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https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/editorials/article/Stop-feds-land-grab-from-state-parks-5082588.php
Stop feds' land grab from state parks
Updated 4:55 pm PST, Friday, December 20, 2013
In an audacious display of bureaucratic arrogance, the federal government is threatening to use its eminent domain powers to seize a state-owned street near Alameda's Crown Beach to accommodate a proposed development of up to 90 homes.
It gets worse. The targeted property is not exactly state surplus. It is a short stretch of McKay Avenue that provides access to the interpretive center at Crab Cove, which sits at the eastern edge of the largest stretch of public beach on the San Francisco Bay. The General Services Administration wants to claim the road to assure utility services for the Roseville (Placer County) developer who outbid the East Bay Regional Park District for the 4-acre site on what is known as Neptune Pointe.
The parks district had hoped to acquire that plot of abandoned federal office space to accommodate a park expansion - funding for which was included in the 2008 Measure WW, which was passed by more than 70 percent of voters in Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
So to sum it up: We have the GSA selling its surplus office park to a private developer for $3 million, a price that was nearly triple the parks district's appraisal, on the presumption that state parks would willingly cede access on McKay Avenue for utilities. When state parks balked, the federal government pulled out the eminent domain threat.
"We're very experienced here at dealing with urban parks and developers and politics ... but this one's for the record books," said Bob Doyle, general manager of the regional parks district. "We just haven't been able to get a fair shake from day one."
State Attorney General Kamala Harris' office recently sent a strongly worded letter to the U.S. Department of Justice about GSA's threat to use eminent domain to seize the street and sidewalks of McKay Avenue.
"We are extraordinarily troubled by GSA's intent to take public land for a private developer's benefit," Deputy Attorney General John Devine wrote.
The letter went on to cite federal law dictating that agencies disposing of surplus property should give priority to public uses, and can offer it to state and local governments for discounts of "up to 100 percent."
The park district had bid $1 million, a third of the sale price to Tim Lewis Communities, a home developer based in Roseville. GSA officials said they needed to get full market value out of that 4-acre plot as part of the offices-consolidation project that made that area surplus.
Doyle directs some of his irritation at the city of Alameda for rezoning the land from office space to residential after the sale. The parks district has filed a lawsuit against the city for making the zoning change without an environmental impact report.
However, Alameda City Manager John Russo called the parks-district lawsuit "a bazooka on a fly" and a big waste of taxpayer dollars. He explained that the zoning change was made because the property was being acquired by a developer - and the growth-resistant suburb has long been under pressure from the state to do more to meet housing demand for diverse income levels.
Besides, Russo added, the developer's initial application with the city is not going anywhere until the McKay Avenue dispute is resolved.
"If you don't have access, you don't have a project," he said, adding, "They all need to get together to work something out."
Here's what should happen in the public interest: The GSA's deal with the developer should be nullified by one or both parties because of the lack of access. Parks officials have made plain they are not giving up the street to a development that would preclude expansion plans and could even come in conflict with the park experience and its operations. The GSA should then strike a deal with the parks district - at a reasonable discount - to facilitate the park expansion that voters overwhelmingly approved five years ago.
Members of Congress need to get off the sidelines and lean on the GSA bureaucrats to work out a deal with the regional parks. The attorney general's office should not be the only high-level voice against the taking of a state-owned street for the benefit of a private developer.


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The Alabama election, won by Doug Jones, will show future candidates their potential voters will not stand for ill-fit politicians (Image via Daily Beast)
News & Politics x December 20, 2017
The Alabama Election Reveals How Voters Respond to Candidates
Alabama's recent Senatorial special election made history, but only by a nose. What does the contentious election say about voters?
By Leslie Currie, University of Virginia
December 12, 2017 brought about historic change in Alabama when Doug Jones narrowly defeated Roy Moore during the Alabama election. The election served to replace Senator Luther Strange, who was appointed to fill in Jeff Sessions' seat in the Senate; Sessions was selected as U.S. Attorney General in early January of this year.
The special election was a nail-biter despite multiple sexual misconduct allegations against Moore, wherein three of the accusers claim Moore sexually assaulted them when the women were minors and he was in his thirties. Moore lost the election by only 1.5 percent, procuring 48.4 percent of Alabama voters' unconditional approval.
Jones is the first Democrat to win one of Alabama's Senatorial seats since 1992. Alabama is, evidently, a deeply dark red state with little tolerance for blue. Jones—someone with a total of zero sexual misconduct allegations against him—did not even technically reach a majority of votes, as he only received an unrounded 49.9 percent plurality.
The narrow margin of the election perfectly sums up Alabamans' moral conflict: 48 percent of voters would rather have an alleged child predator represent them in Washington, D.C. than a Democrat. What should have been a vote for what is objectively right remained largely partisan save for 8 percent of Republican voters who voted for Jones, according to "The Washington Post's" exit poll. Many Alabamans and the GOP (the party of family values, oh so ironically) are unsurprisingly critical of the Democratic winner.
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President Trump openly and adamantly supported Moore after several weeks of passivity toward the election, claiming Alabama would choose the right candidate. He indirectly backed Moore in late November with tweets vilifying Jones as a "Schumer/Pelosi puppet" who "would be BAD!"
Just a week before the election, however, Trump professed his full-fledged endorsement for Moore, tweeting, "We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, Border Wall, Military, Pro Life, V.A., Judges 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones, a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet!" Ignoring random and incorrect capitalizations, his reference to "Pro Life" is fascinating, even for the low standards Trump has set for himself.
He mentions the candidate's position on abortion—a moral issue to many Americans—in spite of the sexual misconduct and child predation allegations that many women have made against Moore. With Trump's track record, nevertheless, it isn't entirely surprising that he backed Moore.
Another unsurprising move was his total recantation of his support for Moore, tweeting after the election, "I said Roy Moore will not be able to win the General Election. I was right!" A classic Trump maneuver that mirrors his response to the Virginia Gubernatorial election in October, his repudiation of Moore to prove his bigly smartness lacks originality at this point. Trump was not, however, the only Republican to wholeheartedly support an alleged child predator in order to pass bills that favor the GOP.
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway worried prior to the election that Doug Jones would ruin Congress's prospects of passing Trump's proposed tax bill. As a guest on "Fox and Friends," she belabored her point that "Doug Jones is a vote against tax cuts; he's weak on crime, and strong on raising taxes." Conway's desperate cry for Alabama Republicans to vote for Moore did not quite pay off, nor did it accurately portray Jones's stance on taxes.
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Though he won't take office until January 3, 2018 and therefore likely won't vote on the tax plan, the Senator-elect has expressed partiality for lower taxes for the middle class and corporations, despite Conway's insistence that Jones was against tax cuts. He is, however, skeptical about claims that the bill would repair the $1 trillion national debt. Nevertheless, Jones' mixed feelings about the tax plan reveal his moderate side in spite of Republican assertions that Jones is a far-left liberal. The newly elected senator has proven more than once since his election that he is not on the same ideological level as legislators like Senator Schumer or Senator Warren.
In an interview with "CNN's" Jake Tapper less than a week after defeating Moore in Alabama, Jones noted that he does not think Trump should resign because of his manifold sexual misconduct allegations in the wake of Al Franken's resignation for similar accusations. Jones said, "Those allegations were made before the [2016 Presidential] election. And so people had an opportunity to judge before that election. I think we need to move on and not get distracted by those issues. Let's get on with the real issues that are facing the people of this country right now."
Jones's remarks are inconsistent with many Democrats' opinions on the subject, including New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who have both openly called for Trump's resignation post-Franken. Jones made it clear that sexual misconduct allegations against the president are a non-issue, despite those very issues helping him win a seat in Congress. The Senate-elect has kicked off his Senatorial career with sentiments that contradict, or at least stray from, many Democratic and liberal politicians' stances. Regardless, his triumph over Moore illustrates Alabama voters' desire to denounce repulsive behavior notwithstanding political party affiliations.
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Jones's recent comments about both Trump's sexual misconduct allegations and the GOP tax plan demonstrate the one thing Alabama Republicans who voted for Moore don't want to admit: Jones is a moderate, if not conservative, Democrat who will mesh well with most of their stances, aside from his party identification. Partisan ties are simply too strong—in Alabama and across the nation—for voters to overlook and instead pay attention to what candidates actually say. Since his victory, Jones has expressed relatively conservative viewpoints, but many Americans rely solely on heuristics to evaluate politicians, which allow them to judge a candidate or representative on his party and not on his policy positions.
Doug Jones' narrow Senatorial victory exemplifies one of the main problems that American Democracy faces today, which is that citizens (including politicians) do not pay attention when it matters. Americans are so entranced by partisanship that policies take a back seat. It turns out that Jones is more moderate than any Republican disclosed during the campaign, but the only issue voters were concerned about was that he was a Democrat. 48.4 percent of voters disregarded Moore's sexual misconduct accusations, an issue that should outweigh political partisanship.
Issues matter. Listening matters. Voters in thirty-three states have to keep this in mind during the 2018 Senate elections. One can only hope that decent candidates will run for the open Senate seats, but instead of relying on the unreliable partisan label, voters must do their homework. Jones and Moore perfectly sum up the fact that party identification doesn't dictate someone's ideology or character.
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Les Tai Dam, ou Thaï noirs, sont un groupe ethnique d'Asie du Sud-Est, vivant au nord-ouest du Viêt Nam, au Laos, en Thaïlande et en Chine. Leur langue fait partie des langues taï. Ils possèdent leur propre écriture, un alphabet dérivé du pali.

Le nom de cette ethnie, dam, signifiant « noir », est lié à la jupe noire en soie que portent les femmes, ou à leur premier peuplement aux abords de la rivière Noire (sông Đà en vietnamien). Contrairement aux Thaï khao (thaïs blancs), les Thaï noirs s'interdisent le port du blanc, qui est réservé aux périodes de deuil et cérémonies funéraires.

Les femmes tai noirs sont reconnaissables à leurs chemisiers rouges, verts ou bleus, très serrés et fermés par plusieurs agrafes en argent ; les femmes mariées portent un chignon au sommet de la tête, maintenu par une pique en argent, et une coiffe d'un tissu noir brodé, appelé turban pieu. Elles portent le sinh, un sarong, habituellement de couleur noire, rehaussé de motifs floraux, ou d'autres plus colorés à motifs animaliers ou géométriques. La ceinture en tissu des femmes est souvent de couleur verte.

Les Thaï dam pratiquent le culte des ancêtres (le « pô then » est le premier ancêtre de la famille) et l'animisme : ils croient aux « phi » (fantômes ou esprits), aux « phi ban » et ne se sont pas convertis au bouddhisme. Leur organisation sociale en ban mueang (villages) préfigure celle des Lao et des Thaï. Des populations thaï, c'est sans doute celle qui a le moins subi l'influence indienne, via le Cambodge (l'empire khmer).

Histoire

L'histoire des Thaï noirs nous est connue par le To quam muong, un manuscrit en thaï ancien couvrant la période du  à . Le  nom « To quam mueang » signifie littéralement « récit sur la conquête des mueang » (muong pour les locuteurs vietnamiens, et mueang pour les locuteurs thaï, signifie pays).

Pour la période antérieure au To quam mueang, des études récentes menées par des chercheurs chinois, évoquent une hypothétique provenance des Thaï, depuis l'île de Taïwan ; ils seraient entrés en Chine du sud pour migrer encore plus au sud-Est de la péninsule indochinoise. Les Thaï dam vivant à Taïwan font partie de la population autochtone avant l'arrivée des Chinois han dans l'île, arrivés en masse au siècle dernier.

D'après le To quam muong, les Thaï noirs, tout comme les Thaï, les Lao, et les autres ethnies tai ont migré depuis le sud de la Chine (Yunnan) vers la péninsule indochinoise.

Khun Borom, l'ancêtre mythique fondateur du peuple tai, aurait fondé Muong Tènh  (l'actuelle Ðiện Biên Phủ) ; les légendes thaï relatives à la création du monde sont situées dans la région. Les Thaï dam ont ouvert la route vers l'Asie du Sud-Est à d'autres ethnies thaï, les Thaï lao d'abord, les Thaï siamois ensuite. (Les Thaï lao se sont installés au bord du Mékong. Les Thaï Isan sont des Lao devenus Thaïlandais et peuplent aujourd'hui l'Isan.)

Leur migration aurait eu pour motif la conquête de nouvelles terres propices à la culture du riz et des frictions avec les ethnies environnantes, notamment les Xa et les Kinh (ethnie majoritaire vietnamienne).

À cette époque, la société des Thaï noirs était relativement développée car elle était déjà organisée en ban mueang (village avec une organisation sociale spécifique). Ainsi les Thaï noirs abandonnent les mueang Om et mueang Ai, aux ethnies Xa et Kinh, pour aller plus vers le sud et conquérir un nouveau mueang.

Au Laos, la distinction entre Lao et Thaï n'est apparue qu'avec l'arrivée des Français en Indochine. Aujourd'hui, les thaï dam sont officiellement classés dans le groupe lao loum (Laos des plaines). À l'époque du Lan Xang, les Thaï dam payaient un impôt au roi du Laos, et reconnaissait le roi de Luang Prabang, comme le leur.

La Mission Pavie

Pour contrecarrer l'influence britannique dans la région après la fin de la troisième guerre anglo-birmane en 1885, et pour assurer une profondeur stratégique à ses nouvelles conquêtes après la guerre franco-chinoise, la France prend pied dans l'est du Siam sous prétexte d'y combattre les bandes chinoises (restes des pavillons noirs) qui sévissaient dans le pays thai (thai dam et thai khao) ou la région des Sip Song Chau Tai (douze cantons thai dam et thai khao). Elle affirme venir défendre un territoire relevant de l'Annam.

Histoire récente

Après la guerre d'Indochine, beaucoup de Taï dam ont été contraints de quitter le Vietnam, notamment la région de Ðiện Biên Phủ, lieu d'affrontement entre les forces vietnamiennes et françaises. Les Thaï noirs ont majoritairement soutenu la France, car ils étaient opposés au régime communiste.

La séparation entre noble et roturier a été abolie au Vietnam, selon le principe d'égalitarisme communiste. Or par tradition elle perdure parmi les Tai dam, car les chefs de village, les naï banh, sont toujours élus dans la même famille noble.

Les Tai dam réfugiés au Laos dans les années 1950 se sont bien intégrés à la population lao. Bon nombre d'entre eux, arrivés de Ðiện Biên Phủ, habitent maintenant la province de Vientiane.

Lorsqu'en 1975, le mouvement communiste du Pathet Lao renverse le roi du Laos Savang Vatthana et prend le pouvoir, certains sont à nouveau contraints à l'exil. Au départ des camps de réfugiés de la Thaïlande, ils trouvent refuge aux États-Unis, dans l'Iowa (), en Australie et en France ().

Thai dam lum phan, chanson de Ko Viset très connue des locuteurs thai, retrace cet exil.

Les Tai dam aujourd'hui
Actuellement  Tai Dam vivent au Vietnam
 au Laos, notamment dans les provinces de Phongsaly, Houaphan, Luang Namtha, Luang Prabang, Xieng Khouang et Vientiane,  en Thaïlande et  en Chine populaire.

Les Thai dam vivant actuellement en Thaïlande sont soit des descendants de Thai dam prisonniers de guerre, devenus esclaves, soit ceux provenant de la diaspora liée à la guerre d'Indochine et à l'arrivée au pouvoir du communisme au Laos. Ils sont présents à Nong Khai (près de la frontière lao, où sont partis bon nombre de réfugiés dans les années 1975-80 ), Khorat et Loei (plus Saraburi).

Des Tai dam vivent toujours également au Sipsongpanna, les « douze rizières à poissons », les ban mueang situés les plus au nord de l'ancien territoire des Thai dam et Thai khao (Thai blancs), devenu chinoises en 1891 par le traité franco-chinois, traité de redéfinition des frontières, menée par la mission Pavie. Le nom de la région en chinois a été modifié en Xishuangbanna ( déformation chinoise du mot sipsong panna) . Les douze rizières représentent les 12 familles tai qui ont immigré vers le sud.

Notes et références

Annexes

Bibliographie

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Articles connexes
 Liste des groupes ethniques du Viêt Nam

Liens externes

Groupe ethnique en Chine
Groupe ethnique au Laos
Groupe ethnique en Thaïlande
Groupe ethnique au Viêt Nam

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From Reformation to Reformation
DISCIPLESHIP COURSES
POOLE PROJECT
DE MOOR PROJECT
SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY I
CHRISTIAN POLITICAL THEORY
Poole-1 Samuel
Poole-Revelation
De Moor on Trinity
Heidegger NT Handbook
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Ruth 4:14, 15: A Blessing for Naomi
Verse 14:[1] And (Luke 1:58; Rom. 12:15) the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without (Heb. caused to cease unto thee[2]) a kinsman (or, redeemer[3]), that his name may be famous in Israel.
[Who hath not allowed it that a successor fail to thy family, and that his name should be called in Israel, אֲ֠שֶׁר לֹ֣א הִשְׁבִּ֥ית לָ֛ךְ גֹּאֵ֖ל הַיּ֑וֹם וְיִקָּרֵ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃] Who not to cease (or to be wanting [Septuagint]) caused to thee (did not transfer, or remove, from thee [Syriac, Munster]) a redeemer (kinsman [Vatablus]) today (Montanus, Piscator); He hath not left thee today without an avenger (Junius and Tremellius) [similarly the remaining interpreters]; and let be called (thou shalt call [Syriac]), or shall be called, his name in Israel (Montanus, Pagnine); today his name shall be called and remembered in the midst of Israel (Arabic). He did not allow to be wanting to thee this day a kinsman, namely, he whose name is going to be celebrated in Israel. The name of someone to be called in some place, in the place of, to be made famous (Vatablus). That his name may be famous (or called [Munster]), etc. (Junius and Tremellius). And it should be called, in the place of, that it may be called. That his name may be proclaimed, etc. Since the name of him, who departed without children, appears to be extinguished, as it were. Or, his name may be called, that is, may be, that is, may be named, in Israel. To call in the place of to be is quite common (Drusius). [Others refer it to Boaz:] Let the name of that man be celebrated; that is, of that pious redeemer, who raised up seed to his deceased kinsman, etc. (Junius).
Without a kinsman; which is understood, either, first, Of the son new born. Or rather, secondly, Of Boaz; for the name of גֹּאֵל/ goel, which is translated kinsman or redeemer, is never, that I know of, given to the child born, but always to the person begetting him of his brother's or near kinsman's wife. And whereas it is objected, that there was no cause for this congratulation at this time in reference to Boaz, because that was done divers months before this time; it may be replied, that the memory of that generous action was revived upon this occasion, and therefore is fitly mentioned as the foundation of this child's birth; and this happy effect justly leads them to the cause and original of it, which was this, that Boaz had shown himself to be a kinsman or not only in name and title, as the other kinsman was, verse 6, but in truth and reality. The words may be rendered, which hath not made or suffered thy kinsman to fail to thee, that is, to neglect or refuse the performance of his duty to thee and thine, as the other kinsman did. That his name may be famous in Israel; Hebrew, and his name shall be famous in Israel, for this noble and worthy action, wherein he gave so great an example of piety, charity, humility, and self-denial.
Verse 15:[4] And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher (Heb. to nourish;[5] Gen. 45:11;[6] Ps. 55:22[7]) of thine old age (Heb. thy gray hairs[8]): for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is (1 Sam. 1:8) better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
[And thou shouldest have one to comfort thy soul, וְהָ֤יָה לָךְ֙ לְמֵשִׁ֣יב נֶ֔פֶשׁ] And he shall be to thee for one restoring (or reviving [Vatablus, similarly Pagnine, Septuagint, Jonathan]) the soul (Montanus). He shall restore, or shall call back, to thee thy soul, despairing of offspring (Vatablus). A comforter of thy soul (Syriac). A restorer of thy soul, that is, thy life (Malvenda out of Junius).
A restorer of thy life, that is, of the comfort of thy life, which was in a great measure dead and gone.
[And to nourish thine old age, וּלְכַלְכֵּ֖ל אֶת־שֵׂיבָתֵ֑ךְ] And he shall nourish (or may he sustain [Tigurinus]) thine old age (Pagnine, Montanus, etc.); and that by sustaining thy gray hairs (Junius and Tremellius).
[For he hath been born of thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee,כִּ֣י כַלָּתֵ֤ךְ אֲֽשֶׁר־אֲהֵבַ֙תֶךְ֙ יְלָדַ֔תּוּ] Because thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, hath born him (Montanus) [similarly the Septuagint, Jonathan, Syriac, Junius and Tremellius, Pagnine]. Some thus translate it, with the כִּי/for omitted, he, whom thy daughter-in-law hath born, who loveth thee, and who at the same time is better to thee than many sons (Vatablus). Cappel suspects that in the place of יְלָדַתּוּ, she hath born him, יוֹלַדְתִּי is better to be read, for יוֹלֶדֶת,[9] in this sense, because hath born a son thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, and who is better to thee than seven sons. Otherwise it is next to be read, הוּא and טוֹב, in the masculine gender, in this sense, because thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, hath born him, who[10] shall be to thee better than seven sons; but according to today's reading the sense is perplexed, because thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, hath born him, who[11] is better to thee than seven sons (Cappel's Sacred Criticism[12]). Response: 1. The יְלָדַתּוּ is able to be translated, she hath born to him, that is, to the avenger, in the place of, יָלְדָה לוֹ: for the pronoun is often set down as a suffix, and is to be expounded by a separate dative: like בִּשְּׁלָם, he boiled them, in the place of, בִּשֵּׁל לָהֶם, he boiled for them, 1 Kings 19:21; נְתַתָּנִי, thou hast given me, in the place of, נָתַתָּה לִי, thou hast given to me, Joshua 15:19; אַגִּידֶנּוּ, I will declare to Him, Job 31:37; עֲשִׂיתִנִי, I have made for myself, Ezekiel 29:3. Thus they render it in this place, she begat to him (Munster, Tigurinus, similarly Castalio). Thus there is no perplexity, and the sense of Cappel emerges, and by the avenger Boaz is understood, who, although he was not bound to perform this office of the levir, undertook it willingly. 2. If it be rendered literally, the sense is not perplexed; but thus the principal part of the congratulations is to be referred to the newborn son, of whom, as if present and placed before their eyes, they do not make express mention, but indicate, when they say, who hath caused not to cease to thee this day an avenger, that is, with this son born of him. They are not so much congratulating her concerning an avenger obtained, as concerning the son born of her daughter-in-law: indeed, the former she had already had for at least nine months; but this son she had received only that day: and, inasmuch as a son was born, he was truly an avenger, through whom would be reclaimed the memory of the name of the deceased son from oblivion, and the inheritance also from heirs of another family. And so what things follow are to be taken of the son born; his name shall be called in Israel; he shall be to thee for restoration, etc., because thy daughter-in-law, who loved, or loveth, thee, hath born him; which daughter-in-law is better to thee than seven sons (Vatablus). Therefore, that she hath born him, has regard to the infant. For relative pronouns are often put without an antecedent substantive noun, and with no mention made of the thing to which they are referred; that is, when that, either being present or in sight, is obvious. Now, those words, who is better to thee than seven sons, they thus understand: That daughter-in-law, with this son of Boaz, a wealthy son-in-law, is not better and more useful to thee than if she had born many to thee from thy son: thence all things necessary for life shall be abundantly funished to thee. 3. Far more perplexed is that reading of Cappel: for יוֹלֶדֶת[13] signifies in the present, she is bearing, or rather in the future, she will bear, as in Genesis 16:11;[14] 17:19, Sarah יֹלֶ֤דֶת לְךָ֙ בֵּ֔ן, shall bear to thee a son: But the sense requires the past tense here, concerning the son already born, as in verse 13, and she bore a son (Buxtorf's Vindication of the Integrity of the Hebrew[15] 2:13:987).
Hath born him, to wit, a son; the pronoun for the noun understood, which is frequent in the Hebrew tongue. Or, hath born to him, that is, to thy kinsman, to wit, a son, which is easily understood; and so the pronoun affix is put for the separate; of which there are instances; as Joshua 15:19; 1 Kings 19:21; Job 31:37; Ezekiel 29:3.
[1] Hebrew: וַתֹּאמַ֤רְנָה הַנָּשִׁים֙ אֶֽל־נָעֳמִ֔י בָּר֣וּךְ יְהוָ֔ה אֲ֠שֶׁר לֹ֣א הִשְׁבִּ֥ית לָ֛ךְ גֹּאֵ֖ל הַיּ֑וֹם וְיִקָּרֵ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
[2] Hebrew: הִשְׁבִּ֥ית לָ֛ךְ.
[3] Hebrew: גֹּאֵל.
[4] Hebrew: וְהָ֤יָה לָךְ֙ לְמֵשִׁ֣יב נֶ֔פֶשׁ וּלְכַלְכֵּ֖ל אֶת־שֵׂיבָתֵ֑ךְ כִּ֣י כַלָּתֵ֤ךְ אֲֽשֶׁר־אֲהֵבַ֙תֶךְ֙ יְלָדַ֔תּוּ אֲשֶׁר־הִיא֙ ט֣וֹבָה לָ֔ךְ מִשִּׁבְעָ֖ה בָּנִֽים׃
[5] Hebrew: וּלְכַלְכֵּל.
[6] Genesis 45:11: "And there will I nourish thee (וְכִלְכַּלְתִּ֤י אֹֽתְךָ֙); for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty."
[7] Psalm 55:22: "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee (וְה֪וּא יְכַ֫לְכְּלֶ֥ךָ): he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved."
[8] Hebrew: אֶת־שֵׂיבָתֵךְ.
[9] The feminine participle.
[10] Namely, the grandson.
[11] Namely, Ruth.
[12] Critica Sacra, sive de Variis quæ in Sacris Veteris Testamenti Libris Occurrunt Lectionibus Libri Sex: in quibus ex Variarum Lectionum Observatione Quamplurima Sacræ Scripturæ Loca Explicantur, Illustrantur, atque adeò Emendantur non Pauca.
[13] The feminine participle.
[14] Genesis 16:11: "And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son (הִנָּ֥ךְ הָרָ֖ה וְיֹלַ֣דְתְּ בֵּ֑ן), and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the Lord hath heard thy affliction."
[15] Anticritica: seu Vindiciæ Veritatis Hebraicæ Adversus Ludovici Cappelli Criticam quam Vocat Sacram.
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NAME

gcloud compute target-pools set-backup - set a backup pool for a target pool

SYNOPSIS

gcloud compute target-pools set-backup NAME --backup-pool BACKUP_POOL [--failover-ratio FAILOVER_RATIO] [--region REGION] [GLOBAL-FLAG …]

DESCRIPTION

gcloud compute target-pools set-backup is used to set a backup target pool for a primary
target pool, which defines the fallback behavior of the primary
pool. If the ratio of the healthy instances in the primary pool
is at or below the specified <var>--failover-ratio value</var>, then traffic
arriving at the load-balanced IP address will be directed to the
backup pool.

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

<var>NAME</var>

The name of the target pool for which to set the backup pool.

FLAGS

--backup-pool <var>BACKUP_POOL</var>

Name of the target pool that will serve as backup. If this flag is provided without a value, the existing backup pool is removed.

--failover-ratio <var>FAILOVER_RATIO</var>

The new failover ratio value for the target pool. This must be a float in the range of [0, 1].

--region <var>REGION</var>

The region of the target pool to set a backup pool for. If not specified, you will be prompted to select a region.

To avoid prompting when this flag is omitted, you can set the
<var>compute/region</var> property:

$ gcloud config set compute/region REGION

A list of regions can be fetched by running:

$ gcloud compute regions list

To unset the property, run:

$ gcloud config unset compute/region

Alternatively, the region can be stored in the environment
variable <var>CLOUDSDK_COMPUTE_REGION</var>.

GLOBAL FLAGS

Run $ gcloud help for a description of flags available to
all commands.

EXAMPLES

To cause <var>TARGET-POOL</var> (in region <var>us-central1</var>) to fail over
to <var>BACKUP-POOL</var> when more than half of the <var>TARGET-POOL</var>
instances are unhealthy, run:

$ gcloud compute target-pools set-backup TARGET-POOL \
    --backup-pool BACKUP-POOL --failover-ratio 0.5 \
    --region us-central1

To remove <var>BACKUP-POOL</var> as a backup to <var>TARGET-POOL</var>, run:

$ gcloud compute target-pools set-backup TARGET-POOL --backup-pool \
    --region us-central1

NOTES

This command is in the Google Cloud SDK compute component. See
installing components
if it is not installed.

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This is the second part of an ongoing, occasional series on the alt-right in power. See Part 1 for Steve Bannon's thoughts on secularization and globalization in the West.
On April 5, Donald Trump's powerful Chief Strategist Steve Bannon was removed from his controversial seat on the National Security Council. Derisively labelled "President Bannon" by social media users for his outsized nationalist influence on Trump's policies, the alt-right media boss and his fellow nationalist allies in the White House are now consigned to the corner of Trump's war room during the recent largely symbolic strike on a Syrian air base.
Although the balance of power in the Trump administration has shifted heavily towards the more moderate faction led by Jared Kushner (Trump's son-in-law), it would be a mistake to discount the importance of Bannon's influence inside and outside the White House. Speculations about his impending resignation, however, are proving somewhat premature, and Bannon's articulation of nationalism has slowly become a credible ideological faction within the Republican Party. This article will continue from a previous article published by the NAOC about some of Steve Bannon's grievances against the American establishment, to further explicate Bannon's nationalist ideology.
However serious the current economic crisis is for American cohesiveness, it is only a malaise preluding the real crisis that will sweep away it all. Bannon is not warning about a future conflict; the war has already started. By losing its Judeo-Christian moral compass, the West has exposed itself to a number of enemies engaged in a global clash of civilizations, and it is losing.
Militarism is such a thorough part of Bannon's lenses that his former colleagues have all noted his excessive usage of military and war metaphors in everyday conversation. By all accounts, Bannon seems predisposed to perpetually understanding the world through dialectic conflict. Given that the past Fourth Turnings included the American Civil War and World War II, Bannon sees this worldwide conflagration as inevitable and imminent. His numerous unsuccessful attempts to try to coax historian David Kaiser "to say we could expect a conflict at least as big as the Second World War in the near or medium term" ominously suggests that he will try everything to fit stovepipe facts into his worldview.
One candidate for Bannon's great global conflagration may be China. Bannon proclaimed in March 2016 that because of Chinese expansion in the South China Sea, "We're going to war in the South China Sea in five to 10 years. There's no doubt about that." While this observation clearly echoes political scientist Graham Allison's warning about the Thucydides Trap between rising and declining superpowers, Bannon takes what is meant to be a warning about the importance of diplomatic prudence and misconstrues it as an unavoidable great powers clash.
His bluster about other superpowers, Bannon is clear about who he considers the prime enemy of the West: Islam. In his notorious 2014 Vatican speech, Bannon argued that "we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, I think, metastasizing far quicker than governments can handle it." Indeed, Bannon's fervent belief in the need to wage war against Islam spooked even the Danish cartoonist responsible for the 2005 Prophet Mohammed cartoon controversy, who reported that "Bannon is of the belief that, if Europe is to be saved, there is no way to avoid armed conflict. The power of Islam cannot be stopped by peaceful means. In short, Bannon told me in no uncertain terms that the West is at war with Islam." During the Vatican speech's Q&A session, Bannon cited the Battle of Vienna (in 1683) and the Battle of Tours (in 732) as examples of Judeo-Christianity "[keeping Islam] out of the world…", in which Christian European armies drove back Muslim armies. The leader of French forces in the latter battle, Charles Martel, is sometimes valorized by white nationalists as a symbol of white European resistance against Islam and non-Europeans.
As a result of the West's secularism and cronyism, the West is sapped of the will to win against Islam, making the West vulnerable to being overrun. As Bannon wrote in his draft screenplay for his unproduced anti-Islam documentary, "Destroying the Great Satan: The Rise of Islamic Facism [sic] in America": "The road to the establishment of an Islamic Republic in the United States starts slowly and subtly with the loss of the will to win. The road to this unique hell on earth is paved with the best intentions from our major institutions."
Located in the home front, these institutions undermine Western civilization and the organic American nation in particular. As the screenplay further elaborates, in addition to Muslim "front groups and disingenuous Muslim Americans who preach reconciliation and dialogue in the open but, behind the scenes, advocate hatred and contempt for the West", Bannon lists a number of American institutions as "enablers" for Islamic jihadism's infiltration of America, including major media outlets, the national security establishment, executive institutions, and even the "American Jewish Community."
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How to Make Rainbow Loom Bracelets
How to Make a Double Cross Fishtail Rainbow Loom Bracelet
Learn how to make a double cross fishtail Rainbow Loom bracelet in this Howcast video featuring The Lanyard Ladies.
Hi, I'm Colleen from The Land of Ladies, and today I'm going to show you how to make the double cross fishtail rainbow loom bracelet. You'll need a loom, a hook, two colors, or you can do it multi-color, the choice is yours, and an s-hook or a c clip. So, let's get started. First thing we need to do before we start laying our bends is to remove the center pin and square off the loom. So you're going to raise it up one notch and make sure that the arrow is facing away from you. So, we have the square bottom here. We're going to start with the white and we're going to make the figure eight with the white and put it on a diagonal from the center pin to the corner pin, and we're going to do the same with the black.
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Take Back the Game
Yesterday, I was flipping through the Sears Christmas wish catalogue. I discovered this year, for a mere $70.83, you can get a plastic replica Habs goalie mask. For $69.99, you can own a statue of a depressed baby in a Habs sweater, wishing for a Stanley Cup. A Canadiens-logo scarf or dog dish will run you forty bucks, and if you want to keep your chilly toes toasty in Habs-themed slippers, it'll cost you fifty. If none of those Habby items rock your boat, the die-hard Canadiens fan can also shell out for sleeping bags, lighters, baby onesies, bikinis, playing cards, coins, t-shirts, long johns, curtains, socks, packages of tissues, toasters, air fresheners, clothespins, bar ware, lawn chairs or lunchboxes, all emblazoned with the proud CH. In short, if you can buy it, a manufacturer can slap a Habs logo on it and charge you double. Of course, all that lovely money runs directly into the NHL coffers, helping hockey-related revenue rise by an average of seven percent every year since the last lockout.
In the run-up to the current lockout, lots of angry fans have been threatening boycotts of everything from hockey itself to companies that sponsor NHL teams. They hope if they switch their internet from Bell to Rogers, it will worry Bell's brass enough to pressure owners for a CBA settlement. Less radical fans are saying they'll shut their wallets and not buy a new Colby Armstrong sweater or Habs-themed watch with Rocket Richard's goal-celebration arms marking the hours, in hope of making owners worry about loss of merchandise revenue. They threatened similar things eight years ago, when the last lockout began. In the end, after an entire year without the NHL, they rushed back to pro rinks in greater numbers than ever, paying higher ticket prices and shelling out 200 bucks a pop for their official replica Alex Kovalev jerseys.
It's a fine idea to say you won't go back to the Bell Centre when the lockout is over. Really, though, as the last work stoppage showed, you and the rest of the hockey-mad world probably won't be able to stick to that threat. We want our hockey, no matter how much we hate Gary Bettman and think the players and owners are all a bunch of greedy bastards. We also can swear to boycott NHL sponsor companies, but are we really going to change our cable provider or forgo our morning fix of Timmy's joe just for the principle of the thing? Probably not. Or at least, not enough of us will commit to a boycott to make a difference. One thing we can do, however, and in great numbers, is refuse to buy all that NHL-sanctioned swag. We can still have hockey; we just don't need to pay for a forty-dollar ball cap to wear while we watch it.
Fans, as we know, are the people who provide the money the NHL's players and owners are fighting over right now. Yet, when the cash leaves our hands and goes to Ticketmaster or the Habs merchandise shop, we lose our power. The question is, how much influence do we really have if we choose to keep our money? Looking at the numbers, it turns out we could have quite a lot.
In the eight years since the last lockout, the NHL's hockey-related revenue has increased by nearly 50%. Last year, the league made a cool $3.3-billion. There's not a detailed breakdown of where all that cash originated that's publicly available, but with the numbers we can find, some of the picture begins to emerge. We know, for example, that the league takes in $355-million in TV revenue each year. We also know gate revenue last year amounted to $1.3-billion dollars. The league's largest sponsor, Molson-Coors, pays the NHL $53-million a year. Those three things account for $1.9-billion of the league's total revenue, leaving $1.4-billion for other sponsorship, including arena naming rights and dasher board ads, radio and internet rights and merchandise sales.
Last year, sales of all those team-logo-emblazoned goods went up by 15% over the previous season. In fact, they've risen every year since the last lockout. The league doesn't release specific numbers, but if merchandise accounts for even half of that $1.4-billion dollars, fans who buy NHL-approved stuff provide a very significant portion of the league's record revenue. If it accounts for even a third of the $1.4-billion, merchandise sales are worth more than all the TV rights CBC, TSN, NBC and RDS buy each year. That, friends, is big money, and money, as they say, talks.
I've never really considered how much Habs stuff I own, but after I thought about this, I took a look around. It turns out, I have four Habs sweaters, one of them game-worn and two pro replicas with names and numbers. I have four CH t-shirts of various patterns, three Canadiens ball caps, a keychain, gym wrist bands, a bottle opener, a water bottle, a subscription to the Habs team magazine, two fridge magnets, nine different books, videos and a DVD box set, coins, stamps, slippers, gloves, a framed 100th-anniversary print, a McFarlane figure of Patrick Roy, a calendar and a tiny model Escalade that sits on my desk at work, sporting the Habs logo. I don't know how much I or the people who gave me these things as gifts spent on the stuff, but I imagine it's well over a thousand bucks, and a portion of that went right into the NHL owners' pockets. That's why I'm not going to buy anything else.
I'm angry this labour dispute is holding fans hostage, and I want to make a statement the owners will be forced to hear. I'm not willing to abandon hockey, but I will never buy another NHL-trademarked item again. And you know what? I won't miss it. I rarely wear my Habs gear, except during the playoffs, and the rest of it is just cute junk I've picked up over the years and never notice. I want my Habs hockey, but I'll be damned if I'll contribute to the many millions the NHL makes off merchandise sales and then fights about. Who's with me?
P.S. If all this makes you feel like crying, try this for a laugh.
Posted by J.T. at 6:16 AM
The NHL is owned and run by American billionaires who are intent on union busting. Just look at the business landscape in the USA. The players want to have a fair deal and play the game they love. Not gonna happen any time soon.
Fans can yell and scream and not buy team related crap all they want. It won't make any difference. This lockout is NOT about money. It is about POWER.
I agree the only power the fans have is money that we spend directly or that is generated from us watching games.
I find boycotts are like crash diets - they do not work in the longterm. What is needed is a moderate lifestyle change, simply reduce your consumption of NHL products. If you go to a game have 1 beer instead of 2, have streetmeat instead of a bell centre dog, don't buy a program.
Buy a jersey if you really want it, but do not buy the touque, scarf, or other trinkets.
Don't subscribe to RDS or NHL centre ice. Just watch TSN, Sportsnet or CBC. Do not buy NHL 13, just keep playing NHL 12.
Stop visiting the NHL/teams websites and stop following the owners and players on twitter, Facebook, or other social media sites.
These are not big changes, but if enough people do them then the owners and players will feel it in the pocketbook.
By the way HRR increased by 5.96% a year and not the 7.1% quoted by the PA. The 7.1% is a simple average (50%/7) that always uses $2.2 B as the base in calculating growth.
The 5.96% is the compound growth rate (1.50^(1/7)-1) that uses the prior years revenue in calculating the growth rate for each year.
A simple proof is to increase the initial $2.2 B of revenue by 7.1% a year for 7 years (2.2*1.071*1.071....*1.071). This gives a product of $3.56 B - a quarter of a billion more than the actual revenue.
Raj said...
While I couldn't agree with you more, JT, I think we shouldn't forget PT Barnum's maxim that there's a sucker born every minute. I think the owners AND the players have made the rather cynical calculus that for those fans they lose outright, or those who buy less merchandise, there will be plenty of new fans who can replace them. The population grows and the standard of living goes up (at least for now), and why shouldn't the NHL compete for that segment of the market that is just waiting for an opportunity to spend its hard-earned money on a feel-good association with a sports team? AND THEY KNOW HOW TO GET THEM! Why do you think the NHLPA has been absolutely mum about player safety? The gladiators on ice know which side their bread is buttered on. They know violence sells. They know in order to win fans back, the headshots will have to continue and skill will have to take a back seat to violence.
I forswore baseball after the '94 strike, when the Expos were in first place in the NL East with a 70-42 record. MLB didn't get the fans back until the steroid-fuelled home run derby a couple of years later between Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa. Now baseball fans have forgiven and forgotten, and turned a blind eye and deaf ear to even more steroid scandals and to the virtual slavery that occurs in the developmental leagues such as in the Dominican Republic.
I'm not optimistic what you or I do will matter. MLB is doing just fine without me. So will the NHL. But I'm doing fine without MLB. I can forgo the NHL, too. But I'm definitely vox clamantis in deserto.
Jim LaPlante said...
Another good piece. I know I couldn't commit to a "no more games" edict but the no merchandise purchases, I can do. Thanks!
I can help you with your request to stop buying NHL trinkets and trash.
I am a big Habs fan and usually get to a game or two every year, but can proudly say that other than a Habs flag that I bought for a gag gift last Christmas, I have not spent a dime on merchandise.
I promise to continue not buying.
I think you are on to something - I think this is one area where people, especially parents who buy stuff for kids, can draw the line and say no more. At least until a message is sent. Boycotting games and owner's/sponsor's products just won't work. But this might.
JJM said...
I agree that we spend way too much on Habs products. In the end however, I need a ball cap. My new one is a Milwaukee Brewers one. People need to spend their hard earned money. It's going to go somewhere in the end. To me, A boycott is a rediculous ideal as all it will do is send money to somewhere else.
I do have to agree with DB. and Strongly disagree with the first anom comment. NHLPA are not adding up nor compromising anything. They are simply trying to get the public with them by throwing random #s. To the players and owners, it's 100% about money. Not power. Since 2005, the players have increased their salaries by 69%. Which accounts for 79% of league Profits. However, the 30 owners end profits after salaries, expenses, etc... is less than 1% increase since 2005. In 2005 the 30 teams together were at 125mil. In 2011, they were at 126mil.
The players know this and refuse to reduce their current salaries. That is understandable, but they also refuse to reduce any king of future increase.
I think the best thing for the future of the league is for fans not to buy into any players mumbling about how they know business.
We don't need to hear about Mathieu Darche cry about how the league wants to screw him over. How they want to take 9% of this salary..... Oh wait, last time I checked, 9% of 0 is ZERO!!
JT, continue blogging, they are always well written. I think this is a perfect time to write a comedy blog on how you see the negotiations going. Would change the mood and make my day.
Kyle Roussel said...
I can't remember the last time I paid for a hockey ticket. After the last lockout, I said that I would not pay for a seat in the Bell Center, and though I have been to a handful of games, I personally have not spent a dime to be there.
I bought one Josh Gorges t-shirt in summer 2009, and not another cent on NHL-related merchandise since.
While it's clear that they don't miss my money, and while I know that I will never walk away from hockey, it's fairly easy for me to say that the NHL isn't getting money from me. Their sponsors do, as it's pretty tough to avoid all of them, but I'll never willing buy myself anything licensed by the NHL again.
I also swore to re-invest my time and energy in other hobbies and interests during this lockout (including Thursday night continuing education courses that I can't exactly bail on now!), and while I haven't had to choose between hockey and X yet, at least now hockey will have to earn it's keep.
DanielleJam said...
You bet I'm with you. All the way.
As a long time fan of les Canadiens, I've never been able to afford team merchandise or see a hockey game live at the rink. Even if I could, I wouldn't because supporting millionaires is really not my bag. But as a fan, I'll support the team in other ways, like cheering for them and wondering, even hoping that if the lockout lasts the entire season, all is not lost; the habs will be eligible for another high draft pick next year, yes?
Target a specific owner and put the squeeze on him. i.e. Molson.
If all Canadian (not only Canadien) NHL fans simply drink something other than Molson products we can end this thing quickly.
We didn't have this avenue as fans the last time around.
#NoHockeyNoMolson
Well in half a month that's about 10 of ya signed onto Leigh Anne's boycott. Only 330 million to go.
I stopped following BB when the Expos started going cheap and CFL football when Flutie went south. I don't follow much except hockey anymore.
I guess I can live without it. I admit the worse the Habs got the more I watched.(I think my meds need some sort of adjustment.) Maybe this will be a chance to kick the habit entirely.


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André Hercule de Fleury (Lodève, juni 1653 - Issy-les-Moulineaux, 29 januari 1743) was bisschop van Fréjus, kardinaal en eerste minister onder Lodewijk XV.

Biografie
Fleury werd geboren in het plaatsje Lodève in de Hérault. Hij ging in Parijs filosofie en theologie studeren bij de jezuïeten. Hij werd priester en door de invloed van kardinaal Bonzi werd hij een aalmoezenier van Maria Theresia, de vrouw van Lodewijk XIV en, na haar dood, aalmoezenier van de koning. In 1698 werd Fleury benoemd tot bisschop van Fréjus. Conform de decreten van het Concilie van Trente, reisde hij af naar zijn diocees, dat hij in 1715 inruilde om commendatair abt (niet-residerend) van de abdij van Tournus te worden. Na zeventien jaar in de provincie ambieerde hij een functie aan het hof.

Op instigatie van de hertog van Maine benoemde Lodewijk XIV bij testament Fleury tot leraar van zijn 5-jarige opvolger Lodewijk XV van Frankrijk. De hertog van Maine was de gedoodverfde regent, en wilde zich omringen met onschadelijke of gehoorzame volgelingen, waartoe hij de brave Fleury rekende. Filips van Orléans wist het regentschap van Maine te dwarsbomen, maar behield Fleury als leraar. Hierdoor verkreeg Fleury een hechte band met de minderjarige koning van Frankrijk, die hem als een vader ging beschouwen. Na de dood van de regent (1723) werd Lodewijk XV koning van Frankrijk en hij benoemde de prins van Condé tot zijn eerste minister. Condé werd snel impopulair, en beging de onvoorzichtigheid Fleury aan te klagen bij de koning, met de steun van de koningin. De intriganten kregen geen gelijk: de jonge koning dwong Condé tot ontslag, liet hem een vernederende brief aan Fleury schrijven, en installeerde Fleury in de functies (zonder de titel) van eerste minister. Deze positie zou hij tot zijn dood op hoge leeftijd vervullen. Zijn langlevendheid werd zo ergerlijk dat hij soms werd aangeduid met "Zijne Eeeuwigheid" in plaats van "Zijne Eminentie".

Na het Franse verlies in Bohemen tijdens de Oostenrijkse Successieoorlog stuurde Fleury een zeer vertrouwelijke brief naar de Habsburgse aanvoerder, Jozef van Königsegg. Deze reageerde door de brief direct te publiceren. Fleury ontkende dat de brief van hem kwam en stierf in datzelfde jaar (1743) in Issy-les-Moulineaux. Van d'Argenson kennen we het bon mot dat over hem de ronde deed: "Frankrijk is een zieke die sinds honderd jaar wordt behandeld door drie in het rood geklede artsen: de eerste [Richelieu] heeft hem adergelaten, de tweede [Mazarin] heeft hem gepurgeerd en de derde [Fleury] heeft hem op dieet gezet." De derde van de drie kardinaal-ministers werd met andere woorden geassocieerd met hongersnood. Na zijn dood besliste de 33-jarige Lodewijk XV om geen nieuwe eerste minister te benoemen, maar zelf de regering in handen te nemen.

André-Hercule de Fleury was lid van de Académie française, in opvolging van François de Callières. Hij werd opgevolgd door Paul d'Albert, kardinaal de Luynes.

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Referenties

Bisschop van Fréjus
Frans kardinaal
Frans politicus (voor 1789)
Lid van de Académie française
Lid van de Académie des sciences
17e-eeuws bisschop


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