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Solomon Bayley: The Hope of Escaping Slavery
Date(s): January 1, 1813 to December 31, 1825
Location(s): RICHMOND, Virginia
Tag(s): Slave Trade, Escaping slavery
Course: "The United States: A Nation Divided, 1836-1876," Wheaton College
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Solomon Bayley touched the tender side of slavery in his narrative. Torn away from his enslaved family in Delaware and carried off in a wagon, Bayley jumped to freedom. It was only the chance to buy back his wife and son that motivated Bayley. On his adventure he was forced to journey by foot through Virginia, and ran into scheming slaves and slave owners. Bayley finally made it to the slave markets where his wife and son were being sold. The most revealing ordeal Bayley encountered is one in which he bought his wife. The ties of affection to his wife glistened brightly. Not only did the daughter of his wife's master plea for Bayley to succeed but other white southerners felt the need chip in as well. With a daughter's sympathy and borrowed money, Bayley was able to strike a deal, in which he bought his wife and only had to be enslaved to a benevolent white slave owner for a year.
Bayley's narrative is evidently relatable to Walter Johnson's book, Soul by Soul. Johnson presents us with the rigors of slave trade. At the trading market it was common for slaves to use emotion in order to be traded where they wished to be or not. Case in point, Bayley has to rely on the use of emotion to appeal to the daughter and white men. By Bayley showing distress and despair, the white men and daughter decide to lend a hand. However, the slave owners want Bayley's family to be enslaved to them for the coming year. Bayley agreed to this deal. Bayley was exercising the little agency a free slave has when he or she has leverage (i.e an able-bodied family and money). The dream of reuniting his family on a plantation and eventually situating his family in a completely free lifestyle is Bayley's end goal. We are also able to see the struggle and anxiety slaves had to go through just to see their family again. Bayley was able to conquer his anxiety through prayer and see his goal to the end. This connects to Walter Johnson's Sould By Soul on page 180 when Johnson provides the example of the slave Henry. Henry bargained with the slave owners to be sold with his wife or else he would runaway. Johnson describes the Henry and Bayley's behavior perfectly on page 180 when he shares "Slaves who were brave enough to meet insincere questions with a sincere response built upon the accreted experience of the slave market with unwilling slaves..." Bayley was candid towards the benevolent owners in sharing his financial problems. It took alot of guts to stand up for himself and ask for his wife. After reading Johnson it is clear that slaves do have agency which enabled them appeal to owners.
Solomon Bayley, A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the LIfe of Solomon Bayley, Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware, North America;Written by Himself,and Published for His Benefit;to Which Are Prefixed, a Few Remarks by Robert Hurnard. (London: Harvey and Darton, 1825).
Walter Johnson, Soul By Soul: Life Inside The Antebellum Slave Market., N/A (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), 180.


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In the course of revising Regulation (1316/2013) establishing the Connecting Europe Facility, the European Parliament proposed in its position, adopted on 12 December 2018, to open the Trans-European Network-Energy (TEN-E) Regulation (347/2013) for revision in the light of the European Union's present climate and energy targets. Our four Associations representing the DSOs at EU level – CEDEC, E.DSO, Eurelectric, GEODE – welcome this proposal and would like to emphasise a few key points for the consideration of the EU institutions in their trilogue discussions. Why is a revision needed? Since the adoption of the Regulation, the picture has changed substantially: the political priority and citizens' consensus has moved from an energy policy focused on large infrastructures to more decentralised energy networks allowing customer empowerment and integration of large amounts of renewables. The TEN-E Regulation neither reflects this new situation in the European energy system nor supports reaching the Union's climate and energy goals as put forward in the Clean Energy for All Europeans Package and the Paris Agreement. A revision is therefore necessary to make sure that the Regulation truly supports projects contributing to these energy and climate objectives.
The DSOs have become ever more important and central in the energy system. This is particularly the case with regards to customer participation and integration of RES, as currently around 90 % of European renewables are connected at distribution level. However, to date, only four DSO smart grid projects have been selected as Projects of Common Interest (PCI) to be implemented under the TEN-E Framework, out of 170+. The continuous increase of renewable energy and electrification, in accordance with climate and energy targets, does and will require considerable investments in the distribution system's infrastructure. It is thus essential to revise the TEN-E Regulation so that it reflects the importance of DSOs in the energy transition and the priorities in the transformation of the distribution systems, and supports the facilitation of the needed investments.
Furthermore, in order to best serve the realisation of EU's energy and climate targets as well as empower customers, the TEN-E Framework must be revised to encompass and benefit from the contributions of prosumers and new technologies such as energy storage, demand side response, micro-grids (possibly cross-border), electric mobility.
What should a revision include?
In case the TEN-E Regulation would be opened for review, our Associations propose that such a revision take an ambitious step to adapt to the energy system of the future and contribute to its establishment throughout the EU, in line with the Vision 2050 identified by the multi-stakeholder European Technology and Innovation Platform on Smart Networks for the Energy Transition (ETIP SNET).
With regards to the content of the current TEN-E Regulation, some clear improvements should be highlighted here. As a starting point, our Associations underline the need for a shift in mindset and a new approach and definition to "(Projects of) Common Interest." From a Regulation centred exclusively around large cross-border transmission infrastructure, a new TEN-E Framework should adapt to new forms of infrastructure projects that take into account the current needs and future trends in the European energy sector: digitalisation, customer participation, decentralisation, system-market interactions, and that integrate innovative solutions. As such, a bridge could be established between the TEN-E Framework, recent innovations and the upcoming research framework of the EU: Horizon Europe.
Projects connecting isolated systems – e.g. islands.
Projects between Member States using digital platforms to release the benefits of smart grids in both sides of borders.
Projects that lead to a broader adoption of similar concepts across Europe, such as smart grid solutions in multiple Member States which generate additional value for the connected citizens.
Projects that foster a European approach to flexibility and to extending the engagement of consumers, notably by better linking distribution and transmission system operation to existing and new centralised and local markets.
In addition, a revised TEN-E Regulation should of course adapt the criteria for participation in Projects of Common Interest. Our Associations propose the new Regulation to decrease the number of criteria that smart grid projects must pursue from 6 to 3, to include infrastructure funding down to low-voltage projects (<10kV), to remove the compulsory participation of both TSOs and DSOs in smart grid projects.
Last but not least, our Associations remind of the current regulatory constraints in terms of administrative complexity and punishing revenue schemes, the latter relating particularly to low funding rate in CEF and unfavourable national revenue regulation in multiple Member States, which neutralise or even exceed the grant received. This situation not only disincentivises DSOs from participating in PCI projects, it also means that those that participate do not benefit from the same level of regulatory support by the TEN-E Framework as provided to larger infrastructure projects. This double discrimination constitutes a large obstacle to the participation of DSOs in PCI smart grid projects. Therefore, our Associations propose for a new TEN-E Framework to better adapt to the regulatory constraints of the DSOs and to provide the necessary regulatory support to smart grid projects once they have been selected.
Our Associations and their Members remain fully committed to contribute to the fulfilment of EU climate and energy goals and believe that a revision of the TEN-E framework could enhance this further.


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Q: Hibernate Master-SubDetails Mapping I'd like to explore Hibernate and used it in my project instead of JDBC.
My table design is highly normalized.
Suppose, I have this use case: Each insurance applied by a customer has one associated rateplan.  Usually, in RDBMS this is implemented using two tables like below.
Table Insurance:
    id long;
    accountHolder varchar;
    ratePlanId int;  -->Rate Plan Id is Foreign Key to the RatePlanTable

Table RatePlan:
    ratePlanId int;
    ratePlanDesc varchar;
    discountRate double;

Now, my question is..does this qualify as a onetomany relationship?
Most of the examples that I am seeing on the net regarding onetomany, involves some sort of collections (e.g An Order has a list of products). And when represented in class is translated below, which I think is really a one to many case?
public class Order{
    private List products;
}

But how about my case?  I don't think that it is a onetomany or I am just mislead by the examples?
How can I do a hbm mapping for my two classes?  In my case, I would create two class to represent the two tables, but I am not sure how the hbm.xml would look like for the two class.

A: Yes, it is a one to many relationship, in that one rate plan is associated with many insurance policies.  In entity traversal, when you would go from the Policy, you would get one Plan object, and conversely, from a Plan object, you would get a list of Policy objects.

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MUNICIPAL LIBRARY – VARIATION AND CONSOLIDATION AT THE RENOVATION – PATERNO' (CT)
Location: Paternò - Catania, Italy
Designer: ing. Luigi Asero, ing. Salvatore Asero, ing. Antonino Russo, arch. Salvatore Borzì
Construction manager: ing. Luigi Asero, ing. Salvatore Asero, ing. Antonino Russo, arch. Salvatore Borzì
Note: The Municipal Library is housed within the former Paternò Monastery of SS. Annunziata, which is the greatest Baroque monument of the city and one of the most important in eastern Sicily. The building of the monastery dates back to 1662, but the bulk of the building dates from the years following the earthquake of 1693. The monastery has lent his work, since 1769, Stephen Ittar, a major player in the Sicilian Baroque. The project, currently being finalized, provides for the structural rehabilitation of a wing of the building that was uninhabitable following damage caused by the earthquake of 1990. He realized, moreover, the Adaptation of the library to more appropriate functional standards, thanks to the recent availability of new factories and to their restructuring. Particularly significant was the design on the adaptation of structures and facilities, in full compliance with the building of monumental significance.

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LONDON (Reuters) – British inflation fell more than expected in September to a three-month low, offering some relief to consumers who have been squeezed financially since the Brexit vote.
Consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 2.4 percent, more than reversing August's jump to a six-month high of 2.7 percent, the Office for National Statistics said.
That was well below the consensus forecast of 2.6 percent in a Reuters poll of economists.
Sterling fell against the dollar and euro while British government bond prices rose.
The figures are likely to reassure Bank of England officials who forecast in August that inflation would average around 2.5 percent over the July-September quarter.
"Coupled with the gradual up-tick in wages, the slowing rise in prices will deliver a boost to consumers' real take-home pay packets, which will also be welcome news for retailers," said Tej Parikh, senior economist at the Institute of Directors.
"The Bank of England will be unruffled by this week's data releases, and remains unlikely to budge on interest rates as it continues to monitor the impact of Brexit developments."
The BoE expects it will need to raise interest rates gradually in response to rising wages, assuming Britain manages to strike a deal with the European Union to smooth its exit from the bloc.
On Tuesday, the ONS said the basic wages of workers had risen at their fastest pace in nearly a decade over the summer months. But wage growth of 3.1 percent remains meagre by historical standards when adjusted for inflation.
The BoE expects inflation to drift down but stay just above its 2 percent target in two years' time as it gradually raises borrowing costs.
Consumer price inflation hit a five-year high of 3.1 percent in November, when the inflationary effect of the pound's tumble after the Brexit vote in June 2016 reached its peak.
MEAT AND CHOCOLATE
The ONS said food prices, particularly of meat and chocolate, represented the biggest drag on September's inflation rate. Ferry prices dropped from a "surprisingly high" summer peak.
Still, there could be more short-term pressure in the pipeline for consumer prices.
For manufacturers, the cost of raw materials – many of them imported – was 10.3 percent higher than in September 2017, up from a revised 9.4 percent in August.
That was a bigger jump than any economist had forecast in the Reuters poll, which anticipated a rise of 9.2 percent.
Manufacturers increased the prices they charged by 3.1 percent compared with 2.9 percent in August, again stronger than all forecasts in the poll, which had pointed to a 2.9 percent increase.
The ONS said house prices in August rose by an annual 3.2 percent across the United Kingdom as a whole, the smallest rise since August 2013 and compared with a 3.4 percent increase in July. Prices in London alone slipped 0.2 percent.


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Black Immigrant Domestic Workers Share Notes on the Storm
Between Covid-19, the resulting economic depression, and structural racism, Black immigrant domestic workers are at the epicenter of three converging crises.
Blogging Our Great Divide
by Negin Owliaei Sofia Salazar
Leydis Muñoz's hands constantly smell of bleach these days. Muñoz, an Afro-Latina domestic worker living in New York City, has been cleaning constantly for fear of contracting Covid-19. Her employer let her go as a nanny last year to avoid paying maternity leave. Now, thanks to fear of the virus, it's a struggle to find work.
"If we don't work, we don't get paid," Muñoz said. "If we don't get paid, we don't eat or have any shelter for our family."
Muñoz is far from alone. Black immigrant domestic workers are at the epicenter of three converging storms — the pandemic, the resulting economic depression, and structural racism. A recently-released survey from the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Institute for Policy Studies reveals the compounding effects of these crises on Black immigrant domestic workers in Massachusetts, New York City, and Miami-Dade county. Muñoz was one of the domestic workers sharing her story during a press conference for the survey's release.
More than 800 domestic workers in all three locales have reported dramatic changes in their job situations as the pandemic has progressed. Seventy percent have either lost their jobs or seen their hours and pay reduced. The situation is particularly dire in Miami-Dade, where 83 percent of workers surveyed said their position had been terminated and an additional 9 percent said they had less pay.
"The reality is that these domestic workers have been working throughout this pandemic and they feel even more stretched and even more unseen and even more vulnerable during this economic time," Marc Bayard, the Director of the Institute for Policy Studies' Black Worker Initiative, said on the call. The financial instability means that 65 percent of surveyed workers worry they're at risk for being evicted or having their utilities shut off.
The precarious nature of their work also has consequences on their health. Of the workers surveyed, 73 percent said they'd not received any personal protective equipment from their employers, and 51 percent don't have medical insurance. Those responses are especially concerning as 25 percent have either had Covid-19 symptoms themselves, or live with someone who has exhibited symptoms.
Lydia is one such worker. A mother of three, her husband became the sole breadwinner when she was let go in mid-April over Covid-19 concerns. "My income just stopped like that," she said. "I was not given any advance notice or unemployment benefits." Her situation deteriorated when her husband became ill with Covid-19 himself. "Right now, domestic workers are facing crisis after crisis," she said, expressing the need for direct cash assistance as well as policy changes that could protect workers like her when they lose their jobs.
"Domestic workers…are doing many of the same jobs as other essential workers, but have not received as much attention, and definitely have not received as much support in terms of the equipment they need to protect themselves," Bayard said. "Given the fragility of this industry and the lack of regulation, rules, and work contracts…the lack of safety-net and job security has really been highlighted," Bayard said.
Threatening rhetoric towards immigrants has only made access to resources markedly worse. Nearly half of the workers surveyed said they were fearful of seeking assistance from governments due to concerns over their immigration status.
As political officials consider how to address the intertwined health and economic crises, they should center the needs of Black immigrant domestic workers in recovery efforts. "In addition to policing, which we know has its own origins in the slave economy, similar to domestic work — we're seeing this converge with all these other existing crises," Aimée-Josiane Twagirumukiza, the Black Organizing Director at National Domestic Workers Alliance, said. "And how it manifests for Black domestic workers is that they're working and living through multiple crises all the time."
Both the pandemic and the protests in the streets over police violence are two concrete examples of how the foundational racism of the United States continues today. Black Americans are dying from Covid-19 at several times the rate of white Americans and face higher rates of unemployment. They're also more likely to be harassed by police over social distancing guidelines.
Governments could help address immediate needs by offering concrete relief accessible to all families, including cash assistance and eviction and utility shut-off moratoriums, Twagirumukiza said. And recovery, from both the pandemic and depression, should be focused towards solutions that build up a lasting care infrastructure. One way to do that, NDWA policy manager Alana Eichner mentioned, is by heeding the call to defund the police, and choosing instead to invest in housing, nutrition, healthcare, and other policies that build resilience.
"As state economies begin to open up, what we don't want to do is for things to go back to normal," Twagirumukiza said. "We can see that normal hasn't worked for most industries, and especially not for domestic workers."
Negin Owliaei is a researcher at the Institute for Policy Studies. Sofia Salazar is a Next Leader at the Institute for Policy Studies.
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Care Economy,
Labor,
Gender Gap,
by Negin Owliaei
by Sofia Salazar
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Transit workers backed by unions and equity groups in solidarity with demonstrators demanding justice for Black people killed by police.
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'We can't address the climate crisis without big changes at BlackRock.'
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by Sarah Anderson


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Q: Expand uitableview cell height while typing and avoid keyboard I have a tableview with textview. I want to set tableviewcell height according to the content of uitextview while typing and also if keyboard hides uitexview scroll table.
Below is the code for expanding cell height according to the content
func updateCellHeight(indexPath: NSIndexPath, comment: String,textview: UITextView) {

    let tempDict = arrayTexts[indexPath.row] as! NSMutableDictionary
    tempDict.setValue(comment, forKey: "content")
    arrayTexts[indexPath.row] = tempDict
    self.tblFields.beginUpdates()
    self.tblFields.endUpdates()

}

The above code is working but its not avoiding keyboard
Below code is for avoiding keyboard
func textviewBeginEditing(textview: UITextView) {
    let contentInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 0, bottom: keyboardHeight, right: 0)

    self.tblFields.contentInset = contentInsets
    self.tblFields.scrollIndicatorInsets = contentInsets

    // If active text field is hidden by keyboard, scroll it so it's visible
    // Your app might not need or want this behavior.
    var aRect = self.view.frame
    aRect.size.height -= keyboardHeight

    if !aRect.contains(textview.frame.origin) {
        self.tblFields.scrollRectToVisible(textview.frame, animated: false)
    }

}

The above code sometimes avoids keyboard and sometimes not but the tableview continuously scrolls up on typing and is not working properly. Whats my mistake?

A: Remove the code from textviewBeginEditing function and add following code
func updateCellHeight(indexPath: NSIndexPath, comment: String, textview: UITextView) {

    let tempDict = arrayTexts[indexPath.row] as! NSMutableDictionary
    tempDict.setValue(comment, forKey: "value")
    arrayTexts[indexPath.row] = tempDict

    if textview.systemLayoutSizeFitting(UIView.layoutFittingCompressedSize).height != textview.frame.size.height {

        UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(false)
        self.tblFields.beginUpdates()
        self.tblFields.endUpdates()
        UIView.setAnimationsEnabled(true)

    }

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Lyndon Baines Johnson dies in Texas
On January 22, 1973, former President Lyndon Baines Johnson dies in Johnson City, Texas, at the age of 64.
After leaving the White House in 1968, L.B.J. returned to his beloved home state, Texas, with his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, and immersed himself in the activity dearest to him: ranching. Although ostensibly retired, L.B.J. kept up a busy daily schedule reminiscent of his days in the White House.
His biographer, Doris Kearns, observed Johnson going about ranching duties with the same intensity he had once displayed at work in the Oval Office. At morning meetings on the ranch, Johnson instructed each hand to "make a solemn pledge that you will not go to bed tonight until you are sure that every steer has everything he needs."
Additionally, Johnson insisted that "We've got a chance of producing some of the finest beef in this country if we work at it." Regarding his chickens, Johnson said, "if we treat those hens with loving care we should be able to produce the finest eggs in the country."
Each night he found not presidential briefings on his bedside table, but reports he had ordered on the ranch's daily production of eggs. To Kearns, Johnson's obsession with his hens' inability to produce as many eggs as he expected contained a hint of the frustration he had once experienced in trying to win an apparently un-winnable war in Vietnam.
Beneath the bustle, Johnson remained, in his own words, miserable. For a man who had wanted to carve out a legacy as the creator of a Great Society in America, his disappointment that his part in escalating the Vietnam War overshadowed his other accomplishments was immense.
Johnson's impressive record included successful social and economic reforms such as the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act, improvements in housing and urban development and strong support for America's space program, but these seemed to be forgotten as public criticism of the war dogged L.B.J. into retirement and even beyond the grave.
On the day of Nixon's second inaugural celebration, Johnson watched sullenly as Nixon announced the dismantling of many of Johnson's Great Society social programs and, the next day, that he had achieved the ceasefire in Vietnam that had eluded Johnson.
The following day, while Lady Bird and their daughters were in Austin, Johnson suffered a fatal heart attack at his ranch in Johnson City.
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Published: April 13, 2018, 1:14 pm
Tags: Local, News, Coral Gables
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Coral Gables police chief showed 'immaturity as leader' in response to pool photo, report states
City manager warns Chief Ed Hudak to act more professionally
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak showed his "immaturity as a leader and an inability to learn from an undesirable situation" during his response to city officials about why he attended a pool party and posed for a photo with 14 female officers last July, a letter of reprimand to Hudak from City Manager Cathy Swanson-Rivenbark said.
According to the letter, Hudak was in full uniform when he attended a pool party with female subordinates on July 19, 2017.
An independent investigator hired by the city after the photo was posted on social media and then put out by the media noted that there was no specific policy prohibiting the police chief's attendance at the party, but the city manager wrote that as "Chief of Police you should always remain cognizant that your conduct will be closely scrutinized by subordinates, the media and the citizens/residents that you serve."
File: Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak letter of reprimand
Swanson-Rivenbark said Hudak's response to the incident was more troubling as he failed to show any remorse and even told a major during the investigation that he would attend the party again if similar circumstances presented themselves.
The city manager said in the letter that Hudak also lied about praising the 14 officers at the party, claiming to tell them how proud the police department is of them and telling the officers they need to continue to "employ their training" to do their jobs as safety and compassionately as possible.
Swanson-Rivenbark said all 14 officers were interviewed and none recalled the police chief praising their work at the pool party.
According to the letter, Hudak also saw one of the women, Sgt. Lauren Poole, use her city-issued vehicle to arrive at the party. Hudak later approved the use of the vehicle, although he was not authorized to do so, the letter stated.
Local 10 News learned in November that the city received an anonymous letter from a person who claimed to have been at the party.
Officials said the letter was filled with allegations of sexual misconduct against the chief and sexually explicit comments about the women.
Similar derogatory remarks were also made on the Instagram post where the photo was posted.
According to a collection of emails, the head of the police union asked city officials for an independent investigation in August, but it wasn't until November that officers sat down with the investigator.
"The city never reached out to any of them in three months just to ask them if they were OK," Coral Gables Police Union President John Baublitz said.
The retired officer who investigated the claims in the letter cleared the police chief of any wrongdoing.
According to a newly released report, there were allegations in the letter that the female officers were embarrassed to see the police chief at the party, but the report stated that none of the officers claimed to be uncomfortable and "all expressed some level of satisfaction with his turnout."
The city manager stated in her letter of reprimand that Hudak claimed during the investigation that the police department does not investigate anonymous complaints unless they contain criminal allegations, which Swanson-Rivenbark said is "an inaccurate and misleading statement."
The city manager ordered Hudak to "exercise a higher level of judgment" and said that failure to "practice more professional and mature judgment moving forward will result in further disciplinary action, including termination."
The city manager said the letter of reprimand has been permanently added to the police chief's personnel file.


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An EP marking the beginning of a one-man post-metal band... you know the drill? Well, Niss is worthy of listening to even if you think you've heard it all. The man behind the music, Robin Stjerndorff (I've managed to spell his name without copy/paste, someone stamp my pro lingo card please?), says he always preferred music that is meant to be listenable rather than danceable, and claims being passionate about creating new sounds and exploring new soundscapes - a claim which I've put to the test.
I'm pleased to say Robin passed it with flying colors. What we have here is quite similar to, let's say, What Mad Universe. Riffs are quite thick and sink to the bottom of your stomach; the mood is dark, depicting some heavily industrialized landscape. It reminded me of Tool with some dirty moments comparable to grunge as played by Alice In Chains. But those are just comparisons in terms of atmosphere, I don't think these were Robin's actual influences.
Sometimes there is a sense of unfinished work floating about - a few tempo changes seem rather like cuts, but they're probably made as such out of desire to make the record's flow more unexpected and catch us by surprise. There are also a few "underwritten" tracks: "Lockpick" is quite a nifty little number and should have been explored further musically, as well as "Electrical Potential" - which is merely an ambient break - containing some sort of rhythmic electric noise. But there is also a hint of the path Robin may take in the future, in the form of "Dodging Pitfalls", a very well composed track that isn't lacking in any department. The sound is surprisingly good, considering this isn't supported by any label.
Supporting the underground is something we metalheads have always taken pride in doing, and checking out releases like this is always a good way to keep up with the small caves in the lands of Metal, especially since it's available for free on the band's website until the 22nd of November. So, go get it while it's hot!
Can everyone see the album cover? The site was lagging when it was posted, some peeps see it and some don't.
Yay! I was up til 2:30AM last night trying to sort it out with Troy. Glad it works.
Nice review Mora! It should be checked out... Didn't know anything about this band till now.
Well actually, this is technically a material for Clandestine Cuts, but I wasn't aware of it, since this is my first review of an unsigned band's EP... so it's no wonder you haven't heard of it.


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Controversial Issues in History
Deep Throat: The Candidates
By John Simkin,
June 7, 2005 in Watergate
On 3rd July, 1972, Frank Sturgis, Virgilio Gonzalez, Eugenio Martinez, Bernard L. Barker and James W. McCord were arrested while breaking into the Democratic Party campaign offices in an apartment block called Watergate. It appeared that the men had been to wiretap the conversations of Larry O'Brien, chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein, two journalists employed by the Washington Post, began working on the story. On 19th June, Woodward telephoned a man who he called "an old friend" for information about the burglars. This man, who Woodward claims was a high-ranking federal employee, was willing to help Woodward as long as he was never named as a source. Later, Howard Simons, the managing editor of the newspaper, gave him the nickname "Deep Throat".
During their first telephone conversation with Bob Woodward Deep Throat insisted on certain conditions. According to All the President's Men: "His identity was unknown to anyone else. He could be contacted only on very important occasions. Woodward had promised he would never identify him or his position to anyone. Woodward had also agreed never to quote the man, even as an anonymous source. Their discussions would be only to confirm information that had been obtained elsewhere and to add some perspective."
The first information that Deep Throat gave Woodward on 19th June was that the Federal Bureau of Investigation considered that E. Howard Hunt, a former member of the Central Intelligence Agency, was a major suspect in the case.
At first Woodward and Deep Throat communicated via telephone. However, by October, 1973, Deep Throat had become very worried that he would be identified as Woodward's main source and insisted that they had their meetings at about 2:00 am. in a pre-designated underground parking garage. Deep Throat even refused to use the phone to set up the meetings. It was agreed that if Woodward wanted a meeting he would place a flower pot with the red flag on the balcony of his apartment. On one occasion (25th February, 1973) the men met in a Washington bar.
As Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein explained in All the President's Men: "If Deep Throat wanted a meeting-which was rare-there was a different procedure. Each morning, Woodward would check page 20 of his New York Times, delivered to his apartment house before 7:00 am. If a meeting was requested, the page number would be circled and the hands of a clock indicating the time of the rendezvous would appear in a lower corner of the page."
According to Woodward's book, All the President's Men, he had at least fifteen conversations with Deep Throat while investigating the Watergate scandal. This included communications on 19th June (2 phone calls); 16th September, 1972 (phone call); 8th October, 1972 (phone call); 9th October, 1972 (garage meeting); 21st October, 1972 (garage meeting), 27th October, 1972 (garage meeting), late December, 1972 (undisclosed), 25th January, 1973 (garage meeting); 25th February, 1973 (meeting in bar); 16th April, 1973 (phone call); 16th May, 1973 (garage meeting) and a meeting during the first week of November, 1973.
In his book, Lost Honor, John Dean made a list of 30 possible candidates: White House Staff (Stephen Bull, Alexander P. Butterfield, Kenneth Clawson, Charles Colson, Leonard Garment, David Gergen, Alexander Haig, Richard Moore and Jonathan Rose); FBI (Thomas E. Bishop, Charles Bowles, Mark Felt, L. Patrick Gray and David Kinley), Justice Department (Carl Belcher, Richard Burke, John Keeney, Laurence McWhorter, Henry Peterson and Harold Shapiro); Secret Service (Lilburn Boggs, Charles Bretz, Roger Schwalm, Alfred Wong and Raymond Zumwalt).
In his memoirs, The Ends of Power, H. R. Haldeman, came to the conclusion that Deep Throat was John Dean's assistant, Fred F. Fielding. This view is supported by William Gaines, head of the Department of Journalism at the University of Illinois. As he points out "my students over 12 semesters poured over FBI reports, congressional testimony, White House documents in the National Archives and autobiographies of Watergate figures". Eventually, like Haldeman, they became convinced that Fielding was Deep Throat.
The authors of Silent Coup: The Removal of a President, claimed that the culprit was Alexander Haig, the man who replaced Haldeman as chief of staff in the Nixon administration. Jim Hougan (Secret Agenda) and John Dean (Lost Honor) also argued that Haig was probably Deep Throat. However, Haig was not in Washington during Woodward's meeting with Deep Throat on 9th October, 1972. The other problem with Haig concerns motivation. Was it really in his interests to bring down Richard Nixon? According to Leon Jaworski, Haig did everything he could, including lying about what was on the tapes, in order to protect Nixon from impeachment.
Mark Riebling, the author of Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 points out that Bob Woodward described Deep Throat as having an aggregate of information flowing in and out of many stations" and "perhaps the only person in the government in a position to possibly understand the whole scheme, and not be a potential conspirator himself". Riebling goes on to argue that this indicates that Deep Throat was a senior official in the Central Intelligence Agency. He points out that Woodward virtually confirmed that his source was from the CIA: "As you know, I'm not going to discuss the identity of Deep Throat or any other of my confidential sources who are still alive. But let me just say that the suggestion that we were being used by the intelligence community was of concern to us at the time and afterward."
Riebling suggests three possible CIA suspects: William Colby, Cord Meyer and Richard Helms. He finally opts for Meyer arguing that like Deep Throat he was a chain-smoker and heavy drinker. Riebling also suggests that Meyer met Woodward while working as a Washington briefer in naval intelligence. The problem with this theory is that Meyer was transferred to London during the summer of 1973 and could not have made the meeting with Woodward in November of that year.
Deborah Davis, the author of Katharine the Great, also believes that Deep Throat was a senior official of the CIA. Her candidate is Richard Ober, the head of Operation Chaos. Ober was given an office in the White House and worked closely with Richard Nixon, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman during this period. Davis later told me that her source was a senior figure at the CIA (I had suggested to her that the source might have been Carl Bernstein).
Leonard Garment, Nixon's special counsel, later wrote the book, In Search of Deep Throat (2002). Garment came to the conclusion that Deep Throat was fellow presidential lawyer John Sears.
James Mann, a former colleague of Woodward's at the Washington Post, argued in an article in the Atlantic Monthly that was published in 1992 that Mark Felt was Deep Throat. This view was supported by Ronald Kessler (The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI). Nora Ephron, the former wife of Carl Bernstein, has been claiming for several years that Felt was Deep Throat.
Bob Woodward promised Deep Throat that he would never reveal the man's position with the government, nor would he ever quote him, even anonymously, in his articles. Woodward also promised not to tell anyone else the identity of his source. Woodward did not keep these promises. He gave the name of Deep Throat to both Ben Bradlee and Carl Bernstein. He also quoted him in his book, All the President's Men.
The best way to identify Deep Throat is to take a close look at what he told Bob Woodward. The initial information suggested that his source was someone involved in the FBI investigation of the Watergate break-in. However, Jim Hougan (Secret Agenda) argues that Deep Throat was unlikely to have been a member of the agency. He points out that Deep Throat did not tell Woodward about the role played by Alfred Baldwin in the Watergate break-in. This was first revealed by a press conference held by the Democratic Party in September.
Hougan suggests that the only reason Deep Throat did not pass this important information to Woodward was that he did not know about it. If that is the case Deep Throat was not from the FBI (L. Patrick Gray or Mark Felt). Nor could he have been one of Nixon's aides who all knew about Baldwin's key role in the break-in (John Dean, H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson, John N. Mitchell, Jeb Magruder, Egil Krogh and Frederick LaRue).
Another clue to the identity of Deep Throat comes from Barry Sussman, Woodward's editor at Washington Post. In his book, The Great Cover-Up, Sussman claims that Woodward first made use of Deep Throat when writing about how Arthur Bremer attempted to kill George Wallace on 15th May, 1972. This suggests that his informant was working in a senior position in the FBI.
In April, 1982, John Dean met Bob Woodward at a conference being held at the University of Massachusetts. Although Woodward refused to identify Deep Throat it was possible for Dean to work out that he was someone working in the White House.
According to Woodward it was Deep Throat who first suggested that Alexander P. Butterfield could be an important figure in the investigation. In May, 1973, Woodward told a member of the Senate Watergate Committee (undoubtedly his friend, Scott Armstrong) that Butterfield should be interviewed.
On 25th June, 1973, John Dean testified that at a meeting with Richard Nixon on 15th April, the president had remarked that he had probably been foolish to have discussed his attempts to get clemency for E. Howard Hunt with Charles Colson. Dean concluded from this that Nixon's office might be bugged. On Friday, 13th July, Butterfield appeared before the committee and was asked about if he knew whether Nixon was recording meetings he was having in the White House. Butterfield reluctantly admitted details of the tape system which monitored Nixon's conversations.
In Lost Honor John Dean concludes that it was Deep Throat had told Woodward about Nixon's taping system that had been installed by Alexander P. Butterfield. This was the best-kept secret in the White House with only a few people knowing about its existence.
In the first week of November, 1973, Deep Throat told Woodward that there were "gaps" in Nixon's tapes. He hinted that these gaps were the result of deliberate erasures. On 8th November, Woodward and Bernstein published an article in the Washington Post that said that according to their source the "conservation on some of the tapes appears to have been erased". It was later claimed by Jim Hougan (Secret Agenda) and John Dean (Lost Honor) that only a very small group of people could have known about these gaps at this time. According to Fred Emery (Watergate: The Corruption and Fall of Richard Nixon), the only Richard Nixon, Rose Mary Woods, Alexander Haig and Stephen Bull knew about this erased tape before it was made public on 20th November.
In his book Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (1993) Adrian Havill argues that Deep Throat was a dramatic devise used by Woodward. Havill visited the place where Woodward lived during the Watergate investigation. He discovered that the balcony where he placed the flower pot with a red flag faced an interior courtyard. Havill argues in his book that the only way Deep Throat could see the flag was "to walk into the center of the complex, with eighty units viewing you, crane your neck and look up to the sixth floor". Havill argues that Deep Throat would have been highly unlikely to have exposed himself if this way.
Nor was Havill impressed with the way Deep Throat communicated to Woodward when he wanted a meeting with the journalist. According to "All the President's Men" Deep Throat drew a clock on page 20 of his New York Times. Havill discovered that the papers were not delivered to each door, but left stacked and unmarked in a common reception area. Havill argues that there is no way Deep Throat could have known which paper Woodward would end up with each morning.
In May, 2005, John O'Connor, a lawyer working for Mark Felt, told Vanity Fair magazine that his client was Deep Throat. Shortly afterwards Bob Woodward confirmed that Felt had provided him with important information during the Watergate investigation. However, Carl Bernstein was quick to add that Felt was only one of several important sources.
However, there are serious problems with the idea that Mark Felt was Deep Throat. In his autobiography, The FBI Pyramid: Inside the FBI, Felt denied being Deep Throat and said he met with Woodward only once. Felt's last word on the subject came in 1999, on the 25th anniversary of Nixon's resignation, when he told a reporter that it would be "terrible" if someone in his position had been Deep Throat. "This would completely undermine the reputation that you might have as a loyal employee of the FBI," he said. "It just wouldn't fit at all."
Felt had not made the confession himself. In 2001 Felt suffered a stroke that robbed him of his memory. Before this happened Felt had told his daughter Joan that he was Deep Throat. She admits that the family have gone public in an attempt to obtain money. Joan Felt told journalists: "My son Nick is in law school and he'll owe $100,000 by the time he graduates. I am still a single mom, still supporting them (her children) to one degree or another."
Vanity Fair only paid the Felt family $10,000 (£5,500) but the whole project is linked to a $1m book deal. It is rumoured the book will be written by Bob Woodward. However, on 4th June, 2005, the publisher Judith Regan (HarperCollins) revealed that negotiations over a possible book deal had collapsed because of serious concerns that Felt was no longer of sound mind.
There are several major problems with Mark Felt being Deep Throat. Felt resigned from the FBI in June, 1973 and no longer had to worry about his career. Why did he not come forward with his information at this stage of the Watergate investigation? He would have been seen as a national hero and would no doubt have made a fortune from his memoirs.
In November, 1980, Felt was convicted of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of Americans by authorising illegal break-ins and wire taps of people connected to suspected domestic bombers. Why did Felt not attempt to rebuild his public image by disclosing that he was Deep Throat?
If Felt had been Deep Throat why did he not tell Woodward about the role played by Alfred Baldwin in the Watergate break-in? The FBI knew about this within days of the break-in. Yet Woodward did not mention it in his articles until the story was revealed by a press conference held by the Democratic Party in September, 1972.
According to Woodward it was Deep Throat who first suggested that Alexander P. Butterfield could be an important figure in the investigation. In May, 1973, Woodward told a member of the Senate Watergate Committee that Butterfield should be interviewed. On Friday, 13th July, Butterfield appeared before the committee and was asked about if he knew whether Richard Nixon was recording meetings he was having in the White House. This was the best-kept secret in the White House with only a few people knowing about its existence. How could Felt have known about this system?
Felt left the FBI in June 1973. Yet according to "All the President's Men" Woodward continued to meet Deep Throat after this date. The most important of these meetings took place in the first week of November, 1973. At this meeting Deep Throat told Woodward that there were "gaps" in Nixon's tapes. He hinted that these gaps were the result of deliberate erasures. On 8th November, Woodward and Bernstein published an article in the Washington Post that said that according to their source the "conversation on some of the tapes appears to have been erased". It has been claimed by several writers that only a very small group of people could have known about these gaps at this time. How could Felt had known about this?
Maybe he did have meetings with Woodward in underground garages. However, if Felt was Deep Throat, he was getting information from someone working in the White House. He also had to get information from someone senior in the CIA. The most sensible explanation is that Deep Throat was more than one man. That is he represented several of Woodward's sources. If that is the case, I think Deep Throat was Mark Felt, William Sullivan, Richard Ober and Stephen Bull.
Tim Gratz
Posted June 8, 2005 (edited)
Very perceptive, John.
Nixon certainly had some powerful enemies, particularly at the CIA.
And Felt had his own personal reasons to want to "get Nixon".
And it is possible (although I know that Pat disagrees) that the break-in was motivated by reasons unrelated to Nixon's re-election.
Of course, it is possible had Nixon played things straight he could have emerged relatively unscathed. Then again his Plumbers unit had already committed unlawful acts unrelated to the Watergate burglary.
John, I am curious re your opinion whether McCord just had a mental lapse when he placed the tape horizontally rather than vertically.
Edited June 8, 2005 by Tim Gratz
When I get back from France next week I intend to write a detailed account of all the amazing mistakes that McCord, Liddy and Hunt made. They were either all incredibly incompetent or something else was going on. A look at their previous history suggests that both Hunt and McCord were experienced covert operators. I am therefore of the opinion that some, if not all of these mistakes, were made on purpose. If that is the case, the Watergate break-in was not about bugging Larry O'Brien's phone (in fact, O'Brien did not use the phone in the office that was broken into) or photographing documents. It was about setting up Nixon. Not that they wanted to remove him from power. I suspect they were after a big pay day. What the conspirators did not know was that the CIA had their own agenda. They were able to make use of Richard Ober, William Sullivan and Stephen Bull to get rid of Nixon. Not because people like Helms was a supporter of the Democratic Party. It was just an issue of power. Nixon, like Kennedy, attempted to undermine the power of the CIA. At least the CIA allowed Nixon to die of natural causes. However, I suspect, given the choice, Kennedy preferred the way he was dealt with.
My take on Deep Throat will be published in the next edition of Lobster Magazine. Apparently it will be used side by side with the views of Jim Hougan, P. D. Scott and Edward Epstein.
John, thank you for the quick response.
I think I am down the line with you on this, with the possible exception of the gratuitous comment on JFK. Although it is certainly true that history treats JFK better as a martyr than it would have treated him had he been removed from office as Nixon was (and as discussed in other threads, that was a possibility).
I think McCord was a very smooth operator. It is therefore very difficult to accept that his placement of the tape was unintentional.
Have you read "Silent Coup"? As I suggested in another thread, you can, I believe, read the entire book on-line.
I am looking forward to your subsequent posts on this issue. That edition of "Lobster" should be extremely interesting. It will be interesting to read Hougan and Epstein's views as well.
Have you read "Silent Coup"?
That was just one of many mistakes.
Yes I have read Silent Coup. Jim Hougan's Secret Agenda is also very good (it inspired the authors of Silent Coup). However, I do not go along with everything they say. I also don't think they have the complete story.
I also think that Nixon was a far bigger crook than JFK. He might have been unlucky with Watergate but he had committed far greater crimes than that. He began the trend of corrupt Republican presidents that has currently given as George Bush. How those great Republicans who attempted to bring an end to slavery during the Civil War must be turning in their graves. I think the Radical Republicans group that emerged during this period was the greatest collection of politicians that America has produced. The only real comparison is with the Civil Rights activists of the 1950s and 1960s. Did you know that Mark Lane was a "Freedom Rider"?
I think the Radical Republicans group that emerged during this period was the greatest collection of politicians that America has produced.
Agree with you completely and wholeheartedly, John! I have great respect for the Republicans who led the movement to abolish the moral evil that slavery was.
Did not know that Lane was a Freedom Rider.
The civil rights activists who risked their lives in the early sixties were heroes. The entire south in the US is better for their efforts.
I also liked "Secret Agenda"; Hougan is a great investigative reporter. I also think you are right that neither book has the complete story on Watergate but both books certainly demonstrate that there was more to Watergate than the story told by Woodward and Bernstein.
Pat Speer
Have either of you read McCord's "A Piece of Tape?" I found it 100 times more credible than either Secret Agenda or Silent Coup. The man was pissed off at Nixon for trying to use the CIA to call off the investigation. He was very protective of his fellow spooks. He decided to play along until after the trial, not because he was hoping to get off, but because he was hoping the Federal investigators would reveal their own corruption. He says outright the prosecutors were doing favors for the White House, and trying to make the whole thing disappear. On the back of the book several other books proposed by McCord are listed; the man wanted to write a whole series of books exposing corruption in government. It was probably this facet of him that led him to use Fensterwald as his attorney, although I'm sure Weberman has his own ideas on this. In short, I believe McCord was the real deal--a pissed off American out for blood. And, oh yes, he explains his screw-up with the tape. It was just that...a screw up.
Not every angry spook has a secret agenda.
I don't think I agree with Pat but his last line is a gem!
David Obst, Woodward's literary agent in the 1970s, has given an interview to the journalist Sharon Churcher. Obst attempted to sell the manuscript of All the President's Men. He pointed out that Deep Throat did not figure in the early manuscript of All the President's Men. Nor did he appear in any of the Watergate reports in the Washington Post. Obst admits that the manuscript was originally a straightforward political analysis of Watergate that was turned down by seven publishers. Deep Throat was only added to the manuscript after Woodward met the screenwriter William Goldman at a party. It was then accepted by Simon & Schuster. It also became part of a film deal with a script written by Goldman. Obst claims that the character of Deep Throat was inserted in order to get a film deal and a contract with Simon & Schuster.
The identification of Felt as Deep Throat is part of a new Woodward book deal. Woodward's new book on Deep Throat, The Secret Man, is due out next month. What a coincidence?
What an interesting post, John! I am sure "Woodstein" had numerous sources but your post suggests the Deep Throat character was created to add mystery and intrigue to help sell the book and later movie. If so, it worked!
Jim Hougan, email (31st May, 2005)
In the last couple of hours I've gotten half-a-dozen emails, and a couple of phone-calls, about Mark Felt's belated declaration (in the upcoming Vanity Fair) to the effect that he's Deep Throat. I've just done an interview with Fox (James Rosen/Britt Hume), and it looks like this is the story de jour.
That said, it's possible, maybe even likely, that you have no absolutely interest in Wategate. If so, put this down as parapolitical spam, and stop reading.
Anyway, here's my take on Felt's declaration:
1. He was badgered into it by family and friends. Felt is 91 years old, and counting. A reporter who recently interviewed him found the interview an incoherent waste of time, and killed his own story.
2. Felt has always denied that he was Deep Throat until, as we're told, members of his family recently pointed out to him there might be a buck in it, and that his children and grandchildren have bills to pay. (And there is a buck in it: Bob Loomis told me, 20 years ago, that Throat could probably get a $4-million advance from Random House for his life-story.)
3. Felt wrote a book about his career in the FBI. In it, he goes out of the way to say that he met Woodward on a single occasion. This was in Felt's FBI office, and the upshot of it was that Felt told Woodward that he would not cooperate with him in his pursuit of "Watergate."
4. After a careful study of Throat's relationship to the Washington Post and to the White House, first in Secret Agenda and subsequently while working with Len Garment, it became clear that no one in or around the Nixon White Hoouse was in a position to know all of the things that Throat is alleged to have told Woodward. For example, Felt had no way of knowing about the 18-and-a-half minute gap in Rosemary Woods' tape. This strongly suggests that Throat was a composite.
5. Just as importantly, if Felt was Throat, he betrayed the people for whom he was a source. This is so because the biggest story that anyone could have broken in the Summer of 1972 was Alfred Baldwin's decision to come forward and tell what he knew. An employee of James McCord's, Baldwin told the U.S. Attorney's office and the FBI that he had monitored some 250 telephone conversations from "the Listening Post," his room in the Howard Johnson's motel across the street from the Watergate. The significance of this information was that the public and the press believed that the Watergate break-in was a failure, and that the burglars were arrested before they could succeed in placing their bugs. Because of that, the public believed, no telephone calls were ever intercepted. Baldwin gave the lie to that, and Felt knew it. For him to have withheld that information from the Washington Post would not only have been a betrayal - it would not have made sense if Felt's alleged intention (as Throat) was to keep the story alive. (The Baldwin story was eventually broken in the Fall of 1972 by the Los Angeles Times.)
6. What we have here, then, is the sad spectacle of an old man being manipulated.
For the record, it seems to me that if anyone proposes to identify Deep Throat, or to identify the lead singer in the choir of sources subsumed by the identity of Throat, they must meet a very basic criterion. That is, they must demonstarate, at a minimum, that their candidate met repeatedly and secretly with Bob Woodward. (Throat is obviously Woodward's creation. I don't think Bernstein would know him from a bale of hay.)
The only person who meets that criterion, to my knowledge, is Robert Bennett. Now one of the most powerful men in the U.S. Senate, Bennett was President of the Robert R. Mullen Company in 1972-3. This was the CIA front for which Howard Hunt worked. (It was also the Washington representative of the Howard Hughes organization.) As I reported in Secret Agenda, Bennett's CIA case officer, Martin Lukoskie, drafted a memo to his boss, Eric Eisenstadt, reporting on his monthly debriefing of Bennett after the Watergate arrests. According to Eisenstadt, Bennett told him that he, Bennett, had "made a backdoor entry to the Washington Post through Edward Bennett Williams' office," and that he, Bennett, was feeding stories to Bob Woodward, who was "suitably grateful." (Williams was the Post's attorney, and attorney, also, for the Democratic National Committee.)
Woodward's gratefulness was manifest in the way he kept the CIA, in general, and the Robert R. Mullen Company, in particular, out of his stories. (I obtained the Lukoskie memo under the Freedom of Information Act. Eric Eisenstadt's reaction to that memo, which I also obtained under FOIA, was considered so secret that it was delivered by hand to then - CIA Director Richard Helms.
What bothers me the most about all this, and what inspires me to write this unforgiveably long email to so many about something so few care about, is the gullibility of "the press" - by which I mean Talking Heads like Jeffrey Toobin - who have bought Felt's story hook, line and sinker.
That Woodward and Bernstein have taken a no-comment stance toward Felt's story is interesting and probably predictable. On the one hand, if I'm right about Bennett being Throat, they have a serious problem where their source is concerned - not just that he was a composite, but that their relationship to him was predicated on a quid pro quo concealing the CIA's involvement in the Watergate story.
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I know you are not asking my opinion about McCord, but I am responding just the same. I do not think it is conceivable that McCord was doing anything except TRYING to get them caught.
After being caught with the tape horizontally placed Barker wanted to abort the breakin, but McCord made the decision to re do the tape and go back in. And again he placed the tape horizontally, I believe, ENSURING, that they be caugth.
One has to wonder why??
But a "mental lapse" does not eplain this action.
I don't buy the Felt alone is DT.
Just does not add up.
He could not have known certain things.
Of course Felt is in no shape to tell us his whole story is he?
I concur in both of Dawn's above posts.
Information from Deep Throat to Bob Woodward came out very gradually. For some reason, he wanted Woodward to work out what was happening for himself. Woodward accused Deep Throat of playing games with him. All this changed in a meeting that took place on 16th May. Soon afterwards Woodward sent Ben Bradlee a memo where he outlined the whole Watergate Scandal.
Why did Deep Throat change his tactics on 16th May? I think the best answer to this involves the CIA. During the Watergate Scandal Nixon became concerned about the activities of the CIA. Three of those involved in the burglary, E. Howard Hunt, Eugenio Martinez and James W. McCord had all worked for the organixation. As a result Nixon and his aides attempted to force the CIA director, Richard Helms, and his deputy, Vernon Walters, to pay hush-money to Hunt, who was attempting to blackmail the government. Although it seemed Walters was willing to do this, Helms refused. In February, 1973, Nixon sacked Helms. His deputy, Thomas H. Karamessines, resigned in protest.
James Schlesinger now became the new director of the CIA. Schlesinger was heard to say: "The clandestine service was Helms's Praetorian Guard. It had too much influence in the Agency and was too powerful within the government. I am going to cut it down to size." This he did and over the next three months over 7 per cent of CIA officers lost their jobs.
On 9th May, 1973, Schlesinger issued a directive to all CIA employees on 9th May, 1973. "I have ordered all senior operating officials of this Agency to report to me immediately on any activities now going on, or might have gone on in the past, which might be considered to be outside the legislative charter of this Agency. I hereby direct every person presently employed by CIA to report to me on any such activities of which he has knowledge. I invite all ex-employees to do the same. Anyone who has such information should call my secretary and say that he wishes to talk to me about "activities outside the CIA's charter".
There were several employees who had been trying to complain about the illegal CIA activities for some time. As Cord Meyer pointed out, this directive "was a hunting license for the resentful subordinate to dig back into the records of the past in order to come up with evidence that might destroy the career of a superior whom he long hated."
I believed it was this Schlesinger directive that resulted in the CIA bringing down Nixon. On 16th May, 1973, Deep Throat has an important meeting with Woodward where he provides information that was to destroy Nixon. This includes the comment that the Senate Watergate Committee should consider interviewing Alexander P. Butterfield. Soon afterwards Woodward told a staff member of the committee (undoubtedly his friend, Scott Armstrong) that Butterfield should be asked to testify before Sam Ervin.
On Friday, 13th July, Butterfield appeared before the committee and was asked about if he knew whether Nixon was recording meetings he was having in the White House. Butterfield reluctantly admitted details of the tape system which monitored Nixon's conversations. This was the information that was to bring down Nixon.


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package org.apache.impala.service;

import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;

import org.apache.impala.catalog.CatalogException;
import org.apache.impala.catalog.FeCatalog;
import org.apache.impala.catalog.ImpaladCatalog;
import org.apache.impala.catalog.local.CatalogdMetaProvider;
import org.apache.impala.catalog.local.LocalCatalog;
import org.apache.impala.thrift.TUpdateCatalogCacheRequest;
import org.apache.impala.thrift.TUpdateCatalogCacheResponse;
import org.apache.thrift.TException;

/**
 * Manages the Catalog implementation used by the frontend.
 *
 * This class abstracts away the different lifecycles used by the LocalCatalog
 * and the ImpaladCatalog. The former creates a new instance for each request or
 * query, whereas the latter only creates a new instance upon receiving a full update
 * from the catalogd via the statestore.
 */
public abstract class FeCatalogManager {
  private static String DEFAULT_KUDU_MASTER_HOSTS =
      BackendConfig.INSTANCE.getBackendCfg().kudu_master_hosts;

  /**
   * @return the appropriate implementation based on the current backend
   * configuration.
   */
  public static FeCatalogManager createFromBackendConfig() {
    if (BackendConfig.INSTANCE.getBackendCfg().use_local_catalog) {
      return new LocalImpl();
    } else {
      return new CatalogdImpl();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Create a manager which always returns the same instance and does not permit
   * updates from the statestore.
   */
  public static FeCatalogManager createForTests(FeCatalog testCatalog) {
    return new TestImpl(testCatalog);
  }

  /**
   * @return a Catalog instance to be used for a request or query. Depending
   * on the catalog implementation this may either be a reused instance or a
   * fresh one for each query.
   */
  abstract FeCatalog getOrCreateCatalog();

  /**
   * Update the Catalog based on an update from the state store.
   *
   * This can be called either in response to a DDL statement (in which case the update
   * may include just the changed objects related to that DDL) or due to data being
   * published by the state store.
   *
   * In the case of the DDL-triggered update, the return value is ignored. In the case
   * of the statestore update, the return value is passed back to the C++ code to
   * indicate the last applied catalog update and used to implement SYNC_DDL.
   */
  abstract TUpdateCatalogCacheResponse updateCatalogCache(
      TUpdateCatalogCacheRequest req) throws CatalogException, TException;

  /**
   * Implementation which creates ImpaladCatalog instances and expects to receive
   * updates via the statestore. New instances are created only when full updates
   * are received.
   */
  private static class CatalogdImpl extends FeCatalogManager {
    private final AtomicReference<ImpaladCatalog> catalog_ =
        new AtomicReference<>();

    private CatalogdImpl() {
      catalog_.set(createNewCatalog());
    }

    @Override
    FeCatalog getOrCreateCatalog() {
      return catalog_.get();
    }

    @Override
    TUpdateCatalogCacheResponse updateCatalogCache(TUpdateCatalogCacheRequest req)
        throws CatalogException, TException {
      ImpaladCatalog catalog = catalog_.get();
      if (req.is_delta) return catalog.updateCatalog(req);

      // If this is not a delta, this update should replace the current
      // Catalog contents so create a new catalog and populate it.
      catalog = createNewCatalog();

      TUpdateCatalogCacheResponse response = catalog.updateCatalog(req);

      // Now that the catalog has been updated, replace the reference to
      // catalog_. This ensures that clients don't see the catalog
      // disappear. The catalog is guaranteed to be ready since updateCatalog() has a
      // postcondition of isReady() == true.
      catalog_.set(catalog);
      return response;
    }

    private ImpaladCatalog createNewCatalog() {
      return new ImpaladCatalog(DEFAULT_KUDU_MASTER_HOSTS);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Implementation which creates LocalCatalog instances. A new instance is
   * created for each request or query.
   */
  private static class LocalImpl extends FeCatalogManager {
    private static CatalogdMetaProvider PROVIDER = new CatalogdMetaProvider(
        BackendConfig.INSTANCE.getBackendCfg());

    @Override
    FeCatalog getOrCreateCatalog() {
      return new LocalCatalog(PROVIDER, DEFAULT_KUDU_MASTER_HOSTS);
    }

    @Override
    TUpdateCatalogCacheResponse updateCatalogCache(TUpdateCatalogCacheRequest req) {
      return PROVIDER.updateCatalogCache(req);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Implementation which returns a provided catalog instance, used by tests.
   * No updates from the statestore are permitted.
   */
  private static class TestImpl extends FeCatalogManager {
    private final FeCatalog catalog_;

    TestImpl(FeCatalog catalog) {
      catalog_ = catalog;
    }

    @Override
    FeCatalog getOrCreateCatalog() {
      return catalog_;
    }

    @Override
    TUpdateCatalogCacheResponse updateCatalogCache(TUpdateCatalogCacheRequest req) {
      throw new IllegalStateException(
          "Unexpected call to updateCatalogCache() with a test catalog instance");
    }
  }
}

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Judge blocks medical worker vaccine mandate in NY state
Seventeen health professionals, including doctors and nurses, claimed in a lawsuit in New York that their rights were violated with a vaccine mandate that disallowed religious exemptions.(WAVE 3 News)
Published: Sep. 14, 2021 at 8:25 PM EDT
UTICA, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge temporarily blocked the state of New York on Tuesday from forcing medical workers to be vaccinated after a group of health care workers sued, saying their Constitutional rights were violated because the state's mandate disallowed religious exemptions.
Judge David Hurd in Utica issued the order after 17 health professionals, including doctors and nurses, claimed in a lawsuit Monday that their rights were violated with a vaccine mandate that disallowed the exemptions.
The judge gave New York state until Sept. 22 to respond to the lawsuit in federal court in Utica. If the state opposes the plaintiffs' request for a preliminary court order blocking the vaccine mandate, a Sept. 28 oral hearing will occur.
The state issued the order Aug. 28, requiring at least a first shot for health care workers at hospitals and nursing homes by Sept. 27.
Hazel Crampton-Hays, press secretary to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, said in a statement that the state was considering all legal options.
"Governor Hochul is doing everything in her power to protect New Yorkers and combat the Delta variant by increasing vaccine rates across the State. Requiring vaccination of health care workers is critical to this battle," Crampton-Hays said.
Messages seeking comment also were sent to lawyers for the Thomas More Society who filed the lawsuit.
Dr. Joseph R. Sellers, president of the Medical Society of the State of New York, said in a statement that the nonprofit organization for physicians, residents and medical students was "greatly dismayed by today's decision."
"We believe this step will result in a flurry of attempts to circumvent the well-reasoned vaccination requirement that was an important step towards reversing the recent surge attributable to the more easily spread Delta variant," Sellers said. "No major religious denomination opposes vaccinations, and the Supreme Court has for over 100 years upheld vaccination requirements as a means to protect the public health."
In their lawsuit, health care professionals disguised their identities with pseudonyms such as "Dr. A.," "Nurse A.," and "Physician Liaison X."
They cited violations of the U.S. Constitution, along with the New York State Human Rights Law and New York City Human Rights Law, because the state Department of Health regulation requiring workers to get the vaccine provided no exemption for "sincere religious beliefs that compel the refusal of such vaccination."
The court papers said all of the available vaccines employ aborted fetus cell lines in their testing, development or production. But religious leaders have disagreed over the issue and the Vatican issued a statement last year saying the vaccines were "morally acceptable."
The lawsuit said the plaintiffs wanted to proceed anonymously because they "run the risk of ostracization, threats of harm, immediate firing and other retaliatory consequences if their names become known."
The plaintiffs, all Christians, included practicing doctors, nurses, a nuclear medicine technologist, a cognitive rehabilitation therapist and a physician's liaison who all oppose as a matter of religious conviction any medical cooperation in abortion, the lawsuit said.
It added that they are not "anti-vaxxers" who oppose all vaccines.
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We took a family/business trip this spring, right after school. We rented an RV, and pulled a small Uhaul trailer part way with Maple Syrup in it. We had orders of Maple Syrup in 4 provinces and 3 states, so we loaded up our trailer, and took some in the RV as well.
I even got my sign guys at Raynbow Signs to make up a small sign for the back window of the RV saying that we have Maple Syrup on board, and we sold quite a bit that way, too!
Death Valley it was 120F!!! Warm!


Banimon Custom Corps One Arrives!
Tonight, Friday August 30th at 9.30pm EST, the Banimon Custom Corps One will be going on sale at our store. Figures will be $30 each, however we will have a small batch of deluxe beefed up figures for $40 (those have roughly double the parts, and also ship with a collectable poster of the new map of Planet Banimon.
Boris and PJ have done an incredible job with these.
Some of my favorites are above, they'll probably go fast, so get you're clicking-fingers ready to buy!


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Technology In Other news 20 Jan 2018 Latest WhatsApp beta gets notification channel support
Latest WhatsApp beta gets notification channel support
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Published : Jan 20, 2018, 2:42 pm IST
Updated : Jan 20, 2018, 2:42 pm IST
The latest beta version of WhatsApp allows individual control over 10 types of notifications.
WhatsApp is testing up to 10 notification channels on the messenger app for Android Oreo. (Representative Image)
Android Oreo may not be available to world widely till now but that hasn't stopped WhatsApp from adding new features to the popular messenger platform. There was a report of the addition of video call switch feature a few days ago and now a report from Android Police has unearthed new notification controls in a beta version of the app, which will enhance the 'WhatsApp experience' for Android Oreo users.
According to the report, WhatsApp is testing up to 10 notification channels on the messenger app for Android Oreo. Users will be able to control various types of notifications for each type of notification that WhatsApp keeps giving out, through control over sound, notification dots, notification centre view and so on. Users can choose how group notifications behave and differ them from individual notifications. This will be particularly useful for those looking to hide the persistent WhatsApp Web notification when in use or annoying WhatsApp group messages, without disabling notifications at all. With live notifications, users can tap and hold to interact with more options related to a particular notification.
Do note that this feature was observed on a beta version of WhatsApp running on a stock Android Oreo device. If your phone is running Android Oreo, then you can head to the PlayStore to get the latest beta version of WhatsApp (2.18.18) to enjoy the new features.
Tags: whastapp, android, google, android oreo