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The John Muir National Historic Site is located in Martinez, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Site preserves the Victorian residence and a part of the fruit ranch where the naturalist John Muir lived from 1890 to his death in 1914. While living in Martinez, Muir laid the foundations for the creation of the National Park Service in 1916. Visitors today can tour the home, see Muir's "scribble-den" where he wrote his campaigning conservation articles and books, and stroll the orchards.
The newly-added Mount Wanda area, 325 acres in size, historically owned by the Muir family, where Muir used to take frequent walks with his daughters, includes the John Muir Nature Trail, featuring spring wild flowers, abundant bird life, and scenic vistas of the Carquinez straits.
John Muir's gravesite was acquired by the National Park Service in 2000, but public visitation is awaiting repair work of damaged roadways and construction of parking spaces or a shuttle service.
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Museum Collections at John Muir National Historic Site - National Park Service - photographs include portraits of Muir and his family, his Martinex ranch house and orchards, personal belongings, and specimens that he collected. (Offsite link)
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Nature's Voice: John Muir at Home - 2013 John Muir National Historic Site visitor center film by Earth Images Foundation. Web site: http://earthimage.org. (YouTube)
"John Muir: A Glorious Journey - Part 1 - 2010 John Muir National Historic Site visitor center film by America Sings -Part 1.(YouTube)
"John Muir: A Glorious Journey - Part 2 - 2010 John Muir National Historic Site visitor center film by America Sings -Part .(YouTube)
A Conversation with National Parks Ranger Kelli English - video by Bill Youngs. (YouTube)
John Muir Birthday - Earth Day 2015 - video by the Digital Safari Academy. (YouTube)
John Muir National Historic Site - video by micahvdl. (YouTube)
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Chronology of Important Events in the Life of John Muir
The Importance of John Muir
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Environmental Living Program - for classroom groups by advance registration
Muir Ranger Fact Sheet - For children ages 8 - 12.
The Martinez Adobe - Fact Sheet about the 1849 Land Grant structure located near the Muir House, on the grounds of the Historic Site.
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John Muir NHS Landscape Management Plan (off-site link)
John Muir N.H.S. Self Guiding Tour Booklet - Detailed, step-by-step guide to the John Muir National Historic Site. Available for $1.00 from John Muir Bookstore.
Rubbisow, Ariel, John Muir National Historic Site (Tucson, AZ: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association [now Western National Parks Association], 1990). 15 pp. $3.95. A brief, highly readable biographical sketch of Muir, with color photographs of his residence in Martinez, California, now a National Historic Site operated by the National Park Service. Available from John Muir Bookstore.
Maruca, Mary, A Kid's Guide to Exploring John Muir National Historic Site (Tucson, AZ, Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 2000). 14 pp., illustrated, paperback, $3.95. Multiple color photographs and graphics on each page enhance this beautiful little booklet. Despite the book's title, the book is primarily a very brief biography about John Muir, with just the last one-third emphasizing his fruit ranch home in Martinez. The author and designers did a great job of making Muir a friendly, human person of interest to kids. Available from John Muir Bookstore.
Kelley, Janice, Through the Eyes of John Muir: A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Looking at our World
This interdiciplinary curriculum guide presents numerous lessons covering a broad spectrum of topics: various aspects of John Muir's life, agricultural and immigrant history, urbanization of farmland, nature-based investigations, storytelling, what makes a healthy forest and more. The curriculum can be used for field studies to conduct at either the John Muir National Historic Site ranch site or other farm site or nature area as an outdoor classroom, and concludes with lessons and practices to help students became stewards of the environment and "champions" in their own community. This curriculum, aligned to both Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards, can be applied in and outside the classroom for students to learn how to see through the eyes of John Muir - as environmental stewards, scientists, historians and advocates. These Standards apply to grades 3 and 4. Most activities are applicable to or can be modified to meet the needs of older students.
The View From John Muir's Window (offsite link) , newsletter of the John Muir Memorial Association - News about programs and activities at John Muir National Historic Site (offsite link)
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A fix to NAFTA's roster problem?
On the face of it, it looks like USMCA will have a state-to-state dispute settlement mechanism that the parties will be able to use. But politics will be unavoidable.
BY Doug Beazley 28 Mar 2019
Maybe you have to be a trade treaty negotiator to appreciate the irony: some dispute settlement clauses are better at starting arguments than ending them.
NAFTA has three dispute settlement mechanisms, all of them contentious for one reason or another. Chapter 11, the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism, has been pilloried as an offence against state sovereignty. The Chapter 19 anti-dumping and countervailing mechanism has tended to render decisions that go against the United States (which might explain in part why the Americans pushed hard to eliminate it in last year's negotiations to revamp NAFTA, and why Canada insisted on keeping it).
Chapter 20, the state-to-state dispute settlement mechanism, hasn't come in for the same volume of criticism — maybe because it's used so seldom. By the time the NAFTA renegotiation talks were drawing to a close a year ago, just 21 disputes had been initiated under it, only three of which actually went to panels that rendered decisions.
Why? Chapter 20 has a glitch that can effectively block the process indefinitely. The panels that decide disputes are supposed to be named jointly by the parties to the dispute. To do that, they're supposed to draw on a roster of up to 30 individuals selected by the NAFTA partners through consensus and appointed to three-year terms. If one party fails to choose panelists within a set time period, the other party can select two from the roster. If one party picks a panelist who is not on the roster, the other party can block the panel process.
But because that NAFTA roster was never assembled in the first place — the parties to the agreement couldn't agree on names — the Chapter 20 process never really got any traction.
"If one party refuses to appoint, the default is the roster. No roster means no default mechanism," says Valerie Hughes, former director of the World Trade Organization's Legal Affairs Division (2010-16), now senior counsel with Bennett Jones in Ottawa.
That's what happened in 2000 in a dispute between the U.S. and Mexico over sugar exports: Mexico brought the Chapter 20 challenge, the U.S. blocked the establishment of a panel, and the process jumped the rails. Not a single panel has been struck since 2000. It's not hard to see why.
So did NAFTA's replacement, USMCA (or CUSMA, or NAFTA 2.0 — pick your acronym) fix the problem?
Opinions differ. Article 31.8 of USMCA, which replaces NAFTA's Chapter 20, did import a good idea from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It states that the parties "shall establish" a 30-person roster by the time the deal enters into force, and the roster shall "remain in effect for a minimum of three years or until the Parties constitute a new roster."
On the face of it, it looks like USMCA will have a roster that won't melt away over time. "It creates a default roster that doesn't die after three years, the implication being that it can stay in place longer," says Clifford Sosnow, a partner at Fasken specializing in trade, investment, and anti-bribery law.
The language in USMCA is confusing, he says, in that it doesn't clearly state whether a change to the roster — say, through a retirement — resets the three-year clock. Still, he adds, this is "a big difference between NAFTA and USMCA.
"The minute the roster is in place, there is no longer a best-before date. It's not couched in the most elegant language, but it is an improvement."
On the other hand, a rule maintaining the roster isn't much use if there's no roster to begin with. USMCA offers no penalties for failing to create a roster. NAFTA also used the "shall establish" language. It didn't help.
USMCA "says nothing about what happens if the roster never gets established in the first place," says Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, founder of the LexSage trade and tax law firm in Toronto. "And given how few challenges there have been under this section, it's not really a problem if there's no roster … until it is a problem."
Sosnow suggests it might be in Washington's political interest now to get serious about maintaining the roster. USMCA doesn't include NAFTA's Chapter 11 investor-state dispute settlement mechanism — a tool American companies used to challenge Canadian government decisions they saw as violations of NAFTA rules.
"(That) leaves the U.S. government with no treaty recourse to challenge alleged Canadian government violations of such rules absent a Chapter 31 roster," he says.
Requiring that the roster be appointed by consensus also opens the process to politics. That's nothing new, of course, but the fraught political climate surrounding the trade file under U.S. President Donald Trump is new.
"How inclined are the Americans going to be right now to agree to Canadian and Mexican nominees without knowing their ideological bent?" says Todgham Cherniak. "You can also ask whether the Canadians and Mexicans are going to think it's in their interests to get a roster appointed immediately when there's a (U.S. presidential) election coming up in 2020. It's like letting Trump appoint the entire Supreme Court all at once."
USMCA 31.8 isn't the only option for state-to-state dispute settlement; the World Trade Organization process is far more popular. But the WTO has problems of its own. The U.S. has been blocking appointments to the WTO appellate body that arbitrates trade disputes. It's down to just three judges out of a full complement of seven, and two of those judges are set to retire at the end of the year.
Hughes points out that "tons of FTAs around the world" rarely use their dispute settlement mechanisms "because the WTO's usually works so well.
"So does anyone care [about the USMCA system]? If the WTO system gets fixed, it's less of an issue."
But what if it doesn't get fixed? Todgham Cherniak says she sees the pressure on the WTO and the lingering weakness in USMCA 31.8 as fulfilling the Trump administration's larger elbows-out trade strategy.
"If you're in a position to break something, you're also in a position to dictate how it gets fixed or replaced," she says.
"The Americans can re-engineer the WTO arbitration process to eliminate things they don't like — like binding rulings. Good people around the world are trying to prevent that from happening, but the Trump administration is engaging in economic warfare. This isn't a trade dispute in the normal sense. It's winner-take-all."
Doug Beazley is a regular contributor based in Ottawa.
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Hacken Lee Weighs Up TVB Olympics Job
The Hong Kong Welcomes The Olympics roadshow event reached Tai Po today and performers at the show included Hacken Lee (李克勤), Prudence Liew (劉美君), Yumi (裕美) and HotCha.
Prudence was suffering from a throat infection, so she was unable to sing live at the show. She explained that due to her recent rehearsals for her forthcoming concert, she has injured the right hand side of her larynx, so the doctors have prescribed her with antibiotics and rest in order to recover. She said that she has only just regained her voice, so she did not want to strain it again.
Prudence also told of how she had suffered from shock after hearing that her mother had been admitted into hospital in San Francisco. She said that she was so worried that she cried all morning, but was comforted when she found it that it was just an adverse reaction to medication and that her mother was fine. She added that her mother will be flying over shortly to watch her concert performance.
Hacken revealed that he had received an invitation from TVB to go to Beijing in August and assist with their coverage of the Olympic Games, however he was still considering the job because he was worried that his son would forget his face if he was away for too long. He admitted that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, but is weighing up the balance between a job he would love to do and being around for his son.
Asked if this would affect his future plans to go on concert tours, Hacken smiled that this would not be the case because he has to earn milk money, especially now that the price of milk powder has gone up.
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A complainant man, age 37, was admitted to a hospital, after having suffered a gunshot wound to his neck. He was treated by a general surgeon and a neurosurgeon. During the first few days of treatment, the Bronx general surgeon formed an opinion that the man would be a permanent paraplegic. The neurosurgeon was also of the opinion that the man's spinal column had suffered such severe damage and that eventual spasms in his extremities would be inevitable. However, the neurosurgeon noted in the hospital records that the man apparently had a sensation to his feet.
Subsequently, while the man was in an intensive care unit, nurses at the hospital placed him on a special bed used to allow immobilized patients to be rotated to a vertical position. The nurse who was responsible for checking out the bed failed to check on the position of an essential bolt, and as the bed was rotated the man fell. There was conflict in the testimony as to injuries caused by the fall. The man claimed that he struck his back on a chair, while the nurse testified that she caught the man prior to the time he struck to anything. After the incident, the man was examined by another physician, who noted that the patient had not sustained any injury when a section of the bed had almost fallen down. The man testified, however, that his pain intensified after the fall and that it was only after the fall that he had begun to suffer spasms. The man was discharged from the hospital and after which, he was a patient in various other Westchester hospitals. He undergone several operations, but he remains paralyzed.
A pathologist testified as an expert witness for the man. It was his opinion that the fall striking the mid portion of the man's back in the area through which the bullet had passed had caused some degree of neurological and spinal injury, which in turn caused additional injury to the wound site. Even if the pathologist could not assess any particular degree of aggravation caused to the already existing damage, he did testify that the man's fall from the bed injured him to some additional degree.
For the opponent, the neurosurgeon testified that he had seen no medical changes in the man before or after which warranted any conclusion that any injury such as a fall occurring in the hospital had worsened his condition, but rather that all of the man's problems were consistent with the original gunshot injury and inconsistent with any other damage.
Initially, the court rejected the hospital's argument that the man's evidence did not warrant submission of the case to the jury. But, the court finds competent substantial evidence from which the jury found that the man suffered additional injury resulting from the hospital's negligence. The man testified that he had fallen out of bed and there were notes from one of the nurses indicating that after such fall he was unable to move his toes. Even the neurosurgeon acknowledged there had been some sensation in the man's feet prior to the fall, but there was none there after it.
The hospital however filed an appeal from the decision entered awarding the man a total of $350,000. The thrust of the hospital's contention is that the man was an irreversible paraplegic when he was admitted to the hospital, therefore, the fall he sustained as a result of the hospital's alleged negligence did not aggravate his then existing injuries.
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Party Secretary Qiu Hongbin led a delegation to attend the 2018 meeting of the Council of the Union of Chinese and Russian Medical Universities
From November 7 to 11, in accordance with the working arrangements of the Council of the Union of Chinese and Russian Medical Universities, Qiu Hongbin, Secretary of the Party Committee of Jiamusi University, attended the meeting of the Council of the Union of Chinese and Russian Medical Universities in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in 2018 at the invitation of Olga Krfton, President of the National Medical University of Ural, Russia.
On November 9, 2018, the Council Meeting of the Union of Chinese and Russian Medical Universities was solemnly held in the Council Building of Sverdlovsk State of Russian Federation. More than 100 representatives of 76 universities from China and Russia participated in the meeting. Delegates attended the meeting viewing a report on the work of the Sino-Russian Medical University Alliance in 2018, discussed the opportunities and challenges facing the future development of the alliance, and jointly agreed on the work plan of the Sino-Russian Medical University Alliance in 2019.
During the Council meeting, Secretary Qiu Hongbin held talks on behalf of our university with delegations from Ural National Medical University, New Siberia National Medical University and Krasnoyarsk National Medical University. The two sides conducted in-depth discussions on student exchange, teacher visits, joint training of postgraduate students, art and sports exchanges, scientific research cooperation and co-sponsoring international conferences, and reached a lot of consensus on academic research, teaching and scientific research cooperation. They hoped that this event will promote the establishment of friendly and cooperative relations between the two sides and make positive contributions to medical education and scientific research between China and Russia. During this period, our delegation visited the laboratories, libraries and museums, and conducted teaching observation activities.
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RIPPED--
How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music
by: Greg Kot
262 pp. Scribner. $25
By DANA JENNINGS
I spent countless rapt hours taping my favorite songs off the radio when I was a kid. There were so many tunes, and I had so little money. (And if a motorcycle or a semi went blasting past the house as I taped, then a ballad like "Crimson and Clover" would get some gritty meat on its ethereal bones.)
But even back then, the record companies considered someone like me a sneak thief, a young blackguard. By taping, I was taking money out of their pockets, bread off the table and cocaine from the noses of their artists and executives.
That battle between customer and music company has only intensified since. The listener screams, "Love!" The music executive screams, "Theft!" And the musician — same as it ever was — screams, "Pay me!" Now Greg Kot, a music critic and co-host of a rock 'n' roll radio talk show, tells us what happened in Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music, his well-reported book about music in the Internet Age.
Ripped ranges from the days when the record companies gnashed their teeth over the growth of home taping, to music publishers' blunt attacks on sampling in hip-hop, to the life, death and canonization of Napster, to the iPod and beyond. It also examines the constant consolidation — in the music companies, in radio, in concert promotion — that helped lead to the industry's implosion.
Then there are the abject listeners, dissatisfied with the nonfat vanilla being dispensed on the radio and in the record stores — Backstreet Boys, anyone? But once they discover peer-to-peer file sharing and CD burners, there's no holding them back. The record companies try their strong-arm tactics and lose. They can't cope with the guerrilla savvy of kids who have computers and a bottomless thirst for music.
Kot also writes about how established artists like Prince, Radiohead and Wilco (he is the author of a book about Wilco) thrived in the digital age because they didn't sit around and whine like emo punks while musical civilization as we know it crumbled. He pays homage to acts that emerged during the turmoil — Death Cab for Cutie, Arcade Fire, Conor Oberst — and used it to their advantage.
Still, the most fascinating part of the book is its retelling of how the big music companies committed capitalist suicide. The executives couldn't get their analog heads around the digital future. If industry leaders had always followed their mistrust of technology, we'd still be listening to music on 78-r.p.m. shellac, or maybe even wax cylinders.
Ripped is another case study in American industrial arrogance, an account of companies that couldn't (or wouldn't) learn agility. Instead of adapting to the new reality, they started calling their customers thieves.
But, Kot writes, "the moral posturing was a laughable new wrinkle. Here's an industry that had instituted payola, routinely manipulated shady contracts to take away publishing from songwriters, and engaged in questionable accounting practices to deny royalties from record sales to the vast majority of its artists."
The major labels were never truly interested in intellectual property rights. They were interested in making money, and computer kids ripping music off the Internet meant far less money. Thom Yorke of Radiohead says: "The idea that they are the victims of an immoral act is incredible to me. They claim to have the best interests of the artists at heart. Oh, really? They haven't had the best interests of the artists in mind for 50 years."
Kot understands that it's always entertaining to detail the thrash and roar of a carnivorous dinosaur in its death throes, as small and clever mammals — in this case, music lovers — win the day.
Some dinosaurs are even contrite. Edgar Bronfman Jr., the chief executive of the Warner Music Group, said in 2007: "By standing still or moving at a glacial pace, we inadvertently went to war with consumers by denying them what they wanted and could otherwise find. And as a result, of course, consumers won."
Dana Jennings is a reporter at The Times.
His most recent book is Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music.
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AstraZeneca's new restructuring initiatives to drive productivity and support innovation
In conjunction with the publication of its full year 2011 results earlier today, AstraZeneca announced new restructuring initiatives designed to improve productivity and strengthen the company's commercial, operations and research and development capabilities.
This new programme is expected to deliver an estimated $1.6 billion in annual benefits by the end of 2014, at an estimated total cost of $2.1 billion. AstraZeneca expects that this restructuring programme will affect approximately 7,300 positions. Final estimates for programme costs, benefits and headcount impact in all areas of the business are subject to completion of applicable consultation processes.
David Brennan, Chief Executive Officer, AstraZeneca said: "AstraZeneca remains fully committed to our long-term, focused, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical strategy. Since 2007, when we announced our first major restructuring programme, we have taken decisive steps to improve returns on investment, recognising that this demands concerted, enterprise-wide action. Today's initiatives should be seen in this strategic context as we continue to reshape our business to improve productivity and innovation and with it our long-term ability to compete in a rapidly changing healthcare environment.
"We are acutely aware that these decisions will affect many employees and we will strive to support our people as we implement these changes."
AstraZeneca is now providing further details of the company's restructuring plans as follows:
Selling, General and Administrative (SG&A)
Within AstraZeneca's SG&A category – which encompasses corporate and support functions as well as the commercial organisation – the company will continue to drive efficiencies, rationalise non-customer facing support groups and introduce new ways of meeting customer needs.
One change already under way is the simplification of the company's global commercial organisation structure. The number of sales and marketing regions has been reduced from five to three and smaller countries are being clustered, a move that will optimise resources, increase shared services and reduce the cost base.
In parallel, AstraZeneca is accelerating its use of new customer channels providing innovative, high quality services that better meet the changing needs of healthcare professionals at lower unit costs. These new channels – which include digital technology and the use of call centres for sales and medical advice – have been successfully established in many developed markets and are now being deployed around the world.
The company currently estimates that approximately 3,750 positions will be affected by the programme spanning SG&A.
The R&D function will accelerate its transformation, which the company unveiled in January 2010. Under the new programme announced today, further changes will create a simpler and more innovative R&D organization with a lower and more flexible cost base. Excess capacity in certain R&D functions will be reduced, matching resources to AstraZeneca's more focused R&D portfolio.
A focus for much of the change in R&D is the neuroscience therapy area. While the patient need for better medicines in neuroscience is huge and the science is promising, advances in treatments have proved elusive for the pharmaceutical industry in recent years, despite significant investment. AstraZeneca believes that it will have the best chance of success in future by combining the company's internal expertise with innovative external science.
As a result, AstraZeneca will create a new "virtual" neuroscience Innovative Medicines unit (iMed) made up of a small team of around 40 to 50 AstraZeneca scientists conducting discovery and development externally, through a network of some of the most innovative partners in academia and industry globally. The team will be based in major neuroscience hubs – Boston (US) and Cambridge (UK) – and work closely with innovative partners such as the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (Sweden).
Martin Mackay, President of Research and Development, AstraZeneca, said: "We've made an active choice to stay in neuroscience though we will work very differently to share cost, risk and reward with partners in this especially challenging but important field of medical research. The creation of a virtual neuroscience iMed will make us more agile scientifically and financially – we will be able to collaborate flexibly with the best scientific expertise, wherever it exists in the world."
The implementation of this new model will lead to a significant reduction in employee numbers and the end of R&D activity at two sites that are focused on neuroscience: Södertälje in Sweden and Montreal in Canada. As the location of the company's largest manufacturing site, and the base of the commercial business covering the Scandinavian markets, Södertälje remains an important part of the AstraZeneca network. The company's Montreal facility will close.
The restructuring in R&D announced today will impact approximately 2,200 positions globally.
In recent years, AstraZeneca has made a number of strategic changes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its supply chain and outsource some manufacturing activity, particularly the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients. The new programme will drive further efficiency in the supply chain, with a particular focus on support functions in Operations.
Total positions affected within the company's Operations function are estimated to be around 1,350.
R&D change programme
In January 2010, the R&D function announced a transformational change programme. Under this programme R&D reduced the number of disease areas, created Innovative Medicines units (iMeds) and the Global Medicines Development group and increased investment to build critical capabilities in areas such as predictive science, personalised healthcare, clinical trial design and interpretation and payer evidence. It also led to the closure of some R&D sites.
AstraZeneca continues to invest in R&D in the following therapy areas: cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, oncology, neuroscience and respiratory & inflammation.
AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven biopharmaceutical business with a primary focus on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines for gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation, oncology and infectious disease. AstraZeneca operates in over 100 countries and its innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. For more information please visit: www.astrazeneca.com.
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Tony Mandarich once again talked about why he turned into a Packers bust [Image via Greg McLain/YouTube screencap]
The offensive lineman was considered a physical specimen but it turns out he used painkillers far too frequently.
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Tony Mandarich and the fact that he was an NFL draft bust for the Green Bay Packers is hardly a surprise at this point. Over the years, there has been all kinds of talk about just why he turned into that bust. Drug use and abuse have long been thought to be the problem, but a recent interview shed light on just how many drugs he was taking during his playing days.
The former offensive lineman, who was selected by the Packers to be their building block on the offensive line recently sat down with ESPN's Jeremy Schaap.
According to Pro Football Talk said the talk with Schaap was one of the longest talks he's ever given about just what went wrong.
College life was easier to fake for the Green Bay Packers pick
The biggest issue, according to Mandarich was that he had a real problem getting off steroids. Mandarich said that he got hooked on those when he was playing at Michigan State in college. He claimed that he never took them while he was playing for the Packers, or later, the Indianapolis Colts.
Mandarich said that he started taking steroids at Michigan State because he wanted to get to the NFL.
Once he made the pros, he decided he needed to stop taking the 'roids because the league's testing policy was quite a bit more stringent than what he saw at the NCAA level. That doesn't mean he stopped taking drugs altogether.
"I was taking 40, 50, 60 painkillers a day, and drinking," Mandarich said of his playing days with Green Bay. Stil, it appears the offensive lineman thinks the real problem was that he lost too much strength when he stopped taking steroids.
The Packers second-round draft pick in 1989 says he thought he would only be losing about 10 percent of his strength when he stopped taking steroids. The lineman says he actually lost quite a bit more. That was why he could never be the player Green Bay thought they were drafting.
Never living up to the hype
The Green Bay Packers took Mandarich in the 1989 draft ahead of NFL greats that included Barry Sanders.
Considering this wasn't a team that most fans are used to, one that is competing for the playoffs if not the Super Bowl, he was considered someone who could help turn the franchise around.
In 1989, he played in 14 games, and he played in 16 in 1990. He played in and started 15 games in 1991, but he missed all of 1992 due to injury. Even while the Packers were giving him every opportunity to show what he could do, it became readily apparent quickly he wasn't the earth mover they thought they had drafted.
He was out of the game for several years because of that 1992 injury, and his lack of effectiveness when he came back. In 1996, he was signed by the Indianapolis Colts and played in 15 games, starting six of them. In 1997 he played in and started 16 games for the Colts started ten games in 1998. Eventually, his body broke down for good, and his career came to an end.
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Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 7, 1644
House of Lords Journal Volume 7: 12 August 1645
Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 7, 1644. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1767-1830.
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DIE Martis, 12 die Augusti.
Letter from Col. Pointz.
Message from the H. C. with Ordinances.
Report of the Conference about the Ordinance concerning the Isle of Ely.
Col. Russel to be Governor of Ely.
Answer to the H. C.
Committee for North'ton.
Message from the H. C. with Commissioners Names to reside with the Scots Army;
and with Ordinances.
Pass, for Mons. Augier to export Horses to France, for the D. Angoulesme, &c.
Message from the Assembly of Divines, about keeping scandalous Persons from the Sacrament.
Jones sent for, for insulting the Earl of Lincoln, at Sir R. Carr's.
Letter from Col. Poyntz, that he has laid Siege to Skipton Castle.
Ordinance to raise Money in the associated Counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, &c. for reducing Newark.
Capt. Doyley, Governor of Newport Pagnell.
Petition of the Assembly of Divines, to prevent scandalous and ignorant Persons from coming to the Sacrament.
Ordinance to secure the Repayment of the 20th and 5th Part, if paid within a limited Time.
Order for 2000l. for the Reduced Officers employed to relieve Taunton.
Order for 40l. to Lady Drake.
Lieut. Gen. Cromwell continued in His Command Four Months longer.
Ordinance concerning the Isle of Ely.
Order for 200l. for Major Gen. Skippon.
Order for 500 l. for the Garrison of Weymouth.
Adjourn.
PRAYERS, by Mr. Byfield.
Ds. Grey de Warke, Speaker.
Comes Kent.
Comes Pembrooke.
Comes Sarum.
Comes Bolingbrooke.
Comes Nottingham.
Comes Stamford.
Comes Denbigh.
Comes Rutland.
L. Viscount Say & Seale. Ds. Howard.
Ds. Willoughby.
Ds. Berkley.
Ds. Bruce.
A Letter from Colonel Pointz, to the Speaker, was read, as follows. (Here enter it.)
A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir Anthony Erby Knight;
To desire their Lordships Concurrence in several Orders, and an Ordinance:
1. An Ordinance for laying a Tax upon the Eastern Association, for the reducing of Newarke.
(Here enter it.)
Agreed to.
2. An Order to make Captain Doyley Governor of Newport Pagnell. (Here enter it.)
3. An Order to make Major Purbecke Temple Governor of Henley.
Respited.
4. An Ordinance for enabling the Committee at Haberdashers Hall to give the Public Faith, for the Fifth and Twentieth Part. (Here enter it.)
5. An Order to pay One Hundred and Fifty Pounds to the Officers of Colonel Apsley.
The Lord Howard reported, "That the Charges upon Haberdashers Hall is so great already, that they shall not be able in a long Time to pay those Monies."
6. An Order for paying Two Thousand Pounds, for the Officers employed in the relieving Taunton.
7. An Ordinance concerning the Directory.
Read Twice, and committed to a Committee of the whole House.
8. An Order to pay Forty Pounds to the Lady Drake.
9. An Order to continue Lieutenant General Cromwell for Four Months longer, from the Expiration of the last Three Months. (Here enter.)
10. To desire Expedition in the Ordinance concerning the Governor of the Isle of Ely. (Here enter it.)
11. That Captain James Quarles shall have the Command, and be Captain, of those Horse whereof Captain Anthony Poe was appointed Captain; and that the Committee of both Kingdoms do grant him a Commission accordingly.
12. That Jeremy Quarley and Cary Mildmay may (fn. 1) be added, to be Deputy Lieutenants of the County of Essex.
The Speaker reported the late Conference with the House of Commons, concerning the Ordinance for the Governor of the Isle of Ely: "And they agree with their Lordships in the Alterations, excepting to that concerning the Governor; and they adhere to the nominating of Colonel Russell to be Governor, because he is a Gentleman of good Estate in that County, and they have found him very faithful; therefore the House of Commons desires their Lordships Concurrence in the making of him Governor."
Resolved, upon the Question, That Colonel Russell shall be Governor of the Isle of Ely.
The Answer returned was:
That concerning the Ordinance for the Directory, the Ordinance for Major Purbecke, the Ordinance concerning Colonel Apsley, and the Deputy Lieutenants for the County of Essex, their Lordships will send an Answer by Messengers of their own: To all the rest of the Particulars, this House agrees.
Ordered, That Mr. Ric'd Owsley be added to the Committee for the County of North'ton; and the Concurrence of the House of Commons desired herein.
A Message was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Trenchard, &c.
To desire their Lordships Concurrence in these Particulars:
1. That Henry Herbert, Nathaniell Stephens, Thomas Hodges, and Edward Stephens, be added to the Commissioners of both Houses, that are appointed to reside in the Scotts Army.
2. An Ordinance to pay Two Hundred Pounds, out of the Excise, to Major General Skippon, &c. (Here enter it.)
3. An Ordinance to pay, out of the Excise, Five Hundred Pounds, for the Garrison of Weymouth. (Here enter it.)
That this House agrees to all the Particulars now brought up.
Upon Report of the Lord Viscount Say & Seale, from the Committee of both Kingdoms, "That Monsieur Augier, by several Letters to the Committee of both Kingdoms, hath represented, that he was much solicited to get Passports from the Parliament, (fn. 2) for transporting out of England;
1. Some Seven or Eight Geldings, for the Duke of Angouleme, and a Kennel of Dogs; this Duke hath sent a Gentleman hither.
2. Some Ten or Twelve Geldings, for Monsieur De Souvre and the Count of Bryenne, Principal Secretary of State, &c.
"3. And some Six Geldings, for Belieux, once Ambassador here, President of the Parliament of Paris, and affected to the Parliament here."
Ordered, That a Pass shall be granted, that the Duke of Angouleme shall transport into France Eight Geldings, the other Persons Six Geldings apiece.
A Message was brought from the Assembly of Divines, to present a Petition, concerning the keeping away of scandalous and ignorant Persons from the Sacrament; which was read. (Here enter the Petition.)
Ordered, That this Petition shall be taken into Consideration To-morrow Morning.
That this House hath read [ (fn. 3) their Petition]; and, (fn. 4) finding it to be a Business of great Moment, will take it into speedy Consideration.
The House was informed, "That the Earl of Lyncolne, a Member of this House, going to visit Sir Rob't Carr, was affronted and uncivilly used, by one Jenkin Jones, in the said Sir Rob't's House."
It is Ordered, That Jenkin Jones be summoned to appear before this House To-morrow Morning, to answer his said Misdemeanor to the said Earl; who is desired to send his Witnesses at the Time aforesaid, to be examined by this House, concerning the said Jenkin Jones.
Upon reading the Petition of Sir Rob't Mansell Knight; complaining, "That Edmond Harris refuses to pay the Hundred Pounds to him, by Way of Damages, decreed by this House, upon hearing the Business depending between them at this Bar:"
It is Ordered, That the said Harris shall pay the Hundred Pounds, according to the Decree of this House.
My Lord,
"Having the Honour to receive your Lordship's Letter, Duty prompts me to return yourself and the rest of my noble Peers most humble Thanks, that my poor Endeavours were thought worthy your Acknowledgement: The Passages here are not worthy your Honour's Knowledge; yet what there is, I shall thus render. On Saturday, I came within a Mile of Skipton, with some Horse and Foot, from Pontfract, where I stayed, in Expectation of the Bishopric and Lancasheir Forces coming in to me, till Monday; and then forced an Entrance into this Town, finding small Opposition, the Inhabitants being fled with their Families and Goods into the Castle and Church, being both well fortified. That Night I drew my Foot close to the Castle, where they still remain. Their Conduit-water we have likewise deprived them of, so that they have but One little Drawing-well to serve the Castle. We take their Men and Horses daily; others come in to us. When I have settled this Leaguer, I shall return to my Forces at Doncaster and Rotheram, for the keeping in of the Newarkers, and the Enemy of Welbecke House; whence I shall further express myself,
Your most obliged Servant to honour you,
Skipton, 8 Augusti, 1645.
Sednaham Poynts.
For the Right Honourable the Lord Grey of Warke, Speaker of the House of Peers.
"Poynts."
An Ordinance for taxing several Sums of Money upon the Eastern Association, and other Counties, to be employed towards the reducing of Newarke.
"For the better reducing of Newarke, and securing the several Counties hereafter named; the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, do hereby Ordain, That there shall be forthwith raised the several Sums of Money, in the several and respective Counties and Cities hereafter named; that is to say,
Upon the County of Norffolke, the Sum of Two Thousand One Hundred Eighty-seven Pounds and Five Shillings.
£. s. d.
Upon the City of Norwich, the Sum of 113 4 0
Upon the County of Suffolke, the Sum of 2187 5 0
Upon the County of Essex, the Sum of 2088 5 0
Upon the County of Cambridge, the Sum of 672 0 0
Upon the Isle of Ely, the Sum of 225 8 0
Upon the County of Huntingdon, the Sum of 315 11 0
Upon the County of Hertford, the Sum of 752 10 0
Upon the County of Bedford, the Sum of 309 7 0
Upon the County of North'ton, the Sum of 139 4 0
Upon the County of Leicester, the Sum of 77 16 0
Upon the County of Derby, the Sum of 159 12 0
Upon the County of Lincolne, the Sum of 640 7 0
Upon the County of Rutland, the Sum of 56 18 0
"Which said Sums of Money shall be reimbursed to the said several Counties and Cities, out of the Estates of Delinquents, within the said Counties and Cities respectively, in Order after all former Engagements out of the Estates of Delinquents shall be first satisfied: And it is hereby further Ordained, That the Committees, named in the Ordinances for maintaining the Forces under the Command of Sir Thomas Fairefax, shall have the same Power to execute this Ordidinance, for the raising the said Sums of Money, and to inforce the Execution thereof, to all Intents and Purposes, as in the said Ordinance is provided, and under the same Pains, Penalties, and Forfeitures, and giving the same Allowances to Officers, as are expressed in that Ordinance; which said Sums of Money shall be paid, by such as are appointed to collect the same, to such Person or Persons as shall be named Treasurer or Treasurers to receive the same, by the Committee of the Eastern Association, being Members of the House of Commons; which said Treasurer or Treasurers shall issue forth the same, from Time to Time, as he or they shall receive Order or Orders from the said Committee, for the Payment of Seven Hundred Horse and Three Hundred Dragoons, lately raised, to be employed for the Purposes aforesaid, and for such other Purposes, and in such Manner, and under such Commander or Commanders, as both Houses of Parliament, or the Committee of both Kingdoms, shall direct, for the best Advantage of the Eastern Association, and the aforesaid Counties, and other Parts of the Kingdom: Provided always, and it is hereby Declared, That the assessing, raising, and levying, of the said Sums of Money, be no Impediment, to hinder or delay the raising, levying, or paying, any Sum or Sums of Money, appointed to be raised, levied, and paid, by the said Ordinance, for Payment of Sir Thomas Fairefaxe's Army, or for Maintenance of the Army of our Brethren of Scotland."
"The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, do nominate and appoint Captain Doyley, to be established Governor of Newport Pagnell."
"To the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled.
"The humble Petition of the Assembly of Divines, sitting, by Order of Parliament, at Westm.
"It having pleased the Honourable Houses to call the Members of this Assembly together, to give their Advice in Matters of Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship, according to the Word of God; and we having, both in that Directory for Worship, and in the Model of Government, humbly presented to the Honourable Houses, advised such a Course, for the keeping away of scandalous and unworthy Persons from the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, as we judged most expedient, and most agreeable to the Word of God, and the Example of the best Reformed Churches; and having solicited the same by several Petitions; can yet have no rest in our Spirits, but, perceiving by the Answers it pleased the Honourable Houses to vouchsafe to our last Petition that this Petition is still in Consultation, our Spirits within constrains us yet further humbly to beseech you in this Particular; and we hope it will not seem grievous unto you, if, in Conscience of that Duty, which we as Ministers, and more especially as met in this Assembly, owe to God, to His Church, and to yourselves, we are yet again humble and important Petitioners in this Thing; seeing God is our Record, and we hope it is manifest to your Consciences, that herein we seek not ourselves or private Interests, but the Glory of God, the pure Administration of His Ordinances, the Welfare of Souls, and the Peace and Good of this whole Nation. The greatest Care and Diligence in Matters of so high Concernment is not enough; and therefore we hope no Care and Diligence that we can use will seem supersluous.
"We should not use this Opportunity, did we not firmly believe that what we have desired, and do desire herein, is the Will and Command of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the King and Lawgiver in His Church; and therefore we dare not but in His Name ask it, and doubt not by His Grace to obtain it, of the Honourable Houses.
Had we not this Hope, our Hearts would fail within us for this poor Nation; for, as we are fully convinced in our Consciences, that, among the many and crying Sins of this Kingdom, which the great and righteous God is now avenging in Blood upon us, the prostituting of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ as a common Thing is One, and not the least (for this Cause, even for this Cause, the Land bleeds and mourns); so we fear, unless at this Time by your Hand (seeing the Most High hath given you an Opportunity and Power to do it) an effectual Course be taken for the preventing of so great a Sin for Time to come, God will be yet more displeased, and will punish yet Seven Times more.
"Therefore we, whom (amongst others) the Lord hath set as watching upon the Walls, dare not hold our Peace, especially seeing the Vows of God are upon us, and it hath pleased the Honourable Houses of Parliament to bind themselves, and us, and the Nation, in a solemn and sacred Covenant, wherein (among other Things) we have sworn to endeavour, according to our Places and Callings, to extirpate Popery, Prelacy, Superstition, Heresy, Schism, Prophaneness, and whatever is contrary to sound Doctrine and the Power of Godliness, lest we partake of other Mens Sins, and thereby be in Danger to receive of their Plagues. God hath graciously strengthened your Hands against Popery, Prelacy, and Superstition; and for the rest of those Roots of Bitterness which we have covenanted against, especially Schism and Prophaneness, we know no better Way of providing against them than this for which we now petition; which, we are confident, will (through the Blessing of God) be the happiest Means of healing the present, and preventing future Schisms, by removing out of the Way that which hath been One of the greatest Stumbling-blocks, and by reconciling all the godly in the Kingdom, and will give much Ease and Satisfaction to weak and tender Consciences, and which will give the greatest Check to Prophaneness, as sealing Conviction upon the Consciences of Sinners most powerfully; for it is not to be imagined that our denouncing the Terrors of the Lord against wicked and prophane Persons will prevail much upon their Hearts, while they may (even as soon as they have heard that Sermon) come and receive the Sacrament, and therein, as they think, the Seal of Grace and Salvation to themselves.
"We hope we shall not need to plead for ourselves, that the Power of keeping away seandalous and unworthy Persons from the Lord's Table, which Jesus Christ hath placed in the Ministers and Elders of His Churches (the free and peaceable Exercise whereof we humbly desire may be confirmed unto them by your Sanction), is not an arbitrary or unlimited Power, for how can that Power be called arbitrary, which is not according to the Will of Man, but the Will of Christ? or how can it be supposed to be unlimited, which is circumscribed and regulated by the exactest Law, the Word of God; which Law in Case any shall transgress, and abuse this Power to serve their Lusts instead of serving Christ in the Exercise thereof, we have advised, and humbly desire, that superior Assemblies may be established amongst us, who may not only relieve the Injured, but censure the Offenders according to their Demerit.
"Nor is this Power in the least Measure (as we humbly conceive) inconsistent with the Liberties of the Subject, it being exercised wholly and solely in that which is no Part of Civil Liberty, the Sacrament; which certainly none can claim as he is a free-born Subject of any Kingdom or State, but as he is visibly a Member of the Church, qualified according to the Rule of Christ.
"Only we crave Leave to entreat you to consider, that other Christian States, which are jealous of the Encroachments of an arbitrary Power, and very tender of their own just Liberties, have granted the full Exercise of the Power of Censures unto the Elderships of their Churches: (fn. 5) Yea, and among ourselves, Power equivalent to this was intrusted to every single Minister and Curate in England, as (in our humble Apprehensions) appears both by the Injunctions of King Edward the Sixth, and by the Injunctions and Articles of Enquiry of Queen Elizabeth, Princess of Famous Memory, and by the late Book of Common Prayer, and Rubric before the Sacrament; nor do we at present call to Mind that any Christian Prince or State, whose Heart God did incline to seek a Refor mation, as you have covenanted to do, and to establish a Government according to the Word, did ever deny this Power unto the Presbyteries in their Dominions; and we trust God loves the Parliament and England so well, as not to suffer them to be the First. Yet can we not (lest our own Heart should smite us, as not having done our Duties to the utmost) but continue most humbly to advise and pray, that Ministers and other Elders may be sufficiently enabled to keep not only some, but all such as are justly and notoriously scandalous from the Sacrament of the Lords Supper; for, should Things be so ordered (which God forbid), that any wicked and scandalous Persons might without Controul thrust themselves upon this Sacrament, we do evidently foresee, that not only we, but many of our godly Brethren, must be put upon this hard Choice, either to forsake our Stations in the Ministry, which would be to us One of the greatest Afflictions, or else to partake in other Mens Sins, and thereby incur the Danger of their Plagues; and if we must chuse One, we are resolved, and we trust our God will help us, to chuse Affliction rather than Iniquity.
William Twisse Prolocutor.
John White Assessor.
Henry Roborrough Scriba.
Adoniram Byfeild Scriba."
"Whereas divers Sums of Money have been received, by the Committee of Lords and Commons for Advance of Money and other Necessaries for the Army, upon the Ordinances of Parliament, for the Twentieth Part, and Twentieth and Fifth Part, which have been issued and paid forth by them, according to the Trust reposed in them, upon sundry Exigents and Occasions, according to several Ordinances and Orders of Parliament in that Behalf made; and for so much as it is provided, in the said Ordinances for the Twentieth Part, and Twentieth and Fifth Part, that such Persons as shall pay in their Proportions, within the Times limited by the said Ordinance, to the Treasurers at Guildhall, should have the Public Faith for Re-payment of the same; and there being divers Persons, whose Monies have not been paid the Treasurers at Guildhall, but issued and paid forth by the said Committee as aforesaid, so that the said Persons have hitherto had no Security for Re-payment of the same on the Public Faith: Be it therefore Ordained, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, That such Persons as heretofore have paid, or hereafter shall pay, their Proportions for the Twentieth Part, and Twentieth and Fifth Part, within the Time limited by the said Ordinances, and such other Persons, who, by Order of the said Committee, shall be thought meet, shall have the Public Faith of this Kingdom, for Re-payment of such Monies as shall be by them respectively paid in, for their Twentieth Parts, and Twentieth and Fifth Parts; the same to be signified and attested under the Hand of the Clerk to the said Committee, and Treasurer for the Time being in that Behalf, who are required to keep Accompt unto what Persons, and for what Sums, the Public Faith shall be given as aforesaid."
"Whereas Thomas Foote Esquire, Alderman of the City of London, and the rest of the Commissioners of Excise and new Impost, have advanced and lent the Sum of Two Thousand Pounds, for and towards the Satisfaction of the Arrears due unto the Reduced Officers employed in the Relief of Taunton: Be it Ordained, by the Lords and Commons, &c. That the Commissioners of Excise and new Impost shall and may satisfy and reimburse themselves, and that their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, shall and may be satisfied and reimbursed, the said Two Thousand Pounds, together with Interest for the same, after the Rate of Eight Pounds per Cent. for so long Time as the same, or any Part thereof, shall be forborn, out of such Intervals of Receipts, upon the Ordinance 11th September, 1643, as shall happen when other Assignments already made on those Receipts shall not fall due, and, in Default thereof, then as the same shall follow in Course; and that the said Commissioners of Excise do pay the said Two Thousand Pounds unto Captain Francis Vernon, whose Receipt shall be a sufficient Discharge unto the said Commissioners of Excise, and every of them, in that Behalf."
"Ordered, by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That Forty Pounds be advanced and paid, by the Committee at Habberdashers Hall, for the Relief of the Lady Drake, in her Sickness."
"Whereas it was Ordained, by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, the Tenth Day of May last, That Lieutenant General Cromwell, being then in the actual Service of the Parliament, and the Prosecution of the Enemy, should be continued in the Employment he was then in for [ (fn. 6) Forty Days] longer, not withstanding the late Ordinance, or any Clause therein, that discharges the Members of either House from bearing any Office or Command, Military or Civil; and whereas the said Lords and Commons, the 18th of June last, did further Order, That he should continue as Lieutenant General of the Horse, according to the established Pay of the Army, for Three Months, from the End of the Forty Days formerly appointed to him: It is this Day Ordered, by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That the said Lieutenant General Cromwell shall be continued in the same Employment, as formerly, for the Space of Four Months longer, from the End of the said Three Months for which he was formerly continued as aforesaid."
"The Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, taking into their Consideration the great Importance of the Isle of Ely, and Town and Garrison of Croyland, as well with regard to the Security and Preservation of the Seven associated Counties, as in relation to the Designs of the Enemies (who are watchful to take Advantages to possess themselves of the said Isle and Garrison), have therefore thought fit, Ordered, and Ordained, and do hereby Order and Ordain, That there be a Garrison, consisting of Six Hundred Foot, and One Troop of Dragoons, consisting of One Hundred and Twenty, placed within the said Isle, and Garrison of Croyland, for the Safety thereof, whereof Five Hundred Foot and One Hundred Dragoons to be for the Isle of Ely, and One Hundred Foot and Twenty Dragoons to be for the Garrison of Croyland: And be it further Ordered and Ordained, by the Lords and Commons, That Colonel Francis Russell be hereby constituted and appointed Governor of the said Isle, and Lieutenant Colonel Dodson be likewise hereby constituted and appointed Governor of the said Garrison and Town of Croyland, and the Forces therein; and that the Committees of both Kingdoms do grant out Commissions to the said Colonel Francis Russell and Lieutenant Colonel Dodson accordingly, who shall command the said Garrisons, and Forces there, in such Manner as both Houses of Parliament, the Committee of both Kingdoms, Sir Thomas Fairefax, or the Committee hereafter named, shall order and direct: And be it further Ordained, That, in the County of Norffolke, Sir Thomas Hoogen Knight, Mr. Thomas Sotherton, Mr. John Brewster, Mr. Robert Wilton, Mr. Robert Wood of Brakenash; and in the County of Suffolke, Mr. Nathaniell Bacon, Sir William Spring, Mr. Robert Brewster, Mr. Bampton Gurdon Junior, Mr. Francis Bacon; and in the County of Essex, Mr. Richard Herlakenden, Mr. Wincoll, Mr. Arthur Barnardiston, Mr. Henry Mildmay, Mr. Raymond; and in the County of Cambridge, Mr. John Hubbard, Mr. Robert Castle, Mr. Thomas Duckett, Mr. Robert Clerke, Mr. Thomas Bendish; and, in the County of Hertford, Sir John Wittrong, Mr. John Haydon, Mr. William Leamon, John King Doctor of Physic, Isaack Puller; and in the County of Huntington, Mr. Vintner, Mr. Burrell, Mr. Fulwood, Mr. Castle, Mr. Templer; and, in the County of Lincolne, Mr. Humfrey Wallcott, Mr. William Savell, Mr. John Willsby, Mr. John Harrington, Mr. James Trollop; and all the Members of both Houses of Parliament that serve for, or live within, the Association; shall be a Committee of the said Seven Associated Counties; and that they, or any Five or more of them, shall have Power to order and direct the said Governors and Forces belonging to the said Isle and Garrison, subject nevertheless to the Orders and Directions of both Houses of Parliament, or of the Committee of both Kingdoms, and Sir Thomas Fairefax: And, that there may be a settled Maintenance of the said Garrisons, it is further Ordained, and the Commissioners of Excise are hereby Ordered and Appointed, to pay Weekly the Sum of Three Hundred Pounds, for the Use of the said Garrisons; that is to say, to the Use of the said Isle, the Sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds per Week; and for the Use of the said Garrison of Croyland, the Sum of Fifty Pounds per Week; unto such Person or Persons as shall be authorized to receive the same, by the Committee aforenamed, or any Five of them, whose Receipt shall be a sufficient Discharge to the Commissioners of Excise; the First Day of Payment to be accounted from the 23th Day of April, in the Year of our Lord 1645, and to continue till further Order of both Houses of Parliament; and the Committees before named in this Ordinance, or any Five of them, or such as they shall appoint, are hereby required and authorized to cause Musters to be taken so often as they hold necessary, and to take Care that the said Garrisons be well and duly paid, from Time to Time, according to the true Intent and Meaning hereof; and the said Governor, with the Consent of the said Committee, or Five or more of them, shall have Power to make such Works and Fortifications, for the securing of the said Isle, as they shall think fit and necessary."
"Whereas Thomas Foote Esquire, Alderman of the City of London, and the rest of the Commissioners of Excise or new Impost, have advanced and lent Two Hundred Pounds, for the Use of Major General Skippon: Be it Ordained, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, That the said Commissioners of Excise and new Impost shall and may satisfy and reimburse themselves, and that their Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, shall be satisfied and reimbursed, of the said Two Hundred Pounds, together with Interest for the same, after the Rate of Eight Pounds per Cent. for so long Time as the same, or any Part thereof, shall be forborn, out of such Intervals of Receipts by the Excise, by Ordinance of the 11th September, 1643, as shall happen when other Payments already assigned on those Receipts shall not fall due, or, for Want of such Intervals, then as the same shall follow in Course; and shall not, by any other Order or Ordinance, be debarred from satisfying themselves accordingly; for which Reimbursement of Principal and Interest, this Ordinance shall be their, the said Commissioners of Excise, or their Executors, sufficient Warrant and Discharge: And it is further Ordained, That the said Two Hundred Pounds, by the Commissioners of Excise advanced and lent for the Use aforesaid, shall be paid unto the said Major General Skippon, or his Assigns by (fn. 7) him sufficiently authorized thereunto, whose Receipt or Receipts shall be a sufficient Discharge to the said Commissioners of Excise, and every of them, in that Behalf: And the Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, of the 29th July, 1645, for the Re-imbursement of the Sum of Two Hundred Pounds to the said Commissioners, is hereby nulled and made void."
"Whereas Thomas Foote Esquire, Alderman of the City of London, and the rest of the Commissioners of Excise and new Impost, have advanced and lent the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds, for and towards the Payment of the Garrison of Waymouth: Be it Ordained, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, That the Commissioners of Excise and new Impost shall and may satisfy and re-imburse themselves, and that their Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, shall and may be satisfied and reimbursed, the said Five Hundred Pounds, together with Interest for the same, after the Rate of Eight Pounds per Cent. for so long Time as the same, or any Part thereof, shall be forborn, out of such Intervals of Receipts, upon the Ordinance, 11th of September, 1643, as shall happen (fn. 8) when other Assignments already made on those Receipts shall not fall due; and, in Default thereof, then (fn. 8) as the same shall follow in Course; and that the said Commissioners of Excise do pay the said Five Hundred Pounds unto Colonel William Sydenham, whose Receipt shall be a sufficient Discharge unto the said Commissioners of Excise, and every of them, in that Behalf."
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Ray Rice Publicly Apologizes To His Wife Following Assault, 2-Game Suspension
Filed Under:Janay Palmer, Punishment, Ravens, Ray Rice, running back, Suspension
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (WJZ)– Ray Rice stepped up to the microphone at a Ravens press conference Thursday morning. He talked about his two-game suspension– and publicly apologized to his wife.
"My actions were inexcusable. My actions are something I have to live with the rest of my life," he said.
Rice drew criticism during a press conference with his wife in May, where she apologized, but he never said sorry to her. He addressed that on Thursday.
"I didn't publicly apologize to my wife. I know that hit home for a lot of people," Rice said. "I've made the biggest mistake of my life. Me. She can do no wrong. She's an angel."
Suspended by the NFL for the first two games of the season, the running back has been quiet during camp. But his critics nationwide have been quite vocal about what many feel was a lenient punishment after he was indicted for physically assaulting his then fiancee.
To WATCH Rice's complete public statement, click here.
Infamous TMZ Sports video shows Rice dragging his now-wife, Janay Palmer, from an elevator at a casino in Atlantic City in February after prosecutors say he punched her.
Rice would not specifically address anything that happened in Atlantic City. Instead, he says he takes responsibility and is now focused on moving forward.
"I own my actions," he said. "I just don't want to keep reliving the incident. It doesn't bring any good to me. I'm just trying to move forward from it. I don't condone it. I take full responsibility for my actions. What happened that night is something that I'm going to pay for the rest of my life."
He spoke about his 2-year-old daughter one day going on Google and him having to explain what happened.
"I know that's not who I am as a man. That's not who my mom raised me to be. I was raised by a single parent, and that was my mother. I let her down, I let my wife down, I let my daughter down. I let her parents down. I let so many people down because of 30 seconds of my life that I know I can't take back," Rice said.
A judge put Rice in a first-time offender program, meaning no jail time and a clean record. But NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who met with Rice and his wife, says the assault warranted suspension.
"We simply cannot tolerate conduct that endangers others… This is particularly true with respect to domestic violence and other forms of violence against women," said Goodell in a letter to Rice.
Rice's conduct will cost him a two-game suspension and half a million dollars.
"When I didn't have nothing growing up, all I had was football. Just to have that taken away from me, and I can't be with you guys the first two weeks, it hurts," Rice said. "I appreciate you guys support."
At an open practice game last week, Ravens fans showed support by cheering for Rice.
"I appreciate the fans of Baltimore who gave me that ovation," Rice said. "When the time is right, when I get myself completely right to go back out there and do the things I been doing in the community, I will go out there and help as many people as I can."
Rice says the domestic violence situation is the first time that it's happened. He also apologized to all victims of domestic violence.
The House of Ruth released the following statement:
"The unfortunate incident with the Baltimore Ravens' Ray Rice has generated tremendous conversation about the issue of intimate partner violence. We appreciate that Mr. Rice apologized to his wife and to all victims of intimate partner violence and is taking the best steps to create a healthy relationship in his family. We hope that Mr. Rice will now take an active stand in the work that is being done to end intimate partner violence. He is in a unique position to use his influence to let men know that this kind of behavior is unacceptable and that it is not acceptable to be a bully in a relationship.
"All men, not just Mr. Rice, need to take responsibility as husbands, boyfriends, fathers, brothers, caretakers and friends. They need to speak out and lead the charge that intimate partner violence is not acceptable at any level and it destroys lives and families.
"We look forward to the time that Mr. Rice is ready to turn this experience into a positive in our community and nationally."
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