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London Exhibition Report: A Look at the Blockbuster Queen Victoria 200th Anniversary Exhibition at Kensington Palace
May 24, 2019 By Laura Porter 3 Comments
24 May 2019 is the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth at Kensington Palace. To mark the bicentenary of this historic event there is a new visitor route, Victoria: A Royal Childhood, through the suite of rooms she would have known well. And over in the Palace's Pigott Gallery, there is a new temporary exhibition, Victoria: Woman and Crown, that considers the private woman behind the public monarch and re-examines her later life and legacy.
'Her Majesty The Queen, Empress of India', P & D Colnaghi & Co, 1900, Engraving of a portrait of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) published on her 81st birthday, 24 May 1900. © Historic Royal Palaces
Princess Alexandrina Victoria was born at Kensington Palace, the London home of her parents the Duke and Duchess of Kent. The only daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent (the fourth son of George III), her father's early death in 1820 meant she was raised by her mother and governess Baroness Louise Lehzen.
Her protective mother knew there was a chance Victoria might become Queen but I doubt anyone knew she would one day rule over the largest empire the world had ever known.
Victoria: A Royal Childhood
Offering a chance to uncover history right where it happened, visitors can see a new re-presentation of the suite of rooms Victoria and her mother occupied now reimagined in an evocative and family-friendly exploration of royal childhood. It charts how an indulged young princess blossomed into the independent and iconic monarch we remember today.
The Duke and Duchess of Kent had been living happily by the seaside with their baby daughter. Out walking one day, the Duke got soaked and caught a chill. Within days he was dead and his stunned wife and daughter returned to Kensington Palace in 1820.
There have been informed decisions about the decor of each room as a full inventory allowed detailed research. This first room has a sumptuous squishy carpet with a pattern from 1820-30 that has been digitally printed, as has the curtains.
There is a large dollhouse of Kensington Palace that you can walk around. Look into the rooms to see tiny models introducing the characters in Victoria's life story.
John Conroy is the villain of the story. He had worked for Victoria's father, and following the Duke's death, he became secretary to the widowed Duchess of Kent. He saw his position as the Duchess's closest advisor as a way of gaining influence in the royal household. By the time Victoria was a teenager, Conroy controlled every aspect of the household. To Victoria, he was 'a monster and demon incarnate'.
Baroness Louise Lehzen was not just Victoria's governess but also her dearest friend. Lehzen was the daughter of a German village pastor. She first came to England in 1819 to care for Victoria's older half-sister, Feodore. It was most likely Lehzen who encouraged Victoria's strong personality, declaring that she could 'pardon wickedness in a Queen, but not weakness'.
Princess at Play
Family visitors will enjoy the toys in this room that they can play with.
At 5 years old, a happy and imaginative Victoria was placed in the care of Governess Louise Lehzen. She was strict but devoted to Victoria. She brought structure and discipline to Victoria's life. They enjoyed making costumes for Victoria's dolls together.
Doll dressed as Victoria's favourite dancer Marie Taglioni in 'La Syphide'. Made by Governess Lehzen in 1832. Marie Taglioni was famous for being the first ballerina to dance en-pointe.
The exhibits bring new light to the mother-daughter relationship here as while we have been led to believe her mother was domineering and that they didn't get on it seems that wasn't necessarily the case. As a child, Victoria was well loved by her mother. Unusually for upper class women, the Duchess breast-fed Victoria herself. The Duchess left affectionate notes under her daughter's pillow and filled Victoria's days with simple routines. On the surface, it seems a gentle and privileged start in life. It seems the problems came more when she was an adolescent.
While Victoria's mother was mourning, isolated from her family and burdened by debt, she turned to John Conroy, a handsome and ambitious army officer, for support.
Educating Victoria
This is the room where her schooling took place. Her mother appointed Reverend George Days to manage a demanding timetable of studies, Governess Lehzen took charge of taming unruly behaviour and Victoria's uncle Leopold became a much-loved advisor. When George IV refused to increase the Duchess's income for Victoria's education Uncle Leopold picked up the bill.
You can see Victoria's exercise books for her school work and her behaviour book. This was something introduced by Lehzen who asked Victoria at the end of each day how she thought she had behaved. Victoria then had to write in the book her verdict on herself.
Victoria's handwriting exercise books, 1827. Amazing handwriting for an 8 year old, eh?
Meanwhile, John Conroy implemented the 'Kensington System' – strict rules that governed Victoria's life. While the 'System' was supposed to prepare her for when she would be Queen, there were three reasons for the rules. Protection and so she could later emerge were two but the third was to break her spirit.
One of the rules was that she could never walk down the stairs unaccompanied in case she might fall which meant someone had to hold her hand every time she wanted to go down. She also had to share a bedroom with her mother so had very little independence.
There are these small models throughout the rooms.
A Royal Performance
This very red room has a large animatronic puppet theatre and seats for visitors to watch the action.
Victoria loved dancing, singing and music and enjoyed frequent trips to the theatre, ballet and opera. After each performance Victoria attended, she wrote detailed reviews of the singers and dancers in her diary, noting if someone had 'danced beautifully!' or 'seemed tired'. And her sketchbooks are full of the scenes and characters that captured her imagination.
Victoria's teenage years brought conflict. The death of George IV and the coronation of the elderly King Willian IV in 1830 meant Victoria was now officially heir.
She was sent on tours of England and Wales to firmly establish the Princess and her mother in the public eye. She caught typhoid fever in Kent when she was 16. Using this moment of weakness, Conroy who went too and, the Duchess, tried to seize power but Victoria and Lehzen stood firm against them.
Victoria's travelling bed is on display and it is a recent acquisition. Historic Royal Palaces saw it included in an auction advert in the Metro newspaper so they attended and had to bid to acquire it.
13 year old Victoria began writing a daily diary in 1832. It was read by the Duchess and Lehzen every day so was written with them in mind. She quickly learned self-censorship.
There's a chaise longue here that you can drape yourself over for a photo opportunity.
Victoria was only 5ft 1in but the public was always told she was 1 inch taller as being so small could suggest the Duchess and Conroy were not feeding her properly.
Victoria's earliest surviving dress, worn when she was about 12.
The Birthday Ball
On 24 May 1836 Victoria turned 17 and her mother held a lavish ball. The question of who Victoria would marry had been hotly debated since she was 11 years old. Now a young woman, several potential husbands were invited to the ball.
The King had a politically advantageous match in mind – a prince from the Netherlands. But Victoria's German family had other plans. Her first cousin, Albert, was their preference. From the moment they met, Victoria and Albert made a lasting impression on each other. (When he later returned in 1839, they fell in love and wed in 1840. They were married for 21 years.)
For her 17th birthday, there was a ball in this room although I will point out it's not that big. But there are lovely candelabras with dancing couples on the top.
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This is the room where Victoria was born. It is her bed that is on display and possibly her cradle. (We know the cradle has been at the palace for 200 years.)
Her mother and father rushed back from Germany so Victoria could be born in England. The Duke was anxious – childbirth being so dangerous – so remained by the Duchess's side throughout.
The room had been a dining room but it was decided it was the best room for the Duchess to give birth as the kitchens were directly underneath for supplies of hot water and officials could gather next door to witness the birth. On the day she was born, Victoria was fifth in line to the throne.
Two doctors managed the birth, including, rather unusually, Germany's first female gynaecologist Charlotte Heidenreich von Siebold, who had travelled to London with the Duchess. (Three months later, Siebold delivered another royal baby – Victoria's cousin, and future husband, Albert.)
Red Saloon
This is where she made her first public appearance as Queen. Victoria's Coronation Dalmatica is on display that she wore on 28 June 1838 for the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
As dawn broke on 20 June 1837, The Lord Chamberlain and Archbishop of Canterbury arrived at Kensington Palace to break the news that the King was dead. This meant Victoria was now Queen. Who would have known she would go on to be the first British monarch to celebrate a Diamond Jubilee and complete a 63 year reign?
At 11.30am, 97 curious Privy Councillors gathered in this room to witness the signing of the Protestant oath and the start of a new reign.
Victoria left out her first name, Alexandrina, in favour of the name she had used since childhood. This was the first document she signed as Queen Victoria.
The Protestant Oath, 1837. Signed by Victoria to start her reign.
As Victoria was now 18 she could rule alone, dashing her mother's plan to be Regent. She relished her new independence and within 13 days, she left Kensington to finally have her own bedroom in Buckingham Palace. She dismissed Conroy, banished her mother to the opposite side of the palace and appointed Lehzen as her Lady Assistant.
Lehzen loved Victoria like a mother but also feared her at times. She kept a memorial scrapbook with locks of Victoria's hair as well as photos which is on display here for the first time. Lehzen was dismissed in 1842 after more than 20 years of devoted service as she was no match for Prince Albert in the Queen's affection.
After her dismissal, Lehzen returned to Germany where she created this scrapbook of mementos.
Victoria: Woman and Crown
This new temporary exhibition explores Queen Victoria's private life behind her carefully-managed public image. It also re-examines how Victoria balanced her role as a wife and mother with that of Queen of an expanding empire.
It starts with Queen Victoria's pure white petticoat which represents the new hope she offered to the nation.
Queen Victoria's petticoat c.1840. © Historic Royal Palaces
The information panels throughout the exhibition have interesting 'peepholes' and quotes from her diary.
Victoria fell totally and utterly in love with Albert. He became, in her words, 'an angel whose brightness shall illuminate my life'.
This portrait of Queen Victoria by the German artist Franz Xaver Winterhalter was commissioned in 1843. She was 24 at the time and the painting was a gift to her husband who described it as his "favourite picture".
This was the dress Victoria wore to the Great Exhibition in 1851. It was chosen by Albert and was originally bright pink.
Albert liked to design jewellery to give as gifts to Victoria. The four green oranges on this circlet represent their four eldest children. Victoria wore it every year on their wedding anniversary.
Queen Victoria had mixed feelings about motherhood. She became pregnant within two months of marrying Albert and didn't enjoy being pregnant. She felt her duty as a mother conflicted with her role as Queen.
It's possible this was Victoria's washing apron, worn to protect her fine clothes from splashes when watching her children be washed and put to bed.
Yet, while the media now likes to portray her as uncaring towards her nine children, her diaries and sketches show her devotion to them.
Etching by Queen Victoria of her daughter the Princess Royal dressed in 18th century costume. 1843.
Etching by Prince Albert of their daughter Victoria, Princess Royal, and Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. 1843.
For Queen Victoria, 1861 was a year of grief and loss. In March, her mother died. Then in December, Albert died unexpectantly from suspected typhoid. She sank into a deep depression and refused to make official public appearances for many years afterwards.
Queen Victoria's day dress and jacket, 1899.
Victoria had always sought approval from Albert on everything she wore in public. Without him by her side, she wore black for the rest of her life. She also insisted that all servants and family wore black armbands for eight years after Albert died.
As she was the most famous women in the world at the dawn of the photographic age, her standard black outfits, though born out of sadness, were easy to recognise and did remain a constant in a rapidly changing world. She wore a widow's cap every day for the rest of her life. She even had a crown especially made to fit around it. She certainly curated her own public image.
It's not only black clothes on display as a fashionable pair of silver boots recently acquired by Historic Royal Palaces provide a stark contrast to the exquisitely made, black satin gowns she was so famous for wearing.
Pair of shoes by Gundry & Son's, 1840s. Worn by Queen Victoria. © Historic Royal Palaces
The exhibition includes an art installation room on the idea of death and loss in Victorian times. There are flowers (for the Instagram selfies) and there's even a scent added to the room for your senses to be stimulated. While there seems to be an interesting story about this small room, there was nothing there to explain it so I'm not sure many visitors will fully understand.
It took conservators some time to unknot the fringing on the Balmoral Tartan Shawl but it is now looking good and on display.
Queen Victoria's Balmoral Tartan Shawl. Prince Albert designed the tartan pattern in 1853. In the early years after Albert's death, shawls became part of Victoria's everyday wardrobe as she wished to wrap herself in grief.
John Brown had been selected by Prince Albert to be Victoria's personal servant in Scotland. He appeared to have been of considerable comfort to the grieving Queen after Albert's death, and inevitably rumours of the nature of the relationship between the two began to surface.
Queen Victoria at Osborne by Gilbert Sprague after Landseer
This 1867 painting was supposed to show the nation she was working and that John Brown was her servant. But instead, it came across that she was likely having an affair with him and the papers on the floor suggested she was neglecting her duties.
Grandmother of Europe
Albert believed that he and Victoria could maintain peace across Europe by marrying their children into continental royal families. As a result, their children and grandchildren were scattered across 20 royal families. By the time of her Golden Jubilee in 1887, Victoria was the most senior royal in Europe.
It was a hopeful plan but not successful. Three of Victoria's grandchildren, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Willhelm II of Germany and King George V of Great Britain fought against each other in the First World War. Willhelm II exclaimed, "To think that George and Nicky should have played me false! If my grandmother had been alive, she would never have allowed it."
Queen Victoria had nine children and forty-two grandchildren. In old age, she enjoyed having the family gathered around and she like to have these occasions photographed.
Empires of India
In 1876 Queen Victoria was crowned Empress of India. It was in effect a personal gift from Prime Minister Disraeli to his beloved Queen.
She began to read and write Urdu in 1887 when she was almost 70 years old. She learned from her servant Abdul Karim who she called "Munshi" meaning "teacher". By 1889 he was providing regular lessons on Hindustani and Indian religion and culture. And by 1894 he had been promoted to her private secretary.
Queen Victoria's Hindustani (Urdu) diaries
The exhibition ends on a lighter note looking at her Diamond Jubilee. Victoria was Queen for 63 years, from the age of 18 until her death at 82 years old.
By the time of Queen Victoria's death in 1901, around 400 million people and 20% of the earth's land mass made up the British Empire.
Queen Victoria's parasol (1880-90). The lace was made especially for the Queen. It incorporates flowers, crowns and the letter 'V' for Victoria.
Both Victoria: Woman and Crown and Victoria: A Royal Childhood are open to visitors from 24 May 2019. Both are included in standard admission.
Admission: Adult online tickets from £17.50
Opening Hours: Monday to Sunday: 10am to 6pm
Kensington Palace is open all year round.
Address: Kensington Palace, Kensington Gardens, London W8 4PX
© Historic Royal Palaces
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Grace Frazier says
Ms Porter, Though not my favorite royal, Queen Victoria was made more relatable by this article. Thank you for this lovely look at not only the beautiful tribute to her in Kensington Palace, but also at her very complicated life.
RUTH DALY says
EXCELLENT AND VERY DETAILED REPORT ON QUEEN VICTORIA AND KENSINGTON PALACE. THOROUGHLY ENJOYED IT.
Bibi Hashim says
Wish I had seen this very informative article prior to my visit in June 2019. Thank you for this excellent piece.

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Unmanaged duplicate content is, in my opinion, one of the most detrimental search engine optimisation issues for a website, with the potential to significantly impact your SERP rankings and organic performance.
If you've been involved in Digital Marketing for a while you've most likely heard of "Duplicate Content", perhaps from internal SEO teams, content marketers or partner agencies. You may have also listened to an explanation and feel you have a basic grasp of what it involves.
Over the past few years I have read, watched and heard a plethora of different explanations of duplicate content; from SEO forums to social media posts, and even blog articles from professional agencies. There are many cases – particularly since 2013 – where sites have been launched with issues which have never been identified, and as a result have never met their potential. As a result can't help feeling that a lot of people (including professional optimisers) don't quite understand what Duplicate Content is and how it can impact your online presence.
The first hurdle to get past is language; more often than not people associate duplicate content with plagiarism. This is not the case.
There are two categories of duplicate content; on-site and off-site. Parallels can be drawn between off-site duplicate content issues and plagiarism, although this isn't typically a technical issue you can control.
The associated causes, impacts, and solutions for each type are entirely different, and believe me, on-site duplicate content is far worse. Its this category which I will be addressing in this guide.
According to my definition (I may have read it somewhere, or made it up), "On-site duplicate content" is a technical SEO problem, caused by the way a website is engineered. It occurs when a specific webpage renders at multiple different URLs. It is not content which has been stolen, reused, or taken from other places of the web or your website.
So you know, almost every CMS driven website produces duplicate content – the question is whether or not it's being managed properly.
The simplest example is your homepage. A homepage might show up when you type example.com or www.example.com In this case the same content is being rendered at two different URLs, meaning that one of them is a duplicate.
Now, it's only a problem if search engines are able to crawl the duplicates. That said, never underestimate a Googlebot's ability to find stuff. They usually have a helping hand like an incorrectly configured sitemap or CMS link. When Google is sending you over 50% of your online customers it's worth taking precautions.
Don't worry, but do be aware of it. Google's index is based entirely on URLs. When the exact same page renders at 2 different URLs there's no clear indication as to which is the correct page. As a result, neither page ranks as well as they should.
In addition, back in May 2012, amongst a raft of other updates, Google included harsher penalties for duplicate content as part of their Panda 3.4 update. I was fortunate enough to work on a site at the time that was heavily penalised following the update, and quickly learned how to deal with duplicate content penalties.
It's worth mentioning at this point that, unlike Penguin's link penalties, duplicate content penalties can be removed very quickly by taking the right steps. In my experience you do not need to wait for a Panda refresh.
There are a number of instances in which duplicate content can crop up, but it most commonly occurs around the time of a Panda update, following the launch of a new website, or during development changes to a site where management of duplicate content has been implemented incorrectly (or not at all). You'll see rankings and traffic start to slide, although the impact will depend on the severity of the problem.
If you've got a solid grasp of duplicate content you'll be able to find it by carrying out manual checks on a site, but for a quick spot-check you can carry out a site search in Google (site:yourdomain.com). If you see the following message on the last page of the search results there's a chance that duplicate content is afoot. You'll need to investigate further to be certain.
This is the simplest, most noticeable instance of duplicate content, and for the most part people are aware of it.
This type of duplication usually occurs throughout a website, so if your site renders at www.example.com and example.com, it probably renders a www.example.com/category and example.com/category too. This means that the duplicates are sitewide, and will have a significant impact on organic performance.
Most websites use some form of categories and sub-categories to help users find information. Categories are often the most important areas of an ecommerce site, as they intuitively target refined, specific search terms. For example, If I sell a Widgets at Widgets.com, and a potential customer wants to buy "Blue Widgets", more often than not it will be a category page for "Blue Widgets" returned as a result. The same applies to any site which categorises content into sub-folders and child pages.
Here the user has probably navigated to the first category, and then into one of it's sub-categories. Many systems will allow this sub-category to render at example.com/sub-category without the parent category included in the URL. This sub-category now renders the same content at multiple URLs; one which includes the parent category, and one which doesn't.
The same applies to child pages which could render at example.com/category/product and example.com/product. This might occur on a non-ecommerce site as example.com/services/service-name and example.com/service-name.
In some cases the contents of a category page may be broken into several pages; 1, 2, and 3, for example. We refer to this as a 'paginated series'.
Precisely how the pagination is reflected in the URL will depend on the setup of the site. In this instance we're still in the same category, but on the second page. Search engines may well interpret the subsequent pages as duplicates of page 1.
Most websites affix a parameter to a URL based on certain conditions, such as the use of a filter, a 'sort by' function, or a variety of other purposes. A common cause is the use of "breadcrumbs" which help users navigate a site. Breadcrumbs represent the path the user has taken to a specific page, and are usually clickable for navigation purposes.
Breadcrumbs are specific to the user, and are driven by session parameters which are sometimes visible in the page URL.
Now we're still on the same product page as identified in the URL, except with URL parameters that create the breadcrumbs.
The exact same content renders on this page, but it can be accessed using a variety of different URLs. This problem is exacerbated be the number of different routes a user could take, increasing the amount of duplicates considerably.
Obviously this is not a technical term. Not all websites operate on the latest, most up to date CMS platform. Many are outdated, bespoke, and quite frankly not in a good condition for SEO purposes.
The quality of a bespoke CMS, for example, is directly related to the knowledge and ability of the development team that built it. A slight lack in technical SEO knowledge can result in a site that outputs a large amount of dynamic duplicate content.
Looking for this is quite simple; conduct a site search in Google using "site:example.com". Look for indexed URLs containing "?"'s, path parameters, "index.php/?". Assuming you have SEO friendly URLs, these are most likely to be unmanaged duplicates of canonical pages.
There are two ways to tailor content for an audience. Localisation is when content is provided in the same language, but information is tweaked for each audience to account for linguistic differences. These variants might exist on a subdomain (us.example.com) or a subfolder (example.com/us).
What's important is that search engines don't perceive these pages as unmanaged duplicates, or as different pages; they are the same page, tailored for a different audience.
Duplicate content can arise in a number of other ways. Once you understand what it is, you can identify and resolve duplicate issues. Remember "duplicate content occurs when the same page renders at multiple URLs".
First of all, duplicate content is not a bad things – almost every website outputs duplicate content. The problem is when this duplicate content is not managed using 301 redirects, robot directives, canonical link elements, or alternate link elements.
Until the introduction of the canonical link element, 301 redirects were the best way to manage duplicate content. However, redirect and link elements work different.
Once a 301 redirect is applied to a duplicate a user will no longer be able to access it, and will be redirected to (all being well) the (correct) canonical version. The problem is that often duplicates exist precisely for users. To use the example of path parameters; breadcrumbs provide great usability for visitors. If the URLs including path parameters are redirected breadcrumbs will no longer work correctly, detracting from the website's navigation.
A 301 should only be applied to pages which offer no extra value to a user, such as the root domain and subdomain (www.example.com and example.com). In doing so roughly 90% of the authority of the donor page to the target page provided the redirect is maintained, consolidating your link equity.
The canonical link element deals with duplicate content in the same way as a 301 redirect, with one exception; users can still access the page. Therefore this is the most effective way to manage duplicates without running the risk of detracting from the user experience.
It points to the canonical (correct) version of the web page on which is found. The beauty of the canonical link element is that it can be applied site wide, ensuring protection against duplicate content issues, irrespective of whether there's a problem or not.
The canonical version of the page should have a self referring canonical link element – one that points to itself. Therefore, and duplicates of this page will have a canonical link element pointing to the canonical version.
Like a 301 redirect, the canonical link element passes roughly 90-95% of link equity to the target page. Canonical link elements work across domains too. So, if for some reason your site is rendering on a second domain, the canonical link elements will still point back to the original, preventing duplicate issues.
There are some nuances to getting the most out of a canonical link element, and choosing the canonical version. The version set as the canonical will rank in search engines, therefore we want to use the one with the best possible chance of rank well.
For example, I might have a product page which renders at example.com/mens-shoes/black-shoes and also at example.com/black-shoes. If someone was to search for "men's black shoes" which do you think has the best chance of ranking? Where the category or subcategory contain valuable search terms, it may be worth setting the canonical version as the one which includes them in the URL.
You may have noticed the appearance of "structured breadcrumbs" some time in 2013, or maybe not. Traditionally, when a webpage appears in the SERPs, the URL of the page is displayed below the page title.
With the right code in place, it's now possible to show the actual site architecture, based on breadcrumbs.
Referring to my previous example of categories, sub-categories, and child pages, in order for these beautifully structured elements to show, the subcategory's canonical versions MUST include the parent categories in the URL in order for canonical version to include the correct breadcrumbs.
If you insist on trying managing duplicate content by controlling indexation, you're better off using the "noindex" meta directive at the page level – a much more reliable solution. However, this will not pass Link Authority to canonical pages in the same way a canonical link element or 301 redirect would.
At 2,400 words there's an awful lot more that I'd like to write on the subject, and perhaps I will. If after reading this you still don't know what duplicate content is feel free ask for help in the comments below.


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The agency added the world's capacity to make battery cells has expanded rapidly in recent years and currently manufacturing operations globally can produce around 320 GWh of batteries per year for use in electric cars
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New Delhi: The world needs battery manufacturing capacity of 1,000 Gigawatt hour (GWh) per year by 2025 to meet the global target for electric vehicle (EV) transition, said International Energy Agency (IEA).
"If the global auto industry's announced targets for electric vehicle production are met despite the Covid-19 crisis, around 1,000 GWh of battery manufacturing capacity would be needed in 2025," IEA said in a note.
The agency added the world's capacity to make battery cells has expanded rapidly in recent years and currently manufacturing operations globally can produce around 320 GWh of batteries per year for use in electric cars.
For clean energy transitions around the world, batteries and hydrogen-producing electrolysers stand out as two important technologies due to their ability to convert electricity into chemical energy and vice versa, it said.
The price of lithium-ion batteries for electrifying transport has declined sharply in recent years and the governments in many countries have adopted policies encouraging increased deployment of electric vehicles, further accelerating the decline in battery prices.
At the same time, the power sector now offers emerging opportunities for the use of batteries to support the integration of variable renewables such as wind and solar photovoltaic into electricity systems.
IEA said the appropriate level of stimulus packages and investments for battery manufacturing in each country depends upon set targets for renewables integration and road transport electrification.
NITI Aayog's Principal Consultant for mobility Anil Srivastava had said in January India will require 50 GWh of battery storage capacity over the next two-and-a-half years to support the projected growth in renewable energy and meet the national electric mobility target.
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Florence Mayor Diane Whalen decides she won't seek re-election; after 24 years she is ready for family time
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By Judy Clabes
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Florence Mayor Diane Whalen really does have a full, rich personal life — and she is ready to get on with it, which is why she will not seek another term for the office.
Twenty-four years is long enough, she says, as she has reached "Social Security" age and wants to spend quality time with her loved ones.
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Whalen is a fixture in Florence — or an icon or a legend-in-the-making. Now, with her husband retired for a year and grandbabies coming along, she's ready to become a fixture at home too.
Spending time with her family and her friends and traveling define her agenda in 2023.
As the daughter of former Florence Mayor Hop Ewing, Whalen has a long and deep connection with the city. She has experienced its growing pains, celebrated its successes, lamented the pressures of COVID, managed it in a fiscally-responsible and enviable way, and truly loves her job, the "great people" she works with, and the city she serves.
It's just time for the "what's next" in her life that doesn't involve having Florence on her mind 24/7.
For her, the "business (of the city) is never finished" — "There is so much to do, you can't wait for the next thing," it just comes. And she's not going anywhere until 2023. The election is in November this year — and there's plenty to do in the meantime. There's the Mall and Marydale — big looming issues moving slowly along. She means to stay busy until the end.
Dr. Julie Aubuchon
Meanwhile, Florence's vice mayor, Julie Metzger Aubuchon, has already officially filed to run for Mayor. Other candidates may emerge since the filing deadline has been extended to January 25.
Dr. Aubuchon is a doctor of Optometry, a native of Florence, and has served on the city council of Florence since 1999 — that's 12 terms. She too follows in her father's footsteps. Her dad, Dr. Ferd Metzger, was a Florence Council member. She and her husband, Pat, have a son, Brady. She owns and operates a Florence business that employs 12 people.
She has been named an Outstanding Woman of NKY and one of the nation's TOP 40 Women in Optical and was the Kentucky Optometric Association's Cliff Leadingham Award winner in 2020 for lifetime contributions to her profession.
"I've watched the City of Florence change and evolve into a regional leader for opportunity," Aubuchon said. "I know that I have the skills in business and leadership that will benefit the residents."
Aubuchon sees a bright future for the city.
"My plan is to continue our city on a path that has made Florence a hub of business and commerce that is recognized as a tremendous place to live, work, and visit."
See this NKyTribune feature on Mayor Diane Whalen


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A lot is happening behind the scenes at Dapper, and at a number of other blockchain gaming companies, and increasingly in the legacy gaming sector, to give me confidence that 2019 will be a breakout year for blockchain gaming and I believe that our portfolio company Dapper will be leading the way.


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Rolihlahla Mandela was born into the Madiba clan in the village of Mvezo, in the Eastern Cape, on 18 July 1918.His mother was Nonqaphi Nosekeni and his father was Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela, principal counsellor to the Acting King of the Thembu people, Jongintaba Dalindyebo.
On 5 December 2013, Nelson Mandela, the first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, as well as the country's first black head of state, died at the age of 95 after suffering from a prolonged respiratory infection. He died at around 20:50 local time (UTC+2) at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, surrounded by his family.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/ m æ n ˈ d ɛ l ə /; Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.
As part of its commitment to making meaningful and sustainable interventions in challenges facing the continent and the world, the Foundation, through one of its key pillars and outreach programmes, Nelson Mandela International Day (Mandela Day), has sought to focus attention on poverty.


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More than half of India's total export earnings went into buying petroleum, particularly, crude imports in 2011-12, thereby seriously impacting the country's overall economy, according to a paper released by industry body Assocham.
HOWEVER THE industry body has expressed hopes that with the crude prices falling in the international market, the equation is expected to change in the on-going financial year of 2012-13.
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"Every fall in the crude oil prices is a good news for the Indian economy and the government's fiscal situation. Of course, the slowdown in the global economy is weighing on these prices evidently as from a recent high of USD 120 a barrel, the crude is trading between USD 80-85 a barrel," said Rajkumar Dhoot, President, Assocham in a release.
The situation during the course of past 12-16 months has been quite burdensome for the Indian economy. The Assocham paper highlights that for the past five years, the petroleum imports have been equivalent to almost 40 per cent of the total exports made by the India in the past six years. For the year, 2011-12, the figure is at an astonishing high of 51.2 per cent.
The paper on "Austerity in oil Consumption in India" suggested that austerity in oil consumption will address a plethora of problems faced by the country such as a rising trade deficit, a bulging fuel subsidy bill and other macro imbalances.
"Widening fiscal deficit and increasing of the current account deficit are among the main problems faced by the national economy as these two issues have had their impact on some of the recent ratings outlook downgrades done by the global agencies like Standard and Poor's and the oil austerity will surely help," said Dhoot.
Looking from the imports angle and the impact on the trade deficit, crude oil along with gold imports accounted for 44.4 per cent of India's total imports in 2011-12. The report says that such high level of imports exert paramount pressure on India's external payments.
The share of these two imports, crude oil and gold has been increasing constantly for the last five years. These, together, accounted for 38.8 per cent of the country's total import bill in 2007-08, which shot up to over 44 per cent in the previous financial year.
Crude alone was responsible for over 31 per cent of the country's imports, while gold imports accounted for 12.6 per cent. The crude oil imports have not increased only because of price increase in the last several years. In quantitative terms also, these imports have shown a rising trend.
"The quantity of petroleum imports has increased from 82 million tonnes in 2002-03 to 164 million tonnes in 2010-11. Simultaneously, the average price of crude oil has also been rising over the years barring 2009-10," said the ASSOCHAM paper.
As a result, the import bill of the country in rupee terms on account of oil imports has risen by over 500 per cent between 2002-03 and 2010-11. These imports have also been a big drain on India's foreign exchange reserves. In 2002-03, petroleum imports in proportion to the country's foreign exchange reserves were 23.18 per cent. The ratio went up to 34.80 per cent in 2010-11, the paper disclosed.
The industry body termed it as a worrying aspect, since it implies that a major share of the country's foreign exchange earnings are spent on import of a single commodity.
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The largest deficit overcome appears to be nine runs, more than 107 years ago.
On April 24, 1901, in their first American League game, the Detroit Tigers scored 10 runs in the ninth inning to beat Milwaukee, 14-13.
Ten years ago today, major league baseball witnessed its greatest comeback in history as the Cleveland Indians rallied from a 12-run deficit to defeat the Seattle Mariners 15-14 in 11 innings. Officially, it only tied the record.
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Indians won 27-3. The Kansas City Athletics scored 13 runs after there were 2 outs in the 2nd inning of a game against the Chicago White Sox on April 21, 1956. A's won 15-1. Also, the Brooklyn Dodgers scored 12 runs against Cincinnati Reds on August 8, 1954 after 2 outs and no one on base.
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The 32-point comeback remains the largest comeback in NFL history. The win is now so well-known that it is often just referred to as "The Comeback."
The biggest blowout in NBA history took place on December 17th, 1991 in a game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Miami Heat. Cleveland took home the big W with a 68 point winning margin, and this yet remains the largest point differential in an NBA game.
The greatest comeback in NCAA Division I history occurred on February 22, 2018 when Drexel overcame a 34 point deficit against Delaware.
Only about one-in-nine teams facing that situation have come back to win. The five teams that did manage to come back from 1–3 are the Pirates (twice) in 1925 and 1979, the Yankees in 1958, the Tigers in 1968, and the Royals in 1985.
The Dodgers need a win to avoid an 0-3 deficit that no World Series team has ever recovered from. Mookie Betts had three hits for the Red Sox, who have won 14 of their last 16 World Series games dating to a four-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals in 2004.
The modern record (i.e., post-1900) for margin of victory was set in 2007, when the last-place Texas Rangers, down 0–3 in the fourth inning, defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 30–3. (The 30 runs are also a modern-era record for runs scored in a nine-inning MLB game by one team.)
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Largest comeback in Super Bowl history. No team had overcome more than a 10-point deficit in Super Bowl history. The Patriots trailed this game 28-3 in the second quarter, then scored 31 unanswered points. It was also the biggest comeback in Brady's illustrious career.
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The Comeback, sometimes known as The Choke or 35-3, was an NFL playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and the Houston Oilers. It featured the Bills recovering from a 32-point deficit to win in overtime, 41–38, and as of the end of the 2018–19 season, it remains the largest comeback in NFL history.
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The most points Milwaukee would score in any quarter was 18, as they shot 31.4% from the field for the game and were led in scoring by the lesser-known Earl Barron. He scored 10 points on 4-for-7 shooting in 10 minutes of play, as the Bucks lost the game 87-56.
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In an excoriating denunciation of the British political class that goes to the top of government, Ivan Rogers said the Brexit debate had suffered from "opacity, delusion-mongering and mendacity on all sides" and predicted the public would not forgive politicians.
"The whole conduct of the negotiation has further burned through trust in the political class," he said in a speech at the University of Liverpool on Wednesday. "We shall need a radically different method and style if the country is to heal and unify behind some proposed destination."
Without naming May, he said the country required "leadership which is far more honest in setting out the fundamental choices still ahead, the difficult trade-offs between sovereignty and national control".
Since leaving the civil service, he has maintained a low profile, but has offered occasional scathing reviews of British political debate on Brexit in a series of lectures. In October he took aim at the "pinstriped Robespierres" of the anti-EU European Research Group, led by Jacob Rees-Mogg. He has also argued that British delusions and the EU's technocratic approach mean both sides risk "sleepwalking into a major crisis".
His latest lecture offers a stark warning about the democratic crisis that could result from a Brexit debate characterised by "evading and obfuscating choices". Eurosceptics advocating a no-deal Brexit, he said, were "lying openly" about the extent to which World Trade Organisation rules would provide a safety net.
A new referendum won't heal the differences in British society, let alone at Westminster.


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Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz (Paperback)
By Delmore Schwartz, Craig Morgan Teicher (Editor), John Ashbery (Introduction by)
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With his New Directions debut in 1938, the twenty-five-year-old Delmore Schwartz was hailed as a genius and among the most promising writers of his generation. Yet he died in relative obscurity in 1966, wracked by mental illness and substance abuse. Sadly, his literary legacy has been overshadowed by the story of his tragic life.
Among poets, Schwartz was a prototype for the confessional movement made famous by his slightly younger friends Robert Lowell and John Berryman. While his stories and novellas about Jewish American experience laid the groundwork for novels by Saul Bellow (whose Humboldt's Gift is based on Schwartz's life) and Philip Roth.
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The 1st grade class of Queen of Apostles School honored Martin Luther King, Jr. by visiting the library named for him in downtown San Jose. They took a tour of the library, learned about the strategically placed butterflies on each floor of the library, and also learned how to obtain a library card and borrow books. They also saw and learned about the reconstructed Redwood tree trunk that now serves as a series of columns in the library building. The first graders had a wonderful day learning about this wonderful treasure of their city of San Jose!
Students at Queen of Apostles School returned from Christmas vacation ready to begin a new year. Each class reflected on the coming of the Magi and celebrated Jesus' revelation to the Gentiles. Father Thuc Si Ho, pastor, brought the Epiphany blessing to each classroom, the main office, the library, and all entrances to the school. He is pictured blessing the second grade classroom.
The message above each door (20+C+M+B+15) is a reminder that Queen of Apostles is a welcoming community, dedicated to spreading God's word.
Each year United Way of Silicon Valley provides a select number of low income elementary school students with a holiday gift from their wish list as well as a book to advance their reading skills.
With volunteer support, United Way is able to add a personalized Christmas card, making the gift much more special for the students. This year, 6th grade students from Queen of Apostles School had the honor to assist United Way by making personalized Christmas cards. In total, the students made 88 cards to go with the gifts. They decorated their cards with colorful drawings, words of encouragement and compliments.
"It's amazing how a small gesture can be very impactful," stated Alicia Silva, 6th grade mom volunteer. "I want to thank the students and Mr. Weinstein (6th grade teacher) for coming together to help our surrounding communities." Says Mrs. Silva.
The 7th grade students at Queen of Apostles School spent the day helping out at Hope Services.
The mission of Hope Services is to improve the quality of life for people with developmental disabilities. Students rolled up their sleeves alongside the participating Hope members and provided assistance with production services such as labeling, packaging, sorting, assembling and metering.
Students also found that there are similarities between themselves and the participating members. As they chatted with the members, some discovered a common love of Starbucks frapuccinos and animé characters.
One student stated that as he worked making boxes, he and one of the participating members discussed the merits of animé Sailor Moon.
"The opportunity the students are afforded by volunteering at Hope Services is an experience you can't re-create within a classroom setting. They experience patience, teamwork, and a deeper appreciation for the world around them and their ability to be a vital role in it!" Stated 7th grade teacher Brian Yocke.
August 23 wasn't just an ordinary day at Queen of Apostles Church in San Jose. The campus was bustling with excitement and festivities. Parishioners, alumni and current students and their families came together to celebrate 50 years of quality Catholic education at their beloved school.
The day began with Mass presided by Diocese of San Jose Bishop Patrick J. McGrath. Fathers Thuc Si Ho and Reynaldo Sarmiento were also in attendance. Principal Marty Chargin introduced the liturgy and former principal Marianna Willis proclaimed the first reading. Parent Advisory Council President Bea Scott led the assembly in the responsorial psalm. Deacon Steven Herrera recounted his memories of the school and mentioned pastors who had supported the school. He made special mention of Father Jim Mifsud whose unrelenting support for the school helped shape it into what it is today, a community of caring Christians. Alumni students, Max Amicarelli, Jake Amicarelli, Eric Matsumoto and Lana Talaich read prayers. Students demonstrated their respect and connection with the school by wearing their uniforms to Mass.
The celebration continued immediately following Mass. Guests were invited to lunch in the courtyard where there was a DJ playing music selections past and present. There were entertaining activities for the children throughout the campus. With more than 300 guests in attendance, old and new stories were recounted and discovered. New friends were made and old friendships rekindled.
In May, a group of Queen of Apostles students from third through fifth grades ran alongside their Principal Martin Chargin in a 5K, sponsored by "Girls On The Run," a program that uses experience-based curriculum to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident.
The program integrates running, which is in line with the school's learning expectations to be healthy individuals. Students trained for two months using lessons that encourage positive emotional, social, mental and physical development. They explored and discussed their own beliefs about experiences and challenges girls face at this age and they explored how they can positively connect with and shape the world.
"This program is not only about running, it's about teaching girls to have positive body images, how to handle peer pressure and how to stand up to bullies," said Allison Fox, school parent and event organizer.
Queen of Apostles School, San Jose, continues to celebrate 50 years of Catholic education this year by giving their school logo a new look. "The new logo which replaces the Eagle (the school's sport mascot) is a better representation of the school and Church's doctrine," explained Martin Chargin, principal.
The logo is entitled "The Shield of Faith." Its four main components include the image of a shield (against evil) encasing a cross (what each person carries for the intentions of the Heavenly Father) and 12 stars (12 Apostles, teachers in Christ). The shield is topped by a crown representing Mother Mary.
The Shield of Faith logo will be transitioned into the school uniform beginning school year 2014-2015.
At Queen of Apostles School, SLEagles are selected annually by their homeroom teacher and consist of two student representatives from second through eighth grade.
A recent SLEagle event included a book drive in which book donations were delivered to Sacred Heart Community Center's after-school program. Skits illustrating the SLE's are presented weekly to the entire school at Wednesday prayer services.


President Trump Statement Disputes CIA Assessment On Killing Of Khashoggi From criticism to judges to pushing for more border security funding, President Trump kept up the political tempo, as lawmakers headed home for the Thanksgiving holiday.
From criticism to judges to pushing for more border security funding, President Trump kept up the political tempo, as lawmakers headed home for the Thanksgiving holiday.
While lawmakers were home basting turkeys, President Trump lambasted the independence of the U.S. judiciary in a tweet. He released a statement disputing the reported CIA assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't - exclamation point - said the president.
NPR senior Washington correspondent and editor Ron Elving joins us. Ron, thanks for being with us.
SIMON: President Trump criticized a court decision from what he described as an Obama judge. The chief justice, I think it's fair to say, rebuked the president in public. He said there's no such thing as an Obama, Bush or Trump judge, just judges. How significant a step was this by the chief justice?
ELVING: You could call it something of a historic, touchstone moment, Scott. The spectacle of a solid conservative, like John Roberts, feeling compelled to assert the basic constitutional role of the judiciary and, as you say, to rebuke the president in this fashion. And then to have the president go on Twitter to correct the chief justice, saying, in effect, Trump judges are good, some of the others are not - that is another touchstone for the era we are in.
SIMON: Of course, the statement from President Trump, with eight exclamation points, that questions the reported assessment of the CIA that Saudi Arabia's crown prince essentially ordered a hit on Jamal Khashoggi and said Saudi Arabia is creating billions of dollars and thousands of jobs in the U.S. - he doesn't want to jeopardize that.
ELVING: And you have to say, the president is willing to do all this, say all this quite openly. He denies the statement made by the CIA - says it was ambivalent, when it wasn't. And he denies the consensus of world opinion as well. And he shrugs off all of that and sides with the Saudi leaders in defiance of all reason and evidence.
SIMON: Ron, I feel the need to state this strongly, particularly in Thanksgiving week, when we celebrate the gift of America. Is the president putting what he perceives as U.S. financial interests above human rights and democracy?
ELVING: Yes. And that is another moment to note for history - a watershed moment in the U.S. role in the world, ending any pretense of the U.S. as a leader in the global struggle for human rights. And I need not tell you, Scott, that has been a longtime role for the United States, a constant through two world wars and the Cold War and the war on terror. The advancement of democratic aspirations with an agenda of human rights - that is what is at stake.
SIMON: Migrants have begun reaching the border this week. The White House approved use of force in some law enforcement roles for U.S. military at the border. Does the U.S. government really want that kind of confrontation before the world?
ELVING: The military clearly does not. One wonders whether the Border Patrol and the rest of ICE wants it either. But the president sees having a confrontation on the border as the next best thing to having a wall there. So he sees benefits in keeping this particular cauldron boiling at this particular point in time.
SIMON: And the wall. The president's threatening to shut down government over funding for the wall. The government runs out of money on December 7.
ELVING: Two weeks. Two weeks out, and yet, no talk of a deal. The president will still have control of the House of Representatives in this lame-duck session in the next few weeks. That's about to begin. He will not have that in January. So this is his last best chance to force this issue, even if that means shutting down parts of the government, including Homeland Security and Transportation. Strong possibility we will have a brutal four or five weeks ahead.
SIMON: NPR's Ron Elving, thanks so much for being with us.


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Futagami is one of the oldest brass foundry based in Takaoka, in Japon since 1897. At the present time, Futagami develops and manufactures everyday products.
Brass is a material used from a long time in Japan for architecture, vessels, art and notably to adorn buddhist altars. It is indeed a material resistant to corrosion and to abrasion. Its elegant and bright color gets deeper over time.
He is also deeply involved in the expansion and promoting of Japanese crafts.


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A Republic…If You Can Understand It
Benjamin Franklin's famous answer to the question about whether the Constitutional Convention of 1787 produced a republic or a monarchy is said to have been, "A republic, if you can keep it." Yes, a republic and more precisely, a constitutional republic meaning it's based on a set of written rules. In fact, in Article IV, Section 4 of those rules, the Constitution states, "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government…"ensuring that not just the federal government but the states as well are all republics.
Republic though we are, what we hear all around us increasingly now is democracy. Our Democracy being the preferred form. You cannot go two clicks in any direction online without tripping over that term. Candidates out on the midterm campaign trail invoke it to warn against voting for their opponents. It's all over the media. The House passed the Protecting Our Democracy Act (HR 5314) in the fall of 2021 and while the bill languishes in the Senate, the term marches on. It's the old ploy of getting people to feel something is theirs so they'll be personally invested and protective. Our Democracy.
But why make democracy such a thing when we are a constitutional republic? It is not simply a substitution of terms or use of a vogue word as when George W. Bush selected Dick Cheney to be his running mate in 2000 and suddenly the word gravitas was attached to everything that moved. While there has always been a shorthand of sorts in calling the United States a democracy, the majority of the usage now is clearly deliberate. Someone, a bunch of someones actually, wants democracy to be firmly planted in people's minds. Again, Our Democracy. Let's call them the Our Democracy cabal.
The Our Democracy cabal wants and expects that like most things, the tendency is away from precise definitions. That's for eggheads. Don't be such a purist, they say. This isn't a political science classroom. It's the real world. People are busy raising families and working hard to make ends meet. They don't have time to worry about how the country is referred to. And really, democracy, republic. Potato, potahto.
Well, what is a democracy? In simplest terms, it is rule by majority vote. Your side has more votes, your side wins and the other side loses. On the surface, it seems the most fair of all systems. Convince more people you're right than the other guy and you win. If the other guy were better at convincing, he'd win. Essentially finders keepers, losers weepers. You lost, too bad.
The Framers, though, never saw democracy and republic as potato, potahto. What they learned from their exhaustive study of prior governments was that democracy is far more than just winning and losing votes. A democracy has dangers, existential dangers, inherent in it. James Madison had strong words about a democracy when he said,
"Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority."
Majority rule concerned the Framers so much that they not only specifically created a constitutional republic and included that guarantee to the states of a republican form of government in Article IV, but they also included a number of safeguards elsewhere in the Constitution such as the Senate itself where every state regardless of size has equal representation, the requirement of supermajorities in Congress for major actions like treaty ratification and veto overrides, and, of course, the Electoral College for selecting the President.
Underlying every one of those is the notion that the majority will consider only its interests with no regard and no recourse for the minority. What seems like the fairest system falls apart when you follow matters to their logical conclusion: The majority in a democracy can vote to eliminate the minority. There is nothing to stop them.
That is a chilling thought. Yet we have the Our Democracy cabal pushing democracy this, democracy that. They've been quite successful in getting the term out in general usage. Turn on talk radio where conservatives dominate and you will hear democracy used to describe the country and issues framed around it. You would think they would know better and you would be wrong.
Of course, the Our Democracy cabal has the answer to any claims of a nefarious plot. They're just using the term because more people understand democracy than understand republic and being understood in a campaign is more important than being precisely accurate. That they have been pushing to supplant republic with democracy in the popular lingo for years is of no concern to you.
Years? Yes, close to 15 years going back to November 4, 2008 when Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States and began making good on his promise to fundamentally transform the United States of America as soon as he took the oath of office on January 20, 2009.
The plan by Obama and the left was for him to put things into place over his two terms—which he did in many ways with DACA, replacing the top levels of military warriors with social justice warriors, and, of course, Obamacare—and then have the Democrat winner in 2016 continue the transformation over the next two terms by which time it would be complete. No one counted on Donald J. Trump being elected instead of Hillary Clinton in 2016 and temporarily derailing the Obama transformation.
With Joe Biden in the White House since January 2021, the transformation plan is back on track as his administration follows through on what is essentially the third Obama term in office. They came into office reversing Trump policies from literally the first moment with the elimination of the Keystone Pipeline and drilling in ANWR, and it's been a steady march of reversing Trump policies whether it's the border, international relations, or the economy.
Accompanying the administrative transformation has been that verbal transformation of the country, this constitutional republic, into a democracy, and again, Our Democracy. Moreover, the usage has evolved into elaboration on just what that means because what stands in the way of democracy has to be removed which requires highlighting how they are anti-democratic. To accomplish this, the Our Democracy cabal has settled on using three points of entry—the Electoral College, the Supreme Court, and the filibuster in the Senate.
There has always been an undercurrent about the Electoral College that occasionally splashed to the surface concerning how it works exactly as intended in not allowing large states to dominate Presidential elections due to their population and thereby render the smaller states insignificant. Invariably, such surfacing comes in the form of people complaining how the Electoral College invalidates "one person, one vote" because a candidate can win the popular vote for President but lose the Electoral College vote. Again, this is by design. Had the Framers wanted the President to win by popular vote, they surely would not have created the Electoral College and saved a bunch of ink in the Constitution specifying how it works.
Since 2016 and Donald Trump's win over Hillary Clinton where he won more electoral votes while she won more popular votes, the undercurrent has really come to the surface. In fact, 15 states have entered into an agreement—the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact—to award their electors to the winner of the popular vote. It will ultimately fail because end runs around the Constitution are unconstitutional and this is an end run to elect the President by popular vote. Nevertheless, it reflects significant gains made by the Our Democracy cabal in having states representing almost a little over 70% (195) of the 270 electoral votes needed to win on board with their scheme.
The Supreme Court is truly a democracy where the majority carries the day which begs the question how can it be a point of entry for the Our Democracy cabal when it already is a democracy? The answer lies in the remedy proposed by the left to fix what they say is wrong with the Supreme Court. What is wrong, of course, is that they don't like being on the losing end of decisions. Their remedy is simple: pack the Court with more liberal justices than conservative justices to ensure decisions go their way. The proposed number of justices ranges between 13 and 15 providing the left, given the current makeup of the Court with five Conservative justices (Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Kavanaugh), clear majorities of 8-5 at the low end and 10-5 at the high end.
No doubt, there are variations in these proposals that envision a graduated process to expand the Court, but the loudest voices are for quickly expanding the number of justices and confirming them while the Democrats hold the Senate and the White House. Those voices aren't clamoring to place clones of Solomon on the high court, but instead highly partisan justices who will legally rubber stamp the left's wish list. Look around at the dubious opinions from law professors on the left who regularly weigh in not just the 2nd Amendment being applicable only outdated but the Constitution itself. Giving them the power of judicial review is giving them the power to review the Constitution out of existence.
In the 1939 classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the climactic scene of the film has screen legend James Stewart doing an impassioned, one man, 25 hour non-stop filibuster complete with him fainting from exhaustion to end it. That scene has created in many people's minds to this day what a filibuster is—the minority working against the odds to level the playing field against the majority and stave off certain defeat. Leaving aside the way the filibuster has become more of a technical action than a physical action of senators speaking at length or otherwise, it remains the minority having some way to counter the majority.
The Our Democracy cabal has other ideas about the filibuster. They label it as anti-democratic and a danger. They are right, at least about the anti-democratic part in that prevents the majority from just steamrolling the minority but not about the danger except to their aims. The cabal is also hypocritical in only finding Republican filibusters to be anti-democratic and a danger. The moment the Senate moves to a Republican majority, the filibuster will be the most valuable thing preserving Our Democracy. Just wait and see. But until then, it has to go.
The three points of entry—Electoral College, Supreme Court, and filibuster—provide the Our Democracy cabal with both a multi-front attack to keep their opponents scrambling and a way to pick up supporters for their overall plan by attracting people who have individual grievances against each of the three points of entry. By framing the three as threats to Our Democracy, the cabal gets everyone speaking the same language even when they're talking about different things and allied with the larger cause.
You can just hear the cries of, "No! That's not anything we would do. We're talking about voting for people to get into office and legislation in the Senate. We believe in fairness and we certainly wouldn't vote to get rid of anyone." Gee, when you put it like that, my bad. Why would I think you'd be in favor of that?
Well, let's see. Doing away with the Electoral College would greatly empower the large population states at the expense of the smaller states because protestations aside, Californians and New Yorkers aren't particularly interested in Wyoming's or Arkansas's interests and Presidential candidates would not be as well. A packed Supreme Court will legally rubber stamp the left's wish list of unconstitutional laws making them constitutional. That leaves the filibuster and just by the nature of the effort there to remove it, the minority loses its admittedly small ability to do anything about its interests against the majority.
In every instance, in the name of Our Democracy, the minority is pushed aside with no consideration, and once that takes firm hold as the law of the land, bad things will inevitably not just happen, but happen frequently and quickly. Like Saul holding the cloaks of the crowd stoning St. Stephen to death, the left held the cloaks of the social media giants who censored and banned those who question the election results of 2020—not 2000, 2004, and 2016, of course—as well as those who question the official positions on Covid and vaccines, and question the so-called consensus on climate change.
What you see there is the subtle way that tyranny moves in because removing protections of the minority requires more than simply having majority rule. It necessarily requires an enforcement regime to suppress the vanquished minority from continuing to assert themselves because they represent threats to, of course, Our Democracy. The cloak holders are already there soon to be joined by their newfound allies from the three points of entry who no more want dissenting voices to be heard against their fight for Our Democracy and will be happy to see them silenced and out of the way.
This is why it is so important not to blithely accept democracy as the way we describe the United States. It is, we are, a republic and we must keep it.
Mark Ricci
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How Television Fast Food Marketing Aimed at Children Compares with Adult Advertisements
Publisher: Public Library of Science
Publication: PLoS One
Author(s): Bernhardt AM, Wilking C, Adachi-Mejia AM, Bergamini E, Marijnissen J, and Sargent JD
Television ads for fast-food children's meals were compared with adult advertisements to assess companies' compliance with self-regulatory pledges.
The Issue:
Fast-food marketing can have an impact on children's food preferences and behaviors. The food and beverage industry has initiated some programs to self-regulate their marketing, including the Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CFBAI). This study examined national television advertisements from the top 25 U.S. quick-service restaurant (QSR) chains, to assess whether companies were complying with their self-regulatory pledges.
A total of three QSR advertised children's meals: McDonald's, Burger King and Subway. Together, McDonald's and Burger King were responsible for 99 percent of the ads for children's meals.
McDonald's aired 44,062 ads, and 40 percent were aimed at kids. Burger King aired 37,210 ads, with 21 percent aimed at kids.
Four children's television stations—Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Disney XD, and Nicktoons—aired 79 percent of the advertisements aimed at children.
Sixty-nine percent of ads aimed at kids included mention of toy giveaways. Movie tie-ins were present in 55 percent of children's advertisements, compared with 14 percent in adult advertisements.
Ads targeting children also were more likely to include strong branding. Images of food packaging were present in 88 percent of ads aimed at children, compared with 23 percent of ads targeting adults.
The self-regulatory system encourages advertisements to focus on actual food products instead of premiums and tie-ins. The authors concluded that McDonald's and Burger King "did not follow through with their self-regulatory promises during the study period."
About the Study:
This study assessed national television advertisements for the top 25 QSR chains that aired between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2010. Those advertising meals for children were compared with adult advertisements from the same company. Two coders evaluated all advertisements, conducting visual and audio assessments of branding, toy premiums, movie tie-ins, and depictions of food.
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Олег Миколайович Поляруш ( 10 вересня 1977, Гайсин, Вінницька область, УРСР) — російський та український футболіст, півзахисник російського аматорського клубу ТПФ.

Кар'єра гравця
У футбол розпочинав грати в 1995 році в ужгородській «Говерлі», трохи пізніше перейменованої в «Верховину». У березні 1997 року перейшов у дубль київського ЦСКА, а 13 вересня того ж року в складі головної армійської команди дебютував у вищій лізі. За сім років в київській команді зіграв у вищому дивізіоні 30 матчів і понад 150 у першій лізі за дубль.

У 2003 році футболіст на два роки покинув Україну. Грав у першому дивізіоні чемпіонату Росії в команді «Урал», а потім у вищій лізі Білорусі захищав кольори «Торпедо-СКА».

Повернувшись в Україну, грав у вінницькій «Ниві», а потім допомагав «Миколаєву» повернутися в першу лігу.

У 2007 році повернувся в Росію. Грав у зоні «Південь» другого дивізіону в командах «Таганрог» і «Батайськ-2007». У 2010 році виступав у вищій лізі Ростовської області в команді «Донгазвидобування-2». З 2011 року грає в команді ТПФ (Новоприморський).

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 Профіль гравця на сайті worldfootball.net
 Профіль гравця на сайті «УКРАЇНСЬКИЙ ФУТБОЛ (історія та статистика)»
 Профіль гравця на сайті teams.by
 Профіль гравця на сайті sportbox.ru
 Профіль гравця на сайті tavriya-history.ru
 Профіль гравця на сайті «Російська Футбольна Прем'єр-ліга»
 Профіль гравця на сайті bombardir.ru
 Профіль гравця на сайті championat.com

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Футболісти «Таврії» (Сімферополь)
Футболісти «Урала»
Футболісти «Торпедо» (Мінськ)
Футболісти «Ниви» (Вінниця)
Футболісти «Миколаєва»

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Adalah petitions District Court on behalf of a family against segregation of Arab and Jewish teams in children's football league
Adalah: Segregating children delivers negative message that Arab teams are unwanted and not skilled enough to play with Jewish teams.
On Tuesday, 21 October 2014, Adalah filed a petition to the Tel Aviv District Court on behalf of a family demanding the cancellation of the decision by the Israel Football Association (IFA) to divide the children's national football league in the Al-Shomoron area (the Triangle area) into "Shomoron 1", comprised of 12 Jewish teams and 2 Arab teams, and "Shomoron 2", comprised of 13 Arab teams. The division effectively imposes segregation between Jewish teams and most Arab teams.
In the petition Adalah argued that the IFA's decision runs contrary to previous years when Arab and Jewish teams in the same area were merged into the same leagues. The petition contended that segregation between children based on their national belonging delivers a negative message that Arab teams are unwanted and are not skilled enough to play with Jewish teams. This message is offensive to children and violates their right to equality with Jewish children. Additionally, Adalah demanded the enactment of equal and clear standards for the distribution of teams in children's football leagues in different areas and districts.
Adalah petitioned the court on behalf of Attorney Muhammad Lutfi from Umm al-Fahem, who spoke to the IFA after discovering that the team on which his son plays, Maccabi Umm al-Fahem, was merged with a group consisting of Arab teams only, although in previous years they had played with teams from Jewish towns as well. For example, the teams for the towns of Iksal and Jisr az-Zarqa were incorporated into the same league as Maccabi Umm al-Fahem, although the towns are 50km away from each other. At the same time, teams from Jewish towns that are closer to the Arab towns instead play in another league.
Adalah Attorneys Sawsan Zaher and Muna Haddad stressed in the petition that the decision of the IFA to segregate the teams, even if only in certain areas, reinforces discrimination and prejudices against Arab citizens of Israel. Furthermore, the IFA's decision to not distribute teams according to objective general standards, regardless of national belonging, will strengthen and perpetuate the lack of respect and lack of acceptance of others. This is particularly important in the matter of children's sports, where it should not only teach children to be successful but to also teach them the values of mutual respect for different people. Attorneys Zaher and Haddad added that the IFA is subject to the principles of Israeli public law, which clearly prohibits segregation based on national or religious belonging or gender, in any area. This segregation negates the right to equality and dignity.
In its response on 22 October, the IFA hinted that the division of the teams was based on requests from Jewish families. The response stated that: "we will not contradict the desires of the clubs (regarding the divisions), and we will not force a child to play in a league that is not joyful for him/her and that does not help his/her professional development". Judging from this response, it seems that the IFA preferred social considerations and the desires of Jewish families over the principle of equality between the teams. Adalah will continue to follow-up on this case.
Case Citation: Civil Case 31842-14-10 Jad Mahajni v. The Israel Football Association
Discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel, Children


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