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'Mugabe's questionable exit plan to Moza'
Levi Mukarati, continues to explore Parker Chipoyera's political journey. This week, the liberation struggle fighter chronicles events during the détente period including former President Robert Mugabe's move to sneak into Mozambique despite having been a free man.
Question: The period in which Chitepo was killed, apart from the Nhari-Badza rebellion, was also characterised by a decrease in direct armed confrontation between the liberation fighters and Rhodesian government forces. This is the time of the coming together of the political parties under the African National Council led by Bishop Muzorewa. Can you tell us the politics surrounding this united grouping?
Answer: The period is referred to as the détente period.
In April 1974, there was a coup d'etat in Lisbon, Portugal.
This political development had an impact in Portuguese colony of Mozambique.
It marked the pull out of the colonisers.
It also marked increased flow of trainees from Rhodesia and intensification of the armed war.
The Prime Minister of South Africa, John Vorster, was forced to seek a solution to the political problems in Rhodesia. This was driven by the likely impact the war in Rhodesia would bring on regional trade and food security.
Rhodesia was South Africa's gateway to the north of the continent. Countries such as Zambia and Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo) would also be affected.
These countries were promised security of trade and food if they could support an internal settlement in Rhodesia.
It was Zambia that played a major role to bring the internal settlement that involved Joshua Nkomo as Zapu President, Ndabaningi Sithole of Zanu, Abel Muzorewa ANC (African National Council) and James Chikerema (Frolizi).
But, I should mention that Sithole was just a stand-in for Zanu, he had already been denounced.
Question: Sorry to divert you a bit, can you explain Sithole's political position at that time?
Answer: In 1964, Ndabaningi Sithole was arrested together with the likes of Robert Mugabe, Leopold Takawira and Maurice Nyagumbo for political activities. He was sentenced by the Rhodesians to 10 years in jail.
While in jail, Sithole was accused of plotting to pay some people, outside, to assassinate Ian Smith. This new charge gave the Rhodesians another opportunity to continue holding the Zanu leader in jail.
But, in the wake of the manoeuvres from Vorster in South Africa, the Rhodesians took advantage of Sithole and made him play ball. This is the reason why Sithole, from prison, renounced the armed struggle.
He was seeking to buy his freedom in the wake of the new charge he was facing.
This led other nationalists in jail such as Mugabe, Tekere, Nyagumbo and Takawira to smuggle a letter to us, in the training camps, which said they had agreed that Sithole was no longer president of Zanu. This cleared the way for Mugabe to take over. But Mugabe was not, at that time popular because there was Chitepo.
Question: How then did Sithole end up on the ANC combined structure?
Answer: There was a challenge in that, the nationalists were communicating from jail and their message came at a time the Rhodesians were also pushing an amalgamation of the liberation war parties to start negotiations.
Despite not being trusted by other nationalists and even military leaders, Sithole was the one who was recognised by the Zambians, South Africans and Rhodesians to be leader of Zanu as they tried the push for the negotiations.
This forced the nationalists in jail to select Nyagumbo to accompany Sithole to Zambia to meet the other liberation party leaders for the signing of the unity document.
As this was happening, isu kuma training camps we had received communication that Sithole had been removed as president. Before the signing of the unity document in Zambia in December 1974, the Zanu delegation met its war strategists including Herbert Chitepo, Josiah Tongogara, Mukudzei Mudzi, Robson Manyika, Chigohwe and John Mataure.
These war strategists rejected the unity in totality, a position that was, in a hidden way, also shared by nationalists in jail and detention including Mugabe. But, the united party, ANC, was established with Muzorewa as the leader.
Its main function was to start united negotiations with Ian Smith's government.
It was agreed that there should be a constitutional conference leading to the transfer of political power to the nationalists.
The condition for the constitutional conference was that both the Smith's regime and liberation fighters declare a cease-fire. Zanu nationalists then brought in demands such as release of all political prisoners and suspension of death penalty.
Smith refused to give in to the demands and the nationalists declared to increase the heat of the armed war.
Question: As this was all happening, what was going on in the camps?
Answer: Our commanders had rejected the united ANC, but they developed a wait and see attitude. In the meantime, ma nationalists ainge akasungwa akazobuda mumajeri and detention centres during this détente period as part of the conditions for the internal negotiations.
Nguva iyoyo nyaya dzana Nhari and Badza ndopadzaiputika, tichibva ipapo Chitepo abva aurayiwa and some of our military leaders outside Rhodesia were sent to jail in Zambia on allegations of murdering Chitepo.
At that same time, ichi chinhu che ANC chaifamba mberi kuti vanhu ava vangawirirane sei.
Ukuwo Mugabe, who had been part of the removal of Sithole in Jail akanga abuda from detention around November 1974 and then decided to jump the border in the most questionable manner, to begin his bid to consolidate power using support from the fighters. He saw an opportunity to counter Sithole who was busy with the negotiations and detached from the fighters.
Question: What do you mean by 'the most questionable manner'?
Answer: The imperialist intelligence was already ahead of us. They knew that through detention, education and 'kind gesture' of release of the nationalists, vakanga vakwanisa kubika munhu wavo zvakakwana.
Munhu wavo zvino akanga akuchizouya kunze kwatiri kuMozambique neku East Africa achiti ndini president we Zimbabwe African Nationalist Union. Munhu uyu akanga akuzozvipira kuma Frontline States.
This person was Robert Mugabe.
At one time, Julius Nyerere asked Mugabe kuti wakazoita president rinhi nekuti we know Zanu president to be Ndabaningi Sithole. Mugabe's response was that Sithole had been removed while they were in jail.
The question came also after Samora Machel had asked Mugabe how a congress could be done in an enemy prison away from the general membership.
Machel at first did not like Mugabe and that explains why he held him in Quelimane, which was like South Africa's Robben Island.
Mugabe maintained that since vice-president Leopold Takawira had died in jail, Chairman Chitepo had also died and with the ouster of Sithole, it meant he was now the president. Remember, Frolizi, under Chikerema, had said president chaiye achauya.
Then, to answer why I said he left Rhodesia in the most questionable manner. Mugabe had been released from jail, meaning he was a free man.
He had a British passport which meant he could board a plane or cross the border legally, but he chose to sneak out of the country into Mozambique just after Chitepo had died on March 18 1975.
No one asks about this move.
Mugabe's later statement for choosing to sneak out was that his friend Maurice Nyagumbo had been arrested for recruiting people for training in Mozambique.
Instead of kunobata Mai Chitepo mawoko in Zambia, Mugabe chose to go to places like Villa de Katandika and Zhuuta to lobby for acceptance as President.
When he left Salisbury, he was given mari yechema by the nationalists at Mushandirapamwe Hotel in Highfield.
Did that reach Mai Chitepo? He was busy seeking recognition.
Mugabe and Tekere arrived in Mozambique during the first week of April and began their formal lobbying for the former to become Zanu President.
Question: Let us get back to the united ANC issue. As it was engaged in the negotiation issues, what were you up to?
Answer: After the death of Chitepo I went to Zambia in June and joined Machingura and David Tondhlana who had just been released from jail in Zambia.
They had been arrested in connection with Chitepo's death.
We were moving between Tanzania and Zambia as we waited to get instructions from our leaders as the ANC meetings were still in progress.
A military wing of the ANC Zimbabwe Liberation Council (ZLC) had been established but it was not yet operational. It had Ndabaningi Sithole as chairman, Jason Moyo Vice-Chairman, Chikerema Secretary.
The ZLC had a task committee and chairpersons of this committee were Noel Mukono (ex-Zanu) military affairs, Simpson Mutambanengwe (ex-Zanu) Diplomatic and International Labour Relations, George Nyandoro (ex-Frolizi) Finance and Property, Samanya (ex-Frolizi) Publicity, Information and Research, Stephan Parirewa (ex-Zanu) Welfare, Health, Education and Projects and Micheal Mawema party organisation.
But, Zapu rejected being part of the committee saying they had not been fully included in the task committee.
This was despite the fact that Zapu members Edward Ndlovu, George Silundika and Jane Ngwenya had been offered to sit in the ZLC.
While we were in Zambia, in September 1975, Muzorewa travelled on a tour to the United States and in his absence, Joshua Nkomo held some secret talks with the Rhodesians.
This did not go down well with Muzorewa who upon his return fired Nkomo from ANC.
But, Nkomo called for a congress and on September 28 1975 he was declared ANC-Zimbabwe leader.
Muzorewa had left to pursue talks in Zambia and declared he was still leading ANC-Muzorewa. Muzorewa, Chikerema and Sithole came to address us in Zambia.
Sithole did not mention that he had been fired by his colleagues while they were in jail. He was viewing the killing of Chitepo and Badza as elimination of the Manyika people.
I remember his last words while we were at the meeting were "goodbye the reactionaries" that is the day we said we had had enough, we should go back to Mgagao and take matters into our own hands.
At that point, we made a fatal historical error.
We declared that we no longer wanted to talk to any nationalists except the secretary-general of Zanu, Robert Gabriel Mugabe.
It was a mistake because we only mentioned Mugabe when there were other leaders such as, Nkala, Maurice Nyagumbo, the Malianga brother and others.
We should have put an exhaustive list of leaders whom we were prepared to deal with.
That document armed Mugabe to say ndini ndinevakomana vakandisarudza.
Continued next week
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Why Web3 Digital Identities Matter & How They Work
Justin Kuepper
Most people are acutely aware of the shortcomings of today's Web 2.0-dominated internet. From devastating data breaches to social media addiction, consumers and regulators are seeking a better path forward. Blockchains could hold the key.
Web3 aims to reshape how the internet works and put control back in the hands of consumers. At the core, digital identities will govern Web3 interactions and set the stage for the future of everything from financial transactions to the metaverse.
In this article, we will look at Web3 digital identities, how they work under the hood, and the top platforms to build and manage Web3 identities.
Digital identities are at the heart of Web3 – here's how they work and how to get started with them.
A Brief Web3 Primer
Polkadot founder and Ethereum co-founder Gavin Wood coined the term Web3 in 2014, referring to a decentralized online ecosystem based on the blockchain. The term gained popularity as venture capital poured into the crypto industry, peaking with Andreessen Horowitz's visit to Washington D.C. in 2021 to lobby for it as a potential solution to web regulation.
More simply, Web3 refers to the next wave of innovation sweeping the internet. Unlike Web 2.0's social media giants controlling massive troves of data, Web3 embraces decentralization and aims to hand power back to consumers. Blockchain technologies are the building blocks enabling these capabilities and ultimately creating a new digital economy.
There are several critical concepts behind Web3:
Digital Identities enable consumers to authenticate and verify without disclosing any personal information.
Non-fungible Tokens make it easy to tokenize any assets, use them in unique ways, and quickly verify ownership.
Decentralized Finance aims to democratize finance through decentralized lending and borrowing.
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations reform conventional corporations by putting the power into the hands of members.
While we'll be exploring digital identities in this article, all of these concepts intertwine to fulfill the promise of Web3.
What is a Digital Identity?
Web 2.0 relies on centralized data silos for authentication. For example, suppose you want to open a bank account. Most banks will outsource identity verification to a third-party vendor with access to private information like your Social Security number. Over time, you can quickly lose track of who has your data and where it's stored.
These company-controlled identification processes come with many problems. For example, the rise of data breaches underscores the risk of storing private information with third parties. And the prevalence of identity theft shows that these authentication strategies aren't safe from forgery. The only "winners" are companies and criminals.
Web3 puts identification back in the hands of individuals. Source: Auth0
Web3 digital identities take a user-centric approach to exchange data securely. For example, suppose a lender needs to verify income. A consumer's bank could issue and sign a token on the blockchain verifying they meet a certain income threshold. Then, the consumer could provide that token to the lender instead of divulging their income.
In addition to safeguarding data, Web3 digital identities enable consumers to access data across platforms. For instance, a user could use the same blockchain-based identity to authenticate with real-world services (e.g., banks) and virtual metaverse platforms. And they could take all of their digital assets into each environment.
How Digital Identities Work
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international web standards body, introduced recommendations for Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) in early 2022. These recommendations came despite objections from Google, Apple, and other Web 2.0 giants concerned about their entrenched positions as intermediaries.
A DID is a globally unique identifier consisting of a string of letters and numbers stored and managed in a digital wallet. Each DID can connect to multiple VCs that contain cryptographically-secured user data. These VCs may include documents, certifications, licenses, degrees, or other information stored in a digital wallet app (not the blockchain).
In addition to these building blocks, many Web3 authentication protocols are exploring zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to prove identity or share data without revealing the data itself. For instance, you could send proof that you know your password rather than using it to sign in or prove that you're old enough to buy alcohol without revealing your birthday.
These concepts and protocols are likely to continue evolving before robust standards exist. In addition, they will eventually need the buy-in of browsers to become mainstream. And given Google Chrome's dominant market share, it could be challenging to convince existing Web 2.0 leaders to give up a valuable part of their business.
Top Digital Identity Platforms
Several organizations are developing digital identity platforms based on emerging open standards. While many mainstream tech giants are still hesitant to launch decentralized identity capabilities for competitive reasons, they could quickly become the most popular providers if the market continues to evolve toward adopting digital identities.
Some popular platforms include:
cheqd – cheqd operates a self-sovereign identity (SSI) platform where credentials can be issued and read. Its $CHEQ token allows issuers, receivers, holders, and node operators to pay each other for digital credentials without compromising privacy or security.
Dock – Dock's Web3 ID is a blockchain-based authentication and authorization system enabling developers to grant access and verify user eligibility using non-custodial identity wallets.
Dentity – Dentity provides a digital identity wallet for consumers to store credentials and verifications. Meanwhile, its business-facing suite makes verifying credentials held in the wallets easy.
In addition to these business-facing platforms, several grassroots projects aim to reshape digital identity. For example, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin proposed soulbound tokens (SBTs) to solve identity and trust issues. And the Proof-of-Attendance Protocol (POAP) has already become a popular way to prove event attendance.
Finally, Web3 domains enable anyone to establish their digital identity via an easy-to-remember address. For instance, the Ethereum Name Service and Unstoppable Domains allow you to tie your wallet address to a more readable "domain," like YourName.ETH. You can then use that identifier when sharing your address with others.
Web3 is quickly becoming a reality, with the W3C introducing new recommendations and companies developing tools and apps around digital identity and authentication. While the industry must still overcome objections from Web 2.0's tech giants, consumer demand will eventually lead to a Web3 revolution where consumers control their own data.
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CHIPS Articles: Common Access Card: Mission E-Possible
Common Access Card: Mission E-Possible
New ID Card provides reliable and secure physical and cyber access through the use of a single multi-functional Smart Card
By Kim I. Plyler - January-March 2002
From the invention of underwater warfare to the modern anti-missile defense technology of today's warfighter, the Department of the Navy (DON) is at the forefront of technology. The current use of Smart Card technology in the new Common Access Card (CAC), enables the DON to take the Department of Defense (DoD) lead in reengineering business practices.
"The CAC is a crucial asset for our Revolution in Business Affairs. The combination of technologies on the card makes it a powerful enabling tool to change and improve business practices by smoothly integrating into our current infrastructure. This technology will help us to streamline existing paper-based and labor-intensive business practices," said Rob Carey, eBusiness and eGovernment team leader for DON CIO.
The Common Access Card is a priority effort within the DoD. Public Law 106-65, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, directs the DON to cooperate with DoD to develop plans to utilize Smart Card technology as a means of enhancing readiness and improving business processes throughout the military departments. The Deputy Secretary of Defense (DEPSECDEF) Memorandum, Smart Card Adoption and Implementation, November 10, 1999, mandated the implementation of the CAC.
"The CAC is the new military Geneva Convention Identification Card (ID). It also currently serves as the principal card used to enable physical access to buildings and controlled spaces, it is the principal card used to enable computer network and system access, and the primary platform for the PKI authentication token, which will allow a user to sign on to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI), and use their PKI credentials to sign and encrypt e-mails as well as access secure Web sites," said Carey.
NMCI is envisioned to be an all-encompassing information and communications solution. It will leverage the National infrastructure and connect the "E" in Enterprise Resource Planning. Bringing the Department together using the NMCI will afford an unprecedented level of security and global connectivity to enable our civilians, Sailors and Marines to reach the rich intellectual resources that extend throughout the Naval Enterprise.
The DON is working closely with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), other military departments, federal agencies, and industry to ensure implementation of interoperable Smart Cards. The DON is currently leveraging applications and lessons learned from numerous efforts to continue to improve, and expand Smart Card technology usage throughout the DoD.
The CAC program is a DoD program -- and all Services issue cards using the same primary systems --the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS), the Real-time Automated Personnel Identification System (RAPIDS) and the DoD PKI Certificate Authority system. "The DON has been at the forefront of card issuance to date. Currently we are operating stations at NAVAIRSYSCOM; Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River; Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) China Lake; Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane; Naval Air Engineering Center (NAEC) Lakehurst; NAWC Orlando, and numerous temporary stations in selected areas in support of NMCI," said Captain Charlie W. Bell, NAVSUP CAC eBusiness Director. Mass card issuance was completed at SPAWAR Headquarters and SPAWARSYSCEN San Diego.
The DOD has issued more than 89,000 CACs; 66,000 of those have been issued by the DON. Card issuance is an ongoing process. Under the DoD Access Card Office upgrade schedule; all DEERS/RAPIDS stations will be upgraded to issue the CACS over a 65 week schedule. Once a DEERS/RAPIDS site is converted to be able to issue a CAC, the site will begin issuing CACs as needed. This will include the initial issue to authorized users and normal sustainment issuance due to promotions, card expiration date, or other valid reasons, commented Bell.
Additionally, a secondary means of issuing a CAC is through the DON mass issuance plan. This plan augments the sustainment capability by providing additional DEERS/RAPIDS workstations on a temporary basis to meet the requirements of the NMCI implementation schedule and to offset the increased requirements on the sustainment infrastructure at high population locations.
Under the current DON mass issuance plan, the CAC eBusiness office in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, expects to complete mass issuance at these additional sites by the start of January 2002: Ventura County, California; Bethesda, Maryland; Nebraska Avenue Complex/Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.; Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania; White House Communications Agency, Washington, D.C.; McDill Air Force Base (AFB) (CENTCOM only) and New Orleans, Louisiana.
"As we move into the next millennium, we will continue to expand the use of Smart Card technology to enhance missions, improve quality of life and reduce costs. We will leverage the lessons learned from our Smart Card deployment thus far, to move away from storing large amounts of data on the card and, instead, Web-enable our existing databases to allow our military and civilian personnel secure access to applications around the world," said Carey.
"The challenge will come as we embed this enabling technology in the end-to-end system reengineering of long-established, paper-based business practices. This means cultural change. We must all work to encourage our people to innovate and explore new ways to take full advantage of this technology. Smart Card technology on the CAC, coupled with the connectivity of the NMCI, offers the opportunity to achieve and harness the benefits of a secure, Web-enabled infrastructure supporting our warfighters," said Carey.
The DON CAC office has overseen the development and implementation of numerous Smart Card-based applications to date. Below are descriptions of the applications that are currently in use.
Property Accountability is a software application that allows you to create an electronic database of items and users. A user is anyone who may be issued an item. You can use Property Accountability to track all item transactions, including issuance and return. The application allows items to be categorized as active, defective, lost, etc. Property Accountability records this information in the database and on the user's Smart Card.
Joint Card Maintenance
Joint Card Maintenance is a software application used to update cardholder information on Joint Services and Multi-technology Automated Reader Card (MARC) Smart Cards. As an administrator or operator, you can use Joint Card Maintenance to change any information not printed on the card (PIN, meal entitlement code, status, etc.), back up the cardholder's data in the database, and move cardholder data to a new Smart Card. Joint Card Maintenance also allows you to create customized administrative reports.
Manifest Tracking
Manifest Tracking is a software application that enables users to efficiently track military personnel and their baggage. As military personnel arrive at a location, or embark and debark on a mission, they are registered in a database. Individuals can register by presenting their Smart Cards, or the user can enter the individual's data manually. The application may also be used for muster or meeting/training attendance.
Joint Warrior Readiness
Joint Warrior Readiness is a software application used to determine deployment readiness through the use of Smart Cards. Deployment requirements are set up initially by the system administrator to create various deployment scenarios and functional areas. The following are examples of deployment functional areas important to the cardholder's readiness: command, personal, medical, dental, and training. When a cardholder reports to the central workstation, his/her card is inserted into the reader. The application displays the overall deployment readiness of the cardholder. The cardholder is then referred to the applicable functional area workstation to determine the nature of the deficiency.
Joint Food Service
The Joint Food Service application enables dining facility officers to manage food service more effectively through an electronic head count of all diners. The Joint Food Service application reads and collects meal entitlement information from the Smart Cards of military personnel. The application also allows staff to process and count military and civilian diners who do not have Smart Cards. Head count information is then uploaded to the Food Management System. The benefits of this application include more accurate and timely head count data, elimination of paper meal cards, elimination of redundant data entry, faster processing of diners, and reduction in waste, fraud, and abuse.
SmartImmune
The SmartImmune application is an automated medical documentation system for client-server architecture. It uses the Smart Card's integrated circuit chip to identify patients and to record the immunizations administered to military personnel. It also collects additional related immunization information and generates various reports to track day-to-day immunization activity. SmartImmune is intended for use in remote and/or high volume areas.
Smart Dental Information/ DENCAS
DENCAS (Dental Common Access System) allows the dental community to examine and evaluate the dental treatment needs and dental productivity of the entire Navy through a secure Web accessible central data repository. Enhanced data management is accomplished by consolidating the patient and productivity data from approximately 400 stand-alone databases that currently exist at Navy Dental clinics. This is the first time that the dental community will have the ability to conduct data mining from a central repository that contains all of the patient treatment needs and workload productivity data. This improved capability will enable the dental community to evaluate future dental manpower requirements through treatment needs trend analysis. DENCAS will also assist the dental community in evaluating current manpower assignments based on workload needs weighed against productivity data. The improved requirements and productivity visibility will enhance Navy dental readiness and health.
Visitor Control
The Visitor Control Application is designed to track visitors to a facility through the issuance of Smart Cards. The application requires each facility visitor to be given a Smart Card. These Smart Cards are numbered so they can be tracked, and they are color coded so facility officials can quickly identify the status of each visitor. They are also electronically encoded with visitors' demographic information. The application database keeps a record of visitors, cards, card issuers, and visited recipients.
Personnel Accountability (Manned Pegcheck)
Manned PegCheck is a software application that records the status of personnel as they check in and out of facilities. Personnel can be checked in or out using their Smart Cards or by being manually added to the list of cardholders. Pictures of the cardholders can be displayed when Smart Cards are used, which adds a higher level of security to the check-in process.
Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR)Participation Tracking
Participation Tracking is an application that electronically tracks patrons' use of an MWR facility. Data is gathered from patrons by reading and recording information from their Smart Cards. The data may also be gathered from patrons who manually enter their information into Participation Tracking.
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How Can Florida Condo Owners Boot a Bad Condo Manager?
Either way, a good condo manager is adept at handling all sorts of things, from problems with common area maintenance to dealing with personality clashes between unit owners.
Good condo managers are a great thing for an association to have. However, a bad condo manager can make the daily life of condo owners very stressful. A terrible condo management company can make daily condo life dismal.
So, how can condo owners remove and replace a bad condo manager? Well, it's not that easy.
First of all, managers and property management companies are hired by the Powers that Be on the Board of Directors of the Condominium Association. The contract is between the Condo Association and the Manager; individual owners aren't a direct party to the contract and therefore they can't do anything on their own.
In any case in which the party contracting to provide maintenance or management services fails to provide such services in accordance with the contract, the association is authorized to procure such services from some other party and shall be entitled to collect any fees or charges paid for service performed by another party from the party contracting to provide maintenance or management services.
So, according to the Florida Condo Act and in most, if not all, contracts, individual condo owners are not able to terminate or deal with substandard condo management by themselves. Unit owners must move through the governing process and address their concerns through their association.
Under Florida law, 20% of the condo owners can formally petition the Condo Board of the Association to deal with the unsatisfactory Condo Manager. See, Section 718.112(2)(c)1 of the Florida Condominium Act.
That means, that unhappy unit owners need to get one-fifth of their fellow owners to agree with them and sign a petition in order to formally request that the Board do something about the problem.
For many Florida condo owners, the By-Laws may offer an avenue where the unit owners can call a special meeting of all the Condo Association members. Here, the majority vote of the Association could sway the Board of Directors to address the bad management issue.
What If the Board of Directors Is Happy Enough With the Property Manager?
The remedies open to the condo owners who aren't happy with the condo management is limited if the Board of Directors are happy with the property manager. The relationship is between the Board and the Manager/Management Company and the Board is the one who must make the change.
If a Condo Board isn't listening to the individual condo owners, then it maybe time to reconsider who's sitting on that Board. In this type of situation, or where there is one director who is blocking a change, there is a procedure where the condo association can recall a director. If it's a bigger problem, then unit owners may need to work toward replacing the entire Board with directors that are more empathetic with those who own a majority of the condo units.
Finally, even if the Condo Owners and the Condo Board are in total agreement that the current management needs to change, the contract between the Board and the Management company must be reviewed.
In these situations, having the advice and counsel of an experienced Florida Condo Lawyer to walk both the condo owners and the Board itself in dealing with transitioning between managers is helpful and wise.
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Flying from USS Bunker Hill, F4U Corsairs from VMF-221 assault Japanese positions defending the island of Okinawa, April 1945. Leading the charge, USMC Pilot Lt Dean Caswell climbs away from the target after delivering a blistering rocket attack on a coastal installation.
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Following their victory at Midway, American forces had fought a long and bitter campaign to retake the Japanese held islands in the Pacific. By the end of March 1945, however, they had finally captured Iwo Jima and looked towards Okinawa, a province of Japan itself. Less than 400 miles south of its mainland, it was the place from which the Allied invasion of Japan must be launched. Supported by a huge Naval presence, including one of the largest British fleets ever assembled, the assault began on 1 April 1945 with the largest amphibious landing of the Pacific war.
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Letters of Washington, Franklin, and Lafayette, 1744-1830 [bulk 1777-1799]
Collection Number: 4600 Bd. Ms. 548++
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Series I: Washington
Washington before the Revolutionary War
Washington's Presidency
Gentleman Farmer at Mount Vernon
Signatures of George Washington
Series II: Franklin
Before the Declaration of Independence
The French-American Alliance
Series III: Lafayette
Captivity and Exile During the French Revolution
Correspondence with Sparks
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Letters of Washington, Franklin, and Lafayette 1744-1830 [bulk 1777-1799]
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Original documents, mostly autograph signed letters or ALS
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Manuscript documents and correspondence about the American and French Revolutions, covering the period 1744-1830
Collection material in English and French
Jared Sparks (1789-1866) was a prominent American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister who served as President of Harvard University from 1849 to 1853.
Sparks is mostly remembered today as a historian of the America Revolutionary War. After extensive researches at home and in London and Paris, he wrote his most important work, "The Life and Writings of George Washington" (12 volumes, 1834-1837), and separately, "The Life of George Washington" (2 volumes, 1839-42.) His Herculean achievements also include "The Writings of Gouverneur Morris" (3 volumes, 1832), "The Writings of Benjamin Franklin" (10 volumes, 1840), and a "Life of Benjamin Franklin" (1857.) Additionally, Sparks compiled "The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution : Being the Letters of Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, John Adams, John Jay, [...], M. de Lafayette, M. Dumas, and Others, Concerning the Foreign Relations of the United States During the Whole Revolution" (4 volumes, 1829-30.)
His interest in France is less known, though not surprising, considering that the history of the two countries in the second-half of the 18th-century is intrinsically linked. Sparks had a regular correspondence with General Lafayette from 1827 to 1834 (see The Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection at Cornell #4611, box 83.) He also met with Alexis de Tocqueville during his 1831–32 visit to the United States. Their extensive conversations and subsequent correspondence informed Tocqueville's book "Democracy in America," and in return they impacted Sparks's views about the American and French Revolutions.
In the course of his editorial and historical work, Sparks copied and collected thousands of documents; the focus of his collection was the American Revolution. Most original documents now constitute the Jared Sparks Collection of documents concerning the American Revolution at the Houghton Library in Harvard University :http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00303
Containing spectacular autographs of Washington, Franklin, and Lafayette, the Cornell volume was prepared by Sparks himself ; each item is verified by his hand (directly on the documents!), reserved for private sale, and purchased by Cornell University in January 1872 [*]. The catalogue of the Library of Jared Sparks, written by Harvard librarians and edited by Charles Ammi Cutter (1837-1903), then the Librarian of the Boston Atheneum, provided us with basic information for this online finding aide. However, a couple of manuscript documents listed here were not in the 1871 catalogue, and we know with certainty that some of them were acquired later and added to this collection(for example, the Washington letter to Lafayette in folder 6.)
The autographs were part of a much larger acquisition by Cornell President Andrew D. White and Cornell trustee Henry W. Sage: Cornell also bought Sparks's superb collection of books, which was intended "to be the nucleus of Cornell's collection in the history of the United States." As usual with White, this major acquisition for the Library was consistent with his educational plans for Cornell as a whole. Acquiring the library and best manuscripts of Jared Sparks was part of a strategy of promoting the teaching of American history, at a time when it was something of an innovation. When he was appointed in 1881, Prof. Moses Coit Tyler observed with delight that "Cornell is the pioneer in recognizing American history as worthy of a separate chair." [**] Though many letters are now published in digital collections of the papers of the Founding Fathers -- for example, http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/misc/6701841 -- retaining original documents is essential.
The first series "WASHINGTON" contains: 1/documents related to Washington's early career as public land surveyor and mapmaker in Virginia. After considering the prospect of a career in the British Royal Navy, George Washington began studying geometry and surveying, using a set of surveyor's instruments from the storehouse at Ferry Farm, taking many notes and making many drawings. Though his political and military involvement put an end to his career as a public land surveyor in Virginia, he made maps during his entire life, from his first survey exercise in 1747 to his last survey of the Mount Vernon lands [folders 1-3]; 2/ documents related to the Revolutionary War, with the order of battle and chain of command for light infantry set up by Washington for the Virginia campaign in 1781 [folders 4-6]; 3/ documents related to his tenure as President of the United States, including one important document about the Whiskey Rebellion, a popular uprising that had its beginnings in 1791 and culminated in an insurrection in 1794 in the Monongahela Valley in Western Pennsylvania [folders 7-8]; 4/ documents related to the management of his plantation at Mount Vernon, including the issue of slavery [folders 9-11]; 5/ signatures of Washington [folder 12.]
The second series "FRANKLIN" contains: 1/documents related to his personal and family life before the Declaration of Independence, especially "the religious Franklin," but also his relation with his wife who passed away in 1774 [folders 13-17]; 2/ the French-American alliance and Franklin's ambassadorship to Paris (1776-1785), including a witty "bagatelle" sent to his neighbour in Passy, composer and society hostess Anne Louise Brillon, whose salon Franklin frequented on a regular basis; instructions sent concerning a secret mission involving Franklin's 18-year-old grandson William Temple Franklin, who worked as secretary to the American diplomatic mission in Paris; and a 1780 letter from Franklin's daughter, Sarah "Sally" Franklin Bache, to George Washington, documenting the active role of women: both letters confirm that the whole family took part in the war [folders 18-24]; 3/Franklin's draft of his last speech in the Convention for forming the Constitution of the United States: Franklin stated his pragmatic support of the Constitution: "There are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them... I doubt too whether any other Convention we can obtain, may be able to make a better Constitution... It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies." The result of many corrections, Franklin's speech "is perhaps the best ever written by anyone about the magic of the American system and the spirit of compromise that created it." [***] At some point (?) this final draft was addressed and passed to Daniel Carroll, an active member of the Constitutional Convention and one of only five men to sign both the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States [folder 25.]
The third and last series "LAFAYETTE" contains: 1/ major documents related to Lafayette's captivity and exile during the French Revolution (1792-1799), including the famous letter of March 15, 1793 written with a tooth-pick (!), a painful sketch of the suffering and exhaustion of the General and his companions, illegally detained in a dreary state prison in the fortified city of Magdeburg, Prussia, before their transfer to another citadel in Olmütz, Austria. The Princess d'Henin confided the letter to John Barker Church, a well-connected businessman and former English Member of Parliament who had befriended the cause of the American Revolution and married the daughter of Philip Schuyler, a General and U.S. Senator, with the request that Church convey it to President George Washington -- which he did; she gave him the precious letter with the request that Church would convey it to President George Washington -- which he did. As Church wrote, "The Marquis' friends have no hope of procuring his liberation... I heartily wish it may be in your power to effect it" [folders 26-28]; 2/ a 1830 letter to Jared Sparks which accompanied copies of Lafayette's correspondence with Washington during the 1781 Campaign, and contains an account of recent revolutionary events in Paris [folder 29.]
[*] Catalogue of the Library of Jared Sparks, with a List of the Historical Manuscripts Collected by Him and Now Deposited in the Library of Harvard University, Cambridge: University Press, 1871, p. 211-2; Robert Morris Ogden (ed.), "The Diaries of Andrew Dickson White," Cornell University Library, 1959, p. 169. In a "job offer" to Tyler dated June 17, 1871, Andrew D. White already named the library and its growing collections as one of the great advantages of being at Cornell (Tyler Correspondence, Bd. Ms. 52++, vol. III.)
[**] Michael Kammen, "Moses Coit Tyler: The First Professor of American History in the United States," in "The History Teacher," Vol. 17, Nov. 1983, pp. 61-87.
[***] Walter Isaacson, "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life," New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003, p. 457.
Adams, John, 1735-1826.
Anderson, John, 1745-1807.
Bache, Sarah, b. Franklin,1744-1808.
Barnes, Richard, of Richmond County, Virginia.
Brillon de Jouy, Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt, 1744-1824.
Carroll, Daniel, 1730-1796.
Church, John Barker, 1746-1818.
Fleury, François Louis Teissèdre de, 1749-1794.
Damas d'Antigny, Joseph-François-Louis-Charles-César de, 1758-1829.
Estaing, Charles Henri, comte d', 1729-1794.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Franklin, Deborah, 1708-1774.
Franklin, William Temple, 1760-1823.
Heath, William, 1737-1814.
Hénin, Eiennette de Montconseil, princesse d'.
Howe, William, 1729-1814.
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806.
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834.
Lafayette, Adrienne de Noailles, marquise de, 1759-1807
Lafayette, George Washington, 1779-1849.
Lally-Tollendal, Trophime-Gérard, marquis de, 1751-1830.
Lameth, Alexandre de, 1760-1829.
La Tour Maubourg, Charles de, 1757-1831.
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
Madison, James, 1751-1836.
Parkinson, Richard, 1748-1815.
Pinkney, Thomas, 1750-1828.
Platt, Zephaniah, 1735-1807.
Plessis, Thomas-Antoine, chevalier de Mauduit du, 1753-1791.
Pulaski, Casimir, 1747-1779.
Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813.
Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866.
Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796.
Whitefield, Rev. George, 1714-1770.
Whiting, Anthony.
United States --History --1783-1815.
United States --History --Revolution, 1775-1783 --Personal narratives.
United States. Constitution.
French Revolution, France,1789-1799.
Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate).
Salons--France.
Brandywine, Battle of, Pa., 1777.
Yorktown (Va.)--History--Siege, 1781.
Pennsylvania--History--1775-1865.
Constitutional history --United States.
United States. Army --Supplies and stores.
United States--Foreignaffairs--France.
Slavery--United States.
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Drawings.
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Seals.
Letters of Washington, Franklin, and Lafayette, 1744-1830, 4600 Bd. Ms. 548++
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Related archival collections at Cornell include the Susan H. Douglas Collection of Political Americana #2214 (esp. boxes 86, 89, and 171); the Carpenter Wharton Collection #4656 (for the history of supplies to the American Army during the Revolutionary War); the Collection of Historical Manuscripts #4600 (which contains two original letters from Washington about French and American officers, 1778 and 1798); the Trumbull Papers Bd. Ms. 61++; the Lafayette Collection #4611 (esp. box 16); and the Pamphlets and Manuscripts components of the French Revolution Collection.
"Chain and Poles"
1 leaf
Original drawing, from one of George Washington's "schoolbooks," dated "Aet. 14."
Title Page of a Book of Surveys
Title page of a book of surveys for the period 1749-1750, dated "Aet.17." With a hand-drawn map and Washington's annotations: "Then surveyed for Mr. Richard Barnes of Richmond County a certain tract of waste and ungranted land situate[d] in Culpeper County"
Mathematical and Geological Drawings and Figures
Page from a book of surveys for the period 1749-1750, dated "Aet.18".
Washington, George, to William Heath
ALS in English, plus a modern transcription (tapuscript).Washington asks General William Heath, commander of the Highland Department of the Continental Army, to "send forward the articles most essential to the convenience and comfort of the men. [...] the articles most wanted will be Blankets, Waistcoats, Woolen Overhalls, and Stockings... to rub thro' the Severity of Winter."
[Orde]r of Battle for 1781 -- Light Infantry
Order of battle and chain of command for the Virginia Campaign. General Lafayette is the commander of the U.S. light infantry.
Washington, George to Lafayette
ALS in English, not listed in the 1871 catalogue. Washington sends a letter of recommendation for Mr. [Zephaniah] Platt, a member of the New York State Senate, and his wife, who are going to England "and probably to France."
Washington, George, to Edmund Randolph
ALS in English. This is the draft of the letter to the former U.S. Attorney General and current Secretary of State, reproduced in John C. Fitzpatrick (ed.), "The Complete Writings of George Washington From the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799," 1932-1940, vol. 33, p. 521-2. Washington evokes the departure of the First Lady from the federal city of Washington because of the epidemic of yellow fever; the existence of " a faction in the Army of the United States [that] is attempting the ruin of General Wayne"; and his intention to move his troops to Fort Cumberland, Maryland, before their march to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in Western Pennsylvania.
Washington, George, to James Madison
ALS in English. This is the draft of the letter reproduced in John C. Fitzpatrick (ed.), "The Complete Writings of George Washington...," vol. 34, p. 485-6; it concerns the situation in the United States of "Mr. Fayette" [sic], that is, of George Washington Lafayette "and his family." While her husband was held in foreign captivity, and she herself was in the prisons of the Terror, the Marquise de Lafayette entrusted the safety of their 17-year-old son to the Washingtons.
Washington, George, to Anthony Whiting
Envelope addressed to Whiting, of of the farm manager at Mount Vernon. Letter is missing. Authenticated by Sparks: "Washington's Handwriting."
"Terms on Which the Farmers at Mount Vernon May be Obtained"
Autograph with a table of rotation of crops. Washington also stipulates gis conditions with respect to slaves: "lthough the admission of Slaves with the Tenants will not be absolutely prohibited; It would, nevertheless, be a pleasing circumstance to exclude them; If not entirely, at least in a great degree: To do which, is not among the least inducements for dividing the farms into small lots."
Washington, George, to James Anderson
ALS in English. In this letter to his new farm manager and business partner, Washington discusses the sojourn in America of agriculture expert Richard Parkinson, who came to America to rent one of the farms of Washington, and published a detailed account of his experience in his "Travel in America" [complete title: "Tour In America In 1798, 1799, And 1800: Exhibiting Sketches of Society and Manners, and a Particular Account of The America System of Agriculture, With Its Recent Improvements," London: 1805. Cornell Rare Books E164 .P24 1805]
Five signatures
Marked by Jared Sparks: "[The last signature was applied] four days before his death."
Fragment on the Parable of the Good Samaritan and Articles of Faith
1751 (?) and n.d.
Autograph, authenticated and dated by Jared Sparks. The document described as "Articles of Faith" in the 1871 catalogue contains the statement "God governs the world." .
Franklin, Benjamin, to Rev. George Whitefield
Facsimile of a letter, on religion and ethics.
"The Mother Country"
n.d. [circa 1765]
Lyrics of a patriotic song, perhaps written by Benjamin Franklin. Annotation by Sparks: "Franklin's hand-writing. J.S."
Franklin, Benjamin, to Mrs. Franklin
ALS in English. From London, sends his love to his wife, his daughter and son-in-law, "cousin [Timothy] Folger," "and all Friends."
n.d. [before 1774]
Envelope of a letter to "Mrs. Franklin, Philadelphia."
News from "The Boston Gazette"
Autograph authenticated by Jared Sparks: "Dr. Franklin's Handwriting." The article contained an account of the Battle of Branywine, and praised the military accomplishments of foreign officers, especially Lafayette, Pulaski, and Fleury.
Draft for the Declaration Annuling the Eleventh and Twelth Articles of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between the United States of America and France
Autograph authenticated by Jared Sparks: "Dr. Franklin's Handwriting."
n.d. [August 1778]
Autographed document, not listed in the 1871 catalogue. List of questions regarding the war, and especially the role played by the French Navy under Vice-Admiral d'Estaing.
Franklin, Benjamin, to Mme Brillon
Autograph with the title "Ephemera." According to the 1871 auction catalogue, "this is perhaps the most graceful of the author's jeux d'esprit."
Adams, John, and Franklin, Benjamin, to William Temple Franklin
n.d.[1778]
ALS in English, containing instructions to young Franklin regarding a diplomatic mission.
Bache, Sarah, to George Washington
ALS in English, authenticated by Jared Sparks, regarding military supplies made and sent by the wives and daughters of revolutionary fighters, and the general conduct of the war by Washington: "we packed the shirts in three boxes... they are two thousand and five in number.. we wish them to be worn with as much pleasure as they were made [...] My father says... that all the old generals amuse themselves in studying the accounts of [your] operations, and approve highly of [your] conduct."
Franklin, Benjamin, to Daniel Carroll
n.d. [September 1787]
Franklin's final draft of his last speech in the Federal Convention for forming the Constitution of the United States of America, addressed to "D. Carrol [sic], Esq." This spelling of Carroll's name appears frequently through the records of the Federal Convention. Authenticated by Jared Sparks. The same text appears in the digital edition of "The Papers of Benjamin Franklin" (Packard Humanities Institute) as follows: "From Benjamin Franklin: Speech in the Convention on the Constitution [...] Addressed: D. Carrol Esqr. / Endorsed: D Carrol Draft of Franklin's last Speech in the Convention for forming the Constitution of the United States, September, 1787."
Lafayette, Marquis de, to the Princesse d'Hénin [and to his wife]
Autograph in French, authenticated by Jared Sparks-- marked "Written by Lafayette in Prison." The letter begins: ""Je vis encore, ma chère princesse, et je puis vous le mander ; mais ce sont les deux seules choses satisfaisantes que vous devez attendre de mon journal..." (Louis Gottschalk [ed.], "Lafayette: A Guide to Letters, Documents and Manuscripts in the United States," 1975, p. 105.)
Church, John Barker, to George Washington
ALS in English, marked by Jared Sparks: "with a letter from Lafayette to the Princess d'Henin."
Lafayette, Marquis de, to George Washington
ALS in English, marked by Jared Sparks: "(Duplicate) (Letter to Washington.)" This letter was written during the sojourn in Holstein, after Lafayette's liberation. "However uncertain of the fate of my letters, I am happy to let you hear from me, and altho' the filial and grateful sentiments which from my youth have animated my heart need not being remembered to you, it is to me, while so unwilllingly separated from you, a great and necessary consolation to express them." (Gottschalk, p. 112.)
Lafayette, Marquis de, to Jared Sparks
ALS in English ALS in English, marked by Jared Sparks: "From General Lafayette. Rec[eive]d June 3, 1830. Jared Sparks." "La Grange. My dear friend/This letter will be transmitted by our fiend Mr. Low..." (Gottschalk, p. 235.)


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Home Basketball Jordan, Ming, Walton, Marc ... with an injury like Pau's
Jordan, Ming, Walton, Marc ... with an injury like Pau's
Pau Gasol could not play the World Cup. In summer he turns 39 and will be a free agent. His desire is to continue playing in the NBA and go to Tokyo 2020.
Milwaukee Bucks has just announced that Pau Gasol had to undergo surgery for a "navicular stress fracture in the left foot", an injury similar to the one that stopped in the first half of the season, still with the Spurs. The Spaniard, traded to Milwaukee Bucks in the winter market, was off the track because of an ankle problem (also left) since March 11, when he played what was only his third game with the Bucks. The Wisconsin franchise has already announced that Pau will not return in these playoffs, in which they have eliminated Pistons and Celtics for a brilliant 8-1 total and rival hope for the Eastern end (Raptors and Sixers have to play on Sunday the seventh party) .
So the question now is to know if Gasol can be with the national team in the World Cup, which takes place from August 31 to September 15. In 2016, a similar injury (in his case type II, still not know all the details of Pau's) left his brother Marc out of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games even though he suffered the mishap in February. Specifically, Marc played his last game of that season on February 10, 2016 and then missed the last 30 of the Regular Season and the playoffs. His next official match, after the Games was on October 26, at the start of the next campaign. These have been other sounded cases of injuries similar to the one that now affects a Pau Gasol that can be without World 2019.
Bill Walton (pivot, 2.11 meters)
MVP of the season, MVP of the Finals and two-time champion (1977 and 1978) his career could have been even brighter. Do not forget that between 1978 and 1982 several fractures and relapses in the foot (including a navicular) made him play only 14 games. With 30 years, he returned in 82-83. Disputed that and four other seasons, but their numbers were far from being like those of the first stage.
Michael Jordan (escort, 1.98 meters)
The myth of the Bulls suffered a navicular fracture as soon as he started his second season in the League. At just under four months of turning 23, 'Air' was injured on October 29, 85. He was low for 64 games, and when he returned he signed the worst numbers of his stage in the Bulls: 22.7 points, 3 , 6 rebounds and 2.9 assists. However, already in the playoffs established the best scoring record in history with 63 points against the Celtics. The rest is history they already know. He did not suffer any relapse again.
Zydrunas Ilagauskas (pivot, 2.21 meters)
A positive recovery. Although in his case, he injured his right foot in January 1999, with 23 years. The rest of the campaign was lost and the next one was lost. For the 2000-01 reappeared as a starting center, although he ended up relapsing and going through the operating room again. However, since his reappearance in December 2001, he played a minimum of 62 games in the remaining 10 seasons in the NBA. He was all star in 2003 and 2005 and the Cavs ended up retiring his number 11.
Curtis Borchardt (pivot, 2.13 meters)
Elected in number 18 of the 2002 draft, he missed the year of his debut to suffer the navicular fracture during training camp. Already 23, he made his debut in the NBA with the Jazz, where he played the 2003-04 and 2004-05 courses with few minutes of play despite playing 23 games as a starter. In December 2005 he closed his NBA career when he arrived in Granada, where he became one of the best players in the ACB. However, his continued physical problems (he had several serious injuries to the shoulder) eventually removed him in 2012 with 31 years.
Yao Ming (pivot, 2.29 meters)
Before suffering an injury similar to that of Pau and the same that complicated to Marc, suffered a fracture of Jones (the same that martyred Kevin Durant in 2015) in its fourth season after having lost only 2 of its first 246 games in the League. There he started a plague of injuries (stress fracture included) that led to the navicular fracture that made him say goodbye to the series that faced his Rockets with the Lakers in the 2009 Playoffs. That summer he went through the operating room to throw himself a complete course in white. He returned in 2010-11, but could only play five games. His left foot was not for more trots. He retired with just 30 years and two months of age.
Brendan Haywood (pivot, 2.13 meters)
In the 2012-13 season and with 33 years of age, Haywood suffered a fracture Navicular stress He did not play again that season until reappearing last year with Cavaliers newcomer LeBron James again. In Cleveland he played 23 games (22 RS and 1 Playoffs) before being cut by the Blazers this summer. He has not played again.
Joel Embiid (pivot, 2.13 meros)
On June 20, 2014, six days before the Sixers chose him as number three in the 2014 draft, he was operated on for a navicular fracture of his right foot. During the summer of 2015 he had to undergo surgery after suffering a relapse and could not make his debut in the NBA until the start of the 2016-17 season. Now is one of the best centers in the NBA. Already twice all star, in this course he has averaged more than 27 points and 13 rebounds per game.
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Marcus Anderson Princess Saxophone Player invites Emel Michael onto the stage.
Emel Michael duets with Marcus making her the first UK female singer/song writer to accompany him on stage on his UK tour of 2015.
Marcus closed the set by saying " Isn't she amazing" to the audience and thanking her.
Being the first female Marcus had featured onto the stage since his stay in the UK for his first tour says a lot about where Miss Michael is going, further more what's is in store for her music career.


Could take me a long way.
About who's who in the scheme of things.
And the sting of the point from where it oozed.
I only need to be precise.
But because that's what they know.
Affirmations are mouthed only to vaporise the next moment.
Waiting on others hand and foot . . .
If she sits down now.
As if one tooth could be reason enough to leave him.
But you don't trifle with marriage.
And make life difficult for herself?
The ground glass she mixed in his food?
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Q: Libphonenumber parse Ireland toll free number When getting the national prefix of an IE number, I get back nothing. This is the method that I'm using:
PhoneNumberUtil phoneUtil = PhoneNumberUtil.getInstance();

public static String getPrefix(Phonenumber.PhoneNumber phoneNumber) throws NumberParseException {
    int nationalCodeLength = phoneUtil.getLengthOfNationalDestinationCode(phoneNumber);
    String significantNumber = phoneUtil.getNationalSignificantNumber(phoneNumber);
    String destinationCode = "";
    if (nationalCodeLength > 0) {
        destinationCode = significantNumber.substring(0, nationalCodeLength);
    }
    return destinationCode;
}

The method returns the empty string when passing +353800844561 (valid toll free Ireland number) to it. I would expect the method to return 800
The method returns 7984 when passing +447984612345 (valid UK mobile number).
I have read about other people issues with IE numbers, but so far, I haven't found/came up with a solution in Java to this problem.
What could be the issue and/or fix here?

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Often commemorated on October 4th each year, National Golfers Day is an honor for all golf players, novice, professional and sport lovers. This event is supported by the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) since its establishment in the year 1952.
National Golfers Day can be celebrated by inviting people to play golf by paying a minimal amount of entry fee, the proceedings of which are given away for a social cause.
A fact that many did not know is that when the first National Golfers Day match was played, celebs Bob Hope, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were present. The first Golf match held in Cog Hill Golf and Country Club, Lemont raised $80,000 for a charity.
National Golfers Day calls for a celebration of Golf sport. This day invites all professional golf players to play golf and contribute an amount in the form of entry fees which is then given away for a social cause.


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Inamgaon, in Maharashtra, is one of the largest Chalcolithic settlements in India. It has been estimated that at one time, about 1,000 people may have lived here. The settlement lasted for over 900 years (1500-600 BCE).

Inamgaon is a post-Harappan agrarian village and archaeological site located in Maharashtra, western India. Situated along the right bank of the Ghod River, it is considered to be the 'regional centre' of the Bhima Valley.

Inamgaon is one of the most intensively and extensively excavated and well reconstructed Chalcolithic sites of the Deccan plateau.

By David

Geography
The village is located approximately  to the east of the city of Pune. The region, situated within the lower reaches of the Ghod, is characterized by Cretaceous-Eocene Deccan Trap basalt.

Archaeological site
An ancient site, measuring approximately  by , is located about  north of Inamgaon.

There are five mounds at the site. The largest mound is called 'Inamgaon I', and it has been extensively excavated, and studied for its archaeological finds. The site was occupied between 3800-3200 B.P. (calibrated), or 1800-1200 BC.

The Chalcolithic settlement was excavated in order to better understand the early and later Jorwe culture. There are 3 phases of the Chalcolithic that are found at Inamgaon.

The excavation was a landmark in India's archaeology history due to its extensive and systematic process. The excavations revealed multiple cultural phases including Late Jorwe Culture, Early Jorwe Culture, and Malwa Culture. Archaeology findings are available at different museums such as Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

Current Social Life

The modern day Inamgaon is on developing verge. Farming and Allied business are prime income source for Inamgaon. The Ghod River is being conducive for the cultural and social buildings. Inamgaon have been allotted with two Reservoirs & Small Dams for water storage projects by Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Authority. These  Reservoirs & Small Dams for water storage helps to store water and ease the water availability. The settlement have all types of Preschool, Primary school & Secondary school . The New English School Inamgaon.  is secondary school. Inamgaon farmers have the capital shares in two different cooperative Sugar factory. The Shrigonda Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana and Ghodganga Sugar Factory. The industrial establishments are closer and are conducive for the villagers employment. Inamgaon is catered by Petrol station and Social gathering hall. The settlement is being served by various National banks, however only Pune District Central Cooperative Bank scores the presence. The united capital shares of villagers and Pune District Central Cooperative Bank support have established Cooperative society, which, indeed contributes to needy farmers to have monitory support when requires. This Cooperative society governing body is formed by elective people by the villagers.

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Villages in Pune district
Archaeological sites in Maharashtra
Bronze Age Asia
Indus Valley civilisation
Indus Valley civilisation sites

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U.S. has secretly expanded its global network of drone bases to North Africa
A U.S.-made Reaper drone, part of Operation Barkhane's aerial detachment, flies over a Nigerian military airport in Niamey in January 2015. (Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)
By Adam Entous and
Adam Entous
Reporter who wrote about national security, foreign policy and intelligence.
Missy Ryan
Reporter covering diplomacy and national security
The Pentagon has secretly expanded its global network of drone bases to North Africa, deploying unmanned aircraft and U.S. military personnel to a facility in Tunisia to conduct spy missions in neighboring Libya.
The Air Force Reaper drones began flying out of the Tunisian base in late June and have played a key role in an extended U.S. air offensive against an Islamic State stronghold in neighboring Libya.
The Obama administration pressed for access to the Tunisian base as part of a security strategy for the broader Middle East that calls for placing drones and small Special Operations teams at a number of facilities within striking distance of militants who could pose a threat to the West.
U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an operation that has not been acknowledged, said the drones being flown out of Tunisia were unarmed and were principally being used to collect intelligence on Islamic State targets in Sirte, Libya, where the United States has conducted more than 300 airstrikes since August.
U.S. officials said they sought access to the air base in Tunisia to close a critical "blind spot" for U.S. and Western intelligence services in North Africa, which has become the Islamic State's largest base of operations outside of Syria and Iraq. The region is also home to al-Qaeda-linked fighters.
Obama administration officials say they have tried to shore up Tunisia's fledgling democracy and position the country as a key counterterrorism partner in the region. Although the drones operating out of Tunisia conduct only surveillance missions, U.S. officials said they could be armed in the future if Tunisia gives the United States permission. The Tunisian Embassy in Washington declined to comment.
The U.S. military has other drone bases on the African continent, from Niger to Djibouti. But officials said they were too far from populous areas on the Libyan coast to be useful in day-to-day counterterrorism operations there. The longer drones have to travel to reach their destinations, the less time they have to "loiter" over their targets.
For lethal strikes in Libya, the U.S. military has relied on manned U.S. aircraft based in Europe and armed drones flown out of Naval Air Station Sigonella on the Italian island of Sicily.
Sigonella is relatively close to Sirte, but flights from the base are routinely canceled because of cloud cover over the Mediterranean and other weather-related issues, officials said.
U.S. logistical concerns about using Sigonella and other bases in Europe for operations in North Africa prompted the Pentagon's push for a facility on Tunisian soil.
[How U.S. Special Operations troops secretly help foreign forces target terrorists]
The Obama administration has kept its negotiations over access to the base secret for more than a year because of concerns that Tunisia's young democracy, worried about being closely associated with an outside military power, would pull out of the talks, or that militants would step up attacks in the North African country.
The Islamic State has already claimed a number of attacks in Tunisia over the past two years, including the killing of dozens of foreign tourists at a beach resort in 2015.
Defense officials said the Pentagon has deployed about 70 military personnel to Tunisia to oversee drone operations there.
Tunisia was the Obama administration's first choice of countries in North Africa to host U.S. drones because of its proximity to Libya and Washington's interest in rapidly expanding security ties with the government.
But U.S. officials said the negotiations came at a particularly delicate time. Five years after their uprising against dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisians have grown increasingly frustrated with many of their post-revolution leaders. In the summer, disaffection over the economy and security boiled over, leading to the premier's ouster.
Tunisian officials negotiating the drone deal were particularly concerned about a public backlash over cooperation with a foreign power and wanted to avoid the appearance that they were a party to U.S. military operations in a neighboring country.
At the same time, Tunisian officials were eager to secure additional U.S. support for their counterterrorism fight at home. Tunisian officials were especially worried that an eventual assault on Islamic State hideouts in Libya could send militants streaming across the border into Tunisia.
The United States was already conducting manned surveillance flights over Tunisia, providing the country's security forces with intelligence about extremist threats. That program helped smooth the way in Tunis for Washington's request to base drones there.
[Why it's taking so long for the U.S. and its allies to finish off the Islamic State in Libya]
U.S. military officials in Washington and Stuttgart, Germany, where Africa Command is based, grew increasingly eager to strike a deal with Tunisia this past spring. Opening a drone base there would help clear the way for the long-awaited Sirte operation, they said.
A brazen attack in March on a town near the Libyan border provided proof for some Tunisian officials of why more U.S. help might be required.
Under the memorandum of understanding giving the Pentagon access to the base, the Americans committed to helping build up Tunisia's intelligence-collection capabilities.
While Tunisia is racing to grow its own aerial surveillance program, with U.S.-manufactured ScanEagles and other light manned surveillance aircraft, the country remains reliant on the United States and other allies for intelligence about militants.
As part of the new arrangements, the Obama administration agreed to share intelligence from the Reapers with Tunisian security forces to help them improve border security. But so far, the United States has made drone flights inside Libya the priority and officials said that is unlikely to change at least until the campaign in Sirte winds down. The battle in Sirte has already lasted far longer than U.S. officials had expected, as effective Islamic State defenses and repercussions from Libya's political crisis slow the advance of local forces backed by U.S. air power.
The United States' second military intervention in Libya in five years has underscored the challenge that the Obama administration has faced getting even close NATO allies such as Italy to open their bases to armed U.S. drones.
While U.S. surveillance drones have been based in Sigonella since 2011, the Italian government refused to give the U.S. military permission to fly armed drones out of the base until earlier this year, citing concerns about sparking an antiwar backlash at home.
Desperate to fill the intelligence void over Libya, the United States briefly had to use drones based in faraway Jordan.
The Obama administration had considered opening backup talks with Egypt about putting a drone base there to support operations in Libya. But U.S. officials said those talks were never initiated.
Why it's taking so long for the U.S. and its allies to finish off the Islamic State in Libya
Adam Entous Adam Entous wrote about national security, foreign policy and intelligence. He left The Washington Post in December 2017. He joined the newspaper in 2016 after more than 20 years with the Wall Street Journal and Reuters, where he covered the Pentagon, CIA, White House and Congress.
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Edward Cronin
Dr Edward Cronin
Born: 1st February 1801
Died: 1st February 1882
Appears in Cronin / Congleton / Lowe / Newman / Bellett / McAdam / Maynard / Kingscote / Deck Family Tree
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13 Lower Pembroke Street - Home of Edward Cronin
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Grave of Edward Cronin - December 27th, 2012
Chief Men Among The Brethren Biography
Dr. Edward Cronin was born in Cork in 1801. His father was a Romanist; and he was brought up in that Church, but his mother was a Protestant. He was educated after school at Dublin University. How or when he was converted is not known, but Mr. Andrew Miller says: "He came up to Dublin as a medical student about the year 1826. He applied for communion as a visitor, and was readily received by the Independents, but when they learnt he had become a resident this liberty was refused. He was then informed that he could no longer be admitted to the table of any of the congregations without special membership with some one of them.
"This announcement made a deep impression on his mind, and was no doubt used of God to turn his attention to the truth of the 'One Body.' He paused, and after much exercise of conscience and prayer, he refused to submit to their Church order. It was a time of trial, … but the Lord overruled it for blessing." He and a Mr. Edward Wilson, Secretary of the Bible Society, after studying the Word for some time, began to see their way clear to come together on Lord's Day morning for the breaking of bread and prayer.
They were speedily joined by several others. They were no doubt forced into the place of separation by the mistaken conduct of the Congregational body, but they were also led to fall back upon the sure Word of God, to act under their Divine instincts and the unerring guidance of the Holy Spirit. The little meeting never formally broke up, but they united at once with those who began to break bread in Fitzwilliam Square.
Dr. Cronin's name is always associated with Mr. Darby, Mr. Bellett, and Mr. F. Hutchinson, as coming together in the winter of 1827-28, after much conference and prayer, on the Lord's Day morning for breaking of bread as the early Christians did, counting on the Lord to be with them.
Later on Dr. Cronin, together with his mother and sister, went out with John Parnell (Lord Congleton) and F. W. Newman, to Bagdad, to join A. N. Groves in mission work. They had a terrible journey across the Mediterranean to Aleppo, and thence through the desert to Bagdad. Lord Congleton married Miss Cronin at Aleppo, but owing to the fatigue and unhealthy condition she died there. Mrs. Cronin died later in Bagdad, when the party arrived in June, 1832. On one occasion they were stoned out of a town and Dr. Cronin left for dead. The work of Bagdad proving barren of results, Mr. A. N. Groves went to India, where he spent many years, and the others returned to England to stir up the Church to faith and prayer that great signs and wonders should follow in the mission field.
Dr. Cronin addicted himself to ministry of the saints and took a leading part in oversight in the London meetings of Exclusive Elder Brethren, until his independent action at Ryde in 1879 led to their deciding that they had no fellowship with his act.
Dr. Edward Cronin died at Brixton in February, 1882, aged 81, still holding firmly to the Scriptural principles which had governed his life, and, above all, with a simple and happy trust in the Saviour whom he had loved and served so faithfully for so many years.
C.E.F.
Phelix Edward said ...
Appreciate your effort in bringing into light the biographies of chief among brethren for the new generation
Wednesday, Aug 22, 2018 : 01:18
Timothy Stunt said ...
Following a cautious and tentative suggestion from Michael Schneider, I'm of the opinion that C.E.F. (the author of this piece on Edward Cronin) was Charles Edward Faithful (1848-1924) an Open Brethren missionary in Spain for many years. Timothy Stunt
Tom said ...
Good, that's one of the mystery Chief Men initials solved then!
What a great name to have for a Christian though - Faithful - but on the other hand it must have been a tad irritating every time that word came up in a Bible Reading, or in the Preaching, knowing that for a split second everyone's mind turns to you. For that reason I've always been glad not to have a Biblical name 🤣
I think the automatic-spell-check got the better of me... I intended to spell his name with two 'l's.... FAITHFULL ... But I agree with you about Biblical names.... Think what it must be like to be called Shadrach. Sampson would have been pretty challenging... Timothy
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