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08 April 2013 4:13 PM
Out to the Undiscovered Ends - a few First Thoughts on the Death of Lady Thatcher
RIP Margaret Hilda Thatcher, born in Grantham, Lincolnshire 13th October 1925, died in London 8th April 2013.
Don't worry. This isn't an attempt at an obituary or a summary of Lady Thatcher's career. There'll be plenty of those, and some of them will be very good. So will the biography which that fine writer, Charles Moore, has been working on for so long and which will now soon be published.
It's just a few thoughts on the death of an undoubtedly great human being, whom I was lucky enough to have met and seen in action, so that perhaps one day , if I'm even luckier and our country and people survive so long, , a grandchild of mine, when very old, will say to someone deep in the 22nd century that his or her grandfather had actually shaken hands with Margaret Thatcher. And that someone will feel they have gently touched the edge of history.
Hilaire Belloc's 'Dedicatory Ode' has long haunted me, with its tremendous opening line 'From quiet homes and first beginnings, out to the undiscovered ends…'
I am always moved by the distance some people travel, especially in politics, though in other paths as well. Even when they are signing enormous treaties, speaking to multitudes from high platforms, celebrating smashing election victories and directing wars, there is somewhere in their mind a small and shabby bedroom, a cat curled up by the fire, a third-hand bicycle, a clock ticking, a walk through shabby streets to an unassuming school, a corner of a sooty garden in which they have managed to grow a few beans or potatoes, a frugal seaside holiday involving quite a lot of rain. There are also the little chores that tie us to normality, washing up, sweeping the stairs, taking out the rubbish.
How do these great ones cope with this contrast with what they really are, and what we have elevated them into being? They may have wanted to be great, and striven for it all their lives. But when they finally caught the enormous Atlantic roller of celebrity, and it lifted them unmistakably far above everyone else, were they dismayed to see their own past lives , and everyone in them, suddenly become so small and far away, and irrecoverable?
And what about those they left behind? The mighty still have old aunts and uncles living in bungalows, schoolfriends to whom they once told secrets, and closer family who knew them before their lives changed. You hear it often from such families that after so-and-so went off – to a parliamentary selection or some such event – 'he never came back'. What they mean is that the person who achieves great power, riches or fame is not the same as the person they knew before, and never will be again. Different rules apply. They belong to other people now, and to other institutions,. And, if they're not careful, when they die they will , like Abraham Lincoln , 'belong to history', the cruel words used to persuade Mary Todd Lincoln to stop grieving embarrassingly, as if she were a normal widow at the bedside of a horribly murdered husband, instead of a powerless woman at the deathbed of a secular saint, whose memory was now public property.
In Margaret Thatcher's generation, even more than for mine, 30 years behind her in the decline of England from disciplined Protestant superpower to multicultural secular Babylon, childhood and early life were necessarily modest, quiet and limited. It was enough of a thrill to see an express train tear through the meadows with its plume of steam and hiss of power, on its way to London, a city you might expect to see three or four times in a lifetime (Lady Thatcher didn't see London till she was 12 years old) . A school scholarship was a tremendous achievement. A university scholarship glowed like a medal. There was never much money. It didn't do to lose your temper or offend people. You would meet the same people again and again, and they would not forget. I can just remember, too, the vigorous adult hatred of time-wasting, which meant that if you were even so much as spotted in a moment of repose, a task would instantly be found for you. I look back on this with a mixture of regret, as I know it was good for me, and immense relief that it no longer happens, as I spent so much of my own childhood learning how to avoid being caught in idleness. For Lady Thatcher, I think it remained an ineradicable part of life.
One long-ago winter afternoon I broke a railway journey at Grantham (I think I had been to visit Lincoln Cathedral) and walked through the unassuming streets in the biting wind, just to get an impression. Cold, it was, and bleak and workful. Grantham, of course, possesses one of the loveliest church spires in Europe, and has a surprising amount of handsome brick houses. But it is no metropolis and (as John Campbell's superb biography says) , the young Margaret Roberts did not grow up in the prosperous or grand parts of the town. Her father's shop – which Campbell points out was a sub-Post Office, though Mrs Thatcher interestingly never mentioned this in her own reminiscences – was in her childhood days on the edge of a pretty rough area. Like much of the striving middle class, the Roberts family knew exactly what they were escaping by adopting the diligent Protestant deferred gratification which is the foundation of middle class life.
I saw a lot of Lady Thatcher's speeches, in the House of Commons and at Tory conferences. I once saw her at some Tory ball, in an astonishing blue gown, a sort of 20th-century Gloriana. The last time I glimpsed her , she was already old and unwell, but had come out selflessly to support an old friend who had published a book.
I was lucky enough to travel, crammed into the seats at the very back of her majestic, obsolete and noisy RAF VC-10, on several of her foreign trips, and she was generous with her time on those journeys, sometimes too generous as she loved discussing foreign policy but seldom provided any news, let alone gossip. You couldn't help being impressed by her. She always knew what she was talking about. If she didn't know a subject, she studied it until she did. She wasn't going to be bested, or shown up by anyone. And the legendary single-mindedness shone like a lamp. But the only time I ever felt I *liked* her was on Tuesday 19th April 1983, when, as a very junior political reporter, I was in the House of Commons Press gallery and Denis Healey, then still in his full vigour, sneered that she planned to 'cut and run' by holding an election.
Mr Healey, who even now still preserves a Yorkshire accent, and was in those days one of the politicians whose speeches would fill the chamber, and who rather prided himself on his ability to cope with the rough stuff, got the shock of his life ( and so did everyone else) when the supposed Finchley housewife suddenly shook off nearly 50 years of delicacy, pearls and elocution lessons, and spoke in the language of the Lincolnshire back streets:
' The right hon. Gentleman is afraid of an election, is he? Afraid? Frightened? Frit? Could not take it? Cannot stand it? If I were going to cut and run, I should have gone after the Falklands. Frightened! Right now inflation is lower than it has been for 13 years—a record which the right hon. Gentleman could not begin to touch.'
'Frit!'. We had never heard it before, especially not from her, but you knew what it meant as soon as it struck the eardrum. It was much more damaging than 'afraid' or 'frightened' because it came from somewhere much deeper. It was the sharp, unanswerable Saxon jibe and challenge, pronounced with a sneer, that you couldn't answer and which everyone listening would know had struck home. It was completely British, and it was not from the neat world of suburban lawns and afternoon tea, but from the other less gentle world of cracked pavements and grimy brick walls where the only thing to do when in trouble was to stand and fight. And so she did.
This was not a handbagging, but a straightforward kick in the shins, as no doubt administered from time to time in the playground of Huntingtower Road County Elementary School. (This was the school where, when the head told the young Margaret she had been lucky to win a poetry recital contest, the self-possessed little girl snapped back 'I wasn't lucky. I deserved it').
Out of the same deep toughness came her resilience the night after the IRA tried very hard to murder her, and had succeeded in murdering or gravely hurting several close friends, another moment which even the meanest of her detractors must surely admit does her credit.
That's why, even though I don't share the adulation that so many do, and even though I think that Lady Thatcher's long-term legacy will be smaller than many claim, I'll always back her against the silly critics who could never see the whole woman, nor give her any credit for anything, or grasp just how extraordinary and exceptional her rise had been, from her quiet home and first beginnings.
April 8, 2013 Comments (124) Categories: History , Thatcher, Margaret | Permalink
Tony Dodd: I think you're probably right to strongly suspect that the closure of mines, shipyards etc., was politically rather than economically driven. However I'm not sure I agree with you that meaningless jobs are better than no jobs at all.I would argue that it would be far better to close down industries which truly do depend on taxpayer handouts, and instead give the redundant workers plots of land to become farmers, craftsmen, etc. Most folk would no doubt scoff at such an idea as back to the land utopianism, but for me it makes a lot more sense than inventing pretend "jobs". In my view, the phrase "job creation" is right up there with "compulsory volunteerism" as a modern day Orwellian oxymoron.
Posted by: Colm J | 11 April 2013 at 08:34 PM
@ Tony Dodd - "....unemployment is an evil which affects more than the immediate victim."
Well, indeed. I should, of course, have stated that in addition to the hundreds of billions we've spent on actual welfare payments, what about the other costs?
How many billions of pounds have been lost on crime, drug abuse, ill health, fractured families, etc, which subsequently accompanied the decimation of the communities (which became wastelands) supported by the heavy industries? You could argue that the rot began with the cultural revolution of the 1960's, and I wouldn't disagree - I think it's over-simplistic to blame it all on the Thatcher government.
But it certainly played its part.
I've often wondered what the difference in cost would be for the government to re-establish and subsidise our heavy industries, as compared with the continuing (and increasing) cost of subsidising unemployment. Commodities such as coal and steel can be sold. What does unemployment produce which can be sold?
Even if it does cost a bit more, wouldn't it (to quote the late Mrs. Thatcher) be a price worth paying?
If it led to a reduction in some of the accompanying social problems, and addressed the issue of our "current and future energy needs", as you so correctly put it, then I'd say yes.
Posted by: beatpoet | 11 April 2013 at 07:26 PM
@ William
You left yourself open to a frontal assault by the chap who was one of the suckers no doubt.
Did you know the Front was formed by a serving Admiral and a retired Air Marshal. But then ripped apart by a fat fool. So no doubt there were suckers in the front. But not as many that are in the three stooge parties. But I'm sure you meant ,* the suckers not in the front, but thoses elsewhere.
Yes Thatcher fool most of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time .
Tony Dodd – if, as you seem to be suggesting, the coal industry was not uneconomic, and the decision to close the mines (or rather to stop subsidising them) was merely an act of ideological spite, how do you account for the fact that many more pits were closed under Harold Wilson and previous administrations?
Or the fact that, on top of subsidising the coal industry itself to the tune of £200 million, the Thatcher government was also initially subsidising industries to switch from oil to British coal (while companies that had brought coal from abroad were prohibited from bringing it in)? None of this suggests to me a thriving industry.
Would it have been better to continue subsidising heavy industry rather than to have to pay out millions in unemployment benefit, and endure all the social ills of mass unemployment? Perhaps, and I am not denying that deindustrialisation could have been handled better. But the size of the subsidies required to keep it afloat would probably have continued to increase, and the cost to the taxpayer of such would almost certainly have impacted on employment elsewhere in the economy.
Posted by: Joshua Wooderson | 11 April 2013 at 04:40 PM
Tony Dodd
Dig holes in the road...? Mother Nature has already done that part of the job (to the endless joy of all those who sell and fit those expensive car parts that fail to survive our splendid roads) - but I know what you mean. Paying fit and healthy folk to stay at home when there are so many jobs - big and small - that could be carried out to the benefit of the vast majority has always struck me as ruddy stupid.
Posted by: Alan Thomas | 11 April 2013 at 03:39 PM
I fail to fully understand many of the postings and opinions of commentators who insist that Lady Thatcher was wholly responsible for the destruction of heavy industry in the UK. This opinion seems to me to be completely false and misleading. Heavy industry in this country was in terminal decline long before she came to power. This decline was in the main a result of globalisation but its rapid demise was assisted greatly by the unions. Militancy and a Luddite attitude to change and technology ensured that British industry could never compete.The answer (pre Thatcher) had been government subsidy, a policy through the late 60's and 70's which had bankrupt the government and needed urgent review. The Luddites in the unions were responsible for their own demise, examples of which can be found in all the heavy industries throughout the period. British shipbuilding persisted in using riveting, whereas the Italians and Japanese using seam welding were producing ships at phenomenal rates. Automated assembly technology in the car industry saw Japan producing 5 quality vehicles to every 1 which rolled off the line at Longbridge. The refusal of dockers to accept containerisation technology ensured that Rotterdam and Hamburg expanded to replace our own ports. The print unions refusal to accept Murdoch's Wapping print plant. The steel industry was out competed on a global scale as other countries increased production largely through modernisation programmes which were held back here not by lack of potential investment but by fear from those investors that they would be outdone by militant unions, a similar story with the miners. UK mines have massive reserves but if Poland can produce a tonne of coal at a fraction of the cost then market forces will dominate, couple this with the fact that domestic requirements for coal had shrivelled to such an extent that the mining industry was wholly reliant on an export market in which it could never compete without slashing production costs. So in summary it seems to me that the demise of heavy industry was a result of globalisation, basic economics and the militant Luddite attitudes of the unions and would have happened with or without Lady Thatcher.
Posted by: Longshanks | 11 April 2013 at 11:03 AM
beatpoet - quite right sir, unemployment is an evil which affects more than the immediate victim. I would much rather pay people to dig holes in the ground and fill them in again, than for doing nothing. In the case of coal miners, there was a vitally important end product. The talk of pits being "uneconomic' always struck me as facile. Everyone who's had a nodding acquaintance with business knows "profit" is a slippery concept and can be manipulated to suit any short-term aim.
Did we ever see the complete accounts of any particular coal mine? Was an honest cost/benefit and risk analysis of sourcing our (then) current and future energy needs carried out? If it was, I don't recall it being publicly debated.
Posted by: Tony Dodd | 11 April 2013 at 10:42 AM
"(despite stealing the rhetoric of the National Front, which the suckers fell for)"
Do you mean the 'suckers' were the National Front (when did they pack their bags and virtually disappear?), those who fell for Thatcher, or both camps? If the latter, which other party was there at that time to meet the needs you describe?
I find it curious that this week the media are all up in arms over the comments of a 17 year old on a social networking site (which really shows just how lost we are when it comes to issues of crime) while 'adult' left-wingers are allowed to express their hatred free of any sort of comebacks...
It seems that 'hate crime' (whatever that is) is only permissible as long as it's directed towards a figure of left-wing loathing...
Don't dare make any remarks deemed 'homophobic' or 'racist', no matter what your age...
I sometimes feel like Alice through the looking glass..
Posted by: Mark | 11 April 2013 at 08:56 AM
My father was Margaret Thatchers Close Protection Officer. He dropped a packet of cigarettes once and she picked them up for him. That one little gesture he never forgot.
Posted by: Russell Brown | 11 April 2013 at 12:28 AM
Roy Robinson writes:
***Interesting comment comparing Thatcher and Reagan to Belisarius. Thatcher could easily be described as Britain's Justinian the Emperor who was Belsarius boss. Justinian was the last strong Roman emperor and his achievement's perished soon after his death. Thatcher may well be the lost strong figure in our island story.***
Here's a quote from Donald R. Dudley in his "The Civilization of Rome," (once again a Roman analogy) that might also be germane:
"With the Roman mob, Commodus enjoyed a certain popularity, as one who shared their debased tastes. He was not assassinated until 192, a year whose beginning he had signalized by appearing in public on the same day as consul and as gladiator. The evil that he did lived after him, for there was no heir. It was the same situation as in 69, and there was another disastrous series of civil wars. But this time there was to be no Vespasian to bring back good rule to the world."
Posted by: Henry Noel | 11 April 2013 at 12:28 AM
@ Paul | 09 April 2013 at 11:34 AM
You sir, have just summed up in three short paragraphs and given probably the best analysis of the farcical nature of political commentary I've seen in a long time.
Posted by: Paulus M | 10 April 2013 at 11:47 PM
Lovely, fluent assessment. Only wish I could articulate so well. A rare gift, thank you for sharing it.............Love reading you.
Posted by: Clare Jones | 10 April 2013 at 09:54 PM
Blah, blah blah I hate everyone. Blah, blah, blah immigrants, muslims, blah,blah I I hate everyone especially the poor and the vulnerable etc etc...
Posted by: John Jones | 10 April 2013 at 07:30 PM
Peter, I thought the Thatcher blog was superbly written and very moving. I was not fan of Lady Thatcher but the original approach to her death in your article was incredibly moving:
'I am always moved by the distance some people travel, especially in politics, though in other paths as well. Even when they are signing enormous treaties, speaking to multitudes from high platforms, celebrating smashing election victories and directing wars, there is somewhere in their mind a small and shabby bedroom, a cat curled up by the fire, a third-hand bicycle, a clock ticking, a walk through shabby streets to an unassuming school, a corner of a sooty garden in which they have managed to grow a few beans or potatoes, a frugal seaside holiday involving quite a lot of rain. There are also the little chores that tie us to normality, washing up, sweeping the stairs, taking out the rubbish'
Posted by: Jason brennan | 10 April 2013 at 07:22 PM
Colm J makes some very telling points, especially about the "casino economy" that Thatcher facilitated. As a very active trade unionist, my late father was aware of deindustrialisation in Britain as early as the 50s, some time before Thatcher, but there is no doubt that she greatly accelerated the process.
Posted by: Neil Saunders | 10 April 2013 at 06:53 PM
I knew that Margaret Thatcher was a divisive figure and not universally admired but I am dismayed by the real, vicious, visceral, uncompromising hatred of her on this blog, in other blogs and generally.
Firstly Margaret Thatcher married Dennis Thatcher several years after his divorce from his first wife, also named Margaret and so she did not marry another woman's husband in the sense of stealing him from her. She had already remarried.
As for the miners strike, in her memoirs she states that Sir Ian McGregor wanted to turn the mines into a profitable enterprise by, I think, 1986 and he wanted to close unprofitable pits (which would lead to unemployment for sure) with that aim in mind. It is the case that, disastrously, the strike was called in MARCH (at the beginning of Spring!) without a ballot which was surely a great folly by Arthur Scargill and he intended to 'roll back Thatcherism' and put something else in its place. Once called the strike became a battle of wills between two strong minded determined people.
The UDM went to work because there was no ballot. If there had been a ballot and the vote was in favour of a strike, history might have been very different.
I think that Margaret Thatcher became aware (very late as Peter Hitchens keeps saying) about the European project and tried to reverse it, leading to her demise. She was right about the Euro as well.
As for the community charge, why shouldn't a household with 2 or more adults pay more to their local authority than single people? I always thought that the community charge looked very fair on paper at least but the way it was implemented was woeful.
I hope Mrs Thatcher rests in peace. I believe that she did what she considered her best for her country and who can ask for more than that?
Posted by: Geoff Cavender | 10 April 2013 at 06:27 PM
Dermot Doyle's comments on coal production are interesting. I do recall the miners' strike, but I was quite young at the time, and can't remember much of the detail. As I've grown older, I've come to realise the great damage caused to large swathes of the country by the Thatcher Government's economic policies.
I cannot, for the life of me, understand the logic of destroying heavy industries because they cost too much to subsidise, yet we seem perfectly willing and able to have subsidised unemployment to the tune of hundreds of billions of pounds over 30 years or so.
That said, I hope Mrs. Thatcher rests in peace, and my condolences to her family.
On a final note, if someone had accused me of being "frit", I wouldn't have had the faintest idea what they were on about. Now that I know what it means, I can't say I find it particularly cutting. I suppose you have to be of a certain generation, and from a certain part of the country to be pierced by such an insult.
Paul Taylor writes:
***Yes,in some ways Thatcher was Blair mark 1,together they have helped turn Britain into the rather unpleasant place it is today,having said that i still believe
Thatcher is being blamed for some things that were not her fault.***
How could that not be? When Humpty Dumpty falls off the wall, you're never going to get him back together in quite the same state he was before. All that yolk; all that white; all those tiny little pieces of shell lying scattered about. Who can look at it and say it's not a muddle?
Posted by: Henry Noel | 10 April 2013 at 04:26 PM
Yes,in some ways Thatcher was Blair mark 1,together they have helped turn Britain into the rather unpleasant place it is today,having said that i still believe
Thatcher is being blamed for some things that were not her fault.
Posted by: Paul Taylor | 10 April 2013 at 03:47 PM
Stuart Smith.
Its true about the long waiting time for a new car in the 1970s but many people seem to forget about the very long waiting times for operations at NHS hospitals in the 1980s.
I believe that the pro Thatcher supporters give her too much credit but that those on the left can also be a little unfair about the Iron lady.
Not only was she pro-abortion. She also married another woman's husband. And of course she made Mammon the true God of Britain
Posted by: vito | 10 April 2013 at 03:12 PM
Paul Noonan: "Elevating Thatcher into a hate figure helps them forget that the ideology of Hayek she represented has now captured their side of the political spectrum-and most of them are too stupid to know it."
Too stupid to know it, perhaps, but certainly stupid enough to have embraced it.
The comments of such as Jo Brand, Frankie Boyle, Peter Tatchell etc.. reads like a Who's Who of the enemy within. And this from the people who gave you 'hate crime'. Will they now be prosecuted?
Posted by: David Hargreaves | 10 April 2013 at 02:47 PM
To Stuart Smith:
I wonder how old you are - old enough, as I am, to remember what the pre-Thatcher 1970s were really like, as opposed to the mythical version fabricated by her stooges and apologists?
Pinochet was a dictator and a mass murderer who usurped a democratically elected government (this is a matter of record, and would have been known to Thatcher), and it doesn't matter who he was in competition with in South America or anywhere else.
By the 70s and 80s British Rail had been eviscerated by Beeching in the early 1960s and existed on subsidies that were a fraction (in real terms) of what the privatised companies running it for profit now receive from the public purse.


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Above: Concept art for Control.
The Finland-based developer has always had a fascination with the supernatural, creating both the shadowy horrors in Alan Wake and the time-shifting powers in Quantum Break. Like those games, Control (out August 27 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC) is a third-person shooter set in an intriguing new world. But unlike its predecessors, Control dives head-first into the unknown, to a place where alternate dimensions and monstrous creatures threaten to invade our reality.
You play as Jessie Faden, who at the beginning unexpectedly becomes the new director of the Federal Bureau of Control, a mysterious government agency that investigates the paranormal. In the process, she inherits superpowers, such as flying and to manipulating objects with her mind. Jessie must use these to explore The Oldest House, the Bureau's enigmatic HQ, and fight against a corrupting force called the Hiss.
Oh, and she also has a weapon that can transform into different types of guns.
"Right from the get-go, we wanted to do something that fully embraces the supernatural, strange world. … Just getting weird has been a core philosophy of this game. Let's just get weird, let's embrace that," said game director Mikael Kasurinen.
During the 2019 Game Developers Conference, Kasurinen and other Remedy developers showed new gameplay footage to give the media a sense of how strange Control can be. The demo took place in the research department of The Oldest House, where Jessie runs into some of the Bureau's cruel and unusual experiments while trying to fight off Hiss-controlled soldiers.
Combat is a mix of shooting and using your telekinetic powers, sometimes in a specific order. For example, enemies with red auras can only be hurt by using your Force Push-like melee attack or by hurling huge concrete blocks at them. But once their shield dissipates, you can use your gun to finish them off.
Above: You can use your telekinesis to toss chunks of cement at enemies.
You can also launch yourself into the air and float for a short time. Since you can still access all your abilities while in this state, it's useful to get the jump on bad guys or to attack them with Ground Slam, where Jessie rushes down with a devastating punch. You'll unlock more powers as you play through the story, and can further improve your combat prowess with weapon and character mods that you'll find from enemies and item boxes in the game. Mods can increase your health and stamina, reduce the time to reload, and more. They can be swapped out at any time.
Remedy's goal was to give players as many tools as possible to customize their experience (you can even choose different outfits for Jessie to wear), and to create something that was a little more open-ended and improvisational than Alan Wake or Quantum Break.
"That's what makes combat fun in this game: It's about how you use the different abilities in surprising situations," said Kasurinen.
To make sure players never feel like they're being pulled away from the action, the studio also broke another longheld tradition: telling a story primarily through cutscenes. While you'll still see a few of these in the game, the developers didn't want to have too many passive moments. They want players to take the time to explore The Oldest House, which is a character in its own right. The building's brutalist architecture makes it feel cold and oppressive, but the real mystery is what's hidden behind its walls.
Though some of the doors lead to ordinary offices and laboratories, others transport you to completely new dimensions. You won't be able to access all of them right away: Once you gain certain abilities, it's worth going back to places you've been through before to unlock new areas. Exploring the House's secrets is the best way to uncover Jessie's story and the reason behind the Hiss invasion, as well as the story of the Bureau as a whole.
With its focus on freeform exploration and challenging combat, Control represents a big departure from the way Remedy usually likes to make its games. And to signal that change, the studio knew that it needed to come up with a different type of hero, one that it's never really worked with before.
Like the player, Jessie doesn't know much about the Bureau or the Hiss at the beginning of the game. But after acquiring her powers, she feels a sense of purpose and responsibility, two things that were sorely missing in her life up to that point.


Version bump to 5.0.3. Cleanup of old versions.
24 Version bump to 5.0.3. Cleanup of old versions.
52 Fix building with OpenSSL >= 1.0.0 wrt #328701 by Thomas Beierlein.
56 Fix building with OpenSSL >= 1.0.0 wrt #328701 by Thomas Beierlein.
59 Stable for HPPA (bug #282020).
121 was built with USE="-X".
130 implementation in the tree.
161 Migrate to EAPI 2 in order to get rid of built_with_use.
212 Fix split qt4 deps wrt bug 217161.
231 Stable for HPPA (bug #232828).
234 Sparc stable, critical/P2 Bug #232828.
250 Stable for HPPA (bug #196834).
256 Sparc stable, security bug #196834, everything as expected.
402 Marked ~hppa (bug #195682).
411 Fix quoting issues found by repoman.
440 Stable for HPPA (bug #153189).
453 Fix *initd and *envd calls, bug #173884.
476 Added to ~hppa, ~ppc. Requested by Mr_Bones_.
530 Remove labmonkey from metadata.xml, as he's no longer bacula's maintainer.
541 bug #125729 not #12529.
551 user hasn't set any database USE flags (or it'll fail in econf).
580 USE controlled. Added 1.38.5 ebuild.
595 Stable on hppa, ppc.
599 Stable on hppa, ppc.
629 Moved from app-admin/bacula to app-backup/bacula.
658 Dependency update: sys-apps/mtx -> sys-block/mtx.
662 Added missing parentheses in SRC_URI/*DEPEND/LICENSE.
665 Moved inherit to the top.
686 Fix stupid dependency on sys-libs/libtermcap-compat (i.e. remove it) #64212.
708 Depend on version 2 of sqlite.
711 Added mysql switch. Closes #49122.
715 Changed bindir path for sqllite. Closes #57146.
718 Fixed wxwindows support. Closes #57350.
719 Fixed client support. Closes #57302.
727 Version bump, closes #54766.
734 Marked stable for x86.
739 Version bump, closes #54097.
742 Stable on sparc wrt bug #48969.
745 Marked stable for x86.
750 Version bump, closes #48969.
753 Removed 1.34.0 becuase of race condition.
760 Removed S=, inherit eutils for epatch.
765 Version bump, closes #47240.
768 Marked stable on x86.
771 Removed patch, it was not applying cleanly. Closes #46790.
774 Marked stable for x86.
778 Fixed broken static support. Closes #23998.
784 Fix for proper detection of sqlite. Closes #45152.
790 Version bump, closes #44580.
793 next release 1.32f-6 will be 1.32f-r6.
796 Marked stable for x86.
806 Fixed way of using patches. Closes #4122.
809 bacula 1.31 now uses bacula 1.31a rather than the 04Jun03 snapshot.
816 Force the user to use mysql if they have both sqlite and mysql as use flags.
823 Fixed mysql issues when using mysql in USE. Closes #38547.
838 for fixing various bugs, including: #17059, #21607.
846 Added the static flag to IUSE.
849 Initial import of Bacula; initscript and ebuild written by me.


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Dear Evan Hansen Ends Olivier-Winning London Run October 22
Dear Evan Hansen Sets Closing Date in London's West End
See the West End Cast of Dear Evan Hansen's New 'You Will Be Found' Music Video
Dear Evan Hansen Reopens at London's Noël Coward Theatre October 26
Take a First Look at the West End Return of Dear Evan Hansen
Photos Photos: Final West End Performance of Olivier-Winning Dear Evan Hansen
The award-winning production took its last bow at the Noël Coward Theatre October 22.
By Andrew Gans, Michael Wiltbank
Sam Tutty (center) and company at the final performance of Dear Evan Hansen in London's West End Liz Heinrichs
Dear Evan Hansen, which reopened at London's Noël Coward Theatre October 26, 2021, played its final performance October 22, nearly three years after its West End premiere on October 29, 2019.
The final cast included Sam Tutty, who opened the production and subsequently won an Olivier for his performance in the title role, Lucy Anderson as Zoe Murphy, Doug Colling as Connor Murphy, Iona Fraser as Alana Beck, Marcus Harman (who played Evan at certain performances), Jack Loxton as Jared Kleinman, Rebecca McKinnis as Heidi Hansen, Lauren Ward as Cynthia Murphy, and Rupert Young as Larry Murphy, with Tricia Adele-Turner, Haydn Cox, Kristen Gaetz, Ellis Kirk, Hannah Lindsey, Samantha Mbolekwa, Mark Peachey, Hannah Qureshi, James Winter, and Mitchell Zhangazha.
Also the recipient of the 2020 Olivier Awards for Best Musical and Best Score, Dear Evan Hansen features a book by Tony winner Steven Levenson, a score by Grammy, Tony, and Academy Award winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and direction by four-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif.
Produced by Tony winner Stacey Mindich, the West End production of Dear Evan Hansen was the fourth production to open worldwide, following Broadway, Toronto, Canada, and the North American tour.
Check out photos from the final curtain call below:
See Sam Tutty and Cast at the Final London Performance of Dear Evan Hansen
Sam Tutty at the final performance of Dear Evan Hansen in London's West End
Liz Heinrichs
Sam Tutty (center) and company at the final performance of Dear Evan Hansen in London's West End
The company of Dear Evan Hansen at the final performance in London's West End
Dear Evan Hansen opened on Broadway in December 2016, going on to win six 2017 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. A film version, starring original Evan Hansen, Tony winner Ben Platt, opened in theatres nationwide September 24, 2021, and is available on demand. The Broadway production played its final performance September 18.
The show features choreography by Danny Mefford, scenic design by David Korins, projection design by Peter Nigrini, costume design by Emily Rebholz, lighting design by Japhy Weideman, sound design by Nevin Steinberg, and hair design by David Brian Brown. Music supervision, orchestrations, and additional arrangements are by Alex Lacamoire with Ben Cohn as the associate music supervisor. Vocal arrangements and additional arrangements are by Justin Paul.
U.K. casting was by Jill Green Casting with Judith Schoenfeld as the production supervisor, general management by 101 Productions, Ltd. and Adam Speers as U.K. executive producer.
Adam Speers
Ben Cohn
Benj Pasek


Thursday's ride took me up the hill to place a large order at Popeye's and then down the hill, over, and up again to Druid Hill Park to do a bunch of laps as I try to get used to clipping in again. I got out of the habit, and now I'm scared of it. I used to clip in every day, even just for a quick two mile ride to Tulane. I taught in my bike shoes and hopped back on the bike to ride around town afterward. They were normal–now they're not. I'd like to make them normal again, at least in time to pull myself up and over and through the Adirondacks at the end of July. That's what was on my mind as I did my laps, getting more and more and then less and then more comfortable with my spds. Also on my mind were the tennis courts in the park where, in 1948, tennis players, Black and white, staged one of the first public protests against racial segregation. These courts drew the likes of Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson, who had to play on separate courts. And I thought about the pool where everybody swims now, the old segregated pool filled in with dirt and grass as a memorial to ye olde times of racial segregation. There's the sign that reminds us that the park was used as a place to muster Civil War and signs pointing the way to Safety City, where kids can learn how to be safe pedestrians, though I'm not sure there's training there to avoid the violence that can accompany Walking While Black. I did four laps, thinking about the layers of history of racism embedded in this park, and the marks of the mighty struggles mounted to overcome some of the most literal forms of it. And then I rode home, stopping to take this picture of a monument to Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee that sits at this intersection. I pass this monument all time time, and sometimes I notice it and how fucked up it is that we have this monument to the Confederacy, and how for me, that is akin to having a monument to slavery, and how other times I don't even see it. I wondered what it means that in many this history fades into the background, and what difference it makes to see it, to talk about it, to make visible again and again and again, that the common sense of these places where we live has not even gotten to the point where we can collectively say that slavery is truly a national shame. We still honor it in our everyday. And then I stopped for a grilled cheese sandwich, went home, and read about these latest of lives lost. What sadness.
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I love candles! I mean every shape and size! The Colorado Candelebra has a wonderful selection of candles! You just don't see some of these candles anywhere else but here! You walk in the store and you'll be hooked. Again bring your credit cards! :) The selection includes regular candles, oil lamps, bees wax candles the list goes on and on. You can also find goodies that go with candles like snuffers. The store is located "inside" the Old Church Shop Mall so don't miss it as your walking along Elkhorn Ave. Also if it's hot out remember to bring them in. The staff is really nice and they will help package your candles for your trip home!
PROS: Great smelling candles of all types!
CONS: Parking isnt to far away but you will have to walk a ways.
Twisted Pine has two locations in Estes and they both have that wonderful smell of leather. The selection of items made out of leather is huge! If you ride motorcycles you will want to stop they have a great selection of gear. The purses are beautifully crafted! I especially like the jewlery they offer original handwork pieces that are soooo pretty! Yes for the "man" in the group they also have a taxidermy section. Everyone in your group young and old could find something to take home! Prices are a bit high but they are high quality so I didn't mind paying that extra bit. You might even catch a good sale here! Be sure to bring the credit card you will find something you'll want!
You have to make the trip of the side of the mountain on the Aerial Tramway. Once up there the view is beautiful! You can look down on the town of Estes Park and look across and see the Stanley Hotel in all it's glory. You can spend 30 minutes or 4 hours as they have a gift store to browse, a place to buy snacks as you sit down and enjoy the clean mountain air. Prices are reasonable and worth the view! If your feeling adventerous you can even walk one of the trails located behind the tram. I'd suggest walking shoes as it's just to tempting to leave without exploring!
PROS: Wonderful mountain top views!
Macdonalds Bookshop is a very old but familiar face for local's and the tourists. The shop is small but makes it so cozy for browing through the shelves. I would suggest going here if you want good books about the local area and hiking guides. If you need a good book or magazine to read while out by the pool Macdonalds is the place to stop. Don't forget to bring your children here also as they have a great selection for younger kids as well. You can also pick up the local papers and bigger well known papers as well. Don't miss this treasure of a find!
PROS: Excellent staff they know their business!
CONS: Parking can be tough during tourist season.
The Michael Ricker Pewter shop has been in Estes Park for many years. You just won't believe the items they make at the store. You can buy small ornaments up to huge table size and bigger pewter designs. You can also take a tour of the establishment and see how they actually make and design their products. A pewter souvenir from here is a "must have" they are just so detailed and well known. The prices vary depending on size and if they are a limited edition. A great stop while on vacation!
PROS: Beautiful pewter craftmanship! Easy location and parking.
If you love taffy you have to make a stop at the Taffy Shop right on the main strip Saint Vrain. Vacation time is so fun! You can stand outside the big window and watch as the taffy is being stretched and pulled on this big machine. It's amazing it never falls off! :) Once you go inside the assortment of flavors makes it extremely hard to choose from. You can get big boxes to go or just sample items with the prices very reasonable! The taffy makes a great souvenirs as it stays good for a very long time. Mmm can't wait to get back to Estes Park in July!
CONS: parking is hard, wear your walking shoes much easier!
The Apple Tree Mall is next to Applebee's very easy to get to off the strip. The mall is really a consignment shop for crafters and antique enthusiasts. You can spend an hour up to five hours going up and down the aisles looking for treasures! One booth has a great doll exhibit that I always enjoy looking at, the old wooden signs and wagon wheel "country" type decorating is abundant. I even saw a John Deere exhibit there if you collect those items. Wear your walking shoes tons of items to look and check out. The staff is great also they don't follow you around like hawks but prefer to help if you have questions!
PROS: Great variety, all types of craft items and antiques.
We used Paul's Printing for all our office products. Stationary, envelopes, invitations you name it they could print it! The salesman is wonderful and if you get stuck with no ideas he will offer great suggestions. Paul's Printing also doesn't over sell! If you don't need something they aren't going to push it just to make that extra buck they really care about their customers and want repeat business. One time a misprint was made and it was the company's fault. Customer service was awesome as they made the mistake right and corrected it with no charge to us. I was totally impressed! If you have printing needs this is the one stop shop for you!
Coffelt's is a great place to stroll around and look at all the different venders. The stores each have their areas in buildings so it's different as in not all under one roof. You can find childrens toys, to lawn ornaments, to specially made shoes. Cofflets has it all! I would recommend going late morning when it's not to hot out and enjoy yourself. Leave plenty of time to browse! The prices are reasonable and some of the same things are higher priced elsewhere in Branson. Coffelt's is a fun place to explore!
PROS: Easy parking, great store owners and staff!
I've attended OTC for three semesters now getting my basic classes so I can transfer to a four year college. I tell everyone to go to OTC esp if your a first time college student. The teachers are fantastic, you don't get lost in big huge classes and all the resources are out there for you to succeed with your goals. The only bad thing is Branson needs to do something with a "tax" bill (?) to allow Branson residents going to the off campus location be considered in district. We pay a higher fee because of this not being passed. You can certainly earn a excellent college education at this Community College. The Branson campus has excellent office staff that does everything from answering questions to helping you fill out class schedules. Going back to school? Start here!!!
PROS: Great staff, easy parking, wonderful teachers!


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College Admissions Scam: Chinese Mom Charged With Paying $400K to Get Son Into UCLA as Fake Soccer Player
Posted 12:30 PM, September 17, 2019, by Associated Press, Updated at 12:52PM, September 17, 2019
UCLA's Royce Hall is seen in an undated photo.(Credit: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
A woman accused of paying $400,000 to get her son into the University of California, Los Angeles, as a fake soccer recruit has become the 52nd person charged in a sweeping college admissions bribery scheme, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.
Xiaoning Sui, 48, of Surrey, British Columbia, was charged with a single count of conspiracy and fraud in the indictment unsealed in Boston's federal court. Authorities say she was arrested in Spain on Monday night and was being held there while authorities seek to extradite her to the United States.
Sui is the first person to be charged since June, when parent Jeffrey Bizzack pleaded guilty to paying $250,000 to get his son into the University of Southern California as a fake athlete. Dozens of others were charged in March when authorities announced the investigation.
It was not immediately clear whether Sui had an attorney to speak for her.
Prosecutors say Sui paid $400,000 to a sham charity operated by admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer as part of a scheme to have her son admitted to UCLA as a fake soccer recruit. Sui is accused of providing Singer her son's transcript and photos of him playing tennis.
Singer worked with Laura Janke, a former assistant soccer coach at USC, to fabricate an athletic profile depicting Sui's son as a top player on two private soccer clubs in Canada, prosecutors said. Both Singer and Janke have pleaded guilty.
Sui's son was admitted to UCLA as a soccer player in November 2018, authorities say, and was awarded a 25% scholarship.
The case was outlined in a March indictment against former UCLA soccer coach Jorge Salcedo that didn't identify Sui by name. The document said only that Salcedo accepted $200,000 to help two of Singer's clients get their children admitted as soccer recruits, including one in October 2018. Salcedo has pleaded not guilty.
A statement from UCLA says it took "immediate corrective action" after the March indictment was released. The school said privacy laws prevent it from discussing specific cases, but officials are "not aware of any currently enrolled student-athletes who are under suspicion" by the Justice Department.
The alleged bribe ranks among the highest in the scheme. Some other parents are accused of making payments of up to $500,000, and some pursued the scheme multiple times, prosecutors say, with payments totaling up to $1.2 million.
Prosecutors did not explain why Sui was not part of the original group of parents charged. Court documents show Sui's indictment was filed in March but remained under seal until Tuesday.
The scandal has ensnared dozens of wealthy parents accused of paying bribes to rig their children's SAT and ACT scores or get them admitted as recruited athletes to elite schools across the nation, including Yale, Stanford and Georgetown universities.
Of the 51 people previously charged, 23 have pleaded guilty, including "Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman , who paid $15,000 to rig her daughter's SAT score. She was sentenced last week to 14 days in prison, 250 hours of community service and a $30,000 fine.
Another 28 defendants are contesting the charges against them, including "Full House" actress Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, who are accused of paying to get their two daughters into USC as fake athletes on the crew team.
College Admissions Scam: $100,000 Bribe Got Teen UCLA Soccer Scholarship Without Even Playing
Felicity Huffman Sentenced to 14 Days in Prison for Role in College Admissions Scam
College Admissions Scam: Judge Says Loughlin, Husband Can Stick With Their Law Firm
Topics: los angeles, ucla, university of california los angeles
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Newport Beach Mom Pleads Guilty to Paying Company $9K to Take Son's Online Classes at Georgetown University
College Admissions Scam: Del Mar Executive Gets 6 Months in Prison for Paying $450K to Get Kids Into USC
4 More California Parents Pleading Guilty in College Admissions Scam
Solana Beach Surfing Exec to Be Sentenced for Paying $250K to Get Son Into USC in Admissions Scam
3 New California Laws Address College Admissions Scandal
College Admissions Scam: Menlo Park Woman Who Lied About Son's Race and Rigged His ACT Score Gets 3 Weeks in Prison
College Admissions Scam: Lori Loughlin's Daughters No Longer Enrolled at USC, University Says
Police Searching for Man Who Groped UCLA Student on Campus
College Admissions Scam: Lori Loughlin, Mossimo Giannulli Plead Not Guilty to New Charge
Felicity Huffman Reports to Bay Area Prison, Begins Serving 14-Day Sentence in College Admissions Scam
College Admissions Scam: Lori Loughlin's Lawyers Say Prosecutors Are Hiding Key Evidence
Free Museum Day Returns to SoCal on Jan. 25; Here's a Full List of Over 45 Participating Institutions


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Janez Gregorin - Šteblajev Johan, slovenski novinar, alpinist in pisatelj; * 22. januar 1911, Horjul, † 4. oktober 1942, Ljubljana.

Življenje in delo
Gregorin je še pred svojim 20. letom sam preplezal vrsto gora v Savinjskih Alpah: leta 1927 severno steno Turske gore, vzhodno steno Grintovca z Velikih podov ter z istega izhodišča jugovzhodno steno Dolgega hrbta. Leta 1929 je zmagal vzhodno steno Male Rinke in zahodno steno Križa ter varianto v vzhodni steni iste gore. Plezal je sam ali v družbi s svojim bratom Mirom (operni pevec, 1913—2007) in prijatelji Karlom Tarterjem, Igorjem Omerso in Francetom Ogrinom. Vsega skupaj je preplezal 21 težkih smeri v Kamniško-Savinjskih Alpah.

Delal je kot novinar pri Slovenskem domu, ki je izhajal kot ljubljanski popoldnevnik. Njegova prva dela so izšla v dijaškem časopisu Žar, ko je bil sedmošolec. Pisal je o umetnosti, književnosti, športu, pa tudi eseje, novele, povesti s pretežno alpinistično tematiko (Pot v meglo, Čelešnik, Zavetje v pečevju in Blagoslov gora). Pisal je tudi pod psevdonimom Igor Zagrenjen. V Planinskem vestniku je leta 1930 objavil občutene razpoloženjske slike Zimski pohod skozi Turski žleb, V gorah sneži in mede in Megla. Skupina mladih plezalcev je leta 1937 začela z izdajanjem mesečne revije Planinska matica, pri kateri je bil nekaj časa urednik. Tu je objavil članek Alpinski razgledi, v katerem je opredelil pojma alpinizem in alpinistika in razložil svoje nazore o pomenu in namenu alpinizma. V uvodnem delu knjige V borbi z goro je zbral in odlično prevedel vrsto spisov najbolj vidnih tujih planinskih pisateljev. Osvoboditve, ki jo je najavil v Zavetju v pečevju, ni dočakal, saj je zaradi hude bolezni umrl.

Ob 50-letnici Slovenskega planinskega društva je izšla v Ljubljani leta 1944 pod naslovom Blagoslov gora zbirka njegovih del o doživetjih v hribih, predvsem v Kamniških planinah. Uredil jo je Boris Režek.

Bibliografija
Pot v meglo (obravnava smrtno nesrečo Janše in Mikšica v Malem Hudem grabnu pod Podi)
Čelešnik (močna skica, v kateri dramatično naslika prvenstveni vzpon na Rzenik)
Zimski pohod skozi Turski žleb (1930)
V gorah sneži in mede (1930)
Megla (1930)
Zahodna stena Križa (1930)
Szalay-Gerinov greben Turske gore (1930)
Alpinski razgledi (1937, razprava)
Slovenska umetna in narodna pesem  (1937, soavtor knjige)
Zavetje v pečevju (1941–1942)
Blagoslov gora  (1944, zbirka del)

Zavetje v pečevju
Povest je njegovo najobsežnejše in najzrelejše delo. Izhajala je kot podlistek v režimskem časniku Slovenski dom od 29. 8. 1941 do 24. 1. 1942. Zgodba se odvija leta 1810, ko je Napoleon (ki ga je bralec lahko primerjal s Hitlerjem in spoznal, da gre v resnici za tedanjo nemško-italijansko okupacijo z nepojmljivim nasilništvom, ki so ga doživljali iz dneva v dan) vihtel bič objestnosti nad ponižanimi deželami. Domačini pod Kamniškimi planinami uprejo nasilnim vsiljivcem, kar izzove še hujše nasilje. Plahutarji (ki so bralca spominjali na partizane) so se skrivali v pečevju in gozdovih. Najhrabrejši se umaknejo v zavetja v gorah in se od tam vrnejo in osvobodijo domovino. Gregorin je v povest spretno vpletal ostro obsodbo okupatorjevih zločinov nad slovenskim ljudstvom. Povest zaključi z borbami v Glavniku (Kamniku) in v predmestju Globajne (Ljubljane), ki privedejo do osvoboditve. Sovražnik je pregnan, junaki se vračajo domov, da obnovijo Vreskovino. Nenavadno je, da je povest s tako izrazito uporniško idejo izšla v kolaborantskem časniku sredi kulturnega molka. Zanimivi so narečni izrazi iz Kamniškega kota.

Alpinistični vzponi
1927: vzhodna stena Kalškega grebena, zahodna stena vrha Jermanovih vrat, jugovzhodna stena Kokrske Kočne, jugovzhodna stena Grintovca, jugovzhodna stena Dolgega hrbta, vzhodna stena Grintovca
1928: severovzhodna stena Turske gore
1929: vzhodna stena Male Rinke (južni del), vzhodna stena Križa, zahodna stena Križa, severni greben Križa
1932: severovzhodni raz Turske gore (M. Gregorin), severni steber Male Kalške gore (M. Gregorin), severozahodna stena Velike Kalške gore (M. Gregorin), severna stena Male Rinke (M. Gregorin), severni raz vrha Jermanovih vrat (M. Gregorin), severna stena Bab (Igor Omersa, France Ogrin)
1933: zahodna stena Konja (M. Gregorin)
1934: jugozahodna stena Štruce (Ivan Rihar)
1937: južna stena Kogla (Karl Tarter)
1938: severovzhodni raz Kompotele (M. Gregorin), jugovzhodni raz Štruce (Karl Tarter)

Viri

 A. B. [Arnošt Brilej]. Janez Gregorin. PV 1943, št. 1, str. 38. Gore in ljudje.
 Kulturni obzornik: Naznanilo nove knjige. Slovenec 72/150 (1944). 3. dLib.
 I. Z. Zavetje v pečevju. Kamniški občan 10/12 (1971). 6. dLib.

Slovenski alpinisti
Slovenski novinarji
Slovenski pisatelji
Pokopani na Žalah, Ljubljana

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's address to the Saban Forum should leave little doubt that she is a danger to the State of Israel and, thereby, to the Jewish people. For those who care about Israel, her words, because she expresses the position of President Obama's administration, are alarming.
Clinton's speech was praised for not demanding a further settlement freeze; this was because US policy makers realized it would accomplish nothing, and PM Netanyahu had already agreed to stop, or severely limit building de facto. Instead, she emphasized state-building, "ending the occupation," and borders. Coupled with international recognition of Palestinian statehood, this side-steps Israeli resistance to a freeze and insistence on Palestinian acceptance of Israel, further isolating Israel. What she did not say is worse.
Not once did she mention official PA support, directly and indirectly, for incitement and terrorism. While passing on the usual gesture to America's "commitment to Israel's security," her focus was elsewhere.
Blindly obedient to the notion of building a Palestinian state, she ignored the recent statement of Fatah, the PA's ruling party in the West Bank: "No to Israel as a Jewish state, no to interim borders, no to land swaps." And that's only for openers.
She did mention how important it was to "ease the situation in Gaza," and "foster legitimate economic growth." Yet she forgot to mention the plight of Gilad Shalit.
Clinton's focus was "the core issues of the conflict on borders and security; settlements, water, refugees; and on Jerusalem itself." Her solution was "state-building work of the PA" and support for the Arab (Saudi) Peace Initiative – which grants the Palestinians a state based on the 1949 Armistice Lines, including Jerusalem's division, and returning the Golan Heights to Syria. Israel gets "normal relations," as long as that may last.
She missed the fact that Jordan is a Palestinian state, carved out of the Palestine Mandate by Britain in 1922, with a population that is two-thirds Palestinian.
This is not, however, what makes Ms. Clinton, and those who think like her, so dangerous; it's the notion of what the core issues really are.
If the dispute between Arabs and Israelis is territorial, it would have been resolved long ago. It's not about the "occupation in 1967;" it's about the Nakba (Catastrophe), as Arabs see it, the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
The problem is not the area that Israel occupies, but her existence. Enshrined in the charters of the PLO and Hamas, Palestinians don't want a state alongside Israel, but one that replaces Israel. Not understanding this is delusional; not including this as a core issue is evil.
Evil is a harsh word, so here's why I use it. Clinton, Obama's Administration, and everyone else know that Israel cannot accept her agenda, since that would mean exposure to significant risks. Rejecting her efforts will create more tension, and serve to isolate and vilify Israel, while strengthening the forces of de-legitimization.
She chose her words carefully: "We hope to see a significant curtailment of incursions by Israeli troops into Palestinian areas." What about the reasons for those incursions? What about the lives that will be saved by capturing terrorists before they attack? From her impressions, Israel is not only wrong, but wicked.
And Clinton knows – as experts have informed her – that the Palestinian security forces that "stood watchful guard" during her visits may easily turn into executioners. They have done little or nothing to protect Israelis, nor should that be expected.
PA "corruption and mismanagement," billions in US funds wasted? No problem; "I was pleased to announce the transfer of an additional $150 million in direct assistance to the PA" – and to Hamas. That should soothe American workers on unemployment lines.
Clinton's emphasis on "an independent, viable sovereign state," may be misguided; but in her insistence that there is no other alternative, linking such a state with vital American interests, condemning "provocative (Israeli) announcements on east Jerusalem," and blaming Israel for preventing peace, Madame Secretary has contributed to a global climate of anathema towards Israel.
She cannot say, "I was only following orders;" she gives them.
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Software development major Alex Vergara, who is also a music producer, created his own music-streaming service, BeatsTree, and presented it at Thursday's Technology Capstone Showcase. Grand Canyon University software development major and music producer Alex Vergara couldn't find a music-streaming service that hit the perfect note, so he created BeatsTree. […]
Software development major Alex Vergara, who is also a music producer, created his own music-streaming service, BeatsTree, and presented it at Thursday's Technology Capstone Showcase.
Grand Canyon University software development major and music producer Alex Vergara couldn't find a music-streaming service that hit the perfect note, so he created BeatsTree.
Like with Spotify or BeatStars, users can upload their songs, but unlike other music-streaming services — and what makes BeatsTree so different — is that users also can download those music files, which are stored in the cloud.
"I'm a producer and make my own beats. … I wanted to put my name out there," Vergara said of the seed of inspiration behind BeatsTree. It's a project he started working on over the summer, even before his capstone class started in September.
"I'm not using any API's (application programming interfaces, which allow programs to communicate with each other). There's nothing prebuilt. Everything's built from scratch … all of it is built by hand by me," he said.
The learning curve was huge for him in working on this project, he said. Not only did he refine his skills in programming language C#, but he dove headfirst into cloud computing program Microsoft Azure over the past few months.
"It was HUNDREDS of pages of documentation I had to filter through," he said of searching through Azure to find what he needed to build BeatsTree.
Student developers Hunter Egeland and Austin Chandler (from left) engineered a method for Paychex to take its legacy COBOL code and translate it to Java code.
Vergara's music-streaming service was one of approximately 60 projects on display Thursday in Antelope Gymnasium as part of the end-of-semester Technology Capstone Showcase, organized in partnership with Strategic Employer Initiatives and Internships. It's when seniors present their capstones, which are meant to showcase all they've learned in their academic career at GCU.
The event, featuring the College of Science, Engineering and Technology's software development, computer science, information technology and Research and Design Program students, welcomed industry professionals and advisory board members who got to see firsthand the tech savvy of the University's students.
We used to be in a hallway, then expanded into a classroom, and now it's gotten so big that we moved it into the gym. It's a good problem to have.
Technology Project Manager Katherine Urrutia on the growth of the Technology Capstone Showcase
The showcase has grown exponentially since it made its debut in 2016.
"We used to be in a hallway, then expanded into a classroom, and now it's gotten so big that we moved it into the gym. It's a good problem to have," said Katherine Urrutia, Technology Project Manager.
Visitors could view everything from VR Arcade (developers: James Ridley and Dylan Olthoff), which re-creates the throwback '80s arcade experience through virtual reality; to HikingTracker (developer: Connor Rolstad), which includes a where-you've-hiked map and gives hikers a way to track data, such as elevation gain; to the Collection Tracker (developer: Nate Kelley), which gives Pokémon enthusiasts a way to track their card collection.
Visitors also could scan in a QR code at each project site to give their feedback.
Computer science students Katelyn Hochstetler (left) and Evan Kliewer (right) developed a virtual reality simulation that allows nursing students to sharpen their newborn assessment skills.
While the capstone presentations usually feature seniors, software development freshman Joseph Abraham was invited to participate as one of several representatives of the University's Research and Design Program. Abraham is part of the Computational Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning & Robotics Lab, working under the mentorship of Dr. Jevon Jackson.
Abraham's project, Fake News Detector for Twitter, uses machine learning to ferret out false information. Abraham is looking through news about Elon Musk of SpaceX, Tesla and now, Twitter, fame to teach the program what statements are objectively true or false. He aims to go through 20,000 pieces of data while the program is in its "learning phase."
"Three months ago, I didn't know how to code," Abraham said of his project, which he will continue to develop as he moves through his years at GCU. "I'm loving it."
Computer science students Katelyn Hochstetler and Evan Kliewer, who worked with Orbis Education, developed a virtual reality simulation using Microsoft HoloLens technology. It allows nursing students to practice their assessment of newborns and perform other tasks, such as holding a virtual baby. The simulation is meant to be an intermediary teaching tool, sharpening nursing students' skills between the classroom and the time they start to interact with real newborns.
"It just gives them more experience," Kliewer said.
IT students Victor Perez, Jerry Connelly and Luke Levene (from left) wanted to create an app that shows users a broader range of nutrition data and displayed the result, the Honest Nutrition app.
Information technology students Luke Levene, Brooks Birkinbine, Jerry Connelly and Victor Perez shared the details of their nutrition web app, Honest Nutrition.
What makes it different from other nutrition apps, Levene said, is "it shows you a broader range of your data." So instead of showing users a week's worth of what they've eaten, it goes back further to track their nutrition habits. The app also can recommend foods based on your eating history. It knows if you're lacking the recommended dairy for the day, for example. Users also can set personal goals on the app, which tells you if you've gone over or under your personal calorie goal.
Student developers Melanie Spence and Elijah Olmos developed a software that uses Web3.0 blockchain technologies to keep track of attendance. Blockchain records transactions organized in blocks in a peer-to-peer network. The software would be something professors could use in class to keep track of attendance or that organizations around campus could use so they know who attended their event.
Olmos, who demonstrated the technology by scanning a card onto a raspberry pi computer, said, "What I learned the most about was blockchain," a newer technology he and Spence wanted to add to their academic arsenal.
Software development senior Charles Osiris (right) built a mobile app to help users remember to take their pills and presented it to Leini Santos, Goodwill product designer (left) and a colleague.
Software development senior Charles Osiris developed MediHealth, a phone app that reminds users to take their medicine. He got the idea for the project because his mom is on medication and tends to miss taking a pill or two.
"My biggest challenge was to launch it on the mobile phone. I had to update the API," which then caused problems that he scrambled to fix, Osiris said.
Leini Santos, product designer for Goodwill of Central and Northern Arizona, was one of about 50 industry professionals and advisory board members who attended the event.
"We're potentially hiring for a new developer in January," she said.
She's hoping they'll find a student developer from GCU who will hit that perfect note.
"Thinking of all the building blocks we've done, this is the fruition," said Assistant Dean of Technology Brandy Harris, who looked out into Antelope Gymnasium and saw the sea of tables and students dressed in their presentation best. "We've just had tremendous support from our industry partners, who have come back and helped us refine (what we do) even more.
"It's been wonderful."
GCU senior writer Lana Sweeten-Shults can be reached at [email protected] or at 602-639-7901.
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