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Australian coast faces extreme flooding every year
Sea levels are rising faster than previously thought, with a new UN report warning Australia's coastal communities are set to face massive disruptions from climate change unless rapid action is taken to cut carbon emissions. The report, compiled by more than 100 scientists, shows that accelerating melting of glaciers and ice sheets from Greenland to Antarctica means sea levels will likely rise by 10cm more than previously projected in 2100, to up to 1.1m, potentially impacting hundreds of millions of people around the world. Report co-author Associate Professor Nerilie Abram from the Australian National University said that once-in-a-century extreme flooding events in Australia would happen at "at least once every year by the middle of this century". Abram said the worst impacts can still be avoided, but that plans to adapt should also be developed. "There are a range of possible options, from building barriers to planned relocation, to protecting the coral reefs and mangroves that provide natural coastal defences," she said. The report release comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison delivered his first address ($) to the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, focusing on environmental issues beyond climate change. He said: "We need to take action on climate change, but there are actually issues like plastics in our oceans, which present even more immediate threats."
Church child abuse: The Age reports that the Catholic Church is facing at least 800 new legal actions for child sexual abuse in Victoria, after the introduction of laws that allow victims to sue the church and revisit unfair settlements. The lawsuits include compensation sought for abuse by convicted paedophile priests, including Gerald Ridsdale and Paul David Ryan. At least one legal action has been filed against George Pell, who is seeking to appeal to the High Court against his conviction of abusing a choirboy. The lawsuits will have significant financial implications for the church, which is sacking staff and restructuring its head office in Melbourne, but also mean significant delays in processing the claims of victims.
Abortion decriminalisation: The New South Wales Upper House has passed a bill to decriminalise abortion following a debate that lasted nearly 40 hours. The bill passed 26 votes to 14 on Wednesday night, with the Lower House now to consider the amendments to the original legislation as the first order of business on Thursday, including a ban on sex-selective abortions and stricter regulation of late-term abortions. Independent MP Alex Greenwich, who first introduced the bill, said in a statement: "With the passage of this bill abortion will be decriminalised in NSW – I am sorry that has taken us so long."
Trump impeachment: US President Donald Trump has authorised the release of a transcript summary of his phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. The memo reveals that Trump urged Zelensky to investigate his political rival Joe Biden over the employment of Biden's son Hunter with a Ukrainian gas company. Democrats have launched an impeachment inquiry over allegations that Trump used the office of the presidency to attempt to damage a political rival, and that he withheld military aid from Ukraine in order to prompt an investigation into Biden. Trump had a one-on-one with Zelensky on Wednesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, where the US President credited his Ukrainian counterpart for "strongly looking into all sorts of corruption".
"If there is a war, whether a hot war or cold war, you are the first sacrifice for this war."
ON THE US-CHINA SHOWDOWN, PRO-BEIJING ACADEMIC WANG YIWEI POLITELY SUGGESTS AUSTRALIA MIGHT WANT TO THINK TWICE ABOUT GETTING INVOLVED.
Convicting a Newcastle priest
When former Anglican dean Graeme Lawrence was found guilty of child sexual abuse, his victim, Ben Giggins, made the unusual decision to request that the court name him publicly. Anne Manne on child abuse in the Newcastle Anglican diocese.
NEWS: Exclusive: Key NDIS emails held on private bank server
"Dr Nugent, a veteran of the corporate world, was a Macquarie director for 14 years but stepped down in 2014. She was hand-selected to chair the NDIA board in 2017 by then Social Services minister Christian Porter. By that point, Nugent had no employment relationship with Macquarie Group – she still does not – but almost immediately she began to use the financial firm's email account to speak directly with NDIA staff, The Saturday Paper can reveal."
CULTURE: Fighting power: 'Total Control'
"Mailman says television can change hearts and minds in 'profound' ways. In creating this role of a black female politician, Mailman hopes her work might prompt positive discussion about incarceration rates, land rights and constitutional recognition of Indigenous people. 'It would be great if it moved the conversation quicker than it has been. The fact that nothing has moved, or [that so much] still seems to be unchanged – this is the conversation we can have as artists, bring the narrative to a wider audience.'"
SPORT: Amanda Spratt's cycling hopes
"The hills of Yorkshire, England, will next weekend determine the 2019 world champions ... Spratt's status among the favourites in Yorkshire is evidence that she is now one of the best female riders in the peloton. The junior world title medals to her name might suggest it was always destined to be so. But her path to the top was not quite so straightforward."
Thousands of taxpayer dollars on chartered flights — what the hell are they smoking in Canberra?
"Taxpayers spent $2,600 for Barnaby Joyce to charter a flight between Melbourne and Horsham to spend three hours at a regional show alongside Nationals candidate Anne Webster in the lead-up to the election, according to figures obtained from the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority. The flight, for a 299km trip each way, was claimed as part of Joyce's work as special envoy for the drought when he went to regional Victoria for a day trip to open the Wimmera Machinery Field Day."
GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA
Whatever they like.
"ACT Parliament has passed laws to legalise the possession and cultivation of cannabis for personal use. The bill - with amendments - was passed on Wednesday afternoon with the support of Labor and the Greens. It allows people to possess up to 50 grams of dry cannabis, or 150 grams of 'fresh cannabis', and grow two plants. Each household could grow a maximum of four plants but hydroponic growing would still be illegal."
THE CANBERRA TIMES
Yellow-and-black Sabbath: Orthodox Jews in grand final lockdown until sun sets
"The diehard Tigers fans among Melbourne's Orthodox Jewish community will be strictly observing the Sabbath, which prohibits them from attending the match or watching on TV ... David Werdiger, an Orthodox Jew and mad Richmond fan, calls it 'lockdown'. On Saturday afternoon, he will host 15 or so people at his house in Caulfield to shut out the world so they can watch the match without knowing the result when Sabbath is over at 7pm. Not being allowed to use technology means maintaining a media blackout is relatively straightforward."
Max Opray is Schwartz Media's morning editor and a freelance writer.
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Edition No: 332 December 19, 2020 – January 22, 2021
Covid-19 saved Morrison, but climate is the real test Mike Seccombe
Trade war: Can the China relationship be salvaged? Michael Wesley
Fracking on Country in the NT Rick Morton
Morrison, Albanese get ready for 2021 Karen Middleton
fire moves faster Maxine Beneba Clarke
Kamala Harris pivotal as Democrats eye the future Jonathan Pearlman
A health system exposed Neela Janakiramanan
Big holes in the Coalition's pre-election bucket list Paul Bongiorno
Gadfly: Speech day at St Brutes Richard Ackland
Letters & Editorial
Jon Kudelka cartoon, December 19, 2020 Jon Kudelka
Sliding towards zero
Mungo's sharp wit will be missed
A year without cinema Christos Tsiolkas
Making sense of a changing world Andy Butler
The Horne Prize: There and here Steven Amsterdam
Garth Nix Kate Holden
Music's year of reckoning Shaad D'Souza
A saltwater to watch Melissa Lucashenko
Ideas of travel Peter Boyle
Best books of 2020 Reviewer: Fiona Wright
Best books of 2020 Reviewer: Cher Tan
Christmas pork Annie Smithers
Summer in the garden Margaret Simons
Demon shows his fighting spirit Linda Pearce
Complete this lyric from "The Christmas Song": "And so I'm offering this simple phrase/ To kids from one to …" Cindy MacDonald
Covid-19 saved Morrison, but climate is the real test
Mike Seccombe Having outperformed the world in containing coronavirus, Australia's lack of action on climate change will precipitate a much greater crisis.If the Morrison government were really answerable to the Australian people rather than vested interests, it already would have agreed to a more ambitious climate response. That's what the overwhelming majority of people have long wanted.
Trade war: Can the China relationship be salvaged?
Michael Wesley As Australia takes the serious step of referring its top trading partner to the World Trade Organization, China watchers wonder whether a truce is now impossible.
Fracking on Country in the NT
Rick Morton As a senate inquiry launches a scathing critique of the legislative failures that led to the destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves, traditional owners in the Northern Territory are fighting a fracking project that threatens water sources and sacred sites.
Morrison, Albanese get ready for 2021
Karen Middleton As Australia enters what may be an election year, Scott Morrison's approval is high rather than solid, while Anthony Albanese has strategy rather than tactics.
A year without cinema
Christos Tsiolkas In 2020 we mostly had to watch films at home, and the most exciting possibilities still emerged from independent cinema.
A health system exposed
Neela Janakiramanan Victoria, a state that had as many as 700 new daily Covid-19 cases at the peak of its second wave, has gone many weeks without community transmission of the virus. Yet it now seems the health system is at risk of being pushed further beyond capacity than ever before.
Big holes in the Coalition's pre-election bucket list
Paul Bongiorno As the year like no other draws to an end, the challenges and crises it presented have highlighted the nation's strengths and dramatised its weaknesses. Facing up to these realities will be particularly daunting for our political leaders as they ready themselves for the next federal election.
Gadfly: Speech day at St Brutes
Richard Ackland "Thank you, Reverend Pastor Houston, for those prayers and your message about rich men walking upright through the eye of a needle, with or without a camel. Boys, remember the pastor's encouraging words about how religion and real estate can work together in the name of our Lord."
The quality that makes Scott Morrison uniquely equipped to lead Australia in 2021 is his preternatural inability to feel shame. There were hints of this early on – in the treasurer who held aloft a lump of coal in parliament, the Immigration minister with an almost absurd commitment to the phrase "on-water matters" – but since his elevation to the prime ministership, it has become the defining feature of his government.
fire moves faster
Maxine Beneba Clarke From the trauma of a burning nation, to the desperation of Covid-19, to the united voices of the Black Lives Matter protests, this year called for resilience like few before it.
Kamala Harris pivotal as Democrats eye the future
Jonathan Pearlman President Joe Biden's big policy agenda starts with Covid-19. In first 100 days US to rejoin World Health Organization and Paris Agreement. Donald Trump's legacy is a Supreme Court with a conservative majority.
Making sense of a changing world
Andy Butler We must support Australian artists in their most ambitious visions to understand the seismic shifts of our time.
The Horne Prize: There and here
Steven Amsterdam The winner of the Horne Prize 2020 is this poignant essay about homesickness amid the travel restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Kate Holden Garth Nix, one of Australia's most internationally successful authors, says lying on the couch with his eyes shut is a crucial part of his working life.
Christmas pork
Annie Smithers
Summer in the garden
Margaret Simons As the heat of summer starts to bite, the focus of every keen gardener turns to irrigation.
Demon shows his fighting spirit
Linda Pearce A quarter-finals appearance at the US Open was Alex de Minaur's best on-court performance to date, but the world No. 23 rates making it through the mental challenges and disruptions of 2020 as his biggest achievement.
Complete this lyric from "The Christmas Song": "And so I'm offering this simple phrase/ To kids from one to …"
Cindy MacDonald Test your general knowledge with our weekly quiz.


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Baron Tweedmouth, of Edington in the County of Berwick, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1881 for the businessman and Liberal politician Sir Dudley Marjoribanks, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a baronet, of Guisachan in Beaulieu in the County of Inverness, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom 1866. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baron. He was also a Liberal politician and notably served as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1905 and 1908. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the third Baron, in 1935. He is also the creator of the Golden Retriever

The heir presumptive for the 3rd Baron was the Conservative MP Edward Marjoribanks. However he committed suicide in 1932.

Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, was the daughter of the first Baron.

Barons Tweedmouth (1881)
Dudley Coutts Marjoribanks, 1st Baron Tweedmouth (1820–1894)
Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth (1849–1909)
Dudley Churchill Marjoribanks, 3rd Baron Tweedmouth (1874–1935)

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Noble titles created in 1881
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Car and bus collide in St Albans
Natalie Dearman
A MAN was taken to hospital this afternoon, following a collision between a car and a bus in St Albans city centre.
Emergency services were called to Victoria Street, near to the junction with Lattimore Road, just before 1pm.
A silver Vauxhall Vectra and an Arriva bus were in collision.
One man, believed to be the driver of the car, was taken to the QEII hospital in Welwyn Garden City with minor injuries.
Onlookers said that traffic was building in the area while the vehicles were waiting to be recovered, but the scene has now been cleared.

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Never one to rest on its laurels, the Coca-Cola Company is set to launch its first-ever energy drink, Coca-Cola Energy, which has the flavour profile consumers love but with added natural extracts including guarana and vitamin B.
Coca-Cola Ireland will expand its portfolio this month with the launch of Coca-Cola Energy, the first energy drink to be released under the Coca-Cola brand. With a Coca-Cola taste and feeling that people already know and love, Coca-Cola Energy features caffeine from naturally-derived sources, guarana extracts, B vitamins and no taurine.
It will be available in 250ml cans and in two variants – with and without sugar. Coca-Cola Energy will launch in Ireland from late April.
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Oct 21, 2017 - Abolitionists & Disunionists, America Transformed, Election Fraud, Emancipation, Enemies of the Republic, Freedmen and Liberty, Lincoln Revealed, Lincoln's Blood Lust, Lincoln's Grand Army, Lincoln's Hessians, Lincoln's Patriots, Lincoln's Re-election, Lincoln's Revolutionary Legacy, Myth of Saving the Union, Northern Culture Laid Bare, Northern Resistance to Lincoln Comments Off on The Rock of a New and More Perfect Union
The Rock of a New and More Perfect Union
To secure Lincoln's reelection, Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. Dana later testified that "the whole power of the War Department was used to secure Lincoln's reelection in 1864 (Hapgood's Life of Lincoln)." Dana was a prewar socialist who lived at the notorious Brook Farm commune, hired Karl Marx to write for Greeley's Tribune, spied on Grant for Lincoln, and was the one who ordered manacles be bolted on President Jefferson Davis at Fortress Monroe.
Rock of a New and More Perfect Union
"Lincoln's second election was largely committed to the War and Navy Departments of the Federal government, he having been nominated by the same radical Republican Party, practically, that nominated him at Chicago in 1860; and George B. McClellan was the nominee of the Democratic Party.
Lincoln made criticism of his administration treason triable by court-martial, and United States soldiers ruled at the polls. General B.F. Butler's book gives full particulars of the large force with which he controlled completely the voters of New York City; and McClure's book, "Our Presidents," tells "how necessary the army vote was, and was secured"; and Ida Tarbell says: "It was declared that Lincoln had been guilty of all the abuses of a military dictatorship."
R.M. Stribling's "From Gettysburg to Appomattox" gives undeniable proof of Lincoln's conspiracy with his generals to secure his reelection: and Holland's "Lincoln" says that "when Lincoln killed, by pocketing it, a bill for the reconstruction of the Union which Congress had just passed, Ben Wade, Winter Davis and Greeley published in Greeley's Tribune (August 6) a bitter manifesto, "charging the President, by preventing this bill from becoming a law, with purposely holding the electoral votes of the rebel States at the discretion of his personal ambition"; and Usher tells how "pretended representatives from Virginia, West Virginia, and Louisiana were seated in Congress;" and (August, 1864) Schouler says: "An address to the people by the opposition in Congress accused Lincoln of the creation of bogus States."
General [John C.] Fremont, the preceding nominee of Lincoln's party for the presidency, charged Lincoln with "incapacity, selfishness, disregard of personal rights, and liberty of the press;" also "with feebleness, want of principle, and managing the war for personal ends."
Lincoln's success was not won by the North, for a large part of its people were against Lincoln's policy of coercion. So, seeing voluntary enlistments ceasing, and the draft unpopular, by offering large bounties and other inducements, Lincoln secured recruits as follows: 176,800 Germans, 144,200 Irish, 99,000 English and British-Americans, 74,000 other foreigners, 186,017 Negroes, and from the border States 344,190, making a grand total of 1,151,660 men.
It is readily seen that without this great addition to Lincoln's Northern army he would have been "in bad," for, as it was, the North was almost on the point of "quitting" several times.
In an article in the [Confederate] Veteran, October, 1924 ("On Force and Consent") Dr. Scrugham [states:] "The United Daughters of the Confederacy have rendered a signal service to the perpetuation of government based on the consent of the governed by keeping alive the memory of the bravery of those who died that such government might not perish from the Southern States. Their work will not be completed till they have convinced the world, after the manner of the Athenian Greeks, that the Greek memorial to Lincoln in Washington, DC is dedicated to the wrong man." Amen.
Finally, let it not be forgotten, that this principle of government by the consent of the people was the rock on which our fathers of 1776 built the "new and more perfect" Union of States; and later, was the fundamental principle of the Union of the Southern Confederacy . . ."
(Events Leading to Lincoln's Second Election, Cornelius B. Hite, Washington, DC, Confederate Veteran, July, 1926, excerpts, pp. 247-248)
Oct 21, 2017 - Aftermath: Destruction, America Transformed, Emancipation, Enemies of the Republic, Freedmen and Liberty, Hatred of the American South, Looting the Conquered, Myth of Saving the Union, Northern Culture Laid Bare, Race and the North, Race and the South, Southern Conservatives, Southern Culture Laid Bare, Targeting Civilians Comments Off on Ruffin's Library and Slaves Lost
Ruffin's Library and Slaves Lost
Edmund Ruffin of Virginia, born in 1794 while Washington was president, committed suicide in his room at Redmoor Farm in Amelia County on 17 June 1865, unwilling and unable to live under a Northern tyranny that had already destroyed his life, family, and way of life. The veteran of the War of 1812 had observed, from 1861 through 1865, what the Northern conqueror was capable of with the invasion of his beloved Old Dominion.
"One other loss of property occurred during the first occupation at Beechwood [plantation], the result of looting by Union troops: the libraries were destroyed. Ruffin had no inventory of his books. He suspected at first that most of the volumes had been sent by the Union commander to New York for sale. A Union soldier's letter, which eventually fell into the family's hands, explained that the libraries had been the objects of looting by Union troops.
Slaves began "absconding" from Marlbourne, Beechwood, and Evelynton very early in the war, just as they did from farms all along the Pamunkey and lower James rivers once [General Geroge] McClellan occupied the peninsula. The level of desertions astonished Ruffin.
Beechwood suffered heaviest losses from slave defections between May and June 1862, when sixty-nine of the slaves still held there fled. "Not a single man is left belonging to the farm," he noted on 11 June. (One of the absconders, a man Ruffin knew as William and described as "an uncommonly intelligent Negro," would return in August 1862 to guide Union forces landing in Prince George.)
Events in June 1862 that broke up the slave community at Beechwood and Evelynton demolished Ruffin's assumptions about slaves and their relationship to his family . . . he decided the notion that black people felt a commitment to their own families was just a false statement.
At Beechwood and Evelynton individual slaves had absconded with no apparent concern for their families left behind — evidence, Ruffin surmised, that they had no such commitment. [In the early summer of 1862, Ruffin sold] twenty-nine troublesome slaves. That sale, Ruffin said, was an ordeal . . . their slaves had forced them to "a painful necessity thus to sever more family ties,' . . . [but] he had sold to just one buyer, who represented just two plantations; he had tried to break no family tie except those already broken by the slaves themselves."
(Ruffin, Family and Reform in the Old South, David F. Allmendinger, Oxford University Press, 1990, excerpts, pp. 164-166)
Oct 21, 2017 - America Transformed, Antebellum Realities, Democracy, Enemies of the Republic, Foreign Viewpoints, Pathways to Central Planning Comments Off on Rule by Unintelligent, Average Men Controlled by Opinions
Rule by Unintelligent, Average Men Controlled by Opinions
Alexis de Tocqueville's observation of American democracy, abhorred in Washington's time but ascendant with the rise of Andrew Jackson, was that "the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers the author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever steps beyond them . . . " Tocqueville wrote that although one could freely speak their mind, the aftermath will be torment and loud censure by overbearing opponents – he saw clearly that this course of tyranny adopted by democratic republics allowed the body to be free while the soul was enslaved.
"Some of the criticism of democracy consists chiefly in descriptions of the characteristic imperfections of ordinary men, without reference particularly of their mediocrity in the actual workings of political institutions. Government by popular majorities, it is said, means rule by the average man, who is generally unintelligent, controlled in his opinions and conduct more by emotion than by reason, of limited knowledge, lacking the means of leisure necessary for the acquisition of information and understanding, and suspicious of any superior ability in others.
What political virtue, it is asked therefore, is there in mere superiority of numbers? What standard of judgment can make us believe the opinion of any 55 per cent of the people to be wiser or fairer than that of the other 45 per cent?
What quality has the majority in greater amount or higher value, except the one quality of superior force? Is not majority rule merely rule by greater physical power? What better reason is there that everyone should have equal power in politics than that everyone should have equal power in law or medicine, or in business, farming, bricklaying, or forging?
The critics also contend that democracy shows its actual inexpertness and unfairness in the policies it puts into operation . . . unfriendliness to true scientific and artistic progress, and intolerance of freedom in thought and conduct. Democracies either are undiscriminating or they select for their sympathy the defective and dependent, the incompetent and improvident – those who fall behind in the inevitable competitions of social life.
A short-sighted humanitarianism leads a democracy, in its policies of economic and social reform, into all sorts of artificial and meddlesome schemes for suppressing competition and equalizing wealth and social position.
A democracy is interested not in promoting the worth of exceptional individuals but in increasing the comforts of ordinary individuals. The mediocre majority endeavors constantly to bring individuals of distinctive capacity and achievement down to its own level. Equality is not only democracy's initial hypothesis but also its constant objective."
(Recent Political Thought, Francis W. Coker, D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934, excerpt, pp. 309-310)
Oct 21, 2017 - Antebellum Realities, Black Slaveowners, Freedmen and Liberty, Race and the North, Race and the South Comments Off on Selling Runaway Slaves in Delaware
Selling Runaway Slaves in Delaware
The author below records that Virginia slave owners averaged a loss of only about 60 slaves per year between 1800 and 1830, an insignificant number given a total slave population of nearly 470,000 by the latter year. He also notes that "there is little evidence to support the view that the average runaway was motivated by a desire for freedom in the abstract sense. Frequently he wanted to get back to his family, friends, and the place he was reared."
"The average age of a runaway slave was about twenty-seven years, but their ages ranged from ten to sixty. To run away and remain at large for an extended period of time required considerably agility, ingenuity and bravery. Many times the runaway was forced to "lay up" during the day and move about at night.
Unless aid was forthcoming from friends, the fugitive had to rely entirely on his own wits to obtain food and shelter. This helps explain why so few slave women attempted to escape. Because of the danger and the rigor of such an existence, slave women were reluctant to run away.
The misery of many slaves did not begin until after they had escaped. They had to continually be on the lookout for slave patrols . . . and being returned to his master, if he had one, or sold to pay the jail fees. Jailers were required by law to provide adequate clothing and other basic necessities when needed, but some of the jailers were negligent and their prisoners suffered terribly, particularly in winter.
One such instance of neglect occurred in King William County. The slave brought charges against the sheriff and the latter was fined $400.
The fate of at least twelve runaways, who managed to escape to Wilmington, Delaware, is worth noting. Two Negro couples operated what proved to be a very unprofitable business there. While their husbands were in Maryland and Virginia decoying runaway slaves into the State of Delaware, the wives were enticing into their web certain runaways who were promptly sold. The two women were finally arrested, and at their trial it was revealed that they had sold more than a dozen fugitive slaves back into slavery."
(Runaway Slaves in Virginia, 1800-1830, Major Stanley W. Campbell, Rockbridge Historical Society, Volume Six of the Proceedings, J.P. Bell Company, 1966, excerpts, pp. 58-61)
Oct 14, 2017 - America Transformed, Enemies of the Republic, Foreign Viewpoints, Hatred of the American South, Lincoln Revealed, Lincoln's Blood Lust, Lincoln's Revolutionary Legacy, Myth of Saving the Union, No Compromise, Withdrawing from the Union Comments Off on Pale Corpse of Murdered Liberty
Pale Corpse of Murdered Liberty
As Czar Alexander II ruthlessly crushed a rebellion against his oppression in Poland in 1863, French and English newspapers compared it to Lincoln's war upon Americans in the South who sought independence from his government. In mid-1863 as war seemed imminent between Russia and the French and English allies, Lincoln welcomed two Russian fleets into New York and San Francisco harbors for eight months to forestall European intervention in his war. Historical orthodoxy today claims European aversion to the Southern slavery they themselves introduced in America as the cause of non-recognition of the Confederacy, when Lincoln's Russian intrigues were a far more likely reason.
Pale Corpse of Murdered Liberty in America and Europe
"Russia, the most hated nation in Europe, was even more friendless than Lincoln's government [and her] Polish policy was threatening to embroil her in another European war. She needed America's support for nonintervention in the Polish insurrection, as much as Lincoln's government needed Russian support for nonintervention in the rebellion of the Southern States.
US Minister [William L.] Dayton wrote from Paris on February 23, 1863:
"The Polish revolt, which has been smoldering since 1861, broke into a fierce flame, and has driven American affairs out of view for the moment. A disturbance on the continent . . . is so near at hand and touches so many of the crowned heads of these countries, that distant events fall out if sight until these more immediate troubles are settled."
Russia was ruthless in crushing the insurrection. Thousands of Poles were slain or incarcerated or deported to Siberia. The estates of numerous nobles were confiscated [and the] last remnants of Polish autonomy were extinguished.
Europe was touched by Poland's plight. France, England and Austria decided to have recourse to diplomatic intervention . . . But the Czar, emulating Lincoln's stand in the American rebellion, declared that the Polish rebellion was a purely domestic affair and that foreign intervention was unacceptable.
Years before, as a private citizen back in Springfield, Lincoln had not hesitated to take a leading part in protesting against Russia, "the foreign despot," who "in violation of the most sacred principles of the laws of nature and of nations" had, through unwarranted armed intervention, overwhelmed Hungary when she was striving to throw off the yoke of Austrian tyranny.
[Lincoln] had subscribed to the principle: "That it is the right of any people, sufficiently numerous for national independence, to throw off, to revolutionize, their existing form of government, and to establish such other in its stead as they may choose."
Now . . . Lincoln declared [the South's] claim to the right of secession as unconstitutional and sheer treason. Lincoln's answer [to the South was]:
"The States have their status in the Union, and they have no other legal status. If they break from this, they can only do so against law and by revolution. By conquest or purchase, the Union gave each of them whatever of independence liberty it has . . . Not any of them ever had a State Constitution independent of the Union."
[Lincoln's answer in opposing intervention] expressed confidence that the Polish grievances would be righted by the liberalism, sagacity and magnanimity of Czar Alexander II.
America's refusal to join Russian's enemies caused the Missouri Republic to declare that "the pale corpse of Poland's murdered liberty" would haunt Lincoln in the days to come. French journals likened the American Civil War to the Polish insurrection, and pictured Lincoln placing his hand in the bloody hand of Czar Alexander II.
One French editor asked: "Is it right that fifty million Muscovites should unite to retain ten or twelve million Poles under a detested yoke? Is it right that twenty million Northern Germans and Irishmen should unite to impose on eight million Southerners an association they spurn?"
(Lincoln and the Russians, Albert A. Woldman, World Publishing Company, 1952, excerpts, pp. 157-160)
Oct 14, 2017 - America Transformed, Crusaders and Revolutionaries, Democracy, Election Fraud, Enemies of the Republic, Foreign Viewpoints, Hatred of the American South, Lincoln Revealed, Lincoln's Blood Lust, Lincoln's Grand Army, Myth of Saving the Union, No Compromise, Republican Party Comments Off on A Foreigner's Observations of America's War
A Foreigner's Observations of America's War
The Russian diplomat to Washington during the war was Baron Edouard de Stoeckl, who wrote detailed letters of American politics to his government in St. Petersburg. A born aristocrat, Stoeckl blamed America's plight and tragedy on its "ultra-democratic system." He pointed out that "only a handful of demagogues were able to accomplish this work of destruction." He never ceased deploring the rule of the mob and warned that this tragic result of democracy should be a warning to Europe. It should be noted that he never overlooked an opportunity to offer his services as a conciliator between North and South.
"This revolution has undermined the foundation of pure democracy as it existed in the United States. The Constitution is now an empty shell. Step by step the President has assumed more and more discretionary powers. Universal suffrage is practiced here today more or less as it exists in certain parts of Europe. The writ of habeas corpus has been suspended [and] the rights of States have been almost annulled, and military authority is absolute in every part of the country. In Europe the revolutionists, the Utopians and the other restless spirits are agitating to upset the whole order of things and to substitute for them democratic institutions. In America, these same institutions seem to have run their course. The military regime is taking root more and more, not only in governmental affairs, but even in the day to day activities of the American people."
Regarding Lincoln's Re-election in 1864, he noted that the election campaign continued in an atmosphere of military excitement.
"In spite of all the efforts which the administration is making to conceal the true state of affairs from the public, these last [Union] defeats have not produced an unfavorable impression about the party in power. However, Mr. Lincoln and his adherents are sure of winning the forthcoming presidential election."
Democrats denounced the War Department for turning its power into the service of Lincoln's re-election. They rightly claimed that thousands of Republican soldiers were furloughed to return to doubtful districts and vote, while few Democrats were granted leaves.
This caused the Russian minister to write: "If the vote were free, the chances would certainly be in favor of General [George B.] McClellan, but with the powers which the government possesses, it will find the means of controlling the election. Universal voting is as easily managed here as anywhere else."
Of Radical Republicans Stoeckl wrote:
"The Republicans demand the subjugation of the South without realizing the obstacles which two years of fighting have demonstrated so clearly. The Democrats contend that a compromise based on the federal compact is today more possible than the conquest of the South. So, the Americans seem to be rushing blindly into a state of anarchy which will be the inevitable consequence of the war if it continues much longer."
"Peace, no matter what the terms, is the only way of resolving this situation. But leaders in charge of affairs do not want it. Their [radical Republican] slogan is all-out war. Any compromise would endanger their political existence. They are politicians of low caliber — men without conscience, ready to do anything for money, individuals who have achieved rank in the army and others who still have hopes of obtaining high commissions.
They constitute the swarm of speculators, suppliers of material, war profiteers through whose hands pass a large portion of the millions of dollars spent daily by the federal government. Aside from these and some fanatics, practically everybody desires the cessation of hostilities. But unfortunately, few dare to protest, and those who have the courage and patriotism to express their opinions, are too few in number to make their influence felt."
"The conservatives want peace. They say now that Northern honor is saved, the time is at hand to start negotiations with the Confederates for their re-entry into the Union on an equal footing with Northern States. On the other hand the radical Republicans are demanding that the government should continue the vigorous prosecution of the war and that it should not lay downs arms until the South is completely subjugated. Unfortunately the administration is completely dominated by the radicals."
(Lincoln and the Russians, Albert A. Woldman, World Publishing Company, 1952, excerpts)
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Acts of Oppression Made in the Name of Liberty
From the Russian Embassy at Washington, diplomat Baron Edouard de Stoeckl monitored the Lincoln administration and reported his observations in detail to St. Petersburg. He concluded, as other observers did, that Lincoln's apparent goal was to maintain the territorial union by force, with slavery intact and confined to the existing geographic limits of the South.
"If the reign of the demagogues continues for a long time, General [John] Fremont is destined to play an important role. He is already the standard-bearer of the radical [Republican] party, and he will become the head of the party because of his superiority over the other leaders, among whom are only mediocre men and not a single leader of talent and energy.
Continuing his analysis of the "deplorable situation," Stoeckl discussed in some detail the efforts of the radicals to gain control of affairs.
"General Fremont acted without authorization of [President Lincoln] and even contrary to his instructions, which forbid him to act in regard to the slave States of the west where Unionists are still fairly numerous. So the President was greatly astonished to learn about the [emancipation] proclamation of General Fremont. He regarded is as an act of insubordination.
For awhile there was consideration of dismissal [of Fremont], but after all [Lincoln] did nothing and did not even dare to reprimand him. The radicals, emboldened by this triumph, demand today that the edicts laid down by General Fremont in Missouri shall be applied everywhere. In other words, they demand that the government should convert the present struggle into a war of extermination.
What the radical party fears most is a reaction which would bring its ruin. So it takes advantage of the hold it has on the administration in order to drive it to extreme measures. The government has forbidden postmasters to carry newspapers in the mails which advocate conciliation and compromise. The result has been that the majority of newspapers which were opposed to war have had to suspend publication.
In several towns the extremists have gone even further. They have stirred up the populace, which has smashed the plants of the moderate newspapers. Conditions are such that mere denunciation by a general is sufficient for a person to be arrested and imprisoned. The act of habeas corpus and all the guarantees which the Americans have appeared to prize so much, have vanished and given way to martial law, which . . . is being enforced throughout the North.
We are not far from a reign of terror such as existed during the great French Revolution, and what makes the resemblance more striking is that all these acts of oppression are made in the name of liberty."
Stoeckl wrote that the people of the North were being misled into believing that these drastic measures would hasten the peaceful restoration of the Union. But he did not believe the deception could persist:
"People will not be duped long by their political leaders. The reaction will necessarily take place. But unfortunately it will come too late to repair the harm that the demagogues have done to the country. It will be necessary finally to revolutionize the political and administrative institutions . . . which have been weakened upon the first rock against which the nation has been hurled.
In the North and in the South they will have to reconstruct the edifice which the founders of the Republic have had so much trouble in building . . . The present war is only the prelude of the political convulsions which this country will have to pass through."
(Lincoln and the Radicals, Albert A. Woldman, World Publishing Company, 1952, excerpts, pp. 80-83)
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"This Savage and Cold-Blooded Idea"
The Confederate States held nearly 261,000 Northern soldiers in their prisons of which 22,526 died in captivity; Northern prisons held 200,000 Southerners of which 26,500 died – the higher percentage is the latter. Southern authorities provided food to prisoners equal to the meager rations for soldiers while Northern prisons were surrounded by bountiful fields and harvests.
"John M. Daniel, from the Richmond Examiner, 25 November 1863:
"The Yankee policy with respect to the exchange of prisoners has been clearly exposed. It is based upon the simple principle that our men are intrinsically worth more than theirs, and that if they continue to hold our prisoners and to allow their own to remain in our hands they will be the gainers. Such, in fact, is the whole scheme of the war. If, by dint of superior numbers and a lavish expenditure of blood, they can inflict such losses upon the South as to render it incapable of further resistance, their point, I think, is gained . . . "
While this savage and cold-blooded idea is at the bottom of their reasoning, they are aware that it is necessary to cloak their purposes under as decent a veil as they can find. It will not do to tell their soldiers, or the classes from which they expect to recruit their armies, that they regard them merely as fighting animals, to be used sparingly, or sacrificed wantonly, according to the varying necessities of the case.
It would be ruinous, frankly, to avow that they are delighted to retain a certain number of Confederates in prison at the expense of an equal or even greater number of their own men. An excuse must be found which will throw the odium of refusing exchange upon the Confederacy. Yankee ingenuity, unhampered by the restraints of an adherence to truth, can easily accomplish this . . .
We have sought to carry out the cartel of exchange in good faith. Let us not allow the Yankees to take advantage of their own wrong, and, while they avoid the odium attaching to the desertion of their own prisoners, retain the advantage of neutralizing thousands of our soldiers.
Gladly would the Yankee Government, in order to deprive us of their services, agree to lodge [our soldiers] at the Fifth Avenue or the Metropolitan, and to feed them upon turtle soup and champagne. It would be a vastly cheaper way of disposing of them than maintaining armies of hirelings to oppose them in the field . . . "
(Empire of the Owls, Reflections on the North's War Against Southern Secession, H.V. Traywick, Jr., Dementi Milestone Publishing, 2013, pp. 253-254)
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Arab Slave-Catching Caravans
In addition to ending the piracy emanating from Tripoli, the US victory over Yusaf Bashaw (bashaw is the equivalent of "pasha") brought an end to the latter's white Christian slave trade. The British sent Dr. Joseph Ritchie and British naval officer George Lyon to Tripoli for the possibility of commerce and the extirpation of the slave trade, which Africans and Arabs alike would not cease on their own. Dr. Ritchie died on the expedition related below.
"Yusaf Karamanli . . . held Tripoli's throne . . . [and] ruled Tripoli from 1795 to 1835, extending his authority southward with bloody wars against nomadic tribes. One explorer, watching Yusaf Bashaw's army returning after a campaign in the hinterlands, counted two thousand human heads on the tips of Cologhi spears. These grisly trophies belonged to rebellious Tuareg whose decapitated bodies were burned in the desert.
The basaw realized that the age of piracy was ending. Under his reign, piratical practices had already been the cause of war in 1805 between Tripolitania and the United States. It was . . . a huge financial blow to the bashaw. No longer could his treasury be supported by ransoms and the sale of stolen ships and booty.
By 1825, the bashaw found that all sources of revenue from the old trade of piracy and Christian slavery had dried up.
On March 18, 1819, the bashaw received [Dr. Joseph] Ritchie and [George] Lyon at an official audience with their consul, telling them they could head south with his ally, the newly-appointed bey of Fezzan, Mohammed El Mukni, was soon to leave Tripoli on a slave raiding campaign. El Mukno . . . was collecting a force of armed Arabs to attack African villages.
[They saw enroute] members of the fierce Tebu tribe, parties of whom occasionally descended from the Tibesti Mountains to plunder passing caravans. These tall and handsome people, veiled like the Tuareg and wary of strangers, were black Africans, not Berbers, the northernmost part of a larger group of Tebu people whose territory extended to what we know today as Chad, Niger and Sudan.
Though the Tuareg and Tebu nominally espoused Islam, they were fiercely independent and deviated from accepted Muslim norms when it suited them.
On February 9, 1820, Lyon . . . joining company with a slaving caravan, set out on the journey back to Tripoli. Day after day . . . he watched twelve hundred slaves [who were captured], most of them women and children, shepherded painfully across the hilly wastes. Mounted [Arab] overseers battered this mass of wretched humanity with whips and sticks; sick slaves were thrown by the road and left to die. Nauseated by the spectacle, Lyon took notes:
"These poor, oppressed beings were, many of them, so exhausted as to be scarcely able to walk; their legs and feet were much swelled and by their enormous size formed a striking contrast with their emaciated bodies. They were all borne down with loads of firewood; and even poor little children, worn to skeletons by fatigue and hardship, were obliged to bear their burthen, while many of their inhuman masters rode on camels, with the dreaded whip suspended from their wrists."
Exhausted by his own hardships, Lyon was haunted by memories of the brutalized slaves. He went to the slave market [in Tripoli] to say good-bye to them. Recognizing him, they greeted him with smiles, some with tears."
(The Race for Timbuktu, In Search of Africa's City of Gold, Frank T. Kryza, HarperCollins, 2006, excerpts, pp. 68-72; 77-79)
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Republican Party Supports Immigration Restrictions
Turn of the century Republican Senator from Vermont, William P. Dillingham (1843-1923) did not serve in the Civil War, citing "ill-health" and may well have purchased a substitute to serve as many northern men had done. Though Republican Party views toward immigration had been very liberal during the war as it needed a never-ending supply of recruits for its war against the American South, by 1911 Dillingham's congressional commission issued a report supporting more severe immigration restrictions.
"The xenophobia of the 1880s and 1890s pointed inevitably in one direction: immigration restriction. Although the Chinese were banned in 1882 and the first general federal immigration law of that year had excluded certain classes of immigrants, these laws did not greatly affect the flow of immigration traffic. The time had come [many insisted], to decide whether the nation was "to be peopled by British, German and Scandinavian stock, historically free, energetic, progressive, or by Slav, Latin and Asiatic races, historically downtrodden, atavistic, and stagnant."
The most popular scheme for stemming the tide was the Literacy test, Led by the Immigration Restriction League, founded in Boston in 1894 and led by Boston blue bloods, agitation for federal action grew. The literacy test, which required immigrants over 16 to be literate in some language, made no distinction among nationalities or races, but the intent of the proposal was clear.
The literacy test, supported by the Republican Party, finally did pass in 1896, only to be vetoed by President Grover Cleveland . . . it quickly reappeared and by 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt . . . called for a comprehensive immigration act to keep out "not only all persons who are known to be believers in anarchistic principles or members of anarchist societies, but also all persons who are of a low moral tendency or of unsavory reputation" and "all persons . . . who are below a certain standard of economic fitness to enter our industrial field as competitors with American labor."
The President also wanted a careful educational test to ascertain the capacity to "appreciate American institutions and act sanely as American citizens. Roosevelt insisted that his proposals would decrease the "sum of ignorance" in America and "stop the influx of cheap labor, and the resulting competition which gives rise to so much of the bitterness in American industrial life, and it would dry up the springs of the pestilential social conditions in our great cities, where anarchist organizations have their greatest possibility for growth."
Congress responded in part to the President's request by excluding anarchists in 1903 and "imbeciles, feeble-minded [persons] and persons with physical or mental defects which might affect their ability to earn a living" four years later.
[Senator Dillingham's 1911 report's main] assumption was that the newer immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were more ignorant, more unskilled, more prone to crime, and more willing to accept a lower standard of living than the older immigrants from northern and western Europe. The newcomers, [Dillingham's] commission announced, were "content to accept wages and conditions which the native American and immigrants of the older class had come to regard as unsatisfactory."
(Ethnic Americans, a History of Immigration and Assimilation, Leonard Dinnerstein and David Reimers, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1975, excerpts, pp. 66-67)


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The BBC opened its iconic Television Centre in 1960, which would serve as the headquarters of BBC Television for half a century, making the area a cultural and artistic hub.
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The Greater London Authority (GLA) and Hammermsith and Fulham Council have made White City an 'opportunity area', to attract new homes and jobs, particularly in creative industries and biomedical research. They plan to create more open space, improved facilities for local people, and better pedestrian and cycling connections, to help create a mixed and balanced community.
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Calgary Flames vs Montreal Canadiens - January 13, 2020 Recap
Flames Flames 25-18-5
January 13, 2020 - Final
Canadiens Canadiens 20-20-7
Flames 0 0 0 0
Canadiens 1 0 1 2
Weal MON
Petry MON
Rittich CGY
Price, Canadiens end Flames' 5-game winning streak, 2-0
MONTREAL (AP) Carey Price stopped everything Calgary threw his way Monday night - which wasn't much, as far as Flames interim coach Geoff Ward was concerned.
Price made 31 saves for his second shutout of the season and the Montreal Canadiens snapped the Flames' five-game winning streak with a 2-0 victory.
''Not enough emotional attachment to this game,'' Ward said. ''We got outbattled, outraced, outcompeted and outworked right from the opening face off. It took us a long time to start clawing our way back into the hockey game.''
Jordan Weal and rookie Ryan Poehling scored for the Canadiens, who have won two straight since losing eight in a row.
Price's shutout was the 46th of his career, tying Ken Dryden for third on the franchise's career list.
''Obviously a momentum builder,'' Price said. ''We just carried on from last game. Right until the end, guys were diving in front of pucks. That's what winning hockey is all about.''
David Rittich stopped 35 shots for the Flames, who have been shut out six times.
The Canadiens came out firing, and Rittich responded with big saves in the opening minutes. Shots were 13-2 when Montreal finally put one past the Flames goaltender at 13:30. Following a wraparound attempt from Jeff Petry, Weal spun and placed a no-look shot under Rittich's pad.
''Coaching staff brought it to our attention that we need to get to the net a little more,'' said Weal, who was a healthy scratch last game. ''The puck popped out to me there. I was just trying to keep putting pucks on net because we were doing that earlier in the game, and it found a way in.''
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''We got better as the game went on but they took it to us all night,'' Gaudreau said. ''We just have to be better. We got a little fancy at times, turned the puck over sometimes at the blue line. It cost us.''
The Canadiens have beaten Calgary in five straight contests.
NOTES: Montreal F Brendan Gallagher missed his second straight game with headaches following a concussion. D Ben Chiarot was back after missing two games with a lower-body injury.
Flames: Play at Toronto on Thursday night.
Canadiens: Host Chicago on Wednesday night.
Calgary Flames at Montreal Canadiens
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The Flames enter this one coming off Saturday's 4-3 win over the Oilers to push their win streak to five games. They are 8-1-1 on the road since November 23, and in the past 10 seasons they've only had one other 10-game road stretch with eight or more wins and that was from January 26-March 11, 2017.
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It's unfortunate that when most people decide to work-at-home, they begin their search by trying to find an option they can sign-up for starting today. This, of course, leads to increased chances of finding scams or getting involved in work-at-home schemes that don't interest you.
The reality is that work-at-home jobs are just like traditional jobs. If you were looking for a tech job outside the home, would you do a Google search on "jobs"? I don't think so. Instead, you'd probably visit job search sites and search for work related to your skills. It's the same with work-at-home jobs.
First, it's much easier to turn a traditional job into a work-at-home position, than finding and getting hired to a telecommuting job. So, if you're currently working in a job, consider researching the viability of turning it into a telecommuting position and preparing a work-at-home proposal to present to your employer. The key aspect to focus on isn't how badly you need the flexibility to work-at-home, but instead, how your working at home can benefit your employees, such as increased productivity or reduced stress on office resources.
If your boss says, "no," your next step is to find a work-at-home job. Start by listing all the jobs you're experienced and qualified to do. Don't think just in terms of job titles, but in duties as well.
Next, write a resume that highlights your skills and experiences. While most view the resume as a list of accomplishments, you're better off viewing it as a marketing document. In marketing, the focus is not on you, but on how you can help the market, in this case, the employer. So work to write a resume that offers specific and quantifiable data in a way that shows how your experience helps the employer.
This version of your resume will be generic, but you'll want to tailor it to each job you find in your search to make it stand out to employers even more.
Once you know what you have to offer an employer and a resume to tweak, it's time to start searching for work.
Search your city (i.e. New York) and keyword telecommute.
Scroll through the list of options. Read carefully as some may say, "no telecommute."
You'll need to register with Dice to submit your resume.
If you don't find jobs in your city, you can leave the city option blank. However, since many companies with telecommuting options still prefer local candidates, start with the city option.
If telecommute doesn't yield results or for other results that don't show up under that term, use keywords: remote, virtual, and/or "work at home" (with the quotes).
Check out these job search sites for more options.
Use the same steps you followed to search Dice, using work-at-home keywords (i.e. telecommute). On the general search sites (i.e. CareerBuilder), use your work-at-home keyword and job industry. For example: telecommute project coordinator.
You might want to consider joining FlexJobs, which makes finding telecommuting jobs easier by weeding out the scams and schemes for you. Another option is to register with recruiters who have postings in your line of work. Although many people have mixed results with recruiters. Additionally, if you don't already belong to one, join at least one professional association in your line of work — they often have leads and provide an additional place to network.
Note, that many of these jobs will be regular employment including a salary and benefits, while some might be contract jobs. While contract jobs can be good paying and steady, there are differences between telecommuting employment and contract work.
If you're still not finding a job that suits you, consider freelancing. There are a number of freelancing sites that have a high number of tech gigs that allow you to work from home. Freelancer.com bought several of them such as RentACoder and VWorker. You can also try UpWork (formally Elance and ODesk).
A final option is to start a home business offering your tech services.


At some point in all of our lives we'll decide that it's time to spread our wings and to gain more independence by moving out of our parents' home. In the majority of cases, such a scenario will likely be met with many mixed feelings. If you've been fortunate to have had a stable and loving upbringing, you may experience a combination of excitement coupled with trepidation.
You'll feel excited about the prospect of having more choices as to who comes around to the house, who sleeps over, when you wash the dishes, when you get out of bed etc, yet you'll also experience a 'reality check' in terms of the increased costs you'll incur, whether you'll miss being around your parents each day and the overall security that comes with being part of a caring family. However, none of these emotions are unusual and most people in the same situation will have experienced them before you. The key thing to remember is to plan correctly and to accept that any house move will have its stresses as well as its joys.
The first question you need to ask yourself is if you can realistically afford to move out. You need to sit down and work out how much you have coming in and add up all your likely new expenses. Remember, it's not simply just about the rent or mortgage. You'll also need to find cash for utility bills, council tax, contents insurance and, if buying, buildings insurance too.
You'll have to set aside money for food and there may well be other bills you'll have also which you didn't have at home. If you're renting, you're likely to have to stump up money as a security bond too before you move in as well as the first month's rent. Then, once you've worked out all of your monthly expenses and subtracted that from your income, you'll then need to decide if the money you have left, after all the deductions on essential expenses, is sufficient to enable you to have some kind of social life with what's left.
Although your parents are likely to welcome you with open arms whenever you want to come back and stay over, it's unfair to leave them in a state of limbo by leaving half your belongings in their house. They may, for example, have plans to convert your old bedroom into something more appropriate for themselves so take everything with you. At the end of the day, you're doing something that shows responsibility as an adult so you should expect to be treated like one. Now that you're moving, it isn't your parents' responsibility to clean up after you and organise your things.
Before you move out, make sure you've got on top of all the administrative tasks you'll have to do. These could include, but are not limited to, informing the council of your change of address, having utilities connected in your own name (as well as paying any additional connection fees), making sure your tenancy or mortgage agreement is all sorted out and understood etc.
Draw up a list of supplies you'll need to take before you move in as it will make the move go more smoothly. This might include a weekly or monthly supermarket shop, making sure you have adequate cutlery and crockery, bedding items, furniture and working out where you're going to keep all your essential items. This might include knowing where you're going to store your PC – do you have a unit and space to put that unit? How about your TV and stereo? Have you decided where they are going to go?
As you're likely to be only really taking the contents of your own bedroom from your parents' house, there'll probably be no need to employ the services of a removal van. Between your parents, maybe other family members or friends, you'll probably have enough support and vehicles to help you ship your stuff to your new place. To make the job easier for everybody, make sure that every box, bag or bin you're using to move your belongings is clearly marked with its contents and any delicate items have been packed in the appropriate manner and labelled as 'fragile'.
By making some careful plans and by ensuring that you can truly afford your new independent lifestyle, you'll be well on your way to becoming an 'adult' in your own right. There's bound to be some tears and plenty of emotion along the way but you'll soon hopefully settle into your new surroundings and don't forget to throw that house warming party for your parents, other members of the family and friends as soon as you're settled to thank them for the help and support they have given you.


Well, time to find out if we can trust my ears at shows.
When first I reviewed the HiFiMAN HE 400 S it was a unicorn—a $299 planar magnetic headphone that sounds great? Unpossible! Well time marches on, and now quite a handful of affordable planar magnetic headphones have made their appearance in the $500 to $800 range.
I recently reviewed the $599 Acoustic Research AR-H1 and found it okay...but not quite good enough. An enthusiast sent me the $299 Monoprice Monolith M1060, after measuring and giving it a listen, it went straight back. Just too ragged sounding. MrSpeakers Aeon Flow Open at $799 is more expensive, but boy, it's a yummy sounding headphone. It went up on the Wall of Fame.
But the job's not done, three headphones remain before I feel like I've surveyed the field. The Audeze LCD-2 Classic ($799), the HiFiMAN Sundara ($499); and the Advanced Alpha ($499). I received an early LCD-2 Classic and wanted a known production unit with production packaging as a second check before writing a review, which I now have. I know some folks are a bit bummed out that I didn't get a review up during the holiday price special—sorry about that, but I've got to follow a process that will deliver as reliable a review as possible. I've also contacted HiFiMAN and am assured a Sundara is on the way soon. So, it's on to the Advanced Alpha.
The Advanced Alpha is an open, over-ear, single-sided, planar magnetic headphone. Though I've got a few quibbles, I'd say the build quality, styling, comfort, and accessorization is fairly good at this price.
The Alpha's styling is a pretty plain-Jane, form-follows-function affair. Headband arch, headband end swivels, yokes, and capsule grill covers are all metal; headband and earpads are protein leather; capsule housings are plastic. All are black with varying levels of gloss; the metal outside grill is more Navy blue then black.
The use of metal in the headband arch, ends, and yoke is a welcome feature. There is a small aluminum knurled ring separating the headband end piece and yoke; the one on the right side is red to designate the right channel. A nice touch.
All protein leather "deep" pads at left; breathable "shallow" pad at right; bayonet clip on rear of pads at bottom center.
The Advanced Alpha comes with two sets of earpads: the "deep" pads are all protein leather; the "shallow" pads have a breathable fabric surface intended to reduce sweating in hot, humid environs. Both pads have perforated interior side panels. Pad openings are a fairly generous 58mm. Pads are slightly angled; the deep pad appears to be about 5mm deeper than the shallow pad.
Pads are attached with four bayonet clips and twist to lock in place. Pads are color coded with a small dot on one of the bayonet clips and a matching dot on the receiving slot on the baffle plate. Dots are red for the right, blue for the left. This attachement system seemed secure and positive in use.
With pads removed, the circuit traces of the 96mm silicon composite driver are visible under the bar magnet assembly. Note that there is no acoustic impedance matching mechanism like the Audeze Fazor or MrSpeaker TrueFlow technologies.
All swivel and tilt mechanics seemed very nice and rotation to a proper fit was quick and effortless without any squeaks or wobbles. Ear capsules can be rotated in one direction to lie perfectly flat.
The headband is self-adjusting with inner elastic straps. I find this type of headband rarely has the proper tension to remain comfortable. The Advanced Alpha headband is no exception, I found it moderately too tight on my head. While the caliper pressure seemed fine, the pressure of the headband on the top of my modestly larger than normal sized head was distractingly tight and not comfortable for long listening sessions.
The included 50" cable is a little short for a home headphone use—I like about six to seven feet. Conductors are silver plated copper and are woven similar to Kimber designs. The cable is a bit on the thin side but does lay flat without kinks and exhibits very little cable-born mechanical noise. The cable is terminated at the player end with svelt, metal-bodied 3.5mm TRS plug, and two 2.5mm TRS plugs at each ear capsule. No 1/4" to 3.5mm adapter is included.
There is a small inset hole in the ear capsule with a mating metal step around the plug to provide some strain relief in case the plugs get yanked. 2.5mm plugs are my least favorite connector for headphone cable termination, but I am glad to see the strain relief. There is a small aluminum cylinder that tidies the "Y" split nicely. The right earphone connector has a red strain relief to visually indicate the right channel.
Also included is a large storage case with dense foam cut-outs for the headphones, cable, and spare earpads. (Photo at top of next page.) The case appears to be of heavy cardboard covered with a textured vinyl fabric. I think this is a pretty nice case for a headphone at this price, though I would have preferred some sort of compact, clam-shell travel case.
In sum, apart from the somewhat excessive headband tension and slightly too short cable, I feel the Advanced Alpha is physically a modestly above average offering at this price. Let's see if the sound quality follows suit.


We were heading thru Redding on our way to the northern California coast just north of Eureka when our engine decided to ingest one of its valves. So ... as we sat in the Cummins West yard having our engine rebuilt we had a chance to see a little of this town. In addition we got to see our first fast pitch softball game. The daughter of Ray, our master mechanic, was playing in the championship playoff series. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see much because their team won by the "mercy rule" which ended the game after the fifth ending. It was however an interesting glimpse of the local life.
This bridge spans the Sacramento river and has the mast for the support cables built in the shape of a sundial. In fact it is a sundial that uses a scale on the ground to show the Summer Solstice. A very clever and beautiful structure. It is in the center of 300 acres of trails, an arboretum, a museum and a cafe. If you get to Redding be sure to see this.
Just after we left Redding we had an engine failure caused by a valve dropping into a cylinder. The valve head broke off and bounced around the exhaust manifold, entering other cylinders and causing damage there also. It then ended up in the turbo. This resulted in having to replace liners and pistons in all cylinders, a new head assembly and a new turbo. This was all done under our Cummins warranty which is a very good thing since it would have cost us several thousand dollars otherwise.
We were towed into Cummins West in Redding and spent five nights there. They have a 50 amp electric hookup and water is available to refill your fresh water tank. As you can see we have almost all the comforts of "home" including sat TV and Internet. Dumping the holding tanks is another matter, however.
These folks are GREAT! They are nice to deal with and their work is excellent. We highly recommend them if you need any kind of maintenance, from an oil change and lub, to major engine work. They are very "motorhome friendly" in addition to being nice friendly people.
Left: The second cylinder from the right was where the valve dropped.
Right: You can see the spring sticking up where the valve failed.


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Read Next Joss Whedon Denies Threatening Gal Gadot, Says 'English Is Not Her First Language'
November 5, 1997 5:00AM ET
More Money, More Mase
Puff Daddy protege debuts at No. 1
Puff Daddy's magic chart touch is on display once again this week,
in the form of a No. 1 album debut from his protege Mase. The
rapper, who appeared with Puff Daddy and the late Notorious B.I.G.
on the hit single "Mo Money Mo Problems," sold 273,000 copies of
his debut album, Harlem World, the first week it was in
stores, according to SoundScan. (Mase also has the No. 1 rap single
in the country, "Feel So Good," first heard on the soundtrack to
"Money Talks.")
The week's other big debut goes to the Dave Matthews Band's new
live double album, Live at Red Rocks, which enters the
chart at a surprisingly strong No. 3. The album's debut is
startling because RCA, in agreement with the band, spent very
little money marketing the record and didn't make a video or send a
single to radio. The record — the first in a planned series of
live Dave Matthews Band albums — is intended to provide fans with
a high-quality concert recording.
Other strong debuts include Phish's Slip Stitch &
Pass (which enters the chart at No. 17), Kiss' Carnival of
Souls (No. 27), the Cure's "Galore" (No. 32) and "The Doors
Box Set" (No. 65). One of the week's most dramatic gains goes to
U.K. anarchists Chumbawamba, who ride the runaway success of their
radio hit, "Tubthumping," to No. 8.
Following Mase's Harlem World were LeAnn Rimes' You
Light Up My Life – Inspirational Songs (with 107,000 copies
sold); Live at Red Rocks (103,000); Mariah Carey's
Butterfly (87,000); The Firm's The Album
(86,000); Fleetwood Mac's The Dance (84,000); Aqua's
Aquarium (75,000); Chumbawamba's Tubthumper
(74,000); the soundtrack to Soul Food (72,000), and Boyz
II Men's Evolution (71,000).
Slipping from the Top Ten after just four weeks is Janet
Jackson's The Velvet Rope. Her last album, 1993's
Janet, remained camped out in the Top Ten for months.


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Pankho () sind eine Ethnie in Bangladesch und in Indien. Die Gemeinschaften bewohnen die Chittagong Hill Tracts. Die Bevölkerung umfasst nur etwa 3.227 Personen in Bangladesh nach einer Zählung von 1991. In Bangladesch leben die Pankho in Barkal im Distrikt Rangamati an der Grenze zum indischen Bundesstaat Mizoram.

Zusammen mit den Lusei (Mizo hnam) gehören die Pankho zur Volksgruppe der Kuki-chin-mizo. Die Lushai Hills, heute Teil des Bundesstaates Mizoram, sind ihr angestammtes Gebiet. Lusei und Pankho werden als separate Stämme geführt, stehen sich kulturell aber sehr nahe. Während die Lusei die Sprache der Pankho nicht verstehen, können die Pankho die Sprache ihrer Nachbarn verstehen.

Einzelnachweise

Ethnie in Bangladesch
Sozialstrukturelle Gruppe


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First Bat Mitzvah in Crete…
Etz Hayyim Synagogue | Events, Historical Information
Letter from London – The first Bat Mitzvah in 2,000 years
By Antony Lerman | 12/08/2010
As the last of our family and friends leave the old Venetian port city of Hania, Crete, after witnessing and celebrating with us the Bat Mitzvah of our daughter in the island's only synagogue, we are left with the most extraordinary and moving memories
It's not easy for a 13-year old, even a very savvy one, to grasp that a moment in which she is participating and living through, and in which she is the centre of attention, is one of historical significance. Yet the fact that this was not only the first Bat Mitzvah on the island since the Jews of Crete were expelled by the Nazis and perished, but also the first Bat Mitzvah in over 2,000 years of Cretan Jewish history, seemed genuinely to touch our daughter as she comported herself with great dignity, composure and maturity during the ceremony.
Though uniqueness was forced upon us, we embraced it willingly. We don't live on Crete, but the exquisite Romaniote synagogue here has become the closest we have to one of which we can describe ourselves as 'members'. Rebuilt in the mid-1990s and rededicated and reopened in 2000, it barely has anything like a traditional congregation. There's not many more than a handful of Jews living in Hania. But there is a wider circle of friends who visit the island regularly, transient Israelis and European Jews (and some from other continents) who have passed through and formed an attachment to the place, and people of other faiths or none who have found something very special about the peace and tranquility of the synagogue, despite the hustle and bustle of the tourist trade, which speaks to them. We count ourselves as part of this 'community'.
There is no resident rabbi. Nikos Stavroulakis, the man who single-handedly generated the momentum and raised the money to rebuild the synagogue, and who has been the Director since it reopened, leads prayers on Erev Shabbat and prays early on many other days. But for the chagim, Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, a rabbi comes from England to take the services. From the outset, Nikos, whose father was from Crete and who returned after the war to reclaim his father's house, was determined that the synagogue not become only a memorial to the Jews of Crete, and certainly not a museum, but a living entity. It wasn't possible to bring a rabbi for the Bat Mitzvah, but my older brother, with many years of experience taking services in a small Jewish community in a town north of London, took the lead.
Not being Sephardi Jews, we were kindly given permission to craft a service which basically followed that of the Liberal Jewish movement in Britain, with some Sephardi touches, including the torah-chanting of my daughter. We shared readings between family members, men and women, two of my nieces opened the Ark and my older son and daughter were hagba and gelila, handling the rather fragile torah scroll with some care.
The Bat Mitzvah girl took the theme of 'giving' from the parasha (Re'eh) for her d'var torah, and Nikos Stavroulakis discussed the question of 'what is Jewishness?' in remarks he addressed to our daughter and the multicultural and multifaith gathering of family and friends. Inclusiveness was the watchword of the entire occasion, which involved everyone giving of themselves and being open to receive something in return.
You can't dwell in history. We wanted to hold our daughter's Bat Mitzvah in the Etz Hayyim synagogue in Hania for its own sake, because we thought it would have more meaning for her and for us. In a sense, it was also an act of solidarity, but we did not know it was going to be such when we conceived of the idea a year ago. In January 2010, two arson attacks, probably carried out by far-right sympathizers, badly damaged two synagogue outbuildings and part of the synagogue ceiling. It was a deeply dispiriting moment, but there was no question of being cowed by such intimidation. The destroyed structures were rebuilt and the synagogue repaired, repainted and re-polished, and it now looks better than ever. The Bat Mitzvah made a very strong statement: the work goes on.
Who can say whether our daughter's Bat Mitzvah represents but a brief flowering, an event which will not be repeated, or something more? I have learnt not to second guess such questions. For me, European Jewish life is full of surprises and in the last 20 years has confounded the doom-mongers. This Bat Mitzvah was one more of those delightful surprises.
The letter originally appeared in Eretz Aharet, and was reprinted with permission from the author.


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Monsieur le duc est un film français réalisé par Jean de Limur, sorti en 1931.

Synopsis
Le duc de Latour-Maubert tombe amoureux d'une intrigante alors qu'il ferait mieux de penser aux affaires de la famille ruinée, en épousant une riche américaine !

Fiche technique
 Titre : Monsieur le duc
 Réalisation : Jean de Limur
 Scénario : Jean de Limur, Jacques Natanson
 Photographie : Georges Asselin
 Décors : Guy de Gastyne
 Production : Bernard Natan, Émile Natan
 Société de production : Pathé
 Pays d'origine :
 Format : Noir et blanc -  - 1,37:1
 Genre : Comédie
 Durée : 81 minutes
 Date de sortie :
 France,

Distribution
 Alice Field : Joyce Miller
 Henry Defreyn : le duc de Latour-Maubert
 Suzanne Devoyod : la marquise
 Héléna Manson : la secrétaire
 Jules Mondos : l'évêque
 Guy Favières : James
 Stella Arbenina : Mrs. Miller
 Teddy Dargy : Hélène de Luzançon
 Sylvio de Pedrelli : Demetrios Platinopoulos
 Guy Vonelly : Henri
 Lucien Dayle
 Raymond Cordy

Liens externes

Film français sorti en 1931
Comédie française
Film français en noir et blanc
Film réalisé par Jean de Limur


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