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"Jesus however answered him: The first of all the commandments is: 'Hear O Israel, The Lord your God is one: and you must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole mind and your whole strength'. This is the first commandment. The second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no greater commandment that this." (Mk 12.29-31). The Servant of God, Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory, was a diligent woman, devoted to religion, remarkable for faith and full of charity. Extremely attentive to the needs of society, she was filled with faith even in adverse and hostile situations and she rendered credible witness to the defense of human life. She was a Sister totally on fire with the love of God and most kind toward the needy in whom she always saw the image of Christ.
The Servant of God was born on January 21, 1893 in the town of Mountjoy in Ireland to an ordinary but Christian family animated by a very strong faith. She was baptized Brigid Theresa. In 1901, because of grave economic problems, the McCrory family had to move to the town of Clydesdale in Scotland. There the young girl was able to attend the Elmwood Convent School, an institute directed by the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 1912, after the tragic death of her father, the young girl intensely desired to devote a part of her life to the sick and to show merciful care towards the aged. Therefore, she asked to be admitted into the Congregation of the Little Sisters of the Poor in Glasgow, a community originally from France. On September 8, 1913, she was professed, taking the name of Mary Angeline of Saint Agatha.
In 1915 they senther to Brooklyn, New York, to Saint Augustine's Home for the Aged to extend her ministry, where because of her humble self sacrifice and practical good sense she soon became an advisor to the superior. In April 1925, the Servant of God made her perpetual profession of the three vows as well as of a fourth proper to that Congregation, namely, that of hospitality. In October 1926, she was named Superior of the house "Our Lady's Home" in New York, in which about 230 elderly people were being cared for with love and kindness by eighteen sisters. During her tenure, Mother Mary Angeline proposed certain changes which, however, were not accepted. In 1929 because of disagreements, the Servant of God together with six other sisters decided to leave in order to carry on their charitable ministry elsewhere. This anguishing and difficult decision was done in consultation and with the approval of the Diocesan Church Authority which thought that her proposal more adequately met local needs. Mother Mary Angeline, having obtained the appropriate indult of the Apostolic See, founded the Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm affiliated with the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. The great economic depression which at that time was plaguing the United States of America and reduced thousands upon thousands to misery and poverty did not restrain the passionate fervor of the Servant of God but indeed offered an opportunity for founding a ministry better suited to meet needs which in those years seemed most urgent. Because of this, several guest homes were opened in a short time and the new institute greatly improved previous practices of caring for the aged so that they were attended not only medically, psychologically and spiritually but also with due regard for their social needs. Mother Mary Angeline was responsible not only for the administration of the houses but especially for the establishment of the new Congregation.
Moreover, she never neglected the human and spiritual growth of her Sisters but always preserved in them the unity of action and contemplation. She served several times as Superior of the new Congregation, but in 1978, because of ill health she declined re-election, although she was recognized by all as Foundress and Mother General Emerita. Her spiritual journey was marked by a marvelous luster. She was a woman of unshaken hope, great humility and singular clarity of purpose and action. An extremely strong prayer lifesustained a generous ministry and governed her daily decisions. In her final years, her tranquil acceptance without question of physical pain and infirmity bound her to the mystery of the Cross. Stricken with weakness she confidently placed herself into the hands of the Lord in the Motherhouse in Germantown, New York, where she died piously on January 21, 1984.
An investigation into her reputation for sanctity was held in the United States at the Albany Diocesan Chancery from August 15, 1992 to April 13, 2007. By its decree of June 27, 2008, this Congregation for the Causes of Saints approved the Diocesan investigation as juridically valid. When the Positio was submitted, a discussion followed according to the norms of Canon Law as to whether or not the Servant of God had lived the virtues to a heroic degree. To this end, a Special Meeting of Theological Consultors was held on March 4, 2011. The Cardinals and Bishops convened in Ordinary Session presided over by me, Cardinal Angelo Amato, on April 17, 2012. They recognized that the Servant of God had cultivated the theological virtues and the associated cardinal virtues.
Finally, the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI was informed of all these facts through an accurate report of the undersigned Cardinal Prefect. His Holiness accepts the decision of the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints and considers it definitive. Today he declared it established both in fact and for the purpose of this decree that the Servant of God Mary Angeline Teresa practiced to a heroic degree the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity towards both God and neighbor as well as the cardinal virtues of Prudence, Justice, Temperance and Fortitude.
The Supreme Pontiff has ordered that this decree be published and placed in the acts of the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints.
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Joe Louis Fought His Way Into the Hearts of White Americans Despite Rampant White Supremacy
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Joe Louis wasn't a "Negro hero". He was an American hero.
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Before Muhammad Ali, there was a son of an Alabama sharecropper named Joeseph Louis Barrow — more commonly known as Joe Louis.
Louis is considered one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. He held the title of World Heavyweight Champion from 1937 to 1949 during what is often described as boxing's "golden age."
From 1934 to 1951, Joe Louis fought 71 matches and won 68 of them, 54 by knockout. — History.com
He became the first black heavyweight champion in twenty-two years after defeating James J. Braddock in 1937. He defended his championship twenty-five times in twelve years, and he spent four of those years in the military.
His impact out of the ring was just as huge as it was in the ring. He lifted the spirits of black people during the Great Depression. When he dominated Germany's Max Schmeling in 1938 he stood as a symbol to show America could defeat whoever Germany put forward. This took place right as the Nazis gained their horrendous power.
Louis is described as the opposite of Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight champion before him. While Johnson blatantly antagonized white people, Louis showed humility.
While there's no solid proof that Joe Louis' success opened any doors for other black athletes or general acceptance, he still had an incredible impact among black people.
Louis was no superhero. He was human with gifted boxing hands. However, his legacy is legendary. Black people didn't have many idols to look up to. Joe Louis was well loved by both blacks and whites, which was terribly rare. This gave black people hope for being respected well too. He boosted black men's confidence. He gave black kids someone to look up to.
Louis became an American hero after he knocked Schmeling out in the first round during a time where black people were seen as less than scum. Black men had just been given full citizenship in 1868, even though that didn't mean much of anything. Ten years after black men were allowed to vote, be elected into office, and serve on juries, federal troops withdrew from the South and everything was snatched away from them.
Jim Crow laws were created to make the consistent theft of black peoples' rights legal in the South. However, here you have Joe Louis — a black man — being proclaimed an American hero. Not a negro hero, but an American hero. He planted a seed of hope in the hearts of black men and watched it bloom with each successful title defense he won.
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Surrender Dorothy
On June 10, 2006, just in time for her birthday, Judy Garland appeared on a U.S. stamp.
I always think of Judy at that time of year, when the rainbow flags unfurl and the gay pride floats come down the street with their glamor-girl boys and near-nude leathermen. Hyperreal spectaculars that would not be out of place in the Emerald City — or Munchkinland!
"Are you a friend of Dorothy?" soldiers asked each other during World War II, using this code phrase to signal that they were gay. It was only a matter of time before the brass caught wind of it, without quite understanding its significance. In a dither that reds and homos were sneaking into their ranks, the military spent $250,000 to find out who this diabolic den-mother of the GI homos was. Yet even the nelliest civilian could have told them.
She was, of course, our Judy. The gal who fell from a star called Kansas. So tenderly young in The Wizard of Oz, yet already empowered by that penetrating cry in her voice.
We need only hear her tearful call of Toto! Toto! as her terrier is bicycled away in the clutches of Miss Gulch to get that old chill, the heartachy twang of childhood injustice.
It was a surprise then — yet strangely fitting — that the 2006 postage stamp depicted not Oz's Judy, but rather what became of her: the rakish elfwoman of A Star is Born, thinned out, hair slicked, a dazed flatness to the pupils, as if she were still not looking into this world but somewhere out there. Behind the moon. Beyond the rain.
In the Alice in Wonderland world of quantum physics, a particle can exist in two places at one time. So it is on this stamp. We find the atomic Judy existing in simultaneous forms: forever the Dorothy of childhood, plump, calfish, sincere; but also the wry Judy of Carnegie Hall. On Gay Pride day, it's always the hopeful Dorothy who shines a bit stronger and commands my thoughts.
Judy was 16 when she made The Wizard of Oz, and it fixed her in the imagination with finality. The film is barely ten minutes old when this finished Judy appears, set up in one quick stroke by the song Somewhere Over the Rainbow, particularly in the intelligent and committed way she sings it.
Everything in the scene is oatmeal brown. Judy settles into a haystack, moon eyes searching the sky. For a moment the woodwinds glisten with the hint of rain. Then out it comes, carried on her young voice: A sweet, melancholy melody that gives The Wizard of Oz the thing that makes it so great — a living, beating heart.
Sophisticated in style (unlike, say, the easy sing-song of Someday My Prince Will Come, a contemporary 1930's 'kid's" theme from Snow White), Over the Rainbow would be sung by the actress until the day she died from a sleeping-pill overdose at 47. Along the way the lyrics picked up the stormy, ironic subtext of her life. Even after her death, it remained so electric with Judy psychodrama that it became the banner anthem of the gay movement.
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Tuesday, 2 Mar 2004
Other Questions.
National Car Test.
Joe Sherlock
113 Mr. Sherlock asked the Minister for Transport his views on recent reports that there is a lack of consistency in the testing equipment used in national car test centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6797/04]
Minister of State at the Department of Transport (Dr. McDaid)
As required by EU law, testing of certain passenger cars has been mandatory in Ireland since January 2000. The National Car Testing Service Limited holds a ten year contract to carry out testing on behalf of the State. The company was awarded the contract following an international public tendering competition conducted in accordance with EU procurement law.
I understand the equipment used to carry out NCT tests was selected by NCTS on the basis of its capability to accurately and consistently test vehicles in accordance with detailed technical specifications prescribed by the then Department of the Environment and Local Government which had responsibility for vehicle testing when introduced. I am also advised that all NCTS vehicle testing staff are qualified vehicle mechanics. This requirement accords with the contract specifications which additionally requires all testers to undergo rigorous and comprehensive initial training before they commence testing customers cars and undergo regular review and developmental training. A primary purpose of the initial and ongoing training is to ensure that each tester follows standardised test procedures.
The test process is subject to regular internal scrutiny by NCTS management. Where operational deficiencies, such as a need for retraining, equipment recalibration or for procedural improvements, are identified these are addressed immediately. Furthermore, all elements of NCTS test operations are subject to continuous external supervision by the Department of Transport. The detailed supervision is carried out on behalf of the Department by a consortium consisting of PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Automobile Association.
During the ongoing supervision process, particular attention is paid to ensuring that the various performance standards set out in the contract between the company and the Minister are complied with on an ongoing basis. These standards apply to premises, test equipment, staff, test arrangements, facilities management, information technology infrastructure and operations, customer service and provision of public information.
More than 630,000 first tests and 300,000 retests were completed in 2003. I am satisfied that the measures I have outlined ensure that as far as is possible in such a high volume repetitive process, the test results reflect the condition of the vehicles at the time of testing.
Ms Shortall
My question does not relate to staff or staff training, it relates to recent newspaper reports which indicated a lack of consistency in the equipment being used in test centres. Several examples were cited in the reports of cars having failed the NCT in one particular lane and passing it in another. Will the Minister of State explain the inconsistency in that regard? What is the Department doing about it? What is the Minister's view in this regard?
The report states that a person whose car fails the test in a particular lane has the right to have his or her car tested in another lane. Is that the case? Do people have the right to have their cars tested in an alternative lane? How can the Minister explain the inconsistency in the results between lanes in the same test centre?
Dr. McDaid
I remind the Deputy that there are currently more than 300 testers undertaking one million tests every year. Of course, there will be some variability involved. The Deputy's question relates specifically to the lanes. I am frequently updated on such issues. The calibration is regularly tested and there should be no difference between lanes. A car which fails a test in one lane should fail in the others. In regard to the case referred to by the Deputy, I have grave suspicions about whether there was anything wrong with the lanes and will follow up the matter with the possibility of taking disciplinary action.
Mr. Naughten
I congratulate the Minister of State on his visit to Roscommon at the weekend and on his success in getting my namesake nominated.
Will the Minister agree that the perception exists that national car testing is a money making racket and that the objective is to ensure a high failure rate within the system? Will he also agree that media reports such as the ones referred to by Deputy Shortall give rise to serious concerns regarding the integrity of the system? The Minister previously indicated he was considering the introduction of an appeals system. Has he given further consideration to that idea and, if so, what plans does he have to put such a system in place?
On the Deputy's point about national car testing being a money making system, I remind him his party introduced the system in 1996 when in coalition government. I believe we are using the best method of testing and that a singular entity should undertake the tests. Again, on the Deputy's point about national car testing being a money making system, that is always the case when one puts such a service in the hands of one company. I agree with the system introduced by the Deputy's party when in government.
The Deputy asked about media reports and the integrity of same. I have been castigated on a number of programmes for supporting the NCTS. It is a case of the big bad wolf company taking on the little people. There are 57 elements to each test and a person who fails to comply with them is breaking the law. The Government and others have been consistently castigated for not enforcing the law. The NCTS is enforcing legislation in this regard and the Government is being castigated for catching people who are breaking the law.
On the Deputy's third point, the system is examined every year. The contract is a ten year one of which there will be a mid-term review next year. I and the NCTS favour the introduction of an independent appeals system. The company has no hesitation in standing over what it is doing and would welcome an independent appeals system.
Mr. Durkan
Is the Minister aware of the concern, arising from such inconsistency, to the effect that even a new car off the assembly line would pass no more than two or three tests in one week? In other words, vehicles are often damaged in the course of a test while others pass readily.
Will the Minister comment on why cars displaying the word "taxi" as gaelige are being refused an NCT?
I would like clarification from the Minister on an earlier point. Newspaper reports, which seem factual, indicated there are inconsistencies between lanes within test centres. Is the Minister saying that is not the case? Does he stand over the system in respect of consistency between lanes?
I will take Deputy Shortall's question first. Calibrations are regularly checked but there can be inconsistencies between lanes. I believe the case referred to involved human as opposed to mechanical error.
By the tester?
Yes. I mentioned earlier, before the Deputy came into the House, that disciplinary action may be taken in that case. The NCTS does not refuse to test cars displaying the word "taxi" as gaelige.
I am told it does.
I will look into the matter though I understand that is not the case.
Deputy Durkan mentioned new cars. New cars do not undergo the——
That was only for the purpose of comparison. A brand new car in mint condition put through the test three times would fail a subsequent test.
They do not have to do the test.
Before 2000, all cars had to be tested and there was a very high failure rate. However, the pass rate for cars registered in 2000 coming on-stream now is up to 69% or 70%. We are getting to the stage now where the pass rate will be much higher because we do not have the older models to test. That is the line being followed at present.
Jan O'Sullivan
114 Ms O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Transport the options being considered for changing the height of the Dublin Port tunnel; the cost involved of each of these options; the timescale involved in making the necessary alternations to the tunnel; when he intends to decide on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6780/04]
Mr. Brennan
My Department engaged Atkins to review the feasibility, safety implications and cost of raising the height of the Dublin Port tunnel. Atkins was requested to review a range of options for increasing the operational height of the tunnel, their feasibility, having regard to the state of implementation of the current design and build contract, and the likely additional costs and impact on the project completion date.
The final report was received from Atkins on 8 December 2003. I am currently reviewing the findings of the report and have sought further information from the National Roads Authority pertaining to its conclusions with a view to reaching a final conclusion on this issue as quickly as possible.
Was there any point in asking those questions? I asked the Minister when he intends to make a decision and the cost implications of the various options put forward by Atkins but he has not provided any information on that.
This is yet another area where it appears the Minister does not know what he is doing. He raised this as an issue because some lobby group was in touch with him and he is holding up the whole Dublin Port tunnel project because of it. It is appropriate that the Minister of State is sitting beside the Minister today because it was exactly this time last year that I raised the question of the need to reintroduce height restrictions for trucks. Does the Minister of State, Deputy McDaid, remember that? That was March last year and the Minister of State said he would have the new regulations in by May. That is in the Official Report; the Minister can check it. Twelve months later there is no sign of those regulations. In a recent newspaper report a spokesman for the Minister, Deputy Brennan, said the Government was considering a ban but that this had no implications for the height of the tunnel. What does that mean?
That means nothing.
If the Minister were to reintroduce the height restriction that had existed previously, trucks which met those height restrictions would fit in the tunnel. They would not be a problem.
A later question on the Order Paper deals with this issue.
There would not be an issue about the height of the tunnel if the regulations were reintroduced. When does the Minister intend reintroducing those regulations? There will not be an issue about the tunnel if he reintroduces the regulations. Do we want to have super trucks on our roads anyway?
Otherwise, we will have to let the air out of the tyres.
That is a Kildare solution. I want to make it clear that I am not holding up the tunnel in any way. The project is going ahead at the planned pace. It has not lost a single day because of this issue.
They do not know where they are going because the Minister has not made up his mind. There is significant uncertainty about the project.
I will answer the questions if the Deputy wants me to, but how can I deal with them if she continues to interrupt me?
The Atkins report was put on the Minister's desk on 8 December last. That is three months ago and we still do not have a decision on it. Is it not the case, and this aspect has been lost in the debate, that the bore hole is significantly wider than the core where the vehicles will travel? The boring machine, therefore, has no implications in terms of the finished size of the core. Is it not the case that the issue is the cost of facilitating these vehicles which are slightly higher than many of the existing vehicles on the road? Is it not the case also that these vehicles, which are slightly higher than the ordinary heavy goods vehicles, ensure that export and import costs are reduced by the additional capacity they provide and that a small 30 cm increase could address the problem before the inner core is put in?
The Deputy is right. It is 11 m in diameter and the height is coming in at 4.9 m. That comprises 4.6 m and the extra space for headroom which brings the height to 4.9 m. If we wanted to do it there is plenty of scope inside the bored tunnels.
There is plenty of room. The issue is the cost.
The Deputy is talking about a slight shift in the ceiling or something like that to deal with that issue, if we choose to do so.
No. I am talking about changing the verges.
I acknowledge that I have this report for a few months. I will publish the report in due course but I was not satisfied with the range of prices given to me in the report to effect a slight increase in the height of the tunnel. The range of prices given to me differed by as much as €60 million or €70 million between the lowest and the highest estimate. I could not make a decision on the basis of that kind of money; it is just too much. The minimum time estimate given to me was two or three months and the longest time estimate in the report was up to 11 or 12 months or over a year. Again, that type of professional advice did not meet the requirement I had hoped would give me some certainty before I enter into any type of decision on this area.
What was the lowest cost estimate?
I have instructed the National Roads Authority to formally ask the contractor, who is on site, to give a specific definite quotation and timeframe so that at least I will know for definite before we take any decision on the tunnel. The tunnel is not being held up by this in any way. I check that on a weekly basis. If that was the case, we would move on this much faster. The implications for getting this wrong could run into hundreds of millions of euro, given that there is a contractor on site with a definite contract and I am not going to enter into that lightly.
There is a question on the height of the trucks on the Order Paper which the Minister of State, Deputy McDaid, will deal with in detail.
The Minister has the first and second Atkins reports. Why has he still not made up his mind?
I have one Atkins report.
The first one was in October and the Minister got the final one in December. Why is the Minister now asking the contractor for a price? The Minister is the person who is supposed to decide.
I told the Deputy the reason.
The Minister got an expert report. The options were presented to him——
I decided to get the quotation.
——and he still will not make up his mind.
The Deputy is not listening to me. I explained that the range of prices in the Atkins report was as much as €60 million or €70 million. Atkins told me it could be this figure or that figure, and the gap is €60 million. I cannot take a stab at that out of the blue. The report told me it could take two months or a year. That is what Atkins told me, and I will release that in due course when we get some more progress on this issue. To make progress on that I asked for definite quotations from the contractor through the NRA,. That will give me a definite price and timeframe. We can make a definite decision based on that information.
It is a bit like the Atkins diet rather than the Atkins report.
Can the Minister say definitely that he wants super queues on——
That is a separate issue.
It is not. It is a central issue to the tunnel.
Mr. Eamon Ryan
I wish to refer to the serious questions we asked in March last year. Deputy Shortall is right. My recollection is that the Minister of State, Deputy McDaid, promised regulations on the height of trucks but he also said in response to questions, and I am particularly concerned about this, that the Government would ensure that no trucks coming out of the port tunnel would be able to access the city quays. In other words, we would get what we paid for in the port tunnel, namely, safe city quays and a far safer traffic management system. Does the Minister have to regulate to ensure that port traffic does not exit onto the quays? Is that the Government position or does responsibility for that lie with the city council? Does the Minister have any influence in the city council to make sure that trucks do not exit from the tunnel onto the city quays? I would be interested to hear if the Minister has any views on that matter.
That is the commitment he gave to the House.
It is a matter for the city council to deal with the banning of trucks in the city. It is my strong view, and I have conveyed it to the council on a few occasions, that trucks should be banned from the city centre once the tunnel opens.
If Dublin City Council is against that, does the Minister have any role in enforcing such a view to ensure the city quays are cleared of port traffic trucks?
Dublin City Council is already engaged on this issue. It is undertaking a number of studies and reviews. I believe it will arrive at the same conclusion.
What about the traffic signs?
Obviously this has been a great success to date.
Road Safety.
Phil Hogan
115 Mr. Hogan asked the Minister for Transport when the fifth progress report on road safety will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6729/04]
149 Mr. Kenny asked the Minister for Transport his future plans for road safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6602/04]
Dinny McGinley
153 Mr. McGinley asked the Minister for Transport when he will publish his new road safety strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6603/04]
Ruairí Quinn
187 Mr. Quinn asked the Minister for Transport the new measures he intends to introduce to increase safety on the roads in light of the rise in road death numbers for the first six weeks of 2004 in contrast to 2003; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6784/04]
I propose to take Question Nos. 115, 149, 153 and 187 together.
An Agreed Programme for Government states that a three-year road safety strategy will be developed and will target speeding, drink driving, seat-belt wearing and pedestrian safety to reduce deaths and injuries. At my request, the high level group on road safety has prepared a draft new strategy for the period 2004-06 and I have recently received approval from Government to publish the strategy. Arrangements are being put in place to provide for printing and publishing of the document as soon as possible.
The preparation of the new strategy has taken account of the achievements in meeting the targets set out in the Road to Safety Strategy 1998-2002, a comprehensive review of that initiative and further positive trends established in 2003, and the evolving developments in relation to the EU Third Road Safety Action Plan. The strategy, which includes a report on progress achieved during the term of the previous strategy, will outline a range of issues it is intended will be pursued over the period in question. In overall terms, measures will focus on the areas of education, enforcement, engineering and legislation and will target the key areas of speeding, driving while intoxicated and seat-belt wearing.
New legislation is being prepared in my Department which will provide support for the deployment of key initiatives in the area of speed limits and drink driving and will further enhance the enforcement capacity of the Garda Síochána.
The number of fatalities resulting from road collisions since the start of the year is a cause of particular concern. The total for the first two months is 29 higher than for the same period last year. This situation has been exacerbated by the fact that nine lives were lost in two tragic incidents, of which the House will be aware.
The difficult start to 2004 will be given particular consideration by the high level group to ensure that the measures recommended in the new strategy will be implemented as quickly as possible. In addition, the group will monitor the ongoing effects of those measures and recommend adjustment to the focus of the strategy.
I am determined to pursue a strategic approach to the improvement of road safety to achieve long-term sustainable reductions in road casualties. The forthcoming strategy will set out a comprehensive range of measures to ensure that we can build on the success of recent years — a reduction from 472 road fatalities in 1997 to 341 in 2003, a fall of 27.8% over a period when the number of vehicles, drivers and kilometres travelled on our roads have increased significantly.
I thank the Minister for his long-winded reply. I had hoped he might answer the question I asked on when the report will be published. It has been significantly leaked to the media. It has gone before Government and it has gone for printing. It was a simple question, when will it be published? We do not have a road safety strategy currently. Some 29 people more than last year have been killed on the roads. In light of that what measures will the Minister put in place to ensure that the penalty points system is effective and is enforced? Will he agree that the current system whereby penalty points can take months to be issued as they continue to accumulate, with gardaí posted on long, wide, safe sections of road, is not encouraging drivers to abide by the rules of the road?
How does the Minister explain the fact that there was no road safety strategy last year? The 1998 strategy finished at the end of 2002. Why has there been such a delay? The 1998 strategy provided for the introduction of penalty points for a range of 69 offences. To date the penalty points cover only three areas, speeding, seat belts and insurance. The Minister has been promising for a long time to extend the penalty points system. When does he intend to do that?
I propose to extend the penalty points to dangerous overtaking and careless driving within the next month or so.
What about the others?
As regards the strategy for 2003, that was the best year ever for the roads of Ireland.
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Review: "My Greatest Quarrel with Fortune": Major General Lew Wallace in the West, 1861-1862
Posted on December 3, 2015 by Ryan Quint
Lew Wallace lived a life of many hats. From volunteer in the Mexican War, to lawyer, Civil War General, territorial governor where he tangled with Billy the Kid, best-selling novelist, and ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Wallace's biography reads like an action-packed adventure. Wallace's pride and passion came, though, with preserving his country's union in its bloody Civil War. He did, however, have his detractors.
Those detractors laid blame for the near-defeat at the battle of Shiloh in April 1862 with Wallace's perceived meandering around the battlefield. Generations of historians, including Wallace's contemporaries, have lambasted him as being lost on the battlefield—taking the wrong road and thus arriving at the end of the first day's grisly action. It was an accusation that Wallace fought to his dying day. Recently, though, Wallace has received support from modern historians. The newest to step to the plate to bat for the defamed general is Charles G. Beemer.
Beemer's biography of Wallace in the first year of the war is a strong defense of Wallace's actions. Before descending into the controversies and mix-ups of the battle of Shiloh, Beemer first introduces the reader to Wallace's childhood and early Civil War service. Losing his mother at a young age and with a father involved with Indiana politics, Beemer explains, Wallace developed into "an independent, self-reliant, and self-absorbed spirit" (16). Wallace would rely on that independence and self-reliance, for good or bad, throughout his life, and it is impossible to understand the Hoosier general's decisions during the Civil War without this background.
From Wallace's childhood, Beemer explains Wallace's early Civil War experience as colonel of the 11th Indiana Zouaves, actions at Romney, West Virginia, and then, the decisive actions at Fort Donelson. Commanding a division for the first time at Fort Donelson in February, 1862, it fell to Wallace to march to the endangered right flank of the Federal army without orders—an example of the self-reliance from his childhood.
The battle of Shiloh and the ensuing controversies take up, rightly, the lion's share of the book. In this controversy, Beemer pits Wallace against U.S. Grant, his aides, and Henry Halleck. Beemer lays blame for some of the Federal army's surprise on Halleck and a "mind-numbing caveat" to not offensively engage the rebel forces without reinforcement (121).
When it comes to Grant and his aides, Beemer shows that Grant held himself at an arm's length from the infighting with Wallace, instead relying on three aides (John Rawlins, William Rowley, and James McPherson) to argue in reports and the papers with Wallace. This fighting is characterized as a "cover up": efforts by the different aides to assert that Wallace took the wrong road to the battle (206). Beemer writes with authority that these aides, and Grant himself, were incorrect, and Wallace did everything in his power to get to the battlefront and that through the aides' writing, they "did irreparable damage to Wallace's relationship with Grant" (230).
Wallace, however, was not unassailable in all regards, as Beemer makes clear in what is probably the book's strongest attribute. It would be too easy to paint Wallace as the victim slandered and libeled, as he innocently tried to clear his name. Instead Wallace's main fault was that the man never knew when to keep his mouth shut. "Virtually on his own," Beemer writes in the book's conclusion, "with unrestrained self-assurance and unfettered arrogance, Wallace did more than enough by himself to achieve Halleck's objective of ridding his army of at least one civilian amateur" (240). This conclusion, added to the book's equally strong introduction with such damning statements as "Wallace was a victim at Shiloh… a victim of his own arrogance and inflated sense of self-importance" do more than enough to prove Beemer's point that yes, Halleck and Grant were antagonist, but Wallace did more than enough on his own to hurt his character's standing.
This study of Wallace is a vital asset for anyone who wants a glimpse into the general's life and service, as well as a student of the Western Theater's early operations. It should take a well-deserved spot on most bookshelves.
"My Greatest Quarrel with Fortune": Major General Lew Wallace in the West, 1861-1862 by Charles G. Beemer
(Kent State University Press, 2015)
248 pages main text; 330 pages total
Endnotes, Bibliography, Index
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4 Responses to Review: "My Greatest Quarrel with Fortune": Major General Lew Wallace in the West, 1861-1862
Nice to see a biography on this interesting American. I think part of the conflict in his best-seller (Ben Hur) came from his own life and the accusations against him during the CW. (BTW, I like the novel even better than the classic movie.)
Joe Anders says:
Really good. This is what I believed about Shiloh. Recently read Ben-Hur. Much better than the movies!
Ryan Quint says:
Thanks for commenting Sarah and Joe. While there are some people who believe Wallace based "Ben-Hur" on his war experiences, Wallace's preeminent biographer, Gail Stephens, isn't so convinced. I personally believe that every writer, from the greats to the mediocres, are influenced at least partially by their own life stories; they have to be– it's what sets everyone apart. So I do believe Wallace took some of his experience (not just from the CW, but his own, hectic, adventurous journey) and put them into the book– but I don't think you can go through his pages and make a point to point comparison. (However, I do think Wallace would have very much enjoyed if Henry Halleck died in a painful chariot crash.)
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Jonathan Keith Le Billon (born 20 September 1980) is a British actor known for working in feature films, television shows and performing with classical theatre companies.

Background
Jonathan Le Billon was born to Keith and Janet Le Billon, at Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. His paternal grandfather moved to the British mainland from the Channel Islands during World War II.

At age 4, Le Billon began attending Nora Bray's School of Dance. At age 9 he began attending the Audrey Spencer Theatre School of Dance & Drama (1989-1996). He began his professional acting career at age 13.

Le Billon graduated from Greenhead College in Huddersfield, although he was nearly dismissed in his first year because of the demands on his time that his acting activities consumed. He also attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School 2004–2007.

Early career
Le Billon's first television appearance was in 1997, in a guest role on the ITV series Heartbeat. This was followed by guest roles in: City Central (BBC) and Cold Feet (Granada). His first leading role was in the Renaissance season of How We Used to Live playing the role of Tom Byngham, after which he returned to college to graduate.

Following on from this, Le Billon took leading roles in the Channel 4 show Hollyoaks, and the Emmy nominated series At Home with the Braithwaites, and between the two, shot over 100 episodes of series television from 1998 through 2001. He also toured for a year with the Northern Broadsides theatre company before gaining a coveted place on the 3 yr B.A. course at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

At drama school Le Billon played several roles, including 'Jaques' in the school's international tour of As You Like It. He graduated with a B.A. in July 2007, and after graduation, worked for the Northcott Theatre, Exeter, on their National tour of Richard III (2008), receiving a notable mention for his performance in the role of 'Catesby'. He was then used as 'Robert Juet' in the New York run of the play River of Tides (2009).

Early work in the U.S.
In 2010, Le Billon took roles in two film projects: Casting Shadows (2011), an adaptation of a Korean folk tale, and the feature film Bright in the Dark (2011). He was also cast for the title role in the Lewis Family Playhouse's production of The Gingerbread Man. A significant boost to his profile came with a role opposite Oscar-nominated actor Robert Loggia in the feature film The Apostle Peter (2012), as well as several international commercial campaigns, including as spokesperson for Corning Glassware.

Le Billon also continued with theatrical works, appearing in stage productions of: Amadeus, The Chronicles of Narnia and as 'The Engineer' in Miss Saigon (all for the San Bernardino Playhouse). Physical theatre projects included the technically challenging roles of Vaslav Nijinsky in Eleanor Antin's Before the Revolution (Billy Wilder Theatre), and 'The Creature' in Theatrical Arts International's production of Nick Dear's Frankenstein (2014). Le Billon continued working for the San Bernardino Playhouse until 2016

Return to the UK. Producing and work as Sherlock Holmes
Le Billon returned to the UK in 2017 after working in Venice, Italy. Following further year contracts in Windsor and London, Le Billon moved to London and set up 'Wednesday Night Playreaders', a group dedicated to reading the complete works of Shakespeare. This group (and Le Billon as producer) were used as the basis for a production of 'Venus & Adonis' with 'The Society for Theatre Research' and served as the inspiration for the lockdown online play-reading company 'The Show Must Go Online'. It additionally re-connected Le Billon to Tron writer and Sherlock Holmes author Bonnie MacBird, with whom Le Billon had worked in Los Angeles. The two worked together numerous times on Sherlock Holmes projects (Le Billon as Holmes, MacBird as producer/director) in tandem with the releases of MacBird's books.
In 2021 Le Billon played Sherlock Holmes in an online production of 'The Blue Carbuncle' for 'The Sherlock Holmes Society of London', produced by Bonnie MacBird.

Filmography

Television
 How We Used to Live (1 episode, 1996) as Tom Byngham
 Heartbeat (1 episode, 1998) as Rickie
 City Central (1 episode, 1999) as Kyle Hooper
 Cold Feet (2 episodes, 2000) as Student Three
 At Home with the Braithwaites (14 episodes, 2000–2001) as Kieran
 Hollyoaks (97 episodes, 2000–2005) as Brian Drake

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English male television actors
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Renowned Poet, Author and Civil Rights Activist Maya Angelou Passes Away
At the age of 86 years old, the memoirist Maya Angelou died at her home in Winston-Salem, NC. Angelou's immediate cause of death remains undetermined, though her health status has been fragile for a while. Known as one of the most influential women because of her efforts in the civil rights movement and more than 30 bestselling titles, Angelou's mark on the world is immeasurable.
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She spent her life's earlier years studying both dance and drama, but her career travelled many paths from writing to teaching. As a young mother she toured Europe in the 1950s performing in an opera production and recorded her first album, "Calypso Lady." Amongst her many notable achievements, including memoirs and books of poetry, such as lyrical text of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings that described growing up in the Jim Crow South, Angelou delivered the inaugural poem for Bill Clinton in 1993. In 2011, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor from President Obama.
Her work explored the ways in which society perceives and responds to issues of race, sex, and family. Angelou worked with Malcom X in 1964 to build the Organization of African American Unity and was dear a friend of both Nelson Mandela and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Harmful bacteria can linger on computer keyboards in hospitals, making it easy for the germs to spread to patients, a new study finds.
To combat the problem, a research team led by Dr. Gary Noskin, medical director for healthcare epidemiology and quality at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, suggests that those using multi-user computers should wash their hands after each use. In addition, computer keyboards should be disinfected regularly.
Another expert, Dr. Philip Tierno, director of clinical microbiology and immunology at New York University Medical Center and author of The Secret Life of Germs, goes even further and advises that computer keyboards in schools and libraries should be disinfected often to prevent the spread of harmful bacteria.
Computer use in hospitals and other health-care facilities is multiplying rapidly, Noskin said. "We wanted to determine whether keyboards could be a reservoir for the transmission of bacteria that people are afraid of in hospitals," he added.
In the study, Noskin's group looked at three bacteria commonly found in hospitals: vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PSAE).
VRE and MRSA are bacteria that have developed a resistance to antibiotics, such as vancomycin and methicillin, which are commonly used to treat bacterial infections.
While VRE and PSAE seldom cause problems except in hospitalized patients whose immune systems are compromised, there have been outbreaks of MRSA skin infections in otherwise healthy people. This so-called community-acquired MRSA is resistant to antibiotics and can cause skin boils and blood poisoning.
The researchers put each bacterium on keyboards and keyboard covers to see how long they survived. They also typed on the keyboards to see if the bacteria could be transferred to the fingertips.
Noskin's team found that VRE and MRSA could survive up to 24 hours after being placed on keyboards or keyboard covers. However, PSAE could survive only up to one hour on the keyboard and five minutes on the keyboard cover.
The study also found that the more contact with contaminated keyboards, the more likely the bacteria transmitted to the hands, from 42 percent to 92 percent of the time for MRSA, 22 percent to 50 percent for VRE, and 9 percent to 18 percent for PSAE.
The findings were to be presented April 11 at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America's scientific session, in Los Angeles.
Effective hand washing can prevent the spread of these bacteria, Noskin said. "Health-care workers, after being in contact with keyboards, need to really wash their hands before they come in contact with patients."
The researchers also tested the effectiveness of disinfectants commonly used in hospitals to clean the computers. The most effective disinfectant was one where the solution remains on the keyboard for 10 minutes before it's wiped off.
Noskin doesn't think it's realistic to make computer keyboards sterile. "We live in an era of bacteria, and they are all over our environment," he said.
Tierno agrees that hand washing is most important, but he also thinks that keyboards should be disinfected after each use. "This is not new to me," he said. "In my office, we use a computer keyboard that has an antibacterial product in it, which kills organisms on the surface. Despite that, we still use disinfectant."
In hospitals, Tierno said, cutting down on the spread of bacteria from person to person is beneficial. But preventing the passage of antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as MRSA outside the hospital is equally important, he said.
Tierno believes that any computer keyboard that is used by many users should be disinfected often.
"Community-acquired MRSA, where individuals in sporting venues and non-hospital conditions, in gyms, in schools, in areas where multiple users have access to computers, they, too, should be disinfected, because we can transfer MRSA quite easily by contact," he said.
The National Library of Medicine can tell you more about infection control.
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L'atto di uccidere (The Act of Killing) è un film-documentario del 2012 diretto da Joshua Oppenheimer, da Christine Cynn e da un co-regista indonesiano anonimo.

Il film, prodotto da Signe Byrge Sørensen, è una co-produzione tra Regno Unito, Danimarca e Norvegia.

Trama
Il film descrive la purga anticomunista avvenuta in Indonesia tra il 1965 e il 1966, che portò alla morte di un milione di persone, raccontata dal punto di vista di due preman (gangster), Anwar Congo e Adi Zulkadry, diretti responsabili dell'uccisione di centinaia di uomini ed oggi rispettabili membri di organizzazioni paramilitari indonesiane. I responsabili di questi crimini non si limitano a fornire testimonianze per il documentario, ma mettono in scena i propri crimini come protagonisti di un film.

I due sviluppano la storia secondo i loro gusti e adattandola persino ai loro generi cinematografici preferiti (gangster, western e musical), inseguendo l'occasione di mostrare al mondo come un regime che si fonda su crimini contro l'umanità e che tuttavia non è mai stato perseguito, racconti se stesso per entrare nella storia.

Anwar e i suoi ex complici creano la sceneggiatura, interpretando se stessi e impersonando persino le vittime, finché il film assume i toni di una catarsi. Qualcuno tra i protagonisti inizia a pentirsi delle proprie azioni, altri si interrogano preoccupati delle reazioni che il film potrebbe generare nell'opinione pubblica. In un crescendo angoscioso, il moltiplicarsi degli interrogativi aumenta la tensione drammatica del film, specialmente in Anwar. La sua esperienza cinematografica diventa un viaggio da incubo nel profondo delle sue emozioni inconsce fino a quando, per la prima volta nella sua vita, un profondo rimorso si sostituisce all'orgoglio.

Distribuzione
Presentato in anteprima mondiale al Telluride Film Festival nel settembre 2012, il film è diventato subito un "caso" recensito dai critici di tutto il mondo, ottenendo la candidatura al Premio Oscar al miglior documentario 2014. Il film è stato distribuito in Italia da I Wonder Pictures in collaborazione con il Biografilm Festival nella versione da 115' con il titolo L'atto di uccidere, e nella versione da 159' con il titolo The Act of Killing - Director's cut.

Accoglienza
Il film ha ricevuto ampi consensi dalla critica. Rotten Tomatoes ha riportato una valutazione positiva del 95% con una valutazione media di 8.80/10 basata su 156 recensioni. Il consenso del sito web recita: "Crudo, terrificante e dolorosamente difficile da guardare, The Act of Killing offre una testimonianza inquietante del potere edificante e conflittuale del cinema documentario".

Nick Schager di The Village Voice lo ha definito un "capolavoro", mentre il giornalista vincitore del Premio Pulitzer Chris Hedges ha definito il film "un'importante esplorazione della complessa psicologia degli assassini di massa" e ha scritto che "non è il demonizzato, facilmente digeribile caricatura di un assassino di massa che più ci disturba: è l'essere umano." Il regista Ruhi Hamid ha dichiarato: "È il film più straordinario che abbia mai visto: uno straordinario documentario su una parte orrenda della storia indonesiana che sembra non avere mai fine."

In un'intervista a The Village Voice, il regista Oppenheimer ha dichiarato: "Quando sono stato incaricato da questa comunità di sopravvissuti di filmare queste giustificazioni, di filmare queste vanterie, stavo cercando di esporre e interrogare la natura dell'impunità: vantarsi di aver ucciso è sintomo di impunità».

Il professore di storia e politica asiatica dell'Australian National University, Robert Cribb, ha affermato che il film manca di contestualizzazione storica. In risposta, Oppenheimer ha affermato che "il film essenzialmente non riguarda ciò che è accaduto nel 1965, ma piuttosto un regime in cui il genocidio è stato paradossalmente cancellato e anzi ancora viene celebrato col fine di mantenere i sopravvissuti terrorizzati, il lavaggio del cervello pubblico attivo e per questo gli autori di questi crimini innominabili sono capaci di vivere con se stessi... Non pretende mai di essere un resoconto esaustivo degli eventi del 1965. Cerca di comprendere l'impatto dell'uccisione e del terrore oggi sugli individui e sulle istituzioni odierne."

Bradley Simpson, storico dell'Università del Connecticut e direttore dell'Indonesia/East Timor Documentation Project presso il National Security Archive, afferma che il "brillante film nominato all'Oscar" ha suscitato un acceso dibattito tra gli indonesiani sui crimini e sulla necessità di assumere parti responsabili responsabile e suggerisce che potrebbe avere un effetto simile negli Stati Uniti, il cui ruolo negli omicidi "non è mai stato ufficialmente riconosciuto, né tanto meno giustificato, sebbene alcuni dei documenti pertinenti siano stati resi disponibili al pubblico".

I soggetti principali del film, Anwar Congo e Herman Koto, hanno visto il film e nessuno dei due si sente ingannato, secondo Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer dice che, dopo aver visto il film, Anwar Congo "ha iniziato a piangere... In lacrime, mi ha detto: 'Questo è il film che mi aspettavo. È un film onesto, un film vero.' Ha detto di essere profondamente commosso e che gli rimarrà sempre fedele". Oppenheimer ha continuato dicendo che nella telefonata Congo ha concluso dicendo che "Non mi resta altro da fare nella vita che morire". Oppenheimer vedendo Congo così commosso e quasi vergognandosi per quello che aveva fatto, gli disse questo. "Hai solo 70 anni, Anwar. Potresti vivere altri 25 anni. Qualunque cosa di buono fai in quegli anni non è minata dalle cose terribili del tuo passato." Sentiva che poteva essere un cliché, ma sentiva che era onesto e tutto ciò che poteva dire al Congo. In una successiva intervista al programma 101 East di Al Jazeera ha rivelato che Anwar aveva dei dubbi sul film e sulla reazione negativa del pubblico indonesiano, che gli stava causando problemi. Ha confidato queste preoccupazioni direttamente a Oppenheimer in un'apparente conversazione Skype visualizzata all'interno del programma.

Nel 2015 il film è stato elencato tra i 50 migliori film del decennio dal The Guardian.

Riconoscimenti
 2013 - Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Berlino
 Berlinale Panorama Audience Award per il miglior documentario
 2014 - BAFTA
 Miglior Documentario
 2017 - Biografilm Festival
 Lancia Award per il miglior film

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MARK COLVIN: Cancer researchers say they now have proof that people who live outside major cities are more likely to die from the disease.
Cancer Council Queensland has used a decade of data to plot a map showing survival rates across the state.
But Queensland's chief medical officer says the findings are not a surprise.
KERRIN BINNIE: Sixty-eight year old Bill Halbesma has prostate cancer. The Bundaberg resident has to travel to Brisbane for treatment.
BILL HALBESMA: Up in the country area where we come from there's no transport. You've only got probably two or three trains a day and you're on the train for four to eight hours. So you can't travel down. You've got to stay here.
KERRIN BINNIE: The aged pensioner and his wife are living away from their family for six weeks in special accommodation near the Royal Brisbane Hospital.
Mr Halbesma says it'd be easier if adequate oncology services were available locally.
BILL HALBESMA: It certainly would yes. As a matter of fact there's a lot of people from the Bundaberg region here. And if the set-up was available up near Bundaberg it'd save an awful lot of travelling.
KERRIN BINNIE: Research from Cancer Council Queensland shows many people who live in regional and rural areas are in a similar situation.
The council has used incidence and survival data for a decade to 2007 to plot an "atlas of cancer". It shows people outside of the south-east Queensland area are at higher risk of dying from the disease within five years.
The Cancer Council's professor Joanne Aitken says 1,200 lives could have been saved if survival rates in the bush were the same as the city.
JOANNE AITKEN: Always with cancer there are multiple causes. In an individual case of course it's whether the person is susceptible or not, how they behave during their life in terms of risk factors, but also systemic things such as access to services, access to treatment, access to early diagnosis.
There's a whole range of reasons, a raft of issues why these findings could be the way they are and we need to look at those carefully, find out which are the most important and then act on those.
KERRIN BINNIE: Queensland's chief medical officer Dr Jeanette Young says the findings back up what authorities already suspected.
JEANETTE YOUNG: It is much harder for people who live in remote and rural areas to access early screening, early intervention, early diagnosis.
We know that and although we've got lots of strategies in place to try and help people we know that in some cases that people who live in those areas take a bit longer before they go and act on symptoms because it is harder for them.
KERRIN BINNIE: Dr Young says Queensland Health is trying to get more oncological services into more remote communities.
JEANETTE YOUNG: We've got new regional cancer centres that are in place that are being brought online because we know that people are far better off being treated where they live wherever possible because then they have the supports of their own family and their own community.
KERRIN BINNIE: The Cancer Council's professor Aitken says better transport and accommodation is needed where highly specialised and expensive cancer treatments are only available in major centres.
JOANNE AITKEN: That's one of the things that we'll be looking at. Patients in distant areas and Queensland is one of the most affected states in this way, we have a very spread out population, have long ways to travel to their treatment and that of course is an impost on them and on their families.
KERRIN BINNIE: Professor Aitken says the research is just the first step to solving what's causing the city-bush cancer divide.
As authorities grapple with the best ways to turn around the statistics, Bill Halbesma is optimistic about his prognosis.
BILL HALBESMA: I'm looking forward to a good life yeah. I'm darn sure I'll get cured. There's no worry about that.
MARK COLVIN: Cancer patient Bill Halbesma ending Kerrin Binnie's report.


Show No Fear is a collection of essays that captures the richness of Canadian military history. Although Canadians see their nation as a peaceable kingdom and themselves as an unmilitary people, the truth is that Canada has a proud military heritage. Moreover, the nations citizens and their descendants share a legacy of courage, tenacity, and warfighting prowess. This volume of daring actions showcases the country's rich and distinct national military experience while capturing the indomitable spirit of the Canadian soldier.
Actions studied include military bravery in the Seven Years War, the British attacks on Fort Mackinac and Fort Detroit in the War of 1812, the Lake Erie expeditions during the American Civil War, courage displayed at Paardeberg in the Boer War, trench raiding in the First World War, bold valour in the ill-fated Dieppe Raid in the Second World War, toe-to-toe fighting with the Chinese in the Korean War, and present-day heroics in Afghanistan.
Show No Fear offers a look back, with many notes, after each chapter, giving us as in-depth an analysis of the battle as any history book would...Canadians are part of the international stage, fighting fearlessly for a common goal, as they have always done."


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I have gone through your article and have followed the event. There is no doubt that the muslims are very sensitive and can go to any extent though in this case other theories are also being discussed. What I have failed to understand is,that even after so many cases of disrespectfulness or insults by others ,the muslims have never made fun of other religions. Though Jesus and Moses are one of the messengers of Islam also but the muslims have not made fun of even Hindus or Sikhs. At least I have not heard or read.
Islam forbids talking bad of other religions to avoid non muslims talking ill of Islam.
I agree, and Islam holds the high moral ground on this issue.
Confusion between the sacred and the profane is indeed perplexing and saddening.
Reducing the gulf between different faiths and cultures is a formidable challenge.
Decency demands that we try our best, cherish our personal relations and leave the rest to God.


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Michael Phelps: Under Armour's Has Olympic Champion under Contract
Olympics I 08/11/2016
Swimming superstar Michael Phelps continues his unparalleled success story at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio: No other athlete in Olympic history has gotten more gold medals. Rejoicing with Phelps is his outfitter Under Armour – his contract lasts from the year 2010.
Michael Phelps is the most successful Olympic athlete in history
Michael Phelps cannot be stopped. The American athlete has secured Olympic gold medals numbers 19, 20, and 21 at the 2016 Games in Rio: in the 100 and 200-meter freestyle relays and the 200-meter butterfly.
Never before has there been a more successful athlete at the Olympics. And Phelps' outfitter, Under Armour (UA), can delight along with him.
ISPO.com explains the deal between the successful swimmer and the ambitious outfitter.
How long have Michael Phelps and Under Armour been partners?
Back in 2010, Under Armour secured the then highly decorated swimmer as an advertiser for three years. Since then, Phelps has worn clothes and shoes by the number two company in the US sporting goods market. Aqua Sphere provides the swimwear in the pool – replacing Speedo since 2015.
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Just how much Phelps collects from Under Armour is unclear. In any case, more than before his contract extension in 2013. According to experts from Baker Street Advertising, Phelps' earnings are said to have amounted to approximately five million dollars.
The signs were good for the cooperation on both sides from the beginning: Like the sporting goods manufacturer founded in 1996, Phelps also comes from Baltimore. "For me, growing up in Baltimore, Under Armour is the sports line. It's what I grew up with my whole life," said the 30-year-old at a UA press conference prior to the Olympic Games in Rio.
Read more here about the 2016 Olympics and sports business.
How is Under Armour advertising with Michael Phelps?
Since Under Armour, in contrast to Nike, is not an official Olympic sponsor , its activities with the Olympian Phelps are strictly regulated. According to Rule 40 of the IOC regulations, campaigns with participating athletes are only permitted for non-IOC partners if they make absolutely no reference to the Olympic Games, medals, Rio, or 2016.
Under Armour thus had to advertise with an Olympic hero without being able to show his greatest moments. So, as part of its "Rule Yourself" campaign, the sporting goods manufacturer produced an emotional video (see above) which portrays the rough daily routine of the professional athlete Phelps. Without any scenes of jubilation.
Under Armour brings Phelps' family to tears
The video became an online hit. It's gotten over six million views on YouTube. If nothing else, because Under Armour whet people's appetites for the video: one day before the spot's broadcast, UA played a video on social media in which Phelps, upon watching the ad, breaks out in tears (see below).
Not only was he profoundly moved, but also his fiancée and his mother, as Phelps revealed: "The ad brought tears to my eyes, it brought tears to Nicole's eyes. My mother, without question, tears—multiple times during the commercial. I think it's a deep commercial, and it's really incredible how they did it."
In Rio itself, Under Armour has few of Phelps' medals: Since Nike is the US Olympic team's outfitter, Phelps accepts his medals at the presentation ceremonies in the competition's tracksuit, of all things.
How is Under Armour performing with Michael Phelps against Nike?
With anticipated earnings of 4.92 billion dollars, Under Armour is still nowhere near equal footing in comparison to the US market leader Nike (33.91 billion). But the rise of the company, founded in 1996 by CEO Kevin Plank, is meteoric. In the meantime, Under Armour increased its sales by at least 20 percent for six years at a stretch. In the first quarter of 2016, they rose by 30 percent.
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Considered the greatest UA coup of recent years is the engagement of NBA superstar Stephen Curry in 2013. Last season's MVP left Nike in order to commit himself to Under Armour.
Michael Phelps, too, made a dig at Nike at a UA event before the Olympic Games: "I don't know another brand. To be honest, I have never worn a pair of Nikes in my entire life."
How attractive is Michael Phelps for sponsors?
In terms of successes, Phelps can't be topped. 21 Olympic gold medals are unrivaled. As a swimmer, the myriad of Olympic decisions in his sport are to his benefit. In no other summer Olympic sport can a dominant athlete clear out so many medals.
At the same time, swimming is still just a fringe sport outside of the Olympic Games, even in the USA. While the stars of the NBA or the NFL are discussed for almost the entire year, Phelps is only in the athletic spotlight every four years.
And even then, not always live: The major broadcaster NBC only recently incurred the wrath of viewers by broadcasting Olympic swimming finals with an hour-long time lag.
And Phelps didn't make things easy for himself in early 2009: After the Olympic Games in Beijing, there emerged photos of the swimmer with marijuana. His largest sponsor, Kellogg's, subsequently pulled its extension of a contract set to expire in March 2009.
Other major sponsors like Omega, however, kept faith with the swimming star.
What other athletes does Under Armour have under contract?
By now, the UA catalogue reads like a who's who of US sports: NBA superstar Stephen Curry could become the superstar for Under Armour that Michael Jordan was for Nike for decades (and still is). With Cam Newton and Tom Brady, two superstars of the NFL are also under contract. The brand also enhanced its portfolio in other sports with alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn, golfer Jordan Spieth, and dancer/gymnast Misty Copeland.
Under Armour chanced the leap across the Atlantic through deals with tennis pro Andy Murray, Tottenham Hotspur, and soccer player Memphis Depay of Manchester United. In Germany, was outfitter for Hannover 96 from 2008 to 2011, and Jonathan Tah was the single German national player to take to the field in UA shoes.
The company is currently outfitting the second-division soccer team FC St. Pauli. Supermodel Gisele Bündchen is also sharpening the international lifestyle profile.
Who's sponsoring Michael Phelps, besides Under Armour?
After a years-long collaboration with Speedo, Michael Phelps switched his outfitter for swimming equipment in 2015, and struck up a cooperation with the company Aqua Sphere. Together, the two sides founded the swimming fashion line "MP." Since then, Phelps has thus become a competitor for his former sponsor.
Aside from that, his major sponsors include AT&T, Subway, Omega, Visa, and PowerBar.
In total, US media estimate Phelps' annual earnings through partners and sponsors to be twelve million dollars.
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The results gave Norwegian Hospitals "a foundation on which to develop a new concept," as Eirik Hafver Rønjum, content strategist at The Norwegian directorate of health states. It gave them a real clarity of purpose for the design of their new web environment.
It has not been easy to get organizations to put the customer first. Of course, most organizations will tell you they are customer-centric, but the truth is often the opposite. They are organization-centric to the core, and use marketing, communications and PR to pretend to the world that they are customer-centric. There is a strange but deeply held belief that if you put the customer first you cannot achieve your organization's objectives.
I must say that I have been skeptical of focus groups in the past, but Rønjum and his team have found that they are a powerful way to get a deeper understanding of the top tasks.
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Q: Convert a string to a byte array in PowerShell version 2 What I'm trying to do is use SHA1 UTF-8 encryption and then base64 encoding and  on a password string value.  However, I needed to do the encryption first, then the encoding, but I did it the other way around.
Here is the code:
# Create Input Data
$enc = [system.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
$string1 = "This is a string to hash"
$data1 = $enc.GetBytes($string1)

# Create a New SHA1 Crypto Provider
$sha = New-Object System.Security.Cryptography.SHA1CryptoServiceProvider

$# Now hash and display results
$result1 = $sha.ComputeHash($data1)

So, when I went to do the hashing I realized I had to have a byte[] from the string and I'm not sure how to do that.  I'm thinking there is a simple way from the .Net libraries, but couldn't find an example.
So if I have a string, like:
$string = "password"

How do I convert that into a byte array that I can use on :: ComputeHash($string)?
So what I have to end up with is an encrypted SHA-1 and base 64 encoded UTF-8 password, which the code above does, but it's coming back different than when I coded this same thing in java, where I encrypted it first, then converted that result to base 64 encoding.
I'm making the assumption that while encrypting a string directly isn't supported in the api, there may be a work-around that will allow you to do this.  That is what I'm attempting to do.
So I'm assuming my issue with the code is that I had to encrypt it first and then encode it to get the correct value.  Correct or am I missing something here?
Here is the pertinent java code that does work:
//First method call uses a swing component to get the user entered password.
String password = getPassword();

//This line is where the work starts with the second and third methods below.
String hashed = byteToBase64(getHash(password));

//The second method call here gets the encryption.
public static byte[] getHash(String password) {
      MessageDigest digest = null;
      byte[] input = null;
      try {
             digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA-1");
      } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e1) {
             e1.printStackTrace();
      }
      digest.reset();
      try {
             input = digest.digest(password.getBytes("UTF-8"));
      } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
      }
      return input;
}

//Then the third method call here gets the encoding, FROM THE ENCRYPTED STRING.
public static String byteToBase64(byte[] data){
    return new String(Base64.encodeBase64(data));

When I run the java code with the password string of "password" I get
[91, -86, 97, -28, -55, -71, 63, 63, 6, -126, 37, 11, 108, -8, 51, 27, 126, -26, -113, -40]
which is the encryption.
Then I when the encoding in java I get this:
W6ph5Mm5Pz8GgiULbPgzG37mj9g=
but when I run it in PowerShell I get this because it's encoded first for UTF8:
91 170 97 228 201 185 63 63 6 130 37 11 108 248 51 27 126 230 143 216
Then when I run this line of code to convert it I get an error:
$base64 = [System.Convert]::FromBase64String($result)

Exception calling "FromBase64String" with "1" argument(s): "Invalid length for a Base-64 char array."
At line:1 char:45
However, if I run the new line of code to make it hex from below I get:
$hexResult = [String]::Join("", ($result | % { "{0:X2}" -f $_}))
PS C:\Program Files (x86)\PowerGUI> Write-Host $hexResult

5BAA61E4C9B93F3F0682250B6CF8331B7EE68FD8
but I need to end up with this value:
W6ph5Mm5Pz8GgiULbPgzG37mj9g=
Again, this may not even be possible to do, but I'm trying to find a work-around to see.

A: You most likely just need to convert your hash to base64 after the last line.
$enc = [system.Text.Encoding]::UTF8
$string1 = "This is a string to hash"
$data1 = $enc.GetBytes($string1)

# Create a New SHA1 Crypto Provider
$sha = New-Object System.Security.Cryptography.SHA1CryptoServiceProvider

# Now hash and display results
$result1 = $sha.ComputeHash($data1)
[System.Convert]::ToBase64String($result1)

Text->Bytes->Encrypt/Hash->Base64
That's a very common pattern for sending cryptographic data in a text format.

A: It looks like you're on the right track.  You have to pick a character encoding to convert between a string and a byte array.  You picked UTF-8 above, but there are other options (e.g. ASCII, UTF-16, etc.).
Encrypting a string directly is not supported.

A: The problem seems to be that in first bytearray, you are have signed bytes (-86 = 10101010) and in the second one unsigned bytes (170 = 10101010).

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Bernard G. Richards Papers
Identifier: P-868
The collection contains Bernard G. Richards personal and official correspondence, papers from his involvement with the American Jewish Congress and Jewish Information Bureau, published and unpublished writings, publications collected by Richards, articles about Richards and his activities, correspondence and articles from testimonial dinners in honor of Richards, and photographs. Significant correspondents include Joseph Barondess, Louis D. Brandeis, Vladimir Jabotinsky, J.L. Magnes, Louis Marshall, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jacob H. Schiff, Philip Slomovitz, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Morris Winchovsky, and Stephen S. Wise.
Dates: undated, 1820, 1868, 1895-1996, 1999
Florence Mendheim Collection of Anti-Semitic Propaganda
This collection of mainly anti-Semitic material was compiled by a Jewish librarian of German descent who infiltrated the pro-Nazi community developing in New York City in the years leading up to World War II. The bulk of the collection consists of publications and printed matter, with the notable exception of narrative reports that describe first-hand experiences and observations of Nazi-affiliated events. Document types include advertisements, event announcements, books, clippings, correspondence, magazines and newspapers, travel guides, political memorabilia, and other print ephemera.
Found in: Leo Baeck Institute
Guide to the Tamar Morad, Dennis and Robert Shasha Collection of Iraqi Jewish Oral Histories
Identifier: ASF AR 72
This collection contains oral history materials collected by Tamar Morad, Robert Shasha, and Dennis Shasha, in connection with the writing and compilation of the book Iraq's Last Jews: Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape from Modern Babylon (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), including approximately 60 audio recordings of interviews, with at least one third accompanied by transcripts; and a small amount of related biographical material, including memoirs and other writings, one family history, and photographs. The collection contains the interview recordings on which 18 of the 20 narratives in the published book were based. In addition, it contains oral histories or autobiographical narratives pertaining to more than 40 individuals whose stories are not told in the book. The interviewees and their families represent a range of professions, including international merchants and bankers, as well as rabbis, doctors, politicians, intellectuals, musicians, poets, and artists. The materials convey personal accounts of Jewish life in Iraq from approximately the 1920s to the early 1980s, as well as Iraqi Jewish experiences of emigration, transit journeys, and new lives in the diaspora, in locations including Iran, India, Japan, China, Israel, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.
Dates: circa 1900, 1930s-2007; Majority of material found within 2003-2007
Found in: American Sephardi Federation
Histadruth Ivrith of America, records
Identifier: I-365
The records document the Histadruth Ivrit's early history to the present, representing a significant portion of its work in spreading the Hebrew language in the United States in the second half of the twentieth-century. The records include substantial amount of material regarding the organization's history, administration, public events, publications, and reports. Some information of the early history of the Histadruth Ivrit could be found in the records kept by the writer Daniel Persky. Persky collected personal and professional records that include correspondence with friends, readers, and writers; a partial collection of the drafts of his own publications, and a collection of photographs and newspaper clippings. The functions and activities of the Histadruth Ivrit are documented through Board of Trustees and Board meetings agendas and minutes; various programs for events, conventions, conferences, and celebrations; documents related to fundraising; public relations, press releases and brochures; correspondence with different individuals, organizations, and foundations; Histadruth Ivrit's publications among them the newspaper Hadoar and Tov Lichtov; a large collection of photographs, and scrapbooks. The records of the Histadruth Ivrit represent the large majority of the organization's activities dating from the 1980s to the present. Records for the earlier years of activities are fragmented and incomplete. The records related to the life of Daniel Persky are also partial and copies of many of his publications are missing. This collection included brochures, correspondence, financial records, flyers, grant applications, invitations, lists, minutes, news clipping, orders, periodicals, photographs, press releases, reports, and scrapbooks.
Jewish Media Service, records
Contains material collected by the Jewish Media Service (JMS) on Jewish films, film company catalogs, resources and information from and about various media centers. The majority of the Jewish Media Service records date from when the JMS operated independently from 1975 to 1987. Types of material found in the collection include articles, brochures, catalogs, correspondence, examination study guides, filmographies, film stills, newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, posters, publications, scripts, and slides.
Dates: undated, 1898, 1944, 1955, 1957, 1961-1990; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1987
Leon David Crestohl, papers
Identifier: P-63
Collection consists of correspondence, speeches, photographs, clippings, and memorabilia relating to Crestohl's activities as a lawyer and as a member of the House of Commons in the Parliament of Canada representing Montreal-Cartier, 1950-1963. It includes material relating to Canadian immigration policies, German rearmament, humane slaughtering, and citizen reactions to these issues; correspondence with members of the Israeli Parliament, and correspondence and speeches relating to his numerous activities in communal and Jewish affairs in general and Zionist organizations and The ORT in particular; and personal writings and memoirs in typescript and published material by and about Leon Crestohl.
The collection also contains correspondence in English and Yiddish between members of the Crestohl family, primarily his mother Rose (Weitzman) Crestohl, 1926-1941, and published and manuscript material, both original and copies, relating to the career of his father Hyman Meyer Crestohl, 1904-1921.
Papers of Horace Meyer Kallen (1882-1974)
Identifier: RG 317
This collection contains correspondence between Horace M. Kallen and many important individuals and organizations, as well as manuscripts, notes and other materials for speeches, financial documents, research materials, academic records, and various other assorted items. These materials serve to illustrate Kallen's important role in philosophy, education, religion, and politics and his deep involvement with consumer rights, environmental controls, Jewish issues, and civil liberties.
Found in: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Papers of Paul (Pesakh) Novick (1891-1989)
Identifier: RG 1247
This collection contains documents of journalist and left-wing political activist Paul Novick, consisting mainly of correspondence, subject files, manuscripts, photographs, and newspaper clippings. These materials relate to Novick's career as long-time editor of the Morning Freiheit (Morning Freedom), his important role in the worldwide Communist movement, the history of the Freiheit itself, and Jewish and general politics. These materials demonstrate Novick's important, and changing, role in the history of Communism, as well as his career as a Yiddish journalist and author.
Dates: 1897-1991, 2006; Majority of material found within 1940-1988
American Jewish Historical Society 4
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 2
American Sephardi Federation 1
Leo Baeck Institute 1
New York (N.Y.) 5
Memoirs 3
Emigration and immigration 2
Hebrew 7
Romany 2
American Jewish Congress 3
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America 2
Jewish Education Service of North America 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 2
YIVO Archives 2
Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland 1
American Zionist Youth Foundation 1
Association of Hebrew Writers 1
Avital, Moshe, 1928- 1
Barondess, Joseph, 1867-1928 1
Begin, Menachem, 1913-1992 1
Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 1
Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 1873-1934 1
Bikel, Theodore 1
Brandeis University 1
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 1
Canada. Parliament 1
Cardin, Shoshana Shoubin, 1926-2018 1
Carter, Jimmy, 1924- 1
Cohen, J. X. (Jacob Xenab), 1889-1955 1


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Pintaud, J. -C. 2008. An overview of the taxonomy of Attalea (Arecaceae). Revista Peruana Biol. 15(suppl. 1):55-63.
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Q: .mdb - Access - database appending # on image file I'm creating a website that interfaces with a .mdb database.  I have a field that is using the data type "hyperlink" and pointing to a relative link for an image I want displayed.  For some reason the link is appearing and not the image and there is a # that is being prepended and appended on each URL. I thought maybe the path was wrong but even if I change it I don't get the image.  The mdb file also wants to add http:// to every link.
www.centuryautosd.com  < URL
thanks for any help.
Andrea

A: Hyperlink fields (columns) in Access store the data in the format:
Name of hyperlink#http://example.com#

I generally prefer to use textfields, because it is easy enough to follow a hyperlink on a form, if required, and the field (column) is a lot easier to edit and maintain.