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Services honoring Bob Dole are set to be held this week at the Capitol
Services honoring Senator Bob Dole at the US Capitol where he worked for 27 years are set to be held this week following his death at the age of 98
Chuck Schumer said Monday there will be services to honor the late Senator Bob Dole at the Capitol this week
There have not yet been any announcements on whether the Republican political giant will lie in state
Former Republican Senator Bob Dole died at the age of 98 Sunday morning
'It is with heavy hearts we announce that Senator Robert Joseph Dole died early this morning in his sleep,' the Elizabeth Dole Foundation tweeted on Sunday
Dole served as a senator for Kansas for 27 years and had three unsuccessful runs for president
Presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush all commented on Dole's death
He is survived by his wife Elizabeth, 85, and daughter Robin, 67
Chuck Schumer said Monday that there will be services to honor the late Senator Bob Dole at the Capitol this week, but there have not yet been any announcements on whether the Republican political giant will lie in state at the U.S. Capitol following his passing Sunday morning.
'There will also be services at the Capitol to honor the life of our former colleague, Senator Bob Dole, this week,' the Senate majority leader wrote in a letter to his Democratic Caucus.
He previewed: 'More information will be sent out as soon as plans are finalized.'
Former Republican Senator Bob Dole died at the age of 98 Sunday morning – nearly a year after announcing his lung cancer diagnosis.
No formal plans have been announced yet, and the Dole Institute told DailyMail.com that any information related to funeral services and arrangements will be 'released on obertdole.org in the coming days.'
Hours after his death, President Joe Biden ordered all U.S. flags on public ground to fly at half-staff until sunset on December 9 to honor the political giant.
Dole was one of the few politicians to gain more popularity once leaving office and was the first defeated presidential nominee to become a political celebrity.
After ending his political career with his 1996 presidential defeat, Dole went out to become a spokesman for several products – including Viagra, Dunkin' Donuts, Visa and Pepsi-Cola where he appeared alongside Britney Spears in a commercial.
He became an occasional political commentator on Larry King Live and was a guest several times on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. For a short time, Dole was even a commentator opposite Bill Clinton on CBS's 60 Minutes.
Dole made a cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live in November 1996 where he parodied himself.
Flags were lowered to half-staff Monday at federal government buildings in honor of the late former Republican Senator Bob Dole, who served for 27 years as a U.S. senator for Kansas
Bob Dole died at the age of 98 early Sunday morning
'It is with heavy hearts we announce that Senator Robert Joseph Dole died early this morning in his sleep,' the Elizabeth Dole Foundation tweeted on Sunday.
'At his death, at age 98, he had served the United States of America faithfully for 79 years. More information coming soon,' the statement continues.
Donald Trump also paid tribute on Sunday, saying: 'Bob Dole was an American war hero and true patriot for our Nation.
'He served the Great State of Kansas with honor and the Republican Party was made stronger by his service. Our Nation mourns his passing, and our prayers are with Elizabeth and his wonderful family.'
In February 2021, Dole announced he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer and in July 2021 was receiving immunotherapy to treat the disease, forgoing chemotherapy due to its negative effect on his body.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered flags at the U.S. Capitol to be flown at half-staff upon the news of Dole's death.
Dole served in the Senate for 27 years and was the Republican presidential nominee in 1996, losing to incumbent Bill Clinton.
Before that, President Gerald Ford chose Dole as his running mate in the 1976 election after Vice President Nelson Rockefeller withdrew from seeking a full term. Ford was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter in the general election.
Dole also sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1980, but quickly dropped out of the race he was also defeated in the 1988 Republican primaries by Vice President George H. W. Bush.
He represented Kansas in the Senate and during the final 11 years of his tenure served as the Republican Leader of the upper chamber, which included three nonconsecutive years as Senate Majority Leader.
First entering politics as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives in 1951, Dole then served as a County Attorney there before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Dole leaves behind his wife Elizabeth, 85, and daughter Robin, 67.
Shortly after arriving back at the White House from Camp David on Sunday afternoon, President Joe Biden sent a statement on Dole's passing.
'A month after being sworn in as President, one of the first conversations I had with anyone outside the White House was with our dear friends, Bob and Elizabeth Dole, at their home in Washington,' Biden wrote. 'Bob had recently been diagnosed with lung cancer, and I was were there (sic) to offer the same support, love, and encouragement that they showed me and Jill when our son Beau battled cancer, and that the Doles have shown us over the half century we've been friends.'
Biden served as a U.S. senator with Dole for 24 years.
'In the Senate, though we often disagreed, he never hesitated to work with me or other Democrats when it mattered most,' Biden said in his statement.
A single rose was left at the Kansas state pillar at the WWII Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. to honor Dole, who long represented Kansas in the Senate and served in WWII
The White House flew the stars-and-stripes at half-staff Sunday night to mark the death of former US Senator Bob Dole
The Elizabeth Dole Foundation announced Dole's death on Twitter Sunday morning and said 'more information coming soon'
Dole served in World War II as part of the Army reserves. He was deployed to Italy as a second lieutenant in 1944 where he was nearly killed by a German explosive during combat in the mountainous Apennine region
Dole (pictured center with late Arizona Senator John McCain and wife Elizabeth when running for president in 1996) also served in the U.S. Senate for 27 years representing Kansas and made three unsuccessful runs for president
Dole leave behind his wife Elizabeth, 85. The two are pictured here on January 17, 2018 as Dole was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal at the Capitol
Dole also leaves behind his daughter Robin, 67
Dole (left) and his daughter Robin (center) arrive at a campaign rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico when Dole was running for president
Dole announced in February 2021 that he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. On December 4, 2018, Dole stands and salutes the casket of H.W. Bush as it lied in state at the Capitol. George W. Bush said on Sunday, 'I will always remember Bob's salute to my late dad at the Capitol, and now we Bushes salute Bob and give thanks for his life of principled service'
Dole (left) and then-Vice President Joe Biden (right) pictured together during a ceremony to dedicate a plaque honoring Dole at the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington on April 12, 2011
'Bob was an American statesman like few in our history,' he added. 'A war hero and among the greatest of the Greatest Generation. And to me, he was also a friend whom I could look to for trusted guidance, or a humorous line at just the right moment to settle frayed nerves. I will miss my friend. But I am grateful for the times we shared, and for the friendship Jill and I and our family have built with Liddy and the entire Dole family.'
'Bob was a man to be admired by Americans. He had an unerring sense of integrity and honor. May God bless him, and may our nation draw upon his legacy of decency, dignity, good humor, and patriotism for all time.'
Dole's family released a statement on his passing hours after announcing his death.
'Thank you for the outpouring of love over the last year, it continues to sustain us as we grieve the loss of a precious man we knew as husband and father,' the family of Dole wrote. 'Bob Dole was never only ours – we shared him with Americans from every walk of life and every political persuasion.'
'He was a powerful voice for pragmatic conservatism, and it was that unique Kansan combination of attributes and values that made him such a giant of the Senate.'
Tributes to the political giant poured in from other past presidents on Sunday afternoon, including from Dole's former opponent Bill Clinton.
'Bob Dole dedicated his entire life to serving the American people, from his heroism in World War II to the 35 years he spent in Congress. After all he gave in the war, he didn't have to give more. But he did. His example should inspire people today and for generations to come,' Clinton wrote on Twitter along with a photo of Dole at George H.W. Bush's funeral.
Barack Obama expressed condolences for Dole's widow while also appearing to take a jab at the modern-day Republican party.
'Senator Bob Dole was a war hero, a political leader, and a statesman—with a career and demeanor harkening back to a day when members of the Greatest Generation abided by a certain code, putting country over party,' the popular Democratic commander-in-chief wrote in his statement.
'Our thoughts are with Elizabeth and the Dole family.'
Republican George W. Bush called Dole a 'good man' who 'represented the finest of American values.'
'I will always remember Bob's salute to my late dad at the Capitol, and now we Bushes salute Bob and give thanks for his life of principled service,' he said, referencing a famous image in which a wheelchair-bound and frail Dole stood up with assistance to salute the elder Bush's coffin.
'Laura and I send our heartfelt condolences to Elizabeth and join our fellow citizens in prayer for her comfort.'
Current Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell also paid his respects to Dole, one of his predecessors in the role.
'Bob's lifetime of service was rooted in a simple mission: looking out for his neighbors,' McConnell wrote.
'Bob Dole lived the kind of full, rich, and deeply honorable American life that will be impossible for any tribute today to fully capture. As we mourn this most distinguished American son, we send our sincerest condolences to the entire Dole family.'
Bill Clinton, who beat Dole to win a second term in the White House in 1996, said the late Republican's example should 'inspire people' for years to come
Barack Obama appeared to take a veiled jab at modern-day Republicans with his statement
George W. Bush referenced a famous image during which a frail and wheelchair-bound Dole stood up with support to salute his father George H.W. Bush's casket
Mitch McConnell, who is currently in Dole's old position of Senate GOP leader, called Dole a 'most distinguished American son'
The late senator was also close with John McCain, a fellow wounded warrior and Arizona Republican senator who died of brain cancer in 2018.
McCain's widow Cindy tweeted on Sunday: 'Rest In Peace Bob Dole. You are the last of the lions of the Senate.'
Dole, unlike McCain, was admittedly a 'Trumper.'
In Trump's 2016 run for president, Dole was one of the few elders of the traditional Republican establishment to endorse him and was the only former presidential nominee to attend the convention that nominated Trump.
He did, however, say there was no question that Trump lost his reelection race in 2020.
'He lost the election, and I regret that he did, but they did,' Dole said. 'He had Rudy Giuliani running all over the country, claiming fraud. He never had one bit of fraud in all those lawsuits he filed and statements he made.'
'I'm a Trumper,' Dole told USA Today in a July interview, claiming also: 'I'm sort of Trumped out, though.'
Trump sent out a statement honoring Dole from his Office of the 45th President email.
'Bob Dole was an American war hero and true patriot for our Nation,' Trump wrote. 'He served the Great State of Kansas with honor and the Republican Party was made stronger by his service. Our Nation mourns his passing, and our prayers are with Elizabeth and his wonderful family.'
North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer released a statement on Dole's passing, calling him a 'hero to millions.'
'One of the most influential leaders of my life was Senator Bob Dole,' the Republic senator wrote. 'His legacy is seen throughout the world and especially in America's Midwest. He was a hero to millions, including me. Today we mourn his death and celebrate his contributions through a life very well lived.'
Senator Roger Marshall, who now served as a Republican senator from Kansas released a statement on Dole's passing: 'Today, Kansas and our entire nation are heartbroken having lost a giant with the passing of Senator Bob Dole.'
'As one of the heroes from our greatest generation, you would be hard pressed to find someone with a bigger heart and more resilient than Senator Dole,' Marshall continued.
Cindy McCain, the wife of the late Senator John McCain, said Dole was 'the last of the lions of the Senate'
Kansas Senator Roger Marshall sent out an image of himself with Dole with a statement: 'I will forever be humbled and honored to follow in his footsteps here in Congress. Each day I walk the halls of the Capitol, I recognize the boots I wore in the House and now in the Senate, were once worn by Senator Dole and on days like this, those boots look mighty large'
'I will forever be humbled and honored to follow in his footsteps here in Congress. Each day I walk the halls of the Capitol, I recognize the boots I wore in the House and now in the Senate, were once worn by Senator Dole and on days like this, those boots look mighty large. There is no doubt, Laina and I are blessed to consider him as one of our greatest role models, a mentor, and a dear friend.'
He added: 'Senator Dole always imparted the best advice to me, which was to 'always remember where you are from' and when there is 'any problem too big, just go listen to the people of Kansas – they will give you the answer.'
'He was forever a Kansan who always put service above self and was profoundly dedicated to bettering the lives of all those in our great state.'
In October, the Republican National Committee passed a resolution honoring Dole and his wife and daughter for their ongoing service to our country in celebration his 98th birthday.
'The Republican Party holds Elizabeth Dole and the Dole family in our prayers,' RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a Sunday statement.
'Bob Dole was a World War 2 hero, RNC Chairman, U.S. Senator, and GOP nominee for President, exemplifying the very best of our party and our country. His dedication to our nation is a testament to his legacy of service, and we all owe Bob Dole and his family an immense debt of gratitude. Rest in peace, Bob Dole.'
Born in Russell, Kansas in 1923, Dole joined thousands of young men in his time by signing up to fight in World War II as part of the Army reserves.
He was deployed to Italy as a second lieutenant in 1944 where he was nearly killed by a German explosive during combat in the mountainous Apennine region.
In 1945 Dole led the assault near Castel D'Aiano and was struck just as he was helping a fallen soldier.
'As the mortar round, exploding shell, or machine gun blast – whatever its was, I'll never know – ripped into my body, I recoiled, lifted off the ground a bit, twisted in the air, and fell face down in the dirt,' Dole recounted in his autobiography One Soldier's Story.
Dole was pro-Trump and was one of the first establishment Republicans to endorse him in 2016. He told USA Today in a 2021 interview: 'I'm a Trumper. I'm sort of Trumped out, though'
Dole was also defeated in the 1988 Republican primaries by then-Vice President George H. W. Bush (right). The two are pictured together during Dole's 1996 run for president
Dole was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton on January 17, 1997
He waited an agonizing nine hours before medics could evacuate him to a local field hospital.
Once back home Dole was forced to undergo multiple surgeries and three years of rehabilitation, and never fully regained function in his right arm, only able to move his fingers. For the rest of his public life he carried a pen in that hand to make it appear more normal and deter people from shaking hands with him on that side.
But Dole had said in past interviews it was the injury and the possibility of facing a life where it consumed him that helped push him into politics.
'In moments of self-pity, I saw myself going through life unmarried, selling pencils on street corners and living off a disability pension,' he told The Topeka-Capital Journal in a past interview, adding that his doctor 'In moments of self-pity, I saw myself going through life unmarried, selling pencils on street corners and living off a disability pension.'
It also turned him into a disability rights advocate, starting the Dole Foundation in 1983 to support people living with disabilities and was a key advocate for 1990's landmark Americans with Disabilities Act.
Bob Dole 1923-2021: Greatest Generation politician who rose from hardscrabble Dust Bowl Kansas beginnings and overcame near-fatal war wounds to become Senate majority leader and major force in the GOP
Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole, who valiantly fought during World War II and then represented his home state of Kansas as a powerful US Senator for decades, has died at 98.
Born into a working-class family in Russell, Kansas in 1923, the future senate majority leader paused his university studies to enlist in the army after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Dole would earn two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star for his service.
In April 1945, Nazis shot Dole in the right shoulder during a fight in the hills of Italy. Given little odds to pull through, it took years for him to recover and his right arm was permanently disabled. Dole was always seen in public holding a pen in his right hand to discourage people from shaking it.
The decorated veteran entered politics in 1950 by winning a two-year term in the state's legislature. He then served as Russell County's prosecuting attorney for eight years until he made the jump to the US House of Representatives in 1961. Starting in 1969, he represented Kansas in the US Senate. During his long and influential tenure in upper chamber, Dole was a Republican party leader who reached across the aisle to broker deals and served as majority leader.
In 1976, President Gerald Ford picked Dole as his running mate but they lost to the Democratic ticket of Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale. Dole vied for the Republican presidential nomination twice – in 1980 and 1988 – before finally securing it in 1996. After resigning from the Senate to focus on his campaign, Dole lost to incumbent Bill Clinton, a Democrat.
Dole married his first wife, Phyllis Holden, in 1948 and they have a daughter together, Robin, who was born in 1954. The couple divorced in 1972, and he met and then married Elizabeth Hanford in 1975. Elizabeth Dole has served in three Republican administrations and was also a US Senator representing North Carolina from 2003 until 2009.
On February 18, Dole announced that he had stage four lung cancer. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and his daughter, Robin.
From 1969 until 1996, Dole served in the US Senate where he was a leader of his party, held powerful positions such as majority leader, and was a skilled negotiator to get legislation passed. He resigned from the Senate to focus on his presidential campaign. Above, Dole and his wife, Elizabeth, at a welcoming rally in San Diego during his run for the White House in 1996. The couple had come to the city for the race's last debate. Dole chose Jack Kemp, who had served nine terms in the US House of Representatives, as his running mate but they lost to the Democratic ticket of Clinton and Al Gore, then vice president
'I could see my platoon's radioman go down… After pulling his lifeless form into the foxhole, I scrambled back out again. As I did, I felt a sharp sting in my upper right back,' Dole wrote in his 1988 autobiography. That sharp sting was a bullet that tore through his right shoulder. A fellow soldier pulled him back to the American lines. Dole was given morphine but wasn't expected to make it. Using Dole's own blood, his fellow soldier marked his forehead with an 'M' to indicate he had already been given a shot: a second dose would have been fatal. Above, Dole recovering at Percy Jones Army Hospital in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1945
Robert Joseph Dole was born on July 22, 1923 in Russell, Kansas. His father, Dorian Ray, worked at a facility that stored grain, and his mother, Bina, sold sewing machines. The family of six, which included his brother Kenny and his two sisters, Gloria and Norma Jean, lived in a small house that a New York Times article pointed out was 'quite literally the wrong side of the tracks.'
Religious, hardworking and poor, the family struggled like many during the Great Depression of the 1930s. 'As a young man in a small town, my parents taught me to put my trust in God, not government, and never confuse the two,' he said, according to Biography.com.
At Russell High School, Dole was an athlete who was seen as handsome and popular, according to the Times profile, which was published as part of a series called Political Life in 1996. Dole was 'noted mainly for his shyness around girls' in the school newspaper about his class, according to the article. After graduating in 1941, Dole went to the University of Kansas with the goal of becoming a doctor. Like in high school, he was also on the college's basketball, track and football teams.
But since 1939, the global battle to fight Nazi Germany raged and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States entered the war. At the age of 19, Dole enlisted in the US Army Reserve Corps in 1942.
While Dole was rehabilitating, he met his first wife, Phyllis Holden, an occupational therapist, in 1948. They married soon after and had one daughter together, Robin, in 1954. Dole first ran for Congress in 1960. In the conservative Congressional district he sought to represent, the primary was key. To differentiate him from the other candidates, his wife Phyllis set to work making skirts for the 'Dolls for Dole.' On the skirts were 'applique elephants holding 'Dole for Congress' signs in their trunks,' according to a New York Times series in 1996. Above, Dole campaigns for Congress sometime in the 1960s
Robert Joseph Dole was born on July 22, 1923 in Russell, Kansas. His father, Dorian Ray, worked at a facility that stored grain, and his mother, Bina, sold sewing machines. 'My father missed only one day of work in 40 years,' Dole said, according to the Horatio Alger Association. 'My mother was a source of inspiration; sacrificing her comfort for others was a lifelong habit.' Above, Dole with his parents, Doran and Bina in 1968, which is the year he won his first Senate term after serving in the US House of Representatives since 1961
Dole was married to his first wife until they divorced in early 1972. That year, he met Elizabeth Hanford, a lawyer who would serve in three administrations and run for office herself. The pair met at his office on Capitol Hill, according to a Today interview. 'All of a sudden, the side door opens and in comes Bob Dole. And I look up and I think, 'Gee, he's a good-looking guy.' And he says he wrote my name on the back of his blotter,' Elizabeth said during the show. They married in December 1975 and are seen above on their wedding day
Dole started active duty in the summer of 1943 and was then deployed to Italy as a second lieutenant in the Army's 10th Mountain Division late the next year.
In April 1945, his company was fighting to take Hill 913 – northwest of Florence – from the Nazis when they came under heavy gunfire, including from a sniper, and were trapped by the hail of bullets and a minefield.
'Dole had to get that gunman. He selected a small group of men to help him take out the sniper and find a safer passage. As he climbed a rocky field, his radioman was hit,' according to his 1996 presidential campaign website.
'I could see my platoon's radioman go down… After pulling his lifeless form into the foxhole, I scrambled back out again. As I did, I felt a sharp sting in my upper right back,' Dole wrote in his 1988 autobiography.
That sharp sting was a bullet that tore through his shoulder. 'I lay face down in the dirt,' Dole said, according to the campaign website. 'I could not see or move my arms. I thought they were missing.'
Sergeant Frank Carafa bravely pulled the wounded Dole back. 'They had a perfect field of fire,' he told the Associated Press in 1995. The Germans 'could have killed every person that went out on that field.'
Dole was given morphine but wasn't expected to make it. Using Dole's blood, a fellow soldier marked his forehead with an 'M' to indicate he had already been given a shot: a second dose would have been fatal.
In 1968, Dole won his first Senate term after serving in the House – the same year Richard Nixon took the White House. Nixon tapped Dole to be the chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1971. During Nixon's second term, he resigned after the Watergate Scandal and Gerald Ford, right, became president in 1974. Ford chose Dole as his running mate and they are seen above at the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City. The Democratic ticket of Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale defeated them
Dole first sought the Republican presidential nomination during the 1980 election but soon bowed out. Republican Ronald Reagan won the White House for two terms. He again pursued the nomination in 1988, but George H W Bush, Reagan's vice president, won the nomination and the presidency. Bush lost to Democrat Bill Clinton in 1992. Dole secured the nomination in 1996 and took on Clinton. Above, supporters cheer Dole at a rally in March 1996
Above, First Lady Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, President Bill Clinton, Dole, the Republican nominee, his wife Elizabeth and his daughter Robin after a presidential debate on October 6, 1996. Two years earlier, there was a 'Republican Revolution' in which the party made substantial gains and won control of both houses of Congress during the midterm elections in November 1994. Momentum was believed to be on the side of the Republicans but with a strong economy, Clinton, the incumbent, prevailed
Dole did survive but was seriously wounded and temporarily paralyzed. But the 22-year-old persevered and eventually after the paralysis subsided, he was able to relearn simple tasks using his left arm due to the damage to his right.
His road to recovery was long but it was while he was recuperating that he met his first wife, Phyllis Holden, an occupational therapist. She saw him across the cafeteria at the Percy Jones Army Medical Center in March 1948. 'He was handsome, with dark, penetrating eyes and shiny hair – and because his right arm was up in a sling,' she told The Spokesman-Review in 1996 about why she noticed him.
At a party soon after, Dole asked her dance. Three months later, they were married, according to the article.
For a short period, the couple moved back to Russell and his fellow townspeople raised money – $1,800 in 1947 – for surgeries to straighten his right arm, according to the Times profile.
Dole went back to college, first at the University of Arizona before transferring to Washburn University in Topeka and switched his ambition from medicine to law. He then earned his undergraduate and law degrees. It was while he was in law school that he decided to enter politics and in 1950, he was elected to the state legislature. Four years later, his daughter, Robin, was born.
After the two-year term, Dole was the county's prosecuting attorney for eight years. By 1960, he was ready for a bigger stage and ran for Congress.
In the conservative Congressional district, the primary was key. To differentiate him from the other candidates, his wife Phyllis set to work making skirts for the 'Dolls for Dole.' On the skirts were 'applique elephants holding 'Dole for Congress' signs in their trunks,' according to the Times series.
Dole won his first term in the US House of Representatives and in 1961, the family split its time between Russell and Washington, DC. Phyllis told The Spokesman-Review that DC 'was kind of scary for me.'
In 1968, after serving as a Congressman for eight years, Dole sought a Senate seat and won – the same year Richard Nixon took the White House. Nixon tapped Dole for Republican National Committee chairman in 1971. And while he traveled the country, Dole spent time away from his wife and daughter. The couple divorced in January 1972.
When asked about his accomplishments in the Senate, Dole told The New York Times: 'Just being there. I mean being in the United States Senate. I can't think of very many days I went to work without being a little excited. You see the Capitol dome and know that you're part of something that most people would give anything for. It's a great opportunity, and a great privilege.' Above, Dole after speaking to VFW members in Louisville, Kentucky during his run for the White House in 1996
Dole kisses his wife, Elizabeth, above, on November 5, 2002 after her electoral victory. Born in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1936, Elizabeth Dole served in Lyndon B Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan's administrations. A graduate of Harvard Law School, she ran for her native state's Senate seat in 2002. She won and was reelected in 2006. In 2012, she founded her namesake foundation dedicated to 'empowering, supporting, and honoring military and veteran caregivers,' according to the organization's Twitter page
After he lost the White House in 1996, Dole continued to advocate on the behalf of veterans. Above, Dole, who was then co-chair of a President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors, speaks about the group's report as President George W Bush and Donna Shalala, left, then the Health and Human Services Secretary, listens in the Rose Garden in October 2007
But 1972 was also when he met his wife of 45 years: Elizabeth Hanford, a lawyer who would serve in three administrations and run for office herself. The pair met at his office on Capitol Hill, according to a Today interview from February 2019.
'All of a sudden, the side door opens and in comes Bob Dole. And I look up and I think, 'Gee, he's a good-looking guy.' And he says he wrote my name on the back of his blotter,' Elizabeth said during the show.
They went on their first date after talking on the phone and three years later they married in December 1975. 'I love his compassionate heart. And the fact that he loved to feel that each day he could make a difference for at least one person in need,' she told Today. 'And I loved the fact that he had such a great sense of humor.'
Dole won reelection several times and served in the Senate for nearly three decades. Throughout his tenure, he led his party and was able 'to maintain a unified Republican caucus, a job that grew increasingly difficult as the Senate grew more fractious and individual members more assertive,' according to The New York Times series. With his reputation as a pragmatist and a dealmaker, Dole was able to work with Democrats. He was also a strong supporter and advocate for 1990's American with Disabilities Act.
He was first elected the majority leader in 1984. Elizabeth told Today: 'I got a miniature schnauzer from the Humane Society and walked into his national press conference with this little dog with a big sign 'Leader' around his neck, and presented him to Bob.'
Dole was majority leader again in 1995 but did not hold the position long. In 1996, after he secured the Republican presidential nomination, he resigned from the Senate to focus on his campaign. He had first sought the nomination in 1980 but quickly dropped out. George H W Bush beat him in 1988 when he vied for it again.
During the midterm elections of 1994, there was a 'Republican Revolution': for the first time in 40 years, the party won both the House and the Senate. Many pointed to this momentum to push Democrat Bill Clinton out of the White House. Nonetheless, voters chose the incumbent and Dole lost.
'Sure, losing an election hurts, but I've experienced worse. And at an age when every day is precious, brooding over what might have been is self-defeating. In conceding the 1996 election, I remarked that 'tomorrow will be the first time in my life I don't have anything to do.' I was wrong. Seventy-two hours after conceding the election, I was swapping wisecracks with David Letterman on his late-night show,' Dole wrote in The Washington Post in 2012.
Dole was then a spokesman for Visa, Dunkin' Donuts and Viagra, worked at law firm and as a lobbyist as well as founded the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. He also continued to work on behalf of veterans.
In 1997, Clinton awarded Dole the Presidential Medal Freedom.
'At every stage of my life, I've been a witness to the greatness of this country,' Dole said at the ceremony. 'I have seen this nation overcome Depression and segregation and communism, turning back mortal threats to human freedom. And I have stood in awe of American courage and decency, a virtue so rare in history and so common in this precious place.'
'For a long time after my loss to Bill Clinton in 1996, I would lie awake nights wondering what I could have done to change the outcome,' Dole wrote in The Washington Post in 2012. 'Did we rely too much on the Republican base, letting cultural issues define us in a harsh light and driving away independents and suburban voters?' After the election, Dole was a spokesman for Visa, Dunkin' Donuts and Viagra. Above, Dole at an ASPCA's Fourth Annual Paws for Celebration pet adoption event in June 2015
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The proposed zoo extension is split into three distinct zones. The Biodiversity Centre, the House of Tropical River and the African Savannah. Each of these zones is defined on the site according to their relevant function.
An undulating asymmetrical figure eight circulation arrangement around the complex enables visitors to view the natural setting along the banks of the river whilst efficiently offering various vantage points for observing the animals and exhibitions simultaneously.
The zoo extension is orientated along two main axial points. The east west axis links the existing zoo to the new extension and the proposed riverside promenade. It also creates a secondary entrance for the zoo via the new Bio-diversity centre. A north south axis maintains close physical and visual links between university campus sites, the zoo and the river.
The Biodiversity centre is located to the east of the site creating a secondary entrance for the zoo. A delicately landscaped forecourt ramps down into the centre where visitors are greeted with a top lit atrium space and an impressive aquarium back wall on the main entrance axis. Access to the zoo is provided on the lower ground level as well as animal enclosure space, the whole foods shop and additional retail units.
The first floor comprises of an open plan permanent exhibition space configured around a central atrium. A café/restaurant is also located on this level, strategically placed to maximise views down the Neckar river and beyond towards the old town. Access to an external terrace for alfresco dining is also provided. From this level the nature reserve footbridge can be accessed which projects out towards the protected Neckar islands. This new attraction will offer visitors the chance to study Heidelberg's local flora, fauna and conservation area. The first floor also offers the opportunity for visitor's to access the 'sky walk' which journeys through the African Savannah.
The second floor consists of the temporary exhibition space orientated to the advantageous south side of the building. A library and lab spaces are situated to the east and west ends of the atrium with the core and supports spaces located to the north side of the building.
The African Savannah
A large portion of the new zoo extension is occupied by the African savannah attraction. Contrary to traditional zoo design, the proposed African savannah shall provide vast open animal enclosures whilst maintaining public viewing flexibility.
Internal animal enclosures are located to the north side of the site along with their associated support spaces. The south of the site is entirely made up of savannah landscape. The southern aspect maximises the sunlight and maintains the crucial relationship between zoo and river. The Giraffe house is located at the west end of the savannah where the maximum space is available. A watering hole is provided along with ample external savannah terrain for the giraffe to move around. Support space is located and shared between the ape enclosure and the giraffe house above which an animal-viewing terrace is incorporated. The enclosures have been designed to minimize their visual impact on the site. Clearly defined water moats are integrated into the landscape design with green walls forming balustrades between visitor and animal. These have been designed in such a way eliminating the need for unnecessary traditional caged enclosures.
The ape enclosure is located in close proximity to the existing ape enclosures at Heidelberg zoo. This transition between the existing zoo and new extension enables the visitor to navigate clearly between the two.
The aviary is located at the heart of the zoo extension effectively acting as a transfer between the biodiversity centre and the African savannah. This building is louvered on the south and west side to provide solar shading and a level of acoustic absorption. Furthermore, it also tapers out towards the top to maximise the built volume for the birds in the higher portion of the enclosure.
Visitors are given the opportunity to journey though the savannah at an elevated level via the 'sky walk'. The walkway links the existing zoo with the new extension and through to the Bio-diversity centre. It also forms a continuation of the Neckar island foot bridge.
The sky walk, visitor pathways and external animal enclosures are partially covered by a canopy which provides protection from the glaring sun in the summer and driving wind and rain in the winter. This offers both animals and the public access to the external environment all year round. The structure is a lightweight frame with infill panels. These patchwork of panels consist of photovoltaic cells, opaque and translucent screens.
The House of Tropical River is located on the most northern boundary of the site. More in scale with its immediate neighbouring buildings the one storey pavilion is effectively an aquarium. Solar shading is provided by the light dampening affect of the tall aviary building adjacent to the aquarium. The building is designed to appear submerged in water. The main entrance is accessed via a bridge over a moat. It is envisaged that on entering the building the visitor is presented with full height acrylic walls and ceiling which would provide the illusion of being underwater. The pavilion would be split into the three river zones with enclosure space provided both inside and out.

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Come visit me over at Christine Rains! I'm talking about being a mom and a writer.
I would die happy and complete.
I remember this...when I want to choke them.
Yep, just keep saying it over and over. Beats the whole deep breath and counting to five thing.
They all look like blessings. Four sons must be quite a handful. I'm off to Christine's blog. You'll see me tomorrow.
Yes, I will see you tomorrow.
They can be quite a handful. Not as much as when they were little fellas...whew! That was a busy time!
That's the greatest accomplishment of a mother!
Four boys, WHOA... And I thought my poor mom had it bad with three!
Terrific family, Elizabeth. You should be proud!
I am pretty proud of them Michael. Your mom was a trooper, once you get used having boys, the rest is just numbers.
LOL...so far. A lot of meaning in those words!
Thanks so much for having me, I really appreciate it.
I love the pic. I'll hop on over.


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Q: ConceptNet 5.5 and JSON format The previous ConceptNet 5.4 API version returns plain text JSON format (http://conceptnet5.media.mit.edu/data/5.4/c/en/library).
Does someone familiar with the new ConceptNet 5.5 API? Why the query returns html source and not plain text like previous version (http://api.conceptnet.io/related/c/en/library)? I didn't find option to select the plain text JSON format.

Therefore, this Java code is not usable with the new version.
JsonReader jsonReader = Json.createReader(new URL("http://conceptnet5.media.mit.edu/data/5.4/c/en/library").openStream());

A: The format of the API response depends on the Accept: header that your client sends. (I found this behavior really convenient when Django REST Framework does it, so I implemented it in ConceptNet's API code.) The default response format is JSON.
If you run curl http://api.conceptnet.io/related/c/en/library at the command line, for example, you will see plain, un-indented JSON. If you go there in a Web browser, it's indented and wrapped in HTML so it can be syntax-highlighted and linked. The difference is that the Web browser sends the header Accept: text/html.
I think it's a bug in the JsonReader you're using that it's explicitly sending Accept: text/html and yet it's expecting a JSON response, not HTML. See if you can work around it by configuring the headers it sends.
(If getting the HTML is unavoidable, note that the plain JSON is also present in the HTML, within the <script type="application/ld+json"> tag.)

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A spiritual act of Hajj is not possible to perform without staying for a while in Makkah city and close to Masjid Al Haram. Needless to say, this is a holy act of kindness, believe and humanity which is a once in a lifetime wish for Muslims.
In order to avail the fruit of His blessings, it is necessary to perform Hajj with a clean mind, body and soul. This is the reason Taj Al Khalil Hotel provides you that peace and tranquillity to concentrate on the pilgrimage and rest to the fullest in a comfortable manner.
One of the pristine and luxurious 4-star lodgings of Makkah city, Taj Al Khalil Hotel is one of its kind full of royal and plush looking persona. Standing tall just 5-minute walking distance away from Masjid Al Haram and to other local attractions, this is a refined looking staying place for both leisure as well as corporate travellers.
Feel the royalty and the very grandeur of this hotel at the very first in its lavish lobby and reception area. Overall décor is so splendid and luxurious that make you fall in love with that.
When it comes to multiple set of guest rooms inside, then all the units have quietness and fantastic Arabic style feel inside. With the presence of cosy beds, carpeted floor, private bathroom, free Wifi, flat screen TV and other facilities, you get to experience unforgettable staying pleasure.
Even in terms of in-house dining pleasure, there is a restaurant inside offering buffet breakfast along with lip-smacking lunch and dinner.


Barrington Cigars Jamaica Ltd. has brought a altered ancillary to the accepted spectrum of the aftertaste of Jamaica articles and holds the appellation as the sole architect of accurate Jamaican cigars.
Founded by Barrington Adams of Barrington House International, Adams is a absolute brood of one of the best heralded tobacco estates in Jamaica – Barrington Hall. Barrington Cigars currently operates from their branch in Kingston, with a accumulated appointment in New York, with affairs to accessible a auction appointment in Montego Bay to added consign Jamaican cigars in aerial appeal world-wide.
Employing an almost twenty-two persons, all of the company's cigars are distinctively duke formed by accomplished Jamaican tobacco experts and with all Jamaican products. According to Managing Director of Barrington Cigars, Margaret 'MJ' Adams, Jamaican cigars accept exploded on to the across market.
"We consign ample calibration to the United States, Germany, Canada and added afresh we accept acknowledged amorphous to access China. We are additionally consistently attractive to aggrandize into added markets," Adams said. Main sellers across for the Barrington cast are the 'Pride of Jamaica', 'Montalvo', 'Fundadores' and the 'Harvill' cast which comes in bristles accomplished flavours: Rum, Cognac, Passion Rum and Coffee.


When you first connect the soundbar to the mains socket, the main unit will be in Standby mode Press the / button on the unit or press the button on the remote control to switch the unit ON.- Press and hold the / button on the unit or the button on the remote control to switch the unit back to STANDBY mode. The indicator will light up red.Disconnect the mains plug from the mains socket if you want to switch the unit OFF completely.
If a TV or an external device (Only for AUDIO IN socket) is connected, the unit will switch on automatically when the TV or the external device is switched on.When the has unit no input signal (or weak input signal) for over 15 minutes, it will automatically switch to Standby mode.
– The indicator light on the front of the main unit will show which mode is currently in use.
• Red indicator: In STANDBY mode.
• Green indicator: In AUDIO IN mode.
• Blue indicator: In Bluetooth mode.
Press the + / – buttons on the unit or VOL+ / VOL- buttons on the remote control to adjust the volume.
– If you wish to turn the sound off, press the (MUTE) button on the remote control. Press the (MUTE) button again or press the + / – buttons on the unit or VOL+ / VOL- buttons on the remote control to resume normal listening.
– While adjusting the volume, the status indicator flashes quickly.- While the volume level reaches its maximum level, if you press the VOL+ button again, the status indicator flashes three times. While the volume level reaches its minimum level, if you press the VOLbutton again, the status indicator flashes three times.


: Mrs. Peggy Davis, brought up to date by Dr. J.-M. Paschoud.
: Quite a strong dog, powerful, showing more English blood in his head than his tricolour colleague.
: Rather broad and flat without occipital protuberance; superciliary arches not prominent.
: Black or orangy brown.
: Bridge of nose rather shrot.
: Extending over the lower jaw and giving the muzzle some squareness.
: Big, brown and dark.
: Set on quite broadly at eye level line or slightly above, quite thick, slightly turned in and rather short.
: Quite deep and let down. Ribs long, slightly rounded.
: Quite long, sometimes towards the tip with few longer and coarser, slightly offstanding hairs (like ears of grain) around the tail.
: Strong, broad and vertical.
: Close to the chest but well muscled.
: Slightly bent and close to the ground.
: White with orange or yellow patches.
: Short and not too thick.
: White-lemon or white-orange on condition that the orange is not too dark tending to red.
: 60 cm to 70 cm.
Curved tail or deviated to the side.
Colours of coat other than those previously mentioned (black or red hair).
Head: Quite short and broad.


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What makes a revolution?
By Steve Kelman
In my Jan. 10 column, I noted an article from the Financial Times expressing skepticism about whether the Internet is creating a revolutionary change in people's lives comparable, say, to how people's work lives changed during the Industrial Revolution. I invited people to e-mail me their reactions.
Respondents were split about whether the impact of the Internet was likely to rise to the character of a revolutionary change. Those who voted with "revolution" emphasized changes coming in the future rather than the impact of the Internet in the present. Harry F. Armstrong III of Tinker Air Force Base argued that "what we today call the Industrial Revolution did not happen overnight. It took about a generation."
During its early stages, he continued, many regarded the revolution as a passing fancy, believing that it produced inferior goods that wouldn't be able to compete against craft production. Similarly, he said, in the early days of the automobile, people saw cars "as too difficult to operate and maintain, noted problems with roads, fuel supplies, spare parts, etc."
Such examples show how hard it is to respond to breathless and vague predictions. Hollywood mogul Sam Goldwyn once said, "Never make predictions, especially about the future." The Economist recently reported the same skepticism about Internet predictions in a recent article. "Like a newborn baby, the Internet is still young enough for people to predict all manner of things for it without anybody being able to prove them wrong."
Armstrong also wrote a fascinating example of what he said would constitute a revolution: a pocket-size device you could talk to in plain language and give commands, which could then "access other sources of information via wireless means." This might be something you could use to renew books at the local library while sitting in traffic. I found this example more of a revolution than Bill Gates' story about a future family making online travel arrangements, as cited in the Financial Times article. Perhaps Armstrong has a future as a futurist.
One of the supporters of the "revolution" side, Cmdr. Jim Nugent, director of the Naval Reserve, noted the link between the booming stock market and the New Economy. Millions of market players clearly believe a revolution is brewing and have bet their money on it.
A fascinating e-mail from Ken Brejcha of the Minnesota Army National Guard noted that the Internet would revolutionize life by dramatically decreasing human-to-human interactions. I was skeptical about one of his examples, however: "Once each household can get broadband capabilities, videoconferencing and e-mail will replace some family reunions and other functions." You can't hug people during a videoconference.
Brejcha worries that "since humans are social creatures," the effects of this big change would be negative unless we figure out how to deal with it.
John Rehberger of the General Accounting Office predicted that the Internet would produce revolution in the private sector, but only evolution in the public sector. He argued that the greater competitive pressures in the private sector would produce more truly revolutionary Internet applications. I don't necessarily disagree with Rehberger, but I think it would be a shame if the Internet created a different kind of digital divide, this one (yet again) between private and public service provision.
The proposition, however, poses a challenge for all folks in the public sector to overcome.
Kelman was the administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy from 1993 to 1997. He is now Weatherhead Professor of Public Management at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.


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Q: WebSocket Namespaces I'm trying to look in the MDN documentation for when you do new WebSocket(), is there a way to only send a message to users that are subscribed to a certain room/namespace?

A: No.A websocket is just a transport, if you need that kind of publisher/subscriber functionality, you will have to put in place a message broker or a framework that provides you that functionality.
You can create yours by using RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ or even Redis for example, or use frameworks specialized in that kind of functionality like SignalR (.NET), Faye (NodeJS), etc...


7 Days (UAE): "It might sound like something from a dystopian science fiction fantasy but you could soon be able to pay for goods and services with a microchip that is embedded in your hand, according to Etisalat officials.
The technique is called bio-hacking, where an alien device is embedded on the back of the hand between the thumb and forefinger using a special syringe, medical tattoo artist Hazim Naori told 7 DAYS.
It is interesting that since the Brexit vote on June 23 and the election of Donald Trump on November 8, and last night's repudiation of big government in Italy, the world appears to be heading in the opposite direction.
We know for certain that the revived Roman empire spoken of by the prophets Daniel and John will happen. While we don't know the exact time, headlines of microchips being inserted in the hand to pay for goods and services means it can't be far behind.


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The handsome Mr. Bajaj aka Karan Singh Grover's journey to the top
The man you know, not his journey
The dashing and charming, none other than, Karan Singh Grover is an Indian film and television actor. Besides acting, he is also a model. He is known for portraying the role of Armaan in Dill Mill Gayye. His Bollywood films were Hate Story and Alone. He also came to the light after he starred in Qubool Hai.
Grover made his comeback to the TV industry in 2019 with fame serial Kasautii Zindagii Kay. According to reports out in media, he charged three lakhs per day for filming his role in KZK, which makes him the highest-paid actor till now. He also made his digital debut with BOSS: Baap Of Special Services. The model turned actor also won the most popular Model in Gladrags Manhunt Contest. He debuted with youth-oriented show Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi. After starring in Dill Mill Gayye, the show became an instant hit and was on the top of charts and also STAR One's number one serial.
In 2013, Karan Singh was declared one of the highest-paid Indian television actor. He also modeled clothing for the Lakme Fashion Week. The actor is also very fit and has a nice personality. He won Zee Gold Awards for Rising Star of Bollywood and Best Actor Negative (popular) in Kasautii Zindagii Kay. He also has a big fan following on Instagram. Karan also styles in different avatar that makes his fans go weak on their knees.
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Winslow, Arizona's storied corner
By Susan Morgan and the New York Times
The words "standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona" have swirled in American imaginations since 1972, when the Eagles recorded "Take It Easy." What you'll see from those corners today is an old railroad town of one-way streets and two-story buildings resting on a high grassland plateau beneath spacious skies. In the distance, snow-capped mountains, volcanic buttes and flat-topped mesas appear sharply silhouetted in the clear air.
Jackson Browne's song was a breezy tune about feckless love back when hitchhiking was a way of life, gas was in the 30-cents-a-gallon range and Winslow's slice of Route 66 was still a vital segment of the way west. When Interstate 40 arrived, a long period of decline followed.
If that story sounds vaguely familiar, you may have seen the animated Disney-Pixar feature Cars, in which the once-thriving town of Radiator Springs is bypassed by the Interstate and falls on hard times. Pixar founder John Lasseter and his chief animator spent a research week in Winslow, and several Cars scenes -- a motel with cabins shaped like tepees, a great historic hotel designed like a Spanish hacienda -- were inspired by their visit.
Cars has a happy ending -- Radiator Springs bounces back to life. And although Arizona is not Hollywood, Winslow, too, has reawakened, recapturing some of a glorious past that dates from well before Route 66.
"Winslow was built in the 1880s by the Santa Fe Railway Company," Mayor Allan Affeldt says. "Until the 1960s, it was the largest town in northern Arizona." Only one passenger train a day stops in Winslow now, but travelers can still stay at La Posada, a magnificent 1930 hacienda-style inn and one of the last remaining great railway hotels. Once marked for demolition, it has been saved and restored.
And just as travelers discovered some 70 years ago when they detrained at Winslow and bundled into one of La Posada's chauffeured Packard touring cars, the surrounding countryside is a revelation.
East of town, near Holbrook, you might want to ramble through Petrified Forest National Park. First designated as a national monument in 1906, this 94,000-acre park is scattered with fossilized vegetation dating from 225 million years ago. West of town, you can visit Meteor Crater, where an asteroid left a giant hole 50,000 years ago and NASA astronauts rehearsed their moonwalks in the 1960s. Just three miles outside Winslow, Homolovi Ruins State Park holds the preserved remains of a 14th-century pueblo along the Little Colorado River and well-signed trails tracing the paths of a 13th-century Hopi migration.
Downtown, 21st-century travelers stop at Standin' on the Corner Park at Kinsley Avenue and Second Street. There's not much to see there -- a bronze statue of a '70s rambling man and a trompe l'oeil mural of the song's dream girl cruising in a flatbed Ford. But it's a photo opportunity the Eagles faithful can't resist. If you think you hear "Take It Easy" playing in the quiet streets, it's not a flashback. Route 66 Roadworks, a Winslow-centric souvenir shop, broadcasts Eagles tunes.
Empty storefronts still dot downtown, but there are also art spaces, a lively contemporary coffee shop, restaurants and bars and antiques stores where you can find a mint-condition LP of The Magic Organ Visits Hawaii or a birdhouse made from reclaimed barn wood and rusted ceiling tin. The old Rialto, a 1927 Art Deco vaudeville house, has been renovated and reopened as the Winslow Theater.
On Historic Route 66, Winslow's Main Street, a nifty little eight-seat, red-and-white diner is under restoration across from La Posada. Manufactured in 1946 by Valentine Lunch System in Kansas, the diner was shipped on flatbed railroad cars in prefabricated parts fitted with everything from stools to grills.
"I've discovered that a lot of people are interested in Route 66 and the old Valentine Diners," says Jessica O'Neal, who owns this one with her mother, Linda Thacker. They hope to open for business in the summer.
Restoring Winslow
Winslow's wave of restoration started with La Posada. In 1993, Mayor Affeldt was working on a doctorate in cognitive science and leading an architectural research center in Southern California when he learned about plans to demolish the hotel, which was designed by Mary Jane Colter, architect of Bright Angel Lodge and the Desert View Watchtower at Grand Canyon.
La Posada was the final masterpiece in the empire of genteel railroad hotels owned by the Fred Harvey Company, whose staff of carefully selected young women, properly dressed in immaculate black-and-white uniforms, were called Harvey Girls. Judy Garland was playing one when she belted out "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" in the 1946 Hollywood musical The Harvey Girls.
Housed in a former bank building downtown, the Old Trails Museum, which chronicles Winslow history, has a Harvey Girl exhibition as well as ancient Indian pottery, relics of frontier life and medical paraphernalia that belonged to the town's first doctors (who reported a busy practice treating gunshot wounds).
In 1997, Affeldt; his wife, artist Tina Mion, and their friend Dan Lutzick, also an artist, began restoring the 70,000-square-foot Posada, which the railroad had converted into unlovely office space. Now, Colter's beautifully designed interior has re-emerged: arched doorways, hand-painted glass windows, glittering tin chandeliers, Southwestern hand-built furniture and whimsical jack-rabbit ashtrays.
Affeldt reopened the hotel in November of that year with 10 rooms; today it has 37 rooms and suites.
On a night in December, La Posada's restaurant, the Turquoise Room, had sprays of orchids on its leather-topped tables and was serving Southwestern hummus and a cassoulet with tender churro lamb raised on Navajo lands. John Sharpe, chef and owner of the restaurant, also offers box lunches -- chicken and tomatillo salad, for example, with house-made chipotle-spiced potato chips -- to fuel a drive into the country.
North of town, an undifferentiated plain suddenly breaks into a striated pattern, slipping deliriously from chartreuse to rose -- the Little Painted Desert. Eighty miles farther is the Hubbell Trading Post, established in the late 19th century. In the cool darkness of the old store, with its wood-planked floor and iron stove, you can buy a cold drink or an ice cream, an exquisite rug or a handmade saddle. Under tall cottonwoods, you can picnic by a stream bed and pleasantly drift in time.
At the edge of Winslow is its small general-aviation airport, designed in 1928 by Charles Lindbergh. Patrons at its cafe, E and O Kitchen, eat enchiladas montados (fried eggs served on a stack of tortillas dipped in chili sauce) as they watch small sleek planes come in for landings.
Linda Chambers, a hostess at the Turquoise Room, suggested a destination just beyond the airport.
"Come back in summer," she said. "There's a beautiful park outside of town where you can swim in Clear Creek and kayak up into canyons so narrow you can touch the stone walls."
Army of ancient images
Perhaps Winslow's most spectacular hidden treasure is Rock Art Ranch, a working cattle ranch that also serves as a sort of homemade museum of the first order, with a resident herd of buffalo and riches of the Old West such as arrowheads, pottery, covered wagons and a vintage bunkhouse. Owner Brantley Baird and his friend Clem T. Rogers, a swift-footed octogenarian cowboy, lead tours by appointment.
Call ahead and arrange to follow them over the ranch and into Chevelon Canyon, a place of amazingly verdant beauty, with a clear stream twisting through tall grasses and desert willows.
Look up at the steep sandstone canyon walls, and another astonishing landscape is revealed: geometric shapes and spirals, antlered animals, lumbering woodland creatures, a woman in childbirth. These are ancient petroglyphs, made by people who lived in this area 5,000 years ago. Archaeologists have documented more than 3,000 of the images in the canyon.
A wondrous yet overwhelming sight, as Baird and Rogers well know.
"Come back," Rogers said after our tour, "when you can spend some time here."


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                    });
                },
                tileSize: new google.maps.Size(256, 256),
                isPng: false,
                maxZoom: 8,
                radius: 3396200,
                name: 'Mars Elevation',
                credit: 'Image Credit: NASA/JPL/GSFC'
            };

            mapTypes['mars_visible'] = {
                getTileUrl: function(coord, zoom) {
                    return getHorizontallyRepeatingTileUrl(coord, zoom, function(coord, zoom) {
                        return getMarsTileUrl("http://mw1.google.com/mw-planetary/mars/visible/", coord, zoom);
                    });
                },
                tileSize: new google.maps.Size(256, 256),
                isPng: false,
                maxZoom: 9,
                radius: 3396200,
                name: 'Mars Visible',
                credit: 'Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU/MSSS'
            };

            mapTypes['mars_infrared'] = {
                getTileUrl: function(coord, zoom) {
                    return getHorizontallyRepeatingTileUrl(coord, zoom, function(coord, zoom) {
                        return getMarsTileUrl("http://mw1.google.com/mw-planetary/mars/infrared/", coord, zoom);
                    });
                },
                tileSize: new google.maps.Size(256, 256),
                isPng: false,
                maxZoom: 9,
                radius: 3396200,
                name: 'Mars Infrared',
                credit: 'Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU'
            };
        }

        initialised = true;
    }

    // Normalizes the tile URL so that tiles repeat across the x axis (horizontally) like the
    // standard Google map tiles.
    function getHorizontallyRepeatingTileUrl(coord, zoom, urlfunc) {
      var y = coord.y;
      var x = coord.x;

      // tile range in one direction range is dependent on zoom level
      // 0 = 1 tile, 1 = 2 tiles, 2 = 4 tiles, 3 = 8 tiles, etc
      var tileRange = 1 << zoom;

      // don't repeat across y-axis (vertically)
      if (y < 0 || y >= tileRange) {
        return null;
      }

      // repeat across x-axis
      if (x < 0 || x >= tileRange) {
        x = (x % tileRange + tileRange) % tileRange;
      }

      return urlfunc({x:x,y:y}, zoom)
    }

    function getMarsTileUrl(baseUrl, coord, zoom) {
      var bound = Math.pow(2, zoom);
      var x = coord.x;
      var y = coord.y;
      var quads = ['t'];

      for (var z = 0; z < zoom; z++) {
        bound = bound / 2;
        if (y < bound) {
          if (x < bound) {
            quads.push('q');
          } else {
            quads.push('r');
            x -= bound;
          }
        } else {
          if (x < bound) {
            quads.push('t');
            y -= bound;
          } else {
            quads.push('s');
            x -= bound;
            y -= bound;
          }
        }
      }

      return baseUrl + quads.join('') + ".jpg";
    }

    function setCredit(credit) {
      creditNode.innerHTML = credit + ' -';
    }

    this.initializePlanetaryTypes = function() {
        var key;
      // push all mapType keys in to a mapTypeId array to set in the mapTypeControlOptions
      for (key in mapTypes) {
        mapTypeIds.push(key);
      }

      mapControlOptions = {
          mapTypeIds: mapTypeIds,
          style: google.maps.MapTypeControlStyle.DROPDOWN_MENU
        };
      var mapOptions = {
        zoom: 0,
        center: new google.maps.LatLng(0, 0),
        mapTypeControlOptions: {
          mapTypeIds: mapTypeIds,
          style: google.maps.MapTypeControlStyle.DROPDOWN_MENU
        }
      };
      map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("actual_map"), mapOptions);

      // push the credit/copyright custom control
      map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.BOTTOM_RIGHT].push(creditNode);

      // add the new map types to map.mapTypes
      for (key in mapTypes) {
        map.mapTypes.set(key, new google.maps.ImageMapType(mapTypes[key]));
      }

      // handle maptypeid_changed event to set the credit line
      google.maps.event.addListener(map, 'maptypeid_changed', function() {
        setCredit(mapTypes[map.getMapTypeId()].credit);
      });

      // start with the moon map type
//      map.setMapTypeId('sky');
//        map.setZoom(8);
//        FiercePlanet.googleMap = map;
    }

    /**
     * Simple method for coercing a value to a floored integer
     * @param value
     */
    this.serializeCurrentMap = function() {
        var mapOptions = this.defaultOptions();
        if (FiercePlanet.Game.googleMap) {
            mapOptions.center = FiercePlanet.Game.googleMap.getCenter();
            mapOptions.mapTypeId = FiercePlanet.Game.googleMap.getMapTypeId();
            mapOptions.tilt = FiercePlanet.Game.googleMap.getTilt();
            mapOptions.zoom = FiercePlanet.Game.googleMap.getZoom();
        }
        return mapOptions;
    };

    /**
     * Simple method for coercing a value to a floored integer
     * @param value
     */
    this.createMap = function(options, altCanvasName) {
        if (typeof(google) == 'undefined' || typeof(google.maps) == 'undefined')
            return;
        var canvasName = altCanvasName || '#actual_map';

        // If the map needs rotation, rotate the underlying div
        if (options && !_.isUndefined(options.rotate)) {
            $('#actual_map').css({'-webkit-transform': 'rotate(' + options.rotate + 'deg)'});
            //'-webkit-transform': 'rotate(' + this.mapRotationAngle + 'deg)',
        }

        // If this is not a LatLng object, make one
        if (options && !options.center.lat)
            options.center = new google.maps.LatLng(options.center[0], options.center[1]);
//        map = new google.maps.Map($(canvasName)[0], this.defaultOptions());
        try {
//            map = new google.maps.Map($(canvasName)[0], options);
            map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map_canvas'), options);

            var trafficLayer = new google.maps.TrafficLayer();
            trafficLayer.setMap(map);

//            var weatherLayer = new google.maps.weather.WeatherLayer({
//                temperatureUnits: google.maps.weather.TemperatureUnit.FAHRENHEIT
//            });
//            weatherLayer.setMap(map);

//            var cloudLayer = new google.maps.weather.CloudLayer();
//            cloudLayer.setMap(map);
//
//            // push the credit/copyright custom control
//            map.controls[google.maps.ControlPosition.BOTTOM_RIGHT].push(creditNode);
//
//            // add the new map types to map.mapTypes
//            for (var key in mapTypes) {
//                map.mapTypes.set(key, new google.maps.ImageMapType(mapTypes[key]));
//            }
//
//            // handle maptypeid_changed event to set the credit line
//            google.maps.event.addListener(map, 'maptypeid_changed', function() {
//                if (!_.isUndefined(map.getMapTypeId()))
//                    setCredit(mapTypes[map.getMapTypeId()].credit);
//            });
            return map;
        }
        catch (e) {
            console.log(e)
        }

    };

    /**
     * Generates a set of default (and non-interactive) Google Map options
     */
    this.defaultOptions = function() {
        // If we can't reach the Google Maps API, return an empty object
        if (typeof(google) == 'undefined' || typeof(google.maps) == 'undefined')
            return mapOptions;

      // push all mapType keys in to a mapTypeId array to set in the mapTypeControlOptions
        mapTypeIds = [
            google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP,
            google.maps.MapTypeId.SATELLITE,
            google.maps.MapTypeId.HYBRID,
            google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN
        ];

      for (var key in mapTypes) {
        mapTypeIds.push(key);
      }
        mapControlOptions = {
            mapTypeIds: mapTypeIds,
            style: google.maps.MapTypeControlStyle.DROPDOWN_MENU
          };

        var mapOptions = {

            backgroundColor: '#ffffff',

            /* Required */
            center: new google.maps.LatLng(69.13811902334064, -32.86834716796875),
//        center: new google.maps.LatLng(47.5153, 19.0782),

            disableDefaultUI: false,

            disableDoubleClickZoom: false,

            draggable: true,

//        draggableCursor: "",
//
//        draggingCursor: "",

            heading: 0,

            keyboardShortcuts: true,

            mapTypeControl: false,

            mapTypeControlOptions: mapControlOptions,

            /* Required */
//            mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.SATELLITE,
            mapTypeId: 'sky',

            maxZoom: null,

            minZoom: null,

            noClear: false,

            overviewMapControl: true,

//        overviewMapControlOptions: {},

            panControl: false,

//        panControlOptions: {},

            rotateControl: false,

//        rotateControlOptions: {},

            scaleControl: false,

//        scaleControlOptions: {},

            scrollwheel: false,

//        streetView: null,

            streetViewControl: false,

//        streetViewControlOptions: {},

            tilt: 0,

            /* Required */
            zoom: 7,

            zoomControl: false

//        , zoomControlOptions: new google.maps.ZoomControlOptions(google.maps.Position.TOP_LEFT, google.maps.ZoomControlStyle.DEFAULT)
        };

        return mapOptions;
    };

    /**
     * Generates a set of interactive Google Map options
     */
    this.interactiveOptions = function() {
		var mapOptions = this.defaultOptions();
		mapOptions['disableDefaultUI'] = false;
		return mapOptions;
	};

	/**
	 * Uses geolocation to determine current location
	 */
    this.currentLocation = function() {
        var initialLocation;
        var siberia = new google.maps.LatLng(60, 105);
        var newyork = new google.maps.LatLng(40.69847032728747, -73.9514422416687);
        var browserSupportFlag =  new Boolean();

          if(navigator.geolocation) {
            browserSupportFlag = true;
            navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(position) {
              initialLocation = new google.maps.LatLng(position.coords.latitude,position.coords.longitude);
            }, function() {
              handleNoGeolocation(browserSupportFlag);
            });
          // Try Google Gears Geolocation
          } else if (google.gears) {
            browserSupportFlag = true;
            var geo = google.gears.factory.create('beta.geolocation');
            geo.getCurrentPosition(function(position) {
              initialLocation = new google.maps.LatLng(position.latitude, position.longitude);
            }, function() {
              this.handleNoGeoLocation(browserSupportFlag);
            });
          // Browser doesn't support Geolocation
          } else {
            browserSupportFlag = false;
            this.handleNoGeolocation(browserSupportFlag);
          }

        function handleNoGeolocation(errorFlag) {
            if (errorFlag == true) {
              alert("Geolocation service failed.");
              initialLocation = newyork;
            } else {
              alert("Your browser doesn't support geolocation. We've placed you in Siberia.");
              initialLocation = siberia;
            }
          }
        return initialLocation;
    };

    /**
     * Simple method for coercing a value to a floored integer
     * @param value
     */
    this.getMapLocationInfo = function(callback) {
        if (typeof(google) == 'undefined' || typeof(google.maps) == 'undefined')
            return;

        var locationInfo = '';

        if (!_.isUndefined(FiercePlanet.Game.googleMap)) {
            var latlng = FiercePlanet.Game.googleMap.center;
            var geoencoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();
            geoencoder.geocode({'latLng': latlng}, callback);
        }

        return locationInfo;
    };

}).apply(FiercePlanet.GoogleMapUtils);

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One of my favorite things about owning a Kindle has been the freedom it gives me to take various Very Old Books from Project Gutenberg or Google Books and carry them around with me. Instead of raising my class level, this has mostly been a way for me to discover very strange vintage erotica (terms for genitalia from an era other than your own are inevitably hilarious) and read pulp fiction.
In it, a distraught husband comes to Holmes trying to find out why his wife has been hanging out at the next door cottage at 3 in the morning and then not telling him about it. (This is acknowledged by pretty much everyone as a valid cause for worry.) Holmes thinks that she's hiding her lunatic first husband from Atlanta upstairs, Jane Eyre style. Happily for everyone, Holmes is wrong on pretty much every count.
Instead, it turns out that while hanging out in Hotlanta, the woman married a black man and had a child with him. The person hiding in the attic is the woman's mixed-race daughter. Understandably, she thinks that having a secret mixed-race kid might not go over super well with him, given that it's Victorian England and these things are Frowned Upon. What happens next is d'aw worthy.
The story is kind of crazy on multiple levels: the husband basically seems to adopt the kid, the woman's interracial marriage is treated as not particularly troublesome outside of what other people think of it, and Watson (with whom the reader is presumably supposed to identify) is happy to see that the family winds up all together. That is some progressive short storying!
The story isn't perfect, of course—the fact that the woman's first husband is African American is seen as detracting from his otherwise intelligent-looking features, and the daughter is darker skinned than her father because (according to the characters) that's what happens in mixed-race kids. So, not great! But given that a) positive views of mixed race marriage/kids are rare in literature, particularly of the classic sort and b) it was Victorian England, I'm going to give them a pass?
I do not understand why this is not taught in high school English classes when kids are doing books like Huck Finn (or whatever other book the teacher picks as the Race Book). It's an unexpected view of race given the time period, and raises uncomfortable questions about how our own time period looks at race in fiction and in personal relationships.
Hey you're so right! I'm from India and I truly love,adore and respect Mr. Sherlock Holmes so much.You see, I would'nt be so surprised if he would'nt disapprove of race mixing altogether because he is afterall the most rational and wise man in England. I love the fact that you have posted this. Thanks.


Naomi Rivka: "Remember when we were in Israel and Abba mostly couldn't talk Hebrew at all?"
Naomi Rivka: "And I talked Hebrew mostly all the time."
She has been babbling more and more in her made-up Hebrew. It's sweet. It actually does sound a lot like Hebrew, or at least, not much like English.


THIRTY two candidates are vying for 22 seats on Shetland Islands Council in May – and you can read the candidates' election pitches on our dedicated page, launched today (Tuesday).
With only three names put forward for the South Mainland ward, candidates Allison Duncan, Robbie McGregor (the SNP's first ever councillor in the isles) and George Smith are already guaranteed election.
While the overall number of candidates is down considerably on 2012, there are contests in all of the other six wards.
In the West Mainland, six people put themselves forward for the three seats including three existing councillors. But there are only four candidates for the North Mainland's three seats, while nine candidates are vying for the seven seats in Lerwick's two wards.
Ten of the 32 candidates are women – raising hopes that there will be a better gender balance on the new council after just three women were elected back in 2012.


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US announces visa ban on Nigerians sabotaging democracy
byChike Olisah
in Business News, Politics
US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken
The United States Government has announced visa restrictions on Nigerians who are accused of sabotaging the country's democracy, noting that this was part of the action to advance democracy and tackle corruption in Nigeria.
This is coming barely 2 months after the political counsellor at the US Embassy in Nigeria, Rolf Olson, at an event, said that the US would impose visa sanctions on people who try to undermine Nigeria's democratic process.
This disclosure is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, where he said that the sanctioned individuals, whose names he did not reveal, would be ineligible for US visas.
Blinken also explained that some family members of those barred from the US may also be subjected to the same restriction.
The US committed to advancing democracy in Nigeria
Blinken in the statement said, "We are committed to supporting and advancing democracy in Nigeria and around the world. Today, I am announcing visa restrictions on specific individuals in Nigeria for undermining the democratic process in a recent Nigerian election.
''Under Section 212(a)(3)C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, these individuals will be found ineligible for visas to the United States under a policy to restrict visas of those believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining democracy in Nigeria.
''Certain family members of such persons may also be subject to these restrictions. Additional persons who undermine the democratic process in Nigeria—including in the lead-up to, during, and following Nigeria's 2023 elections—may be found ineligible for U.S. visas under this policy.''
Visa restrictions targeted at certain individuals
Blinken also clarified that the visa restriction was not targeted at the Nigerian people or the government.
He stated, ''The visa restrictions announced today are specific to certain individuals and are not directed at the Nigerian people or the Government of Nigeria. The decision to impose visa restrictions reflects the commitment of the United States to support Nigerian aspirations to combat corruption and strengthen democracy and the rule of law.''
The press release did not mention anyone specifically targeted.
For catch up
This is not the first time, the United States Government is threatening to carry out such actions against Nigerians that undermine democracy.
Recall that in January 2019 before the general election in February of that year, the US government had announced visa restrictions on Nigerians who "sabotaged" the country's democracy.
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Q3 is available in 11 different colors - Glacier White Metallic, Brilliant Black, Daytona Grey Pearl Effect, Cuvee Silver Metallic, Monsoon Grey Metallic, Floret Silver Metallic, Utopia Blue, Misano Red Pearl Effect, Mythos Black Metallic, Tundra Brown and Cortina White.
Watch latest video reviews of Audi Q3 to know about its interiors, exteriors, performance, mileage and more.
The Audi Q3 was introduced in year 2011 as the smallest crossover from the Audi's bench. The car has a smart design which is inspired from the elder SUV siblings of the company. As the Audi is governed by the Volkswagen Group, The Q3 shares its platform with the VW Golf and VW Tiguan. The exterior appeal of this car is designed to match with the standards of the company and its face is crafted well to match with that of other Audi cars in the lineup. Inside the cabin area, the quality of material is kept top notch, and it delivers a certain confidence while using them. The high sitting posture of the car informs you off a SUV-ish styling, however, the seats don't lose over the comfort level. The engines under the hood are well mated to perform over the rough and plane roads.
The cabin has a lot of quality perspectives; it is loaded with the equipments which are a must in this segment. The dashboard material quality is great and it is rigid in feel. The steering is wrapped in soft leather while the complete upholstery is worth appreciating. As this is the smallest car in the company's SUV range and it doesn't offer the performance dynamics which every other car from the house is supposed to do, their is hardly anything which lags behind in the character demand. The audio system sits in a small gap carved in the dashboard while the air conditioning vents are surrounded with chrome inserts. The top end spec also comes with a dash board mounted screen which is effected with navigation controls. As far as the seat comfort is concerned, there is ample room at all seats but taller people will find difficulties. At the trunk, the 460-liters of boot space gets expanded to 1365 liters with seats being folded.
One of the smartest appearance is seen in the the Audi Q3; it is a full fledged car with good SUV character, still it looks small against the competition. The outer body shell of the Q3 are well managed by the manufacturer and thy have ended up giving it a compact nature despite a comfortable ride. The dimensions of the this car measures 4385 mm of length, 1831 mm of width, 1608 mm of height and 2603 mm of wheelbase. The 17-inch alloy rims coats up 235/55 R17 size tyre. Dimension wise, the Q3 is way smaller than the BMW X1 and with this reason, the Audi's player falls short over the clash.
The United Arab Emirates received three variants among the engine options. The 1.4-liter 4 cylinder in-line petrol turbocharged engine is the least powerful one which develops 150 hp of power at 5000 to 6000 rpm along with 250 Nm of torque at 1750 to 3000 rpm. Audi Q3 also sports a 2.0-liter 4 cylinder in-line petrol turbocharged engine which churns out 170 hp of power at 4300 to 6200 rpm. The torque associated to the same is 280 Nm at 1700 to 4200 rpm. The third engine is a 2.0 liter motor with better power output of 211 hp at 5000 to 6200 rpm with related torque output of 300 Nm at 1800 to 4900 rpm. The top speed of all these engines ranges between 200 kmph to 230 kmph while the zero to 100 kmph acceleration counts between 8.9 seconds to 6.9 seconds. The fuel efficiency receivable also slides between 12 kmpl to 15 kmpl gap.
Handling and stability of this car are great and it moves smoothly around the corners. The steering is a bit low on response which is hurdle while driving in city limits and getting fun out of the machine. Also, unlike Q5, there is no adjustable dampers in the Q3; this brings it to a stiffer ride over the bad roads which is not a good thing. Although, the structure of the car is made of best quality material and this adds protection during any collision or soar happening. The disk brakes, anti lock braking system, electronic brake force distribution, traction control, multiple airbags and brake assist comes as standard fitting.
The Audi Q3 is a capable SUV and has a good road presence. Their are few things which make it look down including the lack of head room, stiffer ride and low responsive steering. Still, it brings to us a good package for a budget-luxury car buyer which makes a lot of sense over the other players.
What is the price of Audi Q3?
On road prices of Audi Q3 in starts from AED168,000 for base variant 35 TFSI Design quattro (180 HP), while the top spec variant 40 TFSI Design quattro (220 HP) costs at AED177,000 .
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