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Pony tracks. By Frederic Remington, introd. by J. Frank Dobie.
The Russian warrior's songbook 1683-1983 : a collection of soldier's, seaman's, Cossack, regimental, volunteer units', military academy, and cadet songs, including the anthems and chorals which were most frequently sung in the Imperial Army and Navy with English translation : for four-voiced male chorus a cappella without acc., vol. II / compiled and arr. by Valentin N. Mantulin ; English translation by Alexander F. Beck ; cover by Vladimir P. Kaschkarow ; ill. by Vladimir P. Kaschkarow, Michail A. Lermontov ; portrayals of 20th century Cossacks by S. N. Samokish ; and portrayals of 19th century Cossacks by Frederic Remington.
New Matter: "musical arrangements, translation, compilation, and artwork."
musical arrangements, editing & compilation: Valentin N. Mantulin.
The outlier; poster. By Frederick Remington, author of renewable matter: Scholastic Magazines, Inc.
New Matter: compilation & text.
Portrait of a patriot--a few words from Mister Remington : a drama in one act for a single actor / by Ray Aranha.
Based on the writings of Frederic Remington.
Frederic Remington : cowboys, Indians, cavalry / produced by Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association ; executive producer and narrator, Bob Gregory.
New Matter: entire work excluding original oil & watercolor paintings and/or sculpture.
1 film reel (15 min.) : sd., col. ; 16 mm.
Based on the Frederic Remington collection of the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa.
Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association, employer for hire.
The Collected writings of Frederic Remington / edited by Peggy and Harold Samuels ; illustrated by Frederic Remington.
New Matter: compilation of public domain text & ill. of Frederic Remington, introd., notes, afterword, editing & appendix materials.
Frederic Remington : the American West : an official publication of the American Museum of Natural History / selected and edited by Philip R. Saint Clair.
New Matter: introductory material, editing, compilation & bibliography.
Kent, Ohio : Volair, 1978.
Volair, Ltd., employer for hire.
Copyrights records by Volair, Ltd.
Frederic Remington as soldier artist / by Peggy and Harold Samuels.
Frederic Remington (1861-1909), paintings, drawings, and sculpture in the collection of the R. W. Norton Art Gallery Shreveport, Louisiana.
New Matter: revisions, adaptation, foreword, bibliography, title index & additions.
Appl. identifies Brian W. Dipple's article Frederic Remington's Wild West pub. in the Apr. 1975 issue of American Heritage as preexisting material.
Shreveport, Louisiana : The Gallery, c1979.
Cover ti.: Frederic Remington paintings, drawings, and sculpture.
Arizona almanac for 1884 : suitably accurate for 1980 which has the same calendar of days / with 14 ill. by Frederic Remington.
New Matter: 78% of the text."
Tucson : K. Alstad Co., c1979.
The Western art of Frederic Remington / by Matthew Baigell.
All photos. & color plates prev. pub.
New York : Ballantine Books, 1976.
Exhibition held at the Denver Art Museum, July 11-Aug. 30, 1981.
text & compilation of photos.: Denver Art Museum, employer for hire of Peter H. Hassrick.
Copyrights records by Hassrick, Peter H.
The Frederic Remington letters at Saint Lawrence : a closer look at the many sides of Frederic Remington / by Allen P. Splete.
New Matter: "new text and compilation of Remington letters and excerpts."
Frederic Remington : a biography / by Peggy and Harold Samuels.
My very first book of cowboy songs : 21 favorite songs in easy piano arrangements / [editorial selection] Dolly M. Moon ; with ill. by Frederic Remington.
Pony tracks / written and illustrated by Frederic Remington.
New York : American Legacy Press, 1982.
foreword: Crown Publishers, Inc., employer for hire.
Copyrights records by Crown Publishers, Inc.
text: Ken (Kenneth H.) Alstad.
Everyone's guide to buying art / Peggy and Harold Samuels.
Pferde der prairie / Frederic Remington.
Horses of the plains pub. in Century magazine, 1888.
translation: Erhard Kreher, employer for hire.
Remington's Old West postcards / Frederick Remington.
Dover Publications, Inc., employer for hire.
Copyrights records by Dover Publications, Inc.
The Song of Hiawatha and other poems / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; ill. by Frederic Remington, Howard Chandler Christy and others ; afterword by Edward Wagenknecht.
Pleasantville, N. Y. : The Association, c1989.
text of insertion: the Reader's Digest Association, Inc., employer for hire.
Old West giftwrap paper : four different designs on four 18" x 24" sheets with four matching gift cards / [drawings by] Frederic Remington ; designed by Carol Belanger Crafton.
New Matter: "text, new lithographic reproductions."
Personal recollections and observations of General Nelson A. Miles, embracing a brief view of the Civil War : or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the story of his Indian campaigns with comments on the exploration, development, and progress of our great western empire : vol. 1-2 / illustrated with graphic pictures by Frederic Remington ; introd. by Robert Wooster.
New Matter: "introductions to both volumes."
Remington : the complete prints / by Peggy and Harold Samuels.
The Virginian : a horseman of the Plains / by Owen Wister, 1860-1938 ; with paintings by Frederic Remington and drawings by Charles M. Russell ; introd. to the Bison book ed. by Thomas McGuane.
Copyrights records by Russell, Charles M.
The Maltese cat / by Rudyard Kipling ; illustrated by Frederic Remington ; introd. by Lowell McAllister ; pref. by the Prince of Wales.
New Matter: pref., introd. & biographical sketches.
Remington Art Museum, Ogdenburg, N. Y.
First pub. in Cosmopolitan magazine, July 1895.
biographical sketches: Jane Weinberger, 1919-.
Frederic Remington : masterpieces from the Amon Carter Museum / Rick Stuart.
Fort Worth : A. Carter Museum, c1992.
Cowboy high style : Thomas Molesworth to the new West / Elizabeth Clair Flood.
Layton, UT : Gibbs-Smith, c1992.
Line art by Frederic Remington from various issues of Century magazine.
Remembering the Maine / Peggy and Harold Samuels.
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1995.
Teddy Roosevelt at San Juan : the making of a president / by Peggy Samuels and Harold Samuels.
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1997.


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Robinhood: A Valuable Lesson on the Importance of EQ in a CEO
By now, you have probably heard about the band of guerrilla retail investors who joined the 'wallstreetbets' group on Reddit, identified an investment opportunity and then used the platform to crowdfund the execution of what could become potentially the greatest financial 'David vs Goliath' take-down in history. The adoption of the now infamous online brokerage app called Robinhood offering free trading with zero minimums, created a perfect technology-enabled storm giving a younger audience the capability to join forces, aggregate their capital and launch a sneak attack on traditional wall street hedge funds that never saw it coming. One of the most fitting memes I have seen characterizing the efforts of the wallstreetbets Redditors likens them to Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in the classic 1980s comedy, "Trading Places". But when Robinhood suddenly blocked their own customers from purchasing shares and options of GameStop on Thursday morning just before the market opened for trading, it felt more like the Nobles turning their back on William Wallace in "Braveheart" at the battle of Falkirk. Vladimir Tenev, the CEO of Robinhood, subsequently appeared on multiple news outlets defending their actions, but his inability to explain the company's reasons in a way that the average person could understand left him and the company looking even more like the traitors the media was painting them to be.
Stock Trading 101
I am by no means an expert on the complexities of how the financial markets work, but I know enough to understand what is happening here on a basic level. If a stock is priced at $12 per share and an investor wants to buy 100 shares, the investor would need $1,200 to make that purchase. If that stock subsequently rises to $20 per share, the same 100 shares could be sold for $2,000 yielding a profit of $800 (minus brokerage fees). Alternatively, if a stock is trading at $20 per share and an investor believes that the price will go down, they can "short" the stock which means they are selling the stock, even though they don't even own it, in the hopes that they can buy it back later at a lower price (the investor's broker will have to borrow someone else's shares to facilitate this transaction). The investor would need to have $2,000 in their trading account to do this because that's how much it would cost them to buy back the stock at that particular moment. Once the stock goes down to $12 they can buy the stock back for $1200, yielding a profit of $800. The tricky part is that if that stock goes up to $30 instead of down, the investor will have to add an additional $1000 to their account to cover their short position. This is to ensure that if they decide to buy the stock back at $30 per share, they have enough money to do so. If suddenly that stock jumps to $100 per share, the investor is now on the hook for $7,000, making short positions quite risky with virtually unlimited loss potential.
Enter the Hedge Fund
It is common practice for large hedge funds to take very sizable short positions in companies that they feel are doomed to fail. In this case, the company in question is GameStop, a retailer of video games and game consoles which has suffered along with the rest of the retail industry from Covid related declines in revenue. These hedge funds are betting that GameStop's stock will continue to drop or that the company will go bankrupt leaving the hedge fund with hefty profits after they can buy back the stock for pennies. The information about the "short interest" in a particular company (or amount of shares being borrowed for the purpose shorting the stock) is publicly available. When the group of retail investors in the wallstreetbets Reddit group identified the huge short position that hedge funds had in GameStop, they launched a plan to collectively drive up the stock so high that the hedge funds would have no choice but to buy back the shares at an astronomical price to limit their losses. Given the number of shares that would have to be bought back by the hedge funds, this buying spree would continue send the stock rocketing higher transferring a great amount of wealth from the established old school hedge funds to this group of Redditors that have been labeled in the main stream media as inexperienced, irrational and reckless investors. This is known as a "short squeeze" and the plan was brilliant.
Add the Complexity of Stock Options
Here is the problem. The Redditors were not using cash to purchase shares of GameStop. Instead, they were buying options. Without getting too much into the weeds, this means that they could spend only a fraction of the price of the stock for the option to purchase it later. Based on my understanding, if an individual investor buys an option to purchase a stock, the broker must have a certain amount of funds on deposit to cover that trade. This is because options have an expiration date and depending on the price of the stock when that option expires, the investor may have to fund their account to purchase the stock. If the investor does not have the funds, the broker is potentially on the hook for at least some of those funds.
Now keep in mind that the price of GameStop was trading at $2.57 per share earlier this year, and by collectively buying GameStop options for pennies, the Redditors have been able to push the stock up to a whopping high of $483 per share. Their plan was to continue recruiting more group members and to use Robinhood (and other brokerages) to buy more options, sending the price of the stock so high that the hedge funds would be forced to lose billions of dollars covering their short positions and generating huge gains for the Redditors. But this would force the brokers to have huge sums of money on hand to insure the trades, potentially risking their own financial stability and the potential for a stock market implosion, should these brokers find themselves underwater.
Robinhood's CEO and the CNN Interview
There are allegations that Robinhood acted in the best interest of large hedge funds that had invested in the company by blocking further purchases of GameStop and only allowing 'sell' orders. It remains to be seen if there is any truth to that, but Vladimir Tenev did a terribly job of explaining the financial risk that the Redditors' activity was creating for Robinhood. During his interview on CNN, Chris Cuomo gave Mr. Tenev the opportunity to show the public that his company, which had built its reputation on 'democratizing finance' by working on the side of smaller retail investors, had not in fact stabbed its very own customers in the back to protect its hedge fund investors. But Mr. Tenev's feeble general statements about having to comply with financial regulations fell far short of a digestible explanation for anyone who is not familiar with how the markets work. Even Mr. Cuomo, who during the interview stated that he has a financial background, was not convinced by Mr. Tenev's explanation and continued to imply that Robinhood had committed a tragic hypocrisy.
This is a classic case of a CEO lacking the EQ (Emotional Quotient, or Emotional Intelligence) to explain his company's challenge to the public in a way that the average person could understand. Instead, he either wrongly assumed that the viewers knew enough about the financial regulations to which he was referring, or wrongly assumed that the viewers would simply accept his obligation to abide by certain regulations that forced the company's actions. He could have taken 5 seconds to say something like "Every time an investor buys an option on a $400 stock Robinhood has to guarantee up to $XX,000 for that purchase, and consider that Robinhood customers were buying on average X options per day."
Failing on the Brand Promise
Interestingly, many other brokerages implemented the same restrictions on Thursday morning including Webull, Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade, but they were not criticized with the intensity that Robinhood was. That's because Robinhood has promoted itself and was successful in creating the image of a company whose mission was to make the financial markets more accessible to unskilled and inexperienced investors. I would argue that it wasn't the decision to restrict trading that potentially ruined Robinhood's future, it was the CEO's fumble of explaining the reasons behind the decision. It was a particularly egregious EQ fail given the alleged inexperience of its novice user base.
Let me be clear that I am not giving Robinhood or the other brokers a pass on this week's events. Companies (particularly those that have a fiduciary responsibility to protect their customers' financial interests) should be prepared for unexpected circumstances. The historic volumes of option trades in a handful of stocks promoted by wallstreetbets is no excuse for causing significant financial losses to these retail investors and once again giving the upper hand to the large institutional investors that are thought to control the markets. But for Robinhood, the decision to hamstring the Redditor's plans to carry out their attack, whether justified or not, carried an air of betrayal that the CEO would have to work hard to extinguish.
Vladimir Tenev missed his opportunity to save Robinhood's reputation and win back the trust of his customers and the general public because he lacked the empathy to explain in a simple enough way, the risks to his company and the financial markets that the Redditors were creating. It is quite amazing that a market that seemed completely unfazed by a global pandemic that has killed over 2 million people now has the jitters because a group of individual investors on Reddit have potentially found a way to 'stick it to the man'. This battle between the electronically liberated younger generations of the world and the traditionally rigged elite-controlled stock market has captured the attention of the entire world over the last week and it remains to see who will prevail. In my opinion, Robinhood may have ruined their chances of being a major player in what I believe is the early stages of a growing power struggle between the haves and have nots.
Author Ashwin TravelPosted on January 30, 2021 January 31, 2021 Categories Headlines, UncategorizedTags GameStop, Reddit, Robinhood, Vladimir Tenev, wallstreetbetsLeave a comment on Robinhood: A Valuable Lesson on the Importance of EQ in a CEO

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Manchester United know Paul Pogba wants exit - agent
The agent of Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba has continued to push for the star's exit from the club this summer.
Mino Raiola has explained how the Red Devils have known 'for a long time' of the player's desire to leave Old Trafford this summer, with both Real Madrid and Juventus heavily linked.
The Frenchman is said to be strongly desired by Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane and despite the reservations of club president Florentino Perez, the club are believed to want a move.
"The player [Pogba] has done nothing wrong," Raiola told Talksport, as cited by Marca.
"He has been respectful and professional in every way and always.
"The club has known his feeling for a long time and it is a shame other people only like to criticise without the right information, and I am also sorry that the club does not take any position against this.
"Hopefully there will be soon a satisfying solution for all parties."
Madrid have already spent €300m on new signings this summer in their squad overhaul.


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Domo Genesis seems to have befriended the concept of consistency at an early age, because anything ranging from his high-profile releases to those you have to dig up with some extensive internet research reach the bar he has set for himself. Doms comes as cool as ever on the heavenly loop produced by the trusty vet, Evidence. The track comes from a quick, 8 track project- Aren't U Glad You're U- executively produced by Evidence. The artwork features very fitting Sesame Street like qualities, a baby blue hue to accommodate the pacific nature of Domo. All Domo praise aside, we get a guest spot from none other than the legend Phonte himself, who has been awfully quiet. The two demonstrate good chemistry, making the track something worth going back to.
The title is phrased in a way that eventually proves to be maybe more of an attention grabber, a point of controversy, as we learn Domo in fact disagrees with the theory. Listen for yourself below.
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Producer's Corner: The Kount x James Gent - The Sum
Canada's Kount and London's James Gent link up to drop off "The Sum" via BLVNT Records. While it is an instrumental track, it's just dripping with soul and speaks to me more than most lyrical laden songs do these days. It begins with some flighty plucks of the guitar accompanied by exploratory strokes of the ivories before erupting into a smorgasbord of only the grooviest synths backed by dense, clean drums falling in a classic hip hop pattern. The ghostly vocals elevate the tracks potential to evoke longing, but it feels like a more self-assured longing than a desperate one. It seems to be acknowledging a sense of seclusion while also inspiring hope for salvation from that seclusion. You can stream the track below or, if you feel so inspired, you can name your own price and get the download over at Bandcamp.
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[OK-THO Premiere] Jyroscope unleash heavy new single, "Quasi"
Chicago trio Jyroscope has built a reputation for bringing dense, complex lyricism over innovative production, and their latest single is no exception.
"Quasi" is the group's second offering from their forthcoming EP, MUTE, which is expected to be released in December on ReServed Records. The song features frequent Jyro collaborator Jason Gatz and is produced by I.B. Fokuz, who also did about 80% of the EP.
The group, which consists of emcees Collasoul Structure and I.B. Fokuz and DJ Seanile, has been together since the mid-2000s and has released three projects to date: Ragtime, On the Rocks, and On The House.
"The 3 projects that we've released cannot amount to all that we have done in the course of those years," I.B. Fokuz said. "A lot of our time was spent on multiple projects like Advent, Tomorrow Kings, and Collabing with other artists but this go-round....It's time for us to truly make our mark."
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Russian language rap has existed since the late 80s when American hip-hop burrowed its way through the Iron Curtain on the backs of Adidas-clad Soviet b-boys. In the mid-90s, the first rap albums started to circulate around Russia on cassette tapes. Throughout the 90s and 2000s, Russian rap started to gain popularity with an Eastern European audience as well; however, until the mid 2000s, Russian rap more closely mirrored and borrowed from its American originator, producing beats heavily informed by both West Coast gangster rap and old school New York production.
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Chester FC joint-boss Anthony Johnson on £1million donation and how it won't alter their recruitment plans
Benefactor Stuart Murphy is expected to make some money available for Johnson and Bernard Morley's playing budget
Chester boss Anthony Johnson with entrepreneur Stuart Murphy at Chester's Grosvenor Hotel (Image: Terry Marland)
Anthony Johnson believes the donation of £1million to Chester FC represents a fresh start for the football club.
After so much turmoil towards the end of last season, where a financial crisis, boardroom upheaval, manager sackings and relegation cast dark clouds over the Swansway Chester Stadium, much has changed in the past six weeks.
Former Salford City duo Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley have taken the hotseat and after weeks of due diligence and back and forth from solicitors, the donation from Chester businessman Stuart Murphy has now been completed.
And on Tuesday it was revealed that the 63-year-old Majorca-based entrepreneur would be gifting the football club £1m over three years , risk free.
Chester FC to receive £1million donation spread over three years from entrepreneur Stuart Murphy
It is a chance for a clean break for the club and a step away from the misery of last season, according to Johnson.
"It is massive for the football club, it is a clean start for everybody," said Johnson.
"Despite the worst thing that can happen to a football club with a financial crisis and a relegation, we have come out of the other side of it. Me and Bernard have come in and there has been a big change on the playing staff.
"Hopefully the donation from Stuart will put bums on seats and see supporters buying season tickets. It is a fresh start for the football club. Me and Bernard talked about (at the CFU meeting) changing the mentality of the club and winning and losing that apathy towards the club and team that was there last season."
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How might the money be used?
The vast majority of the £1m donation is to be used to help build the infrastructure of the fan-owned football club and allow it to be self sustainable for years to come, creating new revenue streams.
But Murphy also knows that there has to be some element of success in order for the whole thing to work and some money will be made available to Johnson and Morley, although it won't mean Chester will be throwing money at the budget in a myopic bid for short-term gain.
And Johnson and Morley aren't about to change their plans.
When asked if an increase in the playing budget would change their recruitment plans, Johnson said: "No, because from week one when we came in, and you will always hear me and Bernard talk this way at this stage of the season, we have got our target list. The recruitment that we wanted to get into the football club is the same group of players that it was at the start.
"What it will hopefully do is down the line, whether that be pre-season or during the season, there will be money left in the budget to make changes if and when we need it. If Stuart gives us more in the budget it isn't about spending that money immediately. You won't see any super name signings where people think 'oh hello, Chester have come into a bit of money'. That won't happen and it can't happen. The first and most important thing is that we get the players we want on the list signed up and then it is job done for us."
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Mike Pinkerton, Chief Executive of Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (until 2017), said: "This is a very important report that marks a watershed for the NHS and contains lessons not just for hospitals but for all involved in healthcare. We will be studying the report and its 290 recommendations very carefully to learn those lessons and it will be highly influential in shaping the new Quality Strategy that our new executive team has begun to develop.
"One of the recommendations Robert Francis QC makes today is that all NHS organisations should announce at the earliest practicable time the extent to which it accepts his recommendations and how it intends to implement those it accepts. We confirm that we will do this at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals.
"As a trust, we are absolutely committed to providing people in Doncaster, Bassetlaw and our neighbouring communities with the highest standard of care. That includes treating people with dignity and respect and doing all we can to make sure they have the best possible experience of using our services.
"We know we do not always achieve this but we are determined to get as close as we can to doing so 100% of the time. That's why it's crucial that we listen to patients, our staff, relatives and visitors and use this feedback to correct any issues at the earliest possible opportunity, as well as to monitor and continually improve the quality of care.
"There are lots of ways we're doing this already but our new Board has been looking at how we can improve the way we seek and act on feedback and the Francis recommendations will have a strong influence on the action we take as an organisation and in the way we work with our local commissioning groups in our patients' interests.
"The Francis report also makes a number of recommendations around training, compassion, performance management and accountability for everyone working in the NHS. We absolutely agree with the fundamental importance of organisational culture in delivering compassionate, patient-focused care, and in ensuring that we have the right staff with the right skills and the right values.
We encourage staff to report incidents and near misses and to raise any concerns they have so we can make improvements. Early indications from the latest NHS National Staff Survey, which will be published later this spring, are that our staff do feel able to raise concerns.
Our Board members (non-executive and executive directors), Board of Governors and senior staff carry out regular ward visits and safety walk-rounds where they speak to patients and staff to get their views on the care being provided, any issues and suggestions for improvements. We've also begun a programme of mock unannounced inspections to assess the standard of care being provided.
We survey a representative sample of 40 patients on each ward every month to get immediate, 'real-time' feedback. This means we can take prompt action to improve any problem areas. We also take part in all the national patient surveys which include: hospital inpatients, outpatients, A&E patients, people having cancer care, women using maternity services, and children, young people and families using paediatric services.
Our Trust Board, Management Board and Board sub-committees receive detailed reports every month on quality of care, scrutinise and discuss them in depth and probe into key issues to identify causes and solutions to any areas of concern. Our executive team and senior clinicians carry out similar analysis and decision-making on a continuous basis.
Senior clinicians play a vital, hands-on role in leading and managing the Trust and its services. In fact, the majority of our Trust's Management Board are clinicians. Each specialty/clinical area belongs to a clinical service unit led by a Clinical Director who is a senior medical consultant or, for pharmacy and clinical therapies, a senior pharmacist/therapist.
The new GP-led clinical commissioning groups have begun carrying out regular walk-rounds and inspections/assessments. We are working with them closely and will continue to do so in our patients' interests.
We held an extensive series of staff engagement roadshows throughout the summer and autumn of 2012 to listen to staff's views, the issues they face, any concerns they have and their suggestions for improvement. This provided valuable feedback that has helped us develop our strategy for 2013-17 and we plan to continue holding similar roadshows and events.
We have been piloting the new 'Friends and Family Test' that will go live from 1 April 2013. All hospital inpatients and every patient attending A&E will be asked whether they would recommend us to their friends and family, giving the reasons for this. It will be extended to women using maternity services from October 2013.
We invite patients, staff, relatives and visitors to give feedback by completing Your Opinion Counts forms on paper or via our website. We also read and respond to comments on Twitter and on websites like Patient Opinion.
Our strategy for 2013-17, which will be published later this spring, will set clearly defined organisational values shaped by engagement with our staff, governors and other key stakeholders.
We have had very open, honest and valuable discussions across the Trust about our priorities, culture and values through the staff engagement roadshows we began last summer. These values will be embedded in our recruitment processes, performance management and objective-setting for all staff.
For the last two years, all new healthcare assistants go through a formal induction process training them in the fundamentals of care and join an apprenticeship scheme providing recognised qualifications in healthcare, literacy and numeracy. We are also ensuring that all similar staff have recognised training to NVQ level 2 or equivalent.
The new Quality Strategy we are developing will set clear priorities, expectations and actions around the standard of care patients and their relatives can expect from us. There will also be clear lines of accountability and responsibility.
We will further develop and build on our existing channels for engaging, involving and communicating with patients, the public and staff so we listen to what they are telling us and use their feedback and suggestions to help us continually improve quality.
The Prime Minister has announced a national review of the way the NHS handles complaints. We will continue the work we have already begun to review and revise the way we handle and learn from complaints and serious incidents to ensure that issues are addressed in an appropriate and effective manner and that the same problems don't keep reoccurring.
We will further develop our systems for rewarding and recognising good practice, whether it's by individual staff, a team/department or the whole Trust and we will continue to tackle any areas of poor practice and, where appropriate, hold people accountable for their actions.
We will further develop the education and training of our staff to ensure they have the right knowledge and skills, understand the priorities and expectations of them and demonstrate the right values.
We will look at additional ways of incorporating patient stories, staff stories and other personal feedback into quality reporting to the Trust Board, Management Board, Board of Governors and other similar forums.
Everything we have outlined above has the single, common aim of ensuring we have the right priorities, are assessing and continually improving the quality of our care, and that we are delivering the best possible outcomes for our patients.
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Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's vision is We care for you.
The Trust provides a range of acute medical services at three hospitals (Bassetlaw Hospital in Worksop, Doncaster Royal Infirmary, and Montagu Hospital, Mexborough) and in a number of community locations. In addition, outpatient services are provided at Retford Hospital, and rehabilitation services are provided at Montagu Hospital. The Trust serves a population of over 410,000 people in the areas covered by Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council and Bassetlaw District Council, as well as from parts of North Derbyshire, Barnsley, Rotherham, and north-west Lincolnshire. It employs 6200 staff.
In 2011/12, there were over 161,355 emergency attendances, including both A&E patients and medical emergencies, over 490,515 new and follow-up outpatients were referred, and over 52,977 inpatients were treated and discharged.
The Trust is registered without conditions with the Care Quality Commission, and maintains compliance with the 16 Essential Standards of Quality and Safety. In the themed Dignity and Nutrition inspection programme that the CQC carried out in 2011, the Trust was judged to be compliant with the relevant standards.
The Trust was approved as one of the first 10 NHS foundation trusts in March 2004 after receiving the top-rated three stars in the NHS Performance Ratings for five years. It also won the Top40 Hospitals Award for seven years.


The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has approved Snøhetta's revised scheme for Philip Johnson's AT&T Building, which previously faced with resistance by architects and preservationists as the proposed scheme damages the spirit of original design.
After Snøhetta revealing the revised scheme in December last year, the City Council has now given the go ahead for the renovation of the postmodern icon - which is called 550 Madison - the landmark commercial tower is located in East Midtown.
Officially announced at 550 Madison's website, the announcement stated that modifications and exterior work will begin and it is set to be reopened in 2020.
In July 2018, the building received "individual landmark" status by New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission, which stipulated the preservation of the exterior of the iconic tower covered by clad with pinkish-gray granite and crowned by a colossal broken pediment. It was considered as "a feature that sets it dramatically apart from other skyscrapers in midtown."
In Snøhetta's updated design, the images show that the firm will preserve and revitalize the landmark tower, undo past renovations that compromised the original design intent, and reconceive 550 Madison's public spaces.
The firm keeps the tower's exterior 94% unchanged. Further returning the building's façade to the spirit of Johnson and Burgee's original design, new clear storefront windows will allow people to see through the ground-floor retail and to read the full volume of the dramatic piers at the building's base.
"All exterior-related work for the building will continue to be subject to review and approval by the Landmarks Preservation Commission," stated in a press release by 550 Madison.
Led by the Olayan Group, with development partners RXR Realty and Chelsfield, the team has worked with architect and landscape architect Snøhetta closely to preserve the iconic tower, while providing modern upgrades to support a 21st Century workforce and revitalize the surrounding public space.
The studio reimagined public open space that will finally deliver on the true public amenity that Philip Johnson envisioned. "The East Midtown community sits last among Manhattan community districts with regards to the amount of public open space it offers," the firm added.
Through Snøhetta's design, the renovated public open space at 550 Madison will increase by 50%, creating a visual and sensory retreat in the heart of East Midtown.
The upper portions of the existing four-story annex, the altered glass roof, and side street enclosures that were added during the 1990s will be removed, creating an expansive, open and inviting public garden.
Protected by a new canopy inspired by Johnson's design vocabulary, the open space will include 42 new trees, eight bike racks, and seven public restrooms. It will expand the seating available to accommodate more than 260 people. This will become the largest privately-owned covered pedestrian space within a five-minute walk of the building.
550 Madison is an exceptionally well-built structure with many highly desirable features: 14-foot high ceilings; large, column-free floor plates; north, south, east, and west-facing views of New York City; river to river sightlines; and offices overlooking Central Park.
With thoughtful interior modifications and infrastructure upgrades led by the construction and engineering team, the building will be in a position to accommodate a variety of modern office and retail tenants with high-quality amenities, bringing significant public benefits to East Midtown consistent with the goals of the City's recent East Midtown rezoning. Tenants will be able to start moving in in 2020.
Regarding infrastructural upgrades, these moderations will make the building a model of sustainable design, targeting LEED Platinum, Wired, and WELL certifications.
"Sustainable and healthy building materials will be sourced throughout the building. The upgrades will achieve a minimum 30% reduction in water use and an energy usage target 10% below current New York City energy code," explained in a press release.
All images courtesy of Snøhetta unless otherwise stated.


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How to stay on top of your game from the Head of Sales at YouTube- Ruth McEntee
Belfast's St George's Market was transformed earlier this month, taking on the air of a Glastonbury for thought leaders, forward thinkers, and entrepreneurial types. With talks from giants such as Twitter, HubSpot and Google, to local pioneering businesses including Tomorrow Lab, Polemic Digital and Loud Mouth Media, the critical path analysis to ensure 'must see acts' were seen was challenging.
One act we all agreed to see together was Ruth McEntee from YouTube/Google who was celebrating her 11th year in the business, to the day. Ruth has held many positions within the business and is presently Head of Sales for Ireland, leading a team of consultants to engage with top Irish companies in the Travel and Retailing space and is also a chair of the IAB video council.
During her talk, amongst other insights, Ruth spoke of the staggering shifts in engagement via YouTube, now the second largest search engine in the world. Ruth predicted the future of social so convincingly, we suspected many left the tent already planning which unsuspecting colleague was soon to make their debut business promo video.
Giving us 10 minutes of her time, we asked Ruth some questions which we hoped would give job seekers, hiring businesses and determined career progressives some insight:
This event really highlights the importance of creative thinking and innovation. We've all heard a lot about Google's focus on this importance, does this stretch company wide?
'Absolutely, aside from 'Google X' (Googles 9-5 creatives) we see creativity in two ways: Disruptive Innovation, for example, your driverless cars, we have a couple of hundred people working on big disruptive projects. Then there's incremental innovation; 'how do I improve this process? How do I think more creatively about how to service this client? Etc. And we have structures set up to encourage that.
So one really famous example is the 20% project. We give one day a week to people to work on a 'Passion Project'.  This has been a brilliant channel for the creativity of each individual, which keeps them happy and motivated in the job, but as a business, some of our best ideas have come out of this. Famously, Gmail – so it's a win-win.
We hire 'smart creatives'. People who are highly intelligent, adaptable and have technical expertise, but they're also people who have the passion to be creative, to build and to change, so you can't not give them an outlet for that.'
It's exam time soon, and of course, there will be those a little despondent that they haven't achieved what they've wanted to. What would your advice be?
'Exams are one thing, Passion is another. We really look for rounded people. We don't look for the straight A student who's never done anything else in their life. That recognition is a whole part of our hiring process, it's called 'Googleyness'. It's giving value to those that have done charity work, run marathons, contributed to their local sports team. That is equally as important to us, there are 4 separate bits to that process.
So, if you've not done incredibly well in your exams then it's important to remember that there are a lot of other factors to consider in how you contribute to a business and to highlight those.'
Is it true that you ask really crazy questions at Interview?
'I do. Kidding, no we used to do it a lot more. Actually, it's not fair. In some instances, the scenarios are so abstract that it's impossible to interpret a definite meaning.
We do ask questions that are going to give an insight into how a person's brain works. For example, don't quote me (sorry Ruth):
'How many people do you think are on the internet right now?'
This kind of question is much more telling of an individual's ability to estimate and consider factors that we could all be aware of, the people on the planet, different time zones, availability of internet etc. So yes, that type of question is much better than the old 'If you could be any type of biscuit, curve balls''
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Do you have any tips on how to stay on top of your game? How do you cope with the pressure put upon you day to day?
'I think it's really important to manage your energy and to be conscious about that. If you've done a talk, for example, that takes a lot of energy to prepare. You may have had to work the night before and be mindful of ensuring you were gathering information in the weeks up to. So, I find that I have to make sure that I clear my head regularly. I'm a gym junkie, but I genuinely do feel that your physical health is inextricably linked to your mental health and your ability to perform well at work.  I don't always succeed very well at that, but I definitely try.'
From a business perspective, how much emphasis do you think should be placed on this?
'Wellbeing is so important. We hire really smart people, they're all ambitious, it's a really high-performance environment and that can be overwhelming for some people. So we look to do things like build resilience, you're actively encouraged to leave your desk.
For example, Dublin has 6000 people in the office, we have a swimming pool, a gym, there are classes during the day. Taking care of yourself is so important for the person & also for the long-term career that they have with us.'
Do you have any book recommendations for people wanting to get ahead?
'Ok, this is a really obvious answer, but I really did take a lot from 'Sheryl Sandberg, lean in'.  There is a lot around the conscious awareness of the institutional barriers that exist for a woman, and that is great, however, I really valued the recognition of the barriers you put upon yourself as a woman. It's made me a lot more intentional about career planning.'
In keeping with the theme of the day. What digital apps could you not live without?
'Again, it seems really obvious, but Google Calendar. Balancing being reactive, productive, strategic and so forth is really difficult.
At Google, we are very open to 'calendar hacking', so anyone can log on to my calendar see where I am and book a meeting with me at any time. This is obviously great and encourages collaboration, but suddenly you can have 8 back to back meetings and a speech to prepare. So, I use it to actually categorise my thinking time, valuable me time, to allow me to keep progressing and achieving.'
I suppose, other than that, I do have a slight addiction to Uber – pretty sure half of my wages go to that.'
Do you have any tips on YouTube for small businesses who perhaps don't have a big budget?
'I don't think it's about production value, I think it's about tapping into what people on YouTube are interested in and providing utility or value in some way. It could be entertaining, if your business lends itself to humour, as a brand that can work really well.
The example I always use is called E-spares. They sell spare parts to washing machines. They've created a wealth of videos about ways to fix things independently and what better way to engage the relevant market? It was such a good way to make the brand unforgettable.'
Thanks so much for your time Ruth, Happy work anniversary & we hope you've enjoyed your first visit to Belfast.
'Thanks, guys. Yes, I don't know how I have missed out being here before as my auntie is from Ballycastle, Feedback from Belfast is always great, it stands out with such an entrepreneurial spirit, way more so than other places we might visit. People here have such ambition and I love that, so today's been great. We're really looking forward to being up a little more.'
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A semaphore object is a synchronization object that maintains a count between zero and a specified maximum value. The count is decremented each time a thread completes a wait for the semaphore object and incremented each time a thread releases the semaphore. When the count reaches zero, no more threads can successfully wait for the semaphore object state to become signaled. The state of a semaphore is set to signaled when its count is greater than zero, and nonsignaled when its count is zero.
The semaphore object is useful in controlling a shared resource that can support a limited number of users. It acts as a gate that limits the number of threads sharing the resource to a specified maximum number. For example, an application might place a limit on the number of windows that it creates. It uses a semaphore with a maximum count equal to the window limit, decrementing the count whenever a window is created and incrementing it whenever a window is closed. The application specifies the semaphore object in call to one of the wait functions before each window is created. When the count is zero—indicating that the window limit has been reached—the wait function blocks execution of the window-creation code.
A thread uses the CreateSemaphore or CreateSemaphoreEx function to create a semaphore object. The creating thread specifies the initial count and the maximum value of the count for the object. The initial count must be neither less than zero nor greater than the maximum value. The creating thread can also specify a name for the semaphore object. Threads in other processes can open a handle to an existing semaphore object by specifying its name in a call to the OpenSemaphore function. For additional information about names for mutex, event, semaphore, and timer objects, see Interprocess Synchronization.
If more than one thread is waiting on a semaphore, a waiting thread is selected. Do not assume a first-in, first-out (FIFO) order. External events such as kernel-mode APCs can change the wait order.
Each time one of the wait functions returns because the state of a semaphore was set to signaled, the count of the semaphore is decreased by one. The ReleaseSemaphore function increases a semaphore's count by a specified amount. The count can never be less than zero or greater than the maximum value.
The initial count of a semaphore is typically set to the maximum value. The count is then decremented from that level as the protected resource is consumed. Alternatively, you can create a semaphore with an initial count of zero to block access to the protected resource while the application is being initialized. After initialization, you can use ReleaseSemaphore to increment the count to the maximum value.
A thread that owns a mutex object can wait repeatedly for the same mutex object to become signaled without its execution becoming blocked. A thread that waits repeatedly for the same semaphore object, however, decrements the semaphore's count each time a wait operation is completed; the thread is blocked when the count gets to zero. Similarly, only the thread that owns a mutex can successfully call the ReleaseMutex function, though any thread can use ReleaseSemaphore to increase the count of a semaphore object.
A thread can decrement a semaphore's count more than once by repeatedly specifying the same semaphore object in calls to any of the wait functions. However, calling one of the multiple-object wait functions with an array that contains multiple handles of the same semaphore does not result in multiple decrements.
When you have finished using the semaphore object, call the CloseHandle function to close the handle. The semaphore object is destroyed when its last handle has been closed. Closing the handle does not affect the semaphore count; therefore, be sure to call ReleaseSemaphore before closing the handle or before the process terminates. Otherwise, pending wait operations will either time out or continue indefinitely, depending on whether a time-out value has been specified.


The health arguments for bottled water as a healthy alternative are overstated. Bottled water companies market their brand of water as "pure, spring water" or "natural pure, mountain water," however such water is often little more than reconstituted tap water, or filtered bore water – and that's a fact!
This water may taste slightly better than tap water, but it hardly warrants the almost 1,000% price mark-up. And consider the climate impact. Looking for bottled water alternatives helps save costs as well as this precious natural resource.
Globally, the production and transportation energy requirement of the bottled water industry is 170 million barrels of oil, enough to power 10 million cars for an entire year. Visualise the energy embodied in bottled water by filling one quarter of a 1L bottle with oil.
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Australians buy 118,000 tonnes of plastic drink bottles per year.
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Canadian pianist and Feldenkrais Practitioner Alan Fraser integrates the method into his teaching. There are a few sample lessons, a blog, discussion page and some interesting articles. Some of his thoughts about the strength of the arch of the hand in playing the piano could be interesting for anyone using their hands to play an instrument.
Trombonist, John Tarr has developed a series of lessons for musicians The Dynamic Musician.
She has a website and blog, Feldenkrais for Musicians.
Here you can see the effect of a Functional Integration lesson with a violinist.


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Infrastructure Today Magazine | Gurgaon E'way: Banks may take a Rs 1,400 cr haircut
Gurgaon E'way: Banks may take a Rs 1,400 cr haircut
Tata's Ginger Hotels among bidders for rail complexes
Work on Jaipur-Gurgaon h'way stretch to pick up pace
Web Exclusive / Sep 2013
When the government takes over the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway from the concessionaire DS Construction, the lender banks to the project might be forced to take a haircut of more than Rs 1,400 crore. Why because the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has informed the consortium of banks, led by IDFC Bank, that the Authority would pay the lenders only Rs 175-200 crore if it takes over the project.
The lenders have an exposure of combined Rs 1,600 crore in the project. The decision would mean a hit of Rs 1,400 crore or more, said a government official. The consortium includes Punjab National Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce and State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, besides IDFC.
NHAI had terminated the contract awarded to DS Construction earlier this year but the matter is sub judice at present, as the concessionaire had got a stay on the order from the Delhi High Court.
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Manufactured pop
Manufactured pop refers to a type of pop music or pop group that rely entirely on other people to create and organize their work. It refers to pop groups who have specialized songwriters and musicians who write all of their songs and managers and production engineers who manage all aspects of their work from touring and live appearances to style and personal dress and image.
The subject is usually an attractive group that are responsive to a particular niche in the record market are regulated with the sole purpose of manufacturing music and generating wealth.
Manufactured pop became popular in the 1990s, and particularly in the 2000s with reality pop shows such as Pop Idol and X Factor and their products such as Hear'Say and Gareth Gates cashing in on a teenage audience. Other bands such as S Club 7 and RBD have been marketed so as that they have even had their own TV shows, manufacturing a group that can generate income from all media areas controlled by the record company involved.
Certain manufactured pop bands and singers such as Hear'Say and Gareth Gates have received a number of public criticisms due to the fact that they are not involved in creating their own music, which instead is directly controlled by the record company involved. Notable figures who have expressed such criticism include Welsh musician Kelly Jones and Noel and Liam Gallagher, both of Oasis. Madonna has also attacked manufactured pop and has criticized the homogenization of popular culture [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2893239.stm BBC.co.uk] ] . Britney Spears and Rihanna have also come under scrutiny for their involvement in their albums which are manufactured pop since they rely entirely on other people to create and organize their work.
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Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor in…
University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland
Updated: about 2 months ago
Deadline: 04 Feb 2023
UNIL is a leading international teaching and research institution, with over 5,000 employees and 15,500 students split between its Dorigny campus, CHUV and Epalinges. As an employer, UNIL encourages excellence, individual recognition and responsibility.
The Faculty of Biology and Medicine (FBM) of the University of Lausanne is inviting applications for the position of:
Tenure Track Assistant Professor towards Associate Professor
in Microbial cell biology at the Department of Fundamental Microbiology (DMF)
Starting date: Autumn 2023 or to be agreed
Place: Lausanne, Switzerland
Main missions:
• The successful candidate is expected to develop an internationally recognized research program funded by external sources in the area of microbial cell biology (bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes), such as, for example, fundamental aspects of cell organisation and cell division, structural or membrane biology.
• She/he will also supervise master and doctoral students and participate in the teaching activities of the Department, especially in the fields of (microbial) cell biology.
Desired profile:
• The Department of Fundamental Microbiology is looking for an outstanding and enthusiastic junior individual with a proven record of excellent research achievements, ideas and successful funding applications.
• PhD in Microbiology, Cell Biology or related field, and independent postdoctoral research experience.
• Prior knowledge of French is not required, but the incumbent will be called upon to teach in French after a period of adaptation (LM or minimum B2 level, C1 ideal).
The Department has excellent experimental facilities and access to state-of-the-art imaging, metabolomics, proteomics and genomics platforms on campus. Of particular interest are links to the Dubochet Centre of Imaging with advanced cryo-EM technology.
A start-up package as well as a yearly research allowance for positions and consumables will be available within a dynamic research environment.
Further information may be obtained from Prof. Jan Roelof van der Meer (JanRoelof.VanDerMeer@unil.ch ), Head of the DMF.
Applications, in English, should include i) a motivation letter, ii) a curriculum vitae, iii) a list of publications, with a summary of the five most significant ones in the applicant's eyes, iv) a brief statement (5 pages max.) of the past and future research, v) a summary of previous teaching experience (if applicable), vi) the names and contact information of at least three references, vii) a copy of diplomas, and viii) a copy of a valid identity document.
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Garda raid on IRA training camp (1957) | Come Here To Me!
« A planned shootout on Grafton Street, June 1921.
Sixty years ago, thirty-eight young IRA recruits from Dublin and Wicklow were arrested at a training camp. The raid took place in May 1957 while the group were drilling in the Glencree Valley near Enniskerry in County Wicklow.
Amongst those picked up were Sean Garland (1934-), Seamus Costello (1939-1977) and Proinsias De Rossa (1940-). The average age of the three men was just nineteen.
The arrests occurred a year into the ill-fated Border Campaign (1956-62).
"A group of IRA men before embarking on an operation" in the 1950s.
The addresses of the men arrested offer an interesting insight into the backgrounds of those individuals involved.
Traditional Northside working-class areas like East Wall, Whitehall, Arbour Hill and Finglas are well represented. While south of the Liffey, the neighbourhoods of Inchicore, Ballyfermot and Crumlin in the South-West are particularly prevalent.
There are also a few addresses that stand out as not being representative of the stereotypical working-class IRA Volunteer including Dartmouth Square in Dublin 6, Tivoli Terrace in Dun Laoghaire and Islington Avenue in Sandycove. Ballsbridge also initially jumps out but further research reveals that Turner's Cottages, where was one of the arrested men lived, was a rare working-class "slum" in the heart of Dublin 4.
Anthony Gill and Sean Garland lived less than a minute walk from each other in the North Inner City. Seamus Fay and Eamonn Ladraggan were neighborours on Merchant's Road in East Wall. While brothers Patrick and Phil O'Donoghue gave the family address in Ballyfermot.
* Thanks to Stephen Donnelly who originally suggested that this was a misspelling of Bóthar na gCeannaithe (Merchant's Road) which checked out.
In May 1957, while on a weekend training exercise, I was among thirty-eight volunteers who were surrounded and arrested by armed detectives. We were on a night trek along the Glencree Valley in County Wicklow. During the night, I noticed the lights of a lot of traffic on the roads above us on each side of the valley and knew from my hiking experience and my familiarity with the area that this was very unusual.
My alarm bells went off as I wondered what trucks might be doing on those quiet roads, all travelling in one direction in the middle of the night. I instinctively felt that we should leave and move up to the high ground above the road. I brought this to the attention of those in command of our column but they chose not to act.
When we reached the head of the valley with daylight coming on, we found that we were surrounded by armed detectives. I have no doubt that the traffic I had observed was the Garda and that that they had been informed of our location that night.
We were taken into custody to the Bridewell, a Garda station and holding centre in Dublin. We were each charged under Offences Against the State Act, 1939.
The men were charged with Section 32 of failing to give an account of their movements at a specific time and with membership of an unlawful organisation under Section 21. All of the accused men were remanded on bail at £25 each. The Irish Times (7 June 1957) reported that each man was sentenced to two-months imprisonment with hard labour. After this, most of the men were interned in the Curragh camp for a further two years.
What happened to the men?
Earlier that year, Sean Garland, Paddy O'Regan and Phil O'Donoghue were among fourteen volunteers involved in the Brookeborough raid during which volunteers Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon were shot dead.
Garland became a leading figure in the Official Republican movement and is still active with the Worker's Party to this day.
O'Regan was active with the Republican movement throughout the 1960s.
O'Donoghue was active throughout the 1970s with the Provisional IRA and later became National Organiser of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement.
His brother Patrick O'Donoghue was sentenced to six months in 1960 when he was caught with a .45 Webley revolver and six rounds of ammunition found in a drawer in a house he was in with Tony Hayde.
Seamus Costello was also involved with the Officials until he broke rank and helped form the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) in 1975. He was killed by a member of the Officials in 1977 as he sat in his car on Northbrook Avenue, off the North Strand Road in Dublin.
Proinsias De Rossa took the Officials side in the 1970 split and was active with the Worker's Party until 1992. He became the first party leader of Democratic Left, a moderate wing of the party that split, and later merged with the Labour Party in 1999.
Martin Shannon was up in court again in 1961 for being a member of an 'unlawful organisation' and was later involved in the Official IRA. He was also editor of the United Irishman for a period in the 1960s.
Peter Pringle, father of left-wing Independent TD Thomas Pringle , became active with the Official IRA and later the IRSP/INLA for a short period in 1975. He was blamed for being part of a bank robbery in 1980 during which two Gardai were shot dead near Loughglynn in County Roscommon. He always denied any involvement in the crime and his conviction was overturned, due to discrepancies in the evidence, by the high court in 1995 after serving 15 years.
Liam Egan/Mac Aodhagain, and Seamus Doran/O'Dorain were up in court again in 1961 when they were arrested with Liam Boylan and Thomas Mac Golla. Ammunition was found and they also failed to give accounts of their movements.
If you have any further information on any of the other individuals, do let us know.
Thanks for the memory, I knew quite a lot of them then. A week or two later after this event, some 28 Uni. Students aligned to Joe Christles 'splinter group' brought the 'Harriers' on a wild goose chase. The took a late bus out to the mountains, accompanied by the 'Harriers' . They were carrying a large box with them that had a big strong padlock. They were duly arrested and lodged in the Bridewell. When the box was eventually opened by Garda "experts' it was found to contain empty Guinness bottles. I cannot recall if they appeared in court.Keep it coming.
Anthony Gill ( off Gills Pub beside Croke Park) was subsequently interned on leaving the Curragh he along with Piaras O'Duill became priests. Tony served in the missions generally in Central and South Americia, where he continued political activities and was thrown out of a number of Countries.
Partholan O'Murchadha (Bertie Murphy) was also interned in the Curragh, stayed with the Official Movement in 1969, was an active trade unionist, and member of the army until his sudden death following a road traffic accident in or around 1984/85. I'll confirm that later.
Tony Hayde referred to above stayed with the Official Movement in 69, and went with Costello into IRSM. He would still be aligned to them.
I've seen it cited previously that Pringles conviction was quashed by the High Court but it was in fact by the Court of Criminal Appeal.
It's probably due to the fact that he had initiated High Court proceedings separately.
Great piece – keep them coming.
Great to read and grew up listing to so many stories about the camp from my dad and my uncles, the likes of men we wont see again Luke Nolan son of Sean O'Nolan Bangor Road.
Can anyone tell me a little more about Patrick Phelan, Kilquade, Co.Wicklow who was also arrested in May 1957, I think we may be related. Thank you.
My memory may be mistaken, but I think Proinsias Wogan was active in Enniskerry in Official Sinn Féin as Frank Wogan in the late 1960s.
John, Im trying to find out if the Patrick Phelan, of Kilquade, Co. Wicklow was a relative of mine. Do you have any information on him please. I did put a post up a few months ago, but no joy. Would you have any idea how I could find out more on him. Thanks.
Sorry, I don't remember the name Patrick Phelan. I left Bray in 1972 and don't know who is around that might remember him.


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Q: How do I use Jenkins to build a private GitHub Rust project with a private GitHub dependency? I have a private GitHub Rust project that depends on another private GitHub Rust project and I want to build the main one with Jenkins. I have called the organization Organization and the dependency package subcrate in the below code.
My Jenkinsfile looks something like
pipeline {
  agent {
    docker {
      image 'rust:latest'
    }
  }

  stages {

    stage('Build') {
      steps {
        sh "cargo build"
      }
    }

    etc...

  }
}

I have tried the following in Cargo.toml to reference the dependency, it works fine on my machine
[dependencies]
subcrate = { git = "ssh://git@ssh.github.com/Organization/subcrate.git", tag = "0.1.0" }

When Jenkins runs I get the following error
+ cargo build

    Updating registry `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`

    Updating git repository `ssh://git@github.com/Organization/subcrate.git`

error: failed to load source for a dependency on `subcrate`

Caused by:

  Unable to update ssh://git@github.com/Organization/subcrate.git?tag=0.1.0#0623c097

Caused by:

  failed to clone into: /usr/local/cargo/git/db/subcrate-3e391025a927594e

Caused by:

  failed to authenticate when downloading repository

attempted ssh-agent authentication, but none of the usernames `git` succeeded

Caused by:

  error authenticating: no auth sock variable; class=Ssh (23)

script returned exit code 101

How can I get Cargo to access this GitHub repository? Do I need to inject the GitHub credentials onto the slave? If so, how can I do this? Is it possible to use the same credentials Jenkins uses to checkout the main crate in the first place?
I installed the ssh-agent plugin and updated my Jenkinsfile to look like this
pipeline {
  agent {
    docker {
      image 'rust:latest'
    }
  }

  stages {
    stage('Build') {
      steps {
        sshagent(credentials: ['id-of-github-credentials']) {
          sh "ssh -vvv -T git@github.com"
          sh "cargo build"
        }
      }
    }

    etc...

  }
}

I get the error
+ ssh -vvv -T git@github.com

No user exists for uid 113

script returned exit code 255

A: Okay, I figured it out, No user exists for uid error is because of a mismatch between the users in the host /etc/passwd and the container /etc/passwd. This can be fixed by mounting /etc/passwd.
  agent {
    docker {
      image 'rust:latest'
      args '-v /etc/passwd:/etc/passwd'
    }
  }

Then
  sshagent(credentials: ['id-of-github-credentials']) {
    sh "cargo build"
  }

Works just fine

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The Pulitzer Project: A Turning Point (1926)
March 17, 2016 March 17, 2016 / Jessica
Let's talk about 1926 which marked a turning point for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. So far, it's my favorite year in Pulitzer History. Why, you ask? Well, first, Sinclair Lewis finally wins the Pulitzer! I guess the third time really is the charm his books were considered in 1921 and 1923. 1926 is his year, and Arrowsmith finally wins! Did you doubt him? Sinclair doubted himself too. He wrote to his father:
I see that just as Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence beat Main Street for the Pulitzer prize, so did Cather's One of Ours beatBabbitt. I'm quite sure I never shall get the Pulitzer
But then, lo and behold, Sinclair Lewis declines the Prize. I'll let him explain for himself in a letter he wrote to the Pulitzer Committee:
I wish to acknowledge your choice of my novel Arrowsmith for the Pulitzer Prize. That prize I must refuse, and my refusal would be meaningless unless I explained the reasons.
All prizes, like all titles, are dangerous. The seekers for prizes tend to labor not for inherent excellence but for alien rewards: they tend to write this, or timorously to avoid writing that, in order to tickle the prejudices of a haphazard committee. And the Pulitzer Prize for novels is peculiarly objectionable because the terms of it have been constantly and grievously misrepresented.
Those terms are that the prize shall be given "for the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood." This phrase, if it means anything whatever, would appear to mean that the appraisal of the novels shall be made not according to their actual literary merit but in obedience to whatever code of Good Form may chance to be popular at the moment.
You read it correctly, Lewis is peeved with the Advisory Board's interpretation of Pulitzer's will. If you recall, in 1917, they decided to substitute the whole atmosphere with the wholesome atmosphere which really changed what was eligible for the Prize. Despite Lewis' claim that all prizes are dangerous, he accepted the Nobel Prize for literature shortly after, in 1930. This embarrassed the Pulitzer Committee enough that they quietly changed their criteria from wholesome back to whole. Lewis' letter to the Pulitzer Committee could arguably be seen as the original Taylor Swift letter to Apple, what do you think? Keep this in mind by the time we reach 1930 – I'm interested to find out whether we see a change in subject matter, quality, or any other noticeable difference. To date, I believe Sinclair Lewis is the only author to have declined this prize. But perhaps the Pulitzer Committee gets the last word here, because they refused to remove Lewis from their list of winners.
Explore the Pulitzer Project
The Nobel Prize in Literature – 1930 Announcement
Read the full letter on Letters of Note, which is a really cool website I've just recently discovered
I'm 75% through Arrowsmith, and I'm excited to share more about it with you later. I'm really enjoying it so far!
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Q: Log4cxx properties file variable substitution I have a properties file for log4cxx configuration with a variable name ${name}:
Properties file example:
log4j.rootLogger=INFO, FILE

# FILE
log4j.appender.FILE=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.FILE.File=./${name}
log4j.appender.FILE.MaxFileSize=16MB
log4j.appender.FILE.MaxBackupIndex=10
log4j.appender.FILE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.FILE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS} %-5p %m%n

How can I set the variable ${name} from my cpp file or cmake file.
I tried with the following code but it doesn't work:
#include <log4cxx/logger.h>
#include <log4cxx/propertyconfigurator.h>
#include <log4cxx/helpers/properties.h>

using namespace log4cxx;

static LoggerPtr logger(Logger::getLogger(""));

int main() {
    PropertyConfigurator::configure("./assets/logger.properties");

#ifndef NDEBUG
    logger->setLevel(log4cxx::Level::getDebug());
#endif

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Thanks in advance

A: Found out the solution: Use setenv from stdlib.
Here is the working solution:
#include <stdlib.h> // Include the library
#include <log4cxx/logger.h>
#include <log4cxx/propertyconfigurator.h>
#include <log4cxx/helpers/properties.h>

using namespace log4cxx;

static LoggerPtr logger(Logger::getLogger(""));

int main() {
    // Set the env variable
    // The identifier must be the same as the one in the log4cxx configuration file
    setenv("name", "NAME_OF_THE_CURRENT_LOG_FILE", true);

    PropertyConfigurator::configure("./assets/logger.properties");

#ifndef NDEBUG
    logger->setLevel(log4cxx::Level::getDebug());
#endif

    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

I hope it was useful not only for me :)