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3.4 Malta
The knights Hospitallers took possession of Malta with the only condition that they should give each year a falcon to Charles V and his successors as Kings of Sicily as sign of fealty. The contrast with Rhodes was very important. Where Rhodes was a very rich land with a big city, Malta had only 12,000 inhabitants and the land was poor. With Gozo and Comino it covered only 120 square miles. They received corn from Sicily free of duty as a grant from Charles V. The capital city was Notabile in the centre of Malta but the Hospital chose to implant themselves in the big harbour in the East near Birgu. L'Isle Adam immediately fortified it and improved the fort of St Angelo. However he was still hoping to go back to Rhodes. In this sense he captured Modon in 1531 but the Turks took it back soon after due to lack of co-ordination between the Hospitallers. The hopes to go back to Rhodes were put off. The establishment of the Convent in Malta created contrasts between the knights. L'Isle Adam died in 1534. Spain had offered Malta in 1523 as a defence against the Turks. In fact their presence there was more useful later on against North Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, Marocco, … In particular the Barbary corsairs who took Algiers were a great problem to the shipping trade of Spain and Italy. Their leader Barbarossa joined the Turks who appointed him High Admiral of their navy and he took Tunis in 1534. This was the main success of the Turks in this time. This created such a thread to Spain that Charles V organised a crusade against the Turks. Most Mediterranean countries took part with the exception of France. The Hospitallers under the new Grand Master Pietro del Monte took part in it. The crusade fleet was before Tunis in 1535 but the victory came from within the city. The St John's knight Paolo Simeoni kept as a slave roused the other prisoners and Barbarossa fled. Charles V restored the King of Tunis and left a garrison for protection. France made an offensive treaty with the Turks in 1536 that allowed these last ones to attack the Christian shipping and struck deep in Christian lands. As a result the French influence in the Order decreased and the Spanish took over. The year following the re-conquest of Tunis can be said to initiate the Spanish period of the Order's history. Its symbol was the Grand Master Aragonese Juan de Homedes who was elected in 1536 and reigned for 17 years. He first made certain that Malta was a secure base: Birgu was difficult to defend but he maintained it as the main base of the Order in Malta for many reasons including financial ones. And there was always the hope to go back to Rhodes. Castel Sant' Angelo was rebuilt as a powerful fortress surrounded by a sea moat. The defence was extended to the peninsula at the West called L'Isola (known now as Senglea from the name of the successor of Homedes, Sengle). A chain could close also the entrance of the harbour. He also started the construction of the fort of St Elmo in Sciberras. The knights continued to help the Spanish against the Moslems. In 1541 400 knights joined Charles V in his battle to take over Algiers but the operation did not succeed because the Spanish delayed the attack to late in the year. Seventy-five knights died in protecting the retreat. Barbarossa landed in Nice to help France to take over the last land of the Duke of Savoy and he was allowed to spend the winter in Toulon. In the general Chapter of 1548, the anti-Spanish majority voted to move the Convent to Tripoli. This was a French move to reduce the dependency of the Order from Spain. The Grand Master refused to transfer 50 knights each year and created a garrison composed only of French knights. In 1550 the combined forces of Spain and the Order captured Dragut's base (the successor of Barbarossa) of Mehedia and trapped the corsair in Gerba. But France interfered again and Spain had to retire with the knights of Malta. Dragut escaped from Gerba and was nominated Head of the whole Ottoman fleet. As a revenge Dragut attacked Malta in 1551 but the defences of the island were too strong for him. However he took Gozo and the inhabitants became slaves. He also attacked Tripoli and besieged it. The French ambassador to Turkey had to negotiate the surrender of the town at the request of the Grand Master Homedes. The knights came back to Malta and the troop went in captivity in Turkey. It was a shameful defeat and the head of the Order in Tripoli Le Vallier tried to said that the fault was Homedes for not sending more money and better troops. Le Vallier should have been court marshal but the French opposed this and he remained in prison without any heavier sentence. The Hospitallers wanted revenge and Strozzi took Zoara, West of Tripoli but the Turks took it back soon after. These calamities clouded the last years of Homedes's reign. In 1553 the Turks and the French took Corsica together. Homedes died in September of that year. After a brief reign of Claude de la Sengle, the Order elected Jean de la Valette Parisot as its Grand Master in 1557. He was able to restore soon the morale of the Order after the previous disasters. He unfortunately continued the French approach to politics and released Le Vallier and was thinking of taking back Tripoli. The Spanish and the Hospitallers landed in Gerba in 1560 but the Turks finally defeated the invaders. Spanish sea power had suffered a big blow and it took time to recover: Meanwhile the Turks had the absolute control of the Mediterranean sea. During this period the Turks could have taken Malta but they did not seize this opportunity for unknown reasons. (j)
In 1564 the Spanish under Don Garcia de Toledo with the Hospitallers took back the island of Velez de la Gomera off the Moroccan coast. Don Garcia de Toledo was then nominated Viceroy of Sicily and this was a good thing for the Hospitallers who were exposed in the first line of fire in front of North Africa. Toledo visited Valletta in 1565 and both knew that a huge Turkish force had already left Constantinople and that Malta was the most probable destination. Spain promised to help but not immediately. Toledo sent 1000 troops from Sicily to help Malta. The Turks landed in Malta on 19 May 1565 with 40,000 men. In Valletta there were 540 knights and Sergeants at arms, 400 Spanish troops and perhaps 4,000 Maltese ready to fight. The barrenness of the island and the length of the Turkish lines of communication were advantages not negligible for the Hospitallers. It meant among other things that the Turks could not keep on fighting during the winter. On the other hand Birgu was not offering the same defences as Rhodes did and the probabilities to resist the siege of a well-equipped army were small. Garcia de Toledo asked the king of Spain, Philip II, for 25,000 men to help Malta but assembling such an army took time. The Turks attacked first Fort St Elmo but it resisted until June 24 at the cost of most of the knights stationed there to be killed. Unfortunately the reinforcement had not yet arrived. However the force from Sicily under Melchor de Robles finally succeeded on the fourth try to land on Malta. This force, called "Piccolo soccorso" consisted of the remaining 600 men promised by Toledo and they succeed to reach the city. The five week resistance of St Elmo was the crucial factor in the final victory. The Order lost 1500 men and the Turks about 6,000 including Dragut himself. The siege of Birgu and Senglea lasted two more months starting July 15. By early September the defenders had lost 5,000 men including 219 knights and the situation of the survivors was not good at all. But winter was coming and the Turks had only a few weeks to win. But reinforcement called "Gran Soccorso" came. Garcia de Toledo brought half his army by night and entered Millieha Bay on 7 September with 8,000 men. Eight thousand more arrived soon after. This brought panic to the Turks who lifted the siege on 8 September. Malta was saved. This victory halted the advance of the Turkish power in the Western world. It also increased to a very high level the reputation of the Hospitallers. (j)
The importance of the defence offered by the Knights of Malta was finally recognised and appreciated. France, Spain, Portugal and the Papacy sent the money required to built their new capital on Sciberras. However some of the Hospitallers suggested to take the Convent back on the continent as the return to Rhodes was impossible. The final decision to built the new capital in Malta was taken by La Valette on 28 march 1566. Sciberras had all the requisites that Birgu did not have from a defence point of view. The city was built taking into consideration all the latest technical knowledge available at that time to defend it against an invasion but the artistic aspect was not neglected. La Valette died in 1568 before the city that bore his name was completed. The Grand Master and the Convent were transferred from Birgu to Valletta on 18 march 1571. The Turks took Cyprus in 1572 and Tunis in 1574 and this must be considered as a consolidation of the Moslems frontiers rather that as new conquest or a thread to the Christian. Following the victory of the Hospitallers in defending Malta and to some extent also after the Christian victory at Lepanto, the atmosphere in the Convent somehow degraded and the Grand Masters had to appeal to the Pope time and time again to assert their authority. The link between the Order and Spain loosened as the dangers to Spain decreased with these victories. As a consequence the prestige and the influence of the French knights came back. The Grand Masters did not do anything to improve the situation. They lived a such opulence as to make the Christian Kings and even the Pope jealous. In Valletta the seven Langues built their own Auberges and adjoining national church and they are still to this day a characteristic of the city. They were much larger that in Rhodes. But having been built at the same time by the same architect, they look a little all the same. The Hospitallers took over a country that had a very long Christian history. In 59-60 AD St Paul had to spend the winter on the island as a result of a shipwreck and he taught them the Christian religion. The knights brought wealth to Malta and to its people with the exception of the old nobility that lost its power and prestige and did not mix with the new rulers. The Roman Catholic Church was, and is still all powerful in Malta. Even in the last years of the 16th century the bishops were nominated by the kings of Sicily and were independent of the Order to which they created many problems. In 1614 there was a new invasion of Malta by the Turks but it was easily defeated by the knights under the Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt with, again, the useful help of Spain. Antoine de Paul, Grand Master, called the last Chapter General for 145 years in 1631. At that time there were 1755 knights compared with 1715 in 1635. Paul started the fortifications of Floriana designed by the engineer Pietro Floriani. An elegant suburb of Valletta was the result of his work. Between 1657 an 1697 five of the seven Grand Masters elected were Spanish. Rafael and Nicolas Cotoner, helped by Matia Preti from Catania, embellished St John's Cathedral that up to now is valued for its artistic beauty. Nicolas Cotoner was Grand Master when Candia fell to the Turks renewing the Moslem's thread to Malta. He ordered to increase the fortifications and to enclose the three cities in the South side of the grand harbour inside them. The danger receded in 1683 but appeared again in the 18th century (1707, 1714 and 1722). Due to the quasi total elimination of piratery, Valletta became a very rich commercial port for dealing with Africa as well as Asia. (j)
The Grand Master ruled as an absolute prince in Malta. However, among the Knights, his authority was limited by the ancient statutes. The venerable Council composed of high officers of the Order (the bishop of Malta, the Prior of St John and the heads of the seven Auberges) was advising him. There was also the "Consiglio Compito" and the "Sagro Consiglio". In the 18th century a Congregation of State was created to run the political affairs. A Chapter General had to meet every five years according to the statutes. It did not always meet as foreseen and, for instance, after the meeting of 1631 it was not recalled for 145 years! Since 1297 the Grand Master was elected by a college of 14 knights from the seven Langues. However until 1374 it was not said that each Langue had to be represented by two members. For some time Germany had not vote, then it had one and finally when there were a reasonable number of German Knights, Germany had two votes as the other Langues. Of course when Spain was divided in two Langues the college rose to 16. When the order came to Malta the election rules were amended to reduce external influence, especially from the Pope, and possibility of bribery. Since 1206 the Order had been divided in three classes: Knights, Chaplains and Sergeant-at-Arms. In the 13th century to qualify as a Knight one has to be born in a knightly family. From 1350 the requirement was extended to nobility on both the father and the mother' side. From 1428 the nobility "de nom et d'armes" was introduced. That meant four nobility generations in the male line. In the 16th century the rule was of "four quarters of nobility" that means that the candidate' four grand parents must have been nobles. Neither money or rank could prevail against the genetic rule. The national organisations applied very often more stringent rules that the official one. Normally a candidate with all the requisites entered the Order as a "Novice" at the age of sixteen to twenty. Twelve year old pages of the Grand Master could also be accepted up to a number of 16 from 1612. Admission of even younger children "in minority" by dispensation increased and the General Chapter of 1631 limited their number to one hundred but doubled the enrolment fee of the Knights of Minority and the Pages. This proved to be very popular and it was accepted permanently. After a twelve-month noviciate the knights took simple vows and could take their solemn vows at twenty-one. After five year' residence in the Convent they could receive a Commandery. Seniority to receive such a Commandery took second place to merit. As a result most knights spent a long time in Valletta in the management of the Order before they received a Commandery. They could also stay on in Valletta and compete for higher office. In this case they left the Auberge and bought their own house. In the Auberges the knights had a set of rooms and servants. Military austerity was the rule. Splendour was reserved for the public rooms such as the dining hall. The Chaplains and the Sergeant-at-Arms had to come from respectable family. A small number of second choice Commanderies were reserved for them. Women' s main convents required full proof of nobility but others were content with simple nobility or required their nuns to be of good social position. There were also lay sisters who wore the half cross like the Sergeant-at-Arms. There were also three classes of personnel that required no vow at all. (j)
Since 1581 the Grand Masters of Malta had precedence over the Cardinals and wore a ducal coronet on their arms. In 1607 Wignacourt received the title of Prince of the Holy Roman empire. The Grand Master Pinto wanted to take the island of Corsica but the French prevented it and took it for themselves. Pinto started also to confer title to the Maltese. He refused to call for a Chapter general as he was afraid that it would limit its power and despite the lack of money that only such an Assembly could increase through taxes. Pinto remodelled the Grand Master' s Palace and the Auberge de Castille, founded the University of Malta and increased trade through Malta. Charles VI of Naples imposed an eleven-month embargo on Maltese trade in 1754 as he wanted to establish his full control on Malta. France and Sardinia used their influence to stop it and Pinto kept his full power. Pinto's politics improved Malta's image in the second half of the 18th century. On the other hand he delayed necessary reforms and this caused great damage to the Order. His successor, Ximenez did not do much to improve the situation. But after came the French Emmanuel Rohan de Polduc who was of a different cut. He succeeded to solve the financial problems of the Order in a very short period of time. At the Chapter general of 1776, some knights aimed to strip the Grand Master of most of his absolute power. The aim was to change the Order from a religious institution to a military and nobility body free of Papal interferences. They also tried to keep the Chaplains and the Sergeant-at-Arms out of the Chapter General. All these changes were rejected and the religious aspect of the Order was confirmed as well as the duty to care for the sick. The finances of the Order were improved by a tax increase. In 1775 the Order of Malta completed the absorption of the ancient Hospitaller order of St Anthony of Vienna that had many properties in France. In 1776 a Grand Priory of Poland was created with the financial help of the Prince of Ostrog. In 1780 it was the turn of the creation of the Grand Priory of Ebersberg or Bavaria from the properties of the dissolved Jesuit order. Rohan's reign was very good and efficient. For instance in 1782 he introduced new judicial rules called "code Rohan" as well as the "Diritto Municipale" that was used to govern the city. To conclude with Rohan it must be said that, although he was the head of a religious Order and a religious state, he was also a free mason. The 18th century was a strange period. (j)
At the beginning of the French revolution, when the Estates General were assembled in France in 1789, Rohan did his best to dissociate the Order from the classes whose privileges were attacked. It was then that the name became "Sovereign Order of Malta". This separation was impossible. In August 1789 the national Assembly abolished all titles and feudal rights. The Order lost a great part of its revenues. Moreover the Order was seen as part of the Royalist party. Many knights chose to emigrate. The "Chargé d' Affaire" of the Order in France, Chevalier d'Estourmel, was arrested in Varennes trying to escape. Rohan in hearing the news suffered a stroke and remained paralysed on his right side for the six years he was still alive. An invalid was then in charge of the Order in these difficult years. In August 1792 the king Louis XVI was imprisoned in the Temple that was part of the Order's property. In October the whole of the Order properties in France was confiscated (112 million livres). Sixty per cent of the European revenues of the Order were lost and the French Langues was without money. In Malta, the Order had to sell some of their silver and treasures. Rohan sold his jewels and lived on a scudo a day but this did not help much. Louis XVI was beheaded in January 1793. Rohan refused to recognise the Republic. When the Royalist took back Toulon in August 1793, Rohan offered the Order's help but the English refused. Rohan was left to close the harbour of Valletta to the French' ships as his only contribution when Naples entered the war against France. As the European war against France stopped Malta's politic became incoherent and after some attempt to fight against France in 1796 Rohan recognised the existence of the French Republic by exchanging Ambassadors. The Order lost also some German and Italian revenues but, finally, in 1796 the new Tsar of Russia, Paul I, supported the Order and gave it some money through the Polish Priory. In 1796 Spain supported France obliging the British to leave Corsica. Rohan died in July 1797. The disgrace of the French Langues made it impossible to elect a French successor to Rohan. The successor had to come from a country not involved in the war and the only possibility seemed to be a German. The only acceptable German candidate was Ferdinand von Hompesch but unfortunately he was a weak man and completely incompetent for the job at hand at this particular time. His reign only lasted eleven months during which he distributed privileges to compensate for the missing money. He looked for political support in Russia and this did not please the French but above all he neglected to reinforce the defences of the island. In fact Napoleon wanted to take Malta since May 1797 as this would give him commands of the whole Mediterranean sea. In April 1798 the Directory had agreed on a secret decree that obliged Napoleon to take Malta on his road to Egypt. Von Hompesch was informed but took no action. On 6 June 1798 some French ships appeared in front of Malta and only then some actions were taken to defend the island. The British's help was requested but it was too late. Few of the French knights were in sympathy with the invaders but the incompetence of the Grand Master in military matters was the last straw. Spain was allied with France and asked his nationals not to fight against the invaders. The Order had 300 knights and about 7000 soldiers of different sorts, the fortifications had been improved in 1793 and there were 1400 cannons in Malta. The French came on 500 to 600 vessels with an army of 29000 men. The French landed at Gozo, St Paul and St Julian's Bay. The Order tried to defend the whole island instead of retreating to the fortifications in Floriana and Cotonera. The Maltese could not understand that the French knights were on their side and fighting the French invaders. They rebelled in many places and escaped. Von Hompesch had already decided to ask for an armistice in order to reach a compromise rather that surrenders the island. A cease fire was reached and the Maltese and Hospitaller negotiators accepted to sign a complete surrender as requested by Napoleon. Von Hompesch refused to sign but agreed to receive the invaders. Napoleon landed in Malta on the 12 June 1798. Napoleon took all the Hospitallers' treasures with him to Egypt, cancelled the old administration and remodelled Malta as a democracy as the French saw it at the time. Napoleon left the 19 June and on August 1, Nelson sank his fleet at Aboukir Bay. The treasure of the Hospitallers went under the sea where it is still now. Some 50 French knights went to Egypt with Napoleon but 150 refused. Some of them went to Russia. The Russian Priory on 26 August declared von Hompesch deposed and asked the protection of the Tsar. The Priory of Germany seconded this action. (j)
The Russian Priory elected Paul I as Grand Master of the Order of the Hospitallers on 7 November 1798. He gave a lot of money to the Order but nevertheless his election went against all the rules: he was not a professed knight and his religion and marriage made it impossible for him to become one. The Tsar enforced recognition of his title on Spain, Bavaria and even on the Pope. France, Naples, Portugal and Germany finally recognised him as the Grand Master of the Hospitallers. Only Spain refused to change opinion. Von Hompesch abdicated in 1799. The Tsar considered himself as the sovereign of Malta. The Maltese in the meantime revolted against the French seven weeks after they took over the island. They could not accept the taxes and the sacrileges of the new conquerors. They did not succeed, of course, to change the situation and they suffered privations for two years but they obliged France to keep a French garrison in besieged Valletta. It would have been easy for Russia to take over the island but they did not do it. In 1800 Paul I collaborated with France where Napoleon was now First Consul. Nelson's fleet took possession of Malta in September 1800 and the Tsar was unable to do anything about it. Paul' son, Alexander I, renounced to the Grand Mastership and to Malta. He was hoping for free elections as foreseen in the Treaty of Amiens of 1802 that also said that Malta should be returned to the knights but on the condition that French and English knights be excluded of the Order. The Pope was supposed to name the next Grand Master from a list of candidates elected by each priory. The king of Spain refused and subjected the four Spanish priories to his rule. Napoleon did not help much either and it took until February 1803 to elect the next Grand Master, Giovanni Tommasi. The new Grand Master sent an envoy to Malta to ask for the cession of the island as foreseen by the Treaty of Amiens. However the political situation had changed and he was unable to obtain satisfaction. Napoleon was thinking of taking back Malta as well as Tunis and Egypt. Formally it is Britain that broke the Treaty by refusing to hand over Malta. In 1803 the war started again between Britain and France and the Order was kept out of Malta. Tommasi reconstituted the Convent in Messina and organised a Chapter General that confirmed his appointment. As the French were threatening to take Messina he moved to Catania. After his death in 1805, Giuseppe Caracciolo dei Marchesi di Sant' Eramo was elected Grand Master, subject to confirmation by the Pope. Caracciolo was a Neapolitan and as such supposed to be linked to England. For this reason Pius VII refused to confirm him to keep his good relations with France. Only the Tsar recognised Caracciolo. France invaded Italy in 1806 and it was out of the question for the knights to go back to Malta. Peace negotiations took place between France and Britain in August 1806 and it was decided that Britain would keep Malta as a permanent possession. The Napoleonic wars completed the destruction of the Order in Europe. By 1814 the order of St John was regarded as a thing of the past. (j)


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Cantina Talk: The Rise of Skywalker Will Address the Toxic Rey-Kylo Relationship
Graeme McMillan
Also, "Jedi" is now in the Oxford English Dictionary, and more Star Wars rumors and news.
Daisy Ridley says *Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker* will spend some time unpacking the relationship between Rey and Kylo Ren. Photograph: Disney/Lucasfilm/Alamy
First, the news you really want: The new trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will debut tonight during ABC's Monday night football game. Actually, if you're reading this in the evening, you might want to check to see if the trailer has dropped already. Go look. It's OK; we'll wait.
Back? Great, we'll continue. Here are some of the other things that have been happening in the Star Wars universe.
The Ballad of Rey and Ren Will Conclude in Rise of Skywalker
The source: Daisy Ridley herself
Probability of accuracy: If Rey doesn't know what her character is doing in a movie that's already finished shooting, then something really problematic is going down in the editing bay.
The real deal: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is either going to be a shipper's dream or their nightmare. As Daisy Ridley told Entertainment Weekly recently, the movie will properly address the relationship between Rey and Kylo Ren. "Obviously, there's this whole Reylo thing and some people are very passionate about it, some aren't," she said. "J.J. does deal with [it] … It's a very complex issue. People talk about toxic relationships and whatever it is. It's no joke and I think it's dealt with really well because it's not skimmed over." Well, that surely gives fans a lot to ponder, and fight over, for the next few months.
Does the Force Control Star Wars?
The source: Former Star Wars voice actor Freddie Prinze Jr.
Probability of accuracy: This one is very, very difficult to nail down. Trust your instincts.
The real deal: Could an interview from May—recently uploaded in new form on Instagram—hold the key to how the story will end in The Rise of Skywalker? That's what many are wondering after an interview with Star Wars: Rebels voice actor Freddie Prinze Jr. from Jeff Dye's Friendship Podcast re-emerged, with the actor holding court on just how the Force works, as explained to him by George Lucas acolyte Dave Filoni. "Luke's skill doesn't dictate whether he wins or loses [in the original trilogy]," he said. "The Emperor doesn't dictate whether he wins or loses. The Force dictates who wins and loses based on balance." Indeed, the Force is so focused on balance, he explained, that when Anakin Skywalker went over to the Dark Side, doubling the power of the Sith, the Force responded in an unexpected manner. "It gives us twins. Luke and Leia. Two and fucking two. Balance. And if you look at the movie through just that simple perspective, you will not only know why every single bad guy loses and every single good guy loses, you'll know who's going to win and lose in the next fucking movies," he added. By that logic, it should be remembered that Luke's death in The Last Jedi left things in balance as Rey stepped up to even things out against Kylo Ren … but what will the rumored return of Palpatine do to that status quo?
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The real deal: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story's secret weapon, Tony Gilroy—who wrote and directed the reshoots that significantly changed portions of the finished feature—will be returning to a galaxy far, far away with the news that he'll write the pilot and direct multiple episodes of the in-development Cassian Andor prequel series being made for Disney+. Gilroy will work beside showrunner Stephen Schiff (The Americans). The series doesn't have a premiere date yet, which means there's plenty of time for Disney and Lucasfilm to try and bring Rogue One director Gareth Edwards on board for an episode or two.
Now 'Jedi' Can Finally Be Used in Scrabble
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The real deal: Meanwhile, in the real world, a Star Wars fan has clearly started working at the Oxford English Dictionary, which just added a bunch of new words to future editions, including "Jedi," "Padawan" and even "lightsabre"—yes, the spelling is wrong, but what can you do? Interestingly enough, the OED also added an additional meaning for the word "force," which begins, "In the fictional universe of the Star Wars films: a mystical universal energy field …" Yoda would be proud.
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Absolute Flirt returns with Sandown win
On the recommendation of jockey Damien Oliver, Absolute Flirt has returned from a break to post a city win at Sandown.
Trainer Danny O'Brien had the option to run the filly in maiden grade at Ballarat on Tuesday, but following a discussion with Oliver decided on Monday's Ladbrokes Handicap (1000m).
Sent off the $4.40 favourite with Oliver aboard , Absolute Flirt recorded a 1-1/4 length win over Taraayef ($10) with Flirting ($5.50) another 2-1/2 lengths away third.
O'Brien says he listens to Oliver's advice after the jockey partners his horses in trials and trackwork.
"He'll say I don't (listen), but I do. He's very handy to have," O'Brien said.
"We have plenty of robust discussions about things and more often than not I'll listen to him.
"I was potentially going to take her to Ballarat for a maiden tomorrow but Damien said no, take her to Sandown as she'd be pretty hard to beat wherever she steps out."
Absolute Flirt had only one jump-out in preparation for Monday's return and O'Brien said she had plenty of improvement to come.
O'Brien said he would now like to get a black-type win with the filly and is looking to the Listed Queen Adelaide Stakes (1050m) at Morphettville on May 4.
"She's a bombproof filly that does everything right," O'Brien said.
"Every time she's stepped out she's improved a little bit so hopefully she can continue on that upward curve."
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Q: Java Thread Stopping Unexpectedly Good evening!
I'm trying to code a Server/Client with java and Sockets.
The process of sending messages is working fine, but I don't know why, after I start the second client and I send a message with the first one, the first client gets stucked and doesn't send the messages anymore.
It has to be a Server-side problem, as I have debugged the whole code and found that the problem in the while, once it leaves it seems id doesn't gets back in again.
My theory is that it is somehow stopped or maybe the iterator just stops functioning.
Could you check it out and give me some guidance? Have spent like 4h on this already.
Thank you very much!
EDIT: So as I have been asked I have reduced the code to what I think is the core of the problem. As I have checked by debugging, when exiting the while, the thread stops by itself.
Server :
new Thread() {
            public void run() {

                String inputLine;
                // Input Thread
                    while ((inputLine = clientSocket.read_str()) != null) {
                        // L'iterator ha de començar des del principi cada cop que que es comença el while
                        Iterator<MySocket> keyIterator = connections.keySet().iterator();
                        while (keyIterator.hasNext()) {
                            MySocket sock = keyIterator.next();
                            sock.write_str(inputLine);
                        }
                    }
                    clientSocket.close();

                    removeUser(clientSocket);
            }
        }.start();

A: I found the problem, thing is I was using clientSocket for everythread and I assumed it would work on different clientSockets, but it wasn't, so once the socket was updated, it could only write/read from that socket.
Stupid solution, sorry for the waste of time.
Thanks everyone.

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Android: Even the tidiest Android phone can a pain to browse if you have a tons of apps and cluttered home screens. Quad Drawer gets you to your apps faster. The app can sort your apps the way you like, or let you type their name on a T9 or your regular keyboard to open them.
Quad Drawer started life at a T9 app launcher. For those folks who still use and love T9, you'll be happy to learn that you can toggle Quad Drawer and immediately start typing in T9 to sort down to the app you want and launch it, the way it's shown in the video above. If you prefer a standard keyboard, Quad Drawer can do that too. Launch it, start typing the name of the app you want, and it's auto sorted for you. Just tap the app you want and it opens.
In addition to just typing app names to launch them, Quad Drawer also lists your apps alphabetically, by most often used, and recently used in tabs across the top of the launcher. Swiping left and right switches views, and you can toggle the default layout at any time. You can also uninstall, add to home screen, view at Google Play, or visit the App Info settings page directly from Quad Drawer. If you haven't found a favorite app launcher or switcher yet, Quad Drawer is only a buck over at Google Play.


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"Boy and the World" Is A Can't-Miss Film
by Dan Schindel
Simple shapes form kaleidoscopic fractals. The image continually pulls outward until the viewer understands that they're looking at atoms, then molecules, then compounds, all composing a colored stone. Observing the stone is a young boy, drawn in a manner so simple that it's almost elemental — barely more than a stick figure. The boy's home, his parents, and everything around them are similarly rendered in the basest lines and colors, all against a featureless white background. It's not an emptiness, but a canvas onto which anything may appear. It'll fill in as the boy learns more about the world around him.
This happens after the boy's father leaves the rural home in search of work, and the boy soon follows, becoming stranded in a bewildering series of environments of overwhelming hustle and bustle. The fractal motif expands, seen in the repeating pattern of hundreds of orchard pickers or in the swirling vestments of a parade. The blank spaces vanish. Clean simplicity is buried beneath urban sprawl. The artistic style becomes more detailed and lavish. Through it all, the boy's understanding of life deepens, as he's confronted with the myriad ways in which people struggle to survive. Through fields, streets, landfills, and more, he gets a stark education in class difference, beholding the plenty of a few from afar while wading through muck with the rest.
Boy and the World is a child's-eye view of a host of social ills, from deforestation to police brutality, not even couched in allegory so much as presented in a slightly more palatable form, thanks to the animated milieu. It's not a coming-of-age tale in which the protagonist comes into himself through conquering one simple challenge after another, in the manner of a Dreamworks or Disney flick. No bad guys are toppled here. Growing up is simply coming to grips with the way things are. Though it completely lacks the spoken word, this movie has far more on its mind than any kids' film whose script is laden with "witty" repartee and adult-pandering references. Family films are generally so ideologically sanitized that something this nakedly political is a tremendous shot in the arm.
More importantly, director Alê Abreu's visual sophistication is extraordinary. The dazzling geometric complexity of the settings are abuzz with energy, made of constantly moving parts. Boy and the World is animated, and understands that the power of the form lies in motion and not in the mere prettiness of a drawing. It is alive with music and color, fleshing out its basic plot with powerful emotion through both the grandest and smallest events and gestures. Don't miss this.
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Downtown Stockton is home to many talented artists. It is a place full of innovation and productivity, with resources to help budding creatives take their work to the next level. For artists interested in music, or engaged in projects requiring an audio component, the Press Recording Studio is ready to record.
Located at 11 South San Joaquin Street, #206, next to the historic Bob Hope (the Fox) Theatre, the Press Recording Studio is a full-service commercial recording studio. It's relaxed, yet professional, environment features experienced engineers and world-class recording equipment. The Press Recording Studio has been in the downtown area for over five years; this hidden gem attracts a broad spectrum of clients, from here in town to as far as Germany!
Matt Young is the owner of the Press Recording Studio; being from Stockton, he wants the studio to give local musicians a place where they can record and get a professional sound for an affordable price. The origin of the Press Recording Studio is an example of how one passion can lead to another. "I was a musician and I would record at other studios, but I liked to record my own stuff at home. So I started doing home recording first and people liked the way it sounded so then people would ask if I could record them, and I just fell in love with the recording process," explained Young.
The Press Recording Studio is already making a difference for many local artists and organizations, but Matt Young has even more planned for the future. "Me and another songwriter from Stockton…just started something called Grace Note, which gives students free studio time. I definitely want to do more stuff for the community like that, like I'm doing a Battle of the Bands which also gives local artists free studio time. But I really just want to continue to give Stockton a really nice studio and just keep improving on that as much as I can."
The Downtown Stockton Alliance's (DSA) audio tour, Walk with Weber, was actually recorded at the Press Recording Studio. With a project like Walk with Weber, the process was simple for Matt and his team. First, Manuel Laguna recorded his historical knowledge in just a few takes, and then it took the engineers at the Press Recording Studio two to three hours edit and mix. After sending a rough draft to the DSA, minor adjustments were made before the final product was completed. All of this was accomplished for just $45/hr!
Matt Young and The Press Recording Studio wants clients to be satisfied with their recordings. It's important for clients to be prepared before coming in to record so that they can make the most of their time at the studio. For those who are new to the process and have no idea what to expect or how to prepare, Matt Young suggests asking questions. "Ask as many questions as you can before you get into the studio because that will help you prepare the most. Every project is a little different and it's hard to know what to be prepared for if you've never been in the studio, but the biggest thing is to just ask questions."
So for local artists who are looking for a professional, affordable place to record, the Press Recording Studio is the place to go. To learn more about them or to book a session, check out their website, www.thepressrecordingstudio.com
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It's finally here, the first wave of indictments in the "collusion case" against President Donald Trump has arrived.
A federal grand jury on Friday (10/27) approved the first charges in the collusion investigation against Trump.. We won't know until Monday who's indicted and what the charges are; it's unclear what the charges are because a federal judge ordered that the indictments remain sealed.
The former campaign manager for Trump, Paul Manafort and his former business associate Rick Gates have surrendered themselves to the FBI early Monday morning to little or no fanfare. Also, former foreign policy advisor for Trump's campaign George Papadopoulas was indicted and unlike Manafort and Gates, pleaded guilty.
What exactly is Robert Mueller's investigation looking for?
Any potential ties, including collusion, between Trump's campaign and Russia; efforts by Trump to obstruct justice by impeding the investigation; and any financial connections Trump or his campaign, or any of his associates, may have had to Russia.
The charges brought to Manafort and Gates are: conspiracy against the United States and to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading statements regarding the Foreign Agents Registration Act, false statements, and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.
What does this have to do with Trump? These are all allegations against Manafort and Gates well before they were part of the Trump campaign.
But still, no proof that Trump colluded with the Russians.
Is Mueller conducting a fair investigation? I think not.
Indicting Manafort on charges which happened well before he was involved in Trump's campaign should've been set aside when the recent revelations that Hillary Clinton had dealings with Russia in selling them 20% rights of America's uranium, her connection with the "Russian dossier," and her presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta's influence-peddling on behalf of Russian interests became publicized.
These are all textbook examples of collusion!
Plus, nearly half of Mueller's staff are supporters of the Left. They've all donated hefty amounts to those running for office who were Liberals.
His staff of 15 lawyers, at least seven have donated to Democratic candidates and campaigns including donations to Hillary. Well, you might ask who the other eight lawyers supported. The Republicans? According to Federal records, they made no political donations.
It is evident that lawyers typically support Democrats: 68% of Lawyers who make political contributions, 68% lean to the left. Among elite lawyers the results are 76% make political contributions support Democrats.
Don't let those stats fog your thoughts; 68% and 76% doesn't mean there aren't lawyers who support the Right and Republicans such as Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ben Shapiro.
This witch hunt is just getting started. We'll see what happens in the next few months.


Toshiba plans to unveil a prototype handheld fuel cell unit soon. It expects to have the product on the market in 2005. It believes that the device will be a stepping stone to the day when fuel cells can be integrated into mobile electronics products.
The device, which will be on show at the Ceatec Japan 2003 expo next week, contains a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC), and is designed to act as a charger for batteries in products like mobiles and digital cameras.
So far no one has been able to develop a fuel cell small enough to fit into these types of portable devices, but Toshiba hopes its charger will be the next best thing.
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The commissioner may make rules to carry into effect the provisions of this subdivision, and the owners and contractors and their agents for such work, except owners of one and two-family dwellings who contract for but do not direct or control the work, shall comply therewith.
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The Taming of the Drew?
By Jim McLennan@AZSnakepit Updated Sep 17, 2009, 9:00pm EDT
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Earlier in the week, IHateSouthBend had a nice piece looking at the struggles of Stephen Drew this year, and whether they were a cause for concern. Inspired by this, it got me thinking about our shortstop in a number of other ways. What should we be expecting out of the position? How does he compare to other first-round and/or young players there? Is his low BABIP this year just "bad luck", or are there other factors which we need to take into account? How has Drew's defense stacked up this season?
After the jump, we'll take a look at some answers to those questions. Hey, it's an off-day. What else are we going to do?
Short-stop is not a position generally associated with offense - Hanley Ramirez and Miguel Tejada are the exception, rather than the rule. Since 2001, 229 shortstops have had 400+ PA: in a season the median OPS+ from them is only 91 - by coincidence, exactly the same as Drew's figure this season. If you look among the 52 regular players at the position over the same time (those with 1,000+ PAs), the median is even lower: basically, Cristian Guzman and his 86 OPS+ is about the average level of production. Even on a 'down' year like this, Drew is comfortably in excess of that.
If we also take age into consideration, things are very similar. 53 shortstops since 1991 have had a thousand PAs by the end of their age 26 season. By OPS+, Drew ranks 13th, with the median again 86, nine points lower than Drew's number to date. I also note the following comparison with another young short-stop:
Player    OPS+  PA   G   AB   R   H   2B 3B HR RBI  BB  SO   BA  OBP  SLG  OPS
Player A   95  2041 482 1838 242 495 112 32 50 208 162 337 .269 .327 .447 .774
Player B   95  1866 450 1664 261 421  88  8 64 254 153 304 .253 .323 .431 .754
Player A is Stephen Drew. Player B would go on to be an MVP and six-time (to date) All-Star, Miguel Tejada. Of course, he also bolted from Oakland for free-agency, signing a six-year, $72m contract with Baltimore before the 2004 season.
You might think that success is to be expected - after all, Drew was a first-round draft pick. However, the track-record of first-round shortstops seems a bit flaky - for example, none of the three other short-stops chosen the same year as Drew have even reached the majors, including two taken ahead of him. Here are the stats for all those chosen as short-stops, inside the first thirty selections of the June draft. Those in italics never reached the major-leagues; those marked with a * have played the majority of their ML games at another position.
#25: Bobby Crosby: 670 games, .684 OPS
#29: Josh Burrus
#2: BJ Upton*: 498 games, .759 OPS
#8: Scott Moore*: 39 games, .665 OPS
#10: Drew Meyer*: 5 games, .429 OPS
#13: Khalil Greene: 730 games, .725 OPS
#14: Russ Adams: 286 games, .685 OPS
#26: Josh McCurdy
#27: Sergio Santos
#13: Aaron Hill*: 617 games, .765 OPS
#23: Brandon Wood*: 80 games, .527 OPS
#1: Matt Bush
#9: Christopher Nelson
#15: Stephen Drew: 482 games, .773 OPS
#20: Trevor Plouffe
#1: Justin Upton*: 275 games, .846 OPS
#7: Troy Tulowitzki: 418 games, .818 OPS
#17: Carl Henry
#21: Cliff Pennington: 79 games, .724 OPS
#30: Tyler Greene: 41 games, .585 OPS
Just one first-round short-stop picked since 2005 has reached the majors: Gordon Beckham, the #8 pick in 2008, and he is now a third-baseman. Excluding him, 35% of those listed above have never made the show, and another 30% did so at other positions. Only a quarter have had significant careers in the majors as a shortstop: Drew's OPS is ahead of all those but Troy-boy...let's just say, I believe Coors plays a factor in his success, and leave it at that! :-) So, Drew thus far is performing more than credibly, compared to others picked in similar spots.
However, one thing IHSB's analysis missed, is that not everyone deserves a league average BABIP: hitters have more control over it than pitchers. The classic example is Chris Young, whose BABIP this year is very low, because of all the infield pop-ups which are almost guaranteed outs. Different kinds of balls in play have radically different results, and other factors such as speed, ballpark, etc. also affect BABIP. The guys over at The Hardball Times have done some excellent work in this area - see this article for an explanation of xBABIP, an enhanced version of BABIP, which includes these extra variables. There's also an Excel spreadsheet xBABIP calculator available from them.
However, if you don't want to go that deep, a better way to analyze results is still to break down Drew's BABIP by hit trajectory type, and compare that to league averages within each hit type. For example, the major league average BABIP and Drew's BABIP by hit trajectory are as follows:
Ground Balls .236/.240
Fly Balls .137/.124
Line Drives .724/.720
Sources: NL Average and Drew's numbers
When an NL average batter hits a ground ball, it becomes a hit 23.6% of the time; when Drew hits one, it's 24.0%, and so on. As you can see, his GB and LD BABIP are right at league average, and he's a little bit below BABIP on Fly Balls. So what is responsible for the big drop in BABIP from last year? Line Drives - Drew has hit a lot less of them. His LD% by season
2006-22%
To me, it's no coincidence that his BABIP was high in 06 and 08, and below average in 07 and 09. He's hitting a lot fewer line drives, and as we see above, they become hits at a much higher rate than any other type of ball in play. If you go through and assign a league average BABIP to each hit type individually, you will get a different "adjustment" than just assigning a number for BABIP across the board. Doing that, here is the variation by assigning a league average BABIP by hit type [Don't forget to remove HR's from PA and hit totals to get Balls In Play]:
Ground Balls: +0.6
Fly Balls: - 2.3
Line Drives: -1.2
Net Loss -2.9
This way, it seems Drew is only "missing" about 3 hits this year, which seems closer to the truth for me. I don't think he has hit nearly as well as in the past. He's not roping line drives, and as a result he's not getting as many hits. It'd probably be a mistake to assign his season to luck and expect a rebound purely on that basis. [He may rebound again next year, if his LD rate fluctuates up again] It may be mental. When Drew sees himself as a HR hitter, his swing gets long and loopy, and he hits easy fly outs. When he is "right" his swing is more compact, and he hits low hard line drives into the hole. That's the sign to look for with Drew. When you see the ball there, he's ready to hit.
One aspect of his game IHSB didn't cover was Drew's defense - here, we turn the ever useful Fangraphs.com for their UZR score on Drew. Here, we find a surprising change: after having had a UZR/150 [basically, UZR averaged out to a 150-game season] that ranged between -11.3 to -14.3 from 2006-2008, he is now at a very credible +3.5 this season. All the components have shown improvement: he's making fewer errors and turning more double-plays, but the biggest increase has been his range, which has gone from -11.6 to +2.3. Zone Rating concurs, Drew now ranking 7th of 22 SS, and his Range Factor has also increased from 3.95 last year, to 4.21
Overall, I'm not too concerned about Drew, though despite the comparison above, I don't expect him to become one of the position's superstars. He should, however, continue to remain an above-average contributor for the position to the offense, even in a "down year", and if he can sustain the defensive improvement shown of late, that would certainly help. But if Drew's career path does go anything like Tejada's, the odds of this Scott Boras client remaining in Arizona after 2012, are probably very slim. Enjoy him while you can.
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maybe isnt as shiny and as private. The board will be able to champion this. Before opening in 2018, the Watershed still needs to go through the permitting process, which Medvedow said would probably wrap up this summer. An explosion of development has dramatically altered the vibe and the urban landscape. Send på vanlig måte, eller bestill henting fra postkassen din. Ultimately she fell in love with the working shipyard there and envisioned a new outpost. Alltså behöver ni inte ica posten tranås kommentera svaren för varje fråga utan det räcker med att skriva det slutgiltiga ordet i sista inlägget vi gör för sommarkrysset, vilket vi också kommer skriva tydligt när det. On Tuesday, July 3, The Watershed hosts a community day before its grand opening on the Fourth of July. On our way, we walked past a permanent, outdoor gallery of sculptures and murals created by the organization Harbor Arts. Once a lonely outpost in the Seaport, the ICA has sought opportunities for years to expand beyond its current 65,000-square-foot building. Theyre the perfect fit for what were looking to do here, said Sugar, who added that the museum wont be paying market rate for the 1920s-era building. This summer, the ICA will start offering programming for groups from the Social Center and other organizations. Bestill sikker oppbevaring av posten når du er bortreist, eller få posten sendt dit du skal være. Medvedow explained how the former copper pipe and sheet metal factory was the only unoccupied building left in the shipyard, which is owned by Massport and it was condemned. Were totally confident that we have the support and will raise the funds from our board and the broader community. In 2015, the museum proposed and then abandoned an effort to expand into an adjacent office tower across the street in the bustling Seaport. It doesnt offer the kind of expansion for making more gallery exhibitions or displaying our permanent collection, said Medvedow, adding that the museum has been exploring different modes of growth. José Massó, host of wbur's Con Salsa!, poses with teens at the ICA Watershed in front of a wall of photographs of East Boston by teens from the ICA's digital photography program. A weather-worn, metal fish is perched on one of the two buildings that flank The Watershed. For ICA chief curator Eva Respini, The Watershed is a chance for the ICA to stretch its wings. Knowing that 68 percent of East Boston households are Spanish-speaking we felt it was important to have everything bilingually here in the building, she explained.
Then the lidingö lager museum will find another exhibition to occupy the space for the next season. It was just so evident that the harbor and East Boston are all within just a stones throw from the museum. Turns out the solution was just outside her office window. Scrappier, he said, the ICA attracted about 210, with all the stress that people are experiencing related to these challenges.
Välkommen till, iCA, kvantum, din matbutik i, tranås.Allt du behöver för vardagsmat och fest färskvaror, frukt och grönt, mejeri och chark.
Where visitors who travel by boat disembark for The Watershed. It takes about six minutes to get from the ICA to East Boston. Itapos, back then, t have the confines of a kind of white cube museum space which is what we have currently. A partner in Boston Harbor Shipyard and ica posten tranås Marina.
Alltså när vi lagt ut alla frågor, ska man ta första bokstaven från alla svar och sätta ihop till ett ord.Everyone should be able to go to the museum and see art, Thater continued.


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Edward Farren Morton (May 15, 1870 – April 11, 1938), usually credited as Eddie (or Ed) Morton, was an American singer and comedian who recorded during the ragtime era.  Known as "The Singing Cop", he has been described as "one of the most extraordinary performers of the early recording industry."

Biography
Eddie Morton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of actor C.H. Morton, who was in the original cast of The Black Crook. From about 1898 until about 1905, he worked for the Philadelphia Police Department, leading to his later billing as "The Singing Cop".  He then became a variety performer, and in 1907 appeared at the Madison Square Roof Garden in New York City in the cast of The Maid and the Millionaire, a musical comedy.  The following year he toured as part of M. M. Thiese's Rollickers burlesque show, and then became a popular attraction in the vaudeville shows run by Benjamin Franklin Keith and Sylvester Z. Poli.

He first recorded, as a gruff-voiced comic baritone, in 1907, and over the next few years recorded for Victor, Columbia, Edison, Zonophone and other companies.  His successes included "That's Gratitude", "Just a Friend of the Family", "In The Right Church, But The Wrong Pew", "You Ain't Talking To Me", "The Party that Wrote 'Home, Sweet Home' Never Was a Married Man",  "What's the Matter with Father?", and "Oceana Roll", first released in 1911 on the flip side of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" by Collins and Harlan.  As a Tin Pan Alley "song plugger", many of his songs also featured in the repertoires of rival performers Arthur Collins and Bert Williams, including "coon songs".  He also wrote some of his own comic material.

Morton did not record after 1917, but continued as a popular vaudeville attraction until 1926.  He then retired to run a golf club and a restaurant, Ed Morton's Little Bit of Broadway, at Wildwood, New Jersey. He died of a heart attack in 1938 at the age of 67.

Legacy
A compilation CD of Morton's recordings between 1907 and 1910, The Sound of Vaudeville, was issued by Archeophone Records in 2003. A second CD compilation, Ed. Morton's "Bit of Broadway", was released by Archeophone in 2012.

One of his songs, "I'm A Member Of The Midnight Crew", was discovered by Toby Fox and used in the webcomic Homestuck, as the comic features a group of mobsters coincidentally named the Midnight Crew. This use inspired covers by fellow Homestuck music team members David Ko and Michael Guy Bowman.

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1870 births
1938 deaths
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Eric C. Stewart moved to Logan County with his wife and three children in 2000. He has a bachelor's degree in International Relations from Brigham Young University and he received his law degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1999. During law school, he clerked for the firm of Ziegler & Schneider, P.S.C. in Northern Kentucky. Eric joined the Logan County Prosecutor's Office in February of 2000. He has been lead trial counsel on a large number of criminal cases and in 2007 he became the Chief Assistant Prosecutor. Eric is a member of the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association, Ohio Bar Association, and Logan County Bar Association where he currently serves as Treasurer. Eric is actively involved in the community and in his church. He has coached Bellefontaine City t-ball, soccer, and Upwards Basketball and works with the Boy Scouts of America. He is also a graduate of Leadership Logan County.


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Composer Jordan Nobles in a photo posted to his website (jordannobles.com).
'Apollo Initiative' unites 350 young B.C. musicians in streamed concert for mental health
It's free to watch May 7, with donations encouraged to Canadian Mental Health Association
Tom Zillich
A streamed concert will debut "Apollo," a new work composed by Surrey-born Jordan Nobles and recorded by a collective of British Columbia youth orchestras.
Surrey Youth Orchestra members are involved, along with Coquitlam Youth Orchestra, Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra, Langley Community Music School Orchestra, Okanagan Symphony Youth Orchestra and Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra.
The piece was commissioned and composed specifically for the 350 participating young musicians to prepare and perform collectively in a digital format, starting at noon Friday, May 7.
The "Apollo Initiative" event is free to watch, with donations encouraged to the B.C. division of the Canadian Mental Health Association in support of youth mental health.
Video sample of the 'Apollo Initiative,' uniting 350 young B.C. musicians in a streamed concert for mental health, featuring @SYOrchestra92 and other groups May 7. #SurreyBC #music
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Project goals include supporting "the mental wellness of our youth, many of whom look to their participation in music as an important tool in their mental wellness strategy," according to a post on canadahelps.org, and "to provide a musical goal and to keep the students motivated in this unusual season."
Timed with Youth Mental Health Day, the performance will stream on Facebook and YouTube channels.
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Each orchestra oversaw the recording of their parts, which Nobles then stitched together to create one cohesive performance.
"I am honored to be a part of a project that gives value and meaning to the work BC Youth Orchestras are continuing to do during the pandemic," Nobles said. "The entire creation of 'Apollo' has been an exciting process, and I sincerely hope that the premiere raises both money and awareness of a real challenge facing young British Columbians today."
Nobles, who lives in Deep Cove, has won several awards for his work, including a JUNO for Classical Composition of the Year in 2017.
"The pandemic has testified humanity and uncovered the real world," said Richard Ding, a French horn player with Surrey Youth Orchestra. "The Apollo Initiative enabled me, as a young musician, to positively impact the world through assisting others, including collaboratively supporting the most vulnerable group. 'Apollo' music has facilitated me in remaining calm and healthy during one of the most challenging times in history."
SYO violinist Jessica Tang said it's incredible how so many orchestras united to create a result "beyond imagination. This initiative is not only artistically inventive, but inspired young musicians like myself to form bonds that allow us to grow with and learn from one another while supporting youth mental health."
Meantime, everyone is invited to watch Surrey Youth Orchestra's 2021 Spring Concert on Saturday, May 8, starting at 7:30 p.m. This virtual event features previously recorded performances and produced by Prelude Strings, Intermezzo Strings, Symphonic Strings and Senior orchestra. Register to for the watch party with a Zoom login code at https://form.jotform.com/Surrey_Youth/SYOSpringConcert.
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Claim That US Unemployment Figures Were Cooked Not So "Ludicrous" After All? – OpEd
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When the September unemployment figures were announced a month before the presidential election as having miraculously declined to below 8% for the first time since the current administration started, more than a few speculated that there may have been some book-cooking in the back room.
In response, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, said she was "insulted" by the notion that her department might have fudged the numbers, and that any such contention was "ludicrous":
"I'm insulted when I hear that, because we have a very professional civil service organization where you have top, top economists," Solis said on CNBC.
"These are our best trained and best skilled individuals working at the BLS. It's really ludicrous to hear that kind of statement."
Well, maybe not so much.
The Labor Department the following week reported that weekly jobless claims had fallen by 30,000 to 339,000, their lowest level since February 2008, and the media quickly broadcast that good news as well.
However, Labor soon revealed that "one major state" had failed to "fully document" its jobless claims. Speculation focused on California, but the California State "Employment Development" Department (now there's a misnomer—in fact, its primary function is to dole out unemployment pay) "strongly denied" the charge:
"Reports that California failed to fully report data to the U.S. Department of Labor, as required, are incorrect and irresponsible," California Employment Development Department director Pam Harris said in a statement last week.
Yesterday, the feds fessed up. Yes, it's true: California had under-reported jobless claims, and this week's are now 46,000 higher, for a total of 388,000 new claims.
The agency in charge of reporting the data to the feds — the California Labor & Workforce Development Agency — is headed by a political appointee, appointed by Democratic governor Jerry Brown: Marty Morgenstern.
According to campaign disclosure records, Morgenstern donated $4,600 — the maximum amount allowed by law — to the 2008 Obama camapaign, beginning with a $1,000 contribution to Obama for America in February 2008. Morgenstern followed up that donation with a $1,300 contribution in June, and then a $2,300 payout in early September.
On all three disclosures, Morgenstern indicated that he was either "not employed" or "retired."
"Top, top economists," indeed. I'll take mine Austrian.
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The former CEO of Pemex has denied that he received US $10 million from Brazilian multinational Odebrecht in exchange for the awarding of a contract for work on a refinery in Tula, Hidalgo.
The Brazilian newspaper O Globo reported yesterday that confidential documents show that Emilio Lozoya Austin received payments from the company that started in March 2012 and continued to 2014. In return, the paper said that Odebrecht won a US $115-million contract to upgrade the refinery.
He also said that the claim "lacks any documentary evidence" and that he wants the matter to be investigated.
According to sworn declarations by former Odebrecht director Luis Alberto de Meneses Weyll, the first bribe paid to Lozoya was US $4 million. At the time, he was a key member of President Enrique Peña Nieto's campaign committee.
"Lozoya had become one of the campaign committee leaders and would probably become an influential person in the public administration of the country," the ex-director told investigators from Brazil's public prosecutor's office, according to the documents obtained by O Globo.
De Meneses also said that Lozoya recommended in 2011 that Odebrecht partner with Construcciones Industriales Tapia to participate in the tendering process for the contract.
However, Tapia has denied it ever had any kind of partnership with Odebrecht, saying that it only had a subcontract with the Brazilian company in 2014.
De Meneses also recounted a Mexico City meeting where Lozoya allegedly said that he was owed US $5 million for his help in securing the contract.
Lozoya's attorney this morning denied an accusation that his client, who made his denials via email and Twitter, was hiding. Javier Coello Trejo said Lozoya has asked the Attorney General for an opportunity to make a declaration regarding the accusation.
It is not the first time Lozoya has been accused of accepting a bribe from Odebrecht. Earlier this year another Brazilian publication also reported on his alleged corruption in the awarding of the Odebrecht contract, based on Brazilian court documents.
The company allegedly paid almost US $800 million in bribes between 2001 and 2016 and its former CEO Marcelo Odebrecht is currently serving a 19-year prison sentence.


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About: The Royal China Group, founded in 1996, has 6 restaurants in and around London with branches in Queensway, the flagship restaurant (reviewed here), Harrow, Docklands, and Fulham. On Baker Street, there are two Royal China restaurants including the Royal China Club, the premier restaurant of the group and one of my favourite dim sum places in London (reviewed here).
Dim sum at the Royal China Club will cost on average 50% more than you would normally pay anywhere else, but the quality is outstanding and worth the price tag in my opinion. Its poorer sister, the Royal China Baker Street is only a block or so away, and on a recent weekday afternoon with a serious dimsum craving and a little less cash to spare we decided to pay it a visit – even at 3pm, we were impressed to see that it had a steady stream of customers.
Royal China Baker Street looks like a slightly luxe Chinese restaurant, or one that would have been a decade and a half ago - one doesn't get much carpeting in restaurants these days. It's clean and large, but the decor is a little faded, and the whole place is a little too dimly lit for my liking.
We ordered a mix of familiar favourites and special items, along with Iron Goddess tea (Tie Guan Yin) to wash it all down. Royal China has a wine list, but Chinese tea is a far more appropriate accompaniment to a dim sum lunch in my opinion. Be sure to prod your waiter/waitress for the various kinds of tea such as Tie Guan Yin and Bo Lei that they will most definitely have, as the menu doesn't list anything beyond 'jasmine' or 'Chinese' tea.
What We Ate: Service is fairly fast and efficient. Our plates of dim sum arrived in quick succession - no sooner had we begun on one than a second, third, fourth arrived. Most were good, some utterly delicious and worth repeating. Nothing was below average. One of the highlights of the meal was the pork and radish dumplings (£3.50) - a partially translucent, glutinous skin encasing a pork, chestnut, carrot and coriander filling. It was a crisp-crunchy, delightful excursion in textures, one that the home cook would be hard-pressed to replicate.
Another favourite was the prawn and chive dumpling (£3.80) - fresh and sweet, it was perfect with a dab of chilli sauce. I would have happily ordered a portion just for myself.
The crab meat dumpling soup (£4.80) - which will take around 30 minutes to arrive, so plan accordingly - was also quite lovely, each dumpling stuffed to the brim with crab. Even more enjoyable than the dumpling was the soup it came bobbing in - a sweet and delicate double-boiled broth with the faintest hint of Chinese herbs.
My personal favourite was the deep fried garlic prawn beancurd skin rolls (£5.20). I would recommend this only if you enjoy eating garlic by the mouthful, which I do. It is exactly as its name suggests: sweet, juicy minced prawn and garlic in almost equal measure, wrapped in beancurd skins and deep fried. My mouth waters just thinking about it.
Royal China doesn't stint on the garlic, particularly on their specials menu. Boiled pork dumplings with chilli oil (£4.90) were also wonderfully garlicky, sweet and a little spicy, and doused in a vinegary sauce which reminded me of the Japanese Nanban style of cooking.
Any good dim sum place should serve up steamed turnip cake (£3.50), and Royal China's version was a fine one – it had clean flavours and a smooth texture, with lovely crispy fried edges.
The glutinous rice in lotus leaves (£4.20), was a very pretty example, the lotus leaves infusing the surf n' turf combination of dried shrimp and pork with a subtle earthiness.
If you're craving a hearty, dry noodle dish, you could order the sliced beef Ho Fun with soya sauce (£8.50), it had decent wok hei (breath of the wok) and was delicious.
The other dishes were good, if not life-changing. Prawn cheong fun (£4.80), for instance, was quite tasty, even if the house-made skin was a little thick for my liking.
The crabmeat XO dumplings (£4.80) were delectable, but could have used more XO sauce for that extra kick.
Spare ribs in black bean sauce (£3.50) - another dim sum classic - were adequate, but not terribly memorable.
There's usually not much in the way of dessert at Chinese restaurants, but their almond beancurd with fruit cocktail (£3.50) made for a smooth and refreshing end to a meat-heavy dim sum meal.
Royal China's egg tarts (£3.60 for 4) were well made but compared poorly with the very same tarts served at a few doors down at the Royal China Club.
To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, we ordered custard mooncakes, these were baked in-house, were served warm and were rich and scrumptious.
Likes: the pork and radish dumplings, prawn and chive dumpling and crab meat dumpling soup are very good, but the deep fried garlic prawn beancurd skin rolls were exceptional. There are some excellent teas if you ask for them.
Dislikes: their selection of fine Chinese teas available should be readily available in English. Service was efficient but patchy and could have been friendlier at times.
Verdict: The Royal China Baker Street is a good place to enjoy freshly made dim sum in Marylebone, as well as being a more affordable option than the swanky Royal China Club further up the road. Recommended.


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Daniel Auschlander's Season-Long Slide
Possibly my all-time favourite writing stunt on the show--Daniel Auschlander's mind goes back in time over the entire fifth season.
I first heard of this from Robert Thompson's Television's Second Golden Age, in its chapter on St. Elsewhere. There's a discussion of the show's intricacy and consciousness of its own history, with the McAllister revisit as an example. Then Thompson describes "a second example of St. Elsewhere's attention to detail...so deeply embedded in the scripts that virtually nobody noticed." Tom Fontana recalls:
Dr. Daniel Auschlander (Norman Lloyd) finds
his toys are gone.
In the fifth season, we were going through this story where Auschlander was having this mental breakdown--he was kind of getting senile over the course of the season. We wanted to end the season with him in the hospital saying "Where are my toys?," as a baby again. What we did was--Auschlander was seventy-five, so we divided the twenty-three episodes of the season up into three or four year periods. So in episode number one he was talking about things that related to the year it aired--1986. The next week he would talk about things that related to 1983. The next week he would talk about things related to 1980. We'd try to write in such a way so you couldn't tell if he was just remembering it. By the final episode of that season, when he had been reduced to a baby again, if you'd been tracking it you could see him going bit by bit backward in time. We never even told Norman (Lloyd). My point is that only Masius and I knew what we were doing. We never even told Bruce (Paltrow).
Having just concluded watching season five, I've prepared a "breakdown" of Daniel's journey back through the years:
502, "When You Wish Upon a Scar" - Daniel, marveling at the immediacy of hearing news on a portable radio, mentions the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II and the invasion of the Falkland Islands. The Falklands War and the second assassination attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II both happened in 1982. (The first one happened a year earlier.)
503, "A Room With a View" - Daniel mentions Jimmy Carter being at Camp David. Carter was President from 1977 to 1980.
504, "Brand New Bag" - Daniel asks Wayne if Luis Tiant was still pitching for the Red Sox. When Wayne tells him that Tiant hasn't played for Boston for years, Daniel looks a bit confused and says he thought he saw him on the news. Tiant pitched for the Red Sox from 1971 to 1978, and retired in 1982 at age 41. He did a cameo on Cheers in 1983.
505, "You Beta Your Life" - Daniel mentions "a tragedy like Kent State". The Kent State University shootings happened on May 4, 1970.
506, "Not My Type" - Daniel sings the chorus from "Blowin' in the Wind", and comments, "that Bob Dylan can really crank out a tune." The song was written in 1962, recording released in 1963.
507, "Up and Down" - Daniel says he saw La Dolce Vita again the other night, and says that "Fellini's a master." The film won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 1960.
508, "Nothing Up My Sleeve" - Daniel tells Mark (I think) that he's thinking of buying a T-Bird with cute little portholes. Mark says, "That car's a classic," to which Daniel replies, "too soon to tell." The Ford Thunderbird first offered optional portholes in 1956, and made them standard in 1957.
510, "Lost Weekend" - Daniel asks Mark why the Braves ever left Boston. Boston's National League baseball team moved to Milwaukee before the 1953 season.
513, "Russian Roulette" - Daniel mentions Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima (1941 and 1945).
514, "Visiting Daze" - Daniel announces that he found his favourite hat, his officer's cap from the Navy, and says, "we'll never win the war with that kind of attitude." (1941-45)
515, "Getting Ahead" - Daniel is reunited with Margaret Ryan, the woman whom he refused to marry because of their religious differences, only to marry Katherine, a Catholic, seven years later. He reminisces about their time together--he mentions that Prohibition had been repealed, recalls the movies The Lady Vanishes (1938), Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939), and mentions Don Budge winning the Grand Slam, which he did in 1938 (he was the first tennis player to ever accomplish the feat).
519, "Rites of Passage" - Daniel sings the children's song "This Old Man", commenting, "these old nursery rhymes keep popping in my head, I don't know why."
523, "Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball" - Daniel suggests breaking out the bathtub gin. Later, Daniel collapses in the hospital after it has been cleared for demolition, and is found by Luther and Donald, who set up a bed for him. When he awakes, he mentions Vietnam, Korea, World War II, World War I, and the Spanish American War in succession. When Luther falls asleep, he wanders from his bed to his empty office, drops to his knees and whimpers, "where are my toys?" He curls up on the floor in the fetal position, sobbing. He awakes the next morning, and... tune in next season to see if Daniel escapes the wrecker's ball in time.
So they telegraphed that ending scene from the second episode of the season onward. After pausing after 510, it's like they had Daniel reminisce about World War II for a few episodes to foreshadow the return of Margaret Ryan in "Getting Ahead". The scene in "Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball" where Donald witnesses Daniel's slide into dementia as his war references get older and more nonsensical is quite sad.
It's possible that I missed some references there. I didn't have any notes after 519, but I'm pretty sure I recall the bathtub gin reference coming in the last one. I think they eased up with the conceit towards the end of the season, but it's also kind of fitting that it's his slide climaxes with Margaret, given the significance of his relationship with her in his life (he still seems to have feelings for her, I thought), which produced a child he never knew he had until "Getting Ahead". Between that and his denouement, I didn't notice anything odd other than him singing the nursery rhyme and the bathtub gin reference.
The 1957 Ford Thunderbird. A classic.
Don Budge, the first to win the
Grand Slam, 1938.
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