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Whirlwind Ranch Celebrates 24 Years Raising Alpacas
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In 1994, there weren't any books—at least none in English—on the subject of alpacas, but that didn't deter Liz Mitchko from leaving her management job at a Corvette parts store in Texas for a different kind of management opportunity. She and her parents launched Whirlwind Ranch near Lebanon, Missouri, and began their self-education on alpaca husbandry.
Now, 24 years later, Liz is an authority on alpacas.
"They are unique animals," Liz says. "They first came to the US in 1984, so they are a relatively new animal to the states."
Liz began her operation with just a few alpacas, and for good reason. Alpacas were $20,000 to $30,000 each during those early years, according to Liz, and the females only have one o–ffspring, called a cria, each year. From those small beginnings, Liz built a herd that, at its largest, numbered 142. These days, she's maintaining the herd at a more manageable 13.
Alpacas are popular for their fleece. Whirlwind Ranch has a shop on-site where it sells roving, which is fiber that has been prepared for spinning, plus yarn and completed products such as rugs, blankets, and scarves. Liz's mom, Linda Mitchko, makes quilts that Liz describes as "too stinking cute"; they sell almost as soon as Linda puts in the last stitch.
On November 2–4, Whirlwind Ranch hosts its 24th anniversary open house. Visitors, often numbering close to 1,000, tour the ranch during this free event, perusing tactile displays and fiber processing equipment, shopping at the store, and viewing the animals.
During the rest of the year, Liz welcomes visitors to Whirlwind Ranch by appointment. She asks guests to call ahead at 417-533-5280 to schedule a time and to get directions. Liz warns that GPS might take them on an unwelcome adventure. "It tells them to turn a mile too early," she says, and suggests a route that sends them through a pond and into a herd of buff–alo.
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Whirlwind Ranch ships alpaca manure to master gardeners across the country who value it for its ideal pH level and low odor.
Alpaca fiber is flame resistant, meeting the standards of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission's rigid testing specifications as a Class 1 fiber for use in clothing and furnishings. (Class 1 is the safest level for flame resistance.)
Pope John Paul's white winter vestments were made of alpaca fiber.
Birthday of comedian, Cedric the Entertainer from Jefferson City and Berkeley, MO.
The riverboat War Eagle burned in St. Louis.
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Born in modern day Lebanon, Severus Alexander was the adopted son (and first cousin) of the emperor Elagabalus. Elagabalus was pushed by his family to adopt Severus at the tender age of 14 which made a pathway for Severus to assume the throne. Shortly after this event, Elagabalus was murdered by his troops and Severus Alexander began his rule. The last ruler of the Severan Dynasty, Severus was also a teenager when he ruled the Roman Empire. He was largely a puppet figure as most of the real decisions were made by his maternal grandmother Julia Maesa (the sister-in-law of the founder of the Severan dynasty, Septimius Severus) and his mother Julia Mamaea. Rome was in disarray throughout his rule primarily due to the perceived sense of who really was ruling. Eventually Severus and his mother (his grandmother has already died) were killed by the Praetorian Guard and Maximinus, a soldier, assumed the throne.
After the death of Severus Alexander the Roman Empire did not see any further stability. In fact, over a 50 years period there were 26 rulers appointed as Emperor.
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Christopher Columbus, The Enigma
One of the more puzzling features by the puzzling Manoel de Oliveira, this placid travelogue (2007) was adapted by him from an autobiographical book by Manuel and Silvia da Silva. A Portuguese man (Ricardo Trepa, the director's grandson) emigrates to the U.S. in 1946, becomes a doctor, and returns home in 1960 to marry. In 2007, he and his wife (Oliveira and his own wife) tour various American and Caribbean historical sites to confirm his curious theory that Christopher Columbus was a Portuguese Jew; turning up at all these sites, and visible only to the viewer, is a mute, female angel carrying a sword and a Portuguese flag. Like some of Oliveira's other minor works (The Letter, Belle Toujours), this intermittently suggests a poker-faced joke without a punch line. In English and subtitled Portuguese. 70 min. (JR)… Read more »
Day Of Despair
Manoel de Oliveira's 1992 feature is his third related to Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco, author of the novel Oliveira adapted for his masterpiece Doomed Love (1979) and a major character in Francisca (1981). Built around the author's late correspondence before he shot himself in 1890, this is comparatively minor and minimalist, but it's an affecting chamber piece. Oliveira slyly mixes documentary and fiction: actors appear in both contemporary and period dress, speaking alternately in first and third person, inside the author's home (today a museum). The ironic treatment of aristocracy and romantic decadence found in Doomed Love is regrettably absent, but Teresa Madruga, as the most prominent character, Castelo Branco's last mistress, delivers her lines with commanding passion. In Portuguese with subtitles. 74 min. (JR)… Read more »


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I recently tasted two wines from Clos Puy Arnaud at a (French-)Swedish importer by the name of Caviste, and I realised that I never translated last year's tasting of three wines.
Clos Puy Arnaud is located in the Castillon area on the right bank of the Bordeaux region, to the east of Saint-Émilion. This property is located within the red wine appellation of Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux, formerly called Côtes de Castillon. The man behind Puy Arnaud is called Thierry Valette, and runs his estate biodynamically and in the direction of so-called "natural wine". The vineyards consist of 75% Merlot, 20% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Apparently there is an ambition to increase the proportion of Cabernet Franc – in my opinion an underappreciated variety that imparts a lot of the classical Bordeaux character to the right bank wines – and to introduce a small amount of Petit Verdot in the vineyards.
The three wines tasted in October 2012.
The first wine is called Clos Puy Arnaud and the second wine cuvée Pervenche. Since the 2009 vintage, there is also a wine called La Cuvée Bistrot that is intended to be a Beaujolais-styled wine intended for drinking when young, and this a wine that may deviate from the style commonly found in Bordeaux. It is therefore sold under the wider Côtes de Bordeaux appellation, without the addition of Castillon.
As mentioned above, the tasting notes are from two different tastings: October 2012 and December 2013.
October 2012: Nose with ripe cherries, blackcurrants, raspberries, some cherry-filled pralines and chocolate. The attack shows sweetness of fruit, good concentration of fruit on the palate, cherries, rather noticeable acidity, medium tannins. Young but approachable, 86 p.
Not quite Beaujolais styled if Beaujolais Noveau would be the point of comparison, but rather a serious Beaujolais Cru and a certain amount of imagination. The wine is however produced in a fresh and accessible style for being a Bordeaux with this good concentration of fruit.
October 2012: Nose with rather ripe dark berries, ripe plums, some spice, well integrated oak. Classical young Bordeaux nose. Palate with rather much sweetness of fruit in the attack, cherries, red currants, good acidity, medium(+) tannins, slightly tannic aftertaste with noticeable acidity/tartness. Young, 87+ p.
Rather typical for a young right bank Bordeaux, but with its alcoholic impression in very good check despite the 14% indicated on the label.
Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux, grape varieties: 80% Merlot and 20% Cabernet Franc.
December 2013: Nose with ripe dark cherries, dark plums, spice, some herbs, oak, and some vanilla. Palate with ripe dark cherries, other dark berries, pronounced acidity and tartness, well embedded medium tannins. Young, but approchable now, 87(+) p.
2012 seems to show slightly darker notes than 2010, and does perhaps come across as a little more accessible already in this young stafe. I consider them to be at about the same level, which is a good sign for the 2012 vintage in general, since I haven't seen that many red 2012s yet. Despite the fact that I noted rather similar aromas as I found in the 2010 (when I wrote "classical young Bordeaux nose") my first impression of the nose of the 2012 was actually that it was surprisingly Syrah-like!
October 2012: Nose with blackcurrants, dark plums, well integrated oak, spice, emerging maturity. Palate with ripe cherries, good concentration, noticeable tartness, medium(+) tannins, some tar. A bit more firm and at this stage less expressive than the 2010 second wine. Was apparently more accessible earlier during the tasting (I arrived toward the end), so my thought that it may had closed down wouldn't be really consistent with that. Difficult to score, so I withhold the number.
Castillon Côtes de Bordeaux, grape varieties: 65% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc, and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon.
December 2013: Nose with ripe blackcurrants, some blackberries and dark plums, notes of "sun-ripened" berries, some tar, a hint of barnyard aromas, oak med some vanilla. The palate is medium bodied+, with ripe blackcurrants and dark plums, good concentration of fruit, noticeable acidity with an impression of tart berries, medium(+) tannins that are well embedded mid-palate and emerge more in the aftertaste. The aftertaste also shows ripe berries and some oak. Young, rather accessible already due to its tart and fresh palate, but it would be good to give it time in the cellar to better integrate the oak note, 89(+) p.
This wine shows rather typical 2010 character with a combination of good ripeness, fresh acidity and clean notes. Last year, I considered the 2008 to be somewhat closed-down and difficult to score, and wondered if it had already gone hiding. This was not the case with the 2010; this wine was an exclamation sign, pure and simple.
A common characteristic for all the wines is that they show quite good and fresh acidity, that lightens the tannic impression of the young wines. Although some of them show a bit of sweet fruit, they also avoid coming across as too jammy, which can be an issue with Merlot-dominated wines, at least in some vintages. Although I'd recommend to cellar the first wine, the average style from this producer is a wine that has been styled for early consumption without compromising the quality, which is a very interesting combination. They may not be entirely classical Bordeaux wines for those who take their frame of reference from the Cabernet Sauvignon-dominated wines of the left bank, but they definitely are quite good wines!
Swedish versions here (December 2013 tasting) and here (October 2012 tasting).
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Xavi Simons Family: Parents & Siblings. Xavi is one of the two sons of a former Dutch striker, Regillio Simons, and his wife, Peggy. His parents named him after the Spanish star or Barcelona hero, Xavi Hernandez. He has a brother named Faustino Simons Simons with his Brother. Besides, Xavi grew up with two brothers, Faustino Simons and Ojani Simons. Furthermore, both his siblings play football but not as good as him. Nonetheless, the family of five live happily in Paris now that their son has joined the capital-based club. Social Media Presence. Instagram: 2.4 million followers. Twitter: 45.
Xavi Simons is the son of Regillio Simons. Xavi Simons is the brother of Faustino Simons . Transfer history . Season Date Left Joined MV Fee ; 21/22: Jul 1, 2021: Paris SG U19: Paris SG: $550Th.-19/20: Jul 23, 2019: Barcelona U16: Paris SG U19-free transfer: 18/19: Jul 1, 2018: Barça Youth: Barcelona U16--10/11 Ethan Mbappe, younger brother of Kylian Mbappe, has signed a new youth contract with. 3.3m Followers, 680 Following, 386 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Xavi Simons (@xavisimons Soccerbrotherz - Where talent meets talent. Xavi Simons. Where talent meets talent... Tahith Chong. Frenkie de Jong. Lieke Martens
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SC Voorland. 2013-2015. Faja Lobi KDS. 2013-2017. AFC Ajax (amateurs) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. Regillio Simons (born 28 June 1973) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the father of Xavi Simons XAVI SIMONS - INTERVIEW & SKILLS Bedankt voor het abonneren! - https://bit.ly/2PkZoGC�� Belletje aan is zo gedaan. Mis geen 1 video!�� Touzani Shop - https:.. Faustino Simons is the brother of Xavi Simons (Paris Saint-Germain U19). Faustino Simons is the son of Regillio Simons Xavi Simons's salary is around $ 5oo thousand per year as a football player. Estimated Net Worth of Xavi Simons. Xavi Simons has earned a whopping sum of net worth from her successful career. As per some online sources, he has an estimated net worth of around $1Million-$5Million. Along with the net worth, he has also gained a lot of name and. Lisa Appleton was born in the year 1968 on May 23rd in England, now her age is 50 years as of 2018. Lisa was a former Bodybuilder and a fitness trainer. She also participated in the Big Brother 9 series. However, now she is working as a sales representative in one of the corporate company named Warrington, Cheshire
Instagram: GurusobersTwitter:GurusobersFacebook: Guru Sober Xavi Simons born on 21 April 2003 (age 16 years). with French giants PSG claiming his signature i.. Xavi Simons is a great player, young, with potential and a big future. he said last year. Luke Shaw 'Loves' Bukayo Saka And Wishes England Star Was His Brother In Heart-Warming Confession Xavi Simons is the son of Regillio Simons. Xavi Simons is the brother of Faustino Simons . Transfer history . Season Date Left Joined MV Fee ; 21/22: Jul 1, 2021: Paris SG U19: Paris SG: £450Th.-19/20: Jul 23, 2019: Barcelona U16: Paris SG U19-free transfer: 18/19: Jul 1, 2018: Barça Youth: Barcelona U16--10/11 In 2019, Xavi Simons' net worth is estimated to be between $1 and $5 million. Similarly, he received a salary of 500,000 euros from PSG. Likewise, starting in 2019, his new club PSG will pay him one million euros per year. Furthermore, Xavi is a brand ambassador for the sports brand Nike, through which he makes a lot of money Xavi Simons 3. Pedri 4. Ansu Fati 5. Harvey Elliott 6. Giovanni Reyna 7. Karamoko Dembele 8. Nailea Vidrio 9. Amad Diallo 10. Adil Aouchiche 11. Ilhan Fandi Ahmad 12. Fábio Silva 13. Dayana Madrigal 14. Alejandro Balde 15. David de la Víbora 16. Mustafa Kapi 18 Year Olds. Top Soccer Players. About; Contact
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The Youngster of FC Barcelona, Xavi Simons, has traveled with his father Regillio Simons and his older brother Faustino to Bermuda to learn about the Academy of WOSPAC in Bermuda.. After winning the League with FC Barcelona with 5 games to play with a difference of 23 points over the second place, the challenging summer tournaments arrived. First stop was the Promises League held in. Xavi Simons was born in the middle of Generation Z. 9. Xavi Simons's birthstone is Diamond. Diamond is a symbol of everlasting love and once was thought to bring courage. The diamond is the symbol of purity, innocence, eternity and courage. 10. Xavi Simons's birth flower is Sweet Pea/Daisy. Daisy symbolizes purity, true love and innocence Xavi was born on April 21, 2003, in Amsterdam, Netherland. Additionally, he was born to his parents Regillio Simons, and his wife, Peggy. Also, he is a Dutch native and belongs to the mixed ethnic group. Additionally, he has an older brother named Faustino Simons. Moreover, he was born under the star sign Aries. Similar Bio: James Olayink
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83.4k Likes, 103 Comments - Xavi Simons (@xavisimons) on Instagram: If I shine, you shine. We shine together!....... #brothers #rojales #shine #. Faustino Simons is the brother of Xavi Simons ( Paris Saint-Germain U19 ). Faustino Simons is the son of Regillio Simons Popularity. Most Popular #11958. Born on January 25 #25. Midfielder #39. First Name Xavi #1. Born in Terrassa, Spain #1. 41 Year Old Soccer Player #4. Soccer Player Born in Spain #8. Aquarius Soccer Player #12 Ethan Mbappe, younger brother of Kylian Mbappe, has signed a new youth contract with PSG until 2024. Premier League; Christopher Nkunku and Xavi Simons emerge in recent years..
Xavi Simons is the son of Regillio Simons. Xavi Simons is the brother of Faustino Simons . Transfer history . Season Date Left Joined MV Fee ; 21/22: Jul 1, 2021: Paris SG U19: Paris SG ₹41.66m-19/20: Jul 23, 2019: Barcelona U16: Paris SG U19-free transfer: 18/19: Jul 1, 2018: Barça Youth: Barcelona U16--10/11 Xavi Simons is a Dutch footballer famed as a midfielder for French team Paris Saint-Germain U19. He is the youngest professional football player and son of the former football striker, Regillio Simons. His father had also played for the team including SC Telstar, Fortuna Sittard, NAC, Kyoto Purple Sanga (Japan), and TOP Oss
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Youssoufa Moukoko grew up idolising Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi, the 16-year-old's brother has revealed, with the Borussia Dortmund starlet being backed to ignore the hype he is generating. After Xavi Simons moved to Paris SG last summer there have been a number of highly-rated talents who have sought a first-team opportunity outside the Catalan city. Brother of João Félix, Hugo Félix Sequeira signed a professional contract with SL Benfica in July - destined to follow in his brother's footsteps. The creative attacking.
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Xavi Simons is not like most 17-year-old boys. This teenager plays football everyday with Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, has a deal with Nike, and has amassed more than 3m followers on Instagram by posting pictures alongside world famous stars and playing for world famous clubs.. Plenty of fuss is being made about Dutch youngster Simons, who made his senior debut on Wednesday night for PSG in a 1.
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Xavi Simons also is known as Xavi Quentin Shay Simons is currently 18 years old.He was born on April 21, 2003, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.He is a Dutch native and multiracial. Xavi is the son of former footballer, Regilio Simons, a striker for teams like SC Telstar, Fortuna Sittard, NAC, Willem II, etc. Xavi's mother is Peggy, Regilio's wife. . Likewise, he has two elder brothers named Ojan.
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Xavi Simons. Age: 16 Club: PSG Position: Midfielder. Named after a club legend and gaining plenty of hype in their academy, it seemed Xavi Simons had an excellent future at Barcelona. The midfielder was a captain at various age groups, and spoke of his dreams to play with Lionel Messi. Everything seemed perfect in Catalonia
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How Max Verstappen can be crowned F1 champion at the Saudi Arabian GP
Lewis Larkam
If results go his way at this weekend's inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen will become the 2021 Formula 1 world champion.
Back-to-back victories for Lewis Hamilton in Brazil and Qatar have left the championship battle on a knife-edge heading into the final two races of a spellbinding F1 season.
Verstappen leads title rival Hamilton by eight points going into the first-ever grand prix to be held in Saudi Arabia with a total of 52 points up for grabs across the final two rounds in the Middle East.
Hamilton has seized the recent momentum in what is proving to be a fascinating and closely-fought world championship battle between Mercedes and Red Bull amid his quest to claim a historic eighth drivers' crown.
While the title battle appears set to go down to the wire, Verstappen has the first opportunity to take 'match point' and score a famous maiden world title in Jeddah.
If Verstappen can stretch his points advantage to 26 come the chequered flag on Sunday, Hamilton will be powerless to stop the Red Bull driver from clinching the 2021 drivers' crown early.
Here is how Verstappen can achieve the 18-point swing he requires to land the world championship with a race to spare.
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Verstappen's possible routes to the title
- If Verstappen finishes first with the fastest lap and Hamilton finishes sixth or lower
- If Verstappen finishes first and Hamilton finishes seventh or lower
- If Verstappen finishes second with the fastest lap and Hamilton finishes 10th or lower
- If Verstappen finishes second and Hamilton finishes outside of the top-10
However, a points swing of 18 points or more has only happened twice this year.
These occurred in Monaco (Verstappen won with Hamilton seventh) and at Silverstone when Verstappen crashed out following a first-lap collision with Hamilton, who went on to win the British Grand Prix.
That statistic, along with the fact Verstappen and Hamilton have locked out the top two steps on the podium at 12 of the 20 races, points towards the world championship not being settled until the Abu Dhabi season finale.
Regardless of where Verstappen finishes, Hamilton cannot win the title in Saudi Arabia.
Should Hamilton take victory along with the fastest lap bonus point and Verstappen is second in Jeddah, the two championship protagonists will head to the final race of the season equal on points.
Even without the fastest lap, a second successive win at a new F1 track for Hamilton would set up the mouth-watering prospect of a winner-takes-all showdown at Yas Marina.
What the title contenders have said
Verstappen: "Of course I know it's going to be difficult to the end but I think that's nice, it keeps it exciting. I would, of course, have liked to make it a bigger gap, but when you don't have the pace, it's impossible to do that. So we'll just try to be better, and come back strong, especially in Saudi on the street track, and then we'll see in Abu Dhabi."
Hamilton: "I feel great, the car is feeling better than ever, and I feel positive going into these next couple of races. I think they should be quite good for our car, so I'm looking forward to that battle."
What about the constructors' championship?
While the focus is largely fixated on the drivers' title scrap, the battle for supremacy between Mercedes and Red Bull in the constructors' championship is equally intense and remains finely poised.
Mercedes can wrap up an eighth consecutive constructors' title in Saudi Arabia, though such a scenario seems highly unlikely.
The reigning world champions head to Jeddah just five points clear of Red Bull with a maximum of 88 points (including fastest laps) left to play for across the final two events.
In order to continue its unbeaten run in the V6 hybrid era and to be crowned constructors' world champions once again, Mercedes would need to outscore Red Bull by 40 points in Saudi Arabia.
There is no mathematical situation that would see Red Bull score a first constructors' world title since 2013 until at least Abu Dhabi.
Even if Verstappen and Sergio Perez finished in a 1-2 with the fastest lap and Mercedes failed to score, Red Bull would only find itself 39 ahead with 44 points still available.
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Jurgen's employment success story
When Jurgen first made contact with RNIB he had recently lost his sight as a result of a brain tumour. Jurgen was employed at the time, and had to take sickness absence as a result of ongoing invasive surgery.
However, just as Jurgen was looking to return to work with the support of occupational health, the coronavirus lockdown began and this stopped him returning to the workplace. He was subsequently furloughed and a few months later was made redundant. Jurgen reached out to the RNIB Employment Service for support through this tricky time and was teamed up with Emma Griffiths RNIB Employment Advisor.
Jurgen: RNIB's employment team was an important sounding board and ally as I worked through figuring out where I wanted to go next.
During the furlough period Jurgen remained proactive in connecting with his professional networks. These connections were to provide potential new employment opportunities for the future. The furlough period also allowed Jurgen time to reflect on his future career and what he would like to do if he was required to change direction.
Jurgen now has a fantastic new job with a very accommodating and supportive employer. He is working for a not-for-profit organisation, supporting individuals with protected characteristics and placing them into work.
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Dr. Jack Hawkins, Jr., a native of Mobile, Alabama, was named Chancellor of Troy University Sept. 1, 1989. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Montevallo and his doctorate from the University of Alabama.
Upon completion of his bachelor's degree in 1967, Hawkins was commissioned a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a platoon leader during the Vietnam War. For his combat duty, he received the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart and a citation from the Korean Marine Corps.
Hawkins has overseen an era of change and growth at TROY, as he led the merger of the worldwide Troy State University System into the unified Troy University, an initiative called "One Great University." More than $250 million has been invested in capital improvements by the Hawkins Administration, including new academic buildings on all four of TROY's Alabama campuses. Chancellor Hawkins served as the catalyst for the University's evolution to an international institution, as TROY has attracted record numbers of students from other nations and established teaching sites around the world. During his tenure, academic standards for admission have been increased, new degree programs were established in all academic colleges, and intercollegiate athletics joined the highest level of NCAA competition.
Hawkins' professional background includes his service as an assistant dean at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (1971-1979) and as president of the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind in Talladega (1979-1989).
In 1985, he was honored by the University of Montevallo as Distinguished Alumnus of the Year, and was the recipient of the 2003 All-American Football Foundation's "Top College President" Award. In 2005 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Murphy High School in Mobile, Alabama. In 2007 he was recognized as the "Alabama Citizen of the Year" by the Alabama Broadcasters Association. In 2011, Dr. Hawkins was recognized with the Chief Executive Leadership Award presented by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and as the March of Dimes River Region Citizen of the Year. In 2012 he received the Distinguished Public Service Award from the Secretary of the Air Force for his service on the Air University Board of Visitors from 2004-2012.
Three buildings have been named in his honor: the "Jack and Janice Hawkins Chapel" at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind, the "Hawkins-Adams-Long Hall of Honor" and "Jack Hawkins, Jr. Hall" which serves the College of Education of Troy University. Hawkins was profiled as part of two books published in 2004: "Above and Beyond: Former Marines Conquer the Civilian World" by Rudy Socha and Carolyn Darrow and "The Entrepreneurial College President" by James L. Fisher and James V. Koch.
Hawkins serves on the board of directors of the Daniel Foundation, Business Council of Alabama, Better Business Bureau of Central Alabama, and Troy Bank and Trust Company. He is chairman of the Governor's Committee on Employment of the Disabled and immediate past President of the Sun Belt Conference. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), as Chairman of the Council of University Presidents in Alabama (1999-2001), as President of the Southland Football League, and as chairman of the Air University Board of Visitors. He has also served as a trustee of Talladega College, the Helen Keller Eye Research Foundation, and the American Foundation for the Blind. He is a member of the Troy Rotary Club.
Dr. Hawkins' family includes his wife, Janice, and daughters Katie and Kelly. Katie is married to Capt. Dan Beall of the United States Air Force and the couple has a son, Noah and a daughter, Ellyotte. Kelly is an Assistant Alabama Attorney General and is married to Adam Godwin, a professional baseball player.


"A gaping divide" in gender parity exists at both traditional and newer news sites. Male bylines outnumber female bylines by two-thirds "even in coverage of issues of great importance to women," notes the WMC report.
Women own nearly seven percent of U.S. commercial television stations, make up almost 30 percent of television news directors, 32.7 percent of the radio news workforce, nine percent of the directors of the top-grossing 250 U.S. films of 2012, and 18 percent of key behind-the-scenes roles. Women directed 15 percent and wrote 30 percent of all television episodes in 2011-12.
What about Black women in the media?
Chicago-based social media strategist Lovette "Luvvie" Ajayi, after reading the WMC report, told the MSR, "It is way worse" for Black women in the media.
WCCO-TV News Anchor Angela Davis points out, "Black women make up a very small number when it comes to women in the media. We are discouraged right off the bat from going into the business, because it's well known how competitive it is.
"I must point out that our industry is a very tough one that requires a lot of skill and sacrifice," Davis notes.
Black women still are confronted "with the same obstacles — people tend to hire people who look like them," says Howard University School of Communications Dean Jannette Dates.
Former meteorologist Rhonda Lee was fired last November from a Shreveport, Louisiana television station after she responded to a viewer's online comments that "she needs to wear a wig or grow some more hair" because of her short, tightly coiled hairstyle. Station officials claim Lee was let go because she violated the station's social media policy.
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"We have to continue to push as much as we can," says Dates.


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Introduction & Quick Facts
Geologic history
Tectonic framework
Chronological summary
Stratigraphy and structure
The Precambrian
The Paleozoic Era
Principal regimes
Terranes of the Tasman Fold Belt
The Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras
The Quaternary Period
The modern geologic framework
Pangaean supercycle
Relief and drainage
Overall characteristics
The Western Plateau
The Interior Lowlands
The Eastern Uplands
The human impact
The Chinese
"Populate or perish"
First and second waves of postwar immigration
The advent of multicultural society
Settlement patterns
Rural settlement
Forestry and fishing
Power and resources
Minerals and mining
Ferroalloys and nonferrous base metals
Nonmetallic deposits
Labour and taxation
Transportation and telecommunications
Constitutional framework
Constitutional issues
Daily life and social customs
The influence of Bollywood and anime
Australian rules football and rugby
Tennis and golf
Australia to 1900
Early exploration and colonization
Early contacts and approaches
The Portuguese
The Spanish
Later explorations
An authoritarian society
A major shift: 1830–60
Several small democracies: 1860–1900
The colonies
Movement toward federation
Australia since 1900
Nationhood and war: 1901–45
Growth of the Commonwealth
The postwar years
Australia from 1945 to c. 1983
Postwar expansion
The ascendance of Australian popular culture
Domestic politics to 1975
Strains of modern radicalism
Cultural achievements
Foreign policy and immigration
National and state emblems of Australia
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This major period of geologic time can be subdivided into the older Archean and the younger Proterozoic eons, the time boundary between them being some 2.5 billion years ago. In Australia the main outcrop of the Archean and older Proterozoic rocks is in the Yilgarn and Pilbara blocks of the southwest and northwest, respectively.
Hamersley Range, Western AustraliaHamersley Range in the Pilbara region of the Australian Shield, in Western Australia. Richard Woldendorp/Photo Index
In the Yilgarn block the oldest known rocks are sialic crust (i.e., composed of rocks rich in silica and alumina) that developed in the Narryer Gneiss Complex between 4.3 and 3.7 billion years ago. The older end of that time span is provided by detrital zircon grains found in younger metasedimentary rock (metamorphosed sedimentary rock) some 3.3 to 3.7 billion years old: as determined by ion microprobe analysis, the grains are 4.2 to 4.3 billion years old. A zircon grain imbedded in 3.75-billion-year-old metamorphosed sediment from Jack Hills in Western Australia was found to be even older, 4.4 billion years, and it is thus the oldest dated material on Earth. The younger end of 3.7 billion years ago is provided by samarium-neodymium (Sm-Nd) isotopic analyses of anorthosite and gabbro and more extensive granitic rocks. Subsequent to such igneous rocks being formed, siliceous sedimentary rocks were deposited during an interval of subdued relief and extensive sheets of vein quartz pebbles were concentrated on the surface.
The oldest rocks in the Pilbara block to the north make up a granite-greenstone terrane and so differ distinctly from those of the Yilgarn block. They are mostly 3.3 to 3.5 billion years old and comprise basic (alkaline) volcanics associated with horizontal tabular igneous bodies known as sills and layered intrusions, as well as acid volcanics associated with granitic plutons (bodies of deep-seated intrusive igneous rock) and sheets. The association of basic and acid rocks suggests the possibility that older sialic crust melted. Chert within basalt 3.5 billion years old at the North Pole mining centre in Western Australia contains stromatolites (layered deposits formed by the growth of cyanobacteria) and filamentous colonial microfossils that are among the oldest known sets of fossils on Earth. Between 3.05 and 2.9 billion years ago, thick acid and basic volcanics and sedimentary rocks were intruded by large granite plutons and deformed and metamorphosed to establish the internal form of the Pilbara block. Between 2.8 and 2.7 billion years ago, the beveled surface of the Pilbara block was blanketed by basaltic lava. Finally, between 2.55 to 2.4 billion years ago, banded-iron formation, dolomite, shale, and minor acid-volcanic rocks were intruded by sills of porphyry. Iron ores of hematite and goethite have been formed by supergene enrichment of banded-iron formation.
The Yilgarn block became an internally coherent mass only after greenstone and associated granitic terrane had developed from 3.0 to 2.5 billion years ago, and it was then intruded by a swarm of vertical tabular bodies called dikes composed of dolerite. Mafic and ultramafic rocks (those composed primarily of ferromagnesian—dark-coloured—minerals) 2.7 billion years old within the granite-greenstone terrane are the chief host of the epigenetic gold deposits of Western Australia. Slightly older (2.8 billion years) volcanic ultramafic rocks contain deposits of nickel sulfide.
The Pilbara and Yilgarn blocks were joined between 2.0 to 1.8 billion years ago along a belt of deformed continental-margin deposits. Later in the Proterozoic, between 1.6 billion and 650 million years ago, mountain belts resulting from the collision of continental terranes were repeatedly worn down and overlain by sedimentary rocks. That view contrasts with another interpretation that regards most of the western part of Australia as intact since Archean times and considers that most later orogenic activity was ensialic.
The development of the late Proterozoic Adelaidean province, the other Precambrian succession to be described here, was within a sialic basement. The Adelaidean succession crops out in the region of South Australia between Adelaide and the Flinders Ranges and contains an almost complete sedimentary record of the late Proterozoic. The early Adelaidean Callanna and Burra groups are confined to troughs faulted down into basement. A sheet of sedimentary deposits at the base of the Callanna group was cut by faults into rift valleys that filled with basic volcanic rocks and evaporitic sediment and carbonate rock. The succeeding Burra group comprises fluvial sediment followed by shallow marine carbonate.
The late Adelaidean Umberatana and Wilpena groups unconformably succeed older rocks. The Umberatana group contains a rich record of two glaciations: the older Sturtian glaciation is indicated by glaciomarine diamictites deposited on a shallow shelf and at the bottom of newly rifted troughs; the younger Marinoan glaciation is represented by diamictites deposited on the basin floor and sandstone on the shelf. The Wilpena group comprises extensive sheets of interbedded sandstone, siltstone, and shale deposited during two marine transgressions, during the second of which deep canyons were cut and filled. The uppermost part of the Wilpena group, in the latest Proterozoic, contains the celebrated Ediacara assemblage of the oldest well-known animal fossils.
The Precambrian rocks of Australia provide a rich source of economically important minerals, such as the above-mentioned major iron ore deposits of the Pilbara block and the gold and nickel deposits of the Yilgarn block. Other minerals include diamonds from the Argyle diatreme (vertical volcanic conduit filled with breccia) in northern Western Australia. Lead and zinc are found at Broken Hill in western New South Wales, and lead, zinc, and copper occur at Mount Isa in northwestern Queensland and at Olympic Dam in South Australia.
Phanerozoic Australia is divided at the Tasman Line into two parts. Those are a western terrane of exposed Precambrian blocks and fold belts overlain by thin Phanerozoic basins and an eastern terrane of exposed Phanerozoic fold belts and basins.
During Phanerozoic times, Australia has been marked by three regimes: Uluru (541 to 320 million years ago), Innamincka (320 to 97 million years ago), and Potoroo (the past 97 million years). Each regime, a complex of uniform plate-tectonic and paleoclimatic events at a similar or slowly changing latitude, generated a depositional sequence of distinct facies separated by gaps in deposition.
Cobar, New South Wales, AustraliaMine in Cobar, New South Wales, Australia. Axel Strauss
The Paleozoic Era (about 541 to 252 million years ago) opened in Australia with the breakup of the Precambrian continent along the Tasman Line and the initial generation of the floor of the Paleo Pacific Ocean by seafloor spreading. In the Adelaide area, wedges of deepwater quartzose sediment advanced over the newly formed seafloor. On the northwestern side of Australia, widespread basalt erupted over the Precambrian platform, possibly during the initial generation of the Paleo Tethyan Sea, and was succeeded by deposition of shallow marine limestone with abundant fossil trilobites and archeocyathids. The initial Paleo Pacific marginal seafloor was subducted—i.e., forced under the edge of a converging plate into the hot mantle—at the end of the Cambrian Period (485 million years ago); concomitant deformation and granitic intrusion of the overlying deepwater sediments and those of the adjacent Adelaidean region formed the Delamerian fold belt. A similar cycle of marginal sea generation and subsequent Mariana-type subduction (within oceanic lithosphere) accreted a second fold belt to eastern Australia during the Ordovician Period (about 485 to 444 million years ago). That was followed by an interval of block faulting and widespread granitic intrusion in eastern Australia that produced a landscape similar to the present Basin and Range Province of the western United States; by the late Devonian Period (about 385 million years ago) the first of a series of magmatic orogenic arcs had become established by Chilean-type subduction (of oceanic lithosphere beneath continental lithosphere) on the eastern margin, and a thick succession of mainly sandstone and shale accumulated in the moatlike foreland basin between the mountain belt and the craton—the flat and relatively stable interior portion of the continent. At the same time, local uplifts in central Australia shed gravels into the Amadeus Basin. By the mid-Carboniferous Period (320 million years ago), central Australia was deformed by folding and thrusting along east-west axes, and eastern Australia was deformed by folding along north-south axes and a subsequent granitoid intrusion that consolidated the Lachlan and Thomson fold belts in an epoch of deformation that concluded the Uluru regime.
Australia had moved to higher latitudes so that the alpine uplands that followed the deformation were covered by the nucleus of a continental ice sheet. Only the highest peaks stood prominently above the surface of the ice in the form of nunataks, and the little sediment available was carried off the continent in ice streams. The melting of the ice sheet early in the Permian Period (i.e., about 290 million years ago) released the sediment into the newly subsiding basins of the Innamincka regime. Much of interior Australia was covered by broad basins. The eastern margin between the New England Fold Belt and the craton became a second foreland basin in which the rich seams of black coal in the Bowen Basin of Queensland and the Sydney Basin of New South Wales were deposited during the final 10 million years of the Paleozoic Era. Other economic resources in Paleozoic rocks are the reef gold in Victoria that triggered the first mining boom, lead and zinc at Cobar and Woodlawn in New South Wales, and natural gas in Permian sandstone in the Cooper Basin of South Australia.
The various parts of the Tasman Fold Belt are separated from each other by faults or have boundaries covered by sediment. Geologists have reviewed the Paleozoic development of the Tasman Fold Belt in light of the observation that the component terranes of many other circum-Pacific fold belts are displaced to a greater or lesser extent from their place of origin. In the Tasman Fold Belt, uncertainty remains about the exact paleotectonic and paleogeographic settings and relationships of the identified terranes and the craton and between the terranes themselves during most of Paleozoic time. Much effort is being applied to paleomagnetic determinations of elevation levels at the time and to studies of the provenance and facies of sedimentary successions within the terranes in an attempt to ascertain their original locations.
Researcher's Note
The Official Site of Royal Australian Navy
Central Intelligence Agency - The World Factbook - Australia
Official Site of the Government of Australia
Official Site of the Embassy of Australia in Lebanon
The Catholic Encyclopedia - Australia
Australian Human Rights Commission - Face the facts: Cultural Diversity
ABC - 80 Days that Changes Our Life - Referendum Remedies the Constitutional Treatment of Aboriginal People
Official Site of the Embassy of Australia in Saudi Arabia
National Geographic - Australia and Oceania: Physical Geography
Britannica Websites
Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students.
Australia - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11)
Australia - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)


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Little Plastic Dreams — October 16, 2006
I made a nice little addition to DIGITIZE.TEXTFILES.COM: The 1980 Coleco Catalog.
If you don't remember getting a Coleco catalog in the mail at some point, don't be worried. This particular catalog went out specifically to stores or purchasers for chains. It's directed toward people who buy by the box or the truckload, and so the tone of the catalog is how the items you buy will be supported by a television advertising campaign, and the main measurement is how big the boxes are so that you know how many you can stack in your shelves.
Beyond that, of course, all the toys in this catalog are presented as exquisitely as possible, with close-zoomed photos, and small framed shots that try to emulate the television commercial.
For a lot of people, the electronic games will hold specific interest, although I supposed the Rock n' Roll Stroller might invoke a memory or two. More likely, though, there's a lot of people who remember things like the Electronic Quarterback or the Lil Genius.
One particularly notable toy is Quiz Wiz, which was essentially a paper-based quiz machine that had all of the answers stored on a chip. Therefore,. it had a very large library that covered a ton of subjects, including Major Leage Baseball and the People's Almanac, I remember a lot of Quiz Wiz commercials.
But I think the most interesting case of me having a different look at things with an adult's eye would be the Slide-a-Boggans, which are nicely wrapped up in a pretty box and have a nice brand name and all… but they're plastic sheets! Thick plastic sheets! And if you check out the price list, you can see they were wholesaling at between $1.20 and $1.90 based on which of the models you wanted, either big plastic sheet or bigger plastic sheet. So imagine what the markup must have been for a stamped-out piece of plastic with a box around it. What a racket!
I picked up this catalog along with the 1981 catalog (which is much larger, but still predating the Colecovision) at the MIT flea market. For the first tme in memory, I actually had to haggle with the guy over it, because he wanted $10. No way! I paid $5, which was still too much, but I felt good knowing it's be all over the world within a short time. And here we are.
Coleco went bankrupt in 1988, and was bought out by Hasbro in 1989. It had been founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg, and his son Leonard announced at the beginning of this catalog that Coleco would be "The One" for product, promotion and delivery. At this point, in 1980, they probably thought they were at the top of the world.
Isn't life and scanning grand.
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Is Sen. Rubio Disqualified for the Presidency?
Gage Skidmore
Susan E. Wills | May 21, 2014
Critics call him a scientific illiterate but life does begin at conception.
Rubio's detractors rely on ACOG's Terminology Bulletin Number 1, "Terms used in reference to the fetus" (September 1965), which states in part:
"FERTILIZATION is the union of spermatozoon and ovum.
"CONCEPTION is the implantation of a fertilized ovum. 'This definition has been selected deliberately because union of sperm and ovum, cannot be detected clinically unless implantation occurs.'
"PREGNANCY is the state from conception to expulsion of the products of conception."
What possible motivation would there be for redefining conception as implantation and redefining pregnancy as the period between implantation and "expulsion of the products of conception"?
Certainly, the leadership of ACOG promoted, and still promotes, abortion and "contraceptive" drugs and devices that also have abortifacient mechanisms of action. A very plausible explanation for these terminology changes has been suggested by an OB-GYN friend who is a Life Fellow of ACOG and Diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology since 1966. "Effective" contraceptive options in the 1960s were limited to the birth control pill and the intrauterine device (IUD). Christopher Tietze, MD—an advocate of population control through abortion and contraception, a member of the American Eugenics Society, a demographer and Fellow of the Population Council—often complained that IUDs could not be successfully marketed to women in Latin America due to the belief that they could cause the death of a week-old embryo by thwarting implantation. Unable to change the reality of how IUDs work, Tietze sought to change the terminology by defining abortion as terminating a pregnancy and defining pregnancy as beginning with successful implantation. It seems likely that ACOG leadership saw the benefits of Dr. Tietze's marketing solution and adopted his approach.
ACOG's charade deceives women and results in the loss of embryos' lives on a grand scale. Beyond that, the new definitions lack scientific coherence and raise other definitional problems. For example, the new definition of pregnancy excludes "ectopic pregnancy," a long-standing scientific term for a pregnancy in which the embryo is developing somewhere other than the uterus. In addition, the stated rationale for moving conception a full week forward to implantation, i.e., the union of sperm and ovum "cannot be detected clinically" before implantation, is simply false. Early pregnancy factor (EPF), discovered in 1974, is an immunosuppressive protein produced by the ovary shortly after fertilization, in response to a signal from the embryo. [H. Morton et al., Nature, 249:459-60 (1974)] EPF directs the mother's immune system to "stand down" and not attack the new "foreign body," as it would bacteria, for example. EPF has been detected in the mother's blood 48 hours after fertilization [B.E. Rolfe, Fertility and Sterility, 37:655-60 (1982)] and has been documented in IUD wearers whose embryos were aborted in the presence of the IUD. [Y.C. Smart et al., Fertility and Sterility, 37:201-204 (1982)]
The verdict on Count Two: Senator Rubio was correct in claiming unanimity among embryologists on when life begins, but clearly the leadership of ACOG, as well as many advocates of "reproductive rights," resist consensus and publicly reject the settled science that life begins at conception/fertilization. In denying the established scientific facts, many of the Senator's detractors have claimed that, before birth, the existence of a human life is a matter of philosophical or religious belief, rather than science. In a Foreword to Dr. Condic's White Paper, the late Rev. Richard John Neuhaus addresses this claim: "The debate in our society and others is not over when human life begins but is over at what point and for what reasons do we have an obligation to respect and protect that life. …
"It is sometimes said that the abortion debate is about 'values' rather than 'facts.' An honest debate about abortion, however, is about values based on facts. If we don't get the facts right, we will not get our values right. Establishing by clear scientific evidence the moment at which a human life begins is not the end of the abortion debate. On the contrary, that is the point from which the debate begins."
Let the debate begin!
Susan E. Wills, JD, LLM left law practice to join the USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, where she served for 20 years as Asst. Dir. for Education and Outreach until her retirement in 2013. She now serves as Aleteia's English edition Spirituality Editor.


Riak is a distributed, masterless, key-value database. It scales from a few servers to tens or hundreds of servers. Riak is designed to make it easy to scale your database by adding more servers.
I'm Jeremiah Peschka, a database expert here at Brent Ozar Unlimited. I develop and maintain CorrugatedIron, the .NET client for Riak, and I'm an active member of the Riak community on the mailing lists and in IRC. I've put together this list of resources to help you get started using Riak and CorrugatedIron.
Three Use Cases for Riak describes a subset of use cases where Riak makes a lot of sense. It's not an exhaustive list, but it's a starting point.
Querying a Key/Value Database: Learning with Riak covers the basics of querying Riak using basic key lookups, indexes, search, and map reduce.
A Little Riak Book – Written by Basho employee Eric Redmond, this is a concise guide to Riak.
The Riak Handbook – Mathias Meyer wrote this book; it covers an older version of Riak but the design principles still hold.
Saving Session State is a recorded web cast discussion the pros and cons of session state in a database and describes how you can use Riak for persistent session state.
DotNetRocks wherein I chat with Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin about Riak, Erlang, and distributed databases.
To get started using Riak with .NET, you'll need CorrugatedIron. You can download CorrugatedIron from the main CorrugatedIron site or through Nuget. Sample code is available on GitHub, and an ASP.NET Session State provider is available, too.


(1) A congregation founded in 1835 in the Diocese of Fréjus, for the education of girls and the care of the sick, with mother-house at Draguignan; government authorization was granted in 1853.
(2) A congregation established at Sens, in 1838, for the work of teaching and the care of the sick in their own homes, the direction of asylums, boarding-schools, etc.; it received state authorization in 1853. Under the mother-house at St-Colombe-les-Sens are over 36 filial establishments.
(3) Sisters of the Holy Childhood of Jesus and Mary of Ste-Chrétienne , known also as Sisters of Ste-Chrétienne , founded in 1807 by Mme Anne-Victoire Méjanes, née Tailleux, for the education of girls and the care of the sick poor. At the invitation of Bishop Jauffret of Metz, Mme Méjanes and her community went from Argancy to Metz and took up their abode in the Abbey of St. Glossinde, where, on 20 April, 1807, they bound themselves by vow to follow the statutes drawn up for them by the bishop. Their numbers soon increased until now (1910) there are about 1400 sisters in over 809 houses. The religious are divided into choir and lay sisters, the latter occupied with the domestic care of their various institutions, the former engaged in the works peculiar to higher schools, industrial schools, and orphanages. The vows are made annually for ten years, after which final vows are taken. The congregation received the approval of the Holy See in 1888, and in 1899 its statutes were granted papal approbation. The sisters have houses in Lorraine, France, Austria, Belgium, England, and the United States. In the United States about 90 sisters have charge of 5 schools in the Archdiocese of Boston, with a total attendance of 2400. There is a novitiate of the congregation in Salem, Massachusetts.


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Bulgariska kommunistpartiet, Komunisticeska Partija na Balgarija (KPB) är ett kommunistiskt parti i Bulgarien, bildat 1996 som Kommunistpartiet. .

KPB tillhör valalliansen Koalition för Bulgarien som i valet den 25 juni 2005, fick 34,2 % av rösterna och 82 av de 240 mandaten i parlamentet.

I landets första EU-parlamentsval 2007, fick KPB 0,98 % av rösterna.

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Counterfactual History Perfected
The librarian from my law school and another friend teamed up to send me a copy of Barbara Tuchman's Practicing History for Christmas. Sadly, as things have not reached me in the past, it is the only gift I received from America for Christmas. Yankees don't like to waste money on things like FedEx and UPS. Lest this seem like a complaint, rather than an observation about a situation that has caused me a little sadness, let me say that I have not sent anything the other way. I will come in May on my sleigh.
Anyway, the Twelve Days of Christmas concluded yesterday. I went to Mass at Saint Theresa's Cathedral for the first time, as I had my Sunday free for a change. I brought Deborah, my girlfriend, who is a Christian, but she had never dabbled in the dark art of Mary-worship before. I think she was a bit surprised by all the sitting down and standing up. The thing that she remarked on was how powerful it was to have three hundred or so people all praying in unison. For me, the remarkable thing is that in a city of four million, I think this may be the only place for an "above ground" Catholic service--one at 6:30AM and one at 8:30AM, as well as an English service at 2PM in the basement of an adjoining building.
The family churches and underground places of worship must be everywhere, because China is home to an estimated 12 million Catholics, the majority of whom worship outside the official Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CPA). The State Administration for Religious Affairs states that there are 5.3 million Catholics belonging to the official Catholic Patriotic Association, which oversees 70 bishops, and approximately 6,000 churches nationwide.
The other thing that I did yesterday was finish my book. Barbara Tuchman's collection of essays is brilliant and most of them stand the test of time. The book is broken into three parts. In the first part she talks about the craft of being a historian. The second part is a collection of thirteen wonderful pieces that she calls, collectively, "The Yield." The final part is about learning from history. This final part also contains a not immodest, but fanciful proposal to eliminate the Presidency and replace it with a six-person Cabinet, where the chief member would get two votes. This seems to be the lesson that she gleaned from Watergate and all of the undeclared wars of the post-War era, which are certainly proof of the expanded power of the chief executive.
It is the middle section that has two essays pertaining to the Far East, which I would like to treat here, though. The first was published in April of 1936 when Tuchman was all of 24. She was writing for Foreign Affairs and her reflections about the Japanese boil down to two essential points. If I had to choose a sentence that encapsulates her thoughts it would be this:
More fundamentally troublesome to Japan's foreign relations than the disability or disinclination to use Occidental tactics in the practice of diplomacy [by which she means, in part, employing the art of compromise] is the combination of an inferiority and a persecution complex which she feels vis-a-vis the West.
In light of what is happening now, in this current time, I thought these words to be extremely prescient. Living as I do in the capital of the Manchurian occupation and with the clear distance provided by the almost eighty years that have passed since she wrote the essay, it is hard not to look with awe and disbelief at how Japan conceived of itself at that time--as a just nation protecting its reputation in the face of a world that misunderstood it. One wonders if buried in this essay is not a description of the root cause of all discontent between all peoples and all nations.
Before I go on, it is worth saying something about Tuchman herself. Tuchman was the daughter of the banker Maurice Wertheim. She was a first cousin of New York district attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, a niece of Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and granddaughter of Henry Morgenthau, Sr., Woodrow Wilson's Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Radcliffe College in 1933. In other words, she was about as well-connected as they come. In no way did this diminish her scholarship. In the craft part, she insists strongly that historians of any worth must rely on primary sources and not the re-stated opinion of other historians. She seemed to scorn the field of sociology and had a love-hate relationship with Sigmund Freud...and all that followed from his efforts.
Anyway, in the course of her research she had de-classified a memorandum that Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai had sent to FDR, but which never reached its intended recipient. In the chapter of this book, entitled If Mao Had Come to Washington also published in Foreign Affairs (but 35 years later in October of 1972), she participates in a wonderful intellectual exercise, where she imagines that there might of been no conflicts in Korea or Vietnam if this entreaty had not been held up by the pompous ass, Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley.
She describes in painstaking detail--having obtained a great deal of her primary material from John Service, a member of the Foreign Service, who was stationed in Chongqing--the terrible disregard of career diplomats, who suggested that the US ally itself with the ascendant Communists instead of arming Chiang Kai-shek. As we know, this was not the course taken. Those who advocated this position would later get caught up in the scourge of Joseph McCarthy.
This was the dispatch:
"Yenan Government wants [to] dispatch to America an unofficial rpt unofficial group to interpret and explain to American civilians and officials interested the present situation and problems of China. Next is strictly off record suggestion by same: Mao and Chou will be immediately available either singly or together for exploratory conference at Washington should President Roosevelt express desire to receive them at White House as leaders of a primary Chinese party."
Nixon went to China in the era of ping-pong to meet with Mao and Zhou Enlai, but it was not until then that this all came to light, thanks to Barbara Tuchman. A fascinating tale!
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Burroughs Jr., William S. (Ginsberg, Allen).
William S. Burroughs Jr. Bundle: Two Editions of Speed, with: Defiance #2 (Featuring Billy's "Lexington Addict's Hospital" Essay Contribution)
New York, NY; London, England; New York, NY: Olympia Press; Sphere Books Limited; Coronet Communications, 1970; 1971. First Edition; First Edition Thus. Softcover. "SPEED is the autobiographical novel of William Burroughs Jr's methedrine inspired Odyssey through New York's asphalt jungle. With painful candor he explores the horizons of the speed freak's world- hustling for dope and money, harassed by the police, crashing in overcrowded, garbage strewn pads, and guiding his paranoid needle-brother Chad through the dangerous city streets. Totally stripped of remorse, self pity or sentiment, SPEED is a milestone in the younger generation's alienation from middle class society and its values." (back cover). The barely fictionalized memoir by William S. Burroughs III (1947-1981), son of WSB who was born to a severely benzedrine-&-alcohol addicted mother, Joan Vollmer, whom his father accidentally shot & killed when he was only five years old; & who would precede his father's death by sixteen years. With a brief foreword by Allen Ginsberg, where he wrote: "Senior had done his first job with the universe. Where will consciousness go next generation?" Well, in answer to Ginsberg's question, you might say that "Billy" (as WSB III was called) is where the buck stopped. Included in this bundle is the true first edition—published by the U.S. branch of Maurice Girodias' Olympia Press, legendary publisher of the first edition of WSB's Naked Lunch, from 1970; a mass-market softcover First Edition Thus from Sphere Books, LTD. in the UK with its own unique cover art (featuring a menacing junkie's syringe over a clay figure that we think resembles Roger Daltrey circa "Who's Next." ) from 1971; and "Defiance #2," a compilation of radical writings which features the essay "Lexington Addict's Hospital" by William S. Burroughs, Jr. (actually William S. Burroughs III, 1947-1981). Other contributions to "Defiance #2" include fiery articles by two anonymous Weatherman members ("The Long and Winding Road to the Underground"), on feminism, gay liberation & the Vietnam War; poems by Dial-A-Poem pioneer (& associate of WSB) John Giorno & much more. A paperback original, stated first printing of March, 1971. A vintage relic of the 1960s-fallout counterculture- "right on," "power to the people" etc., which still echoes & recreates itself- & a rare, important appearance by WSB III. (1) Olympia Press First Edition in very good condition; cover still bright with tight spine; typical yellowing to pages; some scattered marginalia in pencil present; modest rubbing to front, back covers (ubiquitously found on every edition we have yet seen of this title); previous owner's stamp and signature blackened with marker on inside of front and rear covers; some chipping to pages 183-191 on rightmost fine-edge. Photographs on the front and back covers by the great poet-photographer-raconteur-mystic Ira Cohen. (2) Sphere Books LTD. Edition in near-fine condition with moderate-to-mild rubbing, scratching & light creasing to front, back covers & spine; mild wear & small-to-tiny bumps at edges & corners of same; moderate browning, rubbing & scratching at edges of text block. Interior very fine with only inevitable browning esp. at blank margins of pulp-quality page leaves; small-to-tiny bumps at upper corners of first 20-30 of same; stamped series of small numbers at blank upper right corner of first page. A very interesting, quite rare early incarnation of this intriguing and important work. A wild read, and a must for the completist WSB-&-Son collector. (3) "Defiance #2" in exceptionally fine condition considering the circumstances with only very slight browning, rubbing & soiling to edges of front, back covers & spine, mild vertical creases along spine & upper left corner of back cover, very mild scratching & soiling of edges; interior very fine & tight with only inevitable browning to edges of pages. Very Good; Near Fine; Fine. [Item #4172]
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