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1907 elopement: Momma Brodhead outfoxed by determined daughter
G. Welles Van Campen & Louise (Lulu) Brodhead, 1907; From personal family archives of John Ford. Used with permission.
The topic of eloping is not new to this blog. I've done several posts about late 19th- and early 20th-century ancestors in our family tree dashing off to marry their special someone in a "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" spirit. I eloped myself, so I can relate. However, while today, for many, it's all about keeping things simple, back then, it was an activity that could definitely land you on page one of your local paper, or even on front pages of papers around the country. I still find it astounding that when I search the absolutely vast newspaper archives of Genealogy Bank for images of any Brodheads, only three appear, and one of them is the one-and-only Mildred Hancock at the time of her 1911 elopement with my great-uncle Lewis D. Brodhead. Yes, if you eloped back in those days, you would definitely get yourself noticed!
The September 1, 2001, article "Elopement Feared" by Terry Schulman noted: The generation of 1900, caught up in the rebellious spirit of the new age, seemed much more willing to disobey parents where matters of the heart were concerned. Mildred and Lewis are great examples! And, so are the subjects of this post.
One of this blog's readers, John Ford, recently shared with me the details of his grandmother Louise (Lida, Lulu) R. Brodhead's daring 1907 elopement with G. Welles Van Campen, and kindly offered to let me include the story in this blog. (John and I have Garret Brodhead (1733-1804) as our common ancestor, however, he is a descendant of Garret's first wife/partner Cornelia Schoonhoven, and I am a descendant of Garret's wife Jane Davis (see tree below).)
In this case, news of the elopement made it at least to one Philadelphia paper. This was likely thanks to the fact that Louise's mom Mary Brodhead went after the pair in hot pursuit, in an attempt to thwart the impromptu nuptials. The drama played out along the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River between Bushkill and Matamoras, and ended in Sparrowbush, NY, just outside Port Jervis. It's not hard to picture in your mind the emotions that likely unfolded on that fateful November day as horses and buggies made a beeline for the PA/NY line… New York was a safe spot to elope back then, although that changed a year later when the Cobb marriage-license law went into effect. Its purpose in part appears to have been to quell the surge of cross-border elopements, and elopements in general. (See Harper's Weekly article for more info.)
The story was recounted six decades later on the occasion of the couple's 60th anniversary, and the second account is more detailed than the first and offers a bit of conflicting information on how things "went down." Chalk that up to the sands of time sweeping a few changes across the memory trail, or the fact that the original article took some artistic license. Either way, it is quite a fun story, one that certainly livens up a family's history and is interesting to recount from one generation to the next.
As you read the articles, bear in mind what John told me about Mom Mary, who with husband Daniel Van Etten Brodhead ran a successful farm and later a boarding house business in Bushkill: She was a feisty and very independent woman… She loved to drive a fast horse and had an ex-trotter as her favorite buggy horse.
Enjoy the story, and thanks again to John for contributing it! If anyone out there wants to contact John, he can be reached at "candjford1 at verizon dot net."
Clipping from the Philadelphia North American newspaper, issue dated 29 November 1907 – From personal family archives of John Ford. Used with permission.
Mary (Schoonover) Brodhead (1865-1948), Bushkill, PA. Photo taken circa 1939. From personal family archives of John Ford. Used with permission.
Article transcribed here due to low resolution issues; From personal family archives of John Ford. Used with permission.
The Pocono Record, The Stroudsburgs, PA, Friday, 24 November 1967
Impulsive Elopement Leads to Sixty Years of Marriage
The warmth and quiet of the Van Campen home, 150 Washington St., east Stroudsburg, as they prepared to celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on Thanksgiving Day was a far cry from their original wedding day on that chill November 23, 1907, when G. Welles Can Campen and Lulu Brodhead eloped.
They hadn't planned to be married that day at all. Lulu Brodhead, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Brodhead of Bushkill, was teaching school and her mother thought that she ought to wait until Spring before marrying that daring young road tester for the Mathewson Motor Car, made in Wilkes Barre. At least in the Spring they would both be 21.
Tartan tam o' shanters. Wikipedia.
Mrs. Brodhead was in Dingmans Ferry when Van Campen came calling in his hired livery rig. He suggested that, with her father's approval, she ride with him to Dingmans to join her mother. Slipping on a man's coat against the November chill and her blue tamoshanter [hat – see image inset], she set out with him.
When her mother met them on the road, she jumped to the conclusion that they were eloping and ordered them to follow her home under no uncertain terms. Rebelliously, they decided since she's suggested the idea of an elopement, they'd carry it through.
The only place they could marry without a license was in New York State. Meanwhile, Mrs. Brodhead had discovered the innocence of their errand, and knowing how her scolding might have affected them, set out in pursuit.
With the carriage across the road, she tried to block their way to Matamoras but they managed to get by and side by side they raced down the streets of Matamoras. She beat them to block the bridge entrance.
Nothing daunted, they turned down a side road which ended at the river, rented a boat, bailed it out and rowed to the other side, landing in a bramble patch. They found a young English minister in Sparrowbush to marry the bedraggled pair and returned home.
Mrs. Brodhead, whose heart was as warm as her temper, was quick to give in, kissed them, and they lived happily ever after.
And, usefully. They have four children living: Mrs. Walter Ford of Maryland; Daniel, California; Allen of Philadelphia and Bernard of East Stroudsburg. They have eight grandchildren and 10 [?] great grandchildren.
They plan to spend their anniversary having Thanksgiving with a daughter, Jeanie Tonkey, in Easton.
Of course, Mr. Van Campen plans to drive. He probably has driven longer than any local resident. He was a road tester for the Mathewson Car Co. in Wilkes Barre starting in 1904 and continuing until they produced their last car in 1912.
He recalled that he used to drive over a dirt road to Blakeslee to test he cars on the only hard road in the county, and experimental road from Blakeslee to Pocono Summit.
He spent a total of 32 years in the automobile business and they also operated a resort hotel. As chief of Civil Defense, he was active in flood relief during the 1955 flood in the Bushkill area where they lived for most of their married life.
In 63 years of driving he has never scratched a car on the highway.
Mrs. Van Campen is a member of the Bushkill Garden Club, the Jacob Stroud Chapter of the DAR and the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Both are descendants of pioneer families in this area. Mrs. Van Campen's father was named for Daniel Brodhead, pioneer settler of East Stroudsburg.
Mr. Van Campen is the great-great-grandson of Col. Abram Van Campen whose homestead in Pahaquarry Twp. Is part of the historical treasures of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
1-Lt. Garret Brodhead b. 21 Jan 1733, Marbletown Ulster Co NY, d. 5 Sep 1804, Stroudsburg Monroe Co PA, bur. Dansbury Cemetery, Stroudsburg, Monroe Co., PA
+Cornelia Schoonhoven b. Abt Jan 1733, Minisink, N.J, d. After 2 Feb 1771
|—–2-Garret Brodhead Jr. b. 20 Mar 1756, d. 21 Sep 1835, Dingmans Ferry
| Northampton Co PA, bur. Delaware Cemetery, Dingmans Ferry, Pike Co., PA
+Affe Decker b. 19 Oct 1759, Northampton Co PA, d. 15 May 1840, Dingmans Ferry Northampton Co PA, bur. Delaware Cemetery, Dingmans Ferry, Pike Co., PA
|—–3-Nicholas Brodhead b. Delaware Twp., Pike Co., PA
+Margaret Owens b. 22 Mar 1800, Newfoundland, NJ d. 9 Apr 1873
|—–4-David Owen Brodhead b. 24 Jul 1824, d. 31 Jan 1911, bur. Delaware Cemetery, Dingmans Ferry, Pike Co., PA
+Maria Van Etten b. 21 Mar 1832, d. 24 Jan 1916, bur.
Delaware Cemetery, Dingmans Ferry, Pike Co., PA
|—–5-Daniel Van Etten Brodhead b. 21 Sept 1858, Delaware Twp, Pike Co., PA, d. 25 Jun 1941 Bushkill, Pike Co., PA
| +Mary Schoonover b. 28 Nov 1865, Bushkill, Pike Co., PA, d. 5 Oct 1948, Bushkill, Pike Co., PA
| |—–6-Louise Rex Brodhead b. 20 Jan 1887, Bushkill, Lehman Twp, Pike Co., PA. d. 1 Jul 1974, St. Michaels, MD
| | +George Welles Van Campen b. Mar. 2, 1887, Dorancetown, PA, d. Feb. 5, 1972, East Stroudsburg, PA
Obituary of Mary Brodhead (Provided by John Ford. No newspaper or date indicated, but probably in the East Stroudsburg or Stroudsburg paper):
Mary Brodhead, one of the best known residents of the Bushkill section of Pike county, passed away at the General Hospital, East Stroudsburg, on Oct. 6 at 4:30 p. m., after being hospitalized one month. She had been in ill health the past year. Deceased was the widow of the late Daniel V. Brodhead, who preceded her in death seven years ago. They conducted the Brodhead boarding house for over 36 years. Mrs. Brodhead was endeared to all who knew her by her gentle and friendly character and by her human interest in the joys and sorrows of her friends and family. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs G. Welles Van Campen of Bushkill and Mrs. Joseph F. Schultzback of Philadelphia; four grandchildren. and eight great grandchildren. Mrs. Brodhead was 82 years of age, and a member the Bushkill Reformed Church. Funeral services were strictly private. Interment was made in Bushkill Cemetery.
Ford Family Recollections of Mary Brodhead (Provided by John Ford, in addition to what was shared above):
[…] She loved eels, caught from the river and whenever we (Walter, and sons John and David Ford) went fishing for bass in the Delaware, and caught an eel, we would bring it to her to fry up and eat. […] She was always trying something different on the farm such as trying to raise mushrooms in the basement on the farm (unsuccessfully). Mildred remembers her using a machine with an iron hopper and crank to grind up broken china to give to the chickens. When she and her husband were elderly, Pe-pa (husband Daniel) continued to reside in the farm-house/boarding house with daughter Louise, husband George Welles, and family. Me-ma resided in the house built by their daughter Helen and husband as a summer place on land given to them by Daniel and Mary across the creek between the old road and Route 209 and a little up the hill from the farm house.
Ford Family Recollections of Louise Brodhead Van Campen (Provided by John Ford)
Louise […] finished high school and taught school in the Brodhead School near Bushkill for several years. […] Louise worked very hard when they had boarders at their boarding house and was an excellent cook – her raised biscuits and ginger snaps were favorites of the grandchildren. She used to like to fish and once, when a water snake went after a fish, she went after it with a shovel. They used to use the fireplace in the basement of the bungalow on the farm for heating water for washing and they would have large iron kettles on the bridge over the brook for the washing. They would host huge gatherings of their children and grandchildren at the farm for Thanksgiving and other Holidays when the numerous great grandchildren would roam the woods, play in the brook, fish in the river, etc. She was a very devout lady, belonging to the Methodist Church in East Stroudsburg and eventually became a Seventh Day Adventist. She was very kind, had a sweet smile and never an unkind word about anyone.
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Steven Tyler Demands Trump Stop Playing Aerosmith Songs at Rallies
By broadcasting the 1993 hit "Livin' on the Edge" at a West Virginia arena, the President infringed on the singer's copyright, says his attorney.
By Shirley Halperin
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Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler is demanding President Donald Trump stop using the band's songs at rallies, like the one held at the Charleston Civic Center in West Virginia on Tuesday (August 21). The band's 1993 hit "Livin' on the Edge" was played as Trump devotees entered the venue, which has a capacity of 13,500. Tyler has in turn sent a "cease and desist" letter through his attorney Dina LaPolt to the White House accusing the President of willful infringement in broadcasting the song, which was written by Tyler, Joe Perry and Mark Hudson.
Citing the Lanham Act, which prohibits "any false designation or misleading description or representation of fact … likely to cause confusion … as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with another person," Tyler's attorney contends that playing an Aerosmith song in a public arena gives the false impression that Tyler is endorsing Trump's presidency.
The matter has come up previously with another Aerosmith song, "Dream On," which Trump used during his 2015 election campaign. Following a similar letter stating, "Trump for President needs our client's express written permission in order to use his music" and that the campaign "was violating Mr. Tyler's copyright," BMI drove the point home and pulled the public performance rights for the song. Public performance rights for "Livin' on the Edge" are administered by ASCAP.
The scene in WV before Trump's rally. Aerosmith's "Livin' on the edge" playing. pic.twitter.com/HW1qr9TBgE
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 21, 2018
During the rally, President Trump spoke about immigration, trade and politics, peppered with his usual banter about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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On Sunday, Aerosmith was among the top-billed acts on the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards, joining Post Malone and 21 Savage for the show's closing performance, a medley of "Dream On" and "Toys in the Attic."
Read portions of Tyler's letter to the White House below:
It has come to our attention that President Donald J. Trump and/or The Trump Organization (collectively, "Mr. Trump") have been using our client's song "Livin' On The Edge" in connection with political rally events (the Rallies"), including at an event held yesterday at the Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, West Virginia on August 21, 2018. As expressly outlined in the Previous Letters, Mr. Trump does not have our client's permission to use any of our client's music, including "Livin' On The Edge".
What makes this violation even more egregious is that Mr. Trump's use of our client's music was previously shut down, not once, but two times, during his campaign for presidency in 2015. Please see the Previous Letters sent on behalf of our client attached here as Exhibit A. Due to your receipt of the Previous Letters, such conduct is clearly willful, subjecting Mr. Trump to the maximum penalty under the law.
As we have made clear numerous times, Mr. Trump is creating the false impression that our client has given his consent for the use of his music, and even that he endorses the presidency of Mr. Trump. By using "Livin' On The Edge" without our client's permission, Mr. Trump is falsely implying that our client, once again, endorses his campaign and/or his presidency, as evidenced by actual confusion seen from the reactions of our client's fans all over social media. This specifically violates Section 43 of the Lanham Act, as it "is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with another person."
Further, as we have also made clear, Mr. Trump needs our client's express written permission in order to use his music. We demanded Mr. Tyler's public performance societies terminate their licenses with you in 2015 in connection with "Dream On" and any other musical compositions written or co-written by Mr. Tyler. As such, we are unaware of any remaining public performance license still in existence which grants Mr. Trump the right use his music in connection with the Rallies or any other purpose. If Mr. Trump has any such license, please forward it to our attention immediately.
In addition, Mr. Tyler's voice is easily recognizable and central to his identity, and any use thereof wrongfully misappropriates his rights of publicity. Mr. Trump does not have any right to use the name, image, voice or likeness of our client, without his express written permission.
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Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard
Jim O'Neill October 25, 2017 Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard2017-10-25T08:16:45+01:00 Grassroots Labour, Opinion
Jim O'Neill sees echoes of Keir Hardie in Richard Leonard, and sets out why he's backing Richard as Scottish Labour leader.
I believe that any Leader of our party should have a sound grounding in, and understanding of, the roots of the party. Our party, founded by James Keir Hardie as the Labour Representation Committee in 1900, arose from his belief that the worker should have a direct voice in Parliament. As a full-time trade union official, Hardie understood that the Liberals were so compromised by their attachment to the new middle class, that they could never represent the needs of the ordinary worker, and in a speech to miners on Irvine Moor, Hardie first suggested that a separate party of Labour was required.
Few today understand Keir Hardie's motivations as well as Richard Leonard. Such understanding brought him to found the James Keir Hardie Society, along with Cathy Jamieson and newly elected MP Hugh Gaffney.
I should declare an interest here. He brought me on to the Executive of the Society and Richard, Hugh and I have laid the foundations for Keir Hardie trails in both Lanarkshire and Ayrshire. Now we only need the funds to bring those visions to fruition. Having grown up in the village of
Keir Hardie's youth, Newarthill, and later in life being responsible for the Keir Hardie collection in Cumnock, it is understandable that I have felt a visceral connection to the founder of our Party. I have sensed the same in Richard Leonard.
Like Keir Hardie, Richard has come from a trade union background. As Political Officer for the GMB, he has sought to influence our politicians at Holyrood and Westminster, and also in the councils, that they need to implement policies that support and value their workers, rather than drive them away. He has led many campaigns, both by the GMB alone and with other trades unions, and he has always sought to further the cause of Labour. However, in his role he has never forgotten the individual member, as my friend David is never tired of telling. When David was having difficulty accessing a much-needed medical retirement, it was Richard's personal intervention that broke the logjam.
I believe that Richard's campaigning background for collective Labour issues, and also his understanding of the needs of individual members, will serve our party well.
As anyone who reads my contributions to Labour Hame knows, I am a passionate co-operator. At the recent 100th Conference of the Co-operative Party, our UK leader, Jeremy Corbyn, reaffirmed his commitment to public ownership; not, as he said, of the 40s, 50s and 60s style of state ownership, but using new co-operative models of ownership that place ownership directly into the hands of the people. Until now, trades unions have been reluctant to adopt that model, concerned at the impact on their members. Who better than a passionate trades unionist to take this
message to the trades unions and convert them to the value of the co-operative model?
Finally, I am proud to call Richard Leonard a friend. I have seen his enthusiasm and workrate drive his passion for Labour politics in all its forms, but I have also experienced the warmth of his personality in his dealings with individuals. I do not have that experience with Anas, since I do not know him so well, although I deplore the tone of the attacks on his candidacy.
Thus, for all these reasons, I have no hesitation in supporting Richard Leonard as the person to guide the next phase of our party's recovery and, eventually, back to a pre-eminent place in Scottish politics.
gavin - October 25th, 2017 at 11:29 am none Comment author #140810 on Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard by Labour Hame
I would imagine Leonard is a shoo-in, but given the bitter nature of the campaign, who ever wins will be opposed by a section of the party.
Keir Hardie believed in a self governing Scotland—the different from Scottish Labour's stance.
Keir Hardie came from an impoverished and socially despised background—nothing like Leonard's privileged upbringing.
Keir Hardie deplored the slaughter of ordinary people conscripted to war. How could he possibly support Labour's stance on Trident, which is designed to kill millions of non-combatants?
Keir Hardie lived in a different age, when anything seemed possible, economically. I read some of Leonard's wish list. Very good, but totally impractical and economically unachievable.
If I am wrong, perhaps Mr O'Neil could cost each element of Leonard's proposals, and tell us how it can be afforded?
What rate of taxation are we facing under a Leonard government in Scotland? What items of present expenditure will be cut? Brexit is guaranteed to cut our economic performance no matter the deal, so how can Holyrood spend more, when GDP per capita will decline?
It is pie in the sky stuff, not grown-up politics.
Jim O'Neill - October 25th, 2017 at 1:02 pm none Comment author #140812 on Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard by Labour Hame
You are right. Keir Hardie envisaged a self-governing Scotland. He never advocated an independent Scotland
gavin - October 25th, 2017 at 4:20 pm none Comment author #140815 on Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard by Labour Hame
Keir Hardie wanted Scotland to have Dominion Status, the same as Australia, Canada, New Zealand etc.
Not independence then, but a natural progression to independence. Oddly none of them preferred rule from London as an alternative to self rule.
Mike - October 25th, 2017 at 12:46 pm none Comment author #140811 on Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard by Labour Hame
What was Keir Hardies view of the House of Lords? Does anybody have it on record?
How about his views on Home Rule for Scotland? Surely that is on record?
Its a shame we'll never know his views on Trident renewal and WMD proliferation in his capacity as a principled pacifist though.
But we all know where Richard Leonard stands on these issues don't we?
It must be so easy to compare Richard Leonard with Keir Hardy on these issues alone.
Richard MacKinnon - October 25th, 2017 at 2:04 pm none Comment author #140813 on Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard by Labour Hame
Im like you, on the face of it Richard Leonard is a shooin. But take a minute and look at the (never to be talked about) facts.
Leonard has never held down a real job in his life. Private school (no paper runs I will bet), University, trade union advisor, politician. I suppose you can argue it is an impressive cv for its paucity of experience required.
On the other hand, Sarwar is a multi millionaire. Mentored by his father Mohamad. The best in the business. Self made multi millionaire and politician. Stop and think about that Jim, it is genuinely impressive. Sarwar senior arrives on these shores with hehaw and in the space of 30/40 years builds up a huge business and gets elected to parliament. RESPECT.
And although it can never be mentioned in good company or at a CLP meeting, if you are going to make it in the cash and carry bussiness the last thing you want are full time trade union reps hanging around, 'intimidating/politicising' (delete where appropriate) the work force. It might only be a pound an hour more (to pay the minimum wage), but if you have one hundred people working for you that is one hundred pounds per hour you are out of your pocket. Or, based on a 60 hour week, 6k per week. That is a lot of school fees.
Jim, sometimes when the answer looks obvious the question has a catch to it.
Adrian - October 25th, 2017 at 2:38 pm none Comment author #140814 on Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard by Labour Hame
Jim, Complete support for Richard Leonard. I do think that when you argue for his 'convictions in action' and his commitment to co operative models of ownership you advance powerful reasons for him to become leader, and I certainly hope this comes about. However, whether he knows much about Keir Hardie and the roots of Labour is of no real interest to the people who are going to vote for him and probably bear only a tenuous connection to the issues he faces and the policies he pursues. I remember my first Labour Party meeting in South Shields, where an older guy at the end of the meeting welcomed me by telling me of Ramsay MacDonalds betrayal. Another man there at the beginning of the Party! Despite this, I became steeped in labour history and it is of personal interest to me even now, yet I strongly believe we should not keep dragging it up as it casts a romantic shadow which attracts very few of the younger generation and informs us very little. Same goes for Levellers, Peterloo, Chartists and E P Thompson-as admirable as they all are. Sorry forgot to really blaspheme, and add in Attlee.
Mike - October 25th, 2017 at 5:19 pm none Comment author #140816 on Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard by Labour Hame
Lets through a wrench of reality into the works here. There is only 1 Labour leader and that is Jeremy Corbyn. Wont matter if Richard or Anas take over the branch office in Scotland they will still have to follow their direction policy and ideology from London. Its where the whole of Labour gets its convictions from. First they have to determine what Labour in London wants them to be then they adopt them.
So if anybody expects Labour in Scotland to act any differently from Labour in Wales then you are living a life of self imposed delusion wishful thinking and cartoon fantasies.
Only a Labour party within an Independent Scotland would be able to determine their own path their own ideals and their own convictions.
Trying to pretend Labour in Scotland can be autonomous is frankly insulting to the intelligence of the electorate as is this pseudo return to Socialism.
But hey ho its your third place in Scottish politics if you're so desperate to hang on to it so much that's your privilege.
david - October 25th, 2017 at 5:50 pm none Comment author #140817 on Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard by Labour Hame
As Jim says in 2014 .I was told I needed to take an ill health retirement . I did not have a choice.
My line manager HR rep and my full time GMB union rep were all in my home . I was not well enough to go to my company HQ .
My HR rep asked my union rep if the union would help get me my ill health retirement pension . I was the first company employee to have to do that and they said the rules were that difficult the company would have trouble getting me my pension without making mistakes
My union rep made a phone call . He said he had spoken to a colleague called Richard Leonard he said although it was not Richards job within the union Richard knew the rules inside out.
I was told with my agreement he would help get me my pension .
A second call was made to Richard straight away with my and my companies consent.
At the start of 2015 my ill health retirement pension kicked in with no problems .As did my ESA and PIP that the GMB had told me to go to Cab to get their help in securing.
That's what good unions do . They were in my corner from the start
Richard has my complete support he will be the guy in the peoples corner
I am watching and reading reports that the Fire Service is facing cuts The union says that they have seen a secret paper that was circulated amongst senior management.
Stations to b e closed services cut And another thing I went to the annual review of Ayrshire and Arran health board .25 million in cuts across the area trouble in recruiting key hospital staff GPS Dentists Radiologists
And Cancer treatment of all things under severe strain . NHS Staff not knowing if they can stay in our country after Brexit .
I wont blame the brexit case on the SNP but the rest after 10 years come on
When were the Scottish government even going to tell us about the Firebrigade problem .
It took a leak to the BBC for us the public to find out .
Now suddenly we are told there will be a public consultation.
Big deal I want to know is my local Fire Station safe.
All you guys who do Labour bad .Well this is the day job . Get in touch with your local SNP rep and kick their backsides Come on here and tell us what they say . And don't parrot the SNP Government rubbish about no compulsory redundancies or now using smaller vehicles .
AND TELL US WHY NOBODY KNEW ABOUT THIS UNTIL THE BBC BLEW THE GAFF
I look forward to your excuses
How about the fact that these cuts will be made at local level by local authorities and not central Government? Want to bet they will only be made where Labour are in charge or share authority with the Tories?
But you knew that already didn't you?
Jim O'Neill - October 26th, 2017 at 8:41 am none Comment author #140822 on Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard by Labour Hame
The Scottish Fire Service is a national organisation and is no longer controlled by Local Authorities. But you already knew that, didn't you?
"Scotland may be a small country, but it's also diverse and we recognise that a one-size-fits-all approach to the delivery of fire and rescue provision is unlikely to meet the needs of all our communities. That's why front-line services are delivered locally from three strategically positioned hubs based in the North, West and East of the country.
There are three Deputy Assistant Chief Officers working as Heads of Service Delivery across the North, West and East of Scotland. To achieve this, they work closely with local senior officers, local authorities and strategic partners to support the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service's key objectives of creating safer communities for everyone who lives, works and travels in Scotland."
In case you missed it.
"To achieve this, they work closely with local senior officers, local authorities and strategic partners"
Meet the SFRS Board members.
http://www.firescotland.gov.uk/about-us/sfrs-board/board-members.aspx
Pat Watters – Chair of the Board
Pat first entered local government in 1982 as a member for East Kilbride serving on Strathclyde Regional Council, before moving to South Lanarkshire Council in 1995. He served as COSLA President from 2001 until taking up the post of SFRS Board Chair in 2012.
Kirsty Darwent
Kirsty has wide ranging leadership experience within the charitable and public sector and an academic background in psychology and systemic psychotherapy. She is Chair of Relationships Scotland, Vice-Chair of the Board of NHS Ayrshire and Arran Director, a Director with the Family Therapy Training Network and a Councillor with South Ayrshire Council.
Bill McQueen
Bill held a range of senior management posts in several Departments of the Scottish Government, with responsibility for policy development, strategic planning and operational delivery. Latterly, he was Deputy Chief Executive of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service where he had responsibility for corporate services, policy and finance matters. In that role he was also a member of the Government's Civil Contingencies Group and Emergency Action Team. In previous roles he led work on reviewing Departmental structures in Scottish Government and did work on corporate services for the Prime Minister's Efficiency Unit. He was a member of the Accounts Commission for Scotland from 2008 to 2014, is currently a non-executive Board member of the Scottish Legal Aid Board and sits as a lay member of the Employment Tribunal Service for Scotland.
Bill McQueen CBE is a former Deputy Chief Executive of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and has extensive experience of central government and its sponsored bodies, having also worked in the Scottish Office and Scottish Executive in a number of policy areas including Transport, Management and Organisation,
To put it mildly the SFRS is a whos who of ex Labour employees existing councillors party members and affiliates.
But you knew that already didn't you Jim Bob?
Mike, some time ago I decided not to reply to you because not only did you talk mince, you talk deliberately misleading mince. For the record, there are !2 members of the SFRS Board. Of these, four come from the private sector, two from the voluntary sector, two ex health service, 1 former fire chief, 1 former DCE of the Crown Office, 1 ex-Labour Councillor who acted as independent when he became President of COSLA, and 1 serving Labour Councillor. Just a touch different from the impression you tried to give. I return to my previous stance.
Robert McDonald - October 26th, 2017 at 7:56 am none Comment author #140821 on Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard by Labour Hame
David, you do know that this was a discussion paper authored by Scottish Fire and Rescue Services and not l list of government cuts?
Thanks for your comments guys .You cant tell me the Scottish Government did not know this was on the cards as Audit Scotland warned them 2 years ago of a funding gap .Annabelle Ewing MSP the Community Safety Minister would have in my opinion known of this did papers we don't know about yet circulate in cabinet circles.
The blog is not about this it was me who raised it .
Between 60 and 100 appliancies are idle in the stations each day . They don't have the staff to man them that's 4 man c say it happens in 5 or 6 Full Time stations every day
There have been no stations earmarked for closure yet .
The chief has said if Firefighters are prepared to redesign there roles and take on additional skills. Then they would be in line for a better pay rise.
The papers circulating say the current model cannot last beyond the current financial year .
There are problems recruiting staff who are on call retained firefighters
The chief will put in a case to recruit part time on call fire fighters
2 thirds of Scotlands 356 firestations are in rural areas and crewed by retained duty staff
Many of them unavailable during the day
Today there are 700 fewer firefighters than in 2013 when the service was merged.
356 stations unchanged since 2016
21 per cent or 74 stations are fulltime
12 per cent or 42 stations are volunteer crewed
This situation cant go on
Trouble in recruiting sounds familiar are they seriously going to suggest Scotland goes to a mainly part time service
I repeat there in my opinion is no way that government ministers did not know of this paper
If this had been a Labour administration the ordinary party members would not have stood for it.
As you should know by now we don't even stay quiet when its in our interest
So why are SNP members not speaking out .
Are you not interested or more likely been very firmly told not to
Sorry above should say 4 man crew FBU say don't have the staff to man them
Job done just voted for Richard Leonard . I will support whoever wins. As I am sure the rest of the party will
p - October 27th, 2017 at 11:22 pm none Comment author #140841 on Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard by Labour Hame
You voted for the man who spent millions of pounds fighting against his own union members? What a **** you are.
I normally thank people who reply but as you did not do me the courtesy of putting in your name.
I wont but I will say Richard Leonard the candidate I voted for is backed by my union the GMB and my constituency Labour Party
Mike - October 29th, 2017 at 11:53 am none Comment author #140848 on Roots – why I am supporting Richard Leonard by Labour Hame
I joined Labour to vote for the Red Rosette as my Dad and Grandad did before me. Call me an old fashioned socialist.
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Well hello there faithful followers! Long time no see!! Sorry about my disappearing act and man is there news!
And now, on to the review!!
During the first pages of The Game, by terry Schott, Zach, the hero of the story, is dying. He describes dying and then suddenly wakes up, and is in the body of a 17 year old. The explanation, Zach lives in a world called Tygon, where at a young age children are put into "the Game". The Game is a real life simulation that takes place on the actual Earth. Whenever you go into the Game as you live your life you acquire credits, which once you turn 18 can be turned into cash. The only thing you can buy with credits until you are 18 are more plays in the Game, power-ups, and other such things in which to help you in life.
Zach is one of the lucky players, he started as an orphan, a nobody, when all of the sudden he rockets to the fast track on a Game play that puts him in one of the top positions. Due to this he is picked up by a patron, and not just any patron, he is picked up by Brandon Strayne, the maker of the Game.
Zach, however, is 17 and is turning 18 in a few weeks, and he has two choices, he could play it safe and retire in a really good position, or he could risk it all and retire in the number one spot, a feat that has only happened 11 other times in the 30 years of the Game. Will Zach make the cut, what will the 30th anniversary of the game hold, and is it possible that the mainframe, the computer that controls it all, is becoming self aware? You'll have to read The Game by Terry Schott to find out!
Because they said so (what your parents might say): Nothing much, just a little bit of blood, some not too graphic deaths, and a light and innocent romantic lean… an exciting adventure of a book overall.
Hi! My name's Sam and I'm a kid blogger too! I also just started following your blog (yippee!).
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Can you name every Irish Grand National winner this century?
Fairyhouse was due to hold the Irish Grand National on Easter Monday.
With the Irish Grand National unfortunately cancelled due to the ongoing crisis surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic, we want to know how many winners of the race you can name this century...
The Irish equivalent of the Aintree spectacular, the Irish Grand National takes place on Easter Monday each year at Fairyhouse racecourse, held over a distance of three miles and five furlongs - around five furlongs shorter than the English National.
Along with being slightly shorter than the Grand National, the fences at Fairyhouse are like those that you would find in a conventional chase race, and there are 24 fences to be jumped - rather than the 30 at Aintree. Of course, there won't be a 2020 winner to add to the roll of honour, so we thought we'd look back instead with a Sunday morning quiz!
Brown Lad is the only horse to have won the Fairyhouse feature more than once since 1946 (doing so three times in 1975, 1976 and 1978), meaning that there are 20 winners of the Irish Grand National for you to guess in eight minutes.
It's a particularly tricky assignment, so we've provided you with the names of the winning owner, trainer and jockey as a little helping hand.
Send in your scores to us on Twitter (@HorseRacing_Net), and if you manage to get all 20 - well done and send us your exact time without revealing everything!
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Edward Snowden's revelations have rocked the intelligence and security establishment. So far, the majority of the whistle-blower's leaked documents have focussed on mass surveillance. This is an incredibly important topic and has ignited a global debate (although strangely muted in the UK) about the relationship between security and liberty.
Surveillance, or information-gathering, is, however, only one aspect of the intelligence community's work. The other is the active, but deniable, shaping of international events – known as covert action.
American broadcaster NBC recently published two fascinating documents about GCHQ's covert action in cyberspace. These shed new light on British approaches to covert action today and yet commentators, as with much of Snowden's revelations, stop short of placing the details in their broader and historical context.
Meanwhile to prevent a target from communicating, it recommends sending text messages every 10 seconds or so, bombarding the targets with phone calls, and deleting their online presence.
The second document, from 2010, covers proposals for operations, including how to monitor diplomats in SIGINT-friendly hotels and how to 'push' certain stories on social media.
How do these documents relate to British approaches to covert action more broadly?
1) They show simply that Britain does covert action. This has long been seen as a predominantly American preserve. Moreover, they tell us that Britain uses the term "covert action". Traditionally, this has been seen as an American phrase for which the British translation is "special operations" or "special political action". Clearly this is no longer the case. This is not simply an instance of recent Americanisation, however. Top secret British documents have referred to "covert action" since the end of the Second World War.
2) They reveal that GCHQ has moved into covert action – traditionally the realm of MI6. Indeed, the documents reveal how online covert action, or 'effects', constitutes 5% of GCHQ's activity. This idea ties in with Defence Secretary Philip Hammond's recent announcement of a cyber-strike force.
3) The leak shows that traditional espionage tradecraft remains alive and well in the twenty-first century – but has been given a cyber-twist. Honey-traps, for example, are still being used (apparently to good effect). As are false flag operations – where an intelligence agency conducts an action purporting to be someone else (see bullet 3 above). Similarly, intelligence agencies have long sought to discredit targets. In the early Cold War, MI6 discussed ways to discredit communist leaders behind the Iron Curtain by spreading rumours, planting evidence, or even using stink bombs! The essence of intelligence is not changing, just the means of execution.
4) Disruption remains an important part of Britain's approach to covert action. Throughout much of the second half of the twentieth century, British covert action involved discrediting Communist and nationalist leaders, undermining loyalty to unfavourable regimes, and the odd attempt at a Middle Eastern coup. Since the 1970s (in Northern Ireland), but especially the 1990s, however, covert action has moved towards disruption operations aimed at disrupting both terrorist movements and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Nowadays, disruption takes the form of viruses, Denial of Service attacks, and blitzing Taleban mobile phones.
5) The documents imply GCHQ is going on the cyber offensive. Traditionally, British covert action has been framed in terms of counter-attack. This is not mentioned in these documents, but Hammond emphasised the importance of a 'dedicated capability to counter-attack in cyber space'. The first wave of covert action authorised against the Soviets was wrapped up as a 'counter-attack'. Efforts to hold back the rise of nationalism in the Middle East were deemed 'counter-subversion'. Psychological operations against the IRA were seen as 'counter-action'.
GCHQ's action is simply the latest in a long line of British secret activity.
Rory Cormac is currently working on projects examining the relationship between Prime Ministers and covert action as well as British approaches to covert action since 1945.
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While I know this may not be the best place to post this, moderator I apologise, but it is kind of a last ditch effort on my part.
I have a Nexstar 80 that I am putting bits and pieces together so that I can give this to a grandson, it has the origional GT hand controller which kinda a works.
I want to update it to the 4, the + will not work, so I am looking for a solution to this if possible.
Edited by junomike, 12 July 2018 - 04:54 PM.
Did you place a Wanted ad in CN classifieds?
If this is indeed true then you can take any V4 hand controller from any scope/mount (eq or alt az, it won't matter) and with the Celestron HC serial cable, serial port, Windows PC, and the HCUpdate.exe software re flash the hand controller to v4.03. We'd need Mike or someone else with knowledge of the NS80 firmware to verify the version information and any pre requisits, but this should mean that you will be able to find a hand controller much more easily (and hopefully in good condition).
I have an add in classifieds. No response so I'm looking for other possible options.
Appreciate the point to the eBay add, when I checked eBay nothing showed up except +'s.
Oh, and Mike, it is your Nexstar Resource site I have been looking at and has guided my hunt.
Great resource and I for one very much appreciate the effort.
It's your site that makes me think I need a smaller grab and go scope and also I must admit even though I would like the upgrade how pressed I have.been with the Nexstar accuracy.
As far as purchasing a HC, I've used these guys several times with great results. https://www.ebay.com/str/wingandsons Sometimes they post adds on amart & CN. They'll even load the firmware you want.
My specific model/version is "custom". So really can't id it further than that. Celestron has been no help, but not that they haven't responded just that they don't seem to have historical records that matches the type of support I am getting here, again thanks Mike.
I did send a request for info to the ebay seller but no response.
Since I have to teach the grandson, need to learn myself and your help is invaluable.
Thanks one and all and a special thanks to Mike.
Now my question would it work to switch h out the origional for this?
You went to what I was thinking ... it's faster and might even be cheaper to get an entire newer model GT mount with the HC than finding a good condition V4 hand controller of any type.
You'll just need to figure out the connection between the ota (tube) and the mount. Can you post some pictures of what you currently have?
I remember seeing your "custom" firmware comment in an earlier thread ... and went "uh oh".
Ok so uploaded 4 pics.
He typically sells just the HC for $40 + $5 shipping, you may need to ask if it's not listed but I believe he has crates of them. I can't answer HC compatibility questions. Note that those mounts do not include the normally needed base piece (tripod to mount I/F).
Well I made an offer, which he declined. This is a risk purchase. As while the base seems compatable but will not know until I try the arm, is different, how ever it is held in by a nylock nut so may be interchangeable.
I suspect he will decline this offer as well.
But worth a try, just not real big bucks worth.
You have the original (somewhat buggy) GT hand control which I covered in the first review I linked to above.
As far as the 102GT mount and hand control, you would end up moving your existing tube ring to the slightly larger fork arm which would leave the gear teeth exposed to collect dirt on the grease.
I'd say give it over to the grandson and keep an eye out for a version 4 hand control as a future upgrade.
Thanks Mike, appreciate your continued interest and will do just that.
And use some more of the Velcro to attach the hand control as shown in that same picture. Use the "hook" part of the Velcro on the mount and the fuzzy part on the power pack and hand control.
I have purchased several Nexstar mounts and HCs from Wing & Sons. They have been very good to deal with. I would not hesitated to do it again.
Mike, great simple hacks/ mods for the Netstar. Will impliment.
I'll continue my search for the 4 hand controler, but since origional controler works will just wait. So grandson's gift works, and he will get his scope in 2 weeks.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions and assistance. It's people like you that make me love Cloudy Nights.
I suspect that in a couple of weeks I'll be back asking for your input on a Nexstar grab and go scope for me.
I bought two of the 6000 "no name" Ebay versions from China 3 years ago. Aside from charger issues, they are working great until the other night. I pluged it into my 6SE and nothing. The red light on the battery was on and it was charged but no power to the scope. Fearing the worst, I went and got the connector from the other battery and that worked fine.
So I figured the cord was the problem. I checked it with an Ohm meter and the negative side had a short. I cut it in half to see which end was bad. I was a bit shocked to see how TINY the wires were. They are smaller than a human hair! Probably 30 gauge or even smaller. Luckily I bought some spare Male/Female plugs for projects a while back so I'm making new cords for BOTH of them.
Just be aware that they are REALLY delicate and I'd recommend swapping them out.
Thanks for the heads up. I have a "China" knockoff and purchased a new cig lighter to 5.1 DC plug for it. Because of the heavy need for dew heaters here in the SC low country upgraded to larger. This battery should do him ok, at least for now. I have fitted those mods that will eliminate the wire wrap, and thanks again for that suggestion.
I'd say go with the Wing & Sons' GT mount and save yourself some headaches. BUT the problem you have is that your current tripod hub is too small to work with the GT (I think C is now calling these mounts the "Cosmos GTs"). I've done a lot of business with this seller and they are quite reliable. The Meade DS2000 tripod can be adapted to the Cosmos GT.
It is fairly easy for me to update these early GTs (114, 130, N4) to the Cosmos' electronics including the Plus HBX and the Cosmos' dovetail saddle. But the 60/80's gear ratio is not supported by the Plus. So the only upgrade path is the Ver. 4 HBX. I bought 30 damaged HBXs from Wing & Sons that included several Ver. 4s. I was able to repair many of them with parts from dead GT HBXs. They sold very well. I may have a working unit. PM me and I'll take a look.
We'll that is very kind of you to be willing to make that effort. However, just (5 minutes ago) made a purchase of a V4 off eBay. If this fails to work, I hope not, I'll get back in touch with you by message.
These older versions are becoming scare as hen's teeth.
Thanks again and I'll be in touch.
Glad I read this article, Mike. Not sure why I didn't check it out earlier.
I've got a 6000mAh power pack arriving shortly in the mail but thinking I will return it and put out the $$$ for the larger capacity 8300mAh power pack because I am running the 8SE mount, StarSense and wifi module. Better safe than sorry.
I'm just so tired of having to run around with the large battery booster to keep it from getting tangled... and unplugged... in the middle of an observing session.


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Do organized coyote-hunting events really help control the predator population? Most hunters agree that killing coyotes can help on a local, if not a landscape, level.
Do coyote hunters help decrease the population of the animal? Differences of opinion exist as to the overall effect of hunting efforts, especially big, organized hunts, on coyote populations.
Many hunters believe taking out coyotes helps wild-game populations by removing a top-end predator from the landscape. However, no eradication attempt has been 100-percent effective.
On the other hand, the non-profit organization Project Coyote said hunting ignores the coyotes' role in the ecosystem. The theory is that hunting actually stimulates females to give birth to more pups.
Many hunters in the Classic, especially those from South Carolina, said coyotes have definitely hurt their deer numbers.


The Olympics is a bit like an alien invasion. The organising committee speak their own language and expect things to happen in ways which might be unfamiliar to locals. Even the London 2012 Olympic mascots looked a bit other-worldly.
With a touch of nostalgia, I thought I'd take a look back at the emergency planning considerations four years ago, and how things have changed just days from the start of Rio 2016.
I joined London Resilience with about 18 months to go. Planning and preparation for the Games was already at an advanced stage but there was still lots to do. I spent much of that year providing assurances to the Mayor, LOCOG (the Olympic Organising Committee) and Government that organisations in London were ready.
From the massacre in Munich in 1972, bombings in Spain just ahead of the 1992 Barcelona Games to the Atlanta bombing in 1996; the history of the Games is punctuated with incidents. In London, the bombings following the Host City announcement in July 2005 provided a sombre backdrop and framed much of the subsequent planning.
News from Brazil this week of problems with the accommodation for athletes, sadly, doesn't surprise me. I visited the Olympic Park many times, and can distinctly remember the unfinished 1970's spanish holiday resort vibe that I got from our own athlete's facilities, even quite late in the process. In contrast, I also remember being in awe of the late Zaha Hadid's Aquatics Centre!
Many of the risks we had planned for didn't occur (for example, the importation of African Horse Sickness or an unconventional attack on a crowded place). Going through the planning process made sure all responders knew their roles and how members of the public would be supported. As well as planning together, a whole series of exercises helped confirm the validity of arrangements in place.
For 61 days I managed a control room where partners worked 24/7 so that in the unlikely event of an emergency, structures were in place to respond. We were involved in the response to 154 incidents and the ability to react early meant the majority were small-scale and did not escalate. Thankfully there were a number of incidents which I didn't have to get involved with…and which we hadn't anticipated!
One of the big challenges which sticks with me from 2012 was what was referred to as 'The Last Mile', and ensuring shared understanding of responsibilities in the gap between public transport hubs and sporting venues.
Hosting the Olympics carries similar challenges regardless of Host City. Bringing in tens of thousands of athletes, many more spectators and officials (who will likely be unfamiliar with local arrangements), and putting the city front-and-centre in the eyes of the media pose challenges.
The Games this summer in Rio occur in a world which has faced recent attacks in public spaces (a sadly extensive list) and one which continues to experience internationally significant outbreaks of disease like Ebola and Zika.
Whilst there are undoubtedly opportunities to share learning and experiences between Host Cities, there are also so many differences in how the cities are administered, the impact the Games has as well as the potential for change in the four years between events (live streaming video will put far more pressure on telecoms networks in Rio for example).
Like an alien abduction, hosting the games is something you can only really understand once you've experienced it (or so I'm told!)!
Best of luck to colleagues in Brazil – I'll be watching!
Earlier versions of this blog (with less ET references!) appeared in the City Hall Blog and the July Edition of London Calling, the newsletter of the London Branch of the Emergency Planning Society.


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How Divided is the Supreme Court, Really?
by Juliet on June 30, 2020 June 30, 2020
Scrolling through my personal Facebook feed recently, I came across a post expressing deep concern over "all the 5-4 rulings" potentially diminishing the stature of the Supreme Court. There is no denying that some 5-4 decisions generate a lot of publicity, particularly when those decisions involve hot-button issues like abortion and other so-called social issues.
Just this week, the Supreme Court delivered three 5-4 decisions that, for some, may validate that concern. In June Medical Services v. Russo, the Court ruled that a Louisiana law requiring doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals violated the Constitution, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the Court's "liberal minority." In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the Court ruled that states cannot ban public funding of scholarships for religious schools when those benefits are available to other schools, with Chief Justice Roberts writing the opinion for the "conservative majority." And in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Court ruled that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau violated the separation of powers, and held that the Court could strike out the unconstitutional part of the agency's structure without eliminating the agency. Again, Chief Justice Roberts wrote the opinion for the majority.
But how prevalent, really, are these 5-4 decisions? According to Ballotpedia.org, of the 54 cases decided by the Court so far in the 2019-2020 term, just nine were decided in 5-4 splits, while 16 cases were unanimous, and another 12 had eight of the nine Justices in agreement. A little math shows that the 5-4 decisions represent just around 17% of the decisions this term, while unanimous or nearly unanimous decisions represent around 52%, with the remaining cases decided by a clear majority (one other than a 5-4 split.) If we include decisions issued per curiam (decisions issued by the Court that are generally non-controversial and often unanimous), the cohesion of the Court is even more pronounced.
This admittedly rudimentary analysis doesn't distinguish between cases that affirm a lower court decision, reverse one, or vacate and remand the case back to the lower courts, and doesn't analyze the rate of 5-4 splits in prior Supreme Court terms. But it does show that the Court is not necessarily as divided as it may appear based on media reports of decisions on hot button issues. But remember, not all cases heard by the Supreme Court involve those issues. Sometimes it's an interesting (for me) trademark case, like United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com, also issued this week, wherein the Court voted 8-1 that adding ".com" to a generic word (like "booking" in the travel industry) can make the entire combination eligible for trademark protection. (For anyone not versed in the vagaries of U.S. trademark law, trademark protection is generally not available for generic terms.) Sure, there were media reports about this case, but trademark issues tend not to stoke people's passions the way some social issues do.
More decisions will be issued in the coming days. We'll see if they resemble the 5-4 splits we've seen this week, or the more prevalent unanimous and near-unanimous decisions of the rest of the 2019-2020 Term.
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Q: listView recycles view when scrolling I am changing the background color of a rowView inside my CustomAdapter, when I scroll down the list and back up the view gets refreshed and the background disappears, I know it is because the listView recycling mechanism but I can't make it stop.
Here's my getView function:
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    public View getView(final int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
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        final Holder holder = new Holder();
        final View rowView;
        rowView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.program_list, null);
        holder.tv = (TextView) rowView.findViewById(R.id.textView1);
        holder.img = (ImageView) rowView.findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
        holder.tv.setText(result[position]);
        holder.img.setImageResource(imageId[position]);
        rowView.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                if (position != 0)
                    rowView.setBackgroundColor(Color.rgb(70, 190, 200));
          }
        });
        return rowView;
    }

What I wanted to do is: store inside an array all the position already been pressed and then color everyone of them every time. I saw a lot of other solution but I don't fully understand them.

A: I think you should use a different approach and store somewhere the position of the item you have clicked on. Then when you create the View check if the position is stored and change the background.
Hope it helps you

A: make a  boolean array instead and set true for every item you click.
boolean[] isSelected;

then in your getView method code something like this.
rowView.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            if (position != 0){
                rowView.setBackgroundColor(Color.rgb(70, 190, 200));
                isselected[position] = true;             }
             }
    });
if(isSelected[position]){
     rowView.setBackgroundColor(Color.rgb(70, 190, 200));
}


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Airtel wins ultimate award at Café International conference
Accra, Dec. 31, GNA - Airtel Ghana's Human Resource team has powered the Learning and Development Team of Airtel Africa, to win the Best Organisation in the Perform Category at the Café Africa 2015.
This is an eLearning International Conference held in Mauritius in November, featuring Learning and Development teams from several businesses across Africa.
A statement issued in Accra by Mr Richard Ahiagble, Head of Corporate Communication and copied to the Ghana News Agency said the accolade is awarded to an organisation that has clearly defined its Return on Investment and demonstrated the material impact that learning and development programmes has had on organisational performance.
It said a Case Study on Airtel Ghana entitled: "Discovering best practice methodologies and technologies," was recognised as best of all the six master class presentations during the event, which powered Airtel Africa to win the coveted award".
It quoted Ms Tina Muparadzi, Human Resource Director, Airtel Ghana as saying "we are excited to be recognised once again for our Learning and Development programmes designed to provide our employees the best platform to learn, grow and thrive".
"At Airtel, we believe in the power of potential – that everyone has in them the innate ability to fully realise their potential. We also recognise that our employees are our best assets that are why we have and continue to invest and empower them to be at their best.
"As a strategy, we provide formal and informal training and development opportunities for our employees. But beyond that, we focus also on their total development.
"We have various clubs and societies that respond to various development and social needs such as the Airtel Running & Aerobics Club and Golf Club, which allows employees to actively practice, run and play golf.
"We do also have an in-house Toastmasters for interested employees. All these add to growing and developing our employees and clearly make Airtel a preferred employer in the industry."
Airtel Ghana was recently named Best Organisation for Learning and Development at the HR Focus Awards 2015 in recognition of the Change maker company's commitment to providing the best environment for its employees to thrive and excel.
Airtel is Ghana's fastest growing telecommunications network and leader in digital innovation providing cutting edge solutions to meet the communications, connectivity and collaborative needs of its customers.
Source: GNA Story (http://www.ghananewsagency.org/social/airtel-wins-ultimate-award-at-caf-international-conference-98959)


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How to learn the business of business as a high schooler
Shaheen Ainpour May 25, 2018
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/05/25/some-high-school-students-are-test-driving-corporate-jobs/
Emauri Singletary in front of the logo he designed for his Virtual Enterprise company, which sells disposable cups that change color to detect date rape drugs. Shaheen Ainpour/Marketplace
At a recent trade show in New York, high school student Ashley Klement walked me through the different flavors of coffee her company, TropiCoffee, sells. There are five: original, mocha, caramel, vanilla and a special seasonal flavor.
"Right now, it's Peeps flavor, but every holiday it switches," she said.
I can't buy any Easter bunny-flavored coffee however, because TropiCoffee doesn't exist. It's a class project.
TropiCoffee is one of the 450 student-run "companies" that are part of Virtual Enterprise, a nonprofit business education program where classes of high school students are tasked with starting a pretend company and running it themselves. School's pay around $3,000 a year to offer the class. After a few students are appointed by their teacher to fill executive roles like CEO, the rest interview for different jobs in marketing, sales or human resources.
"It's kind of like a big game of Monopoly," said Klement. That's because even though I can't buy any TropiCoffee myself, the student's in VE can. They get paid in digital currency — think Monopoly money — that they can use to buy each other's products, like Peeps-flavored coffee.
The program is an effort to teach students the kind of business skills that you can't learn from a textbook. High school student Matthew Plonskeer, TropiCoffee's CEO, said before taking VE, he was focused on doing work for himself, "whereas here, in order to operate as a successful company … you really have to work together."
Another student, Emauri Singletary, is the vice president of human resources at Chameleon, a student "company" that sells disposable cups that change color to detect common date rape drugs. He designed the logo on Chameleon's poster behind their booth. Why is someone in HR designing a logo rather than, say, the graphics department?
"I am the graphics department," he said. He doesn't mind working double duty because he's planning to major in studio art at the College of Charleston next year. VE is giving him a chance to test drive his career.
According to VE, that's the point. "Over 75 percent of our alumni identify that they're still in the career that they identified in VE," said Nick Chapman, the president of Virtual Enterprises International.
When I was in high school, I wanted to be a private detective, like Veronica Mars. Let's just say I'm still working on it.
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Massacres
Nazi death squads focus of latest war crime cases in Germany
By DAVID RISINGJune 6, 2018
FILE -- This photo was taken from a the body of a dead Germany officer killed in Russia, showing a German firing squad shooting Soviet civilians in the back as they sit beside their own mass grave, in Babi Yar, Kiev, 1942. German prosecutors are investigating a suspected former member of Adolf Hitler's traveling killing squads for involvement in massacres carried out by the "Einsatzgruppen" in Ukraine. The investigation centers on 95-year-old Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Hoffmeister, a corporal in the Nazi SS who was in Ukraine around the time of 34,000 people were massacred in 1941. The case is the third of its kind in recent months, raising hopes among Nazi hunters that Germany is pursuing a new wave of prosecutions. (AP Photo, file)
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors are investigating a suspected former member of Adolf Hitler's mobile killing squads for involvement in World War II massacres carried out by the "Einsatzgruppen," part of an 11th-hour effort to bring elderly ex-Nazis to justice, The Associated Press has learned.
It's the third case to be opened in Germany recent months targeting individuals who are believed to have been part of the death squads. All three are being investigated under a new legal argument, recently upheld by the country's top criminal court, that someone who helped the Nazi killing machinery run can be convicted of accessory to mass murder, even if they can't be linked to specific deaths.
Extending the legal standard on complicity from death camp guards to the Einsatzgruppen raises the possibility of a fresh wave of investigations, said Efraim Zuroff, the head Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, who alerted German authorities about the new suspects.
"It was a very significant decision, but it's only one that has been reaching fruition in recent months after we helped them find now three people who fit the category," he said. "It's not exactly clear why it took them so long."
The Einsatzgruppen were the Nazis' opening salvo in the Holocaust — SS units and police personnel who followed behind the regular army as it pushed into the Soviet Union in 1941, slaughtering perceived racial or political enemies in mass executions. Estimates vary, but experts agree they were responsible for well over 1 million killings.
The Nazis later established their system of death camps partially due to concerns about the psychological effects the up-close mass killings were having on the Einsatzgruppen troops themselves.
"The death camps and concentration camps ... became the iconic images of the Holocaust, but it was the Einsatzgruppen that were maybe even a more stark manifestation of the Nazi ideology and the Final Solution," Zuroff said. "The number of active (Einsatzgruppen) participants is much greater than the number who actually carried out the murders in the death camps."
The latest investigation centers on 95-year-old Wilhelm Karl Friedrich Hoffmeister, a former SS Rottenfuehrer — roughly equivalent to corporal — suspected of serving with one of the death squads in Ukraine.
That group, Einsatzgruppe C, was responsible for the shootings of nearly 34,000 people at Babi Yar, a ravine northwest of the Ukrainian city of Kiev, on Sept. 29-30, 1941 — one of the largest and most notorious of the mass executions done by Einsatzgruppen.
The German federal prosecutors' office in Ludwigsburg that investigates Nazi war crimes has established that Hoffmeister was in Ukraine with the unit around that time, but hasn't linked him to any specific killings, Jens Rommel, the head of the office, told the AP.
"We don't know what he did on what day," Rommel said.
Rommel's office does not have authority to file criminal charges, but determined there was enough evidence to recommend that prosecutors based near where Hoffmeister lives in a retirement home pursue accessory to murder charges against him.
Serving in the unit would not be enough on its own to secure a conviction, even under the updated evidentiary standard, so the prosecutors in Braunschweig need proof that Hoffmeister was present in some capacity when Einsatzgruppe C committed atrocities.
The argument that Germans who enabled war crimes could be charged with accessory to murder even if they did not personally pull a rifle trigger or put the poison in the gas chamber was first used successfully against former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk in 2011.
Demjanjuk was convicted in Munich on allegations he served as a Sobibor death camp guard, which he denied. He died before his appeal could be heard.
The 2015 conviction of former Auschwitz guard Oskar Groening using the same argument, however, was upheld the next year by Germany's top criminal court on appeal, cementing the precedent.
Several Einsatzgruppen leaders were tried and convicted in Nuremberg immediately after World War II. In recent years, prosecutors have focused more on former guards at Auschwitz and other death camps, dedicating their limited resources to cases comparatively easier to prove.
"With the Einsatzgruppen, they were mobile, on the move over a huge area, so it's much more difficult," Rommel said. "We hope with the new legal situation we will have better success."
Hoffmeister has told police he served in a successor group to the Einsatzgruppe C — "Special Task Force C" — and did not participate in any killings, lead prosecutor Julia Meyer told the AP.
"He says categorically, he was not involved in any shootings," she said, adding that Hoffmeister also maintained he does not remember a lot about the war years.
Two other suspected Einsatzgruppe C members currently under investigation — 94-year-old Kurt Gosdek and 96-year-old Herbert Wahler — also deny participating in wartime massacres.
Rommel's office began looking at Hoffmeister and other Einsatzgruppen members after the Wiesenthal Center in 2014 went through a list of 1,069 men and women who had served with the units, pulling out the names of 80 people who were born after 1919 and thus most likely to still be alive.
Rommel's office zeroed in on eight suspects they determined were alive, and have now turned over the files on Gosdek, Wahler and Hoffmeister to state prosecutors to pursue charges. One of the eight has since died and four others — all from Einsatzgruppe A, on which there is less information — are still under investigation, Rommel said.
Though the Wiesenthal Center only has names and dates of birth for 1,069 people who served in the Einsatzgruppen, some estimates suggest the number could be as much as eight times higher, meaning dozens more might be alive.
In an interesting twist, the center recently received a $25,000 "apology donation" from Anthony Scaramucci, who was fired last year after briefly serving as U.S. President Donald Trump's White House communications director.
Scaramucci made the donation in October after coming under criticism for a poll on how many Jews were killed in the Holocaust tweeted by his post-White House media venture, the Scaramucci Post, which many considered inappropriate and offensive. The center's headquarters in Los Angeles has said the money will go to Zuroff and can be used to hire researchers.
"Now the challenge is to find the rest of the names," Zuroff said. "We owe it to the victims."


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