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Wald terrorist militia
Joe Wald
Revision as of 05:23, February 15, 2018 by 24.165.26.87 (Talk)
Died: Day 2: 11:55am
Suicide by gunshot wound
Status: Deceased
Played by: Jon Gries
Season(s): 2
Episode: "Day 2: 11:00am-12:00pm"
Joseph "Joe" Wald was an anti-government American terrorist and leader of a militia. His crew, which included Eddie Grant, Chris Jones, Scott Owen, Dave, and Frank, was infiltrated by undercover agent Jack Bauer who used the alias "Jack Roush".
Before Day 2 Edit
Five years prior to Day 2, CTU agent Jack Bauer was undercover as Jack Roush with Wald and his crew, including Eddie Grant. ("Day 2: 9:00am-10:00am") Wald believed that he was giving the "power back to the people" as an American extremist. ("Day 2: 11:00am-12:00pm") Jack's time undercover led to Wald's arrest and incarceration for a number of years. ("Day 2: 9:00am-10:00am") After Wald got out of prison, Nina Myers came to him to contract him to blow up CTU Los Angeles. During his second meeting with her, he was given the schematics to CTU, and Eddie Grant took some pictures of Myers from down the block. Wald never learned her name during their interactions. ("Day 2: 11:00am-12:00pm")
Shortly prior to Day 2, Wald was again set up for a trial, and the key witness against him was Marshall Goren. In exchange for testifying against Wald, Goren would be cleared of charges of kidnapping, child pornography and murder. ("Day 2: 8:00am-9:00am")
On the morning of the CTU bombing, Wald stayed in his Simi Valley hideout at 221 Canyon View Road, which was armed with a guard dog, security cameras, and a panic room. He received a call from Eddie, learning that Jack had killed Goren and arrived at Eddie's repair garage. He later learned that Jack would be replacing Dave in Eddie's mission to bomb CTU. ("9:00am-10:00am")
After CTU was successfully bombed, Eddie called to say he and the others were coming over. A short while later, Jack arrived at Wald's apartment on his own, saying that Eddie and the rest of the crew were dead. Jack insisted that Wald let him in. When he did, Jack pulled his gun on Wald and told him that he had killed Eddie, Scott and Chris for resisting arrest. He forced Wald to put down his shotgun and made him sit down. Taking Wald's shotgun, Jack asked him who told Wald to attack CTU. He explained that CTU was a secondary target as part of a larger attack to detonate a nuclear weapon somewhere in Los Angeles at some point during the day. Joe thought that Jack was lying, but Jack said that Wald had one last chance to tell the truth.
Before Jack could continue, Wald's pitbull jumped and attacked Jack. It viciously bit at his arm, and while Jack was distracted, Wald took the opportunity to run outside. Jack shot the dog, and ran after Wald. Jack followed him out to a shed in the garden, which he found to be a safe room guarded with a metal door. Jack demanded that Wald open the door, but Wald did not respond. Jack found a pickaxe and, as Wald watched via a security feed, began to hack at the wall in the hopes of breaking through. When he did, however, he found a steel wall behind and realized that he would not be able to hack through that. He sat down and told Wald that a tactical team was on its way, and that the people behind the attack wanted to destroy the country, which Jack believed to be opposed to Wald' ideologies. He laughed at the irony of the situation: Joe was opposed to the government because he felt it to be too powerful, but as it stood Joe held all the power. Jack questioned what he was going to do with it.
After about fifteen minutes, Jack became increasingly frustrated. He told Wald that the tac team would be there within two minutes and the situation would end with Joe either dead or in prison. He told Wald that he had one last chance to do the right thing. When Joe didn't respond, Jack attempted to shoot his way in, until he ran out of shotgun shells. Wald, who was listening on Jack's every word, decided to unlock his panic room door. Jack, with his gun trained entered and told him to drop the gun. There, Wald told him that the woman who gave him the plans, only saw him twice with instructions. Seeing no way out of going back to prison, Joseph Wald committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, but not before giving Jack the file. Jack searched through the files and found the contact to be Nina Myers. ("11:00am-12:00pm")
Memorable quotes Edit
Joseph Wald: Eddie said the job went off without a hitch! What happened between then and now?
Jack Bauer: I killed them. For resisting arrest. ("Day 2: 11:00am-12:00pm")
Joseph Wald: (his last words) It's over, Jack. I can't go back to jail. ("Day 2: 11:00am-12:00pm")
Live appearances Edit
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"8:00pm-9:00pm" "9:00pm-10:00pm" "10:00pm-11:00pm" "11:00pm-12:00am" "12:00am-1:00am" "1:00am-2:00am"
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PCSO Jailed For Possessing, Making and Distributing Indecent Images
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A PCSO has been convicted of offences related to the possession, making and distribution of indecent images.
Jonathan Plummer Jonathan Plummer, 35, a PCSO in Wakefield District, was found guilty today at Leeds Crown Court of three counts of making indecent images of children, one count of distributing indecent images of children, one count of possession of extreme images and one count of possession of prohibited images.
He has been sentenced to two years imprisonment. He has also been made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order and added to the Sex Offenders Register for 10 years. Plummer was suspended from duty at point of arrest in August 2018 and misconduct proceedings will now be commenced.
Detective Constable Elkie Gardner, investigating officer in the Professional Standards Directorate, said: "Plummer was viewing and sharing thousands of indecent images and videos, including some of the most extreme nature.
As a Force, we have run safeguarding campaigns highlighting the impact of these crimes on victims, who talk about it feeling like they are being abused all over again every time their image is downloaded and shared.
Colleagues from Wakefield District Safeguarding conducted a comprehensive investigation, which was further progressed by Professional Standards. Plummer refused to admit his guilt, but the evidence against him has ensured he has been convicted of these offences and that he will face the consequences of his actions.
Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Bottomley, Head of West Yorkshire Police's Professional Standards Directorate, said: The sickening off-duty activities of this PCSO have shocked and appalled his colleagues and completely contradict the values and standards that both the Force and, quite rightly, the public would expect of any police employee.
We take the possession and distribution of indecent images extremely seriously. I hope that this conviction demonstrates that no one is above the law and that we will take action against anyone involved in this abhorrent offending.
PCSO Plummer was suspended from duty immediately on his arrest.
Swift enquiries were made to confirm that his offending was not connected with his work as a PCSO and ensure that appropriate safeguards were in place.
It was found that he had looked at police intelligence files in an attempt to cover up his own offending. Following his conviction, we will now progress with misconduct proceedings.
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ARCTIC REPORT CARD 2017: THE CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE
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Last week we reported on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Arctic Program's Arctic Report Card 2017. Findings in this year's report indicate that the region is changing in a way and at a rate unseen in millennia. We wanted to see what the Canadian perspective on this year's findings and reached out to officials on this side of the border.
We spoke with Samantha Bayard, Media Relations Spokesperson Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). The department "agrees with the overall findings of the Arctic Report Card." Bayard added that the NOAA report "is consistent with our understanding of how climate has been changing in the Canadian Arctic."
"Canada's Arctic is warming at about twice the rate of the rest of Canada, and nearly three times the global average."
Samantha Bayard, Media Relations Spokesperson Environment and Climate Change Canada
The trends being observed in the Arctic will continue, "warming Arctic air temperatures are causing declines in snow cover, sea ice, and permafrost temperature," Bayard said. She added that "precipitation has also increased across Canada's north."
The report card indicated that there was a cooler spring and summer, and when asked what the response to that finding should be Bayard replied that "studies indicate that global action on carbon dioxide (CO2) and Short-lived Climate Pollutants (SLCP) together is needed to meet the temperature goals in the Paris Agreement." She explained that "SLCP are potent greenhouse gases and air pollutants."
Successfully mitigating SLCP has "the potential to reduce global warming by approximately 0.7��C in the Arctic by 2040," Bayard said. ECCC published the Strategy on Short-Lived Climate Pollutants earlier in 2017, and Bayard explained that "implementation of this strategy will generate reductions from all key SLCP emissions sources." The strategy will be coordinated with the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change.
"Canada's High Arctic is a region where the unprecedented challenge of climate change is most readily visible."
Black carbon has an additional warming effect when on snow or ice, Canada has set goals to reduce this SLCP "25% to 33% below 2013 levels," Bayard underlined. The goal is to reach this reduction by 2025.
Climate change is and will affect everyone to some degree, and this is why there are global agreements like Paris to address the changes. Bayard said the agreement "established a broad and deep consensus on the actions required to overcome the climate change challenge." In a world where concrete action is needed on very real problems, "we should be optimistic that the goals and ambitions of Paris remain very much alive."
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1920s Cottage Renovation
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in: Home Envy Before & After
Renovating a 1920s cottage might sound lovely, with the era famous for features like leadlight windows, jarrah woodwork, picture lines and cozy brick fireplaces.
But when the house in question has undergone a makeover in the 70s, when people commonly modernised period homes by stripping or covering up character details, restoring a character home and giving it back its original charm can become a much more difficult task.
I recently spent a very enjoyable evening at the beautifully renovated home of solicitor Michael Jenkin, his wife Jane and their three gorgeous children, Emma, 15, Hugh, 12, and Kate, 5.
Above: The new open-plan kitchen, living and dining is where the family comes together.
Michael and Jane bought their 1920s house in Mount Hawthorn 19 years ago. Before that, it had been owned for 40 years by an elderly lady who had passed away. Work done to the house in the 70s had seen a lot of the home's original features taken out or painted over.
"What did you like about the house when you first saw it?" I ask Michael and Jane. My question is met with polite smiles before they both look at each other and burst out laughing.
"We could see beyond it," Jane says diplomatically. "It was the location we loved."
Left: A very tiny, very cute Emma in the old front hall with lovely lino. Michael and Jane painstakingly stripped the doorframes of their paint and varnish to show the beauty of the original jarrah. Right: The house as it was when the Jenkins moved in, with 70s brick wall and plastered facade, and a photo of the old former kitchen, with parental help from Jane's mum, who helped scraped off the wallpaper.
ABOVE: A wall of windows and doors to the north-facing garden means the new living area to the rear of the house is filled with light, year-round.
ABOVE: Garden details. I love that the Jenkins grow vegies on their front verge, like quite a few people in Mt Hawthorn do. Such a nice way to use verge space. I wish it was de rigueur throughout Perth.
I love Mount Hawthorn too. One of the oldest suburbs in Perth, it has many charming 1900s homes, some restored, others untouched for decades, often occupied by elderly owners who have lived in the area for much of their life.
In recent times the area has been attracting a lot of couples and young families. This is going to sound crass, but as the elderly home owners 'die off', their cottages are often bought as renovation projects by couples or young families – like Michael and Jane. It's created a suburb with a charming mix of the old and the restored, the young and the old, with a warm, friendly community feel where neighbours say hi, kids play in front yards and people grow fruit trees and veggies on their front verge. Walking into the Jenkins house, it gives that same warm feeling immediately. But it wasn't always like that, as Michael explains. "It was very sterile," he says of the house, then a two-bedroom cottage, when they moved in. "There was a lot of lino and all the jarrah doorframes had at one point been varnished and then painted in white gloss. It had high ceilings but it had no character. It was quite bland."
The classic red brick to the exterior had been covered in shiny, ugly white concrete and the windows covered in awnings. On the roof were decramastic tiles, a 70s trend that some swear is the worst roofing material every invented. One of its faults is that over time the coating and texture wears off, clogging gutters and drains. It also deforms and buckles easily so the Jenkins needed to have it replaced. There was also an unattractive 70s dark brick wall and awnings covered the windows.
Michael and Jane painstakingly stripped the white gloss and varnish off all the interior doors and door frames and stripped wallpaper. While they did some renovation work over the years as they had their three children, their biggest improvement was finished only recently, a spacious, solar passive extension with an open-plan living, dining and kitchen that opens up onto an alfresco. Designed by Melissa Cox of OzEco Design, the extension also encompasses a study, main suite and laundry.
The extension was built by Rob Maughan of Maughan Building Company, who comes along to chat to me. The Jenkins and Rob get along so well, poking fun at each other the way only people comfortable with one another do, that I presume they are old friends, so I am surprised when Michael tells me they only met Rob after Melissa recommended him.
Michael says Rob was the only builder they approached. "We just liked him straightaway," he says. "We had him round, showed him what we wanted and he said 'oi, yeeah" (putting on a broad ocker voice). Rob looks at him resignedly.
THE JENKINS WITH ROB (back of table): We tried to get youngest daughter Kate in this pic. But as soon as we said we'd like a family photo, she went from playing Guess Who happily to running away to hide in her room, as a five-year-old is wont to do. Michael went to knock on the bedroom door. "I DON'T WANT TO HAVE MY PHOTO TAKEN," came the tiny angry roar from behind the door. "Okay," said Michael amiably. Fair enough. "AND I'M NEVER COMING OUT EITHER." Wow. Taking it to another level.
ABOVE LEFT: The main suite. RIGHT: Michael's favourite room, his new study. On the wall hangs an original war poster of Belgium. Bookcases made from recycled jarrah floorboards house his vast library.
Wanting to restore the elevation to its traditional 1920s roots, the ugly white concrete render was chipped off and the elevation tuckpointed. The top part of the original house had been done in roughcast render using charcoal. It was painstakingly copied, using blue metal, for the front of the home to give it that traditional textured look again. Ornate white painted-timber windows replaced the drab ones at the front and a red brick front wall was built to tie in with the tuckpointing.
When the time came to extend, Michael and Jane each got something they had always wanted. Michael got a study, now his favourite room, tucked away in a quiet corner of the house away from the kids' bedrooms. The desk overlooks the back garden. On the wall hangs an original war poster of Belgium. Bookcases made from recycled jarrah floorboards house his vast library.
Meanwhile Jane got her dream kitchen. "I love the kitchen - I had such a horrible kitchen before!" she says. Pictured below, with Jane's mum scraping off the wallpaper, the old dark 70s kitchen has now been turned into a lovely family bathroom.
Jane's new kitchen is now the heart of the home, with a big island bench that is home to the family's fish. Contemporary white cabinets are complemented by CaesarStone benchtops and stainless steel appliances. Michael says they had a big debate over whether to get a steam oven or not - Jane wanted one, he did not see the point. I notice that there is a steam oven, a tea towel hanging lethargically from its handlebar. I see Jane won that battle.
"Oh, the steam oven is great," Michael says. "We use it to dry teatowels."
Jane rolls her eyes and tells me it is used for much more than that. "We do vegetables, chicken, roasts, baked cheesecake – it's fantastic."
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The back garden before (with outdoor dunny), the back garden being excavated for the new living area and alfresco, the back garden now with new deck.
ABOVE LEFT: The family's beautiful 1920s dining table hails from the same era their home was built. It's made of French oak with feature inlay and extensions on two sides - I fell in love with it. When Michael told me they picked it up an auction for only $400, I think I cried a little bit inside. I paid $500 for my nice-enough-but-soulless rubber wood dining table – plus mine was the cheapest one I could find that I didn't hate (if you've ever gone shopping for a dining table, you'll know that the nice ones are expensive). Auctions are clearly the way to go people! ABOVE RIGHT: An antique chair in the dining room.
So beautifully done was the extension that the home was a finalist in the 2010 HIA-NAB Awards in its Renovations & Additions Project category. The certificate now hangs proudly above the toilet in the ensuite. "We couldn't find the right place to hang it," Michael explains. So work is done, an award's been won - how was their renovation experience?
"We're very happy," Michael says. "One of the things we like about Rob is that he's a bloke who does things properly. We're still on good terms. I think if you can do a build project and still be friendly at the end of it that says a lot. We've recommended him to lots of people we know."
Michael says all of Rob's tradespeople came to work "really enthused" about the project and I thought that was nice – when people really put energy into a renovation I think you can feel it. For the Jenkins, the sterile shoebox of a house that they never liked in the beginning is now their gorgeous, comfortable, well-loved family home with plenty of space for the five of them.
According to Michael, they plan to stay put. "I said to Jane I'll be coming out of here in a wooden box," he says.
HOME LOWDOWN
ABOVE: The beautiful new ensuite to Michael and Jane's bedroom.
Solicitor Michael Jenkin, his wife Jane, and their three children, Emma, 15, Hugh, 12, and Kate, 5
THEIR HOME
A renovated 1920s character cottage with a solar-passive rear extension
Mt Hawthorn, Western Australia
Jarrah floors, timber-framed windows, leadlighting, four bedrooms, study, open-plan living and dining with contemporary kitchen, alfresco area, veggie patch
Rob Maughan of Maughan Building Company, 9335 5632
Melissa Cox of OzEco Design
Cat Lynn of Catherine Lynn Design
Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in Home Envy , Before & After .
Jane Goldsmith - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 9:18AM
Such a great read Maya! We bought some land in Mt Hawthorn a few months ago and are looking for a builder and practical ideas to develop the property. Your first article really hit all the bases in being so applicable to us! Thank you :)
Maya - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 4:52PM
Aw thank you Jane! Oh my goodness! A block in Mt Hawthorn - I'm so excited for you two!! That's awesome, congratulations! I'm sure you will build something really homey and beautiful. I want to see pics when you start :-)
Rob Maughan - Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 9:44AM
such a fantastic project & even better clients, thank you for a terrific write up Maya
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'Climate Change' Agenda Becomes Clear
It's more about politics than saving the planet.
Jim Destefani
"…climate change 'solutions' proposed thus far are part of a political game aimed primarily at bringing the U.S. and the world's other large industrialized economies down to a level more closely approximating those of other, less fortunate nations."
Those words appeared in this space just over a year ago ("Climate Change Craziness," March 2008). That column generated a lot of reader response, with a near 50-50 split between those calling me a fool and those in agreement.
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We love to hear from readers, regardless of the nature of your comments. But passions on both sides of the issue of anthropogenic global warming run high, so it's not without some trepidation that I once again attempt to tackle the topic of the politics of anthropogenic global warming.
Skeptics should be encouraged that the notion of anthropogenic global warming as an urgent problem requiring immediate attention has been dealt some setbacks recently. A steady stream of empirical data and scientific analyses are casting doubt on many of the global warming claims.
Princeton University physicist Dr. Robert H. Austin, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, summed up the argument of many skeptics quite nicely in recent testimony to staff of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee: "Unfortunately, climate science has become political science…It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomenon which is statistically questionable at best."
Lending credence to Austin's assertion that the climate change debate has become politicized is a document distributed to participants in a U.N environmental conclave held in late March. Essentially, the "information note" envisions a large-scale, environmentally driven reordering of the world economy.
Among the many items considered are a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions, "carbon taxes" on imported fuels and energy-intensive goods and industries, and tariffs based on whether or not goods are considered "environmentally sound."The document largely ignores consequences of implementing such sweeping changes, noting only that some of the schemes espoused "may induce some industrial relocation" to "less regulated host countries." Such industrial relocation "would involve negative consequences for the implementing country, which loses employment and investment."
I think we can all make a guess as to which country or countries would take the biggest hit employment-wise in the event these schemes were to be implemented. At a time when many manufacturers in the U.S. are struggling just to stay afloat, environmentally driven protectionism and "industrial relocation" are the last things we need.
A better starting point might be for all countries involved to agree up-front that whatever programs are implemented must encourage free trade and minimize wholesale shifts of jobs and even entire industries from one country to another based simply on environmental considerations. I'm not holding my breath.
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Shiv Kumar Sharma
born on 13/1/1938 in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Biography Biography
Shivkumar Sharma
Shivkumar Sharma (born January 13, 1938, Jammu, India[1]) is an Indian Santoor player.[2][3] The Santoor is a folk instrument[1][4] from Kashmir[5] and Jammu.[6] Sharma is often referred to by the title Pandit.[3]
He was born in Jammu to the singer[7][8] Uma Dutt Sharma[9] and his mother tongue is Dogri. His father started teaching him vocals and tabla when he was just five.[8] Uma Dutt Sharma did "extensive research" on the santoor, and decided that Sharma should be the first musician to play Indian classical music on the santoor. So he started learning santoor at the age of thirteen,[8] and made his father's dream come true.[1] He gave his first public performance in Bombay in 1955.
Shivkumar Sharma is the master instrumentalist of the Santoor, after some years as a vocalist. He is credited with making the Santoor a popular Classical Instrument.[4][10] In a 1999 interview to rediff.com, Shivkumar said that it was his father who decided that he should play the Santoor and that he never thought he would be choosing it when he started learning music.[8] He composed the background music for one of the scenes in Shantaram's Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje[11] in 1956. He recorded his first solo album in 1960.[1]
In 1967, he teamed up with flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia and Brij Bhushan Kabra to produce a concept album, Call of the Valley (1967) which turned out to be one of the greatest hits in Indian Classical Music.[1][10] He has composed music for many Hindi films in collaboration with Hariprasad Chaurasia[12] starting with Silsila[11] (1980). They came to be known as the 'Shiv-Hari' music duo.[11] Some of the movies they composed music for that were big musical hits are Faasle (1985), Chandni (1989), Lamhe (1991) and Darr (1993).
Sharma married Manorama[9][13] and has two sons.[8] His son, Rahul,[14][15] is also a Santoor Player[16][17] and they have performed together since 1996.[8] In a 1999 interview to rediff.com, Shivkumar stated that he chose Rahul as his shishya because he thought he had the "gift of God".[8]
Shivkumar is the recipient of national and international awards, including an honorary citizenship of the city of Baltimore, USA, in 1985,[18] the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1986,[19] the Padma Shri in 1991, and the Padma Vibhushan in 2001.[20]
Awards (classical and film)
Platinum Disc for Call of the Valley
Platinum Disc for music of film Silsila
Gold Disc for music of film Faasle
Platinum Disc for music of film Chandni
Special Award for outstanding music and sale of film Lamhe
Special Award for outstanding music and sale of film Darr
Shivkumar Sharma - Maestro's Choice, Series 1 (1967)
Call of the Valley, with Brij Bhushan Kabra and Hariprasad Chaurasia (1967)
When Time Stood Still (Live in Bombay) (1982)
The Glory Of Strings - Santoor (1991), T-Series
Raga Bhopali vol I (1993)
Raga Kedari vol II (1993)
Varsh - A Homage to the Rain Gods (1993)
Hundred Strings of Santoor (1994)
Hypnotic Santoor (1994)
The Pioneer of Santoor (1994)
Raag Bilaskhani Todi (1994)
World Network Series, Vol. 1: India- Raga Purya Kalyan, with Zakir Hussain (1995)
Santoor (Raag Rageshri) (1998)
Sampradaya (1999)
Rasdhara, with Hariprasad Chaurasia (1999)
The Valley Recalls - Vol.2, with Hariprasad Chaurasia (2000)
Ananda Bliss, with Zakir Hussain (2002)
Vibrant Music for Reiki (2003)
Sympatico (Charukeshi - Santoor)(2004)
The Inner Path (Kirvani - Santoor) (2004)
Essential Evening Chants (2007)
A Morning Raga Gurjari Todi (2010)
Shivkumar Sharma 2 - Maestro's Choice, Series 2 (2011)
Sangeet Sartaj (2011)
Contributing artist
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Santoor maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma in conversation on Antardhwani, the film based on his life. Indian Express (2008-09-18). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.
3.0 3.1 Santoor strains music to ears of unborn too. Indian Express (2005-11-10). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.
4.0 4.1 Santoor comes of age, courtesy Pandit Shivkumar Sharma. Indian Express (2009-01-08). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.
The Healing touch. Screen (2007-12-21). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.
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9.0 9.1 Note by note, The Times of India, 2002-10-13. URL accessed on 2009-02-07.
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11.0 11.1 11.2 Enchantment from Eden valley, The Hindu, 2000-04-06. URL accessed on 2009-02-15.
'I just pick up the flute and feel the urge to play'. Financial Express (2000-02-19). Retrieved on 2009-02-15.
Sultan of strings: Shivkumar Sharma. DNA (2006-08-18). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.
Santoor notes that bind: father- son Jugalbandi. livemint.com (2007-07-01). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.
Inner Melodies. Indian Express (2008-07-29). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.
Virasaat. rediff.com (1998-03-18). Retrieved on 2009-02-07.
What's Rahul Sharma's Dalai Lama connection?, Times of India, 2006-07-03. URL accessed on 2009-02-07.
Profile. India Today. Retrieved on 2009-02-07.
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Recently Cricket South Africa chief executive Haroon Lorgat led a small delegation of colleagues to Harare to chat with their counterparts at Zimbabwe Cricket about ways in which 'big brother' might be able to help their ailing little brother get back on his feet after a decade and a half of illness.
ZC said they desperately needed fixtures and urged CSA to agree to a series of regular (and lucrative) ODIs between the neighbours in the manner of the ongoing Chappell/Hadlessseries between Australia and New Zealand.
Never mind that the Proteas have embarked on their busiest year ever, Lorgat pointed out that arranging fixtures was pointless with a broken infrastructure. Even when Zimbabwe did have regular international fixtures, the money always seemed to disappear before it could find its way into the domestic game.
Lorgat pointed out that CSA now has one of the most efficient and transparent governance structures in any sport and offered to assist ZC in putting their own house in order. Buy they wanted fixtures. Lorgat said there was no point…they asked again. Lorgat said… you get the point.
In the first few years after unity and the formation of the United Cricket Board, "due process" meant Dr.Ali Bacher saying 'yes' or 'no'. Committee members were even told what they had agreed to retrospectively when Bacher needed to make a decision quickly. It was undemocratic but efficient, in an arbitrary sort of way.
These days there is a process for everything. Everything is done by the book – ans sometimes it makes no sense. Every cricketing person involved in the "process" of debating the merits of forming a new, seventh Franchise team for domestic cricket agreed that it was a good idea. CSA's own Cricket Committee recommended it. And the Board of Directors blocked it. Due process.
When head coach Russell Domingo's contract was first due to expire in April, the same Board of Directors added a six-month extension to it carrying it forward to August, after the tour of England. They justified this decision on the basis of some outstanding results including the Test series win against New Zealand the 5-0 ODI whitewash against Australia.
Since then the team has beaten Australia in a Test series and whitewashed Sri Lanka. Now, however, "due process" means Domingo must send his CV to the Board (again) along with anyone else who wants to apply.
At the very least, the timing of the announcement puzzling.
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Intel CEO: India Plays Key Role In Intel's World Ahead Program
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Source: Intel Press Room
BANGALORE, India, May 23, 2006 — Paul Otellini, in his first visit to India as president and chief executive officer of Intel Corporation, today described the pivotal role India plays in Intel's World Ahead Program, which seeks to accelerate access to uncompromised technology and education for people in the world's developing communities. While unveiling new technologies and digital inclusion projects, Otellini said Intel's World Ahead Program elements were key parts of the company's broader investments in India, where US$1 billion is aimed at growing the company's research and development, venture capital activities, and education and community programs in the country during the next five years.
'India will play a key role in designing and developing computing technologies used worldwide under Intel's World Ahead Program,' Otellini said. 'In India, the program unifies Intel's local efforts to enhance the lives of the vast majority of India's population who would benefit from information technology and education, but have not found it within their reach.
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Why Katrina Kaif Refuses To Part With Her Favourite Car?
Mumbai News: Katrina Kaif is refusing to part with her favourite car even though top mechanics of the city have asked her to let go of her damaged vehicle by either selling it off or giving it for full body repair. The mechanics have also told her that by riding in the same car she is risking her life. But all this has fallen on deaf ears because Katrina says she is very sentimental to let this car go because it is "one of her first big cars".
A close friend of Katrina reveals: "Katrina is one sentimental girl. Very few know that Katrina is very possessive of her things. She likes to keep all the things that she uses no matter how old they become or how bad their condition gets. Be it her old wardrobe, music CDs, books and knick-knacks.Katrina always loves to hoard her belongings."
The informer adds: "The Audi was one of her first cars and in spite of it being damaged recently, she does not wish to let go of it. The car was badly damaged by some fans of the actress while she was promoting her film. Her fans had damaged the glass and side doors of Katrina's car and though she has the option of buying another, she refuses to."
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Manuscript — VIII
Flicking through the proofs of this issue prior to it hitting the printing press, I'm thoroughly impressed. Not so much by the issue itself – I think it's wonderful, of course, but I'm not so narcissistic as to think the work I produce is definitive in its approach – but by the people in it. We often give Australia's cultural landscape a bad rap, deeming it a cottage industry, lacking in depth, and with a serious case of Tall Poppy Syndrome. It might be small, and certainly we don't like to prop ourselves up too high, but I challenge you to flick through this issue and tell me there's not brilliant talent emerging from our country.
What's interesting about our artistic exports is that the world is beginning to see a different side to our culture as new talent emerges and existing icons stake a return. Case in point: Noah Taylor, a Melbourne rocker who disappeared to Brighton a few years ago only to emerge with a slew of forthcoming film releases and a scary-as-fuck role in hit show Game of Thrones. When I first saw Mr Taylor in that role of Locke, and soon after caught his brilliant sell-out show at Olsen Irwin, I knew we needed him on our cover. I admire the art of reinvention, of examining and rediscovering what it is that drives you to create, and with his many projects on the go, Mr Taylor is an inspiring talent.
It's excellent that Mr Taylor returns to the spotlight, adding some diversity and interest to our screens, but simultaneously it's thrilling to see fresh blood, too. In State of the Arts [page 22] we profile some of Australia's brightest emerging talent across the fields of acting, music, dance, design and writing. Included are some familiar faces – ex-Van She member Tomek Archer and previous Manuscript cover star, Australian Ballet's Rohan Furnell among them – but also some names that we're certain are to be the next big things. Thomas Cocquerel, a 24-year-old NIDA graduate, left the day after our shoot for Amsterdam, where he's currently filming a part in The Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, a film based on a true story told in its literal title, opposite Anthony Hopkins and fellow Australian Sam Worthington. Movement, meanwhile, is an electronic band to have emerged from Sydney's west and recently signed with hit-after-hit record label Modular People. I'm personally honoured that these very talented men grace our pages, made possible with the support of Dior Homme, whose resort collection is worn throughout.
Editor-in-Chief & Publisher: Mitchell Oakley Smith
Cover Photograph: Paul Scala


Olympia Charter for Compassion
Statement on Black Lives Matter and Recent Events in Olympia
Concerned Clergy of Olympia is firmly in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the pursuit of racial justice in our community. The death of George Floyd, which sparked the recent demonstrations in Olympia and across the country, is not just an individual tragedy, but further evidence of a long history of systemic violence, oppression, and murder of People of Color in the United States.
We are also troubled about the presence of armed militia groups that have begun to appear in Olympia in response to the BLM demonstrations. While everyone has the right to peaceably assemble, rights need to be balanced with responsibilities. The presence of those representing hateful ideologies and openly carrying weapons of violence is destabilizing and threatening, and undermines the important work of peacemaking and the pursuit of justice that is at the heart of the recent BLM protests.
In keeping with the spirit of the Olympia Charter for Compassion, we call on city leadership to examine how the City of Olympia can further the cause of racial justice, including how to best pursue matters of public safety. We ask that the city take any and all action that can be taken to limit the presence of armed civilians, and affirm that ideologies of white supremacy, hate, and oppression of those most marginalized are not welcome here.
Concerned Clergy of Olympia
Rev. Aaron Baughman, Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
Rev. Kathleen Bellefeuille-Rice, Holy Wisdom Inclusive Catholic Community
Rev. Lara Crutsinger-Perry, The United Churches
Rev. Therin Fenner, Westminster Presbyterian Church
Rev. Mary Gear, Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Rev. David Gerardot, Emmaus ECC
Rabbi Seth Goldstein, Temple Beth Hatfiloh
Rt. Rev. Kedda Keough, Emmaus ECC
Rev. Amy LaCroix, First Christian Church
Rev. Robert C. Laird, St. John's Episcopal Church
Meg Martin, Executive Director, Interfaith Works
Rabbah Rona Matlow
Rev. Carol McKinley, Olympia Unitarian Universalist Congregation
Rev. Terry Murray, Unity of Olympia
Corey Passons, Interfaith Minister, Community for Interfaith Celebration
Rev. Peter Perry, First United Methodist Church of Olympia
Rev. Tammy Stampfli, The United Churches
Pastor Elizabeth Swenson, Wildwood Gathering
Rev. Dr. Diane S. Whalen, Holy Wisdom Inclusive Catholic Community
Organizations are for identification purposes only


Category: Kooks and Scoundrels
Not all criminals are psychopaths. Some are simply kooks and scoundrels. Their crimes are typically less severe and sometimes even downright amusing. These are the crooks that end up in books about stupid criminals. Some might even be candidates for a Darwin Award.
In this category, you might find the guys who tried to pull an ATM out of the bank's wall with a pickup truck. Instead, the truck's bumper came off, and the would-be thieves left it at the scene with the license plate attached. Perhaps you could see the bank robber who handed the teller his gun instead of the bag to put the money in.
It may not always be the case, but we can often count on kooks and scoundrels for comic relief.
Soapy Smith: Big Swindle Leads Man to Murder
Last week our case was in Kent, England, where we profiled Michael Stone and the horrific Russel murders. This week, we're back in the states, traveling to the Old West. In the latter part of the nineteenth century, a con man made a name for himself in Denver and Alaska. History knows him as Soapy Smith.
Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith
Soapy Smith
Jefferson Randolph Smith was a native of Coweta County, Georgia, born in November 1860 on the eve of the American Civil War. His grandfather owned a plantation, and his father was a lawyer. But the war ruined the family financially, so they moved to Round Rock, Texas to start over. Smith's mother died when he was 17 and he left home shortly thereafter. But while in Round Rock, he witnessed the death of infamous outlaw Sam Bass.
Outlaw Sam Bass
From Round Rock he traveled to Fort Worth where he soon established a close-knit gang of shills and con men. They specialized in "short cons" that needed little setup and assistance. Their method was to run the con for a brief time, then move on to avoid repercussions.
Soapy Smith Gets His Nickname
Smith is best known for what the Denver papers called the "prize soap racket." Smith would set up a display case on a busy corner and pile it with bars of soap. While he warmed up the crowd that gathered, he would wrap money around the bar, then wrap the bar in plain paper. The money would range from $1 all the way up to $100.
Next, Smith would feign mixing the bars with money in with the other bars of soap. He then sold the soap for a dollar a bar (some sources say five dollars). At some point, a shill in the crowd would tear open his bar of soap and loudly proclaim he'd won. This, of course, led to the sale of more soap bars.
About halfway through the stack of soap bars, Smith would announce that the $100 bill remained in the stack. He then auctioned off the remaining bars to the highest bidders. But the only money "won" went to his shills.
Smith didn't always get away with the racket. One time, a policeman named John Holland arrested him on a bunko charge. When he went to write Smith's name in the police logbook, he forgot his first name and wrote "Soapy" instead. The sobriquet stuck and Jeff Smith became Soapy Smith.
Soapy Smith Hits Colorado
Smith arrived in Denver in 1879. By 1882, he had a grip on vice in that Colorado city. His influence at city hall grew until, by 1887, he was reputed to be involved in most of the city's criminal activities. Soapy opened the Tivoli Club, a combination saloon and gambling house, in 1888. Smith's younger brother, Bascomb, joined the gang and operated a cigar store. It was a front for the dishonest poker games that went on in the back room.
Soapy Smith's Tivoli Club (at left) at 17th and Market in Denver, Colorado ca. 1890
Soapy operated in and around the Denver area for several years. In 1892, he moved his operation to the mining boomtown of Creede, Colorado. In Creede, he established the Orleans Club, another saloon and gambling house. At some point, he acquired a mummified body named "McGinty" that he exhibited as a "prehistoric" human. This was untrue. Twenty-first century tests showed the body had been embalmed using arsenic-based embalming fluid. But that didn't stop Smith from charging people ten cents to look at the "prehistoric" relic. While they waited in line, the ultimate con man fleeced his customers with shell games and crooked card games.
Main Street, Creede, Colorado ca. 1892
Creede's boom went bust quickly. Smith left town and returned to Denver, taking McGinty with him. His timing was excellent. A huge fire destroyed most of Creede's business district, including the Orleans Club, on June 5, 1892.
The Klondike Gold Rush
Gold was discovered in the Klondike region of Yukon, Canada on August 16, 1896. When word reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it started the Klondike Gold Rush. This seemed like an excellent opportunity to the seasoned con man, so Soapy Smith went to Alaska.
Soapy Smith in his bar in Skagway, Alaska Territory
Much like he had in Denver and Creede, Smith soon established an empire in Skagway, Alaska. His base of operations there was a saloon he called Jeff Smith's Parlor he opened in March 1898. One of the tactics his gang used was to befriend newcomers and steer them to dishonest businesses or crooked gambling halls.
The Soap Gang hangs out in front of Jeff Smith's Parlor in Skagway on July 4, 1898. Four days later, Soapy Smith was dead (University of Washington Library)
But Skagway wasn't as compliant as Denver or Creede had been. A vigilance committee called the "Committee of 101" threatened to expel Smith and his gang. In response, Smith created his own "law and order society" to counteract the vigilantes.
Soapy Smith Meets His End
On July 7, 1898, a miner named John Douglas Stewart returned to Skagway with a sack of gold worth $2,700. Gang members roped Stewart into a game of three-card monte. When Stewart refused to pay his losses, the gang members grabbed his sack of gold and ran.
The Committee of 101 got involved. They insisted Smith return the gold, but he refused, saying Stewart had lost it "fairly."
Frank H. Reid shot Soapy Smith dead, but died himself 12 days after the gun battle
On the evening of July 8, the Committee of 101 organized a meeting on the Juneau Wharf. Smith, with a Winchester rifle slung over his shoulder, started arguing with a man named Frank H. Reid. Reid was one of the guards blocking Smith's way to the wharf. Unexpectedly, a gunfight broke out. Soapy Smith fell dead, shot through the heart. Frank Reid suffered severe wounds as well.
Jefferson "Soapy" Smith's grave in Gold Rush Cemetery, Skagway, Alaska. The age on the marker is incorrect; Smith was 37 when he died (Wikipedia/Notyourbroom)
Most of Smith's gang fled Skagway after his death. Frank Reid died twelve days after the shootout from a bullet in his leg and groin. He was buried in Skagway Cemetery. Jefferson "Soapy" Smith lies nearby in Gold Rush Cemetery.
There are several books about Soapy Smith. These include Alias Soapy Smith: The Life and Death of a Scoundrel, Soapy Smith: The Life and Legacy of the Wild West's Most Infamous Con Artist, and King Con: The Story of Soapy Smith.
The Captain of Köpenick Hits the Jackpot
From horrifying workplace violence, this week we look at a crime that is more amusing than serious. This is the case of Wilhelm Voigt, the shoemaker turned robber who gained fame as the Captain of Köpenick.
Meet Wilhelm Voigt
Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt was born in Tilsit, Prussia (now part of Russia) in 8149. We don't know much about his early life. We do know that in 1863, at age 14, he served 14 days in prison for theft. Because of that, he was expelled from school. After his expulsion, he learned shoemaking from his father.
Wilhelm Voigt, the Captain of Köpenick, 1906 mugshot (Public Domain)
Between 1864 and 1891, Voigt earned sentences totaling 25 years for thefts, forgery, and burglary. Released from prison in February 1906, he went to live with his sister in a Berlin suburb. He worked for a well-regarded shoemaker for a short time. But the police ordered him out of Berlin solely because of his criminal record. Officially he went to Hamburg, but he actually stayed as an unregistered resident in Berlin.
The Captain of Köpenick
Unable to resist a heist, Voigt planned his next escapade. He bought parts of used captain's uniforms from several shops. Assembling the pieces into a complete uniform and put it on. On October 16, 1906, he commandeered four grenadiers and a sergeant and order them to follow him. Such was the respect for the Prussian military that the soldiers obeyed without question. Dismissing the sergeant, he commandeered six more soldiers at a shooting range. He and his impromptu squad then took a train to Köpenick, east of Berlin.
Statue of Wilhelm Voigt as the Captain of Köpenick at Köpenick city hall by Spartak Babajan (Public Domain)
At Köpenick, Voigt led the soldiers to the town hall. There he accused the mayor and treasurer of crooked bookkeeping and placed them under arrest. The mayor wondered why the captain was so old and wore his cap badge upside down, but he complied anyway. Voigt then confiscated 4,002 marks and 37 pfennigs (roughly $60,000 today) from the treasury, giving a receipt in return. Next, he commandeered two carriages and sent two grenadiers with the arrested men to Berlin for questioning. He told the remaining soldiers to stand guard for half an hour, then left for the train station. He changed into civilian clothes and disappeared.
Uniform worn by Wilhelm Voigt as the Captain of Köpenick (Public Domain)
Voigt might have got away with it but a former cellmate who knew of the plan ratted him out. Police arrested him ten days after the heist on October 26. On December 1, he was sentenced to four years in prison for forgery, impersonating an officer, and wrongful imprisonment.
The Captain of Köpenick touched a chord with the German public. Rumor had it that even Kaiser Wilhelm II, who pardoned Voigt in 1908, found the incident amusing. And of course, English writers had a field day lampooning the German reverence for uniforms and military authority.
German postage stamp, 2006
Wilhelm Voigt moved to Luxembourg in 1910 where he worked as a cobbler and a waiter. A rich Berlin dowager set him up with a pension and he lived well for a while. However, he went broke in the recession that followed World War I. He died in Luxembourg in 1922.


More South Floridians file for bankruptcy
Donna Gehrke-White
A sharp increase in South Floridians filing for bankruptcy occurred in October after falling the month before, according to records released Thursday by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Miami.
Consumers' filings jumped nearly 19 percent in October and were even running ahead of August filings. Still, personal bankruptcy filings were down 6 percent in South Florida from a year ago.
Last month, some strapped families began getting final foreclosure notices -- which prompted them to file for bankruptcy, said South Florida attorney Tim Kingcade.
Lenders had halted foreclosure notices to make sure they were properly filing them after they were accused of "robo-signing" and other illegal practices. But, Kingcade said, "banks are moving forward with foreclosures again."
That has forced some struggling owners to face reality: Many have numerous other bills -- from credit cards to medical expenses -- on top of their mortgage payments they can't afford, said Kingcade.
One couple came to him after they had managed to fend off foreclosure for three years. But after getting a final foreclosure last month and facing huge credit card debt and medical bills, Kingcade said they decided to go ahead with bankruptcy. That will give them six to eight months of being able to live in their home before they are forced out, while the bankruptcy court sorts out their case, he added.
Last month, Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties all showed increases in bankruptcy filings. Broward shot up to 766 bankruptcies filed in October after it had plunged to 616 in September. The number of Palm Beach County's bankruptcies filed was up to 423 last month after dropping to 323 in September.
Miami-Dade County, which has the largest population and tends to have a higher number of filings, jumped to 1,298 bankruptcies filed in October. The number had been at 1,155 in September.
The three counties' bankruptcies slowdown in September was largely due to parents wanting to get their kids back in school, Kingcade said. But once the kids were settled, some parents felt ready to concentrate on their personal finances -- and file for bankruptcy and face foreclosure, he said.
"People have to come to terms with losing their home," Kingcade said.
He predicted the number of bankruptcies will slow down in the next two months because of people wanting to concentrate on the holidays.
"You would expect court activity to slow down as the holiday approaches," agreed economist William B. Stronge, professor emeritus at Florida Atlantic University.
In the months ahead, however, the improving economy may also further lower the number of bankruptcies -- even more than October's 6 percent decline from last year, Stronge said.
More people getting jobs and are able to pay bills, he said. Since the Great Recession, more South Floridians have concentrated on paying debt and saving, Stronge said.
Some struggling owners may be negotiating with their lenders to keep their homes now that the real estate market is better and prices are up again, he added.
"I think the economy has genuinely gotten a little bit better," agreed attorney Kingcade.
dgehrke@tribune.com or Twitter @donnagehrke
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MT-ND3 gene
mitochondrially encoded NADH dehydrogenase 3
Core subunit of the mitochondrial membrane respiratory chain NADH dehydrogenase (Complex I) that is believed to belong to the minimal assembly required for catalysis. Complex I functions in the transfer of electrons from NADH to the respiratory chain. The immediate electron acceptor for the enzyme is believed to be ubiquinone (By similarity).
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Leigh syndrome
Mitochondrial complex I deficiency
Mitochondrial complex I deficiency, mitochondrial type 1 (MC1DM1): A form of mitochondrial complex I deficiency, the most common biochemical signature of mitochondrial disorders, a group of highly heterogeneous conditions characterized by defective oxidative phosphorylation, which collectively affects 1 in 5-10000 live births. Clinical disorders have variable severity, ranging from lethal neonatal disease to adult-onset neurodegenerative disorders. Phenotypes include macrocephaly with progressive leukodystrophy, non-specific encephalopathy, cardiomyopathy, myopathy, liver disease, Leigh syndrome, Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, and some forms of Parkinson disease. [MIM:500014]
Leigh syndrome (LS): An early-onset progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the presence of focal, bilateral lesions in one or more areas of the central nervous system including the brainstem, thalamus, basal ganglia, cerebellum and spinal cord. Clinical features depend on which areas of the central nervous system are involved and include subacute onset of psychomotor retardation, hypotonia, ataxia, weakness, vision loss, eye movement abnormalities, seizures, and dysphagia. [MIM:256000]
Molecular Location: base pairs 10,059 to 10,404 on mitochondrial DNA (Homo sapiens Updated Annotation Release 109.20191205, GRCh38.p13) (NCBI)
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OMIM: COMPLEX I, SUBUNIT ND3


The united lies of the global ruling class
Posted in Class struggle, Europe, Latin America & The Caribbean, Venezuela
By John Catalinotto
Jan. 27 — The ultra-right media and the mainstream corporate media took a break this week from some months of vicious baiting of each other. They instead joined hands to slander Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
This latest assault on sovereign Bolivarian Venezuela exposes the united criminality of the imperialist ruling class. This includes the corporate media, both major U.S. political parties and Washington's allies, which are trying to resurrect their colonial empires.
Here are two of many media examples: the first from the pro-Trump, ultra-right Fox News; the second from the corporate mainstream, anti-Trump New York Times. Both media's goals are to defame the Maduro government and justify U.S. intervention.
A Jan. 26 Fox News opinion piece: "The Trump administration's announcement Wednesday to recognize Venezuelan National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela amid the current popular uprising against the anti-democratic socialist Maduro regime was an act of brilliant statecraft."
A Jan. 24 New York Times editorial: "That Mr. Maduro must go has been obvious for some time. Since he succeeded the leftist strongman Hugo Chávez in 2013, his mismanagement, cronyism and corruption, exacerbated by the drop in the price of oil, Venezuela's dominant source of revenue, have brought the country to ruin. … The Trump administration is right to support Mr. Guaidó."
Both parties join the slime
Likewise, the two imperialist political parties, Republican and Democratic, which have been battling over the budget and the government shutdown, united against the Venezuelan people and its elected government.
The Trump gang have been agitating for intervention, and of course, they blame Maduro for everything and call him incompetent, brutal and corrupt.
With a handful of exceptions, Democratic Party leaders have taken a position like that of Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin. He blamed Maduro for a "sham election" and praised Trump for having "appropriately recognized National Assembly President Juan Guaidó as the constitutionally appropriate leader of Venezuela." (Miami Herald, Jan. 25) Even the handful of left Democrats criticized Maduro.
In reality, in elections held with international observers who approved them, Maduro won 68 percent of the votes cast and 32 percent of the eligible voters. Trump only won 46 percent of votes cast and 27 percent of eligible voters — fewer than his opponent.
Guaidó won 0 percent on both counts; he represents nothing. Except the factthat Vice President Mike Pence called Guaidó and pledged him U.S. support the night before he named himself interim president. (Wall Street Journal, Jan. 25)
World imperialism's united opinion
The U.S. imperialist allies — which are also rivals — have joined the festival of slander aimed at Maduro. Canada and Britain bent to the U.S. as usual. Spain, former genocidal conqueror of Latin America; France, former colonial overlord of large swaths of the world; and Germany, which opened two world wars to try to get its share of plunder; all did too. Though theyadded a little twist.
The three insisted Maduro set new elections "within eight days" or they would recognize Guaidó. Maduro accused them of kneeling before Washington and said no one can give Venezuela ultimatums.
With the British government unable to carry out a Brexit (itself based on anti-immigrant backwardness), the Spanish rulers buried in corruption from the royal family down, the French cops shooting rubber bullets at Yellow Vests, and the German government an unhealthy coalition facing racist opposition gangs, it's a wonder these regimes don't choke on their hypocrisy.
As in the period building up to the Vietnam War, to the 1991 war against Iraq, to the bombing and destruction of Yugoslavia in 1999, etc., the media and the governments' near unanimity give the population the false impression that all right-thinking people want "regime change" in Venezuela.
The truth, however, is that this manufactured public opinion is based on the imperialist oppressors' joint hatred for any nation or people that challenges their rule. If that nation happens to also be sitting on the world's largest oil reserves, the imperialists will repeat any lie and commit any crime to grab it.
Anyone who believes sovereign peoples have a right to their resources will unite to reject these media lies and the ruling class that orders and buysthem.


Cloud over CBD share cars
By Shane Scanlan
There is doubt over the viability of the share car service within the CBD since the City of Melbourne last year changed the rules and hit the three local operators with new fees.
While six on-street spaces have since been added inside the Hoddle Grid, one operator has not applied for any spaces and intends to boycott the municipality entirely unless the policy is radically relaxed.
Another operator says it only applied for the three on-street spaces it was offered to prevent them going to an expanding rival and would not be looking to do more within the CBD for the time being.
With a review of the policy expected later this year, the pressure will be on the council's target of 2000 share car spaces within the municipality by 2021.
Green Share Car owner Paul Cummaudo says his company would not be applying in Melbourne under the current rules.
"We'll probably never again apply to the City of Melbourne under the current policy," Mr Cummaudo said. By contrast, he said, neighbouring municipalities had more enlightened policies.
Last year the council started charging operators thousands of dollars extra for on-street spaces and also stipulated that they needed to source an off-street space before being eligible for every extra on-street space.
The council is still charging $3000 for on-street spaces within the Hoddle Grid but introduced a $2000 fee for spaces within a wider-defined "CBD" including Southbank.
But all operators agree that the on-street fees are only part of the problem. What is worse, they say, is the cost of renting off-street spaces from private operators in order to quality for on-street allocations.
Mr Cummaudo said off-street spaces cost between $400 and $500 per month, which made his business unviable in the CBD. He said Green Share Car was also now charging an extra $10 booking fee in an attempt to recoup losses from its CBD share car spaces.
Mr Cummaudo said, rather than pay $2000 per year, his company had also moved five of its vehicles to the other side of the street in areas bordering the "CBD" where the charge was only $25 per annum.
He believes that, while the council may be satisfied that the numbers of share cars were increasing, its intervention in the market place could deliver an unsustainable long-term outcome because of a speculative attitude from his rivals.
"Out of the three companies, we're the only one investing with real money," he said.
Flexi Car general manager Greg Giraud said his company had reluctantly applied for three Hoddle Grid spaces and five wider "CBD" spaces since the introduction of the new policy, as a strategic territorial move.
He said the CBD was the "holy grail" of share car and the perceived risk of a competitor taking all offered inner-city spaces forced his hand. He said Flexi Car would not apply for any more in the foreseeable future.
He said the company's Hoddle Grid spaces were being subsidised by other parts of the company's operation, but it needed to claim territory for its longer-term viability.
Mr Giraud said the rule requiring companies to source off-street parking was the most inhibiting aspect of the council's policy.
Both Mr Cummaudo and Mr Giraud acknowledged that their competitor GoGet had been aggressively expanding despite the new restrictions.
GoGet general manager, Justin Passaportis, said: "We are continuing to see growth and monitoring this constantly, but for us it's too early to assess the impact of the new policy."
"Car share is an essential transport option for residents and business in the city."
A City of Melbourne spokesperson said: "Since council's new car share policy was approved in July 2015, six new on-street spaces have been installed inside the Hoddle Grid precinct and 10 on-street spaces have been installed in the precinct inside the CBD but outside the Hoddle Grid."
"An additional 15 on-street spaces have been installed outside the CBD," the spokesperson said. "Council's Urban Strategy Transport Branch will be reporting later this year on a one-year review of the car share policy."
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The History Of Group Email
Email got its start in the late 1970's but it wasn't until the mid-1980's and the personal computer revolution that things really took off. Software to manage email lists first appeared in 1986 when Eric Thomas created LISTSERV the first group email software. At this time it ran on wardrobe size mainframe computers. Eric developed LISTERV at CERN where Tim Berners-Lee was creating the world wide web. Over the years LISTSERV was ported over to other operating systems eventually hitting Unix in 1994 and Windows in 1995.
As personal computers became more common place in homes and offices programs like Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office emerged with email and the ability to group email addresses together. Even though this type of group email was limited to only grouping people within the same corporate email system its ease of use made it a huge boon to companies who created group email addresses for everything. This was the first exposure to group email for many people.
In 1999 the GNU project created its own mailing list manager MailMan. Developed by John Viega and Ken Manheimer this was a free software, open source alternative to LISTSERV matching many features which people came to expected from their group email system; searchable archives, moderators, privacy features, a web Interface, spam filters.
As the dot-com bubble grew and burst in the early 2000's the number of email users and people exposed to group email grew exponentially from 10 million email users in 1995 to 500 million in 2000 and 1 billion in 2007. By this time email was a part of everyone's on-line life and using group email was just part of that.
Gmail arrived in 2007 and even though Blackberry had been putting email in people hands since 1999 it wasn't until the iPhone and the smartphone revolution that made email truly mobile for huge numbers of people. Indeed, the mobile revolution made email user number sky rocket even more hitting 2 billion by 2010 and 3 billion only one year later.
During all this time LISTSERV is still going strong being actively developed at L-Soft and running most the biggest and busiest email lists in the world. Within offices and corporations emailing groups of people is second nature; a department, project or team doesn't exist until it has its own email address!
With the ubiquity of cloud computing and the rise of SaaS (software as a service) businesses it was inevitable that group email would move with the times and reap the benefits of everything that widely distributed computing can offer.
So it is today that Gaggle Mail is further pushing the popularity of group email by not only allowing anyone to be part of a group email list but allowing anyone to setup and run their own group with the most easy to use group email system available.


Northern to be stripped of rail franchise – Shapps
Train operator Northern is to be stripped of its franchise, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said, as fares across Britain rose by an average of 2.7%.
"Frustrated commuters will not have to wait long" before action is taken, he told the PA news agency.
The chaotic introduction of new timetables in May 2018 saw up to 310 Northern trains a day cancelled, and punctuality and reliability problems continue to blight the network.
Office of Rail and Road figures show just 55.6% of Northern trains arrived at stations within one minute of the timetable in the 12 months to December 7, compared with the average across Britain of 65.3%.
German-based Arriva holds the Northern franchise, which is due to run until March 2025.
Mr Shapps described services on the route as "really bad" and claimed passengers have "had a nightmare on that line" since 2016.
Asked if Northern will be stripped of its franchise, he replied: "The simple answer to the question is yes, it is going to be brought to an end.
"It's partially a legal process but frustrated commuters will not have to wait long."
Mr Shapps announced in autumn that he had taken the first steps towards potentially taking the franchise away by issuing a "request for proposals".
The existing agreement with Northern will be replaced by either a new short-term management contract or by nationalising services by putting the Government-controlled Operator of Last Resort in charge.
Northern says it has faced unprecedented challenges which were "outside the direct control of Northern" such as the late delivery of major infrastructure upgrades and delays in the building and delivery of new trains.
Thousands of long-distance commuters saw the annual cost of getting to work increase by more than £100 on Thursday as average fares rose by 2.7%.
Fewer than half (47%) of passengers are satisfied with the value for money of train tickets, according to the latest survey by watchdog Transport Focus.
Emily Yates, co-founder of campaign group the Association of British Commuters, said: "It feels like Groundhog Day, to be honest, it's a complete charade.
"Every year, we ask for a fares freeze, the Government says no and the rail industry defends the decision."
Accountant Andrew Jordan, 24, who was travelling through London Bridge station, described the fares rise as "quite galling for me as a commuter".
He said: "The services don't get any better. You'd like to get something for your money."
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Robert Nisbet, director of nations and regions for industry body the Rail Delivery Group, urged passengers to "bear with us".
He acknowledged there are "pockets of difficulty around the network" but insisted "we're tackling them".
He added: "By the mid-2020s we should have replaced half the entire rolling stock of Great Britain and added 11,300 services every weekday. That is a significant investment."
Among the routes where the price of annual season tickets has increased by a three-figure sum are:
– Reading to London (up £132 to £4,736)
– Gloucester to Birmingham (up £118 to £4,356)
– Glasgow to Edinburgh via any permitted route (up £116 to £4,200)
Passengers buying tickets for day trips have also been hit by the fares rise.
An off-peak return ticket from Dundee to Edinburgh has increased in price by 50p to £29.40, while an Anytime return ticket from Gillingham to London via the HS1 route is up £1.20 to £45.40.
The increase in around 45% of fares, including season tickets, is regulated by the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments.
This is predominantly capped at July's RPI inflation figure, which was 2.8%.


Sequim to host community talks on race, equity, inclusion
First virtual event set for Saturday
by Matthew Nash
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 1:30am
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SEQUIM — Officials with the City of Sequim look to take what they call the first step in creating a more inclusive Sequim with community conversations.
Virtual talks on race, equity and inclusion will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday and 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 23.
The conversations follow the Sequim City Council's resolution from last June that condemned discrimination and racism. The council potentially will use feedback to apply policy changes that may apply to anti-racism and discrimination practices.
To participate, residents must register through links at the city's website www.sequimwa.gov or at https://tinyurl.com/PDN-sequimconversation.
Barbara Hanna, Sequim communications and marketing director, said a volunteer team of city staff and community members have worked since August on orchestrating the talks.
"We wanted to be thoughtful about how we did this and creating the right environment so people feel comfortable doing this," she said.
City staff and Sequim community members Miriame Cherbib, Vicki Lowe and Carlos Osorio will host the meetings centered on four questions:
• How do you feel Sequim is doing as it relates to equity and inclusion?
• What do you envision for our city in 20 years related to equity and inclusion?
• How do we create an even more inclusive city?
• How does our community want to be involved in this work?
Hanna said they've reached out to various agencies, such as Peninsula College and Sequim School District, in hopes that the meetings will reach a wide range of community members.
In the city's press release on the meetings, it states facilitators will "encourage all participants to be kind and brave, assume good intent, be ready to learn from other people, seek first to understand, acknowledge that everyone has something to contribute to this effort, and to let yourself be OK with being uncomfortable."
"For some people this is a difficult conversation," Hanna said. "We want people to know it can be uncomfortable and we want them to know it's OK."
City officials will not record the meeting and plan to only share general themes and thoughts from the meetings with the city council and various organizations.
"We want to protect the participants and create a safe environment," Hanna said.
She said the fourth question, how the community wants to be involved, will be important because it tells the city staff "where we go from there in a meaningful way."
In the past year, Sequim has seen marches for Black Lives Matter, rallies and sign holders for various causes, continued contention related to the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe's medication-assisted treatment facility and many more social issues.
In June, City Council member Brandon Janisse brought the resolution forward to the council at the request of Sequim resident Shenna Younger, who started an online petition with 2,000-plus signatures asking the council to condemn systemic racism. Younger and others previously proposed a resolution in March, which led to the petition.
Council members approved the resolution but agreed in July to hold off on evaluating city code and practices until they've received community feedback.
Former City Manager Charlie Bush said in June the discussions would look at policies and procedures to evaluate if anything was embedded in city code and/or practices that was innately discriminatory.
He added that he didn't feel Sequim had obvious issues, but he wanted to make sure the city doesn't.
"We don't think we do, but we want to make sure that we don't," Bush said.
For more information on the conversations, visit www.sequimwa.gov or call 360-683-4139.
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These fast food places, restaurants will be open on Christmas Day 2022
by: Nexstar Media Wire, Addy Bink
Posted: Dec 24, 2022 / 01:02 AM HST
(NEXSTAR) – If you are on the go this Christmas, or simply skipping the traditional at-home feast for something a little quicker, you likely know your options are limited. While many restaurants are closing their doors on December 25, there are some still accepting customers on the holiday.
To save you the trouble of searching for those eateries, here is a list of the major fast-food chains and restaurants staying open — and a few that are closing — for Christmas 2022.
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Keep in mind, hours are likely to vary by location.
Participating Boston Market locations will be open on Christmas, according to the company's website.
Hours may vary by location, a Burger King representative tells Nexstar. You can check local hours online here.
Known for being "always open," Denny's will be open on Christmas.
Because Domino's locations are independently owned, they may or may not be open on Christmas, a company representative told Country Living. Some may also close for Christmas Eve. You can view your location's hours online.
Many Dunkin' locations will be open on Christmas, but hours may vary by store, a representative tells Nexstar. Before visiting, check your Dunkin' location's hours online or in the mobile app.
Golden Corral
Some Golden Corral locations will be open for Christmas, but they may have limited hours. They may also have shortened hours on Christmas Eve. You can check your restaurant's hours here.
Though IHOP locations are listed as being open online, you may want to check with your local restaurant before stopping in.
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Jersey Mike's
Jersey Mike's will have limited hours on Christmas Eve but will be closed for Christmas, according to the company.
Because the vast majority of McDonald's locations are independently owned and operated, holiday hours may vary by store, a representative told Country Living. You can check your location's hours online.
Select Noodles locations will be open; you can check stores hours here.
Hours can vary by store, according to Panera Bread. You can check your location's hours online.
Select locations will be open for dine-in and to-go orders, according to Red Lobster. Participating restaurants and their hours can be found on this list shared by Red Lobster.
Ruth's Chris Steak House
Ruth's Chris Steak House locations will be open on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, according to its website.
Because Sonic locations are independently owned, restaurants may be open on Christmas, but with different hours. Location hours can be seen online here.
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Some Starbucks locations will be open, but they may have different hours. Location hours can be found online here.
Known for being open all day, every day – and causing headlines when it closes – Waffle House locations will be open on Christmas. There's even a song about it.
Many Wendy's locations will be open on Christmas, but hours may vary. You can check the hours of your nearest location online.
While the above restaurant chains plan to be staffed for Christmas, there are a few others that will be taking the holiday off. Because Christmas falls on a Sunday, Chick-fil-A will be closed (though they likely would've closed anyway, like they did last year). Fellow chicken restaurant Raising Cane's, which closes on major holidays, will close on Christmas.
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Some restaurants, like Olive Garden, will not only be closed for Christmas Day but may close early on Christmas Eve depending on the amount of business, according to the company. Christmas Eve hours will vary at Taco Bell restaurants, the company says, but locations will be closed on Christmas Day.
In-N-Out locations will be open until 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve, according to a company spokesperson, but will be closed on Christmas.
Many Buffalo Wild Wings locations will be open Christmas Eve and closed Christmas Day, a representative tells Nexstar. However, hours may vary by location – you can check the hours of your local Buffalo Wild Wings here. A representative for Firehouse Subs says some of its restaurants will close early on Christmas Eve and may completely close for Christmas. You can check your store's hours here.
Most KFC restaurants will be closed on Christmas Day, but a representative for the company tells Nexstar they recommend checking with your local KFC for their holiday hours.
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Chipotle, Pizza Hut, Qdoba, and White Castle locations will close early on Christmas Eve and remain closed through Christmas Day, company representatives tell Nexstar.
Before heading out, be sure to check with your nearest restaurant for their hours.
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Historic Marist Prize-giving
Student of the Year
On Wednesday St. Mary's College hosted their annual prize-giving ceremony, a night when the students are rewarded for their excellent achievements in various areas of school life. It was a night different to other years – in his welcome, Principal Mr Con McGinley, reminded all present of the historic occasion they were a part of, as they are the last group to receive their awards based on life in the old school building that is the Marist today. Next year a new school marks a new era for the Marist in Dundalk. Kevin Jennings, director of the Marist Education Authority looked forward with enthusiasm to this great new venture which is not only significant for the students of Dundalk and surrounding areas but also to the Marist Community in Ireland and Europe. Mr PJ Ó Náraigh, 6th Year Head wisely reminded all on the night that the people and the memories are the foundations of the stone the new school will be built on.
MEA Award
On this special night, the opening address was by special guest speaker Mr Eddie Downey, a former Marist student, current President of the Irish Farmers Association, director of Teagasc and owner of EMD poultry. Mr Downey spoke of the importance of education, ongoing throughout life and to always remember the people that give it to you. He spoke of the uniform, representing a lot more than a straight tie and neat appearance, it was about being part of a team working together. He encouraged students to consider careers in the agriculture and food sectors that are currently generating thousands of jobs. He also urged them to look after each other and to support local jobs and local business.
Aherne Cup
There were two new trophies this year. The Fr Ambrose Fay Cup in honour of past pupil Jim Fay from Dundalk. During his time in the college in the 1930s he set records at All-Ireland and Leinster level in the 100 yard sprint. Proud of the Cup throughout his life he expressed the wish that it be returned to the College after he passed away just last year. Fittingly the cup was presented to the most promising Newcomer to Athletics, Evelyn Igharo. Luke Coburn Moran is the worthy first recipient of the Award for the Best 2nd Year student. The Marist Parents' Council also sponsored a number of new awards in recognition of newly introduced subjects that now in their 2nd year: the Junior Music Award was presented to Robert Mee-Lucey and the Junior Technical Graphics Award was presented to Glen Connolly.
Seán Mac Suibhne Award – Senior Gaeilge
Many students were rewarded for their work ethic and their resultant success, a number of whom received more than one award. Sixth Year student Bill Wells Kamtchou, Ryan Brodigan and Chanelle McCartney received two awards each. Bill received the Hanaway Cup for Best Leaving Certificate Mathematics & the Lyons Perpetual Cup for Leaving Certificate Chemistry, which was sponsored and presented by recently retired Chemistry teacher, Mr Ger Lyons. Chanelle won the Seán MacSuibhne Award for Best Senior Irish student and shared the Senior Art Award with Conor Richardson. Ryan shared the Flanagan Cup for Senior English with Anastasia Metluka and the Senior Science Award with Wiktoria Stazak. Other winners in 6th Year were Beatrice Monciunskaite, Robert Galligan, Adam Martin, Kurt Farrell McKinley, Fergal Sheekey and Aaron Culligan. 5th Year students Jamie Kennedy and Kemi Arahi received two awards as did 3rd Year students Eoghan McGee, Alexis Nwachkwu and Bartek Baran.
Flanagan Cup – Senior English
A number of students excelled in particular competitions this Year. Eoin Corr, won the Home Cook Hero Award. Jake McArdle was the All Ireland winner of the Irish Youth Music Awards. Jade Reddy, Lynn Craven and Sophie Watters were chosen to play on the Irish Soccer team. Transition Year student Shane Durnin won the Gael Linn Abair competition. Rebecca Gorman is a Black Belt Kickboxer Champion, also a Boxer, she has represented Ireland 5 times in International Championships, one of the matches at a Katie Taylor fight night. Sixth Year student Christopher Lennon won a Bronze Medal in the 2014 World Kick-boxing Competition.
The Oisín Ó Dálaigh Perpetual Trophy, for Senior Sportsperson of the Year, was awarded to Sixth Year student, Fergal Sheekey in recognition of his Gaelic and Soccer ability. The highlight of the night was the Student of the Year Award. The Fr. McGeough Perpetual Cup was awarded to Wiktoria Stazak for her outstanding contribution to the academic, social and sporting life of the school.
Congratulations to all who received awards on the night – their dedication, enthusiasm and talents are an inspiration to all.
View more photos from the night in our photo gallery.


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Casado asks Sánchez to resign and call elections to measure citizen support for pardons
The president of the Popular Party, Pablo Casado, has gone a step further this Wednesday in his criticism of the government for having promoted the pardons to the prisoners of the procés and has asked the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, to resign and call early elections. "If you have any dignity left, you should resign today and submit this decision to the judgment of the Spaniards, because you have misled your electoral word, you have breached your constitutional oath and you are deceiving this House," Casado assured during the control session to the Executive, less than 24 hours after the approval of the measure of grace by the Council of Ministers. The leader of the PP has made this request during his second turn to speak in plenary session and Sánchez has chosen not to respond.
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Previously, the President of the Government had ironic with the "very constructive interventions" of Casado. "I am not going to enter into their provocations," the chief executive told the leader of the PP. "When he feels isolated, the real Casado comes out," he reproached him, given the recent "disqualifications" of the president of the popular to all those sectors that have supported the pardons.
As soon as the session started, the PP leader reproached the PSOE bench for applauding Sánchez's arrival at the hemicycle: "They applaud an unfortunate day for the democratic history of Spain." Next, Casado recalled that Sánchez "promised not to pardon the prisoners of the procés", so he "came to power supported by a lie." With the pardons, in Casado's opinion, the Government "cast the fate of Spain on those who want to destroy it" to "maintain power even though it is already electorally dead."
The popular leader has also spoken of the "arrogant corny rhetoric of the second transition" that in his opinion they carry out from Moncloa. "Who do you think you can talk about Spain?" the leader of the PP has asked himself, who has assured that Sánchez "has betrayed his oath to defend national unity and the equality of all Spaniards."
"Insult everyone," Sánchez later snapped at Casado. "Is this democracy as it is contemplated?" "He says that the PP is due to the Spanish. Those of us who do not think like you, where do we come from, from Mars?" Afterwards, Sánchez has described the pardon as a "courageous, restorative measure in favor of harmony and politics, which will reduce political and territorial discord." "I am not going to enter into their provocations," the chief executive told the leader of the PP. "When the true Casado feels isolated," he has reproached him, given the recent "disqualifications" of the president of the popular to all those sectors that have supported the pardons.
Rufián appreciates the "courage" of the Government
Minutes later, ERC spokesman Gabriel Rufián took advantage of the government control session to thank Pedro Sánchez "personally for his courage in the face of the pack" in reference to the right. Rufián has reminded him, however, that he appeared in the elections "speaking of the Prosecutor's Office" and now "does politics."
"Everyone knows what we like to talk about politics so a good understanding few words are enough", said Rufián, who has made it clear that "there is a lot to go" in reference to the "Court of Accounts, the Constitutional Court and the gag law ":" They will not be a real left-wing government as long as there is a single person in this country who is threatened, beaten or imprisoned for demonstrating peacefully. "
To the question of what the Government is going to do after the pardons, the president has replied that his approach is that of the "reunion agenda" that he led to the dialogue table and that consists of the points that the Generalitat claimed ago years to Mariano Rajoy except for the self-determination referendum. "Self-determination is no longer just that it is not unconstitutional, it is that we cannot continue to fracture Catalan society, we have to begin to unite Catalan society," Sánchez insisted.
The Republican deputy has also used his intervention to make Casado ugly when he talks about the unconstitutionality of the pardons. "Article 62 of the Constitution is not known. This is what happens when you are given a master's degree, you don't know the lesson," he reproached him. And Sánchez has also used that intervention to respond to the PP's complaint that the Government does not have Congress by reminding him that both this Tuesday and last week proposals were voted on the grace measure in which the theses of the Executive received the support of 190 deputies.
Confrontation between Calvo and Vox
The first vice president, Carmen Calvo, has come out on the attack against Vox, which she has once again placed in "fascism". "How old and dangerous is his speech! You, radical conservatism, fascism, and philosophical fascism in this country have been distributing nation cards for 200 years," he snapped at the spokesman, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, whom he warned of that "no longer sneaks in" because the country has had 42 years of "mature democracy" and has reproached it for trying to set the bar for "good and bad Spaniards."
Espinosa de los Monteros, in line with the three rights in recent days, had attacked the Government for pardons during the control session in Congress. "They are generating disaffection. It is impossible to satisfy those who make dissatisfaction their way of life. It is not enough with pardons they want amnesty, self-determination referendum, where are they going to put the line?", Asked the Vox spokesman. Sánchez a few minutes before had reminded Gabriel Rufián that the path of self-determination is not possible because it is "unconstitutional" and because it delves into the "fracture" in Catalonia.
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