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K&F News Brief: New York City's Ethics Law May Lead To Early Exits At City Agencies
Author: Claude M. Millman and Michelle Dubovitsky Published on: November 5, 2021 Published in: News
Changes and quirks in New York City's "revolving door" rules for public officials may make a mess of things in December if City Commissioners and other agency executives leave their posts early to avoid unanticipated effects of a 2019 referendum on the City's Charter.
In 2019, an overwhelming majority of the voters who came to the polls supported a change in the City's ethics laws that was put on the ballot by a Charter Revision Commission. That change will finally take effect, right after New Year's Day. Yet, as 2021 wanes, some voters may discover that their "Yes" votes in 2019 could lead to some unexpected chaos now.
In January, New York City will have a substantially new government. There will be, among others, a new Mayor, Comptroller, and City Council Speaker. The challenges facing these new leaders will be formidable from their first days in office, as they confront complex changes put in motion by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A smooth transition can reduce some of the bumps that new government administrations often experience at the outset. And transitions can be easier if some public servants who work in one administration remain in their jobs, at least for a brief time, until the new administration is sufficiently staffed and gains its footing.
While some public servants in one administration may want to stay through the start of the next administration, most will weigh that against their other personal interests. If the law makes it particularly costly for public servants to stay, few will hold over to the next administration.
For some of the public servants considering whether to offer their help to the new Mayor, there will be a new factor to consider. Under current law, a City Commissioner or other agency head who leaves City employment is subject to a "revolving door" restriction known as the "one-year ban." This one-year ban provision says that no "former public servant shall, within a period of one year after termination of such person's service with the city, appear before the city agency served by such public servant," and prohibits most communications between the former employee and the agency during that first, post-employment year. But under the change in the law adopted by the voters, this one-year ban will become a two-year ban for City Commissioners and certain other high-ranking City employees who leave City government after January 1, 2022.
The Charter Revision Commission that proposed the change in the law was created by the City Council to review the entire City Charter (in essence, the City's constitution) and suggest revisions for consideration by voters in the November 2019 election. The 671,927 New York City residents who showed up to cast their votes at the ballot box on November 5, 2019 were presented with "Question 3." That proposition asked whether voters wanted to change the law to "increase the amount of time after leaving service before elected city officials and senior appointed officials can appear before the city agencies in which they served from one year to two years." Nearly 78% of the voters responded "Yes," to Question 3.
The change, which only affects those who leave office after January 1, 2022, will impact a wide net of high-ranking and elected public servants, including Deputy Mayors, City Commissioners and other agency heads, the executive director or highest-ranking employee of any City board or commission, and any paid member of a City board or commission.
The effective date selected by the Charter Revision Commission essentially creates a one-time loophole. A public servant subject to the new law who leaves City employment before January 2, 2022 is still only subject to the old, one-year ban. A public servant subject to the law who misses that departure deadline is stuck with the new two-year restriction.
But there's another wrinkle that could create problems by December. Many City Commissioners, executive directors, and agency heads, who wish to avoid the two-year ban, may need to leave weeks before the new law's effective date to avoid another ethics rule that says that a public servant's "date of termination" of City service is not necessarily the last day that the employee performs City duties. For example, if the City employee has unused leave time, the "date of termination," is the "last day they received benefits conditioned upon current City employment." So a Commissioner, director, or agency head with unused vacation time may need to leave early, possibly by early or mid-December, to avoid the two-year ban.
A Commissioner's early departure at a City agency could create a conundrum for the Deputy Commissioner who is asked to run the agency for the last few weeks of 2021. If the Deputy Commissioner becomes the Acting Commissioner, even for a day, the City's Conflicts of Interest Board (COIB), charged with enforcing the new law, may well tag the Acting Commissioner with the two-year ban when that employee later leaves City service, even though Deputy Commissioners would otherwise only be subject to the one-year ban. This may discourage public servants from accepting Acting positions in 2021, or prompt some deputies to leave City service early.
All of this could present difficulties for Mayor Bill de Blasio in December. If high-ranking officials in the de Blasio Administration perceive that the rule change will burden their private-sector career plans, early resignations and scrambles may ensue, just as the Administration is attempting to complete its work. And early exits may make it harder for programs and projects to be handed-off to the new Administration.
Hiccups are inevitable in the shuffle that comes with any change of administration. The extent to which the change in law, ushered in by "Question 3," will compound the normal confusion, as the City transitions from one administration to the next, may depend on how many government officials take advantage of the one-time loophole. However, even if just a few agency leaders leave earlier than expected, New Yorkers may feel some extra bumps in the road.
Claude M. Millman is a partner at Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP, who represents New York City and State contractors and subcontractors, including nonprofit organizations, and advises clients on government procurement and contracting and government ethics issues. He was formerly director of the Mayor's Office of Contracts Services. In 1999, he was Executive Director of a Charter Revision Commission. He was also a 2001 Charter Revision Commissioner. For the past two years, he has been listed in City & State's Law Power 100. Michelle Dubovitsky is Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP, pre-law paralegal who graduated summa cum laude from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
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Entering Uncharted Territory in Washington
Are We in a New American World?
The other week, feeling sick, I spent a day on my couch with the TV on and was reminded of an odd fact of American life. More than seven months before Election Day, you can watch the 2016 campaign for the presidency at any moment of your choosing, and that's been true since at least late last year. There is essentially never a time when some network or news channel isn't reporting on, discussing, debating, analyzing, speculating about, or simply drooling over some aspect of the primary campaign, of Hillary, Bernie, Ted, and above all — a million times above all — The Donald (from the violence at his rallies to the size of his hands). In case you're young and think this is more or less the American norm, it isn't. Or wasn't.
Truly, there is something new under the sun. Of course, in 1994 with O.J. Simpson's white Ford Bronco chase (95 million viewers!), the 24/7 media event arrived full blown in American life and something changed when it came to the way we focused on our world and the media focused on us. But you can be sure of one thing: never in the history of television, or any other form of media, has a single figure garnered the amount of attention — hour after hour, day after day, week after week — as Donald Trump. If he's the O.J. Simpson of twenty-first-century American politics and his run for the presidency is the eternal white Ford Bronco chase of our moment, then we're in a truly strange world.
Or let me put it another way: this is not an election. I know the word "election" is being used every five seconds and somewhere along the line significant numbers of Americans (particularly, this season, Republicans) continue to enter voting booths or in the case of primary caucuses, school gyms and the like, to choose among various candidates, so it's all still election-like. But take my word for it as a 71-year-old guy who's been watching our politics for decades: this is not an election of the kind the textbooks once taught us was so crucial to American democracy. If, however, you're sitting there waiting for me to tell you what it is, take a breath and don't be too disappointed. I have no idea, though it's certainly part bread-and-circuses spectacle, part celebrity obsession, and part media money machine.
Actually, before we go further, let me hedge my bets on the idea that Donald Trump is a twenty-first-century O.J. Simpson. It's certainly a reasonable enough comparison, but I've begun to wonder about the usefulness of just about any comparison in our present situation. Even the most nightmarish of them — Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, or any past extreme demagogue of your choice — may actually prove to be covert gestures of consolation, reassurance, and comfort. Yes, what's happening in our world is increasingly extreme and could hardly be weirder, we seem to have the urge to say, but it's still recognizable. It's something we've encountered before, something we've made sense of in the past and, in the process, overcome.
Round Up the Usual Suspects
But what if that's not true? In some ways, the most frightening, least acceptable thing to say about our American world right now — even if Donald Trump's overwhelming presence all but begs us to say it — is that we've entered uncharted territory and, under the circumstances, comparisons might actually impair our ability to come to grips with our new reality. My own suspicion: Donald Trump is only the most obvious instance of this, the example no one can miss.
In these first years of the twenty-first century, we may be witnessing a new world being born inside the hollowed-out shell of the American system. As yet, though we live with this reality every day, we evidently just can't bear to recognize it for what it might be. When we survey the landscape, what we tend to focus on is that shell — the usual elections (in somewhat heightened form), the usual governmental bodies (a little tarnished) with the usual governmental powers (a little diminished or redistributed), including the usual checks and balances (a little out of whack), and the same old Constitution (much praised in its absence), and yes, we know that none of this is working particularly well, or sometimes at all, but it still feels comfortable to view what we have as a reduced, shabbier, and more dysfunctional version of the known.
Perhaps, however, it's increasingly a version of the unknown. We say, for instance, that Congress is "paralyzed," and that little can be done in a country where politics has become so "polarized," and we wait for something to shake us loose from that "paralysis," to return us to a Washington closer to what we remember and recognize. But maybe this is it. Maybe even if the Republicans somehow lost control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, we would still be in a situation something like what we're now labeling paralysis. Maybe in our new American reality, Congress is actually some kind of glorified, well-lobbied, and well-financed version of a peanut gallery.
Of course, I don't want to deny that much of what is "new" in our world has a long history. The present yawning inequality gap between the 1% and ordinary Americans first began to widen in the 1970s and — as Thomas Frank explains so brilliantly in his new book, Listen, Liberal — was already a powerful and much-discussed reality in the early 1990s, when Bill Clinton ran for president. Yes, that gap is now more like an abyss and looks ever more permanently embedded in the American system, but it has a genuine history, as for instance do 1% elections and the rise and self-organization of the "billionaire class," even if no one, until this second, imagined that government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires might devolve into government of the billionaire, by the billionaire, and for the billionaire — that is, just one of them.
Indeed, much of our shape-shifting world can be written about as a set of comparisons and in terms of historical reference points. Inequality has a history. The military-industrial complex and the all-volunteer military, like the warrior corporation, weren't born yesterday; neither was our state of perpetual war, nor the national security state that now looms over Washington, nor its surveilling urge, the desire to know far too much about the private lives of Americans. (A little bow of remembrance to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is in order here.)
And yet, true as all that may be, Washington increasingly seems like a new land, sporting something like a new system in the midst of our much-described polarized and paralyzed politics. The national security state doesn't seem faintly paralyzed or polarized to me. Nor does the Pentagon. On certain days when I catch the news, I can't believe how strange and yet humdrum this uncharted new territory is. Remind me, for instance, where in the Constitution the Founding Fathers wrote about that national security state? And yet there it is in all its glory, all its powers, an ever more independent force in our nation's capital. In what way, for instance, did those men of the revolutionary era prepare the ground for the Pentagon to loose its spy drones from our distant war zones over the United States? And yet, so it has. And no one even seems disturbed by the development. The news, barely noticed or noted, was instantly absorbed into what's becoming the new normal.
Graduation Ceremonies in the Imperium
Let me mention here the almost random piece of news that recently made me wonder just what planet I was actually on. And I know you won't believe it, but it had absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump.
Given the carnage of America's wars and conflicts across the Greater Middle East and Africa, which I've been following closely these last years, I'm unsure why this particular moment even got to me. Best guess? Maybe that, of all the once-obscure places — from Afghanistan to Yemen to Libya — in which the U.S. has been fighting recently, Somalia, where this particular little slaughter took place, seems to me like the most obscure of all. Yes, I've been half-attending to events there from the 1993 Blackhawk Down moment to the disastrous U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion of 2006 to the hardly less disastrous invasion of that country by Kenyan and other African forces. Still, Somalia?
Recently, U.S. Reaper drones and manned aircraft launched a set of strikes against what the Pentagon claimed was a graduation ceremony for "low-level" foot soldiers in the Somali terror group al-Shabab. It was proudly announced that more than 150 Somalis had died in this attack. In a country where, in recent years, U.S. drones and special ops forces had carried out a modest number of strikes against individual al-Shabab leaders, this might be thought of as a distinct escalation of Washington's endless low-level conflict there (with a raid involving U.S. special ops forces following soon after).
Now, let me try to put this in some personal context. Since I was a kid, I've always liked globes and maps. I have a reasonable sense of where most countries on this planet are. Still, Somalia? I have to stop and give that one some thought to truly locate it on a mental map of eastern Africa. Most Americans? Honestly, I doubt they'd have a clue. So the other day, when this news came out, I stopped a moment to take it in. If accurate, we killed 150 more or less nobodies (except to those who knew them) and maybe even a top leader or two in a country most Americans couldn't locate on a map.
I mean, don't you find that just a little odd, no matter how horrible the organization they were preparing to fight for? 150 Somalis? Blam!
Remind me: On just what basis was this modest massacre carried out? After all, the U.S. isn't at war with Somalia or with al-Shabab. Of course, Congress no longer plays any real role in decisions about American war making. It no longer declares war on any group or country we fight. (Paralysis!) War is now purely a matter of executive power or, in reality, the collective power of the national security state and the White House. The essential explanation offered for the Somali strike, for instance, is that the U.S. had a small set of advisers stationed with African Union forces in that country and it was just faintly possible that those guerrilla graduates might soon prepare to attack some of those forces (and hence U.S. military personnel). It seems that if the U.S. puts advisers in place anywhere on the planet — and any day of any year they are now in scores of countries — that's excuse enough to validate acts of war based on the "imminent" threat of their attack.
Or just think of it this way: a new, informal constitution is being written in these years in Washington. No need for a convention or a new bill of rights. It's a constitution focused on the use of power, especially military power, and it's being written in blood.
These days, our government (the unparalyzed one) acts regularly on the basis of that informal constitution-in-the-making, committing Somalia-like acts across significant swathes of the planet. In these years, we've been marrying the latest in wonder technology, our Hellfire-missile-armed drones, to executive power and slaughtering people we don't much like in majority Muslim countries with a certain alacrity. By now, it's simply accepted that any commander-in-chief is also our assassin-in-chief, and that all of this is part of a wartime-that-isn't-wartime system, spreading the principle of chaos and dissolution to whole areas of the planet, leaving failed states and terror movements in its wake.
When was it, by the way, that "the people" agreed that the president could appoint himself assassin-in-chief, muster his legal beagles to write new "law" that covered any future acts of his (including the killing of American citizens), and year after year dispatch what essentially is his own private fleet of killer drones to knock off thousands of people across the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa? Weirdly enough, after almost 14 years of this sort of behavior, with ample evidence that such strikes don't suppress the movements Washington loathes (and often only fan the flames of resentment and revenge that help them spread), neither the current president and his top officials, nor any of the candidates for his office have the slightest intention of ever grounding those drones.
And when exactly did the people say that, within the country's vast standing military, which now garrisons much of the planet, a force of nearly 70,000 Special Operations personnel should be birthed, or that it should conduct covert missions globally, essentially accountable only to the president (if him)? And what I find strangest of all is that few in our world find such developments strange at all.
A Planet in Decline?
In some way, all of this could be said to work. At the very least, it is a functioning new system-in-the-making that we have yet to truly come to grips with, just as we haven't come to grips with a national security state that surveils the world in a way that even science fiction writers (no less totalitarian rulers) of a previous era could never have imagined, or the strange version of media overkill that we still call an election. All of this is by now both old news and mind-bogglingly new.
Do I understand it? Not for a second.
This is not war as we knew it, nor government as we once understood it, nor are these elections as we once imagined them, nor is this democracy as it used to be conceived of, nor is this journalism of a kind ever taught in a journalism school. This is the definition of uncharted territory. It's a genuine American terra incognita and yet in some fashion that unknown landscape is already part of our sense of ourselves and our world. In this "election" season, many remain shocked that a leading candidate for the presidency is a demagogue with a visible authoritarian side and what looks like an autocratic bent. All such labels are pinned on Donald Trump, but the new American system that's been emerging from its chrysalis in these years already has just those tendencies. So don't blame it all on Donald Trump. He should be far less of a shock to this country than he continues to be. After all, a Trumpian world-in-formation has paved the way for him.
Who knows? Perhaps what we're watching is the new iteration of a very old story: a twenty-first-century version of an ancient tale of a great imperial power, perhaps the greatest ever — the "lone superpower" — sinking into decline. It's a tale humanity has experienced often enough in the course of our long history. But lest you think once again that there's nothing new under the sun, the context for all of this, for everything now happening in our world, is so new as to be quite literally outside of thousands of years of human experience. As the latest heat records indicate, we are, for the first time, on a planet in decline. And if that isn't uncharted territory, what is?
Tom Engelhardt is a co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The United States of Fear as well as a history of the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture. He is a fellow of the Nation Institute and runs TomDispatch.com. His latest book is Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World.

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Пари́зька націона́льна о́пера (), часто скорочено Паризька опера (Opéra de Paris) — державна установа в Парижі, що займається розвитком оперного, балетного та класичного музичного мистецтва. Паризька опера існує протягом більш ніж чотирьох століть на сценах різних театрів. 1669 року отримала офіційний статус і назву — «Королівська академія музики» ().

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«Опера» в кінці XVII століття в Парижі була офіційним придворним театром. У порівнянні з театром Комеді Франсез, що мав рівний статус, але на відміну від Опери отримував королівські субсидії, перебувала в набагато більш важкому матеріальному становищі. Наприкінці XVIII століття в Парижі, як контркультура придворної, виникає Опера комедії (), що орієнтується на буржуазні шари. У XIX столітті в аристократії слабшає інтерес до оперних постановок, і опера розвивається паралельно з Оперою комедією, в Гранд Опера. З танцювальних оперних партій, завжди вельми значущих на французькій оперній сцені, розвивається в самостійний напрям театрального мистецтва балет. Паризька опера донині зберегла значимість одного з «національних» видів мистецтва.

В даний час Паризька національна опера володіє двома будівлями:

 Опера Гарньє, відкрита 5 січня 1875 року. Зі зведенням нової будівлі (Опера Бастилія) в опері Гарньє відбуваються переважно балетні постановки, а також демонстрації старих класичних опер.
 Опера Бастилія, відкрита напередодні двохсотріччя взяття Бастилії, 13 липня 1989 року, і побудована на її місці.

Важливі прем'єри

 1774 Іфигенія в Авліді, Крістофа Глюка
 1779 Іфигенія в Тавриді, Крістофа Глюка
 1828 Німа з Портичі, Даніеля-Франсуа Обера
 1831 Роберт-Диявол, Джакомо Меєрбер
 1835 Іудейка, Фроманталя Галеві
 1836 Гугеноти, Джакомо Меєрбера
 1838 Бенвенуто Челліні, Гектора Берліоза
 1840 Фаворит, Гаетано Доніцетті
 1841 Жізель, балет Адольфа Адама
 1847 Єрусалим, перша Гранд-опера Джузеппе Верді
 1849 Пророк, Джакомо Меєрбера
 1855 Сицилійська вечірня, Джузеппе Верді
 1860 Метелик, балет Жака Оффенбаха
 1861 Тангейзер, Ріхарда Вагнера
 1865 Африканка, Джакомо Меєрбера
 1867 Дон Карлос, Джузеппе Верді
 1884 Манон, Жуля Массне
 1885 Сід, Жуля Массне
 1902 Пелеас і Мелисанда, Клода Дебюссі
 1910 Жар-птиця, С. П. Дягілєва, І. Ф. Стравінського
 1911 Іспанська година, Моріса Равеля
 1927 Бідний матрос, Даріуса Мійо
 1947 Груди Тіресіаса, Франсіса Пуленка
 1979 Лулу, Альбана Берга
 1983 Святий Франциск Ассізський, Олів'є Мессіана

Цікаві факти
Солістом Паризької національної опери у 1997—2002 роках був вихованець Львівської консерваторії Василь Сліпак, який брав участь в боях проти російських окупантів на Донбасі у складі добровольчого корпусу «Правий сектор» й загинув у бою.

Примітки

Посилання
 Офіційний сайт опери

Оперні театри Франції
Театри, засновані 1669
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Once network paths are created, there are a number of actions you can perform to locate the ones you are looking for. Actions include find, filter, group, sort, and specify columns. In addition, you can enable or disable path monitoring.
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In the search field, enter the search string.
Network paths matching the search string are listed.
Click "=" to invert the search.
Click "x" to remove the search string.
To refine the search, you can add another search string by repeating these steps.
A filtering mechanism is available to help narrow down a search. Multiple filters can be combined together and with a search string for even further granularity.
Objects matching the filter type are listed.
Select one or more of the filter objects listed.
Network paths matching the selected filter objects are listed.
Click "=" to invert the filter.
Click "x" to remove the filter.
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You can use network path groups and saved lists to group network paths. You can then display them in these groups or grouped by a variety of other parameters.
In the Group By dropdown, select the parameter you want to use to group the network paths in the list, or select None to list without grouping.
The network paths are grouped according to the grouping parameter specified.
No matter how they are grouped, lists of network paths can be sorted based on data in any of the columns in the list.
If network paths are grouped, expand the group you are interested in so that you can see the network paths in the group.
Click the heading of the column you want to sort by.
The network paths are sorted by the column you selected.
Click the heading again to reverse the sort order.
You can specify up to 15 columns of network path information including path configuration information as well as live path stats. Each column can be used to sort the network paths.
Select the columns you want to display.
Click away from the list of columns.
The selected columns are displayed.
If you need to stop monitoring on one or more network paths indefinitely or for a period of time but you do not want to delete them, you can disable monitoring. You can disable monitoring on one network path at a time or several at once.
For the network path you want to disable, select > Disable Monitoring.
Specify when monitoring should be automatically re-enabled.
Monitoring is disabled on the network path.
The status icon for the network path indicates it is disabled.
Select the network paths you want to disable.
From the Action drop-down, click Disable Monitoring.
Click Preview and preview the changes.
Monitoring is disabled on the selected paths for the period you specified.
The status icon for the network paths indicates they are disabled.
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For the network path you want to enable, select > Enable Monitoring.
Monitoring is re-enabled on the network path.
The status icon for the network path indicates it is enabled.
Select the network paths you want to enable.
From the Action drop-down, click Enable Monitoring.
Confirm the network paths to be re-enabled.
Monitoring is re-enabled on the selected paths.
The status icon for the network paths indicates they are enabled.


God morgen, hvor vil du reise?
[ 구 모엔, 보르 빌 두 라이세 ] 좋은 아침, 어디 가고 싶니? Good morning, where do you want to go?
Det norske monarkiet har røtter som gÅr mer enn tusen År tilbake i tid.
Harald HÅrfagre regnes som den første norske Kongen, etter at han samlet Norge til ett rike omkring 890.
Fra Harald HÅrfagre til i dag har Norge hatt mer enn 60 navngitte regenter.
Dagens konge tilhører fyrsteslekten Glucksburg, som har regjert Norge siden 1905.
첫번째 왕이었던 Harald HÅrfagre는 약885년에 하나의 영토에 있던 노르웨이이의 작은 왕국들을 통합하였다.
Harald HÅrfagre 왕 시대부터 현재까지 60개 이상의 자치 독립지역을 가지고 있다.
현재의 왕은 1905년부터 노르웨이를 통치하고 있다.
The Norwegian monarchy dates back more than one thousand years.
Harald Fairhair, regarded as the first Norwegian king, united the petty kingships of Norway into a single realm in about 885.
From the time of Harald Fairhair until the present day, Norway has had more than 60 named sovereigns.
The current King belongs to the House of Glucksburg, which has ruled Norway since 1905.
Selv om Norges historie gÅr langt tilbake, er Norge samtidig relativt ung som selvstendig nasjon i moderne tid.
Fra 1380 var Norge den underlegne part i en union med - og senere en del av - Danmark.
Unionen med Danmark ble oppløst som en følge av Napoleonskrigene i 1814, da Norge igjen ble en selvstendig nasjon med egen grunnlov. Men etter bare noen korte mÅneder ble Norge en del av en union med Sverige.
Denne gangen som en selvstendig stat, men med felles konge og felles utenrikspolitikk.
Norge gÅr ut av unionen med Sverige i 1905 og velger sin egen konge: Kong Haakon VII.
노르웨이 역사는 오래 되었지만 독립국가로서의 노르웨이는 얼마되지 않았다.
노르웨이는 통합으로 인하여 통치권을 주었으며, 점차적으로 덴마크의 통제를 받기 시작했다.
덴마크와 통합한 이후 나폴레옹 전쟁으로 인해 1814년에 통합이 풀어졌다.
다시 짧은 기간 동안이지만 노르웨이는 다시 독립국가가 되었으나 몇 달후에 노르웨이는 스웨덴으로부터 스웨덴과 통합할 것을 강요 당했다.
그러나 스웨덴과 통합한 시기는 독립국가이지만 하나의 왕으로 합쳐지고 스웨덴의 외교방침을 따라가야만 했다.
1905년에 노르웨이는 스웨덴으로부터 독립했고, 노르웨이는 첫번째왕으로 King Haakon VII을 선출하였다.
Although Norwegian history goes back many centuries, modern Norway as an independent nation is relatively young.
In 1380 Norway and Denmark were merged under a single monarch, but Norway was given a subordinate role in the union and came increasingly under Danish control.
The union with Denmark was dissolved in 1814 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.
For a brief time, Norway once again became an independent nation, drawing up its own constitution.
Just a few months later, however, Norway was compelled to enter into a union with Sweden - this time as an independent nation, but with a common king and joint foreign policy.
In 1905 the union of Norway and Sweden was dissolved, and Norway chose its own monarch: King Haakon VII.
Hva het den første norske kongen i moderne tid?
What was the first Norwegian king in modern times named?
현대사회에서 노르웨이 최초의 왕의 이름은 무엇이냐?
Den første norske kongen i moderne tid het Hakon VII (den syvende).
The first Norwegian king in modern times was named Hakon VII (the Seventh).
현대사회에서 최초의 노르웨이 왕의 이름은 호콘 7세이다.
Nei, han var en dansk prins som ble valgt til konge i Norge I 1905 da unionen mellom Sverige og Norge ble oppløst.
No, he was a Danish prince who was chosen (by referendum) to be the king of Norway in 1905 when the union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved.
아니, 그는 덴마크 왕자이며 스웨덴과 노르웨이 동맹이 깨진 1905년에 노르웨이 왕으로 선출되었다.
Var Kong Hakon VII gift?
Was King Hakon VII married?
Ja, han var gift med en engelsk prinsesse som het Maud.
Yes, he was married to an English princess who was named Maud.
그래 그는 모드라는 이름을 가진 영국 공주와 결혼을 했다.
Hadde Kong Hakon og Dronning Maud barn?
Did King Hakon and Queen Maud have children?
Ja, de hadde en sønn som het Olav. Han var født i 1903.
Yes, they had a son who was named Olav. He was born in 1903.
그래 그들은 1903년에 때어난 올라브라는 아들을 가지고 있었다.
Nar ble Olav konge i Norge?
When did Olav become king in Norway?
올라브는 노르웨이에서 언제 왕이 되었느냐?
Olav ble konge i Norge i 1957 da kong Hakon døde.
Olav became king in Norway in 1957 when King Hakon died.
Ja, han var gift med en svensk prinsesse som het Martha.
Yes, he was married to a Swedish princess who was named Martha.
그래 그는 스웨덴 공주인 마르타와 결혼했다.
Men hun døde før Olav ble konge i Norge.
But she died before Olav became king in Norway.
그러나 그녀는 올라브가 노르웨이 왕이 되기 전에 죽었다.
Hadde Olav og Martha barn?
Did Olav and Martha have children?
올라브와 마르타와 사이에 아이들은 있었느냐?
Ja, de hadde en sønn som heter Harald og to døtre som heter Ragnhild og Astrid.
Yes, they had a son who is named Harald and two daughters who are named Ragnhild and Astrid.
그래 그들은 하랄드라는 아들과 랑느힐드, 아스트리드라는 두 딸을 있었다.
Nar ble Harald konge i Norge?
When did Harald become king in Norway?
Harald ble konge i Norge i 1991 da Kong Olav døde.
Harald became king in Norway in 1991 when Kong Olav died.
Er Kong Harald V (den femte) gift?
Is King Harald V (the fifth) married?
하랄드 5세 왕은 결혼 했느냐?
Ja, han er gift med Sonja. Hun er dronning i Norge.
Yes, he is married to Sonja. She is queen in Norway.
그래 그는 소냐와 결혼했다. 그녀는 노르웨이 왕비이다.
Har Kong Harald og Dronning Sonja barn?
Do King Harald and Queen Sonja have children?
하랄드왕과 소냐 여왕 사이에 아이들은 있느냐?
Ja, de har en datter som heter Martha Louise og en sønn som heter Hakon Magnus.
Yes, they have a daughter who is named Martha Louise and a son who is named Hakon Magnus.
그래 그들은 딸 마르타 로우이세와 아들 호콘 마그누스를 가지고 있다.
Prinsesse Martha Louise er født i 1971, og Kronprins Hakon Magnus er født i 1973.
Princess Martha Louise was born in 1971, and Crown Prince Hakon Magnus was born in 1973.


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Mae West (Mary Jane West)
Legendary Entertainer, Actress. She made her theatrical debut at age 7 for an Elks-sponsored amateur talent contest on the stage of a local vaudeville theater; the award she received for her effort, a gold medal, set the tone for a lifetime of winning appearances. Soon she would achieve professional status performing roles as Little Nell and Huck Finn's girl Becky Thatcher with stock companies. While playing a vaudeville date, she met song & dance man Frank Wallace. The two formed an act, and on April 11, 1911, were married briefly. It would be the only "marriage" for the Lady with an insatiable libido. In November of 1911 Mae West entered a Shubert show, "Vera Violetta", with Al Jolson and Gaby Deslys, followed by other Broadway signings. Encouraged by her Mother to create her own plays, she authored "Sex" in 1926, "The Drag" in 1927, followed the same year by "The Wicked Age", in 1928 "Diamond Lil" (the character 'Diamond Lil' virtually became Mae West's alter-ego), then "Pleasure Man" in 1928, and "The Constant Sinner" in 1931, after which she journeyed to Hollywood to appear in "Night After Night" starring George Raft and Constance Cummings for Paramount (1932). "Night" was to be Mae West's first in an even dozen Classic films that spanned 46 years, among them "She Done Him Wrong" with Cary Grant (1933), "I'm No Angel" also with Cary Grant (1933), "My Little Chickadee" with W.C. Fields (1940), "Myra Breckenridge" with John Huston (1970), and her final motion picture, "Sextette" with Timothy Dalton (1978). Additionally, she performed her stage play "Diamond Lil" for SRO audiences across the country for nearly 5 years (including an 8 month tour of England in 1947). Record-breaking night club appearances ensued in Las Vegas and Reno, New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. Mae West was heard on radio shows (most notably Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy) and made select television appearances, including The Academy Awards Show with Rock Hudson (1958), Red Skelton (1961), Mr. Ed with Alan Young (1964), and Dick Cavett's "Back-Lot" (1976). She also recorded a number of albums, including "The Fabulous Mae West (Decca) and "Way Out West" (Tower). During World War II the British Royal Air Force immortalized her name in the dictionary by naming an inflatable life jacket after her, and in 1968 she was honored by University of Southern California's cinema fraternity, Delta Kappa Alpha. Mae West starred in every facet of show business in a career which spanned over 75 years, praised by the critics, slammed by the censors, and loved by audiences the world over. She was celebrated as the epitome of witty sexuality, employing clever double-entendres throughout the course of her career and maneuvering them past the eyes and ears of the censors, causing her public to adore her even more. She was often quoted as saying, "I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it." In her 1959 autobiography, "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It", Miss West advised: "Let go of the things that can't possibly matter to you, and you'll always have room for the better things that come along. I learned early that two and two are four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it." Describing herself she explained "It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it and how I look when I do it and say it." The bawdy invitation she often extended, "Come up and see me sometime", became synonymous with the buxom star. Mae West passed away November 22, 1980 in her Hollywood apartment (Ravenswood) after a brief illness associated with old age. Private services conducted by Dr. Lloyd Ogilvie and attended by about 100 close friends and family, were held in the Old North Church at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills. Her eulogy, written by Kevin Thomas and delivered by producer Ross Hunter, concluded "Mae West always said that no one was ever to feel sorry for her, and she would not want anyone to start now….Mae West figured that in one way or another she would live forever. And she probably will." Entombment in the family mausoleum at Cypress Hills Abbey in Brooklyn, New York.
The large Abbey was built in 1929, and Mae West is buried in one of the crypts inside.
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brief illness associated with old age
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Baseball and Softball Return to the Olympics: What to Watch and Expect
For the first time in 13 years, baseball and softball will be contested at the Olympics.
Thanks to Japan's ardent love of both sports, baseball and softball are back in the Games after being voted out in 2005 as permanent Olympic offerings. The criticisms then were that the sports weren't global enough and, in baseball's case, the best players in the world didn't participate. Baseball, played by men in the Olympics, had officially joined the Games in 1992 and softball, played by women, in 1996.
This summer is a long time coming for several athletes. Some softball players had retired and then came out of retirement when their sport was brought back for the Tokyo Games. Others stuck it out for years hoping for this moment.
The return of softball and baseball will be brief, however, since neither is a permanent Olympic sport. They weren't included by the organizing committee of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. But there is hope: Baseball and softball are widely expected to return in 2028, when Los Angeles is the host.
Which countries are playing?
In previous Olympics, eight teams competed in each sport's tournament. This year, there will be only six.
In baseball, the teams are Japan (which has appeared in every Olympics for baseball and is ranked No. 1 in the world), the United States (which won gold in 2000 and is ranked No. 4) and South Korea (which won gold in 2008 and is ranked No. 3). Making their first appearances in the Olympics for baseball are Mexico, which is No. 5 in the world, and Israel, the Cinderella of the tournament and ranked No. 24. The Dominican Republic, the last team to qualify and No. 7 in the world, rounds out the field.
(The country with the most gold medals in baseball — Cuba, with three — didn't qualify.)
In softball, the teams are headlined by the United States (which won gold in 1996, 2000 and 2004, and is the top-ranked team in the world) and Japan (which won gold in 2008 and is ranked No. 2). No. 3 Canada and No. 8 Australia will be making their fifth Olympic appearances in softball. Making its first is Mexico, ranked No. 5 in the world. No. 9 Italy is back for the first time since 2004.
How do the tournaments work?
In softball, the tournament is straightforward: Each team will play each other once, so five games per squad. Then the top two teams after the round-robin stage will play for the gold medal, while the next two best teams compete for a bronze medal.
In baseball, it's more complicated. The six teams are divided into two groups of three — Japan, Mexico and the Dominican Republic in Group A, and South Korea, the United States and Israel in Group B. Each team will play the other two teams within their group during the round-robin stage.
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In the knockout round, the two group winners advance straight to a second knockout round. But the two second-place teams and the two third-place teams face each other. The loser of the latter game is eliminated.
From then on, the games are played in a double-elimination format. The winners from each side of the bracket — the winners' side and the losers' side — play each other for the gold medal. Got all that? (For an easier-to-digest flow chart, see here.)
When and where are the games?
The games will be played mostly at Yokohama Baseball Stadium, about 40 minutes south of downtown Tokyo. A few games, including the opening games of each tournament, will be at Fukushima Azuma Baseball Stadium, about three and a half hours north of Tokyo.
The softball tournament has already begun, even before the opening ceremony, and runs through July 27. (The United States won its first two games.) The baseball competition goes from July 28 to Aug. 7.
Who are the teams and the players to watch?
In baseball, the betting favorite is Japan, followed by the United States and South Korea. The top professional league in the world, Major League Baseball in the United States, doesn't pause its season for the Olympics, nor are its players allowed to play in the Games. But Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan and the Korea Baseball Organization in South Korea do take a break to allow their players to participate.
As a result, the Japanese roster is filled with talent. It has many veteran stars who are former Japanese league M.V.P.s., including pitcher Masahiro Tanaka, the former Yankees All-Star who returned to the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Nippon league this season; pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano; and infielders Hayato Sakamoto and Tetsuto Yamada. There are also younger standouts like Yoshinobu Yamamoto, a hard-throwing pitcher, and Seiya Suzuki, a power-hitting outfielder.
In softball, many signs point to another showdown between the United States and Japan for the gold medal. The Americans have claimed the top prize in three of the four previous Olympics. The only time they didn't was in 2008, when Japan handed the United States its only loss that tournament behind the powerful arm of Yukiko Ueno. She tossed 413 pitches in three games over the final two days, including outdueling the American star pitchers Cat Osterman and Monica Abbott in a 3-1 win for the gold medal.
All three of those pitchers are back, and the U.S. roster has added young talent that wasn't around back then, including Haylie McCleney, a slugging outfielder, and infielder Ali Aguilar.
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