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Иван Алексеевич Яковлев (, Москва, Российская империя  — , там же) — отставной капитан Измайловского лейб-гвардии полка, помещик. Известен тем, что в 1812 году лично встречался с Наполеоном I в оккупированной Москве и доставил от него Александру I письмо с предложением о мире. Отец писателя Александра Герцена.

Биография
Родился 23 июня 1767 года в Москве в семье действительного статского советника Алексея Александровича Яковлева (1726—1781) и его супруги княжны Натальей Борисовной (в девичестве Мещерской; 1734—1781). Происходил из старинного боярского рода Яковлевых. Его старшие братья Александр (1762—1825) и Лев (1764—1839) достигли впоследствии значительных чинов и постов обер-прокурора и сенатора, соответственно. Воспитанный французским гувернёром в доме набожной и благочестивой тётки, Иван Яковлев в шестнадцатилетнем возрасте поступил в Измайловский лейб-гвардии полк сержантом. Будучи молодым гвардейским офицером, Яковлев бывал на балах Екатерины II, где познакомился со знаменитой красавицей-авантюристкой Ольгой Александровной Жеребцовой. Той нравилось танцевать с ним, её также привлекали его обходительность и глубокий, язвительный ум. Это знакомство затем переросло в многолетнюю дружбу . Прослужив до вступления на престол императора Павла I, Яковлев вышел в отставку гвардии капитаном.

В 1801 году Иван Алексеевич Яковлев уехал за границу. Тогда же Россию покинула и Ольга Жеребцова, участница заговора против императора. Позднее они повстречались в Париже, однако в каком году состоялась эта встреча, доподлинно неизвестно. В дальнейшем Жеребцова и Яковлев время от времени вместе путешествовали по Европе. Так, переезжая из страны в страну, он прожил за границей до конца 1811 года. Вернувшись в Россию, Иван Алексеевич поселился в Москве, где Ольга Александровна его неоднократно навещала.

C собой из Европы Яковлев вывез Генриетту Вильгельмину Луизу Гааг (; †1851), дочь мелкого чиновника, делопроизводителя в казённой палате в Штутгарте. 25 апреля 1812 года она, в возрасте шестнадцати лет, родила от Яковлева сына Александра. Поскольку родители не состояли в браке, тот получил фамилию, придуманную отцом: Герцен — «дитя сердца» (от ).

Встреча с Наполеоном I Бонапартом
Во время Отечественной войны 1812 года, 2 сентября, когда неприятельская армия начала занимать Москву, Иван Алексеевич Яковлев намеревался покинуть город, однако был захвачен и ограблен французами. Оказавшись в бедственном положении с гражданской женой и новорожденным сыном на руках, Яковлев в течение нескольких дней скитался по горящей Москве вместе со своими дворовыми людьми и сотней подмосковных крестьян, прибежавших из деревни к своему помещику. Стремясь выбраться из города, он убедился, что сделать это можно только с разрешения оккупационных властей, и обратился за паспортом к маршалу Эдуару Адольфу Мортье, исполнявшему обязанности военного губернатора Москвы. Последний не решался выдать ему паспорт без санкции Бонапарта.

Наполеон, который в тот момент искал мира с Александром I, решил сделать Яковлева своим парламентёром. Бонапарт знал Ивана Алексеевича через брата последнего, Льва, бывшего до войны посланником при Вестфальском короле. Император французов принял Яковлева в тронном зале Московского Кремля в присутствии своего секретаря Лелорнь-Д'Идевиля. После положенных приветствий между ними состоялся следующий разговор: — Не мы жжём Москву. Я занимал почти все столицы в Европе и не истреблял их. Я сжёг в Италии один город, потому что там защищались на улицах. Возможно ли? Вы сами поджигали Москву, святую Москву, где погребены предки ваших монархов.

— Не знаю причины несчастия, — отвечал Яковлев, — но ношу на себе следы его; теперь всё моё имущество заключается только в лохмотьях, которые на мне.

Далее, в разговоре Наполеон выразил пожелание прекратить кровопролитие, требовал от России исполнения Тильзитского договора и грозил в противном случае подвергнуть Санкт-Петербург участи Москвы. Он соглашался отпустить Яковлева, но только при условии, что тот явится в столицу и доложит императору обстановку в Москве, свидетелем которой ему довелось побывать. На замечание Яковлева, что по своему чину и званию он не имеет права надеяться быть допущенным к государю, Наполеон предложил ему поискать личной встречи с Александром I на прогулке, либо добиваться её через влиятельных сановников или даже слуг императора. На это Яковлев ответил: — Теперь я во власти вашей, но я не переставал быть подданным императора Александра и останусь им до последней капли крови. Не требуйте от меня того, чего я не должен делать, я ничего не могу обещать.

— В таком случае, — сказал Наполеон, — я напишу письмо к вашему государю; скажу, что посылал за вами и поручил вам доставить письмо.

На другой день Лелорнь-Д'Идевиль привёз письмо и повеление пропустить пленного из города. В сопровождении более 500 человек Яковлев вышел пешком из Москвы. К вечеру добрался до Чёрной Грязи, где был встречен на аванпостах особого «летучего» кавалерийского отряда генерал-майора барона Фердинанда Фёдоровича Винцингероде, прикрывавшего Тверской тракт в Клину. Тот отправил Яковлева в сопровождении офицера в Санкт-Петербург. Здесь его сразу привезли в дом графа Алексея Андреевича Аракчеева, где и задержали. Граф доложил о нём государю — тот отказался принимать посланца, но велел взять у него письмо Наполеона, которое было доставлено Александру 20 сентября. Около месяца Яковлев оставался в доме Аракчеева на положении арестованного: к нему никого не допускали. Наконец Аракчеев объявил, что император его освобождает и прощает то, что он взял у неприятеля пропуск, поскольку это было продиктовано обстоятельствами крайней необходимости. Кроме того, граф велел ему немедленно уехать из Санкт-Петербурга, не встречаясь ни с кем, кроме старшего брата, с которым разрешено было проститься.

Дальнейшая судьба и отношения с сыном
Покинув Санкт-Петербург, Яковлев поселился сначала в Ярославской губернии, затем переехал в Тверскую и, наконец, через год перебрался в родной город. Здесь он зажил безвыездно и уединённо, сосредоточившись на воспитании сына. В учителя мальчику отец вначале нанял француза-эмигранта, а позднее, для подготовки к гимназии, пригласил и учителя русского языка. В доме Яковлева была богатая французская библиотека писателей XVIII века, которой юному Герцену было позволено пользоваться совершенно свободно. Яковлев прочил сыну военную карьеру, как средство выхода из «ложного положения» незаконнорожденного. Однако тот рано охладел к мечте стать офицером и избрал гражданское поприще — отец не настаивал, а лишь наставлял его:— В жизни всего важнее esprit de conduit, важнее превыспреннего ума и всякого ученья. Везде уметь найтиться, нигде не соваться вперёд, со всеми чрезвычайная вежливость и ни с кем фамильярности.Иван Алексеевич часто подавлял домашних презрением и холодной иронией, донимал их требованиями соблюдения приличий. Поэтому сына, несмотря на все хлопоты о его будущем, он официально и при посторонних всю жизнь называл не иначе, как своим воспитанником или приёмышем. Такое отношение только добавляло страданий матери Герцена, женщины добросердечной, любимой всеми в доме, но так и оставшейся на унизительном положении конкубины. Поэтому когда сын достиг подросткового возраста, то стал горячо заступаться за неё, что привело к ряду столкновений и тягостных сцен между ним и отцом.

По мнению Александра Герцена, Яковлев ни к кому не обращался с просьбами, он в то же время и сам ни для кого ничего не делал. Однако, когда в 1835 году самому Герцену грозила ссылка за организацию демократического студенческого кружка, Иван Александрович был вынужден всё же прибегнуть к помощи подруги своей молодости Жеребцовой, чтобы выручить сына. Она охотно откликнулась, попыталась задействовать свои обширные связи, однако безуспешно — молодой человек был сослан в Вятку.

В 1838 году Герцен приезжал в Москву, чтобы увезти с собой в ссылку и обвенчаться там со своей невестой Натальей Александровной Захарьиной. Та доводилась Яковлеву родной племянницей — была внебрачной дочерью его покойного брата, обер-прокурора Александра Алексеевича и жила на воспитании у их сестры княгини Марии Алексеевны Хованской. Последняя намеревалась выдать воспитанницу замуж за другого, и Герцен решил организовать с помощью друзей «похищение» невесты из дома родственников. За это ему грозила тюрьма или Сибирь в случае разоблачения. Узнав об этом поступке, Иван Алексеевич так рассердился на сына, что лишил молодую семью финансовой поддержки. Однако под влиянием Жеребцовой в конце концов сменил гнев на милость. Двумя годами позже Герцену было позволено вернуться в столицу, где он наконец познакомился с Ольгой Александровной, чему сперва противился. Однако под нажимом отца был вынужден нанести визит вежливости своей благодетельнице. Скучная, как предполагал молодой Герцен, старуха оказалась женщиной удивительной судьбы и замечательного характера. Подруга Яковлева благосклонно приняла его сына и охотно делилась воспоминаниями — Герцен стал навещать её почти каждый день.

В 1841 году Герцен вновь подвергся гонениям — Ольга Александровна снова попыталась облегчить его участь — вновь безрезультатно. Герцена перевели в Новгород. В конце концов через свою внучку Ольгу и её мужа, могущественного николаевского вельможу графа Алексея Фёдоровича Орлова, ей всё же удалось добиться возвращения молодого человека в Санкт-Петербург и разрешения выехать за границу.

Иван Алексеевич Яковлев скончался 6 мая 1846 года в возрасте 78 лет. Похоронив отца на Новодевичьем кладбище, Герцен, со всей своей семьёй и матерью, в 1847 году навсегда покинул Россию.

Мнения и оценки

В «Былом и думах» Александр Иванович Герцен отзывался о своём отце, как о человеке, исключительно одарённом и образованном, который «бездну видел, слышал, помнил». По его словам, Яковлев до конца жизни лучше владел французским языком, чем русским: «à la lettre не читал ни одной русской книги». Будучи светским человеком, любезным и занимательным, Иван Алексеевич по молодости вёл весьма ветреную жизнь. Однако в пожилые годы, отчасти по состоянию здоровья, впал в крайнюю противоположность — всё более уединялся от окружающих, а характер его становился всё тяжелее и желчнее. Герцен пытался проанализировать причины, приведшие отца в такое замкнутое состояние, однако затруднился их точно определить:Эпохи страстей, больших несчастий, ошибок, потерь вовсе не было в его жизни. Я никогда не мог вполне понять, откуда происходила злая насмешка и раздражение, наполнявшие его душу, его недоверчивое удаление от людей и досада, снедавшая его. Разве он унёс с собой в могилу какое-нибудь воспоминание, которого никому не доверял, или это было просто вследствие встречи двух вещей до того противоположных, как восемнадцатый век и русская жизнь, при посредстве третьей, ужасно способствующей капризному развитию, — помещичьей праздности.

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Dan Weinberger joined the faculty at Yale School of Public Health in 2013. He earned his PhD in biological sciences from Harvard School of Public Health in 2009 with a focus on microbiology and infectious disease epidemiology. He was then a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies in the Fogarty International Center, NIH until 2012.
Research: The research in the Weinberger Lab is at the intersection of microbiology and epidemiology. We focus on understanding the biological and epidemiological drivers of respiratory infections, including pneumococcus, RSV, influenza, and Legionella. Major research areas include understanding the biological drivers of the emergence of rare pneumococcal serotypes following vaccine introduction, developing novel statistical approaches to evaluate vaccine impact from observational data, evaluating the importance of interactions among respiratory pathogens, and understanding environmental drivers of Legionellosis. We employ a variety of tools including experimental and quantitative approaches. Our work is funded by grants from the NIH/NIAID, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Emerging Infections Program (a collaboration between the CDC, the Connecticut Department of Public Health, and Yale). You can learn more about our research here.
Teaching: I teach the Public Health Surveillance course at YSPH. This class uses a mix of lectures, cases studies, and hands on data analysis exercises. Students learn to perform common surveillance analyses including aberration detection (e.g., CUSUM), time series analysis, and spatial cluster detection (SATSCAN). Students learn to do these analyses in either SAS or R. There are many great resources available for students learning these types of software including https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/ and https://www.datacamp.com/
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My husband and I have used our Mark V now on three trips and will use it again next week at Glacier. It is a single wall backpacking tent. It is light weight and easy to erect.
We have slept in the rain and wind in it and also in some sub-zero temps and it was fine. With just the two of us the vents take care of condensation.
It does not have a floor so we have used an all purpose plastic emergency blanket as the ground cover. I have fashioned a slightly larger one of black 4 mil carpenter plastic for our Glacier National Park trip. That is larger and slightly lighter.
One minor issue at Lake Chelan, WA. We camped in a damp part of the campground and at 3 a.m. my husband awoke with a large slug crawling across his face and bald head. Several slugs had invaded under the edge of the tent. We camped in the snow in the Grand Tetons without any slugs attacks. Have also used it at the Bowl and Pitcher state park near our home in Spokane.
Lots of room inside to put your pack, etc. You can set muddy boots on the ground next to your ground cloth without getting anything else messed up.
We used this tent numerous times in the last two years both in the backcountry and at regular campgrounds in the Inland Northwest. We used on a 5-night backcountry trip in Glacier National Park and have camped at other car camping sites in Glacier as well. No other slug attacks or bothersome creatures since Lake Chelan.
If it looks like there will be a gap we now find a couple of rocks to put on the edge of the tent. We've not gotten wet or had any trouble with stability in two years. The material is durable and no holes or rips. There are no zippers, just velcro closures so there is very little to break or go wrong.
I like that I can stand up in the tent and there is plenty of room. I do not have to crawl in on my hands and knees like a regular 2-man backpacking tent.
Without the poles and stakes the tent weighs less than 2 pounds. You do not need a pole if you want to suspend it from a tree or you can use a treking pole with an extension, but the ready made poles are easier for us to manage. We are considering getting a carbon pole to replace the aluminum one which came with the tent and I am considering replacing the black plastic I use as a ground cloth with something even lighter, but it is already very light for the amount of space you have inside.
I have looked and looked for something as light and as comfortable and only find very cramped small tents at very high prices for the same weight. We'll keep our Mark V until something better comes along.
Lightweight and a lot of room.
I got this as a way of reducing my load on summer-friendly climate trips..
Well, I bought too much tent. This thing is big, and not just big but with an extraordinarily high peak, something like 5' high at the door. The tent is essentially a lightweight version of a tent once used by the Boy Scouts for events like Piedmont. It requires either the lightweight pole that is supplied or a trekking pole. The foot end requires a 12" aluminum rod that keeps that end of the tent off the ground.
There is no protection from bugs (no screen of any kind) and the doors Velcro shut. Wind could in theory pull the doors open. As issued, this could be a problem in black fly season or much of anytime the mosquitos are out....which means pretty much always in New England.
There are neither storm flaps nor a floor. As it comes from the factory, these shortcomings require surgery unless you are prepared to live with them. The bug issue may be less pressing if you do not live in the Northeast.
These shortcomings appear to be a way to get the cost down and as such would seem to be inherent in a tent that is intended to provide an ultra light at a low price. The extra material (and sewing time) to make up these deficits would have driven up the price.
Literature that comes with the tent explains that these additions are really unnecessary. Maybe, but the manufacturer suggests carrying a separate floor, so the expense and weight comes into play elsewhere than the initial purchase price. To be fair, the manufacturer suggests low cost options for a floor, including plastic sheet and an emergency space blanket.
As purchased, one of the tent peg loops was unattached at one end. The other loops were reinforced at the same time since I simply did not trust the stitching. I have not measured the stitching, but I think the count would be something like 6 stitches to the inch.
The tent is alleged to house five adults, but unless you follow the diagram and have no equipment to take in, I have my doubts. I suspect that the five inhabitants would only be comfortable if they were corpses. Realistically, this is a three-person tent.
After setting this up in the yard I decided that some of these deficits I could not ignore. I put in door ties and fashioned a screen door of sorts. It ties shut. I mounted the screen with ties on the inside edges of where the original doors are sewn. I added Velcro on the doors to make the seal a bit better, but it is not an answer to lack of a tight seal.
I also installed some generous storm flaps out of lightweight nylon.
I have yet to take this tent on any extended trips or for that matter even an extended weekend.
On the whole, I plan at some point to do additional alterations. I prefer to be less obvious when camping, especially in high traffic places like the AT or LT. It should be easy to add additional tent stake loops and reduce the height and breadth of the tent. By folding under part of the walls in a permanent alteration, this would essentially provide a partial floor or storm flaps.
If you are happy living under a tarp but want a little more shelter, this or the smaller model may be the answer. Despite the defects, this is a good value. You could not even get a shaped tarp for this price. Come to think of it, you could probably consider this a shaped tarp.
I hope you'll keep us posted on how this shelter works out on your trips, David.
When I was a Scout leader, I saw ads for this brand all the time. I always wondered if they were a good deal or not. Thanks for the review.
The Appy Trails Mark V is not available from the stores we monitor. It was last seen July 9, 2013	at Campmor.


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Q: Finding formula for partial sum of polynomial terms? For example, we know that the following is true (and can be easily derived):
$\sum\limits_{x=1}^{n}x = \frac{1}{2}n(n+1)$
But, what if we wanted to find the sum of a series like this:
$\sum\limits_{x=1}^{n}x(2x+1)$
Wolfram|Alpha tells me that the answer is $\frac{1}{6}n(n+1)(4n+5)$, but I'm at a loss as to how it came up with this answer. Is there a simple method for finding the general formula for a partial sum of the form $\sum\limits_{x=1}^{n}y(x)$ where $y(x)$ is a polynomial with rational roots?

A: Let $p(x)=\sum\limits_{i=0}^{n} a_{i}x^{i}$
Say you wan't to find $\sum p(x)$.
There is a general formula for $\sum x^{k}$.
$$1^{k}+2^{k}+\cdots+n^{k}=\sum\limits_{i=1}^{k}S(k,i)\binom{n+1}{i+1}i!\\=\frac{n^{k+1}}{k+1}+\frac{1}{2}n^{k}+B_{1}\frac{r}{2!}n^{r-1}-\cdots$$
Where $S(k,i)$ is the Stirling number of the Second Kind and $B_{r}$ denots the the Bernoulli's Numbers.
So using that you can find the sum of any polynomial.
The given sum- $$\sum x(2x+1)=2\sum x^{2}+\sum x=2\binom{n+1}{2}+4\binom{n+1}{3}+\binom{n+1}{2}=\frac{1}{6}n(n+1)(4n+5)$$

A: Here is my favorite method which works for any polynomial (rational roots or otherwise) and you only need to remember two basic facts, one from calculus one and one about polynomials. First, since summations are analogous to integration, we have that
$$\int x^k \approx x^{k+1} \Rightarrow \sum x^k \approx x^{k+1}.$$
For your problem, let us define
$$f(n)=\sum_{x=1}^n x(2x+1)$$
and since the summand is a polynomial of degree two, the sum $f(n)$ must be a polynomial of degree three. Then using the (second) fact that a polynomial of degree three can be uniquely determined by four points, use points
$$(1,f(1)),(2,f(2)),(3,f(3)),(4,f(4))$$
and compute the unique interpolating polynomial and you get
$$f(n)=\frac{1}{6}n(n+1)(4n+5).$$
Come to think of it, this should work for complex polynomials too.
Done, done, and done!

A: First of all, note that:
$\sum\limits_{x=1}^{n}x(2x+1) = 2\sum\limits_{x=1}^n x^2 + \sum\limits_{x=1}^n x$.
$\sum\limits_{x=1}^n x^2$ are known as pyramidal number (google around for it) and they have a closed form solution:
$\sum\limits_{x=1}^n x^2 = \frac{2n^3 + 3n^2 + n}{6}$
You already know that $\sum\limits_{x=1}^n x = \frac{n^2 + n}{2}$.
Then, solution is given.
BTW, I don't know if there is a general formula for any $\sum\limits_{x=1}^n x^k$.

A: Hint:$$\sum\limits_{x=1}^{n}x(2x+1)=2\sum\limits_{x=1}^{n}x^2+\sum\limits_{x=1}^{n}x =2(\frac{n(n+1)(2n+1)}{6})+\frac{1}{2}n(n+1)$$

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Diana is being targeted by Ares Rights, an internet reputation management company based in Barcelona. The trouble started earlier this year when she was being critical about the Ecuadorean government. Ares Rights filed complaints, claiming copyright violations and shut her down.
Why is a Spanish company concerned about what is being said about the Ecuadorean government? If you look at the individual complaints (and we have), Ares Rights has filed them on behalf of, variously, Ecuador's governing party, Movimiento Alianza País; EcuadorTV (the state-run television station;) and even the president, Rafael Correa. The company has had various Twitter accounts suspended and documentaries pulled from YouTube. They have also targeted Buzzfeed and Chilling Effects, who wrote about Ares Rights specifically.
Is this an attempt by the state to silence critics? You can read the full, in-depth story here, from the last issue of Index on Censorship Magazine.
Diana's latest Twitter suspension is on account of reports of "violent threats". This is one of her alleged violent threats (translated from Spanish): "Today I received a notification of censorship from @Twitter and @Aresrights." She included a screengrab of an email she received from Twitter saying AresRights had raised a copyright complaint. Again, it claimed to be filing this on behalf of Movimiento Alianza País (Correa's party). This doesn't prove they are contracted, but neither party have responded to Index's call for clarification for our recent feature.
On Wednesday, there was an opposition march in Quito. Diana wanted to tweet from it. She couldn't.
At the march, protesters held up a message to the government: "We are not afraid anymore". President Correa has been accused of trying to intimidate critics. He has successfully pursued several libel lawsuits against the media since introducing his controversial communications law in 2013.
One of the early targets was a political cartoonist, Bonil. His newspaper, El Universo, was fined $92,000 over one of his cartoons. Now, 11 months on, Bonil is currently responding to a new complaint and fearing an even bigger fine.
You can read Bonil's story – with a new cartoon by him highlighting the censorship of cartoonists – in the next issue of Index on Censorship magazine.
Read Taking down the critics: Is Ecuador's government silencing social media users? By Irene Caselli (Index, volume 43, issue 3)
This article was published on 21 November 2014 at indexoncensorship.org


iQ.Suite Convert is a module with multiple functions. Next to attachment compression, the conversion of file attachment into PDF and TNEF to MIME conversion, it also provides the possibility to integrate command-line tools.
Special attachment conversions can be implemented using the "Convert Command-Line" job. This makes possible, for example, the conversion of WAV files into MP3.
Why should this be done? On the one hand, MP3 files are much smaller than WAV files. This is also demonstrated when comparing zipped MP3 to WAV files.
On the other hand, this can also make sense for the following scenario: A phone system sends answering machine messages as WAV files via email, but not all devices are able to run WAV files.
The conversion from WAV to MP3 requires a corresponding command-line tool. In our example below, we employed the "ffmpeg" program.
First, we copied the required ffmpeg files to the corresponding server.
Then, we created a new "Convert Command Line" job.
The "Selection" tab can only be used to define whether the original attachment should be removed or kept in addition to the converted file attachment. We also configured the file type "WAV Sound (*.wav)" in "Fingerprint Selection".
Next, command-line adjustments can be made using the "Options" tab.
In the "File extension" field, it can be determined which file extension should be added to the converted attachment in the email. In our case "MP3". The actually command-line request is made using the "Edit..." button.
In the "Command line" box, the request of the conversion program is entered. In this example, this request is "C:\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe".
Then, the entry in the "Parameters" box follows. The value "-i "[Cmd_InFile]" -f mp3 "[Cmd_Outfile]"" is entered here.
The input file ""[Cmd_InFile]" is transferred via the ffmpeg-Parameter "-i".
[Cmd_InFile] here represents the iQ.Suite parameter for the transfer of a file attachment to a command-line tool.
The ffmpeg-Parameter "-f mp3" determines the target format of the conversion. The result of the conversion is transferred back to iQ.Suite via "[Cmd_Outfile]".
The processing of "Convert Command Line" job is synchronous, which means that the email is held until the converted attachment is returned. In order to ensure that the processing time does not affect the work on other emails, a sensible value should be entered into the "Timeout" box. In our example, this value was 30 seconds.
Hence, all necessary parameters are configured for successful conversion.


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Chabad in the News 1992-2013
Rabbi Zippel at White House
Rabbi Zippel tells about dinner at the White House
Carole Mikita reporting
KSL.COM
An invitation to the White House is something most Americans only imagine, but it happened this week to Rabbi Benny Zippel.
The rabbi says it was unexpected, surprising and exciting. He says he was honored to see how the president and first lady treated their guests and to learn of the measures they took to make sure the staff observed Jewish laws and rituals.
"I got the invitation about two weeks ago. It's something that's sort of confidential. There's not much advertising," said Rabbi Zippel.
He is talking about the now annual Hanukkah reception at the White House. He and other rabbis from around the country watched as Judea Pearlman, father of
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearlman, who was murdered by terrorists, lit a family menorah in honor of his son. Rabbi Zippel described the scene as very moving.
"The flame always points upward. So, too, does the soul of man forever point upward toward its source, where it comes from, which is, of course, God," he said.
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Bush posed for pictures with Rabbi Zippel and eight others from around the country who belong to Chabad Lubavitch, which is often called Hasidic, the world's largest Jewish outreach organization. Rabbi Zippel says their revered leader, Rebbe Menacham Schneerson, taught them to remember what a great nation this is, where there is freedom of worship.
"[The fact that] a president found it worthwhile to invite a representative from the state of Utah — which is by no stretch of the imagination a very big Jewish community — was very encouraging, very empowering, very comforting," he said.
The other remarkable part of this was the planning. Mrs. Bush posed with five rabbis who, spent days before the reception sterilizing the White House kitchen because the entire meal had to be strictly kosher.
"I think that that speaks volumes about the remarkable country that we live in," Rabbi Zippel said.
Rabbi Zippel says he will never forget that day in Washington, the center of political power, but where he found acceptance as a man of faith.
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Enda Kenny: good for business but not equity or the environment
by Michael Smith 21 March, 2017, 5:20 pm 1 Comment
Enda Kenny was born in Castlebar, County Mayo, in 1951. His maternal grandfather was a lighthouse keeper in Loophead, Co Clare. He was educated locally at St Gerald's College (De La Salle) and later attended St Pat's College of Education in Dublin and UCG and worked briefly as a primary school teacher. Kenny first entered Dáil Éireann in 1975 following a by-election due to the death of his father, Henry, who had risen to be a Parliamentary Secretary but died after a short battle with cancer. He played Gaelic football for his local club, Islandeady, of which he is now the president for life and is a keen supporter of Mayo Gaelic football team. His son Naoise won an All-Ireland hurling medal, while Henry won one for Mayo in 1936. He has been elected at every election since 1975 as a Fine Gael TD though he nearly lost in 1989 during the rod-licence dispute, and is the father of the Dáil.
Enda Kenny with then Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave in 1975
He didn't have his first alcoholic beverage until the age of 28 – served unexcitingly in the Dáil bar. But he quickly became accustomed to the Leinster House drinking culture. His early parliamentary career was undistinguished but somewhat racily he spent many evenings on Leeson St. "You wouldn't expect him to be in the office before noon because he was probably only going to bed when the dawn was coming in", according to Ivan Yates. Former Fine Gael TD Maurice Manning said he and Kenny would "go to nightclubs and drink too much" when they were starting out in politics. History does not record which of them was wingman and too soon it was over. Kenny married Kerrywoman, Fionnuala O'Kelly, in 1992 and they have three children. The couple met in Leinster House where O'Kelly worked as a press officer for Fianna Fáil and was close to Charlie Haughey, so close that he could not be told she was dating your man, though he knew anyway. She later worked with RTÉ.
In the mid-1980s, he was a member of the Fine Gael delegation on the New Ireland Forum and later served on the British Irish Parliamentary Association. Kenny served as Minister of State at the Department of Education and Labour, 1986-1987. During his period as a TD he has served as party spokesperson on Education, Arts, Heritage Gaeltacht and the Islands, Western Development and Youth Affairs and Sport. His biographer Kevin Rafter described him as the man who came from nowhere, implying he had few policy achievements.
Kenny negotiated the Programme for Government with the Labour and Democratic Left parties before formation of the Government in 1994. He served as Minister for Tourism and Trade from 1994-1997 during the reign of that Coalition government, overseeing an unprecedented growth in tourism business, and Ireland's trade position internationally. He is credited with revitalising the Dublin city St Patrick's Day Parade and for bringing stages of the Tour de France to Ireland.
He held various offices within the party as well as serving as Minister of Tourism under John Bruton. In 2001 John Bruton resigned as leader of Fine Gael following a vote of no confidence. Kenny stood for the leadership, promising to "electrify the party" but Michael Noonan emerged victorious. However, Fine Gael suffered its worst electoral performance ever in 2002, losing 23 seats. Kenny stood again and defeated Richard Bruton, Phil Hogan and Gay Mitchell. Kenny pursued a populist line on immigration, street crime, paedophilia and homeowners' rights.
Under Kenny the Fine Gael Party agreed to enter a pre-election pact with the Labour Party for the 2007 general election. The so-called 'Mullingar Accord' was agreed in 2004. The Green Party also signalled support for such a coalition.
Kenny stood on a contract with the people of Ireland but lost an election that was there for the winning, after being outperformed by Bertie in an election debate. Fine Gael made large gains but the Labour Party, in particular, failed to deliver enough seats.
Negotiations between the three parties never took off and Ahern brought home an unlikely coalition with Greens and independents. That disastrous government brought in an ill-considered bank guarantee, with support from Fine Gael which later claimed – ineptly – that it had been misled; and NAMA.
Enda Kenny failed to capitalise on the government's stellar unpopularity and was led to table a motion of confidence in himself by Richard Bruton for the leadership. Nine members of the Fine Gael frontbench did not have confidence in Enda Kenny to lead their party – Simon Coveney, Denis Naughten, Olwyn Enright, Olivia Mitchell, Fergus O'Dowd, Michael Creed, Billy Timmins, Leo Varadkar and Brian Hayes. Nevertheless Kenny prevailed. It was only after the catastrophic IMF/EU bailout, the slow-motion resignation of the Greens from government and the start of the election campaign that Enda Kenny's FG started making gains in the polls, rebuilding the party, winning back 20 seats in the 2007 election and a further 25 in the 2011 election when Kenny led Fine Gael to an historic victory, with his party becoming the largest in the state for the very first time, forming a coalition government with the Labour Party. He subsequently became the first Fine Gael Taoiseach to be elected to a second consecutive term on 6 May 2016, after two months of negotiations following the 2016 election, forming a Fine Gael-led minority government. He is the first Taoiseach from Fine Gael since John Bruton (1994-1997), and the first Fine Gael leader to win government in an election since Garret FitzGerald in 1982. As he is well aware, in two months he will overtake John A Costello as the longest-serving Fine Gael Taoiseach.
Ageing JFK, if the family had stayed in Ireland, meets 1970s Action Man. Very good hair and skin for nearly sixty-six. Michael Ring, his constituency colleague once noted that Kenny provided Fine Gael with a "nice fresh face" that "looked well on posters" but that may have been by comparison to Liam Cosgrave.
Decent, charming and only rarely arrogant, perhaps due to a key lack of intellectual gravitas. Like a sailor-doll who has watched too many cowboy movies. He has no fear of being corny. He likes to use his hands, and thumbs – usually up, and his propensity to high-five anyone he meets is well documented in the EndasHighFives tumblr account. Often appears to be controlling his breathing. A "punching gesture" made by Kenny as Mary Lou McDonald was speaking during a Dáil debate on the Budget in 2015 attracted public notice. Not very good on TV or in the Dáil, he is excellent in a hall, and in private.
He often looks like he is going to make a mistake, or fall over. He does a line in half-baked no-nonsense comments like "Paddy likes to know what the story is" and sometimes he postures like a slightly effeminate John Wayne: not long after his 2011 General Election success, our soon to be Taoiseach assured the masses: "I have no fear of Brian Cowen and I'm sure he has no fear of me".
Village predicted in 2011, on the cusp of his premiership that he would lack dignity in office, in a cover article titled "Leader or Eejit?'. But it was wrong. Kenny has conducted himself with as much dignity as any leader at home or abroad, and attracted international respect.
He's more or less done what it said on the tin, and he really didn't offer to do anything else.
He does on occasion say foolish things. In April 2015, Kenny told the Dáil a tale about a man with two pints in one hand. In July 2012, he said, "Generally when people speak to each other they use words". While he was addressing the US Chamber of Commerce in 2014, Kenny gave an open invitation for a chat on the phone, at least to bigshots or Americans: "If you got a problem, you have an issue or anxiety or concern or a proposition or a proposal I want to hear it. My number is a public number you can call me anytime".
Long ago, in September 2002, Kenny was accused of making racist remarks after he used the N-word at a dinner attended by party members and journalists. During an anecdote about a holiday in Portugal, he said a Moroccan barman "with shiny teeth" had been asked why a cocktail was called a 'Lumumba' and replied it was named after "some nigger who died dans la guerre," referring to Patrice Lumumba, the assassinated Prime Minister of Congo. Matters were made worse when it emerged that several of Lumumba's relatives, including a son and several grandchildren, lived in Tallaght. A graphic description of a mugging he had experienced was given to the Dáil, in 2006, only for it to be revealed later that the incident had occurred in Kenya not Ireland. When asked about his stance on same-sex marriage by TV3 journalist Ursula Halligan, in 2015 he infamously nearly tripped over a flower pot.
Later that month, Kenny told a gathering of the European People's Party (EPP) in Madrid that he had been instructed to have the army guard ATMs during the economic downturn, and during last year's election he was recorded saying mad things about whingers from Castlebar. As recently as February he imagined in some detail, and later had to apologise for imagining, a meeting with Minister Katherine Zappone, in which she discussed her meeting with Garda whistleblower, Maurice McCabe. The Taoiseach said there were "many people who've been here before me for many years who have made mistakes". There certainly have been but it has nevertheless hastened his departure from office.
The foolishness seems to be an aberration, a quirk, and fortunately has done little real damage to the public or the body politic.
According to the Irish Times, a younger political operative who had frequent dealings with Enda Kenny stated: "He's like an embarrassing uncle at a wedding… Every time I met him it was all high fives and fist bumps. It was mortifying". But with the next breath, reported the newspaper, "comes a litany of admiring references: to the Taoiseach's energy; to his lack of ego; to his ability to motivate those he leads; to his political instincts".
'Late Late Show' host Ryan Tubridy once asked Kenny why he wanted to be Taoiseach, three times. At the end of it all the nature of his ambition to lead the country was no clearer. Nobody's really thought to ask him what his philosophy is: it's obvious he'd just waffle on about business and fairness and families.
He is very keen on Trust and Truth and for a good while was keen on change, represented by a five-point plan which seemed for a good while to set him alight, though it is unlikely, from his performance over thirty years in opposition, or indeed from what passes for his vision, that he himself ever represented change. On its website which presumably was passed under Kenny's antennae. Fine Gael, a Christian Democrat party, describes itself as a "party of the progressive centre" which it defines as acting "in a way that is right for Ireland, regardless of dogma or ideology". It lists its core values as equality of opportunity, free enterprise and reward, security, integrity and hope. Dating back to John Bruton Fine Gael has somewhat unclearly seen itself as the party of the 'coping classes'. This has been used as a canopy for unfair or morally-hazardous, populism. In the opinion of Kevin Rafter, Kenny's biographer, what has given Fine Gael its recent strength is the fact that, following in the footsteps of Fianna Fáil, it has become a 'catch-all' party without any ideology. It stands for nothing and therefore excludes no-one. And yet Rafter believes that this lack of a definite set of beliefs is exactly what continues to undermine Enda Kenny's leadership.
It is an impoverished agenda but it is only fair in assessing Kenny to remember that these are his primary drivers.
On numerous occasions Kenny has dismally offered his own limited vision "that the country will become the best little country in the world in which to do business" by 2016. However, the genesis of the quote was in 2011 where during the election campaign he expressed a vision that went beyond that, and indeed he has often repeated the extended vision. For example, before announcing further austerity measures in Budget 2012, Kenny addressed the nation on television on the "challenges we face as a community, an economy and as a country": "I want to be a Taoiseach who retrieves Ireland's economic sovereignty. I want to make this the best small country in the world in which to do business, in which to raise a family, and in which to grow old with a sense of dignity and respect". The vision is broader but still folksy. There are better established indicators of the direction a politician takes a society. Village favours equality, sustainability and accountability.
Political Talent
Excellent with small crowds and in person. He certainly has the all-important "affability factor" that Bertie Ahern had, and that every Fine Gael leader since Garret FitzGerald has lacked.
Allegedly good at organisation and strategic delegation – Chairman not Chief. Last year's RTÉ One's 'Enda' documentary even had Pat Leahy elevating Kenny into some sort of ruthlessly clever and manipulating leader. He dispatched Richard Bruton's coup through machinations of Svengali Hogan.
For a while Village ran an Endawatch column. In the end there could be no column for there was simply nothing to watch. His minders keep him off the airwaves for the most part. In 2011 Kenny refused to participate in the three-way leaders' debate proposed by TV3, stating his unhappiness that Vincent Browne would chair the debate as Browne had made a comment on his show that Kenny "should go into a dark room with a gun and bottle of whiskey". Browne has long regarded Kenny as a lightweight wondering, a generation ago, what the likes of Kenny achieved as TDs and more recently being unimpressed on a long shared car journey by Kenny's grasp of economics. After pleading that it was sympathy with suicide-victims that kept him away, Kenny then stated that his schedule prevented him from attending the debate; and, absurdly that the empty chair could represent emigrants.
Very recently Kenny managed to outmanoeuvre the pretenders to his throne by vaguely saying he'll deal with them when he comes back from a good tour of America, but also expressing contempt for disloyalty.
Kenny enjoys cycling, golf, hillwalking and the music of Bruce Springsteen. He has also climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for charity and cooked a meal for the RTÉ One show 'The Restaurant'. Of his wild Atlantic salmon main, the late Paolo Tulio said "It was overcooked and hard, I just couldn't eat it". The critics awarded the Taoiseach a score of two stars out of five.
Dodgy?
Not really. In 1996, after the Moriarty Report damned Michael Lowry he did claim that he was a man "of the highest integrity and honour" stating he very much regretted his departure from cabinet after the McCracken Tribunal revealed supermarket tycoon Ben Dunne had paid IR£395,000 for an extension to Lowry's home in Tipperary and that Lowry had evaded tax. On a number of occasions he has been pictured next to Denis O'Brien, Ireland's most powerful media owner whose organs tend to favour Kenny, although O'Brien was discredited by the Moriarty Tribunal. O'Brien has been a big funder of Fine Gael, though quite how big is unclear. Former Kenny favourite and Fine Gael 'handler' Frank Flannery received payments of €409,000 from Rehab over six years from 2008, and was forced to resign from its board and as a Fine Gael trustee in 2014 after it was revealed that the charity paid him to lobby the Government and that he was hanging around foxily in the portals of the Dáil to do so, used invoices from a dissolved company, Laragh Consulting Ltd, when being paid by Rehab for such services.
Kenny's instruction to the Secretary General of the Department of Justice, Brian Purcell, to make a late-night visit to the Garda Commissioner, Martin Callinan, leading to the resignation of both senior public servants and, under unfair pressure, his own long -time supporter, Alan Shatter, in mid-2014, remain shrouded in a fog of obfuscation.
Similarly, the way the Commission of Inquiry he announced to examine the purchase of Siteserv by long-time party supporter, Denis O'Brien, in mid-2015, was allowed to run into the sand due to its restricted powers and inadequate terms of reference bear all the finger prints of his senior handlers.
A large number of Tribunals has been instigated under Kenny's watch but, thought they indicate some sleeveenism – particularly in respect of the Garda – they do not suggest venality.
Legacy: examining Kenny's record as he heads for the hills
Likely to be viewed as little more than an improvement over predecessors who after all were the worst government in any rich country in history. History will forget his mistakes.
As is so often the case history will reward social change: Kenny facilitated equal marriage, Dáil gender quotas, recognition of Traveller ethnicity; and probable repeal of the eighth amendment, on abortion. In 2013 Kenny movingly apologised in Dáil Éireann on behalf of the State to the survivors of the Magdalene Laundries. He did not defer to the Catholic Church.
An important further legacy is that people like Kenny have kept Ireland safe from political lunacy like Trump, Le Pen, Wilders and Brexit. Nor is it imaginable that this conservative man would ever suffer a shower of Russian-hooker pee.
Kenny's strength has been the economy, though arguably he has like all his predecessors depended too much of foreign direct investment and underinvested in indigenous enterprise, and public services including the likes of Iarnród Éireann and Bus Éireann. Nor is Ireland prepared for the earthquake of Brexit or, despite some unnecessary fawning, the Trump Presidency.
As to whether he made Ireland good – or even the best – for business, with GDP growth last year of "26%", Forbes Magazine ranked Ireland fourth in the world for 2017 after Sweden, New Zealand and Hong Kong – out of 139 nations ranked on 11 different factors. Ireland came fifth for tax burden, nineteenth for Innovation, sixth for monetary freedom and tenth for red tape. Ireland actually topped the list in 2013 so we can concede that Kenny more or less hit his target.
Writing in this magazine in 2016 itself Patricia Callan, Director of the Small Firms Association wrote of the last government: "In its Programme for Government, no less than 25 small-business-specific commitments were identified. This recognition and focus in and of itself has been significant, and is justified, as the economic importance of small firms in Ireland cannot be overestimated… On balance, [the 2011-16 Coalition Government] has listened to the concerns of business and has put us on a sustainable path to future growth".
More generally Kenny and Noonan may be said to have turned Ireland's economy around after the profligacy of Fianna Fáil, though pundits have been less impressed since the IMF left town. Many of the measures implemented by Kenny governments were instigated by last-gasping Fianna Fáil but that does not detract from the success of their implementation.
The ESRI forecasts GDP growth forecast at 4.2 per cent in 2016 and 3.5 per cent in 2017. The monthly unemployment rate is 6.6% in February, inflation is 0.3%, property prices rose 8% last year and are continuing that trajectory. The Debt-to-GDP ratio is 77% of annualised GDP now (admittedly with distorted GDP figures).
General government deficit is minus 2.6 % of GDP. There is the prospect of a modest surplus in 2017 under current budgetary policy. The Irish economy is at or is very near to its potential level of output. By contrast: the Debt-to-GDP ratio rose from 23.9% in 2007 to 120.1% in 2012 before falling to 77% of annualised GDP now (admittedly with distorted GDP figures); the unemployment rate rose from 4.2% in 2007 to 14.8% in July 2012. In the first quarter in 2009, GDP was down 8.5% from the same quarter the previous year, and GNP down 12%. The Central Statistics Office estimated that 34,500 people left the country from April 2009 – 2010 but we now have net immigration.
In 2016 the average person in Ireland was worth €132,000 – €30,000 below 2007 levels, but €20,000 more than at the post-crash low point five years ago.
Over the past eight years Irish households have reduced their collective indebtedness by €57bn (to just under €160bn). However, it took less than two years to add that same amount of debt in the final years of the bubble.
The biggest economic failing was Kenny's premature claim to have secured a significant debt write down from his EU partners in June 2012 which proved to be untrue. His siding with the ECB and the Bundesbank against the struggling Greek people who put the radical leftists of Syriza into power was self-serving and opportunist and arguably undermined any prospect of Ireland getting some early relief on its enormous legacy of banking debt.
Too economic
Kenny's agenda is economics-driven. This has a downside. He rarely refers to equality, poverty or the environment and sustainability. Ireland's quality of life and happiness rate well under international scrutiny but our national infrastructure, especially for leisure – parks, swimming pools, leisure centres, public transport etc is poor, and one of the reasons for the ratings is the overrating of GDP per head , and our great, though diminishing, legacy of community and family life.
Ease of access to the Irish healthcare system is the worst of the 36 countries surveyed.
For example, the Irish health system ranks 21st of 36 in the 2016 Euro Health Consumer Index, the same as in the previous year, with longer waiting times for minor operations and CT scans, the report found. In 2011 Fine Gael claimed that its 'FairCare' plan – modelled on the reformed Dutch health service – would "cut waiting lists and end apartheid in our health service. With universal insurance, we'll offer equal access to all". In the end its governments have given up on universal insurance and it is not clear what model they are pursuing, if any.
Enda Kenny has never expressed a particular concern about inequality – it's not a Fine Gael issue. He is in particular not interested in equality of outcome, as distinct from equality of opportunity.
Unfortunately in Ireland the top 1% owns 15% of wealth; the top 10% owns 54% of wealth' and the top 20% owns 73%. The share of gross pre-redistribution income going to the top one per cent of earners increased from 34 per cent in 2011 to 39 per cent in 2015. And over half of the increase in total income (€21 billion) 2010-15 went to the top 10 per cent of earners. The bottom 50 per cent of earners got just six per cent of it. We're bad on wealth distribution; not quite so bad on (post-tax) income distribution.
Towards the end of the boom and during the downturn the Gini coefficient, which measures income equality, improved in Ireland, post-redistribution – through direct taxation and welfare. Nevertheless. the proportion of children living in consistent poverty in Ireland almost doubled during the economic recession from 6.3% in 2008 to 11.2% in 2014.
We emit twice as many greenhouse-gas emissions as the Swedish per head: at 16.7 tonnes per head; the UK for example is at 10, while the EU average is 11. Ireland makes the case for national climate delinquency, on the basis of our disproportionately high agricultural output. Speaking to reporters at the COP21 global summit on climate change in Paris, the Taoiseach singled out Irish agriculture, making a special case for it, which he said was being asked to meet unreachable targets. Kenny told reporters that the targets for Ireland needed to be "fair" and "sustainable", which is Kennyspeak for "meaningless' and 'unenforceable".
He went on to make the implausible argument that we as a nation are just too poor to shoulder our share of the burden. "Ireland was not in a position over the lost last decade to plan for the future in the way we would like. The recession had resulted in Ireland "not being in a position to invest in climate change mitigation and research".
As a result, not only has the overall emissions reduction target we need to meet in 2030 been cut from 40 to 30 per cent, but loopholes will allow burgeoning emissions from agriculture and transport to be offset by carbon sequestration and trading. We even wriggled out of obligations to save what's left of our peatlands, a significant carbon store.
Ireland is on course to breach EU target for 2020, largely due to recidivist inactivity by successive governments to curb emissions and there can be no confidence that we will meet the new 2030 target.
The government bottled Water Charges, for political reasons. There is no sense that Kenny, or to be fair anyone in the political establishment, believes in the polluter-pays principle.
There has been no spatial strategy during Kenny's time as Taoiseach, reflecting his lack of interest in visionary planning.
Accountability/Political Reform
In one of his first acts in the top office, Kenny slashed his own pay by €14,000 (a reduction of 7%). The new government also decided to cut the pay of senior ministers. Among reforms implemented have been a reduction in the number of TDs, a Constitutional Convention albeit it one that got diverted, and an unsuccessful referendum to abolish the Seanad. Kenny's governments introduced advanced whistleblowers legislation, regulated lobbyists and did not increase fees for freedom-of-information requests. The legacy is good, but not as good as Kenny's promise of a clean slate.
Over the past five years, Kenny has displayed many of the characteristics that marked the career of his long term adversary, Bertie Ahern, including the ability to shake off, or at least postpone, controversies that would have caused terminal damage to other party leaders.
Yet the stars, and international factors, including a strong dollar and sterling, unexpected multi-national tax payments and the dramatic oil price collapse combined to see Kenny emerge as the architect of the fastest growing economy in Europe and a fistful of promises to simultaneously cut taxes, improve public services and recruit thousands of nurses, teachers and guards. His record on improving accountability is mixed. A lack of vision means that his legacy is almost exclusively confined to the economic, though he did address a number of important social issues.
He showed little interest in equality or the environment.
AJP Taylor described Winston Churchill as "the saviour of his country". Kenny is not quite that. He is a decent man who did a competent job in difficult times, particularly economically. That he lacked a vision or an interest in quality of life, the environment or equality may diminish his place in history. But among Irish Taoisigh, he has not been the worst.
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