Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm, photographed at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England.
After more than three decades making some of the most successful movies of our time, Kathleen Kennedy has become something of an icon. She is perhaps the most powerful woman in Hollywood, but she does not talk much about what it is like being a female executive in a male-dominated industry. That is not her style. Nor is she self-deprecating. She prefers just to have people watch what she does. She is exceedingly uneasy about promoting her own story—unusual for Hollywood, where people rarely take less credit than they deserve.
In November, before the release of The Force Awakens, I met with Kennedy in her office on the seventh floor of the main building on the Lucasfilm campus, in San Francisco's Presidio park. Kennedy has shoulder-length brown hair and bright-blue eyes that are so vivid I wondered if she wore tinted contacts. (She does not.) Her spacious quarters are decorated in dark wood, Mission-style, and she displays photos of her daughters, now teenagers, when they were in grade school, dressed up as Princess Leia and Darth Vader. She unearthed the pictures when she started as the company's new co-chair, in 2012. (The older girl is now in college and the younger one is finishing high school.) Her office is pristine, partly because she is barely there. She spends much of her time in London (where The Force Awakens was largely filmed, at Pinewood Studios, and where she and her husband currently live) between working trips to San Francisco (Lucasfilm's headquarters) and Los Angeles (where the parent company, Disney, is based). Shooting big movies at Pinewood dates back to the early James Bond films.
Kennedy grew up in Redding, California. Her mother was active in the local theater, her father a judge. She has described her childhood as a time when she was given tremendous freedom. She attended San Diego State University, with a major in film and telecommunications, and, after graduating, worked behind a camera for a local news program. She told me that one of her earliest influences in film was David Lean, the director of Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai. In the course of mentioning her early inspirations—Truffaut, Antonioni, Fellini, Bergman—she also referred to being influenced by "Francis," as in Francis Ford Coppola, today a close friend. Kennedy confessed to having looked down her nose at one of the biggest films of the era—Spielberg's Jaws—which she regarded at the time as too lowbrow. "I was in my 70s cinephile phase," she said, shaking her head. "It's so insane." Then, in 1977, she saw Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which persuaded her to go into the movie business. She got a job as an assistant to John Milius, who was then working as a producer for 1941, directed by Spielberg. Spielberg soon hired Kennedy away as his own assistant, and they worked together on Raiders of the Lost Ark, with George Lucas. It was a formative experience for all of them. For one thing, everyone came down with dysentery during filming in Tunisia. That's why, Harrison Ford would later say, he argued for just shooting the evil master swordsman rather than engaging in a lengthy fight scene.
Kennedy and Marshall met during the making of Raiders of the Lost Ark, which Marshall was producing. "Steven asked us to build a couple of models, to figure out the truck-chase scene," Marshall told me. Kennedy offered that she liked to build things. "And we spent a whole weekend making jeeps and tanks and trucks, and I thought, Huh, I think I'm in love!" The pair went on to form Amblin Entertainment with Spielberg in 1982.
She and Marshall and Spielberg went on a tear, producing a string of successful films at Amblin, including Gremlins, Back to the Future, and The Color Purple. Kennedy and Marshall also got married; one of the few people from outside their families to attend the wedding, in Italy, was George Lucas. In 1992 they went on to form their own production company, Kennedy/Marshall. It has produced The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Bourne Identity, and Seabiscuit. In 2015, Marshall was a producer of Jurassic World, which was a box-office hit both domestically—just shy of Titanic—and globally. All told, Marshall and Kennedy had quite a year, helping to push worldwide box-office figures to $38 billion, the highest ever.
Outside of Hollywood, Kennedy has remained a relative unknown. "I have loved being pretty anonymous, you know," Kennedy said. "There's nothing I like more than to have one of our movies run, and then I go to the ladies' room and listen to everybody talk about it. No one has any idea who I am." She acknowledged that her days of lurking unrecognized in the ladies' room are probably over.
She agreed to take the reins at Lucasfilm. A few months later, before she could fully settle in, Lucas spoke to her about a possible sale to Disney. "He started to lay out what he was thinking," Kennedy told me. "When he laid it out, he wasn't talking about doing something immediate. It was a kind of 'Down the road, this is something I've been thinking of.' And it was interesting that Disney was always his first choice." As it happened, the decision wasn't down the road at all. Within a few months, Lucas announced the sale of Lucasfilm to Disney for $4 billion.
The transition has worked. This is in part because Lucas had carefully handpicked both his successor and his buyer, and also because Bob Iger, the chairman and C.E.O. of Disney, believes in preserving the culture of the companies he acquires. In terms of personal style, the change from Lucas to Kennedy could not have been more stark. Lucas was a beloved and oddly vulnerable figure in the minds of his employees. Until he chose Kennedy to replace him, no one who worked for Lucas thought there was ever going to be another Star Wars movie; he was bruised and bitter after Episodes I, II, and III, the so-called prequels, had been widely panned. Lucrative as the franchise and its merchandising continued to be, without a big Star Wars movie in the works, Lucasfilm lacked its primary reason for being. Nobody ever questioned Lucas—in fact, nobody made a move without him. "I think this company, for a long time, was driven by waiting to see what George wanted to do," Kennedy told me. "I don't run this company that way. People aren't sitting around waiting to see what Kathy wants to do." As she views it, her staff looks to her for guidance, but they feel more empowered to act without her explicit approval. That said, Kennedy is someone who knows how to set a goal. This is a woman who, in 1989, at the age of 36, won the U.S. nationals for her age class in the javelin, only a few months after taking up the sport. As soon as Kennedy was hired, staffers saw it as a sign that there was going to be another Star Wars film: Kennedy was a consummate moviemaker.
Kennedy has already made directorial choices that showcase her desire for an unconventional approach. While J. J. Abrams, the director of The Force Awakens, had already directed two Star Trek movies and had created the television series Lost, Kennedy is looking at less established directors for future episodes of the saga. Everyone I spoke to at Lucasfilm was talking up Rian Johnson, the director of the next Star Wars movie, the eighth. Johnson was previously best known for directing the 2005 noir indie hit, Brick, starring a young Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who tries to solve his ex-girlfriend's disappearance by infiltrating a crime gang. More recently, Johnson directed several episodes of Breaking Bad, including perhaps the best of the entire series, in which Walter White's brother-in-law, Hank, is executed. Kennedy has also said she wants a woman to direct a Star Wars movie. More than half of her direct reports are women.
Referring to a notorious scene in Return of the Jedi, I asked Kennedy if she would ever have put Princess Leia in a golden bikini—the famous "slave Leia" costume that is embedded in the collective unconscious of legions of men who were adolescents in the 80s. "With a chain around her neck?," Kennedy asked, arching an eyebrow and laughing. "I don't think that would happen." She quickly added that she didn't think George Lucas would put her in that bikini today. Despite rumors, Disney is not banning the image from future Star Wars paraphernalia. Mellody Hobson, Lucas's wife, said, "George is not apologetic about that bikini," elaborating that he had said, "The one thing I know are boys." Hobson went on: "He thinks that was a very important scene. He would probably do the same thing today. He is not apologetic at all." A small statuette of the cast of Return of the Jedi, featuring Leia in her bikini, sits outside Kennedy's office. She hasn't taken it down.


Discover the legacy of Red Wing Stoneware & Pottery The story of Red Wing Stoneware & Pottery, one of the companies featured in our MinnBox Holiday Gift Box, can be traced all the way back to 1861, when a German Immigrant named J. Pohl discovered a large pocket of clay on his land. Pohl was a potter by trade, and he used that clay to make the very first stoneware ever created in the newly founded town of Red Wing, Minnesota. It wasn't long before the residents of Red Wing discovered their hometown was rich in clay. Potters opened companies across the region, with the Red Wing Stoneware Company opening in 1877, supplying farmers with crocks and jugs for food storage. As the country grew and changed, so did the city of Red Wing. The Industrial Revolution led to a migration from farms to cities, and that special clay filled the demand for ceramic sewer pipes all over the now thriving city of Red Wing. The invention of the refrigerator led to a decrease in demand for stoneware food storage, which meant even more change. In 1906 the Red Wing Stoneware Company joined forces with two other potteries to become the Red Wing Union Stoneware Company, producing flower pots, vases, dinnerware and art pottery. Increased access to imports and a union strike signaled another shift in the changing world of stoneware and pottery in the city of Red Wing. Flashforward to 1984, when the dormant company was brought back to new life as the Red Wing Stoneware Company. By the mid-90s potters were again hard at work in the old ways, hand-throwing clay pots and salt-glaze firing them. Today, Red Wing Stoneware & Pottery owners Bruce and Irene Johnson lead a talented team of master potters and stoneware artisans in the creation of handmade, unique pieces crafted from a recipe designed to replicate that same special clay that started it all.


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The 2014 Festival of the Arts also features live musical entertainment, a variety of food stations and hands-on children's craft activities. Situated in an idyllic setting along a one-half-mile walking track on the St. John campus, a diverse representation of mixed media will include jewelry, wearable art, stained glass, basketry, ceramics, watercolors, oils, photography and more. The Festival of the Arts is a juried show and prize money is awarded to winners in several categories.
The Festival of the Arts is easily accessible via two major highways (I-90 and I-480). St. John Medical Center Festival of the Arts is located at 29000 Center Ridge Road in Westlake, Ohio (20 minutes west of downtown Cleveland). Festival directions, as well as additional information, can be found at www.stjohnmedicalcenter.net.


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My daughter loves vegan macaroni and cheese and I thought that I'd prepare some for her tonight. I like to make my own "cheese sauce" (I described this past April the Food for Life recipe that I use) - even my wife, who never liked cheese, likes it, and it has about 1.8 g of fat per serving, which is reasonable). I also like the convenience of the boxed Road's End Organics macaroni and "chreese". A staple in our house is Earth Balance's spreads, which we use as our non-hydrogenated margarine, and now Earth Balance has a new "cheddar mac and cheese".
At her urging, I bought the new Earth Balance product today and made it for her and me. I cooked it with a little onion and chopped kale, and served it with a little smoked tofu. They had some very tasty tomatoes at Whole Foods today that were made with minimal water to give an undiluted tomato flavor, and I served slices atop mixed greens with some dried oregano.
Dinner was good! I liked the Earth Balance product, but I also like the Road's End and my homemade ones. I am happy that my daughter is not only amenable but actually encouraging of mixing vegetables into the macaroni - I was going to add broccoli ("trees") and onion, but she requested kale instead of broccoli. The tomato was great! My daughter enjoyed dinner and said that this new Earth Balance macaroni product is her favorite boxed one.
I thought that I'd do a little comparison of the three approaches to making vegan macaroni and cheese. First, let's consider nutrition. Here are copies from the respective manufacturer's web sites of nutrition facts and ingredients.
While they are both obviously processed and won't be anything but an occasional treat at our house, they clearly aren't duplicate versions of each other. The chreese, like my homemade product, uses tapioca as a thickener. Tapioca works well, but requires much stirring and cooking down with added liquid. A benefit of the Earth Balance product is the ease of preparation since no tapioca is used - just a few tablespoons of plant milk are added to the cooked pasta (and Earth Balance spread, which I skipped), and then the powder packet is just mixed in.
It's difficult to read the small writing in the chreese nutritional information, but both products are comparable in fat with a surprisingly modest 1.5-2g of fat per serving. They are both significant sources of sodium, especially Earth Balance's product with 550 mg (vs. 390 mg) per serving. The chreese product has a good 7g of fiber per serving, while the Earth Balance has only 2g. The chreese product has about twice as much protein, and has significant amounts of iron, B12, and folate.
The sauce that I make has, per serving, 36 calories, .8 g protein, 4.6 g carbohydrate, 1.8 g fat, .3 g fiber, and 223 mg sodium. I don't have the breakdown of the other nutrients, but, depending on the brand of nutritional yeast used, can be a significant source of B12. Of course, this doesn't take into account the pasta that is used, and the other two analyses do.
None is of course suitable as a staple, but they are all reasonable to enjoy once in a while. All three are surprisingly low in fat. My homemade sauce is the low sodium winner. Chreese, however, is the overall winner with significant fiber, B12, and folate, though, of course, the homemade one can be customized.
My wife left this morning for a wedding that she is a bridesmaid for and returns on Monday. So my daughter and I are on my own. At times like these, I like to offer my daughter foods that my wife normally wouldn't eat.
We were thinking of pizza, but I didn't have time to make dough, didn't have a pizza shell, and didn't have the occasional frozen pizza in stock. Macaroni and vegan cheese was another thought, but I didn't have shells or boxed macaroni and "shreese" (there is a new boxed product by Earth Balance that we will pick up soon to try). Soy is healthful and we have tempeh reasonably frequently, but my wife has problems digesting tofu. My daughter and I love tofu and it agrees with us. I picked up a few days ago an interesting tofu pasta.
Tofu Shirataki is made from yams and tofu, and I picked up their angel hair cut. The online hints suggest draining the pasta, patting it dry, chopping it a bit, and then pan sautéing it to dry up the moisture and warm the noodles. Instead, I dried the noodles the best that I could, including gently pressing down on them, chopped them with a few cuts of the knife, then mixed most of them (I saved some - my daughter loved the raw noodles and so I saved some for her to eat for lunch the next day or so) with yummy Victoria Vegan Vodka Sauce that I had on hand. (I had first simmered the sauce, along with some bell pepper, garlic, and onion.) I served with some nutritional yeast (and mixed some red chili pepper into mine).
My daughter loves baby corn and wanted that with dinner. I served it atop raw kale (which she also likes), and heated a vegan smoked apple sage sausage. Both of us enjoyed dinner!
This past weekend for a potluck dinner, we brought a quinoa and chickpea dish that was my wife's creation. I used the Instant Pot to prepare the chickpeas. I found well done step-by-step directions for preparing chickpeas at a nice blog, Low Fat Vegan Chef. Instant Pot recommends a cooking time of 35-40 minutes unsoaked, or 20-25 minutes soaked.
I'll have to fine tune it, such as by adding baking soda, salt, or kombu (my wife likes an Indian chaat spice mix, and uses that instead), but what I did was put dried chickpeas in the Instant Pot, covered the chickpeas with boiling water, and let it sit, covered (I just put the Instant Pot top on), for about an hour (this is the Low Fat Vegan Chef's quick soak method). I drained the chickpeas, put enough water back in to just cover the chickpeas, and cooked for 23 minutes on high pressure. It was good, though it could have cooked a bit more. I think I'll try 25 minutes next time or skip the soaking entirely and just go with 40 minutes in the pressure cooker.
By the way, one reason I got this pressure cooker in the first place was to make yogurt. I found a simple approach that calls for just putting unsweetened soy milk with vegan yogurt starter into the Instant Pot and pressing the yogurt button; it's done 9-10 hours later.
So, on to tonight's dinner. This weekend, my wife mixed the chickpeas with Indian chaat spice, as well as quinoa. It was good but could use more flavor, so I reinvented it tonight. I mixed in some marinara sauce, a bit of chopped onion and chopped shallot, soy sauce, and dried oregano, and simmered for 10-15 minutes. I also sautéed, with no added fat, tempeh and shallot, then put a little soy sauce on top and sprinkled on jerk seasoning.
Dinner was good! My wife and I agreed that the additions were quite worthwhile to the chickpea and quinoa dish.
My daughter was hungry and had in mind some leftovers, but I wanted her to also have some freshly made vegetables. She asked for peas, and I offered peas and carrots; it used to be a staple for me growing up, and I thought that it would come out well cooked waterlessly with my Saladmaster cookware (a healthy way of cooking slowly over low heat). Whole Foods Market had a good sale over the weekend on organic avocados ($1.50 each) and we all enjoyed guacamole.
I put the beet, potato, broccoli stalk, and water in the Instant Pot and let it cook at high pressure for 9 minutes. I was out of garlic and bouillon cubes or would add them, as well (perhaps 3 cloves garlic chopped to 1/4" - they will end up tasting mild like roasted garlic). Instead of a cube of bouillon, I used the broccoli stalk.
I let the pot come down in temperature for a few minutes then let remaining steam out and added the onion, bell pepper, ginger, miso, and black pepper, stirred, and served.
While the beet was cooking, I put the carrots and peas into a small Saladmaster stock pan and cooked waterlessly. To do this, I covered the pan and let it heat up over medium heat till the vapor release started rattling, then I turned the heat down to low to try to get the rattle to stop. I cooked for about 30m, and continued to leave it on till I served, mixed with tarragon and salt.
I also made guacamole with avocado, shallot, lemon juice, salt, black pepper, and rosemary.
Everything was excellent, thanks to the pressure cooker and the waterless cooking. I was particularly surprised by the main course with the beet and potato. The flavor was great, and the bell pepper and fresh onion added welcome crunch. I really enjoyed the peas and carrots - the flavors were intense. The guacamole came out great! An avocado can have 20 or 30g of fat or even more. Though we ate much less than one avocado each, I still won't label this dinner as a no-added-fat one.
Garlic in each of the three dishes would have been nice. I was originally going to saute some tempeh and mix it in with the beet dish but was out of tempeh and came up with the idea of using the miso, which turned out to be a good idea. A little bit of raw onion in the peas and carrots could have been nice.
I thought that I would make a dish with lentils in the Instant Pot pressure cooker. I've had good luck including small squares of kale, and thought that I would experiment with tomato; this past Sunday I enjoyed including green tomato in a pressure-cooked dish, but wanted to try a dish where a more robust tomato flavor would fit in. As a final touch, I had some preserved lemon and thought that it would contribute a nice taste. I was free to spice the dish as I made a vegan grilled cheese sandwich and a variety of vegetables for my daughter.
In the meantime, I put in the potatoes, carrots, kale, half of the onion, and tomato into my large 3 quart Saladmaster stock pot; I should have preheated the pot, but it's okay not to.
I mixed the ingredients then, with no added liquid, covered the pan and set on medium; once the vapor button started rattling, I reduced the heat to low and cooked for 20m.
Once the 20m was up, I mixed the lentils, remaining half onion, salt, and cumin seed into the cooked stock pot ingredients, and served.
I also had made some quinoa (1 : 2 ratio of quinoa to water; I first sautéed some bell pepper and onion, then added the quinoa, water, and bouillon cube, and served with a bit of salt).
Dinner was good! I thought that the potato could have been cooked another few minutes, but my wife liked it as is with a good bite. The combination was good and the moisture was just right and not runny. The lentils went well with the quinoa.
I think I'd cook the vegetables in the stock pot a bit longer so that the potato would have been cooked just a bit more - maybe 5 more minutes. A little bit of jalapeno could go well with the lentils.
I made dinner for just my daughter and myself. Vegan macaroni and "cheese" is one of her favorites, and that's what I made, serving it with salad and a vegan Field Roast sausage.
I don't often eat cauliflower; I occasionally enjoy a bit raw in a salad, or perhaps cooked Indian-style as part of a curried dish. But I've heard of creamy mashed cauliflower and what I've heard is that it's easy and quite tasty. An online search came up with just such a recipe from a blog called A Vegan and a Vitamix. I modified it slightly to double the liquid and garlic, and add nutritional yeast. The recipe calls for initially steaming the cauliflower florets for about 13 minutes, and I used a hint about steaming cauliflower in a pressure cooker which suggested 3 minutes of steaming under high pressure would do (the Instant Pot website has a good summary of pressure steaming). Here is the recipe with these modifications.
I put the trivet (just a little metal basket or shelf to get ingredients up off the water level and off of the pot sides) in the Instant Pot, and put the cup of water in, double checking that the trivet was above the level of the water (it was - if not, I'd reduce the water till it was at least a bit below the trivet).
I then added the cauliflower, closed the pot, and selected "Steam", which is high pressure steaming; I set it to 3 minutes.
When I was ready for the cauliflower, I let out any remaining steam and pressure (just a few minutes later, there was little pressure left), and put the cauliflower into my Vitamix blender (any reasonably powerful blender should do).
I added the rest of the ingredients (garlic, almond milk, nutritional yeast, salt, and pepper) and, using the tamper (a pole that pushes ingredients down into the spinning blades), blended on a variable setting of about 7 (out of 10; beyond that, the blender can go into a high speed mode) till the cauliflower was homogenized. It was soft and pliable, but not runny - for those who want it a bit softer, some more milk could be used.
That's it! I served it, using the plastic Vitamix long spatula to scrape out remnants.
I also made my signature lime-marinated jerk seitan (a video is available) by sautéing with no added fat in a cast iron pan seitan and onion, then mixing in lime and jerk seasoning (I prefer to first marinate the seitan in lime, but not when I am cooking in cast iron), as well as a bit of salt.
Dinner was great! What a nice and easy recipe that cauliflower dish is - it's a winner! I think that I overdid the garlic, though my wife enjoyed it. The nutritional yeast was a good addition - just enough to lend a subtle hint. We always love the limed jerk seitan!
I'd like to try this again but cut the garlic in half. Maybe I should try this as is but with the garlic pressure cooked, making it have a milder roasted flavor. My wife suggested that a little bit of chunk in the form of some raw onion cubes might be nice, though I'm not sure. I wonder what similar dishes would be like with other vegetables like turnips or some other mild vegetable.
While I was preparing the seitan, I came up with an idea - seitan would be good with some raw tomato mixed in (and maybe raw onion) when served. Another idea would be to mix in some pressure cooked green tomato to get just a subtle tomato flavor.
One of the families in my daughter's preschool just had a baby, and I was honored to be on the list of folks bringing a dinner over. I decided to make a stew with Jade pearl rice, as I could easily make a large quantity and save enough for our own dinner before taking the food over.
2 1/2 cups butternut squash, frozen cubes approx. 3/4"
1T ginger, diced to 1/4"
Potatoes or sweet potatoes take 7-9 minutes to cook in my Instant Pot pressure cooker when cut into cubes; frozen chunks of butternut squash take 10-12 minutes; broccoli stalks take 3-4 minutes; carrot chunks, onions take 2-3 minutes; and bell pepper chunks take 1-3 minutes. I wanted the vegetables crispy and knew that I could simmer further to soften, if necessary, so aimed to undercook the recommended times a bit. Here is what I did.
I put all of the potato, squash, sweet potato, the 3 cloves roughly cut garlic, and the cup of water in the electronic pressure cooker and set on high for 3 minutes.
To avoid overcooking, I quick release the steam then added the s a bit. I was surprised - all the ingredients were definitely done and maybe a bit too soft. I was going to add the other ingredients and then return to pressure cooking, but instead just emptied the pot and saved the cooked vegetables.
I quick release the steam, then added the bell pepper, seitan, nutritional yeast, herbs, and black pepper.
I added the baby spinach and stirred. Spinach cooks down nicely but all it needed in this stew is to be stirred in and allowed to sit for a few minutes before serving.
I also made Jade pearl rice by sauteeing, with no added fat, some onion, garlic, mushroom (oops! I had meant to but had forgotten the mushroom!), and bell pepper, then adding a vegan bouillon cube, and water and rice in a 1 1/2 : 1 ratio for 20m.
I have never cooked a stew this way; in the past, I've not pressure cooked and have never included healthful sweet potatoes, squash, or nutritional yeast. I also enjoyed trying using a variety of potatoes and introducing tomato and broccoli stalks. I added a bit of fresh red hot pepper to my wife and my servings, and took some hot pepper to the friends.
I was delighted that the family to whom I took the food all seemed to enjoy the meal, even the young children. My finicky daughter didn't like the stew, but my wife and I did. It had just the right amount of liquid - less and it wouldn't have been a stew.
Larger pieces of the baby fingerlings were just the right consistency, as were all the other vegetables, except the sweet potato, squash, and most of the potatoes. The good news is that this can all be made in one batch by putting all the vegetables except the bell pepper (and seitan, nutritional yeast, and herbs) in the pressure cooker initially and just cooking for 2 minutes! I should try another stew variant with some additional vegetables, such as, perhaps, celery, zucchini, and okra. Not for my wife, who can't digest tofu, but some 3/4" cubes of pressure cooked tofu (as I described on July 6th) would also be good. Chopped kale or mustard greens would be good, too.


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Q: SQL Restore DB frozen at 100% [SQL SERVER 2008 R2] This is the second time I've restored my DB and it freezes at 100% not sure why.
10 percent processed.
20 percent processed.
30 percent processed.
40 percent processed.
50 percent processed.
60 percent processed.
70 percent processed.
80 percent processed.
90 percent processed.
100 percent processed.
Processed 16305440 pages for database 'db1', file 'db1' on file 1.
Processed 74479 pages for database 'db1', file 'db1_log' on file 1.

I've tried using the console for restoring and also running the command directly into the window and it stays at 100%, it took 63m to completely restore and now is being sometime since then.
session_id  command Percent Complete    ETA Completion Time Elapsed Min ETA Min ETA Hours
61  RESTORE DATABASE    100.00  2017-11-13 16:02:54 69  0.00    0.00

What is going on?
RESTORE DATABASE [db1] FROM  DISK = N'D:\DATA\db1.bak' WITH  FILE = 1,  MOVE N'db1' TO N'D:\DATA\db1.mdf',  MOVE N'db1_log' TO N'D:\DATA\db1_1.ldf',  NOUNLOAD,  STATS = 10

SQL SERVER 2008 R2

A: Normally, after restoring a database backup file without restoring the transaction log backup file, it will leave the database inaccessible, because the database is waiting for the latest transaction log backup. If you need to bring your database back to accessible and you are sure that .bak is the last one your need to restore, try RESTORE DATABASE db_name WITH RECOVERY.
So generally, the order of restoring a database:
Restore database name from ... with norecovery --'.bak'
Restore database name from ... with norecovery --'.dif'
Restore database name from ... with recovery --'.TRN'

If you are not sure if there is any .TRN available, you could add RESTORE DATABASE name WITH RECOVERY at the very end to make sure database can be accessed after restoring jobs. It wont be hurt if the database has been restored with recovery before or not, just a 2nd defense xD

A: Your RESTORE command has no WITH NORECOVERY and the default is WITH RECOVERY, so it was no need to execute another RESTORE WITH RECOVERY.
Check your SQL Server log instead. Maybe you'll find there smth like

Recovery completed for database MyDB (database ID 5) in N
  second(s) (analysis K ms, redo L ms, undo M ms.) This is an
  informational message only. No user action is required.

This means that even if your database was restored the database recovery was not finished yet. This happens when your db has open
 transactions at the time backup starts, so these transactions should be rolled forward/rolled back depending on whether they were committed or not at the moment backup was finished

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World of Roses
Astor Perry: The Amateur Who Met the Challenge
Posted on 1 Nov 2012 - by admin In: Rosarians of Note
In 1960, when Astor Perry toured through England on a business trip, he visited the Royal National Rose Society. On his visit, in addition to viewing the thousands of roses, he discovered the Annual published by the Society. Being a scientist by training and vocation, he was impressed with the Annual because it was written by nurserymen and more scientific in nature than U.S. annuals.
Perry had a set of previous issues sent back to the U.S. When he got back to the states, he began reading the annual and ran across a statement by the President of the Society: "Amateurs will not likely be able to breed a commercial rose." Fortunately for rose growers, Perry set out to prove him wrong.
Perry, as an amateur hybridizer, has introduced over 20 registered roses, including such well-known varieties as Suffolk, Dublin, Dothan, Elmhurst and Jema, and has proven to be a pioneer and inspiration for many of the amateur hybridizers who are developing a large number of queens ruling the tables in today's rose shows.
Perry, a native of Tennessee, attended North Carolina State University in the late '40s and early and early '50s. Switching from forestry to agronomy because of better job prospects, Perry went on to have a 34 year career as a peanut specialist in North Carolina, doing field research and teaching.
Perry's first contact with roses came in 1957 when a co-worker brought a rosebush as a housewarming gift when he and his wife, Jessie Mae, and four children moved into their present home in West Raleigh. Perry didn't know anything about roses. "I just put 'em the ground, and they did exceptionally well," Perry said. He eventually fertilizer sprayed and pruned them, went to the Piggly Wiggly and bought a few more, then he bought a few more. Then he bought a few more from Jackson & Perkins. By the time he made the trip to England in 1960 — he had about a hundred roses.
In the 1960's and '70s, Perry "played around" with hybridizing. His early crosses were not very good, but he kept experimenting and expanding each year, spurred on by the challenge. He finally got some good seedlings which excited him.
By 1980, he had developed and registered seven new roses (Atherton, Bambey, Bobo, Dothan, Jema, Kingaroy and Koppies). All were named for peanut towns or peanut research stations around the world, except for Jema, which was named for Jessie Mae, his bride of the last 51 years.
In 1981 Perry retired and his rose hobby became his vocation. He bought a farm in Johnston County, NC, and used several acres to grow his seedlings. He started his own rose business, grew the rootstock, budded the plants, and with Jessie Mae's assistance, marketed them. A heart attack in 1985 forced him to slow down. His roses are presently available from Hortico, Inc. and Certified Roses, Inc. (Co-operative Rose Growers, Inc.). He is still concentrating on crossing and developing new roses.
In the 35 years Perry has been producing new roses, he estimates he has made well over a 100,000 crosses. Out of all these crosses only 22 are commercially available. These roses are registered, but not patented (except for Ruffles and Pastel Princess which have been patented by a nursery).
Perry says hybridizing takes a total commitment as the tasks go on 12 months of the year, averaging two hours per day. Some days during the peak months of May and June, 8-10 hour days are common. Perry has trained a lot of individuals in hybridizing, but most give it up because of the commitment involved.
Like most hybridizers, over the years Perry developed his own hybridizing techniques. Usually in the afternoon, he selects one parent and emasculates a bloom by removing the petals and sepals and then collects the stamens in a petri dish where they are stored until morning when they open and are ready to release pollen. The pollen is rubbed on the stigmas of the other parent and this parent is labeled with the cross.
Each stigma is attached to an ovary. The pollen sends genetic material down a slim tube to the ovary where it is combined with the egg. If the parents are compatible, seeds will set and a hip will form. The hip normally contains from 8-10 seeds, but can contain up to 50 seeds. It is likely that each seed will produce a completely different rose. Perry can usually tell in about three weeks if seeds will form. Perry has also found that it is a waste of time to try the pollination process if the pollen is wet. Moisture explodes the pollen grain and fertilization will not take place.
The hips are harvested when they start changing color to a red, pink or yellow. It is usually about four months from fertilization to harvest. The hips are then cut open and the seeds removed. Perry places the seeds in a glass of water. If they sink, it means the seeds are viable and have an embryo. The seeds are then planted in a mixture of sphagnum moss and sand in plastic shoeboxes with lids. The mixture is kept at 65 degrees and 100% humidity.
By Thanksgiving, the seeds begin to germinate in the boxes, and Perry transplants them to peat pots. He keeps the transplants in a greenhouse at 40 degrees. Back in the '80s he would have about 4-5000 plants, but now has about 1000 plants each year.
In about six weeks the first blooms appear and Perry starts culling the plants. He uses the ARS rating system to evaluate the blooms and anything rated below a 7.7 is discarded. As his goal is primarily to produce exhibition quality roses, form is his most important selection factor. Originally Perry kept track of plants for two years, but found that his rating at the first bloom usually was about the same as at the two-year point. By April, after continuous culling, he has only about 100 plants left, which are then budded.
He checks the plants on a weekly basis from May to October. In two years, the 100 plants may be narrowed down to about one to three roses with potential. Perry has gone up to three years without a new rose to release commercially. Although some of the roses are not good enough for release, they may be used as "studs" in the fertilization process for future crosses.
For his rootstock, Perry primarily uses 62.5, developed by Dr. Buck, a horticulturist at Iowa State University. It was developed from Japanese multiflora stock and was selected for vigor, ability to withstand the cold, high percentage of #1 plants, and the lack of thorns. He has tried other rootstock with success, but uses 62.5 because it is thornless and easier to work with.
The selection of parents in the hybridization process is based mostly upon experience. Early on, Perry found that he needed to computerize his operations to avoid fruitless crosses. He wrote his own computer program and once complete he found he cut his crosses by 2/3 by identifying roses that had the best potential as parents. He identifies good parents as those that produce seeds that germinate well, produce a good number of petals, good form and produce offspring with clear, not muddy, colors. It helps if the parents have chromosomes that are similar, but this can only be learned by trial and error.
He has found that success in crossing parents one time does not insure successful crosses every time with these parents. Some of the better parents that he has identified include: Alec's Red, King of Hearts, Silver Jubilee, Fragrant Cloud, Mr. Lincoln, Folklore, Touch of Class, Helen Traubet, Garden Party, Feuerzauber (Fire Magic), Oregoid, Blue Moon, Paradise and Olympiad. Perrv has registered 22 roses: Atherton, Bombey, Bobo, Chowan, Cloudland, Darling Annabelle, Dothan, Dublin, Elmhurst, Hondo, Jema, Kingaroy, Koppies, Lasker, Lewiston, Lobo, Ruffles, Shari, Stokes, Suffolk and Tifton. His personal favorite is Suffolk.
His most recent release in 1995 is Pastel Princess, named and offered by Certified Roses, Inc. (Co-operative Rose Growers). Pastel Princess is more notable for its color than for its exhibition form. The first ten outer petals are a medium pink; the inside petals appear cream-colored. As the bloom opens, the inside turns pink then the full blooms become a mixture of colors and tend toward a dark red.
Most of Perry's releases are named for towns or cities associated with peanut production. Cloudland, is named for his old Tennessee high school, Lobo for the school mascot at North Carolina State University in honor of the school's centennial celebration, Shari and Darling Annabelle were named by Hortico. Perry says he presently has two or three more with some promise.
When asked about the trends he sees in hybridizing, Perry believes more amateurs will become involved, especially amateurs who have been successful exhibitors. He says that his own experience in exhibiting roses is very important in his hybridizing process. "Commercial growers look at the bottom line." says Perry. "They look for roses that are easy to bud, produce a high percentage of #1 plants, and have market appeal. Amateur hybridizers look more for roses that will exhibit well."
When asked about his own plans, Perry says, "I will continue on the same course. If I got stuff that's good, fine. If I don't, I won't worry about it."
Astor Perry has produced a lot of "good stuff" in the 35 years of meeting the challenge.
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Today is National Poetry Day! My very first literary accomplishment was a completed poem at age 5. I fell in love with the rhymes and verses that I could create out of words! I have binders full of my poetry and it has always been my first love as a writer. I spent my entire childhood crafting words into poetry and song to express myself. Today is in celebration of all the poetry, in every format, ever written or still to be written!
National Poetry Day is coordinated by the Forward Arts Foundation, a charity that celebrates poetry and promotes it as part of everyday life. National Poetry Day was founded in 1994 by William Sieghart and has engaged millions of people across the UK and countries around the world in reading, writing and listening to poetry. Can poetry change your life? Get creative and find out! William Sieghart explains here.
Your creative outlet should have no limits! The themes are not set as the true intention of this day is to bring recognition to a beautiful literary art form, poetry. Today can be filled with inspiration! While this holiday originated as a British campaign to promote poetry, it is celebrated internationally and this year marks the 21st annual National Poetry Day.
People all over the world are sharing their poetry and performing it as well in short videos! You're invited to do the same here if you like! Post yours in the comments and join me in celebrating!
I will share a few of my favorites that I wrote during some of my most inspirational years of creativity…high school. They are typed up from my collection so I snapped a picture here for you to enjoy and feel free to share on your various social media sites!


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HomeOpinionWe cannot go left and right at the same time
We cannot go left and right at the same time
May 2, 2019 Staff Reporter Opinion 0
Prof Mthuli Ncube and Prof Steve Hanke
"…..We are enveloped in the politics of hate. The amount of hate that is being preached today in this country is frightful. What Zimbabwe fought for was peace, progress, love, respect, justice, equality, not the opposite… No country can live by slogans, pasi [down with] this and pasi that.
"When you are ruling you should never say pasi to anyone. If there is something wrong with someone you must try to uplift him, not oppress him. We cannot condemn other people and then do things even worse than they did."- Joshua Nkomo 1986….
I remember when land reform started in Zimbabwe in the year 2000. It was in my final year of high school when "war veterans" began invading commercial farms owned by white Zimbabweans.
That was a confusing time for some of us who were born into political families.
On the one had the political ideology surrounding land reform seemed to make sense in the context of the country's colonial history, yet on the other hand, it was unpleasant to watch the often violent dispossession of white farmers and their families… many of whom I went to school with at the time.
In that period slogans were rife.
Pasi this and Pasi that, were the order of the day.
Pasi ne Britain, and Pasi na Blair, Pasi ne MDC and so on and so on. The list was endless.
Ironically, in 2001 it started to become clear that Joshu Nkomo was right; a country cannot be run by slogans.
In the year 2001, farm invasions intensified, and concurrently, the Zimbabwean economy started to shrink.
At that time I was working in my father's butchery in Glen Veiw, and for the first time in my life I heard the words "price controls," "shortages" and "fuel queues."
Below is a newspaper excerpt from The Telegraph, published in the year 2001.
"Robert Mugabe's government yesterday announced the imposition of price controls on basic foodstuffs, dealing a shattering blow to the already crippled economy and threatening widespread food shortages… Annual inflation in Zimbabwe is around 80 per cent, and unemployment is at record levels…the trade and industry minister, said an official order freezing prices at the levels of two months ago was being prepared. The economic collapse since Mr. Mugabe ordered invasions of white-owned farms 18 months ago has made Zimbabweans poorer than ever before. The costs of basics are now beyond the reach of more than half the population… Zimbabwe has no foreign currency for imports and is surviving from day to day."
Sound familiar? I'm sure it does. As they say, history repeats itself.
To me, it's somewhat ironic that in 2019, Zimbabwe is once again experiencing inflation near 80 per cent, and that government is once again making references to price controls on basic foodstuffs.
The inflationary period of 2000-2008 clearly demonstrated to all and sundry in Zimbabwe that price controls don't work.
If anything, implementing price controls will simply fuel shortages in shops and lead to an increase in illicit black market trade.
Still, the question on everybody's mind is this: why is it that ED and the Zimbabwean government are failing to bank-in on the international goodwill that they received following events surrounding November 2017?
Our problem is that we are trying to go left and right at the same time.
Don't get me wrong, the government has taken some positive steps, particularly the recent decision to compensate former farmers.
However, these piecemeal steps taken by government so far have not attracted foreign investment. If anything, investors are leaving Zimbabwe.
The problem is that we speak progressively and often act regressively.
We try to go left and right at the same time.
For instance, on August 1 2018, after a relatively peaceful election that had impressed the world, we suddenly did an about turn and unleashed violence in full view of international cameras.
We spoke progressively before the elections and acted regressively on August 1.
Even recently, our finance minister Mthuli Ncube was in the USA for the IMF's spring meetings.
On the sidelines of those meetings, he attended a symposium held at the Cato institute where Professor Steve Hanke was one of the speakers.
Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and this is what he reportedly said in the presence of finance minister Ncube:
"To get to a micro point, in February 2019, the Gaika Mine was invaded. This is a property rights issue… If you look at this mine, it was invaded and taken over and the looting began… then … within the past two weeks, the mine was finally sealed and the trespassers were thrown out….
"But that's not the end of the story, we have had 14 months since this particular mine in the Midlands was invaded … over 80 people killed, at least US$100 million has been looted from the mine, maybe double that….Then the mine manager's home in Kwekwe was invaded by youth wielding machetes. The group, or shall we say the gang, is Al Shabaab and the leader of this crime syndicate is … [a] current minister…."
I can only imagine the embarrassment that finance minister Ncube suffered while professor Hanke spoke those words.
I mean, there he was as Zimbabwe's Finance chief, trying to convince the world that Zimbabwe has reformed and is open for business , only to have the allegations of looting by a senior government official at Gaika mine thrown in his face.
Again, this shows that we try to go left and right at the same time.
We preach progression and practice regression, and that is the major problem with Zimbabwe.
Even the Botswana President has joined the international community in making jokes about Zimbabwe.
According to reports, while recently meeting with young entrepreneurs President Masisi joked that Botswana had a sound investment climate, unlike an unnamed African country were payment to creditors and repatriation of profits to foreign countries in the currencies of their choice was impossible.
"We are run, not just conveniently, but very well and we work. We are open and this stability along with our addiction to the rule of law makes us attractive for spring boarding from Botswana… I will not name the other country, would you rather have your business headquarters in country X somewhere else in Africa or in Botswana?
"In terms of assuring yourself that what you put in the bank is yours and will be there. In terms of assuring yourself and your creditors that you will be able to pay them in whatever currency they need to be paid in, so these advantages should be utilized to the fullest."
Although he didn't mention 'country X' by name, the problems he pointed out in the unnamed country are very similar to those currently being experienced in Zimbabwe.
So what do we do as nation? How do we come out of our current mess?
From where I'm looking, the only way out is to have significant dialogue with the MDC-Alliance with the aim of implementing substantial political and structural reforms in Zimbabwe, in such a way that both domestic and international capital will collectively accept that we pass the credibility test.
While someone in Zanu-PF once said in the past that " Zanu-PF will never reform itself out of power" my view is that this is the time to reflect on the late great Joshua Nkomo's words, and accept that "What Zimbabwe fought forwas peace, progress, love, respect, justice, equality, not the opposite."
Put simply, Zimbabwe needs to implement far-reaching reforms that open up the political space, promote freedoms and attract investment, even is those reforms impact Zanu-PF's power retention ambitions in 2023.
What's clear today is that Zimbabwe is crawling towards the hyperinflation horrors of 2008, and no-amount of scapegoating or sloganeering will save the country from this crisis.
We need to focus as a country.
We need our eyes and our feet to cooperatively face forward.
As it stands, we are trying to go left and right at the same time.
Tau Tawengwa is a political analyst and researcher based in Harare. zimrays@gmail.com


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Luis Carlos Antonio Iberico Núñez (Buenos Aires, 2 de enero de 1959) es un periodista y político peruano. Fue congresista de la República desde 2019 hasta el 2020 tras el desafuero a  Edwin Donayre y anteriormente en 3 periodos. Además, se desempeñó también como presidente del Congreso en dos ocasiones.

Biografía
Nació el 2 de enero de 1959 en Buenos Aires donde sus padres trabajaban. Hijo del médico Juan Gilberto Iberico y de la enfermera María Luisa Núñez García. Tenía apenas un año de edad cuando su familia retornó al Perú. Cursó sus estudios escolares en el Colegio Santa Margarita.

En 1976, ingresó a la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos para estudiar Psicología, pero al cabo de un año optó por el periodismo, pasando a estudiar Ciencias de la Comunicación en la Universidad de Lima. Inició también estudios en Ciencias Económicas en la Universidad Ricardo Palma. Decidió culminar sus estudios de periodismo en la Escuela de Periodismo Jaime Bausate y Meza, donde se graduó de bachiller profesional (1983) obteniendo posteriormente el grado de Bachiller y Licenciado en Periodismo. Llevó estudios de Maestría en periodismo en la Universidad San Martín de Porres y tiene presentado su proyecto de Tesis.

Carrera periodística
Inició su carrera periodística en 1984, trabajando en diversos diarios de Lima (El Observador, La Noticia, Hoy), como redactor y columnista político. Luego ingresó a Frecuencia Latina (Canal 2), como reportero del programa 90 Segundos (1985). Como reportero principal y entrevistador político, pasó al programa Contrapunto (1989). De sus reportajes destacaron los relacionados con la lucha antiterrorista. En 1995, cubrió la guerra del Cenepa. Entre 1995 y 1996 incursionó en la producción de documentales ecológicos. En junio de 1996, asumió la dirección de Contrapunto. Se enfocó en las denuncias de corrupción y violación de los derechos humanos durante el gobierno de Alberto Fujimori, lo que originó la intervención del gobierno contra Canal 2 y su principal accionista, Baruch Ivcher. Ello se concretó con el inconstitucional retiro de la nacionalidad peruana de dicho empresario y la toma de este medio de comunicación por parte de los accionistas minoritarios Samuel y Mendel Winter. En respuesta a este atropello, Iberico y una veintena de periodistas de Canal 2 renunciaron.

Fue contratado por Astros Producciones (Canal 13), con el proyecto de un nuevo programa periodístico, pero ello se frustró. Luego pasó a ser Director de Prensa de ATV (Canal 9), donde tampoco duró mucho tiempo. Se supo después, gracias a un "vladivideo", que el gerente del canal, Julio Vera Abad, accedió a la presión del gobierno de retirar los programas periodísticos de Canal 9, a cambio de un sustancioso pago en efectivo.

En 1998, junto con Fernando Viaña, fundó el diario Referéndum, que cerró al cabo de un año, nuevamente por manipulación del gobierno a través del Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional (SIN). En 1999, junto con Fernando Viaña y César Hildebrandt, inició el diario Liberación, que se convirtió en el único medio de prensa escrito que se mantuvo en pie de lucha contra el régimen.

Vida política

Congresista (2000-2006)
Al prepararse la tercera reelección de Alberto Fujimori, Iberico decidió incursionar de lleno en su otra gran pasión, la política.

En las elecciones generales del 2000, decidió postular al Congreso de la República por el Frente Independiente Moralizador de Fernando Olivera y logró resultar elegido, con 97,399 votos, para el periodo parlamentario 2000-2005.

Participó en la protesta popular denominada "Marcha de los Cuatro Suyos", el 28 de julio del 2000, el mismo día en que Alberto Fujimori asumió su tercer gobierno. Desde el parlamento, Iberico continuó su lucha contra la dictadura y presentó mociones pidiendo investigar a Vladimiro Montesinos.

En agosto del mismo, junto a su líder Fernando Olivera, Gonzalo Carriquiry y Francisco Palacios, emprendió la maniobra que acabaría con la caída del gobierno. Iberico estableció contacto con quienes le ofrecieron el vídeo donde se mostraba a Montesinos entregando dinero al congresista de la oposición Alberto Kouri, para que se pasara a las filas de Perú 2000. El 14 de septiembre del 2000, se exhibió el vídeo en una conferencia de prensa liderada por Fernando Olivera, Iberico y la ex-primera dama Susana Higuchi. Sucesivamente se produjo la huida de Montesinos, la renuncia de Fujimori desde Japón y la instauración de un gobierno de transición presidido por Valentín Paniagua, su periodo parlamentario fue reducido hasta el 2001 tras la caída del gobierno fujimorista.

Para las elecciones generales del 2001, Iberico decidió postular a la reelección con el FIM y resultó reelegido con 144,671 votos para el periodo parlamentario 2001-2006.

De agosto del 2001 a julio del 2002 fue quinto vicepresidente del Congreso de la República en presidencia de Carlos Ferrero Costa.

En las elecciones del 2006, fue anunciado como candidato a la segunda vicepresidencia en la plancha presidencial de Fernando Olivera, sin embargo, Olivera decidió renunciar a su candidatura para luego postular al Congreso junto con Iberico donde no obtuvieron buenos resultados.

Renunció al Frente Independiente Moralizador en 2007 y se afilió al partido Alianza para el Progreso de César Acuña.

Congresista (2011-2016)
En las elecciones generales del 2011, Iberico volvió a la política como candidato al parlamento por Alianza por el Gran Cambio. Resultó elegido con 53,494 votos para el periodo parlamentario 2011-2016.

En el parlamento integraba el bloque PPC-APP.

El 26 de julio del 2013, fue elegido como 2.º vicepresidente del Mesa Directiva bajo la presidencia de Fredy Otárola y luego en 2014, tras el nombramiento de Otárola como ministro de Trabajo y de Carmen Omonte como ministra de la Mujer, Iberico asumió la presidencia interina del parlamento, estuvo en el mandato hasta el final de la legislatura donde fue sucedido por Ana María Solórzano.

Presidente del Congreso (2015-2016)
Para las elecciones de una nueva Mesa Directiva del Congreso, Iberico, en representación de su bancada PPC-APP, se presentó como candidato de la oposición, respaldado por Fuerza Popular, Concertación Parlamentaria y Unión Regional. Frente a él, se alzó la candidatura de Vicente Zeballos de Solidaridad Nacional, que contaba con el apoyo de Acción Popular-Frente Amplio, Perú Posible y el oficialismo.

El 26 de julio de 2015 se realizaron las elecciones en las que Iberico resultó elegido Presidente del Congreso obteniendo 70 votos, frente a los 55 que obtuvo su contrincante. Ese mismo día juramentó junto con Natalie Condori (Dignidad y Democracia) como primera vicepresidenta, Mariano Portugal (Unión Regional) como segundo vicepresidente y Luis Galarreta (PPC-APP) como tercer vicepresidente.

Embajador de Perú en Italia
Producidas las nuevas elecciones, el expresidente Pedro Pablo Kuczynski decidió nombrarlo Embajador Extraordinario y Plenipotenciario del Perú en Italia, cargo que desempeñó desde el 1 de noviembre de 2016. Además es embajador concurrente ante Chipre, San Marino y los organismos multilaterales FAO, PMA y FIDA.

Congresista (2019-2020)
El 8 de mayo del 2019, Iberico juró como congresista en reemplazo de Edwin Donayre, quien fue destituido por actos de corrupción, para completar el periodo parlamentario 2016-2021.

El 30 de septiembre del mismo año, su cargo llega a su fin tras la disolución del Congreso decretada por el expresidente Martín Vizcarra, sin embargo, Iberico continuó en el Congreso hasta el 2020.

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The Colston statue, which was pushed into Bristol harbour after being hauled down from its plinth by demonstrators on Sunday, has long been contentious in … On Monday, protesters gathered in favor of removing a statue of Civil War officer John B. Castleman from Louisville, Kentucky. Confederate monuments are being removed at a rapidly increased pace since George Floyd's death, according to data from the Southern Poverty Law Center. In many cases, local leaders have responded to the protests by giving into their demands and having city services take down such statues safely, rather than leaving it up to the chaos of the crowds. — Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) August 17, 2017. Others were torn down by protesters. That's nearly as many removals as reported in the three years following the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting. We do it by putting them up. In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, Virginia Gov. Efforts to remove Confederate symbols are ongoing. Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh had Civil War monuments removed from the city in the cover of night, without any public hearings or any public discussion process. In several cities across the country, statues of Confederate figures have been taken down. It's the latest of at least five different statues that have been torn down in Portland so far this year. The statue, which stood at the top of Mount Tabor, had been brought down by Tuesday morning. The City Council of Lexington, Kentucky voted unanimously on Tuesday to remove Confederate statues from the lawn in front of an old county courthouse. In response, a white nationalist group is reportedly planning a protest. The U.S. Capitol is basically a confederate statue bazaar https://t.co/I32ctS62mA pic.twitter.com/FsNJKKxtpR, — HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) August 17, 2017. have called for the destruction of more historical monuments, called for Mount Rushmore to be destroyed. The HuffPost got in on the action with this over-the-top headline. data from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Whose Heritage? So far, there have not been any arrests/citations related to either incident. Harvey Milk is a gay rights icon and one of the … Here's A List Of All The Monuments Liberals Want To Tear Down So Far. At a demonstration in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday night, a 93-year-old statue of Christopher Columbus was brought down, set on fire, and thrown into a lake as bystanders chanted "Tear it down." Sign up for the Complex Newsletter for … Confederate monuments aren't the only symbols that have been removed in recent months. The motive and perpetrator behind the destruction are both unknown. Though by no means comprehensive, here's a list of the monuments that are facing calls for removal or have already been torn down. In total, the report found 40 symbols had been removed and 14 entities had been renamed since Floyd's death. The updated number include statues felled by protesters in addition to ones removed by authorities, Brooks said. In a PBS interview, Al Sharpton called for the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC to be abandoned because the third president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence was a slave owner. Maryland Gov. Even so, most Confederate monuments in public spaces remain, according to SPLC. "A white flag was hung on the gun of the statue and its head and feet were spray painted," WECT reports. Pugh told The New York Times that she used her emergency powers as mayor to take down statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from a public park — surprising even some members of the city council. proposed building a new museum to house it that would cost over 5 … Larry Hogan also called for a statue memorializing Roger B. Taney, a Supreme Court justice who penned the infamous Dred Scott decision, which determined that anyone descended from a slave could not be an American citizen, be removed from the pedestal where it had been erected since 1887. A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stands in the middle of a traffic circle on Monument Avenue in Richmond. Only 27 percent of Americans think these statues should be removed for fear of offending some people. The statue, which has been spray-painted and beheaded before, will be fully taken down by city officials and placed into storage as its future is determined, Mayor Marty Walsh said. There are 725 monuments still standing, a decrease of about 5% since Floyd's death. Statue was torn off pedestal and destroyed. But it has stood since 1813 to mark his role in developing the West India Docks, so there's time for a democratic process to go on. Harvey Milk's bust at San Francisco City Hall. As usual, public opinion's not stopping liberals from pursuing an unpopular agenda. Bust of Roger B. Taney: Washington, D.C. July 22: Voted by the House of Representatives In the wake of the violence that took place in Charlottesville over last weekend, numerous activists and politicians have called for the destruction of more historical monuments, although a significant majority of Americans (62 percent) think the monuments should stay put. Some were removed by local governments. We have much work to do. Terry McAuliffe is asking state legislators and city officials to tear down monuments throughout the Old Dominion. Statues In The Capitol. Brooks called it a "reckoning" and said the swift removal of so many statues speaks to what is possible to accomplish in a short amount of time. A Chicago pastor has asked the mayor to remove the names of two former presidents — George Washington and Andrew Jackson — from city parks because both men owned slaves. In addition to increased efforts to remove Confederate symbols, protesters and activists have also targeted statues of other historical figures, particularly Christopher Columbus, as symbols of white supremacy. The accelerated removal of statues has been fueled by widespread protests against systemic racism and police brutality following Floyd's death, with more people linking Confederate monuments with white supremacy, according to Lecia Brooks, SPLC chief of staff. Copyright © 2021 The Federalist, a wholly independent division of FDRLST Media, All Rights Reserved. We don't erase history by pulling statues down. Protesters in downtown Portland tore down the statues of two former presidents Sunday night and damaged a museum and several businesses during an event titled "Indigenous People's Day of Rage." It's unclear why the statue was torn down and who did it. Upon examination, officers said they believe it was likely tied to a vehicle in an attempt to pull the statue over.". In Richmond, Virginia, for example, multiple monuments owned by the city were removed after a statue of Jefferson Davis was torn down by protesters. Roy Cooper has called for additional monuments to be torn down and is asking the state legislature to repeal a 2015 law that prevents the destruction of Civil War monuments. The update counted eight schools that have been renamed, two roads that were renamed and one state flag that was changed. Vice News's Wilbert L. Cooper called for Mount Rushmore to be destroyed because the U.S. presidents whose visages are carved into the mountainside are problematic by today's standards. At that time, the organization reported 48 monuments had been removed between June 2015 and early 2019. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams called for a frieze depicting Confederate soldiers to be removed from Stone Mountain in Georgia. In Washington DC, a group of protestors gathered on Sunday to call for the statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general, to be torn down. I will be introducing a bill to remove Confederate statues from the US Capitol building. By far the most popular target was Christopher Columbus, with 33 statues in total having been defaced and pulled down. Statue of … North Carolina Gov. In Richmond, Virginia, for example, multiple monuments owned by the city were removed after a statue of Jefferson Davis was torn down by protesters. In Nashville, Tennessee, protestors gathered to call for the removal of a monument depicting Nathan Bedford Forrest, a lieutenant in the Confederate army, from the state capitol on Monday. Statues of prominent figures in the Confederacy are a common sight in the South. a statement released Wednesday afternoon, Confederate section of Hollywood Forever Cemetery. It's not only icons of the Civil War that are being targeted. People have also called for a memorial of Forrest, which sits on private property, to be hidden from view of the nearby highway. multiple statues have been torn down in Richmond. In several cases, the statues have even been toppled by activists taking matters into their own hands. There have also been efforts to ban the Confederate flag and rename military bases named after Confederate generals. A statue of the abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass, pictured here, was torn from its base in Rochester, N.Y., on the anniversary of … Statues, monuments and other images honoring Confederate soldiers, slave owners and other controversial historical figures have been torn down from Virginia to … © 2021 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. Organisers have said they were inspired by the 'direct action taken by Bristolians', referring to the tearing down of slave trader Edward Colston's statue on Sunday in … This week, a Virginia city council voted to remove a monument which honors a Confederate infantry unit and has stood in the city for more than a century. "Our public entities should no longer play a role in distorting history by honoring a secessionist government that waged war against the United States to preserve white supremacy and the enslavement of millions of people," SPLC wrote in its 2019 update to the "Whose Heritage?" This is just one step. The death of George Floyd is leading to the removal -- by protesters in some cases and city leaders in others -- of contentious statues that have … The Confederate Soldiers Monument was torn down by protesters from its spot in front of the old Durham County Courthouse on Monday. "I think it's incredible ... (it) really speaks to this moment we're in.". The updated "Whose Heritage? and across Virginia, leading Richmond's mayor to plead for people to let the legal process play out in the name of public safety. Like other symbols of the Confederacy, such memorials have been defended for generations as pieces of Southern heritage, or simply uncontroversial artifacts of history. Columbus Day protests: Lincoln, Roosevelt statues torn down in Portland 13 Oct, 2020 06:16 AM 3 minutes to read Organisers dubbed the protest "Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage". Four have been arrested in connection to this instance of vandalism. City removes downtown Denver statue after video shows another torn down overnight. So far, five memorials have been pulled down by protesters in recent weeks, and those that haven't been pulled down yet probably won't stay up too much longer. In Gainesville, Florida, a statue of a Confederate soldier was removed Monday from outside a county administrative building. Public Symbols of the Confederacy, Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Bre Payton was a staff writer at The Federalist. But for many people, they are ever-present reminders of racial discrimination and violent oppression that has never gone away. "Officers were called back to the scene and found a rope tied to the statue's neck. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) have both … On June 10, a statue depicting former Confederate President Jefferson Davis was torn down. report. On June 6, a statue of Confederate Gen. Williams Carter Wickham was toppled by protesters. A plaque commemorating Jefferson Davis was also removed from a park this week. And then at U.N.C., when protesters in 2018 tore down the 'Silent Sam' Confederate statue, U.N.C. A statue of Harvey Scott has been torn down, marking the latest such figure to be toppled in Portland. 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Salary cap rises $4.05 million [updated]
Just finally got confirmation from an NFL official that the salary cap has risen from the planned $123 million to $127.05 million because teams underspent what was projected last year and because 2009 is the final year under the cap barring a new CBA agreement by March 2010.
The highly-placed NFL official to whom I spoke said the news had taken him by surprise as well; he said the the league was still working on formulating the explanation of the change, which was reported by Adam Schefter of the NFL Network last night but hasn't made its way to the league's official news sites.
All of this means that the Redskins have about $10 million — not $6 million — to spend, which makes them a legitimate competitor for the services of Tennessee defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth, the top-rated player due to become a free agent at midnight.
Explanation on the sudden movement on the salary cap:
The 2006 CBA provides for an upward or downward adjustment to salary cap room in the event leaguewide cash spending on player costs (salaries and benefits) falls below or exceeds a predetermined percentage of total league revenue (59.5% in 2008). In the past several years, cash spending has been below this percentage. As a result, each club will receive an additional $4,050,000 in salary cap room in 2009. This cash adjustment mechanism [CAM] will not affect the CBA's 2009 minimum team salary, which remains at $107,748,000.


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