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James Jones Washington D.C., USA
Former National Security Advisor during the Obama administration
Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Combatant Commander USEUCOM
Founder, Jones Group International (2006)
Introducing the Distinguished Leadership Awards (2013)
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General James Jones, former National Security Advisor to President Obama, is a leading authority on U.S. security and foreign policy. He has utilised his years of experience and expertise to form and lead Jones Group International in 2006, an advisory and consulting service to corporate and political entities.
As the former commander of U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, he led all military operations for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and later, as National Security Advisor for the U.S., he brought clear vision and steady leadership to America's mission in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, and the country's interests around the world.
During his NATO assignment from 2003-06, he advocated energy security and the defence of critical infrastructures as a core part of NATO's future missions. With the Chamber, General Jones worked to unite energy consumers and producers for a common goal – to increase the variety of the U.S. energy supply and associated infrastructures, to advance international cooperation on energy issues, to protect national energy security, and to promote better understanding of changes to the global climate and its effects on the environment.
Following his retirement from the Marine Corps in 2007, after 40 years of service, General Jones became President of the Institute for 21st Century Energy, an affiliate of the US Chamber of Commerce, and, in 2008, served as the State Department's Special Envoy for Middle East Regional Security.
He has since had a successful career in the business world, serving on the Board of Directors of The Boeing Company (2007-08), Board of Directors of Cross Match Technologies, a privately held biometric solutions company (2007-09), and Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a bipartisan think-tank (2007-08), among others. In 2012, General Jones joined Deloitte Consulting LLP as a senior adviser, working with Federal and commercial consulting clients within Deloitte's Department of Defense and Intel segments.
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Above: Pierre Watkin as Perry White has just missed a chance to photograph one of Superman's feats in Atom Man vs. Superman (Columbia, 1950).
The gray-haired and crisp-voiced Pierre Watkin was almost invariably cast as prominent businessmen, white-collar professionals, and civilian or military officials over the course of his 25-year career as a Hollywood character actor. His screen personality was more sharp-edged than that of many other specialists in such respectable roles; though always briskly dignified in demeanor, he could also be suave, crafty, and acidly sarcastic, and thus was able to play antagonistic or villainous authority figures as skillfully as he played helpful and honest ones. Watkin brought his character-acting skill to the serial world on multiple occasions, but made his biggest mark on the genre in Columbia's two Superman outings–in which he turned in a pair of excellent performances as the courageous but irascible newspaper editor Perry White.
Pierre Frank Watkin was born in Cherokee, Iowa; he spent his childhood in an actors' boarding house that his parents operated in nearby Sioux City–which probably influenced his decision to join the theatrical set himself. By 1910, young Watkin was working as a stage actor; during the remainder of the 1910s and the first half of the 1920s, he toured as a member of various Midwestern stock companies. By 1926 he had formed his own company, the Pierre Watkin Players, but left the Midwest for the East Coast shortly thereafter; by 1928 he was appearing on Broadway. Watkin worked steadily on the New York stage until 1935, when he moved to California and began a new career as a movie actor; he had already played many professional and official characters on the stage, and quickly became typecast in similar roles on the screen. The second half of the 1930s found him portraying lawyers, politicians, realtors, film directors, and the like in feature films for Columbia, Republic, Warner Brothers, Paramount, and virtually every other major and minor studio in Hollywood.
Watkin made his first serial, Universal's The Green Hornet Strikes Again, in 1940; though he was cast as the serial's brains heavy, he received comparatively little screen time. His character, an urbane racketeering kingpin named Crogan, didn't leave his office once in the course of the serial, and was usually given only one scene in each chapter–appearing just long enough to hatch plots with his henchmen and send them out to do battle with the masked crime-fighter the Green Hornet (Warren Hull). Watkin played this limited part with energy and polish–snapping acidly or sneering sarcastically at his henchmen, and parrying the good guys' questions with oily suavity when he finally got a chance to interact directly with them in the serial's last chapter.
Above: Pierre Watkin gives orders to Arthur Loft (far left) and Jack Ellis in The Green Hornet Strikes Again (Universal, 1940).
Watkin worked steadily as a freelance character actor throughout the 1940s; as during the late 1930s, he worked at both big and little studios, taking roles of varying size but almost always playing someone in authority. He didn't make another serial until 1947, when he appeared in Columbia's Jack Armstrong–which gave Watkin one of his biggest chapterplay roles, albeit one that he was rather poorly suited to. Based on a popular radio show, this decidedly weak serial co-starred Watkin as aircraft manufacturer Jim Fairfield, who journeyed to a remote Pacific island in search of a missing scientist, accompanied by his niece Betty (Rosemary LaPlanche), his nephew Billy (Joe Brown Jr.), and their best friend, high-school athlete Jack Armstrong (John Hart); once on the island, Armstrong and the Fairfields found themselves forced to battle the villainous would-be world conqueror Jason Grood (Charles Middleton). As in the Armstrong radio show, the Jim Fairfield character was presented as a co-hero who regularly participated in fights and shootouts, a seasoned adventurer whose maturity balanced out youthful Jack's impetuosity; however, this dynamic simply didn't work in the serial, due to the miscasting of the two heroes: John Hart, thirty years old and tough-looking to boot, made a most unbelievable "All-American Boy," while Watkin, only a year short of sixty, was simply too elderly to be believable as a daring man of action. Watkin's natural dryness and aloofness also made it hard for him to give "Uncle Jim" much in the way of avuncular warmth; overall, he came off more like a corporate chairman of the board than an action hero. Still, he played his part with emphatic self-assurance, and did make Fairfield seem quite intelligent, whether he was shrewdly questioning the hypocritically friendly Grood or coolly discussing strategies with his younger associates.
Above: Pierre Watkin catches Charles Middleton (back to camera) in a lie in Jack Armstrong (Columbia, 1947).
Above: John Hart and Pierre Watkin do a bit of pondering as John Merton lurks behind them in Jack Armstrong.
Jack Armstrong's producer Sam Katzman gave Watkin several more serial roles over the next few years; the first of these assignments was the part of eminent geologist Professor Salisbury in Brick Bradford (Columbia, 1948), an uneven and frequently absurd science-fiction chapterplay. Watkin had much less to do in Bradford than in Armstrong; though he occasionally got to provide "scientific" verbal exposition or join hero Brick Bradford (Kane Richmond) in fantastic explorations, he ceded the former function to Dr. Tymak (John Merton) and the latter to Sandy Sanderson (Rick Vallin) for most of the serial, spending the bulk of his screen time in the background along with nominal heroine Linda Johnson (who played Salisbury's daughter June). However, though Watkin's Bradford role wasn't as big as his part in Armstrong, it definitely fit him more comfortably; as in the early serial, he gave an appropriately astute, calm, and confident sound to his lines–but wasn't forced to regularly engage in unconvincing battles with much younger thugs.
Above: Pierre Watkin smiles as lunar colonist Helene Stanley (back to camera) offers to show Kane Richmond (far right) around the Moon in Brick Bradford (Columbia, 1948). John Merton is partially hidden behind Stanley.
Watkin received the meatiest of his chapterplay roles not long after Brick Bradford's release; as aforementioned, the serial Superman (Columbia, 1948) cast him as Perry White, choleric editor of the Daily Planet newspaper and employer of reporter protagonists Clark Kent (Kirk Alyn), Lois Lane (Noel Neill), and Jimmy Olsen (Tommy Bond). The first live-action film adaptation of the famed DC Comics feature, Superman was one of Katzman's better Columbia serials; its good script and strong leading performances combined to breathe real life into the serial's characters–including White, who established a strong presence in the serial without ever leaving his office, thanks to amusing dialogue and to Watkin's excellent handling of said dialogue. Watkin tempered White's perennial irritability with an air of shrewd intelligence; the dryly sarcastic tone that he gave to the editor's many annoyed put-downs of his reporters made the lines sound more like sharp witticisms than mere pompous blusterings. The resolutely unsentimental way in which Watkin's White occasionally thanked or complimented his employees also helped to individualize the character, as did Watkin's brusquely confident bearing when White reacted to radio ultimatums from the villainous Spider Lady (Carol Forman) or confronted one of her henchmen.
Above: Pierre Watkin reacts to bad news from Noel Neill in Superman (Columbia, 1948), as Tommy Bond watches.
Above: Pierre Watkin ferociously grills villain Jack Ingram in Superman.
Watkin reprised the Perry White role in Atom Man vs. Superman (Columbia, 1950), a sequel to Superman that pitted its hero against the mad scientist Luthor (Lyle Talbot). Watkin again played White as a cagy, sardonically witty, and hard-driving newspaperman, making him consistently acerbic but also making him highly entertaining to watch, and conveying an unshakable devotion to news-gathering in the face of danger that made him seem admirable, despite his prickly personality.
Though Watkin appeared in some A and B features during the 1950s, he focused principally on television work as the decade wore on, appearing as sheriffs, judges, doctors and similar types on numerous TV Westerns, comedies, dramas, and mysteries. He also played three more serial roles–all of them small ones–during the early 1950s. King of the Congo (Columbia, 1952) featured him briefly in its first chapter as a good-natured but very businesslike Air Force officer who assigned hero Buster Crabbe to infiltrate a Communist spy ring in Africa, while The Lost Planet (Columbia, 1953), gave him a slightly larger role as newspaper editor Ned Hilton, who appeared in two chapters to react with annoyance and disbelief to reporter hero Rex Barrow's (Judd Holdren) account of fantastic science-fictional doings–and who was annoyed further when he accidentally activated an invisibility device left behind by Barrow. As in the Superman serials, Watkin used an acidic delivery to make the editor's sarcastic remarks entertaining, although the character was much more of a one-dimensional grouch than Perry White had ever been. Watkin played his last serial part in Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders, as an affably self-possessed RCMP commissioner named Morrison; he gave the hero (Don Henry) his general orders in the first chapter, and reappeared in the serial's three concluding episodes to receive Henry's progress report and crisply assist him in summing things up at the fadeout.
Above: Pierre Watkin shows some suspicious microfilm to Buster Crabbe (left) and another military officer in King of the Congo (Columbia, 1952).
Above: Pierre Watkin listens in stunned disbelief to Judd Holdren's account of his adventures on The Lost Planet (Columbia, 1953).
Above: Pierre Watkin briefs Bill Henry in Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders (Republic, 1953).
Despite advancing age, Watkin worked steadily as an actor during the later years of the 1950s, appearing frequently on television and occasionally in features; in fact, he stayed active in Hollywood right up to the end of his life–which came in 1960, shortly after his final screen appearance in an episode of Wanted Dead or Alive.
Even when hampered by miscasting or relegated to minor parts, Pierre Watkin enhanced his serials with his urbane but assertive screen personality; he was able to enhance them even more when he was awarded a really plum part–namely, the role of Perry White. His energetic, intelligent, and sharply humorous portrayal of that relentless newspaperman ranks as one of the serial genre's best character turns.
Above: "May I remind this gay, festive crowd that we have an edition to get on the street?" Pierre Watkin's Perry White caustically breaks up a newsroom birthday party in Atom Man vs. Superman (Columbia, 1950).
Acknowledgements: The biographical and career information in this article was derived from online census documents and from the Old Corral's Pierre Watkin page.


The square section post lies on an elevated platform that was formerly a railway.
Internally its of a similar construction to the smaller section posts close by, although this time the view is of cows rather than a mud bank.
The adjacent pillbox is in remarkably good cood condition, mostly free of rubbish and grafitti and even retaining some metal shutters inside.


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The Official Publication of The W.H.J.Mayers Memorial Lodge of Research holden under the Charter of Gregory Lodge No. 50H UGLQ. Affiliate of the australia and New Zealand masonic research council.
The Guild System
from the book "HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY"
by H. L. Haywood
IN some form or other the guild, like the poor, has been always with us - always, at least, since human society became somewhat more complex than it was when all men of a tribe were engaged in a single common pursuit, as in hunting or farming. Stripped to its essentials, a guild is an association entered into voluntarily by its members for mutual support and assistance in a particular enterprise or set of enterprises: In ordinary speech the guild is distinguished from the cult in that it is formed for utilitarian purposes, whereas the cult is intended to promote exercises of religion and worship. Yet there is no sharp line of cleavage between the two, since their objectives frequently shade into one another. Medieval Operative Masonry partook of both characteristics, so intertwined that it would be a hopeless task to undertake to separate them. This was not unusual or peculiar to Masonry, but was so frequent in the Middle Ages as to be regarded as commonplace.
In the simplest forms of society the principal tie between individuals is the bond of blood relationship. If a man is prosperous, he shares his prosperity with needy kinsmen; if he is in distress, they succor him; if he is slain, they avenge him; if he is subject to fine or pecuniary liability, they ransom him. But, as clans grow large and their interests multiply, individuals are necessarily thrown into new alignments. Some of them become hunters, some farmers, some soldiers, some fishers, some artisans, some merchants. Those engaged in a particular calling discover they have common interests which they alone can promote as against all the rest of the community. Unless they can unite and formulate certain principles for the conduct of their business, they will suffer from ruinous competition among themselves, to say nothing of that which may be offered by casual poachers upon premises they would like to regard as their own.
The economic thrust and pressure which draw them together in the first place continue afterwards to force them into closer association. The mere fact of their segregation in an especial unit serves to divide them further and further from other units. The bonds of consanguinity become weakened, but the guild bond becomes stronger and ever stronger until at last the guild itself has taken over most of the protective obligations which once belonged to the clan. Generally speaking, this process tends to become retarded in rural communities and accelerated in cities. The reasons .therefore are not far to seek. The relative simplicity and homogeneity of agricultural life naturally preserve the sense of family responsibility, but the complexity of urban and industrial life tends to break it down, thus forcing the individual to seek something else in its place. Guilds may be expected to become more numerous and more important in proportion as urban development assumes a larger place in the affairs of nation or people.
A characteristic phenomenon of European civilization in the Middle Ages was the development of the city. The feudal system which rose upon the ruins of the Roman empire was essentially rural. The land was parceled out among military chieftains, each of which established his castle where conditions served and then made it as impregnable to assault as he could. The land and all the people round about belonged to him. Tenants of the various holdings were his vassals, obliged to perform prescribed services for their tenures, to furnish him with fighting men, to enroll themselves under his banner when he sounded a call to arms. Over the common people he possessed the absolute power of life, torture and death. Serfs and villeins had to swink and sweat that he and his might possess whatever luxuries their fancies craved; they could be put to death for leaving their abodes without his permission. He in turn acknowledged allegiance to his king, performing homage for his holdings and rendering military service, except when, as often happened, he felt himself strong enough to resist the king on the field of battle.
The development of cities gave to this system its death blow. The basis of prosperity in the city was not tenure of the land but industry and commerce. Great aggregations of men became impatient of feudal restraints and constantly struggled for the right of local self-government. Originally under the government of dukes or bishops, they fought for and ultimately obtained their freedom, with government in the hands of their own Councils and Boards of Aldermen. Ambitious monarchs found in these free cities means for resisting the arrogance of rural barons. In return for successive grants of immunity they submitted to taxation, and, as they had more resources with which to meet levies of men and money, it paid the ruler to do business with them upon reasonably moderate terms. By a natural process of political evolution this everywhere gave rise to a sense of nationalism, which had been impossible under the narrow parochial restraints of the feudal system, and against that nationalism the feudal system pounded itself into destruction.
In the upbuilding of those cities, the guild system played a leading part, and continued to play it until, by its own arrogance and prosperity, it in turn became a brake upon progress and had to be cast aside. Its own beginnings were humble - so humble, in fact, that it is now impossible to trace them with exactitude. It is not even possible to determine the exact origin of the word, guild, itself. Blackstone in his Commentaries said that a gild - the alternative spelling frequently used and perhaps etymologically more correct than the modern form - signified among the Anglo-Saxons a fraternity which derived its name from a verb meaning "to pay," since every member was expected to pay his share of the common expense. Others derive it from a Scandinavian word, gilde, a festival in honor of the god, Odin; others from the Breton word gouil, meaning a holiday or feast; others from the Welsh word gmylad, also meaning a festival.
By whatever name it was called, whether guild, company, corporation or mystery in England, gild in North Germany, metier in France or arte in Italy, it was an association of persons engaged in the same art, trade or commercial pursuit. There are those who believe it first appeared in Italy as a logical successor to the Roman collegium. This hypothesis is not implausible, yet it ought not to be trusted too far, since such societies are a wholly spontaneous development springing from economic, social or political necessity. The guild in all human probability arose simultaneously in more than one country. The Lombard cities of Northern Italy offered a highly favorable opportunity and in them guilds undoubtedly did enjoy greater prosperity than in any other part of the Europe of that day. But they were common in France at the time of Charlemagne in the eighth century; they had appeared in England in the seventh, something of the kind was known in Scandinavia in the sixth century and by the time of the Norman conquest of Britain they were scattered over all of Northern and Western Europe.
The first allusion to them in England is found in the laws of Ine, a West Saxon monarch who died in the year 726. From the context it is apparent that they were then developments of the frith - from an AngloSaxon word meaning peace - guild previously established by the Vikings as organizations to suppress piracy. English frith guilds were associations of neighboring householders who gave security to one another for the preservation of the peace. That is, they were voluntary alliances formed by responsible citizens, for mutual support and protection in a country which was wild and lawless, much as Vigilance Committees were later formed in the American Far West. Indeed the famous Texas Rangers of our own Southwest came into being in much the same manner and for much the same purpose.
All that has ever been necessary in order to form a society of this kind has been the existence of a general need and the presence of a few like-minded persons. For that matter, the need may be in itself negligible. Human beings are naturally imitative. In modern times, if a merchant hits upon a novel means of advertising, his wares, almost instantly a dozen variants and adaptations of the idea will appear. If a song writer attains popular success with a ditty about blackbirds, there will a deluge of songs about redbirds, blue-birds, and birds of every other hue and description. A secret society like Freemasonry, once it becomes generally admired, presages the formation of innumerable societies modeled on the same general plan.
So it was with the guilds of the medieval period. The only test required of such a system was that it work. Once convinced of that, men could be expected form themselves into all sorts of similar societies land for every conceivable purpose. Such was in fact the case. There were guilds of masons, of carpenters, of tailors, of weavers; guilds of householders, of merchants, of mechanics, of priests; there were political guilds, professional guilds, religious guilds, convivial guilds, burial guilds, guilds for social, ethical, moral, religious, and philosophical instruction.
Most important of all, in their influence upon the history of their times, were the merchant guilds. These organizations became in time not only the bulwarks of trade in their respective communities but also the common carriers, the bankers, the promoters of industry and commerce for all of Europe. In a time of general unrest and turbulence, they exercised a steadying influence, and in their portage of articles of luxury as well as of necessity they became useful agents in the development of culture and civilization.
It should be remembered that in the towns sharp social distinctions were drawn between bondsmen and freemen. None was admitted to these guilds who was not free. For convenience, men in the same branch of trade had their places of business - and usually their homes - in the same quarter of the city. It was necessary that they have some voice in the government of that section. They had a common meeting place, usually called a guildhall, to which they repaired for social relaxation as well as for business. They watched strictly over the conduct of their workmen and apprentices.
The principal merchant guilds developed somewhat after the fashion of what in modern times is called a "vertical trust." That is, they enjoyed a monopoly of trade in their local territories and this carried with it the control of all its incidental branches, from the production of raw material to the sale or exchange of the finished product. They could say how much of a given commodity could be thrown upon the market, how much must be withheld; they supervised importations and exportations, not infrequently using their own ships. They established standards of quality, arbitrarily fixed prices and wages, and strictly controlled trade practices. They might even say what kind of clothing it was suitable for the various grades of employees to wear and, if necessary, procure legislation to enforce such sumptuary decrees. The members enjoyed peculiar privileges and immunities; the societies had their respective coats of arms and appropriate places
in the official life of the municipality. In time they ceased to become known as guilds and were called corporations and companies. It is not unjustifiably extravagant to say that these associations and their successors, the great trading companies of England, laid the foundation upon which the commercial supremacy of the British Empire was erected; that to their influence more than to any other was due that zeal in exploration and adventure which ultimately enabled Britain to boast of being Mistress of the Seas and which certainly made her mistress of colonies and plantations in every continent and upon a thousand islands.
In itself, however, the vertical trust arrangement had fatal weaknesses and was not destined to perpetuation. The merchant guild, in its quest of monopoly, proceeded upon the theory that a whole industry should be brought under single control. Weavers, dyers, tinkers shipwrights smiths in gold and silver, masons, carpenters, blacksmiths and workers at numerous other crafts soon found their own interests seriously compromised by such a scheme. Now these workmen had their own guilds, some of them older than those of the merchants; where they did not, they hastened to create them. The concern of each little society was not an industry but the immediate sub-division of that industry which constituted its own industrial province. The tendency of the merchant guild was toward unification; that of the craft guild was divisive. The merchant guild might, for instance, look upon the leather trade as one business, but the workers became specialists as they increased in skill, tanners, harness makers, saddle makers, bridle makers, shoemakers, boot makers, and each of these separate branches supplied justification for the organization of a separate society.
Economic conflict between these two organizational systems was natural and inevitable. No person well read in English history could have much doubt which of the two would ultimately triumph. The Briton is naturally jealous for his personal rights and is remarkably obstinate and persistent in his defense of them. His home is his castle, his private affairs are nobody else's concern, and his business is his own, to be administered by himself or the agents he may appoint. To this day British industry has resisted that tendency to centralization which is so distinctive of American industrial development, and remains divided up among relatively small manufacturing establishments which in the United States ordinarily would be amalgamated into unified concerns.
By uniting themselves into small groups, the workers were able to preserve craft identity. They exercised the sharpest supervision over the admission of new members, taking care that accessions of competent workmen should not be so numerous as to lessen the chances of remunerative employment for those already belonging. By limiting the number of apprentices a master workman could engage, they not only insured a somewhat fixed membership, proportionally based upon the available work, but they also guaranteed to the apprentice himself closer personal attention than he could hope to receive if there were too many beginners to share the master's time. His term of service was a long one - usually running for about seven years. During that time he was fed, bedded and clothed at the master's expense and often in the master's household. In his private conduct he was subject to the master's discipline, and this sometimes extended even to chastening with the rod. In return, the master undertook to teach him his trade so that, at the expiration of his apprenticeship, he would be able as a journeyman to earn his livelihood. If he then continued to improve in skill, he might hope to become a master workman, with the right to take contracts, hire journeymen and enroll his own apprentices.
This system brought about the closest imaginable relations among members of the same craft guild. The guild was itself a kind of family affair - so much so, indeed, that in many societies only the sons of men engaged in the craft could become apprentices. Its members dwelt in proximity to one another; in their social enjoyments they played together and ate together in a close and exclusive intercourse. They not infrequently dressed alike, at least to the extent of wearing some peculiar and distinctive article of apparel by which they could be identified. They were pledged to assist one another in sickness or distress an to succor one another in danger. Some of the guilds maintained schools for the instruction of the children of the members; remnants of such schools exist in England to this very day, Corpus Christi at Cambridge being a conspicuous example. They thus stood separate and apart from the rest of the community.
In a very real sense, the craft guild came to stand as custodian of the personal welfare of its members. It is a mistake not infrequently made to confuse these bodies with the trade unions of today. For one thing, the trade union is an organization of employees formed to enable them to bargain collectively with their employers and to resist employer encroachments upon employee rights and privileges. The craft guild included both employers and employees. It was frequently governed not by the employees but by the master workmen who were also, and incidentally, employers. These were known commonly as wardens and there were usually two and sometimes four of them. In some cases they were selected at annual assemblies of the craft to serve for a year. In others they were appointed by the municipal authorities. It was their business to approve or reject work turned out by the members, to see that labor was honestly and satisfactorily performed, that the craftsmen received their proper pay and that the personal conduct of the members did not violate that salutary discipline which was intended to maintain the craft in good repute with the world at large.
Methods of formal induction into membership varied greatly. In some cases it was by oath administered in some form of ceremonial initiation. In others it was merely by placing the name on the society's rolls. Some of the guilds possessed secret and semi-religious rites; almost all of them were religious in so far as they acknowledged allegiance to Church, adopted particular saints as their patrons, and made a practice of attending divine services on designated days. Some of them admitted women and some did not. Although there were distinctions of apprentices from journeymen, or fellows of the craft, and distinctions of fellows from masters, these as a rule applied only to the personal consequence of each individual among his brethren.
Among the mason guilds there actually were but two classes - on the one side apprentices and on the other Fellows and Masters - since a Fellow might at any time become a Master by the simple process of taking a contract to perform a given work and hiring other Fellows to help him perform it. He might take apprentices provided he could furnish sufficient employment for a required number of enrolled workmen. In voting at assemblies, the ballot of the Fellow ordinarily counted for as much as did that of the Master. In general it may be said that an apprentice might become a Fellow upon the completion of his indentured term of service and upon proper evidence of his skill as a workman, presented to the wardens of the guild and by them accepted as satisfactory. In trades requiring a high degree of manual dexterity, as in carving, painting, or engraving, he might be required to submit a masterpiece. In France and Germany it was often required of an apprentice that, after his freedom from indentures, he spend a year or more traveling among the guilds of communities remote from his home, earning a living by his art and improving in knowledge and experience.
In addition to the merchant and craft guilds there were innumerable religious and social guilds of all kinds. Some were powerful institutions in their own right and some were mere auxiliary bodies. Nearly every large church of the Middle Ages had many such auxiliaries, each dedicated to the service of a particular saint and consecrated to the performance of some special task. Some of these were purely mystical and devoted to exercises of meditation and prayer; others were practical and looked after the management of parish houses and schools, the support of indigent priests, the maintenance of church property, the collection of funds for charitable and missionary purposes. Some became separate and semi-ecclesiastical entities, with their own chapels and chaplains, colleges, asylums. A few became identified with the production of religious dramas and mystery plays. The mystery play, of course, had nothing to do with a "mystery" in the modern sense. The word mystery as thus used was derived from the Middle English word misterie, meaning a trade or employment, which in turn was derived through the French from the Latin word ministerium. A mystery play was therefore a play which illustrated some practice or doctrine of a given trade. Many medieval guilds performed them and it is not at all improbable that the Drama of the Third Degree of modern Freemasonry is a survival of this custom.
It is evident that with so many societies flourishing thus side by side the guilds must have been profoundly, influenced by contact with one another. Although; each might preserve its separate identity, a considerable cross pollination of ideas must have taken place. Indeed this is not a matter of mere inference. There are records of great pageants in England which were managed much after the fashion of the Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans, the Veiled Prophet parade in St. Louis, the Priests of Pallas parade in Kansas City and kindred affairs in modern America. Places in the line of march were assigned to various important craft guilds. Each prepared a tableau which was staged upon a cart or "float" and which usually represented some episode from Biblical literature. This arrangement in itself discloses a degree of common understanding and purpose. Moreover it shows that the craft guild and the strictly religious guild sometimes overlapped in their functions, a matter of no little significance.
In England the guild system reached its peak in the reign of Edward III, or toward the close of the fourteenth century, when some 40,000 religious and trade societies were listed. They ranged in size from a handful of men to the 15,000 members of the Corpus Christi guild at York. But the system contained within itself the seeds of its own destruction. Trade and merchant guilds came first into conflict with one another and then with the economic changes which ushered in the modern era of trade and commerce. Religious guilds came into conflict with modern theories of government. But the principal trouble with the guild system was that it could not stand prosperity. Originally poor and humble and with ideals of service, it became rich and arrogant and lustful of power. Then it awoke one morning to find it had outlived its usefulness; awoke as the spoiled favorite of an Eastern potentate sometimes awakes, to find one standing at her bedside with a bowstring.
How the system and municipal government complemented each other has already been indicated. The more important guilds were corporations with definite privileges, prerogatives and responsibilities. They contained the germ of the municipal borough of more modern times, but care should be taken to differentiate between their constitution as private societies and the public functions which those societies occasionally performed. Theoretically, at least, the function of the guild in public affairs was to represent the interests of its particular trade or set of trades. In return for this privilege it agreed that the management of its business should be conducted in the public interest. If the municipality might not infringe upon the prerogatives of the guild, neither might the guild or its members use those prerogatives to the disadvantage of the public at large. Since the society represented its trade, it had a right to say what individuals might belong to that trade; individuals who belonged to no trade therefore had no representation and were likely to find themselves without citizenship. Not least important of the guild's privileges was a local monopoly of its peculiar business; membership in it was obligatory upon all persons who would practice that business in that community. Since it had the right of saying who should be admitted, excluding all others, its power was tremendous. Sometimes it did not hesitate to admit persons who were not in the trade at all - honorary members they might be called. This custom of "accepting" outsiders for their general standing in the community brought into the guilds some of the outstanding persons of medieval English history, including King Edward III, King Henry IV, King Henry VI and King Henry VIII, but it also introduced an element of discontent, as practical workers observed the waxing power of these illustrious patrons. It was probably in accordance with this custom that the operative masons first began to "accept" non-masons.
As the larger societies gained in wealth and prestige, they steadily usurped authority. They had helped to break down the feudal system and strengthen the monarchy, but in time they resisted and even challenged the authority of the monarch himself. In so doing they were but bringing their destruction nearer. Meanwhile their power was being steadily undermined at home. In their increasing arrogance they tended to break down the old democratic relationship which bound all members, from apprentice to master, into one society of friends and brothers. The masters developed into an employing class and the fellows into a class of workers by the day. As the gulf widened, the masters used the machinery at hand for their own aggrandizement. To resist them, the journeymen, forced into a new class consciousness, began organizing guilds of their own. This was bitterly opposed by the masters, who invoked the civil law to stop the practice, but without effect. On the one hand there was constant effort to encroach upon the rights of the individual worker; on the other determined resistance to the tyrannical methods of the employer. The struggle endured for centuries, but the guild system, thus disunited, gradually broke up and disappeared.
Long before this came to pass, however, a royal sword had been unsheathed against the great religious guilds of England. These bodies had become immensely rich and powerful in the time of the Crusades and they possessed many of the most desirable holdings. In the long and bitter struggle between Henry VIII and the papacy, they were almost unanimously on the side of the Church. Convinced that he could not carry on his work of reformation until this opposition had been destroyed, Henry struck with characteristic vigor and effectiveness. He despoiled the religious guilds of their temporal property, which he declared forfeit to the Crown. He forbade other guilds to make gifts of money to churches and finally, in 1547, the religious societies were formally suppressed.
A system so extensive could not be wholly eradicated. It was bound to leave many survivors which, under other names and in other forms, continued to function. The religious guild in modified guise has continued to the present day in both the Roman Catholic and the Anglican churches. The merchant guild left its influence upon the later trading companies of England. It is possible that trade unions and friendly societies of the present owe something to the craft guilds, although this possibility is more easily exaggerated than demonstrated. But there is one conspicuous survival out of the guild system, and that one is the institution of modern Freemasonry.
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Replace non-functioning culverts with bottomless/arched culverts or bridges to allow for salmonid mobility and woody debris passage.
Thin and select cut diseased Doug Firs, Conifers and Alders.
Plant more native species to refurbish cover and under growth.
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Image of six men and women dressed in suits. No date given. One of 156 black and white photographs by R. Lee Thomas, an African American photographer active in the early twentieth century in the southern United States. Thomas' work provides photographic documentation of southern black social life, primarily religious and labor groups, circa 1946-1949. The majority of the photographs depict groups from Birmingham, Alabama, and adjacent areas. His imprint contains the caption: Made by R. Lee Thomas, Mound Bayou, Mississippi, The Oldest Negro Town in America.
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Because this past weekend I just moved to an apartment near downtown Honolulu, I figured I would share some tips about what it's like to move in Hawai'i, particularly in the island of Oahu. While it's not as intense of a process as Cat's when she moved to a new place in San Francisco or back in the day when I lived in NYC, there are some noteworthy differences.
Craigslist is, by far, still the main platform for apartment hunters and room seekers. There are other websites like Trulia and Zillow that have apartment listings for Honolulu but either I never got a response for my inquiries or it sounded too much like scam. Of course, many listings in Craigslist are also scams, but for the most part the listings there are from real owners or agents. Many realtors' websites will not be updated with any rental ads, but the agents will post on Craigslist. This is why Craigslist is your best bet in Honolulu.
As with finding a place in any city, you must engage in a little bit of a courting dance with the owner or agent as a potential tenant. But what I found to be unique in Honolulu is the seemingly large amount of tenants who break their one-year lease agreement and are consequently looking for replacement tenants on behalf of their landlords. Apparently, that kind of transience happens quite frequently here (especially with people in military and the tourism industry), hence many owners and landlords are willing to forgo the fees as long as the tenant can find a replacement for the rest of the year. And when you're dealing with these delinquent tenants, all you have to do is win them over and they'll be the ones championing you to the higher-ups.
Oceanic Time Warner Cable basically has a monopoly over the TV and Internet services in the island. Because of that, you'd think they'd amp up the number of employees who do installations and repairs, but we can always dream. When I tried to schedule an installation date, the soonest available date was nearly three weeks later. While the customer service was very kind and apologetic, that's still not an option for me as I work from home. Luckily, there are many local TWC stores where I was able to pick up a self-installation kit and set it up myself. It was a very painless process but if for whatever reason you need their customer service to install it for you, make sure you schedule in advance!
I'm sure there are other more universal tips and best practices about moving that can be shared, so please share your own in the comments section!
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Q: Configuration Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS 64-bit Good afternoon,
I trying to install Magento on a vps server.
I can't find any instructions how configure the webserver.
I need to know what applications i need to install, such as apache, phpmyadmin, mysql etc.
I allso wanna know if "Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS 64-bit" is compatible with Magento!
If it's not i can choose another installation. My host provider offers different kind of installations
Can anyone help me please?
Thank you!

A: For a [really]basic Magento installation follow this guide.
You will need a LAMP environment for a this, but it can be improved by using Memcache, Redis, MariaDB, etc. Start by configuring the LAMP environment and once you are familiar with it continue with more advanced software.

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CHINA – about 2.5 quadrillion dollars.
INDIA is 6th in the world – about 280 Trillion – just behind Taiwan (5) and Saudi (4).
We know the world's richest man is Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico, followed by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet of USA.
While the countries look rich, wealthy European nations can't withstand a prolonged major financial crisis, just like Greece.
The USA might have the biggest economy, but the American government is not at all rich; in fact, it can't even take out $150 billion if asked to now without resorting to borrowing.
The UK, likewise, while the country/people are rich, the government isn't.
Big national reserves doesn't guarantee prosperity however, for instance, the yearly expenses for China's government is $1.11 trillion, their government must always think of economic growth and making more money.
China's gov't overspent $110bn last year, much on it towards modernizing their military, if it goes on like this their reserves can only last for 22 yrs.
The Malaysian government overspent $13bn last year, if it goes on like this their reserves can only last for 7 yrs.
The Swiss gov't overspent $1bn last year, if it goes on like this their reserves can last 262 yrs.
A country normally can borrow up to 100% its GDP, a very strong industrial country or very financial stable nation can borrow up to perhaps200% its GDP, debts over 250% GDP the country is bankrupted.
Greece's Debts Is 113.40% GDP, In Danger As It Is Not Considered A Strong Industrial Or Financial Country.


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Created partition and called it peace »
Closely watched by the outside world
May 13th, 2007 | By Ophelia Benson
The South Asia Media Commission has condemned the harassment of Tasneem Khalil, an investigative journalist in Bangladesh, and sought an explanation and apology from the authorities…The four men took Khalil, 26, to the Sangsad Bhavan army camp, outside the parliament building in Dhaka. He was released on Friday night after more than a daylong grilling…"We are very much worried about Tasneem Khalil's safety. He is being harassed too often," N Ram, the chairman, and Najam Sethi, the secretary general of the commission, said in a statement welcoming Khalil's release. "The Bangladeshi military should desist from such arbitrary actions which are being closely watched by the outside world," they said in the statement issued by SAMC coordinator Husain Naqi.
Yes they are – by Human Rights Watch, by Reporters Without Borders, by the Committee to Protect Journalists, by too few (in this case) mainstream media outfits, and – by internet busybodies like us: by Sunny and Sonia and others at Pickled Politics, by Richard at Philosophy Etcetera, by Cam at Sculpin, by John at Obscene Desserts, by Harry's Place, by Drishtipat, and by many more. This is good. I have no idea if it made any difference or not – for all we know the military always intended to administer a daylong grilling and then let Tasneem go – but as a general principle it seems useful to focus laser-like attention on this kind of activity. Whatever theocracies and military dictatorships may say about their indifference to what the rest of the world thinks, it seems reasonably safe to assume they would prefer to fly under the radar.
I'm a little uncertain about the politics of linking to a Pakistan paper on this subject, given the history between Bangladesh and Pakistan (just as I'm cautious about using Indian media as sources on Pakistan, and vice versa), but it was the only paper I saw that had the report, and the South Asian Media Net looks legitimate and useful. But do take all that into account.
Independent World Report
Human rights in Bangladesh (there aren't any)
Bangladesh: Release Tasneem Khalil
Bangladesh gives itself a free hand
Tasneem Khalil
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I e-mailed letter from "Good" to Indymedia Ireland as I feel it would not do any harm to make it aware. Just in case. I will doubly check to make sure that it is put up on site.
I noticed on Indymedia Ireland that poor Shambo the Welsh Freisan Bull with bovine TB got coverage.
Sorry, Shambo for thinking the worst about what should be your fate!


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Ralph Morgan (* 6. Juli 1883 in New York City, New York; † 11. Juni 1956 ebenda; gebürtig Raphael Kuhner Wuppermann) war ein US-amerikanischer Film- und Theaterschauspieler.

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Ralph Morgan wurde als eines von insgesamt elf Kindern von George Diogracia und dessen Frau Josephina Wright Wupperman, einer New Yorker Kaufmannsfamilie geboren, die sich auf den Vertrieb von Angostura-Likör spezialisiert hatte. Er hatte fünf Brüder und fünf Schwestern, von denen jedoch drei im Kleinkindalter starben. Morgan, der ältere Bruder von Frank Morgan, absolvierte vor seiner Karriere als Schauspieler die Columbia University, an der er einen Abschluss in Rechtswissenschaft erlangte. Im März 1909 debütierte er in The Bachelor von Clyde Fitch am Broadway und legte auf diese Weise den Grundstein für seine Karriere. So stand er in den kommenden vier Jahrzehnten in über 20 Theaterstücken auf der Bühne. Sein wohl erfolgreichstes Engagement war seine Rolle im Stück Lightnin' des Autorenpaares Winchell Smith und Frank Bacon, in dem Morgan zwischen August 1918 und August 1921 nicht weniger als 1291 die Hauptrolle verkörperte.

Morgan war aber auch als Filmschauspieler tätig, der ab 1915 in über 100 Spielfilmen vor die Kamera trat. Einer seiner bekanntesten Filme war das Drama Das Leben des Emile Zola aus dem Jahr 1937, der mit drei Oscars ausgezeichnet wurde. Bereits 1933 hatte Morgan an der Seite von Spencer Tracy eine Rolle in The Power and the Glory. Ein weiterer bekannter Film, in dem Morgan zu sehen war, war Hitler's Madman, in dem das Attentat auf Reinhard Heydrich thematisiert wurde. Im Jahr 1933 war Morgan maßgeblich an der Gründung der Screen Actors Guild (SAG), der Schauspielergewerkschaft Hollywoods, beteiligt, deren erster Präsident er im selben Jahr auch kurzzeitig wurde. 1938 wurde er erneut zum Präsidenten gewählt, und bekleidete das Amt bis 1940. Im selben Jahr wurde Morgan für seine Verdienste in der SAG mit einem Ehrenoscar ausgezeichnet.

Ralph Morgan war mit der Schauspielerin Grace Arnold verheiratet; 1911 wurde er zum einzigen Mal Vater. Seine Tochter Claudia Morgan wurde später ebenfalls Schauspielerin. Ralph Morgan starb im Alter von 72 Jahren in New York. Heute erinnert ein Stern auf dem Hollywood Walk of Fame an ihn.

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A smartwatch can be used for every aspect of your life including health, exercise, work, personal, and many others. If you can manage to update your calendar at all times and use it to guide your days, then a smartwatch is the perfect assistant to remind you of everything that you need to do. Not to mention that it will also come with other great features like tracking how much you sleep and whether your habits are generally healthy or not, and telling you whenever you get a text or a call, so you have no chance of missing any important notice.


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Seabourn Cruise History
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By Erica Silverstein
Who is Seabourn's president? Richard Meadows (2011 –)
Related: Oceania Cruises History
What year was Seabourn founded? 1987
Which vessels are in the Seabourn fleet?
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Seabourn Cruise Line was founded in 1987 to compete in the ultra-luxury cruise market. Its founder included Norwegian industrialist Atle Brynestad, former cruise executive Warren S. Titus and other luxury hospitality and cruising professionals. The goal was to emulate a yacht-like atmosphere in which passengers felt like they were members of an exclusive club.
The founders commissioned the new-build, 208-passenger Seabourn Pride, which launched in 1988. Highlights included all-suite accommodations, a water sports marina at the back of the ship, inclusive fares and no tipping, and a high crew-to-passenger ratio. An identical sister ship, Seabourn Spirit, launched in 1989.
Plans for a third ship were derailed for financial reasons. In 1991, Carnival Corp. purchased 25 percent of Seabourn, and then an additional 25 percent in 1996, which allowed the cruise line to purchase a third sister ship, Seabourn Legend.
Related: Carnival Cruise Line History
In 1998, a consortium, which included Carnival Corp., purchased the rest of the company and merged its operations with Cunard Line. Three Cunard ships came under the Seabourn fleet the following year, and were named Seabourn Goddess I and II (which left in 2002 and are now SeaDream Yacht Club's SeaDream I and SeaDream II) and Seabourn Sun (which left in 2002 and is now Holland America's Prinsendam.
Carnival Corp. bought the company outright in 2001 and Seabourn became one of its "world's leading cruise lines." Carnival's Cunard operations separated from Seabourn's in 2004, and Seabourn operated independently from other Carnival Corp. brands.
In 2006, the line announced an order of three new cruise ships, which would be more than double the size of its existing triplets, carrying 450 passengers each. First-in-class Seabourn Odyssey debuted in 2009; sisters Seabourn Sojourn and Seabourn Quest joined in 2010 and 2011, respectively.
Related: Oceania vs. Seabourn Cruises
In April 2011, Seabourn underwent another major shift as Carnival Corp. moved its operations under the umbrella of Holland America Line, another of the cruise conglomerate's brands. Seabourn is based at Holland America corporate headquarters in Seattle.
In February 2013, Seabourn sold its three original vessels to Windstar. Seabourn Pride was the first to go in 2014, with Seabourn Legend and Spirit making their exits in 2015. But the fleet wouldn't stay at three for long. In late 2016, 600-passenger Seabourn Encore -- a new-build based on a slightly modified version of the Odyssey-class design -- took to the seas. It was followed by twin Seabourn Ovation in 2018.
The company's first purpose-built expedition ship, Seabourn Venture, is scheduled to launch in June 2021, with a sister ship scheduled for May 2022.
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NEC is characterized by ischemia and necrosis of the gastrointestinal tract and can lead to mortality and morbidity, including short bowel syndrome. It is most often found in premature infants and requires early recognition and treatment to prevent long segment bowel necrosis.
Most infants diagnosed with NEC are premature but are relatively healthy and feeding well prior to the development of NEC.
The mainstay of NEC diagnosis remains abdominal radiography, although abdominal ultrasound may have some utility, especially with ultrasound expertise.
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I'd like to announce that I'm an idiot
I've been keeping this little secret for a while now. 4 days in fact. Yep, it's true. I did actually watch some preseason football. I didn't mean to, it just sorta happened. I'm still bitter about it. For many reasons actually, far too many. And surprisingly the score and the overall play (read: sucked worse than Caddyshack II) weren't the top offenders. I was reminded, for the umpteenth time, that the announcer's booth at a football game is apparently where idiots go to die.
Much has already been said by media critics and football people about the new Monday Night Football team. I'm indifferent on the subject because I don't know if I've ever heard a well-called football game. So a new team in the booth may be terrible, or good, or even interesting, but I've never heard a great one. Have you? Somehow I doubt it.
When the absolute height of modern broadcasting is Pat Summerall and John Madden you know that you're in for a non-stop crapfest. Back when they were a team Summerall would routinely remind people that he had no idea what was going on by screwing up player's names, down and distance and the basics of the game. The irony of this being that Pat was so infuriating to listen to that he drove me to drink, and as we all know the ol' drinky is probably about 90% of why Summerall had no short term memory in the booth. It's a vicious cycle.
So tell me - why is it that each announcing team acts as if we have never seen a football game before? Why would they do that? Do they think they're still attracting new fans with each game? And if so, do they really think the new viewer couldn't figure out that the corner was reading the qb's eyes before making a pick? Seriously? I hate that. More than anything else about football I hate that the announcers act as if they're explaining a game to a 12 year old. All the best things in life come without explanation. It's the viewers/readers job to sort them out. Great art, The Wire on HBO, a puzzle or a game of chess. It's worth figuring out. Why can't football be the same way?
The MNF crew this year will not be any more interesting or revolutionary than any other broadcasting booth out there. That's the sad part. The new booth for ESPN is, in many ways, a perfect breakdown of their station as a whole. You have the retired jock who thinks he knows everything and is generally defensive of the players (who he thinks he relates to when that is no longer the case). You have the previously well-respected journalist who must now be overly opinionated or vicious just to, if nothing else, serve as a counterpoint to all the fawning from the ex-jock hoisted on the players. Then, of course, you have the professional broadcaster, the guy who has no discernible skills other than making sure people keep on talking when they're supposed to and shut up when they're not. Is that not a breakdown of every show on ESPN now?
Preseason action is pointless for the most part for the teams involved. They already know what their plan is, who they want to cut and why, all of that. They just look for a little more evidence. But preseason up in the booth? That ain't gonna change when the games start to matter. They're still going to suck out loud. And that is the saddest part of all.
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Queries From Query - Vonta Leach Edition
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After Further Review....
More Greg Jennings
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Drunk Lions and Greg Jennings
Not A Good Week. The Worst Actually.


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Isabel María Oliver Sagreras (Campos, Balearea, 28 de abril de 1961) es una bióloga y política española. Entre 2018 y 2020 fue secretaria de Estado de Turismo de España en el gobierno de Pedro Sánchez. También ha sido consejera de Economía y Turismo en el Consejo de Mallorca entre 2007 y 2011 y, anteriormente, secretaria general técnica de la Consejería de Turismo del Gobierno de Francesc Antich.

Biografía
Posee una licenciatura en Ciencias Biológicas por la Universidad de las Islas Baleares y es funcionaria de carrera del Cuerpo de Gestión de la administración de la Comunidad Autónoma de las Islas Baleares desde el año 1990, actualmente en situación de excedencia.

Trayectoria política
Está afiliada al PSOE, donde ha sido secretaria de política económica de la Federación Socialista de Mallorca, y presidenta del Consejo Político del PSIB de 2008 a 2012 año en el que asumió la Secretaría de Organización.

Trayectoria institucional
Fue secretaria general técnica de la Consejería de Turismo del Gobierno Balear (1999-2003) en el gobierno autonómico de Francesc Antich  De junio de 2003 a abril de 2004 fue concejala en el Ayuntamiento de Palma de Mallorca y posteriormente diputada por Mallorca en la VIII legislatura (2004-2008).

De 2007 a 2012 asumió la consejería de Economía y Turismo del Consejo Insular de Mallorca, y durante su gestión se creó la Fundación Mallorca Turismo.

En junio de 2011 fue elegida diputada autonómica en el Parlamento Balear asumiendo la portavocía de la Comisión de Turismo.

En junio de 2018 fue nombrada Secretaria de Estado de Turismo en el Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo que lidera Reyes Maroto en el gobierno de Pedro Sánchez. En julio de 2020 fue reemplazado por Fernando Valdés Verelst.

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Enlaces externos
 Biografía en el Consejo de Mallorca.
 Ficha en el Congreso de los Diputados.

Biólogos de España del siglo XXI
Políticas de España
Políticos de España de ámbito estatal
Líderes autonómicos del Partido Socialista Obrero Español
Diputados por las Islas Baleares
Diputados de la VIII Legislatura de España
Concejales del Ayuntamiento de Palma
Secretarios de Estado de España
Personas de Campos
Políticos de España del siglo XXI
Españolas del siglo XXI


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A barely-dressed "Coco" has been announced as the third member of Ubisoft's elite Team Ghost.
No, not Conan O'Brien. We're talking about actress/dancer/glamour model/web personality/Ice-T bangsack Nicole "Coco" Austin, a spectacularly proportioned woman best known for taking her clothes off and being married to "Cop Killer" singer-slash-TV detective Ice-T. And now she's joined up with two other extremely minor celebrities, NBA "double-double king" Kevin Love and "future NFL sensation" Justin Blackmon, plus "a hot young rapper" to be named later, in what is surely the most can't-miss PR campaign of the year: Team Ghost.
Coco is the third and newest member of this squad of "real world elites," and what she brings to the party will surely come as no surprise to anyone: broad expertise with a wide range of both NATO and CSTO firearms.
"I'm the gun expert on Team Ghost, so my role is to make sure that everyone customizes their gun so they're properly equipped for the mission at hand," she added.
In all fairness to Mrs. T, her husband is a well-known gamer who actually played a role in last year's Gears of War 3, and there's no reason to doubt that she enjoys the hobby every bit as much as he does, which is probably why she got this gig. Right?
To find out more about how Coco can help you get a better grip on your pistol, point your browser at Complex. Ghost Recon: Future Soldier comes out on May 22 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and June 12 for the PC.


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Audiobook Review: Like Water Catching Fire by E.M. Lindsey
Story Rating: 4 stars
Audio Rating: 4 stars
Narrator: Michael Dean
Audiobook Buy Links: Amazon/Audible | iBooks
Book Buy Links: Amazon | iBooks
Danny Zhou always planned to be a teacher, but when he and his college boyfriend created an app that went viral, he found himself unexpectedly running a company instead. Danny and his boyfriend stayed together for years, partners at work and at home, until Danny walked in on his boyfriend cheating. All he wanted to do was get away, so Danny cashed out his share of the company and has moved across the country to live with his sister and her newborn while his brother-in-law is out of the country on military duty.
Now, Danny really doesn't know what's next for him and he is feeling at loose ends. He has plenty of money, but his life took such an unexpected direction, he isn't really sure how to get pointed back the right way. In high school, Danny volunteered with the fire department, so he decides signing up again will be a good way to keep busy. Much of the crew is new since he was last there, including a gorgeous firefighter named Jamie. Danny can't help but be upset when he learns that Jamie is Deaf, yet none of his fellow firefighters seem to have made any effort to learn to sign, so Jamie is mostly isolated from the rest of the team. Fortunately, Danny learned ASL in college and strikes up a friendship with Jamie, who is a little cool and wary at first, but soon begins to open up.
As the men build their friendship, the attraction also flares between them and it isn't long before they act on it. The connection between them is so good and both men are really starting to fall hard for one another. But Danny is still at loose ends, trying to figure out what direction his future may go. And Jamie is dealing with family issues, and Danny worries that if they resolve, Jamie may want to return home to Hawaii rather than stay on the mainland. Despite the fears, the men are so good together. Now they just have to figure out how to make their uncertain futures blend into a life together.
I am a huge fan of E.M. Lindsey's books and always eager to check out their work, so I was excited to see this story release in audio, as I missed it when it was originally released as an ebook. The story was first published in 2018, then republished in 2021, with the audio coming out just recently. As with many of Lindsey's books, this story really showcases diverse characters nicely, and here we see that it is something that really connects Danny and Jamie. Danny grew up with Chinese parents and was often judged or teased for being different. In Jamie's case, he is Deaf and speaks only ASL, yet his family has never made him feel accepted, and few people in his life make the effort to learn his language. So while the man face different prejudices, they both have a sense of not being accepted for who they are. I think Jamie's deafness is particularly well explored, as we see how isolated he is by so many in the community as no one really tries to learn to talk to him, even people he works with every day. We also can really feel the pain he experiences as he deals with his family's sense that Jamie is broken because he can't hear. The story gives a nice opportunity for Jamie and Danny to really support and relate to each other from this shared experience and it helps bring a nice bond between them.
From a relationship end, things start a little rocky as Jamie is somewhat cold and standoffish (mostly out of a sense of self preservation). But once he warms up, the guys fall for each other pretty smoothly. There is a nice sweetness and an intensity to their connection that I liked. Most of the conflict comes from Danny's end (and he is the sole POV character), as he is struggling both with his own future, as well as fears about Jamie wanting to move back to Hawaii. These issues got a little prolonged for me, particularly the concerns about Jamie. Jamie is clear early on that he is mostly estranged from his family and has no desire to ever move home. But Danny is worried that if they make up, Jamie will want to go back to Hawaii. He never really talks to Jamie about his fears for most of the book, so it feels like we tread the same ground a bit too often.
There is also a nice juxtaposition here between the families. Danny clearly has a close relationship to his sister, and they are both supportive of one another, as well as Danny being the recipient of her tough love when needed. It is clear that the siblings care a lot about each other, and we know that Danny's parents are also supportive of him. This contrasts with Jamie, who has never really felt accepted by his family for being Deaf. Things came to a head when his niece was born deaf and his family's true feelings about deafness came out. So we get to explore this issue, as well as the family dynamics nicely here.
I listened to this in audio with narrator Michael Dean. Overall, I think Dean does a nice job with the audio and it was enjoyable to listen. Danny and Jamie have well differentiated voices and it was easy to understand who was speaking. The side characters tend to be less distinct and often felt fairly interchangeable in terms of narration, however. Dean also uses very precise diction, which sometimes made the narration feel a bit stilted, rather than smoothly flowing. But I think overall the audio works well and if you are interested in this story, I can recommend it in either format.
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FILED UNDER: 4 stars, Audiobook, Contemporary, Jay's Reviews
TAGGED: BIPOC, deaf/hard of hearing, E.M. Lindsey, firefighter, Michael Dean/Michael Pauley, self published, wealthy character


Redcastle Spirits is an Angus-based craft spirits producer, linked to Redcastle Brewery. Redcastle Gin is the first addition to the Redcastle Spirits family. Launched in July 2017, Redcastle is made from a unique blend of 13 botanicals, including kaffir lime leaf, star anise and pink peppercorn which combine to create a spiced gin with a zesty edge.
Firefly was commissioned to design the logo, develop the branding and create packaging for Redcastle Gin. A premium handcrafted Scottish gin, the Redcastle brand was briefed to be positioned at the upper end of the market.
For the logo, a clean, modern sans serif typeface was adapted to remove the crossbar from the letter 'A' and a red triangle was introduced to symbolise a flag on top of a sandcastle. A Serif typeface was used to complement the logotype and add a touch of heritage to the design. Wavy lines were utilised to subtly convey a seaside theme. Subtle, intricate illustrations of the key ingredients and a wave feature on the front of the bottle labelling to add depth to the design. The clean, minimal design conveys the premium positioning of the gin and helps the packaging stand out from other brands on the shelf.
Ben and the team at Firefly have been great – creative, friendly, fun and professional from start to finish of our label design project.
Despite us providing a rather vague brief, they completely got what we were looking to achieve and delivered an excellent creative proposal which we are now moving ahead with. They worked with pace and their communication was good throughout. I wouldn't hesitate to work with them again and would strongly recommend them for any creative requirements.


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Andrew Freedman Jan 10, 2019
Ocean heat is climbing 40% faster than thought
Trends in ocean heat from 4 different observational datasets, compared to the CMIP5 computer model mean, from 1955 through 2017. Data: Cheng et al. Science, 2019; Chart: Lazaro Gamio/Axios.
New, independent observations from ocean buoys and other data sources show Earth's oceans are warming at a rate that's about 40% faster than indicated in the 2013 U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
Why it matters: The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, resolves a key uncertainty in climate science by reconciling analyses from a variety of different scientific teams.
The oceans are absorbing about 93% of the extra heat going into the climate system. So far, most of that heat resides in the upper ocean, and is only slowly diffusing down into deeper waters. Faster warming is already resulting in tangible, harmful impacts, from coral bleaching across the Great Barrier Reef to rapidly intensifying hurricanes.
Scientists describe the ocean as having a "long memory," meaning that the heat going into the waters now will continue to be released long after humans cut greenhouse gas emissions (assuming we do take that course).
Be smart: The data from four different research groups now generally match the ocean heat content projections from the newest climate models, the study finds, which indicates that these models are accurately simulating the Earth's radiation budget.
"We can see the emergence of the signal of global warming much more clearly in ocean heat content," says study co-author Zeke Hausfather, an energy systems analyst at the climate research group Berkeley Earth.
Hausfather says 2018 will be the warmest year on record for the Earth's oceans, beating the record set just last year.
How it works: Because the ocean's heat content doesn't vary as sharply as surface temperatures, it is considered a more reliable indicator of global warming.
The impact: Warmer oceans are already causing unprecedented back-to-back coral bleaching events, and are contributing to sea-level rise. They're also causing glaciers to melt from below in Greenland and Antarctica.
Warmer waters provide critical fuel for extreme storms, with studies showing ties between Hurricane Harvey's devastating deluge and warmer than average waters in the Gulf of Mexico, for example.
Why you'll hear about this again: The oceans are a main reason why climate change will not relent even if emissions were to cease today, since they will continue to release heat, and also greenhouse gases, over time. There are also implications for carbon removal technologies, which are getting more attention from scientists and investments from major oil companies.
Lost in much of the discussion on carbon removal, however, is the potential for the oceans to spoil the party.
"The climate system has a long memory," Hausfather says, "It doesn't warm as quickly as it otherwise would and it's a lot harder to cool it back down once it starts warming."
The bottom line: "Just like the oceans buffer the rate of warming, they would also similarly buffer the rate of cooling in a world where we had net-negative emissions," Hausfather says.
He cited a 2016 study that showed it would take slightly more negative emissions to reduce warming than it takes positive emissions to increase temperatures.