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Glenn "Butch" Buchert
November 15, 1941 - June 1, 2011
Toulon – Glenn W. "Butch" Buchert, 69, of Toulon, passed away Wednesday, June 1, 2011, at 9:17 PM, in his home surrounded by his wife and family. He was born in Woodstock, IL on November 15, 1941, to Glen and Ruth (Ruenz) Buchert. He married his high school sweetheart, Nancy Hall, on June 26, 1965, at Grace Lutheran Church in Richmond, IL. She survives. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his brother, Paul (Fatima) Buchert, of Knoxville, TN; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents. Butch received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Secondary Education from Carthage College, Carthage, IL. He began teaching at Toulon High School in the fall of 1964 with a goal of 50 years in education. He taught all science classes. He received both a Master of Science in Education and a Master of Science in Guidance Counseling, from Bradley University while still teaching at Toulon High School (currently Stark County High School). In 1991, he moved from classroom teaching to become the guidance counselor. He was advisor to several classes, National Honor Society and Stark County Student Council. His stroke and cancer forced him to retire after nearly 47 years in education. Teaching was his love. Butch worked summers at the canning company in Princeville, Illinois for 40+ years. He was known as "Mr. B." to all of his students and most of the community of Toulon and Stark County Schools. He was Student Council Advisor for many years, always encouraging his students to get involved in Student Council which would help make them a better person and better leaders in school and life. Butch suffered a devastating brain stem stroke in November 2009. He and Nancy spent months in rehabilitation between Methodist Hospital, Peoria Specialty Hospital and RIC in Chicago fighting hard to get back to school. In October 2010, he had surgery for pancreatic cancer, after which he faced many hurdles that he was not able to overcome. He was a strong man who never gave up and fought this courageous battle till the end. He was loved by all, as evidenced by the outpouring of support from his students and community following his stroke and during his rehabilitation and until his death. Mr. B. and Nancy enjoyed attending various school functions at SCHS in support of all of their 'kids'. He loved the outdoors, whether it was working in the yard, riding bikes or going for a walk with Nancy, his horses and dogs. Attending graduation parties and weddings of his former students meant so much to him. His love for his students was very overwhelming that only a man of Butch's character would know the true meaning of teaching/counseling. A visitation will be held on Sunday, June 5 from 1-5 PM at Stark County High School. A memorial service will follow. A visitation will be held on Monday, June 6 from 1-2 PM at Ehorn-Adams Funeral Home in Richmond, IL, followed by a graveside service in Richmond Cemetery. Toulon Funeral Home and Ehorn-Adams are in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial contribution to Stark County Education Foundation toward a scholarship in Mr. B.'s name. Private condolences may be sent to the family via www.toulonfh.com.
Toulon – Glenn W. "Butch" Buchert, 69, of Toulon, passed away Wednesday, June 1, 2011, at 9:17 PM, in his home surrounded by his wife and family. He was born in Woodstock, IL on November 15, 1941, to Glen and Ruth (Ruenz) Buchert. He married... View Obituary & Service Information
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It's not enough – utwór brytyjskiego zespołu The Who, napisany przez Pete'a Townshenda i Rachel Fuller, przedstawiony na płycie Endless Wire z 2006 roku.

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Utwór pierwotnie napisany przez Rachel Fuller, ze zmienionymi przez Pete'a Townshenda słowami ukazał się na płycie Endless Wire. Do napisania tekstu, Townshenda zainspirował film Le Mépris. W jednym ze swoich podcastów powiedział również iż wiele osób krytykowało utwór ponieważ napisał go razem z Rachel Fuller, lecz odpowiedział on, iż brzmi on jak The Who bardziej niż wszystko co znajduje się na płycie.

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Crusaders of the Dark Savant is the seventh installment of the Wizardry series and a direct sequel to Bane of the Cosmic Forge. In the end of the previous game, the party of heroes finally acquired the Cosmic Forge. However, before they were able to decide what to do with it, it was taken away by a servant of the Cosmic Lords, the cyborg Aletheides. It appears that the Cosmic Forge was in fact a clue to the location of the Astral Dominae, the artifact of life, somewhere on the planet Guardia, which has now been revealed to the universe. Play Wizardry: Crusaders of the Dark Savant online!
The heroes then travel to Guardia, which is populated by many races and organizations with their own agendas, including the rhinoceros-like Imperial Umpani Federation and the spidery T'Rang affiliated with a malevolent being known as the Dark Savant, whose goal is to get rid of the Cosmic Lords. All these factions are looking for the Astral Dominae, finding which is the primary goal of the game. Depending on the decisions made by the player in the previous game (should he opt to import the party from there), the game will have different openings and begin in different locations. However, regardless of the initial premise, the player is free to follow or betray whatever faction he was supposed to be allied with.
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Katherine Heigl admits adopted daughter Naleigh, 20 months, was drawn towards daddy, Josh Kelley, first. A hard thing to deal with for any mom!
"The first thing she said was, 'Dada,' and then she'd call everybody else she loved 'Dada,'" Katherine says in the October issue of In Style. "She actually attached to Josh much faster."
Katherine admits that it was difficult connecting to her new child, especially since she was working. But, she also recognizes that if she weren't fulfilling her passion to act, she wouldn't be the same kind of mom.
"I had a lot of complicated emotions about it because I chose to go back to work," she says. "I love what I do and – this isn't just making excuses – if I weren't fulfilling this thing in me to perform, to live out my passion, I don't know that I would be the mom I need to be."
Eventually, though, Naleigh warmed up to her mama. "Naleigh learned with me that the word 'Mama' was synonymous with kisses," Katherine says. "So when she first started saying, 'Mama,' she would also make a little kiss sound … She started saying it maybe a month or two ago. I would come into the room and she'd go, 'Mama!' And it was like, Thank God."
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Tatanysha Hedman, a 40 year old woman, doused her husband Vincent Phillips, 52 years old, with flammable liquid and then ignited it with a match, while he was peacefully sleeping. But what forced her to take such an unimaginable course of action against her husband? The main reason is that Vincent has been charged with 1st-degree child molestation crime, since he supposedly sexually abused his daughter, who is 7 years old.
Tatanysha was disgusted and furious at her husband when she came to know about the heinous crime that her husband had committed. She couldn't believe that someone could be so perverted as to abuse a child, and hence made up this plan. She waited till her husband went to sleep, then covered him completely with flammable/combustible liquid and ignited it. She is in jail at present due to assault and arson charges and will be put to trial soon. A huge debate is going on whether this action taken by Hedman should be considered as a crime or can be forgiven as an attempt to get her daughter justice. The majority of the people is supporting her.
Hedman told the police that she deliberately took this action. When asked why she chose burning over other methods, she replied that she could obviously shoot him but that would be "too nice" for him. The husband was sent to a hospital immediately and is recovering well; he has been charged with a 1st degree child molestation crime. Several mothers have taken a stand by Hedman, claiming that usually in such cases, the police would be too slow and it would take along time before any suitable action is taken against the molester, hence what she did was no crime.
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Aleksander Rajchman (ur. 18 lutego 1855 w Warszawie, zm. 18 grudnia 1915 tamże), pseudonim Mefisto – polski dziennikarz, krytyk teatralny i muzyczny, dyrektor opery. Mąż Melanii Rajchmanowej, ojciec Heleny Radlińskiej, Ludwika Rajchmana i matematyka Aleksandra Rajchmana.

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Pochodził z rodziny kupieckiej pochodzenia żydowskiego. Współpracował z prasą warszawską, m.in. Kurierem Warszawskim od 1875. W latach 1883–1907 był redaktorem i wydawcą pisma Echo Muzyczne, Teatralne i Artystyczne (początkowo Echo Muzyczne i Teatralne). W latach 1891–1896 prowadził Klasę Dykcji i Deklamacji przy Warszawskim Towarzystwie Muzycznym, w którego władzach zasiadał. Był także księgarzem, wydawcą (głównie literatury muzycznej i nut), pisał pod pseudonimem opowiadania i nowele. Był właścicielem biura ogłoszeń "Rajchman i Frendler". Prowadził w Warszawie salon artystyczny. Należał do inicjatorów powstania Filharmonii Warszawskiej i w 1901 został jej pierwszym dyrektorem. Piastował tę funkcję do 1908. W 1907 objął także kierownictwo opery warszawskiej na sezon 1907/08 i ponownie od grudnia 1914 do 1915. Podczas pracy na tym stanowisku był oskarżany o zaniedbywanie polskiego repertuaru. W 1906 brał udział w tworzeniu Teatru Małego w Warszawie. Od 1909 mieszkał w Paryżu, gdzie organizował pokazy lotnicze. Jest pochowany na cmentarzu Powązkowskim w Warszawie (kwatera 49-6-25).

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· High Debt – at around 37k crores (March 2010), debt is high. The D/E ratio is 2.18. And one of the purposes of this FPO is to raise additional equity and reduce the D/E ratio, and at a later stage, also raising additional Debt. Much of the debt is from low cost funding agencies. However it has to be repaid eventually, right?
· Dilution of Equity – dilution of 10% by fresh issue available and being offered in this FPO. This means that EPS will fall proportionately, so a Rs 105 stock (at constant PE and earnings) should fall to 94.5 Rs post FPO.
· Underperformance of stock compared to Sensex – see graphic attached. Over last 2 years, PGCIL has underperformed the Sensex.
· Limited upside – Returns are capped; performance of PGCIL depends on energy generation by power plants, and there have been delays in commissioning of power gen plants.
· Past year has seen a go slow in awarding of projects for setting up transmission lines (I own KEC International, a downstream EPC firm. Thats another story).
· Derived Demand – PGCIL revenues are derived from the performance of power generation plants.
I would say a more balanced view is required.
· FPO is 10 times oversubscribed yesterday – this is a good sign.
Personally I would like to nibble at this FPO, rather than take a large bite. If you have a Core and Satellite portfolio, this can be a small, defensive, market performer holding.


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Many trading strategies involve complex and thorough analysis, which makes them not applicable for scalping because full assessment of the market situation takes a lot of time.
It may happen that during the time when a trader makes market analysis, situation can change completely; therefore the trade, which was considered profitable 5 minutes ago is not relevant any more. There are also strategies when a trader has to make trading decisions within a few seconds on the basis of the minimal factors. Free Candle strategy is one of such strategies and we will talk about it in this article.
In Free Candle strategy we use only one indicator, which is available in any trading platform- it is exponential moving average or EMA. In the indicator settings we choose the figure 9, which means that market analysis will be conducted on the last 9 candles. The price will hardly ever go beyond this indicator, but the rare moments when it does go beyond, are the moments of opening positions.
Closed candle should be at the large distance from the moving average; neither its shadow nor the body of the candle should touch the indicator.
Closing price of the candle should be more or less than the closing price of the previous candle. That is, if a new candle, which can be considered as the free one, closes below the moving average, its closing price should be lower than the price of the previous candle and vice versa.
In order to determine closing price of a candle a trader shall put a cursor on it; the data relating to this candle will be shown in the pop-up window.
We can see that a free candle complies with the requirements stated above. It means that the moment of opening the next candle is the moment of opening a sell position.
Buy position is opened when the candle closes above the moving average. So that neither its shadow nor a body will touch the moving average and closing price will be higher than the closing price of the previous candle.
Note that Free Candle strategy is designed specifically for scalping, its signals are not confirmed and weak, protective orders are placed very close to the price level in order to eliminate losses.
In the sell position above we place a stop-loss order at the highs of the last candle. In this case, protective order is placed three points beyond the opening price; however the price has moved in the desired direction and at the opening of the next open candle our protective order can be moved into the breakeven zone.
evelopers of this strategy recommend traders to use the following provisions for determining location of the Take-profit order: first of all it is necessary to calculate the size of the free candle. In our case, it is 4 points. Then we multiply this value by two, the result is added to the opening price.
In our situation, take profit order is only 8 points; but in case of strong market volatility, this value could be larger.


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Recent research from Beacon Design Services (BDS) has identified long stay apartment style rooms as a growing trend, with over 35% of hotel guests expecting a sitting room or lounge area as standard. Using findings from its research, BDS recently worked with Citadines Barbican to create a home away from home for its guests.
Citadines Barbican London Hotel called on Beacon Design Services to facilitate a refurbishment worth £320K from Beacon's involvement alone. Comprising of seven phases covering seven floors, the hotel refurbishment included the kitchen, bedroom, dining and living areas of their long stay apartments.
Located in the north of London's financial district, Citadines Barbican hotel was in need of storage, kitchen appliances, bedroom and living room furniture, all of which Beacon Design Services were able to source. The refurbishment reflects life in London with all artwork originating from local London artists and representing the surroundings.
"An aim of the refurbishment was to reflect the hotel's London location," says Chris Johnson, design services manager at Beacon. "It was important to give guests a taste of where they were staying, and to experience something new and exciting.
Although the refurbishment aimed to reflect the surroundings, it was also important to ensure the apartments became a home away from home for guests. Chris adds: "Previously the rooms in the hotel were very corporate looking. As more people are choosing long stay apartments the aim of the brief was to create a warmer, homely feel.
"We created this look by sourcing furniture which deliberately did not match, but that complemented each other, creating a more relaxed, eclectic feel. For example, there were different bedside tables on each side of the bed. To further enhance this relaxing environment, we provided products such as the rugs to create a softer atmosphere.
"The ideas behind the colour schemes also aimed to reflect this home away from home environment. The blue and grey palette is warmed up by deep wood finishes, to create a modern yet homely appearance. The lighting was a mix of metal finishes, with the wall lights echoing the fixtures shown in the Smithfield Market artwork.
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Vote: How Will Bruins Fare in First-Round Series Against the Washington Capitals?
It's the moment that Bruins fans have been waiting for all season.
When the puck drops at 7:30 at the TD Garden on Thursday night, the Bruins will finally begin their quest to repeat as Stanley Cup Champions.
The Bruins' crazy season, which saw everything from a brief Stanley Cup hangover, a dominant November, a so-called White House scandal, a two-month slump and a resurgent finale, has all led to the start of the second season, or as Tyler Seguin calls it, the "important season."
Waiting for the B's are the Washington Capitals, who come into Boston as the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference. After being an upper-echelon team for the past couple of seasons, the Caps had a somewhat disappointing season, but that doesn't make Washington any less dangerous.
The Capitals still have a great deal of talent, led by superstar Alex Ovechkin and Alexander Semin. The Caps have also enjoyed a bounce-back year from former Bruin defenseman Dennis Wideman.
The major question mark for Washington is in net. Rookie Braden Holtby will be the starting goaltender for the Capitals after Tomas Voukon and Michal Neuvirth both went down with injuries. While the rookie netminder has played well in limited action this season, Holtby has no playoff experience and could be a big issue for the Caps going forward.
The Bruins, on the other hand, have managed to snap out of their early 2012 doldrums to finish the season strong. The defending Cup champs are healthy for the most part, although the loss of Nathan Horton for the playoffs will be a tough one to take for the B's.
Despite the loss of Horton, the Bruins should have a lot of confidence going into their opening round series. Tim Thomas has turned his struggles around and the team has been playing better lately in every area. The Bruins will need to improve on their power play if they hope to make a deep run this season. While they did win the Stanley Cup with a marginal power play last year, the B's shouldn't count on that formula to take them to the promised land once again.
The Capitals did win three out of four against the Bruins during the regular season, but the B's are going to do everything in their power to make sure that their playoff run goes into June once again.
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His Bliss Is Your Bliss
by Bobbin Wages
As meta as it sounds, clinical associate professor Thomas Conklin's calling is to help students find theirs.
Thomas Conklin
The first thing Thomas Conklin usually says to his graduate-level students is, "Quit your job." "Not hastily or radically," clarifies Conklin, a clinical associate professor of managerial sciences at Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business. Many of his students are stuck in unfulfilling professions just because they pay well. Nothing makes him happier than running into former students who abandoned that daily drudgery and pursued work during which the hours melt away. As meta as it sounds, Conklin's calling is to help students find theirs.
Not surprisingly, people engaged in work they feel they were meant to do typically are not only more productive but also healthier. After all, when professionals' jobs and values align, their sense of self is less fragmented than if they were required to affect different personalities at home and in the office. "When our life is play and our work is work, there's a schizoid experience there," Conklin says. He notes that by promoting the interweaving of work and life, he is not encouraging people to become workaholics. The suffix "aholic," he says, implies a problem that negatively impacts the balance of marriage, friendship, finances, and spirituality with one's profession. Instead, heeding one's calling results in a fuller life.
In his paper "Work Worth Doing: A Phenomenological Study of the Experience of Discovering and Following One's Calling," published in the Journal of Management Inquiry in 2011, Conklin points out that classic literature posits that only religious leaders are eligible to have a calling, as the only work worth doing serves God. But, writes Conklin, "the notion of what calling is and for whom it is available has evolved, offering it to all regardless of station." When asked how one can find deep meaning in low-paying jobs that people accept out of necessity instead of passion, Conklin concedes that a calling is tough but still possible to find, especially if the employee sees it as an opportunity to serve others. He also recognizes that one's calling and financial bounty do not necessarily go hand in hand. "It's sad that we live in a cash economy." he says.
Even though businesses' survival hinges on revenue, Conklin thinks concentrating solely on money causes many to fail. When companies start to falter, their leaders often immediately cut costs wherever they can, even though investing in staff through training and in clients through face-to-face meetings—despite any required travel—has been proven to pull businesses out of the red in the long run. As metaphor Conklin asks, "Have you ever looked at a faint star at night?", comparing an intense focus on money to stargazing. "If you look directly at the star, you can't see it."
Additionally, Conklin stresses that managers' responsibility to the businesses they serve expands beyond mechanically checking items off a proverbial to-do list. Despite the time and energy it would consume, managers should slow down, evaluate team members' strengths, and perhaps reconstruct their roles to better serve the individual, the team and the company. "It's a magical thing that leads to increased job satisfaction, greater organizational commitment and overall success," Conklin says. "It's brilliant, but nobody does it."
Conklin could engage listeners on effective management all day. "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how," he quotes Nietzsche, applying the sentiment to motivating teams. Instead of barking orders, leaders would benefit from explaining the "why" behind driving their staff to action. "They are likely to become willing participants," Conklin says. Even if the work borders on the verge of suffering, people are more likely to persevere because they have a compelling reason to do it.
A formula for finding one's calling does not exist, but Conklin says it requires courage, often shared courage from the seeker's family to let go of what has been comfortable and paid the bills. Conklin listens to lectures by late mythologist and writer Joseph Campbell in his car, and the following excerpt from Campbell's 1988 conversation with Bill Moyers strikes at the heart of Conklin's research:
If the person doesn't listen to the demands of his own spiritual and heart life, and insists on a certain program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crack-up. The person has put himself off-center; he has aligned himself with a programmatic life, and it's not the one the body's interested in at all. ...the world's full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.
When Conklin urges his students to quit their jobs, he isn't implying they should disengage from adulthood and move back in with their parents. He is gently nudging them toward the difficult but rewarding path of self-actualization.
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Examining the Long-term Effects of Concussion in Sport
Thought LeadersLauren Pulling Program ManagerThe Drake Foundation
An interview with Lauren Pulling from The Drake Foundation, discussing the short and long-term effects of concussions obtained during contact sports such as football and rugby, and the research that is currently being undertaken to understand this further.
What do we currently know about the long-term effects of concussions obtained through sport?
In short, the answer is 'very little'. While we may recognize the short-term symptoms of a concussion, not much is known about the long-term impact of both concussions and sub-concussive head impacts (for example, when heading a football).
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Recent years have seen this topic brought into the public eye, with growing evidence pointing toward a potential increased risk of neurodegenerative disease in athletes exposed to repeated head impacts. You might have seen news stories both in British sports and some high-profile cases in the USA, particularly in American football – one such case was dramatized in the Will Smith film Concussion.
Much of this research points towards the neurodegenerative disease CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), which can cause dementia and is associated with repeated blows to the head. Research around this association is gradually building, although much of this work to date has involved small cohorts.
For example, a 2017 study observed CTE in the brains of four former football (soccer) players known to have headed the ball frequently and reported a higher incidence of CTE in these footballers than the general population. This study was highly significant as it was the first time that CTE had been linked with association football, but of course, further research is required to validate these findings in larger cohorts.
Another difficulty is that, at present, CTE can only be diagnosed after death, so researchers are also working on ways to diagnose CTE in living people, which would likely accelerate this field of research considerably.
Overall, we can say that it is likely that there is an association between repeated head impacts and the development of neurodegenerative diseases, though the mechanisms behind this and the additional factors that contribute to disease risk remain in question.
There is no evidence that a single concussion increases the risk of neurodegenerative disease, and not everyone with a history of repetitive head impacts will go on to develop CTE or other neurodegenerative diseases. We hope that the next few years will yield crucial information on the long-term effects of head impacts in sports, which we can then use to support future players.
The Drake Foundation is dedicated to concussion research. How did the charity start, and why do you feel that this area of research is important?
The Drake Foundation was founded in 2014 by James Drake, a businessman, and philanthropist with a passion for sport. Having been a keen rugby fan all his life, James was shocked to see a number of players in both national and international rugby matches sustain concussions and then return to play soon after, despite showing symptoms of a head injury.
Along with Saracens Rugby Club moving to James' local area of Mill Hill in North London, this kick-started James' desire to fund research into sports concussion, and so The Drake Foundation was established.
Over the past 5 years, we've invested over £2 million into research and resources across various sports and playing levels, but rugby is where it all started, with our first research project investigating potential biomarkers of rugby concussions launching with Saracens Rugby Club in 2015. Since then, the study has been extended to a number of Premiership and Championship teams across London.
At present, we are funding six ongoing studies across rugby and football, as well as a scientific journal, literature database, and our annual symposium, which brings together sporting bodies, clinicians and researchers across rugby, football, cricket, motorsport, boxing and more.
The hope is that all this research, information sharing, and collaboration will ultimately lead to improved sport safety and valuable insights into the processes underlying neurodegenerative disease. The benefits of taking part in sports are huge, so with more information, we'll hopefully one day be able to negate any downsides with, for example, robust evidence-based concussion protocols.
You recently started the HEADING study. Please can you tell us about this research and what you expect to find?
HEADING – HEalth and Ageing Data IN the Game of football – is a study designed to examine the brain health of former professional football (soccer) players. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Queen Mary University of London and the Institute of Occupational Medicine will investigate the possible link between a history of repetitive head impacts and the development of neurodegenerative disease in retired footballers.
The research team hope to recruit around 300 former professionals aged 50 plus. These players will take part in face-to-face assessments to gather data on their playing and work history; lifestyle factors; physical and cognitive ability; and a clinical neurological examination. The participants will also have the option to provide blood samples for biomarker analysis.
We hope that the HEADING study, which is supported by the FA, PFA, and RFU, will provide evidence on the long-term effects of professional football on cognitive function. The aim is to inform safe sporting practice in the future, as well as wider insights into neurodegeneration and cognitive health in the general population.
We're passionate about taking part in sport, both as players and spectators, but also about investing in robust research to understand more about the short- and long-term impact of head injuries, so that participant safety can be improved and contact sports enjoyed more freely. HEADING will be a key study to grow our knowledge of the long-term impacts of head impacts, so we're very pleased to kick it off this year.
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Why did The Foundation feel it important to work with professional athletes? How often do these athletes experience a concussion?
Athletes form a population regularly exposed to concussions: their day jobs involve a much higher risk of brain impacts than many other professions, and yet we know so little about the long-term effects of this on their health.
The 2016–17 Professional Rugby Injury Surveillance Project (PRISP) reported concussion to be the most commonly reported rugby match injury in English Premiership Clubs and the England Senior team, contributing to 22% of all match injuries. During the 2016–17 season a total of 169 match concussions were reported.
In football, no official statistics on concussion rates are released; however, data from a number of sources demonstrate football to be a source of concussions and head injury hospitalizations, particularly in the youth and school settings.
Research involving current and former sports players is crucial to understanding concussions and their long-term effects. The more players take part in research, the more evidence we can gather, allowing sporting bodies and medical teams to make fully informed decisions about sporting guidelines and concussion protocols, right through from grassroots organizations to professional levels.
What's next for The Drake Foundation?
As well as our ongoing studies that focus primarily on head injury and long-term brain health in rugby and football, we've recently expanded our scope to cover more general player welfare in an effort to advance our knowledge of wider long-term health trends. Excitingly, we announced our first project in this area this month with the commitment of funding to a ground-breaking longitudinal study into the health of professional footballers.
The study – the Drake Football Study – is a collaboration with partners across Europe including the World Players' Union (FIFPro), Amsterdam University Medical Centers and Mehiläinen NEO Hospital, with The Drake Foundation as founding funders.
It will be the most comprehensive study to date to measure the physical and mental health of professional footballers over time, with data collection anticipated to run for a minimum of 10 years over the players' pre- and post-retirement years.
Researchers will gather epidemiological data on musculoskeletal, neurocognitive, cardiovascular and mental health trends of the footballers starting as they near retirement. The study will provide new insights into players' health across their lives, which we hope will ultimately drive the development of preventative and curative measures for future players, as well as wider society.
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How can everyday people support the work of The Drake Foundation?
As well as funding research, The Drake Foundation funds resources and promotes collaboration across sport, science, and society: we work with researchers, doctors, sporting bodies like the FA and RFU, and players themselves.
Progression in this field is as much about research as it is communication, education and collaboration, which means that this topic needs to be talked about at home and on the pitch, as well as in the lab.
You can learn about research into head injuries in sport by following our work on The Drake Foundation website or on Twitter @DF_concussion. You can also learn more about head injuries and prevention via Headway.
About Lauren Pulling
Lauren Pulling received her degree in Neuroscience from University College London (UCL). She then went on to work in editorial roles in STM publishing, and since 2017 has been Publisher at Future Science Group in London, managing their digital publications across a range of medical and scientific subject areas.
Lauren is also the Program Manager at The Drake Foundation, bringing together her passions for neuroscience and football, and oversees the Foundation's research funding, governance, and strategy.
About The Drake Foundation
The Drake Foundation is a not-for-profit organization committed to understanding and improving the health and welfare of sports players through scientific research and collaboration. Launched in 2014, the Foundation has already invested over £2 million into research funding and open access resources.
Much of the Foundation's work to date has centered on concussion and head injuries in sport; knowledge that will serve not only to improve sports safety but also provide valuable insight into the processes underlying neurodegenerative diseases, such as dementia.
At present, The Drake Foundation is funding several ongoing studies across football and rugby, working with teams in the football Premier League; Premiership and Championship rugby union leagues; and leading researchers across the UK and beyond.
With multiple ground-breaking concussion projects underway, the Foundation is also in the process of growing their portfolio of research funding to investigate the long-term effects of playing and retiring from professional sport on mental and physical health.
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International benchmark Brent crude futures LCOc1 were trading at $34.37 per barrel at 0917 GMT, down 9 cents from their last settlement after dipping below $34 earlier in the session. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 were up 8 cents at $31.80 a barrel.
"The surplus situation continues to weigh on the front end while the softer dollar has been able to support the longer-term contracts, at least in Brent crude," Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodities analyst with SEB in Oslo, said.
Traders said liquidity had been low during Asian business hours due to the Lunar New Year holiday which will last for most of next week.
Oil prices have been extremely volatile since the start of the year, and in particular this week, as a string of bullish indicators like a slump in the dollar .DXY and potential talks on output cuts clashed with bearish reports of record U.S. crude inventories, higher output and a slowing global economy.
"We expect that volatility could remain elevated especially on upward moves from short covering; net length in WTI is at its lowest level since 08/01/2013 implying a large short position," Investment bank Jefferies said on Friday.
BMI Research, a unit of rating agency Fitch Group, said that "bloated crude inventories in the U.S. pose rising risk to WTI" and that "a continued build in storage over the coming six to eight weeks could collapse the price of WTI, driving a sharp reopening of the spread to Brent."
U.S. crude inventories USOILC=ECI climbed 7.8 million barrels in the week to Jan. 29 to 502.7 million barrels. Gasoline inventories USOILG=ECI rose to a record high, soaring 5.9 million barrels to 254.4 million barrels.
Brimming storage is contributing to an overall bearish market outlook as long as major producers don't reach an agreement on output, with China's economic slowdown now showing signs of spreading across the world.
"It's not exactly rosy out there.. Shipments to China are down... Most worrying for anyone hoping for a lift is that U.S. purchases have dipped again, with lacklustre capex partly to blame," HSBC said.


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Meteorite Fragments from Russian Fireball on Display 1 Year After Space Rock Explosion
By Leonard David 2014-02-26T11:41:43Z Science & Astronomy
Chelyabinsk fragments on display at the Natural History Museum in Vienna.
(Image: © Ray Williamson)
The explosion of a meteor over the southern Ural region of Russia last year peppered the area with varying sizes of space rock leftovers.
That stunning Feb. 15, 2013, event and the resulting shock wave caused considerable damage to lots of buildings and injured more than 1,500 people — primarily from shattered windows — in the city of Chelyabinsk, more than 35 miles (about 60 kilometers) from the explosion site.
The Chelyabinsk meteor streaked through the sky in February, injuring hundreds, damaging buildings, and bringing attention to the Earth as a potential target for rocky space bodies.
(Image credit: Copyright M. Ahmetvaleev)
Many of the recovered Chelyabinsk fragments are now on display at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, and are appropriately showcased in Meteorite Hall. Overall, that collection includes about 1,100 meteorites, including 650 different meteorites, consisting of 300 falls and 350 finds. When a meteorite is viewed falling from the sky and then collected on terra firma afterward, it is called a fall. Meteorites that are recovered without being seen 1falling are called finds. [See photos from the Russian meteor explosion]
Meteorite scientist Ludovic Ferrière holds a chunk of Chelyabinsk skyfall at the Natural History Museum in Vienna.
(Image credit: © NHM Wien, Kurt Kracher. Used with permission.)
Hall of meteorites
Just a few days after the Chelyabinsk fall, the museum acquired a dozen small stones. Several more samples of the Chelyabinsk meteorite were acquired later, including a large single fragment weighing 13.65 ounces (387 grams).
That big sample was put on display in the museum's Meteorite Hall exactly one year after the fall. It's in showcase 85, in the central part of the display, next to the historically important and precious Ensisheim samples — a fall that occurred in 1492.
The largest recovered stone of the Chelyabinsk fall, which weighs more than 1,430 lbs. (650 kilograms), was hauled out of Lake Chebarkul in Russia.
Surviving the atmospheric fall, fireball fragments hit the frozen façade of the lake, making a 20-foot-diameter (6 meters) hole in the icy topside. The big chunk that was dredged up is now displayed in the Chelyabinsk State Museum of Local History in Russia.
Observations from fragments
The Natural History Museum in Vienna has a number of fragments from last year's Chelyabinsk airburster on display.
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Researchers at the Natural History Museum in Vienna have performed scientific investigations on the Chelyabinsk fragments within the framework of an interdisciplinary and international study.
According to museum scientists, petrographic observations of the recovered bits and pieces of the object have led to several observations:
They confirmed the Chelyabinsk meteorite should be classified as a stony meteorite, an ordinary chondrite of the type LL5.
The 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite contains chondrules (solidified melt droplets representing a high-temperature component) and is heavily brecciated and cross-cut by impact melt veins.
Along with colleagues in Bratislava, Slovakia, and Tucson, Ariz., the researchers determined the contents of the so-called cosmogenic radionuclides. These are isotopes that form when the meteoroid is irradiated by cosmic rays in space, before a collision with the Earth. This information is used to derive the size of the meteoroid and to estimate were the Vienna Natural History Museum samples of the Chelyabinsk meteorite were located within the meteoroid before it exploded.
The results of the joint research on the fragments have been submitted for publication to the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.
The Feb. 15, 2013 meteor blast over Chelaybinsk damaged hundreds of buildings and injured more than a thousand people. [See the full Russian meteor infographic here.
(Image credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com contributor)
Collector market
Though they have cooled down, the Chelyabinsk fragments remain, to some extent, hot property, said Michael Gilmer of Galactic Stone and Ironworks in Lutz, Fla.
"The Chelyabinsk fall dropped over one ton of meteorites — and probably closer to two tons, taking into account unreported finds," Gilmer told Space.com. "This consists of thousands of complete stones and partial fragments."
Gilmer said the collector market is saturated with specimens from the Chelyabinsk fall, ranging from less than a gram to roughly a kilogram. About 20 percent of the stones are the secondary impact melt lithology.
"Prices vary widely," Gilmer said, "but a rough range is $5 a gram for oxidized broken fragments to $25 a gram for select fresh whole stones with orientation features."
Note: Special thanks to Verena Randolf of the Natural History Museum in Vienna for assistance in this story.
Leonard David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. He is former director of research for the National Commission on Space and co-author of Buzz Aldrin's new book, "Mission to Mars – My Vision for Space Exploration," published by National Geographic. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.
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Pagani Cheated on the Top Gear Test
In the premiere show of the new season of the world's most popular car show, Top Gear UK, slipped quite a gaffe during testing Pagani Huayre. The photos appeared showing that when journalists and racing test used different sets of tires.
As is the custom with all the supercars in the show, after Huayra journalistic test passed into the hands sporting anonymous driver The Stig and immediately set a record for the fastest car on the homologated Top Gear's track, with a time of 1:13.8. By comparison, the previous record holder, Ariel Atom V8 is the same interned in 1:15.1.
This difference in time has not gone unnoticed, and they soon started speculation. Specifically, the team photos that Top Gear announced on Flickr clearly show that two cars – one that is driven by journalist Richard Hammond and the one that was driven by Stig – were not equipped with the same tires – Pirelli P Zero Corsa, with which the car comes standard.
The only condition that Top Gear set before their candidates for so-called "Powerlap" is that they are homologated for road use and you can get over the lying cops (the Caparo T1 cost loans), so it seems that Pagani is not too cheated.
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Thank you to everyone who has taken part in our public consultation surveys over the past two years and for giving us your views. Public engagement is vital – our first survey told us what the key issues are and our recent aspirations survey showed that a wide range of stakeholders strongly support our aspirations to draft policies and recommendations to tackle these key issues. They also made many suggestions as to how these can be improved and better targeted.
However, in reading many of these responses it is clear that there is some misunderstanding as to what the forum can and cannot do and what the plan we are producing will deliver for Soho. We hope these FAQs will help make things clearer.
What is the Soho Neighbourhood Forum?
It is a forum of those people who live or work within the area defined as the Soho Neighbourhood Area (SNA) who have applied to become members of the forum. Membership is free but is only open to those who can show that they live or work in the SNA. At the inaugural meeting in July 2015 the members elected a Forum Steering Group (FSG) of 16 members to guide and represent the forum. It is made up of 8 representatives of residents and 8 representatives of businesses. It is a voluntary association operating under a constitution approved by Westminster City Council (WCC) who designated the neighbourhood area and the forum itself. The forum was designated a business neighbourhood forum which means that we must consult businesses as well as residents and get the consent of both groups to the final plan when put to referendum.
Why was it set up and what can it deliver for Soho?
The Localism Act 2011 gave powers for local communities to set up forums and to produce a Neighbourhood Plan (NP) which gives expression to their vision and aspirations for their area. The plan has to be in general conformity with the national planning policy framework (NPPF), the Mayor's London Plan and Westminster City Development Plan. These plans set the strategic direction for planning in Soho but our plan can contain policies, which respond to Soho's particular local needs and issues. The plan will have statutory (legal) force once it has passed all its processes and all future planning applications must comply with its policies. However, the elected councillors of Westminster sitting on its planning committee are the ones who take the actual decisions on planning applications and they have some discretion to decide what to take into account when making an individual planning decision.
What is The Localism Act (2011)
In 2011, The Localism Act was passed, designed to devolve more powers to councils and neighbourhoods and give local communities greater control over local decisions like housing and planning. The Act is designed to de-centralise some decision-making. The Act gives local communities the opportunity to set up Forums (consisting of local representatives of the area) to produce a Neighbourhood Plan (NP) which empowers local people to see their vision and aspirations for their area realised.
What powers does the Forum have?
The only power is to draw up, consult on and put forward a neighbourhood plan. Once the plan is adopted WCC can consult the forum for its views about planning applications within the area and also agree how a proportion of the Community Infrastructure Levy paid in the area is actually spent.
What resources does it have?
It has very few resources. There is a total of £14,400 in government grant money that can be applied for during the whole process no matter how long it takes. In addition, central government provides limited funding for consultants to help advise a forum. Some local individuals and businesses have also contributed donations. We only have enough funds to employ a coordinator working approximately one day a week.
What is neighbourhood planning?
It is a process, which asks local residents, businesses and people working in those businesses what they think the key issues are for their area and to put forward a plan with policies and recommendations, which they believe, improve land use planning in that area. A draft plan will have to be commented on by WCC and then sent to an independently appointed examiner to check that it is both technically correct and in general conformity with the higher strategic plans. It will then be put to referendums of residents and businesses for their approval.
Why does the process keep referring to policies and recommendations?
Policies are the words which have statutory force and anyone applying for planning permission after the plan is adopted must comply with these policies. Such policies are also called land use policies because they control the use of land, buildings and the types of activity within them.
Recommendations are just that, recommendations to third parties such as the council or Transport for London urging them to take action on issues which the neighbourhood planning process has shown to be important to the local community and form part of its vision for the area.
Why can't the forum/plan stop development?
Any person or company can buy, own or occupy land and buildings and make an application to the local authority (for Soho it is Westminster City Council) to change their use or to substantially refurbish or redevelop them. The forum has no powers to intervene in the process.
Why can't the forum control rents?
Nothing in the legislation setting up neighbourhood forums gives them any power to control the rent that an owner or landlord charges a tenant to occupy a particular premises.
Why can't the forum stop the loss of individual businesses?
It is for the individual/s or company running a business to decide if they wish to stop trading. This can be for many reasons such a change in personal health, changed trading patterns, declining profitability or a substantial increase in costs (including periodic rent and rates increases) but the forum has no power to intervene in this process
Why can't the forum pedestrianise Soho?
The streets must remain accessible to ambulances and fire engines at a minimum. In addition, businesses and homes need deliveries and waste has to be collected regularly. What the forum can do is recommend that streets are managed differently. For example, Carnaby Street and Kingly Street are open for deliveries in the morning then are closed to vehicles in the afternoon and early evening and reopen again in the late evening for cleansing and waste removal.
What is the relationship with WCC?
It is for the forum to come up with its vision and proposals for Soho quite independently. The council has a duty to help and support the forum but has very limited resources to do so. It will also formally comment on the draft plan and may recommend some modifications. In addition, it will conduct the referendums of Soho residents and businesses to check there is majority support from the community to adopt the plan.
Will the plan have any impact?
The land use planning policies from the date the plan is adopted will bring some change as all new planning applications will normally be decided in accordance with the policies in it. The overall NP document will also be an expression of the community's vision for the area and along with the policies there will be recommendations to others for actions and projects which will help achieve that vision. The forum could decide to go on to lobby for the recommendations it has put forward to be implemented and to oppose proposals which are not in accordance with the plan.
How does the plan relate to Crossrail (Elizabeth Line)?
There is no relationship with Crossrail which is under the control of central government and the GLA.


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Howard Fendrich
Published September 10, 2020 Updated September 11, 2020
Victoria Azarenka of Belarus reacts after match point against Serena Williams of the United States (not pictured) in a women's singles semi-finals match on day ten of the 2020 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on Sept. 9, 2020.Danielle Parhizkaran/USA TODAY Sports via Reuters
Serena Williams already was struggling to keep up in a fast-paced U.S. Open semi-final when she stopped behind the baseline after a third-set point and leaned over. She held that pose for a bit, then clutched at her lower left leg and asked for a trainer.
While Williams took a medical timeout for a tape job for what she later said was an Achilles issue – her latest bid for a 24th Grand Slam singles title seemingly slipping away – her opponent, Victoria Azarenka, sat in a sideline seat, eyes closed, calm and composed as can be.
After a delay of about five minutes at Arthur Ashe Stadium, action resumed, and while Williams raised the force of her shots and volume of her shouts, it was Azarenka who finished off a 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory to return to a major championship final for the first time since 2013.
The loss left Williams just short of No. 24 yet again. She was beaten in the finals of four of the preceding seven Slams, including at Flushing Meadows in 2018 and 2019.
"Maybe I took a little too much off the gas pedal at some point," Williams said.
With her 39th birthday a little more than two weeks away, the question will become: How many more chances will Williams get? She did confirm afterward she'll head to Paris; the French Open starts Sept. 27.
"Obviously, disappointed, but at the same time, I did what I could today," Williams said. "Other times, I've been close and I could have done better. Today, I gave a lot."
Williams said the leg issue wasn't why she lost.
"I don't think that had anything to do with it," Williams said. "Ultimately, it didn't affect my play at all."Azarenka won the Australian Open in 2012 and 2013 and lost to Williams in the U.S. Open finals those two years.
She's finally back in a title match at a major.
"It's been seven years? That's my favourite number. I guess that's meant to be. I'm very grateful for this opportunity," Azarenka said. "On the road to the final, you have to beat the best players and today was that day."
On Saturday, Azarenka will face Naomi Osaka for the championship in a meeting between two-time major champions who have both been ranked No. 1 in the past and have been by far the two best players since tennis resumed last month after a pandemic-forced hiatus.
This was Williams' fourth consecutive three-setter in New York and although she was far better at the outset Thursday, racing to a 4-0 lead inside of 15 minutes, Azarenka eventually did get going.
"I dug myself in a big hole. I mean, she dug me in a big hole in the first set and I had to climb my way out of there one by one," said Azarenka, a 31-year-old from Belarus who is ranked 27th, "and I'm very happy that I've been able to turn it around, because it wasn't easy for sure."
Evidence of Azarenka's brilliance: She compiled 12 winners and merely one unforced error in the second set, then continued her baseline mastery in the third, especially with her backhand.
That carried her to her first win against Williams in 11 career Grand Slam matchups between the pair.
Azarenka has won 11 matches in a row; Osaka's streak is at 10 after her 7-6 (1), 3-6, 6-3 win over Jennifer Brady in a hard-hitting semi-final filled with fast serves and strong forehands.
Azarenka and Osaka were supposed to play in the final of the Western & Southern Open – a hard-court event moved from Ohio to New York this year as part of a two-tournament "controlled environment" with the U.S. Open amid the pandemic – but Osaka withdrew because of an injured left hamstring.
"So excited to play against her, because we didn't get to play last week, so it's going to be super fun," said Azarenka, who sat in her assigned suite in Ashe to watch some of Osaka vs. Brady. "She plays incredible."
Osaka had that left leg wrapped Thursday for her high-quality semi-final on the court where she beat Williams for the 2018 title.
"It means a lot for me. I kind of consider New York my second home," said Osaka, who was born in Japan and moved to the United States as a child. "I kind of love the atmosphere, even though there's no people here. I feel like this court kind of suits me well."
Suited both players just fine.
Osaka served at up to 120 mph; Brady reached 117 mph. And they pounded the ball once it was in play, too, particularly off the forehand side.
"I just felt like I was sticking it out. It felt like we were trading serves," Osaka said. "I tried to adjust a little bit on her serve in the third set so maybe that helped."
They combined for 70 winners – 35 apiece – to just 42 unforced errors, each as good as the other, and it took a bit of luck to swing things after 1 hour, 45 minutes.
That's when, at 2-1 in the third set, Osaka earned her first break point with a backhand that clipped the net tape and trickled over. She was able to convert the chance when she hit a deep return of a 110 mph serve, and Brady's backhand in response was called long – although a television replay showed it actually caught a piece of the back of the baseline.
Brady did not challenge the ruling.
Ashe is one of only two courts at the U.S. Open using line judges this year; to reduce the number of people on site, the tournament used electronic line-calling in the other arenas.


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Home » Travels through France and Italy
LETTER XXXVI
Tobias Smollett
NICE, March 23, 1766.
DEAR SIR, - You ask whether I think the French people are more taxed than the English; but I apprehend, the question would be more apropos if you asked whether the French taxes are more insupportable than the English; for, in comparing burthens, we ought always to consider the strength of the shoulders that bear them. I know no better way of estimating the strength, than by examining the face of the country, and observing the appearance of the common people, who constitute the bulk of every nation. When I, therefore, see the country of England smiling with cultivation; the grounds exhibiting all the perfection of agriculture, parcelled out into beautiful inclosures, cornfields, hay and pasture, woodland and common, when I see her meadows well stocked with black cattle, her downs covered with sheep; when I view her teams of horses and oxen, large and strong, fat and sleek; when I see her farm-houses the habitations of plenty, cleanliness, and convenience; and her peasants well fed, well lodged, well cloathed, tall and stout, and hale and jolly; I cannot help concluding that the people are well able to bear those impositions which the public necessities have rendered necessary. On the other hand, when I perceive such signs of poverty, misery and dirt, among the commonalty of France, their unfenced fields dug up in despair, without the intervention of meadow or fallow ground, without cattle to furnish manure, without horses to execute the plans of agriculture; their farm-houses mean, their furniture wretched, their apparel beggarly; themselves and their beasts the images of famine; I cannot help thinking they groan under oppression, either from their landlords, or their government; probably from both.
The principal impositions of the French government are these: first, the taille, payed by all the commons, except those that are privileged: secondly, the capitation, from which no persons (not even the nobles) are excepted: thirdly, the tenths and twentieths, called Dixiemes and Vingtiemes, which every body pays. This tax was originally levied as an occasional aid in times of war, and other emergencies; but by degrees is become a standing revenue even in time of peace. All the money arising from these impositions goes directly to the king's treasury; and must undoubtedly amount to a very great sum. Besides these, he has the revenue of the farms, consisting of the droits d'aydes, or excise on wine, brandy, of the custom-house duties; of the gabelle, comprehending that most oppressive obligation on individuals to take a certain quantity of salt at the price which the farmers shall please to fix; of the exclusive privilege to sell tobacco; of the droits de controlle, insinuation, centieme denier, franchiefs, aubeine, echange et contre-echange arising from the acts of voluntary jurisdiction, as well as certain law-suits. These farms are said to bring into the king's coffers above one hundred and twenty millions of livres yearly, amounting to near five millions sterling: but the poor people are said to pay about a third more than this sum, which the farmers retain to enrich themselves, and bribe the great for their protection; which protection of the great is the true reason why this most iniquitous, oppressive, and absurd method of levying money is not laid aside. Over and above those articles I have mentioned, the French king draws considerable sums from his clergy, under the denomination of dons gratuits, or free-gifts; as well as from the subsidies given by the pays d'etats such as Provence, Languedoc, and Bretagne, which are exempted from the taille. The whole revenue of the French king amounts to between twelve and thirteen millions sterling. These are great resources for the king: but they will always keep the people miserable, and effectually prevent them from making such improvements as might turn their lands to the best advantage. But besides being eased in the article of taxes, there is something else required to make them exert themselves for the benefit of their country. They must be free in their persons, secure in their property, indulged with reasonable leases, and effectually protected by law from the insolence and oppression of their superiors.
Great as the French king's resources may appear, they are hardly sufficient to defray the enormous expence of his government. About two millions sterling per annum of his revenue are said to be anticipated for paying the interest of the public debts; and the rest is found inadequate to the charge of a prodigious standing army, a double frontier of fortified towns and the extravagant appointments of ambassadors, generals, governors, intendants, commandants, and other officers of the crown, all of whom affect a pomp, which is equally ridiculous and prodigal. A French general in the field is always attended by thirty or forty cooks; and thinks it is incumbent upon him, for the glory of France, to give a hundred dishes every day at his table. When don Philip, and the marechal duke de Belleisle, had their quarters at Nice, there were fifty scullions constantly employed in the great square in plucking poultry. This absurd luxury infects their whole army. Even the commissaries keep open table; and nothing is seen but prodigality and profusion. The king of Sardinia proceeds upon another plan. His troops are better cloathed, better payed, and better fed than those of France. The commandant of Nice has about four hundred a year of appointments, which enable him to live decently, and even to entertain strangers. On the other hand, the commandant of Antibes, which is in all respects more inconsiderable than Nice, has from the French king above five times the sum to support the glory of his monarch, which all the sensible part of mankind treat with ridicule and contempt. But the finances of France are so ill managed, that many of their commandants, and other officers, have not been able to draw their appointments these two years. In vain they complain and remonstrate. When they grow troublesome they are removed. How then must they support the glory of France? How, but by oppressing the poor people. The treasurer makes use of their money for his own benefit. The king knows it; he knows his officers, thus defrauded, fleece and oppress his people: but he thinks proper to wink at these abuses. That government may be said to be weak and tottering which finds itself obliged to connive at such proceedings. The king of France, in order to give strength and stability to his administration, ought to have sense to adopt a sage plan of oeconomy, and vigour of mind sufficient to execute it in all its parts, with the most rigorous exactness. He ought to have courage enough to find fault, and even to punish the delinquents, of what quality soever they may be: and the first act of reformation ought to be a total abolition of all the farms. There are, undoubtedly, many marks of relaxation in the reins of the French government, and, in all probability, the subjects of France will be the first to take advantage of it. There is at present a violent fermentation of different principles among them, which under the reign of a very weak prince, or during a long minority, may produce a great change in the constitution. In proportion to the progress of reason and philosophy, which have made great advances in this kingdom, superstition loses ground; antient prejudices give way; a spirit of freedom takes the ascendant. All the learned laity of France detest the hierarchy as a plan of despotism, founded on imposture and usurpation. The protestants, who are very numerous in southern parts, abhor it with all the rancour of religious fanaticism. Many of the commons, enriched by commerce and manufacture, grow impatient of those odious distinctions, which exclude them from the honours and privileges due to their importance in the commonwealth; and all the parliaments, or tribunals of justice in the kingdom, seem bent upon asserting their rights and independence in the face of the king's prerogative, and even at the expence of his power and authority. Should any prince therefore be seduced by evil counsellors, or misled by his own bigotry, to take some arbitrary step, that may be extremely disagreeable to all those communities, without having spirit to exert the violence of his power for the support of his measures, he will become equally detested and despised; and the influence of the commons will insensibly encroach upon the pretensions of the crown. But if in the time of a minority, the power of the government should be divided among different competitors for the regency, the parliaments and people will find it still more easy to acquire and ascertain the liberty at which they aspire, because they will have the balance of power in their hands, and be able to make either scale preponderate. I could say a great deal more upon this subject; and I have some remarks to make relating to the methods which might be taken in the case of a fresh rupture with France, for making a vigorous impression on that kingdom. But these I in list defer till another occasion, having neither room nor leisure at present to add any thing, but that I am, with great truth, - Dear Sir, Your very humble Servant.
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