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B.C. Conservation Officer Service seeks information about a blind fawn found at a construction site in the Hammond Bay area last week. The young deer had been shot with a pellet gun and had to be euthanized. (Facebook photo)
B.C. conservation officers put down fawn blinded by pellet gun on Vancouver Island
Young deer found near construction site in Hammond Bay area in Nanaimo, B.C.
Karl Yu
B.C. Conservation Officer Service is investigating an incident on Vancouver Island in which a deer had to be put down last week after being blinded by a pellet gun.
Sgt. Stuart Bates, with B.C. Conservation Officer Service, responded to the Dec. 5 call and said a blind fawn was seen wandering into an active construction site in the 5400 block of Bayshore Drive in the Hammond Bay area in Nanaimo, B.C.
The young deer was found to have a pellet gun wound on its head, according to Bates, and although it appeared to be fine physically, it had to be euthanized due to the severity of its injuries.
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Bates said it was difficult euthanizing the fawn and a subsequent necropsy revealed a "little lead pellet" which, because it was such a small deer, had penetrated its skull and "sitting halfway through its brain."
In addition, Bates said there have been three adult deer in the Nanoose area, north of Nanaimo, which were hunted legally in the last two weeks, that were found to have previous air gun or BB pellet wounds.
Bates said that while residents may be frustrated by deer foraging for food on their properties and in their gardens, it is illegal to shoot a weapon at wildlife in residential areas.
"There is no open season for wildlife within 100 metres of any residence…" said Bates. "Even though they didn't kill it, they can still be charged with hunting wildlife out of season. It's illegal to hunt deer with a weapon that small. You can't even use a .22, you have to use a centre-fire rifle that is capable of killing them humanely and this is why."
Anyone with information on any of the incidents is asked to call the Report All Poachers and Polluters line at 1-877-952-7277.
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I think I understand now! Looking back, I should have picked up on it sooner, but I've been a little distracted. I don't think Mike, or anyone at TD, thinks that fixing this IP mess will fix the rest of the economy. I could be wrong, of course, but that's not what I pick up when I read here. If you're looking for a solution for solving the economic mess we're in, obviously TD wouldn't be a one-stop-shop for that.
However, the larger economic world is not really relevant to many, if any, TD posts, which is probably why you don't see it addressed here.


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Boys and Girls Together is a 1964 novel by William Goldman. The title is taken from lyrics in the song, "The Sidewalks of New York".

Background
Goldman says his creative impulse behind the book was his desire to write a long novel:
At the time, all of my friends were screwing up in New York, it seemed. It was going badly for everybody. The city was... affecting all of us, and I wanted to get that down. But writing that novel was a tremendous experience. It was three years of my life on and off.
He later said "the pulse of the book... was the fact that nobody [out of his friends] was making it as I was and I knew I was fraudulent and I knew I'd be found out. It was very hard in those years. It was hard to be 25 or 7 or 8 and to be published when all of your other friends who were writers weren't."

After writing 300 pages, Goldman took some time off to work on Broadway, and when he returned to the book he experienced writer's block, so he wrote another novel instead, No Way to Treat a Lady (1968). Goldman then returned to the novel and eventually finished it, despite being in great physical pain much of the time.

Reception

Commercial
When Goldman completed his novel, there was a great demand for it among publishers. Goldman says for his first novels he received an advance of $10,000, then $5,000, then $5,000. For Boys and Girls Together, his fourth novel published under his name, he received an advance of $100,000. "I don't know if Soldier in the Rain had sold to the movies or whatever happened, but there were a bunch of people [publishers] who wanted Boys and Girls Together", he said.

The novel was a best seller. "That summer, Boys and Girls Together was the beach book in paperback", says Goldman."

Critical
William Goldman says his editor, Hiram Haydn, thought the novel "was going to establish me as a serious American novelist – and it got crucified. It just got very, very badly reviewed because people thought I was more popular than I was."

Goldman later elaborated:
Boys and Girls Together was three years of my life and I thought it was not what I meant. It was depressing, and not at all what I had meant when I started. It's so hard to fill that many pages, and I thought, "Well, it's not what I meant, but at least they'll have to think I'm serious. Nobody would write this depressing a book, in which nobody gets what they want and everybody fails, if you're trying to be Harold Robbins." There was a review of Boys and Girls Together that I remember very clearly. It was one of the most painful reviews of my life by a critic from The New York Times called Conrad Knickerbocker... [which] compared me with Harold Robbins, and I thought, "You never read Harold Robbins. They get what they want in that world, and this is basically a cold, unpleasant book." I remember for a month I was on the verge of tears.
Richard Andersen wrote of the novel:
Seeing all their energies leading to death and betrayal, the characters of Boys and Girls Together conclude that there are no satisfactory alternatives. Life is hopeless. Nevertheless, suicide is not the answer; man must find a way to affirm life over death whenever his identities fail him. One way of achieving affirmation in the wasteland, Goldman seems to be saying, is through endurance.

Adaptations
Film rights were bought by producers Elliot Kastner and Jerry Gershwin. In June 1966 it was reported director Sydney Pollack was attached and David Rayfiel was writing a script. However a film was never made.

Goldman worked on a musical version of the story, called Magic Town, which remains unproduced.

In 1976, it was announced the novel would be turned into a mini-series, but this did not happen.

References

Bibliography

1964 American novels
Novels by William Goldman

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30 Perfect Songs to Celebrate Your BFF's Engagement
Engagement Playlist
29 April 2019 by Macy Cate Williams
Engagement season is upon us! Chances are, somebody you know will be getting a ring in the near future. When she does, she'll want to celebrate the incredible news with her favourite ladies. Be the best friend a girl can have by blasting this playlist — it will totally get her pumped to plan the wedding. Check out all the songs that will have you and the future bride hearing wedding bells!
"Dog Days Are Over," Florence and the Machine
"Chapel of Love," The Dixie Cups
"Celebrate," JazzyFunk
"Today Was a Fairytale," Taylor Swift
"Marry You," Bruno Mars
"Just Say Yes," Snow Patrol
"All I Want Is You," U2
"I Do," Colbie Caillat
"Marry Me," Jason Derulo
"I Do (Cherish You)," 98º
"Love Is an Open Door," Kristen Bell, Santino Fontana
"I'm in the Mood For Love," Jools Holland, Jamiroquai
"Cupid," Amy Winehouse
"Jump Then Fall," Taylor Swift
"Signed Sealed Delivered I'm Yours," Anju Ramapriyam
"Us," Regina Spektor
"Love and Marriage," Frank Sinatra
"January Wedding," The Avett Brothers
"We've Only Just Begun," Carpenters
"You're Getting Married," The Modern Machines
"Let's Get Married," Al Green
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough," Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell
"Stay With You," John Legend
"I Do," Jewel
"Maybe I'm Amazed," Billy Joel
"Love," American Authors
"Drunk in Love," Beyoncé, Jay Z
"Marry Me," Train
"She Will Be Loved," Maroon 5
"Fall in Love," Phantogram
To listen to the playlist below, download the free Spotify software or app.
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BetaNews: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS hits the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 users.
On of the most interesting things about the Windows 10 Anniversary update is the availability of of a full Ubuntu Linux environment running native to Windows. The Windows Subsystem for Linux promises to provide for true cross platform development on Windows. Getting WSL up and running is pretty easy, just 5 quick steps.
In Program Manager select Turn Windows Features On and Off and select Windows Subsystem For Linux.
After the restart hit the Windows key and type bash to get started. The first time bash is run you'll be prompted to accept the licensing and WLS will download and install.
Enter a username and a password and you're all set.
Now you've got Ubuntu Linux at your fingers tips. At the prompt try sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade to bring Ubuntu up to date.
For getting started I'd recommend Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux on the Windows Developer blog. It's a good article that'll show you around WSL a bit.
Still to be determined: can I run my full LAMP stack on it so I can use it for real development.
More importantly than bringing the shell over to Windows, developers will now be able to write their .sh Bash scripts on Windows, as well (or use Emacs to edit their code). Microsoft noted that this will work through a new Linux subsystem in Windows 10 that Microsoft worked on with Canonical.
So this if what all those Microsoft folks at Great Wide Open were so damn giddy about a couple of weeks ago. I must say I'm dumbfounded. Bash will roll out in a Windows 10 update this summer, sooner if you're part of the Insider program.


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Q: Ambiguous associated type confusion So I'm making a little tictactoe to learn Rust. I define a Board which is a struct containing a 3 by 3 array called "tiles".
pub struct Board {
    pub tiles: [[Option<Players>; 3]; 3],
}

Then, I try to create a method that uses the element "tiles" as a parameter
impl Board {
    pub fn print_board (board: Board::tiles) {
}

However, Rust gets all offended and tells me this.
ambiguous associated typerustcE0223 game.rs(10, 32): use fully-qualified syntax: "<Board as Trait>::tiles"
First of all, I have no idea what this mean, but then I try to do as it says:
impl Board {
    pub fn print_board (board: <Board as Trait>::tiles) {
}

it gives me squiggles under "Trait" where it says
failed to resolve: use of undeclared type "Trait" use of undeclared type "Trait"
Rust, o Rust what ever am I supposed to do?

A: Board::tiles doesn't make syntactic sense. If board is a value of type Board, then board.tiles is a data member of the struct. Neither Board::tiles nor board.tiles is a type so you can't use it for defining the type of an argument.
You can either take the type of the data member explicitly, like this: pub fn print_board(board: [[Option<Players>; 3]; 3]).
Or if you don't want to write out that type again and again you can use a type alias like this
pub type TileArray = [[Option<Players>; 3]; 3];

pub struct Board {
    pub tiles: TileArray,
}

impl Board {
    pub fn print_board(board: TileArray) {
        // ...
    }
}

The error message is confusing to you because you're specifying a type of a function parameter, but attempting to use the name of a value to do that. Your syntax is just completely invalid. The syntax SomeType::Something can make some sense, where Something is an associated type of some trait implemented by SomeType. This is the compiler's best guess of making sense of the syntax you gave it, so it's trying  to correct you based on that. That syntax still wouldn't be correct, since you'd need the fully-qualified syntax indicated by the error message.

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For the fourth installment in August, we are getting comfortable at the Beer Engine. Check out our guest host Kyle Ares from The Sharecroppers and his latest project Buck the Taxidermist. We have some awesome bands for you to listen to this week. We feature music from the Cedric Burnside Project, Kurt Vile, and a band playing this weekend at the MoonTower music festival, The Weeks. For more on the bands coming to MoonTower this weekend, check out our MoonTower pop-up podcast preview and listen to even more bands playing in Lexington. Check out the live music happening around you and tell us who you are excited to see. Thanks for the listen.


I even thought about going to a spa that I have a gift certificate for, but I looked at it and it expired like four years ago. I got all fired up, thinking, Didn't they pass a law against gift cards expiring?! Turns out they did, but it was a couple months after this card was issued. That is some bulls— right there.
So the wedding, which was a big part of my busyness, is over. I have regrets, like forgetting to have the makeup artist cover up my tan line. Not getting my kids in bed early enough the night before, leading to my daughter having a mega tantrum when it was time for her to get ready. This in turn messed up getting the boys ready, so that one ended up with no tie… These little things bug me. But I can't complain because otherwise it all went fantastic. My sister tempted fate and won, by letting the outdoor wedding ceremony go on as planned (it started raining during the cocktail hour, but we were all safely indoors). My speech was very well received. The food was great, the music was old school, and we danced the night away. I did a couple shots and was in bed with the spins by 2 am. Luckily the Jersey Devil didn't come upon me as I was making my lonely way back across Route 9 from the after party.
Now all I want to do is get back on track with spending and exercise and writing and my thrifty skills. About a week or two ago, our dryer broke. I spent every nice day doing wash and drying it on the line. We are getting a new one tomorrow, but it was fun, in a way, to accept the challenge of not having one. If it wasn't so close to winter I would have put that expense off longer.
Prior to the wedding, I attempted to cut my sons' hair, thinking that my husband could take them to get it fixed the morning of the wedding if I messed it up. Well, I did, but he didn't, so they are looking quite interesting. Naturally, my contrary older son claims that he loves it now the way it is and that he doesn't want it fixed. The younger one just freaks anymore when I come at him with the clippers, which is a shame, because his hair is easy to cut. I must have nicked him once and now he is terrified. Have to figure out what to do about all that (but not today!).
The other day I sold an old kids' dresser for $8 on the online yard sale, so that has me inspired to list more things (including, perhaps, my daughter's flower girl dress, shoes, etc. Too soon?) I transferred $8 right over to my "yard sale" savings account on Capital One 360. I have more clothes to bring to the Nesting House. That is something I would do today.
The thing I'm probably most excited about is that I figured out how to get library books on my Kindle! I have all these samples on the Kindle of books that I really want to read but that I didn't want to pay for. And I haven't made it over to the real library. So I was able to get "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed, which I've been meaning to read forever. It is really good. I will definitely be reading more of it today. The app I used is Overdrive. The last time I tried to do it, it didn't work, but success this time.
We continue to do well with not eating out. We had a full-on feast of leftovers on Monday night, like some really random stuff.
One thing I need to do (but not today!) is get on the whole refinancing our house thing. I was waiting to hear back from my husband on something related to it.
In September, as in August, I was way over budget. Some of it was wedding- or school-related and couldn't be helped. But categories like groceries and eating out were way higher than normal too. So I'm trying to regain control in October.
As Chris Pratt says to the uptight chick in Jurassic World, "It's all about control with you, isn't it?" Why yes, yes it is.
In Wild, the author explains how she picked "Strayed" as her new last name after she got divorced. She just wanted a completely new name, and "strayed" described how she felt: wild, off-track, a literal stray because her parents were gone. Kind of cool. When I thought about what I would change mine to, the first thing that popped in my head was "Gina Serene." Better than "Gina Controlfreak." What would you change your last name to?


A Palawan board member called on local government units (LGUs) in the province to install fire hydrants in public places.
Board Member Eduardo Modesto Rodriguez, in a privilege speech Tuesday, said fire hydrants are needed in areas where many people converge because they are vulnerable to fires.
Water should be available in commercial establishments, public markets, and other government offices.
"Ngayon ay pahanon na ng tag-init kaya sana maiwasan ang sunog. Importante rin na may available source of water lalo na sa mga area na marami ang light materials," he said.
He said the installation of fire hydrants should always be considered in the planning of LGUs.
Earlier, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) reported that 53 fire incidents were already recorded from January up to the first week of March, which is higher than the 24 fire incidents last year.


Bebe also produced one of the best classroom instruments covers we've EVER had.
Bebe Rexha popped in for a catch-up with Kat Shoob on The Official Vodafone Big Top 40 about her hit 'Meant to Be'.
In a huge exclusive, Bebe confirmed rumours that she features on Rita Ora's new single 'Girls' and revealed that Charli XCX and Cardi B are also on this massive, all-female collaboration!
The music video for 'Girls' is done, with Bebe and Rita filming their scenes in London and Charli and Cardi doing theirs in LA. Bebe joked that it'd have been a tad mean to have put Cardi on a plane for the London shoot when she's very, very pregnant!
Bebe said that the video is not just about wanting to kiss girls but about self-love too.
Bebe chatted about how tight she is with Rita and how genuine she is compared to some girls in the industry. We also learnt about a rather wild night out that Bebe and Rita had together - along with Bebe's mum!
Bebe's debut album Expectations is out June 22nd 2018 and there's definitely going to be a couple of exciting collabs on it. The problem is - Bebe wouldn't give any more information away!
When asked by Kat about a possible track with Taylor Swift, Bebe was pretty coy... but didn't confirm nor deny it exists.
Like all our guests, Bebe took on our infamous 'classroom instruments cover challenge' (we're still working on the name) and absolutely smashed it!
Bebe played the keyboard and belted out an incredible version of Whitney Houston's 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody', which ranks as one of the best we've ever had on the show!
We also heard how Bebe didn't know who Florida Georgia Line were until she met them in the studio, the funny encounter Bebe had with Simon Cowell years after she auditioned for American Idol (and didn't get through) and how she'd love to work with Gwen Stefani. We'll try our best to make it happen!
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"Cities in Motion" Ranking
06 de February 2015
The Cities in Motion ranking is conducted by the Center for Globalization Strategy of the University of Navarra IESE Business School. To establish this ranking, 148 cities worldwide were evaluated for their "intelligence" in relation to sustainability and the quality of life that they offer. The cities in this sample were chosen based on population size, as well as their economic, political, and cultural value to their country. In the case of Colombia, Bogota, Cali, and Medellín were chosen.
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Q: PHP Natural sort on array of addresses Hi I am having a few issues sorting an array.  I make a call to an API and the data I get back is like so
array:41 [
  0 => StreetData {#251
    +house: "1 Some Street"
    +street: ""
  }
  1 => StreetData {#236
    +house: "11 Some Street"
    +street: ""
  }
  2 => StreetData {#236
    +house: "4 Some Street"
    +street: ""
  }
]

I am trying to do a natural sort so been trying
ksort($address->streets);

This does not seem to change anything.  What I am after is basically a natural search.  So numbers should be considered first, and then the street.
So for the above, I would expect it to be
array:41 [
  0 => StreetData {#251
    +house: "1 Some Street"
    +street: ""
  }
  1 => StreetData {#236
    +house: "4 Some Street"
    +street: ""
  }
  2 => StreetData {#236
    +house: "11 Some Street"
    +street: ""
  }
]

As 11 is greater than 4.  This is a pretty vague example, obviously I expect there to be a 2, 3 etc.
So how can I achieve this natural type of sorting?
Thanks

A: I think you need strnatcmp and usort.
<?php
    class StreetData
    {
        public $house;
        public $street;

        public function StreetData($a, $b)
        {
            $this->house = $a;
            $this->street = $b;
        }
    }

    $arr = array(
        new StreetData("1 Some Street", ""),
        new StreetData("11 Some Street", ""),
        new StreetData("4 Some Street", ""),
    );

    function mySort($a, $b)
    {
        return strnatcmp($a->house, $b->house);
    }

    usort($arr, "mySort");

    var_dump($arr);
?>


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SOUTHWELL, Edward (1671-1730), of Kings Weston, Glos. and Spring Garden, Westminster
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002
Available from Boydell and Brewer
Biography Detail
Offices Held
19 Dec. 1702 - 1708
TREGONY
23 Apr. - 8 Aug. 1713
Family and Education
b. 4 Sept. 1671, 2nd but o. surv. s. of Sir Robert Southwell† of Kings Weston by Elizabeth (d. 1682), da. of Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Bt.†, of Surrenden Dering, Kent. educ. Kensington sch. 1680; Mr De Veil's sch., Great Russell Street 1685; L. Inn 1686; Merton, Oxf. 1687. m. (1) 29 Oct. 1703, Lady Elizabeth Cromwell (d. 1709), da. and h. of Vere Essex, 4th Earl of Ardglass [I] (d. 1687), 3s. (2 d.v.p.) 1da. d.v.p.; (2) 1716, Anne (d. 1717), da. of William Blathwayt*, 1s. suc. fa. 1702.1
Jt. prothonotary c.p. [I] 1692–1700; clerk of PC, extraord. 1693–June 1699, ord. June 1699–d.; commr. inspecting Plymouth Dock 1694; judge of admiralty ct. and vice-adm., Munster [I] 1699–d.; jt. commr. privy seal June 1701–Apr. 1702, Apr.–Aug. 1715, Aug.–Dec. 1716; sec. of state [I] June 1702–d.; PC [I] 1702–d.; chief sec. [I] 1703–7, 1710–13; prothonotary and clerk to crown of Kb [I] 1715–17.2
MP [I] 1692–d.
FRS 1692.
Freeman, Kinsale 1692, Dublin 1703, Rye 1704, Preston 1713.3
Southwell was a particularly polished example of the class of middling administrators who, though having no particular aspiration to the highest bureaucratic offices, nevertheless served with exemplary skill and industry. He was carefully moulded for government service by his scholastically minded father, Sir Robert Southwell, whose own career thrived on administration and diplomacy, and from an early age he was allowed to act as his father's personal assistant. Southwell thus acquired a prodigy-like understanding of his father's official business: 'he reads all my letters and all the answers I make', Sir Robert told his cousin Sir William Petty when young Southwell was 13 years old, 'and sometimes he answers some for me'. Southwell's precocity and gifts for learning, especially in mathematics, might have led him towards an academic career, but Sir Robert's priority was to see his son follow a path similar to his own and sustain the family's relatively modest fortune. Though Southwell was entered at Lincoln's Inn in April 1686, he appears to have received most of his legal training from his father. His studies at Oxford, which commenced in January the following year, were interrupted in September as a result of King James's stormy visitation to Magdalen College. Aware that 'Oxford is already, and is growing more, an unquiet place', Sir Robert ordered him home. It was probably at his father's behest that Southwell attended William of Orange during the Prince's progress to London in late November 1688, serving for a short while in the Earl of Macclesfield's troop. In June 1690 he joined his father in King William's retinue in Ireland and was present during the siege of Limerick. In January 1691 he accompanied Secretary Lord Nottingham (Daniel Finch†), his cousin (through his mother's family), to the allied conference at The Hague, although not in any official capacity. Remaining in Holland until April, he found time to indulge his scientific curiosity and visited van Leuenhoek, the inventor of the microscope, marvelling that his host was 'acquainted with an invisible world which other men do not see'. His interest in 'natural philosophy' was recognized in his early election to the Royal Society in 1692.4
In April 1693, seven months after attaining the age of 21, Southwell began a promising career in government service as a clerk extraordinary to the Privy Council, a position which he almost certainly owed to his father's intercession with Nottingham. Although only a 'supernumerary' clerk with few duties to perform, he none the less became an assiduous attender of Council and related committee meetings, and set himself the task of mastering all its forms of business, hoping thereby to earn prompt promotion to the more responsible position of ordinary clerk. His commitment to the executive functions of government may be seen in his verdict upon the parliamentary proceedings of 1696: 'Parliament is not particularly well intentioned for the King, and at bottom has a commonwealth in its head'. The death of one of the ordinary clerks in 1697 caused an unseemly struggle over the vacancy between Southwell and a fellow clerk, John Povey*. Southwell, aided by his father, claimed the position by right of his own personal diligence, maintaining that though Povey was the senior clerk extraordinary, the King was not obliged to select replacements in strict order of succession. At this particular moment, however, Povey's claims were regarded as superior, apparently on account of the seat he had lately taken in the Commons. Under-Secretary James Vernon I* was certain that Southwell would alter his 'notions' when he became first in seniority 'and then be a champion for succession which I hope nobody will oppose, he being a deserving young gentleman'. Southwell finally succeeded to an ordinary clerk's place in mid-May 1699, an appointment which much satisfied Lord Nottingham. The possibility that he might enter the Westminster Parliament (he had sat in the Irish Commons since 1692 for Kinsale, a borough of which his father was patron) was raised in December 1700 by his cousin, the staunch Tory Lord Ashburnham (John Ashburnham†), who had thoughts of putting him forward at Hastings. The idea was dropped, however, when an anticipated vacancy failed to materialize.5
In June 1702 Southwell's ailing father made over to him his patent office of secretary of state for Ireland, while at the same time Southwell was being promoted by Lord Ashburnham as a candidate at Rye in the impending general election. Ashburnham's influence in the town was not complete and his electoral pretensions were resisted by the mayor, with the result that Southwell was defeated. Southwell nevertheless proceeded to dispute the return on the grounds of the mayor's 'illegal' machinations, and following a hearing in the elections committee was declared elected on 19 Dec. In August 1703 he went over to Ireland, having been chosen by the new lord lieutenant, the Duke of Ormond, as his chief secretary, and served in that capacity until 1707. Southwell's strong Anglo-Irish background, his father's record of government service there, and his own experience of conciliar government, made him a natural choice for this important administrative role. With estates in county Down, and a seat in the Dublin parliament, he was no stranger to Ireland or Irish affairs, while personal as well as official connexions already existed between Southwell's family and the Duke's. Southwell maintained an orderly flow of communication between Dublin and London. His involvement in Irish parliamentary proceedings was businesslike but undistinguished. As a Court spokesman he initiated and spoke on certain financial and other government measures, but did not take the lead in organizing Court support. Although the Irish Court party contained a Whig element, requiring him to downplay his Tory views, Southwell always identified with, and remained close to, the Irish Tories. In addition to his good working relations with Ormond he enjoyed a close political and personal affinity with Nottingham, who had been restored as secretary of state in 1702, and frequently reported to him informally on Irish parliamentary and administrative affairs, even after Nottingham's dismissal in April 1704. Writing in October 1703, Southwell spoke appreciatively of 'the great and very kind concern your lordship has been pleased always to show for what relates to me [which] makes me both in duty and inclination accountable to your Lordship for whatever concerns me'. The same month Nottingham gave his blessing to Southwell's marriage to an Irish heiress with an income of £2,000.6
During his early years at Westminster Southwell's contribution to proceedings amounted to little, though he was a consistent Court supporter. He either voted against, or was absent from the division on, the Tack on 28 Nov. 1704. Returned again for Rye in the 1705 election, he divided in favour of the Court candidate for the Speakership on 25 Oct., and in an analysis of the new House of Commons was marked as a 'Churchman'. His chief preoccupation during the session was a private bill which he undertook for his close friend Archbishop King of Dublin, for restoring the parish of Seatown to the see of Dublin. He also supervised a bill to naturalize the husband of one of his sisters. He supported the Court on 18 Feb. 1706 in the proceedings on the 'place clause' of the regency bill, and in March subscribed £1,000 to the loan to the Emperor. In January 1707 he was faced with proceedings against his return for Rye in 1705, and was actually voted out of his seat by the elections committee, but upon the report the House confirmed his election by the narrow majority of 11 votes. Archbishop King felt that this attempt to unseat Southwell represented a form of parliamentary protest at Ormond's rule in Ireland, observing to Southwell on 1 Feb. that 'the blow was not designed against you so much as those to whom you have a relation, and do believe that by this his Grace may be able to distinguish his friends from his enemies'. Southwell followed Ormond out of office when the Duke was dismissed at the end of April 1707, but for a while continued to serve Ormond in a private capacity. In the summer he was embittered to find the Irish committee of accounts aspersing him over his use of sums granted him 'for parliament service' during Ormond's viceroyalty, and complained bitterly to Ormond: 'by this one may see the ingratitude of the people who can question the charges of the very bills that are made for their own good, as if the offices of England were bound to do their business gratis'. Freedom from the cares of a heavy administrative load gave him the opportunity to participate more in proceedings at Westminster, and the 1707–8 session proved an especially busy one for him. In January and February 1708 he was involved in mostly low-key business, much of it relating to Ireland: the report on a private bill concerning an Irish forfeiture purchase by Francis Annesley*, an Anglo-Irish confrere; the initiation of measures to repay arrears due to surgeons and officers employed in the Williamite campaigns; and a committee on Irish estate bill procedure. He was also a teller on 25 Feb. on a supply resolution respecting Irish yarn. His recent experience as a defendant in a disputed election may well have led to his inclusion on a committee on 27 Jan. concerned with ways of concluding such cases more speedily.7
At the spring general election, however, Southwell lost his seat. In November he described himself to Archbishop King as
pretty much out of the bustling world, and being out of the House and only a petitioner, have at present little to do and I shall like a wise mariner take in that sail of a petition and lay up my bark for fairer opportunity, and at least avoid the old cross of attendance and dependence and solicitation.
The ministerial opprobrium which had settled on Ormond seems also to have extended to Southwell. His attempt in June to recover 'extraordinary expenses' amounting to £200 incurred while chief secretary met with a sharp reminder from the Treasury that his perquisites as Irish secretary of state were 'very profitable' and were more than adequate compensation for this outlay. He again offered his services at Rye in 1710, expressing the hope that none could complain 'that where I had the misfortune of not having their approbation, I laid any difficulties in their way so as to prevent my hoping for their goodwill at another election'. The improved Tory climate did nothing to help his own chances, however, and for a second time he was defeated, failing in his later attempt to prove in the elections committee that his defeat had been effected by an illegally contrived Whig majority. In the meantime Ormond had been reappointed head of the Irish administration by the new Tory ministry, and called upon Southwell to serve him again as chief secretary. Experience in the post enabled him to play a more prominent part than before at the centre of Irish high politics, and, with party distinctions sharpened, he was now more self-consciously Tory. Ormond's leisurely approach to administration and his frequent absences allowed Southwell a degree of independent authority, to the extent that his advice was sometimes sought by Lord Treasurer Oxford (Robert Harley*) on matters of policy and patronage.8
In December 1711 Swift reported a rumour that Southwell was soon to be created a peer, but ascertained that 'they want him still in Parliament'. He was eventually returned at a by-election in April 1713 for the Cornish borough of Tregony which, despite the approaching general election, he accepted 'because I had no trouble in it'. In the Commons on 18 June he voted in favour of the French commerce bill. At the election later in the summer he was elected for Preston which he had been 'looking after' since May with the assistance of his old friend Francis Annesley, a former MP for the borough. In September Ormond's removal from the lord lieutenancy ended Southwell's active administrative role in Dublin, but left him freer to continue his duties as clerk in attendance on Council. In the Irish parliament he reverted to his own borough seat of Kinsale, having sat for Trinity College, Dublin since 1703. At Westminster his tendency to vote in the ensuing Parliament alongside the Whigs stamped him as a Hanoverian Tory. On 1 Aug. 1714 he was present at the signing of the proclamation of George I at St. James's. Under the new dynasty Southwell was continued in all his offices. Circumstances weighed against him at Preston in the 1715 election, and thereonwards he remained out of Parliament, but his continuing usefulness in government business was recognized by the new Whig ministers in appointing him to the commission to oversee the lord privy seal's office when it stood vacant in 1715 and 1716. Southwell also brought his administrative acumen to bear in his private affairs. His father had left him a 'moderate estate' of some £2,000 a year, but 'frugality' and two advantageous marriages enabled Southwell to increase it to £6,000 by the time he died. On clearing the encumbrances upon the estate acquired on his first marriage he was still left with a net gain in property of £35,000, while his second marriage in 1717 to William Blathwayt's only daughter brought him an additional £10,000. An interest in evangelical initiatives was expressed in his involvement in the work of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, which he joined in 1718, and in his founding a charity school on his estate at Downpatrick in 1724. In July 1720 the office of secretary of state for Ireland was granted to him for life with reversion to his elder son Edward. His later years were dogged by ill-health, occasioned by injuries sustained in a carriage accident. He died 'of a kindly apoplectic fit' on 4 Dec. 1730, and was buried at Kings Weston. 'No man led a more pleasant life,' his cousin Lord Perceval (John†) remarked, 'he was beloved by all his acquaintance for his cheering, obliging temper, and esteemed for his experience in business.' His son Edward represented Bristol from 1739 until 1754.9
Ref Volumes: 1690-1715
Author: Andrew A. Hanham
1. Add. 47131, ff. 99–100; Egerton 1628, ff. 5, 9, 13, 14, 15; Rudder, New Hist. Glos. 496.
2. CSP Dom. 1699–1700, pp. 171, 341; 1700–2, p. 479; 1702–3, p. 144; Luttrell, Brief Relation, iii. 62, 372; v. 188; Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae ed. Lascelles, i. pt. 2, pp. 35, 222; Cal. Treas. Bks. xvi. 300; xvii. 201; xxix. 496–7, 853; xxx. 513, 596.
3. Kinsale Corp. Council Bk. ed. Caulfield, 195; Cal. Ancient Recs. Dublin ed. Gilbert, vi. 297; E. Suss. RO, Rye assembly bk. 1/17, f. 273; Lancs. RO, Preston bor. recs. CNP 3/1/1, p. 585.
4. Petty–Southwell Corresp. ed. Fitzmaurice, 89, 102–3, 127–8, 287; HMC Egmont, ii. 178; Egerton 1628, ff. 9, 14–19, 21; Add. 18598, f. 35.
5. Add. 38861, ff. 63–65, 72–78; Luttrell, iii. 67; S. B. Baxter, Wm. III, 334; Northants. RO, Montagu (Boughton) mss 46/119, Vernon to Duke of Shrewsbury, 17 June 1697; Vernon–Shrewsbury Letters, i. 289, 310; BL, Althorp mss, box 7, Nottingham to Mq. of Halifax (William Savile *), 14 May 1699; info. from Hist. Irish Parl.; E. Suss. RO, Ashburnham mss ASH 843, pp. 159–60, 161, 164, Ashburnham to Southwell, 20, 27 Dec., same to Hastings corp., 20 Dec. 1700.
6. Luttrell, v. 188, 346; Add. 29588, ff. 93, 102–3; 21494, f. 66; 29589, f. 271; Ashburnham mss ASH 844, pp. 30, 34–35, 37–38, 41, Ashburnham to Southwell, 27 June, 11, 14, 19 July, same to Ld. Winchilsea, 8 July 1702.
7. Luttrell, vi. 24, 131; Add. 47025, ff. 66, 70; 38157; Trinity, Dublin, King mss 750/3 (2), p. 87, King to Southwell, 1 Feb. 1706[–7]; HMC Ormonde, n.s. viii. 307.
8. Trinity, Dublin, Lyons (King) mss 2003/1306, Southwell to King, 19 Nov. 1708; Cal. Treas. Bks. xxii. 25; E. Suss. RO, RYE 47/180, Southwell to Rye corp., 21 Sept. 1710; Hayton thesis, 192.
9. Swift Stella ed. Davis, 451; Add. 47027, ff. 35, 49, 59, 70; 21131, ff. 50, 80, 99, 110; info. from Hist. Irish Parl.; Boyer, Pol. State, viii. 117; Devonshire mss at Chatsworth House, Finch-Halifax pprs. box 3, no. 113, Sir Christopher Musgrave, 5th Bt*, to [–] Finch, 19 Oct. 1714; DNB; Lyons (King) mss 2004/1550, Southwell to King, 25 Nov. 1714; Cal. Treas. Bks. xxix. 496–7, 853; xxx. 513, 596; Hist. Mag. of Prot. Episcopal Church, xxxiii. 27; Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae, i. (2), 82; HMC Egmont Diary, i. 119; Rudder, 496.


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Many countries are using creative ways to reduce the use of plastic bags and increase the use of "YOUR OWN BAG". In the US this movement is called "Bring Your Own Bag". Some countries have banned the use of plastic bags in stores and charge extra for paper bags or biodegradable bags. Countries like Ireland, apply an extra tax to customers using them. Both are good ways to reward customers who "Bring their Own Bags".
San Francisco was the first city in the US to ban the use of plastic bags in 2007. Australians also reduced its use of plastic bags by 7 billion. In Bangladesh plastic bags have been banned since 2002, after they were found to have clogged drains and caused the 1988 and 1998 floods to submerge most of the country. Other countries in Europe and Asia are also taking strong measures to control this issue.
We should all make an effort to drastically cut down the use of plastic bags. I carry my own bags every time I go to the store. It's one simple way to go green. Do you and your parents "Bring your own bag" too?.
The United Nations Environment Program estimates that there are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter floating in every square mile of ocean.
Paper production requires hundreds of thousands of gallons of water as well as toxic chemicals like sulfurous acid, which can lead to acid rain and water pollution.
10-cents of every dollar spent on groceries pays for packaging that you'll throw away.
An effort should be made by everyone to drastically cut down the use of plastic bags. Be sure to carry your own bags every to the store. It's one simple way to go green.
sulfurous acid: A chemical that is harmful to the environment.
clogging: causing something to get blocked.


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Home opinion Top News Biafra: John Paden's book on Muhammadu Buhari and his dirty little lies by Femi Fani-Kayode
Biafra: John Paden's book on Muhammadu Buhari and his dirty little lies by Femi Fani-Kayode
Femi Fani-Kayode
October 7th,2016
Professor John Paden, President Muhammadu Buhari's official biographer, is a man that is very comfortable with distorting the truth and telling lies. He is also a man that has been doing so for virtually all his adult life.
Anyone that doubts that should read his biography on the late Sir Ahmadu Bello, which was written in 1986 and titled "Ahmadu Bello, Saurdana of Sokoto: Values and Leadership In Nigeria", and which is essentially a self-serving and comprehensive compilation of Bello's numerous virtues with little or no mention of his many vices.
I read that book twenty years ago and I placed it in the "light enterainment" shelf in my library because it lacked gravitas or any real intellectual stamina.
It was, at best, a beautiful public relations job for Bello and, at worse, a compilation of disjointed verbiage fit only for the dustbin.
Paden's book on Buhari falls into the same category. It is nothing but an illusion: an extraordinary and fantastic fairy-tale built on a shady foundation of pseudo-intellectual clap-trap and garbage.
To him, President Buhari is infallible. He is, at best, an angel of light and, at worst, a perfect mortal with no warts.
Paden's latest contribution is the greatest exercise in dishonesty and historical revisionism that has ever been undertaken by any foreign or Nigerian historian since independence.
The only one that comes close to it in this respect is the book that he wrote on the Saurdana and a number of other books that he authored over the years which were primarily about core northern Nigeria. Writing rubbish seems to be Paden's stock in trade.
In his latest book, amongst many other glaring and shameless mendacities, he indulged in two particular lies that are an eloquent testimony to his perfidy.
The first was that three names were sent to President Muhammadu Buhari for the position of Vice President, namely Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Yemi Osibanjo and Babatunde Raji Fashola in 2014 for the 2015 presidential election.
This is false and it is simply an attempt to demean and belittle Tinubu and the role that he played in the whole exercise.
The truth is that it was Tinubu and Tinubu alone that forwarded the only name that was given serious consideration for the Vice Presidential slot by President Buhari. That name was Professor Yemi Osibanjo.
Senator Olorunimbe Mamora was also considered by Buhari but he did not have the backing of Tinubu and neither did Tinubu forward his name.
The idea that Tinubu's name was forwarded to be Vice President alongside that of his two protegees in the persons of Osinbajo and Fashola is nothing but fantasy and it was a beautiful and tasteful dish and tale that was spiced, cooked up and prepared in the kitchens of Aso Rock.
Again Tinubu never pressured Buhari to make him his Vice President as Paden has asserted because he had decided to drop that ambition long before then simply because the idea of a Muslim/Muslim ticket, which was originally on the cards, had eventually been jettisoned and rejected by the party due to public presssure and the division and outrage it attracted.
If the Muslim/Muslim ticket had not been rejected Tinubu would have been the Vice Presidential candidate of the APC and no-one else, including his erstwhile protegee Babatunde Fashola, would have had a hope in hell of getting it.
This is especially so given the fact that Buhari had originally promised him that position at the time that their parties merged and the APC was established but he later reneged. That is the bitter truth.
Paden was either misinformed by those who commissioned him to write the book or he was being propelled by an ulterior and malevolent motive for writing the rubbish that he did on the Vice Presidential issue.
Whichever way he was completly wrong and for the sake of history and posterity we must set the record straight.
The second lie that he told, which was infinately more dangerous and repugnant than the first, was that President Buhari has documents which are signed by President Jonathan which prove that the latter sought for what he described as "extra-budgetary funds".
This is a pernicious lie. It has no basis in rationality, reason or truth. There is absolutely no evidence to substantiate it and I challenge Paten or President Buhari himself to make those letters and signed applications for "extra budgetry funds" public.
The whole thing is simply an attempt to further tarnish and demonise Jonathan and all those that served under him before the world and I believe that that is a crying shame.
I can understand such lies coming from a Presidency or a Federal Government that is scared of its own shadows and that feeds off its own propaganda but I cannot accept them coming from a supposedly reputable historian, albeit a foreigner, who has become the official writer and cheerleader of all things caliphate over the last 30 years.
Amongst many other things he also suggested that other senior figures in the political and military configuration in our country committed serious crimes and indulged in damning acts of corruption without being specific or even providing details of those acts.
Instead of doing so he suggested that the individuals concerned, which included President Olusegun Obasanjo, would have been prosecuted, brought to justice and called to account for their allegedly dastardly acts whilst in governnent if not for the fact that this could have had implications for the stability of the nation and national security.
Obasanjo, who is always quick off the mark and who was actually present at the launching of the book in Abuja as was Tinubu, responded in a measured manner by saying that there were "some insinuations" in it which he disagreed with.
Frankly that was a cop out. Obasanjo was being far too polite and this was probably due to the fact that he had not read the whole book as ay that time and he did not want to dampen the enthuisiasm of the biographer, upset the President or ruin the occassion.
The addage is that you do not go to someone's dinner party and spoil it by confronting his lies, challenging his allegations and speaking the bitter truth.
Yet I believe that though Obasanjo touched on the matter he did not go far enough. I believe that it is incumbent upon all those that were maligned and alleged to have indulged in acts of corruption by Paden to set the record straight and state their case.
It would be very dangerous for all those that have been misrepresented in this so-called book, including President Goodluck Jonathan, President Olusegun Obasanjo and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to keep quiet and not clarify the issues about what was written or insinuated about them because many years from now that book will be used as a major source and reference point for our history.
I urge all those affected to write their own books quickly otherwise they will become victims of historical revisionism.
If I had been invited by President Muhamnadu Buhari or Professor Paden to the book launch I would have mounted the podium and said as much. Sadly I was not.
Permit me to end this contribution by making a suggestion to Paden. Since he wrote about Jonathan's campaign funds and alleged all manner of corruption concerning their source and application, in his next book on President Buhari I would suggest that he sheds more light on how his subjects own 2015 presidential campaign funds were sourced.
For a start he should tell us who provided the 10 million USD that was paid as consultancy fees to the company of Mr. David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's erstwhile campaign manager.
He should also tell us the source of funds and how Buhari and his team managed the 19 billion naira that was given to him in cash by the then sitting Governor of the leading and largest state in the south west and the 24.6 billion naira that was given to him in cash and in one day (which was recorded on video before being handed over) by another leading south western politician.
In addition to that he should tell us precisely how much the then Governors of Rivers and Kano states and the present Governors of Ogun and Kwara states amongst many others contributed to Buhari's campaign and where they got the money from.
Since everyone is claiming to be holy and righteous in this matter let us all get there and publicly exchange notes. After all the Nigerian public, and indeed the entire world, has a right to know.
If Paden fails to ask those questions and declines to provide the answers then he, his accursed books and his questionable and dubious "white-washing" mission of President Muhammadu Buhari shall undoubtedly remain damned forever.
Whether he does so or not other governments that will come to power in the future in this country will not only get the necessary answers but they will also do the appropiate thing
and bring them to justice. It is only a matter of time.
Femi Fani-Kayode is a lawyer, a Nigerian politician, an evangelical christian, an essayist, a poet and he was the Special Assistant (Public Affairs) to President Olusegun Obasanjo from July 2003 until June 2006. He was the minister of culture and tourism of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from June 22nd to Nov 7th 2006 and as the minister of Aviation from Nov 7th 2006 to May 29th 2007. He tweets from@realFFK.
The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author.


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Q: Regular expression to match handlebar expression and default value I'm loosely following a handlebar pattern to replace instances of a {{copy}} expression inside a string.
Here are some example of strings/scenarios I'm trying to match:

*

*{{copy}}

*some text, then {{copy}}, then some other other text

*some {{copy 'default value here'}} here
Essentially {{copy}} can occur anywhere within a string, and can also include a default value which I also need to pluck out using regex.
I've tried the following which I thought would match, but am having no luck.
    \b{{copy*}}\b

A: You can use this regex:
/{{(copy)\b(?: +'([^']*)')?}}/

Explanation:

*

*{{ - expect handlebar start

*(copy) - capture text copy (replace with [a-z]+ to support variable keywords)

*\b - expect a word boundary

*(?: ... )? - non-capturing group, the trailing ? makes it optional

*

* +'([^']*)' - expect 1+ spaces, a quote, capture everything after until before next quote, expect quote

*}} - expect handlebar end

*now you can reference the capture groups with $1 and $2, or \1 and \2, or array depending on the regex engine/language construct.

A: You can use
{{copy\s*([^}]*)}}

See the regex demo. Details:

*

*{{copy - a literal text

*\s* - zero or more whitespaces

*([^}]*) - Capturing group 1: any zero or more chars other than }

*}} - a }} string.