Chinatown Hotel is positioned in a unique part of Singapore, this location features historical preserved buildings that are interesting to visit. A landmark itself, China Town Hotel is also a part of Singapore's conservation plans in order to reflect old world charms amidst the fast growing modern city of Singapore. A beautifully maintained place, it boasts 42 well appointed rooms, offered with an affordable budget and a complete set of standard amenities. An excellent hotel for business travelers and tourists alike, it is situated in the heart the city and gives easy access to popular tourist areas. Also located within the central business district, it is a short distance away from MRT. A lovely hotel complemented by its warm and friendly hospitality, it is a superb choice.


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#HeavyRotation – Son Little "aloha"
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aloha by Son Little
Stream On Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer.
Via Anti- Records – aloha, the latest album from Son Little, the musical nom de plume of LA's Aaron Earl Livingston, is available now. As previewed with the release of the invisible EP and early single, "hey rose," which The New York Times described as comprising "bluesy distorted guitar chords, a hint of Latin rhythm and perhaps a distant echo of the Zombies' 'Time of the Season'," aloha blends classic soul and old-school R&B into a timeless swirl fueled by gritty instrumental virtuosity and raw, raspy vocals. Recorded at Paris's iconic Studios Ferber with producer Renaud Letang (Feist, Manu Chao), aloha is Little's first album to be recorded with an outside producer. The result is his boldest, most self-assured statement yet. It's an ambitious work of vision and reflection, and an ecstatic testament to the freedom that comes from trusting the currents of life to carry you where you belong.
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South East Dorset Green Party | Letter published in the Echo under the heading "Aid Mother Nature"
This letter from Susan Chapman was published in the Bournemouth Echo on Monday 17th December. Soo is an active member of the local Green Party and is tireless in urging our leaders, both local and national, to take notice of the effect humans are having on our precious environment, and to act on the climate emergency.
At a time when the world is coming together to try and find a safe route for humanity through the crises ahead it is good to hear Cllr Mike Brooke and his scrutiny panel colleagues (Echo article 14.12.18) stand up against fracking.
I've asked Bournemouth to act on our climate emergency just as Bristol, Manchester (and now London) are doing and Cllr Anne Filer has recommended the decarbonisation question be brought to the SuperCouncil in the spring. Cllr John Beesley rightly asks us to work together to leave Bournemouth a better place for future generations. This does however mean moving up several gears with the audacious ambition of Elon Musk. Leaders have been asked to lead on this at Poland's climate talks.
#ExtinctionRebellion continue to call attention to humanity's desperate plight. France shows us how we fail to get concerted climate action while Costa Rica more successfully incentivises with renewables.
Following Cllr Michael Filer's speech at Full Council a comprehensive transport presentation on 13th December was thoughtfully discussed by the cross party panel. Even Musk's Hyperloop was looked at! As well as drones, water taxis and an underground system complete with map. The Dorset Area Rail Transport System (DARTS), a light rail system, was mentioned. First proposed by Andy Hadley, now a Poole Councillor, for Poole Agenda 21 around 15 years ago.
Lower-cost, sustainable solutions and perhaps consideration of free public transport (as in Dunkirk and elsewhere) were all on the table. Cllr Simon Bull pointed out that no new roads were needed.
Perhaps the solutions for our clean energy future can be revisited in light of Sir David Attenborough's robust warnings of collapse of civilisations and the UN Secretary General's comments that it is "immoral and suicidal" not to accelerate emissions' reductions as small island states agitate over their anticipated homelessness.
Mother Nature can recover if we take our foot off her neck!


Meaning of I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person's success, or be that person.
Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.
People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.
A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.
I'm not a puzzle piece to someone else's puzzle, I'm my own puzzle that is still growing. I'm unsure of what it'll look like when it's done, but it will be uniquely me.
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee,And revery.The revery alone will do,If bees are few.


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The Janitor is a fictional character, played by Neil Flynn in the American comedy-drama Scrubs. Though he is a janitor at Sacred Heart, he is rarely referred to as the janitor, but rather just called Janitor.

Neil Flynn was originally billed as a recurring guest star throughout Season 1, although he appeared in all 24 episodes of that season. He was promoted to a series regular beginning with Season 2 and remained a regular through to Season 8. He made his final appearance in the Season 9 premiere, "Our First Day of School", as a guest star.

Janitor appeared in every episode during the first eight seasons except Season 2's "My Lucky Day" and Season 8's "My Last Words", "My Absence" and "My Full Moon".

Fictional character biography
In the series' pilot episode, protagonist J.D. sees Janitor fixing a sliding door that is stuck, and suggests someone might have stuck a penny in the door. Janitor immediately accuses J.D. of sabotaging the door, and swears revenge. For the rest of the series, Janitor makes it his personal mission to torment J.D. with insults, mind games and practical jokes. In the season eight finale, J.D. admits to accidentally sticking the penny in the door; Janitor replies he saw J.D. do it and began torturing him because he failed a "test of character" by keeping silent about it. Some of Janitor's practical jokes have been on the severe side, such as destroying J.D.'s bike (twice), trapping him in a water tower, stranding him in the middle of nowhere, and tricking him into robbing a couple's house.

Neil Flynn has said:

It is suggested in the episode "His Story III" that he is in some way responsible for a medical intern named Jill having a child.

During the first six seasons he has a crush on Dr. Elliot Reid, but in season seven he meets his future wife Lady, and they get married the following season.

In the first episode of season 9, a flashback is seen of Janitor's last appearance the day after J.D. leaves Sacred Heart. Janitor believes that J.D. is simply hiding, as a practical joke, and will reappear. When Turk convinces him that J.D. has left for good, Janitor hands over his mop to Turk and leaves, never to be seen again.

In episode 6x15 he states he has converted to the Norse religion.

Personality
Concrete information about Janitor's personal history is sparse and is confounded by his penchant for giving outrageous (and often conflicting) accounts of his past. Many of the stories he has told J.D. are patently absurd, some bordering on the surreal or fantastical.

He has claimed that his parents are also his siblings, has made multiple conflicting accounts of having been married and having children, has claimed that, in college, he came close to a world record in the 100m hurdles race, and has given an explanation for learning sign language so convoluted that he asks to have it read back to him when J.D. asks if any part of it is true. His childhood and family life are equally mysterious. The occasional flashback sequences imply that his parents were fastidious and mildly abusive. One flashback implies the loss of a stuffed animal in the "clutter" of his bedroom led him to take on a janitorial career. He also claims that his great-grandfather was the Civil War general Ambrose Burnside (mispronounced "Burnsides"). However, it is hinted on some occasions that Janitor's anecdotes are at times true to some degree, e.g. he does show a considerable skill in hurdles racing in the same episode in which he claims to almost have broken said world record.

Janitor speaks Spanish, Korean, German, Italian and American Sign Language. When the hospital support staff wants dental coverage, he becomes their spokesman.

On occasion Janitor indicates he does little actual work. He tells J.D. that he spends only an hour and a half a day performing his duties at work. He does, however, defend his sanitary responsibilities in the hospital whenever J.D. questions him about it, and he takes great pride in the cleanliness of the hospital's floors.

Although he spends most of the series harassing J.D., on occasion Janitor will torment other characters such as Christopher Turk. This is usually in response to a perceived wrong, such as another character creating a mess in the hospital or disrespecting him.

Several episodes show Janitor pretending to be a doctor ("Dr. Ján Ĩtor") and he also greatly enjoys one occasion when he is asked to assist during a medical emergency. On one occasion, he uses a set of broken defibrillator paddles to pretend to revive a patient (in reality, a pair of pillows and a mop). He also pretends to be the chief of medicine when the real chief, Bob Kelso, is away.

Janitor shows a softer side on several occasions.  He harbors a schoolboy crush on Elliot Reid, to whom he usually refers as "Blonde Doctor". He has also shown genuine compassion for the hospital's patients; in one episode he spends the day talking to a patient with Locked-in syndrome just to keep him company. In another, he joins the others in saying a heartfelt farewell to Nurse Laverne Roberts, who dies of injuries suffered in a car accident. Later, as the hospital mourns Laverne's passing at a bar, Janitor buys them a round of drinks and raises his glass in salute. He later reveals he and Kelso had both slept with Laverne.

Flynn had a small role in The Fugitive.  The show's writers took advantage of this, placing Janitor (in his fictional role) as the real actor in the film. J.D. notices this as he watches the movie. When J.D. confronts Janitor, he (eventually) admits that it really was him — after J.D. explains that he wanted it to be Janitor as it would show him to be more than a bitter wretch, instead a man who once had hopes and dreams, even if they didn't work out — but admonishes him not to tell anyone.

Janitor's father is portrayed as having treated him the way a drill instructor would treat a new recruit.  (His father is played by actor R. Lee Ermey, who famously played a drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket.)  However, Janitor later tells J.D. that his father died when he was young. When J.D. remembers meeting his father, Janitor responds mysteriously that "You met a man."

At the beginning of the eighth season, Kelso's replacement Dr. Taylor Maddox fires Janitor for pulling a prank on J.D. that could have resulted in serious injury. At the end of the episode, he is replaced. He is rehired three episodes later after Maddox is forced out.

Janitor is the self-appointed leader of the "Brain Trust", an unofficial club at the hospital that consists of a rotating cast of Sacred Heart staff members such as hospital lawyer Ted Buckland, surgeon Todd "The Todd" Quinlan, Dr. Doug Murphy (whom Janitor calls "Nervous Guy"), and Lloyd Slawski, a delivery man.  The Brain Trust originally had three other members, but Janitor became fed up with them during lunch, and joined the table behind him where the new members were sitting.

Name
The mystery of Janitor's name is a running gag throughout the series. In several episodes, he calls himself "Janitor" (even in his own mind), and in many episodes he refers to himself as "Doctor Ján Ĩtor".

In "My Hero", Janitor chastises J.D. for not even knowing his name while Janitor knows many personal details about J.D.'s life (though it's later shown Janitor has been breaking into J.D.'s locker and reading his journal). When J.D. protests that he does in fact know Janitor's real name, Janitor asks him to say it aloud and quickly claps his hand over his name badge so J.D. can't read it.

In "My Manhood", Janitor tells Dr. Cox "I've been called a great many horrible names in my life: backstabber, zebra poacher, Josh..."
(In an interview before Bill Lawrence stated the name of the Janitor is Josh, standing for Janitor Of Sacred Heart but then said this was a joke.)

In the beginning of the eighth season, when Sacred Heart's new Chief of Medicine, Dr. Maddox (played by Courteney Cox Arquette), asks what Janitor's name is, he chuckles and makes reference to the fact she's new, alluding to the fact that  she's oblivious to the fact even the longest-standing members of staff don't know his name. She examines his name tag only to find it says "The Janitor."

Bill Lawrence gave a hint toward Janitor's name at a speech at The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia on January 29, 2009. He said that the only clue he had given was that Janitor's name is the same as the janitor on Clone High (Glenn, voiced by Neil Flynn).

In the Season 8 finale Janitor tells J.D. that his name is Glenn Matthews;   When J.D. asks why Janitor is revealing his name only now, Janitor points out that J.D. has never before asked what his name is, and proves that J.D. has already forgotten it.  However just a few seconds later, someone else walks by and calls Janitor by another name, "Tony,"  to which he responds.

In a Twitter post on April 5, 2011, Bill Lawrence confirmed that Janitor was telling the truth when he revealed his name as Glenn Matthews.

On June 30, 2020, on the Zach Braff/Donald Faison Podcast, Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald, show creator Bill Lawrence confirmed again that Janitor's real name is Glenn Matthews.

Figment of J.D.'s imagination

As revealed in the DVD commentary on several episodes, the Janitor character was initially to be used as a figment of J.D.'s imagination if the show had been canceled during the first season or the first half of the second.  This would have been revealed to the audience in the finale.

From the beginning of Season 2, Flynn joins the rest of the main cast appearing in the show's extended opening credits, but the credits were changed back due to objections by NBC, who wanted longer episodes instead. However, he was still acknowledged as a main cast member by the producers as of the second season. Since the start of season two, Janitor has had encounters with most of the other regular characters. He has even had an entire episode ("His Story III") devoted mostly to him. Along with this, in the season 1 episode "My Bad", Elliott throws coffee on the floor and as Janitor looks up in anger she seemingly engages with him and sarcastically says "sorry".

Production notes
Flynn is an improv comedian and, as such, ad-libs many of his lines.  Although it is often stated that Flynn ad-libs all of his lines, on several parts of the Season One DVD commentaries and special features, both Flynn and series creator Bill Lawrence say that it is generally a mix of ad-libbed lines and the original script, with Flynn usually building on the original lines. Lawrence has also said that the rest of the cast followed Flynn's lead and that he (Lawrence) would occasionally enter the rehearsal room with no idea what scene was taking place due to its lack of resemblance to the original script. Janitor's alter ego, Dr. Ján Ĩtor, is a happy consequence of one such moment of inspiration. Sam Lloyd once commented on Flynn's improvising: "I opened my script up once and it said 'Janitor: Whatever Neil says,' and I just started laughing."

Flynn originally auditioned for the role of Dr. Cox (which ultimately went to John C. McGinley). However, Lawrence asked Flynn if he would consider another part:  the mysterious custodian who makes tormenting J.D. his life's work.

The role of Janitor was originally devised as a one-time gag in the series' pilot episode, Lawrence admitted: "When we watched the pilot, we knew instantly we had to keep this guy around."

In flashback scenes of Janitor's childhood, he is played by Brandon Waters.

References

Scrubs (TV series) characters
Fictional janitors
Fictional inventors
Fictional actors
Television characters introduced in 2001
Fictional Harvard University people
Fictional bullies
American male characters in television

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Beyonce New Adidas Gear Is #OutNow
Beyoncé's second Ivy Park x Adidas apparel collection is dropping online Thursday, a day ahead of its release in stores.
The athleisure line, dubbed "The Drip 2 Collection," comes nine months after the first installment of Beyoncé's Ivy Park x Adidas gear, which sold out almost instantly when it dropped at the start of the year.
Online sales were set to begin at 4pm ET on the Adidas Ivy Park website. Prices range from about $25 for accessories and up $200 for apparel.
The collaboration is a continuation of Adidas' (ADDDF) strategy of leveraging non-athlete influencers to work as "creative partners" for limited capsule collections of its athletic wear. Scarcity and celebrity have proven a winning combination for Adidas' high-profile collaboration with Kanye West's Yeezy label.
Order Your Beyonce x Ivy Park Adidas Gear Today!
Beyoncé has been teasing Drip 2's reveal on Instagram for at least a week, sharing photos of herself in curve-hugging body suits, windbreakers and hats in a variety of colors.
R&B duo Chloe x Halle, who are signed to Beyoncé's Parkwood Entertainment record label, shared photos of themselves dressed in their own "Drip" gear on Twitter and Instagram earlier this week. Adidas says the Drip 2 Collection is, "inspired by the inner beauty, strength, resilience and energy of artists who have found their respective parks."
One notable change to the second collection, Adidas said, is the addition of inclusive sizing, ranging from XXXS to 4X, and gender-neutral performance gear.
Adidas CEO Kasper Rorsted had high praise for Beyonce during a financial results conference in March, about two months after the singer's first Ivy Park gear dropped, describing her as "probably the most influential female entertainer in the world today."
Like most retailers, Adidas is reeling from losses linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. In August, the company reported net sales of more than $8.3 billion for the first half of 2020, a 27% year-over-year decline. The company blamed coronavirus lockdowns around the globe for its sales revenue drop.
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A colleague of hers showed her a book of bed & breakfasts' around the United Counties. She brought the book home to me to take a look to see what I thought about going to one of them for our anniversary. With zero experience (at the time) and zero knowing of bed & breakfasts' a bit skeptical. Do you really want to spend my weekend staying in someone's home?
The more I hear about the bed & breakfast lifestyle, the more I became intrigued, until finally my wife got hooked and we booked a bed & breakfast in upstate Vermont. I can honestly say it was a great time. The bed & breakfast owners treated us like royalty, waited on us like we were a king and queen, and the food (that was included in our purchase price) was simply unbelievable.
Since then my girlfriend and I to be able to to two other bed & breakfasts, one in Williamsburg, VA and another in upstate Long island near Seneca Body of water. Although the concept 1 bed & breakfast were similar, these people different in a variety of ways. For instance in Vermont at breakfast and dinner (both of which were included) we sat at our own table in the adjoining restaurant. In NY and VA we ate a significant table with most of the other guests. In VA the owners took care of everything, well them and their kids. In NY and VT the owners ran the place but also had help to get rooms ready and continue the place pure. In VT we had our own outside entrance in our room as in case the room was many of our house. In NY and VA you had your own bedroom in the same house with the other guests.
Regardless of whichever style you choose, if you never ever stayed at a bed & breakfast you should. Each one was wonderful and you really felt like you were part among the owner's family a person stayed there.
I would recommend first pick a place where you know you would cherish to stay. Would you like the mountains? How about the sun or a tropical island? Once you recognize what you really want to do, take a look up the bed & breakfasts all of the areas that in order to targeted and start reading up on them. Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other book stores have a variety of books you can think about without purchasing receive this information. Also you can go to check your local library or look for a bed & breakfast directory online.
Once you have location and contain it narrowed down to at least or two possible bed & breakfast choices, start pricing them out and find if they are available in your budget. We can tell you that very good a bit pricier then a normal hotel room (some of them anyway). However verify what sort of amenities you get for your selling price tag. Most come with breakfast, otherwise it would just be called Bed & make of my house in the day time. You get the goal. Some also serve dinner and offer afternoon tea & snacks. Find out what you obtain for your assets. It will definitely along with your decision.


A Westerville teen was killed in an early morning house fire on Friday.
Hannah Sarver, 17, was pronounced dead following the fire in the 100 block of Allview Road in the Franklin County portion of the city, according to 10TV-WBNS.
Sarver was a Westerville South High School student who also attended the Delaware Area Career Center. DACC officials confirmed Friday that she was a first-year student there. School officials had counselors on hand to talk with students.
Westerville South is also providing grief counselors for its students to talk to should they choose to do so, according to Principal Mike Starner.
Michelle Sarver, 47, Hannah's mother, was injured when she jumped from the second floor to escape the blaze. She was transported to Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Officials said she is expected to recover from her injuries.
The City of Westerville Division of Fire dispatched firefighters to the neighborhood at 5 a.m. Friday.
There were four people inside the home at the time of the fire. Two people jumped from the second floor of the house, while the other person exited from the basement.
The preliminary investigation suggests the fire started in the kitchen on the first floor of the house. Westerville fire officials said the fire reached the attic and the house was badly damaged. It's unclear if smoke alarms were operational. Firefighters said no alarms were heard when they arrived on scene.
People who knew Hannah Sarver expressed their grief about her death and condolences for her family all day Friday on social media after it was announced that she was the victim of the fatal fire.
By late morning, someone had placed flowers near a streetlight across the street from Sarver's home.
Westerville resident Hannah Sarver was killed Friday morning in a house fire in the 100 block of Allview Road, according to 10TV-WBNS. Sarver, 17, was a Westerville South High School student who also attended the Delaware Area Career Center.
Hannah Sarver, 17, of Westerville, was killed in the fire Friday morning in the 100 block of Allview Road in the Franklin County portion of the city. Sarver was a student at Westerville South High School and Delaware Area Career Center.


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As he was growing up a wrestling fan, Danny Limelight much like everyone else had influenced them and helped shape their career. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson played an integral part in his career. Johnson's persona was larger than life and Limelight states that he wanted to be just like him. In particular when Johnson transitioned from wrestling to the silver screen. If there is one part about The Rock that Limelight has taken quite seriously it has been delivering promos. Danny Limelight takes the process quite seriously and that when coming up with a new catchphrase that they are new, fresh, and genuine to his character. Much like it made Johnson standout, Limelight sees that as helping him to stand out as well.
Limelight's early training wasn't the most memorable for him. His experiences early on while negative have helped to shape who he is today. With an experience that should have been a positive for him winning his first match, it ultimately cost him a place at this training facility. As the saying tends to go, when one door closes another one opens. This was the case for Limelight. After seeking the proper training he learned with and along with the likes of John Hennigan, Mariachi Loco, Lil Cholo, Jake Atlas, Jungle Boy, Luchasaurus, and Los Luchas. This was also men with the countless number of EVOLVE seminars involving the likes of Adam Cole and Roderick Strong that he took part in as well. Limelight was constantly soaking in information and grateful for everyone that had provided him with advice along the way.
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As a fan, one moment stood out for Limelight in shaping who he would hope to become as a performer in the future. At the 1997 In Your House Bad Blood pay per view, Limelight witnessed the Hell in a Cell match between The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels. He was emotionally invested in that match as it was also the debut of Kane that evening. Limelight's anger at how Kane would cost his brother the match led to him turning off the television in disappointment. It is a moment that still resonates with him today. However, as a performer, nothing has quite beaten his first match. From the moment when he first heard his cousin's song Immortalized led him to the ring for the first time along with the adulation of the crowd stand out.
Limelight's career has seen him face some of wrestlings biggest names. One of which has been Major League Wrestling talent Douglas James. The two men faced each other in 2016 for FCW. In a best of two out of three falls match in San Diego, California. Limelight has shared that after the final bell the reaction he received from the crowd was easily the loudest of his career. He also credits facing the likes of TJP while competing for New Japan Pro Wrestling and Troy Hollywood in Florida for ACW/WWN recently among his other career highlights.
The Journey Has Just Begun
As a veteran of the ring for nearly six years, Limelight didn't compete for a year and a half. That was in part because he was also a Drill Instructor as part of the Marine Corps. His commitment to his country is not unlike his commitment to wrestling. Both received his full attention and focus. With a self-described style that is versatile, Limelight showcases an aerial assault like no other. He is also able to grapple, and strike showcasing his overall ring skill. Limelight credits his skills to 'Radioactive genes'.
His opportunity to compete for New Japan is best described by this humble talent's own words below.
I am very fortunate for the opportunity I received and I truly wouldn't have had the opportunity if it wasn't for David Marquez bringing me to Championship Wrestling From Hollywood when I was a green boy in 2015. I was just a year in and he gave me the opportunity. That's where I met Rocky Romero who I am also grateful for. He brought me out to the New Japan Pro Wrestling tryout end of last year.
I had a tag match with Misterioso against the Riegal twins. He told me he enjoyed it and that there will be a future opportunity for me with the Young Lions. I got the call and showed up to show out and I am forever grateful that I was able to do so. Was never expecting it to be this well-received.
While he did recently take place in the Young Lion's Break Collison event in Los Angeles, he did share that lifestyle and culture is quite different from country to country. A very respectful and regimented means of living best described his time in Okinawa, Japan. It was not unlike his time in the military. He loved the culture in Japan.
Serve And Protect
Despite losing a year and a half of competition due to his time in the military, Danny Limelight feels he is just getting started. With stops in IMPACT Wrestling competing in an X-Division match, CWFH, New Japan Pro Wrestling, and on the independent circuit, Limelight is just starting to be seen. He also has added brief appearances in the WWE as well as among his career highlights. He knows that this is a marathon and not a sprint. Limelight is here for the long haul.
He has competed in two different countries and eight states. This is just a taste of what lies ahead for him. Where will Limelight compete next? If he desires to compete in Japan, Canada, and the United Kingdom are any indication then fans can anticipate seeing him anywhere and everywhere opportunity presents itself for Danny Limelight.
To learn more about Danny and follow his journey feel free to follow him on
Instagram: @DannyLimelight
Twitter: @DannyLimelight and his merchandise store at www.prowrestlingtees.com/dannylimelight
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Petition Seeks Rare En Banc Review to Clarify Whether PTAB Can Overrule Article III Courts
CoffyLaw, LLC Oct. 21, 2019
Chrimar Systems, Inc. filed a petition for en banc rehearing with the Federal Circuit on October 21 asking the full Court to review the so-called Fresenius-Simmons preclusion principle. The petition has a high hurdle to meet, as the underlying Federal Circuit decision was nonprecedential, but the petitioners argue that the case qualifies as a rare exception warranting en banc review.
In Chrimar Systems, Inc. v. ALE USA, Inc. FKA Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise USA, Inc., a jury initially found U.S. patent No. 8,942,107 for A Piece of ethernet terminal equipment valid and infringed by ALE in 2016, and the Federal Circuit affirmed that decision in May 2018. The case was remanded on a claim construction error relating to a different patent, but the CAFC said that the partial remand was "immaterial to damages because any damages that would result from the alleged infringement of the [remanded] '012 patent also results from the infringement of the '107 and '760 patents."
Separately, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) held in proceedings between Chrimar and a different company that the claims at issue in the case with ALE were unpatentable (Chrimar Systems, Inc. v. Juniper Networks, Inc.). Chrimar pointed out in its petition that the PTAB made this determination under a lighter burden of proof than did the Article III courts, but the Federal Circuit nonetheless affirmed the PTAB's decision in September 2019 under Rule 36 and separately vacated the May 2018 judgment and remanded to the district court for dismissal.
In vacating the May 2018 (amended June 1) judgment, the Court explained:
Our affirmance of the Board's decisions of un-patentability of the patent claims at issue in the present case has "an immediate issue-preclusive effect on any pending or copending actions involving the patent[s]." XY, LLC v. Trans Ova Genetics, 890 F.3d 1282, 1294 (Fed. Cir. 2018). This is such a case under Fresenius USA, Inc. v. Baxter Int'l, Inc., 721 F.3d 1330 (Fed. Cir. 2013), and related cases. It does not involve the special circumstance of a "fully satisfied and unappealable final judgment" like the one in Western-Geco L.L.C. v. ION Geophysical Corp., 913 F.3d 1067, 1072 (Fed. Cir. 2019).
In their brief, Chrimar argued that "the so-called "Fresenius / Simmons preclusion principle" [deriving from John Simmons Co. v. Grier Bros. Co. and Fresenius USA, Inc. v. Baxter Int'l, Inc.] has received sharp criticism from academics and jurists. It is legally incorrect. And, this principle incentivizes unfairness for patentees, motivates gamesmanship by accused infringers, and leads to wasted judicial effort by trial and appeals courts."
The petition for en banc rehearing makes six key points:
I. The Panel Decision Did Not Apply the Restatement (Second) of Judgments Because Fresenius Incorrectly Requires Ignoring the Restatement;
II. The Fresenius Panel Incorrectly Believed Itself Bound by Inapposite Supreme Court Authority;
III. The "Fresenius / Simmons Preclusion Principle" Violates Separation of Powers By Allowing Administrative Outcomes to Nullify Otherwise Final Article III Judgments;
IV. Expanding the "Fresenius / Simmons Preclusion Principle" Has Deepened the Circuit Split;
V. A Post-2014 Supreme Court Decision Undermines Freseniu; and
VI. Criticism of Fresenius Should Lead to En Banc Review.
With respect to point III, the petition notes that several judges of the Court have expressed concern over the constitutionality of allowing an administrative agency "to nullify a court judgment that has otherwise resolved the merits and damages of a patent infringement suit." Judges O'Malley, Wallach, Rader and Newman have all made such statements in dissents or agreement with aspects of those dissents.
As to Chrimar's argument for rehearing of a nonprecedential decision, the petition contends that this meets the standard set by the Federal Circuit's Rule 35 Practice Note, which states that rehearing of nonprecedential decisions is "rarely appropriate". Chrimar argues that this is that rare circumstance because members of the Court have "sharply criticized" the legal standard applied by the panel in the underlying case and because the Supreme Court reviews Federal Circuit decisions even when they aren't precedential (citing cases such as Oil States and KSR v. Teleflex).
The petition concludes:
"As numerous Judges of this Court already recognize, the time has come to harmonize the Federal Circuit with Supreme Court precedent and the Restatement, unsplit the circuits, restore constitutional validity to our system of parallel track patentability litigation, and eliminate the waste and gamesmanship that current precedent incentivizes."
Amicus briefs are due within 14 days (November 4). The request of even one judge would require a response from ALE USA, after which an internal vote on whether to go en banc will be held.


It is sad to think that Whitney Houston now belongs to the ages... In the photo below we see Whitney Houston at the 1991 Superbowl, singing the National Anthem, and you can see she was wearing her yellow gold Rolex Lady Date.
Henri-Germain Delauze, diving legend and founder of the French COMEX diving Company passed away on February 14, 2012 in France at age 83. COMEX formed a strategic partnership with Rolex in the early 1970s to explore diving watch technology, and that relationship continued up until the present with the COMEX contributing to the development of the Rolex DEEP-SEA SEA-DWELLER.
I was fortunate to have become friends with Henri-Germain. Four years ago, in 2009 I spent a lot of time working with Henri-Germain and COMEX on putting together a huge number of photos for a future story on COMEX. The COMEX story will be Part 11 of my Rolex history series named "The Complete History Of The Rolex Submariner & SEA-DWELLER."
In 2009, I also conducted an in-depth interview with Henri-Germain which covered his lifetime achievements. So why have I never published all his photos and podcast? Because publishing a huge story like his is a huge undertaking, and I do everything by myself on Jake's Rolex World, which is very time consuming. There are so many undocumented Rolex history stories, I often get overwhelmed with which stories to tell, and when.
Henri-Germain Delauze career achievements were so great, I am going to stop all publishing on Jake's Rolex World and just focus on telling his amazing story–until it is complete. I am going to dig through Jake's Rolex World archives and pull out all the photos and publish the podcast interview as well. Once I have completed telling his story, I will remove this notice.
Henri Delauze is not only a diving legend, but he is also the founder and CEO of the French diving company COMEX. I asked Henri if we could take some pictures for the upcoming COMEX story that showed him wearing his trademark ROLEX COMEX SEA-DWELLER and as you see, he graciously obliged.
I asked Henri-Germain if we would take some photos where you could see the COMEX designation on his SEA-DWELLER, because I realized there previously were not any–at least that I have ever seen.
I also completed an amazing podcast interview with Henri which will be part of his story and we will have a tremendous amount of exclusive COMEX history that has never been shared with the public.
The photos above of Henri Delauze were taken in 2009 in Marseilles, France, when Henri was 80 years young, and they are exclusive to Jake's Rolex World. Henri-Germain ran COMEX until he passed away. He stayed in great shape his whole life and continued diving regularly. His story will blow your mind!!!
What Is A Rolex COMEX Watch?
Before we go in-depth on Henri-Delauze's amazing career achievements, let's explore what a Rolex COMEX watch is so we may understand the significance of the relationship between Rolex and COMEX. I will admit, that as a Rolex historian, the Rolex COMEX history or story has been, perhaps, the single most confusing and challenging stories for me to wrap my head around. Why? I don't know for sure! I think it is because COMEX is a French company, and what they do is so esoteric, that is was difficult for me to understand. DEEP-SEA diving in general, for the lay-man is almost arcane.
On a side-note, I always try to share Rolex history so it is not only fascinating and educational, but I always try to do it so a 3rd grader can understand it, and this story–as I just mentioned–has been very challenging to do so with, but I believe I have achieved doing so.
In the early 1970s, Rolex CEO Andre Heiniger became fascinated with Henri-Germain Delauze's amazing career achievements and in particular, Andre was fascinated with the future direction of COMEX's deep sea exploration.
Andre Heiniger reached out to Henri-Germain Delauze and formed a strategic partnership. The terms of the partnership was that Rolex would provide all COMEX divers with special Rolex Submariner and SEA-DWELLER watches at no cost, in exchange for COMEX providing Rolex with detailed performance analysis.
In order to differentiate the COMEX Rolex Submariner and SEA-DWELLER models from standard versions, Rolex decided to created a special "COMEX" dial designation that placed the COMEX logo above the model name on the watches. In the next three photos that Ryan took of his Rolex COMEX Submariner, we see the COMEX designation. This first image shows the COMEX designation up close.
This next image shows the same dial as pictured above. The rarest Rolex COMEX models are Submariner models. The vast majority of Rolex COMEX models are Rolex COMEX SEA-DWELLER models, so the version below is very rare and valuable.
The vast majority of Rolex COMEX Submariner and SEA-DWELLER watches have a helium escape release valve as pictured below. All Rolex COMEX watches are extremely popular with collectors and have achieved almost a cult-like status. Having a COMEX model designation on the dial and case back often increase the value of the Rolex by more than 10 times. Typically COMEX Rolex watches are worth at least $50,000 or more!!!
Henri-Germain Delauze founded COMEX in 1961. COMEX is the acronym for Compagnie Maritime d'Expertises, which translated from French to English means "Expert Maritime Company."
COMEX has always been headquartered in Marseilles, France, and you can see their facility pictured below. COMEX headquarters are equipped with hyperbaric testing facilities and a testing pool.
Henri-Germin Dealuze was an early pioneer in Saturation diving and specialized in engineering and building deep sea oil rigs out in the middle of the ocean. These offshore oil rigs were essentially like having a factory out in the middle of the ocean that produced oil.
COMEX divers also specialized in all kinds of underwater construction including underwater pipelines that concocted the world with all kinds of things like oil, fresh-water and telephone lines.
COMEX also specialized in underwater treasure hunting as well as underwater reconnaissance, as we see in this piece of COMEX artwork.
Rolex never sold Submariner or SEA-DWELLER models with the COMEX logo designation to the public, but they showcased their relationship with COMEX in magazine ads for the Rolex SEA-DWELLER. This first Rolex SEA-DWELLER ad is from 1975 and it features the amazing DOUBLE-RED SEA-DWELLER dial designation that is highly coveted by collectors.
Alain Jourde and Claude Boardier are featured in the Rolex COMEX magazine above and in this photo from the COMEX archives we see them in the COMEX habitat both sporting their Rolex SEA-DWELLER models. Of course, 610 Meters is equal to 2000 feet. 51 Heures when translated from French to English means 51 hours.
Henri-Germain Delauze is pictured below with his Janus 4 team members.
This 1991 Rolex COMEX magazine add for the Rolex SEA-DWELLER showcases some fascinating COMEX achievements from the COMEX Hydra 8 mission. The COMEX Hydra 8 set the all-time record for off-shore, DEEP-SEA diving-depth. COMEX was working on a Mediterranean pipe-line which was 1752 feet (534 Meters) deep.
In 1992, COMEX again set a new world record of in an on-shore hyperbaric diving chamber. This time COMEX diver, Theo Mavrostomos sustained 701 Meters (2300 Feet) and it took him 43 days to complete his dive. Theo dove on a special breathing gas mixture of Hydeliox (Hydrogen, Helium & Oxygen).
Theo Mavrostomos wore his Rolex SEA-DWELLER [Reference 16600] when he set this amazing record in 1992 (as seen below). This model of SEA-DWELLER had a 1,219 Meter depth-rating which is equal to 4000 feet. This set the all-time depth-record for a simulated dive. Together Rolex and COMEX had pushed the absolute boundaries of what was necessary or realistic.
Henri-Germain Delauze was featured in this 2005 Rolex ad next to fellow Rolex Ambassador to Ed Viesturs.
Unfortunately there have been many Rolex history myths that have been circulated in the past. These myths typically become to widespread, they become accepted as truth. That was the case (no pun intended) until I came along and started publishing my Rolex history research findings.
Examples of false Rolex history myths I have busted and proven to be false include what was previously referred to as "The Steve McQueen Explorer." In other words, there was a false myth that had been perpetuated that put forth the supposed fact that the famous actor, and race-car driver, Steve McQueen wore an Orange Hand Rolex Explorer II. This false myth was so heavily perpetuated (no pun intended) that some of the top auction houses in the world would refer to the Rolex "Orange Hand" Reference 1655 as "The Steve McQueen Explorer."
The only challenge is that Steve McQueen never owned or wore a Rolex Explorer!!! Steve McQueen did wear his trademark Rolex Submariner, but was falsely attributed with the "Orange Hand" Rolex Explorer II. So who cares if these myths have been floating around for many years that are not true? I do. As the worlds leading Rolex historian, I want Rolex's history to remain pure and true, just like their watches.
What does all this myth busting discussion have to do with COMEX? One of the most significant falsely perpetuated myths, was that "COMEX codeveloped the Rolex SEA-DWELLER with Rolex in the mid to late 1960s." It turns out that there is not a shred of truth to this myth. How do I know? Because I did the heavy research on this and discovered the truth, which is that Rolex co-developed the Rolex SEA-DWELLER with the U.S. Navy SEA-LAB team, and in particular, with the U.S. Navy DEEP-SEA diver, Bob Barth. Bob Barth worked with T. Walker Lloyd who is featured below in the Double-Red Rolex SEA-DWELLER magazine ad from the 1970s.
In my upcoming podcast interview that I recorded in 4 years ago, in 2009 with Henri-Germain Delauze, you will hear from him first-hand that COMEX had nothing to do with the development of the Rolex SEA-DWELLER, and that COMEX only began working with Rolex in the early 1970's, which was years after the Rolex SEA-DWELLER was introduced to the market for deep sea divers.
The image below of Henri-Germain Delauze (pictured on right) was taken in 1949.
Henri-Germain Delauze learned how to dive when he was in the French Navy. He is pictured above standing on the left.
Just to give you a frame of reference, I included this profound photo of Hernri-Germain Dealuze that was taken in Southern France in Fontaine de Vaucluse in 1955 and it shows a young Jacques-Yves Cousteau at 45 years of age standing in front of a much younger Henri-Germain Delauze–at age 26–who would go on to found the revolutionary French diving company, COMEX. At the time Dalauze was a Cousteau team diver.
Jaques-Yves Cousteau co-invented the Aqua-lung which brought SCUBA Diving to life and Henri-Germain Delauze ended up being perhaps the greatest beneficiary of this technology. It is so profound to consider the man on the right in the picture below taken 59 years ago is the same man pictured at the top of this story!!!
Henri-Delauze is considered to be one of the greatest underwater explorers, and it can be argued he and his COMEX divers were essentially underwater astronauts–known as Aquanauts. Henri-Germain is pictured below during a test procedure at COMEX headquarters in Marseille, France.
COMEX was involved in a French-Canadian consortium that built the worlds first commercial nuclear miniature submarine for oil exploration and development under Arctic ice. The SAGA hull was originally built by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, but was never completed due to lack of funds, but Henri-Germain Delauze resurrected the project and brought it to life.
In the photo above we see Henri-Germain Delauze posing in front of the model for the SAGA 1, with the original hull that Jacques-Yves Cousteau built–located behind him. Henri-Germain Delauze is pictured below in 1987 with French President Jacques Chirac at the official launching of the SAGA COMEX DEEP-SEA Submariner.
The SAGA had an entire saturation diving system built into it. The nuclear power plant on board was able to produce very large volumes of oxygen with hydrogen by utilizing an water electrolysis system. This highly innovative system was able to produce high volumes of breathing gas for diving operations located under the Arctic ice cap.
In 1998 Henri-Germain Delauze launched a 2 person submersible named the COMEX Remora 2000, which is pictured behind Henri-Germain in the photo below. Henri-Germain referred to the Remora as being an underwater helicopter.
The Remora was in many ways the ultimate two person submersible, and it could travel down to 610 Meters which is 2000 feet. On of the advantages, was that like a submarine, the passengers did not need to decompress. The Remora is capable of staying underwater for up to 10 hours.
This next video showcases the COMEX Remora and despite the fact it is in French, Henri-Delauze takes us on a tour.
Henri-Germain Delauze remained active up until the last movement of his amazing career. He even published a COMEX Magazine, as you can see in the photo below.
Henri-Germain Delauze was an amazing explorer, and he lived an extremely fulfilling life filled with adventure and achievement. He also holds a remarkable special place in Rolex DEEP-SEA diving history, and in many ways he was the beneficiary of Jacques-Yves Cousteau innovation, as well as the brave U.S. Navy SEA-LAB divers.


Many environments have the requirement to be flexible to what platform they are running. Flexibility allows for the ability to move, migrate and leverage data between each of their virtual environment assets. This also applies to extending into other cloud environments, whether that be for backup retention purposes, using a Veeam Cloud & Service Provider partner for managed service providers or expanding the production environment into the public cloud to offer further flexibility to the on-premises infrastructure.
The agentless architecture for Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV consists of a Veeam Backup Proxy Appliance that will reside within the AHV cluster. The requirement here is one proxy per cluster, and as a v1 product with extensive beta testing, we have not seen a requirement to scale this function out. The Veeam Backup Proxy Appliance is a lightweight installation, offering an intuitive Prism-like web UI that is used to manage the appliance itself, configure, schedule and run backups, and perform both full-VM recoveries and disk-based recoveries.
The Veeam Backup Proxy Appliance is required to have communication with a Veeam Backup & Replication server for authentication purposes, but this also extends recovery capabilities with the ability to perform file-level recoveries and application item-level recoveries using the established Veeam Explorers. Also, as an extension to the backup policy, you can leverage backup copy jobs or send AHV backups to tape. Finally, there's the ability to do more with AHV data, like converting those backup files into VMDK, VHD and VHDX for use in different virtual environments, as well as sending and converting them to machines in Microsoft Azure, which is ideal for a testing environment with infinite and scalable resources.
The final thing to mention on the architecture is where the backup files are stored — a Veeam Backup & Replication repository, the primary reason for the communication and authentication from Veeam Backup Proxy Appliance to the Veeam Backup & Replication server.
Because of the requirement for a Veeam Backup & Replication server and repository, a common question is "if we are moving completely to Nutanix AHV as our only hypervisor in the environment, how do we gain access to the required Veeam Backup & Replication components if we do not have a license for it?" This is essentially the same question in Veeam Agent-only customer environments with no virtualization in place, so the same answer applies.
All Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV licenses (and Veeam Agent licenses) are delivered with a zero-socket license for Veeam Backup & Replication at no additional cost. The zero-socket license unlocks Veeam Backup & Replication functionality for AHV backups in environments where an existing Veeam Backup & Replication for VMware vSphere of Microsoft Hyper-V instance does not exist.
As mentioned above, many environments will have the requirement to run a multi-hypervisor infrastructure for numerous reasons. The possibilities from a management, backup and recovery perspective for AHV environments that have been brought with the release of Veeam Availability for Nutanix AHV have already been discussed, but if we were to also have a VMware vSphere or a Microsoft Hyper-V footprint alongside AHV, does this mean I have to have additional Veeam management components?
No, that same Veeam Backup & Replication management server and repository can be used for Nutanix AHV, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V backups, as well as Veeam Agent backups. However, in some circumstances, there may be a requirement to have separate management for these environments, and that can be achievable using the zero socket license applicable in both AHV- or Veeam Agent-only environments. Remember, Veeam does not license the components that are licensed on the production workload, meaning you are able to have as many Veeam components as you see fit.
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Charles "Chuck" Edward Anderson Berry (* 18. Oktober 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri; † 18. März 2017 in Wentzville, Missouri) war ein US-amerikanischer Sänger, Gitarrist, Komponist und ein Pionier des Rock 'n' Roll. Er wurde 1985 in die Blues Hall of Fame und 1986 ebenso als erstes Mitglied in die Rock and Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen. Seine Vorbilder waren Nat King Cole, Louis Jordan, Muddy Waters und T-Bone Walker. Chuck Berry gilt als wichtiger Impulsgeber für die Entstehung der Beatmusik und als Erfinder des Duckwalks.

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Chuck Berry war der Sohn von Henry Berry, dem Diakon einer Baptistenkirche, und Martha Berry, einer Schulleiterin. An der Sumner High School in St. Louis begann Berry mit dem Gesang und dem Gitarrespielen. 1944 wurde er wegen bewaffneten Raubüberfalls verurteilt, nachdem er drei Geschäfte in Kansas City, Missouri, überfallen hatte. Anschließend hatte er angeblich noch ein Auto mit vorgehaltener Waffe, die aber wohl nur eine Spielzeugwaffe war, geraubt. Wegen dieser Straftaten saß er bis zu seinem 21. Geburtstag im Jahre 1947 drei Jahre lang im Jugendgefängnis Algoa, nahe Jefferson City ein. Nach seiner vorzeitigen Entlassung arbeitete er als Friseur und nach anderen Quellen in einem Automobil-Montagewerk. 1948 heiratete er Themetta "Toddy" Suggs. Aus der Ehe gingen zwei Kinder hervor.

Ab 1951 war er Pförtner des Radiosenders WEW und kaufte dort einem Musiker eine E-Gitarre ab. Er erwarb ein Tonbandgerät und begann seine Musik aufzunehmen. Im Jahr 1952 hatte Chuck Berry seine ersten öffentlichen Auftritte im Huff's Garden – einem Club in St. Louis. Mit einem Auftritt als Ersatzmann im Johnnie Johnson Trio begann seine fast zwanzig Jahre dauernde Zusammenarbeit mit dem Pianisten und Komponisten Johnnie Johnson. Ende 1952 wechselte er in den Cosmopolitan Club. Dort spielte er zunächst vor fast ausschließlich afroamerikanischem Publikum. Es sprach sich jedoch schnell herum, dass dort ein farbiger Hillbilly auftrat, und schon bald war fast die Hälfte der Zuschauer weiß.

Im Mai 1955 machte er zusammen mit einem Schulfreund einen Ausflug nach Chicago, um dort Howlin' Wolf, Elmore James und Muddy Waters live zu sehen. Als er sich von Muddy Waters ein Autogramm holte, fragte er, wo er denn selbst Aufnahmen machen könne. Dieser verwies ihn an Chess Records. Nach ein paar Tagen war ein Demoband fertig und Berry wandte sich damit an Leonard Chess. Der Produzent war von dem Stück Ida Red beeindruckt und versprach Berry eine Aufnahme-Session. Am 21. Mai wurden die beiden Stücke Ida Red – umbenannt in Maybellene – und Wee Wee Hours aufgenommen.

Mit Maybellene gelang ihm auf Anhieb ein Top-Ten-Hit in den Billboard Charts. Außerdem erhielt er einen Dreijahresvertrag. Während der anschließenden Tourneen präsentierte er den Duckwalk (Entengang), der seitdem sein Markenzeichen war. Nach eigener Aussage erfand er diese Showeinlage ursprünglich, um von den Falten in seinem Anzug abzulenken. Im April 1956 nahm Chuck Berry mit Roll Over Beethoven einen seiner bekanntesten Hits auf. In den folgenden Jahren entstanden so bekannte Songs wie Sweet Little Sixteen, Rock and Roll Music, Memphis, Tennessee, Carol und Johnny B. Goode, wobei Johnnie Johnson seine Rechte dem Komponisten Berry überließ. Der Johnson gewidmete Titel Johnny B. Goode wurde später als Beispiel der "irdischen Pop-/Rockmusik" Teil der Voyager Golden Records und mit den Raumsonden Voyager 1 und Voyager 2 ins Weltall geschickt.

Im Dezember 1959 geriet Berry mit der Justiz in Konflikt. Des Vergehens gegen den sogenannten Mann Act beschuldigt, wurde er in zweiter Instanz im März 1961 zu drei Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt. Nach seiner vorzeitigen Entlassung im Oktober 1963 konnte er erneut Fuß fassen. Insbesondere in Großbritannien hatte er eine Reihe weiterer Hits mit Songs wie No Particular Place to Go und You Never Can Tell.

1964 veröffentlichte er ein Album mit dem Titel St. Louis to Liverpool. Nachdem die Beatles mit Coverversionen von Roll Over Beethoven und Rock and Roll Music recht erfolgreich waren, wurde auch Berry wieder gefragter. 1966/1967 wechselte er von Chess Records zu Mercury. Dort war man jedoch nicht in der Lage, seinen früheren Sound adäquat zu produzieren und zu vermarkten. Nach fünf relativ verkaufsschwachen Alben verließ Berry das Label im Jahre 1969 wieder.

Wieder bei Chess entstand 1970 Back Home. 1972 kam sein meistverkauftes Album The London Chuck Berry Sessions heraus. Die Single-Auskoppelung My Ding-a-Ling wurde sein erster Nummer-eins-Hit in den Pop-Charts, wurde aber von einigen Radiosendern nicht gespielt, weil der Text sexuelle Anspielungen enthielt. Anfang der 1970er wurde Berry zu einem der gefragtesten Rock-Idole und hatte zahlreiche Fernsehauftritte. So wurde er 1973 als eine von vielen Attraktionen zum 25-jährigen Jubiläum Dick Clarks "American Bandstand" eingeladen. Nach seinem Auftritt wollte ihn das Publikum nicht mehr gehen lassen und forderte eine Zugabe nach der anderen. So geriet die Veranstaltung ungewollt zu einer kleinen Chuck-Berry-Show. Berry gab weiterhin zahlreiche Konzerte weltweit und ging immer seltener ins Plattenstudio. 1979 spielte er sein vorletztes Studioalbum ein. Im selben Jahr trat er unter anderem für US-Präsident Jimmy Carter auf.

Seit Mitte der 1960er Jahre lösten Berrys Auftritte bei den Zuhörern mitunter gemischte Gefühle aus. Kritisiert wurde oft, dass er keine eigene Begleitband mitbrachte, sondern mit örtlichen Bands – etwa The Firebirds – spielte, mit denen er vorher so gut wie nie geprobt hatte. Dass seine Konzerte trotzdem ein Erlebnis sein konnten, lag wohl an der Ausstrahlung des Musikers, der seine alten Hits durch Synkopierung in immer neuem Gewand vortrug. Noch in hohem Alter trat er regelmäßig im Restaurant Blueberry Hill in St. Louis auf und bestritt weltweit Tourneen – bis 2004 oft zusammen mit Jerry Lee Lewis und Little Richard.

2008 wurde er in Deutschland für sein Lebenswerk mit der Goldenen Kamera ausgezeichnet.

2013 widmete ihm das britische Fachmagazin Guitar & Bass in seiner Septemberausgabe die Titelstory. Auf mehreren Seiten wurde das Leben und Wirken nachgezeichnet. Im Herbst gab er einige wenige Konzerte in Europa. Kurz nach seinem 87. Geburtstag trat er in Moskau, beim Steinegg Live Festival in Südtirol, in Helsinki und Oulu in Finnland sowie in Oslo auf. Musikalisch wurde er von seinem Sohn Charles Berry jr. (Gitarre), James Marsala (Bass), Robert Lohr (Keyboards) und Keith Robinson (Schlagzeug) begleitet. Ursprünglich war geplant, seine Tochter Ingrid Berry-Clay (Gesang und Mundharmonika) in die Band aufzunehmen. In Helsinki erlitt er einen Schwächeanfall und musste ins Krankenhaus gebracht werden, was ihn jedoch nicht daran hinderte, die beiden letzten Konzerte dieser Europatournee zu geben.

Im August 2014 wurde Chuck Berry neben dem US-amerikanischen Operndirektor Peter Sellars mit dem schwedischen Polar Music Prize geehrt. Einen bestimmten "dunklen Fleck in Berrys Vergangenheit" nannten zuvor die schwedische Königin Silvia und Prinzessin Madeleine als Grund, warum sie sich gegen die Preisverleihung an Berry aussprachen. Die Königin setzte sich seit Jahren für sexuell misshandelte Kinder ein, was sie auch als Begründung dafür angab.

Ein früher Hit von Berry war 1958 Sweet Little Sixteen, in welchem er die Geschichte eines jungen Mädchens beschrieb, das ihren Vater darum anbettelt, ein Rock-Konzert besuchen zu dürfen. Auch schilderte er, dass die Jugendliche aufgestylt durch Klamotten, Lippenstift und High Heels beim Konzert war, aber tags darauf dann wieder das süße 16-jährige Mädchen im Klassenzimmer. Im Jahr 1957 besang er in Little Queenie die verbotene Liebe zu einem 17-jährigen Mädchen. Derartiges war bereits damals einigen im Establishment zu viel. Als er Anfang der 60er Jahre im Gefängnis war, aufgrund eines Vorwurfs der "Förderung der Prostitution von Minderjährigen", war dies sein Tiefpunkt. Diese Dinge aus seiner Vergangenheit wurden ihm im Zusammenhang mit dem Boykott durch das schwedische Königshaus erneut vorgehalten.

Anlässlich seines 90. Geburtstags kündigte Berry die Veröffentlichung eines neuen Albums mit dem Titel Chuck an. Das Album erschien Mitte 2017 beim Label Dualtone und ist Berrys Ehefrau Themetta "Toddy" gewidmet, mit der er zum Zeitpunkt der Ankündigung seit 68 Jahren verheiratet war. Es ist posthum erschienen.

Berry wurde am 18. März 2017 tot in seiner Wohnung im St. Charles County im US-Bundesstaat Missouri aufgefunden. Am 9. April 2017 wurde er in seiner Geburtsstadt St. Louis beigesetzt.

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Chuck Berry etablierte in den 1950er Jahren fast im Alleingang die Gitarre als führendes Instrument in der Rockmusik. Andere Künstler der Zeit zeigten sich zwar auch gerne mit einer Gitarre, verwendeten sie aber nur zur rhythmischen Begleitung; Soli und Einwürfe kamen von der Begleitband. Berry präsentierte die Gitarre gleichberechtigt zum Gesang. Er setzte sie sowohl zur Begleitung ein, meist mit Powerchords auf den tiefen Saiten, aber auch für Soli, Fills und Licks in den höheren Lagen. Bei letzteren spielte er meist über wenigstens zwei Saiten ("double stops"), was einen volleren, dynamischen Ton erzeugte. Auch seine Bendings erfolgten oft auf zwei Saiten.

Wohl eines der berühmtesten Gitarren-Intros bzw. -Riffs überhaupt, das sogar im Spielfilm Zurück in die Zukunft 1985 aufgegriffen wurde, ist das von Johnny B. Goode, das von der Terz zur Oktave aufsteigt, dann abfällt und mit einem Staccato von Grundton und Quinte Spannung aufbaut.

Danach folgen vier Takte auf einem Ton, der Quinte, die er synkopisch verschoben abwechselnd auf der G-Saite von der Quarte hochgezogen und auf der h-Saite gerade anschlägt. Dieser Effekt wurde in den Folgejahren häufig von anderen Gitarristen kopiert. Berry selbst hatte das Intro fast Note für Note vom Stück Ain't That Just Like a Woman von Louis Jordan übernommen, dort vom Gitarristen Carl Hogan gespielt.

Großen Einfluss hatten auch die Texte, die er zu seinen Liedern schrieb. Durch seine bürgerliche Herkunft mit Literatur, Theater und Bibel vertraut, machte er durch hintergründige und sprachverliebte Lyrik anspruchsvollere Texte für den Pop salonfähig und inspirierte maßgeblich die Frühwerke von Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger und John Lennon.

Chuck Berry, der sich musikalisch stets treu geblieben ist, gehört zu den Legenden des Rock 'n' Roll. Er steht in einer Reihe mit Stars wie Little Richard und Fats Domino. Seine Riffs und Licks prägen nach wie vor den Rock 'n' Roll. Viele seiner Hits wurden von Rockgrößen wie den Beatles, den Beach Boys, den Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Paul McCartney, The Sonics oder Electric Light Orchestra nachgespielt. Die Beatles äußerten einmal, dass sie ohne Berry niemals angefangen hätten, Musik zu machen. Die Rolling Stones starteten ihre Karriere mit Chuck-Berry-Songs, und Keith Richards bezeichnete sich wiederholt als Berrys größten Fan. Musiker wie Simon and Garfunkel, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, AC/DC (deren Gitarrist Angus Young als glühender Verehrer von Berrys Musik gilt), David Bowie, Judas Priest und Motörhead coverten ebenfalls seine Stücke. Status Quo beenden seit über 40 Jahren ihre Konzerte mit Bye Bye Johnny und spielten auch andere Berry-Kompositionen wie Rock and Roll Music, Carol oder Roll over Beethoven live. Die Band Pink Floyd spielte mit Hilfe von elektronischen Feedback-Techniken zerhackte Lieder von Chuck Berry.

Der Rolling Stone listete Berry auf Rang fünf der 100 größten Musiker, auf Rang sieben der 100 besten Gitarristen, auf Rang vier der 100 besten Songwriter und auf Rang 41 der 100 besten Sänger aller Zeiten.

Zu seinen einflussreichsten Songs zählt Roll Over Beethoven. Der Hochschullehrer und Musikpublizist Lutz Lesle schreibt dazu:

Der deutsche Musikwissenschaftler Peter Wicke merkt an:

Neu war grundsätzlich beleuchtet daran das Verhältnis des Rock 'n' Roll zu den Massenkommunikationsmitteln Schallplatte und darüber Rundfunk, TV und Film. Rock 'n' Roll hatte in diesen Mitteln seine Grundvoraussetzungen für sein Dasein. Er akzeptierte diesen Umstand kompromisslos als Chance für künstlerisches Wirken. Die geldbringende Wirkmächtigkeit, welche die Rock 'n' Roll-Musik und allgemein die Pop-Musik zeigte, hatte es zuvor in diesem Ausmaß nicht gegeben. Dies ist nicht, wie oft behauptet, in interpretierter Exotik seiner afroamerikanischen Wurzeln begründet. Denn bereits in der Ära des Swing – über zwei Jahrzehnte zuvor – sind "schwarze" Künstler und Bands durch ein ganz uneinheitlich hautpigmentiertes Publikum bestätigt worden. Anders als oft behauptet, hat es auch davor schon Austauschvorgänge zwischen sogenannter "schwarzer" und "weißer" Musik gegeben. Die teilweise erfolgte Vortäuschung einer völlig separaten Entwicklung afro- und euroamerikanischer Musik fußte in rassistischer Argumentation. Mit dieser wurde versucht errichtete Rassenschranken zu legitimieren, indem ein angeblich in der Hautpigmentierung begründeter tatsächlicher kultureller Gegensatz zwischen "schwarz" und "weiß" behauptet wurde, den erst der Rock 'n' Roll überbrückt habe. Die Beziehungen zwischen der afroamerikanischen Bevölkerungsminderheit in den USA und den Amerikanern "weißer Hautfarbe" sind auch vor dem Hintergrund willkürlich aufgerichteter Rassenschranken weit vielschichtiger, als ein solches schematisches Schwarz-weiß-Verklären suggeriert.

Das politische Klima zur Entstehungszeit des Songs war: Nur wenige Monate zuvor stellte der Busboykott von Montgomery von 1955/1956 die Rassentrennung in Frage. Dieses Ereignis wird als die Geburtsstunde der US-amerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegung angesehen.

Es war unter anderem das Roll Over Beethoven von Berry, in dem das neue musikalische Selbstverständnis der sich in den USA bereits auf ihrem Höhepunkt befindenden Rock 'n' Roll-Begeisterung ihren provokanten und herausfordernden Ausdruck fand. Dieser blieb als so etwas wie ein Leitmotiv des Rock 'n' Roll bestehen.

Equipment
Chuck Berry spielte in den 1950er Jahren bis Anfang der 1960er Jahre eine Gibson ES-350T, danach hauptsächlich eine Gibson ES-335 in Rot oder Braun.

Diskografie

Literatur
 Werner Faulstich: Vom Rock 'n' Roll bis Bob Dylan (= Tübinger Vorlesungen zur Rockgeschichte. Teil 1: 1955–1963). Edition der Rockpaed-Autoren, Gelsenkirchen (Buer) 1983, ISBN 3-89153-004-8.
 Chuck Berry: Die Autobiographie. Übersetzt von Frank Laufenberg, das Buch zum Film: Hail Hail Rock'n Roll. Moewig, Rastatt 1988, ISBN 978-3-8118-1026-6.
 Bruce Pegg: Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry. Routledge, New York, NY / London ©2002, 2005, ISBN 978-0-415-93751-1.
 Krista Reese: Chuck Berry. Mr Rock n′ Roll. Proteus Books, London, New York, NY 1982, ISBN 0-86276-018-6.
 Morten Reff: The Chuck Berry International Directory. Volume 1. Music Mentor Books, New York, NY 2008, ISBN 978-0-9547068-6-9.
 Fred Rothwell: Long Distance Information. Chuck Berry′s Recorded Legacy. Music Mentor Books, York, NY 2001, ISBN 0-9519888-2-4.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website (englisch)
 Ausführliche englischsprachige Diskographie und Bibliographie

 Englischsprachige Fanseite aus Deutschland
 1990er Backstagevertrag (englisch)
 Gefängnisstrafe frühe 1960er (englisch)
 www.chuckberry.us (englisch)

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Hamburg, Germany's foremost port and one of its most handsome cities, might also be one of Europe's most underrated destinations. Many Americans -- and even Europeans -- have yet to discover its charms, not least of which is its beauty, thanks to its location on the banks of the Elbe River. Germany's second-largest city also has lovely buildings with traditional architecture, premier museums and a long history with the powerful Hanseatic League. It's a sophisticated destination that is walkable and bikeable.
Founded in 800 by Charlemagne, Hamburg initially took off as a trading center, given its proximity to the rest of Northern Europe and its location on the Elbe, which links the North Sea to inland Europe. While Hamburg was largely destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II, much of it was rebuilt in the traditional style, resulting in a powerful sense of continuity with the past. Few intrusive modern structures upset the skyline, so the churches and the beautiful Rathaus (City Hall) dominate the cityscape. The notable exception is HafenCity, a separate district of newer housing, offices and cultural centers.
Today, Hamburg is a thriving north German city of just fewer than 2 million people with the surrounding districts doubling the population. The city thrives on its port, shipyards and international trade, and it's also a media and civil aerospace center. Not surprisingly, water is a key element in Hamburg life. The Elbe passes through the city, splitting into waterways that meander, canal-like, between handsome, brick, Victorian-era former warehouses that now serve as offices, residences and museums. Hamburg's lakes -- the Binnenalster (Inner Alster) and much larger Aussenalster (Outer Alster) -- form centerpieces for the city center and its transition to the close-in residential suburbs. Parallel canals and narrow streets link the Alster and the Elbe's wide expanses. For the tourist, it's a delight to follow them.
The city has oodles of individual sights relating to its maritime heritage: excellent museums, historic ships, architectural landmarks and a church tower viewpoint. Visitors can take simple pleasure in walking the grand Elbe River promenade, the canal paths in the Speicherstadt (Warehouse District) and the lakeside footpaths. Day cruises are a popular pastime, with numerous boat operators departing from the Landungsbrucken pier to cruise the Elbe River and from Jungfernsteig for Alster trips.
Hamburg's visitors are mostly Germans and other Europeans, and most of the cruise calls are by ships carrying German-speaking passengers. However, some lines catering to North Americans are finding their way there. Cunard's Queen Mary 2 is the city's favorite caller, and 1 million people routinely turn out along the banks of the Elbe to see the ship arrive from the North Sea. Celebrity Cruises, Silversea, Costa Cruises, MSC Cruises, Hurtigrutren and Ponant Cruises also visit Hamburg.
Hamburg has three principal cruise ship terminals. The upriver berth is at HafenCity, a rapidly developing residential, corporate, cultural and entertainment district cleared of former industrial buildings and commercial docks. It is located to the south of the city center, behind the rebuilt Victorian brick warehouse buildings destroyed during World War II, which now house museums, restaurants and offices.
From here, you're about a 20-minute walk from restaurants, shopping and bars. You can also head downtown via city bus or the underground. From HafenCity, you'll be about 15 minutes by foot from attractions such as the Hamburg International Maritime Museum and the Miniatur Wunderland model railway.
The Hamburg Cruise Center's Altona terminal opened in 2011. It's located a half-mile downriver from the Landungsbrucken (a long, floating pontoon landing), where the historic ships are berthed and where cruise ships used to dock. From the Elbe River berth at Altona, there are plenty of cafes and shops within easy walking distance along the Elbmeile. Though the city ranges upward, just behind, it's easiest to take a taxi or the city bus that passes along Grosse Elbstrasse, parallel to the River Elbe, to the downtown area. The nearest S-Bahn station is Reeperbahn, a 15-minute walk through a lively entertainment and arts district.
Steinwerder, which opened in June 2015, has two berths and can handle up to 8,000 passengers a day. It's positioned between the other two cruise terminals, south of the city. It can accommodate large cruise ships. Steinwerder has little nearby; you'll probably need to get in a vehicle to leave the port area. Buses make regular loops here, as do taxis.
Hamburg is a big city with a diverse population, so it is wise, as in similar urban circumstances, to watch your possessions. This is especially true when in crowded locations, such as major shopping streets, indoor gallery passages, ATM queues, the bus, transportation stations, and the subway and elevated lines. Just ignore touts, and simply walk away.
Be aware when pedestrians have the right of way at designated crosswalks and when cars and buses have priority. Hamburg has numerous bike lanes, which aren't always clearly marked. (Look for a color difference on sidewalks; bike lanes might be red or feature bricks of a different color than walking lanes.) Bikes don't always slow for pedestrians, so keep alert, especially at intersections. Jaywalking is dangerous, as is crossing against lights.
Public transit: The Hamburg Card is a good bet, even for a one-day visit, as it includes unlimited use of the city's transit system (HVV) of subways, elevated lines, buses and ferries. It also offers discounts from 10 percent to 50 percent on many of the city attractions, 10 percent for select shops and 20 percent for select restaurants. A list of attractions and discounts comes with the card, which can be purchased at the pier, Hamburg information centers, transit stations, on the buses, at the main railway station, the airport or online ahead of your journey. You can purchase a one-day card for yourself or get a better deal if you have up to five people traveling together. Often, no one asks to see the card as an honor system prevails, but don't try to slip aboard without paying the fare; if you're caught, the fines will set you back big time. It won't work to plead ignorance as an ill-informed tourist.
The transit system is comprehensive, well-run and safe. Some elevated lines afford good views of the city, the Elbe River and Alster. Make sure you get a system map, and check the direction you want to go with the strip charts on the station platform. Most rail and bus stops have illuminated signs that indicate how many minutes until the next train or bus arrives. Some ferry routes operate regular transit services along the Elbe.
Taxis: Taxis are plentiful at the ports and at the main railway station when ships are in town, and most drivers speak English. Taxis can be harder to come by when it rains, as they're in high demand then.
Rideshare: Ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft are not available in Hamburg.
Hop-on, hop-off: There are several companies offering city tours and hop-on, hop-off buses that offer commentary in English and German. Day passes are available. With the latter, the duration for the entire route is 90 minutes, and buses operate daily every 30 minutes from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The main departure point for Top-Tour Hamburg's hop-on, hop-off is Hauptbahnhof (main railway station).
By bike: And, finally, if you want to work off your cruise ship "diet," check out the city's bike scheme (www.stadtrad.hamburg.de); stations are located all over town, and bikes for hire are reasonably priced. A heads-up, though: Your best bet is to register before you get there and take a look at locales for pick-up and drop-off before you arrive. If you'd rather have a guided cycling tour, companies like Hamburg City Cycles offer excellent tour options of varying lengths. Look for the English option when booking.
Germany, as part of the European Union, uses the euro. Bank-owned ATMs are located in the main shopping streets. You will need euros for small purchases like snacks and drinks, postcards, inexpensive souvenirs, W.C. (public bathroom) visits and entry fees; credit cards might not be accepted.
German is the city's most widely spoken language, and English is often understood well enough to have questions answered on the streets, in shops and in restaurants. A few useful words are danke (thank you); bitte (please); and morgan (good morning -- Germans generally drop the "guten" in front).
The pontoon walkways and promenades on the Elbe River waterfront are Hamburg's main draws, and lunch spots facing the harbor are numerous. The majority of cafes and restaurants feature local seafood (Atlantic cod, plaice, mackerel, sole, whiting, crab, lobster and shrimp) from the nearby North Sea and typical German-style sausages like weisswurst (white veal or port sausages), bratwurst (smoked pork sausages) and knockwurst or knackwurst (pork and beef spiced with garlic), all served with sauerkraut. Just in from Langdungsbrucken is a lively district of Iberian (Portuguese and Spanish) restaurants with sidewalk dining in the warmer months. In general, Hamburg is a truly international city with most international cuisines represented.
For the most delicious French-German infusion in a bistro atmosphere, try Restaurant Cox (www.restaurant-cox.de, Greifswalder Strasse in the St. George neighborhood), which is open for lunch and dinner.
Hamburg is a highly sophisticated city with many of the better-known stores and designers you'd find in other major European and American cities. The shopping galleries are attractive, so you might find yourself doing a lot of looking and little buying. The principal shopping street is Monckebergstrasse (the Mo), which runs from the main railway station (Hauptbahnhof) to the city hall market square (Rathausmarkt). Alsterarkaden, an Italianate arcade, parallels the Alsterfleet and offers smaller specialty shops and outdoor cafes and restaurants. Also parallel is Neuer Wall, the most upscale street for famous designers, such as Gucci, Ferragamo and Vuitton.
Leather purses, bags and fashion clothing are plentiful in Hamburg. Specialty items, such as handbags, are found near the railway station end of Monckebergstrasse (the main shopping street) at Nadelheim. Another shopping district surrounds Gansemarkt (go to the U-bahn station of the same name), where Tate offers fashionable clothing items and Bethge sells leather bags, briefcases and purses.
A Marklin set of model trains makes for a great gift or souvenir. The Marklin train store sells the world's best model railroad items -- passenger and freight cars, locomotives, stations, villages and accessories -- from its location adjacent to Nadelheim.
Hamburg, Germany's design capital, has the intriguing Stillwerk, a complex of shops and studios near Hamburg Cruise Center's Altona terminal. It features a wide array of sophisticated boutiques, from household names to emerging artists and designers.


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Middle East Analyst, United Kingdom.
During the US election campaign, President-elect Donald Trump delivered some unexpected statements which created a stir among the US people and around the world. People were in a muzzy and fuzzy to vote or not to vote. The world saw right-wing groups and ultra nationalist groups that supported Mr. Trump around the world. Extremist organisations from India to the US and to Britain, unconditionally joined him. Even Brexit campaign's right wing leader Nigel Farage immediately met him after a successful referendum of Brexit.
Since 2015, the Trumpnisation rapidly had grown across the continent. The world changed from the current condition to the extreme level, but I was assessing the entire evolving situation very differently. My stand-point in this scenario was completely detached. Neither I supported the rightist party, Republican, or Leftist Party, Democratic. I was not in a prime position to follow any political block.
This was not an election, but a movement as it was said by Mr Trump, and I quite agreed with what he said because it was a movement that placed a great barrier between relations, nations, races, countries and religions. There was not a middle way or a win or lose position, but a YOU or WE situation and certainly, WE won. This is why violence and anarchy in demonstrations broke out across the country because it was a situation of WE and YOU.
My observation during the election focussed on the US foreign policy. The Trumpnisation block accused Mrs. Hillary Clinton of financing, supporting and promoting terrorism in the Middle East. I was not in a position to accept their accusations against the Secretary of State because it was the external foreign policy of the US to support Libyan rebels (who later killed the US Ambassador), Syrian rebels (who later joined Al-Nusra- Al-Qaeda), Afghan war lords (who were involved in a Kabul Genocide) and Palestinians groups (who were and are involved in terrorism against the state of Israel).
Accusing Hillary individually, was part of an election campaign and nothing more since the credit of the supporting such groups goes to the Pentagon and the White House respectively. Now, the question is this…Would Trumpnisation block be successful to stop White House's direct role in the Middle East policy? I can say, NO because the national interests of the country are far higher than Mr Trump or his Trumpnisation block. Recently, Mr Trump announced his 100-day plan and introduced 10 legislations. Three of them would be thrown out of his plan sooner or later.
Plan 1- Propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.
Plan 2- A lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.
Plan 3- A complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.
Personally, I like these plans and I fully support them. I also believe, every well-wisher of the US would also accept these plans, but unfortunately Trump cannot impose the lifetime ban on these policies because these plans are going to hit directly on the domestic and foreign policy of the country. Mr Trump would face opposition within the Republican party in the Congress and in the Senate.
"On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell mostly made nice with Trump, but also shot down or expressed little enthusiasm in some of his plans. On Trump's proposal to impose term limits on Congress, McConnell said, "It will not be on the agenda in the Senate." McConnell has been a long-standing opponent of term limits, as NPR's Susan Davis reports. "I would say we have term limits now — they're called elections." McConnell also threw some cold water on Trump's infrastructure plans, calling it not a top priority.
I really want a ban to be imposed on the White House's foreign involvement in the world, especially in the Middle East but it cannot be possible because Mr Trump has not yet been briefed by the Pentagon and the White House administration. He still sees this balloon from standing outside, but after stepping in, he would not be able to make a hole in it. I don't doubt his intention, but I must doubt his personal policy which cannot be fulfilled. He might think to bring a revolution by challenging the Federal Reserve Bank, but he might forget the army's guard of honour on President Kennedy's coffin.
John F Kennedy wanted a revolution which he started by challenging the FRB but he ultimately failed. Martin Luther also wanted a revolution of equality and fairness, but he remained in our memories. There was only person who brought a historical revolution and that was George Washington, no one else. Whoever will consider bringing a revolution in the US will remain in our memories for good.
"The United States has withheld recognition of the city as Israel's capital. Since passage, the law has never been implemented, because of opposition from Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama, who view it as a Congressional infringement on the executive branch's constitutional authority over foreign policy; they have consistently claimed the presidential waiver on national security interests." This act has been clearly described by James Sorene, the CEO of BICOM in his recent article What does Donald's triumph mean for Israel's future?
Donald Trump can never bypass the national interest of the US on internal or external issues and it is a big dilemma. It can be possible that he may introduce some reforms which may change the outer shape of the policy but cannot completely diversify it. We recall that the world powers are not feeling comfortable with the statements given by Trump before the election, which included criticizing China, NATO, European Union and the Arab states.
I must mention that Mr. Trump already withdrew from some of his promises before sitting in the Oval Office which was the banning of Muslim entry in the US, Mexico wall (still under process not to implement it fully), relations with Muslim (Arab) countries, Obama's Health care (showed interest in some of its bullets points after meeting with Obama) and he might change or withdraw his promise (in election campaign) about the Federal Reserve Bank (He accused the Federal Reserve of keeping interest rates low for political reasons). I see his promises only election rhetoric which are not significant to run the governmental system.
These are the Trump policies which can create massive chaos between the Pentagon and his new White House administration and the same story will be repeated as there was a barrier between Pentagon and Obama administration.
There is a certain fear in Jerusalem administration about Trump's close relations with Russia. It was Mr Putin, who fully supported Donald Trump in his election campaign and in return, Mr. Trump titled him as a powerful man of the powerful country by admitting Russia as a world power. And, no doubt, it is not a good sign for the Prime Minister's office of the state of Israel because they are completely unknown to him and his unknown dissimilar policy.
The state of Israel sees Russia as a historical opponent and Mr Trump's bilateral relations with the Russian Federation may endanger Israel's national interests in the region because there is a rumour that Vladimir Putin sees Mr. Trump as his own man in the White House.
I hope, the President-elect, Mr. Donald Trump, will do all what it should to be in the integrity of the United States. He may change a foreign policy to improve the country's positive image and better it. There must not be a fear in a Democratic supporter about his promised policies (before his winning) because after the confidential and sensitive meeting with the Pentagon and the White House administration, the world would see a completely different and politically mature Donald Trump who would lead the nation and the world according the national interests of the world and not the US Only.
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Noor, this is an insightful view. Trump does not read books or materials relating to government or the Constitution. He has made comments about changing the Constitution which highlight his lack of familiarity with this document. He has no concept of what each branch does and how he fits in. He plans, it would seem, to run the government as his private business. In his mind, this is just another company to run. I pray he is in for a great shock.