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Best Business Books 2016
October 31, 2016 / Winter 2016 / Issue 85
Best Business Books 2016: Technology
The Human Function
by James Surowiecki
Illustration by Adam McCauley
Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna
Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance (St. Martin's Press, 2016)
Sheila Jasanoff
The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future (W.W. Norton, 2016)
Greg Milner
Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds (W.W. Norton, 2016)
*A TOP SHELF PICK
Books about technology tend to fall into one of two categories: wide-eyed boosterism or gloomy dystopianism. And although both utopian tracts and bleak jeremiads have their uses, the most compelling, like this year's best books on technology, are keenly aware of the two-sided nature of new technologies. On the one hand, they expand our range of possibilities, create new opportunities, and sometimes dramatically improve our everyday lives. On the other, they often bring with them unforeseen negative consequences, concentrate power in the hands of those who own or control the technologies, and disrupt the existing order in unsettling ways.
At first glance, Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance, by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna, might look like a classic utopian text. At a time of profound skepticism about globalization and doubt about the prospects for future innovation, Goldin and Kutarna are unabashed in their advocacy of the benefits of globalization and convinced that technology is transforming the world. The book is structured on the idea that our current era (which they define as beginning in 1990, with the end of the Cold War) is a "new Renaissance," which is in important respects similar to the first Renaissance. As a result, the authors begin their chapters with a look at that earlier era (which they date from 1450 to 1550), and use the historical comparisons to illuminate the current state of the world.
Age of Discovery is a useful reminder of the extraordinary gains that have been reaped by much of the world's population over the past 25 years, including a precipitous decline in the number of people living in extreme poverty and a sharp rise in global life expectancy. The fact that the lion's share of those gains have come as a result of China's steep economic ascent doesn't make the gains any less real. Goldin, a former World Bank official who is director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford, and Kutarna, a fellow at the Martin School, also make a strong case that the sciences, in particular, are seeing what they call "Copernican revolutions" in fields such as synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and computing. They also show how technological progress is being spurred by greater connectivity, which has enabled the harnessing of the collective intelligence and effort of large groups of people in enterprises as varied as translating texts, mapping the surface of Mars, and solving complex scientific problems.
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So far, so optimistic. What saves the book from being a Pollyannaish look at the world is its keen awareness and articulation of the problems that we currently face, problems that in some respects have been amplified by globalization and the massive increase in connectivity. Goldin and Kutarna remind us that in addition to being a period of extraordinary invention across myriad disciplines, the Renaissance was a time of tremendous tumult. Our time is no different. The most powerful chapters of the book may be those that diagnose the dangers of the new world order, including rising inequality, both within and among countries; a far greater threat of global pandemics; decentralized terrorist activity; financial contagion; and, of course, climate change. On top of those individual dangers, the more connected the world becomes, the easier it is for problems in one part of the world to percolate through the system as a whole. And to do so with startling speed and severity — as with, for example, the financial crisis of 2007–08 and the Zika virus. As these systemic risks have increased, our ability to deal with them has not caught up. Institutions such as the World Health Organization are woefully underfunded, and the lack of meaningful global governance forces us to rely on ad hoc solutions.
In the end, Age of Discovery is as much prescriptive as it is descriptive. In arguing that we're living in a new Renaissance, Goldin and Kutarna are trying to ensure that the Renaissance continues. So they urge businesses, which are currently sitting on trillions of dollars in unused cash, to invest heavily in the future. Governments, too, they say, should pump up spending on basic research, and in particular look to fund blue-sky projects, rather than succumbing to the logic of austerity. And individuals need to embrace change, rather than seeking to hold on to a past that's already gone. It's hard to argue with their hopeful vision and policy wish list, which includes such varied items as substantive measures to remedy inequality, the loosening of intellectual property restrictions, the abolition of energy subsidies, and the imposition of a carbon tax. But the authors might have said more about why implementing these kinds of policies has proven so difficult for the U.S. and other governments. And the question remains as to whether their plan is too hopeful for the present moment.
The Control Function
Some of the backlash against technology comes from people's understandable fears of a hard-to-envision future. But in The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future, Sheila Jasanoff, a professor of science and technology at Harvard University, finds another culprit: our tendency to delegate power to technological systems, rather than asserting democratic control over them. As Jasanoff points out, the operations of any technology reshape the way we behave, often without us noticing it. And technologies have consequences far beyond the obvious intended ones. The introduction of the automobile, after all, gave drivers enormous freedom. It reshaped travel patterns and supply chains, and altered the landscape of city and suburb alike. It also led to more than a million traffic deaths in the U.S. alone, poisoned generations of people with lead, increased asthma rates, and made a major contribution to climate change. What's fascinating, and troubling, is that the introduction and spread of the automobile took place without much, if any, consideration of those long-term societal costs.
Jasanoff convincingly argues that the future of a technology is shaped not only by the technology itself, but also by the decisions we make about how to use it, how to regulate it, and how to modify it. And those "decisions" can be either passive or active: Simply allowing a technology to develop without any meaningful democratic input is itself a decision, even if we don't think of it that way. She argues that the question of how we manage new technologies is especially important today, because we're confronting a host of new technologies that give those who use them enormous power. These include many of the same technologies Goldin and Kutarna celebrate, such as synthetic biology, gene therapy, cloning, and genetically modified foods.
We're also facing new surveillance technologies that effectively make it possible for the government and private companies to track us 24/7, listen to our phone calls, and read our emails and text messages as a matter of course (how, after all, does Google serve up ads pegged to what's in your emails?). The nature of patent law (in the case of science) and network effects (in the case of information) means that a very small number of companies could end up exerting a tremendous amount of control over these technologies. (In the case of what Jasanoff calls the data oligarchs, such as Facebook and Google, they're already exerting it.) If we are going to give CRISPR, a genome editing technique, the ability to reshape with enormous ease the very building blocks of life, it seems sensible to find mechanisms that allow a broad-based, democratic discussion about the risks and benefits of new technologies — as well as what values we want to govern the use of those technologies.
In addition to being a period of extraordinary invention across myriad disciplines, the Renaissance was a time of tremendous tumult.
Such talk raises the hackles of many entrepreneurs, who think the only "governance" we need is to throw things out into the world and let the workings of the market sort them out. But although that process works fine in the case of, say, a new razor, it seems somehow inadequate for dealing with something like CRISPR. More important for business, Jasanoff correctly argues that if you don't allow the public some voice at the beginning, you will end up having to deal with the public after the fact. She tells the story of golden rice, a genetically modified rice that includes elevated levels of beta-carotene (many children in the developing world are deficient in Vitamin A, which can lead to blindness; and beta-carotene is a precursor to Vitamin A). Golden rice seems like a genuine boon to the developing world — an easy and cheap solution to a serious problem. Yet its introduction in those markets has been slowed, and in some cases blocked altogether, by the backlash against companies such as Syngenta and Monsanto and their role in pushing genetically modified seeds and crops. One obvious, and understandable, response is simply to label the opposition to GMOs irresponsible and scientifically illiterate. But The Ethics of Invention makes a convincing case that creating formal ways to analyze and assess technologies and their proper use will offer us the best chance of finding a path between "unbridled enthusiasm and anachronistic Luddism."
Finding that path is precisely what journalist Greg Milner does in his remarkably engaging book Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds, which takes what might seem to be a mundane subject — the Global Positioning System — and uses it to tell an intricate story about the relationship between technology, the economy, and human ability. GPS, like many other technologies we use today, was built by the U.S. Defense Department. It was conceived as a tool to make military targeting, and in particular bombing, more effective and efficient. In Milner's words, GPS was invented by those who wanted to "bring death from above." The U.S. government maintains GPS to this day, which means that, as Milner writes, "when an ISIS terrorist gets a GPS reading, the process is enabled by the United States military."
GPS was released for civilian use in the 1980s (the U.S. government originally maintained two versions of the system, with civilians using a more degraded and less accurate version, but the distinction was erased in 2000). But it wasn't until the emergence of the Internet and widespread mobile connectivity that the true value of GPS emerged. Nowadays, it allows companies such as UPS and FedEx to route packages far more efficiently; enables planes to land more safely; abets precision agriculture, in which automated tractors are able to perfectly till, sow, and harvest fields; places personal navigation systems in cars; and facilitates the tracking of criminals and terrorists. And now, with Pokémon Go, it allows people to chase virtual creatures through the real world, in the most vivid example yet of augmented reality.
As Milner shows, though, the same things that make GPS so enormously valuable also make it dangerous. Because the state can track criminals and terrorists, it can also track any citizen with a smartphone. Our reliance on GPS makes us vulnerable to anything that could disrupt the system, which might be hacks that spoof GPS (sending false location signals) or solar flares. GPS also gives businesses access to information that consumers don't even know they're disclosing.
Our dependence on GPS may also be reshaping our minds. Humans' ability to navigate and orient themselves in space is remarkable, which is why Milner begins his book with the story of Polynesian sailors who managed to sail thousands of miles of empty ocean without losing their way. Although those sailors had seemingly superhuman navigation skills, we all rely, to some degree, on "cognitive maps" that help us understand and navigate complex environments. Those maps may be degenerating in the face of GPS, because we no longer need them to get from one place to another. The extreme consequence of this is what's called "death by GPS," as drivers blithely follow their mapping app into the desert or the ocean. But more subtly, GPS seems to transform our relationship to the landscape around us. One Cornell University study found that using GPS made drivers more "detached" and "eliminated much of the need to pay attention." In other words, it may make us simply see less of the world around us.
Pinpoint, the best business book about technology this year, showcases both the upsides and downsides of GPS. It also implicitly makes two crucial points about the nature of technological innovation. The first is that public investment in new technologies can create enormous spillover benefits for the economy as a whole. (The Internet and the World Wide Web, of course, show the same phenomenon on an even wider scale.) GPS would not exist, after all, had it not been for the Cold War, which spurred the U.S. government to invest heavily in technologies that were then repurposed for civilian use, including the transistor, lithium batteries, the microprocessor, and GPS. Indeed, as Italian economist Mariana Mazzucato argues in her important book The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Private vs. Public Sector Myths (Anthem, 2013), just about every piece of technology in your smartphone can be traced back to the Department of Defense in one form or another.
The second essential lesson is that the value of powerful new technologies isn't always apparent at the time they're introduced. The U.S. Air Force, for instance, kept trying to kill funding for GPS, because it felt that navigation systems were already accurate enough. It didn't recognize how useful pinpoint guidance might be, and it couldn't, of course, envision how powerful the combination of mobile connectivity and GPS would become. Milner shows that civilians grasped the real usefulness of GPS long before most of the military did, in fact. That's why long-term, patient investments — whether on the part of the government or in the private sector — are so essential to technological progress, even if many of those investments will go bust, and even if successful technologies will often end up looking very different from what their creators initially envisioned. To paraphrase Alan Kay's famous line, you can't really hope to predict the future. So the best thing to do is try to invent it.
James Surowiecki writes the "Financial Page" column in the New Yorker. He is the author of The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations (Doubleday, 2004).
Topics: data analytics, digital technologies, disruption, economy, innovation, technology


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Dukkah adds spicy flavour to this chicken dinner, while apple and iceberg salad bring freshness to the plate.
Place cashews in a small food processor. Pulse until finely chopped. Transfer to a large bowl. Add cumin, coriander, sesame seeds and sea salt. Mix well to combine (see note).
Place flour on a large plate. Season with salt and pepper. Combine 1/2 the yoghurt and 2 tablespoons water in a bowl. Working with 1 piece at a time, toss chicken in flour, shaking off excess. Dip in yoghurt mixture, allowing excess to drain. Transfer to prepared tray. Sprinkle with nut mixture, pressing to secure. Spray liberally with oil.
Bake for 20 minutes until chicken is golden and cooked through.
Meanwhile, cook potato in a medium saucepan of boiling water for 10 minutes or until tender, adding peas during the last 2 minutes of cooking time. Drain. Rinse under cold water. Drain.
Combine remaining yoghurt, lemon juice and chives in a small jug to make a dressing. Season with salt and pepper. Slice chicken. Place potato, peas, chicken, lettuce, mint, apple and onion on a serving platter. Drizzle with dressing. Serve.
To save time, use a prepared dukkah mixture. They're available in the herb and spice aisle of supermarkets and gourmet delis.


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Buses 329 and W6 stop right outside the office. If you are travelling by bus ask the driver for the Hedge Lane bus stop. Take the 329 from Woodgreen or Enfield Town or the W6 From Southgate. The nearest bus stop is in front of the practice.
The nearest BR station is Palmers Green, approximately 7 minutes walk. Nearest tube stations are Southgate and Wood Green. Both a short bus ride away (see bus details above).


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Officials: Suspicious substance at Iowa airport not a danger
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say tests show that a suspicious substance found in baggage at the Cedar Rapids airport is not hazardous.
A city news release said Wednesday that the 71st Civil Support Team of the Iowa National Guard tested the substance and found that it did not pose a danger to the public. Cedar Rapids spokeswoman Maria Johnson says the city couldn't yet say what the substance is.
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Lessons not learned: The Atomic Bomb | Asszony
In August 1945, the United States ended World War II by dropping atomic bombs in Japan. What have we learned?
Lessons not learned: The Atomic Bomb | Asszony In August 1945, the United States ended World War II by dropping atomic bombs in Japan. What have we learned? Check out this story on dailyrecord.com: https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/opinion/2019/08/12/lessons-not-learned-atomic-bomb/1990633001/
Carl J. Asszony, Special to the USA TODAY NETWORK Published 4:01 p.m. ET Aug. 12, 2019 | Updated 4:03 p.m. ET Aug. 12, 2019
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Feb. 14, 1946, at the Guest House in Oak Ridge. (Photo by Ed Westcott) (Photo: Ed Westcott/DOE, Photo by Ed Westcott)
"Now I am become Death, destroyer of the worlds." — J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad-Gita in July 1945.
On Aug. 6, 1945, a United States bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The detonation was equal to 15,000 tons of TNT. More than 80,000 people died as a result of the bomb's blast and thousands more died later from burns and radiation poisoning.
Carl Asszony
On Aug. 9, 1945 the U.S. bombed the city of Nagasaki, with a larger atom bomb. There, Another 80,000 people would die from the blast or from the effects of heat and radiation.
Since 1945 there have been debates on whether or not it was necessary to use such devastating force to end the war with Japan. No doubt that debate will continue. We cannot undo what has been done, therefore, the question becomes — has mankind learned anything from those events?
Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Israel may have with nuclear weapons and Iran seems to have the potential to develop such weapons.
The nuclear weapons of today are bigger and more lethal than the bombs dropped on Japan, such as, the Russian Tsar Hydrogen Bomb (RDS-220) which is 3,800 times more powerful.
To get an approximate — and disturbing — sense of the destructive power of these nuclear weapons, Alex Wellerstein, a Stevens Institute of Technology professor, using declassified information, has developed an interactive map that enables the user to model the effects of nuclear weapons explosion on virtually any city. The map, which can be found at https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap, can simulate blast perimeters, casualties and other grisly metrics of would-be nuclear weapons events. c
This is how Nagasaki looked four years after the bombing. The single bomb destroyed everything over a 4-mile area. (Photo: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel files)
For example, if the Russian nuclear bomb Topol SS-25, (800 kt) ow in the Russian arsenal, were to drop on New York city it would kill 1.6 million people and injure 2.9 million. If the U.S. retaliated and sent just one nuclear warhead W-59 (1mt) on a minute-man missile to Moscow, 1.2 million people would die instantly and 3.6 million would be injured. If North Korea launched a nuclear bomb, that was tested in 2017 (150 kt), striking Seoul, South Korea, there would be 417,000 dead and 1.9 million injured.
The description of the effects on humans from a nuclear blast is so horrifying that it need not be described in detail here. Those in the area of the center of the blast would be vaporized so quickly that human nerves would not have time to respond to pain. Those further out in the perimeter of the blast pattern would die slow, agonizing deaths from burns and radiation poisoning lasting weeks or months. In addition, the fallout of radioactive material would not only contaminate the blast area, but could possibly spread thousands of miles to kill others and damage the ecosystem of the planet. To think there could be a limited nuclear war is a fool's fantasy.
Nuclear weapons are the most terrifying weapon ever invented by man. Yet, bigger and more powerful ones continue to be built.
It seems mankind has not learned a lesson from those fateful days in August 1945.
Contact Carl J. Asszony at njveteran30@gmail.com.
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 január 10. – Az FBI világméretű nyomozásba kezd az illegális kópiák készítői és forgalmazói után. A filmkalózok évi 800 millió dolláros kárt okoznak az USA-ban.
 február 22. – A Berlini Nemzetközi Filmfesztiválon versenyen kívül bemutatott A szarvasvadász című film elleni tiltakozásul a Szovjetunió visszavonja benevezett filmjeit. Románia kivételével a többi kommunista ország is követi a szovjet példát és a delegációk kivonulnak a vetítésről.
 április 9. – Az Oscar-díj átvételekor Jane Fonda Michael Cimino szemére veti, hogy A szarvasvadász című filmje a vietnámi háború rasszista interpretációja.
augusztus – Az USA több városában vallásos csoportok tiltakoznak a Monty Python filmje, a Brian élete bemutatása ellen, mert véleményük szerint istenkáromló ábrázolásai sértik a hívő emberek vallásos érzelmeit.
 szeptember 22. – A hamburgi filmtárlaton, melyen 43 német rendező vesz részt, kiadják a Hamburgi nyilatkozatot, amelyben a német filmkészítők tiltakoznak a választmányok és televíziós intézmények filmgyártásra gyakorolt befolyásának erősödése ellen.

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 Rocky II. – főszereplő és rendező Sylvester Stallone
 A nyolcadik utas: a Halál (Alien) – rendező Ridley Scott
 A rettegés háza – rendező Stuart Rosenberg
 Star Trek: Csillagösvény – rendező Robert Wise
 Moonraker – rendező Lewis Gilbert
 The Muppet Movie – rendező James Frawley
 Hair – rendező Miloš Forman

Magyar filmek
 Ajándék ez a nap – rendező Gothár Péter
 Angi Vera – rendező Gábor Pál
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 BUÉK! – rendező Szörény Rezső
 Családi tűzfészek – rendező Tarr Béla
 Az erőd  – rendező Szinetár Miklós
 Égigérő fű – rendező Palásthy György
 Fagyöngyök – rendező Ember Judit
 Fekete rózsa – rendező Szőnyi G. Sándor
 Indul a bakterház – rendező Mihályfy Sándor
 A kedves szomszéd – rendező Kézdi-Kovács Zsolt
 A kis Valentinó – rendező Jeles András
 Magyar rapszódia – rendező Jancsó Miklós
 Magyarok a prérin – rendező Révész György
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 Minden szerdán – rendező Gyarmathy Lívia
 Októberi vasárnap – rendező Kovács András
 Rosszemberek – rendező Szomjas György
 Szabadíts meg a gonosztól – rendező Sándor Pál
 A trombitás – rendező Rózsa János
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 Útközben – rendező Mészáros Márta
 Verzió – rendező Erdély Miklós

Díjak, fesztiválok
 Oscar-díj (április 9.)
Film: A szarvasvadász
Rendező: Michael Cinoimo – A szarvasvadász
Férfi főszereplő: John Voight – Hazatérés
Női főszereplő: Jane Fonda – Hazatérés
Külföldi film: Készítsétek a zsebkendőiteket! – Bertrand Blier
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Film: L'Argent des autres, rendezte Christian de Chalonge
Rendező: Christian de Chalonge, L'Argent des autres
Férfi főszereplő: Michel Serrault, Őrült nők ketrece
Női főszereplő: Romy Schneider, Egyszerű eset
Külföldi film: A facipő fája, rendezte Ermanno Olmi
 1979-es cannes-i filmfesztivál
 Berlini Nemzetközi Filmfesztivál (február 20-március 3)
Arany Medve: David – Peter Lilienthal
Rendező: Astrid Henning-Jensen – Téli gyerekek
Férfi főszereplő: Michele Placido – Ernesto
Női főszereplő: Hanna Schygulla – Maria Braun házassága
 Velencei Nemzetközi Filmfesztivál (augusztus 25-szeptember 4)
Arany Oroszlán: nem adták ki
Férfi főszereplő: Jevgenyij Leonov – Őszi maraton
Női főszereplő: Otova Nobuko – Az akasztás
 1979-es Magyar Filmszemle

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Tiny particle, big payoff
Innovative virus research may save wheat and other crops
Credit: Ayala Rao/UCR
UC Riverside scientists have solved a 20-year-old genetics puzzle that could result in ways to protect wheat, barley, and other crops from a devastating infection.
Ayala Rao, professor of plant pathology and microbiology, has been studying Brome Mosaic virus for decades. Unlike some viruses, the genetic material of this virus is divided into three particles that until now were impossible to tell apart.
"Without a more definitive picture of the differences between these particles, we couldn't fully understand how they work together to initiate an infection that destroys food crops," Rao said. "Our approach to this problem has brought an important part of this picture into very clear focus."
A paper describing the work Rao's team did to differentiate these particles was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Inside each of the particles is a strand of RNA, the genetic material that controls the production of proteins. The proteins perform different tasks, some of which cause stunted growth, lesions, and ultimately death of infected host plants.
Two decades ago, scientists used the average of all three particles to create a basic description of their structure. In order to differentiate them, Rao first needed to separate them, and get them into their most pure form.
Using a genetic engineering technique, Rao's team disabled the pathogenic aspects of the virus and infused the viral genes with a host plant.
"This bacterium inserts its genome into the plant's cells, similar to the way HIV inserts itself into human cells," Rao said. "We were then able to isolate the viral particles in the plants and determine their structure using electron microscopes and computer-based technology."
Now that one of the particles is fully mapped, it's clear the first two particles are more stable than the third.
"Once we alter the stability, we can manipulate how RNA gets released into the plants," Rao said. "We can make the third particle more stable, so it doesn't release RNA and the infection gets delayed."
This work was made possible by a grant from the University of California Multicampus Research Program and Initiatives. Professors Wiliam Gelbart and Hong Zhou of UCLA, as well as graduate students Antara Chakravarthy of UCR and Christian Beren of UCLA, made significant contributions to this project.
Moving forward, Rao is hoping to bring the other two viral particles into sharper focus with the expertise of scientists at UCLA and UC San Diego.
Brome Mosaic virus primarily affects grasses such as wheat and barley, and occasionally affects soybeans as well. According to Rao, it is nearly identical to Cucumber Mosaic virus, which infects cucumbers as well as tomatoes and other crops that are important to California agriculture.
Not only could this research lead to the protection of multiple kinds of crops, it could advance the understanding of any virus.
"It is much easier to work with plant viruses because they're easier and less expensive to grow and isolate," Rao said. "But what we learn about the principles of replication are applicable to human and animal viruses too."
Jules Bernstein
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/05/14/tiny-particle-big-payoff
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Party Name: Cleveland SPRADLEY, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.
Attorney: Michael E. Allen, Public Defender; P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Assistant Public Defender, for Appellant.
Florida Court of Appeals, First District.
Michael E. Allen, Public Defender, P. Douglas Brinkmeyer, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant.
Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Kurt L. Barch, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
The relevant facts in this case are that, upon arriving home one evening, the victim saw that a light was on in the back room. The victim entered the room and observed a pair of legs in a sliding closet. Before he knew what was happening, he was on the floor and had been hit several times. It was later discovered that a bowl of coins and a pair of socks had been stolen.
Appellant was subsequently charged and found guilty of the above three charges. Appellant was sentenced to 4 1/2 years imprisonment followed by 15 years probation for the burglary; a concurrent term of 60 days for the petit theft; and a concurrent term of one year for the battery.
At issue in this case is whether appellant's convictions and sentences for both burglary with a battery and battery violate the state and federal constitutions' prohibition against double jeopardy, i.e., against subjecting a defendant to multiple punishments for the same offense. We conclude that appellant's double jeopardy rights have been violated.
The Double Jeopardy Clause is cast explicitly in terms of being "twice put in jeopardy." This clause has consistently been interpreted to protect an individual against multiple punishments for the same offense. North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711, 89 S.Ct. 2072, 23 L.Ed.2d 656 (1969). The Double Jeopardy Clause's protection against multiple punishments, however, with respect to cumulative sentences imposed in a single trial, does no more than prevent the sentencing court from prescribing greater punishment than the legislature intended. Missouri v. Hunter, 459 U.S. 359, 103 S.Ct. 673, 74 L.Ed.2d 535 (1983). It is the legislature, and not the courts, that prescribe the scope of punishments. 459 U.S. at 368, 103 S.Ct. at 679.


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MainAll NewsPolitics & Gov'tGadid Residents Trying to Remain for Sabbath
Gadid Residents Trying to Remain for Sabbath
Hundreds of police and soldiers were trying early Friday afternoon to round up infiltrators hiding in houses and greenhouses in Gadid, Gush Katif, before the start of the Sabbath at sundown.
Nissan Ratzlav-Katz, 19/08/05 10:18 | updated: 09:58
Expulsion forces Friday morning evacuated virtually all of the youth who were perched on rooftops and in the synagogue. One girl was treated on the scene after slipping on oil she was preparing to throw from the roof on soldiers and police.
An estimated 100-200 youths have taken up positions in empty homes and green houses in Gadid, in an effort to prevent their evacuation before sundown, when the Jewish Sabbath begins. The government has stated there will be no evacuation during the Sabbath.
There remain about 10 resident families in Gadid, as well as approximately 250 supporters from outside who in the set tires on fire Friday morning to slow down the eviction forces at the entrance of the town. Security forces used a bulldozer to clear an entrance.
Most of the forced evacuation has been non-violent, as has been the case throughout the Jewish towns that have been depopulated thus far.
Those remaining in the community took out a Torah scrolls and prayed in a farewell ceremony before soldiers entered the synagogue and carried them out.
A number of families that voluntarily left Gadid on Tuesday were taken to a hotel in N'vei Ilan, in the Jerusalem area. The families explained Wednesday morning that the hotel is not at all equipped to meet their minimal needs and is not suitable to accommodate children, "not even for a Sabbath weekend."
People who were promised houses with two bedrooms, to accommodate the parents and two children, have been placed in a single room with two beds for a family of four. One of the Gadid refugees, Tzvika Goddesman, told Israel Radio this week that the families were informed that the rooms are their new homes for the next ten days, not giving them a hint what awaits them following that period.


Tuesday threatened to congeal into a busy day on Crane Mountain's ice. Shaun, an erstwhile client of mine, has continued climbing ice on his own for a few years now. He emailed me about a visit to Crane. I was delighted to show him around the joint, but might have to work, so I called up the ever-ready Tom Lane to see if he could show Shaun around should I be unable to do so. Not long thereafter, I received a message from another person planning to visit Crane the same day. He would be coming up from downstate and wanted info about getting to the Waterfall Wall. As Monday evening arrived, so too did Shaun, as well as an email from Steve confirming his plan to come to Crane, with one or two other people. Before the evening was over, Ben called to see if he could get out on ice Tuesday. I was starting to think I'd have to pull off a sock to keep count of who was coming, but things settled down after that and we all got some sleep.
Tuesday morning, it was cold, but the sky was clear and the air was calm. My phone was, too, which meant I could join any crowd that came. The crowd whittled down a bit with that news: Tom had skied hard, fast, and continuously the day before, and was happy to get some rest today. Steve's party arrived, a party of two. Ben, who works a late night job, didn't make it. The potential for seven on ice didn't come to pass. But four is a good even number, and four it was who headed out this morning for a run up the Waterfall Wall.
Steve and Paul were earlybirds, getting to my house by 7:15am and heading toward the ice before 8. Shaun and I took a more casual pace, since I had to make a few calls before leaving the house. We hit the trail at 9. By the time we reached the flow, the other two were out of sight.
Speedily eating up the second pitch.
No matter. Shaun led rapidly up the first three pitches, we walked the fourth to the base of the fifth, and he led just as swiftly up that one. By the time we reached the top of the penultimate pitch, Steve and Paul were setting a TR on the top one.
I walked around to set our rope on the mixed line to the right, and soon the four of us were swapping lines to sample both the steep ice and the joys of mixed climbing.
Steve and Paul ran their laps and said good-bye. I mentioned that their walk down would pass directly by Fifi's Frozen Fingers, but they assured me they were calling it a day. I mentioned that it might be too tempting to pass up, but waved farewell regardless as they descended southward.
Shaun and I ran our laps on the mixed variation, then broke down the anchors and headed south ourselves. We had no intention of passing up Fifi's. And I noticed as I scrambled up to set the TR, there were fresh footprints heading the same way. Apparently, it was indeed too alluring.
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This is the goal of the province's master plan on tourism development until 2025, with a vision to 2030.
Ninh Binh looks to attract 1 million foreign arrivals and 7 million domestic visitors by 2020, 1.5 million and 9 million by 2025, and 2.1 million and 11.2 million by 2030. Meanwhile, tourism revenue is expected at over VND4.2 trillion (US$179.7 million), VND11.8 trillion (US$504.8 million), and VND27 trillion (US$1.15 billion), respectively.
Ninh Binh province is an increasingly favourite destination of tourists from across Vietnam and other countries. It is home to many renowned landscapes, historical relics, traditional craft villages, and various specialities.
Notably, the Trang An Landscape Complex is a UNESCO-recognised World Heritage Site of both natural and cultural importance.
According to the provincial Department of Tourism, Ninh Binh welcomed more than 7 million visitors and earned over VND2.5 trillion (US$107 million) from this industry in 2017, respectively rising by 9.5% and 43% year on year.
In the last eight months, over 6 million vacationers chose Ninh Binh as their destination, helping the province gain VND2.3 trillion (US$98.4 million) in tourism revenue, up 5% and 18.8% from the same period last year, respectively.


Wat Tha Kaek was one more temple we came across when driving through the district town of Chian Khan. The Ubosot was fully made of concrete and seemed to be very new. We could not find out if it replaced an older building or why it was built. The temple buildings are located in a wooded area outside of the city.


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Synthesis and characterization of an open-pore toxic-element-free Ti-based bulk metallic glass foam for bio-implant application
Y. C. Liao, S. M. Song, T. H. Li, J. B. Li, P. H. Tsai, J. S.C. Jang, C. H. Huang, J. C. Huang, Y. S. Huang, C. H. Lin, Y. S. Lin, C. H. Chen
Graduate Institute of Materials Science and Engineering
A series of porous toxic-element-free Ti42Zr40Si15Ta3 bulk metallic glass with 13-54 vol.% porosity are produced via powder metallurgy by the space holder method. The amorphous nature, foam morphology, mechanical properties, electrochemical response in simulation body fluid and in-vivo biocompatibility responses are systematically investigated. Results show that these open-cell Ti-based bulk metallic glass foams (BMGFs) exhibit yield strength from 140 to 730 MPa and Young's moduli from 8 to 53 GPa, matching very well with the mechanical properties of human bone and the estimated data by theoretical models. Compared to the bulk metallic glass (BMG) of the same composition, the high exposed surface area of the produced Ti-based BMGFs exhibited higher current in the cyclic voltammetry (CV) and potential state tests. However, no specific peak corresponding to the oxidation or reduction response of the composition elements is found in the electrochemical test. Moreover, the six-month in-vivo tests in New Zealand white rabbits shows that the good osteo-integration between the newly growth bone and the implanted Ti-based BMGFs, making them promising new candidates for bio-implant applications in avoiding stress shielding or bio-unfriendly symptoms.
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"If" Richard III had won at Bosworth? | Historical Debates | Forum
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Waltheofshire
If the ultimate victory of the Wars of the Roses at the infamous Battle of Bosworth in 1485 had gone to the experienced and previously loyal Prince Richard (III), what would have become of England?
Henry Bolingbroke was amongst the last Lancastrian hopes of winning (due to the exhaustive and brutal wars and summary executions) and, had he failed, the Yorkists would have ultimately won- probably no Henry VIII; Elizabeth; Edward VI or Mary…?
No Shakespeare (or De Vere?)- or would there have been a totally different re-write of history by the same writer, or indeed a pro-Yorkist Sir Thomas More?
Would another Lancastrian opponent (or Yorkist Hastings line revolt?) in time have raised foreign armies against King Richard, as did Henry (VIII) in 1485? What chance of success against a proven warrior-king?
What future would have developed with Henry VIII? No dissolution of the monasteries? A Catholic England and thus no Spanish Armada?…
Would there have ever been an Anglo-Scottish union ?
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Impish_Impulse
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I love 'what-if's. I read a book that was explaining how any of a dozen seemingly small things could have lost us our War of Independence. I was delighted that one of them was the outcome of the Battle of Cowpens. It's not a well-known battle, but one in which my great-great-great-great grandfather fought. The victory helped to keep the Southern states in the war, without which the Northern states could not have continued to fight.
So, I firmly believe English, and indeed world, history would have been enormously different had there been a different outcome to the Battle of Bosworth.
"Don't knock at death's door.
Ring the bell and run. He hates that."
Boleynfan
I completely agree. A different outcome to the Battle of Bosworth would change everything!! No Henry? Mary? ELIZABETH??? Wow…it would change everything I repeat…
"Grumble all you like, this is how it's going to be"
i think that had Richard won at Bosworth – or merely had Henry Tudor been killed by a rearing horse or chance arrow – Richard would probably have been reasonably secure for the immediate future. he would have built up an admirable record of putting down rebellions, making such adventures very unattractive propositions, and the number of serious contenders for the throne would have been pretty slim: after the death of Henry Tudor there were no Lancastrian candidates left, and the only Yorkists were Richard himself, John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln, and Edward, Earl of Warwick.
probably worth pointing out at this point that in 1485 mere geneology did not make you a serious contender for the throne – Geneology, being male, of fighting age, having an Army and deep pockets, or being supported by someone with an Army and deep pockets, made you a serious contender for the throne. the number of such people was limited in the extreme…
how it would effect history is difficult to gauge – the betting money appears to be on Richard marrying a Spanish or Portugese princess, as happened with Arthur Tudor and Henry VIII, the big question being the cut with Rome and the reformation: the reformation didn't just happen because Henry VIII had an itch in his crotch, it was a continent wide process, and to some degree there's certainly an element of inevitability in it happening. obviously there would be differences in timing, nature, process etc.. but its important to recognise that for Kings, protestantism/anti-Romanism meant not being subservient to another King (who was called a Pope), and having greater temporal power in their own kingdom. that makes it very attractive, regardless of the personal feelings of those involved.
a post-Bosworth Richard does however have one big problem – the other Yorkists: at Bosworth John de la Pole, as Richards nephew, was almost certainly Richards heir apparent, that would therefore keep him 'in the fold'. however, if Richard then re-married and had children, John would lose his status as heir apparent (as would Edward, Earl of Warwick – another nephew), which might well put them in the 'potential replacement' camp. similarly he has a problem with Edward IV's daughters – if he married them off to senior nobility with Royal blood (pretty much all of them..) he is creating rival 'royal families' of the likes of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, if he didn't marry them off he makes them targets for adventurers like Henry Tudor who are waaaaaaay down the list, but who give it a go anyway.
that said, none of these problems are worse than being dead in Leicestershire.
lybertyne
I often wonder about the religion of England had Richard III won at Bosworth. I have a lot of Huguenots in my ancestry who came to England as refugees after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. If England was a devoutly Catholic nation then they wouldn't have come here and I wouldn't exist.
I've just finished The Kingmaker's daughter by S.W.M.N.B.N. It's the usually fantasy that one has come to expect from her, but she does raise some very intriquing points in it.
Did Anne (Richard's wife) order the deaths of the Princes.?
Was Richard having a sexual affair with Elizabeth of York?
Did Richard intend to marry Elizabeth if he had won Bosworth?
Was it as S.W.M.N.B.N puts it that Richard had intened to give the impression that Elizabeth was his lover dishonouring her in the eyes of Henry Tulip, who had pledged himself to her. Had Richard hoped that by keeping Elizabeth by his side whether she was his lover or not, that he hoped, that the followers of the House of York would stay true to him, because of their love for Elizabeth.
if my memory is working i think Richard was in initial negotiations to marry a Portugese Princess. a match with Elizabeth of York was, even for the times, a bit 'euwww' for someone looking to unite the House of York – it also posed a very large problem: in order to marry Elizabeth, Richard would have to have her 'de-bastardised' – and if she were 'de-bastardised', so would her brothers be, and that might lead to awkward questions about where they were…
i rather doubt that anyone would kill off a pair of Royal Princes – and thats what they were – on the say so of a Queen Consort, a mere woman. its a reasonable view, that with the Princes alive Edward of Middleham and indeed Richard III would never really be secure and always vunerable to a rebellion in the Princes names – but given the attitudes of the time, i just don't see anyone doing it without being resonably sure that it was Richards policy as well. its a possibility of course, as are any number of other culprits in an age of instability, family/dinastic loyalty and not a little desperation, but the risks are significant.
i think that Richard had enough problems on his plate without stirring up the 'euww' factor of pretending to shag his niece. marrying her off to friendly power was a much easier way to put her out of Henry Tudors reach. that said, his wife and son have died within the last 18 months, he faces rebellion and discontent, some of the people he really counted on to support his regime rebelled against him, the old certainty of the House of York standing united against Lancaster has fallen away, both his brothers are dead and he finds himself in the top chair in a way thats not been the case before. in that position, all manner of previously silly ideas might start to look sensible or even desirable. Elizabeth of York is accounted by all as very, very attractive, and its is claimed in some of the source material that they were personally close (as neice and uncle). her father is dead, her brothers are dead/missing, and her mother is trying to flog her off to some welsh/french nobody – Richard is claimed to be personally affable, faithfull to his (now dead) wife, solicitous to his own children and those of his brothers (apart, obviously, from the ones who've disappeared..), a capable soldier, trusted brother, a 'good lord' to the north and a fair judge and decent administrator. people in very desperate/odd situations feel emotions we probably don't understand and make decisions they otherwise wouldn't make…
am about to read Josephine Wilkinson's Richard III – we'll see what she has to say.
Did Anne order the death of the princes? You have got to be kidding me!
No, Richard was not going to marry Elizabeth of York. No again to the affair.
What is it with PG and these historical women? She goes from one era to another trashing the women.
Yes he was the idea was that there was to be a double allience between England and Portugal, in the sence of that Richard would marry Joanna, and Elizabeth would marry Manuel 1, however these plans were scuppered come the death of Richard at Bosworth.
It wasn't uncommon for a man to marry his niece back then, or indeed a Nephew marrying his Aunt. Although today we view the whole thing as sickening and incestious. The Hapsburg family for instance interbred for years and as a result nearly all the children had some sort of genetic defect. the most common feature of this would be what was called the Hapsburg Jaw. This inbreeding did eventually finish off the Hapsburg line of kings in the end.
All that would be needed to make these marriages legal would have been a dispensation from the Pope.
This marriage would have been called an Avunculate marriage.
To state a few examples of where a niece and an uncle married, or a Nephew and Aunt have married
Leonidas, King of Sparta and his half-niece, Gorgo[4]
Roman Emperor Claudius and his fourth wife and niece, Agrippina the Younger
Vietnamese Prince Tran Hung Dao and his consort and paternal aunt, Princess Thien Thanh
Joanna of Naples and her nephew, King Ferdinand II of Naples (1496)
Philip II of Spain and his niece, Anna of Austria (fourth wife) (1570)
Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria, and his niece, Anne Juliana Gonzaga (1582)
Chiefess Kapohauola and her nephew, Chief Kakaʻe
Philip IV of Spain and his niece, Mariana of Austria (second wife) (1646)
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), lived in concubinage with his niece, Marie Louise Mignot Denis.[5]
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia and his niece Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1755)
Pedro III of Portugal and his niece Maria I of Portugal (1760)
Infanta Benedita and her nephew, José, Prince of Brazil (1777)
King Kamehameha the Great of Hawaiʻi and his niece, Queen Keōpūolani (c.1796)
Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, Prime Minister of Naples and his niece Marianna Acton (1799)
Francis IV, Duke of Modena, and his niece, Maria Beatrice of Savoy (titular queen of England and Scotland according to the Jacobite succession) (1812)
Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, and his niece, Infanta Maria Francisca of Portugal (1816), and later his niece, Maria Teresa of Portugal (1838)
Kamehameha II and his half-niece Kalani Pauahi
Ferdinand VII of Spain and his niece Maria Isabel of Portugal (1816), and later his niece Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies (1829)
Infante Francisco de Paula of Spain and his niece Princess Luisa Carlotta of Naples and Sicily (1819)
James Mayer de Rothschild, founder of the French branch of the Rothschild banking family, and his niece Betty Salomon von Rothschild (c.1825).
Richard von Metternich (son of the famous Austrian Chancellor) and his niece, Pauline von Metternich (1856).
Amadeo I of Spain and his niece, Maria Letizia Bonaparte (second wife) (1888)
Porfirio Díaz, president of Mexico (1876–80, 1884–1911), and his niece Delfina Ortega Diaz[citation needed]
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish novelist, and his niece, Maria Babska.[6] (1904)
Klara Hitler, daughter of Johann Pölzl and Johanna Hiedler and Adolf Hitler's mother. Either her grandfather Johann Nepomuk Hiedler or his brother was likely her husband Alois Hitler's biological father. Moreover, Johann was her future husband's step-uncle. Even after they were married, Klara still called her husband "uncle".
And bear in mind that Egyptian sociaty hadn't got a problem with marrying brother and sister. King Tut married his half sister, Cleopatra married her brother. and to make things even worse the Khufu (The great pyramid fame) Actually married 2 of his own daughters, and is said to have fathered children with them.
Yep you are right there Sharon. It's not enough that she portrays both Anne and Elizabeth as 2 sex crazed murdering nyphomaniacs. Made me laugh when she said in one of her interviews "But I like Anne truly I do but she was probably almost certainly guilty of adultery against Henry." BAH HUMBUG. Bloody woman lives in cloud cuckoo land.
It's a wonder she hasn't come out with Queen Victoria was really a man called Neville, and he fathered 9 children with Prince Albert who was really a woman called Gladys. Shut your trap Boleyn don't want to be giving S.W.M.N.B.N any ideas now do we.. LOL
Steve Callaghan
Whenever I see her on tv, I always get the impression that PG is in love with herself.
SteveJ said
She is. Steve, she only needs a a bowl of water in front of her to be like Narcissus, he fell in love with his reflection from a lake.
I do not remember Anne Neville ordering the Prince's death in that book? Gregory has always firmly accused Margaret Beaufort and the Tudors of engineering the Prince's murders and plays that out in the Red Queen.
As for his plans to marry his niece, his peers heard of it and forced him to withdraw it, according to the Croyland Chronicle. Also apparently a letter of Elizabeth's was discovered which proves she was willing to marry her uncle, I haven't really read enough on it to draw any conclusions, but there is contemporary evidence the rumour existed in any case, and Richard was forced to make a public denial. Whether the chronicle is 100% accurate is another matter.
As for the sexual relationship, it makes for drama. Obviously it didn't happen. It makes sense continuity-wise, a relationship between the two anyway, as I've just finished White Princess and see where she went with it. I still don't like it.
I suppose what I should of said was that S.W.M.N.B.N implied that Anne Neville was to blame for the Princes deaths? There was a conversation between her and the Keeper of the Tower, in which the keeper asked her what she thought he should do with the Princes, I think it was him that made the suggestion that they should be got rid of to safeguard Richard's throne and that she nodded in agreement which was taken by the keeper that she agreed with him. I can't have taken a lot of notice as I was probably starting to drift off into a coma, from reading it.
I agree with you about the Red Queen S.W.M.N.B.N did lay the blame squarely at Margaret Beaufort's Hand, and I will agree that she had as much to gain by their deaths as Richard did, perhaps more so, but I cannot accept that she was responsible for their deaths, any more than Richard was.
I still feel that Buckingham was the mastermind behind the mystery of the missing Princes, I don't know why it's just my gut reaction.
I hope this is okay. I took this from a Q&A on another page. Susan Higginbotham's answer about the rumor of Richard and Elizabeth.
There were rumors after the death of Richard III's wife that Richard planned to marry Elizabeth of York. Richard had to publicly deny the rumors.
The story that Elizabeth of York was in love with her uncle comes from George Buck, who claimed in 1619 to have seen a letter from Elizabeth of York to the Duke of Norfolk in which she asked Norfolk "to be a mediator for her in the cause of [the marriage] to the king who (as she wrote) was her only joy and her maker in the world, and that she was his hart, in thoughts, and in all, and then she intimated that the better half of Feb was past, and that she feared the queen would never [die]." The original letter itself doesn't survive, so we have no way of knowing how accurately Buck was recalling it. To make matters worse, Buck's damaged manuscript was corrupted by the editorial efforts of his great-nephew. The letter can be interpreted to mean that Elizabeth was asking Norfolk to help promote her marriage to the not-yet-widowed king, or it can be interpreted to mean that Elizabeth was asking that Norfolk help in her efforts to get Richard to arrange her marriage to someone else.
There is evidence that Richard was negotiating for Portuguese marriages for both himself and for Elizabeth after the death of Richard's wife.
Was it possible Sharon that she was more than willing to marry Henry Tulip, and her letter to Norfolk was to get him to help her to get Richard to agree to her marriage to Henry Tulip. Richard as we know from the minute he had claimed the throne was determined to get rid of Henry Tulip once and for all, and perhaps the reason to why he had Elizabeth constantly with him is to prevent her from escaping from England and marrying Henry Tulip without Royal permission. Richard I believe felt that he was the better man in the battle stakes line and indeed he was he was literely cut his teeth in the heat of battle. Henry so I have heard when he landed at Milford Haven was viewed with suspision and people were reluctant to follow him. I can understand that after all to the locals this man (Henry) was completely unknown to them. I believe that Richard would have easily beaten Henry Tulip's rag tag army if Lord Stanley and his affinity hadn't turned against Richard just when they were needed most.
History repeats again where Richard is concerned, because didn't Edward (his brother) negotiate with Portugal concerning a possible bride for himself before admitting he had married Elizabeth Woodville. and King John did the same thing as well. His Portugal bride deal was all but rubber stamped, sealed and parcelled up all ready to be put on a boat to England when he said "No can do pal I've already married Isabella of Angouleme"
Thanks Sharon, and I'm sure Susan won't mind. That makes it clear at least.
Bo I actually don't remember that part in the book, it's been ages since I read it. I suppose she's playing out the act of murder from different points of view there and who feels responsible.
As for who was actually responsible, that's a matter for the Richard III society VS mankind.
Not all Richardians think he's totally innocent of every crime thrown his way..including the deaths of the Princes..we are in the minorty though.
I don't think the documentary The King in the Car Park did the Richard III society any favours in the way of members being unbiased Anyanka, I nearly chucked the telly out the window when that woman sobbed through the entire thing. As an aside I'm attempting to join my local branch but they don't seem to have grasped the concept of email, I may have join the UK branch.
Meanwhile, this is fun
http://www.susanhigginbotham.c…..loucester/
I have to wholeheartedly admit to number 5.
Yes I agree with that Olga, I must admit there were a few bite marks in my sofa, over her continued blubbing everytime they did anything. I also feel that she got stroppy and threw a hissy fit when they told her that Richard did have a deformaty. Personally I am glad they found out that he did have a deformaty, because it showed in my opinion, having a disability is no barrier to doing what you want to do. Richard obvisously refused to allow it to control his life, and was a fierce fighter who died on the battlefield, rather than sitting on his horse watching and directing his troops he got stuck in. Good for him.
Little bit of trivia here but another one of those disability being no barrier jobs. There was back in the dark ages of Britain's turbulant and very stormy past a king who was called Ivar the boneless the reason being that he was a cripple and had to be carried every where on a sheild, but even so he was a good king, and his army conquerored York.


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