.
Located at the gate of theVillage, the Cascade Lodge Whistler is just steps away from the Village Stroll, various shops and restaurants. A short 5 min walk takes you to the Conference Center, the IGA supermarket is two blocks away, and the ski lifts are only 10 min away. It is easy to find and offers secure underground parking. If you don’t feel like walking to the ski lift jump on the complimentary village shuttle – the bus stop is just across the street. Because it has no building right next to it most of the rooms have great views over the mountains.
The six-story building offers studios, one bedroom and two bedroom suites with views of the mountains and the village. The one and two bedroom suites are also available in a deluxe version with upgraded appliances. No matter whether you are a family of four or a group of 10, this lodge has the right combination of rooms and bedding configuration for your needs. The studios come with a queen bed, kitchenette and luxurious deep soaker tub in the bathroom. The one bedroom suites sleep up to four people and offer fully equipped kitchens, rimrock gas fireplaces, in suite laundry and soaker tubs in their luxurious bathrooms. The two bedroom suites sleep up to six people offer a queen bed in each bedroom and a queen sofa bed in the living room. All rooms are bright and spacious with elegant decor and most rooms also offer a private balcony. The Cascade Lodge has one of the largest heated outdoor pools in Whistler with two hot tubs and a great exercise facility. The pool is located in the landscaped courtyard and has beautiful views over the Mountains. For sport enthusiasts, The Cascade Lodge Whistler also offers a complimentary ski and bike concierge. Avis car rentals (the only car rental company in Whistler!) can also be found in the lobby. The Front Desk is open 24/7 and the staff is super friendly and helpful.
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A critical free throw here or there aside, it's hard to find much at fault with the basketball skills of Trey Burke.
The Big Ten Conference coaches and media agreed Monday, when they voted the Michigan sophomore point guard as the league's top player. But when you break down his skills, what makes Burke so special?
“He is so good with his instincts,” Wolverines coach John Beilein said recently.
Michigan was in trouble late in a recent win at Purdue. However, over the last four-plus minutes, Burke took over – and according to his coach – without much instruction from the sidelines.
“As I talk with (Burke) at different times, he knows what I'm talking about,” Beilein said. “I just basically gave him some very sketchy (things). I said 'Let's keep the ball in the middle of the floor. We want you to read which side Nick (Stauskas) is on and which side Tim (Hardaway Jr.) is on and then attack. And then I let him go. That's the way that you have to coach (him).”
Burke and his team will open the Big Ten Tournament against Penn State on Thursday in Chicago at about 2:30 p.m. (BTN).
Beilein spoke about a number of varying ways that Burke can “attack” an opponent. However, when he is at his best, Burke is continually getting into defensive gaps – particularly in the middle of the floor – and causing help defenders to “help up,” which leaves cutters along the baseline for lay-ins and/or dunks.
“He has a very good middle game,” Beilein said. “He's got a few floaters himself. He never surprises me. I just know that we are usually going to get a good shot.”
And that “good shot” may come from Burke or it may not. In 31 games this season, Burke has played nearly 1,100 minutes and not just scored 19.2 points per game, but also dished out nearly seven assists each time out.
Boilermakers coach Matt Painter talked at length about Burke's impact offensively, as well as the multiple areas in which he can contribute.
“Trey Burke is a very good player,” Painter said. “He's 50 percent of (Michigan's) offense. And some of those assists are (for) three-pointers, so he's more than 50 percent. He's scoring or passing on about half of their plays that are productive.”
So what is the game plan to implement – if you can?
“One thing that you want to try and do is to get him out of rhythm,” Painter said. “But when he makes speed-dribble step-back pull-ups, you know that you are going to (just) shake his hands a couple of times. That's why some consider him the best lead guard in the country.”
Beilein admitted to not being aware of all of the point guards throughout college basketball. However, he just knows what he is being told by those who do follow the sport nationally.
“Here's what I know every day,” Beilein said. “He's going to play hard and he's going to play as smart as he can. I really don't watch a lot of college basketball if it's not Big Ten basketball. (But) There are a lot of people that have watched (Burke) play that have watched the other guys, and believe he is (the best).” | <urn:uuid:57130d00-8230-4732-98bd-3edbe1965df8> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,009 |
Expect the Unexpected
Versal had never seen an orc before.
He was tall, much taller than anyone that Versal had ever seen, whether elf or even human.
He was thicker too, as wide as a tree, with massive arms that looked like they could uproot one with ease. His skin had a greenish-brown hue and his eyes had the color of amber. They were currently pointed at Versal, features twisted into a menacing scowl.
“What d’ya want?”, the orc barked at him, crossing his arms in front of his chest, making his pecs seem even bigger. He wasn’t wearing anything above his belt and Versal couldn’t help but notice the black tattoos around his biceps and collarbone.
“Sorry, it’s just it’s the first time I’ve ever seen an orc”, Versal said, figuring he had been quite rude. “My name is Versal, and you are?”
The orc lifted one eyebrow, staring at him in silence for a long minute. Versal felt a bit intimidated, still he did not move.
Eventually, the orc shrugged and muttered: “Rurkath”.
“Rur- kur… what?”. Versal tried to repeat it, but the guttural sound was quite hard for him to replicate. “Do you mind if I call you Ruri?”.
The orc scoffed. Versal was not quite sure if it was as a yes or a no.
“What d’ya want, elf?”, Rurkath asked again.
“Nothing, really. I’m just bored. My father left me here with my brother to arrange some kind of business, and my ‘opinion was neither wanted nor needed’, to put it in my brother’s terms, so I was cordially invited to leave. I figured I would have a stroll around the market. And you?”.
Rurkath stared at him in silence again. When Versal didn’t leave, he shrugged and looked away.
“I see. What are you guarding?”
The orc looked at him as if he was an idiot.
“None of yer business”.
“Hey, I was just making conversation. It’s fine if you don’t want to say. You must get bored, staying here all day guarding… uhm, whatever it is that you are guarding”.
The orc shrugged.
Versal moved in closer, placing his hand against the orc’s belly. It was round but not soft, he could feel the muscles beneath the fat, his skin thick and hard, like touching a hot rock that had been warmed up by the sun.
“It must get lonely, too…”.
There was no response. However, the orc was eyeing him warily, especially when his hand started to slowly move down lower.
“A big boy like you, standing here all day, with no one to talk to…” – his hand reached Rurkath’s belt, fingers idly playing with the clasp that held it close. – “…with nothing fun to do, for so many long, long hours”.
When his hand unclasped his belt and tried to slip inside his pants, the orc grasped on his wrist, hard enough to bruise him.
“What d’ya think you’re doing?”, he growled, pulling it up and twisting it painfully.
“Ow! You brute!”, Versal tried to pull his hand free but it was like trying to free himself from a metal vise. “I was just… uhm, I just wanted to give you… a massage?”.
The orc narrowed his eyes.
“You really seem like you could use a massage, is all I’m saying. Look at how tense you are!”
Rurkath finally let go of his arm, and Versal brought it to his own chest, massaging with his other hand.
“Aw, I was just trying to be friendly. You’re really mean”. Versal pouted, then he placed his hand on the orc’s big, strong bicep, taking the chance to give it an appreciative squeeze. “But if you change your mind about that massage, I’ll be around”.
Rurkath just glared at him until he left.
Rurkath had known something was up with that elf since the first moment he saw him. His instinct never betrayed him.
Therefore, when he’d heard a loud noise coming from behind the port he was guarding and rushed inside, he had not been too surprised to see him in there, holding the wrapped up artifact in his hands and chuckling nervously.
“Well… this is awkward”.
Once he’d tied him up and waited for his boss to come back, he had expected he would finally be rid of his guard duties so he could go and have a good night of sleep before their travel. However, once the man was back he did praise Rurkath for his attention, but also then sentenced:
“Well, we’ll be taking this elf thief back with us, I’m sure he’ll fetch a good price. Orc, you keep guard on him tonight and make sure he does not escape”.
Rurkath had to hold back a pained groan. Instead, he glared towards the elf. He better be paid extra for this.
So, that was why as the night fell and his boss retired himself to sleep, Rurkath had to stay up and keep his eyes stuck to the elven prisoner. At least this time he could sit down, which he did appreciate. It had been a long day.
“Looks like we’re stuck here alone, huh? And for the whole night. Allll alone together… with no one else to disturb us…”.
Rurkath sighed. It was going to be a long night as well.
“Say, I know I’m your prisoner and all, but do you think you could untie my hands?”.
Rurkath scoffed. Did that elf really think he was that stupid?
“I could give you that massage I had promised you”, the elf continued.
What was his name again? Vassa, Vessa, something like that. Rurkath did not remember, nor did he particularly care to.
“Come on, just for a little while. It’s just my arms are getting numb…”
“Come on, it’d be worth it!”
The elf crawled up towards him, despite having his arms tied up behind his back and his ankles tied together. He managed to reach his side and rubbed his cheek against his shoulder, like an extremely overgrown cat except less furry – and less cute.
“Come on… don’t be so mean, I’m really good with my hands”.
Rurkath pushed him away, making him fall over.
“Save yer breath. I’m not falling for yer tricks”.
The elf humpfed, getting himself up on his knees again and pouting.
“Look, I know what it looks like. And yes, I was also trying to distract you back then, that is true. But I also really would like to get to know you better. Like, getting to know what’s underneath those”, the elf continued, nodding slightly towards his pants. “Is it true that orcs are as hung as–”.
“Will ya shut up?”, Rurkath snapped, grasping him by the front of his shirt and dragging him towards him, snarling in his face. “Did ya fall on yer head as a brat? What’s yer damn problem?”.
The elf stared up at him with a lecherous grin.
“You know, actually this is kind of hot. You could play the brutish orc warrior and I can be the tied-up, helpless elf prisoner”.
Rurkath let go of him, watching with some satisfaction as he plopped heavily onto the ground.
“Oof! Yeah, that’s the spirit”. The elf looked up at him and placed his head on one of his knees. “You could rough me up a little, then I can tear up and beg you to spare me, be all like ‘oh I will do anything, please, anything, just let me go’ and y–”.
“What will it fucking take for ya to shut the fuck up?!”, Rurkath snapped, grasping on his long, blond hair and pulling it back.
“Ow! I’m just really pent up, that’s all, and you… you look so damn big and strong and sexy”.
Despite how annoying the other was, Rurkath had to admit that was kind of flattering. No one had ever described him as sexy before.
But no… no, he immediately realized, it had to be a trick.
“Yer just trying to distract me so ya can try to escape”.
“No! No I’m not– I mean I see why you would think… but no!”, the elf immediately replied, sounding almost offended. “Take off my pants and you’ll see!”.
Rurkath frowned and looked down at the other’s loose trousers. What a ridiculous idea. But then again…
No, no he could not humour him! He was a prisoner, and he was supposed to guard him, not… cavort with him or anything equally absurd.
…then again, maybe if he did humour him for a while he finally would shut up for good?
Unable to fully brush off the feeling that he was making a huge mistake, Rurkath lowered his other hand and grasped on the hem of the elf’s pants, tugging them down to his knees. Much to his surprise, the elf’s cock was pointing upwards, proving that he was not lying.
“Yes! Finally”. The elf’s eyes lit up and he glanced down between Rurkath’s legs. “Now, time to show me yours”.
“You don’t get to give orders”, Rurkath barked at him, though in part it was because he was embarrassed to admit that the situation was not leaving him indifferent. As he looked down at the elven prisoner, he couldn’t help but wonder if he could use his mouth for something more interesting than talking.
“I’m not freeing yer hands”, he warned him, before grasping on the front of his shirt and pulling it over his head, then behind his back where it bunched up since he could not untie him. Now the smaller elf was almost fully nude in front of him. His lithe body was toned up and athletic, probably quite nimble since he was a thief. Rurkath couldn’t help but let his hands wander, groping at his slender legs and his toned buttocks, moving up to caress his chest and brush his rough thumb against his hard nipples, making the elf gasp out loud. He saw his little cock twitch, desperate for attention, but he did not touch it.
“Yer gonna be fucked good when we get back to the village”, he taunted him, grasping on his chin and forcing him to look at him in the eyes. “The boss’s not gonna be kind to ya. He’ll probably sell you to the nearest brothel”.
“What if you asked him to keep me instead?”, the elf proposed with a bold smirk, though Rurkath had seen a glimpse of fear in his eyes. “Could be a reward for being such a good guard”.
He scoffed. “Why would I do that? It’s yer fault I won’t get to sleep in the first place”.
“There’s much better things we can do rather than sleep”, the elf said in a suggestive tone, licking his lips and glancing down at Rurkath’s crotch again.
Rurkath didn’t answer. Instead, he undid the front of his own pants and finally freed his own half-hard cock, before grasping on the elf’s hair again and shoving his face against it, rubbing it on his cheek.
“More sucking an' less talking”, he grunted.
The elf’s blue eyes had grown wide at the sight, his pale cheeks flushing. He seemed to be frozen in awe, but when Rurkath pressed him down with more insistence he finally stuck out his tongue and started to lick it.
Rurkath couldn’t help but let out a content sigh, loosening his grasp and just placing his hand on top of his hair to give him more freedom, ready to grip on it again if he tried to move away or bite him or something equally annoying.
The elf’s tongue moved skillfully along his cock, from the base to the tip and then down again, tracing along the bulging veins on its sides, making it grow harder. Once it was fully erect, he opened his soft lips and closed his mouth around the tip, sucking on it and swirling his tongue around the edge of its crown.
Rurkath groaned in pleasure, grasping on his hair again and pushing his head down lower. The elf struggled to take more of his cock in, but he didn’t protest, not even when Rurkath kept on pressing until the elf’s nose was buried in his pubic hairs, his eyes watery with tears and his throat spasming around his length.
“So yer big mouth’s useful for something after all”, Rurkath teased him, holding him down for a few more moments before pulling his head back and allow him to let go of his cock, watching as he coughed loudly and gagged.
“I-it’s so big”, the elf said, his voice strained.
Rurkath grasped on his own cock and started to stroke it, rubbing the tip against the elf’s lips. “And ya wanted me to keep ya? Hah! Ya know what this would do to yer ass?”.
Much to his surprise, the elf’s eyes lit up.
“…I’m not breaking yer ass. The boss would be mad. Would have to lower the price if ya got too loose”.
The elf looked at him in a mixture of annoyance and disbelief
“Too loose… do you really think I’m some blushing virgin? My ass is as open as the doors of a tavern on a weekend!”, the elf snapped back, sounding almost offended by his assumption.
“Weren’t ya elves all about just fucking with yer spouse and all that?”.
“Weren’t you orcs all about killing and raping and stealing and all that?”.
Rurkath snorted. “Fair enough”.
He glanced down at the elf’s body again. It looked so tight and welcoming. His cock twitched eagerly.
Still… why did he get the feeling it was a really bad idea?
“So? Are you gonna be good and do everything your boss says? For how much, by the way? I bet he’s not even paying you an extra for tonight”, the elf teased him, before leaning down to lick his cock again. “I think you deserve a nice reward… working so hard all day, having to watch his stuff and keep guard for mean little thieves like me… wouldn’t you like to punish me, after all? Show me what happens when someone tries to fuck with you?”
“Gods, shut the fuck up already”.
Rurkath didn’t know what to think, but he didn’t care. Before he could change his mind and think too hard about it, he grasped on the elf’s hips and placed him in his own lap, his cock pressed in-between the elf’s soft cheeks. Immediately, the perverted elf started to rub them against him and look at him with a lustful expression.
“Give it to me, Ruri, come on…giv-AH!”
Rurkath lifted him up and pressed his ass down on his spit-slicked cock, smirking in satisfaction as he finally managed to shut him up for a while. For all his talk about having slept around, his ass was squeezing down on his cock as if it was trying to rip it off of him. Maybe he was exaggerating with his claims. Oh well… too late.
Much to his surprise, a few tears were escaping from the elf’s eyes.
“Gods… it really is huge”, he gasped, panting heavily and shivering all over.
“Ya fucking idiot! I told ya it was too…”.
“Harder”, the elf practically moaned out, looking up at him and leaning in closer, before pressing his lips against Rurkath’s.
Rurkath froze up in surprise. The last thing he was expecting was for the other to kiss him, and at first he just stood there as if he didn’t know what to do.
Then he figured what the hell, fuck it, and grasped on the elf’s hair again as he shoved his tongue in his mouth, kissing him fiercely, keeping a hold of his body with the other hand as he started to move his hips, slamming them against his ass and shoving inch after inch inside his small body, until he finally was slapping his balls against the other’s flesh.
He fucked him hard and fast, just as he was asked, and kept on kissing him until they both had to part to breathe, the elf now gasping and moaning out loud in pleasure even as the tears kept falling down his cheeks and his insides kept on squeezing Rurkath’s length. It was tighter than anything he’d ever felt before, even tighter than the very first orc he’d ever fucked when they both were young and it had been both of their first time. He wasn’t sure of how that small body could even handle his cock, but somehow that perverted elf was clearly loving it despite how painful that had to be for him.
Rurkath could not last too long, not in that tight, velvet heat, so he brought one hand down to stroke the elf’s cock at the same rhythm as his thrusts, fucking him so hard that the sound of flesh slapping against flesh filled the hair, both of their bodies slick with sweat.
“Aah! Ah! F-fuck… fuck, I’m coming! Ruri, I’m coming, plea–”
Rurkath shut him up again with a fierce kiss, biting on his lower lip as he came, grunting loudly in pleasure and filling him up to the brim. A few shallow thrusts later, the elf finally spurted in his hand while his insides squeezed hard around his cock, milking every last drop of his cum from him.
Rurkath felt exhausted, drained of all of his forces. He was barely able to lift the other up and watch as his cock slipped out of his stretched-open ass, his own cum flowing out down the elf’s trembling legs in copious amounts.
As for the elf himself, he too looked tired but satisfied, his whole body limp and flushed, his lips curved up into an all-too-pleased smile.
Fuck. His clothes. They were drenched in both cum and sweat. There was no way his boss would not know what they did.
Rurkath sighed. Oh well. It was a worry for tomorrow. For now, he was too tired to do anything but roll to his side and close his eyes, holding the shivering elf tight to his chest.
When he woke up the next day, it took Rurkath a few moments to realize something was wrong.
First off, he couldn’t move. He was completely paralyzed.
Second, the elf was standing up in front of him with a wide smirk on his face.
And, in his hands, he was holding the artifact. The artifact he was supposed to be guarding!
“Sorry, Ruri, I know I said I wasn’t trying to distract you so I could escape… I totally was. But also I really wanted to get fucked by an orc so that part wasn’t a lie”.
Rurkath paled, his face twisting in fury. That fucking little shit!
He tried to open his mouth to call for his boss, but of course that too was paralyzed. He could only let out a muffled, unintelligible loud groan.
“Now, before you get mad, the good news is I really enjoyed our time together. So, you’re coming with me. My brother said I could keep you!”, the elf continued with a small chuckle. “I’m sure we will all have fun together on the way!”.
Rurkath groaned again. He should have listened to his gut.
In the end, he really was the one who got fucked.
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Que Bar and Nightclub
Wagga Wagga New South Wales 2650
Welcome to Que Bar and Nightclub, Wagga’s newest institution that boasts a family atmosphere during the day and transforms into an entertainment haven at night.
Situated in the heart of Wagga Wagga on Baylis Street, visit a well-known local spot for a meal or a night of entertainment and partying.
Drop in for a pub feed, stay for a few drinks, and party the night away at the upstairs nightclub ‘Playground’.
- Alfresco/Outdoor Dining
- Private Dining Area
- Suitable for Functions
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Whenever I go away for a beach vacation, I come back with softest and smoothest skin. That’s because I spend a lot of time in the water and on the beach, rubbing and exfoliating my skin with the sand and salt water.
Unfortunately, the high level of chlorine in the water in Toronto does not my skin any favours and after about a month my skin starts to get bumpy, especially above my elbows.
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|Date||Home Team||Away Team|
|Shamrock Bowl XIV||Santry, Dublin|
|15.08.1999||Dublin Tigers||22||Carrickfergus Knights||6|
Regular Season Results
|Date||Home Team||Away Team|
|1999||Carrickfergus Knights||44||Queens University Belfast Broncos||0|
|13.06.1999||Dublin Tigers||14||Carrickfergus Knights||0|
|06.1999||Queens University Belfast Broncos||10||Carrickfergus Knights||14|
|27.06.1999||Dublin Tigers||66||Queens University Broncos||0|
|30.06.1999||Carrickfergus Knights||34||Dublin Tigers||0|
|25.07.1999||Queens University Broncos||0||Dublin Tigers||34|
The year began with the Carrickfergus Knights starting where they left off with a shutout win over the Queens University Belfast Broncos. The Knights defense dominted the entire game., winning 34-0
In week 2, the Dublin Tigers took the initiative from the start, closing down the Knights and helped by running back Brian Dennehy. the deadlock was broken in the third quarter when Head Coach and Quarterback Don Cade dove over from the 2-yard line. Minutes later a second touchdown sealed the game for the Tigers.
In the return game between the Carrickfergus Knights and the Queeens University Broncos, the Knights were a shadow of the team that won convincingly to start the season. The Offense gave up a safety early in the game, and they were plagued by timing errors and unforced errors, but still ended up winning 14-10.
In Week 4, the Tigers scored on the opening drive through a Brian Dennehy run, and never looked back, with Dennehy scoring five touchdowns in all as the Tigers won 66-0.
The Carrickfergus Knights inflicted the heaviest defeat on the Dublin Tigers in the Tigers two year history in the return match, winning 34-0, scoring four times in the first half, but held scoreless in the second until late in the fourth quarter when Wide Receiver Maxwell ran in for their fifth.
For the second year in succession the Tigers and Carrickfergus had to be separated by points scored at the end of the regular season, as the Tigers also finished on 3-1 with a commanding performance by their entire Offensive Line, who won a combined Most Valuable Player award. the OL’s performance allowed Brian Dennehy score three touchdowns and QB Don Cade pass for a fourth. Feargal O’Donnchu won his third defensive MVP award for “outstanding leadership and superb tackling”.
With the Dublin Tigers and Carrickfergus Knights both finishing the season on level terms as in 1998, and a rematch of the Shamrock Bowl, won the previous season by Carrickfergus, the final itself proved to show the two teams evenly matched over the two seasons. The Dublin Tigers gained revenge in Shamrock Bowl XIV, winning 22-6, to win their first Shamrock Bowl.
Irish American Football Association (2019) Shamrock Bowl Winners [Internet] Available from: https://www.americanfootball.ie/home/kitted-football/shamrock-bowl-history/ [Accessed 11 August 2019]
Naughton, L. (1999) Tigers roar. Evening Herald. Saturday, 21 August 1999, pg. 111.
Naughton, L. (1999) Tigers maul the Knights. Evening Herald. Saturday, 19 June 1999, pg. 27.
Naughton, L. (1999) Tigers roar!. Evening Herald. Saturday, 3 July 1999, pg. 25.
Naughton, L. (1999) Tigers spring into final. Evening Herald. Saturday, 31 July 1999, pg. 24.
Anon. (1999) “Factfile and Greyhound Racing: American Football” Irish Independent. Wednesday, July 21, 1999. pg. 22. [Internet] Available from: the British Newspaper Archive at: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/print/bl/0001715/19990721/257/0022 [Accessed 22 April 2020]
Carrickfergus Knights | Wayback Machine (1999) News [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/19990824010758/http://www.sugarcube.co.uk/knight/ [Accessed 23 March 1999]
Eirball Facebook (2020) Photo, 6 June 2020: “Poster of Irish American Football Teams Colours 1985-1999. Given to me by Cillian Smith (IAFL Commissioner) around 1999.” [Internet] Available from: https://www.facebook.com/2226857640959926/photos/a.2235377026774654/2492486431063711/?type=3&theater [Accessed 6 June 2020][Cropped]
Thanks to Cillian Smith, Michael Smith, Michael Brophy and Ralph Schmeer of the Irish American Football Association and Irish American Football Officials Association.
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This is the full script for Blackadder Series 3 Episode 3. Nob and Nobility sees Blackadder get involved with the French Revolution in order to make a profit. And who is that elusive Pimpernel?
Blackadder Series 3 Episode 3 – Nob and Nobility Full Script
Miggins: [dancing about by a table of two customers in her coffee shop]
Oh la la! [laughs happily]
[Edmund Blackadder, butler to the Prince Regent, enters]
Edmund: Ah, good morning, Mrs Miggins.
Miggins: Bonjour, monsieur.
Miggins: Bonjour, monsieur — it’s French.
Edmund: So is eating frogs, cruelty to geese and urinating in the street, but that’s no reason to inflict it on the rest of us.
Miggins: But French is all the fashion! My coffee shop is full of frenchies, and it’s all because of that wonderful Scarlet Pimpernel.
[an odd squishy noise is heard occasionally, starting now]
Edmund: The Scarlet Pimpernel is >not< wonderful, Mrs Miggins. There is
no reason whatsoever to admire someone for filling London with
a load of garlic-chewing French toffs crying “Oh la la!” and looking
for sympathy all the time just because their fathers had their heads
I’ll have a cup of coffee and some shepherd’s pie, please.
Miggins: [put off] We don’t serve >pies< anymore! My French clientele
consider >pies< uncouth.
Edmund: I hardly think that a nation that eats snails and would go to bed with the kitchen sink if it put on a tutu is in any position to preach couthness.
So what >is< on the menu? [he picks up the small menu and flips it over looking at it casually]
Miggins: Well, today’s hot choice is Chicken Pimpernel in a Scarlet Sauce,
Scarlet Chicken in a Pimpernel Sauce, or Huge Suspicious-Looking
Sausages in a Scarlet Pimpernel Sauce.
Edmund: What exactly is Scarlet Pimpernel sauce?
Miggins: [she uses her hands to demonstrate as she speaks] You take a large
ripe frog, squeeze it [one of the squishy noises is heard as she
makes this motion, giving away what the noise is] —
Edmund: [putting up a hand] Yes, yes, all right. [several words are covered
entirely by laughter (anyone out there have a closed-caption decoder,
since the commercial-release tapes are closed-captioned?).]
[Edmund goes to the door to leave, just as a Frenchman enters.]
Frenchman: [bowing] Ah, bonjour, monsieur!
Edmund: Sod off.
[Scene changes to Edmund’s quarters, below the prince’s house.
Baldrick is tearing apart some dough. Edmund enters, picks up
a tabby cat and punts it high into the air across the room.]
Baldrick: Oh, Sir! Poor little Mildred the cat! What’s he ever done to you?
Edmund: It is the way of the world, Baldrick — the abused always kick
downwards. I am annoyed, and so I kick the cat… the cat
[there is a mouse `eek!’ noise] pounces on the mouse, and, finally,
Baldrick: [startled, jumps] Agh!
Edmund: …bites you on the behind.
Baldrick: Well, what do I do?
Edmund: Nothing. You are last in God’s great chain, Baldrick — unless,
of course, there’s an earwig around here that you’d like to
[Baldrick leans toward Edmund, trying to get him to notice something]
Edmund: [notices] Baldrick, what’s happened to your nose?
Baldrick: Nice, isn’t it?
Edmund: No it isn’t. It’s revolting.
Baldrick: Oh. I’ll take it off, then. [removes item from his nose]
Edmund: Baldrick, why are you wearing a false boil? What are we to expect
next: a beauty wart? a cosmetic verruca?
Baldrick: It’s a Scarlet Pimple, Sir.
Baldrick: Yeah, they’re all the rage down our way. Everyone wants to
express their admiration for the great Pimple and his brilliant
Edmund: [takes the pimple, speaks angrily] What has this fellow done? —
apart from pop over to France to grab a few French knobs from the
ineffectual clutches [tosses pimple into the fireplace] of some
malnourished whingeing lefties, taking the opportunity while there,
no doubt, to pick up some really good cheap wine and some of their
marvelous open-fruit flans…
Doesn’t anyone know? We hate the French! We fight wars against
them! Did all those men die in vain on the field at Agincourt?
Was the man who burned Joan of Arc simply wasting good matches?
Edmund: Ah, His Royal Highness, the Pinhead of Wales, summons me. You know,
I feel almost well-disposed towards him this morning. Half the
chump though he may be, at least he’s not French.
[Scene changes to inside Prince’s bedroom. He is having some drinks
with lords Topper and Smedley.]
Prince: “Un toast! Encore un toast,” I say! Le Pimpernel Scarlette!
Topper & Smedley: Le Pimpernel Scarlette!
Prince: Ah! Le Adder Noir! Come on au in!
[Edmund is upset, but restrains it.]
Prince: [to Topper and Smedley] This is the fellow to ask, you chaps:
my butler — terribly clever. Brighter than a brain pie.
[Topper and Smedley chuckle like the dandies they are]
Blackadder, we’re trying to guess who the Scarlet Pimpernel is,
so we can send him an enormous postal order to express our
admiration. Any ideas?
Edmund: Well, I’m sure if you addressed the envelope to “The Biggest Show-Off
in London,” it would reach him eventually.
[Topper and Smedley stand up from where they were lying (on Prince’s
bed) and approach Edmund.]
Topper: Tish and pish! Gadzooks! Milarky! How dare you say such a thing?
Damn me, sir, if you’re not the worst kind of swine!
Smedley: Damn that swine…
Edmund: I’m sorry, Sir. I was merely pointing out that sneaking aristocrats
out from under the noses of French revolutionaries is about as
difficult as putting on a hat.
Topper: Sink me, sir! This is treason! The Scarlet Pimpernel’s a hero,
and the revolution is orchestrated by a ruthless band of highly
organised killers, damn them!
Smedley: Damn those organised killers…
Topper: [turning to Prince] Sir, if I remember rightly, we were just
discussing the French Embassy ball in honour of the exiled
Prince: We certainly were — where I intend the wear the most magnificent
pair of trousers ever to issue forth from the delicate hands of
Mssrs Snibcock and Turkey, Couturiers to the Very Wealthy and the
Extremely Fat. If the Pimpernel does finally reveal himself, I
don’t want to get caught out wearing boring trousers!
Smedley: Damn those boring trousers…
Topper: Well, what say we bet your cock-sure domestic a thousand guineas
he can’t go to France, rescue an aristocrat, and present him at
[Edmund looks up.]
Topper: Hah! That’s turned you white, hasn’t it? That’s frightened you,
you lily-livered, caramel-kidneyed, custard-coloured cad?
Not so brilliant now, are you, eh? eh?
Edmund: On the contrary, Sir. I’ll just go and pack.
Edmund: Perhaps Lord Smedley and Lord Topper will accompany me. I’m sure
it will be a fairly easy trip — the odd death-defying leap and a
modest amount of dental torture… Want to come?
Topper: [frightened] Oh, no!
Smedley: Oh, no…
Topper: Er, any day now, I’ve got an appointment at my doctor. I’ve got
a bit of a sniffle coming on — I can feel it in my bones.
Smedley: Damn bones, damn bones, damn…
Prince: You know, what about next week? Oh, come on, you chaps, get your
diaries out, come on!
Topper: Oh, all right. Damn!
Topper: I left it behind!
Topper: …and, er, besides, I’ve just remembered: my father’s just died!
[Smedley can’t say the same thing this time; looks confused.]
Topper: I’ve got to be at his funeral in ten minutes! Damn sorry!
Goodbye, Your Highness. [He bows, giving his drink to Edmund.
Edmund opens the door and lets him out.]
Smedley: Oh, damn… I’m the best man. Damn that dead father, damn…
[Gives his drink to Edmund; bows; exits, saying “Bye bye…”]
Edmund: [beyond the door to the exiting pair] See you at the ball.
Prince: Oh, what a shame they were so busy. [walking into the chamber]
It would have been lovely to have had them with us.
Edmund: >You’re< coming, Sir?
Prince: Well, certainly.
Edmund: Ah. [pause] and nothing I can say about the mind-bending horrors
of the revolution could put you off?
Prince: Absolutely not! Now, come on, Blackadder — let’s get packing.
I want to look my best for those fabulous French birds.
Edmund: Sir, the type of women currently favoured in France are toothless
crones who just cackle insanely.
Prince: Oh, ignore that — they’re just playing hard-to-get.
Edmund: …by removing all their teeth, going mad and aging forty years?
Prince: That’s right — the little teasers! Well, come on! [he reclines]
Erm, I think a blend of silks and satins…
Edmund: I fear not, Sir. If we are to stand any chance of survival in
France, [he rings the servant bell] we shall have to dress as the
smelliest lowlife imaginable.
Prince: Oh yes? What sort of thing?
Edmund: Well, Sir, let me show you our Paris Collection…
[Baldrick begins walking in from the the outer door.]
Edmund: Baldrick is wearing a sheep’s-bladder jacket, with matching
dung-ball accessories. Hair by Crazy Meg of Bedlam [obscured
by laughter]. Notice how the overpowering aroma of rotting
pilchards has been woven cunningly into the ensemble.
[Edmund approaches Baldrick.]
Edmund: Baldrick, when did you last change your trousers?
Baldrick: [as if rehearsed] I have never changed my trousers.
Edmund: Thank you. [to Prince] You see, the ancient Greeks, Sir, wrote
in legend of a terrible container in which all the evils of the
world were trapped. How prophetic they were. All they got wrong
was the name. They called it “Pandora’s Box,” when, of course,
they meant “Baldrick’s Trousers.”
Baldrick: [to Prince] It certainly can get a bit whiffy, there’s no doubt
Edmund: We are told that, when the box was opened, the whole world turned
to darkness because of Pandora’s fatal curiousity. [to Baldrick]
I charge you now, Baldrick: for the good of all mankind, never
allow curiosity to lead you to open your trousers. Nothing of
interest lies therein.
[to Prince] However, Your Highness, it is trousers exactly like
these that >you< will have to wear if we are to pass safely into
Prince: Mmm, ahem, yes, well, you know, er, on second thought, I think I
might give this whole thing a miss. You know, my tummy’s playing
up a bit. Er, wish… wish I could come, but just not poss with
Edmund: I understand perfectly, Sir.
Prince: Also, the chances of me scoring if I look and smell like him
Edmund: Well, that’s true, Sir. We shall return presently to bid you
[Prince turns to enter his bedroom; Edmund and Baldrick head out.]
Baldrick: Mr B, I’ve been having second thoughts about this trip to France.
Edmund: Oh? Why?
Baldrick: Well, as far as I can see, looking and smelling like this,
there’s not much chance of >me< scoring, either.
[Edmund thwaps him on the head.]
[Scene changes to Prince, Edmund and Baldrick (who is carrying
everything) standing in the vestibule. This scene is overplayed,
complete with `farewell’ harp music.]
Prince: Well, Blackadder, this is it.
Edmund: Yes, Sir. If I don’t make it back, please write to my mother
and tell her that I’ve been alive all the time; it’s just that
I couldn’t be bothered to get in touch with the old bat.
Prince: Well, of course, old man. It’s the very least I could do.
Edmund: We must leave at once. The shadows lengthen, and we have a long
and arduous journey ahead of us. [He shakes Prince’s hand.]
Farewell, dear master and — dare I say? — friend.
[Edmund and Prince embrace. Prince speaks as they separate.]
Prince: Farewell, brave liberator and — dare I say it? — butler!
[Edmund and Baldrick leave. Prince starts to cry.]
[Scene changes to Edmund’s quarters. Edmund and Baldrick enter.]
Edmund: Right, stick the kettle on, Balders.
Baldrick: What, aren’t we going to France?
Edmund: Of course we’re not going to France — it’s incredibly dangerous
Baldrick: Well, how are you going to win your bet?
Edmund: As usual, Baldrick: by the use of the large thing between my ears.
Baldrick: Oh, your nose…
Edmund: No, Baldrick: my brain. All we do is lie low here for a week, then
go to Mrs Miggins’, pick up any old French aristocrat, drag him
through a puddle, take him to the ball, and claim our thousand
Baldrick: Well, what if the prince finds us here?
Edmund: He couldn’t find his own fly buttons, let alone the kitchen door.
[Scene changes to Prince’s bedroom. Prince takes a pair of blue
trousers with silver dots and silver side stripes from a box.]
Prince: What a pair of trousers!!! I shall be the Belle of the Embassy
Ball! Now, how do you put them on? Er… [calls] Blackadder!
[realisation] Oh, no — damn! — he’s gone to France. Well, I’ll
do it myself; shouldn’t be too difficult. Erm… Er…
[he puts an arm through one trouser leg…]
[One Week Later]
[Scene: Edmund’s quarters.]
Edmund: [sitting in a chair, his feet on the table, smoking a pipe]
Well, Baldrick, what a very pleasant week. We must do this more
Baldrick: [seeming a bit bored] Yes, I shall certainly choose revolutionary
France for my holiday again next year.
Edmund: Still, time to go to work. Off to Mrs Miggins’ to pick up any old
[A crashing noise upstairs interrupts him.]
Baldrick: What do you think that is?
Edmund: Well, if I was feeling malicious, I would say it’s the prince
still trying to put his trousers on after a week.
[Scene change to upstairs.]
[Prince, wearing his trousers over his head, is bumping into walls.]
[Scene change to Mrs Miggins’ coffee shop.]
[Edmund and Baldrick enter.]
Edmund: Ah, Mrs Miggins… I’d like a massive plate of pig’s trotters,
frog’s legs and snail’s ears, please — all drenched in your lovely
Scarlet Pimpernel Sauce.
Miggins: Not so hostile to the frenchies >now<, Mr B…
Edmund: Certainly not, Mrs M. I’d sooner be hostile to my own servant.
[baps Baldrick on the back of the head]
[Several words obscured by laughter.]
In fact, I came here specifically to meet lovely frenchies.
Miggins: Well, vivre to that and an eclair for both of us! [laughs]
Edmund: Vivre, indeed. Now, what I’m looking for, Mrs M, is a particular
kind of frenchy — namely, one who is transparently of noble blood
but also short on cash.
Miggins: Ah, well, I’ve got just the fellow for you — over there by the
window: The Comte de Frou Frou.
[Shot of Frou Frou holding — and looking oddly at — a huge
Miggins: He’s pretty down on his luck, and he’s made that horse’s willy
last all morning.
Edmund: Oh, good. Baldrick, we have struck garlic!
[Edmund and Baldrick approach Frou Frou. Edmund scrapes leftovers
off of Frou Frou’s table onto a plate, then offers the plate to
Edmund: Now you can some lunch, Baldrick.
Baldrick: Thank you. [leaves the coffee shop]
Edmund: [addresses Frou Frou] Le Comte de Frou Frou, I believe…
Frou Frou: [looks up] Eh?
Edmund: [sitting at the table] Do you speak English?
Frou Frou: A little…
Edmund: Yes, when you say “a little,” what exactly do you mean? I mean,
can we talk? or are we going to spend the rest of the afternoon
asking each other the way to the beach in very loud voices?
Frou Frou: Ah, no. I can, er, order coffee, deal with waiters, make sexy
chit-chat with girls — that type of thing.
Edmund: Oh, good.
Frou Frou: Just don’t ask me to take a physiology class or direct a light
Edmund: No, no, I won’t. [propositioning] Now, listen, Frou Frou …
Would you like to earn some money?
Frou Frou: No, I wouldn’t. I would like other people to earn it and then
>give< it to me, just like in France in the good old days.
Edmund: Yes, but this is a chance to return to the good old days.
Frou Frou: Oh, how I would love that! I hate this life! The food is
filthy! This huge sausage is very suspicious. If I didn’t know
better, I’d say it was a horse’s wi–
Edmund: Yes, yes, yes, all right… Now, listen; the plan is this:
I have a bet on with someone that I can get a Frenchman out
of Paris. I want >you< to be that Frenchman. All you have to
do is come to the embassy with me, say that I rescued you, and
then walk away with fifty guineas and all the vol-au-vents
you can stuff in your pockets. What do you say?
Frou Frou: It will be a pleasure! If there’s one thing we aristocrats
enjoy, it’s a fabulous partie! Oh, the music! Oh, the laughter!
Oh — if only I’d brought my mongoose costume…
[Scene change to the embassy. It is dank, and some moans of despair
can be heard. Edmund, Frou Frou and Baldrick enter.]
Frou Frou: Yes, well, obviously it hasn’t really got going yet…
Edmund: I think that is a bit of an understatement, Frou Frou. I’ve been
at autopsies with more party atmosphere.
Frou Frou: Don’t worry! In a moment we will hear the sound of music and
[Laughter is heard — evil maniacal laughter. A French soldier
Soldier: [to Frou Frou] Bon soir, monsieur.
Frou Frou: Bon soir!
Edmund: Ah, good evening, my man. Do you speak English?
Edmund: Good, well, just take me to the ambassador, then, will you?
Edmund: [articulate] I have rescued an [pushes the end of his nose up]
aristocrat, from [makes claw-like hands] the clutches of the
evil revolutionaries. Please take me to the ambassador.
Soldier: No, I won’t. I >am< an [makes claw hands] “evil revolutionarie,”
and have [slices finger across his neck] murdered the [pushes up
his nose] ambassadeur, and turned him into [slaps the back and
front of one hand against the other, then puts that same hand to
his mouth] pate!
Soldier: [to Frou Frou] …and you, aristo-pig, are trapped!!!
Frou Frou: Peeg? Hah! You will regret your insolence, revolutionary deug!
Solider: Dog? Hah! You will regret your arrogance, royalist snake!
Frou Frou: Sneag? Hah!
Edmund: [stepping in] Look, I’ve very sorry to interrupt this very
interesting discussion, but it really is none of my business,
so I think I’ll be on my way. Come on, Baldrick.
Soldier: [stopping Edmund] Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah! Not so fast, English!
In rescuing this, eu [motions at Frou Frou], this, eu, boite de
stinkyweed, you have attempted to pervert revolutionary justice.
Do you know what they do to people who do that?
Edmund: They’re…given a little present and allowed to go free?
Edmund: They’re smacked and told not to be naughty, but basically let off…
Baldrick: [raising his hand] I think I know.
Edmund: [quite unhappy and depressed] What?
Baldrick: [quite happy that he knows the answer] They’re put in prison for
the night, and brutally guillotined in the morning!
Edmund: Well done, Baldrick…
Soldier: Your little g’nome is correct, monsieur. Gentlemen! Welcome
to the last day of your life! [shuts and locks the door]
[Scene change to our heroes in a cell, with Soldier outside.]
Frou Frou: How dare you, you filthy weaselle!
Solider: Weasel? Hah! You’re one to talk, aristo-waat-heug!
Frou Four: Warthog? Hah!
Edmund: [pulling Frou Frou away from the barred window] Excuse me,
Frou Frou… [to Soldier] Look, mate, me old mate…
We’re both working class; we both hate these rich bastards;
I mean, come on, come on, me old mucker, just, just let
me go — you’ve got nothing against me…
Soldier: On the contrarie! I >hate< you English with your boring trousers
and your shiny toilet paper, and your ridiculous preconception that
Frenchmen are great lovers — [looks both ways, then speaks a bit
softly] >I’m< French, and I’m hung like a baby carrot and a couple
Edmund: [obscured by laughter]
Soldier: Farewell, “old muckeur,” and [shouts] death to the aristoes!!!
Baldrick: [joining in happily] Death to the aristoes!
Edmund: Oh, shut up, Mouse-brain…
[Now inside the cell. Baldrick sits on the bed.]
Frou Frou: Monsieur, why do you waste your words on this scum?
Have no fear! The Scarlet Pimpernel will save us.
Edmund: Hah! [knocks Baldrick off the bed; Baldrick falls to the floor, and
remains sitting where he lands] Some hope. [lies down]
The Scarlet Pimpernel is the most overrated human being since
Judas Iscariot won the A.D. 31 Best Disciple Competition.
Frou Frou: Well, if he >should< fail us, here: I these have these suicide
pills. One for me [pulls pill out of his ear]; one for you
[pulls one out of a nostril]; and one for the dwarf [pulls one
out of his bottom — various silly noises accompany each].
Edmund: Say “thank you,” Baldrick.
Baldrick: Thank you, Mr Frou. [puts pill to his mouth; Edmund stops him.]
[The door begins to open.]
Frou Frou: Ah, the Pimpernel!!
Soldier: [entering] Ah, the >ambassador<, hurray…
[moves his fingers about, bounces on his toes]
Hmm, I’ve got nothing to do… So I think I will torture …
[points to Frou Frou, forces him to stand, and shouts]
Frou Frou: Mongrel? Hah! I look forward to it, proletarian skeunk!
Soldier: Skunk? Hah! We’ll see about that, aristocratic happypotamus!
Frou Frou: [being led outside] Happypotamus? Hah! We’ll soon see who’s
the happypotamus … [voice gets quiet as door is shut and
locked (I think the rest of his vocalisations are nonsense
Baldrick: I’m glad to say, I don’t think you’ll be needing those pills,
Edmund: I’m I jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words “I have a cunning plan” marching with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?
Baldrick: They certainly are!
Edmund: Well, forgive me if I don’t jump up and down with glee; your
record in this department is not exactly a hundred percent.
So, what’s the plan?
Baldrick: We do…nothing.
Edmund: Yep, that’s another world-beater.
Baldrick: Wait, I haven’t finished. We do nothing until our heads have
actually been cut off…
Edmund: …and then we spring into action?
Baldrick: Exactly! You know how, when you cut a chicken’s head off, it
runs round and round the farmyard?
Baldrick: Well, we wait until our heads have been cut off, then we run
round and round the farmyard, out the farm gate, and escape.
What do you think?
Edmund: Yes… My opinions are rather difficult to express in words,
so perhaps I can put it this way… [tweaks Baldrick’s nose]
Baldrick: It doesn’t really matter, ’cause the Scarlet Pimpernel will save
Edmund: No he won’t, Baldrick. Either I think up an idea, or, tomorrow,
we die — which, Baldrick, I have to tell you, I have no intention
of doing, because I want to be young and wild, and then I want to be
middle-aged and rich, and then I want to be old and annoy people by
pretending that I’m deaf. Just be quiet and let me think.
[Later that night, in the cell.]
Baldrick: I can’t sleep, Mr Blackadder…
Edmund: I said “Shut up”!
Baldrick: I’m so excited to think that the Scarlet Pimpernel will
be here at any moment!
Edmund: I wish you’d forget this ridiculous fantasy, Baldrick.
Even if he did turn up, the guards would be woken by the
scraping noise as he tried to squeeze his massive swollen head
through the door.
Baldrick: I couldn’t sleep when I was little.
Edmund: You still are little, Baldrick.
Baldrick: Yeah, well, when I was even littler, see, we used to live in
this haunted hovel. Every night, my family were troubled by
a visitation from this disgusting ghoul. It was terrible.
First there was this unholy smell, then this tiny, clammy,
hairy creature would materialise in the bed between them.
Fortunately, I could never see it, myself.
Edmund: Yes… Tell me, Baldrick: when you left home, did this repulsive
entity mysteriously disappear?
Baldrick: That very day…
Edmund: I think then that the mystery is solved. Now shut up. Either
I think up an idea, or, tomorrow, we meet our maker — in my case,
God; in your case, God knows … but I’d be surprised if he won
any design awards.
[camera view pans away from them, to the window]
Edmund: Wait a minute! I thought of a plan!
Edmund: Also, I thought of a way to get you to sleep!
[Morning, in the cell. The door opens, and Soldier enters.]
Soldier: Morning, scum… Did we sleep well, eh?
Edmund: Like a tot, thank you… But, by jiminy, you must be feeling
thirsty after your long night’s brutality! [He drops a suicide
pill into a cup of liquid, then proffers the cup.] Drink?
Soldier: Eu, non, merci… Not while I am on duty.
Edmund: Oh. Perhaps later.
Soldier: For you, monsieur, there is no later. [gets dramatic] Because,
gentlemen, I am proud to introduce France’s most [puts a hand on
his abdomen] vicious woman. Unexpectedly arrived from Paris
this morning, would you please welcome Madame Guillotine herself!
[bows aside, with an arm outstretched]
Guillotine: [enters, cackling, carrying a club with spikes, appears to have
blood on her arms; her face is obscured by her bonnet, and
she appears to be missing a front tooth]
Are these the English pigs?
Edmund: Yes, that’s us.
Guillotine: Leave them with me, Monsieur Ambassadeur. I intend to torture
them in a manner so unbearably gruesome, even you will not be
able to stand it!
Soldier: I don’t think I will have a problem, madame.
Guillotine: No, you will be sick.
Soldier: What if I stay for the first few minutes, and then I leave if
I’m feeling queasy?
Guillotine: No, you will be sick immediately.
Solider: What if I am sick quietly in a bag? I mean, what is in your mind?
[Guillotine whispers in Soldier’s ear.]
[Soldier goes into convulsions, and removes his hat as he leaves,
vomiting into it.]
Guillotine: [turns to Edmund] So! Scum! Prepare to be in pain!
Edmund: Yes, certainly. But first, perhaps, a toast: to your beauty!
[gives Guillotine the poisoned cup]
Guillotine: [tosses club aside] Oh, thank you. OK.
[drinks from cup]
Guillotine: So, I expect you were expecting to be rescued, huh?!
Edmund: Hah — some bloody hope.
Guillotine: [voice suddenly a male voice]
On the contrary! I’m just sorry I’m so late!
[Guillotine removes her bonnet, revealing herself to be Lord Smedley]
Smedley: Yes, gentlemen, I have come to take you to freedom!
Edmund: My god! Smedley! But I thought you were an absolute [facit?]!
Smedley: No — just a damn fine actor! Thank god I got here before you
took any of those awful suicide pills!
Edmund: [looks down at the cups] Errrrrr, yes… I suppose if someone
had taken one and wished that he’d hadn’t, he’d be able to do
something about it…
Smedley: No, no — they’re very odd things, you see. The symptoms are
most peculiar. First of all, the victims become very very
depressed. [sits on the bed, face in his hands] Oh, god! [near
to tears] This whole revolution is so depressing, I mean,
sometimes I wonder why I bother… I mean, I’m so lonely, and
nobody loves me…
Edmund: …and after the depression comes death.
Smedley: No — after the depression comes [jumps off the bed and grabs
Edmund’s lapels, shouting] the loss of temper, you stuck-up
bastard!!! [turns to Baldrick] What you are staring at???
Edmund: …and after the >temper< comes death.
Smedley: No! After the temper comes the, er… comes the, er…
Smedley: Er, yes, that’s it… er… comes the, er…
Smedley: Yes, yes. Right in the middle of a…of a…thingy…
you completely forget what it was you…oh, nice pair of shoes!
Edmund: …and after the forgetfulness, you die.
Smedley: Oh, no! I forgot one! After the forgetfulness comes a moment of
exquisite happiness! [laughs, jumps up and down, waving his arms
in the air] Jumping up and down, and waving your arms in the air,
and knowing that in a minute we’re all going to be free! free!!
Edmund: [getting tired of this] …and >then< death?
Smedley: No — you jump into a corner first.
[jumps into a corner; dies]
Baldrick: Hurray! It’s the Scarlet Pimpernel!
Edmund: Yes, Baldrick…
Baldrick: …and you killed him!
Edmund: Yes, Baldrick… I mean, what’s the bloody point of being the
Scarlet Pimpernel if you’re going to fall for the old poisoned-cup
routine? Scarlet Pimpernel, my foot! Scarlet Git, more like it!
[sees that the door is still ajar] But wait! Here’s our chance
to escape! Come on, quick!
Baldrick: But what about Mr Frou?
Edmund: Oh, forget Frou Frou. I wouldn’t pick my nose to save his life.
Now, come on. [begins to exit, but runs into Frou Frou]
Ah! Frou Frou, my old friend and comrade, w-what are you doing here?
Frou Frou: I escaped! What happened here?
Edmund: Oh, er, nothing, nothing… [closes cell door]
Frou Frou: Oh, I thought for a moment the Scarlet Pimpernel had
[Edmund chuckles nervously; looks at — and nudges — Baldrick.]
[Baldrick very badly fakes a laugh.]
[Scene change to Prince’s house. Prince nearly has his trousers
on. Edmund, Frou Frou and Baldrick enter.]
Prince: Ah, chaps! Good to see you. Just trying on the new trousers…
Edmund: I return, Sir, as promised, plus one toff French aristocrat fresh
from the Bastille.
Prince: [as Frou Frou bows] Ah! Please to meet you, monsieur. Do sit down.
Frou Frou: Enchante’… [goes to sit]
Prince: Damn sorry about the revolution and all that caper — most awfully
bad luck. [to Edmund] So, tell me, Blackadder: how the devil did
you get him out?
Edmund: Sir, it is an extraordinary tale of courage and heroism which
I blush from telling by myself, but seeing as there’s no one else–
Baldrick: I could try.
Edmund: [baps Baldrick on the back of the head]
We left England in good weather, but that was a far as our luck
held. In the middle of Dover Harbour, we were struck by a tidal
wave. I was forced to swim to Boulogne with the unconscious
Baldrick tucked into my trousers. Then, we were taken to Paris,
where I was summarily tried and condemned to death, and then hung by
the larger of my testicles from the walls of the Bastille.
It was then that I decided I had had enough.
Edmund: So, I rescued the count, killed the guards, jumped the moat,
ran to Versailles — where I climbed into Mr Robespierre’s
bedroom, leaving him a small tray of milk chocolates and an
insulting note. The rest was easy.
Prince: That is an incredible story — worthy of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Edmund: Well, I wouldn’t know.
Frou Frou: I, on the other hand, would. [stands] Because, you see, Sir
[removes glasses, wig and false nose, revealing himself to be
Lord Topper], >I< am the Scarlet Pimpernel.
Edmund: Uh oh…
Prince: [standing] Good lord! Topper!
Topper: Yes, Your Highness.
Prince: Well, by gads and by jingo with dumplings, steak and kidneys,
and a good solid helping of sprouts! I can’t believe it!
>You’re< the fellow who has single-handedly saved all those
damned frenchies from the chop?
Topper: Not quite single-handedly, Sir. I operated with the help of my
friend, Smedley, but he seems to have disappeared for the moment,
[Baldrick gets ready to say something.]
Edmund: Shut up, Baldrick.
Baldrick: [line obscured by laughter]
Prince: So… So Blackadder rescued the Scarlet Pimpernel!
Topper: No, Sir, he did not.
Topper: Prepare yourself for a story of dishonour and deceit that will make
your stomach turn.
Prince: Well, I say! [to Edmund] This is interesting, isn’t it, Blackadder?
[Edmund nods slowly.]
Topper: Not only that [turning and walking toward Edmund], but I trust it
will lead to the imprisonment of a man who is a liar, a bounder,
and a cad.
[Baldrick turns to look, with Topper, at Edmund.]
[Edmund turns to look behind himself.]
Prince: Well, bravo! because we hate liars, bounders and cads, don’t we,
Edmund: Generally speaking…yes, Sir. [begins to serve drinks]
But perhaps before Lord Topper starts to talk, he might like
a glass of wine. [he has dropped a suicide pill into Topper’s
glass] He’s looking a little shaken.
Topper: [taking the glass] Shaken, but not stirred. [drinks]
[gives glass back to Edmund, who sniffs it]
[turns to Prince]
It all began last week. I was sitting in Mrs Miggins’ coffee shop
when…oh, god! [holds head in his hands] All this treachery is
so depressing… [shouts] I mean, the whole thing just makes you
incredibly angry!!! [swings at Baldrick, missing; Baldrick falls
over anyway; then Topper runs over to Prince] AND IT JUST MAKES
YOU WANT TO…oh, that’s a nice waistcoat, Your Majesty…
er…I’m sorry; I’ve completely forgotten what I was talking about.
Edmund: [grinning] Erm, a story of dishonour and deceit…
Topper: [smiles] Oh! That’s a great story! That’s great!!
Oh, that’s a WONDERFUL STORY!!! Let me just jump into
this corner first. [jumps into corner; dies]
Prince: [standing] Roast my raisins! He’s popped it! I say, Blackadder,
do you think he really was the Scarlet Pimpernel?
Edmund: Well, judging from the ridiculous ostentatiousness of his death,
I would say that he was.
Prince: Well, then, that’s a damn shame, because I wanted to give him this
enormous postal order. [holds it up]
Edmund: Please, Sir, let me finish. I would say that he was…>n’t<.
[deeply concentrating now] You see, the Scarlet Pimpernel would
never ever reveal his identity — that’s his great secret.
So, what you’re actually looking for is someone who has, say,
just been to France and rescued an aristocrat, but when asked
“Are you the Scarlet Pimpernel?” he replies, “Absolutely not,”
Prince: But, wait a minute! Blackadder, >you’ve< just been to France,
and you’ve rescued a French aristocrat… Oh, Blackadder!
Are you the Scarlet Pimpernel?
Edmund: Absolutely not, Sir.
[Prince, too excited for words, hands the postal order to Edmund,
who already has his hand waiting to take it.]
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By Rhea Riley
The Milwaukee Christmas family feast is the largest of any Salvation Army dinner’s on Christmas day in the United States. This year, the free event is expected to receive at least 8,000 to guests. However, that is not discouraging since the Salvation Army has been preparing for the massive event for six months. It will take 1,400 volunteers to accomplish their event and their work began when donated food began to pour in this Wednesday.
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05 Nov 2012
I kind of like being freed from the no-politics rule here at FO and the "OMG, do not offend anyone anywhere with topical humor or post-19th century formatting" of some other past employers. It is not like I want to go off and start ripping people's political views. I just have so many Walter Mondale jokes to share with the world.
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Mark Meadows had helped introduce Donald Trump to DOJ attorney Jeffrey Clark who is putting together a secret plan to oust Rosen, the Acting Attorney General, and force Georgia to overturn its results. The U.S. records the highest daily total of vaccination over a month. One-on- one interview with CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on the pandemic, masking, and vaccines. Richard Trumka, the Secretary-General of AFL-CIO, died today very suddenly at the age of 72. President Biden sets a goal of 50 percent electric vehicle sales by 2030. Top Democrats across the party call for Gov. Cuomo to resign.
JOY REID, MSNBC HOST: And as it happens, there`s a name for what this brand of the American right has morphed into. You heard on this show earlier and from people like Mehdi Hasan and David Frum, and that word is fascist. And it`s time we started calling it what it is, because it`s dangerous, it`s in our midst, and it`s the absolute worst.
And tonight`s REIDOUT. "ALL IN WITH CHRIS HAYES" starts now.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CHRIS HAYES, MSNBC HOST (voice over): Tonight, on ALL IN. Donald Trump`s failed coup was even more serious than we knew.
REP. RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI (D-IL): This guy Jeff Clark was writing or drafting these types of letters to all the six states that ended up going for Joe Biden.
HAYES: Tonight, what we know about the other states Donald Trump and Jeffrey Clark were targeting and who else was helping them to do it.
Then, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on the surgeon vaccinations when Delta variant spread and the push for masks as kids head back to school.
Plus, Electric Jeep Day at the White House. What the new Biden push to phase out gas-powered vehicles means for you.
And the sudden death of an American labor giant. Remembering AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka when ALL IN starts right now.
JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: He wasn`t just a great labor leader, he was a friend.
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HAYES (on camera): Good evening from New York. I`m Chris Hayes. When I was here in this chair last night, I started the show by saying that Donald Trump`s failed coup was worse than we thought. And 24 hours later, I am here to say once again, that the failed coup was worse than we thought last night. It`s because we`ve got another damning new bit of information since we reported last night on the roll that this man, former Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark played in attempting to overturn American democracy.
Last night, we told the story of the letter that Clark had drafted to be sent to Georgia State officials and he wanted the acting Attorney General at the time, Jeffrey Rosen, to sign it. Jeffrey Rosen there in the background. That letter basically said the following. The Department of Justice is investigating voting regularities and well, you really can`t trust the results one way or another, so you in Georgia should call a special session, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, and send your own electors to Washington."
Now, of course, since Georgia is run by Republicans, the ideas those electors would almost certainly be Trump electors, right? So, that would be a violation of Georgia State law, a violation of the will of the people, right? Donald Trump lost the election in Georgia by 11,000 votes. It would throw the post-election process into chaos. Thankfully, Jeffrey Rosen, the Acting Attorney General, refused to sign it. The letter was never sent.
Not for lack of trying though, because the New York Times reported that Jeffrey Clark even cooked up a plot with Donald Trump, met with him in person, for Trump to fire Rosen so that Jeffrey Clark could take over his job and send a letter. And it was only when a group of senior Justice Department officials threatened mass resignations that Trump pulled back. OK, well, we learned something new after the show last night. They weren`t just targeting Georgia.
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KRISHNAMOORTHI: It turns out that this guy, Jeff Clark, was writing or drafting these types of letters to all the six states that ended up going for Joe Biden. And I think that, you know, what we see is the beginning of the effort to overturn the election.
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HAYES: That was Democratic Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, and he sits on the House Oversight Committee which has been investigating Trump`s efforts to overturn the election and offered up that they were trying to run this operation six states. That`s based on another e-mail written by Trump`s personal secretary.
Now, I guess these states are probably Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada. It was in the states that the Trump lost by the narrowest margin. And for Trump to win, he would have somehow have to flip at least three of those states.
So, for the first time in the development of this whole story through months of reporting and sort of patchwork bits of information, it`s clear, there was an actual cognizable plan to overturn the election. An actual strategy to get Donald Trump declared the winner of the election, not just throwing stuff against the wall and tantrum tweeting and easily dismissed fakakta lawsuits.
Now, it seemed like a concrete strategy yesterday when we first saw that letter, but it was incomplete because again, if they just overturn Georgia, which we know Trump was obsessed with, right, it still wouldn`t matter. Trump lost by more electoral votes than Georgia has. So, he needed more than that.
But if you`ve got the Attorney General sending that letter to six states, all of a sudden, the math could work. That could actually do the trick. You know, much of what Donald Trump, and we watched it in real-time and his cronies did publicly in the aftermath, the election was a, you know, cringe inducing. It was mockable, comical. Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell and Lin Wood making outrageous ridiculous claims and getting laughed out of court after court and it all seemed impotent with no real like, path or strategy. And the case is, they kept getting thrown out. They`ve nowhere to go in the courts.
But now it`s clear that by late December, they had arrived at an actual plan in place they were trying to execute. And it wasn`t just Jeffrey Clark. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was also at the center of it. Mark Meadows is a man who also participated in an attempt on the life of American democracy.
Now, there`s some conflicting reporting about how Trump and Clark originally got linked up. But in this new book, Wall Street Journal`s Michael Bender writes, "Mark Meadows had helped introduce Trump to DOJ attorney Jeffrey Clark who is putting together a secret plan to oust Rosen, the Acting Attorney General, and force Georgia to overturn its results.
And we know from e-mails released by the House Oversight Committee, at the end of December, beginning of January, that crucial period of time right before January 6, that Meadows was repeatedly pressing Rosen to investigate so-called voter fraud, including sending one e-mail. On January 1st, it read, "There have been allegations of signature match anomalies in Fulton County, Georgia."
I love the passive tense there. There have been allegations. Can you get Jeff Clark to engage on this issue immediately to determine if there`s any truth of this allegation? Now, Meadows is asking for him to call in Clark because he knows Clark is on the team. And the next day, Meadows arranged the call between Trump and George`s Republican Secretary of State when Trump infamously said, "I just want to find 11,780 votes, that`s one more than what do you needed."
So, Mark Meadows is in on the plot, obviously, and Clark and Trump together have a plan. And here`s what appears to have been. They were going to try to use the completely fabricated allegations of voting fraud and irregularities that had been pumped into the atmosphere by Trump and repeated by his allies and the right-wing media, and use that to have the Department of Justice officially send a letter to the six most closely contested states, five of which have Republican-control legislators and say, hey, this is the official blessing the U.S. Department of Justice telling you the results in your state are tainted, they can`t be trusted, we don`t really know who won. And by the way, you have the constitutional authority to call a special session, select a slate of Trump electors, and send them along to Washington.
Keep in mind, the Republicans running these state legislatures are a receptive audience. They`re the same people who in Michigan went like completely nuts over the governor`s public health measures, or the legislators in Arizona who are running the sham election audit, or in Georgia who just passed a law to make voting much, much, much harder. They`re all ears generally, much more so than the courts.
And so, finally, after flailing in those courts where they got nowhere, they realize there`s a much better avenue. Just have the Department of Justice give state Republicans the official green light to say, the election is tainted by fraud, we got to send our own electors.
Again, this is not Rudy Giuliani at Four Seasons Landscaping or Sidney Powell talking about the ghost of Hugo Chavez inhabiting the voting machines. No, this is an unnervingly plausible path to steal the election. Luckily, it took them a while to get there. And I frankly don`t have the words to describe what a cataclysm this all would have been if that letter had gone out and state Republicans have taken the signal in a number of these states and sent their own electors, because then you would have to slates elector that are sent to Congress in January 6.
All of a sudden, you have a real fight about which ones are legitimate. And there is now -- I mean, it`s fabricated, but there`s now a stronger case for Republicans to vote against Biden`s electors, a much stronger case for Vice President Mike Pence to accept their challenge. Suddenly, Mike Pence is given the fig leaf he needs to keep Donald Trump in power, or maybe gets thrown to the House under Electoral Count Act in the 12th amendment, and the 30 states of the Republican legislators vote for Donald Trump.
The plan fell apart three days before the insurrection when senior DOJ officials put their careers on the line to their great credit to stop it. But who knows what could have happened? There are all sorts of ways this could have played out and none of them good.
Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna of California is a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and he joins me now. And Congressman, I want to start with this e-mail that`s an indicator of the -- of the scope of the plot that was unearthed by the committee that you serve on.
This is a an e-mail to Rosen and Donohue on December 28. And he explains the Georgia letter we reported last night that says,"Attached is a draft letter concerning the broader topic of election irregularities of any kind. The concept is to send to the governor speaker and president pro temp of each relevant state to indicate that in light of time urgency and sworn evidence of election irregularities presented to courts and the legislative committees, the legislators thereof should each assemble and make a decision about electoral appointment in light in their -- of their deliberations." That`s, that`s the Jeffrey Clark plot, it appears.
REP. RO KHANNA (D-CA): Chris, that is the smoking gun. It`s unnerving how close Trump came to using the full weight of the Justice Department to overturn the election result. What Clark was saying to the Georgia governor and legislature is not just you have a green light, but you should call a special session and say that the election was corrupt and overturn the result.
Now, here`s the shocking part. He says this is a concept that we can use in every other battleground state. It`s like a high school student doing a copy and paste assignment. I mean, there`s not even a pretense of looking at the individual states that if there was fraud committed, basically, let`s just use a copy of what we did in Georgia and send this to every other battleground state and tell them it`s corrupt, and they should have the legislature convene to have Trump electors. It is amazing how close Trump came to subverting our democracy.
HAYES: Yes. And we should note that Trump says this now, and you know, we got those famous notes from Donoghue, who`s serving as the deputy to Jeffrey Rosen during this period time. And again, I`m getting all this through the -- through the reporting and I and the documents. It seems fairly rock solid that Rosen and Donoghue really did do the right thing here.
But this, of course, has Trump saying I don`t expect you to do that. Meaning, I don`t expect you to overturn the election, just say the election was corrupt, leave the rest to me and Republican Congressmen. So, they -- that`s December 21. Like, at that point, they really did have a plan. And I think that this has been a little slow to dawn on the American people, and it`s kudos to your committee for unearthing this, that there really was a plan. It was not just the wheel spinning, you know, cringe-inducing carnival that was Sidney Powell and Lin Wood and Rudy Giuliani.
KHANNA: There was a plan. And the reason it matters to look backwards is because they could try to use this plan in the future. I mean, their plan is to say that state legislatures can overturn the popular will. And in Bush versus Gore, Rehnquist`s opinion basically says that it`s not people who have the right to elect a president, it`s the state legislatures who have the right to elect a president.
And what Trump was saying is we`re going to have the Justice Department cast aspersions, say it`s corrupt, and then have Republican state legislatures vote for a slate that would elect Trump. The really scary part, Chris, is what if Republicans do this again in the future and try to defer to state legislatures to elect a Republican candidate even if the Democrat wins overwhelmingly the popular vote in those states.
HAYES: So, this is unearthed by the House Oversight Committee. My understanding is, as of today, this investigation is being moved over the January 6 committee. But I got to say -- first of all, so A, I want to know that`s right. But B, I got to say like, I think Jeffrey Clark should be under oath tomorrow. And I think Mark Meadows should be under oath tomorrow.
And I think we should hear from these people who should answer some questions, you know, under penalty of perjury about the role they played in attempting a coup.
KHANNA: Absolutely. I think they both need to answer questions. I do think they that we need to coordinate with the Justice Department because I think in Clark`s case, there`s criminal exposure. I mean, if really what he was doing is sending copy and paste letters to states with no underlying even differentiation that needs to be done.
So, the Oversight Committee is still going to be involved, but the Speaker is doing the right thing by consolidating it in the Select Committee. And the oversight staff that have been exceptional will be working with the select committee to get to the bottom of it and the facts.
HAYES: All right, Congressman Ro Khanna, thank you so much for making some time with us tonight.
KHANNA: Thank you.
HAYES: I want to bring in Ian Bassin, former associate White House Council to President Obama, Executive Director at the nonprofit Protect Democracy. First, Ian, this is a question that I`ve asked a bunch of people at different points which is the kind of, you know, glass half full, half empty, right? I mean, the terrible thing about this is that they had a plan to try to overturn election. The good thing is that it didn`t work and they -- and they met with the resistance that you would hope for at the upper echelon of the Justice Department, even handpicked, you know, people that Trump had installed. What`s your takeaway?
IAN BASSIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, PROTECT DEMOCRACY: I mean, look, we survived basically a category two political hurricane last fall. But the category five political hurricane is the one that`s coming, because as Congressman Khanna just pointed out, past year is prologue. There is now a plan afoot by an autocratic faction in this country to put in place mechanisms to be able to succeed in overturning a future election and the ways that they failed in this past election and involves three steps, right?
Step one is create enough mistrust, doubt, and suspicion in the system that you can create chaos and an opportunity for on toward action. So, the entire big lie, the fake audit in Arizona is all about flooding the system with distrust.
Step two, is make it harder for voters who would oppose your sort of autocratic factions to be able to vote. And then step three, is give hyperpartisan loyalists greater power over the administration of elections so they can intervene. And as Congressman Khanna suggested, decide who they think should win regardless of who the voters pick.
HAYES: Yes. And the ultimate -- this is slightly technical, but I think it`s worth taking a second with this, this sort of ultimate version of that is a theory that is in my humble non-lawyer review, nuts an out there, but was essentially subscribed to by William Rehnquist in that Bush v. Gore with two Republican-appointed justices signing on to it.
And we think there`s some openness to it among current justices, which basically says, because the Constitution gives to the legislators -- legislatures, you know, that`s the term they use, the sort of selection of the electors as they determine, that that means that they can kind of -- even if the way they determined is to pass a law in the state of Michigan that it goes to the winner of the election, they can then Trump that later under a constitutional authority and say, like, no Pennsylvania voters, you don`t get to decide, we do at any time. Am I -- do I have that right?
BASSIN: I think you have the beginning parts of that right. But you made a leap that I don`t think it`s going to actually pass muster in the court, which is that, yes, a state legislature under the Constitution can choose how to select the presidential electors. But for more than 50 years, every state in this country has chosen that the way to do that is to allow the people to vote.
Once the state has chosen that, it cannot go back on that for a number of reasons. And the national Task Force on election crises which is a cross- ideological group of Republicans and Democrats and those conservatives all made this clear last year, which is two things. One under federal law, Congress has said that states pick their presidential electors on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of every November. That`s the date. So, once that happens, the state legislature can`t pick another day down the road.
And then second, even under the Constitution, once the state legislature is given that power to the voters, it can`t after the fact deprive them of their due process expectations to take it back. So, a state would have to basically come out before the election and say no, no, actually, we`re going to let the state legislatures --
BASSIN: And Arizona tried to do that earlier this year. A bill was introduced to do that. Thankfully, it got defeated. But you know what? The legislator who introduced that bill is now running for Secretary of State of Arizona.
HAYES: Wow. Oh, my God. OK, Ian Bassin, thank you so much for your time tonight.
BASSIN: Thanks, Chris.
HAYES: All right, tonight, there are so many massive questions about what the next few months holds for the future of the pandemic. For instance, will the current surge in vaccinations helpful the Delta variant, when can kids under 12 get vaccinated, what happens when kids go back to school? Does everyone need a booster shot? If so, when?
Luckily for us, the head of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky is here. We`ll get her best answers to all those questions more next.
HAYES: There is a surge in Americans getting vaccinated right now over the last 24 hours. 864,000 Americans got the shot, the highest total of more than a month. This renewed interest in vaccination, of course, can`t come fast enough as the Delta variant ravages throughout the country. The data on who is dying from color right now is very clear.
The Kaiser Family Foundation analyzed state level data from this year. They found the overwhelming majority of people who died from COVID between 97 and 99 percent were not fully vaccinated. I want to bring in the director of the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Rochelle Walensky.
Doctor, it`s good to have you on the program. I want to ask. Does the CDC have this data? Do you have comprehensive data that you`ve monitored about whether those numbers change considerably under the Delta variant?
ROCHELLE WALENSKY, DIRECTOR, CDC: Thank you, Chris. We are following these data very carefully. We`re in touch with each state. We`re in touch with many of the hospital systems and our results are consistent with what Kaiser Family Foundation is finding, and that is the overwhelming majority of inpatients, of people who are getting sick with COVID, and certainly people who are dying of COVID are those who have been unvaccinated.
HAYES: There`s a little bit of a numerator -- a denominator problem that I think everyone`s wrestling with right now in two different ways in terms of breakthrough cases and in terms of children. So, let`s talk about breakthrough cases. My sense is that the CDC stop monitoring breakthrough cases as a -- as a number in the aggregate in May. And there`s been some criticism that gives us a not the best eyes on the virus right now. Do you think that was a mistake? Do I have it wrong? And are you monitoring breakthrough cases now?
WALENSKY: Thank you so much for that. Let me clarify. We are -- we have self-reporting of people who are coming into the hospital and dying through our breakthrough cases. And that is one way that we are monitoring breakthrough cases. But the best epidemiologic way is to monitor this through cohort studies. And we are following now tens of thousands of people, thousands of whom are getting a PCR test every single week regardless of symptoms. And that is the best epidemiologic way to follow breakthrough cases.
So, we are doing both self-reporting, passive reporting, and that`s where we stopped collecting the outpatient data. But more importantly, we are doing cohort reporting, and that is the best way to follow and understand both the numerator and the denominator just as you note.
HAYES: OK, so you got -- you have a cohort, a large cohort that like is like a panel survey that you know, they`ll do in public opinion that you feel is statistically representative that you`re getting constant data from. Is that correct?
WALENSKY: We actually have more than one cohort. We have over 20 cohorts. And these are cohorts, some are essential workers, some are long term care facilities, some are health care workers, some are people that are just presenting to urgent care centers across the nation, tens of thousands of people that we are monitoring both the numerator and the denominator. And that gives us a really good picture of how our vaccines are performing over time.
HAYES: So, this leads to the children question. A lot of people are really concerned about this. I got three kids. You know, before Delta, I would say, look, I`m someone who professionally and also out of personal investment, looks at the data very carefully. And in the aggregate, we`re lucky that kids don`t seem to be that at risk.
There are exceptions, of course. It`s not zero risk. But in the grand scheme of things, there`s things that are more serious threats to children. Is that the top line of Delta? And do we have enough -- can you tell American parents, that`s still true with Delta?
WALENSKY: Here`s what I can tell American parents. The best way to protect your children from Delta who can`t get vaccinated yet is to get vaccinated yourself, to wear a mask and indoor public settings in areas of substantial and high transmission so you don`t bring Delta home, and to make sure when your kids are eligible to be vaccinated, that you get them vaccinated to protect them.
In our schools, we`re going to need to have everybody masked so that our kids can safely return to in-person learning.
HAYES: OK, I mean, I know that`s the guidance. But that`s -- and I understand that like, you can`t freelance here in your live television interview with me. But it`s also doesn`t quite answer the question, right? Because that`s the -- that`s the affirmative guidance about how to act in the world. And what I`m trying to find out is like, how do I do a risk assessment because we`re all making risk judgments here.
Like there`s no ironclad rules. Everyone has got to -- like, Is it worth it to fly and go see grandma and grandpa, you know, all this stuff. Like, you know, two months ago, I`m like -- my thought was like, basically, they`ll be fine. I was worried about the seniors in my life. I`m glad that I`m vaccinated, my kids are going to be fine, basically. And I don`t know what to think now.
WALENSKY: Right. You know, we`ve seen -- we`re watching this very carefully. We`re watching what is happening. Of course, you`re hearing reports of children who are in the hospital who are sick with COVID. What we`re seeing in the -- in our discussions with states is that the places that have had to close camps, the places that have had challenge challenges with summer school have really been in areas that are not practicing the prevention strategies that we know work.
Places where you`re seeing the footage of lots of hospitalizations especially young people have been places in this country that have not -- that have lower rates of vaccination, higher rates of disease, and have not been implementing the prevention strategies that we know work.
HAYES: Yes. And I guess this is -- this is again a kind of denominator question, right? I mean, it all comes down to like, what`s your rate of community transmission? And, you know, again, a slim risk or a one in 1000 risk. If you`ve got 10,000 or 100,000 cases, that makes a difference in the aggregate.
Another question for you which sort of follows on all this which is just a criticism that I`ve read of the CDC. And it`s a criticism that`s not directed at you, but I think there`s continuity between before your tenure and during it and from people that are epidemiologists, Zeynep Tufekci in New York Times, which is that you`ve got a tough job making judgment calls under conditions of uncertainty with a novel virus you`re just getting data on, but a sense of the CDC has been behind and chasing the virus has been late on it.
In the case of Delta, India identifies the strain last year. The U.K. is warning in May about how transmissible it is. There`s cross-country data suggesting it`s very transmissible. We don`t get the guidance till months later. What do you say to those critics?
WALENSKY: Let me tell you how this went with -- in terms of the change of our guidance last week. We saw the first data on the potential for transmissibility among those who have -- were breakthrough infections. We saw those on a Friday. We corroborated those with other data from other situations, other countries over the weekend. And by Tuesday, we had updated guidance. By Friday, we have those data published. They were unpublished previously.
And within a week, not only had we updated our guidance, we had it published data on it. Since then, there have been at least two or three other published studies that have corroborated those data. We are moving at the speed of science. We`re delivering to the public messages for public health as we receive them, and then we are publishing those data in swift fashion for everyone to see.
HAYES: All right, Dr. Rochelle Walensky who does not have an easy job, just in case that wasn`t clear, I want to thank you for your time tonight.
WALENSKY: Thanks so much for having me.
HAYES: OK, still ahead, what made the President of the United States whip off his coat, jog across the White House lawn today? Could it have something to do with that kick-ass electric Jeep? The answer and why it`ll matter to you next.
HAYES: For all the fake populism that`s very in vogue right now particularly among the real estate fail sons and the frozen dinner heirs, Richard Trumka was the real deal. He grew up in a working class family in southwest Pennsylvania. He was a third-generation coal miner. His grandfather was a union man, his father was union man.
Trumka could put himself through college working shifts at the mine. He`d gone to get a law degree and worked full time in Washington. At the age of 33, he was sworn in as the president of the United Mine Workers, an of oath of office administered by his dad. He would serve as president for 13 years.
In 2011, in a profile in Esquire, Trumka was asked about returning to his mining roots after a brief stint as a big shot Washington lawyer. He said, "I developed a vision of what the union could be, what it should be, what the labor movement could be. You see the union with all its blemishes and you`re able to say that it`s still the best vehicle there is for social change."
It wasn`t long before Trumka became secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, a group of more than 50 labor unions representing millions of workers. During his tenure as Secretary, the war on organized labor was intense. We saw sustained attempts by reactionary forces to pry away white working people from the Democratic Party, from the labor movement and progressivism over issues of race.
In a fiery speech in 2008, Trumka was unflinching in his response.
RICHARD TRUMKA, SECRETARY-GENERAL, AFL-CIO: Look around this town. Nemacolin is a dying town. There`s no jobs here. Our kids are moving away because there`s no teacher here. And here is the man, Barack Obama, who`s going to fight for people like us, and you want to tell me that you will vote for him because of the color of his skin? Are you out of your ever- loving mind, lady?
See, brothers and sisters, we can`t tap dance around the fact that there`s a lot of folks out there just like that woman, and a lot of them are good union people, they just can`t get past the idea that there`s something wrong with voting for a Black man. Well, those of us who know better, can`t afford to sit silently or look the other way while it`s happening.
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HAYES: A year later, Trumka was elected President of the AFL-CIO where he oversaw a real concerted effort to encompass a kind of multiracial solidarity including changing the group`s position on immigration. Richard Trumka died today very suddenly at the age of 72. It was news that reverberated like an earthquake through politics.
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JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Rich Trumka died today from a heart attack. The reason I was a few minutes late coming out, and I apologize for that, I was talking to his wife and to his son who called. He was an American worker, always fighting for working people, protecting their wages, their safety, their pensions, and their ability to build a middle-class life. I`ve also believed that the middle class build America, but I know who built the middle class, the unions. The unions built the middle class. And there`s no doubt that Rich Trumka help build unions all across this country.
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HAYES: Trumka`s death comes at a time where seeing a revived wave of labor militancy, his old union, United Mine Workers had more than 1000 workers walk off the job in Alabama on April 1st. They`ve been on strike since demanding better hours, wages and benefits from their coal company. Last month, those workers had a huge showing of solidarity in New York with members from all over the labor movement filling the streets.
There was of course also the recent campaign in Bessemer, Alabama. The unionized workers at an Amazon warehouse there which the company fought tooth and nail, and it looks successful. The Union losing that election by quite a bit. Now, it looks like those workers are likely to get a second shot of forming a union because just the other day, the National Labor Relations Board recommended the results of the first election be tossed out, accusing Amazon of improper anti-union tactics.
Before the pandemic, data from Bureau of Labor Statistics showed U.S. workers were more likely to strike than in any other time in the last 30 years. And now, after the pandemic, a desire for dignity in the workplace is producing widespread grassroots labor actions across the country. That`s what Richard Trumka spent his whole life fighting for. If there`s one thing he taught us about the labor movement in this country, which has seen both good times and bad, is that it will carry on no matter how much the bosses wish to kill it off for good.
HAYES: There`s been a bunch of good news recently for electric cars and the companies that make them. Tesla just had its best quarter ever. The company`s net income in the second quarter of this year topped to $1 billion, ten times more than a year ago. That comes amid rumors this week Tesla may have completed its first prototype for an expected new model that will sell for just $25,000.
CEO Elon Musk announced a plan for that fully electric, fully autonomous vehicle last year although there`s a lot of justified skepticism about the fully autonomous part. That said, now legacy automakers are making big moves towards electric as well.
Ford says they`ve received more than 120,000 reservations, not like -- you know, people putting down money to reserve for their highly anticipated electric F-150 truck, which debuted in May and set to start delivering in the spring. And GM confirmed this week they`re planning to add two new electric vehicles to their commercial lineup, a full sized cargo van and a medium-duty truck.
The manufacturers are clearly on board with electric, so as the White House. You see President Biden taking an electric Jeep for a spin today ahead of signing an executive order that aims to have half of all vehicles sold in U.S. be electric by the year 2030. The Biden administration`s also setting stricter emission standards for cars that run on fossil fuels. The question is, what about the infrastructure to support all these new electric vehicles? Is it going to take -- what is it going to take to get built and what it will look like?
Phil LeBeau covers the auto industry for CNBC and he joins me now. Phil, first, let`s start with the policy from the Biden administration today. There`s been obviously the wrestling match, a strange one on the Trump ministration about fuel emissions in which you have the automakers actually saying they wanted better emission standards than the White House did. There was a lawsuit. There`s a back and forth. What is today`s announcement on that front mean?
PHIL LEBEAU, CNBC AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER: Well, they`re all on the same page, finally. And the what happened with the Trump administration is that was more a fight between the Trump administration and the state of California over the question of who has the right to set vehicle emission standards. Ultimately, automakers were split. Some sided with the Trump administration, some sided with the state of California. Now, they`re all on the same page.
And theoretically, that should be better for the industry. They want one standard. They don`t want to have to do a patchwork of standards. And they`ll probably go with the California and the federal standard together.
HAYES: So, you know, I`ve covered this area a little -- quite a bit over the years. And it just seems to me like in the last year or two, some switches really turned on the electric car front in terms of the big automakers, big mainstream automakers. Like, they are -- they are doing it now. Is that a fair characterization and what happened to get them there?
LEBEAU: Well, I think they finally realized that the market is not just a possibility, that it actually is there. And for that, you can thank Tesla. Hats off to Tesla for showing the United States and really showing the world, there are a lot of people who want to drive electric. Now, at the same time, Tesla is primarily for those who want to pay a fair amount for an electric vehicle. The price is much above -- are well above what you see for an internal combustion engine vehicle.
So, the automakers need to get to the electric vehicle market. So, they`re going to pour in. Just think about this, Chris. Between the big three, they`re investing $99 billion dollars between now and 2025 to develop this market. And it`s going to take that plus a lot more in order to see as many vehicles sold as the Biden administration is hoping to see by 2030.
HAYES: Well, let`s talk about this. There`s two parts of that. There`s what the -- what the industry does and what the infrastructure does. Let`s talk about the industry. I mean, one of the things when I`ve talked to car folks is that, you know, you`ve got incredible economies of scale when you`re talking about the big three in Detroit and cross platforms, right?
So, you can create modular battery systems, for instance. So you`ve got -- you`ve got -- you know, you can -- you can scale those batteries depending on the model. You don`t have to reinvent the wheel each time. And you can push those costs down so that they can -- they can sell cars that are better cost-competitive.
LEBEAU: That`s true. But that is going to take some time. And if you look at the cost advantage right now that Tesla has over the traditional automakers, it`s substantial. It`s going to narrow over the rest of this decade. And you`ll see the overall cost of batteries coming down as well. But the key here is it takes time. Battery technology is not something that can be developed over the course of a couple of months or even a couple of years. It takes time. And that`s going to mean several years. That`s what`s going to bring down the cost of batteries.
HAYES: And then the question is about the charging infrastructure. Obviously, we got gas stations everywhere in America.
HAYES: It took a number of years to make that happen. What are -- what it means to happen at the policy level, what are the -- what`s the sort of near term and medium-term projection for that?
LEBEAU: Let`s be clear, most people who have an electric vehicle charge it at home and they charge it overnight. And for them, the range of the vehicles is not an issue. Most Americans drive 40 miles or less. I think 80 percent drive 40 miles or less per day. These vehicles have plenty of range for just getting around the neighborhood and getting around wherever you are.
It`s when you want to take an extended trip. That`s where the problem lies. There needs to be more charging stations installed, whether it`s along highways, other key points so that, you know -- so you can drive great distances. And it`s not just that, Chris, these need to be fast-charging stations. You cannot tell somebody to go from Chicago to Denver and say, hey, by the way, you`re going to stop and charge every 250 to 300 miles for, I don`t know, two hours, three hours. No, that`s not going to work.
LEBEAU: You need to be able to say, boom, 10 minutes, you`re ready to go.
HAYES: And that`s also the question as we start to get into -- I mean, what we haven`t scaled up to is the truck problem. And the truck problem is a huge amount of missions, and that`s a big question right now where you`ve got people driving truck 12 hours. That`s going to be the sort of next rung up. Phil LeBeau, thanks so much for joining us tonight. I appreciate it.
LEBEAU: You bet.
HAYES: Ahead, what Republicans still standing by Donald Trump can learn from the near-unanimous rejection of Andrew Cuomo by Democrats. That`s next.
HAYES: The damning sexual harassment investigation to Governor Andrew Cuomo has left him under huge amounts of pressure and condemnation from his own party. At least four Democratic district attorneys are conducting criminal investigations into his conduct. There`s an ongoing impeachment effort in the democratically led state house. He just lost the support of the head of the New York Democratic Party. Both of New York`s Democratic senators have called on him to resign, as has the President of the United States.
It`s an avalanche and it shows what can be done against a very powerful politician who spent years ruling through dominance and intimidation. As Maggie Haberman in the New York Times points out, what we`re seeing from Democrats when it comes to Cuomo is a taste of the kind of thing that would have happened in the alternate universe where Republicans abandoned Trump instead of continuing to fear him.
To discuss the similarities and differences between these two dynamics, I`m joined by Sam Seder, hosts of the Majority Report and reported both on NBC streaming platform Peacock. And Rina Shah, a former Republican Strategist who served as senior aide to Republican Congressman (INAUDIBLE) and Jeff Miller. She`s now an adviser to the nonpartisan Renew Democracy Initiative.
Sam, you and I have covered Cuomo for years. And it is -- it is fascinating the kind of rains it pours. Obviously, you`ve got an official investigation with official findings that are very damning. But the dynamics here are interesting. And it really shows that like, it`s like if you`re going to come to the king, you best not miss. And if everyone`s going to do it, they better all do it together.
SAM SEDER, MSNBC CONTRIBUTOR: Absolutely. I mean, that`s definitely what`s going on here. I think everybody`s sort of decided it was time. And I do think like look, there`s an aggregate of things about Cuomo that I think folks have been waiting and stewing about for frankly for years.
And he there`s so many disparate constituencies that are looking for an opportunity. And so, I think everybody just jumped at once, and that`s -- and that`s what you`re seeing. I mean it`s a huge pile on. I don`t know how he can withstand this, to be honest with you.
HAYES: I don`t either. And Rina, what I -- what I thought was interesting was Maggie`s point I thought was quite incisive to what Sam was saying. It`s like, we know that there are tons of Republicans who absolutely hate Donald Trump`s guts. I mean, just at a personal level, right? They`re just like, they don`t like him. They would love for there to be payback. And they have never taken the leap together collectively to do this, even though they`ve been candid moments like January 6.
But this shows to me that it is -- it is -- it couldn`t be done. There is a universe, I`m not saying it`s going to happen, in which you couldn`t do it.
RINA SHAH, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: Chris, to the point made earlier, has everybody decided it`s his time? That`s the thing. All politics is local, and I`m looking at New York State. And we don`t know yet whether New York State Democrats are ready to do the thing, the thing being impeachment. We`re seeing the can sort of kicked down the road right now. We`re not fully sure where everybody`s going because the reality is this. Cuomo`s tentacles are long.
There are people in the assembly who are directly tied to him. Their donors are Cuomo`s donors, and they are one in the same. So, Cuomo holds that grip over many of them. Of course, let`s talk about seats in play for a second. That remains to be seen. But when you`re looking at the New York State Court of Appeals, for example, you see the chief justice, you see a recent appointment by him.
You see people that are Cuomo people. Are they going to impeach? That`s the question. Until the speaker calls the vote for impeachment, this is receiving the same treatment that Donald Trump received from the very Republicans who should have been calling him out.
SEDER: Chris, you know --
HAYES: Nobody -- I mean, well, right, until they do. But I think they are going to call it. I mean, that`s the point is that like, yes, he will make it as painful as possible. But at this point, I think they have --
HAYES: That`s my point. They`ve walked out far enough together, Sam, I think, on the plank that they can`t get back. Like, that`s the key dynamic here.
SEDER: Yes. Well, I think so. And I should also say like, this is not a perfectly analogous situation, right? Because Cuomo has a transactional relationship with all those people in New York that were just referenced, and Trump didn`t really. Trump had the Republican voter --
HAYES: Yes, that`s true.
SEDER: -- in a way that Cuomo doesn`t. I mean, he`s popular, but he`s not deeply popular.
HAYES: That`s right.
SEDER: And his politics, let`s face it, are much more about the early 90s than they are about the early 2020s. And so, I think like, you know, his trajectory in terms of the relationship with voters is going in a different direction. And so, there isn`t the same sort of popular appeal that Cuomo has. All of his appeal is transactional.
And again, that`s one of those situations where it really is when you come for the king, because it`s really a question of like, the king has the purse strings in this situation, and really has a lot of transactional relationships that he`s leveraged in the past, at least, and he`s going to try now.
HAYES: Right, but we`ve seen -- I mean, what`s -- I totally agree with those differences. But we`ve seen is that there have been other -- there been moments with Cuomo -- and again, I want to say that like, inciting an insurrection against the U.S. government is to me a more grave offense, particularly in, you know, in a historical sense, which is not at all to minimize what Cuomo has found to have done by the Attorney General.
But there was this moment -- I mean, what`s interesting to me is the sort of crowd dynamics of politicians hurting. There was a moment -- I was on air, Rina, when it was like the news was that McConnell might vote for impeachment. And there was this thought of, OK, maybe the dominoes fall, maybe the dominoes fall. They just rid themselves of this guy. They disqualified him.
And I guess my point is like, they could have actually done that. We`ve gotten so used to them not doing it that we think it`s not possible, but they could have. They could have done it. They could do it now. They couldn`t turn on him if they so choose.
SHAH: Well, you know, we don`t want to draw too many parallels, right, because in Trump`s scenario with Stormy Daniels, for example, he had a fall guy. That was Michael Cohen. There weren`t receipts. I mean, when you look at the situation with Cuomo, and that report is publicly available. I hope people go read it. It is nauseating. It makes my stomach turn. It is so disgusting.
There are messages, texts, I mean, pictures. It`s just the kind of situation that`s a nightmare that we would think would cause this governor to say, you know what, it`s my time. I want to leave with dignity. But instead, he`s doubling down. He`s flat-out lying. I mean, these are 11 credible accusers. And I`d be remiss if I didn`t say, Chris, I`m so proud of these women.
I`ve been in the halls of Congress, and there are equal opportunity offenders on both sides of the aisle. I know what it`s like to be in the company of powerful men and want to just do your job and have unwanted advances and have to deal with those. This is serious. They are putting their livelihoods on the line. So, I commend those women. I commend Tish James for what she did as well.
I mean doing her job but line by line really calling this what this is. But at the end of the day, there`s one big reality here. Republicans are afraid of their voters, Democrats not so much. Because what we are living in is that post-January 6 world Chris, and this world means that Republicans in elected office have to fear voters coming for them to hang them. It just makes -- it gives me goosebumps. I spent nearly two decades in politics and this is where we are at with the Republican Party. So the fear of voters is what Democrats do not have and I hope the y use it to their advantage.
HAYES: Yes, I think the fear -- the fear of political violence does diffuse a lot it.
SHA: And if Gov. Cuomo, if you`re listening tonight, live the moment. Do the right thing. Resign, please.
HAYES: Sam Seder, Rina Shah, thank you both. I`ll talk to you soon.
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