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Cyclone Idai kills at least 31 as it hits eastern Zimbabwe
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A car makes its way through the storm in Mozambique on March 15. | AFP
Worldwide relations and cooperation minister Lindiwe Sisulu has appealed to South African NGOs, companies and individuals to make donations towards humanitarian aid for the people of Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique affected by Tropical Cyclone Idai. Tens of thousands of people, primarily in impoverished rural areas, have been cut off from roads and telephones.
Cyclone Idai has affected more than 1.5 million people in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, according to the United Nations and government officials.
Most of the deaths occurred in Beira - a port hub and capital of Sofala province - a city which has virtually been cut off after power lines crashed, the airport was shut and roads swamped by flooding.
In Zimbabwe, eastern Chimanimani district was the worst hit part of the country, where houses and bridges were washed away by flash floods when the storm slammed the area.
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This means that the government's response has to be raised a notch higher because more people are in danger of being swept away by floods.
Soldiers on Sunday helped rescue almost 200 pupils, teachers and staff who had been trapped at the school in Chimanimani.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has since declared the tragedy caused by Tropical Cyclone Idai a state of disaster. Cyclone Idai is predicted to be the strongest to make landfall in Mozambique since Eline. The storm then moved west into Malawi and Zimbabwe. He says they died after a boulder rolled into their dormitory. No tourist deaths were recorded, said government spokesman Nick Mangwana. "We urge patience as rescue is on its way", Zimbabwe's information ministry said in a tweet.
Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi said the damage is "very worrisome" and said that the flooding made it hard for aircraft to land and carry out rescue operations, according to Mozambique's state radio.
Heavy downpours in neighbouring Malawi this week have affected nearly a million people and claimed 56 lives there, according to the latest government toll.
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Northern Ireland News for July 2019
Northern Ireland News, Jul 19, 2019
Northern Ireland Ambulance Service is recruiting for new helicopter paramedics to be based at the Air Ambulance base at Maze Long Kesh in Lisburn and Emergency Ambulance Control at NIAS HQ in Belfast....
The PSNI have issued an appeal for information following a serious road traffic collision in Newcastle, Co Down. The Ballagh Road has been closed and motorists are being advised to avoid the area. A...
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A coalition of business bodies has called on Northern Ireland's political parties to reach agreement and "do the deal", as negotiations to restore power-sharing continue. Three months since the tragi...
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Save The UK Hallmark!
Hallmarking as a legal requirement is once again under scrutiny and threat. The UK Government's current drive to reduce regulation was launched on 7th April under the banner of The Red Tape challenge. http://www.redtapechallenge.cabinetoffice.gov.uk.
The Red Tape Challenge has started by examining the Retail Sector and asking the electorate for their views on topics as diverse as "Sunday Trading" and "Trading with the Enemy".
You only have until 5th May 2011 to reply. PLEASE ACT NOW!
The Red Tape Challenge aims to reduce regulation which stifles enterprise and industry. The message from the Government appears to be that every regulation highlighted will be abolished – unless visitors to the website express sufficient good reasons to convince Ministers that this particular regulation must be kept.
Hallmarking is among the eight key topics on which the population is invited to air their views from now until 5th May 2011. There are other important topics there too, of huge significance to retailers and consumers.
We believe it is imperative to the British consumer for the current and future UK Jewellery Industry to maintain hallmarking as a statutory independent service.
We urge you to visit Red Tape http://www.redtapechallenge.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/hallmarking and express your views now – before Hallmarking is deregulated and 700 years of even handed consumer protection is brought to an abrupt end, not because people don't want it, but by default.
Consumers Protected
While in principle we agree that red-tape is a bad thing, we don't believe that Hallmarking is a red-tape regulation. The Birmingham Assay Office believes that Hallmarking has never been more important to the British Jewellery Trade and to the consumers it was always intended to protect
All items sold as gold, silver, platinum or palladium in the UK must be hallmarked, unless they are very lightweight, regardless of where they are made.
Hallmarking has survived for over 700 years because it genuinely protects the UK public from being cheated. The precious metals market is an asymmetric market where the industry knows a lot and the consumer very little, making them vulnerable to deception. Asymmetric markets must be regulated.
With 85% of jewellery sold in the UK now being imported from countries with no properly regulated hallmarking regime, and where counterfeiting is rife, UK consumers need a strong Hallmarking regime to protect them from dishonest activity more than ever
In some countries it is widely accepted that gold jewellery may not contain quite as much fine gold as it purports to. With gold prices at a record high of £900 per ounce the dishonest trader stands to gain a huge amount by slightly reducing the gold content of an 18ct article - which should contain 75% fine gold. To adjust the gold content of a 10 gram ring to 70% by adding slightly more copper would increase the copper price by a few pence and decrease the proper retail value by around £60. Without a hallmarking system in place the consumer will never know their gold is under carat. But they will have been cheated.
In the last two years millions of people have cashed in on the high gold price by selling their scrap jewellery for cash. The hallmark means they know exactly how much fine gold they are selling and, again, provides protection from cheats.
Traders Protected
Without an independent Hallmark, even those jewellers who want to sell items in good faith cannot be sure exactly what they are buying or selling. Honest traders will be at a disadvantage.
Small companies in the UK Jewellery Industry are still thriving, producing high value beautifully made items. They already have to compete with lower labour costs elsewhere, but if they have to compete with articles which are under carated as well, the Jewellery Industry will have no future.
We believe it is imperative to the current and future UK Jewellery Industry and the British consumer to maintain hallmarking as a statutory independent service.
Please visit http://www.redtapechallenge.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/hallmarking and express your views NOW .
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Home / Opinion / Intellectuals should emulate Prof Ndulo, John Sangwa's bravery
Intellectuals should emulate Prof Ndulo, John Sangwa's bravery
By Diggers Editor on 13 Aug 2019
Even in the rubbish bin, when you look properly, you can still find something useful, but it doesn't change the fact that it belongs in the rubbish bin, Professor Muna Ndulo told Kabwe Central Member of parliament Honourable Tutwa Ngulube who said Zambians must not reject the whole Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 10 because it has some progressive proposals.
This was during a News Diggers organized public discussion forum on the dangers of enacting Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 10, 2019, held at Lusaka's Southern Sun Hotel last Friday. In our view, this was one of the most successful discussion forums ever organized, and we would like our intellectuals in Zambia, and those governing this country, to draw some lessons.
We can bet with anyone that the majority of Zambians who oppose the Constitution Amendment Bill No.10 don't know what is wrong with it. Some are rejecting it because they simply hate the Patriotic Front; others are opposed to its enactment because a popular activist posted on Facebook that it is "a bad law". When you ask them, they can't explain, apart from saying PF are criminals who are trying to manipulate the Constitution. What this means is that the majority of citizens are simply following the wind – a situation which is dangerous if left unchanged.
Very few voters actually understand exactly what is wrong with the Constitution Amendment Bill No.10 and why Zambians must reject it. We would like to heap this blame on the Intellectuals. Our intellectuals in Zambia are cowards, at least most of them. They are afraid to face the powers that be and stop the bad governance. They have the knowledge, but they don't want to share it with those who don't have. They criticize the government from the confines of their comfort zones where they mingle with their fellow elites. They keep away from solution-seeking public discourse, because they have no courage – yet they brag about their academic credentials. Meanwhile, in their absence, functional illiterates are busy sharing ignorance on Facebook.
This is what Prof Muna Ndulo and State Counsel John Sangwa said "NO" to last Friday. They refused to be among the intellectuals who were minding their business while government leaders mooted a scheme to mutilate the Constitution and execute it. Prof Ndulo and State Counsel Sangwa chose to do their part and let the citizens of this country decide what they wish to do with the information shared.
According to learned State Counsel Sangwa, President Edgar Lungu ceded a significant amount of power when he signed the 2016 Constitution Amendment Bill. In so doing, he trashed a Constitution that would have made him win the elections that year with an easy majority, and adopted one which required that he gunners 50+1 per cent of the vote threshold.
"I did not believe he could go ahead and sign that Bill in 2016. Now someone must have told him that he made a huge mistake. So this Constitution Amendment Bill No.10 of 2019 is about undoing the gains made by the 2016 Amendment Bill. They want to reclaim the power which they lost in 2016. That's why they are introducing provisions such as 'coalition government'. The current Constitution says if you don't get 50 per cent plus 1 votes, the top two front runners must go for a rerun; simple and straight forward. What is the coalition government for? They want it so that a President can decide who forms government with his party instead of going for a rerun…This is crazy! It's madness! But I have faith in the Zambian voters because they are not foolish, if they were foolish, Kaunda would still be President after 1991, Chiluba would have stood for a third term and Rupiah Banda would have won in 2011," said State Counsel Sangwa.
This is the bravery and patriotism that we want the rest of our intellectuals in this country to emulate. When the educated demonstrate this level of courage, government leaders can't fool citizens, they can't get away with criminality. We want to see more intellectuals taking a leading role in educating the masses so that citizens can make well-informed decisions when the time comes for choosing their leaders – not just following the wind.
For the Patriotic Front, the lesson to pick from this event is that people have spoken. When we organised this event, we underrated the level of interest that Zambians have in this topic; that is why we chose Southern Sun Hotel for the venue. The conference hall was packed long before the event could start. There was hardly any space left to stand in the conference hall and hundreds of people were turned away by hotel security because the building couldn't take any more people.
Of all the people who participated from the audience, only three argued in favour of this Constitution Amendment Bill. Those were Kabwe Central member of Parliament Honourable Ngulube, YALI governance advisor Isaac Mwanza and another man who only introduced himself as "a politician who attended the National Dialogue Forum". The rest of the packed house rejected the Bill and demanded that it is withdrawn from Parliament. If you don't want to listen to these citizens' demands, then who are you governing?
Lastly, Patriotic Front leaders must emulate Honourable Ngulube's courage to face the people. Good leaders must always find time to interface with the people they governance so that they can assess the mood of society. He may have disagreed with what everyone else was saying, but we are certain that Honourable Ngulube now understands how serious Zambians are about this issue. Let Cabinet ministers show their faces to the public so that they, too, can see what Honourable Ngulube saw on Friday.
Come out Honourable Given Lubinda, Zambians want to have a word with you. The Bible says when a man slaps you on the left cheek, you must offer the right one too. Tiyembekeza!
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Mississippi Is Ground Zero for Abortion Debate in the U.S.
Nov 9, 2021 09:55 pm
By Megan Pratz
Mississippi is at the epicenter of the American debate over abortion rights.
The state's 2018 law, which bans almost all abortions in the state after 15 weeks of pregnancy, could be the one to show whether a strong conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court will uphold or overturn Roe v. Wade — the pivotal 1973 court decision granting the right to abortion across the country.
"It's always been a battle here," said Derenda Hancock, co-founder of Pink House Defenders, which provides services that include escorting women into Mississippi's only abortion clinic.
"This is not only the most depressed state in the nation. It's the poorest state in the nation. We have a 19.6 percent poverty rate, and you know, where better to test everything out than in a state that can't fight back," she said.
For now, though, abortion is legal in Mississippi. There is only one clinic serving this state of nearly three million people and 48,000 square miles. Jackson Women's Health clinic performs about 2,500 abortions per year.
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, this clinic will have to close its doors.
The clinic attracts protestors on a daily basis who try to persuade patients to turn around and reconsider their procedures. It has become a de facto symbol of the abortion debate here.
"I think that there is a need for education and people understanding that we're not against women," said Laura Lane, president of the Mississippi College Students for Life. "We just genuinely love them and we want to support them."
Mississippi is a state with trigger laws in place. Trigger laws are exactly what they sound like — laws that are triggered by another action, in this case, Roe v. Wade being struck down by the highest court. If that happened, abortion would immediately become illegal in Mississippi.
Mississippi is the center of a wave of trigger laws and pre-Roe abortion bans across Southern states that would stop abortion from Florida to New Mexico, creating an abortion desert that covers thousands of square miles and affects millions of people.
"It's already an abortion desert," Hancock said. "If you add Tennessee, all the states surrounding us, there are, I believe, 12 abortion clinics. There are 14 in Detroit. So think about that. When all these few are gone, we have nothing."
These Southern states are also some of the most diverse in the country. Mississippi's population is 38 percent Black. In Texas, 40 percent of people identify as Hispanic or Latino. This means these potential bans in particular will disproportionately affect women of color. Pro-abortion rights advocates argue it will also hurt people with fewer resources.
Hancock and her group are acutely aware of that reality.
"We have people who live in the Delta, which is the poorest area in Mississippi, who have to drive two hours to get here," she said. "I've seen people not be able to come back for their second visit because you just don't have the money. They just can't afford it."
On the other side of the debate, anti-abortion rights groups hope to educate women about options other than terminating a pregnancy, causing some to accuse them of being "pro-birth" rather than "pro-life."
That is something people like Omarr Peters, southern regional coordinator for Students for Life America, are quick to correct.
"We're going around making our city abortion-free by telling women, 'You don't have to go to the abortion facility,'" Peters said. "There are free life-affirming resources that can help you up until your child is 2 years old.
"We can refer you to adoption agencies. We can help out with bills. We can help get you back into school. So honestly being pro-life is anti-abortion, but that does not stop there. It is from the womb to the tomb," he said.
But the "If, then…" method of banning abortion is by design. As states have become more and more conservative, the desire to find ways to ban abortion that will stand the court test of Roe is the goal. And it's possible that the anti-abortion rights movement may have finally found the case that will do just that.
"If we are the pro-life generation," Peters said. "We are the generation that can abolish abortion in our lifetime."
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5 Takeaways | J-Town's Cosby tries PG at WKU
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Fifth-year Western Kentucky basketball coach Ray Harper came to the interview table Wednesday for the Hilltoppers' media day talking expectations and a Louisville native looked upon to do big things this season. Though WKU is riding a streak of three straight 20-win seasons, the Toppers return just five players.
» The goal being a return to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2013 - "every team wants to get to the tournament," Harper said - he's first asking for patience as eight newcomers enter. "Anytime you have that many new guys, there's a learning curve," the coach said. "I do see a lot of potential, and I think this team has a lot of room for growth as we go throughout the season."
WKU hoops made a Conference USA underdog
» Among those newcomers is Aaron Cosby, who finished high school at Jeffersontown and came to WKU from Illinois. He has one season as a graduate transfer to make a statement: that the 6-foot-3 guard is more than a scorer. "Up to this point, that's what he's showed us as a staff," said Harper, who has experimented with playing Cosby at the point rather than shooting guard spot. The move could free up returning starter Chris Harrison-Docks - Harper calls him "a competitive little dude" - to take his share of shots on a team that returns just one-third of its scoring.
» Harper has two 7-footers on his roster and isn't afraid to play them at the same time. Freshman center Nathan Smith (7-2) joined fellow Englishman and junior Ben Lawson (7-1) this season. The bigs play at different spots. "Ben really is a stretch four. I think he really likes being able to face the basket," Harper said. "Nathan is the total opposite. He understands he's a five. He's not afraid of contact. He's a little further along than we anticipated."
WKU adds Hansbrough to staff, two to roster
» Among WKU's major additions is a 6-4 guard who committed years ago, "so he's been talked about a lot," Harper said. First, Fredrick Edmond went the junior college route, becoming an all-American at the College of Southern Idaho. "He's going to be counted on for a lot of different things," the coach said. "The biggest thing I'm preaching to him is, he can maybe be our leading rebounder," doing most of that work rushing in from the perimeter.
» All that said, Harper added, "If you asked me today for a starting lineup, I couldn't give you one." The Hilltoppers have so far run through one full, 40-minute team scrimmage, one where WKU's staff mixed and matched lineups. Harrison-Docks and Aleksej Rostov are returning starters who figure to lock up spots. As for the rest: "Anytime there's competition," Harper said, "I think it's good.
WKU hosts Lindsey Wilson on Monday in its first exhibition ahead of a Nov. 14 season opener against Campbellsville.
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NRA Calls for Armed Police Officer in Every School, Blames Culture of Violence for Shootings
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," says Wayne LaPierre, NRA's executive vice president.
By KEN THOMAS	• Published at 5:30 am on December 21, 2012
The nation's largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings."
The National Rifle Association broke its silence Friday on last week's shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 children and staff dead.
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," the group's top lobbyist, Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, said at a Washington news conference.
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LaPierre said "the next Adam Lanza," the man responsible for last week's mayhem, is planning an attack on another school.
"How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame from a national media machine that rewards them with wall-to-wall attention and a sense of identity that they crave, while provoking others to try to make their mark," LaPierre said. "A dozen more killers, a hundred more? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?"
He blamed video games, movies and music videos for exposing children to a violent culture day in and day out. "In a race to the bottom, many conglomerates compete with one another to shock, violate, and offend every standard of civilized society, by bringing an even more toxic mix of reckless behavior and criminal cruelty right into our homes," LaPierre said.
He refused to take any questions after speaking. Though security was tight, two protesters were able to interrupt LaPierre's speech. One man escorted out had a sign that read "NRA Killing Our Kids." Another woman was led out of the room later while chanting, "the NRA has blood on its hands" and "ban assault weapons now."
LaPierre announced that former Rep. Asa Hutchison, R-Ark., will lead an NRA program that will develop a model security plan for schools that relies on armed volunteers.
The 4.3 million-member NRA largely disappeared from public debate after the shootings in Newtown, Conn., choosing atypical silence as a strategy as the nation sought answers after the rampage. The NRA temporarily took down its Facebook page and kept quiet on Twitter.
Two Democratic senators, who have introduced gun control legislation, blasted the NRA after the press conference.
"The NRA leadership is wildly out of touch with its own members, responsible gun owners, and the American public who want to close dangerous loopholes and enact common-sense gun safety reform," said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, of New Jersey, whose bill would ban the manufacture and sale of ammunition magazines that could be converted to accept more than 10 rounds. "It is clear that their real priority is to help gun manufacturers sell more guns-not to protect our children or Americans' rights."
California Sen. Barbara Boxer accused LaPierre "ignoring the proliferation of weapons of war on our streets."
Since the slayings, President Barack Obama has demanded "real action, right now" against U.S. gun violence and called on the NRA to join the effort. Moving quickly after several congressional gun-rights supporters said they would consider new legislation to control firearms, the president said this week he wants proposals to reduce gun violence that he can take to Congress by January.
Obama has already asked Congress to reinstate an assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 and pass legislation that would stop people from purchasing firearms from private sellers without a background check. Obama also has indicated he wants Congress to pursue the possibility of limiting high-capacity magazines.
On Friday, Obama said in a YouTube video he was encouragedby a "We the People" petition posted on the White House website calling for more gun control.
"We hear you," he told signers of the petition, which has amassed 200,000 supporters in the wake of the Newtown school shootings. "I will do everything in my power as president to advance these efforts because if there's even one thing we can do as a country to protect our children, we have a responsibility to try."


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Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 – c. 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter. Her best known painting is Judith Beheading Holofernes. She was born in Rome. She was the first child of the Tuscan painter Orazio Gentileschi. She finished her first painting when she was 17. In 1611 she was raped by Agostino Tassi. Her father brought a lawsuit against him in 1612. Gentileschi married Pietro Antonio di Vicenzo Stiattesi that year.
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Fall is a special time to travel through the Porcupine Mountains and Ontonagon County. Every bend of the road brings a new splash of color and a new vista to savor, and thanks to the proximity to Lake Superior, trees here hold their colors longer than some destinations to the south. Whether you're driving a car or riding your motorcycle, there's plenty to see. Fill up your tank and get ready to be dazzled.
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This scenic loop covers a beautiful swath of the Ottawa National Forest and takes motorists through some incredible fall color. Leaving Silver City, head into the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park and head south on South Boundary Road. You'll pass Little Union Gorge Falls and then five miles later, Nonesuch Falls; allow time to pull over at both waterfalls. Where South Boundary Road hits the westernmost edge of the state park, you'll find three outstanding waterfalls—Manabezho, Manido, and Nawadaha falls. Next, head south on County Road 519 to Wakefield, then travel east on M-28 to Bergland, located on the northern shore of Lake Gogebic. Finally, head north on M-64 back to Silver City to complete the loop.
You don't have to drive far to find brilliant fall color. For a shorter, spectacular trip out of White Pine, take M-64 north to the shore of Lake Superior. Head west into the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. When you get into the park, you'll want to get out of the car top take in the view from the lakeshore. Drive a little further to reach a spectacular lookout above the iconic Lake of the Clouds. The vista is always memorable, but in the fall, it's particularly breathtaking. Return the way you came, enjoying every scenic mile.
Drivers who take this scenic route will enjoy breathtaking fall vistas along Lake Superior and tree-lined highways that cut through the heart of the Ottawa National Forest. From Ontonagon, head west on M-64 to Silver City, then head south on M-64, then south to Bergland. Head east along M-28 and connecting with Highway 45 at Bruce Crossing. Travel north on Highway 45 to Rockland, then proceed north back to Ontonagon.


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From Y To Z and Never Again is an EP by the seminal punk band Big in Japan. It includes four of their six recorded songs and is notable for being the first release on Zoo Records, the label created by band members Bill Drummond and David Balfe. It was also one of the first releases that came from the late '70s-early '80s Liverpool rock scene.
The EP has been out of print since 1978, but the tracks are available on the Zoo Records compilation Zoo Uncaged.

The track listing presents part of the numerous line-up changes the band suffered during their two years of existence. The only remaining members of the band during the recording of the EP were (or seemed to be) Bill Drummond and Ian Broudie.

Track listing
 "Nothing Special" - 3:37
 "Cindy and the Barbi Dolls" - 3:31
 "Suicide a Go Go" - 2:27
 "Taxi" - 4:27

Personnel
 Jayne: lead vocals (except 2)
 Kev Ward: vocals (3)
 Ian Broudie: guitar, lead vocals (2)
 Bill Drummond: guitar
 Holly Johnson: bass guitar (3, 4)
 Dave Balfe: bass guitar (1, 2)
 Phil Allen: drums (3)
 Budgie: drums (1, 4)

References

1978 debut EPs
Big in Japan (band) albums

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Assassin's Creed :: Topics :: Plot Topics :: The Brotherhood's plot arch Share
The end of an old era
Subject: The end of an old era Fri Apr 18, 2014 4:01 am
November 22, 1963. 12:00 pm
Anastasia had traveled to tis place with the Brotherhood a week ago. No one had told her why. She had been sitting in her room reading and trying to stay cool in the god forsaken heat of the southern united states. Truth was she was getting upset. she had been with the brotherhood for 8 months, ever since they broke her out of Alcatraz. Once she had the personalities in her head calmed down she started going on missions. She was hoping that there was some kind of test for her, a test that would earn her her first blade. So far however the others seemed to be ignoring her. Whatever they were here for was big.
Tired of waiting she grabbed the beaked scarf she wore to hide her scars and donned it. She checked in with a more senior member of the brotherhood and went for a walk. As she walked she heard chearing in the distance. She decided to go see what was happening. when she got close to a place called Dealey Plaza, she hear a series of 3 shots ring out. she looked up and saw a rifle barrel sticking out of a window. she quickly did a 360 turn and on a hill she saw a phantom. being ill equipt and an illegal alien in this country she faded into the croud and returned to the brotherhoods hide out.
Name: Ruiyn Straid
Organization: Brotherhood
Subject: Re: The end of an old era Fri May 09, 2014 5:48 am
As news reached Ruiyn the mission was a failure, he quickly made his way back to the hide out as fast as he could. This was his mission to set up and something went wrong. He had to find out why, and what went wrong. As soon he got to the hide out he began questioning people on what happened.
Anastasia stood silently in the corner and let the higher ranking members discuss what just happened. currently she was having a small mental breakdown and was designing a tesla coil that could be mounted on her arm. however she was still thinking of the phantom on the hill. and it showed on her face.
"What happened, what went wrong?!" Ruiyn started yelling. "This mission was suppose to be extremely simple." Another assassin piped up "It was the templers sir. Teh fired first and hit the target 'fore we spotted them. But we did kill 'em for hitting the target! But we din't ge' the one 'ho go' the presiden'." (accented slur say it how it spelled) Ruiyn pointed at Anastasia "You with me! We need to follow the vice president and find out what hes up too."
Anastasia looked up. when she realized that all the other were looking at her she pointed at herself. ''Me, sir?'' she was uncertain why he was choosing her. ''am i finally being trained?'' she asked as she followed him, making sure her shawl was in place, covering her face.
Subject: Re: The end of an old era Sun May 11, 2014 4:04 pm
Ruiyn spoke quickly "Yes your being trained. I need someone to help me and your the newest and I need to see your abilities. Lets go." He begins quickly leaving wearing his suit.
behind her shawl she was smiling, or at least trying to. the scarring made it hard to do.
''um master? she said tentatively.
Ruiyn waves her closer. "What is it you wish to know?" Ruiyn adjusts his suit making sure he looks good.
''I was there'' she said, ''i heard the gunshot. I ran. But I saw something odd. I saw a phantom on a hill.''
"Ok. Were are heading to the airfield. That's where the president was heading in the first place. We must move very quickly." He climbs into his car and starts it.
anastasia climbed into the passenger seat of the car. it was a nice car. it was a stingray, fresh off the assembly. it was royal blue and beautiful. he must have spent a fortune on it.
''nice car,'' ana said running her hand over the dashboard. ''i never could have afforded one in Russia.''
Subject: Re: The end of an old era Mon May 12, 2014 4:55 pm
"Thank you." Ruiyn spoke quickly. He sped the car down the road, driving to the airport quickly putting it into 4th gear. As they got to the airport, he quickly began searching for the vice president.
''sir,'' ana asks timidly, ''what are we looking for?''
Subject: Re: The end of an old era Tue May 13, 2014 4:01 pm
"Reach into the glove compartment and hand me the badge. We are looking for the vice president. He should be heading to Airforce One. By the way take a badge for yourself insert the photo on the right. We are suppose to be undercover agents. We need to split up to cover more ground." Ruiyn spoke softly.
Subject: Re: The end of an old era Thu May 15, 2014 12:40 am
ana reached into the glove box and grabbed two badges. she looked at them. ''святое дерьмо,'' she exclaimed, ''are these real?'' she asked handing a dallas police badge to him before working on her own. ''will this work with me being a...''
Subject: Re: The end of an old era Thu May 15, 2014 1:49 am
"A woman? Yes it will. Avoid using russian while we are here. Your a undercover cop escorting me around. Im looking for a sign of a bomb. We got a tip from a anonymous caller. I was sent in because its here." Ruiyn spoke quickly as he steps out of his car, walking towards the back of it. Ruiyn opens the trunk and pulls out a revolver in a chest holster. He puts it on quickly and heads towards the airport putting his jacket on.
ana reached into the trunk and grabbed a small gun and slipped it into her purse. she then closed the trunk and went after ruiyn. ''yes sir,'' she said. ana closed her eyes and focused a bit. she opened her eyes after a minute. ''hows this mon Cheri?'' she asked with a creole accent.
Ruiyn steps back for a moment in surprise. " That is surprisingly good. Yes that was good and it will work. Now be careful when looking for the vice president. We need to be extremely quick before they get to the plane." Ruiyn walks into the airport going to the clerk flashing his badge quickly and explaining what he needs done quickly.
''yes sir,'' she said as she peeled off. she tried to ask questions but most just scoffed at a woman cop from the bayou asking questions. after an hour she returned to the car. she pulled out of her purse a pack of cigarette and lit one up. it was a habit from when she was still in moscow.
Ruiyn was getting no where fast. He knew the time to find them and get them was over. "Damn." he muttered under his breath. He started to walk out the front doors. All of the sudden out of nowhere three men grabbed him, a gun jammed against his back he knew there wasn't much he could do. So he did the only thing he could do. He pulled his hands out of his pockets dropping his wallet and badge. Starting to bend down and pick it up and they just shoved the gun in his back deeper. He quickly straightened up and began walking the directing he was being told. As soon as he walked around another corner he drew his hidden daggers. Swinging around striking the man with the gun in his hand ,knocking it aside while cutting him deeply. Finally getting some breathing room he was prepared to fight for his life. The man who was deeply cut called for back up while the other two prepared to fight Ruiyn. Ruiyn quickly lunged at one to the right trying to stab him in the chest. Ruiyn knew as soon as he did, he made a rookie mistake. His blades sunk home only to hit a metal plate at the end of a kevlar vest. The man on the right hit Ruiyn with both hands knocking him instantly unconscious.
Subject: Re: The end of an old era Thu May 29, 2014 1:02 pm
Anastasia had just finished her cigarette when she saw ruiyn come out of the building. she dropped her cigarette, stepped on it and started to go towards him. when she saw the men grab him she got scared. she hid behind the car. she heard the fight and the final blow. she heard them drag off ruiyn. when she felt it was safe she popped her head out. she could see them dragging off ruiyn. she decided to follow them. she followed them to a van where they threw him in. at that moment something clicked. tey were speaking russian. she fell back. as she returned to the car she saw something. she ran over to it, her boots clacking on the lot. when she got close she saw it was his badge. she picked it up. she ran to the car and got behind the wheel. she waited for the van to pass before she followed them to a private air field.
on the side of one plane ana saw something that made her heart speed up. tyur'ma proklyatykh. she turned around and returned to base. she knew where they were taking ruiyn.
Subject: Re: The end of an old era
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Welcome to the wickedly funny world of TO MY FUTURE ASSISTANT, where overworked and underappreciated assistants finally get their due.
We've all been there. You might even be there right now. Do you use your hard-earned university education for such critical tasks as memorising your boss's lunch order or showing them, yet again, how to use the photocopier? Or what about those awesome days when you're instructed to 'send me that thing from a week ago' or 'book me a table at that restaurant that girl said was good', and are then berated when you're not able to figure out immediately what your boss is talking about?
TO MY FUTURE ASSISTANT compiles everything that disgruntled (and optimistic) assistants everywhere promise never to do when they're the boss* - from ridiculous requests and backhanded compliments to outright insults. Filled with helpful tips and tricks for Boss Wrangling, these pages are just what the underpaid masses need to survive (and laugh at) the daily injustices of life at the bottom of the career ladder.


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FULLY EXONERATED: Greg Kelley exonerated in Williamson Co. hearing
by: Kate Winkle, Phil Prazan
WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — On Wednesday, Greg Kelley left the 26th District Court an innocent man.
After three years in prison for a crime state judges say he didn't commit, former Leander football star Greg Kelley is now fully exonerated. A jury convicted him of sexually assaulting a child five years ago but when new evidence and alternate suspects emerged. prosecutors took another look at the case.
"I've been dreaming of this day. It feels like the past six years have been a nightmare for me," said Kelley.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned his conviction and District Judge Donna King's approval was the last step Wednesday.
"I've been exposed to the justice system and the flaws in it. I knew that the power of politics could get involved and that's one thing I feared the most, somebody that was going to get their hand in this that would stop me from going home," said Kelley.
District Attorney Shawn Dick agreed to re-look at the case when he was elected but he's disappointed they couldn't find the guilty party.
"Unfortunately, we weren't able to get to the ultimate answer to what happened to the child and so this process wasn't ever going to reveal that," said Dick.
Kelley for his part has called for the resignation of Cedar Park Police Chief Sean Mannix, who oversaw the officers who originally investigated and made the arrest. A police spokeswoman pointed to earlier remarks from the Chief — saying he has heard the criticism and taken action to address it.
Why Greg Kelley won't be exonerated today
After conviction overturned, Greg Kelley returns …
'I'm finally free': Greg Kelley shares his story …
Kelley told KXAN Wednesday he plans on marrying his fiance in January, trying to play football again, and getting involved in the prison seminary program in the days ahead.
Kelley's attorney plans to pursue compensation for Kelley under the wrongful incarceration act.
Keith Hampton says that includes free tuition to any Texas college, and payment of about $80,000 dollars for each year he spent behind bars — with a small "annuity." Hampton says the full compensation could be about $250,000.
Kelley was convicted in 2014 and sentenced to 25 years in prison on an aggravated sexual assault against a child charge. However, in 2017 his defense argued another suspect could have been responsible for the crime. Kelley was released on bond pending an appeal when a Williamson County judge declared him innocent.
On Nov. 6, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned Kelley's conviction.
In December of 2017, the Texas Rangers identified three possible suspects. One was a friend of Kelley's Jonathan McCarty. He was also accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in San Marcos years later. He was found guilty on drug charges and is currently in prison.
That paperwork granting habeas corpus relief was filed Monday, Nov. 25. Also that same day, the Court of Criminal Appeals accepted a request to speed up the process because both the defense and prosecution agreed with its decision to overturn the conviction.
"With nine other judges in agreement, I declare you innocent and fully exonerated," the judge says to Greg Kelley, in front of his family. Courtroom erupts in applause. @KXAN_News pic.twitter.com/s8IeDyMLZo
— Phil Prazan (@PhilPrazan) November 27, 2019


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Benjamin Franklin House, London
A Genius at Work: Historian Márcia Balisciano Takes Us Inside Benjamin Franklin's London Home
In the heart of London stands the Benjamin Franklin House, the home where he lived between 1757 and 1775.
Built circa 1730, the terraced Georgian edifice at 36 Craven Street is the only surviving former residence of one of America's most famous Founding Fathers. Today it is a vibrant museum and educational facility that features his beloved scientific discoveries, from lightning rods to hydrodynamics. The top floor is the Robert H. Smith Scholarship Centre, which focuses on historical documents including the Papers of Benjamin Franklin, which are sponsored by The American Philosophical Society and Yale University.
What savvy governing agreements was Franklin working out while in London to benefit the United States? Who helped to preserve the c. 1730 residence? Which famous dignitaries have visited the museum in recent years? And what happened to Franklin's famous home and shop in Philadelphia?
Scroll down for our Q&A with Márcia Balisciano, founding director of the Benjamin Franklin House. She is also the director of corporate responsibility for the global media group Reed Elsevier; previously she served as adviser to the American Chamber of Commerce in Britain, and to the documentary film project "50 Lessons."
One of 28 international women featured in a book and exhibition for the Federation of American Women's Clubs Overseas, she is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics. Balisciano was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours List.
Here's to bringing history to life! — David Bruce Smith, founder, and Hope Katz Gibbs, executive producer, the Grateful American™ Foundation
David Bruce Smith: Benjamin Franklin made his first visit to England in 1725. What inspired the trip, and what was it like for the then 19-year-old to be on his own in a foreign country?
Márcia Balisciano: After serving as an apprentice to his enterprising and demanding older brother James, who was the publisher of Boston's New England Courant — and who was surprised by and perhaps a bit jealous of his younger sibling's precocious talents — it was time for Franklin to forge his own way. He traveled to the burgeoning colonial city of Philadelphia with the aim of making his mark as a printer and a publisher. In his autobiography, Franklin describes meeting smooth-talking Pennsylvania Gov. Sir William Keith, whom young Ben so impressed that Keith promised to finance a voyage to England to allow Franklin to purchase the equipment needed to start his press.
No funds were (ever) forthcoming, but Franklin sailed for London anyway. With the help of a wayward traveling companion, writer James Ralph, Franklin took advantage of some of the cosmopolitan delights available in London, such as theatre and books. He unsuccessfully wooed a discarded mistress of Ralph's and expanded his knowledge about his chosen trade by working in the printing operation housed in 12th century church St Bartholomew the Great, which still stands.
Hope Katz Gibbs: He returned to America in 1726, and eventually built his reputation as a printer, merchant, and civic leader. In Philadelphia, he established the first postal service, public library, and volunteer fire department. Do you have any documentation or stories to suggest that his time in England inspired him?
Márcia Balisciano: Franklin went on to work at Watts, an even larger printing house in London, where he plied an early interest in civic improvement: "From my example, a great part of them [his colleagues] left their muddling breakfast of beer, and bread, and cheese, finding they could with me be suppli'd from a neighboring house with a large porringer of hot water-gruel, sprinkled with pepper, crumbl'd with bread, and a bit of butter in it, for the price of a pint of beer, viz., three half-pence. This was a more comfortable as well as cheaper breakfast, and kept their heads clearer." On his return to Philadelphia, he continued this passion for betterment through the Junto, a club of like-minded individuals he established, dedicated to self-improvement and community advancement.
Hope Katz Gibbs: Franklin was vocal about his opposition to taxation without representation. And in 1767, tensions between Britain and the American Colonies worsened as duties were levied on glass, paper, and tea. Even so, he worked toward reconciliation. In fact, in a 1768 letter, he wrote: "I wish prosperity to both sides." Tell us about that negotiation.
Márcia Balisciano: Colonial concern over arbitrary taxation brewed in the 1760s and first reached a head in 1765 with the Stamp Act, which required Americans to purchase a stamp for an array of goods, from newspapers and contracts to playing cards.
Rumor on the home front had it that Franklin — who returned to England in 1757 to represent Colonial interests, now as a successful printer, publisher, civic leader, and politician — was in favor of the Act, but in fact he gave compelling testimony toward its successful repeal a year later: "If you have no right to tax them internally, you have none to tax them externally, or make any other law to bind them. At present they do not reason so, but in time they may possibly be convinced by these arguments."
But one unpopular duty gave way to others and culminated in the Boston Tea Party of 1773. At stake was not only political but economic sovereignty. The Colonists were not content with simply supplying raw materials to Britain; they wanted the right to sell their manufactured goods as well. Franklin tried a range of measures to bridge the gap between each side, which included articles, cartoons, spoofs, treatises, and of course, negotiation.
In his "Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One," he noted in frustration, "A great Cake is most easily diminished at the Edges."
David Bruce Smith: In his book, "Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father," George Goodwin — the Author in Residence at the Benjamin Franklin House — points out that for the great majority of his long life, Franklin was a loyal British royalist. Can you explain?
Márcia Balisciano: Franklin, born in Boston, was Anglo-American. His father came from Ecton, a small village in England's Northamptonshire, while his mother hailed from Nantucket Island, off the coast of Massachusetts. Yet he thought of himself, as did his contemporaries, as a subject of the king. With his son William he attended the coronation of the 22-year-old King George III in 1761 and had optimism for his leadership.
As he wrote to his friend Samuel Cooper in Boston just six years before the start of the Revolutionary War, "I hope nothing that … may happen will diminish in the least our Loyalty to our Sovereign, or Affection for this Nation in general. I can scarcely conceive a King of better Dispositions, of more exemplary Virtues, or more truly desirous of promoting the Welfare of all his Subjects." The breach when it came was personal and painful — he was a reluctant rebel.
Hope Katz Gibbs: Franklin is known to have spent many hours in his Craven Street laboratory. What types of scientific discoveries did he make there?
Márcia Balisciano: During his long years at Craven Street, Franklin pursued his passion for science and continued his investigations into the nature of electricity. He spliced imagination and practicality and devised a three-wheeled 24-hour perpetual clock and a flexible catheter, and he improved the design of bifocals, among other inventions and investigations.
During conservation, we found remnants of a Franklin stove and damper in the adjoining spaces of his "laboratory," evidence of his interest in fuel efficiency. He also invented a musical instrument in his London house, the armonica, for which Mozart, (JC) Bach, and Beethoven composed in his own time: nested glass bowls of different octaves, fastened with a steel rod and spun with a treadle to produce the sound of angels. It is still used today, including in the "Harry Potter" theme song!
David Bruce Smith: Although he was known to have enjoyed the company of women during the years that he was in London, Franklin had been married to Deborah Read since 1730. She did not accompany him on his frequent trips to Europe because of a fear of sea travel. In spite of their separations, they remained loyal and supportive partners to each other for nearly half a century. What can you tell us about Franklin's marriage?
Márcia Balisciano: During his first British foray, Franklin left Deborah behind and she married someone else. As he wrote in his autobiography, "I, by degrees, [forgot] my engagements with Miss Read, to whom I never wrote more than one letter, and that was to let her know I was not likely soon to return. This was another of the great errata of my life, which I should wish to correct if I were to live it over again."
Her ne'er-do-well husband ran off and was never heard from again, but as Deborah was not divorced or officially widowed, on Franklin's return to Philadelphia, he and Deborah could not marry officially; she was his common-law wife. During his second sojourn in London, Franklin did write her and she him, replete with spelling mistakes and simple news. Though his dear Debby was not his intellectual equal, she was his stalwart confidante and defender, a brick who stood down a mob come to torch his Philadelphia home during furor over the Stamp Act.
Franklin's letters home were by turns affectionate and controlling. He has her start building a home on Philadelphia's Chestnut Street (the architectural footings are all that remain, but it is the site of the US Park Service's wonderfully rejuvenated Benjamin Franklin Museum) and micromanages its construction from across the ocean.
Mirroring the period of their youth, after Franklin sails in 1764 to England for a third and final time, Deborah waits for his return — but waits in vain. (His second stint in London occurred when Franklin returned there in 1757 as the day's most well-known Colonial — his fame and wealth staked on his Colonial best-seller "Poor Richard's Almanack" and pioneering electrical studies — to secure greater financial support from the Penns, proprietary owners of Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Colony's legislature. That stay in England ended when he came back to Philadelphia in 1762. Some 18 months later, he is sent back to England a third time as an agent for Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Georgia, to seek concessions over taxation without representation.)
Hope Katz Gibbs: Franklin and Deborah had two children: Francis Folger Franklin (Oct. 20, 1732 – Nov. 21, 1736), who died of smallpox at age 4, and Sarah Franklin Bache (Sept. 11, 1743 – Oct. 5, 1808). The couple also raised William Franklin (~1730 – Nov. 17, 1814), Franklin's illegitimate son, who later became Colonial governor of New Jersey. Did he also live in the Craven Street house? Their reputation eventually soured. Can you tell us about what happened?
Márcia Balisciano: Franklin was a keeper of secrets and never named William's mother or the circumstances of his son's birth. William accompanies his father to London in July 1757, and also takes up residence at 36 Craven Street while studying law at the Temple Bar. Franklin was proud of his son's accomplishments, but they came to hold fundamentally different views on the best course for America. For William, loyalty to the king trumped loyalty to his father.
Though ultimately unsuccessful, Franklin worked tirelessly to find a third way between the interests of the crown and the Colonies (as late as January 1775, he receives former Prime Minister, William Pitt, the Elder, now Earl of Chatham, at Craven Street to try and craft a proposal that can avert war). Unlike his father, when it came time to choose between the country of his birth and his heritage, William picked the latter.
As he wrote to his father in late 1774, "If there was any Prospect of your being able to bring the People in Power to your Way of Thinking, or of those of your Way of Thinking's being brought into Power, I should not think so much of your Stay. But as you have had by this Time pretty strong Proofs that neither can be reasonably expected and that you are look'd upon with an evil Eye in that Country, and are in no small Danger of being brought into Trouble for your political Conduct, you had certainly better return, while you are able to bear the Fatigues of the Voyage, to a Country where the People revere you."
David Bruce Smith: Franklin did not leave London to visit Deborah even after she wrote to him in November 1769 saying her illness was due to "dissatisfied distress" over his prolonged absence. In the late 1760s and early 1770s, Deborah suffered a series of strokes that slurred her speech and memory. She died on Dec. 19, 1774. Is there any documentation about his thoughts on this loss? And is her death the reason he returned to America?
Márcia Balisciano: At Benjamin Franklin House, our primary public offering is the Historical Experience, which uses live performance, sound, and visual projection to tell Franklin's rich London story. One of the most moving moments in the drama comes from his September 1774 letter to her: "It is now nine long Months since I received a Line from my dear Debby. I have supposed it owing to your continual Expectation of my Return; I have feared that some Indisposition had rendered you unable to write; I have imagined any thing rather than admit a Supposition that your kind Attention towards me was abated. … You, who used to be so diligent and faithful a Correspondent. …" Earlier in his life he noted, "a Man cannot in this Life be so perfect as an Angel." She did not live out the year. If Parliament had heard and accepted the proposal for peace and mutual prosperity crafted with Chatham after Deborah's death, I suspect he would have remained in England.
Hope Katz Gibbs: Now let's talk about your wonderful museum, which opened to the public on Jan. 17, 2006. What inspired the restoration?
Márcia Balisciano: 36 Craven Street is a historical gem! By some quirk of fate, the only surviving home of Benjamin Franklin, one of America's most iconic figures, is not in Boston where he was born, not in his adopted city of Philadelphia, nor in Paris where he served, beginning in 1776, as first official representative of the fledgling American government, garnering financial support that led to American success during the Revolution. It is in the heart of London, just steps from Trafalgar Square.
By 1980 the Georgian building was empty and derelict. By the late 1990s, a dedicated management team and substantial fundraising allowed consideration of its future. The starting point was Franklin. As he noted to his great friend, scientist Joseph Priestley, in 1780 (with whom he had spent long hours conversing at Craven Street), "The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions my Regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may be carried in a 1000 Years the Power of Man over Matter." Franklin's passionate curiosity, his commitment to furthering public knowledge, and his embrace of technology continue to be inspirations.
In addition to the Historical Experience, which relates the history of person and place using drama and digital innovation, our Student Science Centre reveals Franklin's Craven Street science, allowing children to imagine, hypothesize, and experiment. It also highlights medical history — during conservation we found more than 150 bones, remnants of the anatomy school established with encouragement from Franklin by his landlady's son-in-law, pioneering scientist William Hewson. All educational provision is free, and we have now served some 25,000 children in the Franklin House and in the community, encompassing in-school fun with Ben's Traveling Suitcase visits by our education manager, which extends the in-House learning.
David Bruce Smith: How many visitors come through each year? Are they mostly Europeans or Americans? What types of events do you host? And how are you spreading the word worldwide about the colorful Franklin and his causes?
Márcia Balisciano: Approximately 12,000 visit the Benjamin Franklin House each year from around the world. Americans are among our most frequent visitors.
From our top floor Robert H. Smith Scholarship Centre, we plan 40 public events per year, including family days, concerts, and celebrations such as Thanksgiving, held at a city livery hall with three long tables filled with turkeys, pumpkin pies, and trimmings each November. We also hold Franklin-inspired lectures, including our Annual Symposium with speakers that have included a Nobel Prize-winning inventor, the editor of a leading British daily, and prominent diplomats. With our partner the British Library, we are proud of our annual Robert H. Smith Lecture in American Democracy. For the first time, we will hold a Robert H. Smith Lecture this year — featuring award-winning Franklin biographer Walter Isaacson — at the New-York Historical Society on 11 May (for tickets visit: http://www.nyhistory.org/programs/benjamin-franklin-american-democracy-and-innovation).
We get the word out about Franklin and his special London home through our website and social media, and we think he would have loved including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!
Hope Katz Gibbs: How do you think the people of Britain best remember Franklin?
Márcia Balisciano: I think Franklin is remembered on this side of the Atlantic as a key US founder and polymath. He is someone they can claim as their own given his long tenure in Britain and his English heritage. I hear from many visitors that Franklin is their polymathic hero! Such adulation for Franklin isn't new. Even during the Revolution, the British public bought items with Franklin's likeness, including Wedgewood medallions (1777). The admiration was mutual. As he noted to his young friend, Polly Hewson, daughter of his Craven Street landlady, "Of all the enviable Things England has, I envy it most its People."
David Bruce Smith: Last, but certainly not least, tell us how you came to work on this project and what the future is for the Benjamin Franklin House in London?
Márcia Balisciano: I have the privilege of being the founding director of Benjamin Franklin House. It is a real labor of love! I was completing a PhD at the London School of Economics wondering what I was to do next when I discovered the project to rescue and open the Franklin House to the public for the first time. I found two Franklin quotes then that have stayed with me since: "Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve."
We have exciting future plans. In this our 10th anniversary year, we aim to introduce new digital offerings in order to reveal new aspects of the Franklin House heritage, attract new audiences, and enhance the visitor experience. This will include a virtual "fly-through" of the house's Georgian interior showing how the spaces might have looked during Franklin's tenure. The Virtual Georgian Interior will build on our existing approach, whereby the physical spaces have only one item each to indicate their purpose — place and story are evoked through the performance, sound, and digital renderings. The 18th century rooms are authentic and Franklin would know them if he were to return today.
We will create an updated children's Historical Experience show featuring newly commissioned illustrations (projections) to enhance young people's understanding of the Franklin House heritage. They will add color and context to school tours. We also aim to create a new website offering more layered content to help global virtual visitors access the house's important heritage.
In the longer-term, we plan to add an extension to the back of the building — Franklin Labs — a landmark 21st century addition that will provide more educational offerings, including an immersive timeline of Franklin's achievements, and special changing exhibitions with innovation as the common strand.
Thank you so much for your time, Márcia! It is a pleasure to learn about Franklin and his London home. We look forward to coming over for a visit!
For more information, visit: www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org
Open daily • 9am-5pm
Where: Hamilton Grange National Memorial
287 Convent Ave New York NY 10031 • (212) 283-5154 • Directions.
Details: Alexander Hamilton's Grange National Memorial is open to the public Wednesday through Sunday year-round, except on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.
We prioritize school group visits on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Friday in a 1hr block between the hours of 10:00am and 12:00pm. Please contact us before you visit because our schedules are subject to change.
The visitor center (bookstore, exhibits, restrooms) will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Visitation to the historically furnished floor is limited to a maximum of 15 people at a time.
Visitors have two options for visiting the historically furnished rooms.
The first is a Ranger-guided tour and talk scheduled for 10 a.m., 11 am.,1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
The second is a relatively self-guided experience where visitors will be able to view the rooms at their own pace with a Park Ranger nearby to answer
questions. The self guided experience is scheduled for two 1-hour periods, 12-1p.m. and 3-4 p.m.
Please note the historically furnished floor can only be seen with a ranger during open house.
The surrounding grounds are part of the Hamilton Grange experience and maintain the same operating hours.
For information about scheduling weekday (Wednesday-Friday) class visits, please click here.
Saving Mount Vernon Tour • Weekends 3:30-4:30pm
Where: George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate
3200 Mt Vernon Memorial Hwy Alexandria VA 22309 • (800) 429-1520 • mountvernon.org • Click here for directions.
Details: During this one-hour tour, visit the rarely seen Mansion basement and wander the historic area to learn of the heroics of the estate's caretakers during the Civil War, and the robust efforts of many over the century and a half that followed.
The Saving Mount Vernon Tour is available on weekends only from April through October. It is offered at 3:30 pm with a maximum of 20 people per tour. The tour lasts approximately 1 hour and requires walking. A portion of the available tickets are offered in advance. The remainder are sold at the ticket window the day of the tour. Tickets are required for each person on the tour. The tour is sold-out if the date desired does not allow you to add it to your shopping cart. (more…)
Lincoln's Cottage Tours • Daily, 10am-3pm
Where: Lincoln's Cottage at Soldiers' Home
Rock Creek Church Rd NW & Upshur St NW Washington DC 20011 (202) 829-0436 • lincolncottage.org • Click here for directions.
Visitor Center: 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM • Cottage Tours: First tour at 10 AM • Last tour at 3 PM
Visitor Center: 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM • Cottage Tours: First Tour at 11 AM • Last tour at 3 PM
Closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.
Open on Christmas Eve between 9:30 am and 1:30 pm, last tour begins at 12 pm.
Cottage Admission and Tours
Admission to the Cottage is by guided tour only and requires a tour ticket. Advanced ticket purchase is strongly recommended, and weekend tours often sell out completely. Unreserved tour tickets are available on a first come, first served basis. Tours begin in the Visitor Education Center and last approximately 1 hour from start to finish.
For ticket prices and to purchase a ticket, click here.
For more information on our tours, click here.
Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers
Featuring Nancy Tomes
Where: This program will be held at the Reading Room in Bryant Park. The Reading Room is located on the 42nd Street side of the park between 5th and 6th Avenues. Look for the burgundy and white umbrellas.
When: Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017 | 7:00 pm
Details: In collaboration with the New-York Historical Society, the Bryant Park Reading Room presents a series of free lectures on popular topics including the Supreme Court, the Cold War, presidential biography, and more.
From the early 20th century, when the modern American healthcare system was beginning to take shape, through the present day, aggressive advertising and marketing has played a critical role in shaping how medical professionals and patients alike approach treatment options. As our contemporary political leaders continue to debate how to ensure citizens have access to healthcare, historian Nancy Tomes examines the impact of rebranding patients as "consumers" and turning health insurance and the latest drugs into "must-have products."
Nancy Tomes is Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY Stony Brook and the author of Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers, which was awarded Columbia University's 2017 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy.
Cost: Free, first come first served.
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Kathy Denise Robinson, 42, died Sunday, Aug. 8, 1999, at her residence. She was born April 10, 1957, in Palestine to Wiley Dudley Sr. and Lucy Price Dudley.
Mrs. Robinson attended Palestine public schools and was a member of the Antioch Baptist Church in Palestine before joining the Anderson Road Baptist Church in Houston. She worked as a library clerk at Texas Children's Hospital for seven years.
Mrs. Robinson is survived by her husband, Cleveland E. Robinson of Houston; a daughter, Keneta Robinson of Houston; parents, Wiley Gene Dudley Sr. of Hampton and Lucy Jackson of Palestine; brothers, Kenneth Barrett of Houston and Wiley G. Dudley Jr. and Antonio Dudley, both of Palestine; a sister, Belinda Yarbrough of Palestine; and one grandchild.
She is also survived by two brothers, Ray Dudley and Shawn Dudley, both of Hampton; and three sisters, Sharon Dudley of Jacksonville, N.C., Rhonda Dudley of Alexandria and Sherri Dudley of Hampton.
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package com.google.errorprone.bugpatterns.apidiff;

import com.google.auto.value.AutoValue;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSetMultimap;
import com.google.common.collect.Multimap;
import com.google.errorprone.bugpatterns.apidiff.ApiDiffProto.Diff;
import java.util.Set;

/** The difference between two APIs. */
@AutoValue
public abstract class ApiDiff {

  /** A per class unique identifier for a field or method. */
  @AutoValue
  public abstract static class ClassMemberKey {

    /** The simple name of the member. */
    public abstract String identifier();

    /** The JVMS 4.3 member descriptor. */
    public abstract String descriptor();

    public static ClassMemberKey create(String identifier, String descriptor) {
      return new AutoValue_ApiDiff_ClassMemberKey(identifier, descriptor);
    }

    @Override
    public final String toString() {
      return String.format("%s:%s", identifier(), descriptor());
    }
  }

  /** Binary names of classes only present in the new API. */
  public abstract ImmutableSet<String> unsupportedClasses();

  /** Members only present in the new API, grouped by binary name of their declaring class. */
  public abstract ImmutableSetMultimap<String, ClassMemberKey> unsupportedMembersByClass();

  /** Returns true if the class with the given binary name is unsupported. */
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    return unsupportedClasses().contains(className);
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    return unsupportedMembersByClass().containsEntry(className, memberKey)
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            .containsEntry(className, ClassMemberKey.create(memberKey.identifier(), ""));
  }

  public static ApiDiff fromMembers(
      Set<String> unsupportedClasses, Multimap<String, ClassMemberKey> unsupportedMembersByClass) {
    return new AutoValue_ApiDiff(
        ImmutableSet.copyOf(unsupportedClasses),
        ImmutableSetMultimap.copyOf(unsupportedMembersByClass));
  }

  /** Converts a {@link Diff} to a {@link ApiDiff}. */
  public static ApiDiff fromProto(Diff diff) {
    ImmutableSet.Builder<String> unsupportedClasses = ImmutableSet.builder();
    ImmutableSetMultimap.Builder<String, ClassMemberKey> unsupportedMembersByClass =
        ImmutableSetMultimap.builder();
    for (ApiDiffProto.ClassDiff c : diff.getClassDiffList()) {
      switch (c.getDiffCase()) {
        case EVERYTHING_DIFF:
          unsupportedClasses.add(c.getEverythingDiff().getClassName());
          break;
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          ApiDiffProto.MemberDiff memberDiff = c.getMemberDiff();
          for (ApiDiffProto.ClassMember member : memberDiff.getMemberList()) {
            unsupportedMembersByClass.put(
                memberDiff.getClassName(),
                ClassMemberKey.create(member.getIdentifier(), member.getMemberDescriptor()));
          }
          break;
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          throw new AssertionError(c.getDiffCase());
      }
    }
    return new AutoValue_ApiDiff(unsupportedClasses.build(), unsupportedMembersByClass.build());
  }

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Q: Get rows which do have references to list of values and at the same time don't have any references to list of other values I am sure it was asked before but I just can't figure out how to search for it
I have a table table1:
| RefId_1 | RefId_2 |
---------------------
|       1 |     133 |
|       3 |      12 |
|       4 |     144 |
|       4 |      22 |
|       3 |     123 |

I need to get list of RefId_1 which do have reference to list of RefId_2 but don't have any references to another list of RefId_2.
For example, I need list of RefId_1 which references to RefId_2 list of (133, 22, 44) but such RefId_1 should not have references to list of RefId_2 (12, 144, 111).
Result should be just (1) because (4) references to forbidden 144
Thanks in advance

A: SELECT DISTINCT RefId_1
FROM yourtablename
WHERE
  RefId_2 IN (133, 22, 44)
  AND RefId_2 NOT IN (12, 144, 111);

A: UPDATED : (UNTESTED)
SELECT DISTINCT REF_ID1 FROM table1
    WHERE REF_ID2 IN(133,22,44)
    AND
    REF_ID1 NOT IN
              (SELECT REF_ID1 FROM table1 WHERE REF_ID2 IN (12, 144, 111))

A: Try this It must work which you want
SELECT DISTINCT REF_ID1
FROM table1
WHERE REF_ID1 NOT IN
    (SELECT REF_ID1
     FROM table1
     WHERE REF_ID2 IN (12,144));

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Marie-Madeleine Rigopoulos (née le 30 septembre 1974 à Athènes en Grèce) est une journaliste littéraire franco-grecque, directrice artistique du Festival du Livre de Paris depuis septembre 2021. Ancienne chroniqueuse littéraire sur Europe 1 et France Inter, elle a également été commissaire générale du festival Livre sur la Place de Nancy de 2019 à 2021.

Biographie

Jeunesse et formation
Fille d'un officier de la marine marchande, Marie-Madeleine Rigopoulos naît le 30 septembre 1974 à Athènes, en Grèce. Elle y vit jusqu'à ses 25 ans, tout en faisant des séjours à Paris et à Dakar.

Elle fait ses études au Conservatoire d'art dramatique d'Athènes, puis travaille comme comédienne et assistante metteuse en scène.

Chroniqueuse littéraire
En 2001, Marie-Madeleine Rigopoulos s'installe à Paris, où elle commence une carrière de journaliste et chroniqueuse littéraire. Elle fait ses débuts à la station de radio Europe 1, travaillant au « téléphone rouge ». Par la suite, elle devient l'assistante de Jean-Pierre Elkabbach dans ses émissions, où elle effectue des chroniques littéraires. Elle devient également conseillère littéraire et programmatrice de l'émission Bibliothèque Médicis sur Public Sénat.

En 2008, elle rejoint France Inter, où elle tient une chronique littéraire au sein de l'émission Cosmopolitaine de Paula Jacques jusqu'en 2016.

Livre sur la Place de Nancy
En parallèle de son activité à la radio, Marie-Madeleine Rigopoulos se met à travailler pour le Salon du livre de Paris à partir de 2009, où elle devient directrice de la programmation. C'est là qu'elle rencontre Françoise Rossinot, commissaire générale du festival Livre sur la Place, qui lui propose de venir travailler pour elle à Nancy.

En 2013, elle part donc travailler pour le festival nancéien, devenant l'adjointe de Françoise Rossinot. Fin 2018, cette dernière ayant été nommée déléguée générale de l'Académie Goncourt, Marie-Madeleine Rigopoulos est pressentie pour lui succéder. Sa nomination en tant que nouvelle commissaire générale du Livre sur la Place est officialisée en février 2019.

Pendant 3 ans, elle effectue la programmation de ce festival. La qualité de son travail est remarquée, Mohammed Aïssaoui saluant par exemple dans Le Figaro  ainsi que . Elle y lance notamment le « Prix Ginkgo du livre audio », présidé par le comédien Thibault de Montalembert.

Mi-septembre 2021, elle démissionne cependant de ses fonctions et retourne à Paris, pointant du doigt .

Festival du Livre de Paris
Le 20 septembre 2021, Marie-Madeleine Rigopoulos est nommée directrice artistique du Festival du Livre de Paris (alors dénommé « Livre Paris », successeur du Salon du livre de Paris), par le Syndicat national de l'édition. Cette nomination arrive dans un contexte particulier pour ce festival littéraire, absent pendant 2 ans à cause de l'épidémie de Covid-19, et devant se dérouler pour la première fois au Grand Palais éphémère après 40 ans passés au parc des expositions de la Porte de Versailles.

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Tesla Posts First-Ever Full Year Profit at $721 Million
Regulatory credit sales spark record revenue, but it's a year that will make investors even happier.
byRob Stumpf| UPDATED Jan 28, 2021 9:36 AM
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Tesla has pulled off yet another profitable quarter. The electric automaker announced its quarterly and year-end earnings on Wednesday after the bell, revealing it had achieved record revenue, thanks in part to increased production volume and regulatory credit sales.
Tesla's year-end earnings stand at a net profit of $721 million, padded by its sixth consecutively profitable quarter. In total, the last three months of 2020 added $270 million of pure profit to Tesla's portfolio; however, it's worth noting that comes with an asterisk—the sale of those aforementioned credits.
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Dollars and Deliveries
On paper, Tesla's numbers to close out the year look great. It posted a profit each quarter this year, ranging from $16 million in Q1 to a record $331 million in Q3. Despite having the highest-ever revenue of $9.3 billion (nearly 23 percent higher than its previous quarter), Q4 closes out the year with a modest $270 million in profits.
The Q4 financials also include the sale of $401 million in regulatory credits. These are "points" assigned by governmental entities for helping to reduce automotive pollution using low-emissions—or in Tesla's case, zero road emissions—vehicles. These points can be banked or sold to other automakers to offset the failure to meet mandated emissions standards. In Tesla's case, the regulatory credits were sold to ensure the automaker's profitability.
Tesla's $721 million profit for 2020 was cushioned by the sale of $1.58 billion in regulatory credits. This isn't to downplay the legitimacy of recognizing regulatory credits as income for the all-electric automaker, though it does spark questions about Tesla's future profitability as more automakers shift toward electrification and no longer need to purchase these credits to avoid costly government-issued fines.
Previously, Tesla announced that it had delivered a record breaking 499,550 deliveries in 2020, narrowly missing its target of a half-million, though it did achieve 509,737 units produced.
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Tesla's Grasp on the Crown
Tesla's future is anything but cemented. While its lead in the EV game remains worthy of the crown, legacy automakers are beginning to show their teeth.
Volkswagen, Ford, General Motors, and virtually every other commonly-placed automaker is beginning their own respective dives into electrification, building momentum while excitement over Tesla's key product line is losing steam. With its future products already announced and its crown jewel luxury offerings feeling rather dated, Tesla will soon face immense pressure from automakers around the globe.
Jessica Caldwell, Edmunds' executive director of insights, said the following in a statement on Tesla's earnings:
"2021 is looking to be a pivotal year for EV entrants: the number of models available in the market is expected to jump from 17 to 29 vehicles from 20 different brands before the year closes. Although there has yet to be a true "Tesla killer" in the EV arena, a bigger pool of contenders eligible for federal tax credits could have the power to sway some Tesla shoppers."
"And since Musk has already launched the Roadster (literally) and Cybertruck to much fanfare, it does seem like the rest of the market is coming in hot right when the Tesla product pipeline is running a bit dry and is at its most vulnerable," she continued. "The pressure is on for the company to keep innovating if it wants to keep its EV crown."
Despite the good news of a profitable quarter, Tesla stock still fell nearly eight percent in after-hours trading, likely due to the automaker missing its Earnings Per Share target which analysts estimated would reach between $0.90 and $1.01. Instead, Tesla's official EPS was posted at just $0.80. Still, Tesla's stock is what propelled CEO Elon Musk to becoming the richest person on earth in 2020.
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It looks like Joe Carnahan's take on 'Daredevil' will be one of those great "What If" projects that fans will speculate about for a long time, like David Lynch directing 'Return of the Jedi' or Ridley Scott helming 'Dune.' Carnahan said on Twitter he would unleash his demo reels if his followers were interested, and now we have them.
There's no actual footage involved -- this was meant to give a tone to his take and the clips incorporate footage from a number of high profile films including (but not limited to) 'Taxi Driver,' 'The Warriors,' 'The Untouchables,' and 'Mean Streets.' It also uses footage from Fox's own 'Daredevil' movie, and from the comic books themselves. The soundtrack is also made up of some trailer soundtrack favorites, like the music from 'Django Unchained's trailer. Carnahan and his team cut two versions: one cut for PG-13, and and a more violent NC-17 version.