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YLS Students Helped Prepare Case Detailed in Business Week
Yale Law School students played a key role in a lawsuit that was the subject of Business Week magazine's June 5 cover story: "Banks vs. Consumers (Guess Who Wins)." The lawsuit was filed by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera on behalf of the People of the State of California against the National Arbitration Foundation (NAF), a company that resolves claims against consumers who are reportedly delinquent in payments to banks, credit card companies and retailers.
The lawsuit contends that NAF arbitrators are unfairly biased against consumers, deciding in favor of creditors 99.8% of the time, often without sufficient justification. It also charges that one of NAF's largest clients, FIA Card Services, misuses the unfair process created by NAF.
Several Yale Law students were deeply involved in the case, researching the many legal issues involved and helping prepare the case for litigation.
"I was involved in everything from interviewing lawyers who had experience defending consumers against NAF, to combing through a recent trial transcript for helpful clues and ideas, to reading journal articles about the history of arbitration in this country," said Yale Law School Fellow Giulia Good Stefani '08. "It's a hot topic, and the NAF suit is important because it makes public what has so far been kept tightly under wraps. It reveals a dark side of arbitration."
The Yale students began working with Herrera's office back in December 2006 through a unique partnership called the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project (SFALP), which also includes students from Berkeley Law. Since that time, the office has filed four public policy cases, and Yale Law students—roughly forty since the project began—have had a strong hand in developing and working on each of them. Additional lawsuits are in the formative stages.
Yale Law Professor Heather Gerken and Yale Law Visiting Lecturer Kathleen Morris, who works in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, co-founded the SFALP. Both agree that the program has far exceeded their original expectations.
"For example," said Morris, "I hoped the students would find the project worth doing; instead, many said it was a high point in their legal education. I hoped the students' work would be high-quality; instead, it has been nothing short of outstanding."
"It's been an incredible opportunity for our students to work on top-notch structural reform litigation in the public interest," added Professor Gerken. "It's giving them an insider's view of the cutting-edge public interest work being done in San Francisco and is enabling them to see what opportunities are available in government lawyering, particularly at the state and local levels."
The students are equally enthusiastic, and grateful for the guidance of the deputy city attorneys who have participated with them on working group teams.
"Working on this project has without a doubt been the most rewarding experience of my law school career," said Benji Plener '09. "I love thinking strategically, interacting substantively with passionate and experienced (and kind!) attorneys, and being part of a team united with a clear and noble vision."
"I am incredibly proud to be a part of SFALP," said Good Stefani, who will lead the project in the coming academic year with Professor Gerken. "It's given me direction and a new vision for what the law can be and do for a community—and a model for enacting change that I could point out to friends and family and say, 'That's the kind of lawyering I'm about; that's why I went into law.'"
Indeed, says Professor Gerken, the program has become a national model, with calls coming in from Harvard and other elite schools interested in doing something similar.
"In just two years, it has become a vibrant program that Yale Law School boasts about when it recruits," she said. "And every year it will get better."
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Maxime De Poorter (né le  à Ypres) est un coureur cycliste belge, membre de l'équipe Tarteletto-Isorex.

Biographie
En 2012, Maxime De Poorter devient champion de Flandre-Occidentale en catégorie débutants (moins de 17 ans). Deux ans plus tard, il remporte une étape à la Ster van Zuid-Limburg et au Sint-Martinusprijs Kontich. Il s'impose également sur une épreuve de la Coupe de Belgique juniors (moins de 19 ans).

Il intègre l'équipe EFC-Etixx en 2015, pour ses débuts espoirs (moins de 23 ans). Lors de sa deuxième saison, il se distingue en remportant une étape puis le classement général du Tour du Piémont Vosgien, en France.

En 2017, il brille de nouveau chez les amateurs français en remportant la première étape de l'Essor breton ainsi que le classement général des Trois Jours de Cherbourg. Il s'impose par ailleurs sur la Hill 60-Koers, un interclub belge. Dans le calendrier de l'UCI, il obtient son meilleur résultat au mois de mars avec une huitième place sur Paris-Troyes. Ses bons résultats lui permettent d'être sélectionné en équipe nationale de Belgique espoirs.

Lors de la saison 2018, il gagne une étape du Tour de Flandre-Orientale et obtient diverses places d'honneur. Il ne parvient toutefois pas à décrocher un contrat professionnel en Belgique. Maxime De Poorter décide alors de rejoindre le club français de l'EC Saint-Étienne Loire en 2019. Au cours du printemps, il triomphe sur une épreuve du Tour de l'Ardèche méridionale. Il se classe aussi deuxième de Châtillon-Dijon.

Il passe finalement professionnel en 2020 au sein de l'équipe continentale Tarteletto-Isorex.

Palmarès et classements mondiaux

Palmarès sur route
 2012
 Champion de Flandre-Occidentale sur route débutants
 2013
 Trophée des Flandres
 2014
  de la Ster van Zuid-Limburg
 Flèche du Brabant flamand
 b étape du Sint-Martinusprijs Kontich
 2016
 Tour du Piémont Vosgien :
 Classement général
  étape
 Kermesse de Rekkem
 2017
  étape de l'Essor breton
 Hill 60-Koers
 Classement général des Trois Jours de Cherbourg
 2018
  du Tour de Flandre-Orientale
  de la Flèche flamande
  du Grand Prix de la Magne
  de la Heuvelland Classic
 2019
  du Tour de l'Ardèche méridionale
  de Châtillon-Dijon
 2021
  de l'Internatie Reningelst

Classements mondiaux

Notes et références

Liens externes

Coureur cycliste belge
Naissance en avril 1996
Naissance à Ypres

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Q: Position 3 buttons to left, center, and right on same row I did this but buttons are not on same row:
button_frame = tk.Frame()
button_frame.pack(side = 'top', fill = 'x')

x = tk.Button(button_frame, text = 'x')
x.pack(side = 'left', ipadx = 3, ipady = 1)

y= tk.Button(button_frame, text = 'y')
y.pack(side = 'top', ipadx = 3, ipady = 1)

z= tk.Button(button_frame, text = 'z')
z.pack(side = 'right', ipadx = 3, ipady = 1)

I also tried to position every button with side = 'left' + padx = (0, number) but it works on only my own screen resolution.

A: You can get what you want using .pack(), but the order of packing the buttons matters:
x = tk.Button(button_frame, text='x')
y = tk.Button(button_frame, text='y')
z = tk.Button(button_frame, text='z')

# pack left and right first
x.pack(side='left')
z.pack(side='right')
# then pack top
y.pack(side='top')

However I would suggest to use grid() instead:
x = tk.Button(button_frame, text='x')
y = tk.Button(button_frame, text='y')
z = tk.Button(button_frame, text='z')

button_frame.columnconfigure(1, weight=1)
x.grid(row=0, column=0)
y.grid(row=0, column=1)
z.grid(row=0, column=2)

A: This script using grid() is one way to place the three buttons on one row with buttons anchored left, center, and right. The self.columnconfigure statements for columns 0 and 2 are not necessary for the proportional resizing, but may be useful for additional widget layout methods.
Using sticky in combination with columnspan and columnconfigure controls where the buttons are positioned in relation to the button_frame as the window resizes.
import tkinter as tk

class CenterButtons(tk.Tk):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

    self.grid()

    self.columnconfigure(0, weight=1)
    self.columnconfigure(1, weight=1)
    self.columnconfigure(2, weight=1)

    self.xyz_buttons()

    @staticmethod
    def xyz_buttons():
        """Keep buttons evenly spaced with window resizing."""

        button_frame = tk.Frame()
        button_frame.grid(row=0, column=0, columnspan=3, sticky=tk.EW)

        button_frame.columnconfigure(1, weight=1)

        x = tk.Button(button_frame, text='x')
        y = tk.Button(button_frame, text='y')
        z = tk.Button(button_frame, text='z')

        x.grid(row=0, column=0, pady=3, padx=3, sticky=tk.W)
        y.grid(row=0, column=1, pady=3, padx=3)
        z.grid(row=0, column=2, pady=3, padx=3, sticky=tk.E)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = CenterButtons()
    app.minsize(125, 40)
    app.mainloop()

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I walked from Southend to Canvey Island taking photos and recording sound along my path.
Southend early in the morning is very quiet. Some people heading for the station, shuttered shops, a muddy beach and the funfair. The funfair was also shuttered, the pier too so I began walking west hoping to find somewhere to stop for breakfast. The seafront was even quieter than the town centre — just me, a handful of joggers and a couple of OAPs. It was windy and the sun was beginning to rise and get hot.
Southend eventually runs out of steam and turns into marshes and a nature reserve. I spoke to a man with two dogs. The nature reserve follows a muddy inlet across from which is Canvey Island. Everything was much further apart than it seemed on the map, it was nearly midday.
Canvey Island doesn't even seem to be an island, there's a long boring road that runs through the centre down to the sea wall. About half way there's a pretty run down collection of shops and a shopping arcade. In the shopping arcade was a Peacocks, a Sainsbury's and half a dozen long abandoned retail units. I visited Sainsbury's to steal a drop of sun cream.
The application of sun cream coincided with the sun disappearing and by the time I reached the sea wall it was beginning to rain. Following the wall around the island I eventually reached a huge caravan park that sits about 1 meter below sea level, a storm was brewing. Next to the caravan park is a Gasworks, I'm not sure if it was still active, some of the buildings were falling apart and in the time it took me to walk the perimeter I didn't see one other person.
Past the gas works is another nature reserve. I get the feeling this nature reserve is more a brownfield site that can't be built on. Across the water is a huge gas facility and more of the big cylindrical storage units. I eventually found my way out of the nature reserve and hopped the fence. The storm finally hit as I crossed an unusually quiet dual carriageway and I took shelter in a large Morrison's before taking the train back to London, it was just before 5pm.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a boost for electric storage technology, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Thursday approved a new rule to remove barriers to batteries and other storage resources in U.S. power markets.
The FERC order will "enhance competition and promote greater efficiency in the nation's electric wholesale markets, and will help support the resilience of the bulk power system," the commission said in a statement.
The commission found in November 2016 that existing market rules that governed traditional electric generation resources created barriers to entry for electric storage technologies.
The market for energy storage is small, but growing as the costs of battery systems have fallen domestically. Batteries can help solve the intermittent nature of renewable energy - dependent on sun and wind - compared with more generation sources like gas and coal, which can run all the time.
Last month, FERC voted to reject a directive by Energy Secretary Rick Perry to consider a plan to subsidize coal and nuclear plants for what he said were their contributions in making the power grid more reliable and resilient.
FERC ruled unanimously that such subsidies were unfair and could raise power bills for homeowners and business.
"I believe that new technologies like electric storage are an important part of our ongoing discussion of grid resilience," said one of five FERC commissioners, Robert Powelson.
Renewable energy executives welcomed the FERC decision, saying it will level the playing field with conventional electric generation sources.
"Solar [power] plus storage is getting near the point where it can compete with natural gas peakers and that's a really big deal because it's sort of the last stronghold for conventional thermal energy," said Tom Werner, CEO of SunPower Corp.


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Q: iOS: Play music from another app while camera is open and taking a picture I checked Google and here as well. Maybe the question hasn't been asked yet or I am just asking it in a very weird way. There are certain apps, one that I've noticed in particular is Snapchat, where when the app opens, the music continues to play even with the camera and even while taking a picture with silent switch turn on or off. The camera sound goes off as well.
So for an example, right now I am listening to music through Soundcloud and when I open my app, the music stops playing, but I can press play and continue to play music while using my app once I put this line of code in my appWillEnterForeground method: [[AVAudioSession sharedInstance] setCategory:AVAudioSessionCategoryAmbient error:nil];
When I do this in Snapchat, the music continues to play. Even when I take a video too!
How?

A: There has to be some code that uses the AV system for audio in the way. Check for a call like
[session addInput:audioDeviceInput];

where session is an instance of AVCaptureSession.
To demonstrate and research, you can take the Apple example AVCam (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/samplecode/AVCam/Introduction/Intro.html) and run it from XCode. When music is playing, it will stop playing when the AVCam app starts.
Now open the source file AVCam/AVCamViewController.m and search for the line
[session addInput:audioDeviceInput];

When you delete this line or comment it out, music will continue to play when you run the app.
Off course, there may be other statements that block the sound playing in your app. Check calls to methods from AV objects and look especially for audio input and output.


"A Historical Examination of the Views of The Church of Jesus Christ of" by Joseph F. McConkie Sr.
This study makes a consideration of four related concepts of Deity, each of which is accepted as doctrine by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which claims to have received these doctrines from Joseph Smith. On the other hand, each of these concepts is rejected as doctrine by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which claims that Joseph Smith did not teach them.
McConkie, Joseph F. Sr., "A Historical Examination of the Views of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on Four Distinctive Aspects of the Doctrine of Deity Taught by the Prophet Joseph Smith" (1968). All Theses and Dissertations. 4925.


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Charlie Brown II
PBA Profile
The Skinny on Charlie...
Charlie Brown grew up in a bowling alley. His father started taking him bowling at the very young age of 2 and he instantly fell in love with the game. As Charlie grew older he took his game to the next level and decided to compete against the best young players in Michigan – the MJMA (Michigan Junior Masters Association). Following that, his career went on to college bowling. He attended Davenport University and was a valuable asset to the team, earning the first ever NAIA National Championship in 2011. In November of 2017, Charlie entered the World Series of bowling for the first time. He wanted to see where his game was at – it changed his life forever. Charlie made the live ESPN TV finals for the shark championship, which also led to a national contract from DV8! His journey is just beginning and he is excited to keep learning and growing with the best team in the business. When Charlie isn't on the lanes he enjoys softball and golf.
Player Specs
Throws Right
Hometown Grandville, MI
Birthdate 04/15/1981

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U.S. Highway 75 sees more freight traffic than I-35, SDMPO finds
By Michael Hutchins, Herald Democrat
Portions of U.S. Highway 75 see more freight and truck traffic than Interstate 35 in Cooke County according to a recent traffic study conducted by the Sherman-Denison Metropolitan Planning Organization. The results come as the regional planning organization has focused its efforts on increasing the capacity and effectiveness of the freight corridor.
The topic came up Wednesday as a part of the MPO's Freight Advisory Committee meeting where representatives from the county, area cities and area industrial employers discussed the results of the traffic count while also briefly discussing other freight needs, including parking for freight trucks.
"We are also just under I-30," SDMPO Executive Director Clay Barnett said.
The study and focus on the U.S. 75 corridor comes amid increased efforts to have the roadway designated as an interstate. These efforts have included the closure of what county officials have described as "the gap" — a nearly four-mile stretch of roadway that is the only segment of the highway in Texas that is not to interstate standards.
This effort will involve the expansion of the roadway into a six-lane, divided highway with improvements and alterations to the highway's ramps alongside other safety improvements. The project has seen local support over the past year with local cities and Grayson County itself contributing to the effort financially.
Barnett described the highway as a major corridor for area industry, with nearly half of all industrial employers in the area located within two miles of the highway and one-third within one mile.
"U.S. 75 is really a critical freight asset to the region, which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone," consultant Elizabeth Welch said.
The recent traffic count was conducted at four points across the corridor in Grayson County, including a location just north of the intersection of U.S. 75 and U.S. Highway 82 and another along the Oklahoma border. Barnett said the counts were conducted over multiple days, with a recount conducted as poor weather skewed the numbers on a day in March.
Welch said that the location near U.S. 82 saw the most traffic from overall vehicles and freight trucks with 70,000 and over 7,000, respectively. On an average day, the consultants estimated that the location could see between 6,500 and 8,000 freight vehicles pass by.
Likewise, a location to the south also saw significant truck traffic. Officials attributed this likely to traffic coming from or going to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
The consultants took the opportunity to gather input from local stakeholders on a series of projects aimed at improving the highway for freight traffic. Among these were two that would expand U.S. 75 to six lanes from the Collin County line to FM 1417 where the gap project is expected to begin.
Grayson County Judge Bill Magers said focus is currently on the first phase of the project and will expand from the county line nine miles north to FM 902. Magers said he is currently working alongside the Texas Transportation Commission on the $50 million project, and it likely will involve a local match of funds. Magers said the project is currently in its infancy but is expected it to be ready to move forward by 2024.
"My goal is to have a six-lane, divided road from County Line to 82 within about six years," he said.
Officials also briefly discussed the need for additional freight parking in the area as a part of ongoing research by the Texas Department of Transportation on the statewide need. Representatives said areas that are particularly inundated with trucks include parking lots near the 75/82 intersection and major industries including Tyson.
Representatives discussed the need for a dedicate truck stop or rest area in Grayson County, but no formal action was taken on the topic.
Barnett said the next phase of work on the project will come as the studies are finalized and officials can turn their attention to other aspects of freight including rail traffic.
Wednesday's discussions were led by consultants with Cambridge Systematics, who worked with the MPO on the recent studies.
Michael Hutchins is the local government reporter. He can be reached at MHutchins@HeraldDemocrat.com.


It doesn't always happen on a business trip but we had a free Sunday this trip. So the day started early with a walk along Lincoln Drive to St. Monica Church. It was a really pretty walk on a beautiful morning to a real beautiful church. So I was there for 9:30am Mass and if you've ever been to a Catholic Mass you know it's the same wherever you are in the world … kinda like the oldest franchise around ;) I digress, what I wanted to say is … it was time for communion, I was sitting there waiting for my turn, looking at the different people taking their turn … lo and behold I see Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Yep, the Governator himself. Nope, that's not a picture I took. The man was in church and I didn't think a Singaporean crazed fan moment was appropriate so I just took a second take to make sure I was right. Seeing his wife, Maria Shriver confirmed that it was him and I went back to waiting for my turn at communion.


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Megan Rapinoe: 3 things to know about the United States women's soccer player
Alex Orozco
As one of the more recognizable faces of the United States women's national soccer team, forward Megan Rapinoe has played a crucial role in the team's success over the last several years.
The forward is a gold-medal Olympian and World Cup champion. As one of the team's co-captains, she's a leader both on and off the field, helping make the plays that win games and fight for equal pay for her crew.
Check out the basic facts on Rapinoe:
Height: 5-foot-6
Age: 33 years old (birthday July 5, 1985)
Here are some more interesting things to know about Megan Rapinoe.
Rapinoe will not visit the White House
Rapinoe has made it clear she does not want to visit the White House or Donald Trump because of his record and statements on racial issues, gender issues, LGBTQ issues, immigration, sexual harassment, and sexual assault.
Trump took to Twitter with his response.
"Megan should never disrespect our Country, the White House, or our Flag, especially since so much has been done for her & the team," Trump tweeted Wednesday, June 26, 2019.
Trump vs. Rapinoe:Megan Rapinoe's feud with Trump draws mixed reactions in her hometown Shasta County
Rapinoe a leader in lawsuit against U.S. Soccer
Rapinoe has led the way in the women's national team's lawsuit against U.S. Soccer, accusing the federation of gender discrimination.
"There's such an incredible movement around women happening right now, though it's not quick enough," Rapinoe said. "There's still so much tension and pushback, whether it's racial issues or gender issues or pay disparity."
Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird first gay couple on the cover of ESPN's Body Issue
More on Rapinoe: Five things we learned about Megan Rapinoe from her Body Issue interview
Megan Rapinoe and her partner, WNBA star Sue Bird, became the first gay couple to appear on the cover of the annual Body Issue of ESPN The Magazine.
However, this was not the first time the soccer star was featured inside the Body Issue.
Rapinoe was featured balancing a soccer ball on the soles of her feet in the 2014 themed edition "Bodies We Want."
Alex Orozco is a Digital Producer for the USA Today Network. Follow her on Twitter @orozcoalex21.
USWNT soccer's Megan Rapinoe narrowly tops Donald Trump in a presidential poll After World Cup win — and local controversy — Megan Rapinoe still praises 'hometown love' Megan Rapinoe: 3 things to know about the United States women's soccer player Redding crowd cheers Rapinoe and the U.S. soccer team Did Megan Rapinoe kneel during the USA national anthem vs. Netherlands women's soccer?


UK - Before registration even opened for this years Humber Seafood Summit in September, delegates were signing up to attend the nations seminal seafood event. Fortunately, just a couple of weeks away from the event, there are still some places left for those wishing to attend the event on the 17 and 18 of September.
Hosted by Seafish at the Humber Royal in Grimsby, the event brings together a panel of respected seafood industry speakers and delegates from the UK and around the world.
The Summit is produced and co-ordinated by Seafish in association with organisations from across the Humber region. The event officially opens on the 17 September with an evening event showcasing local artisanal food, including Sciolti's Handmade Chocolates and Ice-cream, Tom Wood's Beer and Zest Deli's cheeseboards. There will also be a delicious range of seafood from leading suppliers in the region and beyond including produce from Young's Seafood Ltd, Chapman's Fishcakes, Icelandic Seachill, Flatfish Ltd, the Big Prawn Co. and Paramount 21.
The summit is frequently host to the official launch of national industry projects, and this year is no exception. Amongst others, this year's summit will screen the Seafish produced film 'The Business of Processing', a sequel to the highly successful 'The Business of Fishing'.
The official launch of the World Seafood Congress 2015, a global event which for first time comes to Grimsby, will also be announced at this year's summit. Delegates will be first to hear about the speakers, sponsors and plans for the Congress. Registration for World Seafood Congress will officially open, and the Seafish events team will be on hand to take enquiries. Anyone wishing to learn more about World Seafood Congress 2015 can register their interest on the Congress website.
Finally, the first demonstration of the new Risk Assessment for Sourcing Seafood (RASS) will take place at this year's summit. RASS is the first online resource of its kind, developed by Seafish, and promises to revolutionise the way buyers, retailers and restaurants source seafood.
Paul Williams, CEO of Seafish said: "This event has continued to grow in size and success year upon year, and this year is no exception. With a wide range of internationally respected speakers and delegates, the conference is once again proving to be a flagship event in our national seafood industry calendar.
To keep updated with the Summit, follow @SeafoodSummit on Twitter.


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Goodbye Is Forever:
Duran Duran, Live Aid & the End of the Second British Invasion
The band's splinter projects, the Power Station and Arcadia, were a symbolic turning of the page of British pop music in America
David Chiu
Jul 10, 2015 · 15 min read
It should have been a happier time for Duran Duran when the group hit the stage on July 13, 1985, in front of an estimated 90,000 people (and to a televised audience of 1.5 billion around the world) at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium — one of two concert sites for Live Aid, the massive all-star musical event mounted by Bob Geldof to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. For Duran Duran, the appearance at the 'global jukebox was reaffirmation of its tremendous popularity, joining such other luminaries as U2, Queen, Madonna, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, and a reunited Led Zeppelin for an important humanitarian cause.
In the same week that Live Aid took place, Duran Duran scored its second U.S. number one hit, "A View to a Kill," the theme song for the then-new James Bond movie of the same name. Several months earlier, Duran Duran released the live album Arena, which yielded a smash hit in "The Wild Boys." Both those songs continued a hit streak for the band that began two years earlier with its American breakthrough single "Hungry Like the Wolf." With some groundbreaking music videos and constant media coverage, Duran Duran wasn't so much a band but a phenomenon in America between 1983 and 1985, earning it the nickname "the Fab Five."
Yet behind the scenes, as some of the members would recall years later, the period leading up to Live Aid was one of tension, given the stress of being in a hugely successful group. It explained why two factions within Duran Duran developed their own side projects prior to the massive event: bassist John Taylor and guitarist Andy Taylor formed the Power Station, while singer Simon Le Bon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes, and drummer Roger Taylor founded Arcadia. Both groups made music that stylistically departed from the synthesizer-driven dance pop of the parent band. As Rhodes told The Guardian in 2003: "Arcadia and the Power Station were commercial suicide…but we've always been good at that."
Seeing red: "Arcadia and The Power Station were commercial suicide," says Nick Rhodes
In a way, the crack within Duran Duran's shiny armor and the side projects symbolized the musical holding pattern experienced by several British pop acts who found success in America during the early 80s. In fact, some of those artists — including Spandau Ballet, Thompson Twins, Simple Minds Adam Ant, Howard Jones, Paul Young, and Nik Kershaw — also performed at Live Aid. But after Live Aid, Duran Duran and some of those other acts would find themselves in transition as homegrown American music reasserted itself on radio and MTV for the rest of the decade.
Similar to what happened with the first British Invasion in the 60s, the Second British Invasion filled a void in the American music scene in the early 80s left by punk and disco. An outgrowth of the New Romantic movement in London, spearheaded by the late Steve Strange and Rusty Egan, these British bands (whose music was described as 'New Pop') were a merger of punk/post-punk and disco sounds for American audiences who never really connected with either of those genres. In contrast to the American guitar rock bands of the day, the predominant instrument for most of these New Pop acts the synthesizer. During the period between 1982 and 1984, many British acts like the Human League, Kajagoogoo, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Wham!, and Eurythmics scored catchy, energetic pop hits on the American Top 10. Further evidence of the popularity of British pop in America can traced to the week of July 16, 1983, when there were seven British-based acts on the Billboard Top 10 pop singles chart. For Generation X, these bands represented a vibrant era in pop music that was by no means dull.
"It was a turning away from the negativism of punk and the doubt and despair and political guilt of so much post-punk," Simon Reynolds, author of Rip It Up and Start Again, told me in 2013 for CBSNews.com. "It was time for something lighter, a return to fun, positivity. The idea that the point of pop might be escapism and that this was okay started to circulate. This would have been the antithesis of punk and post-punk values. But nearly all of the people involved in New Pop had been through punk and post-punk. So it was like the dialectical next stage in the British music scene's development. It wasn't the complete reversal or repudiation of punk/post-punk. It was more like, 'We tried this, it led to a certain deadlock, now we'll try this new direction.'"
Around the time of these groups' emergence was MTV, and the marriage between the two couldn't have been more perfectly timed. MTV was the vehicle for these photogenic artists to not only export their sleek and vibrant pop music but also the trendy fashions and look from Britain. It was video that brought such acts as Culture Club, Spandau Ballet and Dexys Midnight Runners into the living rooms of America. With both the music and visuals as its identifiable markers, British pop was so hot in the U.S. that it was the subject of cover stories in both Rolling Stone and Newsweek, featuring Culture Club's charismatic singer Boy George.
"Rock and roll was a macho affair in the 70s," British synthpop musician Howard Jones told authors Rob Tannenbaum and Craig Marks in their book I Want My MTV, an oral history of the music channel's golden age. "And us lot came along with brightly colored clothes and the haircuts. It was a real affront to the establishment. It rubbed so many people the wrong way. That whole explosion of MTV was quite significant in the sense it gave the finger to rock & roll."
Aside from Culture Club, Duran Duran was the biggest act to emerge from the Second British Invasion. The five-man group from Birmingham, England entered the American pop chart beginning with their adrenaline-pumping "Hungry Like the Wolf," followed more hits in "Rio," "Is There Something I Should Know," "Union of the Snake," "The Reflex," and "New Moon Monday." Augmented by their good looks (which unfortunately overshadowed their musical talent early on that has since been considered influential) and innovative promo clips, Duran Duran was a smash.
"Hungry Like The Wolf" vinyl single
Yet by 1984, the pressures of success, the hysteria from screaming girls, and the temptations (women, drugs, alcohol) that came with being major rock stars took a toll on the band. In retrospect, one could could sense a change happening in Duran Duran's music like on "The Wild Boys," produced by Chic's Nile Rodgers, which was more in the vein of rock than synthpop. In a 2012 interview to promote his thoughtful and compelling autobiography, In the Pleasure Groove, John Taylor spoke to me for Spinner.com about his substance abuse: "What I tried to portray was the safety and warmth and comfort that I had in my most perfect nuclear family … just that comfort that I had at home. I really fucking missed it when I got out on the road. I really suffered from incredible loneliness. And I was also shy. So the drugs and the alcohol really enabled me to be that guy."
For John Taylor and Andy Taylor, a break in Duran Duran's schedule in the latter part of 1984 led to the formation of their own side project. As John Taylor would wrote in his book, the purpose of their splinter group was to aim for something "'funkier and more organic than Duran. Louder guitars." With Chic's Tony Thompson on drums and Chic bassist Bernard Edwards producing, the Taylors' new band was called the Power Station, named after the New York City recording studio where the album was being made. Originally the project was to feature different lead vocalists (Mick Jagger was reportedly among those considered), but when veteran British singer Robert Palmer sang the band's version of T. Rex's glam classic "Bang a Gong (Get It On)" in the studio, it was clear that he was the obvious choice as front man.
"Our musical tastes clash," Palmer told Rolling Stone in 1985, "but when it came down to the overview, we were in total agreement." And in his 2008 memoir, Wild Boy, Andy Taylor wrote of his experience in the Power Station: "More important for me, I'd proved to myself that I could cut it outside of Duran Duran by doing what I loved best, playing guitar music."
Released in March 1985, The Power Station album fulfilled John Taylor's wish for something funkier and louder, as it was very a state of the art, high-octane album that merged both hard rock and Chic's elegant funk. The record was a hit, thanks to the driving lead-off single, "Some Like It Hot," which reached number six on the Billboard pop chart; it would later be followed by the band's cover of T. Rex's "Get It On." Other notable highlights from the album include the under-appreciated "Communication"; the burning, heavy rock of "Murderess"; and the stately, almost jazzy ballad "Still In Your Heart." The Power Station featured John Taylor and Andy Taylor's most fiercest playing on bass and guitars respectively, complemented by Palmer's suave and soulful vocals. But the album's true star was Thompson, whose muscular, no-holds-barred drumming propelled the music. (It's all the more poignant to listen to The Power Station now, given the deaths of Edwards, Palmer and Thompson in the years following the album's release).
Meanwhile, while John Taylor and Andy Taylor were off doing their own thing in New York, the other Duran Duran members Le Bon, Rhodes and Roger Taylor relocated to Paris to work on their own side project called Arcadia. (It should be noted that Roger Taylor was the only Duran Duran member to appear on both Arcadia and the Power Station albums). Arcadia employed an impressive cast of guests, including Sting, Herbie Hancock, Grace Jones, and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, In contrast to the Power Stations' brash sound, Arcadia's album, So Red the Rose, which was released in December 1985, was more of an Euro art-rock record. The band's biggest hit single was the elegant and seductive "Election Day," which went Top Ten. But like The Power Station, So the Red the Rose wasn't all filler — key songs included the funk-hip hop merger of "Goodbye Is Forever," the dramatic and dazzling "The Flame"; and the Latin-tinged "El Diablo." Even the haunting ballad "Missing" showed a rare poignant side from the Duran Duran members.
"We decided when the Power Station decided to work on their project for a while that we were gonna do this," said Le Bon in an interview during that time, "mainly as a means of killing some time. I was gonna go on holiday and then [Nick] phoned me up…We went into the studio, started, and it developed into a full scale album, just like that."
The Power Station 1985 promo shot [photo: Duran Duran Facebook]
"I'm personally very pleased what I did on Arcadia," Rhodes said in an archival interview featured on the DVD portion of the So Red the Rose reissue, "because it was really something that needed to be done — an experiment to experience working with other musicians, to create something radically different and not in such a strict format as the pop group Duran Duran."
While both The Power Station and So Red the Rose were not perhaps on the level of Duran Duran's first three memorable albums, they allowed the factions to branch out in areas that that might have not been possible within the confines of the parent band. Reviews of those albums around the time of their release were mixed, but retrospective assessments have been generally positive, with AllMusic.com's Kelvin Hayes calling So Red the Rose, "the best album Duran never made."
"A lot of people in the media have been trying to set us up as enemies with the Power Station," Le Bon said in an interview at the time. "They've been trying desperately to do that. And there's absolutely no question of any animosity whatsoever. I'm proud of what they've done, I'm proud for them. I see their record gaining up on the charts in America and… 'Wow, that makes my heart beat.' I think we all are totally and absolutely behind the Power Station in the way we know they'll be absolutely behind our project, when ours actually come out."
Amid their separate projects, the members Duran Duran together worked on the Bernard Edwards-produced theme song for the James Bond film A View to a Kill — it was John Taylor who lobbied famed Bond producer Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli to allow the band to write and record a song for the film. In collaboration with composer John Barry, "A View to a Kill" became another memorable song in the Duran Duran canon.
Single art from the title track to the James Bond film, A View to a Kill
But there was no denying that a rift existed within Duran Duran that carried over to the filming in Paris of the "A View to a Kill" video, helmed by the then-hot music video directing team of Godley and Creme. It was a moment that John Taylor and Andy Taylor recalled in their own individual memoirs without fond nostalgia:
John: The filming was tough. It was the worst fucking day. Not surprising, given by complete lack of sleep. But in addition to that, all the band members were on different planets, in different universes. All the video filming was individual shots — Simon does this here, Nick does this there.
Andy: That's when I made up my mind I'd do the Bond video and get the hell out of there…The booze and the drugs and the carnage that surrounded Duran Duran was all just too much.
"Looking back, when John and I formed the Power Station prior to "A View to a Kill," Duran Duran had already split up."
Yet despite the problems, Duran Duran stuck around long enough to participate in Live Aid. In an interview with the Guardian in 2003, John Taylor recalled: "When Simon, Nick and Roger flew in, we were in different teams. Andy and I had grown our hair and were doing the U.S. rocker thing. They were doing the esoteric European artistic thing. It was all in the haircuts. The writing was on the wall."
John Taylor and Andy Taylor were pulling in double duty on that day when they performed two songs as the Power Station a few sets earlier with Tony Thompson and new singer Michael Des Barres — Robert Palmer opted not to tour with the band and instead worked on his upcoming solo album Riptide, which featured the smash single "Addicted to Love."
After Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young finished their set, Duran Duran came onstage and performed "A View to a Kill," along with "Union of the Snake," "The Reflex," and "Save a Prayer." But as John Taylor wrote: "There was a nervousness in both camps; our relationships had not gotten any better since Paris. If anything, things had gotten worse."
"When we came offstage in Philadelphia," recalled Andy Taylor, "there were no congratulatory hugs or friendly smiles. It was like we were completely foreign to each other, and it would be the last time we played together for almost two decades."
But Duran Duran wasn't the only band from the Second British Invasion that were going through motions around the time of Live Aid. In 1984, Culture Club (who did not perform at Live Aid) put out its follow-up to the hugely successful Colour By Numbers album with Waking Up With the House on Fire; despite a hit single with "The War Song," the underwhelming album tanked at number 26. Also that same year, Spandau Ballet, which achieved a top 10 hit with "True," released the Parade album, whose sound was more dramatic compared to the blue-eyed soul of the True album — its single "Only When You Leave" peaked at the lower bottom of the Billboard Top 40. Following the mixed reception to 1984's Hysteria, the follow-up to to its breakthrough record Dare, the Human League later sought help for its next album, Crash, with the Minneapolis production team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Harris, hot off their work on Janet Jackson's Control. Those aforementioned acts and others New Pop artists would experience either break-ups, lineup changes, or a dry spell in delivering more hits.
Even before Duran's side projects and Live Aid became the symbolic curtain falling down on British dominance of pop music, American music reemerged fully revived in 1984. It was the year that saw the release multiplatinum sellers like Prince's Purple Rain, Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA, Tina Turner's Private Dancer, and Madonna's Like a Virgin. Add those with the previous smash albums by Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Cyndi Lauper, and ZZ Top, American music bounced back, reflecting perhaps a yearning for music that was more organic-sounding instead of coming from a synthesizer.
"I think most of those groups, as so often happens, started to make worse records and accompanied them with really bloated, absurd, pompous videos," said Reynolds of New Pop's decline. "It was the combination of success and touring and astronomical demands on your time affecting your creativity, but also success bloating egos and destroying any sense of perspective.
"But also it was that the Americans by that point had cottoned on to video and making more catchy, singles-oriented, danceable stuff. They were beating the British at their own game."
It's not to say that British pop in America completely evaporated after 1985 — on the contrary, acts like the Pet Shop Boys, Simply Red, Level 42, the Outfield, Rick Astley, and especially George Michael scored hits on American radio and MTV. But towards the end of the 80s, the American music scene was now embracing hair-metal acts (Guns N' Roses, Poison, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi) and dance artists (Paula Abdul, Exposé) along with established megastars (Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston Madonna, Prince). That, too, would all change starting in 1991 — six years after Live Aid — when another musical revolution was fomenting, courtesy of a band from Aberdeen, Washington.
As for Duran Duran, the band underwent major personnel changes with the departures of Andy Taylor and Roger Taylor in 1986. The remaining members carried on and crafted a brilliant, if shamelessly underrated, record in Notorious with producer Nile Rodgers — it yielded a classic Duran Duran hit in the title song. For the next 14 years, that version of the band experienced varying degrees of success and scored several more singles, but it was nothing like that of Duranmania. In 2000, the original members reunited and reestablished Duran Duran as a vital group still capable of delivering strong music, as was the case of 2010's excellent All You Need is Now.
Duran Duran sans Andy and Roger in a promo shot for 1988's Big Thing LP [photo: Duran Duran Facebook]
While the glory days of the Second British New Invasion and Live Aid have receded into memory, British New Pop still commands an audience in America for a generation of fans now in their 40s and 50s. Earlier this year saw Spandau Ballet return to touring the States for the first time in 30 years. Culture Club reunited for a new American tour this year along with the promise of a new record. And Duran Duran — whose current line up of Le Bon, Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor — is back with a new album titled Paper Gods, due out this September, with production work by Nile Rodgers and Mark Ronson. The band recently unveiled the first single from the record, "Pressure Off," featuring Janelle Monae and Rodgers.
"We don't dwell on nostalgia very much," Duran Duran drummer Roger Taylor told me in 2013 for CBSNews.com. "We talk about the early days very fondly but I think we're quite careful not to live in nostalgia. We like to live in the here and now and we like to think of ourselves as contemporary. A lot of people get bogged down in their era, you get people that never get out of the 70s and you also get people who never come out of the early 80s because it was their heyday. We're very careful not to do that because I think it's very stifling creatively. But we got great memories of that period. It was an incredible time to grow up."
While historically unprecedented by its sheer scale to promote a cause bigger than the superstar performers themselves, Live Aid in a minor way provided a snapshot of British pop royalty from MTV's golden era coming together for one last symbolic hurrah. And for Duran Duran, its performance on that Philadelphia stage marked the end of one chapter and the beginning of a new one in a career now going on 37 years: "On stage we played as hard as we know how," wrote John Taylor in his book, "but when the curtain fell in our performance…none of us had any idea that the curtain was falling on the first act of our career and our lives together."
Special thanks to Simon Reynolds for inspiring the idea for this story.
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Znajduje się na linii Perpignan – Villefranche - Vernet-les-Bains, w km 501,805, pomiędzy stacjami Vinça i Prades - Molitg-les-Bains, na wysokości 247 m n.p.m.

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Lower Saucon Township Police said Monday they are investigating an unusual hit-and-run accident that occurred in the 2400 block of Applebutter Road on Friday, Feb. 1 at about 2:50 p.m.
In a post on their Crimewatch site, police said the van's driver struck a wall along the road, which caused the van to roll onto its side.
As a result, multiple boxes filled with drywall screws, nails, bolts and an electrical box spilled onto the roadway, police said.
"A witness observed the vehicle on its driver side in a yard, and when she went outside to check the van was now on the roadway and then fled the scene," police said.
Police released a photo of the gray van they say was involved in the accident (below), and are asking for assistance in identifying its owner.
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Lower Saucon Township Police Monday released this photo of a van they say was involved in a hit-and-run accident in the 2400 block of Applebutter Road Feb. 1. Police are asking for help with identifying the van's driver.
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My name is Kiya Kiya Vega-Hutchens and I work for Uprose in Brooklyn, New York. Today was the brigade's first full day on the boat as members of the crew. Yesterday we launched from Miami, and headed off into the big blue yonder, the ocean is crazy beautiful. I have been nervous about seasickness since there has been a lot of talk of horror stories mentioning 18 ft waves crossing the Atlantic. Although no complaints, so far we have been very lucky with the weather. For the most part the side effects have just been drowsiness, which have been amplified by the rocking of the ship which to me feels like a cradle!
Monica and I mopped the deck and alleyways today as part of participating in the morning chores. Everyone is normally up by 7 am latest and then we have breakfast mine was muesli and soy milk. The kitchen is such a treat because they have collected hippy food from all over the world, there are soy milks in every language, homemade hot sauces, and Scandinavian vegan cookies near the Indian pickles. It makes me smile. Most of the rooms have framed pictures from adventures that the ship has been on. This is the ship that the Russian Military boarded and arrested the Arctic 30.
After morning chores, I volunteered in the radio room – and will spend my downtime for the rest of the trip helping out there. My project today has been building a rechargeable battery for an emergency beacon in case the ship loses power. The technician, Mir, was breaking down tasks for me and I realized I was way over my head – but if not now then when? I am trying to just throw myself in as much things as possible during my short time here, and really grateful that he and the rest of the crew have been so inclusive of the brigade.
We spent the entire day coasting along the north side of Cuba. All day you could see it off in the distance – some times cityscapes and some times mountains. Since we were so close Mir was able to pick up radio stations from the island which made me feel connected to Cuba although we didn't have the opportunity to stop and visit.
At 10 am, our brigade work begins. We meet in the campaign room, a narrow space in the lower poop deck. Finally, living in tiny apartments in New York City has translated to a useful skill. It prepared me for navigating these tight corners with tons of busy people.
Every day we plan to start the morning in our work groups – mine is social media and communications. In the afternoons we meet as a full brigade and cover updates for each work group, and end each evening with a training focused on the work that each of us is contributing towards a Just Recovery. It has been so meaningful to be working with all these brilliant and brave women and gender non-conforming people from around the country. I feel so lucky to be learning from their experiences.
Tara, who has spent the last decade working in Puerto Rico's agro-ecology movement, lead a training for all of us about the work that she does and the agricultural systems in Puerto Rico, so that we will be able to confidently support Organizacion Boricua during our time on the island. Cuba is actually a model for a lot of the work that is being done on the ground. Agro-ecology is producing 50% of the food consumed in Cuba – as opposed to 2% in Puerto Rico. It is encouraging to keep in mind that the solutions to the climate crisis are here, and the models for a Just Recovery effort are right beside us.
Speaking of food -a quick note on lunch. It is so good! Willy, the chef is an exceptionally good cook. There are vegan options and vegetarian options galore, and you can taste the love and thoughtfulness that is put into the food that has been purchased and prepared by him.
During the evening, the crew goes on to the deck to watch the sunset. I joined some of the crew as they did pilates on the helipad, these folks are non-stop! In the middle of exercise, a pod of dolphins came to check out the commotion. I love how they like to surf on the waves that the boat makes which allows them to come really close. Since it was a young pod, they started to show off and jumping crazy high when we cheered for them !! They kept leaping higher and higher the more we cheered for them.


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In 2017 he established Crescent ENT & Audiology. He continues to perform surgery at the Bon Secours Hospital, Galway. He has published numerous peer-reviewed academic papers and has been awarded a number of academic prizes and distinctions. He was awarded a Masters in Surgery (MCh) for research he performed at NUIG. Mr O'Connor's areas of clinical interest include Paediatric ENT, Endoscopic Sinus Surgery, Hearing loss, Vertigo and disorders of the Voice and Larynx.
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The Largest Mass Migration on The Planet Happens Every Single Day, And We Never See It
PETER DOCKRILL
At night, they rise. As the Sun disappears over the horizon, a vast movement takes place in the world's oceans, as countless sea creatures begin the long trek upwards towards the surface waters above.
They do not stay long. When the Sun rises, bringing light and the threat of watchful surface predators, they will retreat once more, down into the lower depths of the sea, sheltering in whatever protection the enveloping darkness can afford them.
This endless back-and-forth – called diel vertical migration (DVM) – is thought to be the largest mass migration on the planet in terms of the enormous amount of biomass involved, and it's something that happens every single day and night, even though humans, for the most part, hardly even notice.
Some do, however. Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California have been watching closely, analysing thousands of hours of footage of this phenomenon, and publishing their findings in a new study.
In short, the migration is no picnic. For vertical migrators who are preyed upon, there really is no such thing as a truly safe harbour, as predators hunt them basically every step of the way on their up-down journey, which usually spans hundreds of metres each way.
A Gonatus onyx squid eating a lanternfish. (MBARI)
"Just as there is a second set of predators that occupy the migrators' dark daytime depths, there is also a diverse suite of predators that comprise a gauntlet of threats during the migrations," the authors write in their paper.
Drawing upon a huge amount of observations recorded between 1997 and 2015 in Monterey Bay – and taken by human-occupied vehicles (HOVs), remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) – the researchers sought to examine vertical migration "from the standpoint of the migrators", to gauge the level and kind of threats they meet during daily movements.
"Nobody has ever looked at migration from that perspective," says midwater ecologist Bruce H. Robison.
"People have always made predictions of predation on vertical migrators based on data from net tows or acoustic surveys. But we spent so much time in the water videotaping the animals that we realised we could look at the risks of migration directly, based on what they actually encounter."
In addition to a particular focus in the study on encounters faced by two prey animals – krill (Euphausia pacifica and Thysanoessa spinifera) and lanternfish (also known as myctophids) – the researchers also developed a model, based on the encounter data, to calculate the "threat potentials" these animals face from predators during vertical migration.
"Threat potential is a measure of the latent risk of encountering a potential predator or obstacle during diel vertical migration," the researchers explain.
"It does not equate to mortality nor is it a proxy for predation rate or predatory impact."
Given the seemingly omnipresent predatory obstacles these vertical migrators face, the researchers acknowledge "the odds of successful migration seem very small" – and yet, somehow, high threat potentials don't always spell high death rates.
The reason why depends on the defensive and evasion capabilities of particular prey, but can include tactics such as mimicry, bioluminescence, schooling and swarming behaviour, among others, the team says.
While they may have to run the gauntlet their entire lives – every day, and every night – prey populations tend to find a way to persist in the face of hungry dangers, whether swimming to the light, or swiftly in the opposite direction.
The findings are reported in Frontiers in Marine Science.


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Edward IV was perhaps the most successful king during the Wars of the Roses. And he didn't even live to see it end.
The grandfather of Henry VIII, this super-tall and super-strong leader is considered one of the last warrior kings in British history. On behalf of the House of York, he took the throne for himself through conflict. On behalf of his own desires, he did things which made prudes at court blush (or were they red with anger?). From secret marriages to bloody battles, there was no shortage of dramatics in the surprisingly not-that-long reign the first Yorkist king. Saddle up your horse for these 42 manly facts about Edward IV of England.
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41. Oh, The Heights You'll Reach
At 6 feet and 4.5 inches tall, Edward was huge by the standards of his day. Even centuries later, he is still the tallest king in British history. Today's royal family has some growing up to do…
40. Young Adulthood is Tough on Everyone
Edward was the first Yorkist king of England, but he was not the first Yorkist Plantagenet to try. His father, Richard, Duke of York, was a claimant to the throne and relative to the Lancastrian King Henry VI of England. By the time young Edward was 18 years old, his dad had gotten fed up with Henry's mismanagement of the government and rebelled against him. Just as Edward entered adulthood, his country entered the Wars of the Roses, which would last for decades.
39. Passing on the Torch
On 30 December 1460, Edward's father Richard was killed fighting the Lancastrians at the Battle of Wakefield. Although this first Yorkist leader would never become king himself, the war kept going, and his efforts paved a path to the throne for his eldest surviving son, Edward.
38. I Did It for You, Dad
Edward IV finally got to avenge his father's death at the Battle of Towton in 1461, but he almost didn't make it—during the battle, the future king had his life saved by a Welsh knight named Sir David Ap Matthew. As a reward for Matthew's bravery, the new Yorkist king made him the Standard Bearer of England and gave him use of the name "Towton" on his own humble family coat of arms.
37. Sown on Foreign Soil
The future king of England wasn't born in England. In fact, Edward was born in Rouen, France (or Normandy, to be precise) as the second son to Richard, Duke of York, and Cecily Neville.
36. I'm a Survivor
Edward's parents had many kids, of which Edward was only the third-born child and second-oldest son. Unfortunately, only four sons and three daughters survived into adulthood. His older brother Henry of York died soon after birth, so while Edward wasn't the first-born son, for all of his life he was at least the eldest.
35. We Match in More Ways Than One
Both of Edward's parents had claims to the throne via Edward III of England. Nothing like a circular family tree to close an inheritance loophole.
34. Keep Your Future Enemies Close
Edward's mother, Cecily Neville, was actually the aunt of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, who became known as the "Kingmaker" for his role in the Wars of the Roses. He would also have a serious fallout with Edward that almost cost the Yorkist king his throne. This made Edward cousins with the infamous kingmaker and future ex-BFF.
33. Pops Stays with Me
After seizing the throne from Henry VI, Edward imprisoned the mentally frail ex-ruler rather than execute him outright. Henry's son and heir, Edward of Westminster, was still at large. It's a bad strategy to make a free man king when you could keep the current one in your control—especially when the one in your custody is as incapable as Henry VI.
32. Catch These Hands, Kid
In some retellings of Prince Edward of Westminster's death, King Edward IV slapped the teenager prince with a gauntleted hand before executing him via sword. The boy had been defensive about his own father's inheritance, which angered the usually affable king. While no real historical sources can back this up, the story was shared in many texts and even made its way into Shakespeare's retelling.
31. The Girl is a Survivor
Edward's son wouldn't be on the throne for long (becoming one-half of the ill-fated Princes in the Tower…), but at least he had one kid stay crowned. It was his firstborn daughter, Elizabeth of York, who would carry Edward's bloodline in the royal family—albeit, as a consort and not in a queen in her own right.
Just two years after Edward's death, the final Lancastrian claimant, Henry Tudor, took the throne from Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. As part of consolidating support from the alienated Yorkists, Henry married the oldest surviving York heir—Elizabeth—and brought the Wars of the Roses to its close.
30. The Prettiest Pit Stop in England
According to legend, Elizabeth Woodville caught King Edward's eye on the side of the road, of all places. Woodville stood under an oak tree with her sons, perhaps putting herself directly in Edward's path, to petition for the restored land of her late husband. Edward's was struck by Woodville's legendary beauty and begged that she be his mistress.
The White Queen, BBC One
29. The Cutting Edge of Courtship
According to some lore, Edward was scarily persistent that Elizabeth Woodville should be his mistress. Not one to be bullied, the widow pulled out a dagger and put it against her own throat to ward off his advances. Somehow, this led to a mutual respect, romance, and a wedding ring to boot.
28. Everyone Loves Edward
The first threat to Edward's reign came from home: his friend Warwick and his own little brother George, the Duke of Clarence, had become disillusioned with his rule and rebelled against their king in 1469. The pair even managed to capture Edward. Unfortunately, Edward was a popular enough king. The nobles resisted the coup and Warwick couldn't hold onto power on his own. He has no choice but to release Edward. Good thing Edward was still loved by the people who mattered.
27. Let's Call that an Oopsie
Edward was a gregarious king and that was reflected in the second chances he gave his enemies. After their 1469 rebellion, he was well within his grounds to impoverish or outright execute his younger brother George and the Earl of Warwick. Instead, Edward embraced them in forgiveness. At least, he did this time…
26. Misplaced Second Chances
Less than one year after Edward's forgiveness, the Earl of Warwick and the king's brother George rebelled against him again. Even worse, they aligned with the Lancastrian Queen Margaret of Anjou. With this force, Edward's enemies successfully pushed him off the throne in 1470 and returned Henry VI to power.
25. One Bros Has Got Me (for Now)
During Henry VI's return to the throne, Edward hid out in Flanders with his other, less traitorous brother Richard (the future King Richard III, who would have his own problems with Edward's children down the line…).
24. My Little Men
Don't mess with this super tall king (or at least, don't mess with him twice). The brief retaking of the throne by Henry VI was interrupted when Edward returned with support from Burgundy in 1471. Although he only brought a small force, he soon gathered support and the strike back proved successful.
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23. The Comeback King
In 1471, Edward retook the throne from Henry VI (who had retaken it from Edward). Edward also managed to strike down two major enemies in one campaign. After landing in England, he managed to kill his once-ally the Earl of Warwick, who was slain while trying to get to his horse.
Shortly after, at the Battle of Tewkesbury, Edward's party managed to also kill the only son of Henry VI, Prince Edward, AKA the last main-line Lancastrian heir. The circumstances of this death are less clear, but Edward effectively eliminated the most potent threats to his reign in a single comeback.
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22. I Can Be Second-Best at Home
During the second reign of Henry VI, Edward and his brother George managed to secretly reconcile with behind Warwick's back. Of course, this was only after Edward made his brother the new Earl of Warwick, now that the ol' Kingmaker was in the ground.
21. Two Is Company. Five is a Crowd.
Despite his love match with Elizabeth Woodville, Edward was fairly open about his adultery. He once proudly (and publicly) declared his enjoyment of three mistresses, whom he successively called "the merriest, the wiliest, and the holiest harlots" of England. Classy, Edward, real classy.
20. Pay It Forward
Jane Shore was the most famous of Edward's mistresses (in truth, her first name was Elizabeth, but "Jane" got attached to her in the 17th century after her actual name was forgotten by history for a time). Their affair began in late 1476 after his return from war in France and it lasted for almost seven years until the king's death in 1483. It's said Shore didn't use her position as chief mistress to enrich herself, but rather spread the wealth to those who had been thrown out of the king's good graces.
19. Younger Model, Old Tricks
After Edward's death, his chief mistress Elizabeth "Jane" Shore pursued two other high-profile relationships, including an affair with Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset…the stepson of Edward himself via Elizabeth Woodville.
Unfortunately for Shore, Grey was an enemy of Richard III. The new king accused Shore of carrying messages for Grey and her other lover, William Hastings, in a conspiracy against the new regime. For her "crimes," Shore was forced to walk in penance to Paul's Cross in nothing but a thin nightdress. Being a king's chief mistress offered little protection after said king was dead.
18. He's Already Taken
Edward's lusty adventures put his kids in posthumous danger. Richard III used Edward's relationship with a lady named Eleanor Butler in order to invalidate the king's children via Elizabeth Woodville (and therefore pave the inheritance path for Richard).
According to the little brother, Edward had made a legal precontract of marriage to Butler. If this was true, his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville would be invalid and their children would be actually be born out of wedlock on a technicality, and thus were not actually in line for the throne. Although Butler was long dead at this point and couldn't verify it, this version of events was accepted, and Richard legitimized his claim as king.
17. Thank You, Next!
Edward appeared to have a "strategy" when it came to the ladies: bed them with promises of marriage, and then exit. According to Thomas More (a Tudor-biased biographer), Edward's longstanding mistress, Elizabeth Lucy, was already pregnant and waiting for her marriage to Edward when the king turned around and eloped with Elizabeth Woodville. For what it's worth, Lucy (in this version) denies any official engagement was made—it was only (broken) promises.
16. The More the Merrier (for Some)
In addition to the ten kids by his queen, Edward fathered about five illegitimate children across various mothers. You can't say the king neglected his reproductive duty!
15. Lovechild Letters
Historians of English letter-writing are happy that Edward couldn't keep it in his pants. Edward's only acknowledged illegitimate son, Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, was a favorite of the king's grandson, Henry VIII. However, Arthur is also known for his collection of "Lisle Letters," a record of correspondence from his post in Calais from 1533 to 1540. Studied for centuries, these transcripts are an invaluable window into daily life in the times of Henry VIII. Thank goodness for adultery and letter-writing love children.
14. Hit the Shields and the Books
On top of being a renowned jock, Edward is the first known English king to have a personal and permanent library. He collected illuminated manuscripts about historical and literary figures, including Julius Cesar. Although we don't know where the library actually stood, more than 40 books still survive—a sign which means he took royally good care of his collection.
13. Mark My Words
Edward's official motto was "modus et ordo" for "method and order." Considering the previous reign of Henry VI was marked by absentee rulership and general chaos, this was a shrewd PR move.
12. One of These Babies Is Not Like the Others?
The question of Edward's paternity haunted his reign. It was rumored that—unlike his little brothers—Edward was not the biological child of their father, Richard of York. People cited Edward's great height (which Richard of York did not possess) and how his mother, Cecily Neville, allegedly flew into a rage when Edward eloped with Elizabeth Woodville and threatened to have him declared illegitimate.
The counterarguments: (1) Edward's brother George and sister Margaret were also said to be very tall and (2) the story about Cecily Neville's rage has no contemporary sources. For what it's worth, Richard of York had a positive relationship with his so-called son, as evidenced by their surviving letters, and had little reason to suspect the medieval equivalent of the milkman.
11. More Than Bros?
In 2018, one historian came forth with "clear contemporary evidence" that Edward had an affair with a male courtier named Henry Beaufort, the Duke of Somerset. Beaufort was close to the king and apparently shared similar good looks to his cousin, Eleanor Talbot, aka the king's old mistress. The historian assumes, we guess, that Edward had a specific type.
10. Gentlemen First
According to one historical theory, Edward and Henry Beaufort's romance was apparently broken up by Lancastrian forces who led an attack on the duke. It's said their closeness attracted negative attention, for better or worse, from the enemy—and put a target on Beaufort's back.
9. Peace Out, Bro
Like Henry VI, Edward's cause of death is unknown. Unlike Henry VI's, it was more likely natural. Falling ill in 1483, Edward was at least strong enough to amend his will, where he left his surviving brother, Richard, as the guardian of his son and heir, the future Edward V, who was only 12 years old at the time. Although his death was probably related to pneumonia or typhoid fever, poison has been offered by those who seek a more scandalous version of events.
He died on 9 April 1483, aged just 40.
8. The Plot Thickens
Like his grandson, Henry VIII, our Edward became very stout and inactive in the last years of his life. Also, like Henry VIII, this was a contrast to the tall and athletic image of his youth.
7. May-December "Foe"-mance
Edward was close to his Woodville in-laws and bestowed his favor on them upon his marriage to their daughter. This put the Woodvilles at odds with Warwick and the other Neville cousins. For one, the king undid much of the diplomatic work that Warwick completed with Burgundy, France, and Brittany. To cap it all off, Edward even married off Warwick's 65-year-old aunt Katherine, Duchess of Norfolk, to his wife's 19-year-old brother John—a union that would be remembered as "the diabolical marriage." Believe it or not, despite the years that Katherine had on John, she would actually out-live him. As it turns out, crossing the Kingmaker wasn't always a wise thing to do, and John would pay the price for it.
6. Group Work is Tough
After Edward was settled on the throne, his ally, Richard Neville the Earl of Warwick, made plans to align them with France. Warwick put a lot of work into securing Edward a marriage to either the King of France's daughter, Anne, or his sister-in-law, Bona of Savoy. Unfortunately for Warwick, Edward had been secretly married for months to Elizabeth Woodville—a knight's widow with Lancastrian ties. This faux-pas would destroy the relationship between Edward and the Kingmaker beyond repair. I mean, if I were Warwick, I would have at least appreciated the heads-up before doing all that work!
5. Enemies Widows Make Good Bedmates
Why did Edward marry Elizabeth Woodville? He was a king, while she was a Lancastrian knight's widow and mother of two sons. She was common-born to boot and her hand did nothing to secure England or the House of York. Was it love? Lust? One historian pulled a "why not have both?" and suggested it was not just a "love match," but also a "cold and calculated political move" against other nobles. By aligning with a former Lancastrian ally (and a commoner at that), Edward showed his capacity to forgive…and also cut off courtiers from pushing their interests (and brides) on him to undermine his royal agency.
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4. Head Case
It's strongly believed that Edward was behind the secret execution of the feeble Lancastrian King Henry VI. Of course, the "official" cause of death was listed as "melancholy." Later analysis of the late Henry's skull suggests his death was more like "blunt blow to the skull." Hey, I'm sure I'd feel melancholic after that!
3. Fool Me Twice, Shame on You
It was three strikes, you're out for Edward's brother, George. Six years after his second rebellion against Edward, the twice-forgiven George was arrested and found guilty of plotting against his oldest brother. Again. This time, an Oxford astronomer confessed (albeit under torture) that George had used the black arts to "imagine" the king's death. After a few more warnings, George was arrested for treason.
2. Lost in the Sauce for Good
Edward had his brother George "privately" executed for treason. It's rumored George was drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine. Did privacy make it any less painful?
1. No Safe Haven
Decades before his grandson Henry VIII was out upsetting the Catholic Church, his grandfather Edward IV made a holy faux-pas after the Battle of Tewkesbury. Edward famously yanked Lancastrian survivors out of religious sanctuary and executed them in flagrant disregard for typical Church protocol for asylum-seekers.
To be fair, the abbey in which Lancastrians sought refuge was not an "official" abbey. Nevertheless, the king did attend prayers there and buried the late Prince Edward of Westminster in honor at the church…two days before pulling survivors out of the abbey for show trials and summary executions.
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