Not everyone who worked for free during the shutdown will receive full pay tomorrow.
Americans may have to thank workers at the Federal Aviation Authority for the end of the government shutdown. By day 35, 800,000 government workers were due to miss their second pay cheque, millions of Americans were at risk of losing their food stamps and their rent subsidies, and concerns were mounting that the suspension of routine domestic food safety inspections could lead to a major food poisoning outbreak.
But it was only when flights across the US were delayed or cancelled because of the shortage of air traffic controllers, that Trump finally agreed to reopen the government for three weeks without a guarantee that he'll get his $5.7bn border wall.
Experts had been warning for weeks about the dangers the shutdown posed to aviation safety. As well as severe staffing shortages, many of the staff who did show up to work were stressed and anxious about their worsening financial predicament. Temporary food banks were set up outside some airports to cater to airport workers struggling to feed their families.
By the final day of the shutdown, over 7 per cent of Transportation Security Administration workers – who are responsible for baggage screening and airport security – had called in sick, more than double the usual rate.
Now, while most federal employees are due to receive backpay on 31 January, workers in agencies where a higher-than-usual proportion of employees called in sick – including the TSA, the FAA, and the USDA's safety and inspection service – may not get the full amount.
According to government guidance, these agencies may determine that some of the staff who called in sick were in fact "absent without leave", in which case they are not entitled to pay for the days in which they were absent.
This is ludicrously unfair. How is the government to determine who took a "legitimate" sick day and who did not? Not only is it outrageous that federal government workers should be required to work without pay for as long as a shutdown lasts, but in future, will they be scared to call in sick in case their pay is docked?
Federal workers are not allowed to strike, which means that during a shutdown they are forced to work under what one union leader describes as "involuntary servitude". The National Air Traffic Controller's Association made clear that the high numbers of workers calling in sick were not part of any coordinated effort.
Airport staff are not the only group who may never be fully compensated for the shutdown. As many as 580,000 federal government contractors, most working as cleaners, security staff or in other low-paid roles, will not automatically receive backpay on 31 January. They may never be paid at all. The Democrats have introduced a bill that would require federal contractors to be paid following shutdowns. By 29 January, Vox reported that not a single Republican had signed it (though this may change).
The 35-day shutdown, the longest in US history, cost the economy $11 billion, $3 billion of which will never be recouped, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Unsurprisingly, that cost will not be equally shared.


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Nigeria @60: A Tale Of A Dying Country
As a young man, I repeatedly ask myself this questions: What exactly is Nigeria celebrating at 60years? Is this how it will be when I become an old man? Just 7 years after Nigeria's independence in 1960, Nigeria went into a civil war that turned into a British supervised genocide against Biafrans.
A brutal war was fought, and the defending Biafrans lost more than 3.5million people, mostly children. With the integration of Biafra back to Nigeria, one would have thought that 60 years after, Nigeria will be celebrating a prosperous sixty years characterised with infrastructural development and civilisation. But the reverse has been the case.
Nigeria as a country is endowed with natural wealth and resources. They have for more than 60 years drilled oil, yet Nigeria remains the poverty capital of the world.
Other nations like Dubai, UAE and Saudi Arabia that discovered same oil have turned their respective countries into first world countries. While Nigeria for the past 60 years, can't even boast of ordinary steady electricity supply.
What exactly is Nigeria celebrating? Is it insecurity ravaging the country or what? Today, both the military, police and secret services are working to protect the Fulani herdsmen and offer them logistics. Fulani herdsmen have killed more than 1,600 people in the last 6 months, yet not even one single person amongst them has been arrested and brought to justice. They are occupying and renaming villages of those they attacked.
Will Nigeria be celebrating the recruitment of Boko Haram terrorists into the Army? Or is it the bombing of the IDP camp by Nigeria Airforce? Nigeria is a country of looters. A country where the government claim to feed with billions of Naira, school children already living in their respective homes during Covid-19 lockdown. A country whose politicians claim to have shared billions as palliative, whereas in actual sense, they simply enriched themselves. Nigeria breeds the worse of politicians in the whole world. Nigeria's political office holders are one of the highest paid in the world, with billions as allowances. Yet it doesn't stop them from looting the country dry. Nigeria politicians borrow money from foreign nations and loot almost all.
The people are meant to suffer it all. The government have refused to cut down their extravagant lifestyles. They rather tax the people. Today, there is nothing you do without enriching the government. Even if you are making calls, you are as well paying VAT. You are paying in or withdrawing money from the bank, you are paying the Nigeria government some commissions. People are debited right left and center. Upon all these, they heartlessly increased fuel prize and electricity tariff. This is coming from a government whose policies have strangulated many companies and businesses, and forced millions to lose their jobs.
In Nigeria, bandits are killing people on a daily basis. Kidnapping is now a normal story. News of hundreds of deaths doesn't perturb us again. It is now normal to hear of the killing of 300 people in one night by the Fulani herdsmen. The worst is that the people have all been cowed into silent submission. No one is talking. The government has either suppressed or bought over those that should be talking. Those that refused to be bought have been so harassed to the extent that they all are afraid to speak out. DSS is always there to invite and question people for criticising the government.
The level of poverty in the land has turned the people into 'mumu' for the politicians. Gone are the days you hear about protest from the people. The students unions have been bought. The Labour unions are now toothless bulldogs. The government is ready to spend huge money to buy people to their side, than use the money to work for the people.
As a young man, I want you to think about Nigeria and ask yourself if there is any good thing that is worth celebrating about Nigeria at 60years. Is it the arbitrary arrest and shooting of peaceful protesters? Or the injustice and marginalization going on in Nigeria? Or is it the borrowing of our entire future by men in their 70s and 80s? What actually are you celebrating?
In all honesty, we should be thinking of how to end Nigeria peacefully. A country that has no single thing to celebrate at 60years, should not be existing. All of them supporting 'One Nigeria' are either the same politicians that have killed Nigeria, their relatives, puppets or circle of friends.
We all should join Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, IPOB and Oduduwa people to Sit At Home come 1st October, because there is absolutely nothing to celebrate about a dying country. We are better apart, than managing an unworkable contraption.
Written By Elochukwu Ohagi
(A Philosopher, Teacher And Activist)
Edited By Paul Ihechi Alagba

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During the last five years, over 37,000 has been distributed to six different charities.
This was our eleventh Concours at the wintery, organized by the Sports Car Club of the San Juan Islands and the Rotary Club of San Juan Island.
Additional news: *BMW, Porsche, and Mercedes-Benz results from the 2018, dM Concours are posted in the Blog (see link above).Here is a list of the award winners for 2012: British Sports Cars 1964 Austin Healey 3000 Mk III, 1st 1971 Jaguar XKE 22, 2nd 1961 TR3, 3rd Porsche Porsche 928 S4, 1st 1990 Porsche 928, 2nd 1993 Porsche 928 GTS, 3rd Motorcyles 1969 Triumph.Over 9000 was raised for Hospice of San Juan through donations from Sponsors, Entrants, and Spectators.Photos from the 2012 Concours 2011 Concours: The 20011 event poster by local artist, gary Mathews.2006 Concours Photos August 26, 2018 San Juan Vineyards Friday Harbor, Washington A huge thank you to all who attended his year's Concours at the San Juan Vineyards.This year will represent the 35th time that we have gathered with the National Capital Chapter of the BMW Car Club of America (bmwcca the Greater Washington Section of the Mercedes-Benz Club of America (mbca and the Potomac Region of the Porsche Club of America.(click the image to visit their website) Beneficiaries for 2017: Rotary International's PoilioPlus Project to End Polio Beneficiaries for 2016: The San Juan Island Family Resource Center Hospice of San Juan Rotary International's PoilioPlus Project to End Polio Beneficiaries for 2015: Hospice of San Juan.A huge "thank you" to Barrier Motors for their continued sponsorship; to Liberty Printing for again supporting us with printing; to the Rotary Club San Juan Island for their tireless work on behalf of the event and the beneficiaries; and to Yvonne Swanberg for providing.


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We've all complained at some point or another about 'hitting every red light on the way'. It doesn't matter where we're going, we usually want to get there as quickly as possible and traffic lights can be seen as the main obstacle slowing us down. But, actually, these signals are there to aid us with the safe flow of traffic — busy dual carriageways and roundabouts require traffic lights so we can avoid chaotic queues.
Have you ever encountered a faulty traffic signal? If so, you'll know that this is not only a bigger drain on your valuable time but can also be a safety hazard. In some places, roads are closed off because of faulty signals posing such a threat to the public's safety, while in others temporary lights are put in place.
Data shows that this issue is nationwide. Between 2010 and 2016 there were 120 road traffic accidents in Merseyside alone because of faulty traffic lights, with Surrey reporting over 140 car crash injuries during the same period for the same reason. Of course, there can be many reasons why signals fail, from a faulty electric connection to slugs — a trail left by the animal caused a short-circuit in the West Midlands, resulting in a teenager's death — so it's important to know how to deal with such a situation.
In this article, we look at what to do when you come across a faulty traffic signal to ensure that if it does happen, you're able to make an informed decision and handle the situation in the safest possible way.
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It might seem like an obvious statement, but in a situation like this, it's key to use your own judgement and common sense. In an article on the BBC, Vince Yearly of the Institute of Advanced Motorists said: "It's a tricky one because the absolute copper-bottom rule is that the red light must be obeyed. However, if you've been sitting there for a few minutes and it's become fairly obvious the lights aren't changing then you've got to reconsider.
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Many of my favorite bloggers have publicly shared their goals and their "one little word" for 2014.
Am I the only one who is still processing 2013 and attempting to envision 2014? Thankfully, Jedi and I are in the same boat. Strength in numbers, I tell you.
But, this I know. 2014 is going to be pretty amazing when the noise in my head comes to fruition.
What are your 2014 goals or your one little word?


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The measure will be applied throughout the Principality, except in Vegadeo and San Tirso de Abres
Asturias will lift the ban on potato cultivation in January
In 2021, the Government of the Principality of Asturias will lift the ban it imposed on potato cultivation four years ago to eradicate the Guatemalan moth plague (Tecia solanivora) in the region. The ban will be lifted throughout the Asturian territory, except in the councils of San Tirso de Abres and Vegadeo, both bordering Galicia, which will act as a phytosanitary barrier against the focus of the Galician municipality of Trabada.
The regions of Castropol, Cudillero, Navia, Pravia, Taramundi, and Valdes will be considered buffer zones; in other words, producers can once again cultivate potatoes, but they must notify authorities of their plantations to facilitate phytosanitary monitoring.
The general director of Rural Development and Agricultural Food, Begoña Lopez, recently had a virtual meeting with the general director of Agricultural Production Health, Valentín Almansa, and the general director of Livestock, Agriculture and Agrifood Industries of the Xunta de Galicia, Jose Balseiros, to define the measures to eradicate this pest. After analyzing the data collected via the trapping network in crops and warehouses, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food has approved the proposal of the Government of Asturias, agreed with Galicia.
The Principality will maintain the trapping network it already has in place to continue monitoring the possible presence of moths, both in areas where potato cultivation is prohibited and in areas where the pest has been eradicated. The agreed measures will enter into force as of their publication in the Official Gazette of the Principality (BOPA), next January.
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Gateway to better opportunities
Rajlakshmi Ghosh | Posted on Monday, September 13,2021 11:52
GATE 2022 will offer 29 papers, flexibility in the eligibility criteria and an expanded Two Paper Combination scheme to widen the scope for interdisciplinary studies
The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2022 registrations are on, with exams scheduled to be held on February 5, 6, 12, and 13, 2022. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, which is the organising institute for the exam, will be conducting GATE 2022 as a computer-based test (CBT) for 29 papers. Two new papers, Geomatics Engineering (GE) and Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NM) have been introduced in GATE 2022 to the existing list of GATE 2022 subjects.
"These two subjects in Engineering are recent thrust areas having a lot of scope for further advanced research and job opportunities in India. Hence, the new papers GE and NM, will be helpful for carrying out PG/PhD studies and employment opportunities for the candidates in India," says Deepankar Choudhury, Chair Professor and head of Civil Engineering Department of IIT Bombay and former organising chairperson of GATE 2021 who led the committee that formulated and proposed the inclusion of the two papers in GATE 2022.
New centres
While GATE 2022 will follow the same Covid safety guidelines like GATE 2021, as per the decision taken during the 47th National Coordination Board (NCB)-GATE 2021 meeting held on 22nd May 2021, a committee was constituted to look at the possibilities for adding some more centres in small towns. "The committee suggested addition of a few more cities covering various rural areas across India for GATE 2022 exams depending on the availability of infrastructure, which may help candidates for better/easy mobility during the pandemic," Choudhury adds.
The consequent increase in the number of centres for GATE 2022, says Krishnashree Achuthan, dean (PG Programs), Amrita University, will ensure more GATE applications as proximity is a major factor for many students who are writing the exam, considering more than 60% of India's population still live in the villages.
Never too early to start
To remove age and eligibility barriers, the GATE guidelines state that a candidate who is currently studying in the third or higher years of any undergraduate degree programme or has already completed any government-approved degree programme in engineering/ technology/ architecture/ science/ commerce/ arts is eligible to appear for the GATE 2022 examination. Emphasising that this option is best suited for outstanding students, Choudhury says, "They can score reasonably good marks in GATE exam in the third year itself, then at the end of their study in the fourth year, their admission for higher studies in various prestigious institutes like the IITs/IISc will already be ensured, since the results of the GATE exam remains valid for three years. It will also minimise their tensions about the future to a great extent. This scheme of allowing third year students to take the GATE exam was restarted in 2021 after a long gap of several years, and will continue in GATE 2022 as well."
"Since GATE exams test the fundamentals, hence, third and fourth year students should be able to attempt the questions. And if they do not qualify the exam, such candidates get additional chances to attempt GATE without wasting a year (should they not qualify in their first attempt)," Achuthan says. She adds that the exams help students reflect their basic knowledge and its applications about the subject/s they have chosen.
Two Paper Combination
As per notifications, a GATE candidate will be allowed to appear either in one or up to two papers of the GATE 2022 examination. However, a candidate is only allowed to select the second paper from the pre-defined Two Paper Combination list. Choudhury says that in addition to the main subject/area chosen by the students, in future they may try to expand their area of study in different/allied fields. "By giving them the opportunity to appear for the second paper in the allied area, the scope for pursuing interdisciplinary research and higher studies will widen." This Two Paper scheme was first introduced in GATE 2021, and based on the positive feedback from candidates, has now been expanded further to continue with few more Two Paper combinations in GATE 2022.
IIT candidates
Commenting on the varying levels of interest among IITians taking the GATE exams, Choudhury says that a small fraction of IITians do appear for the GATE exams, and they are mainly the new IIT graduates. Many IIT students pursuing Dual Degree (BTech+MTech) programmes in the old IITs, do appear for GATE to qualify for the Ministry of Education (MoE) Scholarship, which is given only to GATE qualified candidates.
Candidates who qualify GATE, can apply for direct recruitment to Group A level posts in central government, as senior field officer (Tele), senior research officer (Crypto) and senior research officer (S&T) in cabinet secretariat, on the basis of their GATE score; or they can find jobs in the PSUs. "But majority of the qualified candidates in GATE go for higher studies. Only a few fractions of GATE qualified candidates join jobs based on GATE results," Choudhury says.
In the post-Covid era, this trend mat however change, as students are actively looking to be employed to support their families, Achutan says. "They may pursue higher education provided they have the confidence to find better opportunities in the middle (as internships) or end of MTech programmes (by way of placements)," she adds.
Applicants with BDS and BPharm degrees can also apply for GATE 2022, a concept that was initiated during GATE 2021. "In the present era of Science and Engineering, the boundaries of research have expanded to make them truly interdisciplinary. Hence, a graduate from any discipline will get a chance to even change the area of research/higher study after qualifying the GATE exam, which is also in line with new National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The concept was started in GATE 2021 to encourage a holistic interdisciplinary education system to expose the students to diverse influences," Choudhury sums up.
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Offering teachers bonuses for student growth…
Offering teachers bonuses for student growth didn't raise scores, study finds
WASHINGTON — A study released Tuesday found that offering teachers annual bonuses of up to $15,000 had no effect on student test scores — a result likely to inflame debate about performance-pay programs sprouting in schools nationwide.
The study suggests that teachers already were working so hard that the lure of extra money failed to induce them to intensify their efforts or change methods of instruction. The experiment, in Nashville, Tenn., public schools, calls into question a key aspect of market-driven initiatives to improve schools that have become the vogue in some education circles.
"Pay reform is often thought to be a magic bullet," said Matthew Springer, a Vanderbilt University education professor who led the study. "That doesn't appear to be the case here. We need to develop more thoughtful and comprehensive ways of thinking about compensation. But at the same time, we're not even sure whether incentive pay is an effective strategy for improving the system itself."
With backing from federal and state governments and private foundations, a growing number of public schools in recent years have embraced determining teachers' pay at least in part on how much they raise student achievement.
President Barack Obama has encouraged the movement despite skepticism from some teachers unions and from lawmakers within his party. District of Columbia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee became a hero to reformers in part because of her insistence on a new teachers' contract that allows performance bonuses.
Central to such reforms is the notion that teachers should be rewarded when their students achieve outsize gains on standardized tests. That is a major shift from the tradition of determining pay by seniority and credentials such as master's or doctoral degrees.
But the study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt casts doubt on hopes that performance pay alone can dramatically improve public schools.
Three-year evaluation
In a three-year experiment backed by federal funding, researchers tracked what happened in Nashville schools when math teachers in grades 5 through 8 were offered bonuses of $5,000, $10,000 and $15,000 for hitting targets in annual test-score gains.
About 300 teachers volunteered, and half were assigned to a control group ineligible for the bonuses.
Researchers designed the bonuses, funded by a private donor, to be large enough to function as a legitimate incentive. There were no additional variables — no professional development, mentoring or other elements in the experiment meant to help elicit better test scores.
On the whole, researchers found no significant difference between the results from classes led by teachers who could receive bonuses and those led by teachers who did not.
Obama administration officials and a wide range of experts were quick to note that the study did not examine the effect of performance pay in combination with other measures to improve teaching.
"While this is a good study, it only looked at the narrow question of whether more pay motivates teachers to try harder," said Peter Cunningham, assistant U.S. education secretary for communications and outreach. "What we are trying to do is change the culture of teaching by giving all educators the feedback they need to get better while rewarding and incentivizing the best to teach in high-need schools, hard-to-staff subjects. This study doesn't address that objective."
Under Obama, officials say, a federal program that backs performance- pay efforts in dozens of school systems has quadrupled to $400 million a year. Federal officials say a number of such efforts have shown positive results; they also are planning a comprehensive review of the program.
A waste of time?
Eric Hanushek, an expert on the economics of education at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, a conservative-leaning think tank, said that the Vanderbilt study appeared to be sound but that it did not address a key question.
"The biggest role of incentives has to do with selection of who enters and who stays in teaching, . . . how incentives change the teaching corps through entrance and exits," Hanushek said. "I have always thought that the effort effects were small relative to the potential for getting different teachers. Their study has nothing to say about this more important issue."
A teachers union leader in Nashville said the study raised significant questions about "the extent to which we spend a lot of time trying to develop complex schemes to measure teacher performance and then reward them based on that performance."
The leader, Erick Huth, who is president of the Metropolitan Nashville Education Association, said the study's results indicate that such efforts "may be a waste of time."


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'Everything's Just Turned Upside Down, And I Don't Like It,' Says Dakota Kai, WWE NXT Superstar
Filed Under:Chuck Carroll, NXT, Pro Wrestling, WWE
(CBSNewYork/CBS Local) — Dakota Kai is 8,000 miles from home, living in a foreign country, and having to fight with her best friend at work. Any semblance of the daily routine that she had grown accustomed to has been erased by the global disruption of a deadly pandemic.
Life as an NXT Superstar is almost always chaotic, but the current circumstances are taking it to next level insanity.
"Everything's just turned upside down, and I don't like it," Kai said. "I want things to go back to how they were."
Don't we all?
Since the COVID-19 outbreak began, WWE and its talent have become the flag bearers for the "whatever it takes" and "the show must go on" mentalities. Pushing through has meant abandoning packed arenas and instead broadcasting on closed sets with only essential personnel allowed in the building.
It has also meant adhering to safety measures put in place to limit the risk of exposure to the coronavirus. Talent and crew are required to wear masks at all times except for when they are performing on camera. Superstars must also be examined and cleared to wrestle by the medical staff each night. Anyone exhibiting symptoms of an illness will be sent home.
Despite the precautions, an alleged employee anonymously levied a public complaint against WWE with the Orange County, Florida Board of County Commissioners this week. The employee, known as "John," claims it is impossible for talent and crew to maintain social distancing even with the sanitary precautions. The employee further stated that he feared he would be fired if he expressed his concerns with "higher-ups" and requested the county shut down production despite the company being deemed an essential business last week. The essential designation enables WWE to continue taping shows while a statewide stay-at-home order is in effect.
The wrestling giant responded by saying there was no truth to the allegations.
"These accusations aren't true. Employees know they can confidentially go to Human Resources, not the public," a statement from the company read. "Notwithstanding the appropriate protocol, no one would be fired if they were uncomfortable with their surroundings. We've made accommodations for individuals upon request."
As for Kai? She feels confident that the steps being taken by WWE provide adequate protection.
The massive changes and empty stands are forcing Kai to completely rethink the way she performs. She is still playing to the audience, but it's one watching at home. It's all very strange to focus on something so invisible when you're used to having the instant feedback of crowd reaction.
Normally fans will cheer if they like something and boo if they don't. In most cases, wrestlers are good with either response. It's silence that they dread because it means they're not connecting with the crowd. But for more than a month, silence is all there has been. Every match is a guessing game and all Kai and others can do is hope they're on the right track. The soonest any of them can get feedback now is by checking Twitter after a match.
Kai is currently in the midst of an in-ring feud with former bestie, Tegan Nox. Some fans believe with the chemistry they display their battles could potentially grow into a long-running classic akin to the Johnny Gargano-Tommaso Ciampa saga.
The two will write the next chapter in their feud on Wednesday night's live NXT broadcast when Kai teams up with Raquel Gonzalez to face Nox and Shotzi Blackheart.
I had an opportunity to catch up with Kai as she prepares for the match to get her thoughts on the rivalry, their real-life friendship, and safety measures put in place by WWE and wrestling during a global pandemic.
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This whole situation is incredibly weird. Your schedule must be really off from what it typically is.
It's insane. From going to just shooting on a closed set, just the fact that we're not in front of an audience anymore really makes you appreciate them so much more than before. It's so difficult to do that. Yeah, it's so strange, not traveling to do the live shows that we did anymore, or for now. Everything's just turned upside down, and I don't like it. I want things to go back to how they were. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss fans.
What is the biggest adjustment that you've had to make in terms of just being in the ring and still performing when you don't have any of the fans there?
Focusing on the at-home audience more so than ever before. Obviously for TV, that's already such a key thing to realize, that there's just so many more people watching at home. But now that's all we have. So, it's very strange to just focus on that. It's been quite a challenge, but we're doing the best. I just really would like things to go back to they were, and I hope it's not too far off.
NXT TakeOver: Tampa didn't get a chance to happen because of the pandemic. Would you be open to the idea of having a fan-less TakeOver, or is that something you feel like should be reserved for when you can get that packed arena again?
Honestly, it all depends on how much longer things will be the way that they are now. I'm not against it, obviously giving the fans at home forms of entertainment is key right now. I would obviously love, love, love for us to be able to do TakeOvers with the packed arenas again, but who knows how long this is going to be going on. I would not be against that idea at all, doing a crowd-less TakeOver at some point. … [It is] very feasible during this time, very doable what they did with two days of WrestleMania. I think it's definitely achievable.
Talk a little bit about the chemistry that you and Tegan have. There are certain people that get put in the ring together and just work so well.
We started in WWE at the same time. We literally landed upon moving here at the airport at the same time, and she had the same rental car. So, I sort of knew her before I did Shimmer, and she did a Shimmer show, and that's the only time I ever met her. I never worked her before or anything. So we were kind of still strangers to one another per moving here, but we became fast friends. It was crazy. We did everything together.
I think that the chemistry stems from a lot of trust. You have to have that in the ring, and we definitely have that. So yeah, I think if you have a connection with someone outside the ring, it just really does carry over to in the ring where you have to put your life basically in the other person's hands a lot. So yeah, I think that has a lot to do with it.
Being such close friends, were you disappointed then when the storylines shifted and you turned on her?
It was a little sad. I think that our tag team could've gone a lot further than it did because it just felt like we were able to work together as a tag team for such a short time before WarGames happened and then that storyline began.
But in saying that, being able to be with one of your best friends in the ring as opponents is one of the greatest things, because you're able to tell this amazing story and really, really trust the other person. So, we were so into all of the stories, and we wanted to be able to put out some of the best wrestling we could. So yeah, it's a double-edged sword.
Let's talk a little bit about some of the safety measures that have been put in place. I believe Drew McIntyre told TMZ that he basically has a locker room to himself and maybe the talent has to wear masks. Are you feeling comfortable when you're taping the shows?
I feel so comfortable taping all the shows that there have been a lot of measures being taken during this time. So yeah, all of us have to wear masks, besides from when we're actually taping the matches, that's definitely a need. Before we do anything, we have to check in with medical to make sure that we're able to perform.
If anyone's unable to, they get sent home. They can't be involved or at the set at all. They film with only essential personnel. So, anyone that doesn't need to be there isn't, and they make sure that there's only a certain number of people in the area where we film or the makeup area at any one time, so yeah.
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A Theology of Man, The Sanctity of Human Life
The Barbaric Science of Usefulness
April 17, 2018 September 3, 2018 Thinking & Theology
In the early 1900's, the United States was swept by a new field of science. A combination of the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's principles of heredity and the massive popularity of Darwin's new theories on evolution had driven American scientists to wonder whether or not intentional breeding could produce new and better human beings in the same way one could produce better apples or chickens. This school of thought was called 'eugenics,' and the principle was simple: inferior human beings – that is, the less intelligent, the physically malformed, and the socially unfit – could be bred out of human stock by a combination of forced sterilizations, euthanasia, and birth control programs. development
This idea eventually became popular enough that a mental institution in Lincoln, Illinois, took to feeding its incoming patients milk infected with tuberculosis, in the hopes that their mentally handicapped patients would die off. The plan was a moderate success: between 30 and 40 percent of their charges perished as a result.
This is only one small example of the kinds of behaviors that, informed by American eugenics and driven by the progressivism of the age, judged some to be below the standards of a modern nation and world, and therefore, as something less than human life. This conclusion was what led them to destroy these individuals, to cut them off from the human race, and to label them not human. Today, we regard this as unvarnished barbarism. And rightly so: we recognize that to disregard and destroy human life on our assessment of its utility – that is, its usefulness – is both unethical and immoral.
Valuable at Every Stage
This brings us to the 'L' of the SLED test: Level of Development.
Like the mentally handicapped victims of that Illinois facility, human fetuses lack a large measure of utility on the basis of their (relative) lack of development. Therefore, the pro-choice logic goes, the fetus is something less than human life, and can be safely destroyed. Since the fetus is at a level of development that is substantially less than even, say, a three-month-old infant, there is no moral component to its death.
This second portion of the SLED test argues otherwise: a human being's level of development does not reflect on whether or not it is a human life. The logic here is simple. A person who possesses a greater level of development – say, a higher level of intelligence, more skills, a larger spread of talents and gifts – is not more human than someone who is simply average. Nor is the average person less than human because he or she is merely mediocre.
Similarly, a person who is developmentally impaired or damaged in some way is not less human than the average human being. Individuals with Down's syndrome, Huntington's disease, or Tay-Sachs disease are not regarded as less human than anyone else, and rightly so: we understand that a person's level of development – whether mentally, physically, or otherwise – does not reflect on their personhood.
Therefore, it follows that a human infant at any stage of development – from blastocyst to fetus to full-term infant – is just as human as a 47-year-old with degenerative Parkinson's disease. They both lack a level or degree of development that is considered normal for a full-grown human. But that lack of development does not strip away any moral component to their death.
The Spiritual Science of Incarnation
Up to this point, I've kept my argument strictly to the fields of logic, science, and philosophy. But I would be remiss if I did not also say this: the God whose image is stamped on the Down's patient, the Tay-Sachs victim, and the two-minute-old zygote has elevated these human beings by Himself coming in their likeness.
He too was once a zygote, a tiny, holy thing floating in the darkness of his mother's uterus. And later, he became a blastocyst, and was implanted in the lining of his mother's womb. The miracle silently, invisibly, spun it itself out as His cells divided, grew, and differentiated into something more recognizably human – but at no point from the moment of His miraculous conception would we begin to suggest that He was not a person.
Christ's level of development in the womb of His mother had no reflection on whether or not He was still a person of the Triune Godhead. No other human person's level of development reflects on whether or not they possess the holy image of God. Therefore, no human being has the right to destroy that image, whether that human person is a micrometer across or a smiling, warm-eyed woman standing 5'10". Our level of development has no bearing on our personhood.
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Week 4 of the NFL season arrives with the Chiefs and Falcons as the lone unbeatens remaining.
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There's an overall physicality to love about this team, just as New England is wilting a bit. The evidence there is to think the Bills will remain a factor in the AFC playoff race, if not make the Patriots a sweat more than false threats from Rex Ryan did.
The Packers rallied to overcome what would have been a devastating loss to the desperate Bengals, while the Bears are riding the high of knocking off Big Ben and the Steelers. Aaron Rodgers won't let that happen in his house, and Green Bay can get away with its weak secondary against Chicago's wideouts — and eventually force Mike Glennon into a big mistake.
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2015 is a busy year for Michael Head:
His second record as 'Michael Head and the Red Elastic Band' has just been released on his own label, Violette - 'Velvets in the Dark' 7 inch single. Shack's 1990 single 'I Know You Well' opens 'Perfect Motion', Jon Savage's 2LP compilation as "a musical return-trip to these fondly remembered years spanning 1988-93".
Plus, Megaphone is set to reissue 'The Magical World of The Strands' in its original form, with the addition of a 20-page booklet, including new liner notes by Michael Head himself and photographs testifying to the album's sleeve work-in-progress.
The CD version will come with 2 bonus tracks – the B-Sides to the 1998 NME and Melody Maker Single Of The Week 'Somethin' Like You'. 'Green Velvet Jacket' is an acoustic solo piece by Michael Head. And Queen Matilda (demo) was recorded in early 1993 and produced by the band's friend and live engineer Ian Eastwood on a 4-track Tascam cassette recorder.
Alongside this reissue comes 'The Olde World', an exclusive new album of recordings from the same sessions.
Last but not least, Michael plans his first gigs as 'Michael Head & The Strands' promising to play his classic album 'The Magical World of The Strands' in full.
After a couple of demos for the French promoter who paired him with his childhood hero Love's Arthur Lee in 1992, Pale Fountains and Shack legend Michael Head entered a Liverpool recording studio the following year, with a new project in mind, 'The Strands'. Michael teamed up with his brother and lifelong companion, John, his long-time drummer Iain Templeton and two new recruits, Michelle Brown on bass and Les Roberts on flute. The recording sessions would last two years and were only halted because Michael was offered a new major label deal. A deal, not for his current work, but for him to record as Shack again.
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PSG loses for the first time since March as Lens closes gap at the top of Ligue 1
Paris Saint-Germain suffered a first defeat since March as the French champion lost 3-1 against Lens on New Year's Day.
PSG was without Lionel Messi – still absent following Argentina's World Cup victory – and Neymar – who was banned after receiving a red card against Strasbourg – for Sunday's top-of-the-table game in Ligue 1, which marked the team's first loss in 32 games.
Przemysław Frankowski opened the scoring after five minutes for the home side when Gianluigi Donnarumma's save fell at his feet, but PSG hit back soon after through Hugo Ekitiké's close-range finish.
Loïs Openda regained the lead for Lens midway through the first half as he dodged a sliding challenge from Marquinhos and managed to get a shot under Donnarumma to make it 2-1.
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"We made far too many mistakes against a Lens side that deserved their victory," said PSG coach Christophe Galtier.
"Even if we tried to fight back, we had a chance to make it 3-2, but for the first time this season, we completely lost our organization," he added. "Why? I'm not sure, but we will talk with the players concerned and look at the different areas of our play."
Despite drawing 0-0 against Nice on Thursday, Lens is unbeaten in the past seven league games as it looks to gain ground on PSG.
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Q: How to apply GoogleColab stronger CPU and more RAM? I use GoogleColab to test data stuctures like chain-hashmap,probe-hashmap,AVL-tree,red-black-tree,splay-tree(written in Python),and I store very large dataset(key-value pairs) with these data stuctures to test some operation running time,its scale just like a small wikipedia,so run these python script will use very much memory(RAM),GoogleColab offers a approximately 12G RAM but not enough for me,these python scripts will use about 20-30G RAM,so when I run python program in GoogleColab,will often raise an exception that"your program run over 12G upper bound",and often restarts.On the other hand,I have some PythonScript to do some recursion algorithm,as is seen to all,recursion algorithm use CPU vety mush(as well as RAM),when I run these algorithm with 20000+ recursion,GoogleColab often fails to run and restart,I knew that GoogleColab uses two cores of Intel-XEON CPU,but how do I apply more cores of CPU from Google?

A: You cannot upgrade the GPU and CPU but you can increase the RAM from 12 gb to 25gb just by crashing the session with just by any non ending while loop.
l=[]
while 1:
    l.append('nothing')

A: There is no way to request more CPU/RAM from Google Colaboratory at this point, sorry.

A: Google Colab Pro recently launched for $9.99 a month (Feb. 2020). Users in the US can get higher resource limits and more frequent access to better resources.
Q&A from the signup page  is below:
What kinds of GPUs are available in Colab Pro?

With Colab Pro you get priority access to our fastest GPUs. For example, you may get access to T4 and P100 GPUs at times when non-subscribers get K80s. You also get priority access to TPUs. There are still usage limits in Colab Pro, though, and the types of GPUs and TPUs available in Colab Pro may vary over time.
In the free version of Colab there is very limited access to faster GPUs, and usage limits are much lower than they are in Colab Pro.

How long can notebooks run in Colab Pro?

With Colab Pro your notebooks can stay connected for up to 24 hours, and idle timeouts are relatively lenient. Durations are not guaranteed, though, and idle timeouts may sometimes vary.
In the free version of Colab notebooks can run for at most 12 hours, and idle timeouts are much stricter than in Colab Pro.

How much memory is available in Colab Pro?

With Colab Pro you get priority access to high-memory VMs. These VMs generally have double the memory of standard Colab VMs, and twice as many CPUs. You will be able to access a notebook setting to enable high-memory VMs once you are subscribed. Additionally, you may sometimes be automatically assigned a high-memory VM when Colab detects that you are likely to need it. Resources are not guaranteed, though, and there are usage limits for high memory VMs.
In the free version of Colab the high-memory preference is not available, and users are rarely automatically assigned high memory VMs.

A: For a paid, high-capability solution, you may want to try Google Cloud Datalab instead

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Q: Unable to store stream data in variable in Arduino programming I'm unable to store the serial.port value in a variable. I want to send a message from Android telnet app, on and off. If on comes I want to print fan on, if off comes I want to print off. I'm able to print on and off while I'm statically fixing value. I'm unable to  store the stream in a variable.
String stringOne;
void setup() {
  digitalWrite(13, LOW);
  // Open serial communications and wait for port to open:
  Serial.begin(9600);
  while (!Serial) {
    ; // wait for serial port to connect. Needed for native USB port only
  }
  // send an intro:
  Serial.println("\n\nString  substring():");
  Serial.println();
  pinMode(13,OUTPUT);
}

void loop() {
  digitalWrite(13,LOW);
  // Set up a String:
  stringOne ="+IPD 0,14 :ON";
  int length =  stringOne.length();
  Serial.println(stringOne.length());
  Serial.println(stringOne);
  if (Serial.available() > 0) {
    // substring(index) looks for the substring from the index position to the end:
    if (stringOne.substring(length-2,length) == "ON") {
      Serial.println("FAN  ON");
      digitalWrite(13,HIGH);
      // delay(2000);
    }
    if (stringOne.substring(length-3,length) == "OFF") {
      Serial.println("FAN  OFF");
      digitalWrite(13,LOW);
      // delay(2000);
    }
  }
  // you can also look for a substring in the middle of a string:
  // do nothing while true:
  while (true);
}

A: Well, while editing your question, I couldnt help noticing that infinite loop at the end of your code.
// do nothing while true:
while(true)

In this case, even if your code was all right, you cant expect to get next data.
void loop --> Remember it is itself a infinite loop

update 1:
your logic to use the serial port is wrong;
Remember, serial port only recieves a single character at a time.
if you send "hello" from pc, at the other end, arduino will recieve h, e, l, l, o
The trick is to collect all letters into a array. and then use our logic in it.
char commandbuffer[20]; //an array to hold our characters
    int i=0;
     if (Serial.available() > 0) {
      while( Serial.available() >0) {  //read until all data we send arrives
        char c = Serial.read();
        commandbuffer[i]= c;  //we are actually storing it one by one
        i++;
     }
    }
    commandbuffer[i]='\n';
    for(int j = 0; j<i; j++){
      Serial.print(commandbuffer[j]);// and show it one by one too
      }

now when you send "hello", it will print hello back. I hope this give you some idea. Happy coding.


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Allergan nixes Texas plant expansion as Restasis generics loom
by Eric Palmer |
A Texas plant will share in the suffering expected from generics of Allergan eye drug Restasis. (Allergan)
With generics expected sooner than later for eye drug Restasis, Allergan has canceled a $200 million expansion at its manufacturing plant in Waco, Texas, and instead spent most of it on other manufacturing sites.
Instead of going forward with the plans for Waco, a spokeswoman said today that Allergan invested $180 million between 2015 and 2018 across its entire manufacturing network, including Waco. And instead of adding 250 jobs as was planned with the expansion, the company is currently looking to fill 45 jobs across all of its manufacturing sites.
"As part of Allergan's commitment to operational excellence, we are focused on improving efficiencies at our global manufacturing sites, including Waco," Allergan spokeswoman Amy Rose said in an email today. "This commitment, coupled with the expected loss of exclusivity for Restasis in 2018, has shifted our priority from expanding the Waco site to investing significantly in our existing operations."
RELATED: Allergan chops 1,400 jobs to cope with early Restasis generics
The 322,000-square-foot expansion was announced in 2016. With the change of plans, the company will forfeit $4 million in incentives, according to the Waco Tribune Herald, which first reported the decision.
Restasis is Allergan's second-largest product, with $1.4 billion in 2017 revenue. Because of a court ruling last year striking down its patents, the company expects to face generic competition soon, perhaps this year. No generic has been approved by the FDA but Akorn, Mylan, Teva and Pfizer's InnoPharma have generic applications pending. Teva won approval of its copy in Canada last spring.
The anticipated loss of exclusivity led Allergan earlier this year to cut 1,400 jobs, a move it said would squeeze $300 million to $400 million out of operating costs after first paying a $125 million restructuring bill, primarily for severance.
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Councillor Antonio Miragall (Tourism) has revealed details of his department's promotional strategy at forthcoming tourism shows to uncover the delights of Jávea as a premier holiday destination. And their efforts will be tested at the forthcoming FITUR international tourism fair at the IFEMA exhibition centre in Madrid as well as fairs in Brussels and Moscow. Like last year, Jávea's contribution will be integrated under the umbrella of the Comunidad Valenciana which means that space will be limited and promotional material will be produced to meet the demands of the corporate image as a whole. Therefore, efforts have been made to make Jávea stand out from the crowd through the use of special promotion material and campaigns.
This year staff will be travelling to Madrid in the liveried coach that is adorned with striking images of Jávea which will also make trips around IFEMA as well as the capital city itself.Once inside the exhibition hall, there will be two presentations, the first of which will be promotion of a new circuit of 'riuraus', a unique architectural element of the area which was once used in the raisin production process, which will involve several municipalities in the region aside from Jávea. A new brochure will outline the route of these buildings along which examples of traditional costumes, photographs and the production of the raisin. For the presentation of the heritage and tradition of Jávea will be assisted by the attendance of representatives from the Fogueres de Sant Joan promoting the lively midsummer fiesta with the remarkable 'Nit dels Focs', the fire-jumping night which has been recently declared a 'Fiesta de Interés Turístico' and attracts many thousands to the historic centre of Jávea, a huge boost for the local economy.
The second presentation at FITUR will be about the growing use of social networks as a promotion tool for tourism which provides immediate and continuously updated information and news for the potential visitor to Jávea. To assist in this strategy, two hostesses will be wearing special T-shirts promoting '#javea365' as well as a BIDI / QR code with a direct link to the tourism website of Jávea. In addition, all those who attend the Jávea stand and post a photograph of a social network tool can claim a baseball cap advertising the town as well as be entered into a special draw to win a holiday in Jávea.
Another new innovation are the updated brochures which promote cycle touring in the town and the Department of Tourism has worked on a new guide detailing some 260 kilometres of marked routes throughout the municipality as well as ten trails which are also identified with special markers and coordinates for GPS devices.
In addition to FITUR, Jávea will be promoting itself at the international tourism fairs in Brussels, Belgium and Moscow, Russia as well as in the town of Concentaina close to Alcoy to attract visitors from the region to the coast. Miragall also revealed that his department will be attending other more specialised fairs such as the Scuba Diving Travel Show in Madrid in March along with local diving clubs. He said that he was convinced that the sport of diving provides more potential to exploit a spectacular natural resource such as a seabed of Jávea.
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The following speech was written and delivered by Colum McCann on the occasion of the PEN/Song Lyrics Award in Boston in September 2016, given to Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits.
These patriots of elsewhere, they are joyful even though they've considered all the facts. And in the end, they make from their confrontation with despair a tiny margin of beauty. Is that all? Yeah, that's all. But that's enough.
Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits. The world as we have it is their lucky anthem. They fling it open with a few lines and a couple of strings and an imagination that goes to the edge and a voicebox scratched by heaven.


As an urban planner passionate about city services and infrastructure (waste, water, energy, sanitation, etc), the D-Lab: Development trip to Perú this past January was an exciting chance to explore that passion while working with a smart group of people from Quebrada Verde, Péru and D-Lab Perú. From MIT, we were a group of seven, including six engineers and me (the urban planner).
The project evolved from a collaboration between the Quebrada Verde community, located an hour outside of Lima, and D-Lab Perú, an organization inspired by MIT D-Lab (see blog, IDIN network member designs and launches new course in Peru based on IDDS experience) and initiated in a class at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).
The SANILAB project began when, last year, some of the community leaders in Quebrada Verde, a growing community with a population around 3,000 people, had approach D-Lab Perú with an idea to develop a new sanitation system. The goal: to develop another option for sanitation within Quebrada Verde that recognized the contextual, environmental, and human needs of the community.
We started working with the D-Lab Perú team as they were piloting the first five toilets with five Quebrada Verde households. Our role was to help with the installation, get feedback from households and aid in the ongoing development of the waste collection system.
The iterative process espoused by efforts like IDEO's Human Centered Design and Lean Start-Up influenced a lot of our work. Over our three weeks in Perú, we conducted a lot of experiments, built a collection box for the sanitation system, interviewed the users of the toilets, developed a series of recommendations for the systems and learned to cook Peruvian food.
What is the appropriate material to use to reduce the feces odor?
Our material scientist, Teresa Defigueiredo, led this research. As the SANILAB is a dry toilet, meaning that urine and feces are separated to prevent fermentation and also allow each material to be processed separately. Frequently, sawdust is used as an odor-cover for feces and spread on feces after each toilet use. Our question was whether there were other materials that could be used to cover the odor and provide different benefits in the fertilizer process. In conducting the test, we found that pig feces had a lot of similarities to human feces -- which made it an easy material to test different materials with.
2. What are potential design alternatives for waste collection plant and the needs for the processing plant?
At present, the SANILAB process a depends on families depositing their waste to a neighborhood processing plant, where it would be transformed to fertilizer for sale in the market. Lauren Bustamante and Tim Lu spearheaded the effort to explore different design constraints and considerations for a deposit box (pun intended!) and for the processing plant. Collectively, we made a first iteration of the deposit box to be used for the initial deposits.
3. What can we learn from experiments and household feedback that can inform future design considerations for the toilet and system?
In its pilot stage, people were excited about SANILAB and testing it out. The SANILAB team has consistently tried to take an iterative approach to the design of the system and toilet, in order to best serve the context.
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Jahnavi Kalpathy explored the entire system through a health and safety lens. One of the many questions she explored was what health and safety considerations should be taken into consideration for families traveling with their deposits to the plant site. For a day, we saw Jahnavi walking throughout the community carrying 20 liter buckets everywhere she went!—to give her a chance to test the distance and terrain from the five households to the plant.
The findings from our work in Quebrada Verde shaped design recommendations for future iterations developed with D-Lab Perú and Quebrada Verde about the toilet and the sanitation system. While we ended up working on the sanitation project in a last minute work shift, we all enjoyed learning more about city systems and explore how they can be designed to complement the need for flexibility, affordability and user needs.
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Teresa testing different materials for odor-control.
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'The Crown': Lord Mountbatten's Death at the Hands of the IRA Was a Dark Chapter for the Monarchy
The premiere episode of The Crown's fourth season sets the tone for the unrest and danger coming home to roost for the royal family
By Olivia Ovenden
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*This article contains spoilers for The Crown*
The opening chapter of The Crown's fourth season finds the royal family under siege from the IRA, with the nervous climax of the episode focusing on the assassination of Lord Louis "Dickie" Mountbatten.
The episode recreates the August 1979 day on which Lord Mountbatten took a boat out lobster-potting and tuna fishing with his daughter, son-in-law and two twin grandsons, as well as several other family members and a young crew member. Unbeknownst to the group, IRA member Thomas McMahon had left a radio-controlled bomb on the unguarded boat the previous evening which was then detonated when the ship was out at sea.
The episode cuts between the scene on the boat, Charles fishing alone, Philip shooting on his own and the Queen with a small group deerstalking at Balmoral, before showing us the explosion of Lord Mountbatten's fishing boat in County Sligo, Ireland.
In 'Clear Blue Sky: Surviving the Mountbatten Bomb', a book by Mountbatten's grandson Timothy Knatchbull who survived the blast which killed his twin brother, he recounts the ordinariness of the day on which, "The sun was warm, and the sea flat and calm. We were enjoying ourselves like countless other families that morning. My grandfather was at the helm, looking very content. He was never happier than when mucking about in a boat."
Knatchbull goes on to write that, "A few minutes later Paul, Nick and my grandfather lay dead in the water. A bomb had detonated under their feet. The wooden boat had disintegrated into matchwood which now littered the surface, and a few big chunks which went straight to the seabed."
Charles Dance as Lord Mountbatten in The Crown
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The IRA swiftly claimed responsibility for the attack as well as for the 18 British soldiers killed after a bomb went off in a coordinated attack 100 miles away. The statement the IRA released noted that: "The death of Mountbatten and the tributes paid to him will be seen in sharp contrast to the apathy of the British Government and the English people to the deaths of over three hundred British soldiers, and the deaths of Irish men, women, and children at the hands of their forces."
Lord Mountbatten was a particularly effective target for the IRA as a member of the royal family who owned a summer home in the Irish seaside village of Classiebawn Castle in Mullaghmore, an estate which the IRA felt amounted to stolen property.
The funeral of Lord Mountbatten in 1979
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As with much of the history which The Crown turns its focus to, the assassination is grounded in fact but has some colouring between the lines as to how the royal family emotionally responded to the tragic incident in 1979.
Peter Morgan's series highlights the emotional fallout of the incident, which in real life was a dark chapter for the monarchy. In a letter to a friend Prince Philip called his uncle's death a "senseless act of terrorism" while also expressing his hope that the violence of that day would cause the IRA to have a change of heart. Speaking at the funeral, at the request of his great uncle, Prince Charles passionately referred to Lord Mountbatten's killer McMahon as "the kind of subhuman extremist that blows people up when he feels like it."
Lord Mountbatten and Prince Charles together
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The killing of Lord Mountbatten represented a pointed attack on the monarchy which continued as the Queen remained a prime target of the IRA. Following the assassination Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams Sinn Féin said that the IRA achieved their objective in that "people started paying attention to what was happening in Ireland." Despite their comments, for many senior figures in the IRA the incident seemed to cross a line in that killing of innocent children on the boat constituted a "war crime", with Irish Times reporter Olivia O'Leary noting that, "Almost everybody spoke with regret and shame about what had happened to Mountbatten".
The dramatisation of Mountbatten's death in The Crown is bookmarked by his penning a letter to Prince Charles warning him of the perilous situation his affection for Camilla Parker-Bowles is putting him in, telling him that he is,"not working hard enough to reach and to rise". Though the letter appears to be fictional, Mountbatten did in fact pen a letter to Charles remonstrating with him for his perceived similarities to Edward VIII after Charles was careless about how his plans would impact the household staff, saying, "you're becoming just like your great-uncle".
Prince Charles (Josh O'Connor) speaking to Lord Mountbatten on the phone before his death in The Crown season four
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In The Crown, the letter that Charles is given after learning of the death of his "honorary grandfather" is presented to us as a nudge toward him settling down, something we then see play out in his asking out Diana. While it may not have been explicitly put on paper before his death, Lord Mountbatten had long advised Charles of the need to find a suitable partner and sought to stop him from marrying Camilla. As such the letter feels more like a dramatic symbol, but one which is grounded in how Charles's great uncle felt.
The dramatic opening episode sets the tone for this next era of The Crown, one in which Charles's turbulent relationship with Diana sets the royal family on a doomed path. The Troubles and the violence surrounding the IRA also mirrors the unrest that the arrival of Margaret Thatcher brings to the country, setting the stage for the dark times we are walking into.
Josh O'Connor On 'The Crown' And Prince Charles
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