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For some airline passengers, new warnings bring new hurdles
NEW YORK (AP) — As far as the indignities of modern air travel go, the latest ban on laptops and tablets on some international flights falls somewhere between taking your shoes off at the security checkpoint and having your baby food and milk tested for bomb residue. It's yet another impediment...
By Barbara Ortutay - AP Technology Writer - Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — As far as the indignities of modern air travel go, the latest ban on laptops and tablets on some international flights falls somewhere between taking your shoes off at the security checkpoint and having your baby food and milk tested for bomb residue.
It's yet another impediment in the name of security for already weary travelers, especially those from or passing through the 10 mostly Middle Eastern and North African countries covered by new U.S. and British policies. While not quite as disruptive as an outright ban on smartphones — much less a travel ban based on nationality — the restrictions loom large for some.
"Why are only Middle Eastern airlines subject to this ban?" asked Kelsey Norman, a doctoral student who plans to fly home Friday to Los Angeles from Beirut — and expects to have to check her laptop, a Kindle tablet and her DSLR camera. "Overall this policy is inconvenient, discriminatory, and continues to hurt America's rapidly deteriorating reputation globally."
BAN LOGIC
New restrictions from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security prohibit the transportation in carry-on baggage of laptop computers, tablets, Kindles, some gaming devices, cameras and other electronics larger than a smartphone. The U.S. government cited unspecified threats as the reason. The U.K. government instituted a similar ban; neither government's restrictions affect U.S. airlines.
People can still bring with them to their seat items like smartphones, duffel bags, coats, small bottles of hand lotion, snacks, earplugs and other small items.
LOST PRODUCTIVITY
Some, particularly business travelers, see the potential for theft, damage or compromised data if they are forced to check laptops. The anxiety is real enough that there were attempts to reroute flights to other airports immediately after the ban was announced.
Banu Akdenizli, a native of Turkey, said that being forced to fly 17 hours without her laptop will cost her precious time to work and to prepare for a conference.
"It might seem trivial to a lot of people, but what you get from these parts of the world are usually business travelers," said Akdenizli, an associate professor of communications at the Doha, Qatar, campus of Northwestern University.
For those who must, there are ways to do a limited amount of work without laptops, tablets or other electronics.
AWKWARD WORKAROUNDS
It possible to transfer import documents to Google Docs and do some work on a smartphone. Features can be limited for some apps; Microsoft's Office app, for instance, allows users to open only one document at a time.
These apps are good enough for simple proofreading and minor editing, but will leave users wanting when more complex tasks are required. The text will also be small on smartphones, though there is a way to temporarily reformat text to accommodate smaller displays.
One simple task that can be done on a smartphone is communicating via email or cleaning up inboxes. In-flight Wi-Fi is required to send or receive emails.
If travelers need downtime, there is always Netflix or Amazon. Users can download content to a smartphone before leaving so that it's easily accessible.
AT LEAST IT'S NOT PHONES
Laptops and other gadgets play only a supporting role to the smartphone for many travelers. Yet even in cases where there are restrictions on smartphones, at least in the most recent and notable example, the reasons were clear.
Last fall, Samsung asked users of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 to "power down and stop using the device" on planes. (The phone was later banned, and then recalled.)
One big difference with that ban and today's regionally based restrictions is that with the Galaxy, there were widely circulated videos of Note 7s bursting into flames. There was no doubt that this would be bad thing at 30,000 feet.
The potential danger cited by the U.S. and the U.K. is more ambiguous.
Yet even for some travelers who do not mind stowing away laptops to abide by the new rules, there is some apprehension.
Nick Lieber, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen living in Jerusalem, plans an April trip to Chicago that will take him through Amman, Jordan, and therefore subject him to the ban. He doesn't anticipate having to do work on his laptop during the flight.
But he worries about laptop lithium-ion batteries — which have been blamed for past aircraft fires — stored in the plane's cargo hold. "I'm a nervous flyer already," Lieber said.
Associated Press writers Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia, and Anick Jesdanun in New York contributed to this story.
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Q: knockout.js variable used as an ID I am trying to iterate through a knockouts array and each element has to have a unique id. I have an id in my data structure which I wanna use. well probably it is easier if I show it.

                      hidden stuff

 //problem is I assume here

So I believe when I bind the id as an attribute is good but when I try to define the onclick event then I dont know how to get the value of id.

A: First, most important thing: Never use inline event handlers. Period. Remove all the onclick="..." and whatever other event attributes you might have from your HTML.
Especially with knockout, which handles all the context for you and offers a click binding you're shooting yourself in the foot with inline event handlers.
With knockout it's important to have a working, abstract view model before you turn it into a view (i.e., a visual HMTL representation).

In your case you want to encapsulate the visibility of an item. That means you need an observable, lets call it visible, and a function to toggle that property, toggleVisible(). Simple enough:
function Something(id) {
    var self = this;

    self.id = ko.observable(id);
    self.visible = ko.observable(false);
    self.toggleVisible = function () {
        self.visible( !self.visible() );
    };
}

The next thing you want is to encapsulate the animation when an item's visible propery changes. That means you must subscribe to the visible property in some way and make jQuery do it's thing.
Best suited for this task is a custom binding handler that animates the element. That's not too hard, either. Let's call it slideToggle:
ko.bindingHandlers.slideToggle = {
    init: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindings, viewModel, bindingContext) {
        var shouldBeVisible = ko.unwrap(valueAccessor());

        // initially, display or hide the element instantly
        $(element)[shouldBeVisible ? "show" : "hide"]();
    },
    update: function(element, valueAccessor, allBindings, viewModel, bindingContext) {
        var shouldBeVisible = ko.unwrap(valueAccessor());

        // during interactive operation, use transition effect
        $(element)[shouldBeVisible ? "slideDown" : "slideUp"]("fast");
    }
};

I recommend you read about custom binding handlers, they are incredibly useful.

Now we have abstracted all the moving parts into their separate containers. Let's use them with this main ViewModel:
function ViewModel() {
    var self = this;

    self.something = ko.observableArray([
        new Something("id1"),
        new Something("id2")
    ]);
}

and this view:

            hidden stuff

Click Me!

Notice how everything falls into place and you don't even need a reference to an element ID because knockout handles the context for you. Also the slideToggle animation becomes trivially easy to re-use and your view becomes less of a pain to look at.

*

*See it live over here: http://jsfiddle.net/nkr9o3un/

*And how easy it is to extend once things have been abstracted in this manner: http://jsfiddle.net/nkr9o3un/2/. Try to do this with a bunch of inline functions.

A: Use the click binding and id like for attr:
data-bind="click: function() { $('#' + id()).slideToggle('slow1', null); }"

Here it is unwrapped (()) because it's concatenated with '#'.

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Q: ajax calendar extender - custom height causes view overlap I have a calendar extender which is atatched to a hidden text box and a button.
<cc2:CalendarExtender ID="TextBox2_CalendarExtender" CssClass="custom-calendar" runat="server" TargetControlID="f_BookingDate" PopupButtonID="f_BookingDateButton"
    Format="dd/MM/yyyy" PopupPosition="BottomRight" FirstDayOfWeek="Monday" OnClientDateSelectionChanged="UpdateAvailability">
</cc2:CalendarExtender>

I am creating a seperate style sheet that will be applied to my page when it is a mobile visiting the page.
My problem is that my boss feels the standard size of the calendar is a bit small.
And I am using which someone else suggested elsewhere, but its still too small.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0;" />

So its not a matter of zooming as I've seen suggested else where.
I was tinkering with the css and have so far come up with the below.
This is great as it makes each of the days larger and easier to select with your finger.
However when it comes to switching to months and years the way ajax seems to handle it is it applies a top:139px to the .ajax__calendar_days to shunt it off the calendar view.
But because each of my views are now 200px (just a test size will probably change this) the views now overlap at the top and bottom as you flick between them and it looks very messey.
Is there someway of controlling how the calendar defines it's sizes for on the fly changes?
/* Ajax Control Toolkit Calendar */

.ajax__calendar_container
{
    left:5% !important;
    width:90% !important;
    background-color:#fff;
    border:solid 1px #a6c9e2 !important;
}

.ajax__calendar_header      {background-color:#87b6d9; margin-bottom:5px; height: 26px !important;}
.ajax__calendar_prev    {}

.ajax__calendar_title   {height:26px; color:#fff; line-height:26px;}
.ajax__calendar_hover .ajax__calendar_title {color:#eee !important;}

.ajax__calendar_next    {}

.ajax__calendar_prev,.ajax__calendar_next{background-color:#dce6f4;width:26px !important; height:26px !important; color:#fff !important;}

.ajax__calendar_body        {width:100% !important; height:200px !important;}

.ajax__calendar_days    {width:100% !important; height:200px !important}
.ajax__calendar_months  {width:100% !important; height:200px !important}
.ajax__calendar_years   {width:100% !important; height:200px !important}

.ajax__calendar_months  table {height:200px !important}

.ajax__calendar_days table thead tr td {background-color:#fff; color:#000; font-weight:bold;}

.ajax__calendar_dayname {width:100% !important; text-align:center !important; border:0 !important;}

.ajax__calendar_day {text-align:center !important; border:1px solid #c5dbec !important; background:#eaf4fd; margin:1px !important; height:26px !important; width:90% !important;}

.ajax__calendar_month {text-align:center !important; width:100% !important;vertical-align:middle !important}

.ajax__calendar_month, .ajax__calendar_day {color:#2e6e9e; font-weight:bold; }

.ajax__calendar_year {text-align:center !important; }

.ajax__calendar_footer          {border-top:1px solid #c5dbec !important; line-height:1.2em;}

.ajax__calendar_today       {border:1px solid #c5dbec; background-color:#e1effb;}

.ajax__calendar_hover           {}
td.ajax__calendar_hover div     {background:#d2e6f5 !important; border:1px solid #79b7e7 !important;}

.ajax__calendar_active          {}
td.ajax__calendar_active div    {background:#fbec88 !important; border:1px solid #fad42e !important;}

.ajax__calendar_other           {}

.ajax__calendar_other .ajax__calendar_day {text-align:center !important; font-weight:normal !important; color:#bbb !important; border:1px solid #eee !important;}

.ajax__calendar_hover.ajax__calendar_other .ajax__calendar_day {background:#efefef !important; color:#aaa !important; border:1px solid #ddd !important;}

A: I found the solution. I used the OnClientShown attribute
<cc2:CalendarExtender ID="TextBox2_CalendarExtender" CssClass="custom-calendar" runat="server" TargetControlID="f_BookingDate" PopupButtonID="f_BookingDateButton"
    Format="dd/MM/yyyy" PopupPosition="BottomRight" FirstDayOfWeek="Monday" OnClientDateSelectionChanged="UpdateAvailability" OnClientShown="onClientShown">
</cc2:CalendarExtender>

and then in my script
<asp:ScriptManager ID="f_WebBookingScriptManager" runat="server">
</asp:ScriptManager>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
    function onClientShown(sender, e) {
        sender._height = 200;
    }
</script>

this sets the dynamic height of the container. Its considered part of the calendars behaviour


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Mecer > News > #WeAreAllSouthAfrican Campaign
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Mecer South Africa launched the #WeAreAllSouthAfrican Campaign to highlight the company's commitment to our beautiful country and all the people who make up our rainbow nation.
As a company who have recently celebrated their third decade of operation, the campaign is an opportunity for Mecer to reaffirm their commitment to offering South Africans access to world-class technology at an affordable price and create jobs that will help to drive the economy and reduce inequality.
"We are happy to see that President Ramaphosa shares our vision to improve our nation's digital education through the rollout of tablets to schools over the next 6 years" says Chief Marketing Officer, Nicole Orr, referring to President Ramaphosa's recent State Of the Nation Address. "We are also very proud that our PC's are assembled in South Africa by South Africans, providing jobs and training in the growing ICT sector."
Orr is referring not only to the jobs created by the flagship Midrand assembly plant but also to their 10 branches nationwide as well as the indirect jobs created by their growing network of resellers. A walk through of the impressive Mecer headquarters shows that the brand (to borrow from the campaign tagline) really does put their money where their mouth is with employees representing every possible South African culture including quite a number of people from the disabled community.
The infectious enthusiasm of the employees is evident in the brand video which involved around 40 extremely talented staff volunteers who show off their impressive singing and dancing skills. "The staff were amazing" says Mecer Brand Ambassador, Anle Els, "I think the filming of the video was really great experience for everyone who volunteered. They were really excited to see themselves on screen when we played the video internally prior to the start of the campaign. You never know we might even have some future stars among us!"
Along with some impressive human resources, Mecer's partnerships with international brands, such as Microsoft and Intel, ensure they are able to hold their own against the best international brands while ensuring that your investment stays in our country and contributes to job creation and economic growth.
Considering all of this, it's not surprising that Mecer has been one of South Africa's top selling PC brand for the last 10 years. So if you're a company that is in the market for PC Products and is committed to building South Africa, contact the friendly sales team at Mecer.co.za, #PutYourMoneyWhereYourMouthIs and #BuyLocal.
And while you're at it have a look at this fun and uplifting brand video because we are, we are #WeAreAllSouthAfrican.

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News » Trailer firm hooks up with new distributor in South Wales
Trailer firm hooks up with new distributor in South Wales
Europe's biggest trailer maker has appointed a new distributor in South Wales.
Mason Bros will look after sales for Ifor Williams Trailers along the M4 corridor from the Severn Bridge to Cross Hands in the west.
They will operate from their new premises on the Brynmenyn Industrial Estate in Bridgend and will sell the company's whole range of trailers.
Mason Bros are the latest distributor to join a worldwide network that stretches across the UK, mainland Europe and as far afield as Australia and New Zealand.
The company, which has its headquarters in Narberth, Pembrokeshire, was founded by the late Wilfred Mason in 1952 and is now run by second and third generation members of the family.
According to director Hywel Mason, the expanding company now employs a total of 26 people.
Mr Mason said: "My brother, Alun, and I took over the business in 1986 and we've had a lifetime in the construction industry, both in agricultural construction and civil engineering, and since 1992 we've been a construction equipment dealer based in Narberth.
"The business has grown over the past two years particularly and it has given us the confidence to expand into Bridgend.
"One of the reasons for our success is our customer service. Anybody can sell one machine, but if you're going to continue to sell to the same customer you have to look after them, and our strength is in backup.
"We're delighted to be appointed as a distributor for Ifor Williams Trailers. It's a very strong brand name and what is even more pleasing is the fact that their trailers are manufactured in Wales.
"We're proud of being chosen after a stringent process and Mason Bros came out on top at the end of it. We must have had some fairly good competition I'm sure.
"The strength of the brand is based on the quality of the product. It's a fantastic product and it's a household name, and we hope we can support that in South Wales. We'll be supplying everything that Ifor Williams produces.
"Our patch is basically the M4 corridor from the Severn Bridge down to Cross Hands near Carmarthen, including the Vale of Glamorgan."
Peter Nesbitt, the business development manager at Ifor Williams Trailers, was delighted with their choice.
He said: "We had a very thorough selection process and many good potential candidates had gone forward and presented themselves to become our distributors in this area of South Wales.
"Mason Bros are a very successful company with a very professional approach to all that they do.
"They're well-known in South Wales for the quality of their customer service so in that regard it's been an easy decision because they've given us so much confidence that they will look after our customers exceptionally well.
"They've recently opened new premises near Bridgend which is within five minutes of the M4. It is a large facility where they will be able to carry a large stock of trailers and from where they will be able to offer trailer servicing and customer back up.
"It's a really exciting partnership for everybody concerned and a great opportunity for Mason Bros to continue to grow.
"What I also pick up with them is their strong family values, and in that regard they have the same DNA as Ifor Williams Trailers, and it's brilliant that it's two Welsh companies working together to mutual advantage."
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L'Union nationale est un mouvement politique catholique, nationaliste, antimaçonnique et antisémite français de la fin du .

Histoire

L'Union nationale est fondée en  par l'abbé Garnier au  de la rue Bayard, dans les dépendances de l'imprimerie du journal La Croix. Elle succède à une organisation précédente, l'Action sociale catholique, créée par Garnier en 1888.

Dans le sillage du Ralliement prôné par l'encyclique Au milieu des sollicitudes, l'organisation adhère à la République pour y promouvoir une « république libérale » en réaction à l'anticléricalisme du pouvoir en place. Elle se manifeste pour la première fois à l'automne 1892 en pétitionnant contre les lois scolaires. Inspirée par le catholicisme social, elle propose des mesures en faveur des ouvriers et des paysans tout en rejetant violemment le socialisme collectiviste et internationaliste. Elle œuvre également sur le terrain électoral dès les législatives de 1893.

Le , l'Union nationale est l'un des premiers mouvements à organiser une manifestation patriotique en l'honneur de Jeanne d'Arc devant la statue équestre de l'héroïne, place des Pyramides. En 1897, elle dépose une gerbe à la statue de Strasbourg, place de la Concorde, reprenant ainsi une tradition propre à la Ligue des patriotes. À partir de cette même année, les membres de l'Union nationale revendiquent la dénomination de « nationalistes ».

Dotée depuis  d'un organe de presse, Le Peuple français, et forte d'un grand nombre d'adhérents (peut-être ), l'Union nationale a des comités locaux dans 18 arrondissements de Paris et 35 départements en province. Les 29 et , son congrès national de Lyon, point d'orgue de trois autres congrès (antimaçonnique, antisémite et social) de la « démocratie chrétienne », réunit une très nombreuse assistance.

Malgré son républicanisme sincère, l'Union nationale accepte bientôt des financements royalistes et s'affirme à l'extrême droite dans le contexte de l'Affaire Dreyfus. Antimaçonnique, le mouvement est aussi profondément antisémite : il soutient notamment la Ligue antisémitique, refondée en 1897 par Jules Guérin, ainsi que la Jeunesse antisémitique d'Édouard Dubuc, avant de prendre ses distances avec ces ligues. L'Union nationale publie en 1896 des étiquettes destinées à être collées sur les devantures des magasins appartenant à des Juifs et portant l'inscription suivante : « Chez un juif n'achetez jamais / la France doit être aux Français / Français n'ayons plus qu'une envie / Chassez les juifs de la patrie ». L'abbé Garnier tient également un discours xénophobe, en proposant la création d'une taxe sur les étrangers ainsi que la reconduite à la frontière de ceux qui « en général » seraient « plutôt la lie que la crème de leur pays ».

Très active jusqu'en 1898, l'Union nationale décline à partir de l'année suivante, principalement en raison de difficultés financières. En 1902, Garnier fait adhérer son mouvement à l'Action libérale de Jacques Piou. L'Union nationale est ainsi progressivement absorbée par ce parti politique avant de disparaître, vers 1908.

Références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
Bertrand Joly, « Les antidreyfusards avant Dreyfus », Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, t. 39, avril-,  (consultable en ligne sur Gallica).
 Bertrand Joly, Nationalistes et conservateurs en France (1885-1902), Paris, Les Indes savantes, 2008, .
Jean-Marie Mayeur, « Les Congrès nationaux de la "Démocratie chrétienne" à Lyon (1896-1897-1898) », Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, t. 9, juillet-,  (consultable en ligne sur Gallica).
Stephen Wilson, « Catholic Populism in France at the Time of the Dreyfus Affair : The Union Nationale », Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 10, , ,  (consultable sous conditions sur le site des éditions Sage).

Liens externes

Présentation de l'Union Nationale (UN) sur le site france-politique.fr de Laurent de Boissieu (consultée le ).

Organisme fondé en 1892
Association ou organisme fondé sous la Troisième République
Association ou organisme disparu en France
Ancienne association ou organisme politique d'extrême droite en France
Antisémitisme en France
Nationalisme français
Catholicisme et politique
Antimaçonnisme catholique
Association antimaçonnique
Ralliement (catholicisme en France)

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Date of enactment: April 8, 2014
2013 Senate Bill 598 Date of publication*: April 9, 2014
* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."
An Act to amend 115.415 (3) (a) (intro.); and to create 115.28 (7) (gm) of the statutes; relating to: charter school principal licenses and utilizing an alternative process for educator effectiveness.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
258,1d Section 1d. 115.28 (7) (gm) of the statutes is created to read:
115.28 (7) (gm) Notwithstanding s. 118.19 (8), (9), and (11), grant an initial charter school principal license to any person who is licensed, or otherwise credentialed, to be a school principal in another state if the person holds the license or other credential in good standing, has completed at least 3 years of full-time classroom teaching, and is eligible for licensure under s. 118.19 (4) and (10). The license authorizes the person to be a principal of a charter school. The license is valid for 5 years and is renewable for 5-year periods.
258,1m Section 1m. 115.415 (3) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
115.415 (3) (a) (intro.) The department shall promulgate by rule an equivalency process aligned with the evaluation system established under sub. (2) for a school district, a charter school under contract with a school board that is not an instrumentality of the school district, or a charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r) seeking to utilize an alternative process for the evaluation of teacher and principal practice. The process under this subsection shall be based on the criteria established in the 2011 Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium and the 2008 Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Educational Leadership Policy Standards, and a school district, charter school under contract with a school board that is not an instrumentality of the school district, or charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r) that uses the process under this subsection shall evaluate the performance of teachers in the following domains:
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What happens if the Trump campaign's lawsuits fail in court?
What happens if the Supreme Court refuses to hear any of the appeals?
What happens if a contingent election in Congress doesn't happen?
Is it over?
Or is there still a path to re-inauguration for President Trump.
No matter what the media says, this race isn't over.
This obscure law could be Trump's final gambit to rightfully claim the presidency.
It is called the Electoral Count Act.
The concept is simple.
In fact, the Democrats tried it in 2017 and 2001 after the 2016 and 2000 elections.
Obviously, Democrats failed.
But with widespread allegations of voter fraud and data irregularities, President Trump could succeed with this route.
In short, Congress must certify the election results after each state certifies its results.
But the certification process can be challenged.
It just takes 1 member from the House of Representatives and 1 Senator to join forces.
Together, they can challenge the electors from any state, forcing a debate on the House floors.
YouTuber StateOfDaniel explains more. The relevant section starts around the 29 minute mark:
Even Politico has started reporting on the story.
There are multiple allies on Capitol Hill who are willing to fight for President Trump.
Politico explains:
President Donald Trump's arsenal for overturning the election will soon be down to one final, desperate maneuver: pressing his Republican allies on Capitol Hill to step in and derail Joe Biden's presidency.
Although the Electoral College casts the official vote for president on Dec. 14, it's up to Congress to certify the results a few weeks later. And federal law gives individual members of the House and Senate the power to challenge the results from the floor — a rarely used mechanism meant to be the last of all last resorts to safeguard an election.
But several House Republican lawmakers and aides now tell POLITICO they're considering this option to aid Trump's quest.
"Nothing is off the table," said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).
Gaetz pointed out that in January 2017, a handful of House Democrats took this precise procedural step before their efforts flamed out during a joint session of Congress presided over by none other than Biden, then the outgoing vice president.
"It is over," Biden said at the time, gaveling down Democrats as Republicans cheered.
This time, Vice President Mike Pence will be in the chair for any potential challenges — a potentially awkward scenario as his boss continues to deny the reality of the election he lost.
Indeed, Trump lost the election. His legal battles have failed to stop states from certifying his defeat. And his bid to pressure state legislators to overturn Biden's victory appears to be going nowhere. Congress — where Republicans are still largely in lockstep with Trump — is the last institution that could be a factor.
Here's how Trump's defenders in Congress may take a final shot at subverting the election, who might carry Trump's mantle and why it's almost certain to be more of a spectacle than a solution for Trump.
The framers declared that the presidential election isn't official until lawmakers certify the winner. The voters, on Nov. 3, picked 306 electors for Biden and 232 for Trump. Those electors will cast their formal votes for president on Dec. 14.
An obscure 1887 law called the Electoral Count Act, and several subsequent updates, spell out the process, setting Jan. 6 after a presidential election as the official certification date and outlining vague, complicated procedures.
On that day, the House and Senate meet in a joint session at 1 p.m. — just three days after a newly constituted Congress is sworn in. One of their first orders of business is to pass judgment on the Electoral College vote.
That same federal law also gives a tiny number of lawmakers enormous power to challenge the results.
If a single House member and a single senator join forces, they can object to entire slates of presidential electors. They must do so in writing and provide an explanation, though there are no guidelines on how detailed it must be.
If they do, the House and Senate must retreat to their chambers and debate the outcome for up to two hours before voting on the matter. Each state's electors are certified separately, meaning lawmakers bent on challenging the results have multiple chances to force lengthy delays.
If the Democrat-run House and GOP-controlled Senate disagree? That outcome has never been tested before, though it would likely give governors in key states — including the Democrats who lead Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — a larger role.
There have been whispers of the Electoral Count Act.
However, it appears that most mainstream media members are refusing to cover the possibility.
Any concerns about The Electoral Count Act if 1887?? https://t.co/uA7VAVbqN0
— trudy wonder (@tru_wonder) November 26, 2020
It's never happened but the Electoral Count Act of 1887 allows state legislators to give electoral votes to the candidate they want instead of the winner. Trump was talking with MI and PA legislators. No confirmation in 5 weeks that law can apply. It's asinine but true!
— Benji (@NealGoodman8) November 26, 2020
https://t.co/XU4EYR6n1R
We shall see #ElectoralCountAct
— The Outlaw Stitch Jonze (@dan297Notorious) November 28, 2020
It's not just Politico.
The New York Times confirms this is a possibility:
President Trump's last-ditch efforts to reverse the election seem to come down to a far-fetched scenario, one in which Republican-led state legislatures choose the members of the Electoral College, overturning the will of voters.
Could it work? Election law experts are highly skeptical. And leaders of the Republican majorities in legislatures in key states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona and Georgia, told The New York Times this week through their offices that they saw no role for themselves in picking electors.
That has not stopped some high-profile supporters of the president, including the talk radio host Mark Levin and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, from suggesting that Republican-led legislatures should consider ignoring the popular vote in close-fought states won by President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and handing their electoral votes to Mr. Trump.
This political gambit, to the degree that it's an organized strategy at all, has a theoretical basis in law, according to experts. But if it were to proceed, it could cause widespread outrage and be seen as an attempt to subvert the democratic process.
Benjamin Ginsberg, until recently one of the Republican Party's top elections lawyers, called the strategy an act of desperation, one that many Republican lawmakers would not buy into. "The most partisan Trump legislators might, but I believe enough would rebel at hijacking their constituents' votes that such actions would fail," he said.
Here's how such a scheme would theoretically play out. The Constitution gives state legislatures the power to determine the "manner" in which electors are appointed to the Electoral College, the body of 538 people who formally choose the president. Every state has already done that, by specifying in its laws that the winner of the statewide popular vote is entitled to the state's presidential electors (Maine and Nebraska apportion some electors by congressional district).
The Electoral Count Act, a 19th-century law, sets up the mechanism for how that takes place. It directs governors to certify both the election results and a slate of presidential electors to represent the will of the people. In general practice, governors certify electors chosen by the party of the presidential candidate who won their state.
The Electoral Count Act also says that in the event of "failed elections," in which voters have not made a choice for president, state legislatures are empowered to step in and appoint electors. The 1876 law is ambiguous about what constitutes a "failed" election. But the law does contain a deadline for states to certify elections: the "safe harbor" date, which this year is Dec. 8. Electors chosen before that date cannot be challenged by Congress.
A flurry of lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign, most of which have been defeated in court, appear aimed at slowing down states' certification timelines and possibly providing a pretext to declare a "failed" election.
Time will tell whether this will happen.
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Hopefully it doesn't get to the Electoral Count Act.
We hope that state legislatures resolve this issue, especially with all the evidence coming out.
There's also the possibility of lawsuits moving forward.
But if worst comes to worst, then the Electoral Count Act is there as a final safety measure!
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Changing the Face of Web Surfing
More and more companies are making up their own rules for websites, spawning a new kind of activist: the guerrilla Web redesigner. Robert Andrews reports from Cardiff, Wales.
CARDIFF, Wales -- "If you want a job done properly, do it yourself," the saying goes. Web users frustrated by poorly designed sites are increasingly applying that logic to the Net.
Many who are fed up with high-profile design mess-ups are taking it upon themselves to publicly correct conspicuous corporate faux pas, right under embarrassed proprietors' noses.
These volunteer make-over consultants receive neither a paycheck nor permission for their efforts. Regarded as Good Samaritans in Web circles, many can instead expect the threat of a day in court.
Oxford University math graduate Matthew Somerville was only trying to do fellow movie fans a favor when, flummoxed by the "highly inaccessible" website for Britain's Odeon cinema chain, he decided to redesign the service himself.
Out went the JavaScript, cookies and confusing menus that had muddled many visitors looking for movie times. Somerville hosted a slimmed-down, simplified imitation on his own server, which garnered praise from many users.
The cinema chain, currently for sale in an auction that has seen bids reach 380 million pounds (about $710 million), even fixed bugs on its site after being alerted by Somerville -- then served him with a terse cease and desist, claiming he was breaching copyright and data laws. Under legal pressure, he reluctantly killed off his unauthorized Accessible Odeon Website this week, counterclaiming that the official site breaks disability discrimination law.
"I was not taking any commercial advantage from the site -- it existed only to provide a service to others and to provide a greater access than that currently provided by the official site," said the self-styled accessibility hacker, who has also voluntarily given makeovers to National Rail, The Hutton Inquiry and BT's telephone directory site to meet Web standards.
Odeon spokeswoman Kim Greenston said the official site gets over 800,000 monthly visitors, has earned 1 million pounds (around $2 million) in online tickets so far this year and is due to be tweaked according to the recommendations of a recent audit by accessibility consultants.
The redesign's resemblance to the official site, which is not visible at all to users of the Firefox and Safari browsers, had duped unwitting customers into giving personal information to a stranger instead of to Odeon, she said.
But Somerville is not a lone crusader in the unofficial march to accessibility, which ensures websites can be viewed correctly across a range of browsers and by visually impaired people -- Fleshbot, Slashdot and the Internet Movie Database all have the dubious honor of having been redesigned by their own users.
Neither is he the only one to get into hot water for showing up the professionals.
David Jones republishes articles from Wales' National Assembly website on his own Assembly Online site because the official designers "clearly don't know what they're doing."
"They're singularly clueless; the HTML and CSS are invalid," he said. "I was exasperated, so I thought I'd do it myself to show them how it might be done. My employer -- an Assembly-funded body looking to secure next year's funding -- cited it as a disciplinary offense. I don't work for that company anymore."
Though common standards for building Web pages are developed and governed by the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, few can force designers to make a site that's easy to use. The result can often be code that clutters pages and confuses users.
Usability guru Jeffrey Zeldman, who co-founded the WaSP (Web Standards Project) coalition to promote good accessibility practices, said it makes "perfect sense" that wayward websites are brought into line by the people who use them.
"It could be a win-win," he told Wired News. "Mr. Somerville did Odeon a favor by solving problems that prevent customers (from) using the site. The company could easily have spent six figures learning the same thing from a consultancy.
"Even if the next volunteer who cleans up after a big site's mistakes is also shot down by the legal eagles, the buzz that gets generated by these events will make others think about their own sites' accessibility."
This movement of "unsolicited consultants" is raising accessibility awareness in the industry because many pro designers still do not understand the guidelines, Zeldman added.
But, with the United Kingdom's anti-discrimination Disability Rights Commission saying it is "only a matter of time" before companies are sued for having inaccessible websites, usability is gaining a higher profile.
Judy Brewer, director of the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative, said the consortium's standards ensure a good experience for both disabled and other users -- if designers play by the rules.
"Not all businesses have yet understood the advantage in ensuring their websites are accessible to people with disabilities, who constitute a significant percentage of the marketplace," she said.
"In time, inaccessible websites will likely go the way of buildings with stairs but no ramps at the entrance."
Until then, Somerville suggests cinema-goers check their local newspaper, not the Web, for movie times.


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Salvatore "Sammy the Bull"  Gravano (* 12. März 1945 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn) ist ein US-amerikanischer Mobster der US-amerikanischen Cosa Nostra in New York City.

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Jugend
Gravano wurde als Sohn von Giorlando "Gerry" und Caterina "Kay" Gravano, die aus Sizilien emigriert waren, geboren. Gravano hatte zwei ältere Schwestern. Er wuchs in Bensonhurst auf, einem Stadtteil mit damals hohem Anteil an Italo-Amerikanern.

Bereits im Alter von sieben Jahren stahl er auf seinem Weg zur Schule täglich zwei Cupcakes aus einem örtlichen Laden, bis er vom Ladenbesitzer erwischt wurde und eine Verwarnung erhielt. Im Alter von 13 Jahren trat er der Jugendbande "Rampers" bei, die in Bensonhurst ihr Unwesen trieb.

Da er eine große Ähnlichkeit mit seinem Onkel Salvatore ("Sammy") gehabt haben soll, wurde es üblich, ihn auch mit Sammy anzusprechen. Als ihm sein Fahrrad gestohlen wurde, stellte er die Diebe und wurde bei diesem Kampf von einigen Mafiosi aus einem benachbarten Café beobachtet, die seinen Kampfstil als bullengleich bewerteten, woraus sein Spitzname entstand: "The Bull" und somit "Sammy the Bull".

Seine Leistungen in der Schule waren auf Grund seiner Legasthenie schlecht; seine Lehrer hielten ihn aber nur für langsam und er wurde deshalb zweimal nicht in die nächste Stufe versetzt. Die damit verbundenen Hänseleien seiner Mitschüler beantwortete er mit Gewalt – auch die Versuche seines Vaters ihn zu erziehen scheiterten – und mit 16 erzwang die Schulleitung seinen Austritt. 1964 wurde er in die United States Army eingezogen, diente zwei Jahre – überwiegend als Koch – und wurde im Range eines Corporals ehrenhaft entlassen.

Kriminelle Karriere
Jugendbanden wie die, in der Gravano tätig war, wurden von den Mafiosi als Rekrutierungspool genutzt und so knüpfte Gravano Kontakte insbesondere zur Colombo-Familie – einer der Fünf Familien von New York City – und galt bald als Assoziierter innerhalb der amerikanischen Cosa Nostra. Andere Assoziierte der Colombo-Familie kannte er noch aus Kindertagen; insbesondere seinen Jugendfreund Gerard Pappa.

1971 heiratete er Debra Scibetta. Als Vollmitglied sollte er später ihren Bruder Nicholas Scibetta ermorden. Gravano ist außerdem der Schwager der Gambino-Capos Edward und Mario Garafol. 1977 wurde er als Vollmitglied in die Gambino-Familie unter Paul Castellano aufgenommen, nachdem er einen Auftragsmord erfolgreich ausgeführt hatte.

In seiner Jugend hatte sich Gravano noch mit Einbruchdiebstahl und Raub durchgeschlagen. Nach seiner Aufnahme in die Gambino-Familie wurde er Inhaber einiger Cocktailclubs und stieg ins Baugeschäft ein, das damals in ganz New York City vom Organisierten Verbrechen kontrolliert wurde; insbesondere durch die Unterwanderung und Korrumpierung der Gewerkschaften. Außerdem kontrollierte der Clan über James Failla seit den 1960er Jahren die Müllabfuhr der Stadt.

Im Jahr 1985 wurde Gravano wegen Steuerhinterziehung angeklagt und freigesprochen; im selben Jahr beteiligte er sich zusammen mit John Gotti an der Ermordung von Paul Castellano. Dabei hatten sich Gravano und Frank DeCicco vorbehalten, Gotti selbst zu beseitigen, wenn sie nach einem Jahr mit seiner Amtsführung nicht zufrieden sein sollten. 1987, zwei Jahre später, stieg er unter dem neuen Boss Gotti zum Consigliere (it.: Berater) auf und wurde 1990 dessen Stellvertreter und damit Vize-Boss der Gambino-Familie.

Pentito
Anfang der 1990er Jahre brachen zum ersten Mal auf breiter Ebene führende Mafiaangehörige das ansonsten so obligatorische Schweigen (Omertà) und arbeiteten mit der Regierung zusammen. Auch Gravano wurde zu einem solchen "Pentito".

Gravano war über den Führungsstil Gottis enttäuscht; kritisierte insbesondere dessen – bis dahin in Mafiakreisen unübliche – Medienpräsenz und die damit verbundene Aufmerksamkeit; Gotti wollte von dieser Kritik angeblich nichts hören. Hinzu kam ein Streit über die prozentualen Gewinnanteile, die jeder Boss der Mafia von seinen Untergebenen einfordern konnte. Gotti verlangte sehr hohe Gewinnanteile und auch Gravano wurde als Consigliere und schließlich Unterboss nicht davon ausgenommen.

Zum Bruch kam es, als das FBI Gravano Mitschnitte von Gesprächen von Gotti vorspielte. Ende 1990 hatte das FBI genug Beweismaterial – insbesondere durch diese heimlich abgehörten Gespräche – gesammelt, um eine Anklage durch die Staatsanwaltschaft vorbereiten zu lassen. Gotti, Gravano und Frank LoCascio wurden im Ravenite Social Club in Little Italy verhaftet und wenig später angeklagt.

In den mitgeschnittenen Gesprächen ist Gotti zu hören, wie er sich über Gravano auslässt, ihm vorwirft, zu gierig zu sein und eine Familie innerhalb der Familie gründen zu wollen und außerdem zahlreiche Morde Gravanos aufzählt. Auch eine mögliche Ermordung Gravanos soll in diesen Gesprächen erwogen worden sein. Im Herbst 1991 entschloss sich Gravano dazu, als Kronzeuge gegen Gotti auszusagen, und wurde in die FBI-Ausbildungsstätte von Quantico in Virginia verlegt.

Im selben Jahr sagte Sammy Gravano gegen Vincent Gigante, John Gotti und dessen Consigliere Frank LoCascio aus. Insbesondere enttarnte er die vorgebliche Senilität von Gigante als Schauspiel. Er zitierte dabei eine angebliche Äußerung seines Bosses John Gotti, der Gigante 1988 nach einem Treffen als "Crazy like a fox" bezeichnet haben soll. Alphonse D'Arco, ein ehemaliger Unterführer der Lucchese-Familie, bestätigte Gravanos Aussage zur Zurechnungsfähigkeit und Teilnahme Gigantes an hochrangigen Mafiatreffen, bei denen dieser zugegeben habe, dass sein exzentrisches Verhalten als Täuschungsmanöver angelegt war.

Durch diese Aussagen wurde Gravano zum bis dahin ranghöchsten Mafioso, der zum Pentito wurde und die Omertà brach, bis 1993 Anthony Casso – Consigliere und Underboss der Lucchese-Familie – und 2004 Joseph Massino – damals Boss der Bonanno-Familie – ebenfalls mit den Behörden kooperierten.

Gotti und LoCascio wurden zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt. Gravano, der im Prozess 19 Morde gestanden hatte – 11 davon im Auftrage Gottis –, erhielt eine reduzierte Strafe von fünf Jahren wegen des Verstoßes gegen den RICO-Act. Für seine Aussage war ihm Straffreiheit hinsichtlich seiner Morde zugesagt worden.

Rückfall in die Kriminalität
Einige Jahre nach dem Gotti-Prozess wurde Gravano freigelassen, und er begann mit Hilfe des Zeugenschutzprogramms der USA in Arizona ein neues Leben unter neuem Namen und der Biografie eines redlichen Arbeiters. Bald jedoch nahm er seine kriminellen Kontakte wieder auf und stieg mit seinen alten Kumpanen und einigen Verwandten in den Drogenhandel ein. Sie bauten ein flächendeckendes Netz für die Designerdroge Ecstasy in ganz Arizona auf.

Seine Aktivitäten blieben nicht verborgen; die Gambino-Familie spürte ihn auf und setzte ein Mordkommando auf ihn an. Knapp bevor dieses zuschlagen konnte, wurde Gravano 1999 verhaftet und im September 2001 zu zwanzig Jahren Haft verurteilt. Mit ihm wurden seine Frau Debra, seine Tochter Karen sowie sein Sohn Gerard als Komplizen verhaftet. Sein Sohn erhielt eine Haftstrafe von neun Jahren, seine Frau und seine Tochter Bewährungsstrafen.

Dieser erneute Einstieg in die kriminelle Szene hatte auch in anderen Strafverfahren Folgen. Als 1999 der Boss der Westies, einer Bande, die mit der Gambino-Familie kooperierte, in Miami verhaftet wurde, konnte offenbar kein Verfahren eröffnet werden, da Gravano als rückfälliger Krimineller als nicht mehr glaubwürdig galt. Der gebürtige Serbe Bosko Radonjich entzog sich nach seiner Freilassung einer weiteren Verfolgung durch seine Rückkehr nach Jugoslawien.

Gravano leidet seit seiner Inhaftierung an Morbus Basedow; er hat beträchtlich an Gewicht und seine Haare verloren. In Phillip Carlos Buch Confessions of a Mafia Boss, welches das Leben von Anthony Casso beschreibt, wird Mithäftling Casso zitiert, dass Gravano seine Zelle nur noch zur Nahrungsaufnahme verlassen und auch selten an Gottesdiensten teilgenommen haben soll.

Ab Mai 2012 war Gravano in einem Gefängnis in Arizona inhaftiert und wurde am 18. September 2017 auf Bewährung entlassen.

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Musik
Die Band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones veröffentlichen 2002 den Song Mr. Moran, der sich mit Sammy Gravano beschäftigt. Das Intro besteht aus den gesprochenen Worten:

Der Rapper Proof veröffentlichte auf dem Album Searching for Jerry Garcia ein Lied mit dem Namen Sammy da Bull.

Rick Ross erwähnt Gravano zusammen mit John Gotti in seinem Song B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast).

Film
 1994 wurde Gravano von Ron Gabriel in Getting Gotti (Fernsehfilm von CBS) dargestellt.
 1996: Der Untergang der Cosa Nostra (USA), (2005 ins Deutsche übersetzt) Gravano wird von William Forsythe dargestellt.
 1998: verfilmte Regisseur Thaddeus O'Sullivan die Gangsterkarriere von Gravano im Film The Mob – Der Pate von Manhattan (Originaltitel: Witness to the Mob).
 2018: In der Filmbiografie Gotti wird Gravano von William DeMeo dargestellt.

Literatur
 Peter Maas: Underboss : Sammy the Bull Gravano's story of life in the Mafia, New York 1997, HarperCollins Publishing Company, ISBN 978-0-06-109664-8, OCLC 38229842

 Deutsche Übersetzung von Harald Riemann: Underboss: Ich war der zweite Mann ; die Lebensgeschichte des Mafia-Bosses Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, München/Wien 1998, Bern/Scherz, ISBN 3-502-18430-5.
 Karen Gravano und Lisa Pulitzer: Mafiatochter – Aufgewachsen unter Gangstern (Mein Leben mit Vater Sammy "The Bull" Gravano). Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2012, ISBN 978-3-85445-387-1 (Originalausgabe: Mob Daughter)

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

  von Allen May auf www.crimelibrary.com (englisch)

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Is 4-Year-Old as Smart as Einstein? Not Quite, Scientists Say
Children are eligible for Mensa membership as long as they score in the top 2 percent on standardized IQ tests for their age group.
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One of the latest members of the high-IQ club Mensa is a mere 4 years old, with an IQ of 159 — but psychologists warn against pulling out the Albert Einstein comparisons just yet.
As many media outlets have reported, Heidi Hankins of Winchester, England, scored only a point below Einstein and physicist Stephen Hawking on standardized intelligence tests. While there's no doubt that Hankins is bright (according to reports, she read at an 8-year-old level, and could count to 40, by age 2), it's not possible to compare IQ across age groups, according to Frank Lawlis, the supervisory psychologist for American Mensa.
"All you're doing with IQ testing is testing within a certain age group," Lawlis told LiveScience, explaining, "You're saying the 4-year-old is smarter than 99.5 or 99.8 of [her] age group, but that doesn't mean you can compare to another age group."
In fact, IQ scores in general have been rising over time, Lawlis said. IQ tests are always standardized so that the average score is 100. Higher scorers are brighter (at least in the domains measured by IQ testing). But in a widely noted phenomenon called the "Flynn effect," new generations taking older IQ tests score higher than 100 on average. There are multiple theories for this effect, including improved childhood nutrition, increasingly stimulating environments, and a greater number of children who are familiar with standardized tests and thus perform better.
"This is kind of a theoretical thought," Lawlis said, "but one day we may all be as smart as Einstein, and then Einstein would become average." [Amazing! 9 Brainy Baby Abilities]
Mensa is open to people who score in the top 2 percent of any standardized test of intelligence (the group offers its own test and accepts scores from the 200 or so intelligence tests out there). Victoria Liguez, the marketing coordinator for American Mensa, would not disclose numbers for how many children are members in the United States. But the youngest U.S. Mensa member, she said, is age 3.
"She joined when she was two," Liguez told LiveScience.
The youngest member worldwide, Oscar Wrigley, reportedly joined at age 2.5 with an IQ of 160. (Overall, about 110,000 individuals across 100 countries are Mensa members, including about 50,000 in the United States.)
For adults, Mensa offers opportunities for networking and intellectual-interest groups. It's not so different for children, according to Liguez. Local chapters offer field trips to museums, and mensaforkids.org offers resources, such as cool math games and other mind-boggling puzzles, for teachers and parents who might be struggling to challenge a gifted child.
Both Liguez and Lawlis said that despite the stereotypes of awkward geniuses, the Mensa children they'd interacted with had all been very normal. It's often not until testing that the depth of the children's knowledge becomes clear, Lawlis said.
"A kid's intelligence is [often] invisible," Lawlis said. "You don't usually know what a kid knows unless you ask them. … It's more of a discovery of what a kid's brain is capable of responding to."
You can follow LiveScience senior writer Stephanie Pappas on Twitter @sipappas. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience and on Facebook.


When I posted those wonderful childhood photos of Samantha Stosur last week, reader VarmozaLinda contacted me on Twitter and referred me to super cute pictures of Italian world No.40 Sara Errani.
Can little Sara be any sweeter? Look at that face and hair, the vintage dress and socks, and not to mention the wooden racquet that Sara's father Giorgio made for his 3-year-old.
A few years later, for the first day of school, Errani was again amazingly adorable.
The above photo on the right shows Errani after her first tournament victory. She looked more like a boy, unfortunately she got rid of her curls.
Errani is now 24 years old. Her highest ranking was No.31 and she has won two WTA titles (Palermo and Portoroz in 2008).


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Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London. It is in the northern part of central London partly in the City of Westminster and partly in the London Borough of Camden.
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The Triton Fountain in Queen Mary's Gardens
Regent's Park c.1833
The park has an outer ring road called the Outer Circle (4.3 km) and an inner ring road called the Inner Circle, which contains the most carefully tended section of the park, Queen Mary's Gardens. Apart from two link roads between these two, the park is reserved for pedestrians. The south, east and most of the west sides of the park are lined with elegant white stucco terraces of houses designed by John Nash. Running through the northern end of the park is Regent's Canal which connects the Grand Union Canal to the former London docks.
The 487 acre (2 km²) park is mainly open parkland which supports a wide range of facilities and amenities including gardens, a lake with a heronry, waterfowl and a boating area, sports pitches, and children's playgrounds. The north-east end of the park contains London Zoo. There are several public gardens with flowers and specimen plants, including Queen Mary's Gardens in the Inner Circle, in which the Open Air Theatre is located; the formal Italian Gardens and adjacent informal English Gardens in the south east corner of the park; and the gardens of St John's Lodge. Winfield House, the official residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, stands in private grounds in western section of the park. Nearby is the domed London Central Mosque, better known as Regent's Park mosque, which is a highly visible landmark from parts of the park.
Located on the outside of the southern portion of the Inner Circle is Regent's College, a consortium of institutes of higher education and home of London Business School (LBS), as well as the European Business School London, British American College London (BACL) and Webster Graduate School among others.
Immediately to the north of Regent's Park is Primrose Hill a park with fine views of Westminster and the City. Primrose Hill is a Royal Park and belongs to the Sovereign along with all the other Royal Parks of the Crown Estate.
The supposition that Primrose Hill is owned and maintained by the Corporation of London is an error that has been the subject of successful Crown litigation in both in the High Court and Court of Appeal.
The public areas of Regent's Park are managed by The Royal Parks, a government agency. The Crown Estate Paving Commission is responsible for managing certain aspects of the built environment of Regent's Park. The park lies within the boundaries of the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Camden, but those authorities have only peripheral input to the management of the park.
The Crown Estate owns the freehold of Regent's Park.
Cumberland Terrace on the eastern side of Regent's Park is the largest of Nash's terraces overlooking the park.
The bandstand and the boating lake in Regent's Park
The land, which was formerly known as Marylebone Park, had been Crown property for many centuries, and had been leased to the Dukes of Portland as a hunting ground. When the lease expired in 1811 the Prince Regent (later King George IV) commissioned architect John Nash to create a masterplan for the area. Nash originally envisaged a palace for the Prince and a number of grand detached villas for his friends, but when this was put into action from 1818 onwards, the palace and most of the villas were dropped. However, most of the proposed terraces of houses around the fringes of the park were built. Nash did not complete all the detailed designs himself; in some instances, completion was left in the hands of other architects such as the young Decimus Burton. The Regent Park scheme was integrated with other schemes built for the Prince Regent by Nash, including Regent Street and Carlton House Terrace in a grand sweep of town planning stretching from St James's Park to Parliament Hill. The park was first opened to the general public in 1845, initially for two days a week.
On 15th January 1867, forty people died when the ice cover on the boating lake collapsed and over 200 people plunged into the lake. The lake was subsequently drained and its depth reduced to four feet before being reopened to the public.
Queen Mary's Gardens in the Inner Circle were created in the 1930s, bringing that part of the park into use by the general public for the first time. The site had originally been used as a plant nursery and had later been leased to the Royal Botanic Society. In 1982 an IRA terrorist attack took place in the park; a bomb was detonated at the bandstand, killing seven soldiers (see Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings). The sports pitches, which had been relaid with inadequate drainage after the Second World War, were relaid between 2002 and 2004, and in 2005 a new sports pavilion was constructed.
On 7 July 2006 the Park held an event for people to remember the events of the 7 July 2005 London bombings. Members of the public placed mosaic tiles on to seven purple petals. Later bereaved family members laid yellow tiles in the centre to finish the mosiac.
A large variety of sports are played in the park including Tennis, Netball, Athletics, Cricket, Softball, Rounders, Football, Hockey, Australian Rules Football, Rugby, Ultimate Frisbee and Running. In addition, there are three playgrounds for children each with an attendant, and there is boating on the main lake.
These sports take place in an area called The Northern Parkland, and are centred around The Hub. This pavilion and underground changing rooms was designed by David Morley Architects and Price and Myers engineers and opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005. It won the IStructE Award for Community or Residential Structures in 2006.
The Park was scheduled to play a significant role in the 2012 Summer Olympics, hosting the baseball and softball, but those sports have been dropped from Olympic program with effect from 2012. However the cycling road race will still cut through Regent's Park. The Park also plays host to London Camanachd who have regular shinty scrimmages there.
Winfield House
Nine villas were built in the park. There follows a list of their names as shown on Christopher and John Greenwood's map of London (second edition, 1830), with details of their subsequent fates:
Close to the western and northern edges of the park
Marquess of Hertford's Villa: later known as St Dunstans; rebuilt as Winfield House in the 1930s and now the American Ambassador's residence.
Grove House: still a private residence but previously owned by Robert Holmes à Court, the Australian businessman. His estate sold the property after he died from a heart attack in the early 1990s. Grove House is said to have one of the largest gardens in central London after Buckingham Palace. The garden runs along the edge of Regent's Canal.
Hanover Lodge: as of 2005 under restoration for renewed use as a private residence. Recently (2007) the subject of a Court Case (won by Westminster City Council against the architect, Quinlan Terry, and contractor, Walter Lilly & Co) that ruled that two Grade II listed buildings had been illegally demolished while the property was leased to Conservative peer, Lord Bagri. It has been falsely reported that the neo-classical roadside lodges no longer stand, when actually the roadside elevations are intact and are being restored with the remaining structures by Quinlan Terry
Albany Cottage: demolished. Site now occupied by London Central Mosque.
Holford House (not shown on Greenwood's map; built in 1832 north of Hertford House, and the largest of the villas at that time. From 1856 it was occupied by Regent's Park College (which subsequently moved to Oxford in 1927). In 1944 Holford House was destroyed to a great extent when a bomb was dropped on it during World War II, and it was demolished in 1948.
Around the Inner Circle
St. John's Lodge
St. John's Lodge: still a private residence, but part of its garden is now a public garden. This is an arrangement with the Lodge's owners who have allowed the main portion of their garden to be enjoyed by the public.
The Holme: once owned by Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, the sister of the surrealist art collector Edward James, and still a private residence. The garden is open several days a year via the National Gardens Scheme.
South Villa: Site of George Bishop's Observatory (IAU code 969), erected in 1836 near the house and equipped with a 7in Dolland refractor. Hind, Vogel, Marth, Talmage, Pogson, and Dawes observed there. The observatory closed when Bishop died in 1861, and the instruments and dome were moved to Meadowbank, Twickenham in 1863. Twickenham Observatory closed in 1877 and the instruments were given to the Royal Observatory of Naples (Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte). The South Villa is now replaced by Regent's College, now one of the two largest groups of buildings in the park alongside London Zoo.
Close to the eastern edge of the park
Sir H. Taylor's Villa: demolished; site now part of the open parkland.
A residential history of St. John's Lodge, The Holme and Hanover Lodge is to be published by the owners in 2007 along with some aspects of the litigation history surrounding these properties, including the IRA bombing of the nearby bandstand on Holme Green.
Between 1988 and 2004 six new villas were built by the Crown Estate at the north western edge of the park, between the Outer Circle and the Regent's Canal. They were designed by Quinlan Terry in a variety of traditional styles and named accordingly: the Corinthian, Gothick, Ionic, Regency, Tuscan and Veneto villas.
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Park Crescent's breathtaking facades by John Nash have been preserved, although the interiors were rebuilt as offices in the 1960s.
The Camden Green Fair is held in Regent's Park as part of an ongoing effort to encourage citizens of London to go Green.
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Park Crescent is just above Regent's Park Station.
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In The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a popular children's novel by Dodie Smith, the protagonist dalmatian dogs live near Regent's park (and take there for walks their human family, the Dearly's).
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WWE SmackDown recap & reactions (Aug. 27, 2021): The Man comes around
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WWE held Friday Night SmackDown this week from North Little Rock, Arkansas. Get a complete look at the show with the live blog right here.
Becky Lynch returned to WWE at SummerSlam and instantly created a polarizing moment for the entire fan base. She strong armed her way into a title shot against Bianca Belair and then beat her in 26 seconds using some underhanded tactics, offering a hand shake and then cheap shotting Belair when she went to accept said handshake.
Reports quickly made the rounds that this represented Lynch coming back as a heel, as per her request, and also she may have been inspired by Roman Reigns. This is all information that, because we're privy to it, can alter our perception of the performance we're seeing on TV.
To that end, it felt like her promo to open SmackDown didn't work. That may be entirely because of my own expectation that she would suddenly be acting like some supreme rule breaker, a heel we can relish in booing. She acted like nothing of the sort.
Instead, she played it very much like a babyface. In fact, this was the Lynch we were all mostly expecting upon her return — mischievous, sure, but in that lovable way you can excuse because she's a bit of an antihero. Without the tint of my aforementioned expectation of how she should be acting, it almost certainly would have played rather well.
If the idea is that she's a heel, however, I don't understand nor agree with the idea of focusing on Belair simply not being ready for Lynch because she had prepared for Sasha Banks, who pulled out at the last minute. That's not necessarily a bad excuse, but why not lean into what actually happened? She's a fighting champion, who readily accepted the match with Lynch, and she was really only caught off guard because she assumed Becky was honorable when offering a handshake before the fight. Lynch proved her wrong when she used that opening to cheap shot her.
This actually makes Lynch a despicable heel while ensuring Belair doesn't look weak. Anyone can be caught off guard assuming the best of someone and being taken advantage of. It perfectly sets up the comeback as well. That's a solid story and would do away with many of the complaints of how the SummerSlam match was handled.
To their credit, the story still works well enough as is and they firmly established Belair as the top contender once more by having her win an elimination match, defeating Carmella, Zelina Vega, and Liv Morgan to cement herself as the number two in the division.
They also at least dropped a hint of Lynch going fully heel instead of occupying this tweener space.
We'll just have to wait and see on this one.
The big question coming out of SummerSlam in regards to Roman Reigns and the Universal championship wasn't so much if Brock Lesnar would come around — we can be reasonably certain we won't see a lot of him on SmackDown — but where Paul Heyman fits into the story now and going forward. After all, he was Brock's advocate before he left WWE following his defeat at the hands of Drew McIntyre back at WrestleMania 36. He only linked up with Reigns after.
To that end, I quite liked how it was played here.
Jimmy & Jey Uso were skeptical of Heyman, to the point of almost being openly hostile towards him. They wondered how it could have worked out the way it did and implanted enough doubt in his mind that he didn't know how to act around Reigns himself.
But when "The Tribal Chief" arrived, he had none of the same qualms The Usos did. He seemed downright confused by how shook Heyman was. Later, when Heyman said their celebration was "a family affair only," Reigns really drove it home.
"Paul, you are family."
This was great because it laid the groundwork for something they can come back to later when the time is right. I say come back to it because it's clear they're gonna be moving in a different direction for the time being, because the Lesnar match isn't happening just yet, even if that new direction only lasts a brief time.
Said new direction is going back to wrap up the loose end that was Finn Balor getting a shot at the Universal championship before John Cena stole it out from underneath him. Balor redeemed himself to some degree by acknowledging that that whole situation was bullshit and he plans on dealing with Cena down the road but for now, he wants Reigns and he wants him next week. He was going to wait until Extreme Rules for the PPV showcase but he doesn't trust anybody anymore, so let's do it ASAP.
That's the kind of growth and progression, small as it may seem, that makes a babyface worth cheering for.
Edge and Seth Rollins both appeared on this show but only in the form of brief backstage pre-taped promos. Edge vowed to move on, back to chasing the title Rollins took him away from. Rollins, meanwhile, adopted a creepy tone with an unsettling smile to tell us he thinks maybe he needs to be more like Edge in pursuit of his goal of fighting back to the Universal title. How long until he's pouring black gunk on Edge?
I couldn't even really tell you why I'm so amused by pretty much everything Baron Corbin has been doing of late but this story they've got him in has allowed him to become the best version of himself. He was entertaining as hell as the sad sack bum ass Baron Corbin and he's equally entertaining as the new Happy Corbin who hit big in Las Vegas. It's great because the bottom is going to fall out on him again and I, for one, can't wait to see it happen.
The Mysterio family is suffering through some turmoil, as Rey is thinking more about what's best for his boy, Dominik, and set him up to fly solo. His first match was against Sami Zayn and when he fell short, he didn't handle it very well. Dear old dad was unable to console him, and they've got a nice set up for Dom to break off into being a man of his own.
Generally speaking, I tend to always prefer when singles champions focus on singles programs and stay away from the tag team division but I am fully willing to make an exception for Shinsuke Nakamura and Rick BOOGS, who somehow make for a deeply entertaining team that should absolutely be running both divisions.
Naomi's reintroduction to the SmackDown women's division felt like a nice set up to give her an actual push as a weekly television character. Perhaps she'll be getting an edge to her after getting good and pissed off over being disrespected so openly by Sonya Deville?
It doesn't seem like it was all that long ago that Cesaro had a brief flirtation with the main event scene. He was quickly cast out, disappeared from television, and is now back to try to help get Otis over, who WWE clearly sees something in but is also just as clearly hesitant to fully commit something to. We'll see where it goes.
This was a solid follow up to a big show that did well to set up future programs.
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Rovio Entertainment Ltd
Senior 3D Artist (Battle Studio)
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Are you excited about mapping out a visual style that will come alive in a game?
Do you love crafting ideas and iterating on them, until they are just right?
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The Battle Studio is focused on cutting-edge mid-core games. Be part of a senior team with a flat hierarchy and high ambitions where strong ideas, collaboration and commitment shine above all.
Excitement is brewing as the team prepares to tackle ambitious goals. You'll be working closely with your game team to create high quality assets for our games. The role is very broad and you should be ready to tackle many different kinds of tasks, ranging from creative challenges to implementation tricks.
Skills & Requirements
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Proven portfolio demonstrating jaw-dropping 3D skills
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Interest in games, latest design trends, and pop culture
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Great opportunity to work with top talent in the gaming industry!
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Rovio's three game studios are actively developing and supporting free-to-play mobile games in a wide variety of genres, both under the Angry Birds brand and also with new, original IPs. 2019 promises to be a big year for Rovio. With The Angry Birds Movie 2 coming to theaters in August, and the 10th anniversary of Angry Birds coming later this year, it is an exciting time to be part of the team.
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Comic Creator Ross Cappaert
Ross Cappaert
(b. 1952, Belgium)
'Cleef Coombe'.
Ross Cappaert is a Belgian comics writer and artist, who is also known as simply Ross. As an artist, he was responsible for 'Cleef Coombe' (1981), a western comic published in Robbedoes Speciaal 81-82. He later wrote comics like 'De Kinderen van de Regeling' (1988-1994, art by Yurg), serialized in Sjors & Sjimmie Stripblad, and 'De Ever en de Roos' (2010-2017, art by Kurt Cassauwers). Cappaert was also active as a translator of French and English texts.
He was born in 1952 in Flanders as Rosita Cappaert, but nowadays goes by the name of Ross Cappaert. In terms of drawing he was self-taught. During the 1970s Cappaert wrote several stories in the 'Vlaamse Filmpjes' children's book series. Most of these stories were set in historical eras, with an educative tone. This would also become a recurring theme in his comics, which mostly have juvenile protagonists and often deal with nature preservation, ethics and humanitarian causes. He was a founding member of the Vlaamse Onafhankelijke Stripgilde, a comics appreciation club established by Eddy Ryssack, Danny De Laet and Berck.
Comics drawn by Ross
In the early 1980s he created twelve adventures of 'Cleef Coombe', a realistic western comic about a group of kids in a peaceful town in the South of Texas. Only one story was published in Robbedoes Speciaal 81-82, a one-shot supplement to the Dutch-language version of Spirou. In his comics series 'Wartoons' he adapted novels into comics. It is unknown whether these were ever published?
'De Kinderen van de Regeling' (Sjors & Sjimmie Stripblad #3, 1994), art by Yurg.
De Kinderen van de Regeling
Ross Cappaert has since then mostly focused on scriptwriting. In Spirou #2377 appeared his short story 'La récolte de Satan' ('De oogst van de haat', 1983), illustrated by Malik. He furthermore scripted the science fiction comics series 'De Kinderen van de Regeling' (1988-1994). Some test pages were made by Jeroen Steehouwer, but the series was eventually drawn by Jurgen De Muynck, aka Yurg. Three stories were published in the Dutch comics magazine Sjors & Sjimmie Stripblad in 1988, 1990-1991 and 1993-1994. Big Balloon published one album in 1991.
Brussel in beeldekens
He made a contribution to the collective comic book 'Brussel in Beeldekens. Manneken Pis en andere sjarels' (2009), where various artists interpreted anecdotes about the history of Brussels in comic strip format. Cappaert scripted the final story in the book, 'Huwelijk Op Het Schavot', which was drawn by Patrick van Oppen.
De Ever & De Roos
Between 2010 and 2017 Cappaert scripted 'De Ever en de Roos', drawn by Kurt Cassauwers, a romantic adventure comic set in the Middle Ages. It follows the adventures of the wayward lady Alienor. Three albums were published by Peter Bonte.
Artwork © 2021 Ross Cappaert
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Too big to dance? | Jammin' with G.A.
The words that I have spent a good third of my life trying to avoid came at me full force after an adult ballet class I took a few days ago when I was out of town visiting my grandmother.
Hot-faced, I agreed with the teacher, knowing full well that at 5'2" and 122 pounds, I am practically morbidly obese in the dance world. I would have rather her told me that my turns weren't sharp enough, my leg wasn't high enough, my feet weren't pointed enough—any criticism but that.
In the ballet world, companies expect girls who are technically brilliant and have about 3 % body fat. Horror stories about eating disorders run rampant, fueled by Black Swan* and other media portrayals of anorexia and bulimia in ballerinas. Some of it is overblown, but some of it's sad but true—dancers are constantly fighting their bodies and it's often not acceptable for these high performing athletes to look like, well, athletes.
A New York Times dance critic called out New York City Ballet principal Jennifer Ringer for looking like she had eaten "one sugarplum too many;" an especially biting "review" because Ringer had recently opened up about her years-long struggle with eating disorders.
Misty Copeland, the first African American soloist in American Ballet Theatre in decades, says she's been told to lose weight and struggles with being considered a "curvy" dancer.
Misty Copeland. Too curvy? I think not.
I've known too many girls who are gorgeous dancers, wonderful people and, even though they don't look like they have an ounce of fat on their bodies, are pressured by their directors to lose weight, lose weight, lose weight. No matter that these girls have almost perfect technique, are proportional, and look like women, not preteen boys.
I read an article about dancers' bodies where someone argued that requiring such slenderness from dancers is a power play. Asking dancers to look like little girls keeps them acting like little girls—powerless.
The aesthetic is changing though. Contemporary choreography is more athletic—it asks for strong women who can perform full, powerful movements; not waifs floating through a fantasy world.
Take a look at what audiences are actually watching. Professional ballet companies are struggling—the digital age doesn't have the patience (or the cashflow) for three hours of The Sleeping Beauty, but over 10 million viewers tuned in for the first season of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance.
I'm not sure if anyone reads this besides my mom, but if dear blogosphere, if you're out there, thoughts?
*BLACK SWAN IS FICTION PEOPLE.
**Like Drew Jacoby of Jacoby and Pronk, all of the members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Pilobulus, Misty Copeland, and others.
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Jornik Manufacturing
Elyse Strauss Joins the Jornik Manufacturing Sales Team
Jacquie Herz, president of Jornik Manufacturing Corp., a family-owned and operated Stamford, Conneticut-based supplier, has announced the hiring of Elyse Strauss as its sales executive.
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Jornik Boosts Contract Printing Capabilities with Acquisition of Zan
Jacquie Herz, president of Jornik Manufacturing Corp., a family-owned and operated Stamford, Connecticut-based supplier known for a wide variety of creative products and exceptional service, has announced the acquisition of Zan Enterprises Inc., a contract printer, formerly located in Brooklyn, N.Y.
"The acquisition of Zan Enterprises has afforded us increased capacity for handling the significant growth of Jornik's product line, as well as providing a full-service department for a myriad of contract printing projects," said Herz." This will not only enable us to provide enhanced service to our distributors on our regular line, but significantly boosts our capabilities in decorating a vast array of items. Zan's current customers have been very pleased with the smooth transition."
For more information, visit www.jornik.com.
Jornik Manufacturing Hires Multiline Sales Manager for Southwest Territory
Jornik Manufacturing Corp., the Stamford, Conn. supplier, has hired industry veteran Ben Norris as its multiline sales manager of the Southwest sales territory.
Jornik Manufacturing Hires Ken Cecco for Mid-Atlantic Region
Jornik Manufacturing Corp., located in Stamford, Conn., has hired industry veteran Ken Cecco of Kenneth Cecco & Associates as the company's new multi-line sales manager.
According to Jacquie Herz, president of Jornik Manufacturing, Cecco's sales territory will include Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. He can be reached at (717) 451-2784 or kcecco1@gmail.com.
Jornik Manufacturing Hires Jeremy Ratcliff as National Sales Manager
Jornik Manufacturing Corp., the Stamford, Connecticut-based supplier, on December 10 announced that Jeremy Ratcliff has been hired as national sales manager. Since 2003, Ratcliff has served in various supplier sales capacities at Hub Pen, Lanco and Vantage Apparel, and was a Cyrk distributor prior to moving to the supplier side.
SAAGNY Foundation Volunteers Celebrate 4 Years Of Creating Smiles For Children at Hilltop School
The SAAGNY Foundation contributed to a fun-filled day of smiles, surprises and goodies for the children at Hilltop School in Rockland County, NY on August 8. Several members of the promotional products industry donated items to the event, which were handed out by SAAGNY volunteers.
SAAGNY Foundation Volunteers Celebrate 12 years of Creating Smiles for Children with Cancer at "Happiness is Camping"
Volunteers from The SAAGNY Foundation, located in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., spent Wednesday, July 18 at Happiness is Camping in Blairstown, N.J. This is the 12th year that the foundation volunteers participated in the camp's annual "Pirates Day" festivities.
Jornik Manufacturing Promotes Jordie Freedman to VP of Sales and Operations
Jornik Manufacturing Corp., the Stamford, Connecticut-based supplier, announced that Jordie Freedman has been promoted to vice president of sales and operations. Freedman will bring more than 13 years of industry experience to her new role.
Jornik Manufacturing Expands Facility
Promotional products supplier Jornik Manufacturing announced that the company has expanded its main facility in Stamford, Conn.
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Q: Batch generating SWF files We need to generate around 8,000 nearly identical SWF files with slightly different text.  I know about flashvars, but unfortunately, we don't have control over the publishing of these files and can't have flashvars passed in.  Ideally what I'm looking for is that we have a flash designer come up with a nice looking template for us with a placeholder text or element in the file.  We can then call a command line utility many times to generate 8,000 copies of this with slightly modified text.
I've searched for an entire day now and haven't found anything to help us out.  Granted, I'm not a flash developer, but it seems like this would be pretty straight-forward.

A: Why won't MXMLC work?
What is the target SWF format? If it's 8 and below, you could try MTASC in combination with SWFMill (it takes text source files for code and graphics).
SWF spec is open, there are several parsers that can analyze the SWF file to different degree. If it's only a matter of replacing the content of a text field, then probably, it would take only as much as rewriting one tag that contains the text field and updating the total file size in the file header.
If you need to do that in real time, this will really depend on amount of code your SWF contains and how much of it needs to be recompiled, but generally Haxe compiler is much faster then MXMLC, and for small files it can be feasible to compile them upon request, rather then pre-compile all of them and serve on demand (depends on what is more expensive, the time it takes to compile, or the space on the server).
EDIT: say, you wanted to use MXMLC, you could have something like this:
#!/usr/bin/env bash

for i in {0..8000}
do
    cp ./ClassWithText.template ./ClassWithText.as
    sed -i s/%pattern%/counter${i}/g ./ClassWithText.as
    mxmlc ./ClassWithText.as -o ./result-${i}.swf
done

NOTE: you wouldn't probably be able to get mxmlc globally accessible because it has some hardcoded paths, so, you'd use an absolute path to the compiler, but the idea should be the same.
Then, say, you had this text in the ClassWithText.template file:
var myText:String = "%pattern%";

it would be transformed into:
var myText:String = "counter0";

and then compiled, "counter1", and then compiled and so on.

A: As wvxvw says, you could use the mxmlc compiler and another possibility is scripting the Flash IDE using JSFL.